By Dint:
Lange Wapper at Antwerp. By Steen Castle.
Red Riding Hood; and Cake, Wine, Vivisection Read the original. Little Red and Grandma. Be all that you can be.
Rapunzel. Pssst. She Had Twins. Honest.
Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer. And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive".
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Cultural : Creation Accounts
By Dint:
The Big Birds: The Phoenix, the Turul Russian, Chinese, Japanese, North American, Egyptian, forms of the Phoenix in all. Magyar and the Turul.
Genesis Before Genesis: Transliteration of Genesis 1-4. Surprise How does imposing a narrative, an ideology, change original, word-by-word mechanical meaning. Is the slant of the narrative justified? Does it distort? This excerpt from Genesis from Scripture4All, a favorite transliteration site. Moral. Any ideology. Who sez?
The Big Birds: The Phoenix, the Turul Russian, Chinese, Japanese, North American, Egyptian, forms of the Phoenix in all. Magyar and the Turul.
Genesis Before Genesis: Transliteration of Genesis 1-4. Surprise How does imposing a narrative, an ideology, change original, word-by-word mechanical meaning. Is the slant of the narrative justified? Does it distort? This excerpt from Genesis from Scripture4All, a favorite transliteration site. Moral. Any ideology. Who sez?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Themes, Cultural Tales
By Dint:
Ma Liang and his Magic Brush; and The Red Shoes Forced repetition of the desired action: it becomes a punishment for the self-centered person who has the desire. But the West adds darkness to it. A simple, logical and straightforward moral consequence to the East, becomes sin to the West.
Who Will Bell the Cat - Piers Plowman. Ask a question beyond Aesop's tale, where no mouse is man enough to bell the cat. In 1377, William Langtrey's council mouse did. The council mouse suggests this inability to carry out the plan may be just as well. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled.... as the mice first wanted. Go read. Watch what you wish for.
Grimm: The Peasant in Heaven. The theme of the perils of riches. Eye of needle, rich man, cultures repeat. But find here that the "needle" is a mistranslation It should read "rope". In this case, the point of the story remains. Where else, however, does a mistranslation skew the result?
The Bawdy vs. Religion. Lange Wapper, Flanders, Antwerp Fear of sexuality. Lop it off. There. That's better, isn't it?
Fitcher's Bird. Grimm Tale. The Clever Girls. Quick. Water them down. They are far too capable.....
Ma Liang and his Magic Brush; and The Red Shoes Forced repetition of the desired action: it becomes a punishment for the self-centered person who has the desire. But the West adds darkness to it. A simple, logical and straightforward moral consequence to the East, becomes sin to the West.
Who Will Bell the Cat - Piers Plowman. Ask a question beyond Aesop's tale, where no mouse is man enough to bell the cat. In 1377, William Langtrey's council mouse did. The council mouse suggests this inability to carry out the plan may be just as well. What would have happened if the cat indeed had been belled.... as the mice first wanted. Go read. Watch what you wish for.
Grimm: The Peasant in Heaven. The theme of the perils of riches. Eye of needle, rich man, cultures repeat. But find here that the "needle" is a mistranslation It should read "rope". In this case, the point of the story remains. Where else, however, does a mistranslation skew the result?
The Bawdy vs. Religion. Lange Wapper, Flanders, Antwerp Fear of sexuality. Lop it off. There. That's better, isn't it?
Fitcher's Bird. Grimm Tale. The Clever Girls. Quick. Water them down. They are far too capable.....
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Horsemen, Invaders. bup-Bup, bup-Bup, buppity-Bup, Bup-BUP
By Dint:
Sinj, Croatia: The Six Hundred Horsemen They rode out and defeated the Ottomans at that battle.
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, Hungary, other Eastern Europe A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. Peak 17th-18th Centuries. Hussars saved Vienna from the Ottomans. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.
Khazars, Hazars, Huns (Attila), Magyars, Ottoman - Tracking migrations, conquests, cultures
Genghis Khan, on Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up Mongols. See also Liddell Hart: the most effective approach may be the indirect.
Sinj, Croatia: The Six Hundred Horsemen They rode out and defeated the Ottomans at that battle.
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, Hungary, other Eastern Europe A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. Peak 17th-18th Centuries. Hussars saved Vienna from the Ottomans. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.
Khazars, Hazars, Huns (Attila), Magyars, Ottoman - Tracking migrations, conquests, cultures
Genghis Khan, on Planning, Timing, and Follow-Up Mongols. See also Liddell Hart: the most effective approach may be the indirect.
Women and History
By Dint:
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.
Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII
Domination by Diminution: Women Shunted Out of the Loop. Civil War
Protest Within Convention: Victorian Marriage. Mary H. Seymour, story in Peterson's Ladies National Magazine 1865.
Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII
Domination by Diminution: Women Shunted Out of the Loop. Civil War
Monday, June 22, 2009
Individuals - 20th Century to Present
By Dint:
Bronislawa Wajs, Romani poet, singer, inspiration See the novel, "Zoli" for a fictionalized but roughly close (we understand) rendition of the life of Bronislawa Wajs. Gypsy (Roma) traditions.
Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of one also caught in changing times, including the Holocaust. Concept: the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.
Susan Boyle: A Voice for the Lyrics. The genius of this performer-come-lately is her choice of lyrics for her songs. How she sings what she sings. The "first game" - mere competition. Easy. More important: she epitomizes the course of the "second game" in which a woman competes. The drive to derail her. Find a chink and wedge it open: judges, public, family. Broaden our horizons despite them, Susan. Go ahead.
Wintley Phipps, Program on the Black American Slave Baritone, story teller, historian.
Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII Political resource, intellectual.
Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target. See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.
Bronislawa Wajs, Romani poet, singer, inspiration See the novel, "Zoli" for a fictionalized but roughly close (we understand) rendition of the life of Bronislawa Wajs. Gypsy (Roma) traditions.
Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of one also caught in changing times, including the Holocaust. Concept: the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.
Susan Boyle: A Voice for the Lyrics. The genius of this performer-come-lately is her choice of lyrics for her songs. How she sings what she sings. The "first game" - mere competition. Easy. More important: she epitomizes the course of the "second game" in which a woman competes. The drive to derail her. Find a chink and wedge it open: judges, public, family. Broaden our horizons despite them, Susan. Go ahead.
Wintley Phipps, Program on the Black American Slave Baritone, story teller, historian.
Germaine Tillion: Nazi Resistor, France WWII Political resource, intellectual.
Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target. See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.
Linguistics
By Dint:
Cultural puzzles, origins, traces found in language
Vlachs (found in Roman old Romania area) speaking Romani. Not clear if the Vlachs speak Romani, suggesting a connection, or a vernacular form of old Latin. Other Roma customs.
Cultural puzzles, origins, traces found in language
Vlachs (found in Roman old Romania area) speaking Romani. Not clear if the Vlachs speak Romani, suggesting a connection, or a vernacular form of old Latin. Other Roma customs.
Healthcare, Remedies, FDA
By Dint:
No Glasses Week. An Experiment in Viewpoints Vet the vision dependence industry. How much do you really need your glasses, or are they now so conditioned you can't do without them? How about your kids? And appreciate, as you experiment, what it is like to be vision-impaired.
Sassafras: Seven Bedbugs in One Blow Uses of sassafras wood: its rodent and insect repellent qualities.
Romani Medicine, Remedies, Healthcare. How many of these cross borders into the Roma populations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Sassafras and the American Slave Tradition: remedies, uses. Wound healer, gumbo file thickener for stews, poultices, tonics.
Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer. And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive".
Sassafras a Purifier, Say the Tales Explore Cholesterol, Liver Remedy?
Sassafras and remedies: Dosage and Information, Not Ban ban
Sassafras pharmacology list How it is and has been used, with benefit.
Eyecare
William Horatio Bates, Bane of Vision Industry. 1920's and later, opthalmologist, advocating and developing eye exercises instead of glasses. Died 1931.
FDA
FDA Reorganization Three Ways: PharmaJocks Panic at Accountability Foodies Dept: inspections and Safety, Druggies Dept: New drugs, and now Woodsies: testing for natural-type ingredients - keep them honest. A Cabinet Secretary of Ingestibles and Digestibles, Overseeing and Providing for Testing of Natural Ingredients to Compete with the Druggies.
No Glasses Week. An Experiment in Viewpoints Vet the vision dependence industry. How much do you really need your glasses, or are they now so conditioned you can't do without them? How about your kids? And appreciate, as you experiment, what it is like to be vision-impaired.
Sassafras: Seven Bedbugs in One Blow Uses of sassafras wood: its rodent and insect repellent qualities.
Romani Medicine, Remedies, Healthcare. How many of these cross borders into the Roma populations of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria.
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
Sassafras and the American Slave Tradition: remedies, uses. Wound healer, gumbo file thickener for stews, poultices, tonics.
Sassafras, Less Carcinogenic than Beer Beer. And other anomalies of a ban, placed on a food component, because FDA labeled it an "additive".
Sassafras a Purifier, Say the Tales Explore Cholesterol, Liver Remedy?
Sassafras and remedies: Dosage and Information, Not Ban ban
Sassafras pharmacology list How it is and has been used, with benefit.
Eyecare
William Horatio Bates, Bane of Vision Industry. 1920's and later, opthalmologist, advocating and developing eye exercises instead of glasses. Died 1931.
FDA
FDA Reorganization Three Ways: PharmaJocks Panic at Accountability Foodies Dept: inspections and Safety, Druggies Dept: New drugs, and now Woodsies: testing for natural-type ingredients - keep them honest. A Cabinet Secretary of Ingestibles and Digestibles, Overseeing and Providing for Testing of Natural Ingredients to Compete with the Druggies.
Cultures and Conflict
By Dint:
Minorities
Roma: The Court (Kris), Expulsion, Shunning Enforcement of norms, internal controls
"Heretics"
Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics. The Cathars were killed off (so we are told) in the 14th Century. Were their beliefs closer, in affinity, to the Christian Founder than the Roman Catholic church that killed them off?
Minorities
Roma: The Court (Kris), Expulsion, Shunning Enforcement of norms, internal controls
"Heretics"
Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics. The Cathars were killed off (so we are told) in the 14th Century. Were their beliefs closer, in affinity, to the Christian Founder than the Roman Catholic church that killed them off?
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Holocaust
By Dint:
The Roma Experience
Romani and the Holocaust
The Jewish experience
Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of the main character in the book, "Isaac's Torah: The Memoirs of Jacob Blumenfeld," transmitter-editor-compiler, Angel Wagenstein; who is also caught in decades changing times, including the Holocaust. Discussions with the Rabbi - includes the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.
The Seventh Well,
by Fred Wander, accounts of life in various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, see ://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hoffman-t.html
The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942, edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, see ://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~5238~0/ ; see also site Petr Ginz, Places, Lens and Legacy, Acknowledgement to sister of Petr Ginz, Chava Pressburger;
The Roma Experience
Romani and the Holocaust
The Jewish experience
Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah" A friend of the main character in the book, "Isaac's Torah: The Memoirs of Jacob Blumenfeld," transmitter-editor-compiler, Angel Wagenstein; who is also caught in decades changing times, including the Holocaust. Discussions with the Rabbi - includes the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.
The Seventh Well,
by Fred Wander, accounts of life in various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, see ://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hoffman-t.html
The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942, edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, see ://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~5238~0/ ; see also site Petr Ginz, Places, Lens and Legacy, Acknowledgement to sister of Petr Ginz, Chava Pressburger;
Surnames, Geneologies
By Dint:
Romney surname, English Gypsies
Romani literature, oral traditions A family with oral traditions to 15th Century
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted compled; and need not affect other matters.
Romney surname, English Gypsies
Romani literature, oral traditions A family with oral traditions to 15th Century
Pantera (Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera), and Religious Tradition A persistent but speculative secular explanation for events many see as divine. Keep an open mind, now. Often the simplest is so, rather than the convoluted compled; and need not affect other matters.
Hate Crimes; Persecutions; Genocide;
By Dint:
Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics
Roma, History of Persecutions. Includes concept of Rankism.
Vlachs, Wallachian Gypsies?
"Facing History and Ourselves" - an Online Curriculum to Counter Hate. Curriculum to focus on the hate crimes of the 20th-21st centuries, including wars, so our children can learn and avoid, we hope. How to apply to urban schools so focused on employment issues.
Bogomils, Deemed "Heretic" and Stamped Out by the Roman Branch of Christianity But were they? Traces remain. Here, Bosnia, graveyard.
Cathars, Albigensians: Vet the So-Called Heretics
Roma, History of Persecutions. Includes concept of Rankism.
Vlachs, Wallachian Gypsies?
"Facing History and Ourselves" - an Online Curriculum to Counter Hate. Curriculum to focus on the hate crimes of the 20th-21st centuries, including wars, so our children can learn and avoid, we hope. How to apply to urban schools so focused on employment issues.
Bogomils, Deemed "Heretic" and Stamped Out by the Roman Branch of Christianity But were they? Traces remain. Here, Bosnia, graveyard.
Arts, Tales, Music, Authors. References
By Dint:
Theater, film, music
Gypsies: Contemporary performance heritage. Elvis, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner, Michael Caine [ask Mitt - Romney?]
Ballad
Tales, Song. Johnny Faa. Roma. Find Faa also in song (not do re me)
Books
Gypsies, Roma, Contemporary Authors Also books about the groups, "Bury Me Standing" by Isabel Fonseca; "Zoli" by Colum McCann
James Joyce, Ulysses, On Bloomsday
.
Citizen Questioning Bloodshed: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Music
Placeholders, Work in Progress, "Buika" and Fusion Music
Gypsy Harps, group and street musicians also from the Zoli book, section "Slovakia 2003" there. The harps were huge - the Roma would bury them in the woods so they would not be confiscated.
Literature
Lady of Cachtice, The legend/history of the Lady of Cachtice is set out in a small book, that refers to macabre events deep within a Slovakian castle - it is referred to in "Zoli".
Film
Roma, Romani in film
Poetry; Whole or Bits
Poetry, are these from Papusza or Zoli?
War Poets. Poetry from the Trenches. World War I.
Painting
Artist, Hermann Dahl. Odessa, DE. Multi-media.1960's-1980's
Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel
Theater, film, music
Gypsies: Contemporary performance heritage. Elvis, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner, Michael Caine [ask Mitt - Romney?]
Ballad
Tales, Song. Johnny Faa. Roma. Find Faa also in song (not do re me)
Books
Gypsies, Roma, Contemporary Authors Also books about the groups, "Bury Me Standing" by Isabel Fonseca; "Zoli" by Colum McCann
James Joyce, Ulysses, On Bloomsday
.
Citizen Questioning Bloodshed: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Music
Placeholders, Work in Progress, "Buika" and Fusion Music
Gypsy Harps, group and street musicians also from the Zoli book, section "Slovakia 2003" there. The harps were huge - the Roma would bury them in the woods so they would not be confiscated.
Literature
Lady of Cachtice, The legend/history of the Lady of Cachtice is set out in a small book, that refers to macabre events deep within a Slovakian castle - it is referred to in "Zoli".
Film
Roma, Romani in film
Poetry; Whole or Bits
Poetry, are these from Papusza or Zoli?
War Poets. Poetry from the Trenches. World War I.
Painting
Artist, Hermann Dahl. Odessa, DE. Multi-media.1960's-1980's
Ideological Battleground: Sistine Chapel
Black Madonnas; or Sara la Kali (Gdansk)
By Dint:
Black Madonnas: Possible Roma Origin for Some - or Sara La Kali Patron saint of the Roma, Sara la Kali; or a black madonna. See legend, and painting in Gdansk, Poland, with symbolism
Black Madonnas: Possible Roma Origin for Some - or Sara La Kali Patron saint of the Roma, Sara la Kali; or a black madonna. See legend, and painting in Gdansk, Poland, with symbolism
Slavery
By Dint:
Enslavement in Romania, 400 years, Gypsy roots Populations brought in, sold, remain
Wintley Phipps, Baritone and Storyteller, on the Black American Slave. Also a narrative and performance, "Amazing Grace" (context of slavery)
Enslavement in Romania, 400 years, Gypsy roots Populations brought in, sold, remain
Wintley Phipps, Baritone and Storyteller, on the Black American Slave. Also a narrative and performance, "Amazing Grace" (context of slavery)
When Profit Turns Malignant
By Dint:
Unified media ownership
Unified Media, Newspaper, TV Ownership Taints Neutrality of News
Anti War-Profiteering Act, Blocked Once. Time to resusicate, reshape its still-viable parts. Creative use of Disgorgement, Claw-Backs.
And its foil: When profit is not the focus, rewards come anyway.
The Elves and the Shoemaker, Grimm The elves, newly rewarded with clothes for their work in finishing the shoes of the poor shoemaker, took off out the door and were not seen again. The shoemaker and his wife, who had clothed them in thanks, prospered anyway.
Unified media ownership
Unified Media, Newspaper, TV Ownership Taints Neutrality of News
Anti War-Profiteering Act, Blocked Once. Time to resusicate, reshape its still-viable parts. Creative use of Disgorgement, Claw-Backs.
And its foil: When profit is not the focus, rewards come anyway.
The Elves and the Shoemaker, Grimm The elves, newly rewarded with clothes for their work in finishing the shoes of the poor shoemaker, took off out the door and were not seen again. The shoemaker and his wife, who had clothed them in thanks, prospered anyway.
Warfare - Plus ca change.
By Dint:
Persuasion for the cause
War as a Big Game. Condition the Children. Or is it Necessary?. Personality types, hard-wiring, conditioning, how much is necessary to counter the pathological haters, and how much can be diminished as to conflict, by training.
War Promotion. Fraud and Deception
Resistance
Czech paratroopers, other resistance, WWII Prague Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.
First French Resistor
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, other Eastern Europe A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.
Castles: Warfare Learning Tool. Strategy and Murder Holes Any castle will do. Defense and offense. Try Blarney. Liddell Hart's WWI work (uses of indirection; upset the enemy's equilibrium); Bunratty's little staircases in reverse.
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD in Nordic-Viking Iceland, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation
Persuasion for the cause
War as a Big Game. Condition the Children. Or is it Necessary?. Personality types, hard-wiring, conditioning, how much is necessary to counter the pathological haters, and how much can be diminished as to conflict, by training.
War Promotion. Fraud and Deception
Resistance
Czech paratroopers, other resistance, WWII Prague Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.
First French Resistor
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, other Eastern Europe A/k/a Husaria, Husarz. The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.
Castles: Warfare Learning Tool. Strategy and Murder Holes Any castle will do. Defense and offense. Try Blarney. Liddell Hart's WWI work (uses of indirection; upset the enemy's equilibrium); Bunratty's little staircases in reverse.
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga. From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD in Nordic-Viking Iceland, written perhaps 1100 AD. A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation
Politics: Uses, Abuses, Courses of Change-Seeking, Change-Opposing
By Dint:
Propaganda techniques
Traditional Scapegoat Hunts - Economic Downturns Find the nearest minority, aim and fire.
New Political Parties
Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party Global Wisdom Party. The Qualities of their candidate. There is indeed a collection of attributes that many cultures name as comprising a wise leader.
Money
Healthcare Legislative Recusal Time. Financial Interest? De-Weight the Vote
Explore Election Finance: Humans Only. Qualified to Vote? You Can Contribute
No more corporate contributions, as "legal persons". For accountability, identification, individuals only. They may name the corporation's interest, but funds are out of individuals' pockets.
Force
Political Disruptive Behavior Disorder Tantrums? Apply the DSM-IV conduct disorder diagnoses, usually applicable to children and teens, to adults.
Secrecy
C Street. When Congressmen Combine to Espouse Secret Religious Allegiances Superseding the Constitution. Keeping real allegiances secret. Do our beloved politicians do that in order to get and stay elected? Do they? What recourse for voters? Ouster? Transparency alert.
Privilege vs. Risers
Sotomajority - Escape from the SO Yessir Corral Privilege Maintainers vs. Secondary Others. Long-corraled Majority for Sotomayor leaps the fence. Reject the new PM pledge.
Propaganda techniques
Traditional Scapegoat Hunts - Economic Downturns Find the nearest minority, aim and fire.
New Political Parties
Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party Global Wisdom Party. The Qualities of their candidate. There is indeed a collection of attributes that many cultures name as comprising a wise leader.
Money
Healthcare Legislative Recusal Time. Financial Interest? De-Weight the Vote
Explore Election Finance: Humans Only. Qualified to Vote? You Can Contribute
No more corporate contributions, as "legal persons". For accountability, identification, individuals only. They may name the corporation's interest, but funds are out of individuals' pockets.
Force
Political Disruptive Behavior Disorder Tantrums? Apply the DSM-IV conduct disorder diagnoses, usually applicable to children and teens, to adults.
Secrecy
C Street. When Congressmen Combine to Espouse Secret Religious Allegiances Superseding the Constitution. Keeping real allegiances secret. Do our beloved politicians do that in order to get and stay elected? Do they? What recourse for voters? Ouster? Transparency alert.
Privilege vs. Risers
Sotomajority - Escape from the SO Yessir Corral Privilege Maintainers vs. Secondary Others. Long-corraled Majority for Sotomayor leaps the fence. Reject the new PM pledge.
Arts
By Dint:
Inner Dialogues Re-Joyce Externalized Omphalos nought not won.
Individual Roma poets, composers, musicians
Inner Dialogues Re-Joyce Externalized Omphalos nought not won.
Individual Roma poets, composers, musicians
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Lifestyle; Societal Roles
By Dint:
Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Public Interest Battlegrounds: Combining Common Good with Property Rights. Rights to preserve undeveloped spaces.
THE FEY
The Fey. Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Seers, prophets, sellers of the unbelievable, and people believe.
COMPASSION
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
ROMA, GYPSY, ROMANI
Roma: Lifestyle defined by the surrounding State, Nation of others. The role of the State. See life of the Roma under Communism, and, more positively, in Spain.
Romani and Horses: An Ancient Tradition. Halting the caravans, taking away the horses. A lifestyle destroyed.
FINDING EVILDOERS
Same gender, cross-gender
Gender- non-specific lifestyles: marplots, alacrans. Who are the real evildoers Finding fault. Self-definition, group identification as superior by finding fault with others. Who are the Evildoers. Homosexual, transgender, any value judgments arise in the eye of the beholder. Not the beholded.
Living with other truths subsumed
Livin' A Lie When Appearance is not the reality. Find Lawrence of Arabia. Others with secrets. How they cope.
What is "ordained" or "revealed"; and what is culture.
God created independent contractors, not groups, not relationships. Lifestyle as cultural, not necessarily "revealed". Example - Eden: no marriage, no vows, no worship, just folks deceiving each other as usual, taking advantage. Groups: a descent down from original idea.
When "inheritance" and property rights define status: the "illegitimate"
Shadow Children: Unsung Backgrounds Find a long list of those originating, as some say, on the wrong side of the sheets. Did it ultimately matter? No sheet?
Qualities of Wisdom: Global Wisdom Party
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Public Interest Battlegrounds: Combining Common Good with Property Rights. Rights to preserve undeveloped spaces.
THE FEY
The Fey. Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Seers, prophets, sellers of the unbelievable, and people believe.
COMPASSION
Dr. Christianus Christian, caring for 19th C. Swiss cretins
ROMA, GYPSY, ROMANI
Roma: Lifestyle defined by the surrounding State, Nation of others. The role of the State. See life of the Roma under Communism, and, more positively, in Spain.
Romani and Horses: An Ancient Tradition. Halting the caravans, taking away the horses. A lifestyle destroyed.
FINDING EVILDOERS
Same gender, cross-gender
Gender- non-specific lifestyles: marplots, alacrans. Who are the real evildoers Finding fault. Self-definition, group identification as superior by finding fault with others. Who are the Evildoers. Homosexual, transgender, any value judgments arise in the eye of the beholder. Not the beholded.
Living with other truths subsumed
Livin' A Lie When Appearance is not the reality. Find Lawrence of Arabia. Others with secrets. How they cope.
What is "ordained" or "revealed"; and what is culture.
God created independent contractors, not groups, not relationships. Lifestyle as cultural, not necessarily "revealed". Example - Eden: no marriage, no vows, no worship, just folks deceiving each other as usual, taking advantage. Groups: a descent down from original idea.
When "inheritance" and property rights define status: the "illegitimate"
Shadow Children: Unsung Backgrounds Find a long list of those originating, as some say, on the wrong side of the sheets. Did it ultimately matter? No sheet?
Philosophies, Criticism Tools
By Dint:
Deconstruction: Finding Evil in Sassafras The process of carving away the extraneous, to test a truth. Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, to simpler applications.
Concisionism: Finding Evildoers Beware the concision; the mutilating abbreviation of thought, the trawler category sweeping everything into its maw - note, this is not "circumcision" although the words have similarities
Find the Evildoer and All Will Be Well Trace the preoccupation with and definitions of evildoing through the centuries , Oh, the marplots! They're everywhere! They're everywhere!
Deconstruction: Finding Evil in Sassafras The process of carving away the extraneous, to test a truth. Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, to simpler applications.
Concisionism: Finding Evildoers Beware the concision; the mutilating abbreviation of thought, the trawler category sweeping everything into its maw - note, this is not "circumcision" although the words have similarities
Find the Evildoer and All Will Be Well Trace the preoccupation with and definitions of evildoing through the centuries , Oh, the marplots! They're everywhere! They're everywhere!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Rankism; other human hard-wirings. Scapegoats, Targets, Outcastes, outcasting
By Dint
Rankism vs. quiet dignity of place, life with choices.
GYPSIES, ROMA, ROMANI
Roma, Forced Settlement Laws halted the caravans, forced settlement, removed vocations, ghettoized.
Gypsies, Roma in Hungary: Still Targeted
Roma in Slovakia
Roma, History of Persecutions Includes hate crimes, the why. The "justifications"
Poverty. Defenses of Any Underclass. Here, Roma. Extenuating circumstances, poverty, not recognized as a defense to crime. System imposing restrictions, fostering prejudice, will not see it. See parallel, American Blacks.
Contemporary Social, Economic Issues, Gypsies: "Bury Me Standing" "Bury me standing, I've spent my whole life on my knees." Book, Isabel Fonseca. Eastern Europe gypsy culture, experience; other references to culture elsewhere
Cycles of Abuse: Migrations of Roma to Ireland Gypsies, Travelers, Romani. Violence in Belfast against Romanian gypsies, or roma. How will traditional Irish Traveler groups respond to new migrations.
Gypsies, Roma: Literary references
JEWS
Rankism vs. quiet dignity of place, life with choices.
GYPSIES, ROMA, ROMANI
Roma, Forced Settlement Laws halted the caravans, forced settlement, removed vocations, ghettoized.
Gypsies, Roma in Hungary: Still Targeted
Roma in Slovakia
Roma, History of Persecutions Includes hate crimes, the why. The "justifications"
Poverty. Defenses of Any Underclass. Here, Roma. Extenuating circumstances, poverty, not recognized as a defense to crime. System imposing restrictions, fostering prejudice, will not see it. See parallel, American Blacks.
Contemporary Social, Economic Issues, Gypsies: "Bury Me Standing" "Bury me standing, I've spent my whole life on my knees." Book, Isabel Fonseca. Eastern Europe gypsy culture, experience; other references to culture elsewhere
Cycles of Abuse: Migrations of Roma to Ireland Gypsies, Travelers, Romani. Violence in Belfast against Romanian gypsies, or roma. How will traditional Irish Traveler groups respond to new migrations.
Gypsies, Roma: Literary references
JEWS
Games in Analysis
By Dint
Rock, scissors, paper On terrorism and other issues. Boil down the news.
Tag
Can we monitor children and teach them, as grownups are supposed to, instead of banning their games?
Rock, scissors, paper On terrorism and other issues. Boil down the news.
Tag
Can we monitor children and teach them, as grownups are supposed to, instead of banning their games?
Funding Under The Table
By Dint:
Federalist Society Supports Free Legal Work for What Causes?. Pro bono means legal work without charge for the good of the public. What "public" is the Federalist Society supporting in its alleged pro bono program? Pro Bono Federalissimo Societassis?
Federalist Society Supports Free Legal Work for What Causes?. Pro bono means legal work without charge for the good of the public. What "public" is the Federalist Society supporting in its alleged pro bono program? Pro Bono Federalissimo Societassis?
Immigration, Migrations - United States Issues, Groups
By Dint:
Naming. Migration history in names - Romney, Rom'nie, Gypsy
Border Crossing Records Retained in Federal Registries. When does too much record-keeping threaten the individual. How much "record keeping" of past events is really needed for security. Open issue. United States.
Immigration: The Place of the Tishbite Among Us. As with Elijah, the original Tishbite, the foreigner has something of import to tell us. Add equity: other arguments that immigrants can use in favor of remaining, there has been detrimental reliance, where the State has delayed too long, etc.
Federalist Society Proposes Immigrant Testing on "Federalist Papers" Leave no propaganda opportunity unturned. Quick now. Who remembers what that is? Branding here?
Gypsies, Roma, Blacks, "Moors", Whites, Native Americans - Melungeons
Melungeons as a diverse mix, Appalachia, Southern coastal areas
Immigrants Without Documents: Gypsifying. The New "Gypsy" Target Group America creates new group to treat as gypsies
Migrations, more distant past:
Magyars, Khazars (Central Asia Jewish cultures) Hazars - physical characteristic may include epicanthal fold in Norse blonde children, disappears about age 2, traces of past interminglings?
Naming. Migration history in names - Romney, Rom'nie, Gypsy
Border Crossing Records Retained in Federal Registries. When does too much record-keeping threaten the individual. How much "record keeping" of past events is really needed for security. Open issue. United States.
Immigration: The Place of the Tishbite Among Us. As with Elijah, the original Tishbite, the foreigner has something of import to tell us. Add equity: other arguments that immigrants can use in favor of remaining, there has been detrimental reliance, where the State has delayed too long, etc.
Federalist Society Proposes Immigrant Testing on "Federalist Papers" Leave no propaganda opportunity unturned. Quick now. Who remembers what that is? Branding here?
Gypsies, Roma, Blacks, "Moors", Whites, Native Americans - Melungeons
Melungeons as a diverse mix, Appalachia, Southern coastal areas
Immigrants Without Documents: Gypsifying. The New "Gypsy" Target Group America creates new group to treat as gypsies
Migrations, more distant past:
Magyars, Khazars (Central Asia Jewish cultures) Hazars - physical characteristic may include epicanthal fold in Norse blonde children, disappears about age 2, traces of past interminglings?
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