Although one day after anticipated I finally started working at Colegio Antoine de SaintExuperty. This first week is meant for me to observe all of my classes so that I can better asses the level of English of my students and my coteacher's teaching style. Starting next week I'll take the most talented students in each class and offer them more advanced and helpful lessons. These will hopefull
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DVD Feature Film Review: The Ghost Writer
A top-drawer political thriller that is timely, sophisticated, and well-acted.
DVD Feature Film Review: ‘Night Mother
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, examines the complex roots of suicide.
DVD Feature Film Review: A Prophet (Un Prophete)
A gritty and tough depiction of a young petty criminal's introduction to the ways of the world while serving a six-year prison sentence.
DVD Feature Film Review: Blood Done Sign My Name
A sturdy and sensitive drama about the Civil Rights movement in Oxford, North Carolina, in 1970; it rings true and reveals the scourge of American racism in all of its ugly manifestations.
Book Excerpt: Thanks!
Robert A. Emmons on the value of cultivating gratitude.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Meditation Helps Increase Attention Span
Report on a scientific study of meditators' ability to sustain visual attention.
DVD Feature Film Review: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
A snappy, humorous, and creative comedy about an ambitious pre-teen boy whose expends all his energy trying to win the approval of his middle-school peers.
UAE, Saudi Blocking of BlackBerry Signals Growing Censorship
The decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia to block BlackBerry services
Left-Libertarian Justin Raimondo defends US Army traitor Bradley Manning on leaked Intelligence
Gays in the Military issue may have led to leaked classified info
From Eric Dondero:
Breaking News from Cliff Kinkaid at RightSideNews...
The Army Intelligence analyst charged with espionage, Private First Class Bradley Manning, has been found to be a homosexual activist. According to Kinkaid, Manning "held a grudge against the U.S. because of the military's anti-gay policy."
The story first broke at the UK Telegraph:
The US Army intelligence analyst, who is half British and went to school in Wales, appeared to sink into depression after a relationship break-up, saying he didn't "have anything left" and was "beyond frustrated".
Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual, began his gloomy postings on January 12, saying: "Bradley Manning didn't want this fight. Too much to lose, too fast."
Mr Manning, 22, who is currently awaiting court martial, is suspected of leaking more than 90,000 secret military documents to the Wikileaks website in a security breach which US officials claim has endangered the lives of serving soldiers and Afghan informers.
Later in the article:
Pictures on Mr Manning's Facebook page include photos of him on school trips during his time in Wales and at a gay rights rally, where he is holding up a placard demanding equality on "the battlefield".
Gays for Buchanan leader Raimondo calls Manning a "true patriot"
There is a rather troubling libertarian twist to the story. It seems one of Manning's most passionate defenders of the American traitor is Justin Raimondo of AntiWar.com.
However, a libertarian writer named Justin Raimondo on the website of antiwar.com is calling Manning an "American patriot" and "true soldier" for releasing thousands of classified documents. Raimondo, who is himself gay, suggests that supporters of Manning go to a "Help Bradley Manning" site.
Raimondo was a leader in the Libertarian Party's Radical Caucus in the 1970s, a self-proclaimed "male prostitute," and originator of "Gays for Buchanan" in his 1992 and 1996 runs for President.
At AntiWar.com Raimondo suggests another villain may be behind the whole affair - "AIPAC, Israel’s powerful Washington lobby": Raimondo writing sardonically at AntiWar.com...
after all, instead of stealing on behalf of a foreign power – Israel, our “friend” and “ally” – he did it to get the truth out to the American people, and we can’t have that!
Curiously, Raimondo wrote the piece "Bradley Manning, American Patriot: The campaign to smear him is picking up steam" and launched the effort in defense of Manning, July the 7th; a full three weeks prior to Manning being outed as a homosexual activist.
Especially troubling to the intelligence community, is that the names leaked by Manning include those of informants deep within the Al-Qaeda linked Taliban in Afghanistan.
Andre Traversa Presents Libertarian Politics Live: Special Guests Janice Crouse and Mike Geiger
Our first guest is Janice Crouse is President of the Beverly Lahaye Institute, an arm of Concerned women for America. She has written a book called CHILDREN AT RISK, about sexual trafficking.
Our second guest is Sergeant Mike Geiger, head of the Sex Crimes unit at the Portland Police Department in Portland, Oregon.
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Calcutta: Attractive Muslim Woman refuses to cover up with Burqa
Sirin Middya, is a 24-year old visiting professor at the Alia University in West Bengal, India. The Muslim Student Association has attempted to force her to wear a burqa while in class. She has refused.
From TaraTV.com, "Woman teacher says no to burqa in muslim university" July 29:
Middya who joined as a guest lecturer at the University in March, got the ‘diktat’ in the second week of April that she would not be allowed to attend the college if she did not wear burqa. The University Grants Commission does not prescribe any such dress code. The unfortunate part is that students are forcing women teachers to wear burqa. Middya’s argument is that she has nothing against burqas but if she wears one at all it should be out of her free will.
The Secretary of the West Bengal Madrassa Students’ Union Siamat Ali informed that there are eight women teachers in the university. It was agreed that women teachers would wear burqas. Only Sirin Middya had refused to do so. He maintained that she would be allowed to take classes only if she wears a burqa. The University is so far silent on the issue.
(H/t Jawa)
Rand Paul update: Remains comfortably ahead of Dem opponent in Kentucky race
From Eric Dondero:
A second poll in two weeks shows libertarian Republican Rand Paul with a comfortable lead over his Democrat opponent. This, despite a massive assault from the liberal media, including MSNBC, and leftist blogs, trying to paint Paul as an "extremist" Ayn Randian government cutter.
From Hedgehog:
US SENATE – KENTUCKY (Survey USA)
Rand Paul (R) 51%
Jack Conway (D) 43%
Aussie Election Updates: Gillard falls, Libertarians gain & Sex Party stays true to principles
Gillard for Socialist Health Care, Open Borders and Big Union Agenda
From Cliff Thies & Eric Dondero:
Elections are set for August 23, and they promise to be a doozie by Australian standards.
The Liberal-National Coalition is surging ahead of Labour in the latest poll - 17 point lead for Labour after it dumped Rudd has now vanished.
Yet another country poised to shift to the center-right in August snap election.
From news.com.au:
JULIA Gillard has taken a battering in the latest opinion poll, which shows the Coalition would win the election if it was held now.
Support for the Prime Minister and Labor has fallen dramatically while the Opposition has taken the lead in the Herald/Nielsen poll published today.
The Coalition is now ahead of Labor on a two-party preferred basis by 52 per cent to 48 per cent - a six percentage point swing against the government since the last Nielsen poll a week ago.
Aussie politics observer Cory Bernardi wrote at his blog linked by the Australian Libertarian Society:
Ms Gillard has spent twelve years in Parliament, spent years as one of the bosses at the Socialist Forum (that's where the former communists went to continue their radical agenda), and a few years with Slater and Gordon pushing Labor’s pro-union industrial relations agenda.
Her entree into politics brought some policy gems like 'Medicare Gold' and the failed border protection laws that have seen people smugglers make record profits trafficking their human cargo.
Australia Libertarians Say No to Nanny-State
The main opposition party, the Liberal Democrats appear to have a growing libertarian wing. Australia Libertarian Society member and contributor to Libertarian Republican James Fryar is running for Senate in the Northlands. Yet another Libertarian candidate has emerged. From NewsMaker; tell the world:
The Liberal Democrat candidate for Adelaide has launched a war against government meddling.
“It’s time we eliminated the wholesale intrusions of government into our lives,” says Christopher Steele, LDP candidate for Adelaide.
Chris points out, that “Right now, government is taxing us to the wall. High tax stifles everyone’s living standards and the tax squeeze on business means less employment opportunities than we’d like, too. Just as badly, government is hell-bent on taking control of our personal lives.
"We are being trounced by the Nanny State and it's time we reclaimed our freedom."
Chris believes it is vital to overturn government interference gone mad. He declares that governments have: no right to interfere in personal lifestyle choices; and no right to infringe upon any individual's economic activity.
As Chris explains “Some parties stand for some degree of economic freedom but with plenty of social constraints, while other parties stand for social freedom yet with plenty of economic constraints. Only the LDP stands for maximum freedom, both economically and socially.”
On August 21st, Australia goes to the polls and Chris says that you can strike a blow for freedom by voting LDP. Chris ends with this message: "Vote P in the upper house (LDP) and vote for the LDP candidate in the lower house in Sturt, Makin, Boothby and Adelaide."
Photo of LDP MP Sophie Mirabella, winner of the 2008 Capitalist Award.
Sex Party rejects advances by Social Conservatives
Meanwhile, the Sex Party is garnering attention for a rejection of social conservatives.
From GoogleNews July 28:
SYDNEY — Australia's flamboyant Sex Party on Thursday said it had rebuffed an approach from arch-conservative Family First to forge an unlikely electoral alliance.
Spokesman Robbie Swan said Family First, a Christian outfit which champions family values, offered to swap voters' preferences -- used when there is no outright winner -- in August 21 elections.
He said there was "no way in the world" the Sex Party, whose policies include decriminalising drugs and weakening pornography laws, would jump into bed with "diametrically opposed" Family First.
"We represent a lot of prostitutes, but we're not prostitutes in the sense that we would sell out," he told AFP.
