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How Flanders Helped Shape Freedom in America
From the desk of Paul Belien on Mon, 2005-07-11 00:01
July 11 is Flanders Day. The date refers to the day in 1302 when an army of Flemish burghers defeated a superior army of French knights by driving them into a swamp. Historically the term Flanders refers to the mediaeval county of Flanders centered around the town of Brugge (Bruges in French). Today, the term Flanders is used in a broader sense, referring to the Dutch-speaking part of contemporary Belgium i.e. the historical counties of Flanders, Brabant and Loon. Brussels, the historical

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

inflation is bad - Central Bank of Iceland

Price developments Development of 12-month changes in the headline CPI against the Central Bank's inflation target:

DAILY STATISTICAL RELEASE

http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/exchange_rates.html

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

topics on this blog

biology
blog-pcv
blog-tunesie
blogging
bull feces
cheating
economy
eye
France
Good Book.
grammar
hegemon
house value
Insult
lazy-people
lost
NSFA
NSFF
NSFY
psychobabble
snob-appeal
ze-art
ze-rules

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Why Lesbians Aren't Gay ,feminist theory is largely immune from radical questioning

While feminist theory is largely immune from radical questioning in most of the prestige media, few people actually take it seriously . . . especially feminists. They seldom pay their own theory the respect of treating it like a scientific theory and testing it against the evidence. If feminist theory is truly an attempt to make accurate predictions about reality, rather than simply an elaborate rationalization for blaming your troubles on somebody else, then feminists should welcome a frank appraisal of the contrasting longings and ambitions of gays and lesbians, since this offers fascinating new perspectives from which to assay feminist hypotheses.
For example, feminists tirelessly denounce the fashion and beauty industry for brainwashing American men into craving skin-deep feminine beauty. But which is truly the cause and which is the effect? Luckily, the curious analyst can study people who have rejected heterosexual socialization: among homosexuals, the distinctiveness of men's and women's basic sexual urges is especially vivid. Since "Women Seeking Women" don't need to entice men's visually-focused desires, their newspaper personal ads tend toward wistful vagueness: Attractive SWF, bi, seeking SF, feminine & discreet, any race, for friendship and possible rltnshp. In contrast, the "Men Seeking Men" classifieds bristle with statistics quantifying appearance: John Wayne-type (41, 6'3" 210#, C 46" W 35", brn/grn) seeks Steve Garvey-type (muscular, str8-acting, 20-30, under 6' & 185#, blu eyes a +).
Even more egregiously swept under the rug by feminists like Naomi Wolf (author of The Beauty Myth) is the central creative role of gay men in the fashion business. Thus, feminist pundits routinely portray the current fad in haute couture for "waif" models (young girls lacking in the more popular secondary sexual characteristics) as a conspiracy against women hatched by . . . yes, you guessed it, The Male Power Structure. This accusation always conjures up for me a vision of Alan Greenspan, Bill Gates, and Colin Powell resolving in secret conclave to put uppity women back in their place by ordering Vogue to print a lot of pictures of girls who look like boys.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Speciation among primates

Speciation among primates - current estimate for chimp-human split is 5 million years, we're separate species (not interfertile) so it must have taken less than 5 million years. I suspect it takes around 2 million years, depending on generation length. That would indicate that modern humans were interfertile with homo erectus and homo neanderthalis.Modern humans are obviously not speciated. According to the standard biologists' definition of a sub-species/race, that it's merely an in-breeding group visually distinct from other sub-species/races, we are obviously sub-speciated, as any geographically dispersed species will tend to be. -ViL

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Althouse: Should we say "single-gender education"?

Althouse: Should we say "single-gender education"?

Should we say "single-gender education"?
Mark Liberman -- who saw that term in a headline -- wonders why someone would want to avoid the standard phrase "same-sex education." [ADDED: I meant to write "single-sex education," and I can see that my slip shows a problem with the term.] Is it a matter of embracing the word "gender" to express the belief that differences between male and female are produced by culture, not biology? Or is it prudery about about the word "sex"?Liberman informs us that the word "sex" goes back to 1382 -- "Of alle thingis hauynge sowle of ony flehs, two thow shalt brynge into the ark, that maal sex and femaal lyuen with thee" -- but the first use of it to refer to "genital pleasure" is in this D.H. Lawrence poem, "Pansies":
If you want to have sex, you've got to trustAt the core of your heart, the other creature.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

accoupler avec Brice Hortefeux par blogueuse influente

Même si nous étions les deux derniers représentants de l'espèce humaine après une guerre thermo-nucléaire ...
Publié le jeudi 21 juin 2007
.... jamais je ne pourrais envisager de m'accoupler avec Brice Hortefeux. Oui, même pour sauver l'humanité, ça va pas être possible, comme disaient les Zebda (tiens, qu'est ce qu'ils sont devenus eux, on en entend plus parler de ces zozos, pourtant en temps de Sarkozie, ils auraient du grain à moudre). C'est simple, à chaque fois que je le vois apparaître sur l'écran de ma télé, j'ai des contractions.

Prince William riding .......and banging

Prince William riding

Big size picture at link below

from men style magazine

paris and the house of Windsor

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

words grammar

Guy Deutscher studied mathematics and earned a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Cambridge

I read the book. it is superb.

Guy Deutscher wrote

in the begining there were

a- physical things words
b- actions words
c-pointing words

the rules were

a-belong together near
b-order copy reality
c-no repeat ( we are lazy)
d- me fist then pecking order< http://www.unfoldingoflanguage.com/

American scientist
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Djibouti

I want to go

Sunday, May 20, 2007

'victimhood' as a business plan

http://www.danieldrezner.com/mt/KeYaHaMlAs.cgi?entry_id=3296

Affirmative action by Rainbow/PUSH is not idiocy, because they have successfully demonstrated for years that their form of 'moral' economic blackmail is effective. Essentially, their success uses 'victimhood' as a business plan, and corporate America signs up as paying customers and clients of the discriminating anti-discrimination paradigm.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty

Financial distress, such as problems paying bills, going bankrupt or reaching credit card limits, is related to IQ scores not linearly but instead in a quadratic relationship. This means higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty.

http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2007/04/iq-and-wealth.html

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Femme libérée et l’uniforme officiel des guidounes de petite vertu

http://steveproulx.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/femmeliberee.jpg

http://steveproulx.typepad.com/steve_proulx/2006/09/femme_libre.html

Femme libérée
C’est un beau paradoxe. Si, en 2006, des fillettes peuvent se présenter en classe vêtues de l’uniforme officiel des guidounes de petite vertu, c’est en grande partie à cause des luttes féministes des années 70.

Tout à fait.

Car si les femmes ou les fillettes sont aujourd’hui libres d’interpréter leur féminité comme bon leur semble, c’est à cause du féminisme. Et si les femmes ont aujourd’hui le droit d’investir le marché du travail, de se faire avorter, d’être jurées ou de gober bêtement un oeuf dans le vinaigre au fond de la taverne la plus crado en ville, c’est encore et toujours à cause du féminisme.
Il y a encore du travail à faire, mais les femmes sont libres au Québec. Libres, donc, de porter des vêtements sexy. Est-ce un gain ou un effet pervers du féminisme? La question porte à réfléchir.

Ce qui m’étonne cependant, c’est d’entendre des jeunes femmes au look plus que suggestif parler avec mépris des «féminissses».
Un peu comme si ces dernières n’étaient que de tristes reliques frustrées, des fossiles vivants incapables de s’adapter au présent.