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- For other uses of the term, see Nigger (disambiguation)
The word "nigger" is a highly controversial term used in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and Russia, to refer to individuals with dark skin, especially those of indigenous African descent who previously were racially classified by the now outdated term Negro. It was once the standard, casual English term for black people. Associated with the word traditionally have been an often casual contempt, an assumption of inherent inferiority, even of bestiality, making it extremely pejorative.
Historically, African Americans have appropriated the slur, subverting it to a self-referential term that is often suggestive of familiarity, endearment or kinship. Many, however, always have rejected the term as racist and dehumanizing. Generally, "nigger" is considered a highly offensive racial epithet, especially when used by non-blacks. See the Wiktionary entry for "nigger" for more relating to this.
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The origin of the word "nigger" is in the Latin "niger," meaning "black." The word, as "niger," entered into Spanish and Portuguese. Early Modern French obtained it from Portuguese where it became "nègre" and "negro," respectively. English acquired the word from French, which was manifested in earlier English variants, such as "negar," "neegar," "neger," and "niggor." "Neger" is a current word in German (where it is today considered a pejorative term), as well as Dutch and Scandinavian languages.
The word is thought to have come into its current form via the Southern U.S. pronunciation of "negro," which yielded phonetic mistranscriptions as "nigra." For much of its history, until the early 20th Century in America, "nigger" was used, primarily by whites, as a vulgar synonym for blacks. The term was a standard one throughout the United States, but particularly commonplace in the slaveholding South. Historically, many whites used the word casually, even dismissively. For most blacks, the term always has been associated with white supremacy, racism, violence and oppression.
The obsolete spelling niger dates to 1574. It comes from the Latin meaning "black". It shares this root with negro.
The offensiveness of the term has grown over time, especially in the 20th century. Two 16th-century quotes that are commonly cited in dictionaries are from scholarly tracts. A 1700 quote by judge Samuel Sewall uses the term in a denunciation of slavery. Gradually, however, polite discourse increasingly used the term negro (which dates to at least 1555), and nigger became relegated to the vulgar tongue, increasing in offensiveness over the centuries. When Mark Twain uses the word in Huckleberry Finn, by the standards of his day, he is not being particularly offensive (although even then it was a term that would not be used in polite society), but is using the term as a marker of class and socio-economic status of the characters who used it. Author Rudyard Kipling used the word "nigger" many times, both in character dialogue and elsewhere, where clearly it was not intended to be derogatory. Sometimes he spelled it phonetically, as "naygur," when spoken by a character with an Irish accent.
Modern meanings
"Nigger" is almost always pejorative or suspect when used by nonblacks in America. Several American English dictionaries have labeled it as a vulgarism, and the term may refer also to anyone regarded as inferior or of subordinate status. This use of "nigger" to refer to a person who is considered backward, despised or powerless, regardless of race, is evident in author Jerry Farber's The Student as Nigger and Beatle John Lennon's song "Woman is the Nigger of the World."
Previously used by blacks in only intra-ethnic settings, "nigger" as a socially acceptable term of kinship or endearment has become increasingly common among some African American youth. For example: "What's up, my nigga?" may be acceptable when spoken by one African American to another. The commercialization and subsequent proliferation of hip-hop culture internationally, for better or worse, has returned the term to broader public use across ethnicities, but in much the same way it is used by some African American youth, and as an artifact of hip-hop culture.
Problems with this use of "nigger" are illustrated in the comedy-drama movie Gridlock'd (1997), which features the use of the word in its affectionate sense by a white character (played by Tim Roth). He is close enough to his black friend (played by Tupac Shakur) for it to go unremarked, but later he uses it when there are other blacks around whom he does not know so well, causing a dramatic reaction.
Among whites, some use it casually, as an archaism, to refer to African Americans; but most are rural, from poor areas of cities, and/or born before the 1950s. "Nigger" also persists in use as a racial slur among nonblacks across ethnic and class boundaries.
Uses of word
In the United States, "nigger" was freely, if sometimes fraughtly, used by both whites and blacks until the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. A striking usage is in televised coverage of a march in Birmingham, Alabama, when protesters, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, were met with attack dogs and fire hoses. A white woman from another Alabama county was interviewed. Visibly upset, she said, "It's not right. We don't treat niggers like that here." In the South at that time, the term "nigger" was less noteworthy than the expression of support for the marchers. For generations of whites, "nigger" was the childhood term for African Americans in America. Most used "Negro" or "colored", but particularly for white southerners in 1960s America, not using the term in casual speech required self-conscious effort.
Today, the implications of racism are so strong that use of "nigger" in most situations is a social taboo in English-speaking countries. Many American magazines and newspapers will not even print "nigger" in full, instead using "n*gg*r," "n——," or simply "the N-word." A Washington Post article on Strom Thurmond's 1948 candidacy for President of the United States went so far as to replace "nigger" with the periphrasis "the less-refined word for black people."
In Australia, the word is now rarely used in polite speech by urban whites in any context. It has, however, seen common use in rural or semi-frontier districts; although the usage was British colonial, e.g., applying generically to dark-skinned people of any origin (c.v. Rudyard Kipling). This has led to controversy, since Australian Aborigines have started to take the term strongly to heart, in both the pejorative and inclusive senses. See below under Place names.
Literary uses
"Nigger" has a long history of causing controversy in literature. Carl Van Vechten, a white photographer and writer famous as a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, caused a great controversy by titling his novel Nigger Heaven, in 1926. The controversy centered on the use of the word "nigger" in the title and fueled the sales of the hit novel. Of the controversy, Langston Hughes wrote:
No book could possibly be as bad as Nigger Heaven has been painted. And no book has ever been better advertised by those who wished to damn it. Because it was declared obscene, everybody wanted to read it, and I'll venture to say that more Negroes bought it than ever purchased a book by a Negro author. Then, as now, the use of the word "nigger" by a white was a flashpoint for debates about the relationship between African American culture and its White patrons.
The famous controversy over Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), a classic frequently taught in American schools, revolves largely around the novel's 215 uses of the word, nigger, referring to Jim, Huck's raft mate.
Slaves often pandered to racist assumptions about blacks by using "nigger" to their advantage as a typical, self-deprecatory artifice of Tomming. Implicit in so doing was the unspoken reminder that a presumed inherently morally or intellectually inferior person or subhuman — in essence, a "nigger" — could not reasonably be held responsible for work performed incorrectly, an "accidental" fire in the kitchen, or any other similar infraction. It was a means of deflecting responsibility in the hope of escaping the wrath of an overseer or master. The use of "nigger" as a self-referential term was also a way to avoid suspicion and put whites at ease. A slave who referred to himself or another black as a "nigger" presumably accepted the subordinate role that was his unfortunate lot and, therefore, posed no threat to white authority.
An example of this historical use in American English occurs in Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Gold Bug (1843). The narrator and a White character in the story use "negro" to refer to a Black servant, Jupiter, while Jupiter himself uses nigger:
"De bug, Massa Will! --de goole bug!" cried the negro, drawing back in dismay --"what for mus tote de bug way up de tree? --d[am]n if I do!"
"If you are afraid, Jup, a great big negro like you, to take hold of a harmless little dead beetle, why you can carry it up by this string — but, if you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel."
"What de matter now, massa?" said Jup, evidently shamed into compliance; "always want for to raise fuss wid old nigger. Was only funnin' anyhow. Me feered de bug! what I keer for de bug?" Here he took cautiously hold of the extreme end of the string, and, maintaining the insect as far from his person as circumstances would permit, prepared to ascend the tree.
A popular children's rhyme once contained the word nigger for tiger See: Eenie Meenie.
Agatha Christie's novel, Ten Little Indians, originally appeared as Ten Little Niggers.
Among the classic novels of Joseph Conrad is The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897).
Nigger in popular culture
At one time, the word "nigger" was used freely in branding and packaging of consumer commodities in the U.S. and England. There were brands such as Nigger Hair Tobacco, Niggerhead Oysters and other canned goods. Brazil nuts casually were referred to as "nigger toes." As times changed, so did labeling practices. The tobacco brand became "Bigger Hare," and the canned goods brand became "Negro Head." Eventually, such names disappeared from the marketplace altogether.
The comedian and activist Dick Gregory used the word as the title of his best-selling autobiography in 1964. In 1967, Muhammad Ali explained his refusal to be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War by saying, "I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me 'nigger,'" the implication being that white Americans had, and that, as a black man, he had no quarrel with the Vietnamese people. In 1972, John Lennon released a song, "Woman is the Nigger of the World", implying that as Black people were discriminated against in some countries so were women globally. Pierre Vallières, a founding member of the FLQ terrorist group, wrote a book in 1968 called Les Nègres blancs de l'Amérique, comparing the oppression of French-Canadians to that of blacks in the southern United States. When it was translated into English, it was published under the title White Niggers of America.
Comedian Lenny Bruce used the word repeatedly in a comedy routine, suggesting that the more it was used and heard, the less power it would have.
Comedian Richard Pryor, whose albums included That Nigga's Crazy and Bicentennial Nigger, vowed to never use the word again after a trip to Africa in the 1980s. Commenting that he never saw any niggers while in Africa, Pryor said he realized that niggers were figments of white people's imaginations.
In 1988, the album Straight Outta Compton was released by the hip hop group N.W.A. ("Niggaz With Attitude"). Although they abbreviated it in all official contexts, their self-referential use of the word caused a great deal of controversy in America over the language and lyrics of hip hop. Today, the word is used nearly universally among black rappers in casual contexts.
While today commonly accepted on records by many black rappers, the word "nigga" is generally considered off-limits to nonblack performers. The Beastie Boys were once forced off-stage after using the word in a non-hostile context to refer to their audience. In 2001, Jennifer Lopezprovoked the ire of the African American community when she used the word in a song written by two black songwriters. Eminem, on the other hand, who has not hesitated to use homophobic and sexist slurs, refuses to use the word "nigga" in his songs. However, White Dawg on his album Thug Ride uses the word in many contexts, to refer to himself and others, adopting a post-racial view of the term, accepting it as synonymous with general terms describing those of many ethnicities of a lower socioeconomic background like "thug."
African American comedian Chris Rock's 1996 television special Bring the Pain and 1997 album Roll with the New included a segment known as "Niggas vs Black People", which used the former word to describe a self-destructive segment within the black community. Rock cast "niggas" as "low-expectation-havin'" individuals — proud to be ignorant, violent, and on welfare [1]. The controversy of this piece, which played upon racist stereotypes of black people, was such that it led Rock to cease performing it.
Conversely, white American comedian George Carlin performs a short routine, part of his repertoire concerning the use and context of words, and the fact that some people's uses of words trouble us because we think they're being racist, wherein he closes with, "We don't mind when Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy uses it. Why? Because we know they're not racists. They're Niggers!"
Since the coining of the phrase "the N-word" (see below), some television broadcasters have added the word "nigger" retroactively to their lists of taboo words, thereby censoring movies and television programs from the past in which the word is used, no matter its context or the effect on the program. For example, television broadcasts of the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance which originally featured a character being forced to carry a sign saying "I hate niggers" around Harlem, are altered so that the sign now says "I hate everybody" which is not offensive – but, critics argue, renders the scene far less effective. The comedy series All in the Family, perhaps due to its classic status, is rarely censored even though the "N-word" is used frequently. On the other hand, Mel Brooks' anti-racism comedy, Blazing Saddles is rarely shown on American commercial television anymore due to the pervasive use of the word (though, like All in the Family, the movie's serious intent was to call attention to the issues of racism through satire; a fact discussed at length by Brooks when the film's 30th anniversary edition DVD was released in 2004).
Black comedian Dave Chapelle did two sketches exploring the use of nigger. In his TV show's first season he presented a blind black white supremacist who used the word profusely; in one ocassion white rap fans felt honored by his calling them "niggers." In the introduction for this sketch, the white narrator at first says "the n-word" to finish with, "Nigger. There. I said it." In his second season, he parodied 50's-style family sitcoms with the "Niggar Family" sketch featuring a white couple and son with the surname Niggar.
Names of places and things
Because the word was freely used for many years, there are many official place-names containing the word "nigger." Examples include Nigger Bill Canyon, Nigger Hollow, and Niggertown Marsh. In 1967, the United States Board on Geographic Names changed the word "nigger" to "Negro" in 143 specific place names, but use of the word has not been completely eliminated.
An isolated coral head was formerly often called a niggerhead. They are notorious as navigation hazards.
Many varieties of flora and fauna are still commonly referred to by terms which include the word "nigger." The nigger-head cactus, which is native to Arizona is round, the size of a cabbage, and covered with large, crooked thorns. The common name for echinacea, or coneflower, is known variously as "Kansas niggerhead" and "wild niggerhead." The "niggerhead termite" is native to Australia.
In April 2003, there was a stir in Australia over the naming of part of a stadium in Toowoomba, "E.S. Nigger Brown Stand." "Nigger Brown" was the nickname of Toowoomba's first international rugby player. Edward Stanley Brown had a particularly fair complexion and, hence, was given the nickname "Nigger," in a similar way that a tall person might be called "Shorty." He also used the shoe polish brand "Nigger Brown." The stand was named in the 1960s. As in the United States some decades ago, the word was used casually by whites, with little thought. Brown himself was happy with the nickname; in fact it is written on his tombstone. A growing black consciousness among Australia's aboriginal population, however, has meant the term increasingly has become an offensive one, particularly when uttered by whites. Even so, as in the U.S., some younger blacks have appropriated the term for self-referential use.
Australian civil rights activist Stephen Hagan took the local council responsible to court over the use of the word. Hagan lost the court case at the district and state level, and the High Court ruled that the matter was not of federal jurisdiction. The federal government cited the High Court ruling on a lack of federal jurisdiction as its legal justification for continued inaction. (Hagan also has tried changing other "racial names" such as the Coon brand of cheese.)
Avoiding offense
"The N-Word"
The euphemism "the N-word" became a part of the American lexicon during the racially polarizing trial of O.J. Simpson, a retired African American football player charged with and ultimately acquitted of a widely publicized double murder. One of the prosecution's key witnesses was Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who initially denied using racial slurs, but whose prolific and derogatory use of the word "nigger" on a taperecording brought his credibility into question. According to Fuhrman, he was using the word in a fictional story he was writing.
Members of the media reporting on and discussing his testimony began using the term "the N-word" instead of repeating the actual word, presumably as a way to avoid offending audiences and advertisers. The euphemism was adopted quickly by Americans as a way to avoid uttering one of the most generally offensive words in American English.
The euphemism is most often used in constructions like: "He called me the N-word" or "I can't believe she said the N-word." (This form mimics other euphemisms for offensive words such as "the F-word" for fuck, "the B-word" for bitch, and the less common "the S-word" for shit.
The word niger is Latin for "black" and occurs in many Latin scientific terms and names. (See Niger for other meanings such as the river in Africa.) "Niger" is the root for some English words which are near homophones of "nigger."
Nigra, which is the way "Negro" is pronounced by some people in the American South, was considered by some to be a more polite way to refer to a black person. Because of its similarity to "nigger," however, it generally is detested by blacks and is no longer acceptable.
The words niggardly ("miserly") and snigger ("to laugh derisively") do not refer either to Black people or to characteristics or behavior attributed to Black people, nor do they have any etymological connection with the word nigger. Niggard (= miserly person) and the verb niggle come from the Old Norse verb nigla = "to fuss about small things". Many people are ignorant of this, however, and so refuse to use these words and take offense to their usage. David Howard, a white city official in Washington, D.C., was briefly driven from his job in January 1999 when he used niggardly in a fiscal sense while talking with African American colleagues, who protested his use of the word.
There is a predominantly Muslim minority group in Western China called Uighurs – which, to the untrained ear, sounds very similar to "whiggers" (see "Combinations with other words" below), a situation which conceivably could lead to confusion and discord as contacts between China and the U.S. increase, and the tiny American Uighur community continues to grow.
Revisionist usage
In the United Kingdom, the word was in common use throughout the first half of the twentieth century to denote a shade of dark brown. "Nigger" was famously the name of a Black Labrador belonging to the RAF Second World War hero Wing Commander Guy Gibson. The dog died before the 617 Squadron's 1943 raid on the Ruhr dams (the "Dam Busters raid"), and "Nigger" was adopted as the radio code word signaling the destruction of the Möhne dam. Because of the modern connotations of the name, the British television broadcaster ITV now tries to reduce offence by cutting some scenes including the dog when it broadcasts the film Dam Busters. This has been condemned by some as "revisionist", although the edited version apparently produced fewer complaints than a previous uncensored broadcast. However, this scene has probably been viewed more times than any other part of the movie. It was worked into the background of the infamous hotel-room sequence in the Pink Floyd movie The Wall, during which the word nigger can be plainly heard coming from the television.
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Story "How the Leopard Got His Spots" tells of how an Ethiopian and a leopard, who are originally sand-colored, decide to paint themselves for camouflage when hunting in dense tropical forest. The story originally included a scene in which the leopard, who now has spots, asks the Ethiopian why he doesn't want spots as well. The Ethiopian's original reply, "Oh, plain black's best for a nigger," has been changed in many modern editions to read, "Oh, plain black's best for me."
"Nigger" versus "nigga": the new revisionism
Proponents of this neorevisionist usage of the term believe "nigger," in its the vernacular pronunciation, is harmless. Moreover, many believe it draws a line between blacks as victims of racism and blacks as empowered, street-wise individuals. In an interview in the documentary Tupac: Resurrection Tupac Shakur explains, "Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing; Niggas is the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs." [sic]
Opponents of this view argue that nigga is simply "nigger" pronounced with a southern accent, that the revisionist spelling is simply a phonetic representation of the word as it always has been pronounced in African American Vernacular English and nothing more. "Nigger," they point out, is also pronounced "nigga" by many who intend it as a racial slur. While proponents of the neorevisionist use of "nigga" contend they have "reclaimed" the word and robbed it of its racist connotations, critics dispute this. They claim such usage has not changed the word's centuries-old, racist nature. African Americans generally still consider the term offensive and inappropriate in most, if not all, contexts— and never acceptable in any context when used by nonblacks. A passage from the African American Registry echoes this sentiment:
[Neorevisionist] arguments [for the use of "nigga"] may not be true to life. Brother (Brotha) and Sister (Sistha or Sista) are terms of endearment. Nigger was and still is a word of disrespect. ...the artificial dichotomy between Blacks or African Americans (respectable and middle-class) and niggers (disrespectable and lower class) ought to be challenged. Black is a nigger, regardless of behavior, earnings, goals, clothing, skills, ethics, or skin color. Finally, if continued use of the word lessened its damage, then nigger would not hurt or cause pain now. Blacks, from slavery 'til today, have internalized many negative images that white society cultivated and broadcast about black skin and Black people. This is mirrored in cycles of self-and same-race hatred. The use of the word nigger by Blacks reflects this hatred, even when the user is unaware of the psychological forces involved. Nigger is the ultimate expression of white racism and white superiority no matter how it is pronounced.
Sociologists commonly point to black-on-black violence and its association with gangsta rap— the phenomenon most responsible for the rise in the revisionist use of the term among some black youth— as a manifestation of the self-destructive, self-loathing mind-set referred to above.
There is also a marked class difference in African-American use of the term. The more highly educated, the higher one's socioeconomic status, regardless of age, the less likely one is to use the term self-referentially, if at all.
Some social scientists refer to words like nigger, kike, spic, and wetback as ethnophaulisms (ethnic or racial slurs). These terms are the language of prejudice – verbal pictures of negative stereotypes. Howard J. Ehrlich, a social scientist, said that "ethnophaulisms are of three types: disparaging nicknames (chink, dago, nigger, and so forth); explicit group devaluations ("Jew him down," or "niggering the land"); and irrelevant ethnic names used as a mild term of disparagement ("jewbird" for cuckoos having prominent beaks or "Irish confetti" for bricks thrown in a fight). Virtually all racial and ethnic groups have been the subject of racial slurs; but few, if any, racial or ethnic groups have had as many racial slurs associated with them as blacks.
Combinations with other words
Within American culture, following the word "nigger" with a second word connotes an extremely negative conception of that second word, usually playing to racist stereotypes. Thus, to call someone "nigger-rich" is to say that they unwisely spend their entire paycheck upon its receipt. To say someone is playing "nigger hockey" implies that they're cheating. While such phrases are used to describe people of any race, they are nonetheless considered as racist as using the word "nigger" by itself.
The term "wigger," or "whigger," refers to a young, white mimicker of certain affectations of hip-hop and thug culture. It is a portmanteau word of "white" and "nigger". The word is usually considered offensive because of its similarity to "nigger" and because it reflects unflattering, stereotypical notions about blacks.
Similarly, other portmanteaus formed from "nigger", also usually considered offensive, are used to describe other nonblacks who adopt certain, usually hip-hop, African American cultural affectations. These include combining "nigger" with another ethnic slur, "chink," (meaning of Chinese origin), to produce "chigger". (A chigger is also a type of mite and a type of flea, pests whose bites cause intense itching); with "Korean", to produce "kigger"; and with "spic, a slur for a nonwhite Latino, to produce "spigger". Also, when combined with "Turk" the two words form "Tigger".
"Nigger Heaven and the Harlem Renaissance." Robert F. Worth, African American Review. Fall 1995. 29(3):461–473.
Further reading
- Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by Randall Kennedy (ISBN 0375421726)
See also
- List of ethnic slurs
- Racism
- Taboo
- Profanity — with a discussion of how words can differ in meaning and offensiveness depending on who is using them.
- Wog
External links
- "Nigger and Caricatures," Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University
- "Nigger (the word), a brief history!" from the African American Registry
Categories: Pejorative terms for people | Ethnic slurs


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Remote Area Medical (RAM... sounds Satanic, everyone knows Satanists love rams) is offering free medical and dental care from April 27 - May 3 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (here is the link to the Huffington Post). But who are these possible Satanists with their free care? I went on their website to suss out what's really going on. I checked the mission statement...
The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world.I looked at the other cities RAM will be going to: Chicago, Oklahoma City, and if all goes well RAM will be setting up a start-up program in Africa. Woo-hoo! We are now in the same class as Africa!
Founded in 1985, Remote Area Medical® is a publicly supported all-volunteer charitable organization. Volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots, veterinarians and support workers participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most exciting places. Medical supplies, medicines, facilities and vehicles are donated.
Good times are ahead. Republicans have devised a way for do-gooders to provide infrequent but free medical care to a handful of communities. Government doesn't have to do anything but provide an environment where the poor and middle class have no insurance.
Mission Accomplished!
What? You say the ObamaCare with demolish the schemes of the heroic Republicans and their fiscally prudent plan?
We'll see what happens with the midterm elections in November.
I'm not getting my hopes up because...
this is Purgatory.
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In an interview with CNN, the cycling legend - who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after admitting years of doping - said that it was only the US Anti-Doping Agency's dogged investigation which forced his hand.
"Once you say 'no' you have to keep saying 'no'," he said.
"If this stuff hadn't taken place with the federal investigation, I'd probably still be saying 'no' with the same conviction and tone as before. But that gig is up."
Armstrong is planning a book in which he will tell the entire sordid history of his years of cheating - from the drugs themselves to the lengths he went to in order to cover his tracks and discredit those who tried to blow the whistle.
"There has to be totally no bull****," he said of his new tome, which is expected to become as big a best-seller as his now-infamous autobiography It's not about the bike.
"I'm fully committed to putting it all out there. I don't blame anyone for thinking, 'I don't trust this guy with all his bull**** for 10 years'...
"The book needs to be pretty intense and transparent. I need to 'boom' -- put it out there and let it sit.
"The sooner the better. It has to be the right book, the right tone and there has to be totally no bull****."
Lance Armstrong.
He added that he will not try and deflect any blame.
"I'm a big boy, I made my own decisions and I need to be held accountable for that," he said.
"I'm not going to blame people. A lot of people have blamed everyone else but that's bull****.
"No-one forced me or bullied me, so I'm not going to say, 'It's not my fault.' I blame myself, that's the bottom line."
Armsong said that his life is still good despite his shame, with the only vitriol directed at him coming via the internet.
"In this day and age, there's plenty of outlets for people to hurl the most heinous comments that you can think of, you only have to look at the comments that will be at the bottom of this piece," the 42-year-old said.
"But day-to-day life is positive. I never get crap, not once, and I'm surprised by that. Sure, I sometimes get the vibe that someone wants to say something, but it's never happened."


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Emmy Nomination Preview 2010 - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama
Cranston, Hamm, Hall and Laurie are locks, but who will join them on the Emmy ballot?
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Nomination Status: Strong candidate for the fifth spot on the ballot.
In His Favor: Simon Baker is the final returning candidate from last year's nominee pool (Gabriel Byrne of "In Treatment" wasn't eligible), so that probably makes him the top contender after the four locks, especially having added Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations this year. "The Mentalist" continues to be a big hit for CBS and there's no reason why voters would have soured on Baker.
Working Against Him: After being a huge breakout in its first season, "The Mentalist" moved to Thursdays and while it held its audience, perhaps it lost a little buzz? There are a lot of "nostalgia" candidates for the sixth spot -- including Kiefer Sutherland and Matthew Fox -- and several Emmy favorites with new shows -- including Ray Romano and Peter Krause -- so Baker's position may also be vulnerable.


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Hi SAP experts,
Please help me resolving this issue.
Issue :
BW batch job in r/3 taking long time and failed with error. This is delta load usually finished in 15- 20 mins, but from last 2 days, this BW batch job is taking every long time and failing with error.
details of job runs:
on 31.01.2012, BW batch job took around 7 hours and extracted 208 records.
on 01.02.2012 BW batch job took around 10 hour and extracted 802 records
Today batch job took around 11 hours and failed with following error message.
Job started
Step 001 started (program SBIE0001, variant &0000000106933, user name BWALEREMOTE)
Current values of selected profile parameter *
abap/heap_area_nondia......... 2000683008 *
abap/heap_area_total.......... 2000683008 *
abap/heaplimit................ 40894464 *
zcsa/installed_languages...... E2 *
zcsa/system_language.......... E *
ztta/max_memreq_MB............ 64 *
ztta/roll_area................ 6500000 *
ztta/roll_extension........... 2000683008 *
0 LUWs confirmed and 0 LUWs to be deleted with FB RSC2_QOUT_CONFIRM_DATA
ABAP/4 processor: DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR
Job cancelled
Details of the data source:
It is "Z" data source, created on view (View joining 6 table(all stand tables))
I have checked with basis for available resources, increased priority of the job.
Please help
Thanks and Regards
Please refer below thread
Hi Gaurav,
Thank you for quick reply, i have checked the ST22 for ABAP DUMP, and the error message as follows.
Database error text........: "ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment
number 20 with name "_SYSSMU20$" too small#"
Internal call code.........: "[RSQL/FTCH/ZBW_ACT ]"
Please check the entries in the system log (Transaction SM21).
I have also checked SM21 following is the error.
BY4 Database error 1555 at FET access to table ZBW_ACT
BY0 > ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 20 with
BY0 > name "_SYSSMU20$" too small#
AB0 Run-time error "DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR" occurred
AB1 > Short dump "120201 140214 sapapp2 BWALEREMOTE " generated
D01 Transaction termination 00 671 ( DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR 20120201140214sapapp2 BWALEREMOTE 8001 )
I have also checked for indexing on the View(ZBW_ACT) and also on the tables.
Thanks and Regards
Check the OSS;
Note 600141 - Oracle9i: Automatic UNDO Management
Note 3807 - Error messages regarding rollback and undo segments
You may need to work with the DBA team in order to solve this issue. Show them the error message and OSS notes.
Hope this will help you to analyse the issue further.
Hi Chakri,
Check with your oracle DBA once.
If you have indexes on standard table, please re-create the indexes once again. It should work.
Hi All ,
Thank you for your replies.
I have checked SAP Notes 066141 and 3807, i have checked with basis team regarding error message "ORA-01555: Snap shoot too old", they has informed that table space has increased to 20 GB.
The data source effected is customized data source build on view, i have checked for indexes on the table. Data source is delta extraction and Time Stamp field as delta relevant field.
After talking to basis team, i assume the issue is as follows(Please correct me if assumption is wrong ).
1. Once BW job executed in BW systems, a batch job is created in R/3, first step has been executed successfully and while fetching data from database according to selection condition defined in View data is been extracted to BW. i assume that issue is been occurring at this stage.
2. The same Job used to completed in in 10 - 15 min before, but from last 3 days job is taking very long time around 10 hours nothing has changed in BW and R/3 System. i am unable to understand how to approach to this issue.
Please help step to know the core reason for this issue.
Thanks and Regards
Hi Chakri,
Yes, you have identified the issue. if you have indexes on your base tables , try to create them once again, it will work.
check the ABAP code
check the SQL statement -> do you use a db index?


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One of the greatest mysteries in astronomy is how Charles Messier missed the Double Cluster in Perseus. In his catalog of objects that could be mistaken for comets, he included all the brightest deep sky objects, but somehow overlooked the Double Cluster. So, just because it doesn?t have an ?M? number, don?t you do the same, as it is one of the loveliest objects in the sky, a fine sight in either binoculars or a small telescope.
You don?t need to know where Perseus is to find the Double Cluster. Go out on any evening this month and locate Cassiopeia: a distinctive ?W? of 2nd magnitude stars right across the pole from the Big Dipper. Use the two stars Gamma and Ruchbah in the middle of the ?W? as pointers towards the Double Cluster.
In binoculars, you will see two glowing balls of stars; in a small telescope these will resolve into hundreds of individual stars.
These two clusters of stars are a true pair, located at about the same distance from the sun, 7,000 light-years, and are about the same age, 10 million years. Despite their common location and history, they are rather different in appearance, in terms of the density and concentration of stars. Most of the stars are bluish white, but there are a number of yellow stars scattered through the clusters to make them appear colorful.
If you continue to sweep with binoculars beyond the Double Cluster you will reach the Alpha Perseii Cluster. This is one of the closest star clusters to the sun, only 600 light-years away. It is very large in size, overflowing the field of any binocular, and its members are mainly identified by? their shared motion through the sky. For that reason it is sometimes called the Perseus Moving Cluster.
Despite being very large and containing many bright stars, this cluster is not well known among amateur astronomers, perhaps because it is too big to view with a telescope. It is one of the objects which is best viewed with binoculars or the naked eye.


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Germany -- Faux bus stops outside assisted-care facilities help keep old people from wandering off.
A German nursing home has created a pretend bus stop to prevent Alzheimer's patients from wandering off.
The bus stop, outside the Benrath Senior Centre in Dusseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop but no buses call there.
The idea emerged after the centre was forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their homes and families but had forgotten that in many cases neither existed any longer.
"If we can't find them then we have to alert the police," said Benrath's director Richard Neureither. "It can be particularly dangerous if this happens in winter and they spend the night out in the cold."
Without powers to detain patients, he said, Benrath teamed up with local care association, the Old Lions, and went to the Rheinbahn transport network which was happy to provide the bus stop to nowhere.
"It sounds funny," said Old Lions Chairman Franz-Josef Goebel, "but it helps. Our members are 84 years-old on average.
"Their short-term memory hardly works at all, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.
"We will approach them and say that the bus is coming later today and invite them in to the home for a coffee," said Mr Neureither. "Five minutes later they have completely forgotten they wanted to leave."
The idea has proved so successful that it has now been adopted by several other old folks' homes across Germany.
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Castres out-half Remi Tales out of France's Six Nations opener
Updated: Sunday, 26 Jan 2014 15:20 | Comments
Castres out-half Remi Tales has pulled out of France's Six Nations opener against England after failing to recover from an arm injury and has been replaced by Francois Trinh-Duc, the French federation said.
Full-back Jean-Marcellin Buttin will leave the squad after picking up an injury in a Top 14 game with his Clermont team on Saturday and will be replaced by Marc Andreu, the FFR added.
"Francois Trinh-Duc is back with us. Remi will heal and we hope he will be back on the turf very soon," France manager Philippe Saint-Andre said in a statement.
Montpellier's Trinh-Duc won his last cap in a Six Nations game against Scotland last year.
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Five Takeaways From Jobs Report
The economy added 162,000 jobs in July, the fewest since March, but the unemployment rate ticked down to 7.4%. Economists are still digesting today's report, but here are five initial takeaways:
A weakening trend: Don't get too concerned about the headline number being weaker than expectations — it's well within the margin of error. But the Labor Department also revised down its estimates of May and June hiring by a combined 26,000 jobs. That pushes the six-month average for job growth below 200,000 jobs. On one level, that shouldn't come as a surprise: The job market had been performing better than underlying economic growth would suggest. But the slowdown is further evidence that hiring can't accelerate until the economy does.
Bad news about "bad jobs": June's job figures showed an unexpected 10-cent rise in average hourly wages, which sparked hopes that the labor market had improved enough to start pushing up earnings. Today's report suggests that was too optimistic. Hourly wages fell by 2 cents on average — not a huge drop, but nonetheless a move in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, more than half of all private-sector hiring came in the low-paying retail and restaurant sectors. That will likely add to fears that the jobs being created are of poor quality.
Storm clouds ahead: Job growth is generally a so-called lagging indicator, reflecting economic changes only in the rearview mirror. But there are hints of the future in the jobs report, and this month they generally suggest a weakening outlook. Companies trimmed employees' hours, a sign they're seeing less demand for their products and services, and temporary jobs — which can be an indicator of permanent hiring in the future — grew at their slowest pace since last fall. The revisions, too, were a bad sign — the government tends to underestimate growth during good times and overstate it during bad times, so downward revisions can suggest the labor market is weakening.
Little confidence from workers: Job seekers saw their fortunes improve somewhat in July: 19.8% of unemployed workers found jobs, the best mark of the recovery. But if anything, workers appeared to grow more pessimistic. Some 2.6 million unemployed workers gave up looking in July, the most since March, and fewer people re-entered the job market to look for work. Close to a million Americans say they've given up looking for jobs because none are available, a figure that's actually risen over the past year, while the number saying they're stuck in part-time jobs involuntarily was unchanged from a year earlier.
Health hiring slows: Few engines of job growth have been more reliable in recent years than the health care industry, which added workers throughout both the recession and recovery. But the sector added a mere 2,500 jobs in July, the fewest in a decade. Meanwhile, one of the most persistent drags on growth, the public sector, showed signs of stabilizing. Despite fears that the sequester is holding back the recovery, government jobs were essentially flat in July, with gains at the local level offsetting modest state and federal cuts.


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Southern Dallas ministers ask Washington for fresh review of City Hall bribery case
Don Hill's PR rep sent out a notice last night saying that a coalition of southern Dallas ministers have asked United States Attorney General Eric Holder to review the FBI's corruption case.
They argue that the case, set for trial Monday, is a political prosecution of former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill and others pushed by the Bush administration, which they allege overwhelmingly targeted Democrats.
This appears to be yet another test of U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn's gag order, imposed Friday. Technically, it prohibits defendants and their lawyers from talking to try to influence the case, but it also cautions against indirect end-runs that may run afoul of the order. Read it here:
The 11th hour request to Holder isn't likely to go anywhere. Hill's legal team has already asked Judge Lynn to dismiss the case because, they argue, it unfairly targets African Americans.
And in her latest order, the judge dismissed a call by defendant Darren Regan for a special prosecutor to look into allegations that one of the prosecutors in the case is harassing him.
Hill's team is still planning a prayer vigil across the street from the federal courthouse Sunday night, hours before potential jurors begin filing in for the first day of jury selection.
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Several prominent Southern Dallas ministerial organizations have sent U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a letter today seeking a review of the upcoming trial of former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill. The letter was signed by leaders of the African American Pastors Coalition, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance and the South Dallas/Fair Park United Churches.
In the letter, the leaders cited a recent study by Professors Donald Shields and John Cragan that said federal prosecutors during the Bush Administration investigated Democratic officeholders more frequently than their Republication counterparts. Specifically, the letter points out that out of 375 cases the authors identified, 10 involved independents, 67 were Republicans and 298 were Democrats.
Hill's case was mentioned in the study which concluded that selective prosecution of local Democrats across the country had taken place. Hill is also a Democrat.
The letter also mentioned a recent documentary produced by well known movie producer John McTierman entitled Project Save Justice – The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove where the case is also highlighted and is circulating on the internet at www.politicalprosecutions.org. The 45 minute film "clearly uncovers the shameful practices of the US Justice Department. This film also gives absolute insight on how the Justice Department under the direction of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was used as an instrument to weaken the Democratic Party with a primary focus at the local level."
"We are just asking for the new department to review this case for fairness," said Rev. Frederick D. Haynes, III, senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church and board member of the National Action Network who signed the letter. Other signers include Rev. Jerry Christian, Bryan Carter, Steven C. Nash, and S.M. Wright, II
The public corruption trial is set to begin on Monday with jury selection. Opening statements are anticipated to start Wednesday. Hill is accused of leading a pay for influence scheme involving affordable housing projects.


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I'm due 28 June as well. It feels like forever away! I have my anatomy scan booked for 1 Feb when I'll be 19 weeks. Cannot wait!
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We Are Not Under Attack By the LGBT Community
A strident op-ed titled "We Are Under Attack by the LGBTPed Community" was published on 5TJT.com and has been picked up by YWN. The article argues that government bans on so called Conversion Therapy is an assault on religious freedom. This sort of therapy has been discussed on this blog previously. See: Conversion Therapy.
The upshot of the article is that Agudath Israel, OU, and NCYI need to lobby against these bans that, as the author concludes, "deprives both minors and therapists the freedom of seeking out therapies that will encourage redirection for those struggling with unhealthy physical attractions. This is a direct assault on religious freedoms in this state by the LGBTPed community, and we must put in an all-out effort to quash this bill."
There is so much wrong with this op-ed. Too many of the assumptions in the article are based on familiar, and erroneous, conservative Daas Radio talking points.
The headline is obscene. It implies that there is equivalence between LGBT and pedophiles. Leaving aside the issue of whether these tendencies are inborn or learned, or whether they are deviant tendencies, LGBT and pedophilia cannot be uttered in the same sentence with a straight face. One who is LGBT and acts on those tendencies with a consenting adult may be a sinner in the eyes of some religions or God. However, they are acting in a loving and respectful manner. A pedophile who acts on their tendencies is taking advantage of a child. This is a violent, selfish, abusive act. There is no moral equivalence between the two and we should not allow ourselves to fall into the trap of equating the two under any circumstance.
There is an assumption that Orthodox organizations do not work together with Christian lobbyists. This is incorrect. The frum organizations joined Christian forces in opposing the "contraception mandate" portion of the American Healthcare Act. (See: Controlling Birth Control and OU and Agudah Unite Against Contraceptives on DovBear). There is plenty of evidence that Orthodox Jewish organizations and conservative Christians work together on many things. This is just something that they are (thankfully) choosing to ignore (so far).
Banning Conversion Therapy is not an assault on freedom nor is it an attack against religion. The 9th Circuit correctly ruled that these bans are not an assault on freedom because they do not regulate speech. They regulate professional activity. We are guaranteed freedom of speech, not freedom of professional activity. It's no different than any law that regulates psychologists or lawyers or really any profession where the bulk of the work being done is speech. When speech is used in a professional context like therapy it is not simply speech, it becomes conduct. The government has the right to regulate professional conduct. Just because much of the conduct is speech, the power the government has to regulate the conduct does not magically become limited.
Also, as Professor Volokh notes, even though the science of whether something is harmful or helpful may change, as long as the government leaves the issue open for reevaluation based on the current science, the law is fair. It's not an assault on freedom. Orthodox Jews are free to teach Leviticus and we are free to deny any religious rights and privileges to anyone we so choose. But the state can still regulate therapy. This is not an attack on religion.
Further, the horror stories of JONAH participants is enough to discourage any of us from lamenting laws that prohibit them from engaging in dangerous forms of therapy. Disallowing this kind of therapy protects children and teens from potential harms. I've been told that JONAH also provides therapy to sex abusers, oftentimes together with LGBT people. This is a clear message to LGBT people that they are viewed as equals to sex abusers. Protecting its citizens is certainly within the rights of a state. The lack of scientific evidence to support Conversion Therapy combined with the harmful activities associated with organizations like JONAH are enough to support the state's decision to ban it.
There is nothing to be gained by dehumanizing LGBT people. They have been made to feel subhuman for their tendencies enough times in their lives. We don't need to pile on. In fact, it would be really great if we could somehow assure people who have been through so much already that they are loved and accepted no matter their preferences behind closed doors. While it's true that we cannot proclaim that an act we believe to be a sin is not a sin, we are not obligated to do everything in our power to make their lives miserable. Indeed, it is not uncommon for LGBT people to feel unloved and shunned by the Orthodox Jewish community. Is there any group that would benefit more from a little extra love and affection from the rest of us? Perhaps not.
Too often I see it formulated this way. Homosexuality is wrong. We cannot compromise on that. Therefore we reject all attempts to normalize these activities. Further we oppose any legitimization of LGBTs by way of civil rights and privileges. But of course we love all Jews, even the gays.
This is all wrong. I believe the correct formulation should be as follows. No matter a person's private activities, we love our fellow Jews. Those who are in pain or are outcasts deserve extra love and sympathy. It is far too common for LGBTs people to feel like outcasts. Our primary concern has to be their emotional welfare. We can't allow our children, brothers, and sisters to feel like they are alone or disassociated from their families. That comes first. Their religious or spiritual welfare comes second and only long after concern number one is sufficiently satisfied.
We're all quite familiar with the prohibitions in the Torah. It's not a valid concern to think that expressing our unconditional love to LGBT people or laws granting rights to LGBTs or preventing certain forms of therapy will somehow subsume the relevant prohibitions. I see no reason that the normalization of LGBT people would have any more of an effect on Orthodox Jewish society than the normalization of eating McDonald's will make Orthodox Jews start eating Mickey D's.
One final word on the subject for now. Social conservatives have made this one of their primary issues. I don't claim to understand their reasoning or justification for this choice. However, when it comes to Orthodox Judaism, we have no mandate that requires us to give more attention to this than any other issue facing our community. We are not beholden to their selective outrage machine. The constant use of euphemisms like Toeiva or anti-Torah when referring to this particular issue and not to others is a baffling social phenomenon. I can think of at least a few dozen matters that deserve more attention and derision than this issue. Let's refocus the collective energy and place it on other things that matter more.
Think about the teens, young adults, and everyone else who needs our love more than anything else right now. They are people with lives and feelings and fears just like the rest of us. We are really not under attack from them. If anything, the are under attack from us. Please don't ever forget that.
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21 Responses to "We Are Not Under Attack By the LGBT Community"
the problem is that gays do recruit. homosexuality is an entity that cannot survive without recruiting. look at Germany during the second world war there were 4,000,000 males and 2,000,000 of them were homosexuals, dont tell me that they are all born that way all of a sudden, even in the U.S.A. why all of a sudden are there so many coming out of the closet? We do well to take Leviticus 18 verse 22 to heart, as G-d is not mocked.
let me remind you of something else. G-d delivered the Israelites out of slavery while in Egypt and they were few in number. He drove out other nations before them, because of the abominable and detestable things these nations practiced which were evil in the sight of the Lord. and He also warned them not to do likewise. so if you throw out the commandment given in Leviticus 18 verse 22, what have you got left, at least Christians believe christ suffered for these sins of the flesh so that people could repent of same by looking on His suffering and be healed. but if they refuse to repent, then they are also mocking Christ suffering at Calvary.
one of the reasons im an atheist is that its so obvious that if there was a loving god that he would never allow an ignorant like you to exist
I am gay and a jew and we DO NOT recruit!!! Were have you ever heard such a strange thing? So many are coming out because they can. If Hashem makes no mistakes, then gay observant Jews should have no fear.
Mario Vredenburg i hope you find the courage to come out of the religious closet like you did from the straight one…my heart goes out to you being gay and still stuck in a primitive mindset
If all therapies that are unproven and may even have harmful effects are banned, then a good number of the nation's psychologists and psychiatrists will be out of a job, as will all the homeopathists, and a good number of "mekubalim"…..
What difference does it make whether or not Jews are "under attack" by homosexuals? What difference does it make whether or not they recruit? Homsexuality is forbidden under both Torah AND the Noachide Laws, and they CANNOT be legalized.
As to (h–vens to betsy!) cooperating with Notzerim, what of it? Is everything the Notzerim believe or do now magically un-kosher? Must Jews disown the Holy Torah because Xian "bibles" contain a translation of it? Perhaps Jews should cease breathing oxygen, since Xians also engage in this practice. You know, this whole thing is getting a little silly. How about going by the Torah and Halakhah rather than looking to what the Xians do and then doing the opposite?
Jews were Theocrats a thousand years before Xianity existed. There was no "freedom of religion" as the post-enlightenment knows it in ancient, Torah Israel. Worshiping a "gxd" who wasn't HaShem was a capital offense. Those ancient Jews also did "primitive, silly" things like engage in sacrificial rituals that Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson (today's Jewish authorities, apparently) would have been unable to justify.
There is on Facebook a page for Jewish Polygamists, since quite correctly they note that the Torah does not require monogamy (provided that there are multiple wives, but no multiple husbands). Hopefully it won't bee too long until we see a Facebook page for advocates of Jewish Theocracy.
As a lesbian and as a person with Jewish ancestry, thank you.
Thank you Rabbi Fink for speaking the words that so many Orthodox rabbis are afraid to say. Yasher Koach! You are literally saving lives!
"I see no reason that the normalization of LGBT people would have any more of an effect on Orthodox Jewish society than the normalization of eating McDonald's will make Orthodox Jews start eating Mickey D's." – So true, as is that teaching sex-ed does not encourage kids to have sex. Moreover, he strikes right at the heart of the matter when he says "I can think of at least a few dozen matters that deserve more attention and derision than this issue. Let's refocus the collective energy and place it on other things that matter more." The reason social/cultural conservatives have focused on this is because they've joined at the hip to the economic conservatives who oppose the socioeconomic message of most religions. Hence their poor reaction to the pope's statements about gays and atheists and to his renewed emphasis on social justice and responsibility.
Thanks for posting Justin
No one's under attack by the LGBT community, we're under attack by the control system, POSING as the saviors of the LGBT community.
''Soon the king Messiah he will bring to trial all the clowns who mocked the Creator.
The world is in chaos, do not believe you know for a moment what the future holds. All this makes the Creator completely in charge of the whole world, without exception. We must cry to the Creator. With all the Jews crying out to the Creator, to mend this world, the king Messiah will put this entire world in a state of order!' (from the last message from rabbi Nir ben Artzi ) CAN YOU HEAR r. FINK?
Saving lives? Give me a break
Mario then I suppose you dont believe in the Lord G-d of Israel, who gave the commandment in Leviticus 18 verse 22 that for a man to lie with another man is an abomination? And that he sent Christ who suffered for these sins of the body on Golgotha, so that we could look to Him and repent and receive forgiveness? and do you remember that when G-d delivered the Israelites out of Egypt, when few in number he drove out other nations before them, because they practiced abominable and detestable things which were evil in the eyes of the Lord? G-d does not change but remains the same and His Word abide forever. I feel sad for you.
mario vredenburg, homosexuality is an entity that cannot survive on its own. so they need to recruit as during the time of the second world war there were 4,000,000 males in Germany 2,000,000 of them were homosexuals, the birth rate plummeted the reason they were put in prison to discourage them from recruiting. this is the reason homosexuality is taught to the children that is normal part of the gay agenda re recruiting.
Sientje Seinen, so sad that the dinosaurs went extinct but people like you still exist
So you are claiming that the LGBT is not under attack by cultural conservative? The denial of same-sex marriage rights by governments does not constitute discrimination in your opinion? The LGBT community does not need government to step in and quash any sort of discrimination? I know you don't trust government in general but do you really trust private organization (such as corporations) to behave decently towards LGBT members? Or churches? Or state governments in the US? I know you claim to support gay marriage and non-discrimination towards LGBT but you effectively deny it since you don't trust government and believe that its support of LGBT rights is all an act. You think that its support comes with unacceptable strings attached yet how many members of the LGBT community give a damn about those strings? I doubt all that many. I find it hard to believe that most LGBT servicemen and servicewomen opposed the repeal of DADT. I doubt the LGBT community rejects Obama's public support. I doubt they'd reject the Supreme Court's recent decisions on Prop 8 and Windsor. But you do which effectively puts you on the side of the homophobes since I doubt they care WHY you oppose all of this – They only care that you oppose it.
Ofer Kalifon I trust churches to behave decently toward LGBT people far more than I trust the federal government to do so. Churches aren't spying on gay people or groping them at the airport or giving them proctology exams, or stealing from them, or murdering them if they get too close to a story.
The LGBT's are under far worse attack by the "liberals' than the conservatives, it's the liberals who are attacking our civil rights. It's fine for gays to embrace the "strings attached" to federal government support, I'm just saying those strings are attached to a 1000 pound anvil that's going to fall on all our heads, gay and straight alike.
I don't care what LGBT service people think of DADT, their opinion on the military industrial complex is far more important to me. Further, when gay rights is being discussed at the top levels of power, it isn't about gay rights. It's about the NWO agenda of sterilization and population control and hate speech regulations, and the pedophilia rampant at the heart of the Anglo-American power structure, and while we're at it demonziing Putin so gays here won't care that we're bombing him.
Using websites as a proof ? Oh pulease. Who cares what dov brar had?
I am from the Five Towns and my dear cousin, The Legendary Danny O'Doul, used to write for the 5TJT, where he was the "Cousin Marilyn" (from 'The Munsters') of the paper. Larry who publishes the paper is a good guy and the paper is free, but it has thousands of advertisers … so a little controversy sells even "free" papers better! Trust me we don't have a big problem here with LGBT members running around trying to recruit the other team… but, we do have our fare share of "fruit loops" and "LB's" (loony bins!) who mostly just talk on their cellphones while driving Mercedes and huge SUV's and walk into walls on The Avenue because they are texting while walking!


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There is a concept in geometry known as the "centroid" of a triangle. This is the point at which the lines joining the corners of a triangle and the midpoints of the opposite sides meet. If one were to balance the triangle on the tip of a pencil, it would balance at the centroid, which is actually the center of gravity for the triangle. I found myself thinking of this concept these past few weeks as I was bombarded by political ads on TV and the radio. It seems that for a few weeks, every four years, Ohio is the center of attention of the political landscape for our country.
These last few months have been ones in which those of us in Ohio have been bombarded by political advertisement and by phone calls. This has been so intense that we have, unconsciously, adjusted our behavior to help us survive in this environment. We are careful to screen calls based on caller ID, and some people hang up quickly if the caller does not identify themselves immediately, as they assume that the call is of a political nature. I quickly erase many political messages that show up on my various e-mail accounts, and I even received a phone call a few nights ago from someone from the West coast asking me to volunteer between now and Election Day. I politely declined, saying that my husband would be volunteering, but that I had responsibilities as a mother that would prevent me from joining him right now.
This made me wonder what responsibility as a mother is more important than assuring my daughter grows up in a country that reflects my values. Could buying groceries and paying bills and making sure that her homework is done really be more important than helping to influence the future of our country? Still, the thought of adding one more thing to my list of things to do right now was just overwhelming. I wonder how my readers manage to balance their duties as parents and their desire to participate in civic engagement, all while fulfilling their duties in higher education. Is anyone able to manage to do all three at the same time? I see myself as drawing my daughter into the political arena as she grows older, but for now, that is not something that I can do, and certainly not something I can do effectively.
This election cycle has been one in which the entire country has been watching Ohio closely. With 18 electoral votes in play, and no clear winner for the presidential race, most political commentators assure us that whoever wins the election will need to win Ohio. We have therefore seen candidates and their workers crossing our state on a daily basis. Indeed, one news source said that one of the candidates might as well just move to Ohio. It is not that we don't like all of this attention. However, I kind of feel used, as no one pretends that Ohio will draw just as much attention after the election as it does now. I suspect I will feel like a dumped lover on November 7th.
I have been encouraging my students to register and vote, being careful to say "I don't care who you vote for, just get out and vote." So far, it looks like most of them are planning on voting, or have done so already (in Ohio, we have been able to vote for a few weeks.) However, I still cringe when I hear about the percentage of eligible voters who actually vote in elections, and therefore want to remind all of my readers, both in and out of Ohio, to vote. I know you probably don't need reminding, but just in case you do, PLEASE go out and vote on Tuesday. My daughter and her peers are counting on you!
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Cakes à la Citrouille et aux Noix (Pumpkin & Walnut Loaves) Recipe
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Cakes à la Citrouille et aux Noix (Pumpkin & Walnut Loaves) Notes
This fall-inspired, home-kitchen-friendly amuse-bouche comes from Chef Jean-François Martin, who hosts cooking vacations in southwest France.
- 500 grams peeled and cubed raw pumpkin
- 50 grams butter
- 75 grams butter
- 210 grams flour
- 4 grams French Four & More
- 200 grams egg (4-5 eggs)
- 100 grams turbinado sugar
- 100 grams chopped walnuts
- 12 walnut halves
Serves / Yields
Preparation Instructions
Pumpkin Puree: In a sauce pan, melt butter and add cubed pumpkin flesh. Cook on medium-low heat, covered, stirring regularly until a puree is obtained (about 25 minutes).
Batter: Preheat oven to 355F. Melt the butter. In a bowl, sift all dry ingredients together. In another large bowl whisk eggs and sugar until creamy. Add cooled melted butter and pumpkin puree. Add dry ingredients and mix until combined. Delicately fold in the chopped walnuts. Pour the mixture in to 12 buttered or non-stick individual loaf pans. Top each loaf with a walnut half. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack.
Helpful Hints
For a savory version, place a 1/2-inch cube of Roquefort (or your favorite blue cheese) in the center of each loaf before baking.
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SIKESTON - Meredith Dewitt, a resident of Sikeston, was promoted to senior sales coordinator in January.
Joining the DeWitt team in January 1998 as a customer service representative. Then after increasing her knowledge of the products became senior sales coordinator.
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Boyer can be reached at Area Properties Real Estate, 780 N. Main St. in Sikeston. The office number is 471-1140.


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