Sex
"If you can't get into Love", check out its "downscale sibling", where the fare is "sometimes sub-par" but "service is way faster". Devotees say the "cheap but addictive" menu really "hits the spot" while dissenters warn that "satisfaction is not guaranteed". The establishment's cleanliness is "several blocks from Godliness", they say, and wonder if "a call to the Board of Health may not be in order". But even the most sceptical admit that "as empty calories go, these dishes totally rock".
So it turns out the Yale student who said she impregnated herself only to abort her embryos using "herbal" methods several times over for an art project, totally pulled one over on everyone. She didn't really get pregnant a bunch of times, and she didn't really give herself abortions. According to a statement the entire stunt — Shvarts' press release, visual presentation, and narrative materials — was all part of Shvarts' real art project: Proving people are gullible weenies.
His “Aliza Shvarts” pendant is all a-swirl with red - reminiscent of roses, cherries jubilee, and miscarried baby brain juice - and retails for $45.00. Chains are not included, but we think this would look absolutely lovely paired with faux-Native American leather fringe boots and leopard-print culottes.
As Pugh puts it, "I think there will always be a need, or want, within fashion to escape into another world, and if it's a universe where women can fly and men release fire balls from the palms of their hands, then so be it!"
But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.
The researchers say that pollution is dramatically cutting the distance travelled by the scent of flowers. "Scent molecules produced by flowers in a less polluted environment could travel for roughly 1,000 to 1,200 metres. But today they may travel only 200 to 300 metres. This makes it increasingly difficult for bees and other insects to locate the flowers."
“We lost the war — not because we were outfought, but because we were out Psyoped,” he wrote. He urged a radically new approach to psychological operations in future wars — taking aim at not just foreign adversaries but domestic audiences, too. He called his approach “MindWar” — using network TV and radio to “strengthen our national will to victory.”
A Day in the Life - 04.04.08
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Football: Moroccan minnows on verge of sensational success
by Allan Williams
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JOHANNESBURG, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - Rachad Barnoussi are not good enough to play top-flight football in Morocco.
According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the latest film of the actress and Egyptian singer legend Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.
Israel now wants the West Bank to be turned into Tel Aviv while Hamas reflects what the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was back in 1986. Arab leaders are sitting down, also playing the game.
"And that is why veterans are the best peacekeepers. They know the value of human life. Even though they might smoke or drink, the sense of justice in them is the strongest."
Russia was the big white elephant in the Romanian parliament building and was the first black model to appear on the covers of Time magazine and both French and British Vogue.
Everybody sensed that this was heading toward disaster. King expressed premonitions of his murder in the “Mountaintop” speech. City officials worried about his assassination to reporters. The K.K.K. stayed out of Memphis so it wouldn’t get blamed if he was killed.
When the abuses at Abu Ghraib became public, we were told these were the depraved actions of a few soldiers. The Yoo memo makes it chillingly apparent that senior officials authorized unspeakable acts and went to great lengths to shield themselves from prosecution.
It was that the American public would be horribly offended by the idea of a nuclear death toll that included hundreds of thousands of men, women and children plus one monkey. Leave the monkeys out of it, they would have said. Just slaughter those Russians yourself.
"He said: 'There are 12 infallible Imams, and there are 12 Mahdis. The first of the Mahdis is Ahmad ibn Al-Hassan.' I asked him: 'How can it be that he is the first of the Mahdis?' He told me that [Ahmad ibn Al-Hassan] has all the markings - a scar on his back, a mark here on his forehead, something in his eye... They wanted me to carry out operations, but I said I wasn't mentally prepared for that, because I had just left a large political movement, and so on. I started lying to them to evade those military operations. At that point, I was beginning to have my suspicions that this was not really a movement of the Imam Al-Mahdi or his son. Right. I saw that they had DShK machine-guns. Does the Imam Al-Mahdi need to use DShK machine-guns?!
Football: Moroccan minnows on verge of sensational success
by Allan Williams
=(FILE PICTURE)=
JOHANNESBURG, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - Rachad Barnoussi are not good enough to play top-flight football in Morocco.
According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the latest film of the actress and Egyptian singer legend Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.
Israel now wants the West Bank to be turned into Tel Aviv while Hamas reflects what the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was back in 1986. Arab leaders are sitting down, also playing the game.
"And that is why veterans are the best peacekeepers. They know the value of human life. Even though they might smoke or drink, the sense of justice in them is the strongest."
Russia was the big white elephant in the Romanian parliament building and was the first black model to appear on the covers of Time magazine and both French and British Vogue.
Everybody sensed that this was heading toward disaster. King expressed premonitions of his murder in the “Mountaintop” speech. City officials worried about his assassination to reporters. The K.K.K. stayed out of Memphis so it wouldn’t get blamed if he was killed.
When the abuses at Abu Ghraib became public, we were told these were the depraved actions of a few soldiers. The Yoo memo makes it chillingly apparent that senior officials authorized unspeakable acts and went to great lengths to shield themselves from prosecution.
It was that the American public would be horribly offended by the idea of a nuclear death toll that included hundreds of thousands of men, women and children plus one monkey. Leave the monkeys out of it, they would have said. Just slaughter those Russians yourself.
"He said: 'There are 12 infallible Imams, and there are 12 Mahdis. The first of the Mahdis is Ahmad ibn Al-Hassan.' I asked him: 'How can it be that he is the first of the Mahdis?' He told me that [Ahmad ibn Al-Hassan] has all the markings - a scar on his back, a mark here on his forehead, something in his eye... They wanted me to carry out operations, but I said I wasn't mentally prepared for that, because I had just left a large political movement, and so on. I started lying to them to evade those military operations. At that point, I was beginning to have my suspicions that this was not really a movement of the Imam Al-Mahdi or his son. Right. I saw that they had DShK machine-guns. Does the Imam Al-Mahdi need to use DShK machine-guns?!
On the Demerits of Modernity or why slutty behaviour should no longer be risque
Here's something to titillate you.
Miss Bimbo is an online registration game where you get a "bimbo" to tend to.
The goal of the game is to make your Bimbo the " the hottest of hot Bimbos," which involves dating "that famous hottie," becoming a "socialite and skyrocket[ing] to the top of fame and popularity," and even resorting "to meds or plastic surgery", because girls should "Stop at nothing to become the reigning bimbo!"
The catch, is that the game has over 200,000 users who are between the ages seven to seventeen.
The average age is nine to twelve year old females.
How wholesome.
You can read more about this here, and here, and here.
Notice how in order to validate my claims, i provided several links to various websites. It comes from a habit garnered during the time i would write academic papers. The trick is that you always make sure that whatever you are saying, or reporting, is attributed to someone, somewhere.
It's not really a trick as much as its the law. or the rule.
it extends to journalism as well for example. if you don't attribute your claim, then you are just stating an opinion. any information, in order to be regarded as legitimate 'truth', requires for it to be backed up by someone.
but not just anyone. someone of authority. and the more someones you have, the more authoritative your 'truth' becomes. essentially then, contemporary times require that truth be a collaborative entity. the falling tree does not make any sound if there is no one to hear it.
that leads to the creation of a cataclysmic disconnect between what is perceived reality, and what is legally reality. if you can't prove it, it doesn't exist. of course, it is the preserve of sad blogger types to whine incessantly about how such situations are somehow debasing some vague notion of what 'should' be, but the fact of the matter is that this is it. how things 'are.'
but this collaboration in the creation/verification of truth is an intrinsic facet of the contemporary/western/modernized world. by having something which can be proven, you can apply a law to it. in order for laws to exist and function, there must be a ready manner for reality to be determined and be acted upon so that 'justice' can be ultimately delivered.
And modernity, as Weber foresaw, is big on rules and laws.
but if our sense of justice is based upon a system which requires you to fashion truth upon a foundation of authority, and that sense of authority resides solely within institutions and not personalities*, then some intriguing conclusions can be drawn.
*(Its a well established fact that the idea of authority stemming from individuals is a throwback from the bad days of monarchs and absolute power. Modern ideas of authority are intrinsically rooted in the ideas of institutions being the purveyors of all things worth being obeyed.just take my word for it.)
because we can now claim that we do not have to affiliate ourselves to what we know to be traditional (also known as indigenous, cultural etc) values or morals, but rather to institutions of our choosing. and institutions can be defined as “established law, practice, or custom.” Customs are “a traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time”
Now in a world of i-want-it-i-got-it individuality customs can be rapidly established, especially those of a viral web-savvy nature. but in order for customs to be established as institutions they require validation, from some sort of institutional authority. and something like ms. bimbo can achieve that validation simply by becoming a popular website. because once you are popular, you have achieved celebrity, and celebrity status can bestow institutional authority.
i concede, that last statement was a head-spinner.
the reasons i would equate celebrity to institutional authority are many, but i would boil them down to five letters – Paris.
as in the hilton heiress. despite all your protests, what paris does is increasingly followed around the world. for all that rankles about her, people accept her as some sort of authority on how to live “the good life.”if nothing else, it can be proven that the world is extremely interested in her. a google search for her throws up 80 million websites. a search for pope benedict xvi throws up 5 million websites. george w bush, arguably the world's most powerful head of state, shows up on 49 million websites. so we can see that paris fascinates the world.
but what i must stress here is that it is not paris who is an institution, but rather her status as a celebrity. the institution here is celebrity, not paris hilton. the comparison with bush and the pope was to explain that celebrity dwarves both religion and politics. and like the pope and bush, paris won't be around forever. but in our epoch, the preeminence of celebrity as an institution will be unquestioned.
soooo, did the idea of 7 year olds jostling for breast jobs bother you? have you realised now why it shouldn't?
its how things are now. face it.
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