Tue 25 Oct 2005
“I am leaving this legacy to all of you,” she said in 1988, “to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfilment of what our lives should be.
“Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.”
– Rosa Parks
Tue 25 Oct 2005
the blonde, the blue-eyed…
the Aryan
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if I caught my 15 year old kid listening to this shit… I’d put them on a plane to Zimbabwe with an introductory letter for Mugabe. no hesitation.
Tue 25 Oct 2005
(CBS) Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.
Source: CBS
Call Cuba a dictatorship all you want… at least they’re NOT mind-fucking their people with superstitious bull-shit.
Tue 25 Oct 2005
I never knew her…
but her’s was a spirit, for all the human failings, that will glow bright through history.
The human world has lost something special today and we are all less for that loss.
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Rosa Parks remembered as a ‘courageous woman and a true American hero’
Last Updated Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:05:53 EDT
CBC News
The woman whose name is synonymous with the American civil rights movement has died.
Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the U.S. South. Laws at the time required African-Americans to give up their seats to white people.
Rosa Parks
Years later Parks said “the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long.”
The 42-year-old seamstress was arrested and jailed and later fined $14.
Her simple reply when asked by the bus driver if she was going to give up her seat was, “No.”
“Well, by God, I’m going to have you arrested,” the driver said.
“You may do that,” Parks told him.
That simple refusal to buckle to the hated whites-only laws in the American South would erupt into a boycott of the city’s bus system by African-Americans that brought the company to its knees.
But more importantly, it focussed the world’s attention on the unjust laws and discrimination faced by African-Americans every day.
“At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in,” she once said in an interview.
The 381-day boycott was organized by a little-known black leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
It would also be the first real attack on the hated Jim Crow laws that had been in place in the South since the end of the Civil War. Those laws required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations. They also legally sanctioned racial discrimination that kept blacks out of many jobs and neighborhoods in the North.
Eventually, the civil rights movement that grew out of the Montgomery bus boycott was successful in lobbying for the passage of the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act.
For her part, Parks received so much attention that she was unable to find work in Alabama and moved to Detroit in 1957, where she went to work for Congressman John Conyers for the next 31 years.
She was the recipient of both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
In a statement released Monday night Massaschuseets Senator Edward Kennedy said: “The nation lost a courageous woman and a true American hero. A half century ago, Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but for generations upon generations of Americans.”
Rosa Parks was 92.
She died of natural causes at her home in Detroit.
Tue 18 Oct 2005
right wing conservatives are living breathing oxymorons… I emphasize “moron”…
Conservatism is a major political philosophy supporting traditional values or an established social order. As the word implies, conservatives seek to conserve the existing social order or to reinstate an ideal social order now in decline.
source: Wikipedia
Freedom: the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints
source: Princeton Wordnet
Freedom and conservativism are diametrically opposed…
freedom means the ability to do what one wants without constraint…
conservativism constrains everything within the bounds of tradition and socially acceptable rules.
how Conservatives have hijacked and manipulated people into believing that they stand for freedom and democracy is beyond me…
eg. the description of the “Liberty Film Festival”
“The 2005 Liberty Film Festival, Hollywood’s premier event for conservative and libertarian film, will be held this October 21-23, 2005 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The Liberty Film Festival showcases films that celebrate the traditional American values of free speech, patriotism, and religious freedom. We also celebrate the spread of freedom and democracy around the world, and welcome international filmmakers who advance these values through their art.”
its just oxymorons convincing morons.
Tue 18 Oct 2005
we can only hope that the porcine dark lord of conservativism fries.
Mon 17 Oct 2005
Putin is a danger.
I never thought so until I found out that the man wants to utilize Cossacks as an internal force.
Bigotted and elitist, the Cossacks are a Nationalistic force only.
Putin has become a Russian.
Mon 17 Oct 2005
“Democracies are peaceful countries…“
– George W. Bush
Oct, 2005
Democracies:
1. USA – 133 military interventions
from 1890 to 1999.
source: zMag
see also: Wikipedia
- there is absolutely no honest or accurate way to count the millions, maybe billions, of victims of this peaceful nation.
2. Nazi Germany
- Hitler and the Nazi’s WERE voted in by an outstanding majority in a popular vote, despite the hackles of outrage this raises from the right wing who wants to see all evil as being created by the Communists.
3. UK
- I don’t think this is even quantifiable, or if it is its an insult to its victims to do so.
Democracies are peacful countries… what a joke.
Thu 13 Oct 2005
threaten it… and see who pops their noses out of their holes to defend it…
Western Democracy – I wonder who would fight for it…
the masses of poor or the Conrad Blacks or Donald Trumps of the world…
Thu 13 Oct 2005
by the religious of the world…
trying to convince everyone that they accept and are tolerant of other’s faith…
how is that even possible?
you can choose not to care about another human being, but once you care you cannot tolerate something that will intrinsically commit them to eternal hell.
make no mistake about it… once you have faith, that faith diametrically opposes every other faith…
to believe in the god of Christianity one must believe that every other god or creed where that god’s solely christian nature is denied is inherently wrong.
you can chose to accept that your neighbour is going to hell, but that doesn’t display anything but a cold callous disregard for another human being.
a true follower of any faith will be up your arse every 5 seconds trying to convert you… it may be annoying or offensive, but at least they are showing that they care…
a believer NOT trying to convert you is turning their back on their faith as much as if a Muslim shat on a Quran.
here is a fact: belief leads to nothing but intolerance and prejudice.
anything else is a lie