wrote:
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>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Skittles-Suspension.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
>Conn. Student Suspended for Buying Candy
>
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>Published: March 12, 2008
>
>Filed at 12:04 p.m. ET
>
>NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Contraband candy has led to big trouble for
>an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut.
>
>Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president,
>barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day
>after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate.
>
>School spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo says the New Haven
>school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a districtwide
>school wellness policy.
>
>Michael`s suspension has been reduced from three days to one, but he
>has not been reinstated as class vice president.
>
>He says he didn`t realize his candy purchase was against the rules,
>but he did notice the student selling the Skittles on Feb. 26 was
>being secretive.
>
>
"Candy is dandy but sex won`t rot your teeth".
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SUBJECT: Re: #"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film
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Subject: Re: #"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film
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> "5147 Dead, 280 since 1/20/09" wrote:
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>> http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5850F320090906
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>> "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film
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> Yet Moore makes millions off his books and TV shows and movies
> under the very capitalistic system that he supposedly despises. I
> think that Mike`s mind has finally really and completely snapped
> into two.
>
Modern Conservative: Someone who can take time out
from blasting wealthy liberals like Ted Turner, Michael
Moore, Michael Douglas, Barbara Striesand, Martha Stewart,
George Soros and FDR to claim that "liberals hate the rich"
SUBJECT: #"Hey, lady! Is that a gerbil under your skirt, or are you just glad to see me? Striker scores own goal
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Subject: #"Hey, lady! Is that a gerbil under your skirt, or are you just glad to see me? Striker scores own goal
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Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 18:54:11 -0800
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4511353a18075.html
Brazilian football striker Ronaldo fears his reputation has been
ruined forever after his "shameful" run-in with transvestites in Rio
de Janeiro last week.
"I`ve done something really stupid in my personal life," the AC Milan
player said today.
"We are all subject to making mistakes and I made a mistake in looking
for this. I did not at any moment know they were tranvestites," the
31-year-old added in his first public appearance since the incident.
"I cried a lot afterwards. I was incredibly ashamed."
Police said Ronaldo, who is recovering from a knee injury, went to a
motel in Rio`s upmarket Barra da Tijuca district with three call girls
only to find out they were transvestites.
The police have said they are considering charging one of the
transvestites with extortion and stealing Ronaldo`s driving licence.
Ronaldo admitted the incident had done irreparable damage to his
reputation.
"This was the worst decision of my personal life," he said.
"It took on a very big dimension and had worldwide repercussion. It
will stain my personal life forever."
"For the sensationalist media, this has had a bigger impact than the
World Cup," said Ronaldo, who scored both goals when Brazil beat
Germany 2-0 in the 2002 World Cup final.
He said the fateful evening had began after he had a "silly" fight
with his girlfriend.
"I did not know they were transvestites, I`m completely heterosexual,"
he said.
"When we got to the place, I concluded that they were transvestites.
"I tried to stop there and go home - it was here that the extortion
started.
"I wanted to finish by paying what we had agreed. Two accepted but the
third didn`t want to accept and asked an absurd quantity for it not to
come out in the media."
Ronaldo added: "I preferred to face the situation head on rather than
be extorted."
He said his girlfriend had reacted furiously, although she later
supported him.
"When I told her the story she swore at me. Afterwards she gave me
support.
"Obviously it was very difficult for her to forgive, we don`t know
what will happen from now on.
"Behind the personality which I carry, I`m a normal person and I have
my weaknesses and my fears.
"I have to reconstruct everything. It`s like a house which has been
knocked down by a hurricane. Now I have to build it all over again."
--
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talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we`re talking about chasing down terrorists,
we`re
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
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SUBJECT: #"Hill`s Angels": how female outrage at the unfairness of media treatment saved Hillary
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Subject: #"Hill`s Angels": how female outrage at the unfairness of media treatment saved Hillary
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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:15:01 -0800
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/hillaryclinton/story/0,,2239617,00.html
Hill`s Angels - how angry women of New Hampshire saved Clinton
· Female voters enraged by coverage following Iowa rout
· Loss of composure in diner helped trigger `perfect storm`
Suzanne Goldenberg in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Saturday January 12, 2008
The Guardian
This is where the revolution began: a cafe decorated with sunflower
yellow walls and botanical prints, a default lunch spot on a day for
running errands. It was here, over mid-morning coffee with undecided
voters, that an exhausted Hillary Clinton came close to tears, and the
women of New Hampshire - or at least those old enough to remember the
struggles of the 70s or even Anita Hill`s Senate testimony on sexual
harassment in 1991 - decided it was time to come home.
It was not just pity, though a number of women admitted their eyes
misted up at the sight of Clinton close to tears. It was not just
annoyance at commentators who called Clinton "shrill", or anger at the
hecklers who yelled: "Iron my shirt." Women, even those who have
disliked Clinton since she arrived on the national stage in 1992, felt
a sense of obligation.
"What can I say? I was a woman in the 70s and here you had a woman who
has the opportunity to be the first president of the United States,
and I had to decide between her and other Democrats," said Kathy
Walsh, a land agent who attended the coffee morning with Clinton. "But
it was tough. I just couldn`t get beyond all that crap about the
Clintons."
The meeting with Clinton last Monday was never meant to be an
all-women gathering. Last Sunday evening aides began calling around
the lists of voters who had identified themselves as undecided - women
and men - to invite them to meet Clinton the next morning at a local
cafe.
The voters were told they would be part of a group of 40 or 50 people.
But by morning a little more than a dozen had turned up, including at
least two women who had not been invited - and one of those was a
Republican - and just two men. The guests included business owners, a
teacher, a high school graduate working as a nanny and stay-at-home
mums.
If Clinton was disappointed in the poor turnout she did not let on.
She spent more than an hour answering questions, responding at such
length that a number of women confessed they were bored or overwhelmed
by information.
Walsh had to be dragged to the event. She is friendly with the
co-chair of Clinton`s campaign in New Hampshire, the state speaker,
Terie Norelli, and had turned down three other opportunities to see
Clinton. "I was not voting for Hillary at all. I just wasn`t going
with that whole Clinton thing." Even now she is adamant that it was
not Clinton`s tears that turned her - it was her detailed responses to
questions.
But it was Clinton`s response to the last question from freelance
photographer Marianne Pernold Young that provided the electric moment.
How did Clinton keep going? "I couldn`t do it if I didn`t just
passionately believe it was the right thing to do," Clinton began
telling Young, her voice cracking. "I have so many opportunities from
this country and I just don`t want to see us fall backwards as a
nation. This is very personal for me."
For Sally Bassett, 46 and a stay-at-home mum, the glimpse of raw
emotion was the turning point. She had been impressed by Clinton, but
she added: "What struck me was that she had such a deep concern about
the direction the country was going in. It just struck a chord."
But as a woman who used to work in the largely male field of
engineering, she was angered by the atmospherics of the campaign. "I
just couldn`t believe some of the things that were said and written,"
she said.
Clinton was getting regularly trashed by the rightwing talk show hosts
who dominate the airwaves in New Hampshire, said Arnie Arnesen, a
Democratic activist who has her own talk show. That built up
resentment among women.
So did churlish comments from Clinton`s main rivals. In the last
debate before primary day, Obama curtly told Clinton: "You`re likable
enough." Edwards responded to reports of her emotional moment by
talking about the importance of having a strong commander-in-chief.
Then, a few hours after the coffee shop moment, two men at a Clinton
rally held up placards reading: "Iron my shirt." Sexism was alive and
well, Clinton responded, and the audience erupted in support.
All of that came together in the popular reaction to Clinton`s
momentary loss of control in the cafe. "When she started reacting like
that everyone felt for her. It had been all over the press that
morning that she was going to lose to Barack Obama by 12 or 13 points,
so I am sure she was having a tough time," said Karen Barndollar, a
supporter who happened to be at the cafe. "But no one had ever seen
her like that during all the trials and tribulations with her husband
before, in public she was always pretty strong. This was unusual and
unexpected."
Two of Barndollar`s friends, who had planned to vote for Obama,
switched their votes. "I felt that Hillary needed a longer chance. I
didn`t want to see her knocked out of the race in a one-two punch
after all of her hard work," Melissa McLeod, a Portsmouth artist,
wrote in an email.
"So although I am an Obama fan I thought Hillary needed my vote and I
hate the way she gets dumped on for not being feminine, then being too
feminine."
Many commentators recognised Clinton`s frustration. Gail Collins wrote
in the New York Times: "This week, Hillary was a stand-in for every
woman who`s overdosed on multi-tasking."
Her colleague, Maureen Dowd, wasn`t buying it. She was reminded of how
Clinton has turned victimhood to her political advantage in the past.
"There was a whiff of Nixonian self-pity about her choking up. What
was moving her so deeply was her recognition that the country was
failing to grasp how much it needs her," she wrote. "In a weirdly
narcissistic way, she was crying for us. But it was grimly typical of
her that what finally made her break down was the prospect of losing."
Luckily for Clinton, that`s not how the women of New Hampshire saw it.
Some 57% of Democratic voters were women, and she won 46% of their
votes. Obama took 34%. The result was a reversal of the Iowa caucuses
five days earlier when women deserted Clinton for Obama - especially
those less than 24. She got just 19% of their support. The only Iowan
women who stayed loyal were senior citizens; 48% of women above the
age of 65 voted for Clinton.
As has been the pattern since the launch of her campaign nearly a year
ago, she performed best among women with lower incomes and less
education. Half of women earning between $15,000 and $30,000 a year
(£8,000- £15,000) voted for her, compared with 29% for Obama. She also
did well among single women.
Other factors in her win had little to do with gender. "It really was
a perfect storm for Hillary Clinton," said Arnesen. New Hampshire is
Clinton country and, unlike in Iowa, her machine was effective.
Workers got up at 4am to get people to the polls - two hours before
Obama. There are also signs that Obama supporters were complacent. As
Barndollar said: "I felt that because of the Iowa result that she had
become the underdog. "
After her astonishing victory, Clinton goes on to the next contest in
Nevada, a week from today, and then the final showdown of Super
Tuesday on February 5. What remains unclear is whether she can move
women again as the campaign moves to a national battleground.
The day after New Hampshire, Clinton sent out an email to supporters
saying she won because "we connected with the people". Such emotional
contact was good, Clinton wrote. But, she went on: "Just as surely, we
won because we made more phone calls, knocked on more doors, and put
more get-out-the-vote vans on the road. We`ve got a lot of work to do.
"
That brief flash of feeling probably saved Clinton`s campaign, but she
was not about to put her trust in anything so unreliable as emotion in
the rounds ahead.
· Madam President: Is America Ready to Send Hillary Clinton to the
White House? by Suzanne Goldenberg is published in the US on Monday.
It is also available from guardianbooks.co.uk
--
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government
talking
about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Nothing has
changed, by the way. When we`re talking about chasing down terrorists,
we`re
talking about getting a court order before we do so"
-George W. Bush, April 20, 2004
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"I simply can not believe this is what the Republican party has
become. I just can’t. It just makes me sick to think all those years
of supporting this party, and this is what it has become. Even if you
don’t like the S-Chip expansion, it is hard to deny what Republicans
are- a bunch of bitter, nasty, petty, snarling, sneering, vicious
thugs, peering through people’s windows so they can make fun of their
misfortune.
I’m registering Independent tomorrow."
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Title: Evolution of Multi Dynasty Democracy of India
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:10:43 +0000
Author: Vijay Manohar Deshpande
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Vijay M. Deshpande
  Assembly elections in Maharashtra State have been announced to be held on October 13, 2009 and the nominations are being filed. As the clamor for seat allocations in different parties reaches a crescendo, one thing that stands out distinctly is the criteria for giving party tickets for contesting elections. Single most important criterion for candidates seems to be the family relationships- sons, daughters, in-laws, nephews etc of who’s who of Indian politics. Sons & daughters of veterans of independence struggle did join politics but they were generally low profile entrants and yet very capable.
 Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty:
More on: http://deshpandevm.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/evolution-of-multi-dynasty-democracy-of-india/
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