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Tradition or Atrocity?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:12:26 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Isn't it time more people stepped up to condemn this practice? Should modern day knowledge not replace outdated tribal rituals? I have no idea how common place this practice is but I think most would find it injurious to the child.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Saudi Arabia: Eight-Year-Old Girl Wants Divorce

A girl as young as eight shouldn't even be married, never mind trying to get a divorce — and from a man who is fifty years older! It's only because traditionalist Islam continues to sanction the barbaric practice of marrying off prepubescent girls is this even an issue and that's only because Muslims believe that their prophet, Muhammad, married a girl of about the same age.

This practice would probably be easier to stamp out if only it were permitted for Muslims to say "Not everything Muhammad did was right, and just because Muhammad did it doesn't mean we should today." That, however, is difficult in a religion that considers even visual depictions of Muhammad to be blasphemous, never mind criticism. It's good that most Muslims around the world reject marrying little girls, but it's only in spite of Islamic traditions.

Tags: islam, child bride, saudi arabia

“Don’t Cage Dissent”

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:19:00 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

“Don’t Cage Dissent”

August 14, 2008

By Amy Goodman

The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

Denver’s CBS4 News just reported that the city is planning on jailing arrested Democratic convention protesters at a warehouse with barbed-wire-topped cages and signs warning of the threat of stun gun use. Meanwhile, a federal judge has ruled that a designated protest area is legal, despite claims that protesters will be too far from the Democratic delegates to be heard.

Aleister Crowley Nativity

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:50:44 GMT

clipped by: bakancs
clipper's remarks: night between 11 and 12 PM, October 12, 1875, with Leo rising on the Eastern horizon, Aliester Crowley was born

Clip Source: www.ashejournal.com

Aleister Crowley Nativity

The Open and Indirectly Open Paths
for Crowley on the Tree of Life

The Closed and Indirectly Closed Paths
for Crowley on the Tree of Life

In the night between 11 and 12 PM, October 12, 1875, with Leo rising on the Eastern horizon, Aliester Crowley was born. He grew into a man of indelible steel who changed face of Western hermetic tradition. His Magic career started under the auspices of the Occult Order “Golden Dawn.” With extraordinary speed and zeal he passed through the ranks of this Order. Due to a conflict with autocratic leader of “Golden Dawn” MacGregor Matters, he left. He felt Mathers strove to uproot every new initiative and expression of individual members’ wills. Crowley retired far from people and studied operations of the sacred magic of Abramelin the mage. During extensive world travel, he was initiated in the secret oriental sciences of Tantra, I Ching, Raja Yoga.

Why You Won't See Michael Phelps on the Wheaties Box

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:34:25 GMT

clipped by: P Scanlon
clipper's remarks: A clip from an AdAge article that outlines why Michael Phelps will be gracing the boxes of Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes—breaking the tradition on the biggest Olympic winners appearing on a Wheaties' box.

The real reason? Kellogg's spends 96x more on marketing Frosted Flakes alone than General Mills spends on Wheaties ($11mm in 2007 vs $114 annually).

Gold translates to gold. But it does raise the question as to why sugar-coated cereal garners more marketing might/muscle than a breakfast cereal that is perceived as healthy. Is it because "They're Great !" or because kids will clamor for them in the supermarket aisle and around the breakfast table?

Clip Source: adage.com

"Michael Phelps will not appear on a Wheaties box this year," General Mills spokeswoman Shelly Dvorak wrote via e-mail in response to a question as to whether the company had approached him with the opportunity. "But we were honored to welcome him into the Wheaties family four years ago, in 2004."

Kellogg certainly had the bigger pool of cash with which to lure Mr. Phelps. According to TNS Media Intelligence, Kellogg spent $11 million in measured media on Frosted Flakes alone in 2007. By comparison, General Mills' outlay for Wheaties was about $114,000.

Why You Won't See Michael Phelps on the Wheaties Box

The Battle Creek, Mich., marketer said last week it had tapped Mr. Phelps for its Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes. Because Kellogg wrapped the swimmer in an exclusive deal (for an undisclosed sum), its competitor instead signed gymnast Nastia Liukin and decathlete Brian Clay.

Obama's Evasiveness

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:15:19 GMT

clipped by: sparlingphoto
clipper's remarks: Chicago politics are nototriously slimy, Obama continues the tradition albeit with a more radical tilt.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Obama Should Come Clean
On Ayers, Rezko
And the Iraqi Billionaire

Even as Barack Obama gave his soaring speech Thursday night, his campaign was playing hardball with its critics.

Team Obama has launched an offensive against WGN, the Chicago Tribune's radio station, for interviewing Stanley Kurtz. Mr. Kurtz is a conservative writer who this week forced the University of Illinois to finally open its records on Sen. Obama's association with William Ayers, the unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist.

If the full story of Mr. Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright had been revealed before the Iowa caucus, he wouldn't have won.

Aides claim Mr. Obama "has taken voluntary transparency steps" that allow "his constituents, the media and his political opponents to fully examine him."

This isn't what reporters expected when Mr. Obama began campaigning for a "new politics" that would bring honesty and openness to government.

Vice In Go-Go Boots?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:46:07 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "The legacy of Geraldine Ferraro was supposed to be that no one would ever go on a blind date with history again. But that crazy maverick and gambler McCain does it, and conservatives and evangelicals rally around him in admiration of his refreshingly cynical choice of Sarah, an evangelical Protestant and anti-abortion crusader who became a hero when she decided to have her baby, who has Down syndrome, and when she urged schools to debate creationism as well as that stuffy old evolution thing."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes “The Brady Bunch” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested.

Instead, they embrace 72-year-old John McCain and 44-year-old Sarah Palin, whose average age is 58, a mere two years older than the average age of the Obama-Biden ticket. Enthusiastic Republicans don’t see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified “babe,” as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket. They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they’re learning to drive, what’s the big deal?

The dangerous life of a sacred sex worker

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:14:14 GMT

clipped by: yewtree
clipper's remarks: Very sad...

Clip Source: www.newyorker.com

f course, there are times when there is pleasure,” Rani Bai said. “Who does not like to make love? A handsome young man, one who is gentle . . .”

She paused for a moment, looking out over the lake, smiling to herself. Then her face clouded over. “But mostly it is horrible. The farmers here, they are not like the boys of Bombay.”

“And eight of them every day,” her friend Kaveri said. “Sometimes ten. Unknown people. What kind of life is that?”

“We have a song,” Rani said. “ ‘Everyone sleeps with us, but no one marries us. Many embrace us, but no one protects.’ ”

Tags: hindu, tradition

Kukulkan1

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:15:09 GMT

clipped by: skeptik007

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Kukulkan

Kukulkan ("Plumed Serpent", "Feathered Serpent") is one of the many gods in the pantheon of Maya mythology. The depiction of the feathered serpent deity is present in most cultures of Mesoamerica although regional traditions vary throughout. Kukulkan should not be confused with Gukumatz the god of K'iche'-Maya tradition or Quetzalcoatl of Aztec mythology although their origins are directly related. The pyramid El Castillo in Chichen Itza was constructed for this god.^[1]

Palin as Chick Flick

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:31:24 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Gotta love the humor.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Instead of going home and watching “Miss Congeniality” with Sandra Bullock, I get to stay here and watch “Miss Congeniality” with Sarah Palin

It’s easy to see where this movie is going.

Republicans don’t see the choice of Palin as affirmative action, despite her thin résumé and gaping absence of foreign policy knowledge, because they expect Republicans to put an underqualified “babe,” as Rush Limbaugh calls her, on the ticket.

They have a tradition of nominating fun, bantamweight cheerleaders from the West, like the previous Miss Congeniality types Dan Quayle and W., and then letting them learn on the job. So they crash into the globe a few times while they’re learning to drive, what’s the big deal?

Obama may have been president of The Harvard Law Review, but Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a minor in poli-sci

Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting

Sarah is a zealot, but she’s a fun zealot

Palin says daughter pregnant

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:41:05 GMT

clipped by: tommy2balmy
clipper's remarks: To rebut the rumors.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old unmarried daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

The Palins asked the news media to respect the young couple's privacy.

"Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi's privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,"

Tags: palin

Pro-life Palins

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:38:55 GMT

clipped by: sillysam
clipper's remarks: Focus on the Family President James Dobson, who strongly praised McCain’s selection of Palin as a running mate, said the Palin family is approaching the pregnancy exactly how his group recommends.

“We have always encouraged the parents to love and support their children and always advised the girls to see their pregnancies through, even though there will of course be challenges along the way. That is what the Palins are doing, and they should be commended once again for not just talking about their pro-life and pro-family values, but living them out even in the midst of trying circumstances,” Dobson said.

Clip Source: elections.foxnews.com

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,” the Palins said in the statement. “Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

Tags: palin, pro life, abortion, obama

Burying Women Alive Defended As 'Tradition'

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:29:06 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

August 30th

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by northwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament to spare him their outrage.

"These are centuries-old traditions, and I will continue to defend them," Israr Ullah Zehri, who represents Baluchistan province, told The Associated Press Saturday.

"Only those who indulge in immoral acts should be afraid."

The women, three of whom were teenagers, were first shot and then thrown into a ditch.

They were still breathing as mud was shoveled over their bodies, according to media reports, which said their only "crime" was that they wished to marry men of their own choosing.

Zehri told a packed and stunned Parliament on Friday that Baluch tribal traditions helped stop obscenity and then asked fellow lawmakers to stop making such a fuss about it.

Tags: iislam, muslims, islamofascism, murder, women, pakistan

the dreambody

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:39:08 GMT

clipped by: zadoz
clipper's remarks: the cutting edge of therapy

Clip Source: www.shrinkrapradio.com

#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork

Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell come out of the Jungian tradition and have been doing pioneering work around the world.

Dr. Amy Mindell is in private therapeutic practice in Portland, Oregon and teaches in many countries in the world. She helped developed process oriented psychology in the areas of coma, creativity, and dance. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology and is a diplomate of the Process Oriented Psychology Center of Zurich. She wrote Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy, Riding the Horse Backwards with Arny, Coma, a Healing Journey, and An Alternative to Therapy as well as many papers in professional journals. Her work with art, music and puppets appears in her newest book “The Dreaming Source of Creativity”. Her studies of the feeling skills in therapy, or “metaskills”, are at the core of much of her work.

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Tags: mindell, dreams, dreambody, processwork, somatics

Metaphors collected from high school essays

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:20:58 GMT

clipped by: stookla
clipper's remarks: Pretty much kick awesome.

Clip Source: help.com

Funny metaphors used in high school essays

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

Tags: humor, metaphor, teacher, student, high school

Ron Paul's statement of principle

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:30:08 GMT

clipped by: robm47
clipper's remarks: Why doesn't this man get more media coverage? Maybe it's because the corporate media is in so few hands.

Clip Source: www.naturalnews.com

Americans inherit from their ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression. Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity –- a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change", neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way. Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt. Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy. Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands. Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world. Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

Clipmarks | Tradition Clips

Tradition or Atrocity?

Saudi Arabia: Eight-Year-Old Girl Wants Divorce

“Don’t Cage Dissent”

“Don’t Cage Dissent”

August 14, 2008

Aleister Crowley Nativity

Aleister Crowley Nativity

Why You Won't See Michael Phelps on the Wheaties Box

Why You Won't See Michael Phelps on the Wheaties Box

Obama's Evasiveness

Obama Should Come Clean On Ayers, Rezko And the Iraqi Billionaire

Vice In Go-Go Boots?

The dangerous life of a sacred sex worker

Kukulkan1

Kukulkan

Palin as Chick Flick

Palin says daughter pregnant

Pro-life Palins

Burying Women Alive Defended As 'Tradition'

the dreambody

#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork

Metaphors collected from high school essays

Funny metaphors used in high school essays

Ron Paul's statement of principle

Obama Should Come Clean
On Ayers, Rezko
And the Iraqi Billionaire