[FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich Presents Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
If you have not seen it, watch the movie Why We Fight by Eugene Jarecki. Available on DVD. Winner Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival 2005. Stars Dwight D Eisenhower. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, amarnath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the thing is people don't want to face the truth that our government and military and warmongering contractors, and all those making money off war are killing and torturing people, making money, deceiving everyone including themselves and ruining America some believe it was Ronald Reagan's tough talk, etc that brought soviet union down it had almost nothing to do with it Soviet Union's economy was alway weak and overextended due to production of military arms, space technology, and military ventures; that's what brought it down; they could not sustain all their foolish ventures while the people starved and now America is foolishly following in SU's footsteps; in a sense America can do much more damage not only to themselves but to the whole world because we started with the strongest economy in the world but that seems to be changing quickly karma is catching up ! the thing is, all of us are complicit in this and what is badly needed is a lot of courageous people to face the truth and to speak up we desperately need people like Gandhi, ML King, and Peace Pilgrim, Kucinich and others with the courage to speak the truth god bless, anatol --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: May Bush's karma catch up with him sooner rather than later. feste37 wrote: I've been watching it. I found it inspiring and moving that Kucinich at least, if few others, has had the guts to stand up to the war criminals and call for the removal of the chief perpetrator. It's long overdue. Of course, it won't happen but it is great to watch Kucinich call for it from the floor of the House. More power to him. Unfortunately, it appears from everything I read that an attack on Iran will come before Bush leaves office -- one parting gift this reckless fool will leave us with. The Bush crazies probably think of it as a twofer -- attack Iran and get McCain elected at the same time. But apparently John Conyers, who is head of something-or-other in Congress, has warned Bush that if he attacks Iran, Conyers will begin impeachment proceedings against him. I wonder if it could backfire on Bush this time and he won't get away with it. But once those bombs start falling on Iran there will be hell to pay -- for all of us, far into the future. It is a very worrying prospect. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Finally!!! On CSPAN now. Stream here: http://c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TVCode=CS http://c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TVCode=CS
[FairfieldLife] Your Homework Assignment
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[FairfieldLife] Parry Article - Plame Affair
US Press Bigwigs Screw Up, Again By Robert Parry Thursday 14 September 2006 So, right-wing columnist Robert Novak now says that Richard Armitage, Novak's initial source on the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, wasn't just some loose-lipped gossip blurting out her name, but rather that Armitage urged Novak to write about Plame's alleged role in her husband's fact-finding trip to Niger. In a Sept. 14 column, Novak calls Armitage's depiction of their conversation in July 2003 deceptive for suggesting that his leaking of Plame's CIA identity was innocent and inadvertent, when Novak recalled it as intentional and even calculating. Yet, for the past two weeks, major Washington journalists have been treating Armitage's account as the gospel truth and, further, as proof that George W. Bush's White House had gotten a bum rap on the Plame-leak scandal. This misplaced conventional wisdom extended from the Washington Post's editorial pages to virtually every major TV chat show - and even touched off another round of personal attacks by Bush allies against Plame's husband, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for having dared to stand up to the President over his false claims that Iraq sought uranium ore from Niger. According to the press pundits, the real victim in the Plame case was Bush's political adviser Karl Rove, who had suffered under suspicions that he had orchestrated a smear campaign against Wilson for becoming, in July 2003, one of the first Washington insiders to accuse Bush of having twisted intelligence to justify invading Iraq. Despite reams of evidence that Rove did participate in such a smear campaign - and also was a source on Plame's identity for at least two journalists - prominent opinion leaders rallied to Rove's defense, chastising news outlets that had pointed fingers at Rove. In a Sept. 7 article, entitled One Leak and a Flood of Silliness, veteran Washington Post columnist David Broder wrote that publications which had made these allegations owe Karl Rove an apology. And all of journalism needs to relearn the lesson: Can the conspiracy theories and stick to the facts. But it now appears that it was Broder and other see-no-evil pundits who were ignoring the facts as well as the obvious and well- worn pattern of the Bush administration attacking Iraq War critics. Indeed, if anyone deserves chastising for unprofessional journalism, it would be Broder and other mainstream journalists who continue wearing blinders that so limit their field of vision that - after all these years - they still can't believe that Rove and the White House would play dirty to discredit anyone who challenges Bush. On Sept. 3, I wrote that this clueless behavior of these Washington journalists - in the face of so much damning evidence - justified the old Shawshank Redemption question posed to the corrupt prison warden: How can you be so obtuse? [See Consortiumnews.com's How Obtuse Is the US Press?] Armitage Myth Beyond the specific evidence of a White House campaign to out covert CIA officer Valerie Plame and the broader Republican hostility toward anyone who gets in Bush's way, there is also the notion that Armitage, long considered a tough team player, was an independent soul who would never help the administration discredit a troublesome critic. Though Armitage may not have been one of Bush's intimates nor a leading enthusiast for invading Iraq in 2003, the Washington press corps is exaggerating both Armitage's independence and his anti-war credentials. Virtually forgotten in all the news coverage was the fact that in 1998, Armitage was one of the 18 signatories to a seminal letter from the neoconservative Project for the New American Century urging President Bill Clinton to oust Saddam Hussein by military force if necessary. Armitage joined a host of neoconservative icons, such as Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, William Kristol, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. Many of the signers, including Donald Rumsfeld, would become architects of Bush's Iraq War policy five years later. There is also evidence that Armitage was part of a classic Washington scheme to slip Plame's identity into the newspapers, albeit with plenty of deniability for all involved. The evidence about Armitage's role in leaking Plame's identity - and thus destroying her CIA career as an undercover counter- proliferation operative - now includes Novak's account of their July 8, 2003, interview as Novak described it in his Sept. 14, 2006, column, entitled Armitage's Leak. Toward the end of the hour-long meeting, Novak wrote, he asked Armitage, the then-Deputy Secretary of State, why former Ambassador Wilson, had been sent on the trip to Africa. (Novak doesn't say whether he was one of the journalists who had been urged by the White House to pursue that line of
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Ides of March - Hackle
(Good question. What *is* a hackle??) Definitions of Hackle on the Web: * a feather, usually from the neck area of a chicken; can be any color (dyed or natural); hackle quality, such as the stiffness of the individual fibers and amount of web, determines the type of fly tied with the hackle; many hackles are grown specifically for fly tying. www.bluequillangler.com/learningGlossary.html * (Fishing) The series of extended fibers right behind the eye of a fly. The hackle is what allows a dry fly to float. outdoorstore.espn.com/servlet/catalog.CFPage * A comb with long metal teeth for cleansing raw flax or hemp. Flax straw pulled through the iron teeth to separate fibers. www.chaddsfordhistory.org/history/glossary.htm * long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants * heckle: comb with a heckle; heckle hemp or flax wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * The hackle is a feather plume (most plumes are made of horsehair) that is attached to the headdress. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackle Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Chopra's Books, was: Beatles angels on earth
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 2/18/06 6:26 AM, sparaig at sparaig@ wrote: Mmmm... Maybe not just Purusha, but I'm pretty sure there were a LOT of people doing PR for Chopra. One of my ideas was sent out to volunteers all over the USA and it DID have an effect on his book sales -- the only way it would would be if literally hundreds of people participated. Sure, in fact the TMO bought large quantities of books at the right time to get them on the best seller lists, which then created a momentum. +++ L.R. Hubbard used the same ploy years back but, his outfit is still getting louder. It's also done all the time in politics - for both parties. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - Sidhis Health
According to a government website, the death rate in 2002 for the U.S. was 847.3 per 100,000. If there are 2500 sidhas in Fairfield, then you'd expect an average of about 21 deaths per year. Since the community is so small, and most sidhas probably know each other to some degree, an average of 21 deaths per year may stand out more prominently. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 2/16/06 8:21 AM, Peter at drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- Rick Archer fairfieldlife@ wrote: on 2/14/06 5:16 PM, sparaig at sparaig@ wrote: When you look at the long term sidhi-practicing community, do you see a significantly above avg healthy group, physically and mentally??? Well, yeah, actually, you do. You haven't been to Fairfield lately. Do people look pretty bad there? Some do. Especially those who have adhered to a sedentary lifestyle and a possibly inadequate diet, believing them to be most conducive to evolution. So much for performing dynamic activity after meditation... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] World Poverty Map
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[FairfieldLife] Gypsy: (Re: Beatles angels on earth)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
[web1913]:
Gypsy \Gypsy\, n.; pl. {Gypsies}. [OE. Gypcyan, F. gyptien
Egyptian, gypsy, L. Aegyptius. See {Egyptian}.] [Also spelled
gipsy and gypsey.]
1. One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally
from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are
now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain,
England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling,
horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. {Bohemian}, {Romany}.
Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. --Shak.
2. The language used by the gypsies. --Shak.
3. A dark-complexioned person. --Shak.
4. A cunning or crafty person [Collog.] --Prior.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk
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Egypt actually.
Sal
Nope. India.
http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/history.htm
On Feb 17, 2006, at 9:32 AM, shempmcgurk wrote:
Oddly enough, Chopra looks very much like a former
friend
of mine, whose mother apparently was an almost
full-blooded
gypsy...
Not too odd.
Gypsies, apparently, originated from India...
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Lutes - Sidhis Health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tazarmfune no_reply@ wrote: According to a government website, the death rate in 2002 for the U.S. was 847.3 per 100,000. If there are 2500 sidhas in Fairfield, then you'd expect an average of about 21 deaths per year. Since the community is so small, and most sidhas probably know each other to some degree, an average of 21 deaths per year may stand out more prominently. Most sidhas are over 40, are they not? What's the death rate for over 40? Don't see the breakdown on the site I was on. The following site has some interesting data maps: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/atlasres.pdf I don't know the breakdown of sidha ages, either across the country or in Fairfield. I assume there must be a fair number of second generation (younger) sidhas who live in Fairfield. ?? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: What sort of prison sentence do you think ]Bush] should get?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lt. Gov. Denish softens comments about `touchy' Richardson email this story By Steve Terrell The New Mexican | December 20, 2005 Lt. Gov. Diane Denish on Monday seemed to back away from statements she made in an Albuquerque newspaper article about Gov. Bill Richardson touching her. GEORGE W. BUSH RUBS MAN'S HEAD FOR LUCK IN DISPLAY OF APPARENT RACIST IGNORANCE Before speaking to a March 3rd Los Angeles audience at the White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Mr Bush was introduced by an African-American male, whose head Mr Bush proceeded to rub while grinning and smirking. The man, identified as Alphonso Jackson, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared somewhat bewildered while still preserving an appearance of happiness to welcome Mr. Bush. As an individual identified as Cory wrote in letter published online, rubbing an African American's head for luck was at one time thought of as a joke amongst those who didn't generally say black person when referring to one. He noted that the racist practice may well have faded into obscurity, but would've been a good way to lose a hand in more multi-racial neighborhoods in the late seventies and early eighties. Mr. Bush has long been thought of by many as a stereotypical elitist with a notably racist, anti-black attitude, but this latest misadventure lends credence to such an assumption. If the intent was not a racist one, the event did make Mr. Bush appear somewhat condescending, as well as disrespectful of a high-ranking government official. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/YbEMxA/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: M.DIXON....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bush the Republican, House Senate have consistently lowered your my federal tax bill that of our estate taxes as well! So do NOT worry Mr Dixon. Your will NOT get his tax return BULL. NO tax increases in legislation @ present! Perhaps send him ours after Clinton's increase in largest by % in Federal U.S., history 92-93 yrs. on Social security as well! This tax on the sale of stock assets capitol gains was made retro-active against 1000 yrs. of comom law as well as the federal Constitution. SPIN AND TAXES! Krugman offers a useful point, counteracting a decade of spinning: TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2004 SPIN AND TAXES: This week will be a time for tributes from those who admire President Reagan and his legacy. But whatever one thinks of the Reagan years, this week could present a chance to learn more about an important part of our recent history. Many scribes have begun to offer their views on aspects of the Reagan presidency. Paul Krugman's column in this morning's Times is a good-and useful-example. Ronald Reagan does hold a special place in the annals of tax policy, and not just as the patron saint of tax cuts, Krugman writes. Krugman notes that Reagan followed his huge 1981 tax cut with two large tax increases. Here's the skinny on Reagan Tax Increase number 1: KRUGMAN: The first Reagan tax increase came in 1982. By then it was clear that the budget projections used to justify the 1981 tax cut were wildly optimistic. In response, Mr. Reagan agreed to a sharp rollback of corporate tax cuts, and a smaller rollback of individual income tax cuts. Over all, the 1982 tax increase undid about a third of the 1981 cut; as a share of G.D.P., the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase. We'll return to that highlighted point. For the record, here's Krugman's description of Reagan Tax Increase 2: KRUGMAN: I'm referring to the Social Security Reform Act of 1983, which followed the recommendations of a commission led by Alan Greenspan. Its key provision was an increase in the payroll tax that pays for Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance. For many middle- and low-income families, this tax increase more than undid any gains from Mr. Reagan's income tax cuts. In 1980, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, middle-income families with children paid 8.2 percent of their income in income taxes, and 9.5 percent in payroll taxes. By 1988 the income tax share was down to 6.6 percent-but the payroll tax share was up to 11.8 percent, and the combined burden was up, not down. For those who don't want to do the math, Krugman's middle-income families with children were paying a combined burden of 18.4 percent by 1988, up from 17.7 percent in 1980. For these middle-class families, Reagan-who did reduce taxes overall-had actually raised their tax burden. For many American consumers of news, these facts might come as a surprise. As we've told you again and again, our modern press corps is fact-averse, but is very much fable- friendly. We're fed simple tales about every topic, including Reagan's effect on taxes. With that in mind, let's return to that point Krugman made about Reagan's 1982 tax increase: [A]s a share of G.D.P., the increase was substantially larger than Mr. Clinton's 1993 tax increase. Presumably, Krugman included that fact today because he's familiar with our spin-driven cable discourse, in which President Clinton's 1993 increase is routinely said to have been the largest tax increase in American history. The spinning began almost instantly, driven by the foolish-and largely uncorrected- hyperbole which now defines our discourse. On May 2, 1993, David Rosenbaum quoted a leading Republican in the New York Times: ROSENBAUM: This is the largest tax increase in the history of the human race, and it is not appealing to us, said Representative Bill Archer of Texas, the top Republican on the [House Ways and Means Committee]. The largest in the history of the human race! On May 28, 1993, the Times' Michael Wines captured more of the clowning: WINES: The largest tax increase in the world, said Representative Deborah Price, an Ohio Republican. The largest tax increase in the history of civilization, anted Representative Philip M. Crane, an Illinois Republican. Lenin and Mao never taxed so much! For that matter, Pharoah was off the hook too! On radio, of course, Rush Limbaugh was peddling such pap every day. In late May, the Times tried to introduce a few facts in an unsigned scorecard feature: NEW YORK TIMES (5/28/93): The Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper in such matters, estimates that the package will increase taxes by $270 billion over five years. That appears to make it larger than the 1982 tax increase, which raised $215 billion in new taxes over five years
[FairfieldLife] Re: Where is Mr. M.DIXON?
When Reagan took office government revenues were around 500 billion a year , give or take about 50 billion. Before taxes were raised again the economy had expanded and revenues increased to about 1 trillion during the Reagan administration. After his tax cuts, the country went into recession. And don't forget that Reagan instituted the largst tax increase in American History (social securty issues). And he compiled more debt than all the previous presidents combined. Now under Bush there has been steady growth in the economy month by month, pulled out of the Clinton recession,and again government revenues have grown. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me but every now and then I hear in the news where government revenues for a quarter were bigger than were anticipated and caused the deficit to be less than expected. Steady growth? What reality are you living in? Steady job losses for over 4 years. Only modern president to have a net job losses in a term. Clionton recession? More GOP fantasy. Longest sustained economic growth in U.S. History (despite the blow job). Yes, record tax increases (surpassing Reagan), but - take a look at ALL the dire predictions from the right wing about that. The WSJ predicting economic doom and disaster. None of which came to pass. Bush inherited a slowing economy for sure... but not one that met the traditional definition of recession. Deficits less than expected? Are you kidding me? Before he took office, there were NO deficits projected or expected. Surpluses were in the forecast. Nothing but red ink now. So much for the Balanced Budget Amendment. And it's just not the so-called war on terror. Bush's non-defense spending has increased about 7% per year, vs. 2% for Clinton. Bush has changed America's course from tax-and-spend to borrow-and-spend. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Charlie Donahue
At one point, a meditation teacher claiming to be associated with Chopra told a.m.t. readers that CHopra and 200 former TM teachers had pooled their knowledge to come up with a valid form of meditation. These days, Chopra claims he learned the meditation technique he teaches from someone in India. My understanding is that when he first starting teaching meditation, he got the technique from a guru in the Shankacharya lineage. The technique was called Gayatri mantra. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study
Vaj commented: This is a constant in the TB mentality: *sound* like you know what you are talking about and hope that if you repeat it many times, people will believe you. I find this to be a rather common phenom in movement type and it is a subtle and continuous form of disinformation. When it becomes pervasive, that is, everyone around you or that you hang out with or listen to is parroting the same disinformation, it *becomes your reality*. It's also the danger of trying to use a scientific methodology NOT as an attempt to find the truth, but as a marketing tool disguised as looking for the truth. Sounds like politicians and political parties. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you part of a genetically engineered food experiment?
There was a recent proposal to pass a federal law to allow organic to include additives of a certain kind. Anyone know if this went through? No. A similar proposal was defated a couple of years ago. The new proposal is still in process. For now, organic really means organic. From the USDA: In October 2002, the USDA instituted new rules for the labeling of organic foods, creating a national standard for the first time. To meet the new USDA organic standard: Farms and food manufacturers must be certified by the government. Egg, meat, poultry, and dairy products must come from animals not given any antibiotics or growth hormones. Other foods, such as nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, and coffee, must be grown without the use of pesticides, petroleum-based fertilizers, sewage-sludge-based fertilizers, ionization, or genetic engineering. Foods or food products labeled 100% Organic must contain all organic ingredients. Their packaging can display the official USDA Organic seal. Foods or food products labeled Organic must contain at least 95% organic ingredients. Their packaging can also display the official USDA Organic seal. Foods or food products labeled Made With Organic must contain at least 70% organic ingredients. They may not display the organic seal however. http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/consumers/brochure.html. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you part of a genetically engineered food experiment?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tazarmfune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a recent proposal to pass a federal law to allow organic to include additives of a certain kind. Anyone know if this went through? The latest salvo: INDUSTRY ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS Despite receiving over 350,000 letters and phone calls from OCA members and the organic community, Republican leaders in Congress October 27 attached a rider to the 2006 Agricultural Appropriations Bill to weaken the nation's organic food standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers. Congress voted last night to weaken the national organic standards that consumers count on to preserve the integrity of the organic label, said Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association. The process was profoundly undemocratic and the end result is a serious setback for the multi billion dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community has so painstakingly built up over the past 35 years. As passed, the amendment sponsored by the Organic Trade Association allows: Numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review. Young dairy cows to continue to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production. Loopholes under which non-organic ingredients could be substituted for organic ingredients without any notification of the public based on emergency decrees. OCA will work to reverse this rider with an Organic Restoration Act in Congress in 2006. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you part of a genetically engineered food experiment?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Food for thought: http://www.thecampaign.org/krafted/index.html People should also be aware that Bocaburger is a division of Kraft. And Unilever owns Ben Jerry's. Best bet is to READ the ingredients. If it does not say ORGANIC, it ain't. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Definition of a Libertarian
they are Aynn Rand Libertarians which in that case they are just plain nuts. Why? Please elaborate... Not an elaboration, but an interesting article: http://www.spunk.org/library/otherpol/critique/sp000859.txt Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Dome total numbers
Therefore, it is the University¹s position that sexual harassment, abuse, and offenses are unacceptable in any form. You may be right. Or not. But let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume you are. What is the statute of limitations on this sort of thing? Iowa Code: Q: Are there time limits on when I can file a suit, and if so, what are they? A: There is a two-year statute of limitations in Iowa with regard to cases involving defective products, personal injuries or medical malpractice. This can be extended in certain instances. In cases involving discrimination or harassment, a charge of discrimination must be filed against the employer with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission within 180 days of the last discriminatory act. Under certain circumstances, this deadline can be extended to up to 300 days with respect to federal claims. It is very difficult to recover if the applicable time limits have run so its important to get good legal advice as to the time limit that applies to your case and take appropriate action to preserve your legal issues. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: the word 'knowledge' semantics misc
How do you know? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are all different types of knowledge and all different ways of understanding it. Very, very complex subject! --- anonymousff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had a disscusion Regarding the word 'knowledge' in a different group settings and we had issues in resolving the true meaning of the word. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] The Nexus of Politics and Terror
October 12, 2005 | 8:35 p.m. ET The Nexus of Politics and Terror by Keith Olbermann Secaucus - Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush's speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation. I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a terror event - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning. We figured we'd better put that list of coincidences on the public record. We did so this evening on the television program, with ten of these examples. The other three are listed at the end of the main list, out of chronological order. The contraction was made purely for the sake of television timing considerations, and permitted us to get the live reaction of the former Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Asa Hutchinson. We bring you these coincidences, reminding you, and ourselves here, that perhaps the simplest piece of wisdom in the world is called the logical fallacy. Just because Event A occurs, and then Event B occurs, that does not automatically mean that Event A caused Event B. But one set of comments from an informed observer seems particularly relevant as we examine these coincidences. On May 10th of this year, after his resignation, former Secretary of Homeland Security Ridge looked back on the terror alert level changes, issued on his watch. Mr. Ridge said: More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert) there were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said `for that?' Please, judge for yourself. Number One: May 18th, 2002. The first details of the President's Daily Briefing of August 6th, 2001, are revealed, including its title - Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S. The same day another memo is discovered - revealing the FBI knew of men with links to Al Qaeda training at an Arizona flight school. The memo was never acted upon. Questions about 9/11 Intelligence failures are swirling. May 20th, 2002. Two days later, FBI Director Mueller declares another terrorist attack inevitable. The next day, the Department of Homeland Security issues warnings of attacks against railroads nationwide, and against New York City landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Number Two: June 6th, 2002. Colleen Rowley, the FBI agent who tried to alert her superiors to the specialized flight training taken by Zacarias Moussaoui, whose information suggests the government missed a chance to break up the 9/11 plot, testifies before Congress. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Graham says Rowley's testimony has inspired similar pre-9/11 whistle-blowers. June 10th, 2002. Four days later, speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than a month. Number Three: February 5th, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the UN are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7th, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe, Homeland Security Secretary Ridge cites credible threats by Al Qaeda, and raises the terror alert level to orange. Three days after that, Fire Administrator David Paulison - who would become the acting head of FEMA after the Hurricane Katrina disaster - advises Americans to stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape to protect themselves against radiological or biological attack. Number Four: July 23rd, 2003: The White House admits the CIA -- months before the President's State of the Union Address -- expressed strong doubts about the claim that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium from Niger. On the 24th, the Congressional report on the 9/11 attacks is issued; it criticizes government at all levels; it reveals an FBI informant had been living with two of the future hijackers; and it concludes that Iraq had no link to Al-Qaeda. 28 pages of the report are redacted. On the 26th, American troops are accused of beating Iraqi prisoners. July 29th, 2003. Three days later, amid all of those negative headlines, Homeland Security issues warnings of further terrorist attempts to use airplanes for suicide attacks. Number Five:
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gross National Happiness
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, eptfnj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea!...Or you could just access the U.S. Department of National Happiness website, and send in a request to have them reboot the chip in eptfnj's head. Or, people can take total responsibility for themselves. Not good news for the big government left. Or the big government right. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Article: Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum
Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum By Harold Morowitz, Robert Hazen and James Trefil The Chronicle of Higher Eduction 2 September 2005 Issue Volume 52, Issue 2, Page B6 Scientists who teach evolution sometimes feel as if they are trapped in an old horror film - the kind where the monster is killed repeatedly, only to come to life in a nastier form each time. Since the Scopes trial in 1925, the battle between scientists who want to teach mainstream biology in American public schools, and creationists who want to promulgate a more religious view, has gone through several cycles. In McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education in 1982, a federal court ruled that the introduction of creationism into public-school curricula constituted the establishment of religion, and hence was expressly forbidden by the First Amendment. That decision dealt a serious (though by no means fatal) blow to old-line creationism and its close cousin, so-called creation science. But another variant of creationism, so-called intelligent design, has cropped up. At least 19 states are now debating its use in public education, and President Bush commented in August that he thought both evolution and intelligent design ought to be properly taught. Many people fail to understand the subtle but important differences between the new and old forms of creationism, and the different debates those approaches engender. Like the French generals who used tactics from World War I to face the Nazis in 1939, some educators seem intent on fighting the last war. A word about the authors of this essay: Although our areas of expertise differ, all of us have investigated aspects of life's origin and evolution. In addition, our political views span the spectrum from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican. Thus the essay does not represent any particular ideological or disciplinary viewpoint. We are united in our concern that the science curriculum, from kindergarten through university, should reflect the best and most up-to-date scholarship. Consider, then, several different theories of life's origin and evolution. The main theories are those of miraculous creation and of sequential origins. Within the theories of sequential origins are the theories of intelligent design and of emergent complexity, and the latter can in turn be divided into the theories of frozen accident and of deterministic origins. The debate surrounding each pair focuses on a different aspect of the nature of science. Miraculous creation versus sequential origins. Was the origin of life a miracle, or did it conform to natural law - and how can we tell? Many different versions of the doctrine of miraculous creation exist, but the one that is most at odds with modern science is called young Earth creationism and is based on a literal reading of the Bible. According to the supporters of that theory, our planet and its life-forms were created more or less in their present forms in a miraculous act about 10,000 years ago. Young Earth creationism is in direct conflict with scientific measurements of the age of rocks, the thickness of polar ice sheets, the expansion of the universe, and numerous other indicators of our planet's great antiquity. One unusual solution to that disparity was proposed in a book by Philip Gosse, called Omphalos, which was published two years before Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The word omphalos means navel in Greek, and Gosse argued that Adam was created with a navel, even though he had never been inside a womb. From that insight has flowed the so-called doctrine of created antiquity (Gosse actually called it Pre-Chronism), which states that although Earth was created 10,000 years ago, it was created to look as if it were much older. Are some stars more than 10,000 light-years away? The universe was created with light from those stars already on its way to Earth. And what about those apparently ancient rocks? The universe was created with just the right mixtures of potassium-40 and argon to make the rocks appear much older than they really are. It is impossible to conceive of any experiment or observation that could prove the doctrine of created antiquity wrong. Any result, no matter what it was, could be explained by saying the universe was just created that way. In fact, that property of young Earth creationism proved to be its Achilles' heel. Every scientific theory must be testable by observation or experiment - or it cannot be considered science. In principle, it must be possible to imagine outcomes that would prove the theory wrong. In the words of Karl Popper, scientific theories must be falsifiable, even if they are not false. Popper said that a theory that cannot be overturned by experimental data is not a part of experimental science. Created antiquity is not falsifiable. The teaching of young Earth
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi refuses to Levitate.??
SNIP Hmmm. Must've missed that part. It DID say that yogic flying was an obstacle of Cosmic Consciousness (Skt.: turiyatita). Where exactly did it say that? The Yoga Sutras say (somewhere) that powers are an obstacle to Samadhi. I heard that MMY comment that the translation was simply bad. Since the experience of Samadhi is the very basis of the siddhis, how can they be an obstacle to Samadhi? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Objectification and De-objectification of Women
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh. They should have made that an item on the 20 Green Lights to Cosmic Consciousness advanced lecture that was popular some years back. I would have found it encouraging; I have just about impenetrable sales resistance. http://www.sexuality.org/authors/steinberg/cn05.html old but still intersting take on the issue Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Dev and Sri Vidya...Origins?
The only means of liberation is the Grace of Guru. Believe what you will. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Article
The Independent 8 September 2005 10:48 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article311066.ece UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World By Paul Vallely Published: 08 September 2005 Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality. Claims that the New Orleans floods have laid bare a growing racial and economic divide in the US have, until now, been rejected by the American political establishment as emotional rhetoric. But yesterday's UN report provides statistical proof that for many - well beyond those affected by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - the great American Dream is an ongoing nightmare. The document constitutes a stinging attack on US policies at home and abroad in a fightback against moves by Washington to undermine next week's UN 60th anniversary conference which will be the biggest gathering of world leaders in history. The annual Human Development Report normally concerns itself with the Third World, but the 2005 edition scrutinises inequalities in health provision inside the US as part of a survey of how inequality worldwide is retarding the eradication of poverty. It reveals that the infant mortality rate has been rising in the US for the past five years - and is now the same as Malaysia. America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday. The report is bound to incense the Bush administration as it provides ammunition for critics who have claimed that the fiasco following Hurricane Katrina shows that Washington does not care about poor black Americans. But the 370-page document is critical of American policies towards poverty abroad as well as at home. And, in unusually outspoken language, it accuses the US of having an overdeveloped military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security. There is an urgent need to develop a collective security framework that goes beyond military responses to terrorism, it continues. Poverty and social breakdown are core components of the global security threat. The document, which was written by Kevin Watkins, the former head of research at Oxfam, will be seen as round two in the battle between the UN and the US, which regards the world body as an unnecessary constraint on its strategic interests and actions. Last month John Bolton, the new US ambassador to the UN, submitted 750 amendments to the draft declaration for next week's summit to strengthen the UN and review progress towards its Millennium Development Goals to halve world poverty by 2015. The report launched yesterday is a clear challenge to Washington. The Bush administration wants to replace multilateral solutions to international problems with a world order in which the US does as it likes on a bilateral basis. This is the UN coming out all guns firing, said one UN insider. It means that, even if we have a lame duck secretary general after the Volcker report (on the oil-for-food scandal), the rest of the organisation is not going to accept the US bilateralist agenda. The clash on world poverty centres on the US policy of promoting growth and trade liberalisation on the assumption that this will trickle down to the poor. But this will not stop children dying, the UN says. Growth alone will not reduce poverty so long as the poor are denied full access to health, education and other social provision. Among the world's poor, infant mortality is falling at less than half of the world average. To tackle that means tackling inequality - a message towards which John Bolton and his fellow US neocons are deeply hostile. India and China, the UN says, have been very successful in wealth creation but have not enabled the poor to share in the process. A rapid decline in child mortality has therefore not materialised. Indeed, when it comes to reducing infant deaths, India has now been overtaken by Bangladesh, which is only growing a third as fast. Poverty could be halved in just 17 years in Kenya if the poorest people were enabled to double the amount of economic growth they can achieve at present. Inequality within countries is as stark as the gaps between countries, the UN says. Poverty is not the only issue here. The death rate for girls in India is now 50 per cent higher than for boys. Gender bias means girls are not given the same food as boys and are not taken to clinics as often when they are ill. Foetal scanning has also reduced the number of girls born. The only way to eradicate poverty, it says, is to target inequalities. Unless that is done the Millennium Development Goals will never be met. And 41 million children will die unnecessarily over the next 10 years. Decline in health care Child mortality is on the rise in the United States For half a century the US has seen a sustained decline in the number of children who die before
[FairfieldLife] Re: Katrina disaster updates
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.j sp?vnu_content_id=1001051313 Well, if FEMA was the first to anticipate it, why did it take them 80 years to figure it out (or however long they've been in existence)? The obvious fact is that the breach was obviously a possibility but Bush, Clinton, and everyone and anyone else in positions of responsibility out there for the past 100 or so years that this problem has existed in New Orleans paid it as much attention as the people in Thailand and Sri Lanka gave to the possibility of the Tsunami...and, yes, there were the same dire warnings from professionals that a Tsunami would cause the devastation that it did. And it was neither Clinton's nor Bush's or any other president's responsibility or even of the federal government's responsibility to upgrade the levee system in New Orleans or any other place. That is the responsibility of the state and local governments who can request assistance from the federal government and which was given. Louisiana government neglect of the levees and then saying,(Which they aren't) that they couldn't do it because the feds needed to do it is totally irresponsible and passing the buck. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Stranded in New Orleans/ ShockAwe/No Compassion?
Almost all the so-called poor people shown on news clips are not just overweight, but OBESE? This is quite a testament to the United States if our poor people are busting at the seams from overeating. Maybe a more likely cause it eating the wrong things. Many poor people buy Fast Food due to low cost, and we all know what fast food can do... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Inevitability of George W. Bush
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say what you will about the accomplices secretly running the show: Bush himself is the president. He is no dupe. A slobbering cretin nearly incapable of forming a coherent thought, or of operating a bicycle on a hill without running over a policeman; Turns out it was the policeman's fault. He should have heard the baseball cards flapping in the spokes. (apologies to Jay Leno.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Damn Them
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In This E-Mail: U.S. and Britain Agree on Relief for Poor Nations By ELIZABETH BECKER and RICHARD W. STEVENSON The plan would free 18 countries from any obligation to repay the estimated $16.7 billion they owe international lenders. How many trillions of dollars have democracies stolen from Africa over the centuries -- natural resources, human slave trade, effects of colonization, etc.? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] U.S. Military Interventions
From Wounded Knee to Iraq by Zoltan Grossman The following is a partial list of U.S. military interventions from 1890 to 2003. This guide does not include: * mobilizations of the National Guard * offshore shows of naval strength * reinforcements of embassy personnel * the use of non-Defense Department personnel (such as the Drug Enforcement Administration) * military exercises * non-combat mobilizations (such as replacing postal strikers) * the permanent stationing of armed forces * covert actions where the U.S. did not play a command and control role * the use of small hostage rescue units * most uses of proxy troops * U.S. piloting of foreign warplanes * foreign disaster assistance * military training and advisory programs not involving direct combat * civic action programs * and many other military activities. Among sources used, beside news reports, are the Congressional Record (23 June 1969), 180 Landings by the U.S. Marine Corp History Division, Ege Makhijani in Counterspy (July-Aug, 1982), Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 by Ellen C. Collier of the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service, and Ellsberg in Protest Survive. -- -- Zoltan Grossman is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Box 4004, Eau Claire, WI 54701 USA). SOUTH DAKOTA 1890 (-?) --Troops --300 Lakota Indians massacred at Wounded Knee. ARGENTINA --1890 --Troops --Buenos Aires interests protected. CHILE --1891 --Troops --Marines clash with nationalist rebels. HAITI --1891 --Troops --Black revolt on Navassa defeated. IDAHO --1892 --Troops --Army suppresses silver miners' strike. HAWAII --1893 (-?) --Naval, troops --Independent kingdom overthrown, annexed. CHICAGO --1894 --Troops --Breaking of rail strike, 34 killed. NICARAGUA --1894 --Troops --Month-long occupation of Bluefields. CHINA --1894-95 --Naval, troops --Marines land in Sino-Japanese War KOREA --1894-96 --Troops --Marines kept in Seoul during war. PANAMA --1895 --Troops, naval --Marines land in Colombian province. NICARAGUA --1896 --Troops --Marines land in port of Corinto. CHINA --1898-1900 --Troops --Boxer Rebellion fought by foreign armies. PHILIPPINES --1898-1910 (-?) --Naval, troops --Seized from Spain, killed 600,000 Filipinos CUBA --1898-1902 (-?) --Naval, troops --Seized from Spain, still hold Navy base. PUERTO RICO --1898 (-?) --Naval, troops --Seized from Spain, occupation continues. GUAM --1898 (-?) --Naval, troops --Seized from Spain, still use as base. MINNESOTA --1898 (-?) --Troops --Army battles Chippewa at Leech Lake. NICARAGUA --1898 --Troops --Marines land at port of San Juan del Sur. SAMOA --1899 (-?) --Troops --Battle over succession to throne. NICARAGUA --1899 --Troops --Marines land at port of Bluefields. IDAHO --1899-1901 --Troops --Army occupies Coeur d'Alene mining region. OKLAHOMA --1901 --Troops --Army battles Creek Indian revolt. PANAMA --1901-14 --Naval, troops --Broke off from Colombia 1903, annexed Canal Zone 1914. HONDURAS --1903 --Troops --Marines intervene in revolution. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC --1903-04 --Troops --U.S. interests protected in Revolution. KOREA --1904-05 --Troops --Marines land in Russo-Japanese War. CUBA --1906-09 --Troops --Marines land in democratic election. NICARAGUA --1907 --Troops --Dollar Diplomacy protectorate set up. HONDURAS --1907 --Troops --Marines land during war with Nicaragua PANAMA --1908 --Troops --Marines intervene in election contest. NICARAGUA --1910 --Troops --Marines land in Bluefields and Corinto. HONDURAS --1911 --Troops --U.S. interests protected in civil war. CHINA --1911-41 --Naval, troops --Continuous occupation with flare-ups. CUBA --1912 --Troops --U.S. interests protected in civil war. PANAMA --1912 --Troops --Marines land during heated election. HONDURAS --1912 --Troops --Marines protect U.S. economic interests. NICARAGUA --1912-33 --Troops, bombing --10-year occupation, fought guerillas MEXICO --1913 --Naval --Americans evacuated during revolution. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC --1914 --Naval --Fight with rebels over Santo Domingo. COLORADO --1914 --Troops --Breaking of miners' strike by Army. MEXICO --1914-18 --Naval, troops --Series of interventions against nationalists. HAITI --1914-34 --Troops, bombing --19-year occupation after revolts. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC --1916-24 --Troops --8-year Marine occupation. CUBA --1917-33 --Troops --Military occupation, economic protectorate. WORLD WAR I --1917-18 --naval, troops --Ships sunk, fought Germany for 1 1/2 years. RUSSIA --1918-22 --Naval, troops --Five landings to fight Bolsheviks PANAMA --1918-20 --Troops --Police duty during unrest after elections. HONDURAS --1919 --Troops --Marines land during election campaign.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Heaven on Earth
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Llundrub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He got it from where it came, from Divine Inteligence. Is that the same place from where he got his dhoti? No. He gets them from Dhotis R Us. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Pope/The Maharishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This Pope also presided over the church's unethical handling of the priest-molestation crisis, which put avoiding bad PR way ahead of dealing with the problem and protecting children. I can accept the Pope's unyielding conservatism on dogma as something I don't agree with but can understand as a part of the historical church, but I see no good excuse for his behavior in this issue -- action was finally taken only when it began to impact sunday donations at mass. And what action did he take? In the case of a massive coverup in the Boston archdiocese, the pope PROMOTED the offending archbishop (Bernard Law) to a Vatican post. Law should have been defrocked, persecuted, and thrown in jail. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Terri Schiavo and Bush contradictions
March 16, 2005 Life-Support Stopped for 6-Month-Old in Houston Yesterday Sun Hudson, the nearly 6-month-old at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, diagnosed and slowly dying with a rare form of dwarfism (thanatophoric dysplasia), was taken off the ventilator that was keeping him alive. A Houston court authorized the hospital's action, and Sun died shortly thereafter. Today's Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News have most of the details. Both papers report that this is the first time in the United States a court has allowed life-sustaining treatment to be withdrawn from a pediatric patient over the objections of the child's parent. (The Dallas paper quotes John Paris, a bioethicist at Boston College, as its source.) If true, the unique Texas statute under which this saga was played out contributed in no small way to the outcome. As one of the laws co-authors (along with a roomful of other drafters, in 1999) let me explain. Under chapter 166 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, if an attending physician disagrees with a surrogate over a life-and-death treatment decision, there must be an ethics committee consultation (with notice to the surrogate and an opportunity to participate). In a futility case such as Sun Hudson's, in which the treatment team is seeking to stop treatment deemed to be nonbeneficial, if the ethics committee agrees with the team, the hospital will be authorized to discontinue the disputed treatment (after a 10-day delay, during which the hospital must help try to find a facility that will accept a transfer of the patient). These provisions, which were added to Texas law in 1999, originally applied only to adult patients; in 2003; they were made applicable to disputes over treatment decisions for or on behalf of minors. (I hasten to add that one of the co-drafters in both 1999 and 2003 was the National Right to Life Committee. Witnesses who testified in support of the bill in 1999 included representatives of National Right to Life, Texas Right to Life, and the Hemlock Society. Our bill passed both houses, unanimously, both years, and the 1999 law was signed by then Governor George W. Bush.) In the Hudson case, the hospital ran through the statutory procedure, but decided nonetheless to get a court order authorizing withdrawal of Sun Hudson's ventilator support. The hospital undoubtedly had its own sufficient reasons for taking this additional step; the statute doesn't require a court order. Indeed, the statute was designed to keep these cases out of court, if possible. I am no great fan of unilateral withdrawals of treatment under the banner of medical futility. When our drafting team agreed on the key language in chapter 166, I said that I hoped the authority to unilaterally withhold treatment would never have to be invoked, but I knew then what I know even better now: sometimes good, humane medical care requires it. Since the 2003 change that made the law applicable to minors, I have participated in two cases in which life-support was ultimately withdrawn from infants over parental objections. In both cases, the hospital extended the 10-day waiting period in order to attempt to restart discussions with the parents before unilaterally withdrawing life-support. In one case, a previous hospital's ethics committee (on which I also serve) had twice agreed with the attending physician. The hospital CEO overruled the committee the first time (before the 2003 amendment that added minors to chapter 166), and the second time the child was transferred to our hospital on the 9th day, and we restarted the statutory process from scratch. In neither case did the hospital resort to a judicial proceeding to settle the treatment dispute. My experience on five hospital ethics committees, and as co-chair of two, is that in both adult and pediatric cases, most futility disputes never get to this last step of unilateral withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. In most cases either the families drop their opposition along the way or the patient dies before the due-process steps required by the statute have been exhausted. Last fall, ethicists at M.D. Anderson surveyed Texas hospitals' experiences under chapter 166; I hope they will publish their results soon. It will be extremely interesting to find out how often the statutory process has been followed all the way to the end, including withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment over family objections. There is no telling how the Houston judge would have decided this case if chapter 166 were not on the books. On the one hand, it appears that no judge in this country has ever sided with the family in one of these treatment disputes. On the other hand, the physicians, hospital, and ethics committee appear to agree that Sun's condition was fatal and that his protracted death was not without some suffering. (I don't know how to square this with newspaper reports
