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Hayden Panettiere Turns 21, Denied at Club Anywayby Free Britney at . Comments
Hayden Panettiere just celebrated her 21st birthday.
The irony? She apparently got into a screaming match with a doorman outside trendy LA hotspot after he denied the cute actress because she lacked legal ID.
"Are you kidding me?" Hayden said to the Villa employee, according to a report in the National Enquirer. "I come here all the time. Why is this an issue NOW?"
"I turned 21 ... what the hell is your problem?"
Hayden, who has previously revealed that she's been drinking wine with meals since age eight, needs to remember to carry her license on her at all times.
That or bring boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko along next time. We don't foresee her getting denied by some smart ass doorman with this guy by her side ...
Either Wlad is really tall and Hayden really short, or she's really far away.
He is 6'3" and she is 5'2"
Wlad or Vlodomyr is about 6'8".
That quote has been twised and turned around so many times our heads are spinning. I you use a quote then use the whole thing. I think this incident took place a few weeks before Haydens birthday and Hayden was taken back by a change in policy by the club and the doorman followed orders and Hayden was uninformed before hand and no wonder she got a little upset. Why is this coming to light NOW? No matter, Hayden can now go to other clubs and that club can now go with her money and her friends money with her to other clubs.
Just to point out, this was published by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER! i wouldn't exactly count that as the most trustworthy source for information. Especially as Hayden was, in fact, in Detroit filming Scream 4 when this supposedly happened, not in Los Angeles. It's all lies.
She has previously revealed that she has been drinking wine with her meals since the age of 8 only because she ALSO said after this that because she's been brought up as an Italian, it's traditional to drink wine with meals. It's normal for italian kids to drink wine with their meals in italy. DUH. Also the fact that she says "Why is this an issue NOW?" shows that they have previously let her in many times before so why are they trying to ruin her mood by making this an issue all of a sudden? I would be pissed off too. Fucking cunt, he should have let her in. It's not like she's going to do anything stupid in there, she has a reputation to keep up. Plus it's just giving the doormal attention from the media, which isn't ideal. He will HAVE to let her in next time.
nice description of the photo:P
Your quote is also wrong. The actual quote published in the National Enquirer is, ""I turn 21 in a couple of weeks…so what the hell is your problem?�" Get it right, or don't bother posting please.
This actually happened a few days before her 21st birthday. She was not actually 21 yet. This was reported by several sites last week.


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College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University: Sponsorship of the new Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Geoscience and Production degree programme introduced by Makerere University's College of Natural Sciences (CONAS) in Uganda. There is little experience in the area of petroleum geoscience and production in the region, including Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo. The programme is helping to fill this need by training local human resource in the development and sustainability of the petroleum industry.
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Three Things I've Learned About Bras
Once I learned how to work a rear snap I was done for a while. I didn't want to risk learning something new and forgetting that. Fast-forward a couple of decades and I've learned a couple of new things about bras.
To hide their bra outline women match their bra color to their skin color, not to their shirt color. So if a white gal is wearing a white shirt she wears a skin-colored bra. Not snow white, but "nude" or "light tan." I read that years ago at Megnut, and my wife confirmed it. She learned it from a very dark-skinned friend who wore black bras.
Bras with flat areas in front between the cups are more comfortable, apparently. My wife saw that on Oprah, started buying those kinds of bras, and is now a convert. The diametric opposite would be sportsbras that have no separation and which create the painful condition known as uniboob.
Bras are freakin' expensive, bubba. I don't know how much I thought bras cost. Ten bucks, maybe. Turns out they're more like thirty bucks and up.
Anything else I should know?
Yeah ... underwires can cause serious bodily harm.
Gee thanks, Less. Your insight on this subject is oh so valuable.
Les -
A bra thread from a man?
I think I'm going to petition Mike to revoke your guestblogging privileges. :)
power: Hey, I just posted in case I'm not the last guy to hear about these things, and I'm happy to learn more.
The device of which you speak is a most wonderful contrivance that has served mankind well (womankind, too). I came into young adulthood in the sixties (most of which I can't remember, but they say I had a good time), and I can assure you one can only appreciate some things only after they have been cast aside (or perhaps burned).
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What is everyone's thoughts on the guy? He has every major Alabama passing record, with 7,894 passing yards and 46 touchdowns.
Granted we already have three quarterbacks on the roster, but this kid really shined at his pro day and his draft stock has risen as of late. It wouldn't hurt to take a look at him during the fifth round considering his collegiate productivity and upside (his numbers dropped from 2007 but still had a decent year). Good size and arm strength, plus he doesn't seem to be on anyone else's radar. Could he be the steal of the draft?


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It looks like one of the many, many big projects James Franco has dipped his toes in the water for is coming closer to fruition. Speaking with MTV on the slopes of the Sundance Film Festival, James Franco went ahead and dropped some truth bombs about one major picture he says he will direct this summer.
"This summer I'm going to direct a movie based on William Faulkner's novel 'As I Lay Dying,'" Franco told MTV. And he didn't stop there. The actor reveals that on New Year's Day while everyone else was recovering from wicked hangovers, he was busy test-shooting the entire 160-page script for the film (which he admits is probably too long). "I shoot a test of the whole movie before I make a movie. So we just shot a test." And if that still isn't enough news for you, Franco went ahead and revealed who will likely appear in the cast, and if it all holds, it's pretty damn stellar.
Michael Shannon (who he calls his "favorite actor," who he's worked with twice already, directing him in "Herbert White" and "The Broken Tower"), Paul Dano, Richard Jenkins and Joaquin Phoenix were all named as part of the potential cast. Good comeback vehicle choice, Joaquin. No word yet on what their roles will be.
For those of you a few years out of your last English class, the story follows the Bundren family as they take the matriarch to the town where she wants to be buried. The challenge of the material is that it utilizes multiple points of view within the narrative to weave the tale, but it appears that Franco, who is also writing the film, has cracked the material. He recently said, "I don't believe it'll feel the same if you divide it as rigidly as the book, like titles that say 'Cash' and then you're with Cash. You can slip into the characters' heads and give them their inner voice for a while, but it has to be more fluid because movies just work differently than books. Movies, in some ways because they deal in images, are more concrete. I want to be loyal to the book — my approach is to always be loyal in a lot of ways — but in order to be loyal I will have to change some things for the movie."
So for you all you kids in junior high right now, dreading having to read Faulkner, there may be a movie version you can watch instead if your Kindle or iPad or whatever it is you guys use these days is busted. You can check out Franco spilling the details below. And just a reminder that the cast is not locked, but as the summer draws near, more official word on this very exciting project should be coming. But for now, Academy Award nominee Franco is preparing to fill out a tuxedo and host the Oscars in about a month.
jackie | February 7, 2013 8:12 PM
kevin bacon would be a perfect jewel if he was younger. joaquin is perfect for darl.
Max | January 26, 2011 4:43 AM
One of my favorite books from my favorite author. I trust Franco when he says that he'll be faithful to the source material, but this is undoubtedly a tough egg to crack, despite his beaming optimism. There's been like, what, one adaptation of a Faulkner book, The Sound and the Fury, that was apparently horrid. And most likely for the same limitations of the narration as in As I Lay Dying. But that was like 50 years ago, so I'll give Franco the benefit of the doubt and reconcile that movie making styles and standards have changed drastically over the decades. The cast does look pretty good, I think I would have Shannon as Cash and Phoenix as Darl.
Christopher Bell | January 26, 2011 4:29 AM
Hm. Jenkins could pull off the father, though he'd have to let himself go a little bit. Joaquin and Shannon would be a great Cash, though I bet they'll make him Darl because he's more "sensitive" looking than Shannon. Dano as Jewel could work, too. Good cast.
Paul | January 26, 2011 12:04 AM
So in 2012 Franco decides to schedule some sleep right?
Edward Davis | January 25, 2011 10:10 AM
Joaquin Phoenix's face in this image is his reaction to seeing that he's part of the cast. lol


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The NFL's Competition Committee will discuss a possible over rule change at their meetings next month. If the proposed plan passes, overtime will work as follows:
1. The team who wins the toss gets the ball first (team A)
2. If team A scores a touchdown on that first possession, they win the game.
3. If team A kicks a field goal, then team B will get possession of the ball.
4. If team B kicks a field goal on their first possession, the game will go to sudden death and, presumably, the current OT rules would take effect.
5. If team B scores a touchdown, they win.
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We're just getting into William Gibson's Neuromancer, but it's time to vote for June's book now. We've got some good ones to choose from: William Gibson (again!), Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clarke, and more. The poll can be found right here, and will be open until May 17th.


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Football masterclass for Carlisle pupils
One of England's top female footballers is visiting school pupils in Carlisle.
Trinity footballers are 'a very talented bunch'
Olympic female footballer Steph Houghton has treated school pupils in Carlisle to a football masterclass.
The under 13's girls football team at Trinity Secondary School, have been preparing for the North of England Regional Finals on 14th February.
If they win, they travel to Wembley Stadium for the final.
– Steph Houghton
"It was great to spend some time with the girls from Trinity Secondary School.
"They're a very talented bunch and I wish them all the best in the Regional Finals.
"I've been lucky enough to play at Wembley Stadium and there really is no beating it. If these girls play to the best of their ability they might have that chance i sure they'll do everyone proud. "
Female football star visits Carlisle pupils
One of England's top female footballers is visiting school pupils in Carlisle.
Steph Houghton from Sunderland, who plays for England's International Team and Arsenal Ladies, is giving pupils from Trinity School a masterclass in the game.
The 24-year-old, who was a key player for Team GB in the 2012 Olympic games, is coaching the Under 13's team.


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For most of the past decade, the term "alternative fuel vehicle" was virtually synonymous with "electric car," but that's not so in 2014.
In the first half of this year, we've seen rollouts of vehicles powered by at least four different alternative energy sources. Here, we've collected photos of some of them. From plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles to CNG trucks and hydrogen-powered cars, we offer a peek at the growing category of alternative fuel vehicles.
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I pretty much assumed from the beginning that this battle was going to be tough, considering the ubers I faced off against in the previous bout. Turns out it would be the complete opposite. It seemed like the opponent didn't even snap that Blissey's special defense makes any type of special attack all but useless... And who in the world would teach a Giratina fly anyway?
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Seeing all the ubers the opponent had, I assumed off the bat that it was going to be an extremly tough battle. Unfortunatly, my choices for my Pokemon was very misguided, and I suffered as such. My friend DD told me what I could've actually done, and thinking on it, I had a better chance to win this than I initially thought. Hopefully Ill be better prepared for such a scenario next time...
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The team I face against in this video seemed like it was fairly evened out. I thought at first Blissey would be a good way to analyze what my opponent would do, but I figured it'd be better to bring out a power hitter like Slaking. It was a good thing that I decided to do that since the opponent started with a Bidoof. Taking it out with one blow, I figured with Infernape out, Blaziken would be a better pokemon to bring out to counter against Infernape. Shame Infernape ended up with the better speed. =/ I wasn't sure if Blissey would manage to survive one Close Combat, and there was some mental games when Infernape tried Fire Blast. But Blissey managed to survive the onslaught and the counter pulled through. Blissey would eventually pull off on Golduck, and though the opponent disconnected later, it was clear who the victor was going to be anyway.
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CNN's Piers Morgan Rails Against Republicans for Not 'Compromising,' Slaps Anti-Tax Hike Stand as 'Crazy'
Acting as if he were trying out for a MSNBC gig, Piers Morgan used his half hour of CNN's prime time, following President Barack Obama's 9 PM EDT speech on the debt ceiling and House Speaker John Boehner's response, to hit his guests from the left, presuming Obama holds the reasoned moral high ground while Boehner represents an obstinate and selfish position.
"A lot of people blame the financial crisis on Bush tax cuts and expensive wars," Morgan told GOP Senator Rob Portman of Ohio in repeating a liberal talking point, demanding: "Isn't it time you guys took one for the team, the team being America?"
Morgan soon condemned Grover Norquist for being "intransigent" on taxes, contending: "Most impartial observers outside of America say that is crazy, and you have got to change your attitude to this and allow some tax increases."
The Brit began by cuing up White House adviser David Plouffe with how Obama admirably pursued "compromise" complemented by "a direct appeal to the people of America," while Boehner, in contrast, remained stubborn: "'Forget it. As things stand, we are not budging, let's not compromise.'"
To Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, Morgan fretted: "Didn't sound to me like the Republicans are prepared to compromise very much."
Going into an ad break, Morgan touted one finding from CNN's latest poll while ignoring how it also quantified overwhelming public support for the plan which passed in the House:
With the clock ticking down to next week's debt deadline, Americans are running out of patience and when it come to the blame game, the GOP just might have the most to lose. In a CNN/ORC poll, 51 percent of Americans said they would blame the Republican if there's no deal to raise the debt ceiling. Far fewer, just 3 in 10, said they would blame the President.
When CNN's pollsters summarized the House GOP's "Cut, Cap and Balance" proposal, 66 percent answered in favor of the plan:
In another proposal, Congress would raise the debt ceiling only if a balanced budget amendment were passed by both houses of Congress and substantial spending cuts and caps on future spending were approved. Would you favor or oppose this proposal?
Morgan, however, continued CNN's on-air blackout of that finding.
Morgan's first questions to his four guests during the 9:30 PM EDT half hour on Monday night, July 25:
To White House adviser David Plouffe:
David Plouffe, I mean, it seemed to me the President was saying, "Look, we need compromise, we can make this work," a direct appeal to the people of America. But Speaker Boehner made it absolutely, crystal clear: "Forget it. As things stand, we are not budging, let's not compromise."
To Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer:
Senator Schumer, what did you make of both speeches tonight and in particular the emphasis on the word compromise? Didn't sound to me like the Republicans are prepared to compromise very much.
To Republican Senator Rob Portman, OMB Director for former President Bush:
Senator Portman, they've got a point, the Democrats, haven't the they? You're being pretty intransigent. You won't countenance any tax increases. How is the President supposed to balance his books?
You ran budgets for President George W. Bush. A lot of people blame the financial crisis on Bush tax cuts and expensive wars. Isn't it time you guys took one for the team, the team being America?
To Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform:
Grover, you're the eye of the tiger in all this. People take their lead from you on the Republican side and you've been intransigent. "There will be no tax increases." Most impartial observers outside of America say that is crazy, and you have got to change your attitude to this and allow some tax increases.
- Brent Baker's blog
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Piers...............take a
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:34am.
Piers...............take a long walk off a short pier and go the hell back to your own screwed-up country..........which is a result of what you are pimping for right now!!! A majority of us REAL Americans are trying to salvage OUR country from the ravages of political agendas that YOU, and people like you, are trying to force down our throats!!!
Remember, Piers.............we got rid of you a couple hundred years ago for a hell of a lot less!!!! Maybe you can take Boy Barry back to England with you.........although I don't think they want him there......not even the Moooooooooooooooslems, who have taken over your pathetic homeland!!!
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Shouldn't you be hacking into
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:34am.
Shouldn't you be hacking into someone's phone, Piers?
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Go back to the UK, you f'ing commie puke from Hell
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:40am.
No one here with an IQ above freezer temperature give's a rat's left gonad what you think about anything, anyway.
Better buy some camel-flea repellent on your way back home, dumbass, as I have a feeling you and your compatriots will soon be needing it.
Vote for the American in November
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Jeez Dave............you're
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:44am.
Jeez Dave............you're KILLING me over here in Hawaii,while I'm nursing a black cherry/vodka drink!!! Oh......watch out for the homeroom monitors!!! You might be getting a little too................animated????
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killa, they can all kiss my ass and go to hell for all I care
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:10am.
My dad is a Marine Korean War vet, and is currently dying from Alzheimers right in front of me.
One of his brothers was a Skyraider pilot in that same war, and is currently dying from cancer, and his oldest son was a SEAL officer.
I have many other family members who served, all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
Most made it back.
Some didn't.
As such, I have no use for commies, nor their sympathizsers, as I make no distinction between them.
F*ck them all.
Vote for the American in November
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We've got a lot in common,
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:25am.
We've got a lot in common, Dave, o'l buddy............so don't worry about a thing............I'll always get your back............even if the homeroom moniters are complaining!!!
My dad was WW2, Korean, and Vietnam vet............and he died from Alzheimers - right here in Hawaii.
My older son was a SEAL............my #2 boy is a Coast Guard officer who just returned from a year in the Persian Gulf. Boy, does he have a few things to say about the middle East and the 'religion of peace'............
My family dates back a long time in the USA............Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is a great great uncle of my father.
These friggin' interlopers and wanna-be' sand foreigners and know-it-alls from some other hellhole that they came from , and are trying to tell US what the hell is going on....................RANKLE my ass BIGTIME!!!
And somehow I'm a bigot,and a racist, and intolerant,. and inflammatory...........or whatever!!!
Like you say......................F**K 'em!!!
Anybody got a problem with me and Dave??? And a bunch of our other pals out here???
Like I tell my employees.............'if you've got any problems, don't hesitate to keep them to YOURSELVES...............cause I don't give a rat's ass!!!
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Well, I'm the first
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:18am.
in my family's modern history to have any military experience, but in 1776 my 4th-great grandfather was a sheriff in a place west of present-day D.C.--and we'd been here over a century by then. So I got no truck with bozos like Morgan.
Just once I'd like to see anyone from a three-letter network ask Harry Reid if it isn't time for the Dems to "take one for the team". Ask him why they put election calculus ahead of the welfare of the economy. Ask him why he doesn't care about putting 4,000+ people out of work while they screw around pushing for bennies for Andy Stern.
And, BTW, I'm sitting home this week courtesy of Harry and Barry, waiting for them to let the FAA go back to work. Jackasses indeed.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
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Hey Killa & Dave...
Submitted by packman on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:03am.
Actually you probably have a lot more company than you think.
My Dad served aboard a destroyer escort in WWII - he passed away from a heart attack some years ago. I served in the USMC, did a tour in 'Nam. My brother served in the Air Force, another brother in the Navy. Oldest son was in the Army, served in Operation Desert Storm. Youngest son was a nuclear power specialist aboard a U.S. Navy submarine....
Yeah....some of us understand what it takes to keep our country free and are not afraid of the personal sacrifice it sometimes requires.
I too am pretty sick and tired of all these loud-mouthed lame-asses who come here from foreign countries and criticize us and tell us how fu**cked up we are. Well, they can all just take an aeronautical intercourse on a revolving pastry. If you've ever been in the military, you will be able to decipher that pretty easily.
So rest assured, there are many more out there who feel the same way.
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
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Hey Pack............I know
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:10pm.
Hey Pack............I know that you and a LOT of other's have similiar stories and beliefs and backgrounds and visions that are in the same line. And I'm not any different here, and certainly nothing special..........I'm just trying to get through every day,like most other 'folks' - don't you HATE it when Boy Barry calls us 'folks'???? So I want to salute everyone and anyone here who's coming from the same place, and believes in it!!!
Mostly, I was just backing up my ol' buddy Dave last night - I could tell that he was fired up - and he's got every reason to be, as far as I'm concerned. And for some reason, we've been taking a lot of flak lately for our passion and our dedication to our principles......often to the point of being asked to 'settle down'.............
Well, if we 'settle down'..........stick a fork in us, cause we'll be DONE!!!!
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Lots of Americans died.
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:32am.
Over 100,000+ American men and women have died fighting communists. Tens of thousands more were crippled. It will be a cold day before the patriots of this country will give it over to Barack Obama and his Marxist allies in government.
I have a friend who was a sonarman on the USS Bowfin in WWII. Lost his hearing due to a depthcharge. Not much cred but something.... LOL.
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Careful!!! ;-)
Submitted by Joe W. on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:58am.
A word to the wise, Dave....Our course language is being monitored by the word police on Newsbusters. Prepare to receive the wrath of the offended, my friend.....
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It is called a representative
Submitted by Andrew H. on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 5:55am.
It is called a representative government, piers--we elect people we think will do what we wnat them to and if they don't we boot them out.
We do not want this wasteful, crony, spending, dolt.
The so-called mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the criminal DNC.
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killa and Dave
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 6:25am.
I salute you and your families for their honor, bravery and service to this great land. I personally don't have a problem with your words - some may call them crude, I call them "passionately patriotic!" It's natural for anger and blood pressure to rise when our country is under attack by socialist zealots who want to conform us to the rest of the world. I agree with both of you - who is this Piers twit to tell us how our country should be run? Why did he leave England if not so that he wouldn't be taxed to death and be able to keep most of his money?
And the word of the day is "intransigent" - Sesame Street or Password episode?
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Piers Morgan is a British
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 6:38am.
Piers Morgan is a British citizen and UK passport holder who DOESN'T EVEN GET A VOTE in the US.
In the UK this is who he votes for and campaigns for:
the self-proclaimed SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY.
Now what the ***k is he doing on American TV telling lecturing American citizens about ANYTHING.
Especially as for almost a decade he edited the RABIDLY ANTI-AMERICAN tabloid, The Mirror, which day after day was filled with the most vile attacks on America,
Why is that? Surely America has a surplus of Homegrown Leftist Loons that it doesn't need to IMPORT another?
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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I just love it when foreigners tell us how to manage . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:36am.
. . . our domestic issues.
Morgan considers himself an expert on these things, of course, and Ann Coulter knocked him for a loop when she was on his show because he's only PowerPoint deep on subjects. He ought to stick to interviewing Janet Jackson and judging talent contests.
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CNN just loves America to be
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:50am.
CNN just loves America to be lectured to by her "betters."
"Betters" being socialists who speak with that oh, so elegant British accent. Makes them sound so much smarter than us Yanks, you know.
No offense meant to you, Jack.
How the H does a guy go from judging "Britain's Got Talent" to political commentary on American TV?
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I prefer my British accents
Submitted by Reaver on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:43am.
I prefer my British accents in the Mark Steyn flavor thank you very much. (or should I say flavour?)
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None taken! Unlike Morgan, I
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 6:36pm.
None taken! Unlike Morgan, I actually admire America!
And despise Morgan.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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Morgan published lies
Submitted by Prima on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:33am.
All anyone needs to know about Morgan is he was forced to resign from the leftist tabloid rag "Daily Mirror" because of the lies he published about British servicemen. Morgan was,and still is, a fully paid up member of the left-wing gutter press.
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A Brit Leftist Media Hack...
Submitted by ChrisNH on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:35am.
Why would ANYONE pay much attention to a Leftist media hack...among the lowest forms of life walking the planet...who also isn't even FROM this country?
It is rather enjoyable watching people like this bang their little limp fists on the table, getting all 'incensed' that their beloved Obamo isn't getting his way.
Note to all the Leftist Limp-Wrist Media Hacks: You won't EVER get your beloved 'tax hikes' because your 'Boy' won't articulate a defined plan of CUTS.
Obamo's position: He's an arsonist pleading for another big box of matches.
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Take one for the team, huh?
Submitted by WingletDriver on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 7:48am.
That's kind of a funny thing to ask of the folks whose income is being taxed at an already alarming rate and yet the dems still want more of our hard-earned money to redistribute to their base (public sector unions, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, ecoterrorists, General Electric). I wonder how many times Custer asked his guys to take one more for the team?
Morgan and his I'll are willfully ignorant of the ridiculous deficits the dems have run up since 2007 and accelerated since 2009. And likewise, Morgan seems blissfully unconcerned that this little form of nanny state has been tried and found wanting by all of these so-called "impartial observers outside of America." Greece is the canary in the European socialist coal mine, but Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland are tanking also. The Soviet Union and Cuba showed how well a controlled economy works, so, hey, let's do the same. Who are these impartial outsiders, Piers? Soros? George Clooney?
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Resident liberals:
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:19am.
Can any of you explain how increasing taxes would be good for the current economy?
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I'll try
Submitted by mandrake on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:22pm.
Because I'm basically stupid..but here goes.If taxes were increased on the top 5% of the wealthy, I would feel better. And know what I do what do when I feel better..I go shopping, buy some new clothes..take the wife and kids out to a fancy restaurant..maybe even buy a new car. But since I am depressed cause the end of the world is coming on Aug2..I'll do none of the above.
3,2,1, to Unsane flame ;)
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Silly BK
Submitted by ckc1227 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 5:00pm.
"Can any of you explain how increasing taxes would be good for the current economy?"
Just look at the Clinton administration. He raised taxes, and the economy magically took off. If taxes had remained lower, the dot com boom never would have happened, and the internet would have been a flop, but since he raised taxes, everyone loved the internet instead, and happy days were here again. I think it's pretty clear at this point that rich people aren't creating jobs because their taxes aren't high enough. In fact, I think I overheard one just the other day saying "You know, I would create jobs and expand my business, but I'm just not being taxed enough. If only Obama would take more of my money, then I would feel comfortable working harder for less."
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"A lot of people blame the financial crisis on Bush tax cuts
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:39am.
... and expensive wars."
" In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan." ( Terence P. Jeffrey http://www.cnsnews.com/node/72404)
That kind of spending wouldn't have anything to do with the problem, would it?
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I Propose a Liberal Media Tax
Submitted by Bodini on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 9:15am.
I Propose a Liberal Media Tax! If our LEADERS can have specialized taxes on soda, candy, french fries, tanning booths, etc. by calling them unhealthy ... I think a 99.99% tax on the socialists spewing their lies and immoral crap at us is a just source of REVENUE and is both FAIR and BALANCED!
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Piers, just a few questions
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:01am.
What effective federal tax rate do you pay? How much do you earn on salary and investments and how much of it is tax exempt? I suspect you are like most democRATs who talk about everyone paying their "fair share" but feel you don't need to or are exempt.
And how about the 40 - 50 percent of the households that do not pay a dime in federal income taxes? Is it "fair" for them to demand some else pay more so they don't have to contribute?
And do you really think it is fair for unborn children to be saddled with such an enormous debt that they had no say about or any benefit from?
Just asking.
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David Zurawik
Submitted by StewartIII on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:40am.
Obama, Boehner in debt reduction TV showdown -- and CNN gives us Piers Morgan
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Which CNN genius thought it
Submitted by celator on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:43am.
Which CNN genius thought it would be a swell idea to hire the pompous, picklefaced Morgan to boost ratings? He has the personality of a zombie, and is one of the worse interviewers on the air. His leftist stance on what the US government ought to do in order to please him make him just another political hack.
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I saw the beginning of his
Submitted by buddyc on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:15am.
I saw the beginning of his intereview with satan's spawn, Senator Schumer. I could be wrong but it was as if he was reading a script that he simply dispised. His questions of Schumer were democrat loaded and allowed Schumer to tee it up and swing away. But I sensed Morgan knew it and didn't like participating in such a charade.
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So he is not a scumbag lefty Brit after all?
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:22am.
My apologies.
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You dumb Brit.
Submitted by JLin on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:21am.
You came here to prosper and escape the sh*thole you helped create with your socialist friends in the UK, and now you want more of the same here? You are not qualified to even speak to the issue.
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The Democrats Call for Compromise
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:41am.
Is a load of crap. When Dems have power they ram bills though over the objections of Republicans, public opinion, the markets and anybody else who gets in the way. When Reps hold the balance of power then Dems want to compromise.
The Dems eagerness to compromise shows that they hold a loosing hand. They can only win if the Reps fold as they usually do.
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Head to pavement
Submitted by Indie Dude on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 8:15pm.
Again, explain to me, why is a foreigner telling Americans that they should pay more in taxes?
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Testing ...1, 2, 3.
Chael Sonnen, of all people, is praising Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White, who vowed to make life miserable for abusers of Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT).
Those are strange words to type, considering the source.
The UFC 159 headliner delivered his message on a recent episode of UFC Tonight to inform mixed martial arts (MMA) fans he's already been tested for TRT ahead of his April 27 title fight against Jon Jones, scheduled for the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, and he's glad someone is finally taking a stand against the "abuse."
"I love that he has changed his stance. Don't ever be afraid to change your opinion when confronted with new evidence. Now, for me, this is Dana White's crowning moment, both as a leader and also from an integrity standpoint. No executive anywhere, whether it's a sports or business executive, would shine a light on his own organization and say, 'Hey, we've got a problem and it needs to be addressed right now.' And I'll tell you, we're not just talking about testosterone use, guys, we're talking about abuse. He did the right thing.... And it's already been started since this announcement has been made -- I was tested four days ago."
Rest easy, "Bones," your opponent -- who is reportedly 240 pounds and "ripped" -- is still playing by the rules.
Past and present inductees into the TRT club include Dan Henderson, Forrest Griffin, Vitor Belfort and Frank Mir, among others. The train went off the rails when Alistair Overeem returned a 14:1 testosterone-to-epitestosterone (T/E) level during a surprise drug test last May.
And "The Phenom" fiasco didn't help matters any.
Sonnen, who reportedly suffers from hypogonadism (his nads are sperm challenged), was bagged and tagged by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) back in August 2010 for improperly disclosing his TRT prior to his first fight against Anderson Silva in Oakland.
It cost him six months on the sidelines.
"The American Gangster," who will be 36 by the time he fights Jones, has since properly disclosed his TRT use (which began back in 2008) to athletic commissions prior to competing in the states of Illinois at UFC on FOX 2, Texas at UFC 136 and Nevada at UFC 148.
You can expect another therapeutic use exemption (TUE) when he returns to the Octagon in April.
Anyone think Chael is hiding in plain sight? Or has a legitimate user of TRT been unfairly lumped in with the "cheaters" Dana White is trying to expose?


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Routes Sorted
L to R R to L Alpha
From the route Bihedral's mid-point, at the first belay, head hard right around something of a bulge until you are below a tiny conifer. Climb up the broken, lichenous rock with some intermittent seams and flaring cracks past the tree and up to the bottom of the huge headwall. Undercling up and left under the headwall past the fabulous looking crack, Thumb Tack and then continue left around a corner to the top of the bihedral and belay. The pitch is about 120' total from the belay on Rhodian Shores.
There is not much pro, so a light rack is about right. You can place a mix of small cams and nuts to the top, where a few standard sized pieces are good.


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Balance sheet of the struggle for the separation of Churches and the State
popularity : 100%
Ladies and Gentlemen
Dear friends,
Dear Comrades,
The issue of Separation of religions and the States is a fundamental democratic demand, for freedom of conscience is the first liberty. It is the foundation of human being as a free person with all their political and social rights.
I'll try to address this issue through a few examples from some countries. Today is the 4th of July, Independence Day in the USA, it is natural to begin with the United States of North America. I'll continue with France, because the 3rd of July is the day when the Separation law was passed at the first hearing at the National Assembly in Paris. Here like everywhere else, this is a symbol.
Undoubtedly, the American revolution is the mother of the French revolution. Indisputably, there is a relationship. The mutual enthusiasm of peoples for each other beyond the Atlantic, taking arms to fight oppression and establish democracy is obvious. France cheered the victory of Yorktown like the Valmy victory thrilled the hearts of the USA .
On the Old Continent, like in the New World, people from the Enlightenment took hold of the ideas of democracy, republic and freedom of conscience to make them real facts. Philosophers from the Enlightenment in Europe showed the way, our peoples went along the path. Some of them became Spirit, others were Matter. The German philosopher Schelling said : "Once dawn is there, the Sun will not be missing. All ideas have to be realized first in the sphere of knowledge before they become facts in History."
Fundamentally, the French revolution went further by the irruption of the popular masses on the scene of History where their destiny was settled. Formally, the American revolution went further in its formal conquest of democratic institutions.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the USA formulated and realized the fundamental principles that have brought humanity out of the dark night of the ancient monarchical and clerical regimes. Once more, let's read again the first article of the Bill of Rights of December 1791 : "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
In a few words, the program for democracy is written. It will stir up peoples and nations in the following centuries. It is not American nor French, it is the patrimony of Mankind as a whole. Therefore, there will not be a rebellion, or a revolution, or an act of de-colonization that will not draw from this program the theoretical weapons to move forward along the path of complete emancipation.
We can find the political formulations of the First Amendment in the work of the French revolution, in the 1793 Table of Human Rights and in the great laws of liberty of the Third Republic. One by one, the French people, calling the whole world to witness, will conquer the right to petition, the right to assemble, universal franchise, the freedom of the press, the freedom to establish free political parties and the intangible right to establish independent Labor unions to fight for the workers' rights.
The revolutionary 1793 French Table of Human Rights will go further by ending its 35th article, the last one, proclaiming an ultimate democratic principle : " When the Government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people, and for each section of the people, the most sacred of their rights and the most necessary of their duties".
Each step forward of a people leads another people to proceed further along the path. That article of the 1793 French Table of Human Rights was continuing the American Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 that proclaimed "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" and that, in the case, the social contract was not respected, and that justified for the colonials the right to dissolve the political bonds, thence the need "to throw off such government", "to alter or to abolish it".
As it is stressed in the work "The conquest of Human Rights", published by the French Federation of the UNESCO clubs and the League for Human Rights : "This text shows that armed resistance represents the ultimate stage in the dispute of the English domination over the thirteen colonies in America. That principle of the right to resist an oppressor will justify the struggle of the oppressed and dominated peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries".
It took fifteen years to go from the 1776 American Declaration of Independence to the 1791 Bill of Rights; it will take nearly a whole century to achieve the same path in France. 1789, 1830, 1848, 1871, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1901, 1905 are the fundamental dates in History in our country. Each time, the people stood up and often built barricades to achieve those rights and liberty. Insurrection was consubstantial with the conquest of Liberty; that was right in former days, it is still right nowadays.
"This is a long road, Savannah" as you say in the New World, but the road has enriched the content of Liberty by striking more strongly, faster and further in France. Since then, the greatest democratic laws have been part of inalienable rights and live in the citizens' conscience, even if, here and there, there are currently attempts to repeal them. Can't we see in this country where we meet today, a repeated attempt to use the offense of blasphemy, to repeal the freedom of political parties, to eliminate the right for independent Labor unions not to sacrifice the workers' established rights on the altar of the demands of liberalism and its supra-national institutions incarnated in the IMF, the World Bank and the European Union ?
If we compare the path we've been following in the USA and in France, we have to observe that the original aims were the same. But the results are different because we lived different histories.
The American First Amendment and the French 1905 Law both decreed the separation of Church and State. That is beyond question, but the reasons and the concepts are not the same. The New World was constituted by people who fled, notably, from persecution by the states and dominating religions. The point was then to protect minority religions coming from Europe from state interference. It was the claim of the demand to believe in whatever they liked and in whatever manner in complete freedom. That explains why in North America, there is at the same time, separation together with a very important seizure of religious facts over society in every sphere. Partisans of the separation of Church and State, atheists and free thinkers have to struggle endlessly in defense of their right to remain citizens.
In France, since Clovis, State and society were under the control of the Roman Apostolic Catholic Church. From the Renaissance to 1905, with this capital event, the French revolution, which consequences were universal, it was the untiring struggle to protect State and society from Catholic interference. That was the fight to defeat clericalism and make a triumph for the freedom of conscience. The practical consequences of the French separation are that there is no difference of treatment between a free thinker and a believer. From the point of view of public institutions, being or not being part of a church is not a question and not a problem at all. Free thinkers are equal to all citizens. Whereas in the USA and in those countries that do not recognize such a separation of Churches and State, secularists, atheists and free thinkers have to organize a real struggle to make their rights be acknowledged. But that does not make sense in France. . Since the Vatican wanted to re-establish the "ancient régime", the religious question will take an essential dimension and the anticlerical and anti-religious struggle will be a fundamental idea in the political, economical, and cultural struggle that is going to be launched. The fight for freedom of conscience will get a violent anti-clerical turn for decades until 1905. Anti-clericalism is secularism, that is the separation of Churches and State. That is different from the fight against religion.
But we had to push the Catholic church back in its claim to rule forever bodies as well as consciences. Anticlericalism in France was therefore filled with a strong anti-religious dimension. Although one has to make a careful distinction between secularism respecting the State (a political system of institutions granting neutrality of the State, the public school system, and public services) and anti-religious fight respecting citizens (atheism and free thought as philosophical doctrines) we have to note that anti-clericalism in France took a strong anti-religious dimension.
By the way, we'd like to recall that the Free Thought position has always been to demand a strict neutrality of the State in metaphysical matters, neither in favor nor in disfavor of religions or of free thought. Public institutions should be secular, citizens are free to be atheists or believers. There is a strict separation between public sphere and private sphere. That separation guarantees absolute freedom of conscience that is to believe or not to believe in the private sphere.
We also have to note that the dawning labor movement in France, then in later times, seized the democratic claim of separation of churches and State to push thing as far as they could. This interest dates as early as the Bras-Nus [Naked Arms] rebellion at the time of the 1792-1794 de-christianisation. In the 19th century, there was an objective alliance between the democratic movement and the Labor movement to achieve institutional secularism. The republican majority that came into existence in 1877 and that will build the secular school system and establish separation has a program focussed on two points: secularism and amnesty for the Communards.
Much later, when the bourgeoisie, in order to preserve its dominating interests, moves towards an alliance with the Church, the Labor movement will be completely in charge of the secular struggle. In the beginning of the 1890's the Catholic church updated its social doctrine with Rerum Novarum in order to comply with capitalism and at the same time, "rallied" the republic to offer its services to the grandees of the world in those days.
After some hesitation, the bourgeoisie broke off with the secular demand and that is realized at the time of WWI, notably with the "Sacred Union". That-is-to say at the time of the coming of imperialism and the end of the "peaceful" sharing of the world. Since then "capitalism bears war like clouds bear the storm" Jaurès said. And war is a social war in the first place.
The fight for economic emancipation (the end of exploitation of Man by Man) becomes consubstantial with that of political emancipation (equality of citizens before the law) and to achieve absolute freedom of conscience (secularism). Today it is the same and only struggle, that of complete emancipation of humankind.
In the United States of America, because of the "anticipated" victory realized in the First Amendment, the global democratic confrontation between religions and the modern State didn't take place. Radicalization such as the one in France didn't take hold to express itself, even if, of course, important conflicts happened. One must also underline that the Labor movement in the United States during the 19th and the 20th centuries, had yet to cope with anti-religious struggle, notably against Christian corporatism forms that came to existence then to oppose the rise of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and of industrial organization (CIO). In the dark years when totalitarianism was triumphing in Europe, the American Catholic Church was advocating corporatism coming directly from the Christian social doctrine like the one that was triumphing in Vichy at the time of Collaboration. One of its branches openly claimed support to Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
But historically and politically, the political situation was not the same as in France. The action of the Catholic Church in favor of a return to the "Ancient Regime" forced the triumphing bourgeoisie to go further than they had wished in the struggle against the Church. That confrontation never occurred in the United States. The separation provided for in the First Amendment is not filled with any anticlerical and even less anti religious content. Nevertheless, a modern society cannot remain smothered by religion. There is no real democracy if there is no true secularism. We can witness the beginning of the growth of secular, atheists and free thinkers' organizations in the USA.
However, protestant fundamentalism which came to existence in the USA in 1912, far from being the result of a new evangelization, is rather the sign of a backward movement of religion. Fundamentalism is a puckering answer to a threat and not a religious spring. Fundamentalism is always the result of a crisis, it is never the result of a development. There is never fundamentalism when society is completely under religious rule, because religion covers all society then.
There is a true contradiction in the United States. Separation does exist and yet it shows very weakly, that is why one cannot say it is a country where secularism would really exist, but like Galileo said "And yet it does move", because separation exists . The different legal actions, where atheists' and free thinkers' organizations fighting for the enforcement of separation, based on the First Amendment, obtained legal ruling claiming separation, show real facts today. That is not enough for the final triumph, but if there are legal roots for a secular fight, there must be indisputable political elements for separation. "Men have ever asked themselves the only questions they are able to solve" Marx said.
The confrontation will take place sooner or later under the forms that the American people will decide, but we are convinced that it will take place. The labor movement that is trying to resist and that is starting to seek for a form of political representation, will not ignore this issue. For the religious issue is not a question of belief, it is a social and political question. Monotheist religions are all in favor of the maintenance of social oppression and the labor movement cannot but fight against it. The absence of the American labor movement in the secular struggle, in this historical prospect, can only be temporary. Even if temporary situations may last long.
Now, let us examine the case of Mexico. In the 19th century, this country was under a Concordat with the Vatican. The Roman Catholic clergy had very large land properties and controlled the government and local administrations. But in 1856, the Federalist Party seized power. They proceeded to an important land reform and Church properties (one third of arable land) were given to the farmers. Religious congregations were banned, religious buildings were nationalized, there was a breaking off with the Vatican.
The same story as during the French revolution took place. The Church supported the Conservatives who called Napoleon III for help. But Juarez won. On September 14, 1874, the strict and firm separation between the Church and the State was passed. Civil authorities were prohibited to take part in religious ceremony. Priests were not allowed to wear their cassocks outside religious buildings. Monasteries were banned. Like in France some years late, the separation was supported by a very deep popular movement that has been living up to now, even if it is put to question in a very important manner.
Another country where there was a strong mobilization in favor of separation : the USSR. The thesis was raised by Lenin himself : "The complete separation of the Church and the State, such is the demand of the socialist proletariat. This is an integrating and necessary part of political freedom…We have to fight through propaganda and instruction." Lenin refused any repression.
The Bolsheviks took the same path as the insurgent Mexicans. They made a great land reform in order to give the land to the farmers and consequently the nationalized the Church properties. They secularized the State, the administration, the registry office. The Orthodox Church was deprived of all its privileges. The law of January 23, 1918 proclaimed and organized the separation. The legal personality of the Orthodox Church was suppressed : it had no right to possess property. All Soviet citizens were free to exercise the worship of their choice or to practice none.
The Church was not to accept and there too, it linked its fate to that of the ancient regime. It was to suffer the consequences. But under Stalin, it was repression against the whole of society and consequently against the clergy as well. Until 1941, when the Stalinist power got legally married with the popes. After the collapse of the USSR, the Church was able to maintain its privileges in violation of the law of separation of 1918. It is still one of the pillars of the regime.
You do not have to be a learned scholar on the subject of Portugal to recognize article 2 of the French law of December 9, 1905 "The republic does not recognize, does not subsidize, does not salary any worship" in article 4 of the Portuguese Law of "separation of the Church and the State" of April 20, 1911. It is the cornerstone of the work of the republican revolution of October 1910 in Portugal that our friends form "Republica & Laicidade" describe : "At the beginning of the century, the glorious revolution of October 5, 1910, established a freer, more egalitarian, more secular republican regime in Portugal (…) During the stage of consolidation of the Republic, the law of separation of the Church and the State would be one of the most lasting achievement of the republic. So much so that the conservative and Catholic reaction that was to send Salazar to power was unable to put this principle to question until the Concordat of 1940, that gave a status of an almost official State religion to the Catholic Church".
One of Salazar's first acts was to make peace with the Church and give its privileged situation back to it. The Jesuits were allowed to come back. Except for very pious people, the new friendship between the Church and the State found little support among the Portuguese.
On April 25, 1974, hundreds of thousands of Portuguese rushed into the breach opened by a coup made by fraction of the army and took to the streets : the revolution broke out in Portugal. A fifty year-old corporatist, colonialist and clerical dictatorship collapsed.
In 1976, the Constituant Assembly adopted a Constitution, which even still in a limited way, inscribed in its provisions : the land reform, public, secular and compulsory schools, the separation of the Churches and the State, democratic rights and freedom of association, freedom of political parties and trade unions, the legal existence of "workers committees".
Article 41 of the Portuguese constitution safeguarded " the inviolable freedom of conscience, of religion and worship" and insured that "the Churches and other religious communities are separate from the State and free of their own organization". Paradoxically, after the 25 April, 1974 Revolution and the 1976 Constitution, the republican heritage was endangered again. The clerics were working hard under different labels, either Left or Right. After a long debate, a "law on religious liberty" was passed and enforced in 2001. It opened the way to a new Concordat between the Vatican and Portugal that was signed on May 18, 2004.
Let us examine the case of Turkey. Typically, the will for secularism came from the top, spurred on by Mustafa Kemal called Attaturk, supported by some popular mobilization. After he took power, Attaturk expelled the European colonizers. He founded what he called "a modern republic". He abolished the Khalifat and put Turkey on the road to the separation of the religious sphere from the State.
Public schools were deeply secularized. Up to now, religious signs and symbols are still banned from school. Mustafa Kemal's model was undoubtedly that of the French revolution, as he transposed the Napoleonian Civil Code and his party has for model the French Radical Party. In this movement of secularization, Islam was no longer regarded as a "State religion" in 1928. His Republican People's Party declared in its 1391 program : "Religious ideas belonging to the sphere of individual conscience, the Party considers that the exclusion of religious concepts from State affairs and from political life is a major factor that can insure our nation with success on the road towards progress". As we can see this issue is still very topical in this country and the subject all debates at stake.
The problem of the separation of religions and the State often raises the same questions through time and space and brings forth the same answers. A remark is necessary : the separation is the only model that can be applied in every society, whatever the history and the culture. It is the only democratic model in countries of Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Islamic and Hindu traditions. Another remark has to be made : when this separation is the result of a popular mobilization, it lasts a long time and it resists to the onslaught of time.
The question of the separation of church and State is a fundamental democratic demand. No people, no revolution have been able to avoid this debate and this problem. How can't we see that American, French, Mexican, Russian revolutions, from 1776 to 1918, have always faced this problem ?
How can't we see that, under different aspects at different times, Thomas Jefferson, Ferdinand Buisson, Emiliano Zapata, and Vladimir Illitch Ulyanov called Lenin all went along the same path to claim the separation of churches and State ? There cannot be a real democracy without established secularism.
We are ruled with a rod of iron by what is called globalization. Therefore, nobody can reasonably think any longer that they can stand up for their own rights and their interests to the detriment and against all the others. The question of the struggle for the separation of churches and State becomes a question on an international level, because all the fundamental questions can only be debated and solved on an international level.
Therefore we are delighted to notice that the problems of an international cooperation between atheists and free thinkers become the concern of a great number of organizations worldwide. The convergence between different organizations is so vital to achieve the separation of Church and State everywhere.
That is why the French Federation of the Free Thought is proud of having initiated with American atheists and the Atheists' Union to constitute, in friendly and brotherly connection with the IHEU, the International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers to work for an international grouping of all the partisans of a real Atheist humanist fighting for the complete separation of Churches and States throughout the world.
Uniting in the same international structure those who imagined the separation (the United States of America) and those who realized it in the most possible way (France) is a token for success. Turning away from this demand of a common work would be turning away from a real efficient struggle. Secularism is not declined in the same manner everywhere because of the different situations in every country, but above all it imposes that the fundamental aims should be the actual separation of the churches and the States.
How couldn't we work together when in all continents, in all countries, we are facing the same problems ? Religions are determined opponents of democracy and of freedom of conscience. Everywhere, they may be Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim or Hindu, they want to impose their dogma and their obscurantism.
Defending secularism everywhere it exists, to achieve it everywhere it is not established, that is what we fight for. And it is not only in Europe, but in the whole world. Separation of Churches and the State is one of the necessary conditions to establish a real concord between all, in every people and between every people.
For us, the heart of the problem is not to limit ourselves to equal right for secularists, atheists and free thinkers and for believers and that our associations were granted the same rights and the same privileges as the churches. We have to strike at the heart of clericalism and demand a complete separation of churches and states. We do not demand that partisans of separation, atheists and free thinkers should be a community beside churches and religions.
We want the complete separation of the churches and the States, which alone can grant equal rights for all. We refuse the philosophical apartheid with a "separate development" for us and for the believers. We fight for absolute equality which imposes secularism of public school and State. What do we have to do with public subsidies like the churches, we want complete freedom guaranteed by the metaphysical neutrality of the States.
There are a great number of secular, atheist and free thinkers organizations throughout the world. It is the result of History and of different histories in the countries. Every people, every organization has their own path in the struggle. But we think that nowadays we can overcome this dispersion and coordinate our actions in order to make religions move back again. We need an International of Atheists and Free Thinkers because we cannot remain isolated everyone in their country.
At the end of the world congress of the Free Thought and Atheists, our friend Keith Porteous Wood will present our joint propositions on this subject; Undoubtedly, this day, July 4, 2005 will be a step forward toward the realization of our common ideals.
To end my speech, let me tell you as we say in France :
Neither God, nor Master !
Down with the clergy!
And long live the socialist revolution !
This is a program, but what program !
Thank you .


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Would I buy again? Yes.
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I really love this one. The scent isn't overwhelming which I really like. It moistures really good and I put it on daily over night to get the best results. After using it a while my cuticles are minimal and only have to push them back once a week or less.
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Choice is good
Yes, I know LinuxCon is next, and that's in mid-August, but I think they've got the publicity thing covered, especially with the 20-year thing and with Linus being there and all. But if you're going to the next show, make it the Ohio LinuxFest in September. Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting, so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!)
Spending a lazy Sunday at home for a change — thanks to a newspaper colleague who needed Tuesday off (thank you, Kalin) — it might come as a surprise that I found myself at a loss for a topic to write about. So started the usual drill: I always check LXer.com every morning when I wake up, but then went to a couple of other sites, checked my Google Alerts for Linux-related items, and nothing really jumped out at me.
[You might imagine, if you've read this blog regularly in the past, that "nothing really jumped out at me" usually translates to "nothing caused me to get so rabidly incensed that I had to ask someone for a spatula to scrape myself off the ceiling." But I digress.]
Then I went to DistroWatch.com because, frankly, I hadn't been there in awhile. For those of you who are interested in all things FOSS, DistroWatch is an interesting place to not only keep up with which distros are peaking and ebbing in the great scoreboard of FOSS, but also to see who has released what when, and sometimes, why.
I decided to take a look at how many active distros — including those which also are Solaris- and BSD-based — there are as of today, July 31. It's down a bit since I last looked, which has been literally several years ago.
We're "down" to 324, and if memory serves, the last check I did had the active number in the 350s.
This always kick-starts the "how-many-distros-do-we-really-need" debate, which I have always considered a non-starter. I've crossed verbal swords in the past with others who say that a figure like 324 is insane, that there are too many distros available and that there should be much fewer distros so we don't have to bend our brains having to choose.
I say 324 — or whatever the number is or becomes — is a perfect number, and that external forces should decide how many Linux/Solaris/BSD distros there are. These external forces, of course, are both driven by market and Darwinian factors. You make a good, solid distro, foster a good team and growing community around it, the project moves up the DistroWatch list and — ping! — profit. Conversely, you don't make a good distro, and these forces — especially the Darwinian one — puts you where you belong.
The reality is that out of the 324 active distros listed on DistroWatch, there are probably between 35 and 50 that will be usable by the general public; that is, those whose computer abilities may end at pointing and clicking. And that's OK, too. I'd just as soon put my mother in a flaming box of dynamite as I would have her use Phayoune Linux on her desktop. [Phayoune users note: Do not flame me -- I am only using your distro as an example in this case. I am sure it's a wonderful distro for those using it in Thailiand, but the point here is that not all distros are for everyone, and that Phayoune may not be for my mother since she's not Thai, for starters.]
[Oh, and Mom, I would never EVER put you in a flaming box of dynamite. No, really Mom. I swear.]
Or here's another way of putting this in perspective: Don't look at the list on DistroWatch and make a list of as many distros that come to mind. How many did you get? Ten? Thirty? More? Well, the more you can name, the more in tune you are with what's going on, FOSS-wise. Don't consider that a challenge, but just as an indicator of which distros are doing some heavy lifting in the FOSS realm and, in the grand scale of things, are getting things right. Bear in mind, too, that just because you can't name a distro, it doesn't mean that it's not useful or important in its own way; especially if that particular distro is specialized or based on a particular language or culture (see Phayoune, for example).
But the number of distros — whatever it might be — is what it should be.
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Back to the drawing board, kids
OSCON is going on now, and while I'm not there this year, you can give them my regards :-(
Larry the Free Software Guy, cashing in another grammatical chip in order to refer to himself in the third person, has a choice: He can wallow in self-pity for not being at OSCON this week (it's not the same without May Munji there at the helm, anyway) or he can talk about one of the best contests of the year, assuming you're a kid (or you have one) and you want to win an OLPC or other cool prizes.
We'll definitely go with the latter today.
Wordlabel.com is sponsoring the Tux Paint Kids Summer Drawing Contest, which is open to all children from ages 3 to 12 who live anywhere on the planet Earth.
The contest allows kids a chance to show off their talent "using a great drawing program made especially for kids," according to the Wordlabel.com site — an understatement if there was one. Over the years, I've raved about what a great program Tux Paint is, and my daughter Mimi was essentially raised on it; arguably the artistic talent she now possesses as a teenager was honed using Tux Paint in her younger years.
But officially and for promotional purposes, Tux Paint is an award-winning drawing program that was recently awarded SourceForge.net Project of the Month. It runs on all versions of Linux, Windows (including Tablet PC), Mac OS X 10.4 and up, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
And, of course, it's free.
Here's what you get, kids: Prizes will be given to 10 winners, with first prize being an OLPC notepad computer, Sugar-on-a-stick loaded with Tux Paint, a Tux Paint T-shirt and button. Second and third prize winners get an OLPC computer, Sugar-on-a-stick and a T-shirt. The remaining seven that round out the top 10 will receive a Sugar-on-a-stick and a Tux Paint t-shirt.
So how do you, as a 3- to 12-year-old, enter?
Here's how you do it, kids:
All artwork must be the contestant's original work created on Tux Paint, and only one entry per child. Entries must be received by midnight USA Eastern time on 12 September 2011 to be eligible (that's 0500 GMT 13 September 2011, for those of you keeping score at home).
As I've said ad nauseum over the years, Tux Paint has been one of my all-time favorite programs. I've used it at home, and Mimi and I have had years of fun with it while she was growing up. I've used it in a classroom environment as well. Bill Kendrick and the team that produced this program are nothing short of wizards, and my hat has always been off to them. It's good to see they're getting some wider recognition through this contest.
And, of course, I would be remiss if I didn't end this blog about Tux Paint without saying, "Nah-nuh-NAAAAA!"
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Notes from The Jungle Room
Next up: OSCON. Get there if you can — it's starting today — and give them my regards because I can't make it this year :-(
The new apartment has what is considered by my family a sort of study, but it's quickly becoming the computer lab that I lost when I gave up my commercial space. That lab, of course, was dubbed "The Jungle Room," after the man cave at Graceland. The study has been dubbed the same.
[Yes, if he had done nothing else, Elvis would have earned my respect and admiration for inventing the man cave decades before the concept existed on cable TV. Uhthankyouverymuch]
Before I continue, allow me a mea cupla: In my last item, I wrote about Openbox and referred to a "desktop" in the same paragraph. Technically, Openbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment, as I was so dutifully reminded by an astute commenter. True. However, when using the term "desktop," I was actually referring to what one sees on their screen as opposed to a specific desktop environment — my bad for being unclear.
Nevertheless, as the last moving boxes are being punted out the door (Oh, I will take them down to the recycling bin shortly), I wanted to drop off in today's blog a couple of items worth mentioning in FOSS news over the last few days, like . . . .
Mac hardware to get that shiny Chrome look? The VAR Guy drops an interesting hint in a column late yesterday outlining the proposition that Google's Chrome OS has been compiled for the MacBook Air, thanks to a blogger/hacker named Hexxeh. "It's a unique utopia, and one that won't likely exist anytime soon," he writes. "But the alleged smoothness in which the MacBook Air runs Chrome OS is worth watching." Indeed, and the VAR Guy promises a review of Chrome OS in the near future. Watch that space.
Matt Hartley gives us the business: On a couple of rare occasions I've crossed proverbial swords with Matt Hartley, but for the most part his articles are informative and newsworthy. Special mention goes to yesterday's Datamation item about choosing the right distro for your business. In the wrap-up, Matt writes that, "Everyone is going to have different needs. A company's decision may range from weighing what type of support is needed down to selecting a community-based option over a highly specialized Linux distribution. With every example presented above, the common theme is that Linux offers plenty of choices." Amen to that.
At ease, soldier: You find developers of Linux in the most interesting places; like, oh I don't know, the U.S. Department of Defense, for example. The DOD brings us Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) Linux, which is a live CD focusing on privacy and security. It boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. From the screenshots at Unixmen, it looks surprising like . . . Windows. Now if that's not great camouflage, I don't know what is. I haven't tried it yet — I might soon — but if it runs off a CD and has all the tools I can use, it might replace the Ultimate Boot CD and Knoppix CD that I usually carry and often lose.
Last, but not least . . .
An extra chair at the dinner table: Until recently, Lubuntu was an independent project based on Ubuntu — Ubuntu with the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, or LXDE for short. Starting with Ubuntu 11.10 in November, however, Lubuntu will join the Ubuntu family as an official variant, according to this article on the Liliputing site. Welcome to the family, Lubuntu.
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