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Step-Aside Rapist Flip-Flops Again

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:19:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Step-Aside Rapist Flip-Flops Again

Former Israeli president faces jail over rape charges

Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav could go to jail after rejecting a plea bargain that would have cleared him of rape charges

Katsav resigned as president last year after four female employees accused him of a series of sex crimes, including rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment

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Katsav was interviewed by police for the fifth time

Police confirmed that seven women had by then testified against Katsav, and that the allegations now also included "breach of trust, fraud, and involvement in illegal wiretapping"

Attorney General, Menachem Mazuz, stated in an interview that the likelihood of Katsav's claim that he had been made the victim of a plot was "fairly slim," given the "long line of women who complained against him."

the number of women accusing Katsav of sexual assault had risen to eight

President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying to

Olmert

"Say hello to your president

He raped 10 women. I never expected it from him

Tags: israel, president, rape, female

Gas was $1.46 when Bush took office!!

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:55:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Current national average $3.34
California leads the nation in pricey gas, at $3.74 a gallon. Want even higher gas prices? Vote McCain

Clip Source: www.dailyfueleconomytip.com

When President Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the national average gas price was $1.46 per gallon. Six and a half years later, on August 27, 2007, the national average gas price had jumped to $2.76, roughly 89% higher. Compounded annually, this represents about a 10% jump each year Bush has been in office.

Evolution on the table top

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:29:54 GMT

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Clip Source: physorg.com

Evolution has taken another step away from being dismissed as “a theory” in the classroom, thanks to a new paper published this week in the online open-access journal PLoS Biology. The research article, by Brian Paegel and Gerald Joyce of The Scripps Research Institute, California, documents the automation of evolution: they have produced a computer-controlled system that can drive the evolution of improved RNA enzymes—biological catalysts—without human input. In the future, this “evolution-machine” could feature in the classroom as well as the lab, allowing students to watch evolution happen in their biology lessons.

The evolution of molecules via scientific experiment is not new. The first RNA enzymes to be “evolved” in the lab were generated in the 1990s. But what is exciting about this work is that the process has been made automatic. Thus evolution is directed by a machine without requiring human intervention-other then providing the initial ingredients and switching the machine

Tags: rna, experimentation, classroom, education

Oldest Iraq Casualty: Americas SHAME

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:13:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After years of being away from hosting that daily, national discussion, Donahue returned to TV in 2002 as the host of a nightly debate-style program on MSNBC. For many people, the show was a much-needed breath of fresh air on the cable networks, increasingly dominated by right-wing pundits and media personalities. Antiwar voices long kept off these cable news channels were suddenly given a seat in the forbidden studios to take part in a national debate about the so-called war on terror.

Donahue was on in the same time slot as Fox’s Bill O"Reilly. But the show didn’t last long. In fact, it didn’t even last a year, even though it was MSNBC"s top-rated program. When Donahue was fired, the network moved to hire a string of right-wing hosts.

...DN!
I loved him. Replaced by... crap. How? Who owns the media in America?

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Phil Donahue

MSNBC axes Phil Donahue

MSNBC fired Phil Donahue on Tuesday, abruptly ending the veteran talk show host's return to television after six months of poor ratings

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

In 2002, Phil Donahue returned to television to host a show called Donahue on MSNBC. On February 25, 2003, MSNBC canceled the show, citing low viewership.

While he didn't garner as many viewers as Bill O'Reilly, who shared the same time slot, Donahue was the highest rated show on MSNBC at the time it was canceled, managing to beat out even Chris Matthews' "Hardball" in the ratings.^[1]

Soon after the show's cancellation AllYourTV.com reported it had received a copy of an internal NBC memo that stated Donahue should be fired because he would be a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war".^[2]^[3]

Donahue was the only host of a talk show on any cable network that had a decidedly anti-war stance against the then proposed Invasion of Iraq in 2003

Phil

Catholic high school

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

antiwar voices on the air

was fired by MSNBC

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Tags: media, freedom.of.speech, iraq, bias, usa

What is Obama?

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:50:30 GMT

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Clip Source: confederateyankee.mu.nu

So I'm asking: What are Barack Obama's politics?

Is Obama "merely" another radical leftist like another one of his mentors, Saul Alinsky?

Is he a Marxist, as would befit his continued 20-year association with a church founded on the Marxism underlying Black Liberation Theology?

Is he a socialist revolutionary with Maoist tendencies that wants to wage war against the United States like his close friend, fellow Woods Fund board member, and domestic terrorist William Ayers?

Is he a communist, like his mentor Davis, his father, his ethic-cleansing, Islamist-coddling cousin, and even his own wife Michelle Obama, who insisted just yesterday the thought that, "someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

At this point we simply do not know where along the radical leftist continum Barack Obama's thoughts reside, because no one has ever pressed him on his beliefs or his meager record.

Tags: obama, election, politics

Michelle Obama on America

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:57:33 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Here is the Democratic frontrunner's wife giving hope a comeback:

** For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.

** (Again) For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country.

** Life is not good.

** We’re a divided country.

** We’re a country that is “just downright mean."

** We are “guided by fear."

** We’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents.

** We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

** Americans don't want much.

** Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

** You're alone in your failure.

** Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime.

** It's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance...That's AMERICA"

Tags: obama, wife, politics, america

Why some women choose to remain single. 2

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:33:00 GMT

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Clip Source: minneapolis.craigslist.org

help me trim/shave? - m4w - 35 (western sub)

Reply to: pers-629813738@craigslist.org

Date: 2008-04-04, 7:17AM CDT

I woudl like to find a woman to help me shave my face and trim my goatee, and also to help ms do the same with my pubic hair. Not looking for anything sexual, just would like a womans opinion and help!

Location: western sub

it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 629813738

Wisconsin Elementary school's 'WACKY WEEK' stirs controversy.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:49:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What where they thinking? With all the craziness in this world already must we be playing dress-up during the time when our children are supposed to be learning? It would appear from the participation that a minority of the students actually participated. Could this indicate that the majority thought it was just plain silly? Talk about WACKY WEEK! I think the only thing wacky about this week was the school district's idea of a wacky week.

Clip Source: www.christianpost.com

REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.

Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.

The dress-up day was not an attempt to promote cross-dressing, homosexuality or alternative gender roles, district administrator Tom Benson said.

The theme for Friday's dress-up day came from students, Hayes said.

About 40 percent of the student body dressed up Friday, Hayes estimated, with half portraying senior citizens and half dressing as the opposite sex.

Tags: education, schools, school, public school

Secret US plan for military future in Iraq

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:06:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The feeling in Baghdad is that this agreement is going to be rejected in its current form, particularly after the events of the last couple of weeks. The government is more or less happy with it as it is, but parliament is a different matter." said one well-placed Iraqi Sunni political source.
... Guardian

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

US troops conduct a foot patrol along the Tigris

Secret US plan for military future in Iraq

Document outlines powers but sets no time limit on troop presence

A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country

The draft strategic framework agreement between the US and Iraqi governments, dated March 7 and marked "secret" and "sensitive", is intended to replace the existing UN mandate and authorises the US to "conduct military operations in Iraq and to detain individuals when necessary for imperative reasons of security" without time limit

The authorisation is described as "temporary" and the agreement says the US "does not desire permanent bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq"

But the absence of a time limit or restrictions on the US and other coalition forces

the British - in the country means it is likely to be strongly opposed in Iraq and the US

Tags: iraq, war, withdraw, future, usa

Male Circumcision and Guilt by Bonnie

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:34:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not too serious, I think.

Clip Source: nsrc.sfsu.edu

Circumcision

What's a liberal, lefty, non-practicing Jew to do?

Welcome to modern day Jewery; not so much a state of being as it is a state of mind.

Or as the ultra orthodox like to call it, “Jewish goyim,” Yiddish slang for crappy Jew. Or Noam Chomsky in English

Being the secular sort myself, picking and choosing what defines my Jewishness on any given day has never been much of a problem

I’ve grown quite comfortable in my own hypocrisy

I know not to mess with: that of an eight-day-old penis.

If there remains one solitary trait defining Judaism today, it is without a doubt a circumcised dick

But rationalizing the old snippety snip isn’t as easy as it once was

all Abraham needed was blind faith and a shank

all those pesky open-minded, anti-circumcision liberals protesting this age-old tradition, the very people I usually relate to, being the lefty, feminist, “sexpert” that I am

Enter the Jewish Circumcision Resource Center (JCRC), a group so shocked by modern day circumcision y

dubious policy

Tags: circumcision

God to give careers advice.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:10:48 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk

Anyone concerned about a perceived lack of direction in the youth of today can rest assured that this problem will be solved by the end of this week, when churches across the UK hold Vocations Sunday 2008.

The Church of England has come up with a five-session course entitled 'Get a Life!', aimed at encouraging 13-18 year-olds to think about their future career paths. Youngsters will be urged to listen to God's voice in choosing their careers, and the course will employ "fun activities, meaningful exercises, biblical parallels and specially written prayers to give young people a stronger understanding of their gifts and passions."

With all this in mind, I'm putting my neck on the line and predicting that unemployment in Britain will have disappeared by 2018.

Comic "Your stealing their Land. Try being reasonable"

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: [1] "You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away ... I prefer to advocate a more positive policy ... to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave." Ariel Sharon, quoted by David Bernstein in Forcible Removal of Arabs gaining support in Israel", The (London) Times, August 24, 1988, page 7. Cited in Imperial Israel And The Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, by Nur Masalha; Chapter 2, footnote 117.

[3] "I would have carried on autonomy talks for ten years and meanwhile we would have reached a half million people in Judea and Samaria." Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir in an interview with Joseph Harif, for Ma'ariv, 26 June 1992; cited by Avi Shlaim, "Prelude to the Accord: Likud, Labour, and the Palestinians," Journal of Palestine Studies, p 23 (1994). [link]

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Cartoon

Clip Source: lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com

[2] "We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise position. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism". General Yehoshafat Harkabi (former head of IDF Intelligence); Maariv, 2 November 1973. Cited by David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East; third edition

Tags: settlements, history, israel, land

Robert Fisk Speaks in Canada

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:21:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

The Fearful Lives in a Land of the Free

by Robert Fisk

April 5, 2008

I warned the audience they might not like all they heard from me. And sure enough, when I told the audience that they were perfectly at liberty to condemn Israel and America - indeed, that they should condemn both when they abuse human rights, occupy other people’s countries and shoot innocent civilians - but that I wanted to know why I so rarely heard them condemn the vicious police states in the Middle East and other areas of south-west Asia from which they originally came, I was greeted with silence. A smattering of Muslim diplomats sat like statues, thus identifying the cruelty of their regimes.

Canada’s hopeless military involvement in Afghanistan is a subject of considerable controversy within the Canadian military. When the politicians have had their say, I’ve discovered, soldiers usually let us know their views.

Faith as a necessary virtue

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:15:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which Christianity looks very improbably; but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods "where they get off," you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith."

From Mere Christianity, p. 138-139.

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Faith seems to be used by Christians in two sense or on two levels....In the first sense it means simply Believe - accepting or regarding as true the doctrines of Christianity. That is fairly simple. But what does puzzle people - at least it used to puzzle me - is the fact that Christians regard faith in this sense as a virtue. I used to ask how on earth it can be a virtue - what is there moral or immoral about believing or not believing a set of statements?...What I did not see then - and a good many people do not see still - was this. I was assuming that if the human mind once accepts a things as true it will automatically go on regarding it as true, until some real reason for reconsidering it turns up. In fact, I was assuming that the human mind is completely ruled by reason. But that is not so....

Backhanded Compliments

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:38:32 GMT

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Clipmarks | yanceducat's Pops

Step-Aside Rapist Flip-Flops Again

Former Israeli president faces jail over rape charges

Gas was $1.46 when Bush took office!!

Daily Fuel Economy Tip

Evolution on the table top

Oldest Iraq Casualty: Americas SHAME

P

What is Obama?

Michelle Obama on America

Why some women choose to remain single. 2

help me trim/shave? - m4w - 35 (western sub)

Wisconsin Elementary school's 'WACKY WEEK' stirs controversy.

Secret US plan for military future in Iraq

Secret US plan for military future in Iraq

Male Circumcision and Guilt by Bonnie

God to give careers advice.

Comic "Your stealing their Land. Try being reasonable"

Robert Fisk Speaks in Canada

The Fearful Lives in a Land of the Free

Faith as a necessary virtue

Backhanded Compliments

You're smart to do your laundry on Saturday night, when everyone else is out.

You look like a porn star.

If you were taller, you could be a model.

Hey! Your face cleared up!

Nice dress. I've seen a lot of girls wearing it, but I think it suits you most.

I'm so jealous you don't have to wear a bra everyday.

You're really filling out.

It's so refreshing to have a conversation with someone who doesn't feel the need to prove they are smart.

I think it's so cool that you're comfortable with how you look.

That tasted better than it looked.

Most guys think they have to have a cool car, but not you.

You look so nice today, I almost didn’t recognize you.