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POPSThe Voices in Your Head – a Zen cartoon I'm a big fan (if that's an appropriate way to put it) of the work of Zen teacher Cheri Huber. Her books (in particular The Depression Book and (Regardless of What You Were Taught To Believe) There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Going Beyond Self-Hate ) and listening to the weekly Open Air Talk Radio podcast she hosts (archives available online going back to November 2002 btw) have helped me go from being suicidally depressed a few years ago to spending the majority of my time in the emotional range between "content" and "happy" these days, with occasional surges into "joyful". I highly recommend them to, well, pretty much anyone. "The Voices" is a cartoon series based on the ideas in her teaching. It's a light-hearted way of looking at the conditioned thought patterns that we usually don't notice but which keep us locked in suffering and self-hat
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POPSSelf-Referential Manufactured Outrage Alert see if you can find a post which even takes the Palestinian groups to task for their launching of rockets into Israel, suicide bombings, or any of the other atrocities the Religion of Peace likes to engage in, targeting civilians on purpose!
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POPSNo, Of Course Hamas Is Not "Holding Gaza Hostage" but because the Palestinians were fed up with Fatah corruption. That's not true of course. But even if it was - so what? The Palestinian public was distraught about stolen EU funds so they embraced pathological genocidal lunatics? The last rally that Hamas held before Operation Cast Lead - the quite literally barbaric one where they mocked Shalit - was attended by 10% of the Gaza population. So I'm thinking that maybe there's genuine support for Hamas in the area. And that there are real costs to pretending otherwise: Hamas Mocks Shalit At Gigantic Rally: "I miss my mom and dad." http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275202.html ity may be a natural emotional reaction, yet it is unethical and immoral. To pity the people of Gaza is to patronize them, in essence implying that they do not control their fate, the state of their government, or their own actions.
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POPSFreebase - a database about everything Part of what makes this open database unique is that it spans domains, but requires that a particular topic exist only once in Freebase -- even if it might normally be found in multiple databases. For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger would appear in a movie database as an actor, a political database as a governor, and in a bodybuilder database as a Mr. Universe. In Freebase, however, there is only one topic for Arnold Schwarzenegger that brings all these facets together. The unified topic is a single reconciled identity, which makes it easier to find and contribute information about the linked world we live in.
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POPS Top Story Of 2009 Speaking of influential documentaries, Hot Air has “The Twelve Days of Global Warming.” Here’s a great story for 2009, via Jawa: Britain rediscovers religion. Islam. http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/195602.php
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POPS The Pelosi GTxi SS/RT, Take 2 Recently though, an Iowahawk reader in the Bay Area alerted me that "Officer Vic" on KSFO had played an audio bit of the piece. It was also uncredited, but I was pleasantly floored by the great voice-over work by Officer Vic. Rather that bitch about it, I decided to do some swiping of my own: Here's the KSFO audio version of my bit, with some video I mashed up for the occasion. The Pelosi GTxi SS/RT, Take 1 http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/fish_barrel_bang/the_pelosi_gtxi.php
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POPSLibrophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.
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POPSWTF::Nuclear Agreements With Middle-East And United States??? crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, met President George W. Bush at Camp David, according to people familiar with the visit. U.A.E. officials decided to delay the official signing over uncertainties about Mr. Obama's position and possible negative reaction from Congress, according to these officials. In 2006, the U.A.E.'s state-owned DP World had to scrap a plan to purchase the U.S. port holdings of Britain's P&O because of opposition in Congress. The nuclear trafficking network run by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan used Dubai in the U.A.E. as one of its major bases, according to investigations of the Khan network. U.S. officials, however, say the U.A.E. has taken major steps to better manage its export controls and guard against money laundering. H/T debbieschlussel.com http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/12/absurd_dangerou.html
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POPSShare The Twit! Ever wonder how people get those nice "Follow Me" buttons for Twitter? All you had to do was ask!
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POPS華盛頓州超速罰單價錢表 What are the basic fines for speeding? http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/155968.asp
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POPSInternal Perceptions / External Perceptions Within a particular cultural system, you always have to entertain second opinions from interested parties. It is not a contraversial statement that Stalin was evil, internationally. However! In Russia there are still many invested in Stalin and Nationalism who will try to rationalize it. Similarly, internationally, it is not a controversial statement that Bush was a monstrous, hostile, and unjust President. But in America there will people that will argue and try to justify torture and persecution that Bush perpetrated. An apologist is an apologist. If we cannot take responsibility for our own moral lapses, how can we possibly find our moral compass? People who refuse to look beyond their narrow world view discredit themselves.
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POPSGram Parsons @ EmmyLou Harris--That,s All It Took Americana past images, collage ; Archives of the heart from country rockers Gram Parsons (RIP) and iconic song bird EmmyLou Harris that carried on in best traditions US country music baring her soul to her dedicated fans of which I,m one.
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