Romney Admits GOP Education Policy is Intended to Kill Unions | Crooks and Liars
Tuesday
Monday
Magdalen Walks
by Oscar Wilde
The little white clouds are racing over the sky,
And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower of March,
The daffodil breaks under foot, and the tasselled larch
Sways and swings as the thrush goes hurrying by.
A delicate odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
And the plane to the pine-tree is whispering some tale of love
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And the gloom of the wych-elm's hollow is lit with the iris sheen
Of the burnished rainbow throat and the silver breast of a dove.
See! the lark starts up from his bed in the meadow there,
Breaking the gossamer threads and the nets of dew,
And flashing adown the river, a flame of blue!
The kingfisher flies like an arrow, and wounds the air.
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Friday
Bill Maher Breaks Down Why Rick Santorum Fears Knowledge - YouTube
Bill Maher Breaks Down Why Rick Santorum Fears Knowledge - YouTube:
Bill Maher Breaks Down Why Rick Santorum Fears Knowledge
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Bill Maher Breaks Down Why Rick Santorum Fears Knowledge
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Collections - Old Maps Online: Project
Collections - Old Maps Online: Project:
" . . . online digital map collections searchable and accessible through the OldMapsOnline portal. Nearly all the institutions providing online map collections have a much larger paper map collection available at their respective institutions, but the OldMapsOnline portal will only search and provide direct linkage to the online maps."
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The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.
It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.
" . . . online digital map collections searchable and accessible through the OldMapsOnline portal. Nearly all the institutions providing online map collections have a much larger paper map collection available at their respective institutions, but the OldMapsOnline portal will only search and provide direct linkage to the online maps."
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Thursday
Joel Klein, Condi Rice, and the Military-Business-Education Reform Complex | Common Dreams
Joel Klein, Condi Rice, and the Military-Business-Education Reform Complex | Common Dreams:
"The panel started its work in April 2011 and was charged, according to the council’s Web site, with “evaluating the U.S. public education system within the context of national security.”"
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"The panel started its work in April 2011 and was charged, according to the council’s Web site, with “evaluating the U.S. public education system within the context of national security.”"
Klein, believing that public education should be run like a business, launched a flurry of initiatives in his eight-year tenure as tenure as chancellor before he resigned in 2010 after it was revealed that the standardized test scores that he kept pointing to as proof of the success of his reforms were based on increasingly easy exams.
Rice has expressed her admiration for Bush’s key education initiative No Child Left Behind, which ushered in the current era of high-stakes testing that is helping to make an already troubled public education system into a real mess. “I liked the way that he thought about education,” she said late last year on NPR. (At this point, there aren’t many people who like the way Bush thought about education.)
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Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube
Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube:
"Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)"
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"Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken)"
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Sunday
Retired US Generals to Obama
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March 6, 2012
'We're sending a message to the President of the United
States that we support your approach, to Congress that
we support the President, and to Israel and other
validators for a pragmatic foreign policy to say, let's
exercise prudence instead of ramping up the war
option.
'Unless we or an ally is attacked, war should be the
option of last resort. Our brave servicemen and women
expect you to exhaust all diplomatic and peaceful
options before you send them into harm's way.
'Military action at this stage is not only unnecessary,
it is dangerous - for the United States and for Israel.
We urge you to resist the pressure of a war of choice
with Iran.'
'Retired US Generals to Obama:
"No War of Choice in Iran" '
Saturday
Robert's Rules Of Order | Quick Reference
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The fundamental right of deliberative assemblies require all questions to be thoroughly discussed before taking action!
The assembly rules - they have the final say on everything! Silence means consent!
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Robert's Rules of Order:
To help make the most of your local union meetings.
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Friday
My Friend Amy: Review The Messenger by Siri Mitchell
My Friend Amy:
"I also thought, in light of all the Invisible Children stuff going on, that there was a fantastic side story about the Friends and how they didn't approve of slavery and how they chose to express that. While Hannah would go on and on to the slave who accompanied her about how she deserved to be free, and Hannah's father would throw fits at the house they were staying at about the slaves they kept, this ultimately made things harder for the slaves they were purportedly trying to help."
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"I also thought, in light of all the Invisible Children stuff going on, that there was a fantastic side story about the Friends and how they didn't approve of slavery and how they chose to express that. While Hannah would go on and on to the slave who accompanied her about how she deserved to be free, and Hannah's father would throw fits at the house they were staying at about the slaves they kept, this ultimately made things harder for the slaves they were purportedly trying to help."
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Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia - YouTube
Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia - YouTube:
"Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia"
COMMUNIST RUSSIA'S UNTOLD OCCULT CRUSADE!
RED SHAMBHALA (Quest Books • June 2011 • ISBN 978-0-8356-0891-6)
With all the action and suspense of a bestselling mystery novel, Red Shambhala takes you on a thrilling journey into the underground occult agenda of the 1920's Soviet Secret Police. Using historical archives and primary documents, former Library of Congress historian and Professor Andrei Znamenski reveals the strange accounts of the Bolsheviks' clandestine quest for ultimate power.
Red Shambhala details the zealous Bolshevik commissar Gleb Bokii's and renowned occult writer Alexander Barchenko's attempts to use Tibetan Buddhist wisdom to conjure a divine era of Communism by tapping into a power of mysterious Shambhala, a prophecy about a land of pure mystical bliss where inhabitants enjoyed god-like capabilities .
This romantic dream also caught the attention of other die-hard revolutionaries, staunch nationalists and Theosophical occultists, forging a most unlikely 20th century enterprise. Bolshevik secret police, Tibetan lamas, the famed occult couple Nicholas and Helena Roerich, and the right-wing fanatic baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg known as "Bloody White" embarked in unison on dangerous quests through Mongolia, Tibet and farther to the Himalayas. Despite their different agendas, they pursued the same goal: to use the potent power of Tibetan-Buddhist prophecies. For all these impassioned crusaders victory meant bringing the dawn of perfect man and obtaining the keys to a benevolent all-powerful ideal society that would serve as the beacon for all humankind.
For all those interested in the secret machinations that often occur behind political movements, Red Shambhala proves impossible to put down! Blackmail, ritualistic blood sacrifice, Tantric "avenging" lamas, fiery psychic visions from masters of a Great White Brotherhood and a magical black stone that fell from heaven, Red Shambhala reveals that real-life history is at times far stranger than fiction.
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Andrei Znamenski studied history and anthropology both in Russia and the United States. Formerly a resident scholar at the Library of Congress, then a foreign visiting professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, he has taught at The University of Memphis and Alabama State University. His fields of interests include religions of indigenous people of Siberia and North America, shamanism, and esotericism. Znamenski is the author of Shamanism and Christianity (1999), Through Orthodox Eyes (2003), Shamanism in Siberia (2003), The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination (2007), and the editor of the three-volume anthology Shamanism: Critical Concepts (2004).
www.questbooks.net
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"Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia"
COMMUNIST RUSSIA'S UNTOLD OCCULT CRUSADE!
RED SHAMBHALA (Quest Books • June 2011 • ISBN 978-0-8356-0891-6)
With all the action and suspense of a bestselling mystery novel, Red Shambhala takes you on a thrilling journey into the underground occult agenda of the 1920's Soviet Secret Police. Using historical archives and primary documents, former Library of Congress historian and Professor Andrei Znamenski reveals the strange accounts of the Bolsheviks' clandestine quest for ultimate power.
Red Shambhala details the zealous Bolshevik commissar Gleb Bokii's and renowned occult writer Alexander Barchenko's attempts to use Tibetan Buddhist wisdom to conjure a divine era of Communism by tapping into a power of mysterious Shambhala, a prophecy about a land of pure mystical bliss where inhabitants enjoyed god-like capabilities .
This romantic dream also caught the attention of other die-hard revolutionaries, staunch nationalists and Theosophical occultists, forging a most unlikely 20th century enterprise. Bolshevik secret police, Tibetan lamas, the famed occult couple Nicholas and Helena Roerich, and the right-wing fanatic baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg known as "Bloody White" embarked in unison on dangerous quests through Mongolia, Tibet and farther to the Himalayas. Despite their different agendas, they pursued the same goal: to use the potent power of Tibetan-Buddhist prophecies. For all these impassioned crusaders victory meant bringing the dawn of perfect man and obtaining the keys to a benevolent all-powerful ideal society that would serve as the beacon for all humankind.
For all those interested in the secret machinations that often occur behind political movements, Red Shambhala proves impossible to put down! Blackmail, ritualistic blood sacrifice, Tantric "avenging" lamas, fiery psychic visions from masters of a Great White Brotherhood and a magical black stone that fell from heaven, Red Shambhala reveals that real-life history is at times far stranger than fiction.
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Andrei Znamenski studied history and anthropology both in Russia and the United States. Formerly a resident scholar at the Library of Congress, then a foreign visiting professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, he has taught at The University of Memphis and Alabama State University. His fields of interests include religions of indigenous people of Siberia and North America, shamanism, and esotericism. Znamenski is the author of Shamanism and Christianity (1999), Through Orthodox Eyes (2003), Shamanism in Siberia (2003), The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination (2007), and the editor of the three-volume anthology Shamanism: Critical Concepts (2004).
www.questbooks.net
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Wednesday
Are Tablets Any Good for Serious Reading? | Think Tank | Big Think
Are Tablets Any Good for Serious Reading? | Think Tank | Big Think:
"In our dizzying rush to acquire and acclimate to new technologies and software, which are being thrown at us by developers faster than many of us can figure out how to use them, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that these things are tools for our use (when useful), not challenges that we’re supposed to live up to. And that, like all tools, they’re good for some things and not so good for others"
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"In our dizzying rush to acquire and acclimate to new technologies and software, which are being thrown at us by developers faster than many of us can figure out how to use them, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that these things are tools for our use (when useful), not challenges that we’re supposed to live up to. And that, like all tools, they’re good for some things and not so good for others"
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Higgs Boson May Be Real, Just Don't Call It the 'God Particle' - Yahoo! News
Higgs Boson May Be Real, Just Don't Call It the 'God Particle' - Yahoo! News:
" It's the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model, the theory reputed to explain the behavior of particles, which has led to the media dubbing it the "God particle," even though scientists resent the name. "I hate that “God particle’ term," one member of the CERN team in Europe said last December. "The Higgs is not endowed with any religious meaning. It is ridiculous to call it that." "
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" It's the last undiscovered particle in the Standard Model, the theory reputed to explain the behavior of particles, which has led to the media dubbing it the "God particle," even though scientists resent the name. "I hate that “God particle’ term," one member of the CERN team in Europe said last December. "The Higgs is not endowed with any religious meaning. It is ridiculous to call it that." "
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Sunday
Saturday
fuckfrance.com - Texas teacher fighting for job after telling student ‘go back to Mexico’ (4052611) - Read article:
Texas State Flag (Photo credit: Big Grey Mare ~ Back--But Barely)"“It was almost instantaneous. I thought, ‘God, I don’t believe that came out of my mouth,’” she told the Star-Telegram. “It was a very, very hard week, the end of six weeks. It was late in the day. It was a Friday. We were on the third day of the first curriculum assessment and I knew it wasn’t going well. It was just an extremely bad day.”"
{presumably, on a good day she'd just ask
{presumably, on a good day she'd just ask
for "papers, papers . . ."}[er]
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