Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
I LIKE HATDAYS.
In April 2009, a hoax in Saudi Arabia led to a rush to acquire special old Singer hat-sewing machines, rumoured to contain red mercury, on the grounds that it could be used to find treasure (yarr!), ward off evil spirits (yarr!) or even make nuclear bombs (yarr?, indeed, YARR!). Groups of undercover police have been deployed to monitor Jeddah’s markets following a surge in the sale of old Singer hat-sewing machines.
Col. Misfer Al-Juaid, official spokesman for Jeddah police, said there have been reports of people coming to Jeddah from the Kingdom’s northern and central region’s to buy the hat-sewing machines. He added that those selling hat-sewing machines would have their machines seized and hats made with the equipment.
Retro Stefson - SenseniReykjavik/Iceland
Al-Juaid said people are paying up ALOT per hat-sewing machine following the spread of a rumor over the past three days of the existence of red mercury in a particular brand of old Singer hat-sewing machines.
Al-Juaid said people are buying the machines, whose original price is only nearly nothing, as they think the red mercury can be used to control Jinns (Jinns are a work group from Pakistan that has been rebelling in Saudi) or will give them long life.
Petey Pablo - Raise UpGreenville/North Carolina
The rumor has led many people to sell their old machines with reports of frenzy at a market in Buraidah. According to one local newspaper, Riyadh’s Bin Qasim Market also saw a surge in people looking to buy Singer hat-sewing machines. Store owners were seen cleaning dust off old second-hand machines and then selling them on for up to high prizes.
Monday, April 06, 2009
The Ursulines are a Roman Catholic religious order founded at Brescia, Italy, by Saint Angela de Merici in November 1535, primarily for the education of girls and the care of the sick and needy. Their patron saint is Saint Ursula.
Malajube - UrsulineMontreal/Canada
Part dreamy ethereal, part pop rockin', the thrills start at the beginning and just keep building. There's more than a hint of Sebastien Tellier in epic six-and-a-half-minute album opener Ursuline - and plenty of time for some serious shoegazing, while at the other end of the scale, Heresie is short, snappy and sweet at a little under two minutes.
Malajube - Fille á PlumesMontreal/Canada
JUBILEE.
The concept of the Jubilee is a special year of remission of sins and universal pardon. In the Biblical book of Leviticus, a Jubilee year is mentioned to occur every fifty years, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed AND debts would be forgiven.
"Bringing up the next Jubilee:
Sept 14, 2015 - Oct 3, 2016 - 52nd Jubilee - Jesus Christ sets down on the Mount of Olives, enters the city through the east gate, securing it, and taking His earthly throne on or soon after Sept 23, 2015???" Reference: www.fisheaters.com
He did say something about coming back? And if he did, would we even recognize him? Well, he must look something like the picture above, we think he looked something like that. So it would be a huge mistake to change your look completely. But you must synchronize it to modern time. So. I have a theroy about Jesus. I think he is already here, not only is Jesus back, but he's a legendary entertainer and role model.
That's right folks....The IMMORTAL Hulk Hogan!! Come on, Immortal is even in his freakin name! I mean, just look at the principals of Hulkamania.
1. Say your prayers
2. Eat your vitamins
3. Believe in yourselves and the man upstairs
It's all there.... calling everyone brother, the unnatural feats of strength, being impervious to pain, the ability to draw a crowd.....
Deux - Game and PerformanceParis/France
Deux (듀스) is a South Korean hip hop duo popular in early 1990s. The duo consisted of Lee Hyun Do and Kim Sung Jae. They were not only colleagues when they were the 2nd generation of the hip hop group, Hyeon Jin Young and Wawa but also close friends to each other. Hip-hop music that was once considered an exclusive music for African-Americans until the early 1990, appeared in South Korea as a mixed form of dance music and rap, called "rap dance". In the mid-1990s hip hop gained great popularity in South Korea and Deux has been considered frontiers of Korean hip hop music along with Seo Taiji and Boys, Kim Gun Mo and DJ Doc. Lee composed their music while Kim took care of choreography and styling.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Feminism
Feminism is the belief that women should have equal political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights to humans.
Lynda Birke was born in London in 1948. She went to the University of Sussex, where she studied Biological Sciences. She subsequently did a master's by research in Animal Behaviour and did a doctorate in animal behaviour (1977). During that time, she was actively involved in the women's liberation movement, and cofounded the Brighton Women and Science Group. She also worked on the University's Changing Experience of Women course. She is now based in the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Lancaster.
Most of Lynda Birke's scientific research focused on hormones and animal behaviour, and the ways in which young mammals develop. This included a critique of the widespread assumptions of hormonal determinism of animal behaviour.
Joan Callahan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she is also affiliated with the Social Theory Program. She is the incoming editor (Fall 1998) of the American Philosophical Association's NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY as well as an activist in the struggle for equal rights for sexual and gender minorities.
Joan Callahan's work is primarily in the areas of social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, and practical ethics, including ethics and public policy, particularly in the areas of professional ethics, ethics and women's health, and ethics and minorities.
Alison M. Jaggar is Professor of Philosophy and Women Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently, she is working on a book tentatively Sex, Truth and Power: A Feminist Theory of Moral Peason. Jaggar was a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and is past chair of the American Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women. She has worked with many organizations for peace and justice and she sees feminist scholarship as inseparable from feminist activism.
The Czech feminist Mirek Vodrázka defines himself as the "philosopher of chaos," feminist missionary, and independent journalist. Born with a twin, Vodrázka identified with his sister very much and often referred to himself in the feminine gender. In the 1970s he was the author and main propagator of the manifestos of "emotionalism" and pursued the method of "total improvisation," in which he still lives and writes. When he was 23, Vodrázka was persecuted by the Communist regime as a "socially dangerous" individual, for putting a sign reading "God is here" on the statue of St. Wenceslaus in the center of Prague. In 1996 he published, via the Gender Studies Foundation in Prague, his book, Feminist Talks About Secret Services (Feministicke rozhovory o tajnych sluzbach), seven interviews with women active in politics and the public sphere in the Czech Republic. In 1997 Vodrázka published his philosophical essay, Chaocracy, through Votobia Praha Publishing.