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Pictures Taken At Just the Right Time

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:26:25 GMT

clipped by: vandamonium

Clip Source: www.emailjokes.co.za

Tags: pictures, photos, amaizing

1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:43:48 GMT

clipped by: Bluephoenix4

Clip Source: sd4.sd-lj.si

Tags: pc, gigabyte, technology, hardware, comparison, computers, storage

No Homo's In Iran

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:06:20 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon."

Clip Source: wcbstv.com

(CBS) NEW YORK Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a scathing welcome from Columbia President Lee Bollinger before addressing students and faculty with a highly controversial question-and-answer forum that included him claiming that homosexuals don't exist in Iran.

"Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger told Ahmadinejad during the introduction which prodded the president for his treatment of women, homosexuals, Jews, while slamming him for denying the Holocaust.

"When you come to a place like this it makes you simply ridiculous," Bollinger said, calling Columbia a world center for Jewish studies. "The truth is that the Holocaust is the most documented event in human history. ... You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."

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College teacher fired for doubting Adam and Eve story

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:59:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.desmoinesregister.com

A community college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be literally interpreted.

Bitterman, who taught part time at Southwestern and Omaha's Metropolitan Community College, said he uses the Old Testament in his western civilization course and always teaches it from an academic standpoint.

"I put the Hebrew religion on the same plane as any other religion. Their god wasn't given any more credibility than any other god," Bitterman said. "I told them it was an extremely meaningful story, but you had to see it in a poetic, metaphoric or symbolic sense, that if you took it literally, that you were going to miss a whole lot of meaning there."

Tags: college, religion, teacher, belief, academics, academic, history, god, metaphor

Ahmadinejad's Speech at Columbia University Is as American as Apple Pie

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:50:49 GMT

clipped by: Rasmus

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Columbia's invitation to Ahmadinejad not only shows the world the importance of free speech, but also demonstrates what free speech means. Free speech does not simply allow individuals to express their views. It also forces them to defend and validate those views.

Those who oppose Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia argue that we are giving him a soapbox.

If we didn't let him speak here, he could just as easily spread hate from Iran. The difference in bringing him to Columbia is that we will have the opportunity to challenge his claims, whereas we can only cringe when he speaks from Iran. What Columbia has chosen to do is to put him in a context where he cannot take advantage of the bully pulpit, where he must defend his actions to students and academics, where, for once, he is in a conversation rather than a monologue.

Tags: ahmadinejad, columbia university, free speech, iran, usa

Being Yourself

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:28:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.quotegarden.com

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde

Tags: being yourself