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Was it racism? Gardner says it was placism, not racism. “I had never gone to college, did not come from a politically connected family and had no money of my own. That’s placism, not racism [because] that could affect anybody.

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“Placism

The first thing we can do is extend the usual bases for unjust discrimination - sex, race, age, etc., - to include location. The home and the womb are locations, places. I therefore propose the word “placism” (rhymes with racism) to denote discrimination against stay-at-home mothers and unborn children. Societies are placist when they devalue unpaid work in the home. Governments practice placial discrimination if they tax single-income homes more steeply than others. Judges are placially intolerant when they deny rights in the womb that they affirm in the cradle. The feminist movement is a cauldron of placism because of its support of abortion.

Placism is more common than we might think. We are apt to overlook it because until now it has lacked a name. The tendency of socialist governments to subordinate rural to urban interests is placially inspired. Country bumpkin, in fact, is a placial epithet ep·i·thet  
n.
1.
a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.

b. . Tariffs that enrich industrialists in one part of a nation at the expense of consumers in another might well be placist. So might subsidies that discourage workers from moving out of depressed areas.”

“The application of the death penalty has been shown time and again to be fundamentally flawed. It is bound by racism, whether the participants in the machinery of death are white or black; by “placism,” where one lives in Nebraska or across the river in Iowa; and by classism, whether one is rich or poor. Capital punishment is an inherently flawed and barbaric practice. The NAACP remains steadfastly committed to common sense, morality, and justice. The NAACP,
therefore, calls upon this Legislature to abolish capital punishment. Thank you.”

pdf:
Nebraska Judiciary Committee transcript

Naacp spokesperson at a public hearing.
(Leola J. Bullock, on behalf of the NAACP, the Lincoln branch)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, in Room 1113 of the State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska,

NAACP

the first Hispanic to be named to Obama’s Cabinet.

Dolphin & Whale Massacre in Europe

As someone who has worked in the White House as an advisor to President Bill Clinton, Terry Edmonds knows politics. He also knows from which he speaks when it comes to how race and politics have co-existed in America. In the aftermath of what has been an amazing historical event, with the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America, he offers his unique perspective.

I, along with many of my baby boomer African-American friends listened in semidisbelief. For as long as we could remember, whenever talk at the kitchen table or barber shop would veer into speculation about a possible black president, the conversation would inevitably abruptly end, punctuated by four final words—”not in our lifetime.”

Telefonbolagen lockar med allt lägre samtalskostnader. Men bakom de låga priserna finns dolda kostnader som gör att priset för mobilsamtal i stället ökar.Talar du i telefon i en minut och en sekund så tar två av tre abonnemang i dag betalt för två minuter, enligt SVT:s Rapport. För bara fyra år sedan betalade åtta av tio en samtalskostnad som exakt motsvarade samtalstiden, men i dag får en majoritet betala per påbörjad minut.

Förnedrings programmen har inga gränser och hur kommer det här utvecklas bland ungdomar som växer upp med skiten?

Endast 6 procent tror att donationerna leder till ett bättre samhälle, skriver Wall Streets Journals kolumnist Robert Frank.

Med fasa upptäckte lärarna på Spånga gymnasium hur Mastiffs casting urartade till förnedring. En av eleverna fick en svabb, som använts till toalettstädning, satt i munnen. “Det var en riktigt dålig idé”, säger Mastiffs vd Karin Hellström till Dagens Media.

It was act two in the rehabilitation of Joe Lieberman.

Miss South Carolina USA & Miss South Carolina Teen USA

Why did you decide to join the family business?It was sort of obvious for me to work within the family company. We are working on some of the most significant, the sexiest jobs around the world now. And my father is the best at what he does in an industry I always wanted to enter.

What Does Africa Need : Entrepreneurialism, Technology or Aid?

- I saw the headline, spontaneously thought about McCain: and it was him they were referring to!

- An example of when the concept of reinvention goes terribly wrong (or is simply abused)

From The Siege (1998/I)General William Devereaux: Are you questioning my patriotism?Anthony ‘Hub’ Hubbard: I am questioning your judgment!General William Devereaux: [after a pause] I am here serving my president, and quite possibly not in the best interests of our nation. My profession does not allow me to make that kind of distincti

It was also notable that Cosby’s race was never an issue in any of the stories.[1] Nor was his character in any way subservient to Culp’s, with the exception that Culp’s “Kelly Robinson” was a more experienced agent. (Culp revealed in his audio commentary on the DVD release that he and Cosby agreed early on that “Our statement is a nonstatement” regarding race, and the subject was never discussed again.)

Gaddafi Says Obama Election Is Victory For Blacks

Pro-life and quality of life, apparently, are two separate issues. In many cases, these same groups will attempt to block the removal of a feeding tube from a terminally ill brain-dead woman, but will simultaneously stand behind legislation which blocks the medical treatment of otherwise healthy children doomed by nothing more than being born to parents holding fundamentalist beliefs?

Madeline Kara Neumann

Karin Pettersson

Story Highlights

• NEW: Only 16 percent think the country is headed in the right direction
• NEW: Three-quarters believe President-elect Obama will be a good president
• Over three-quarters, 76 percent, disapprove of President Bush
• Bush approval rating is lower than President Nixon’s after Watergate

• Barack Obama har sagt att han ska anlägga en basketplan när han tar Vita huset i besittning.DN

…såg nyblivna föräldrar sin chans att hedra den nyvalde och samtidigt ge ett värdigt namn till sina nyfödda söner.Kanske trodde föräldrarna att deras namnidé var unik, men faktum är att hela sex av tio nyfödda pojkar på det största sjukhuset i Freetown, Sierra Leone, under natten och förmiddagen gavs namnet Barack Obama

– Under de 30 år som gått sedan dess har jag förfinat verktygen och arbetat ut kuren in i minsta genomtänkta och beprövade detalj. Vilket inte är gjort på en kafferast som man kanske kan tro, eftersom det inte handlar om ett gäng knappar att trycka på utan en process.

För vilka barn är sova hela natten-kuren lämplig?
– Alla. De två barn av ca 800 jag inte lyckats så bra med under åren hade fått nervmedicin utan min vetskap. De skulle ha avgiftats först.
– Myten om att små barn inte skulle vilja, kunna eller behöva sova på nätterna är lika seglivad som otäck. Det har blivit en läskig truism - med barn i huset kan man säga adjöss till både egentid och nattsömn!

Det är svårt att arbeta mot ett mål när det jag tänker och känner ändras flera gånger om dagen.

började kontrollera obehagliga känslor genom att inte äta och skära sig. När hon flyttade hemifrån för att gå på gymnasiet accelererade hennes självskadande och hon klarade inte skolan längre. Efter ett par självmordsförsök skrevs hon in på en sluten psykiatrisk avdelning och blev kvar där i närmare ett år.

- Så här efteråt tycker jag att det var jättedåligt att de inte hade andra resurser än slutenvård. Jag var ju bara 17 år.

Avdelningen blev hennes liv, och det som fanns utanför spelade allt mindre roll.

- Tonåren är ju en ganska känslig tid och jag hade min tonårsrevolt inom psykiatrin. Men när jag protesterade mot de väldigt inrutade reglerna med destruktivitet, så såg man det som tecken på min sjukdom i stället för en kanske sund reaktion på en onormal omgivning.

Till slut skrevs hon ut av psykiatrin som ett hopplöst fall. Det kan ha varit ett utslag av språkförbistring men orden från en utländsk läkare blev ödesdigra: “Nu har vi försökt allt, det är fel på din personlighet och vi kan inte hjälpa dig, sa han”.

Frågan om hur ert gemensamma liv ska utformas är inget som ensidigt kan dikteras av dig utan något ni behöver prata ihop er om.

Jag är 26 år gammal och jag har aldrig förut haft ett seriöst [???] förhållande. Men jag letar alltid efter den perfekte killen och gång på gång väljer jag en kille som egentligen inte är intresserad av mig.

I början är jag helt uppfylld av honom och övertygad om att han förr eller senare kommer att inse att jag också är perfekt för honom. [???] Men det händer aldrig.

Den senaste tiden har jag umgåtts med en kille som jag blev kär [???] i, men sedan fick jag veta att han inte kände likadant och som alltid blir jag helt knäckt.

Jag förstår att det här egentligen är ett problem hos mig.

Jag har en sådan dålig självkänsla att jag ser ett förhållande som en bekräftelse på att jag är värd något, men jag begår samma misstag gång på gång och jag orkar inte ha det så längre.

Jag vet inte vad jag ska göra för att undgå att hamna i den här situationen hela tiden.

[Sofie]

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Vad sägs om ärlighet? Handlar om självbedrägeri och bedrägeri, inte självkänsla.

Jenny Clevström är journalist utbildad i New York. Här bloggar hon från valrörelsen, finanskrisen och vardagen i USA.

flummare

Enligt Amnesty International har bara ett litet antal irakier sökt asyl i Danmark. Under 2006 var antalet 519 medan det under 2007 steg till 1.071, men det är inklusive de 374 tolkar och andra irakier som arbetade för de danska trupperna.

Södertäljes kommunalråd Anders Lago (s) träffade Barack Obama i april i år då kongressen höll en utfrågning om mottagningen av flyktingar från Irak. Lago var inbjuden att berätta om Södertälje och de många irakierna där.

Enligt Lago sade Obama att han skämdes över att USA inte tagit ansvar för civilbefolkningen i Irak och flyktingarna från landet.

Det var i onsdags polisen anlände minuterna efter skottlossningen i St Johns, ett samhälle med 4.000 invånare 25 mil nordöst om Phoenix. Där hittade de en man skjuten utanför dörren och den andre död en trappa upp.

Pojken hade tagit sig till grannarnas hus och berättat att han trodde att hans far var död.

Melnick sade att polisen fått ett erkännande från pojken, men pojkens försvarsadvokat Benjamin Brewer sade att polisen förhört honom utan att han fick ha förälder eller advokat med sig och att han inte upplystes om sina rättigheter.

- De anklagade honom väldigt tidigt i förhöret, sade Brewer. Två poliser med vapen vid sin sida, det är mycket skrämmande för ett åttaårigt barn.

Any of a range of substances, natural or synthetic, administered to humans and animals as therapeutic agents: to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease, or to assist recovery from injury.

Legal highs are nothing new. Paul Anand, manager of Shiva, the shop in Greenwich, London, where I bought my salvia, has been selling them for 15 years,

These shootings have three things in common: 1) The shooters are young males. 2) The shooters exhibit a mind-numbed disconnect with reality. 3) The shooters have a history of taking psychiatric medications.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is perhaps the best known fictitious disease invented to sell psychotropic drugs, but there are many other made-up diseases such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

The first hard evidence of psychoactive drug use in the ancient Andes has been discovered in mummies’ hair,

Lachenmeier and his colleagues analyzed 13 samples of absinthe from old, sealed bottles in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the United States dated back to the early 1900s before the ban. After uncorking the bottles, they found relatively small concentrations of thujone in that absinthe, about the same as those in modern varieties.

Absinthe’s mind-altering mystery solved - LiveScience- msnbc.com

absinthe — the kind once quaffed by the likes of van Gogh and Picasso to enhance their creativity

green liqueur

The century-old absinthe contained about 70 percent alcohol

psychedelic nature

Absinthe was notorious among 19th-century and early 20th-century bohemian artists as “the Green Fairy” that expanded the mind.

toxic compounds

a chemical named thujone in wormwood, one of the herbs used to prepare absinthe
Thujone was blamed for “absinthe madness”

“absinthism,” a collection of symptoms including hallucinations, facial tics, numbness and dementia.

researcher Dirk Lachenmeier, a chemist with the Chemical and Veterinary Investigation Laboratory of Karlsruhe in Germany.

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome of absinthism,” Lachenmeier said. (Ethanol is a word for common drinking alcohol.)

The scientists are set to detail their findings in the May 14 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Mind-altering drugs at the Olympics

performance-enhancing

recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO)

 endurance athletes

gives endurance athletes more positive feelings about themselves

psychological consequences

Philippe Connes, a sports scientist at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe

 injections

hedonic effect

Erythropoietin

A synthetic recombinant form

The volunteers receiving rHuEPO felt much better about their physical condition and strength than control subjects.

endocrine functions

EPO receptors in the brainld.

Floyd

- Det var inte så att vi inte var intima, vi var det inte bara helt och hållet,

How is she holding up? She avoids burnout by escaping to her husband’s family farm in Sweetwater, Tenn.

“I find it so stunning that the very people who introduced us to Sarah Palin, who told us she would make a great Vice President, have now turned on her with a vengeance,” Brown said. “They are the top advisers to John McCain’s failed campaign and they are desperate right now to find someone to blame for their long list of mistakes.”

On Comedy Central’s election special Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert appeared to tear up after Jon Stewart announced that Barack Obama had won the election.

If John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.

If John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.

If John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think he can run a corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis? Apparently even the people who run his campaign agree that the economy is an issue John McCain doesn’t understand as well as he should.

Republican ticket mates John McCain and Sarah Palin Monday blasted corporate executives who leave their company with a “golden parachute” and pledged to “stop multimillion dollar payouts” to CEOs, seeming to forget their own top economic adviser Carly Fiorina walked away with $45 million, including a $21.4 million severance package when she was dismissed by Hewlett Packard in 2005.

Motive

I don’t think you ‘get’ why he called his book no dogs no blacks no Irish.

CNN’s Ralitsa Vassileva talks with Princeton University professor Cornel West about Barack Obama presidential victory.

Vassileva: “All my black American friends cried”

Why did she continue to see him? “I was stupid. What more can I say?”

Obama wins in the UK 1:42CNN’s Atika Shubert visits one of London’s predominately black communities to get reaction on Barack Obama’s win.

Having glimpsed the victims of Katrina, the jailers of Abu Ghraib and the failed financiers of Wall Street, the world can see the next president of the United States. He is a symbol of what America wants to be now.

Young voices speak on Obama win

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The International Herald Tribune said that America had “leaped” across the color line, calling Obama “a 47-year-old black man who made history both because of his race and in spite of it.”

# John McCain met with boos as he pledged to work with Barack Obama

Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior than among those who have tamer viewing tastes. “Sex and the City,” anyone? That was one of the shows used in the research.

So if the Muslim world wants to hold our feet to the fire, it should hold its own rulers to the same standards it applies to Israel. Yet in the end, other people’s hypocrisy should not excuse our own. We cannot fix other people’s double standards, but we can address our own, and speaking out much more forcefully against the construction of the Israeli ‘’security fence'’ on Palestinian land would be a good place to start.

“It’s Malaysia’s Guantanamo,”

the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature…through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear.”

- I Irak provade man olika genrer och upptäckte att country var det som fungerade bäst där. Vid tortyr ingår en regelmässighet: offret utsätts för huva, sinnesavtrubbning och hög musik samtidigt.

Dessutom har hon i programmet “Idol 2008 - Eftersnack” kallat en idoldeltagare för “bögig” och en annan för “tjock”.

At one point, his interviewer asked the question that is on all our minds: “Should wise people have known better?” Of course, they should have, Buffett replied, but there’s a “natural progression” to how good new ideas go wrong. He called this progression the “three Is.” First come the innovators, who see opportunities that others don’t. Then come the imitators, who copy what the innovators have done. And then come the idiots, whose avarice undoes the very innovations they are trying to use to get rich.

Over the past few weeks, I grew sick of listening to “big picture” stories on the financial crisis that only covered the last 5 to 10 years. That’s not the big picture. If anything, that’s the small-to-medium picture.

Far too often, managers think they have found the solution to this problem when they see lots of energetic activity: where people sometimes run from meeting to meeting, preparing endless PowerPoint presentations; where people have agendas containing a long list of activities; where people seem willing to abandon the status quo; where people seem to have a great sense of urgency. But more often than not, this flurry of behavior is not driven by any underlying determination to move and win, now. It’s driven by pressures that create anxiety and anger. The resulting frantic activity is more distracting than useful. This is a false sense of urgency that may be even more destructive than complacency because it drains needed energy in activity and not productivity.

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in a relationship with a woman who controlled my every action. I was actually faithful to her throughout all that time, only to find out she was married!

‘—a woman did this to me once. I recommended meditation and she said, ‘Oh, I did that. I went in the closet. I spent 20 minutes in there. Nothing happened.’

Cheryl Richardson

When no one would print Louise’s book You Can Heal Your Life, she did it herself by founding Hay House publishing. That book has gone on to sell 35 million copies and was made into a movie, and Hay House has gone on to become an almost $400 million business!

ljudi su psihički preslabi

Translated version of http://mysteriousadalia.blog.hr/

Ne volem zlobne ljude.

Vill ni värva Linda Rosing, hon har försökt sig på poker?– Det är ingen seriös satsning. Hon kan ingenting om poker. Vi vill inte förknippas med henne, säger Martin Bunge-Meyer som också ansvarar för den lite okonventionella rekryteringen.

Aktiemäklare och pokerspelare har nämligen mycket gemensamt,

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I’ve traveled the world with Paris and she is an amazing person. I’ve learned so much from her! She really showed me a lot.

Kardashian grew up with an almost fairy-tale childhood. She was the second child, born to Kris and prominent defense attorney Robert Kardashian.

The basic premise behind thought stopping is that if anxiety provoking thoughts are paired with relaxation, their repetitiveness can be reduced exponentially which results in anxiety reduction. In other words, if the thoughts that make you nervous become associated with relaxation, they will be reduced. While initially you may have a repetitive thought that interferes with your daily thoughts 600 times a day, using this technique you can usually cut it in half on a daily basis. This means that you can reduce these recurrent thoughts to just 5 times a day in seven days’ time. The method by which thought stopping is achieved is quite simple. 1. When experiencing a recurring thought that causes anxiety, you should first say “Stop.” This introduces the idea to yourself to stop having these thoughts. You can say it out loud or to yourself but this is a necessary first step.

Denoting the psychological dynamics that occur inside the mind without reference to the individual’s exchanges with other persons or events.

<psychology> The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychophysiological responses to anticipation of unreal or imagined danger, ostensibly resulting from unrecognised intrapsychic conflict.

<psychology> A persistent, irrational, intense fear of a specific object, activity or situation (the phobic stimulus), fear that is recognised as being excessive or unreasonable by the individual himself.

When a phobia is a significant source of distress or interferes with social functioning, it is considered a mental disorder, phobic disorder (or neurosis). In DSM III phobic disorders are subclassified as agoraphobia, social phobias and simple phobias. Used as a word termination denoting irrational fear of or aversion to the subject indicated by the stem to which it is affixed.

2. <psychology> The process by which an emotional or behavioural response that is appropriate for one situation appears in another situation for which it is inappropriate.

A manifestation characterised by such defenses as conversion, dissociation, displacement, phobia formation, or repetitive thoughts and acts being utilised to handle anxiety; in contrast to psychotic manifestation’s, gross distortion or falsification of reality is not exhibited, and gross disintegration of the personality is not usually observed.

There are two types of instinctive stress response that are important to how we understand stress and stress management: the short-term “Fight-or-Flight” response and the long-term “General Adaptation Syndrome”. The first is a basic survival instinct, while the second is a long-term effect of exposure to stress. A third mechanism comes from the way that we think and interpret the situations in which we find ourselves.