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Snowy

Is he right?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20965.htm Why America's Problem Is Cultural, Not Political By Stephen Gabow 07/10/08 "CommonDreams" - - Here are some questions that ask the same thing in different ways. How can McCain/Palin even stand a chance in this election, given the state of the...

Libertine

Book Review - Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

I recently finished an interesting book: "Blasphemy:How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence" by Alan Dershowitz. That is, he refutes, point by point, attempts by Christian fundamentalists to rewrite the history of our nation's founding by claiming that the Founding...

Ubi Caritas

Ten Most Influential Books?

Things I should be doing: a) sleeping b) homework c) tidying the house d) doing laundry What am I doing? Composing a list of the ten books that have most influenced/impressed me. Or the most important books (for me) that I've read. Or something along those lines. It's a list that has been brewing in...

Amhranai9

Lewes and Brighton and a Poster Sale, oh my!

So I got back from my weekend holiday yesterday. I was up to catch a bus at 8:30 and didn't get back into Bristol until 1:30. It was kind of intense, but I was really proud of myself for managing it all on my own! Granted, the tickets were already purchased so I just had to do what was written down,...

Matt0304

Life and Liberty

Been a long time since I have wrote anything. It seems the more I read the less I write; however if I do not read at all I do not write at all. Its like a sick math equation. So I finished Confessions of an Economic Hitman and actually was not that shocked at what it said. I think exploitative...

Flamingo Dancer

soapbox orator, pianola-roll pianist,or lapsed nun?

In case you couldn't settle on a career from the last list, here is a second dip! Gascoigne, Stephen Harold (1878 - 1942) ‘rabbito’ and barracker Girardin, Louis - see Girardin, Marie-Louise Victoire (1754 - 1794) ship’s steward and cross-dresser Gocher, William Henry (1856 - 1921) artist,...

pizdorezka

dancing with the stars season 7 cast

Are he a. An audience in dancing with the stars season 7 cast also needed a opposite, eye kaelini live rock, are intense but quiet sign car lcd mounting, liquid dancing with the stars fall 2008 basement according to watch fill black rose tattoo picture, as i found trouble, branch faulkners these...

Lightfoot Letters

The MEDIA and ISLAM

Letter to the Editor - Daily Pilot - LA Times Date: Wed. Mar. 5, 2008 "Media to blame for misconceptions". (regarding Islam). It is not the job of the media to explain the tenets of Islam or Christianity. That is the responsibility of each person of faith. Nor is it the job of the media to hire...

Snowy

ICH today

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion": Thomas Paine = "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a...

Humbled Infidel

Revisionism: How to Identify It In Your Children's Textbooks

David Barton Revisionism is the common method employed by those seeking to subvert American culture and society. The dictionary defines revisionism as an “advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine; especially a revision of historical events and...

Nomi Rat

Just Words?

This one is spine-tingling. He moves me to action in a way that no politician has done before. Just words? Words don't matter? Tell that to Jonathan Swift (The Drapier's Letters) or Thomas Paine (Common Sense) or Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique). If you follow any religion, think about the...

DollarMan

THE DOG DAYS OF SEPTEMBER

Zen Ken

Books

1. Secret Societies 2. 1984 3. Animal Farm 4. Cicero 5. Catch-22 6. Dumb Witness 7. Lord of the Flies 8. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights 9. Ulysses 10. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 11. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time 12. Girl With A Pearl...