I was wondering what today's Boston Herald SCREAMINGBOLDHEADLINE - "MITT'S COMMIE PHRASE SPARKS RAGE" was about.
Thanks for the information. They have a really cute photoshopped pic of Mitt in full Fidel garb, including cigar. Link
Having just come from crossing the Charles, I would like to point out the inanity of "closing" a frozen river. And the Charles most assuredly flows from the western suburbs of Boston to the Atlantic.
Also, the MBTA has searched the bags of nearly 2500 passengers, resulting in 27 false alarms and no explosives discovered. However, officials said that they had been effective at thwarting terrorists. Link
Boston overloaded on equipment for the Democratic Convention in 2004 and have been hunting for ways to use it, with at least one fatality so far.
If the letter had been about how women who stay home to care for children are the real losers in the Social Security system, I might have been sympathetic.
Did Dad pay into Social Security for Mom to make sure that she would have benefits? No? Then it was all their "choice," wasn't it?
One thing I would like to see is homeschooling families being required to pay into Social Security for the parent staying home to do the teaching.
Confession: I went to go see Zhang Yimou's
Curse of the Golden Lotus last night and thoughts of "ooh, that would be a great colorway" went through my head. I enjoy dyeing and handpainted yarns, but horizontal stripes and I are not on speaking terms.
A great introduction to sock knitting is Knitty's Fuzzyfeet. It uses all the techniques of sock knitting, but with worsted weight yarn. You then felt it, so sizing and stitch neatness don't really count. Also - if you hold eyelash yarn together with the wool for the cuff, it looks like monster fur!
I actually saw an advertisement featuring a hamster fatality this very morning. The ad was something about good parenting. The gist of it being that even if you killed your kid's hamster by sucking it into the vacuum cleaner, you weren't necessarily a bad mom.
Opinions may vary.
Merry Christmas!
In honor of global warming, we are cooking steaks outdoors on the grill (in Boston).
Another version, from the Quran! Via DT at Daily Kos, who also points out that the Immaculate Conception of Mary is not in the Bible, but is in the Quran. Too bad I'm not dining with the Vatican II-hating side of the family today.
Remember when the angels said, "O Mary! truly God has chosen thee, and purified thee, and chosen thee above all the women of the worlds!"
Remember when the angel said, "O Mary! Verily God announces to thee the Word from Him: The child's name shall be, Messiah Jesus the son of Mary, illustrious in this world, and in the next, and one of those who have near access to God; And He shall speak to men alike when in the cradle and when grown up; And he shall be one of the just."
She said, "How, O my Lord! shall I have a son, when no man has touched me?"
The angel said, "God will create what He will; When He decrees a thing, He need only say, 'Be,' and it is.
And God will teach your child the Book, and the Wisdom, and the Law, and the Evangel; and he shall be an apostle to the children of Israel. "Now have I come," he will say, "to you with a sign from your Lord: Out of clay will I make for you, as it were, the figure of a bird: and I will breathe into it, and it shall become, by God's leave, a bird. And I will heal the blind, and the leper; and by God's leave will I quicken the dead; and I will tell you what ye eat, and what ye store up in your houses! Truly in this will be a sign for you, if ye are believers.
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And Mary conceived the child, and retired with him to a far-off place.
Actually, scanners make typewriters useful again. A friend works for a professor who refuses to trust his manuscripts to a computer. He types the first draft, she scans it in to the computer. He makes his edits longhand on the printed version, she does them on the computer.
Seems to work fairly well. Of course, time isn't really a factor.
It sounds good to say that these problems should be treated on a "case by case" basis, but that leaves how many families having to uproot themselves, put up with harassment, etc? Is it right that only people willing to go through a lawsuit and bankrupt their families have access to their basic constitutional rights?
Allowing evangelical Christians to set the standards for church-state separation is like letting the white pride crowd determine what constitutes racism, or men define sexual harrasment.
I seem to recall hearing about readings on the trains in Boston. But it was the commuter rail, so people could go to another car if they weren't interested. I think one of the south shore community colleges offered a class that met on a commuter rail train, with the professor lecturing in the aisle. Again, you could choose another car, so it wasn't a captive audience.
If you are a crafty type, a trip to The Anti-Craft might be in order to honor the day.
Got to love a site that calls their advanced beginner knitter skill level "MoonPrincess RavenDark." Methinks my niece is going to get the "Snowball's Chance in Hell" fingerless armwarmers for Xmas this year.
Anyone else interested in a Constitutional Amendment to bar Presidents from pardoning their own political appointees for their actions while on the job?
I must confess when this thread popped onto my Bloglines screen I read it as "Vegan slot machines" and wondered what sort of slot machines are made with animal products. (Must face up to the fact that I am now older than my mother was when she got reading glasses.)
If I find someone who isn't outraged about the voting machine situation in this country, I assume they are part of the conspiracy.
Memories of my beloved Hammy and Stir. Sigh.
The next time I get a yen to write some bad fiction, the sentence "I awoke to hear the hamster screaming" is going in there somewhere.
Interesting point about medicines and side effects on Malcolm Gladwells' blog -
"For instance, for years people in the pharmaceutical business have been aware of the fact that a large number of reported adverse reactions to a particular drug can mean one of two things. The obvious meaning is that a drug is dangerous. The other meaning is that a drug is SO much better and safer and more effective than any other drug in its class that it tends to be given to the sickest and most troubled patients."
I had a storage set made of the same stuff that didn't want to come undone. Found that squeezing the going in part and using a gripper designed for opening stuck jars worked. Be gentle because hard clear plastic shatters easily, especially if old.
Haven't I read that the crackdown on meth ingredients was having the effect of creating a market for Mexican manufactured meth? So you're basically trading 'murcins blowing up their houses for gangsters. Wonderful.
I decided a while ago that I was only willing to be concerned about works that someone found personally offensive and could explain why. I do not care what you think someone else may find offensive. I also do not discuss the quality of a film or book with someone who has not seen or read the work in question, or if I haven't seen/read it myself.
That said, there is an argument to be made that at least one section of a required class have a "non-controversial" syllabus. If sex and swearing bother you, there are large pastures of literature in English that you may study.
As to the non-required courses, students are free to not read a required text. Professors are free to grade them accordingly.
The best articles I read on the Balkans trafficking was a two part series on Salon. (Must watch short commercial, etc.)
Outside the Law
Crime Without Punishment
Sex -slave Whistle-Blowers Vindicated
If you haven't seen Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan, be sure to do so. Set in the immediate aftermath of WWI, it asks the question of how do you demobilize someone who has been encouraged to live out a violent life?
A jumprope chant from my Irish girlhood:
My Momma told me, not to play with you,
Not because you're dirty, not because you're clean,
But because you caught the whooping cough,
From eating mar-ga-reen!
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