GENIUS FORUMS

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1. Foster mom burns foster-daughter's tongue with fork, sticks needles in her eyes

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... om25m.html

In addition, police and prosecutors said in charging papers, Kabbelliyaa beat the girl with crutches, an umbrella, canned goods and keys.
Charging documents also state that Kabbelliyaa would turn on the stove's burner until it was red-hot before pressing the girl's palm onto the burner.


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2. Sick of single-family solitude? Craving an antidote to urban isolation? The new era of tribal living has arrived.

http://commongroundmag.com/2007/10/ourtown0710.html

Intentional communities have come a long way over the last forty years. Once considered the provenance of hippies seeking to get back to the land, renounce worldly goods and perhaps submit to a guru, intentional communities come in flavors as varied as their many residents; tastes and needs.


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3. Star Trek's Gene Roddeberry Was a Big Hippie

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl ... leID=38713

Roddeberry's optimistic universe of high energy, peaceful humans who have thrown away racism, sexism, ageism and other primitive mindsets is criticized for being Utopian minded.


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4. Women Lit the Fire That Burned Draft Cards

http://womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/ ... t/ourstory

Behind the men standing at the microphones as the day's events were televised, an emerging mainstream national women's movement was visible if you knew where to look.


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6. Take back the streets [Young Lords]

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/ ... 8718.shtml

In 1970, Melendez, along with 125 members of the New York chapter of activist group The Young Lords, backed a truck into a nurse's station in order to establish a heroin detox clinic.


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7. Reincarnation of living Buddha needs gov't approval

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007 ... 448242.htm

All the living reincarnations of living Buddhas of Tibetian Buddhism must get government approval, otherwise they are "illegal or invalid," China's State Administration for...


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9. Back when Kerouac partied hard at Wes

http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article/5340

In those days, Alpha Delt, which also had some of the school's star athletes as members, would entertain the likes of Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Adrienne Rich and Robert Lowell at semi-regular literary weekends. Some Alpha Delt alums went to Harvard to study with acid-proponent Tim Leary, White says. Robert Frost also spoke on campus.


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10. Black Panther : The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (see photo)

http://www.dexigner.com/design_events/b ... uglas.html

Douglas's iconic work helped create the identity of the party, defining the trademark visual style of the group's newspapers, posters, and pamphlets. His work also serves as a powerful testament to the efficacy of visual art to communicate a political position.


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11. Ex-Gman Puts His Fate in the Hands of Radical Judge

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runni ... nts_ra.php

Can a one time campus radical who was surveilled by the FBI be a fair judge for an ex-FBI agent on trial for murder?


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13. Drop out, drop in

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs. ... FEATURES02

Some of the original communes or intentional communities continue to this day in altered forums, including Guilford's Monteverdi Artists Collaborative (originally Total Loss Farm). The authors of "Freedom and Unity" also cite The Tail of the Tiger in Barnet (a Tibetian community founded in the late '60s) and Rochester's Quarry Hill Creative Center (an artists and writers retreat founded in the late '40s).


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14. Jewish "intactivists" in U.S. stop circumcising

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Reproducti ... id=3681395

Circumcision is even before the courts. In November, the Oregon Supreme Court will rule on whether a convert to Judaism can force his 12-year-old son to undergo the procedure. (see photo)


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15. Young love, old rules - Marriages based on caste, class and creed are still the norm.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071007/a ... 404448.asp

Muslim boy meets Marwari girl. They fall in love. The girl's family is vehemently opposed to the match. Boy and girl get married and the couple move into the boy's house. When pleas and threats fail to bring the girl back home, her father calls the cops and ensures that she is sent back to her parents for seven days. Ten days later, the boy is found dead near the railway tracks.


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16. OUT OF PLACE: Displaced wage silent war - A Karen woman cradles her baby as children play inside the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand (see photo)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailhea ... @01&irec=0

Taking a deep breath, M. Stila, one of Karen's ethnic leaders, stared silently, quietly at the deep green mountains just a few short kilometers away from where he sat. Their ancestors hail from the Gobi Desert in China and they settled in the eastern part of Myanmar in 739 BC.


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17. Massachusetts tracks preschool children on psychiatric drugs

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/a ... ric_drugs/?

Four-year-old Rebecca Riley of Hull died of an overdose of psychiatric drugs in December (see photo of girl)


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Tomas (the tank)
Prince Of Jerusalem
16 Degree
Scottish Rite Free Mason





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Crazy world allright..

Tomas: Have you gone up a degree in your rank? :D

Thanks for the links.

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-leonard-
hsandman -- Crazy world allright..

-tomas-
I've met crazy persons alright, but the world is not crazy.




-leonard-
Have you gone up a degree in your rank? :D

-tomas-
It's like Diebert said some time ago in late July,
(paraphrase) "perhaps you did gone all the way thru the Degrees without you even knowing you have..."
I'll leave it at that :-|



-leonard-
Thanks for the links.

-tomas-
Only if you've checked out a few of them...


Tomas


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-tomas-
Only if you've checked out a few of them...

I have/did. Too much for me for today.

Thanks.

Edit: "I think we can all do with some Pollyanna." - Because, the alternative is much worse imo.

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Dulce et Decorum Est

Having an all-volunteer army minimizes objections to the war since no one of any influence has to go; if a lot of high-school grads from Tennessee are getting killed, well, it's not a good thing of course, but who really cares? This facilitates hobbyist wars. A volunteer army is a small army, so you have to send the same troops for tour after tour until they are half-mad and their families wrecked. Who cares? They are just rednecks anyway - not our sort of people, nobody a general would let his daughter date.

War looks exciting to office workers, but has less appeal to those who are forced to fight. It has even less appeal for those who are hit.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed134.html

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Gibbon noted that in the heyday of the Roman repulic, the legions were manned by the sons of yeoman farmers who thot they had an inheritance to protect and some say in the laws. But when they switched to what we'd call an all volunteer army, it was drawn from the disenfranchised lower orders and even barbarian foreigners.

The allegiance of the legions shifted from that of sustaining the republic to that of the generals who paid them. The power elite, who have always done it on the cheap, thot they were getting a good deal. Machiavelli saw how they shifted the tax burden to the middle class, but after they ran out of money, financial crisis emerged and they needed to call in a general to restore order. In this case, Ceasar.

Caesar rebalanced the books to the gratification of the masses by simply using the troops to seize the assets of the rich, looting them as effectively, but with less wanton destruction than had unorganized barbarians done it. Since by then the people no longer had any effective say in the way the government ran, they had nothing to loose by supporting tyranny.

Course, the power elites never read history, they only make it, and keep repeating it cause they never read it.