CRITICISM AS ESPIONAGE AND DESCENT AS TREASON    mingus.charlesmingus3art.com/a---_574.html mingus.charlesmingus3art.com/index2.php?artikel=581&nfw=true CRITICISM AS ESPIONAGE AND DESCENT AS TREASON   JFK Secret Society Speech Re-edit http://youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU 3rd world backwater youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU ++++++++++++ This is a video response to JFK-Secret societies PT2 youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU youtube.com/watch?v=MS7l6i4w11U serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/19th.html (1 of 4) [10/22/2007 12:19:07 PM] youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU&mode=related&search= CRITICISM AS ESPIONAGE AND DESCENT AS TREASON   google.com/search?hl=en&q=CRITICISM+AS+ESPIONAGE+AND+DESCENT+AS+TREASON youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU&mode=related&search= +++++++++++++ "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has'closed',the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. AND I AM CAESAR." --Julius Caesar   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ cgi.desert-sun.com/maggiedowns.shtml Plantman Knows Where the Plants Will Grow May 25, 1:46 p.m. Wondering how I've been spending my time lately? I've been watching plants grow. No, really. It's kind of like watching water boil, only a LOT more boring. The Boyfriend and I ordered an Aerogrow Garden for our kitchen, and we're probably the only people in the world who are legitimately using it for basil and not for weed. Yesterday we filled it with water and inserted the nutrient capsules and programmed the lights. And then we inserted the seed pods. I'm actually a little disappointed the seed pods didn't suddenly sprout and go "bwooop!" and become full-grown plants before my very eyes. "Well, they're not radiation seeds," The Boyfriend said. "They still have to GROW, you know. This just hastens the process." But I just keep standing there and waiting and watching. I know that something has to happen at some point. I think I watch too many cartoons. cgi.desert-sun.com/maggiedowns.shtml This is not a pipe Jennifer's History and Stuff: You Asked, J Fielek Answers  jenlars.mu.nu/archives/005331.html He is the epitome of a storyteller. 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It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has'closed',the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. AND I AM CAESAR." --Julius Caesar ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/ serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/samorost/http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/samorost/start.html serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/samorost/start.html Howard Hoffman ... On Life serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/hoffman/ Bryn Mawr College Lithography Workshop A WWW Exhibit of Student Work serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/Litho/Litho.html serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/iceland/ ???? Svengali images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=+Svengali Jennifer's History and Stuff: You Asked, J Fielek AnswersHe is the epitome of a storyteller. Robert Heinlein is not only a superb .... My father was a man with a rapier wit, and an intuitive understanding of all ... jenlars.mu.nu/archives/005331.html - serendip.brynmawr.edu/ Blue Raygun Swiss Art artlex.com/ArtLex/s/swiss.html Excerpts: artlex.com/ Design - A plan, or to plan. The organization or composition of a work; the skilled arrangement of its parts. An effective design is one in which the elements of art and principles of design have been combined to achieve an overall sense of unity. Also, the production of attractive and well crafted functional objects. Subcategories of the design arts include: architecture, bonsai, fashion design, furniture design, graphic design, ikebana, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, stagecraft, textile design, and Web page design. Examples of objects which were designed: Korea, Openwork Incense Burner, first half of the 12th century, celadon glazed porcelain, height 15.3 cm, National Museum of Korea. While fulfilling its function, the design of this incense burner artlex.com/ArtLex/d/design.html (1 of 9) [10/22/2007 2:10:06 PM] juxtaposes plant and animal motifs with geometric openwork. See Korean art. Kaspar Faber (German, 1730-1784), manufactured by Faber-Castell, Germany, Lead Pencil, 1761, graphite and cedarwood. See pencil. Walter Hunt (American, 1795-1859), manufactured by A. Meyers & Sons Corp., USA, Safety Pin, 1849, steel. These illustrations are from Hunt's patent application. Thomas Alva Edison (American, 1847-1931), manufactured by Edison General Electric (now GE Lighting), USA, Incandescent Light Bulb, 1879, glass vacuum bulb, tungsten filament, and aluminum base. Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856-1940), Bugatti Table, wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded metal mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl, height 71.1 cm, c. 1910, Tea and Coffee Service: Carlo Bugatti designer, executed by A.A. ArtLex on Design 1. artlex.com/ArtLex/d/design.html (2 of 9) [10/22/2007 2:10:06 PM] Hebrard, silver and ivory, c. 1907, Cleveland Museum of Art. Hyman Lipman (American), manufactured by Faber-Castell, Germany, Wooden Pencil with Eraser, 1858, graphite, cedar wood, rubber, and metal ferrule. See pencil. Peter Behrens (German, 1869-1940), designer, manufacturer: Allgemeine Elektricitæts Gesellschaft (A.E.G.), Germany, Fan Model No. GB 1, 1908, painted cast iron and brass, 11 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 6 inches (29.2 x 27.3 x 15.3 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY. American, manufactured by Fruit of the Loom, USA, White T-Shirt, 1910s, cotton. Eliel Saarinen (American, born Finland, 1873-1950), designer, Manufacturer International Silver Company, Wilcox Silver Plate Company Division (Meridan, Connecticut), Prototype Tea Service, c. 1933-35, electroplated nickel silver, brass, and Bakelite; Tea Urn, 1a-c: 14 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (36.8 x 19.7 cm) Tray, 2: diameter 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm) Creamer, 3: 3 x 6 x 3 7/8 inches (7.6 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm) Sugar Bowl, 4a,b: 6 3/4 x 6 x 3 7/8 inches (17.1 x 15.2 x 9.8 cm) Large Tray, 5: diameter 20 1/4 inches (51.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See prototype. ArtLex on Design artlex.com/ArtLex/d/design.html (3 of 9) [10/22/2007 2:10:06 PM] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ artlex.com/ArtLex/s/swiss.html (5 of 7) [10/22/2007 2:08:14 PM]? Daniel Spoerri (Swiss, 1930-), Prose Poems,1959-60, mixed media on wood, 27 1/.8 x 21 3/.8 x 14 1/4 inches (69.0 x 54.2 x 36.1 cm), Tate Gallery, London -- an actual meal as abandoned on a board. See Fluxus, rhopography, and ontbijt. Jacqueline Scholten and Hannelore Holz are two contemporary Swiss sculptors who cast concrete figures and paint them. l ArtLex on Swiss Art +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oscar Wilde's quip jimpoz.com - Oscar WildeJim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository ... The repository contains 67 quotes by Oscar Wilde. ...jimpoz.com/quotes/speaker.php?speakerid=36 - Oscar Wilde crowned king of the quips - Yahoo! NewsPlaywright Oscar Wilde, who even managed to mutter on his death bed "Either those curtains go or I do," was named in a poll on Monday as Britain's greatest ... news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071015/ts_nm/britain_wittiest_dc - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - Find A Grave MemorialHe was born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in Dublin, Ireland, ... In a note of irony, his famous death bed quip about the wallpaper in his room at ... findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1102 - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) - Find A Grave MemorialIn a note of irony, his famous death bed quip about the wallpaper in his room at ... Oscar Wilde thanks for your great work of literature, remembering you ... findagrave.com/pictures/1102.html - Oscar Wilde's Debt To Samuel Johnson - New York TimesAn Oct. 22 letter (''Small Bookstores, Still Blooming'') attributes to Oscar Wilde the quip that second marriages show the triumph of hope over experience. ... query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2D9153FF93AA15753C1A9609C8B63 - The Oscar Wilde FadThe contemporary reconstruction of Oscar Wilde (or any historical figure) .... and pretending he is just another clever queen with a quip and an attitude. zmag.org/ZMag/articles/articles/dec98bronski.htm Oscar Wilde's quip "Be careful what you wish for " images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=Oscar+Wilde%27s+quip+%22Be+careful+what+you+wish+for+%22&btnG=Search+Images google.com/search?gbv=2&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=Oscar+Wilde's+quip+%22Be+careful+what+you+wish+for+%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw Oscar Wilde's quip Oscar Wilde images.google.com/images?q=Oscar+Wilde&btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl=enThelonious Monk's images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=Thelonious+Monk+&btnG=Search+Images images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Thelonious+Monk's&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi google.com/search?hl=en&q=Thelonious+Monk&btnG=Search John Coltrane google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=John+Coltrane images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=+John+Coltrane+&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi ++++++++++++ This is a video response to JFK-Secret societies PT2 youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU youtube.com/watch?v=MS7l6i4w11U serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/19th.html (1 of 4) [10/22/2007 12:19:07 PM] serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/19th.html (1 of 4) [10/22/2007 12:19:07 PM] youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU&mode=related&search= CRITICISM AS ESPIONAGE AND DESCENT AS TREASON google.com/search?hl=en&q=CRITICISM+AS+ESPIONAGE+AND+DESCENT+AS+TREASON youtube.com/watch?v=C56QlmgMSFU&mode=related&search= +++++++++++++ " Love trumps hate " John Avalon Author "Indapendant Nation" The responsibility of the vital center. illusions ciglar.mur.at/Illusions.htm moillusions.com/ art guruhans.com/past/illusions.html grand-illusions.com/opticalillusions/oblong_wave/ grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_4.html grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_111.html miss-chief.stumbleupon.com/tag/illusions/ images.google.com/images?hl=en&resnum=0&q=illusions&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w The end of america Naomi Wolf images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=The+end+of+america+Naomi+Wolf&btnG=Search+Images The end of america Naomi Wolf 6PM C-Span Sunday Image results for Naomi Wolfhttp://images.google.com/images?q=Naomi+Wolf&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title Naome Wolf google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Naomi+Wolf centenary.edu/news/2006/March/gs-conference.html Keynote speaker Naomi Wolf, who is the bestselling author of The Beauty Myth and other books,spoke on Friday  night about the social expectations for beauty standards that pressure women to obsess about their physical appearances instead of expending energy on worthwhile pursuits. See advance article Snapshots of ACS Gender Studies Conference Held at Centenary College of Louisiana March 24-25 SHREVEPORT, LA— The Associated Colleges of the South held its seventh biennial Women's and Gender Studies Conference on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana March 24-25. Conference coordinators Drs. Kim VanHoosier-Carey and Michelle Wolkomir were charged with planning and organizing the conference by Centenary Provost Darrel Colson nearly one year ago and spent many months preparing for the weekend's events. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.larson.html January/February 2002 Of Corset Matters A review of Valerie Steele's The Corset: A Cultural HistoryBuy the book By Christina Larson Of Corset Matters Third-wave feminists waving copies of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth once proclaimed that men had hatched an ominous conspiracy to trick women into pursuing an impossible beauty ideal rather than real social progress. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele lays waste to that doctrine by documenting the extent to which women, not men, have historically policed the ideals of femininity, often in spite of the objections of bewildered men. No Victoria's Secret bimbo, Steele is serious about her subject. In her hands, the history of fashion is treated as a study of the intersection of beauty ideals with new technologies that enable them. Chief curator at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Steele teamed up with cardiologist Dr. Lynn Kutsche to investigate the havoc wreaked by tight-laced corsets on women, from the late Renaissance Madonna Catherine de Medici to the more modern Material Girl. Steele thumbed through early medical journals for accounts of corset-induced casualties and trekked to the Smithsonian Institute to examine its collection of female skeletons with rib deformities. Though commonly associated with Victorian upper-class matrons, corsets originated much earlier, in the 16th century, and by the 19th had become a hallmark of fashion for women of nearly all classes. Practically compulsory for women of aristocratic birth, corsets were also adopted by working women who aspired toward similar ideals of fashion. One popular line of mass-produced corsets in the 1880s was the "Pretty Housemaid" model. Fetishists aside, gentlemen of the 19th century did not strap their women into corsets in order to titillate their erotic fancies, as some conspiracy theorists would have us believe. One male beauty writer, Ernest Feydeau, even wondered in print why "the generality of women envy [these] elegant monstrosities." Many men, especially doctors, warned women of the dangers of lacing corsets too tight and some advised not wearing a corset at all. Steele found that The Lancet, a preeminent British medical journal, published "more than an article a year from the late 1860s to the early 1890s on the medical dangers of tight-lacing." One famous rant against the corset in 1874, "Madre Natura versus the Moloch of Fashion," enumerates 97 different "diseases produced by Stays and Corsets according to the testimony of eminent medical men." The alleged symptoms ranged from the rational (impaired breathing and circulation) to the pseudo-scientific (heightened hysteria and melancholy) to those characteristic of the premodern obsession with reproductive well-being (the inability to breast-feed properly and the danger of miscarriage or deformed offspring). That's not to say, though, that these early doctors were sounding the alarm in hopes to liberate women from their lowly social status. Most of this early anti-corset literature was clearly misogynistic, maligning the waist-cinching undergarment alternately as evidence and as cause of "innate" female irrationality. Instead, the male doctors' concerns about women's health stemmed largely from their concerns over women's ability to procreate. Steele shows that criticism of the corset increased during periods of low fertility. Though absolved of the most drastic claims lobbed against it (Steele could not determine that any of the Smithsonianskeletons were deformed by tight-lacing), corsets did contribute to a variety of milder ailments, including shallow breathing, shortness of breath, atrophied back muscles, and potential difficulty in labor. Victorian heroines' heaving bosoms and fainting tendencies were more likely induced by insufficient oxygen and upper-diaphramic breathing than by arousal in the embraces of mustachioed lovers. Despite the obvious physical inconveniences, as well as admonitions of both doctors and philosophers against such an "unnatural" fashion---Thorstein Veblen condemned the corset as "a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subjects' vitality" in his 1899 Theory of the Leisure Class---the market for mass-produced stays was on the rise in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Industrialization put fashionable garments within the reach of more and more consumers. Working women didn't need to pay for tailoring once new steam-molding techniques allowed manufacturers to shape corsets on metal torso frames ratherthan taking individual measurements. Catalogues made corsets available to women who didn't live near urban boutiques. Trade journals such as The Corset and Underwear Review proliferated. Women also produced and peddled corsets. "By the early nineteenth century, the majority of small and medium-sized corset manufacturers were women," Steele reports, though she doesn't delve into who reaped the profits from this lucrative industry, which on the eve of the Second World War raked in $65,000,000 annually (equivalent to nearly $2 billion today). Women persisted in wearing corsets despite the obvious health problems for complex, and often counterintuitive, reasons. We assume today that corsets were designed to attract men, but for Victorian women, waist-cinchers helped establish a class-based pecking order within their own sex. While some early corset advertisements catered to the fantasy of snaring a husband with a corset-enhanced figure, more common were ads showing women watching women. One 1882 trading card for the Adjustable Duplex Corset depicted two women peeking through a keyhole to discover "Why Mrs. Brown has such a perfect figure." The corset facilitated a pernicious association between physical beauty and virtue, as upright posture and a slender waist came to be regarded as evidence of discipline, modesty, rigor, and refinement. Ladies who abandoned their stays were scorned as both lazy and immoral. "Older women, not men, were primarily responsible for enforcing sartorial norms," Steele writes. "The cultural weight placed on propriety and respectability made it difficult for women to abandon the corset, even if they wanted to." What eventually happened to the corset? First, a technological change: In 1960 DuPont introduced Lycra into the manufacturing process, which made whalebone or metal frames obsolete. In effect, the corset became the girdle. Then, the 1970s, with their bra-burning feminists, brought cries for less restrictive, more natural feminine fashions. But Steele says the corset, with its moral and postural uplift, didn't vanish altogether. Instead, she doesn't stray too far from Naomi Wolf, positing that the tools for achieving the feminine ideal have simply changed: "The corset did not so much disappear as become internalized through diet, exercise, and plastic surgery." Men, though, no longer seem to object to these body-shaping tools. Instead, they're adopting them. Perhaps that's progress. Christina Larson is the associate publisher of The Washington Monthly. This site and all contents within are Copyright © 2006 The Washington Monthly 1319 F Street N.W. #710 Washington DC. 20004. washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.larson.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility B15901 / Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:55:09 / Media taking a quick break from writing – am almost there! – thought i’d share my latest procrastinatory vehicle with you. Ann Coulter on liberal infallibility what’s so interesting about this video clip is the way that psychological projection works. Coulter says that because the 9/11 widows are mourning their loss and coming out against Bush, there is no way to reasonably argue with them. it’s the doctrine of liberal infallibility. but isn’t that exactly the case made by the US in attacking Iraq and Afghanistan? that we were hit and we needed to hit back? and whoever argued with us was either insensitive, anti-American or a terrorist? also, i can’t help but think that her description of the widows as ‘self-obsessed’ ‘millionaires’ ‘reveling in their status as celebrities’* kind of describes her as well silverback.gnn.tv/blogs/15901/Ann_Coulter_and_the_doctrine_of_liberal_infallibility 2 Where Have You Gone Joan Rivers? by Terry Smith Listening to conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s performance at this month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC ) reminded me of a poor man’s Joan Rivers–a wannabe comedienne who makes a sensible audience shake their heads rather than laugh. But the audience at CPAC, intoxicated with racial and political bile, was anything but sensible. The mainstream media has reported ad nauseam on Coulter’s reference to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a faggot. Far less accessible and controversial have been her anti-black and anti-Latino remarks at the conference. For the full video of her remarks, go to c-span.org/. The lack of outrage over these comments says much about the media and the American public whose attitudes the media often reflect. In describing Bill Clinton as "the first black president," Coulter remarked that he was "half white, half trash." What does Coulter think of black Republicans? She patronizingly opines, "Our blacks are so much more impressive than their blacks. . . . Who do they [Democrats] have–Maxine Waters?" Surprisingly, she doesn’t care much for the Republican National Committee because "the RNC . . . they criticize the catch an illegal alien game, so I don’t have a lot of respect for them." Her advice to college Republicans who want to engage in political activism? Play the catch an illegal alien game and "another great idea, the affirmative action bake sale." The affirmative action bake sale is a conservative spoof on affirmative action in which cookies are sold to different customers at different prices depending on their race and gender. One could argue that the bake sale isn’t racist if he adopts the position that opposition to affirmative action is not racially motivated. Any such conclusion, however, would require an amnesia of history and suspension of common sense views about humanmotive–affirmative action requires whites to internalize some of the cost of historical discrimination and to forego some ill-gotten generational advantage. At another point in her presentation, Coulter exclaimed, "Democrats don’t even like blacks." (I suppose Coulter and her CPAC cult are our best friends.) In another contortion of reason, Coulter claimed that white liberalism was to blame for conservative college students offering whites-only scholarships. (Don’t even bother scratching your heads.) I’m not certain if it’s truly news that Coulter is anti-black-and-Latino and anti-gay. This, after all, appears to be the way she makes her living. But why the media hasn’t dissected the racism of her statements as much as the statements’ homophobia is a story in itself. Posted by Terry Smith on March 7, 2007 02:33 AM Permalink TrackBack URL for this entry: blackprof.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/875 blackprof.com/archives/2007/03/where_have_you_gone_joan_river.htmMonday, Jul. 02, 2007 I'm more of a man than any liberal. ANN COULTER talking with Bill O'Reilly on his Fox show about her aggressive stance toward politicians like John Edwards Posted by CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS mparent7777 Marc Parent CCNWON at 11:31 AM Labels: ANN COULTER, liberals, O'Reilly anne coulter is a man? images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=anne+coulter+is+a+man%3F+&btnG=Search+Images mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/07/ann-coulter-to-oreilly-im-more-of-man.html Anonymous said... The only woman Ann Colter ever takes a back seat to is Eva Braun. 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