A protestor in Bubaneshwar, Orissa jumps over a tyre during a roadblock protest relating to a Temple festval on April 18th. MSNBC clicks a pic, browsekid captions d’ pic.
Original image Source: MSNBC
Source: The Guardian
No, no nothing to do with Page 3 parties…the new Spanish cabinet where a majority are women, including the 7-month pregnant defense minister. A feminist perspective of how it would be if the world was run by women, well few feminist points from the article,
We’d be less macho, and far more stylish - A feminist author.
Do you think it stops there? She also has an explanation:
It would be better-dressed, for one thing. The Spanish and Catalan women in Zapatero’s cabinet are glamorous and modern, unlike the men at G8 summits.
This isn’t a trivial point: conservative taste in clothes is often a sign of conservative social attitudes.
‘Say hello to egg-freezing, and female orgasms’ says Catherine Townsend
This author, I believe is really pissed off to know that there’s no female equivalent (?) of “viagra” and recommends scientists to start researching for one. But that was only the last point of loads of bullcrap -
but I do think we’d choose our wars a bit more carefully. Never mind, Hillary was an ardent supporter of the war, she is probably not a feminists’ favorite (yet).
There’d be half as many pointless meetings’ says Janet Street-Porter
Oh wait, I thought the meeting times would actually DOUBLE. See, I could make a pointless statement without a backup just because I’m an insomniac, with a keyboard and without a girl. Heck, who knows maybe you get PAID to make such pointless statements, and you are without a guy by your side.
….All female prisoners (except those serving life for violent crimes) would be released to serve their sentences working in the community. Juvenile offenders would work in old people’s homes and hospitals, helping to feed and clothe those less fortunate than themselves. Basic cookery would be taught from the age of seven. All public bodies, hospital boards and police authorities would be forced to appoint the correct proportion of women to their governing bodies. Any organisation receiving public funding, from museums to sports facilities, would have to do the same.
Now, this is what scares me, would you ever believe a male politician saying the same thing about prisoners in general or male convicts in particular? Is it because women lack the strength and motive to commit a crime again, If I agree to just the first part I’m a chauvinistic pig, and if you agree just to the second part. You are ‘a’ Renuka chaudary.
….Broadcasters’ boards would have to be 50 per cent female to retain franchises. We’d stop meddling in other people’s affairs overseas, recall troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and declare ourselves a nuclear-free peace zone. The minimum wage would be raised – it’s mostly women that have to try to live on it.
Maybe 5 years ago, it would have been a good idea, and that too just for Iraq, not for Afghanistan. Have you ever thought about what would happen with an immediate recall of the troops from these countries, the most vulnerable population WILL BE women and children of Iraq and Afghanistan. And have you feminists EVER fought for 50% reservations in the army. Does someone think it’s practical to have a 50-50 ratio in the army? Why then elsewhere? why have reservations, in a professional society, based on gender at all? Upto college level is usually enough to empower any weaker section of the society.
It does not mean that sexism does not exist, but feminism is not an answer to chauvinism, it might actually be a catalyst for more chauvinism driving normal people, towards the worser end of the sexism scale.
Just to explain a personal view, maybe because I’m in the health care industry, most of my bosses are/have been female. Never felt any different about it, the immediate work force is in the ratio of 53(men):46(women), without any reservations, black, white and brown people, just working together (we had a yellow too, sometime back). Four of my fave5 T-Mobile unlimited calling will be to women, my best friend, who I owe a lot to and a colleague-friend, are women, my regular (ha-ha)blog readers are primarily 2-3 women and occasionally one guy . So Women do rule my world in a way, and I have no doubts that I’ll get married to a woman 
So please, spare me, women empowerment is necessary, more so in developing countries, including middle east, but please don’t spout nonsense under the garb of feminism, it sounds like Nancy Grace on CNN reporting a usually perfectly case of injustice but in such a way, that you stop feeling sorry for the victim, and start feeling sorry for Nancy Grace and her histrionics. And when she goes overboard, you kinda regret that Nancy Grace ever chose a career in media. Just to piss you guys off, here’s the link…
And talking of some other crappy authors who believe too much in their journalistic aptitude, there’s the ever wonderful, irritatingly delightful, apostle of stupidity, writer for page 3 piece of crappy writing under the garb of editorials, creator of swaabhimaan - SHOBHA DE (Or shobaaa ddde, in whatever way numerology works for you), but that’s an entirely different post.
Thank god, at least these women don’t rule the world.
This is simpler than that..
Source: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=218&sid=634384&pid=10
“Tribal women balance earthen pot full of water as they participate in a hundred meters run during the Suori Tribal festival in Boko, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Saturday, April 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)”
Can you hear their thoughts?
Catch-22: A situation where no real choice exsts (that would lead to success)
A very much related concept - The Lady, or the Tiger?
…[T]hen all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. Directly opposite him, on the other side of the enclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. It was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open either door he pleased; he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of the aforementioned impartial and incorruptible chance. If he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as a punishment for his guilt.
…[B]ut, if the accused person opened the other door, there came forth from it a lady, the most suitable to his years and station that his majesty could select among his fair subjects, and to this lady he was immediately married, as a reward of his innocence.
…[T]his semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own. As is usual in such cases, she was the apple of his eye, and was loved by him above all humanity. Among his courtiers was a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens. This royal maiden was well satisfied with her lover, for he was handsome and brave to a degree unsurpassed in all this kingdom, and she loved him with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong. This love affair moved on happily for many months, until one day the king happened to discover its existence. He did not hesitate nor waver in regard to his duty in the premises. The youth was immediately cast into prison, and a day was appointed for his trial in the king’s arena.
…[A]ll was ready. The signal was given. A door beneath the royal party opened, and the lover of the princess walked into the arena. Tall, beautiful, fair, his appearance was greeted with a low hum of admiration and anxiety. Half the audience had not known so grand a youth had lived among them. No wonder the princess loved him! What a terrible thing for him to be there!
…[T]hrough these thick doors, heavily curtained with skins on the inside, it was impossible that any noise or suggestion should come from within to the person who should approach to raise the latch of one of them. But gold, and the power of a woman’s will, had brought the secret to the princess.
…[A]nd not only did she know in which room stood the lady ready to emerge, all blushing and radiant, should her door be opened, but she knew who the lady was. It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her. Often had she seen, or imagined that she had seen, this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her lover, and sometimes she thought these glances were perceived, and even returned.
…[T]hen it was that his quick and anxious glance asked the question: “Which?” It was as plain to her as if he shouted it from where he stood. There was not an instant to be lost. The question was asked in a flash; it must be answered in another.
Her right arm lay on the cushioned parapet before her. She raised her hand, and made a slight, quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw her. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena.
…[H]e turned, and with a firm and rapid step he walked across the empty space. Every heart stopped beating, every breath was held, every eye was fixed immovably upon that man. Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it.
Now, the point of the story is this: Did the tiger come out of that door, or did the lady ?
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Everything is in the horoscope, ain’t it?
One fine evening, four UFOs dropped by Arizona to celebrate their 11th anniversary, a few days off according to their advanced calendar, danced around in the Arizona night sky, helped people come on to the drudge report link to local news websites driving imaginations crazy. And just like every other video of UFOs, this video too was grainy, unclear and non-Rakhisawantsy (non-revealing). While bored netizens blamed aliens, secret military aircraft and spoilsports called’em crazy nuts, one man was enjoying all this,
http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=238437&shu=1
“A man who lives on the north side of the city, however, claims he’s responsible for the mysterious four red lights that appeared in Monday night’s sky in north Phoenix.”….
He apparently, hung 15min-strength flares to helium balloons and put them up, a passing aircraft generated some wind that pushed the balloons around in geometrical formations…
In case, you nitwits haven’t heard about the story yesterday, sorry for the spoiler!
Video:
http://www.abc15.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=12676@knxv.dayport.com
Text:
….[H]ow, I ask Pandey, did you dream up that idea? “My friend, Subhash Chandra [a TV mogul] bought a British company,” he says. “He did it out of patriotism - to show the British. So what did he buy? “He hunted till he found the original [name of the company here].” It was in shipping, a business Chandra knew nothing about. “We all said: are you crazy?” That didn’t matter; he’d shown them.
What did Subhash CHandra, (the Zee Tv moghul, creator of the Indian cricket league, Essel world, founder of The Ekal Vidyalaya foundation) buy?
Answer: The EAST INDIA COMPANY.
So there you go, link here
Lynn(Name changed?): Oh, um uh, so you volunteer here, huh? WHat do you do outside?
Me: I’m a software programmer. WHat about you?
Lynn: I’m a physical terrorist.
Me: #*$__&$#)#$!!@@#%^&)_)*#…. What????!!!!?
Lynn: err, Physical therapist.
Me: ooooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!
Straight from an e-mail (answers in the comment section):
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ” dw” and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter “S.”
Beliefs, faith, hope, persona - the way you define them is how you know them with respect to yourself. It does not matter, what people, who do not matter think. Life is still beautiful, positive and spiritual.
A movie shot in a small room in its entirety - more importantly gripping the imagination and senses of the user without any special effects, CGI or graphics is a moviemaker’s dream come true, and to top it all, it’s Sci-Fi. ‘The man from earth’ is a movie, that one should really really watch.
There are certain stories that seem insanely absurd but can prove to be very convincing, and the climax is nothing short of a shock.
Song from the Man from Earth,\”Forever\”
Source: manfromearth.com
You can watch it online on Netflix or check it out at your local movie store.
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