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The Public Forum / What is wrong with America?
« on: September 04, 2009, 09:50:07 pm »
Well I went out to take some pictures of chelsea today, I was board, it was a nice night and I wanted to get some fresh air. So I went around and took a bunch.

I got some of my house, my street, the MWRA, the T, the tobin birgde, my doctors office, the grocery stoor, and I tried to take a picture of my old school...

Someone called the cops and I was stoped about two blocks away, apperently they thought I was taking pictures of kids... after I calmy explained what really happend and showed the police my pictures, and appologized for causing a mistunderstanding... (turns out they know my dad) they sent me happily on my way...

However, I'm enraged, and nauseous. I'm not upset about being stopped, or even the fact that I was accused of something so absurd. The reason I am upset is that I live in a world where you can't take a picture of your old school without causing a panic. Society is beset by perverts and parents are afraid. Just today I heard of some scum bag who exposed himself to some young girls in Arlington. This is the kind of world we live in... and I honestly don't know if anything can be done about it. But I feel like somehow, someway things need to change because this just isn't right.

I'll post my pictures later on, I had a "welcome to Chelsea" thread planned, but I'm not really up to posting it right now... this whole thing made me feel sick.

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Local News / Massachusetts gubernatorial race 2010
« on: August 28, 2009, 09:28:41 am »
So far is incumbent democrat Deval Patrick vs republicans Charlie Baker and Christy Mihos

http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov3homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov3

http://charliebaker2010.com/

http://www.christy2010.com/pages/policies.cfm

I intend to question all candidates directly to challenged their stances on issues that I feel they have the wrong position on, and I will post any responses I may get. In addition I will follow the campaign and post updates, including who I intend to vote for when I have decided.

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The Public Forum / Haircut help
« on: August 27, 2009, 04:34:21 pm »
Should I go back to my old haircut?

My old cut



My current cut


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Global / Senator Edward M. Kennedy died today.
« on: August 26, 2009, 09:19:51 pm »
Now reasonable people can disagree on the legacy of the man. But he was a well liked successful politician who served the people of Massachusetts for decades and his continuous reelection implies a deep sense of satisfaction from his service to the state.

A service will be held Saturday in mission hill, President Barack Obama is going to give the eulogy.

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The Mud pile / Obama, petrodollars, and Soros?
« on: August 26, 2009, 09:15:46 pm »
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/18/good-news-obama-backs-off-shore-drilling/

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Good news: Obama backs off-shore drilling! Update: A Soros connection?


This should be good news for the Drill Here, Drill Now contingent, right?  The Obama administration has committed $2 billion in loans to exploit offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum.  Despite the White House pursuit of a cap-and-trade scheme to limit the use of fossil fuels, the new field could help bring lower energy prices, and their support of this exploration of American resources shows their flexibility on energy policy

Wait — did I say American resources?  That’s true, but only in the South American sense http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html (via Gateway Pundit): http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/team-obama-funds-oil-drilling-project.html


    The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.

    The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a “preliminary commitment” letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas. …

    But it still doesn’t allow the U.S. to explore in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields, which are set to make Brazil a leading oil exporter. Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won’t allow at home.

This seems odd in several ways.  For this particular administration to offer billions in loans to a foreign oil company makes a mockery of a number of Obama talking points.  First, why does Petrobas need loan guarantees to pursue its exploration?  As the WSJ notes, it is a very large corporation, which should have the resources to get to the oil on its own.  Obama, who has ripped American corporations for their supposed subsidies in American tax policy, now wants to use an empty Treasury to give cash to a Brazilian oil company.

Next, Obama keeps insisting that we cut back on our use of fossil fuels.  He and his allies in Congress have blocked exploration of American oil fields off both shores for decades, and Obama insists that we would only keep enabling our oil addiction if we started drilling off of our own coasts.  Yet he has no trouble committing $2,000,000,000 of our money for Brazil to drill off its own coast.

Here’s a proposal: Let American companies do what Obama is paying Brazilian companies to do — drill offshore.  We won’t have to pay them money or float them any loans to do it, either.  In fact, we will make money off of the leases, while the effort creates hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs in the US, creating more tax revenue rather than emptying out the Treasury.

Update: Who else besides Obama has taken an interest in Petrobras?  Hmmmmmm: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a.V5sgGzdsQY

    His New York-based hedge-fund firm, Soros Fund Management LLC, sold 22 million U.S.-listed common shares of Petrobras, as the Brazilian oil company is known, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Soros bought 5.8 million of the company’s U.S.-traded preferred shares.

    Soros is taking advantage of the spread between the two types of U.S.-listed Petrobras shares, said Luis Maizel, president of LM Capital Group LLC, which manages about $4 billion. The common shares were 21 percent more expensive than preferred today, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. …

    Petrobras preferred shares have also a 10 percent additional dividend, said William Landers, a senior portfolio manager for Latin America at Blackrock Inc.

    “Given that there will most likely never be a change in control in the company, I see no reason to pay a higher price for the common shares.” Brazil’s government controls Petrobras and has a majority stake of voting shares.

This story is from last Friday.  Is it a coincidence that Obama backer George Soros repositioned himself in Petrobras to get dividends just a few days before Obama committed $2 billion in loans and guarantees for Petrobras’ offshore operations?   Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Now, I have some doubts about the credibility of all this info... but its plausible enough to beg the question, who's pulling the strings here?

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The Public Forum / Giuliano's through out the ages.
« on: August 11, 2009, 09:42:15 pm »
Gaius Iulius Caesar



Flavius Claudius Julianus



Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici



Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici



Salvatore Giuliano


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Meet the staff / My IM info
« on: August 07, 2009, 10:43:11 pm »
YIM, giuliano_taverna

AIM, GiulianoTaverna

Note, if I don't know you, make an introduction and explain why you felt the need to IM me, instead of posting in the welcome forum. This is primarily for people who already know me, so they don't have to ask whether or not I have a given IM service, (has happened recently)

I also have MSN IM, but you'd have to ask, because I don't want to give out my email.

Spammers will be blocked and reported, don't waste both our time.

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Essays / Caesar Tyrant, or Savior?
« on: August 07, 2009, 09:29:26 pm »
Gaius Iulius Caesar is one of the most controversial figures in History. Common lore holds that Caesar was a tyrant; the first emperor in a civilization that went from a noble republic to a vicious empire. However one must remember that modern interpretations have been dyed by centuries of political bias and misinformation. Just as Rome has been unfairly reviled by history, so too has Caesar, the quintessential roman been unfairly treated by the fickle minds of the populous. So was Caesar a tyrant or a savior?
 
First off, what is a tyrant? Modern history has offered innumerable examples of tyranny, I think however a suitable example can be found in the person of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler exemplifies the tyrant, he was brutal, power-hungry, mentally unstable, and completely and irrevocably evil. He, (Hitler) stared a war that ruined whole swaths of the world, brought chaos and misery to his homeland, and his neighbors. Hitler murdered untold innocents for his own twisted reasons. Furthermore Hitler completely abolished representative government and ruled with an iron fist, persecuting anyone who would speak against him. Hitler was tyranny personified.
 
What is a savior? Again we have many examples to chose from, but I have elected to go with a figure dear to all Americans, George Washington. George Washington exemplifies all the qualities of a just leader. George Washington was only brutal when he needed to be, sought glory but not at the expense of his virtue and that of his country. He, (Washington) was of sane and sound mind, and can be generally regarded as having a good character. He, (Washington) wagged a war for the cause of his people, which established a nation that would one day become the sole global superpower. He, (Washington) brought destruction only to those who were against him, and brought peace and prosperity to all his allies, (except the French.) Washington was responsible for deaths, as is any leader, but those who died, (ether by the hand of Washington of on the order of Washington), died for the cause of liberty and because of their attacks on the senate and the people of the united colonies. Furthermore Washington completely abolished non representative government and ruled only by virtue of the will of the people and of the senate, which represents the people. He persecuted anyone who would put at risk the safety of the nation and the freedoms which it represented, protecting the ability of all citizens to speak their mind, even if it was in rebuke of him. Washington was Savior personified, the polar opposite of Hitler.
 
Now what is Caesar? To grapple this we must first know the man. Born Gaius Iulius Caesar on July 13, 100BC into the patrician family Iulia, which according to legend descended from Iulius son of Aeneas the Trojan hero, who was himself the son of Venus the god of love. This noble roman of supposedly divine blood, found his family on hard times. Overshadowed by more prominent families, the gens Iulia was an obscure patrician family in a republic on the decline.
 
The republic was in tumult, when Caesar was just 9 years old the social war broke out when the allied states of Italy demanded full Roman citizenship and attempted to seize it by force. The senate was already at this time divided between the Optimates and the Populares, the premiere generals, (both related to Caesar either by marriage or blood) were on separate camps.
 
Gaius Marius, the uncle of Caesar was a Populares, meaning in favor of the people, the popularizes advocated empowering the plebian class and extending roman citizenship to all of Rome's people, first among them the allied Italians, who were the most loyal and culturally assimilated people in the empire. They also were against slavery as it took the jobs of the plebes and attempted to instate a form of welfare, called the grain dole.
 
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the future husband of Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus, mother of Pompeia, second wife of Julius Caesar, was an Optimate meaning “The best of men” or “The good men” were a conservative faction that advocated limiting public assembly and extending the powers of the senate. They often worried that allowing the people to have too much power would enable a general to march on Rome and be made a new king, which was a self fulfilling prophecy.
 
After the social war was concluded, which resulted in bloody reprisals for the revolting tribes and a new law proposed by Lucius Iulius Caesar the 3rd. The Lex Iulia which ordered full roman citizenship to all Latin and Italian communities who had not participated in the war against Rome.
 
Mithridates VI of Pontus threatened to launch a massive invasion of Roman provinces in Asia minor. The two victorious generals, (and in-laws) Gaius Marius and Luscious Cornelius Sulla both competed for prominence in the war. At first Sulla was given command, but as soon as he had left the city it was revoked and given to Marius, Sulla then marched on Rome and sent Marius into exile. Marius responded by putting together a makeshift army of his Populare supporters and seizing Rome while Sulla was on campaign, he then declared Sulla an enemy of the state, he died in early in 86 BC but his supporters remained in power. After Sulla defeated Mithridates, he quickly moved to defeat the Populare faction. He reclaimed Rome, exhumed the body of Marius and threw it into the Tiber river. He, (Sulla) was named dictator for life and handed out bloody reprisals against his political opponents, Caesar being the nephew of Marius was stripped of his inheritance, priesthoods, and forced into hiding.
 
This propelled Caesar to join the army, it also affirmed his loyalties to the Populare faction which would eventually motivate him to overthrow the increasingly corrupt and tyrannical senate. Caesar rose through the ranks, growing in popularity, and influence.
 
He would soon become embroiled in the conflict that would secure his reputation as one of histories greatest generals, the Gallic war. In the Commentarii de Bello Gallico Caesar give a first hand account of all the details of his conquest and denotes considerable detail, to both the political and cultural realities of Gaul, and how he used these factors to ensure victory.
 
In his war, he, (Caesar) demonstrates his honestly and political tact time and time again, his dealing with the Aeduian Divitiacus and his brother Dumnorix are a perfect example of this, the former was a loyal allies and the later was conspiring to unite the whole of Gaul in revolt against Caesar. In passages 1:16-1:18 of the Gallic war, Caesar discovers this fact and deals with it, without damaging his alliance to the Aedui or putting the war at risk. He also affirms his motives with fair dealings and generous peace terms, in passages 1:27-1:30 he send the Helvetii back to their territory, thus preserving the status quo in favor of Rome and of the Gaul's excluding the Helvetii, who neither gained nor lost anything, except the ability to wage war.
 
He, (Caesar) won great renown in Gaul and marched his army back to Rome. fearing his growing influence, and sensing that Caesar intended to use his influence, (and his army) to force his Populare reforms, they, (certain influential men in the senate) ordered him to disband his army and end his consulship early, technically illegal seeing as how both the Tribunes of the Plebes and most of the senate had ruled in favor of Caesar. Roman politics it must be said are bloody. In all likelihood Caesar if he had complied with the senate's request would have been murdered on his return to Rome. Caesar sensing the danger wrote that he would disband his army, if Pompey, (another roman general which the senate had given command of an army to defend against Caesar) would disband his. The senate, (acting in such as way as to confirm the idea that they had no intention of letting Caesar live) refused. Caesar marched on Rome, knowing full well the populous and most of the senate and all of the army, (excluding the men under Pompey) were in favor of him and thus he had only to march to his prize.
 
Caesar marched on Rome, declared Pompey an enemy of the state and quickly moved to secure his flank against Pompey's supporters in Spain, before following him to Greece were he had assembled an army. After some initial defeats, Caesar decisively defeated Pompey, and then pursued him to Egypt, (were he was assassinated on the order of the Macedonian Pharaoh, Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator.) After the civil war had ended, Caesar was haled by the people in a triumph. He, (Caesar) was named dictator for life, and began to institute some of his reforms, for one he invented the Julian Calendar, (which is almost exactly the same as the modern calendar we use today), he increased the number of members in the senate from 600-900, mostly new senators were from provinces and not from Rome, thus bringing in new ideas and breaking some of the elitism that had plagued the senate. Caesar also refined roman law, and stared a colonization effort to spread roman culture and to reward his legions in retirement. He, (Caesar) was turning Rome from a city state into a modern nation. In Plutarch, life of Caesar, he, (Plutarch a Greek author and statesmen) says the following.
 
"Caesar carried out his reforms in the traditional manner, in the centuriate and tribal assemblies, the senate and through edicts. He rarely tampered with the traditions of the Republic; only in his concepts of citizenship and the provinces did his visionary genius truly seem to appear.
Despite this moderation, people were more and more beginning to speak of Caesar the Tyrant or Caesar the King, though no grounds for such thoughts were visible in his reforms." Plutarch
 
Unfortunately one of Caesars mistakes was being too lenient with his enemies, unlike Sulla he did not have his enemies killed and gave them amnesty, he was assassinated by conspirators, (the same men he spared) on march 15, 44 BC.
 
In later years his heir and nephew, Gaius Octavian would defeat all of Caesar former opponent's and all pretenders to his legacy, and be proclaimed Caesar Augustus. He, (Augustus) would institute Caesar remaining reforms, rebuild the forum and a great portion of the city, in his own words "I found Rome a city of brick, and left it a City of marble." He established order and ushered in the golden age of the Roman empire starting the famed Pax Romana that lasted Centuries.
 
In all his life Caesar demonstrates two things, the first was talent that was quite possibly only exceeded my his ambition. The second was that he was a visionary who growing up in a corrupt and chaotic republic, saw that reforms had to be enforced if Rome was to survive and thrive. His legacy is the roman empire, which was born with the reign of Augustus in the year 27 BC and lasted until 1453 when Constantinople, (Nova Roma) the new imperial capital built on order of emperor Constantine the Great, fell to the Ottoman Turks. So ultimately we must judge, who was Caesar more like? Adolf Hitler, (the tyrant) or Gorge Washington, (the savior?)
 
Caesar was brutal, but not when unnecessary, Caesar was ambitious, but not in such a way as to compromise his beliefs, virtues, and those of the senate, (excluding the corrupt element.) Caesar was sane, as he acted with calculated reason in everything he did. Caesar had many good notions, (the rites of the people, the virtues of the republic, and the importance of order) so he was not evil. Furthermore he, (Caesar) did not actually attack any nation. Caesar was drawn into the Gallic war to defend his allies against attack, and he was forced into the civil war to defend his life and end corruption. In his wake he left the seeds of order and reform that would cement his legacy, (at least in roman eyes) as the savior of the republic and a living god. Indeed after his death the senate which was also the governing body of the roman religion as well as the state, voted to deify Caesar as a god, (the pagan concept of deification being closer to the modern concept of sainthood rather than signifying omnipotence.) So if the Romans the people who knew Caesar and lived with him, thought we was a hero, a god, and a savior. Who are we, more than 2000 years after his death, to judge him an unworthy tyrant?
 
Caesar was not a tyrant, his impact on Rome was beneficial, and through Rome, the western world as a whole. We can look at Caesar as an example of how far one man can go, if he has ambition, discipline, and the vision to shape history; and ultimately how even the greatest among us can fall before our time. I my find fault with some of the things that Caesar did; but of the man himself, I am not ashamed to express ungrudging admiration.

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Right wing / Tax protesters vs Acorn rent-a-mob
« on: August 07, 2009, 09:45:25 am »
The condescending propaganda coming from the sneering liberal partisans on MSLSD has done its best to paint the tea parties as A. AstroTurf, and B. right wing extremism.

Ironic that they would use the term AstroTurf to describe a grass roots movement of opposition when they are as we speak paying rentamobs to crash these protests. I suppose they would know about AstroTurf since they are the principle patrons of rentamobs, unions, and community agitators.

Check out the clip of the union thugs blocking the camera and attacking the protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxaGfClPws&feature=player_profilepage

Yeah we're the nazi's... even though Obama's sicking his brown shirts on us.

And of course the Acorn rentamob have been crashing the tea parties.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10053

http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php?pageId=94297

Expect the liberal media to continue their hyperbolic attacks on any form of dissent.

Pelosi says there were nazi symbols at the tax protests...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGRUx2b0ArM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fibloga.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fpelosi-claims-tea-party-protestors-are.html&feature=player_embedded

lets take a look at these so called Nazi symbols







yeah... I'm sure they were trying to glorify Hitler... right...

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Third party forum / Whigs
« on: August 04, 2009, 04:51:22 pm »
As a card carrying Member of the Modern whig party, I would like to post the following links, and since its my forum, I'm sure as hell going to ;D

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Please subscribe to our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ModernWhigParty

And oh yes, join Americas fastest growing third party.

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A moderate party for the rest of us, who have grown sick and tired of democrats and republicans.

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Tabloids / “The Sheriff at the Gates: A Farce in Three Acts’’
« on: August 04, 2009, 02:37:31 pm »
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Act One

(A street in Cambridgeham. Most Exalted University Professor HENRY LOUIS GATES, freshly returned from the Land of the Asian Khan, is rattling the door of his keep. Enter a WENCH.)

WENCH: Alarum! Alarum! A thief is about!

GATES: Peace, ye fat guts!

(Enter SHERIFF CROWLEY)

CROWLEY: Stay, now! Who disturbs our peaceful shire?

GATES: I disturb no man. My key unlocketh not.

CROWLEY: Forsooth, thou breakest and enterest.

GATES (entering his castle): I break not for witless constables. Begone!

CROWLEY: Back speaks no man to the Sheriff; I arrest thee!

GATES: Knowest thou whom I am? That I am coy with the Daily Beastmistress, Milady Tina? That I am most down with Lady Oprah, the Queen of afternoon tele-dalliances? That I am sworn liege to Dr. Faust, of whom Marlowe wrote? That I unravelest literary mysteries at the Greatest University Known to Man?

CROWLEY: Of Tufts you speak? Even so, thou art under arrest.

GATES: Thou detaineth me because I am a Moor!

CROWLEY: Some of my best friends are Moors. Your pleas availeth not.

GATES: You shall rue the day you crost my threshold.

CROWLEY: Thou dost protest too much. (Escorts the handcuffed GATES offstage.)

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Act Two

(Inside the faraway White Palace, where KING BARACK and his faithful DUKE AXELROD confer in an egg-shaped hall.)

AXELROD: The people are restless, sire.

BARACK: Aye, I offereth free poultices and physic to every man, woman, and child, but they spurn my generosity.

AXELROD: Their minds are elsewhere, at the ocean strand, or the playing fields of Fen.

BARACK: Yet I promise them health and long life. With but small increases in the annual tithes.

AXELROD: The people need distraction, my lord.

BARACK: A conflagration perhaps? My Israelite allies yearn to strike Nineveh. . .

AXELROD: Nay, the peasants tire of foreign entanglements. Forget not the disastrous reign of the House of Bush. (A page enters, and hands AXELROD a scroll.) What here? A saucy tale from Cambridgeham. The Sheriff has arrested a Moor for crimes unbefitting a gentleman.

BARACK: Stupid sheriffs arrest many Moors.

AXELROD: Perhaps in the Chicagoland of our youthful acquaintance, my lord. Not so many in Cambridgeham. ’Tis a most gentil and parfit place.

BARACK: Who is the man, and what is his crime?

AXELROD: ’Tis the Most Exalted University tutor Gates. Back has he spoken to the Sheriff, unbidden.

BARACK: Gates? I know this man. We have supped together on the enchanted Isle of Martha’s Vineland. I have seen him with Lady Oprah, prating about his ancestry.

AXELROD: Perhaps a photo op, my lord? We invite Gates and the Sheriff here, quaff ale in the summer heat, and proclaim peace and brotherhood among all men.

BARACK: And savor tobacco from the Duke of Marlboro?

AXELROD: Not with the people watching, sire. (Turns to page) Summon them here!

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Act Three

(In the garden of the White Palace, GATES, BARACK and CROWLEY are sipping ale, joined by the FOOL.)

FOOL: What? No beer nuts?

BARACK: Silence, Fool! Or back to Delaware with you.

FOOL (sniffing his glass, suspiciously): What beer is this? I smell the filth of Antwerp and Bruges.

BARACK: ’Tis our nation’s finest, lately of St. Louis, now in foreign hands.

FOOL (Aside): ’Tis a light man that drinks a light beer.

BARACK: Enough prattle! We gather to share ale, and indulge in manly talk of harmony among our tribes.

FOOL: This is no manly talk. Women speak of harmony and quilt-making. Men speak of Signors Ortiz and Ramirez, and the forbidden magic elixirs of the Fen.

BARACK: Enough, Fool! (To GATES and CROWLEY) Now let us raise our cups and swear eternal friendship.

GATES (lifting his glass): I hail the Sheriff and the worthy constabulary! But for them, my name would not have spread beyond our shores, even to the Indes, Cochin, and beyond.

CROWLEY (toasting): I hail the learned tutor! That his castle door may henceforth spring open at his touch, and his neighbors mind their own knitting.

BARACK: All hail the new era of hope and change, when Moor and Sheriff like buds are hugging.

FOOL (belching, loudly): Another round, perhaps? We have only started chugging . . .

(Exit ALL, laughing.)

source, http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/08/04/a_tale_told_by_an_idiot/?s_campaign=8315

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The Public Forum / We're all brown now
« on: July 30, 2009, 12:36:43 pm »
well I'm working on it, check out the tan.


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New Delhi, July 24 (ANI): Farmers in the drought-stricken Bihar, an eastern Indian state, have asked their unmarried daughters to embarrass the weather gods into bringing the badly-needed monsoon rains by plowing the fields in the buff.

According to witnesses, with a little help from elderly female relatives, the **** girls plowed the fields and after sunset, chanted ancient hymns to invoke the gods, reports the China Daily.

“They (villagers) believe their acts would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains,” Upendra Kumar, a village council official, said from Bihar’s remote Banke Bazaar town.

“This is the most trusted social custom in the area and the villagers have vowed to continue this practice until it rains very heavily,” he added. (ANI)

source, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/naked-unmarried-indian-girls-plow-fields-to-embarrass-gods-to-bring-rains_100222286.html

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Violence between indigenous people and the Peruvian government

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47242

http://www.smh.com.au/world/31-die-as-peru-native-protests-turn-violent-20090607-bzv3.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vvxxRrc6Jg

This is sick! Their government is seizing native land, and giving it to oil companies who then hire the natives for virtually nothing since they aren't covered by workers rights laws, and then destroy their ability to grow crops by polluting the environment.

Their was a confrontation recently, natives armed with spears, bows, and a few token guns took on the police to defend their land. a few cops died, an unknown number of natives died.

This whole situation is beyond perverse. The leaders of these countries should be internationally condemned, and trade should be cut off if this isn't stopped. The property and land of people shouldn't be stolen, it has to be purchased, and you can't impose absurdly low standards of working conditions on people, there should adequate compensation for services rendered.

This is just another example of the sick crap that goes on in the parts of the world most people don't pay attention to.

The WTO needs to establish laws protecting workers from hazardous conditions, and exploitation, and protecting the environment from contamination. Free trade can't exist without a level playing field, all that will happen is more situations like this will occur, putting the entire system at risk, and destroying lives.

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