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Jews for a Just Peace by Kaylah | hide/show
Jews for a Just Peace is a new Austin-based organization dedicated to ending the Israeli occupation. Its mission is three-fold: to collectively and publicly critique Israeli policies towards and treatment of Palestinians; to show solidarity with Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination; and to engage in educational outreach amongst Austin's Jewish communities. The group welcomes all Austin Jewish residents who sympathize with its goals. Contact: kaylah.pache@gmail.com
02-09-2012ShootTheModel Designer Series by T3amindustry | hide/show
The fashion is reminiscent of Blade Runner with apocalyptic influences. For the first 3 looks By davidJ is featuring LOVE jeans and an 'Infinity Scarf'. The final 3 are direct theatrical interpretations by collaboration.
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02-03-2012Call for Participation in Art Project by laurengillette | hide/show
Artist Lauren Gillette, is looking for participants in a project entitled "THINGS I DID". Participants are asked to supply the artist with a list of five 'things they have done' over the course of a lifetime. Each of the lists will function as a portrait of the person who supplied it. No face to face contact is necessary, participants can simply e-mail the list to the address below. Please refer to www.thingsididproject.blogspot.com for more information.
In your e-mail, please include the following;
First name
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Lists can be emailed to Lauren at lulu329@maine.rr.com
Thanks for your participation, and please check out Lauren's work LaurenGillette.com
01-14-2012AWESOME! by Mauibrad | hide/show
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I'm getting ready for a fight right now. i'm getting ready to go thru this by fight4raece | hide/show
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Fluoride-Free Pressley for Council by LPressley | hide/show
Fluoride-Free Pressley for Council by LPressley | hide/show
Also, there are almost 0 levels of fluoride in mother's milk and a mother's body will prevent fluoride from being transferred to the nursing child. Nature surely didn't get it wrong. We can respectfully debate the new scientific studies that have come out over the last 10 years which show fluoride exposure causes hypothyroidism, bone issues, decreased IQ in children, etc.
But there is no debating that a one sized fits all distribution mechanism through our water supply is not good medical practice. A 3 year old child and a 6 foot tall man get the same amount of fluoride medicine in their tap water. No doctor would prescribe a medicine at the same dose for children vs adults. They would take in to consideration the height, weight, and sensitivity of that individual. That is the self evident and intuitive truth about fluoridation...there is no dose control and infants should not be exposed to it. There are sensitive individuals such as infants, and other citizens that should not be exposed.. 12-17-2011
Cicero said... | hide/show
Then, as the sun rises, comes the next set of lies attempting to empower the former lie, i.e., class envy as "social justice", “fairness", "equality" and it's only right and just to take by force from some to award others for being treated so unfairly.
This is the essence of Marxism and its spawn – postmodern leftism. The Obama Democrats are deluded up to their eyes with it. This is why they've now driven America into bankruptcy. The debt is so huge ($15,000,000,000,000 Trillion and growing by quantum leaps) it's requiring collapsing amounts just to service the interest.
No debt level has even come close to this destruction. The all but nonexistent economic recovery is a dark symptom of its crushing of productivity. The urgency to stop profligate government debt and spending proliferation is now existential. The Obama Democrat leftists willfully deny this; because their vain class envy dogma requires it. Moreover, many of them pathologically romanticize about the free market failing, i.e., OWS.
They blindly ignore the certain misery that would result. Since 2008 we’ve had a sad and bitter taste of it; but only a taste. If the Obama Democrats prevail in the 2012 elections, the debt will grow exponentially and we’ll be forced fed the tyranny and servitude of mass poverty and crushing taxes. America and the free world will fall. Hell will be common place! Every American must understand this and not allow it.
Cicero
12-17-2011
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Swells22 said... | hide/show
And who said anything about denying corporation rights? There is an entire legal practice dedicated to corporate law. Why? Because the the rights of corporations tend to be a little different than those for the common man. You are conferred these corporate rights if you maintain good standing with state in which you register. Delaware is a big state for registering because of their ample corporate rights and low taxation.
I can agree that federal government has become an evil of sorts, a popular sentiment these days because of the revolving door between politicians and corporations. The former chairman of GE is now working for Obama ... there are too many to list. You're disproving your own point there, but common sense seems to be in short supply these days? 12-17-2011
Cicero said... | hide/show
And notwithstanding Republican fiscal malfeasance, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Democrat leftists have outspent them exponentially. And America is now bankrupt. If deficit spending and the resulting debt accumulation ($15,000,000,000,000 TRILLION and expanding rapaciously) isn't STOPPED NOW (and in Europe as well), the world economy will collapse.
While certainly fitting that leftist class envy and resentment dogma would be the final destroyer of human progress, that’s a hell we and our children don’t deserve; unless it’s because of our own ignorance and apathy. If that’s the case, then we will surely reap darkly what we sow. To be sure, it doesn’t have to be. But the hour is beyond just late.
Our only chance to save Liberty, prosperity, America and the free world is to defeat the leftist Democrats in the 2012 elections. For if they retain power the red ink will drown us all in taxation and poverty despotism. Indeed, another Obama Democrat administration will result in the fall of Western Civilization and the associated tyrannical and abject horrors it will produce.
Cicero
12-17-2011
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12-17-2011
gayathrib said... | hide/show
I am from India, where food means nothing but carefully home prepared meals, by a group of family members, with vegetables picked if not the same day at least within a 2 days- and where vegetables never used to be stored in the fridge (my family back home still buys veggies every day ).. I guess the work culture lends & blends itself to support this !
When I moved here as a student and subsequently started working and had a family - In Corporate America as we struggle to keep up with work to make our living - working moms like us will be constantly struggling - unless there is a grass root effort to make this more feasible .. else we will struggle to find that one little place which will fulfill our healthy food needs without breaking our wallet...
Cheers!
Gayathri 12-17-2011
Corporate Power by mnpoor | hide/show
Voters (not necessarily taxpayers) continually want more from government - more roads, more law enforncement, more education, more defense, more environemntal protection, etc. Some of these, needless to say, are mutually exclusive. Polticians get (re-)elected by pandering to this 'greed'. Those that can balance a checkbook know better than to enact such spending, but voters don't vote for green eyeshades. They vote for wonderful sounding promises - particularly 'free lunches'.
Some of the most egrarious spending has been eneacted by Republican administrations - the Bush administration drug benefit, for example. No one that had any clue on costs would have sponsored this. The fact that it's in force indicates that the entire political establishment is bankrupt. 12-17-2011
Cicero said... | hide/show
To wit, if corporations are being denied ANY Constitutional freedoms, i.e., supporting political and lobbying efforts, then ALL organizations, i.e., labor unions, must be as well. But Swells22 and his OWS buds would NEVER agree to that because their central ideological tenet is class resentment. And the 99% leftist mob picks the juiciest target to vilify as their class enemy – the 1% corporations. But even though labor unions participate in the identical political bed fluffing, they‘re given an unjust politically correct pass.
Indeed, notwithstanding leftist demands for "equality", "fairness" and "social justice, the obvious hypocrisy of not allowing one group certain rights but demanding the same ones for another is lost in the black consciousness of the leftist knucklehead. Old Swells22 clearly shares that malady.
Cicero
12-16-2011
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Swells22 said... | hide/show
Let's first skip over the mumbo jumbo and talk about very large corporations that are traded on the stock exchange, often have a board of directors and stockholders and a global presence - not some little one-man sole proprietorship that is incorporated as a corporation under the laws of Texas. These are what the Occupy Movement are talking about, the really big companies. Many are listed on the S&P 500, CiBot, Mercantile Exchange, Dow Jones for example. You know all that and we are not talking about small businesses here. Very, very powerful ones - even if they lose money on paper.
Now what these here really big corporations do is hire lobbyists, often former legislators themselves, to drafts your bills for you before Congress and help pass the bill as well, including any amendments. That's what lobbyists do for a living. They could give a hoot about any of your lofty ideals about Democracy - they get paid millions to pass the bill or even block it on a technicality if you don't like it. That's what they are paid to do, make laws to your advantage that adds up to billions a year. It is all perfectly legal, but is not democracy in the least. It is crony capitalism. The word "plutocracy" comes to mind.
As a common person off the street, you cannot do that. Thus a corporation must, by any logic, be something slightly different - not a "person" in the literal sense or the figurative. You are a giant corporation. For those purposes, a corporation is not a person.
Apparently that fact of logic didn't stop the Supreme Court from issuing such a nutty ruling. 12-16-2011
Linda Rosa, RN said... | hide/show
Fluoride is one of the most common elements in our planet. It's everywhere. We humans evolved with a need for fluoride to develop healthy bones and teeth. According to the very particular Institute of Medicine, fluoride is classified as a "nutrient."
Dental decay has been the most common disease, so it is downright inhumane to oppose community water fluoridation which dramatically reduces the rate of decay 20-40% over and above the beneficial effects of fluoridated toothpaste and other topical applications.
If anyone is confused about community water fluoridation, I recommend they talk to their dentist. And visit this website: http://www.ilikemyteeth.org/fluoridation/
12-16-2011
Sometimes, y'know ... by Wayne Alan Brenner | hide/show
Of course, if a reviewer IS to avoid such a sort of spoiler, if a reviewer IS going to give a worthwhile IMPRESSION, that reviewer had better well do a decent & somehow informative job of it.
Done & done, I'd say, in the case of A. Roberts review: We know that he thinks the show is well-presented & that he was glad to experience it, we know it seemed to be a fine feast for actors (and for audiences who enjoy actors feasting), and we learn much about the potential of this new company we'd not heard of before.
Hey?
12-16-2011
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Cicero said... | hide/show
As stated before, if corporations (which in fact are made up of PEOPLE) are denied any rights then by the STATED leftist positions of "equality" and "fairness” for everyone, all other organizations, i.e., labor unions, must also be deprived of the same “equally." But because leftists hate capitalism and profit and believe in the justification of class envy they'll never do that. Ergo, leftist once again, are proven by their own actions to be raging hypocrites!
Moreover, Swells22’s continual descent into profanity clearly reveals he/she’s an abject cretin. But the good news is this assists in showing the moral bankruptcy of leftist dogma.
Cicero
12-16-2011
Bumbling police, at it again.. by roo7227 | hide/show
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So we have Abe Lincoln and the State of Texas going against the influence of corporations on elections. By acting in opposition, you are telling me that you're willing to violate your own principles and therefore are nothing but a hypocrite.
The reason why I wrote a long missive about the Supreme Court case because it was a very narrow aspect on one federal law - and not all "corporate rights" in a generic sense. However that one ruling tended to grow into a life of its own, which perhaps can best be explained as a reaction to corporations (not all of them but many) were modern day Robber Barons who got government perks and for many, allowed them to pay little or no IRS taxes. This was never intended by our Founding Fathers, even the more conservative of the time such as Hamilton who desired federal bank reserves to enable banks and corporations to ... raise capital. Taken in the context of declines jobs and wages, this makes perfect sense - and I am not arguing against that more general sentiment.
And yes, we did ignore your post because it seemed like puffery instead of any new insights beyond your typical anti-liberal drivel, spew, splooge, shite, and barf. 12-16-2011
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