Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Woman Hides with Children from Beating Husband and Is Condemned in Court
Une femme battue doit communiquer sa nouvelle adresse à son mari violent - 20minutes.fr:
"Le tribunal correctionnel de Dunkerque (Nord) a condamné à trois mois de prison avec sursis, jeudi, une mère qui s’était réfugiée avec ses enfants auprès de l’association Sedire. Motif: ne pas avoir communiqué sa nouvelle adresse à son mari..."
That's the kind of judgements that let you speculate about whose rights are being protected by whom!
Labels: freely speaking
Saturday, July 28, 2007
German-American Summer Fun in Berlin
Labels: Berlin
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
He'll never understand ...
... but hopefully he won't drive us to oblivion before he's driven from office ! President Links Qaeda of Iraq to Qaeda of 9/11
HE opened the way for them in Iraq, and no one else; HE's responsible for giving them the opportunity to wreak havoc there!
By JIM RUTENBERG and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: July 25, 2007; The New York Times
President Bush sharply criticized those who contend that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia and the network responsible for the attacks on 9/11 are independent of each other.
Labels: playpen
Saturday, July 21, 2007
A Modest Suggestion ...
... to the bushbaby and his entire playpen :
Court Tells U.S. to Reveal Data on Detainees at Guantánamo
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
The New York Times - Published: July 21, 2007
In a stinging legal challenge to the administration’s detention policies, a ruling requires virtually all information to be shared with defense lawyers.
Labels: freely speaking, justice, playpen
Friday, July 20, 2007
busbabies just don't get scared
One hopes the leader of the free world hasn't really, truly lost touch with objective reality. But one does have to wonder.
Last week, George W. Bush invited nine conservative pundits to the White House for what amounted to a pep talk, with the president providing the pep. Somehow I was left off the list -- must have been an oversight. But some columnists who attended have been writing about the meeting or describing it to colleagues, and their accounts are downright scary.
[...]
It's bad enough that Osama bin Laden is still out there plotting bloody acts of terrorism, convinced that God wants him to slay the infidels. Now we know that the president of the United States believes God has chosen him to bring freedom to the world, that he refuses to acknowledge setbacks in his crusade and that he flat-out doesn't care what "the polls" -- meaning the American people -- might think. I'm having trouble seeing the bright side. I think I need cognitive therapy.By Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, July 20, 2007; Page A19
I've recognized and been talking and writing about this alarming aspect of the bushbaby and his playpen for many years now. Good that a Washington Post columnist has also seen the two faces of the one coin of fundamentalism, its resultant terror and its underlying denial of reality. Such inability or unwillingness to call a spade a spade is also one of the definitions of INSANITY.
Labels: freely speaking, playpen
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Just to say thanks...
Memorials to West Haven Presbyterian:
The F.M. Pridgen Sunday School Class
Ruth McLean
Henry and Wilma Tyson
David and Melanie Gardner
Memorials to Hospice of Nash General:
Jane Gardner Smith
Tommy and Margaret Gardner
George and Ruth Price
Amos Tyson
Mary Smith
Charles Sutton
Sandra Bonner
Mary Ann Sutton
Lichtenfelt Nurseries
Joe and Marti Cash
Park and Thomas Williams
Sally Mozingo
Inez and Julian Gardner
Jeanette Allen
St. Giles Presbyterian Women
Memorials to St. Giles Butterflies & Memories Garden:
The Greenville Chamber Singers
Memorials to the NC Order of Eastern Stars Foundation:
25/Past Matrons Club
Nell Boone
Nashville Chapter #332
Flowers:
Sag Harbor
Battle & Steven Whitley
Labels: countess
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Jour de la Bastille
Allons enfants de la Patrie
Labels: freely speaking, justice
Friday, July 13, 2007
The bushbaby knows worst...
President Bush still refuses to talk about what almost everyone else now understands is essential: the need for a plan to extricate American troops from a lost cause in Iraq.
Labels: playpen
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
More From Maledictus fundamentalistus !
Vatican says other Christian churches wounded - International Reuters:
Just a little assistance for the Reuters translators: the German word they translated as "wounded" also serves to describe a DEFECT, so essentially the papal dictator was declaring all churches other than his own as "religiously defective"."A 16-page document by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Pope Benedict once headed, described Christian Orthodox churches as true churches, but suffering from a 'wound' since they do not recognize the primacy of Pope.
But the document said the 'wound is still more profound' in Protestant denominations.
'Despite the fact that this teaching has created no little distress ... it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them,' it said."
Anyone still wondering why the ability to think is so rapidly disappearing, amidst all the clouds of shadowy smoke designed to debilitate all brains everywhere ?
Labels: freely speaking
Monday, July 9, 2007
Ob Schäuble sich freut ?
New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown - New York Times
The program would include license plate readers and 3,000 security cameras below Canal Street.
[...]
There is little evidence to suggest that security cameras deter crime or terrorists, said James J. Carafano, a senior fellow for homeland security at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington.
For all its comprehensiveness, London’s Ring of Steel, which was built in the early 1990s to deter Irish Republican Army attacks, did not prevent the July 7, 2005, subway bombings or the attempted car bombings in London last month. But the British authorities said the cameras did prove useful in retracing the paths of the suspects’ cars last month, leading to several arrests.
While having 3,000 cameras whirring at the same time means loads of information will be captured, it also means there will be a lot of useless data to sift through. “The more hay you have, the harder it is to find the needle,” said Mr. Carafano.
Schließlich möchte Schäuble jeden Tag mehr Spielzeuge einführen:
Schäuble fordert Handy- und Internetverbot für TerrorverdächtigeSchäuble macht ernst: Für den Anti-Terror-Kampf fordert der Innenminister im Gespräch mit dem SPIEGEL eine deutliche Ausweitung der staatlichen Befugnisse. Seine Liste reicht von Handy- und Internetverboten bis zur vorsorglichen Internierung von Gefährdern."Man könnte beispielsweise einen Straftatbestand der Verschwörung einführen, wie in Amerika", sagte Schäuble im Gespräch mit dem SPIEGEL. Zudem denke er darüber nach, ob es Möglichkeiten gebe, "solche Gefährder zu behandeln wie Kombattanten und zu internieren".
Labels: freely speaking, justice
Caritas Sine Amore ?
hoc erat in principio apud Deum
omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ipso factum est nihil quod factum est
in ipso vita erat et vita erat lux hominum
et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non conprehenderunt
Labels: freely speaking
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Home Again ... !!!
Labels: Hiddensee
Friday, July 6, 2007
And today was once again BEACH WEATHER
Labels: Hiddensee
Even a rainy day is enjoyable...
Just walk down the street to the inn for coffee and lunch...
This is the main street of the artists' and writers' town, the fashionable village of Kloster.
Labels: Hiddensee
Ein bißchen Klarsicht - A bit of transparency
Nebeneinkünfte der Abgeordneten online abzurufen: "Die Angaben der 613 Abgeordneten zu ihren Nebeneinkünften sind online veröffentlicht. Unter den Biografien der einzelnen Parlamentarier stehen nunmehr auch die veröffentlichungspflichtigen Angaben, die unter anderem Auskunft über bezahlte Tätigkeiten neben dem Mandat geben. Bundestagspräsident Dr. Norbert Lammert hatte nach der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts am Mittwoch, dem 4. Juli 2007, die unverzügliche Bekanntmachung angekündigt."
Labels: freely speaking
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Fireworks for Fourth of July at the Baltic Shore
Labels: Hiddensee
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident [...] all Men are created equal [...] certain unalienable Rights [...] among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness [...] to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted [...] deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed [...] [One] whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.
And here a video Fourth Of July to make you all envious:
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Yesterday hiking, today on the beach
Today we spent the morning on the beach (photos tomorrow) and yesterday, before the enchanting puppet production of Robinson Crusoe, included a nice hike in the hills at the islands north end, as shown here.
And the sun is still shining, so, with lunch over, we're off again.
Labels: Hiddensee
Remembering Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills, the All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78 - New York Times
Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, even among people who never set foot in an opera house, died last night at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.
Justin Lane for The New York Times
Beverly Sills in 2002, after coming out of retirement as chairwoman of Lincoln Center to lead the Metropolitan Opera
Monday, July 2, 2007
Second Morning With Sunshine ...
Unbelievably enough, while storms may be brewing elsewhere, we had a hazy sunny day yesterday, comfortable but not too hot; and the sun is shining this morning, though heavy thunderstorms are promised for the afternoon and evening. But then we're going to the puppet theater next door for their production of Robinson Crusoe, so who cares !
And here there are no cars (to be searched or feared), no airports (to wait in lines at or worry about attacks in), no trains (to miss because of wildcat strikes), no targets (to be hit by fundamentalists to defeat enlightenment), and no way on or off except by ferry from three easily controllable little harbors.
This is truly a little island paradise.
Yesterday we did the lighthouse and Enddorn; this morning we're going to do the Dornbusch hike up around the cliff edges to the west & north. And we're enjoying every minute of it.
Labels: Hiddensee