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“Morsi anal fucked Manning over a fat bong of hashish.” ~ FanFic
Hi, I’m a kangaroo and I’ve been hanging out at the Bradley Manning trial since day one. Maybe you noticed me standing between Lind and the ever-contorting face of Staff Sergeant George. Anyway, I hear that a lot of you out there — yes, I’m talking about you, Uncle Jimbo, Barack Hussein Obama, Patrick Leahy — a lot of you are bent on executing this guy, or throwing away the key. Let me do a little fishing around in my pouch up front because I’ve got something hiding in here for you all. Let me see, where is that… Keys? No. BlackBerry? Oh God no — oh, wait, here it is. It’s my middle claw! There we go.
Bradley Manning wants to run for office when he gets out, and as far as I’m concerned he should be the president the day he turns 35, or lower that oppressive age limit. This guy is Captain America, Sergeant Savage and white Jesus all rolled into one. He won’t be spending at least the next decade behind bars because our society is “just” or cares about national security or anything like that. He’ll be spending time behind bars because our government and the people it protects are cowards and liars. Cheats and thieves. Even Coombs, as he waxes Mark Antony-ously about how Manning’s jailers acted “honorably,” said in the same breath during his first public speech that they also acted “criminally.” Criminally honorable. Like terrorists. They’re criminals, get it, punishing a prisoner of conscience with balls. Lots of balls. Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies has three testicles. They couldn’t quite believe it. I’ve ducked down under the defense table a couple of times and I can assure you that Bradley Manning has four balls. Possibly seven. And they’re all leaking.
It’s mind-boggling to think that Bradley Manning has received the bizarre scrutiny he is under from the public, heck, even from the folks down at Firedoglake going on endlessly about how the private has broken the law. As if laws were inherently just (remember black vagrancy laws, bans on actually owning a telephone?) or mean anything in the scope of the hyper-real street and courtroom justice Bradley Manning’s actions have seen visited upon some of the most charismatic sociopaths on the face of God’s green earth. R.I.P. Andrew Breitbart. Especially with the benefit of hindsight, Bradley Manning’s actions are worthy of scrutiny only in a meaningless, deontological sense that giving up all this information is bad for its own sake, as opposed to the myriad benefits that the world has seen as a consequence of the leaks. Leaks about North African decadence probably helped cause one of the world’s richest ever individuals, daresay eccentrics, to be murdered by an angry mob after having been stabbed in the anus, in a bad way. If Egyptian Islamists have their way, Morsi will be able to exercise his own degree of tyrannical, socially regressive power over the people of his country. He’s so regressive, even the men will have to wear hijabs. But still, hey, taking down Mubarak is something. Morsi is still the better “other guy,” and that’s how most people vote, anyway: against someone, not for anyone.
“Morsi anal fucked Manning over a fat bong of hashish.” ~ FanFic
Oh, and all of you typical right-wing yee-haw evangelical militant types, even Benjamin Netanyahu is telling you to put down the strictnine and snakes long enough to notice that the Manning revelations actually show how the Saudis were chomping at the bit to get the United States into one of those famous Asian land wars. If you’re against Bradley Manning that’s like being in favor of four more Holocausts; or a contiguous, separate Palestinian state — which are the same thing, anyway.
Despite all of this gobbledygook about how Manning’s “motives and intentions” are being “stricken from the trial,” let’s face it: If he were some gungho Taliban supporter, Ashden Fein wouldn’t just be flashing Manning’s old Kuwaiti noose handiwork in the twink’s face to show us how ready he was to end it all; Fein would be yanking off that superstarched blazer and twisting it up like a towel in a locker room to make his own version in Manning’s face.
Is anyone really happy that, had Bradley Manning not done what he did, we would still be looking at an America where Hillary Clinton could violate serious international laws and call for the ability to monitor the private financial transactions and correspondences of ambassadors? Are we so cynical that we see our way to collective security through dishonesty? Is anyone upset about knowing that John McCain was selling C-130s to Moammar al-Gadhafi? Think that’s something we should have known before everyone started calling for a no-fly zone? If you’re in the military or in public service, how could you possibly be such a coward, such an utter sheep, such an utter tool as to not read the leaked cables? You do know the Taliban has them already, right? You do know that’s just your bosses trying to cover up how they’re screwing you over, right?
Does anyone remember the anguish of the years of the Iraq War when day after day citizens would awake to hear about more dead bodies coming back from Iraq, but the military, two presidents and everyone in the media summarily spitting in our collective faces by telling us the criminally insane lie that there was no available count ready of the dead Iraqis? They weren’t hiding that from you out of some concern for national security or your freedoms they were supposedly defending. They were hiding what Bradley Manning eventually revealed all along because they want you to think that some humans don’t matter, because they think you’re too busy squeezing them out to Kardashian, and because they don’t want you to call your congressman and tell him to get out of Iraq or else he’s complicit in mass murder. Oh, or that you’ll vote for the other candidate out of spite, even if he or she is in favor of the same thing. The homicidal maniacs at the highest echelons of western power all too eager to expand those land wars in Asia I was talking about in the name of women’s suffrage, rare-earth element acquisition, drug eradication, oil, whatever, they want Bradley Manning to get his what-for to distract you from the fact — the F-A-C-T — they want to keep body counts from you to make them rich. That’s it! Aren’t you mad? No? What the blue fuck is wrong with you? This was mass murder, and all of the beigist nihilists at The New York Times and PBS want you to think that Bradley Manning did this because he was upset about “don’t ask, don’t tell.” How can you possibly rob Manning’s acts of supreme righteousness of that dignity by saying that had he just felt like he was sexually attracted to the “right person,” he would have felt a grand sense of blind tribal loyalty to make him betray basic ethical fairness, Hillel’s axiom?
The Occupy movement — a natural happening after a bunch of middle-class Americans saw a similarity between their plight and that of a bunch of Cairo secular hipster intelligentsia — choked off the rent-seeking financial services, insurance and real estate markets by causing record numbers of Americans to move their assets out of the major I banks and into credit unions. Had those long-haired menaces not taken to the streets surely Wells Fargo and Bank of America would be charging $2 a month for free checking. Can people not see what a huge hassle that would have been?
This was the global change-up and shake up everyone wanted! Everyone hates Congress! The Afghanistan war is increasingly unpopular still! This was real democracy! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Christians, Jews, and Muslims have been completely butthurt about science for thousands of years — ever since they combined history and mythology like some kind of postmodern parody. Atheists, weeping and gnashing their teeth about how irrational this idiocy all is, are perhaps even more butthurt. So-called rational Atheists take the mythology even more literally than many Christians, and in some kind of more-rational-than-thou dissonance, struggle to disprove metaphorical stories as if that will bring sanity to the insane. The true christian, capable of the terrible task of extracting, assimilating, and relating to the archaic lessons out of these ancient traditions, must have a tendency towards atheism beyond that shown by this common type of Atheist.
The common Atheist talks about nature, and their MRI brain scans look just like a devoted Christian walking through the Pearly Gates of the local snake-handler den. It’s so crass to make nature into a transcendent man like God, but that was cutting-edge science thousands of years ago. People saw the stars go through their yearly cycles, recognized the underlying math, and it followed that some man was up there making rules and they should make like him. Now we know a bit more about these rules, and we know the truly pathetic scale of humankind. These rules are far beyond us, and although we’re immanent, we’re probably not created in the image of some megadude with too much time on his hands. Science won’t let us rule this possibility out yet, but it doesn’t seem like the most likely place to start with for creating relevant stories to help us understand this scary place where we don’t actually have a daddy handing us stone tablets with moral codes.
Who gives a shit if Jesus was real, made-up, or raped little boys? He’s only important as some kind of exemplary character in a morality play, and if you have to really believe he was a historic figure then you’ve got weak-ass faith that’s not worth half a shit and will only serve to turn you into some hollowed, hateful rulemonger like Sean Hannity. The same goes for Atheists who treat science in the same way. Sure, these are real rules of nature that are being revealed and refined, or at least that’s how the scientific method postures, but what kind of a hateful fuck goes around telling people how to behave based on the theory of evolution? “Yeah, we need to weed out those retards, gays, and Jews because we totally know exactly how evolution works,” said the fuck who escalated this debate to Godwin’s Law.
Now that I’ve God-Winned, I can move on to the meat. I ain’t even sayin’ that there’s some magic essence in Christian legends that must be distilled and updated to match science. Even then, common Atheists would scoff at these stories — “As if my life needs guidance from stories, I’ve got science!” Then, they’d settle into the couch and receive hours of “factual” news and “fictional” scifi miniseries only to call it a night after a quick orgasm. The common Atheism I’m describing here isn’t just a disbelief in God, but rather a lameass attitude which rejects all mystery. “We’ve got it figured out, we’re figuring it out, and we will figure it all out.” So, in one sense these kinds of Atheists are the best Christians. If you look at their attitude, it runs a perfect parallel. “My cosmogony is better than yours,” does not translate into more-rational-than-thou. The attitude is precisely the same insanity on masquerade.
Conversely, the good atheists are quite the same as the good christians. They’re atheists now, simply because they accept mystery. The christians are christians now because they explore their inner mysteries through helpful stories, no matter how archaic and outmoded. Again, but in a totally new sense, the atheists are the best christians. The bible is a gateway to mysteries for the atheist christian and not a cheat-sheet full of answers.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. – Speaking from the deck of his personal boat, Tea Party Candidate for President Grady Warren, who received an early 2011 endorsement from The Internet Chronicle , outlined a daring plan to fight big government. Through the instatement of “re-education camps” targeted at at-risk members of the youth population too ne’er-do-well to serve as janitors in their high schools, Mr. Warren’s plan will see a brighter future.
“That future is out there,” said Mr. Warren. “It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it. Our nation depends on it. The peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future for America tonight.”
The National Education Association, he explained on his fishing vessel, “Little Skippy,” is in fact a money-laundering criminal organization, a tyrannical behemoth serving as the iron fist of the virtually omnipotent teachers’ lobby. Over the course of President Obama’s first term public school teachers have seen their collective bargaining rights enhanced and expanded, and their nominal salaries rise to levels unseen since the close of World War II. U.S. schools currently pay teachers exorbitantly, with compensation and pensions far higher than in any other industrialized nation.
Speaking in a comfortable pair of shoes from a Madison, Wisconsin picket line February 17, 2011 President Obama expounded upon his own proto-fascist ideology: “The United States is the greatest nation on earth. Therefore as long as I am its president its teachers will receive no salary, no wage lower than any other nation’s.”
Mr. Warren’s visionary plan, endorsed by North Carolina State Professor Kamau Kambon and Democratic Strategist Melissa Harris-Perry, would pulverize the NEA’s unholy jackboot at the tarsals. The five-point Warren plan for Small-Government Education Success is simple:
Mr. Warren’s five-point plan, which Redditors have likened to the plot of “Bioshock Infinite,” undermined Mitt Romney’s southern strategy throughout the summer. Mississippi Republican voters, for instance, of whom a plurality are opposed to the legality of interracial marriage, were seduced by the Tea Party candidate’s smoother hair and moral fortitude. “We were worried when we heard Mr. Romney was wearing that blackface on Univision,” said Gloria Porter, 29, of Jackson. Her husband, Bobby Porter, his crossed arms moving abruptly between her and this reporter, said he was concerned that Mr. Romney was encouraging “race-mixing.”
As a consequence of the poll damage Anonymous candidate Grady Warren was doing in the South, Mr. Romney released four attack ads that targeted Mr. Warren’s plan to entice legally present ethnic minorities into sanctuary cities. Bill Murphy, social media director for the Romney campaign who has previously warned Americans about the oncoming black-on-white race war, told The Washington Times September 22 that Mr. Warren’s plan to actually offer cash assistance to “incent the lowest rungs of the 47 percent rabble” was barely an improvement on President Obama’s own wealth redistribution schemes. Added Mr. Murphy, “Americans aren’t fooled by the Warren bait-and-switch of offering security while encumbering job creators with these cash allowances, which are extracted through force. Why should Americans have to pay the race pimps and class warriors to go away?”
In April 2011 Grady Warren received The Internet Chronicle’s endorsement after he made clear that America’s wealthiest are not only powerfully independent and self-sustaining but also victims of everyone else.
President Barack Hussein Obama II, whom the ivory tower elites have designated to glide to victory on the backs of the Houston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, may be able to rig enough electronic voting machines in Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania. But Real America will know that Mitt Romney was the real winner.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Monday it is possible that Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney may very well win the popular vote, as Al Gore did in 2000, while ultimately losing the electoral vote. “Abercrombie & Fitch clothiers throughout the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area,” he said, “are bracing for hordes of Caucasian looters and rioters.” Korean American proprietors of free-standing Disney Stores are taking special precautions, knowing that European Americans may prove not only zealous, but also sufficiently well-armed, to attempt to make off with golden era anti-Semitic merchandise from the “Disney Vault.”
After an embarrassingly forced visit to a soup kitchen, Paul Ryan failed to accrue more votes for himself and aspiring war criminal Mitt Romney.
On his way out, Ryan encountered a free black man. Ryan then demanded the Uncle Tom’s name, but refused to stop and talk with him.
Bill Murray is also known for “crashing parties” by showing up to wash random homeowners’ dishes, but Paul Ryan has found that a demeaning tone, paired with not actually washing any dishes, goes over just as well as he doesn’t care that day about anything going on around him.
Similar to what?
Ryan walks away while the man was still talking to him.
Increasingly, all people are being turned into objects. This is more than a gender issue. This is the death of the Subject. Nobody has truly come to grips with the horrible alienation of Social Media. On r/creepshots, people have entered a sick feedback loop that we all know ends with ragdoll porn and sex doll necrorape fantasy. Sure it’s legal, but so is investigating the identities of the people who moderate it.
“What kind of person would want to sit around and moderate Reddit all day?” ~ Viciously Raped Sex Doll
Adrian Chen is a dickhead who constantly steals his ideas from Chronicle.SU, and Gawker is a piece-of-shit tabloid, but Violentacrez, a person who didn’t even take elementary precautions to protect his identity, cannot be doxed. Just because he’s your friend and he’s being attacked by a tabloid doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice the freedom of speech.
In this day and age it’s so common for meaning to be inverted by a small group of people who control media. Just look at the way Christians claim that abortion is an affront to religious freedom. Censoring Gawker in the name of freedom of speech is the same thing. Your bff, Violentacrez, might have been unfairly treated by someone trolling for tabloid hits, but is the answer really abusing your power to censor an entire media outlet? Why’d you even bother with the SOPA blackout?
I’ve had my run-ins with Reddit Moderators in the past. In fact, Chronicle.SU is banned from r/politics. By banning Gawker, a small group of people have ONCE AGAIN proven they are merciless tyrants.
Self-appointed, self-medicating “leader of Anonymous” Barrett Brown was heard struggling against intruders Wednesday, hump day, September 12. Sources confirmed Thursday morning Brown is sitting in a Dallas jail.
Brown’s credibility came under scrutiny after Kilgore Trout tricked Brown into believing he was actually talking to Amber Lyon, a dipshit CNN correspondent. Brown subsequently accused Trout via Twitter of having sex with his girlfriend marking a gradual, but distinct dissolution of sanity and reason which ultimately led Brown to make threats against FBI agents, presumably prompting the raid.
Wednesday’s raid signifies the last nail in the crystal coffin of Brown’s otherwise transient career. Brown was recently heard ranting against all things in a telephone call with Topiary, the actual leader of anonymous. Brown has also appeared in videos making delusional claims provoked by unseen sources of paranoia.
Barrett Brown is the glorified blogger who once belonged to the underground hacker group Anonymous and, for a while, got to decide who gets to join anonymous and who does not. Chronicle.su, he said, is not anonymous, like himself, Barrett Brown – or similarly, Sabu.
Brown, below, threatens the FBI with an ultimatum
Brown describes the purpose of Project PM to be “wiping out this fucking government” and “certain media publications” (chronicle.su maybe? We definitely know he means the NY Times)
A SAVAGE JOURNEY INTO THE FLACCID HEART OF STATE LEVEL POLITICS
RICHMOND, VA. - Behind U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb meandered a mentally challenged woman, middle aged and extremely happy to see him. Happy just to be there.
Mr. Webb talked to some of his more able-minded and eager supporters with his back turned to the woman and myself, a member of the press. “There’s more where this came from,” said a glassy eyed supporter as he waved a check around over his head.
Another follower sporting a Webb T-shirt incessantly tapped the candidate, alerting him to the bizarre woman Webb actively avoided. She had begun calling out for him, by name, over the rabble. She became, by this point in the story, too difficult to ignore.
On August 28, during the opening fanfare at Webb headquarters located at Radford Ave., a Wall Street Journal poll showed Webb in the lead, despite now obvious associations with the mentally handicapped, enjoying a 1.3 percent advantage continuing upward momentum after the primaries.
“Jim! Jim!” the woman moaned as her chin quivered in anticipation. She wanted more than his attention. The candidate initially avoided contact with her because of her custom t-shirt: a picture of Sen. George Allen with the screen-printed words “The Real Macaca” below his grinning face. She gestured to her shirt and persistently motioned to attract her hero. Eventually, Webb politely greeted her, and said he could make no comment on her shirt because “the press was nearby.”
The woman’s shirt referenced a controversial and widely analyzed incident which took place in Breaks, Va. on August 11. The Webb team posted video footage captured by a campaign volunteer, Shekar Sidharth. The resulting imbroglio caused Sen. Allen’s poll numbers to plummet dramatically. In front of a small crowd of supporters, he said right into Sidharth’s camera:
Because Sidharth is of Indian descent (and a lifelong Virginian), the speech fueled accusations that Allen was appealing to base Appalachian provincialism. After a slew of apologies, Allen claimed he made up the term “macaca”, and – while the word by some academic accounts is one French colonialists use to refer to ethnic Tunisian natives – Allen’s francophone and Tunisian-American mother said she had to look the term up in her dictionary, where she claimed not to find it. Webb maintained that Allen knew what the word meant and that its use offended him, because Webb has never heard bad words before.
Jim Webb himself holds the distinction of having produced and written the trite story behind “Rules of Engagement,” a 2000 film the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee called at the time “the most vicious anti-Arab racist film ever made by a major Hollywood studio.” Hollywood studios would not again meet its own precedent of cultural insensitivity until the 2008 release of Hurt Locker. Apparently forgetful, or — more likely — completely ignorant of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of hundreds of Native Americans (to name just one time and place), Webb said in a Sept. 17 “Meet The Press” debate, “African-Americans are the only ethnic group in this country that have suffered from deliberate discrimination, and– and exclusion by the government over generations.” He says that affirmative action programs originally had good intentions, but – when they support everyone except white people (especially poor white people, as Webb says) – they constitute “state-sponsored racism” equated with white Jim Crow laws.
Allen, on the other hand, opposes affirmative action unequivocally. In his youth, he had a penchant for the Confederacy, and as a delegate opposed a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, a view shared by the same U.S. government whose leaders wanted him assassinated.
Standing in the gravel parking lot of Barnes’ Manufacturing of Kenbridge, Va., I made meager acquaintance with Carol Watson, mayor of nearby Victoria. Soon, Allen’s extravagant campaign bus pulled up and his press secretary, Bill Bozin, with bleached, gelled hair and shiny black shoes, stepped out followed by none other than Allen himself. Senator Allen was a tall man with dark hair and a red face, presumably from drinking. He slouches slightly, presumably also from drinking. An impatient crowd gathered around the Barnes main office — the office was brown with vinyl siding about the size of a double wide trailer — when Allen appeared wearing cowboy boots, just like his hero, George Bush.
I stepped into Barnes’ office, who bored me with asinine accounts of business as usual in his lumber plant.
Allen asked if Barnes exported anything.
“Nope,” replied Barnes.
The senator wore a look of disappointment.
Allen asked him what he was dipping, as the two men pulled out identical tins of Copenhagen. He commented on how that stuff was grown locally. I looked down into my front shirt pocket to see if my package of Marlboro Lights sported a local manufacturer, but the Senator snatched them away. “Good product,” he said. “That’s made in Richmond.” With an assertive nod of the head, he then handed them back to me.
As I reflect on those blue moons, when I would, at times, pick half-smoked cigarette butts out of ashtrays to stave off panic attacks, dark realizations flooded my consciousness. UST, Inc., I recalled, the company that manufactures Copenhagen, is one of Allen’s largest campaign contributors.
During what’s known as the Homestead debate, Senator Allen once said, “The people [of Iraq], regardless if they’re Shiite, Sunni or Kurd, are grateful for America liberating their country.” But the answer Allen gave at that time alleged religious differences were dangerously fracturing Iraq’s national unity. “There will be some Sunnis who will not be grateful because everyone will get to have their say,” said Allen. Even if it’s the most ignorant shit you’ll ever have the chance to say, you’ll get to say it, unfortunately for Senator Allen Macaca.
When it came to Iraq, Webb could only refer me to a substantial amount of paperwork he said existed about the issue. As Allen insinuated that Sunni Muslims were suppressing fellow citizens, Webb said for a long time that it wasn’t our military’s business to fix the situation with occupation.
“We didn’t go into Iraq because of terrorism,” said Webb on “Meet The Press.” “We have terrorists in Iraq because we went in there.” During that program, the two candidates differ because Allen seemed to want long-term U.S. military bases in Iraq, while Webb sees those as irrelevant if Iraq does prove safe. If Webb meant what he said as true, one thing was certain: His son was serving in Iraq at the time.
The answers I got out of Jim Webb and George Allen regarding net neutrality outlined the quintessential differences between the two major parties. Allen said he wanted a “permanent prohibition” on “tax commissars” he believed makes online access a hassle through government Internet-regulation fees. “I don’t want people’s Internet bills to look like their phone bills,” he said, hinting at charges you might pay for going over your monthly phone minutes. But “if you legislate too much,” he added, “you will slow the growth.”
Jim Webb told me that he doesn’t want surfers to have to “pay all of those extra fees” that Internet service providers might attempt to charge others for special services. In short, George Allen thinks that government interference will mess up the speed of Internet growth, while Webb thinks it’s worth the time the Federal Communication Commission is putting into it now. The confessions of the latter align more closely with advocacy groups such as Save The Internet, which supports the FCC’s traditional definitions of net neutrality, but he did not volunteer the sources of the debate because he probably did not use any.
To name just one example, however, STI claims that sometime back in April, America Online was briefly blocking all customer emails that mentioned dearaol.com, a campaign opposing the company’s attempts to charge for the most reliable email services.
After the short Allen meet-and-greet, I hit the nearby streets. Stephanie Landry, employee of Kenbridge’s Moe’s Italian Restaurant said that the issues most important to her were abortion (against), gay marriage (against), illegal immigration, and guns.
“Where would you draw the line on guns, though?” I asked. “That is, between your run-of-the-mill shotgun and the nuclear bomb?”
“The nuclear bomb, I would draw that there,” said Landry with a smile, clearly avoiding my question.
Landry’s family inspires her views on immigration policy. “My Dad and I were talking the other day; a lot of the [working] Mexicans are sending that money out of Lunenberg County.” White people are more deserving of an income than nonwhites, I took her to mean at the time.
Down the block from Moe’s, I caught up with Lunenburg County resident Roberta Ricker inside a local library. She claimed that half of the workers in the county’s manufacturing plants were illegal immigrants. “Without Hispanics,” she said, “the manufacturers wouldn’t know what to do.” She was also worried about the progress of the No Child Left Behind Act. “Why be supportive [of the act] and then cut the money in the budget?” she wondered aloud. The Iraq War, she opined, is “unjustified” and “a drain on the economy.” As an educator to juvenile inmates, she also worried that the corrections system “isn’t working right.”
Later that day, I made my way back across the RVA expressway and to that rally. When I found a moment, I walked up to Jim Webb and asked him, “What is a terrorist?”
A long stare, and his pupils went small. His chest stuck out and he looked pissed. That long and intense stare felt somewhere between, “C’mon, you little treasonous punk – don’t insult this rally’s patriotism!” and “Dear God! Moral Decay has progressed so much that no one can tell the difference between good and evil.”
After a blank pause, he growled, “Why?”
“Well, we call a lot of people terrorists,” I said. “Some people call the United States terrorists. I was just wondering if you could give a transcendent definition.”
He replied that a terrorist is a “quasi-military person . . . who represents a cause and is not associated with a nation state.” It is my belief that his answer reveals a telling, if tacit, policy difference between his opponent and him. During the Homestead debate, Allen alone characterized Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. But because Hezbollah’s political leaders are elected, it does not strictly fit with Webb’s definition. To me, anyway, Hezbollah seems a lot like the Irish Republican Army used to be.
On illegal immigration, Webb told me, “Build a wall. Keep them out.”
The Democrats continued to rally that day, buying votes with free hot dogs, lemonade and goods brought out by volunteers. The crowd hissed when they heard Allen voted against the use of stem cells for scientific research.
One man became so spirited during the speech that he yelled out one or more of the Bush Administration’s actions was “bullshit”. Moments later, I caught up with him: Gary Agisin, an RVA native. I asked him about illegal immigration, and he told me, “We need more immigrants – it brings in more jobs.” Sure enough, he made a strange bedfellow with Webb.
In the crowd, I ran into State Senator Creigh Deeds, a man who just made an unsuccessful bid for State Attorney General, and started rambling hopelessly about legalizing marijuana. Then, my driver who accompanied me to the Allen event began to joke with Deeds about Allen’s Press Secretary’s high-maintenance fashion stylings. Deeds couldn’t resist teasing Allen: “He surrounds himself with gay men!”
The Human Rights Committee and Alliance For Marriage kindly urge your participation in the upcoming referendum on a state constitutional amendment banning homosexual marriages and unions.
Why? Why is chronicle.su this hateful black enterprise I can not even stand to look at anymore?
Seriously, I’m about to pull a Geo because there are just too many bad vibes around this hate hole. I’m sending up a distress flare because I don’t know what else to do anymore. I’m no longer funny, this website isn’t funny, we are just hurtful abusive people with no respect for dead children or their grieving families.
I used to think chronicle.su was a bottomless source of ironic lies but now I’m not so confident in that assertion. Sure, there are 35 people staring at DEAD LIL WAYNE at any given moment, but it’s not like they can read anyway or else they would already know he is “alive,” whatever you take that to mean . . . But I’m not talking about just trying to make the a sound for apple and pronouncing cat, but really reading – and comprehending – the world around them.
Literate individuals don’t fall for LIL WAYNE DEAD and park on the webpage all day, and spread it around without checking other sources. Okay, dying AIDS-infected Africans were crossing the Sahara to register their grievances at the metropolis internet cafe. So what chronicle.su has proven to me in the last nine months is worse than anything I could have ever imagined without performing this experiment for myself:
1. There are more stupid people than statistics could possibly account for, and yet I’m astounded by the numbers.
2. I am a toxin. If there’s anybody I can think of besides our last fourteen presidents who deserves brain cancer, it’s Lady GaGa for making anti-intellectualism appear sexy and appealing, and yet I am the one who made people cry announcing she has brain cancer.
But since I did it anyway, check out this video of the some little girl freaking out about it or something. Or don’t. Just go the fuck away now.
Lady Gaga! She wants to be like you when she grows up. A vapid, expressionless sellout! GOOD WORK, WHORE.
Nothing is funny anymore. Nothing is surprising. Anonymous is dead, and even that is kind of sad because it was so funny to watch internet losers migrate the handle from DDoSing Hal Turner, to blocking up a fake swimming pool in Habbo Hotel, to Scientology, and all the way back around again to DDoSing bank websites before finally getting arrested en masse. Yummy yummy honeypotty! Now we’re wasted, now we’re screwed. Now I’m bored. So what the fuck is next?
ANSWER: I don’t give a shit. I am going to lay it all right out for you. I know by now we have some fans (people who hate us are “fans,” too, by the way) and for some reason you keep coming back here to see if I replied to your meaningless comments, to see if your shitty, grammatical atrocities are making a difference on my own fake opinion (they don’t), because you might feel that you’ve somehow caused a tree to fall in the forest – and for everybody who heard it, no one paid attention. Not even me. Especially not me. And I am writing now to inform you– no, to ask of you– no . . . I am just writing. And that’s how it’s going to be. That’s what I’m laying down.
I’m a cunt sliver . . .
If you ever once came to this website and thought I was writing to you, for you, about you – even if I was – I don’t want your feedback. I’m a cunt sliver away from turning off all the comments, globally, and firing material into your blank eyes with NO POSSIBLE RECOURSE. ZERO. Because I’m tired of you. I’m tired of the pressure. I’m tired of this broken, hateful website, and I’m tired, most of all, of hating this place I (ironically) designed to be hated.
I’m DONE with it. I’m done with you festering, stinking maggots who sallow each article. I’m done with your cute usernames, multiple IP addresses, multiple fucking usernames, and every combination inbetween. I’m done with your tired little surmises. I’m done with your discussions. I’m done with the chat room, the radio show, and most importantly – in case I haven’t yet made it clear – I’m done with you.
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Having lived through the ’00s I’ve been exhausted with having to offer defense of a number of people who clearly don’t face any of the supposed self-control problems that have been leveled at them. All of the misgivings that people might launch at adulterers and philanderers have for one reason or another been leveled at a group of people who have sought nothing more than freedom of association. The moral traditions that decry homsexuality on account of its supposedly representing a poor moral choice miss the point entirely. Such moral dictates are blind to the biological realities that bind humans to their very existences, and we have every good reason to shun them. Some individuals’ being born without a definitive gender absolves homosexuals of any aspects of volition or free will, characteristics necessary to define sin in any context.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts himself, although appointed by the conservative Bush administration, invested part of his own pro bono, professional stake in defending a case called Lawrence vs. Texas, a piece of litigation that granted American humans the humble right to engage in consensual sexual acts with other adults within the confines of their own bedrooms. Lawrence involved a man who had a warrant issued for his cocaine possession. When Texas police officers burst into his home and found him engaged in anal sex, they used that as an excuse to take him into custody. That apprehension eventually made its way up to the land’s highest court, and eventually said court decided that Americans’ sexual lives were no longer the subjects of physical intervention by the federal government. This was the so-called controversy that spawned the Defense of Marriage Act, signed by President Bill Clinton; as well as the larger gay marriage debate that defined national politics, particularly for the first half of the previous decade.
Sin is defined by an individual making a choice he, she or “re” understands to be incorrect. Biological realities mitigate any such considerations about homosexuals. One out of 2,000 live births is hermaphroditic, thereby lacking any specific gender. More explicitly, considerations must lie on individuals who lack any specific gender’s definitive genitalia. Some individuals are born with elongated clitorises; others without total scrotal development, naturally homologous to the development of the labia, without complete testicular development. Stigmatizing these individuals is akin to offering a similar treatment to sufferers of other predispositions, including Down syndrome. To wit, socially conservative American politicians, such as Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin, have built entire careers on the shoulders of the compassion they indeed exhibit toward their differently abled children, a compassion they do not care to show toward the hermaphrodite. Because of their own deeply rooted sexual hang-ups, they have substituted what should be compassion with hatred.
The very existence of hermaphroditism is key to understanding the underlying, vicious evil of homophobia and inevitably all who roundly condemn homosexuals. This physically exterior diversity, common to the human species, must obviously mirror a multitude of internal hormonal landscapes, which naturally must escape the reproach of volition or accusations of “sin.”
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" (41) it is unclear how to understand "things are because we see them." Traditionally perception is conceived as a passive process: we open our eyes and receive input from the world. Kant suggests that perhaps it is not so passive: we "organize" the world into temporal and spatial dimensions, attribute cause and effect, etc. But what Wilde suggests here is even more radical. The "things are because" suggests a causal relationship, such that what we see exists as an effect of seeing. It would be as if looking "paints" the world. But this is completely absurd. Onto what would seeing "paint" the world? and, even weirder, notice that it wouldn't be that seeing paints the world so that we could then look at what was painted. Rather, it would be that seeing is painting, so that we always see and paint simultaneously, always just "creating" whatever we see, under the influence of the arts.
I pause a moment to consider this claim because there is a popular related claim: our beliefs determine what we see, hear, etc. If you believe that Mary is beautiful, then you "see her differently," you do not see the same thing that Mary's detractors do when they look at her. Wilde could claim this commonplace view as supporting his thesis as follows. When we look at nature, our experience of it is "mediated" by our past experiences of landscape paintings, poetic descriptions of snowy forests, etc. Having come to believe that these works of art are faithful representations of the world, we expect to see them when we look upon landscapes, snowy forests, etc. And since our beliefs determine what we see, we see what has already been art. And so nature, so far as we can see it, imitates art.
But it isn't at all true that what we believe determines what we see. There is an elegant proof. Consider the Mueller-Lyer illusion:
The top line appears to be smaller than the bottom line. Now obscure the "arrowheads" of the top line and the "forked branches" of the bottom line, and, if necessary, use a ruler to convince yourself that these two lines are in fact of equal length. You can also draw them anew for yourself or switch the "arrowheads" and "forked branches" from line to line, if you're especially skeptical. Once you're convinced, look again at the illusion in its original form. The top line still looks shorter. The crucial thing to notice is that no matter how thoroughly you convince yourself that the lines are of equal length, you cannot get yourself to see it that way. Our visual perception is definitely not determined by what we believe. And so the natural questions that one would put to Wilde's claim that nature imitates art are appropriate. What art does a black hole imitate? A newly discovered species? The cut on my leg, even? How could nature imitate art, if not by the delusion of those of us who contemplate both?
These objections are hardly insightful. It is difficult to believe that a man of Wilde's publicly-declared genius would have failed to notice them. We are compelled, then, to consider the possibility that he had a more subtle view or that his truly held view is somewhat elusive.
Wilde does not say himself that life imitates are more than art imitates life; he has a character say it. Moreover, this same character advocates lying as an artistic form, and so it is plausible that not even all of what Vivian says is what Vivian believes. Vivian may not even believe that life imitates art. but, even more to the point, it's doubtful that Wilde believes what Vivian says. Vivian warns us against taking Shakespeare's characters to represent Shakespeare:
My dear fellow, whatever you may say, it is merely a dramatic utterance, and no more represents Shakespeare's real views upon Art than the speeches of Iago represent his real views upon morals. (30)
And the same warning would presumably apply to our interpretation of Wilde. We may then question whether Wilde's character represents Wilde's real view.
And here we find ourselves in an interesting interpretive situation. The Decay of Lying is presumably a work of art: it seems fatuous to ask whether Cyril and Vivian ever had this conversation. It is thus subject to the same standards as those Vivian advocates within the work. That is, if it meets the standards that Vivian champions,...
And if it exaggerates the truth, it may also exaggerate Wilde's own convictions regarding art and life; with the result that perhaps Wilde does not believe that life imitates art more often than art imitates life. But if the Decay of Lying fails to meet Vivian's standards, then it would still seem that Wilde's convictions regarding art are not Vivian's. For if they were, then Wilde would have thought this very work to be poor, for its unimaginative imitation of life. "All bad art comes from returning to Life and Nature." (54) and if this were so, we should wonder why Wilde ever made it public. So it is dubious, then, that Decay of Lying imitates life; and so perhaps it has no burden of truly reflecting Wilde's views on art and life. It would then seem that in either case, we have only weak reasons, if any, to believe that Wilde shares Vivian's ideas about aesthetics.
Taking some liberties, we can sharpen the edge on these claims. Take the following proposition, a, to be a work of art, in this case an utterance made by Oscar Wilde.
(a) Life imitates art; art does not imitate life.
If the second clause of a is true, then a itself is not an imitation of life. If "life" includes Wilde and his beliefs, then a entails that Wilde does not believe a. On the contrary, if the first clause is to be believed, then it is only after a has been uttered that anyone living would believe it. And so we may conclude that if Wilde does believe a, this is came to be so only after Wilde uttered it; i.e. It came to be only after Wilde wrote the Decay of Lying.
What would have been the point, then, of writing a work in which the thesis that life imitates art more than art imitates life is defended at length? The answer is to be found in Vivian's defense of lying: for its tragic beauty. Vivian tells us that "Art is not simple truth but complex beauty." (23) if this is Wilde's art, then we should not take to speak a simple truth, we should ask what is beautiful about it. Here, two things caught my notice.
First, perhaps it would be a beautiful universe in which life imitates art. Perhaps we can take Wilde's suggestion this way, then: insofar as art is "really a form of exaggeration," would the world in which Vivian's claim holds true be a beautiful one? When she describes sunsets and French fields that resemble works of art, it does seem as though this would indeed be a world with beautiful things to see. In addition, Vivian's ecstatic description toward the conclusion of a world in which hippogriffs and other mythic creatures roam also suggests a place that would be wonderful to see, though perhaps unsafe to inhabit.
I stumble even on this point, though. For this world seems internally unstable. How did the first thing come about? If the rule is exceptionless -- if all natural and living things are imitations of art, then the very first thing should have been a work of art…but by whom? So, presumably, then the rule does admit of exceptions. The world is simply one in which the myth of Pygmalion very often (more often than art imitates life) plays out; putting aside these, it is much like our world of physical laws, molecular structures, and fairly well-understood forces. But then, still, I wonder about destructive art: when shall we meet "Death, the destroyer of worlds" from the Bhagavad Gita?
Second, given such a world, the common tendency to imitate uninspired art would be tragic. It is already fairly depressing to hear a great many people recite catchphrases from cliched sitcoms or to recognize in an acquaintance's personality the shallow impersonation of a pop star. If this were depressing only for its artistic feebleness, it would be all the more depressing in a world where creativity could be imitated by nature. In such a world, the failure to speak and act in "authentic" or novel ways would be worse than uninteresting and somewhat irritating; it would be a repeated waste…
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"This means that there will be as many different forms of postmodernism as there were high modernisms in place, since the former are at least initially specific and local reactions against those models." One of the key transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism, frequently cited by a number of sources, is Marcel Duchamp's decision to display a urinal in an art gallery; this disruptive moment effectively shattered previous paradigms, thus
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Today maternal health experts gathered in Washington, DC to discuss the new results from the preliminary work of Saving Mothers Giving Life, a public private partnership aimed at reducing maternal mortality in Zambia and Uganda. Utilizing the strengths of each partner program results showed that maternal mortality decreased by 30% in the districts where Saving Mothers Giving Life was implemented. In Zambia, there was a 35% reduction in maternal mortality. The reductions were significant and have shown the global health community that with key interventions improvements can be realized and effective programs can be scaled. More results can be found in the annual report.
During this morning’s meeting USAID Dr. Raj Shah gave opening remarks followed by representatives from the Ministries of Health from both Uganda and Zambia. Here are some key tweets from the proceedings.
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‘Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life’, say the GMB, Unison and Unite trade unions.
In a joint New Year message to some 3.5 million members across both the public and private sectors, the unions add that the ‘government’s dangerous prescription of economic deflation and historically high cuts will not revive the economy but will instead bring it to its knees’.
The three unions pledge that in 2011 they will ‘inspire and support resistance to the cuts across the UK’.
They also vow to make the Spring elections the first referendum on the government’s austerity programme.
The unions warn: ‘Such is the level of concern about the real intent behind the cuts – recasting the state so that the private sector can sweep in, allied to the fear that harsh cuts will cause endemic inequality across society and plunge a new generation into unemployment – that the unions have vowed to work tirelessly together throughout 2011 to pursue a sound economic alternative.’
The unions are ‘furious that the government is using the cover of coalition and a whipped-up fear over the deficit to terrify people into acceptance of what is little more than the rolling back of social provision.’
Pointing to the ‘mounting dissent among economic experts over the government’s approach’, they say there is ‘no programme for growth but only policies which will lead to a devastating contraction in the UK economy at a time when the global economy is still exhibiting deeply worrying signs of recession.’
Condemning ‘the government’s reckless policies’ the three unions say January will see them ‘embark on a programme of promoting an economic alternative to their members’.
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On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:16, Ole Tange wrote:
> I actually thought it was more a software/firmware issue. I might be wrong.
Once you have the two systems talking to each other (for which adhoc would
likely be fine if AP mode doesnt work ), the software issue becomes
actually quite trivial (or I'm missing something).
You need NAT in the kernel to act as a gateway and possible dnsmasq (or
similar) to do DHCP, both of which are very well understood (especially after
years of hacking WRT54 and it's brethren) and available for OpenEmbedded.
 Not sure what Win does with DHCP in adhoc mode though. As last resort, you
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Guha flays B'luru police action on anti-CAA protesters
Noted historian Rama Chandra Guha on Thursday condemned the Bengaluru police for its action against the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters in the city.
"We are protesting in a non-violent manner totally. This is a discriminatory act. See how the police are behaving against the citizens. What is this action of the police," said Guha.
Guha castigated the police for playing to the tunes of the Central government in Delhi.
He was one among the protesters taken into preventive custody for staging a protest against the CAA.
Reacting to his detention, Guha said it was "absolutely undemocratic" that police were not allowing even a peaceful protest, which is the democratic right of the citizens.
Guha was carrying a placard bearing the image of B. R. Ambedkar in blue, reading CAA against Constitution.
He was pushed and detained by a group of policemen and lead into a bus as he was speaking.
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Discussion in 'Classic' started by thorsa, Nov 9, 2006.
Png & FPA
is there a command that shows ping and fpa on screen when playing diablo
typing /fps puts a number of system/connection stats on the screen, including ping.
I usually only toss it up there when the game is obviously lagging.
Note that the Frames per second it shows has nothing to do with the frames per second used to determine speed of attack. It's just a handy command to see if you are lagging.
you need to change one of the windows settings on some machines in order to see it, otherwise the font is so small that you might think it does not show up
unfortunately I dont remember what do you have to change
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With quarterback Matt Schaub continuing to exercise a quick trigger finger, the Houston Texans are clicking on offense.
The Buffalo Bills, on the other hand, are not rolling up any style points. The Bills play at a snail’s pace, relying on a stingy defense and what little offense rotating quarterbacks Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trent Edwards are able to produce.
The Bills host the Texans today, and The Gold Sheet handicapper Bruce Marshall said he expects an ugly game to stay under the total of 411/2.
“The Texans have been able to slow the pace of their games in recent weeks due to improvement from their defense, which has begun to stop the run with some consistency,” Marshall said. “Houston is comfortable with this tempo because of Schaub’s accuracy and an emerging ground game.”
Schaub is the NFL leader with 2,074 passing yards and 16 touchdowns, but the Texans have gone under the total in three of their past four games.
Buffalo has not scored more than 20 points while going under in four of its past five games.
Marshall, 5-2 with recommended totals plays this season, outlines technical notes on other Week 8 games:
• Minnesota at Green Bay: The past three and four of the past five in the series went over the total. Brett Favre and the Vikings are 5-2 over this season. The Packers are 21-10 over in their past 31 games. Edge: Over.
• San Francisco at Indianapolis: The Colts have covered five straight and are on a 15-game regular-season winning streak. However, 49ers coach Mike Singletary is 9-3-2 against the spread (ATS) in his past 14. Edge: 49ers.
• Carolina at Arizona: Panthers coach John Fox is 0-2 straight up and ATS as a road ‘dog this season, and 2-9 ATS in the past 11 in the role. The Cards are 3-0 under the total at home this season, but still 19-10 over as hosts since 2006. Edge: Cardinals, Over.
• N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia: The Giants are 30-11 ATS since early 2007. Five of the past six in the series went under. The Giants have covered the past four at Philadelphia, and the road team is 7-1 ATS in the past eight in the series. Edge: Giants, Under.
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Three reasons to like the Vikings-Packers over (47)
• The last time they played, they combined for 53 points, and you can expect the same kind of offensive display.
• The Vikings have gone over the total in four of their last five games, and the Packers have not scored fewer than 20 points in a game.
• Both teams are averaging more than 200 yards passing and more than 100 yards rushing per game. This should be an offensive-minded game.
Three reasons to like the Giants-Eagles over (44)
• Neither defense is as good as its reputation would make you believe. The Giants have been exposed the last two games.
• Both teams average 46 combined points per game and have gone over the total nine of 12 games.
• The Eagles pass more than 50 percent of the time, and with Brian Westbrook injured, it should increase Philadelphia’s dependence on the passing game.
Last week: 0-2
– MAL VAN VALKENBURG / LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL


Houston will use Rubicon Technologies’ digital platforms to provide data to help the city improve its waste and recycling systems.
The city, which is the nation’s fourth largest, says it will use the data system to completely digitize its entire waste and recycling system. Rubicon says the improved efficiency can also lead to increased recycling rates.
As part of a three-year partnership, Houston will use the Rubicon Smart City cloud-based platform that helps municipalities run more effective waste, recycling and heavy-duty fleet operations. The system will collect onboard data and has a web-based portal that will help Houston’s Department of Solid Waste track recycling metrics including service verifications, missed pickups, vehicle usage and maintenance information.
The smart system will be installed on Houston’s entire waste and recycling fleet, which includes 391 vehicles. It will also allow drivers to document any problems on their routes, including reporting recycling contamination, as well as helping all levels of operations with information regarding the city’s waste systems.
Efficiency in municipal waste and recycling programs can be important, especially since the EPA estimated 292.4 million tons of municipal solid waste was generated in the United States in 2018. Of that, 69 million pounds were recycled and 25 million pounds were composted.
Those figures have gone up by nearly 100 million pounds since 1990.
Rubicon also recently entered into a multi-year agreement with exterior building and outdoor living products distributor SRS to use its digital waste and recycling platforms. SRS has nearly 600 locations across the US and is using the software to manage its waste and recycling as well as provide sustainability data, analytics and reporting tools.
The Smart City platform is being used in 70 cities in the US, including programs in Baltimore, Memphis and San Antonio.
“These insights, alongside route optimization and digitization efforts, are set to deliver an optimal operation to the City of Houston,” says Solid Waste Management Department Director Mark Wilfalk.


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When state and federal officials discovered public elementary school principal Benjamin Wright had split his enrollment into classes of all boys and all girls this school year, they descended on Seattle’s Thurgood Marshall Elementary School.
State officials said he was violating Title IX, the federal law that prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex. Federal officials were scrutinizing the school, too. But instead of cracking down on single-sex public schools and classes, the Department of Education said last week it should be easier for public schools to follow Mr. Wright’s lead: educate some boys and girls separately.
Department officials announced that they planned to ease a “rigid” interpretation of the gender-equity law to encourage schools to offer single-gender choices for students and parents. The goal, said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Gerald A. Reynolds, is to “see if we can provide more options.”
The move would scrap a strict interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 statute, which applies to institutions receiving federal education aid. The law and subsequent court rulings have made it difficult for public schools to organize single-gender classes and schools. Only 11 such public schools exist in the country, according to the Brighter Choice Foundation, an Albany, N-Y.-based nonprofit group studying the issue.
The Education Department is seeking public input for the next 60 days on just how—or how much—to ease regulations on the subject. Then the agency will issue new rules outlining how schools can provide single-sex education without running afoul of federal law.
That direction worries some groups, particularly the American Civil Liberties Union and a few women’s organizations.
“It’s a red flag immediately if you’re talking about changing long-standing civil rights legislation ... that has survived the test of time,” said Leslie Annexstein, a senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, based in Washington. “We’re concerned about how the department might be trying to circumvent the law.”
The move toward flexibility stems from the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, which encourages innovative programs that provide more choice. A small clause in the massive law, signed by President Bush in January, called for the secretary of education to issue guidelines on single- sex programs 120 days after the law was enacted. School districts will be able to tap $3 million in federal grant money appropriated in the fiscal 2002 budget for single-gender education.
Current law permits public schools to have single-gender classes in physical and sex education, said Nancy Zirkin, the director of public policy and government relations for the Washington-based American Association of University Women. Schools may also start single-sex programs for “remedial” purposes if, for example, the girls in a school are floundering in math, provided a district offers “comparable” schools for each sex.
“We’re very alarmed about the intentions here,” Ms. Zirkin said. She believes history has shown that if boys and girls are taught separately, girls’ programs often suffer.
But Mr. Reynolds said today’s climate is different. “This is not a case where you have some group who is out there determined to harm girls and women,” Mr. Reynolds said during a press conference. “The consensus out there is that there are people of goodwill who want to try some new things.”
He pledged vigilance and close monitoring by the department’s office for civil rights, which he runs.
The Education Department’s existing interpretation of the law, in conjunction with case law, appears to have had a dampening effect on the spread of single-sex public schools. Those schools that exist have faced lawsuits from groups such as the ACLU, or sanctions from the Education Department.
Some have found loopholes or taken complex paths to stay within the law.
That’s what Tom Carroll, the founder and chairman of the Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls and the Brighter Choice Charter School for Boys, has done. His single-sex Albany schools are slated to open in September. Though boys and girls will attend school in the same building with the same faculty, they’ll be segregated. But to comply with the government’s existing interpretation of Title IX, Mr. Carroll had to create separate legal entities and separate bank accounts—one for the boys’ school and one for the girls’ school.
“That is absolutely inane,” Mr. Carroll said. “This is how absurd Title IX has become.”
Education Department officials say they want to make it easier for people like Mr. Carroll to set up single-gender schools because some research, at least, has suggested they get results.
Mr. Wright of Thurgood Marshall Elementary certainly believes that. The Seattle principal said he split up boys and girls in his low-performing school because of discipline problems and because boys, in particular, were struggling academically.
Since boys and girls began going to separate classes, discipline referrals to his office have dropped from 30 a day to one or two, Mr. Wright said. Though only 10 percent of boys met state standards a year earlier, he said, with single-gender classes that number jumped to 73 percent this year.
“They said this was against the law, there was no research on it,” Mr. Wright said, “but I’m fixing a problem.”
Much of the research that has been done on single-gender education has been conducted in private and Roman Catholic schools, said Amanda Datnow, an assistant professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. In 2001, Ms. Datnow did one of the few studies on single- gender schools in public schools. She looked at schools in California. (“Study Cites Flaws in Single-Sex Public Schools,” May 30, 2001.)
Ms. Datnow said research shows advantages for poor and minority boys, and for girls. But she said drawing conclusions can be a murky business. Some students may benefit not because of the single-gender situation, but because of unrelated advantages, such as smaller class sizes, better resources, and more experienced teachers.
Ms. Datnow’s study found both pluses and minuses for boys and girls in single- gender education. She said she believes the Bush administration should tread carefully in encouraging its expansion.
“Experimentation would be good, because we certainly need to know more about what happens [with singe-sex education],” she said. “But we need to be careful about the guidelines, so that we make sure equity is addressed.”
A version of this article appeared in the May 15, 2002 edition of Education Week as Department Aims to Promote Single-Sex Schools


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This response comes after recent revelations about Cox Media Group Local Solutions, a marketing company linked to a major telecommunications provider in the United States, which claimed to be able to listen to conversations through phones and other devices and even sell this information.
A company capable of spying on Apple users
The company, CMG Local Solutions, claims to have the ability to process voice data from Apple users in an advanced way. Although they claimed to use artificial intelligence for this purpose, the lack of clarity over the exact source of the data and how it is collected raises significant concerns.
In response to these claims, Apple has reiterated its strict guidelines set out in the App Store. According to these standards, Apps must request explicit user consent and provide clear visual and/or auditory cues when recording, logging, or otherwise recording user activity. Furthermore, the Cupertino company highlights the importance of informing the user about the data collected and stored, allowing the deletion of this data at any time and ensuring compliance with current regulations.
Apple emphasizes the importance of explicit user consent for data collection and use. In this context, the company highlights that Apps cannot access the user’s microphone or camera without their explicit consent. In addition, Apple has implemented an orange indicator in small light format that appears on the front of the screen, where the dock is located, which is activated when these functions are in use, showing a visual signal so that users are aware. of any recording activity currently occurring on the device.
It is also important to recognize that, technically, a user can waive their right to privacy if they are properly informed and if the data is used responsibly taking into account specific laws and regulations.
Apple beyond microphone and camera protection
Nevertheless, Apple not only focuses on microphone and camera protection, but also highlights other privacy protection measures built into devices like the iOS iPhone. These protection measures include permissions for apps that want to track the user and an app privacy report that shows how often the microphone, photos, camera, and contacts have been accessed in the last seven days.
Furthermore, the company emphasizes that any data processed or stored on its servers is associated with a random identifier, ensuring that it cannot be traced directly back to the user. This measure seeks to allay any concerns about the traceability of personal information by applications on Apple devices.


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Pregnant reality TV star JWoww has revealed she was banned from having sex for a month when her doctors discovered she had a ''low lying placenta'' but it is now normal.
JWoww was banned from having sex for a month.
The former 'Jersey Shore' star - who is set to give birth to a baby girl in July with her fiancé Roger Mathews - was warned by her doctors that she needed to be ''cautious'' in the bedroom because she had a ''low lying placenta.''
The 28-year-old beauty revealed on her official website JenniFarley.com on Tuesday (15.04.14) that medical professionals discovered the issue at a check-up earlier in her pregnancy.
She wrote: ''So as the doctor is finishing up he notices something else... Ummm are you serious?! He says it looks like you have a low lying placenta and we need to be cautious until the next visit so no bleeding occurs... Okay?! What do you mean by cautious... 'Well no sex' he says. I literally burst out laughing hysterically. Roger swears I paid him to say lmao. So now no sex for a Month!!! (sic)''
The reality TV star, who went ''numb'' when doctors found a small cyst on her unborn baby's brain, was thrilled to discover she and her baby girl are both in good health this week.
She added: ''Fast forward to this checkup which brings me to 25 weeks aka six months. My daughters cyst went away!!!!!! Also my placenta is higher so I'm no longer at risk (don't tell roger)... (sic)''
JWoww previously admitted she isn't enjoying her pregnancy and can't wait to give birth.
All I Want For Christmas is widely regarded as one of the best festive tunes every year
Pearl Jam announced 14 dates in the UK and Europe in June and July 2018.
Sia gets a string of Hollywood stars involved in her latest music video, a festive number entitled 'Santa's Coming For Us' from her newly released...
A startling new video has been unveiled by Alt-J to go with their newest single 'Pleader'.
Green Day have long been known for having political undertones in their music, and their new song 'Back In The USA' is no different.
The film is almost half an hour longer than 'The Force Awakens'.
The actress will no doubt be returning for the long-running FX series.
The film is expected to continue without Mendes' involvement.


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So, this weekend, I made a cake for a friends daughters first birthday. It was a princess themed sheet cake and a matching princess smash cake. I made the smash cake, no problems there. I wanted to make an edible tiara. So I made one from gumpaste earlier in the week. Go to put it on the cake and it breaks in half. Ok, so moving on I dont have time to wait for another one to dry. So I make one using a pattern and piping wilton candy melt onto parchment paper. It turns out beautiful. I dust it with disco dust. Perfect. Pick it up to move it to the cake, drop it on the counter and it shatters. Third times a charm I suppose and I make another one and finally get it on the cake. Both cakes are complete and look beautiful. I go to take a shower and leave my husband in charge. Grab my camera after my shower and come into the kitchen to take photos. There are little tiny finger prints all over my cake! I had to start all over!! In the end there were two beautiful cakes, but it took twice as long as it should have. A very long cake day!!
One time I made a 3 tiered cake. all butter cream. As I went to take a pic, I stood on top hovering so i could take a top pic, and I dropped the camera and it hit all 3 tiers. I stood there shocked for a couple of seconds. looked at my husband, who was also shocked. i started laughing because, what else could I do, and then he started laughing. I hurried and tried to patch. i finished on time, somehow, and made it to my friend's son's birthday party. can't believe I did that
Oh man! After the second tiara I'd probably have had a minor breakdown. Major points to you for pulling it all together (and not killing the hubby XD)
I was making a three tiered stacked wedding cake for a friend and had to leave the room for a minute. When I came back into the kitchen I found my cat standing on the chair licking the side of the cake. UGH! I could picture one of the dogs eating the cake but not the cat. I had to remove all the frosting from that side of the cake and frost it again.