tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54889062011-12-14T19:07:18.950-08:00There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."... Noam Chomsky Samuel Sathya Valluvar Selvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13197514310246392017noreply@blogger.comBlogger8751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5488906.post-1140768435174923372006-02-24T00:07:00.000-08:002006-02-24T00:07:15.176-08:00

http://www.samuelselvan.squarepace.com

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Not really, I have decided to no longer update this blog, just so it stays in sync with my squarespace blog. As much as I love blogger, I love Squarespace better, even though it has not seen fit to provide me with a three column layout or favicons.If I am on your blogroll, please update your link to point to http://www.samuelselvan.squarepace.comAnd yeah I like Squarespace enough to recommend it

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Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.and as crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the

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Wanted USC to win this real bad, but once USC gave up possession and gave up a penalty on a 3rd down, the result was never in doubt atleast to me. And yes, I knew Vince Young was going to run and I am guessing I am not the only one who knew.This would never have been this close if Texas had not messed up two field goals. Makes Young's efforts all the more special. Coming to the NFL, there I was

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But most Americans don’t seem to like names that they couldn’t imagine having been on the Mayflower’s manifest.Shakespeare's SisterBetter to tell the world what your resolutions are, instead of keeping it deep inside and break it eventually.That would at least push you further to follow 'em lest they should make fun of you if you fail.BTW, Congratulations!!! You've made your "resolution" list

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My inner child is ten years old! The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. WhetherI'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lostin a good book, or giggling with my bestfriend, I live in a world apart, one full ofadventure and wonder and other stuff adultsdon't understand. How Old is Your Inner Child?brought to you by Quizilla

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She is back. My cup runneth over.

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Which in typical fashion were decided upon today.Lose weight. No surprise there. It is time I started paying some attention to the non stop increase in my girth both for superficial and health reasons. Getting married in a year sure lends an urgency to these efforts to drop my weight.BlogPost something every day, no matter how inane, pointless or uninspired. It sure is hard when your

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Dear Herbert,You are correct at least in part that people cannot deal with the too rapid loss of their sacred symbols. They have invested too much of their emotional security in those symbols. On the other hand, if a religious institution clings too long to concepts that no longer are believable, it will die of irrelevance. Once, human beings worshipped the sun. Then we learned that the sun is a

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Christina, a television producer at Fox News writes: "How do you respond to the Rev. Pat Robertson when he warns the citizens of Dover, Pennsylvania, that God might strike them with a disaster since they voted out the School Board members who favored "Intelligent Design?" " Dear Christina,Pat Robertson has said so many silly and ridiculous things

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Robert from the Internet writes: "When the lights go out and doors are closing, where does one find the courage to look for the way? I know this will sound like a bizarre question but I just finished your autobiography HERE I STAND: MY STRUGGLE FOR A CHRISTIANITY OF INTEGRITY, LOVE AND EQUALITY, and am sincerely impressed by

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Beverly from the Internet writes: "Much is in the news of late about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. In the past, the focus has been on condom distribution that has helped Uganda in particular to reduce AIDS infection. But now, with the influence of Pope Benedict, the Bush administration and ultra conservative religious groups, the BBC

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SXL from the Internet writes: "After watching a Tom Brokaw special on the growth of Evangelicals and their huge churches, I am rather appalled that their "love" for humanity does not include homosexuals, people that get abortions or gay and lesbian couples who want to marry! How can people believe in such a narrow minded,

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D. (last name omitted for personal reasons) writes: "I am a man without a face. All I see in this world is unfairness and I feel that my life has been filled with sadness, loneliness and depression. I've been driven to the point of suicide. I ask you: how can I accept that life is unfair and still find a reason to believe in God?" Dear D,The tone

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Craig from the Internet writes: "The subject is Children's Sunday school. The hypothesis is that Sunday school is counter productive and marginally threatens the collective/progressive understanding of the Christian faith. Sunday School teaching is necessarily taught at a level that is understandable by children. Even in the more

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Lee from Goldleaf Technologies writes: "Like you, I've long been skeptical of the supposed "benefits" of circumcision and feel it is nothing more than religion-endorsed genital mutilation performed on unconsenting infants. Because of this, I continue to have sharp pangs of remorse and regret over allowing my two sons to be

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Do not bring work home, when said work involves a lot of typing, typing you've got to do on a notebook seated on your lap.Sigh!

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Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit. It takes some skill to turn every question posed to you about some piece of work into a paen to yourself. Which makes me wonder? Are the self important people aware of the fact that this kind of behavior aggravates some kind of people who are tired of this shit?Just wondering.

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For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh. - Romans 9:3 From what I have seen of your people , Saint Paul seems to be such a big hero, what with him claiming women couldn't preach and all that. So one would think you would take his lead and be this selfless. But what is this, I read about you going

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No, it is not the American Christian extremists, it is the Indian Muslim extremists. Goes to show that there's more in common between these fine folks than either side would care to acknowledge or admit.Gay hating - check, women hating - check, protecting 'values' - check. Do the likes of Pat Robertson even stop to think of this before they open their mouths. What would the inner monologue be

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So Firefox and Squarespace do their thing wherein they conspire to post one post of mine about 12 times making me delete all the redundant posts where I somehow manage to delete the wrong post making me angry and dejected the same time when I remember I can try looking up Google Desktop and sure enough, I get it from the application's cached view.I post it again and go about deleting the

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Read this post today and left this lament in the comments. I guess I really have to read Hiaasen. I didn't go wrong watching the movies you like, so I guess I can't go wrong this time too.Not having much of what one would call a disposable income, and being in a job where I have to move every four months or so is not very conducive to buying books. I did not expect it to be so, but books are

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People who go to the gym, eat healthy, are people who care about themselves or dare I say, like themselves. I am guessing you ought to like yourself to take the time and effort to cook healthy stuff, do some kind of physical activity and all that.Of course this whole thing could get overblown and manifest itself as narcissism but liking oneself enough is a healthy thing.And then there

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Or why American football will never measure upto the real football. Imagine a football composed of just free kicks and corner kicks. That in essence is the game of American football, where almost every move is a carefully choreographed sequence never going as far as a minute. This is one game which is played in fits and starts, with as many breaks as possible and with essentially two

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Am I the only one that thinks that Thierry Henry to Barcelona is a huge move likely to work out great for both team and player?Imagine Eto and Henry playing up front, with Messi and Ronaldinho ruling the midfield. What makes this intriguing is that Henry is not your traditional striker like Owen or Nilsterooy, he goes back to bring the ball up the field which is why he has such a huge

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But under the new plan, more passengers will likely be subjected to secondary screening and pat-downs will include the arms and legs as well as the torso. Now screeners only check the back and abdomen. Passengers also can expect more randomness at security gates so would-be terrorists won't know for sure what they might see. For example, an airport might require all passengers to

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I guess I could fill up a whole new blog with just the posts titled 'Back'. Well I am back from a self imposed exile. Its good to be back though. I thought I would be back bubbling with things to write, but there's not much I seem to be able to muster. Well Ronaldinho has proved to be such a great blessing to Barcelona. That makes it three Brazilians who played for Barcelona and are my

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Today is World Aids Day. Prayers to all people affected directly or indirectly by it. Also prayers to those of a sadistic bent, who would rather see people dying of disease than let them use a condom. May their hearts soften! And this I believe is Blog against racism day too. I don't have anything worthwhile to say there. But being someone who believes casteism and racism are both same,

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Disclaimer: I am not being paid for this.A look at the first three posts I made using Squarespace will reveal that I was mystified by the interface and did not quite appreciate going to all these lengths to set up the blog. But I did manage to like it enough to become a paid user.Now I attribute this to to the excellent features offered here, which make blogging a better experience. As

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To see your credit score being affected because you did not pay for something you felt was an unfair charge and then you have no idea that you still have to pay it, because the bloody representative says ok, when you say you won't pay cos this an unfair charge and you get a call from out of nowhere asking you to pay. You pay up the same day only to realize it does you no good, cos you

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is someone who insists on leaving comments despite being told not to, countless number of times. A flaming idiot is one who claims he comes here when he wants to get irritated. What kind of a person wants to get irritated by the way and then comes here gets a migraine and keeps doing the same thing again and again.You must be some masochist, asshat.I will keep deleting your comments AJ.

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Silvio Berlusconi, one of George Bush's closest allies, says he repeatedly tried to talk the US president out of invading Iraq, in comments to be broadcast today.In the television interview, which goes out on the day the Italian prime minister flies to Washington to meet Mr Bush, Mr Berlusconi says he even enlisted the help of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadafy, in

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RLP google bombs for his friend and in the spirit of google bombing, here's my contribution. I did half a brake job on my minivan last week. My friend Reggie, who is master of more skills than I can even think of, came over to show me how. He did the right side and I did the left. I was so proud of myself. I'm not so good with things that require me to touch them. I'm definitely a word and

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People are strange, when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone People seem wicked, when you're unwanted Streets are uneven, when you're down (Densmore-Krieger-Manzarek-Morrison)For the ones who smile at you making you believe you belong and that you're liked and then turn mean at a moment's notice when they discover you are not a pliant submissive ant who does not have a

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"Oil and gas companies are enjoying record profits," said Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House. "That is fine. This is America." via Dan Gross

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If I 'Save and close' one time, I expect it to appear on my website once, not so many times as to make me hurt by making me delete all the redundant posts. Sigh! Update: Turns out this is an issue with the beta version of firefox. Apologies to Squarespace :)

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People who know me well, know my intense anomisoty towards arranged marriage. Now this is partly due to my irreverence no doubt. Theres not many institutions or people I revere and any such institution that inspires such reverence immediately makes me susipicious.Its not just the fact that I am letting my parents decide who I marry that makes me hate arranged marriage. The major argument

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Watched two football games today. (I use the word football here, always to mean Soccer, not the travesty that is American football)Saw a Brazilian score in both games and both were super efforts. The first one was the much hyped Robinho, poached from Brazil by Real Madrid and I must say, his goal today justified all the hype. When fed a ball into the area, he did not weave in as most

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Was watching a football match the other day when Samuel Etoo of Barcelona missed an easy chance at goal. This was a chance I would have converted and this is no exaggeration. It was that bloody easy. Now the reason Etoo missed the goal, he took an extra touch, taking an extra few seconds, lost his concentration and hit it straight away. What does being cute have to do with this you say?

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A series of near simultaneous explosions rocked India's capital city yesterday, tearing through a bus and two markets jammed with people shopping for gifts ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali. At least 58 people were killed. Scores more people were injured in the three blasts that sent shards of glass, wood and masonry flying. Police declared a state of emergency last night and

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No posting last weekend on account of driving and Oracle being such a deviously tough piece of software to install. Not the database, but the http server, needless to say Oracle warehouse Builder which has managed to literally suck the life out of me. And yes, got the Nebraska license despite predictions that I would fail :). A big thanks to Ganesh and Vetri, Ganesh especially for taking out

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Why does conservative morality begin and end with the genitals? To belabor the point, why is it obessed with controlling a woman's genitals?

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Any place in the Persian gulf.Singapore.Gujarat or for that matter any place in India not called Chennai.Any theocracy.Any place under a dictator.

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Quite like the Singles websites the Americans have, we Indians have matrimonial sites. People are not looking to date here, they are rather looking to marry.This being the case, things like your religion and caste tend to get played up more than what you are looking for in a partner. People familiar with me know I think caste is an odious thing and I find it sickening that it still is a

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I've been doing quite a bit of coding these past weeks and this work being of the nature that makes me think hard, I've started listening to music to help me work. In whats been a habit from India, I need to listen to music to be able to study something or to solve problems. I am listening to grunge mainly now, namely Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. As with all music I listen to, I

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"As a recovering Roman Catholic, Jesuit educated, who still reveres much of the theology and the theologians in that church, I have been on a long journey of discovery. I did, in fact, discover you as an important part of that journey, in an issue of the Science of Mind Magazine. I still believe in the concept of tithing; that you should contribute a percentage of your income to the

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Signs of the times Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,Fasting, almsgiving, and prayer have a long foundation in the Christian tradition stemming from our Jewish matrix. This triple counsel calls us to share signs of tangible grace with one another, reminding each of us to live in such a way that our very lives declare “God is gracious and bountiful, generous and merciful.”Our holiness is found

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My friend Sinoindian in his comment : What's wrong in congratulating oneself for succeeding? We need to feel good about ourselves and sometimes, we also need self appreciation in order to improve further. How can we call it as "Vanity"?That was not what I was getting at. This precisely is what I was getting at.You know when you go about believing you owe your success to no one and that

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The greatest appeal with blaming the poor for being poor is that you can congratulate yourself on having gotten rich or not being poor. You know when you go about believing you owe your success to no one and that you made it on your own, it follows that you think that those who aren't as successful as you are, deserve the blame for being so. Yes, I know Lance Mannion has already written about

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One thing that's very noticeable with Americans is that they are a much more polite lot. From saying 'Thanks' to their excuse me's, it is a welcome change for me. Back home in India, not many people said Thank You and it was very rare to see someone saying excuse me. I say this purely from my own experiences but if you were to have studied in a Christian run school, you were more likely to say

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Block those pesky flash popups.Jargon LexiconAwesome Statistics resource. (Much more than Statistics) The History of Christian thought Say no to pre screened credit cards and those irritating junk mails. Do not remember how I came across all the above links. Atleast one of them is through Lifehacker.

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Did you know that ulcer could be cured with antibiotics. I sure as hell did not. And big pharma sure as hell does not want you to know too. As a matter of fact, the treatment works so well that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1994 issued an advisory to all American physicians to discontinue the prescription of cimetidine, omeprazole, and ranitidine for their ulcer

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Block those pesky flash popups.Jargon LexiconAwesome Statistics resource. (Much more than Statistics) The History of Christian thought Say no to pre screened credit cards and those irritating junk mails. Do not remember how I came across all the above links. Atleast one of them is through Lifehacker. Posted on Thursday, October 6, 20

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Did you know that ulcer could be cured with antibiotics. I sure as hell did not. And big pharma sure as hell does not want you to know too. As a matter of fact, the treatment works so well that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1994 issued an advisory to all American physicians to discontinue the prescription of cimetidine, omeprazole, and ranitidine for their ulcer

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Considering that a section of the people (especially the fetus fetishists) consider abortion as heinous as murder, do they think that women who abort ought to be tried for murder and given this section's bloodthirst, do they think women abort ought to be put to death using the death penalty. Was this the reasoning behind the Atlanta bomber's targeting of abortion clinics. On a slightly

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Intelligent Design. If you figure out why I said it, you and I are on the same wavelength. Please leave a comment if you get it.

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And eat it too. Write it down to me being a non native speaker of the English language, but what the hell sense does Have your cake and eat it too mean. Isn't the whole purpose of having a cake, eating the damn thing. What else would you want to have a cake for? Showing it or admiring it till it rots or giving it to everyone. Stupid, I say.

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Friday 22:00 Leave Lincoln, NE Saturday 08:30 Reach Chicago, IL. Go to Paddy Ganesh's friend's home. Do not sleep all day coming back home at 04:20 Sunday. Wake up at 11:00. Get ready and go to another friend's home. Eat Gujarati food among which was something called dhokla which was good. Find ouit wallet is missing, search the home, Paddy's car. Do not find it. Leave at 15:00 and stop by a

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Its my birthday today. Fourth straight one away from family. birthdays in India were like any other day. We did not have parties where many kids would be invited and neither did I go out with my friends when I was old enough to do that.Infact after 12, I did not like anyone but my close friends knowing when my birthday was. Nothing irritated me more than a bunch of people singing Happy

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My Blog. Yes.I hate it with every ounce of my being. Everytime I sit down in front of the computer, I am filed with this overwhelming urge to do something else. Anything but type a few words. Its like the blog has a life of its own and taunts me for not having done anything for a while. All thoughts, I meant to blog fly away the moment I start blogging. This spell started with Katrina, and I am

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I before E, except after C.

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What is wrong with this picture? (click on link). It is not the abomination that is Trump performing on stage. As awful as that is, thats not what makes me mad about this picture.

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An excellent show featuring a neurotic, classist hotel owner, Manuel his clumsy, long suffering waiter from Barcelona, Polly, his ever patient employee and Sybil his wife, the only one who can bring the hysterical Fawlty down to earth as he gets hyper. I did no justice to the show with those sorry three lines. This is one of the best BBC comedies I've seen and no this is not a BBC comedy of the

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Calling upon the likes of Hillary, Edwards and Obama to raise a stink about this. Do not think its very likely to happen though.At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.One is Shaw Group

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September 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence

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Well this artwork by Hugh Mcleod sums up the response to Katrina more than anything else.

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Robot You are 57% Rational, 0% Extroverted, 42% Brutal, and 28% Arrogant. You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very

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The latest version is a lot better. The live bookmarks are much faster and the browser just feels lighter. Nice.

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On a break from blogging cos I am so disgusted, revolted at whats going on, I repeat, if theres a rapture, please let it happen quick. Fuck fuck fuck. How could they have let it come to this? Blogging to resume from next week as I get over this totally helpless feeling and hope I get out of this deep funk I am in. Want to cry out loud, shout out loud.

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Father Wilkins : " Priests just write out checks to whoever needs it. No red tape. " Donate hereEpiscopal Relief and Development

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Couldn't tell by the amount of bipartisan ass kissing she was doing. People are dying out there and she fucking congratulates the big guys. What the fuck is she Senator of? Louisiana or the Congress. God she is angry that her homes have been damaged! There are people here whose lives are being irreperably damaged and u cry over a house. Fucking wonderful! Here's what I am talking about.

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This microphone explode, shattering The molds Ya eighter drop tha hits like de la o or get tha Fuck off tha commode Wit tha sure shot, sure ta make tha Bodies drop Drop an don’t copy yo, don’t call this A co-opt Terror rains drenchin’, quenchin’ tha thirst of Tha power dons That five sided fist-a-gon Tha rotten sore on the face of mother earth gets Bigger Tha triggers cold empty ya purse They

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That we knew this was gonna happen and we still let it happen. How the fuck were the poor people with no cars and money supposed to evacuate? Where the hell were the buses moving people from the Superdome? Why is all this happening after the event? Like so many havesaid before Hope is not a plan. For a country this rich, could the government not have taken over the evacuation. For

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Ken from Melbourne, Australia writes: "I first heard of you when driving back to Melbourne from Adelaide when you were interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Company. I subsequently purchased some of your books and the theories you put forward opened up a completely new way to appreciate

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Ron from the Internet writes: "I wonder if fiddling around on the periphery on the issues of gay and lesbian rights can ever yield what the Church lacks: a compelling vision which, if received and fulfilled, would improve humanity as a whole. Christianity has no unique truth and its claims, like those of all various religions,

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Do not own it. Yet :D

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Or as Brian Leiter puts it, Hey, Democrats Can be Mass-Murderers and Criminal War Mongers Too! Oliver Willis is an insensitive prick if he feels proud of the bomb. How the fuck did the nuclear bomb become a matter of pride? Being tough on security is not the same as bombing people, is it? If this is the way to win votes, I would rather not win it. Yup, this truly is sick.

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After releasing your book 9-11, many reporters have said that you are anti-American. Others even suggest that you should pack up and move to another country since you believe America to be a leading terrorist state. How do you respond to such remarks? CHOMSKY: The concept "anti-American" is an interesting one. The counterpart is

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with what goes for the mainstream Left in this country. Claim you read Chomsky when you were a youth (a callow youth I would imagine) and were a radical. You saw the error of your ways and now denounce Chomsky's views and call him anti-American, no matter how foolish that term is. Contrary to what you thought when you were a radical, the media is not a tool for the vested

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Well this is the XIth commandment. Thou shall covet and steal thy neighbors oil. Everyone has gone over Pat Robertson's ramblings on air, but one thing that struck me there was that he was explicit about it being the oil. What was striking about it was that he felt entitled to Venezuelan oil. It was like he thought that Venezuela had to be America's fiefdom, because it had the oil America

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Man of God. The God being Macho Jesus ofcourse. This is what I am talking about. A Christian leader calling for someone's assasination. I truly have seen it all. Sigh.

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I would not have believed it if someone told me that I would inspire the creation of three blogs. Yes you heard it right, no less than three blogs owe their existence to me. Two of them owe their existence to that pathetic troll of mine, Amit Manavalan while the other one is by a Hindu fundie who has decided to copy an article from a right wing publication. My only grouse is that both these guys

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Brother will kill brother Spilling blood across the land Killing for religion Something I don’t understand Fools like me,who cross the sea And come to foreign lands Ask the sheep,for their beliefs Do you kill on god’s command? A country that’s divided Surely will not stand My past erased,no more disgrace No foolish naive stand The end is near,it’s crystal clear Part of the master plan Don’t

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What do all these have in common? They are all bullshit. Anyone wondering why these otherwise unconnected terms form my title need to look at attempts by the Hindu right to make astrology a course in Universities. These morons want astrology to be called science and the previous government under the right wing BJP even allocated funds for it to be taught in colleges. Dear Sir/Madam,

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As well as I know that this comic is more about Intelligent Design, I know plenty of people out there who would see nothing wrong with the last piece in the strip and the title is meant to infuriate my friend in Saint Louis.Comic via Shakespeare's Sister who is not on my blogroll only cos I have not gotten my ass around to updating it.

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What's Going OnMarvin GayeMother, mother, there's too many of you cryingBrother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dyingYou know we'ver got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today, heyFather, father, we don't need to escalateWar is not the answer, for only love can conquer hateYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here todayCHORUS #1:Picket lines and picket

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Dr.B had a post the other day about misogyny in every day life. Well here's presenting her the best in Indian misogyny. And I found this in a teen magazine. (Thanks to Aparna) I wonder what kind of questions these guys were asked to come up with such dumbass answers. The Link Guys love girls, or do they? After reading what they've got to say, you will

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They also said there were now 350 ways of insulting someone -- from "chucklehead" to "muppet" -- ten times more than there were complimentary expressions. Confused? Then you need to refer to the new Oxford Dictionary of English to understand a host of new words that appear for the first time in its latest edition. Among the new entries are "potty-mouthed" (meaning using or characterized

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That someone has gone so far as to create two blogs with the express purpose of commenting on my blogspot blog. And it speaks volumes when he chose to call his second blog my full name appended with sucks.Do I matter so much to you Amit Manavalan that you went ahead and created two new blogs? I am flattered you would do that. So go ahead and keep spouting your ignorant bullshit. You only

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Regardless of what you think about the merits of the war in Iraq, you are an asshole if you cast aspersions on a mother who has lost her son. Shame on you who seek to besmirch her, bring her down and go so low as to claim that her son wouldn't have wanted this to happen. That to me says more about you than Cindy Sheehan. The fact that you seek to stake a claim over her dead son calling her

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Thanks be to thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits which thou hast given us; for all the pains and insults which thou hast borne for us.O most merciful redeemer friend and brother, may we know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, and follow thee more nearly for thine own sakeRichard of Chicester , England 13th century

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Prayer is the soul's sincerest desire, unfettered or expressed, the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast. James Montgomery 1818

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Watched Sin City. What a ride, what a wild ride ! A weirdly wonderful movie figuring out ever inventive ways of killing people and managing to make it look cartoonish at the same time. The funny part was watching the people in front of us. They had brought children (3 young boys ranging from 8 to 10, 2 older ones maybe 12-14, a girl and a boy and one older girl maybe 18-20 and one older woman

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Michael Owen. A guy with his knack for scoring goals cannot find a place in a team despite doing well with the limited opportunities he had last season. Makes one wonder what he was thinking when he signed on to play for Madrid. He has gone from being a hero in Liverpool to being a perennial sub in Madrid, which surely he or his agent must have been able to foresee. Owen is not as exciting a

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Spooked me. Watch an octopus reveal a startling ability. As did this. A humming bird's demise. Via P Z Myers,doing the unenviable task of fighting the ignorant creationists and their intellectually bankrupt backers.

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A man who spent nearly 18 years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit was released from prison Monday after new tests of DNA evidence cleared him. Prosecutors joined defense attorneys on Monday in asking a judge to free Thomas Doswell, 44, after DNA in the case was retested by the nonprofit Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law in New York. "These tests

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Just days before the recent Bombay floods that killed close to 1,000 people, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned from a visit to the United States where he boasted about his country's growing economic clout and nuclear capability. But critics say the death and destruction wrought by last week's monsoon rains reinforce India's image as a poor, undeveloped country unable to care

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The problem is, though, that rather than eradicate this disease from their organisations - by recruiting and promoting minority journalists so they can influence the news agenda - the press, in particular, have merely picked on a few symbolic cases as some kind of totemic symbol of their right-on-ness. And for the most part, across the rest of their pages they've continued to spout

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An 11-year-old girl who threw a rock at a boy during a water balloon fight escaped jail time Wednesday on an assault with a deadly weapon charge as she was ordered to talk about the fight with her young victim. Maribel Cuevas was prepared to face a felony trial when lawyers reached a deal behind closed doors that allowed her to avoid pleading guilty. Cuevas spent five days in juvenile

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Just when I thought that the little troll had got a life of its own, comes its comments here and in my blogspot blog. And I have to break my vow to not engage this sorry creature cos its only fair that it gets the attention it so desperately craves.For a guy who said Hi and asked why I wudn't chat with him on MSN Messenger, this sure is funny. Is someone feeling rejected? And whats with the

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