Asian Rhetoric
The differences (while, hopefully, not asserting a dualism) between European and Asian rhetorics is not so much a difference in style or goal as much as a distinction in histories and worldviews. Rhetoric is, at base, a means of ordering an understanding the world. however, those orderings and understanadings are constrained by the dominate historical, scientific or cultural understandings of the time/place in which they originate that for the sake of this chapter will be termed 'rhetorical worldviews'. So while 'debate', as it is presented to Americans via 'presidential debates', as an example of rhetoric, may appear to be a logical expression of rhetoric or argument to American citizens that is only because of the dominance of rhetorical worldview that sees argument as something that occurs between two fueding individuals to assess the validity of their claims - a dialectical view of argumemt that dates back to Socrates and while that rhetorical worldview is dominate in much of the United States and Europe it is certainly not the only one and others could very easily see the 'one-on-one' competitive debate structure of 'presidential' debates as non-sensical (but that is only because of a differing rhetorical worldview).
In fact, if one considers the historical interactions between European and Asian rhetorics and rhetoricians their resposnes to eachother have been ones of misunderstanding and nativism. Alfred Forke, one of the earliers, cross-cultural rhetoricians in 1901, assessed Asian rhetoric as underdeveloped arugin that the Asian "mind has...never developed a complete system of logic" (5) and thus Asian argument and rhetoric appeard to him as it did to Robert Kaplan sixty years later as "not linear [instead] turning and turning in widening gyre"(795). These criticisms, however, clearly presume an ethnocentric view of the methods and goals of rhetoric: one in which argument is linear and procedes in a logical progression to termal claims of truth. This stems from a particular rhetorical worldview established by Socrates and Greek society.
Ideological Distinctions
The Greek view or the world and thus argumentation, which gave birth to the Romantic and Slavic views on the subject subscribes to a “two world theory”. This theory posits that there is a “permanent real world that stands behind appearance” or the world that we interact with on a day to day basis. This is perhaps most explicitly advocated by Plato who saw an important distinction between “the world of forms and the pseudo-reality of the sensual world”. This ideal was then transmuted by Romantic and Slavic cultures into the distinction between heaven and earth. What was important about this distinction, for Plato concerning rhetoric, is that deductive reason (and the dialectic argument structure) was “a human faculty independent of experience that can discover the essence of things” or the world of forms.
As you might extrapolate from such a view Plato, following, Socrates saw context or the relationship of individual people and things to the world around them as counter to approaching or understanding the ‘real world’ or the ‘truth’. In fact the contextual elements of arguments or ideals should be eliminated at the conclusion of a rational discussion or debate. It is upon this central ideal of Greek rhetoric that perhaps draws the clearest distinction between American and Asian rhetoric. Asian rhetoric stems not from Socratic and Greek view of rather but was rather ‘founded’ by Tzu and Daoist rhetorical worldview. Such a worldview rejects the ‘one world’ view o the Greeks and instead espouses a “one world view” that posits one ‘world’ and it alone constitutes reality. In such a view there is no independent agent, that functions like the forms of a God, to order life. There is only a “risking and a falling, emerging and collapsing, [a] moving…this movement [however] is not cyclical in the sense of reversibility and replication but rather a continuing spiral”. This ‘one world’ view has a particularly potent effect on the ‘self’ which, for the Greeks, was a seemingly ahistorical and acontextual being that while it could act differently but the underlying ‘subject’ or self would be the same rational being.
That fundamental conception preconditioned Western views of rhetoric as context free. Aristotle, for example, saw rhetorical action as taking place through three distinct entities: rhetor, message and audience. The rhetor could, Aristotle, suggested “apply reason to diving the underlying aspects of the context and then fashion texts that produce desired audience responses”. Doaist rhetoricians, however, had a distinct conception of the ‘self’ and, therefer distinct conception of rhetoric. The individual, for the Daoist, has no ‘unique essence’. The individual is determined and defined in their relationship to everything else. An individual could be, for example, ‘the person that lives next to the butcher’, ‘the father of Qi’ or ‘the son of Wu’ (each of those individuals are, themselves, a intersection of other relations). Thus the ‘text’ or the message is not a product of the rhetor but rather a product of the context (‘the text is a product of the context’(Comes 5), so the saying goes). The message, in this rhetorical worldview, is a response to a pre-existing situation (the mind of the rhetor, the historical circumstances and the predisposition of the audience)(Comes 6). These differences in rhetorical worldview manifest themselves, perhaps most explicitly, in two of the rhetorical practice of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures.
Rhetorical Practices
Induction v Deduction – As you may recall from the third chapter in this text, the ideal of the Greek/Socratic rhetorical tradition was a deductive logic and attempt to deduce something new about an instance of something due to the logical category to which it belongs. Such a rhetorical move however functions only to remove context and is thus antithetical to a Daoist rhetorical worldview. So instead of deduction Asian rhetoricians often adopt an inductive rhetorical strategy in which one “provides a series of concrete examples to make a point but may neither state the point nor relate the examples to each other…[and] does not blurt out the main idea but rather builds it up to it by discussing ideas which are related to the main point but will not be discussed” (Peters Online). This is contrast to, as Deborah Bosley explains, “the North American requirement for keeping to the point”(15). This “preference for [when Western scholars call] digression”(15), however, when placed understood from the Daoist world view would best be understood as providing adequate context for decisions. Carolyn Boiarsky, in Technical Communications Quarterly, provides businesses with a warning of an example of this inductive rhetorical strategy that might appear odd to North American businesspeople. In it she describes an interaction in which a North American business is asking for a recommendation of third business partner to do business with and while they were expecting direct answer (what they would deem ‘on point’) but instead received the following response (with the names of businesses replaced) : “We have been cooperating with company A for three years," "We found Company X a reasonable one," or "We consider Company C a good partner." Such a statement provided the means for another to made a decision on their own by providing them information (the means for an inductive argument) but did not appear to advocate one over the other.
Respect for Context and Relationships – This aspect of Asian and Middle Eastern rhetoric has been described in a number of different ways some positive and some negative so this section will attempt to introduce each of them in order to provide a multi-faceted explanation of the phenomenon. Because it is a complex rhetorical action try to think of each explanation as explaining a different aspect of it. It is, however, based in the Daoist worldview explicated above that attempts to recognize the relationship between individuals in a dialogue and the context that they are in as critical to any message or ‘text’ attempting to be conveyed.
This respect for context and relationships between arguers has been described by many Western scholars as an overriding attempt to ‘save face’ or ‘preserve harmony’ in argument – an ideal that is not well accepted in Socratic, Greek or truly American argumentation style that attempts to shock opponents into accepting an opposing view. In order to exemplify this aspect of Asian rhetoric Cherif Bassiouni relays the often told story of a wealthy Arab who wanted to help out a relative who had fallen on hard financial times. Instead of convincing him, as an American rhetorician might, by pointing out the hard facts of his financial situation made his aid appear as if it were a ‘favor’ saying ‘I have some money that I don’t have time to put into the bank. Could you keep it for me, say two months?”(Leroux 11). Such a statement allows both individuals in the argument to save face, not admit defeat and preserve harmony between the two. “On the other hand, in Greek and lower middle class Eastern European culture” such a rhetorical move would not be as applauded as “argument is considered to have positive social value, women as well as men are comfortable engaging in direct verbal confrontation”(Tannen 74).
Fukiko Minami, an Asian rhetorician, does not describe the practice in negative terms. He sees it as “developing trust prior to engaging” in argument. Boiasrsky also provides modern day business example of the respect for relationships and arguers from an Asian rhetorical standpoint. She explains that the motto for Asian negotiators is “first we make a friend. Second we make a contract” that is why form letters are often seen as inappropriate in business deals as is addressing a letter to “dear sir or madame” – individualization and care for personal context is critical. It is important, however, to recognize that the practice is more than simply ‘being kind’. North American businesspeople, for example, often see it such rhetorical strategy as ‘rude’ or ‘time-wasting’ as they are , according to Boiasrsky, when attempting “to discuss a technical problem that has developed with some equipment may spend the first few days sightseeing and sharing family pictures over a mean with the Chinese host”(247).
Middle Eastern Rhetoric
There is a famous Arabic proverb that goes kiratu al-takrar bi-ta lim al-himar which means “enough repetition will convince even a donkey”(Koch 48). That short saying gets to, perhaps, the heart of Middle Eastern rhetorical strategy of “repeating, rephrasing, clothing and re-clothing one’s request”(Koch 48) that has come to be known, in communication studies as “presentation”. ‘Presentation’ is, for Middle Eastern rhetoricians, the most effective means of persuasion.
The above saying, as most sayings do, simplify ‘presentation’ and ‘Middle Eastern Rhetoric’ to sheer repetition. A few examples of Arabic texts indicate that it is not route repetition but instead, for example, “the..use of lexical couplets like…aid and assistance or illusion and imagination…defines and delimits…destruction and demolish”(Koch 49-49). As you can see, it is not so much repetition as parallelism. This parallelism can also function at drive at a point, or what Koch calls, cumulative parallelism consider the following middle eastern text:
So it was natural that the nationalistic idea should arise and grow and become powerful
With great speed in the German lands after the misfortunes which came upon them
During those wars. And it was natural that ‘the belief in the German nation’ should
Spread in them and it was natural that this belief should compel the intellectuals of
Germany and her leaders to combat the regional tendencies…with all power and
zeal (Koch51).
It is written in such a way as to be more akin to poetry than prose (although recognizing the Western assumptiosn behind eve that distinction”.
A person who is so deeply convinced that God exists that he sees no possibility of doubt in the matter cannot attempt ot prove it to an agnostic. To do so would be paradoxical – the only thing a missionary can do is to present the truth, simply by saying it again, and again in his own words in the words of the Bible or other relevant texts.
Kennedy says “Christian preaching is not persuasion but prclaimation, and is based on authority and grace not on proof”
‘presentation is the dominate mode of argumentation in hierarchical society in which truths are not matters for individual decision. In a democracy, there is room for doubt about the thru ad thus for proof; in a more autocratic society there is not” Perelman (1969:164) “it would appear that certain linguistic structures are more suited to a society based on equality on individual initiative; ther would be mnroe suited to soceitesi with a hierarchi structure”
Nazi – “ideal sentence is the slogan – Ein Reich, ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer in which the three nouns suggest an order of the world and evoke acceptance of the structure laid out” 6
Ruled by calips who were not only secular rulers but also the leaders fo the faith 55 Koch
“Classical Arabic still retians the connotation which ti has a poetic koine of being more beautify and more significant” (Bateson 1967 80)
“the communication patters of many of the South Americans were…oral, contextual, concrete, personal and narrative, whereas communication patters of U.S. personnel were more written, acontextual, universal, abstract and analytical”
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The United States should take the lead in coordinating these packages, but should work to develop an alliance of democracies in the region to address the crisis. Mugabe has made a career out of playing Western and African actors against each other. This practice cannot be allowed to continue. Washington needs partners in the region to help develop and ultimately present an incentive package to Mugabe. Post-election talks between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and South African President Thabo Mbeki were a positive example, but faith in South Africa as a mediator is misplaced.
Tsvangari wants it and there is a lot of stuff that your aff doesn't do
RNW International Justice Desk
03-11-2008
TsvangiraiZimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday called for a truth and reconciliation commission to examine atrocities in the country dating back to the massacres of ethnic minorities in the 1980s.
"This country has gone through a lot of traumatic experiences," Tsvangirai said at the launch of a video on the 1980s atrocities. "What we have to accept is that in order to heal there must be justice, and in order to have justice there must be truth," Tsvangirai said. The video documents the Zimbabwean army's bloody campaign known as Gukurahundi, "the rain that washes away the chaff", when a North Korean-trained brigade is believed to have killed some 20,000 people in a counter-insurgency drive.
"That is the only way which can help us move forward as a nation. Unless the truth is told, there cannot be healing and reconciliation," he said. "There are those who are calling for a truth commission. They are right, but without justice we cannot move forward," he added.
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi, in which the Ndebele minority were executed, burnt alive, thrown down mine shafts, and shot, was carried out by the 5th Brigade under the command of one Perence Shiri. Shiri, now promoted by to an Air Marshall, still serves in the Zimbabwe National Army to this day. The actions of the 5th Brigade have been entirely blamed on Robert Mugabe since, ultimately he was in charge of its operations across the country. The Brigade was different from all other Zimbabwean army units in that it was directly subordinated to the Prime Minister's office, and not integrated to the normal army command structures.
Most of the Ndebele victims were shot in public executions, often after being forced to dig their own graves in front of family and fellow villagers. The largest number of dead in a single killing was on 5 March 1983, when 62 young men and women were shot on the banks of the Cewale River, Lupane . Seven survived with gunshot wounds, the other 55 died. Another way 5 Brigade killed large groups of people was to burn them alive in huts. They did this in Tsholotsho and also in Lupane.
The 5th Brigade also would routinely round up dozens, or even hundreds, of civilians and march them at gun point to a central place, like a school or bore-hole. There they would be forced to sing Shona songs praising ZANU, at the same time being beaten with sticks. These gatherings usually ended with public executions. Those killed could be ex-ZIPRAs, ZAPU officials, or anybody chosen at random.
Moment of madness
In 1999, Mugabe labeled Gukurahundi as a "moment of madness", but has never publicly accepted responsibility. When thousands of civilians were being killed , Mugabe and his other cronies repudiated these allegations of atrocities and accused hostile foreign press of fabricating stories.
The documentary, Gukurahundi: A Moment of Madness, is produced by Zenzele Ndebele who is a human rights activist, was the highlight of a Gaborone film festival organised by the Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Ditshwanelo) in March.
Common thing
Tsvangirai linked the massacres of the 1980s to an operation three years ago when President Robert Mugabe's government bulldozed the homes of 700,000 people in what was officially called a slum renewal project.
"The common thing is we have a leader and a government whose main pre-occupation is power-retention," he added. "We created that government and the leader, and the question is how to deal with such experiences because that is human terror of unprecedented proportions."
Tsvangirai and Mugabe, who has ruled since independence in 1980, have been negotiating for weeks over a power-sharing deal following deadly electoral violence earlier this year.
The talks are stalled over control of the home affairs ministry, which oversees the police.
(AFP)
RNW International Justice Desk
03-11-2008
TsvangiraiZimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday called for a truth and reconciliation commission to examine atrocities in the country dating back to the massacres of ethnic minorities in the 1980s.
"This country has gone through a lot of traumatic experiences," Tsvangirai said at the launch of a video on the 1980s atrocities. "What we have to accept is that in order to heal there must be justice, and in order to have justice there must be truth," Tsvangirai said. The video documents the Zimbabwean army's bloody campaign known as Gukurahundi, "the rain that washes away the chaff", when a North Korean-trained brigade is believed to have killed some 20,000 people in a counter-insurgency drive.
"That is the only way which can help us move forward as a nation. Unless the truth is told, there cannot be healing and reconciliation," he said. "There are those who are calling for a truth commission. They are right, but without justice we cannot move forward," he added.
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi, in which the Ndebele minority were executed, burnt alive, thrown down mine shafts, and shot, was carried out by the 5th Brigade under the command of one Perence Shiri. Shiri, now promoted by to an Air Marshall, still serves in the Zimbabwe National Army to this day. The actions of the 5th Brigade have been entirely blamed on Robert Mugabe since, ultimately he was in charge of its operations across the country. The Brigade was different from all other Zimbabwean army units in that it was directly subordinated to the Prime Minister's office, and not integrated to the normal army command structures.
Most of the Ndebele victims were shot in public executions, often after being forced to dig their own graves in front of family and fellow villagers. The largest number of dead in a single killing was on 5 March 1983, when 62 young men and women were shot on the banks of the Cewale River, Lupane . Seven survived with gunshot wounds, the other 55 died. Another way 5 Brigade killed large groups of people was to burn them alive in huts. They did this in Tsholotsho and also in Lupane.
The 5th Brigade also would routinely round up dozens, or even hundreds, of civilians and march them at gun point to a central place, like a school or bore-hole. There they would be forced to sing Shona songs praising ZANU, at the same time being beaten with sticks. These gatherings usually ended with public executions. Those killed could be ex-ZIPRAs, ZAPU officials, or anybody chosen at random.
Moment of madness
In 1999, Mugabe labeled Gukurahundi as a "moment of madness", but has never publicly accepted responsibility. When thousands of civilians were being killed , Mugabe and his other cronies repudiated these allegations of atrocities and accused hostile foreign press of fabricating stories.
The documentary, Gukurahundi: A Moment of Madness, is produced by Zenzele Ndebele who is a human rights activist, was the highlight of a Gaborone film festival organised by the Botswana Centre for Human Rights (Ditshwanelo) in March.
Common thing
Tsvangirai linked the massacres of the 1980s to an operation three years ago when President Robert Mugabe's government bulldozed the homes of 700,000 people in what was officially called a slum renewal project.
"The common thing is we have a leader and a government whose main pre-occupation is power-retention," he added. "We created that government and the leader, and the question is how to deal with such experiences because that is human terror of unprecedented proportions."
Tsvangirai and Mugabe, who has ruled since independence in 1980, have been negotiating for weeks over a power-sharing deal following deadly electoral violence earlier this year.
The talks are stalled over control of the home affairs ministry, which oversees the police.
(AFP)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
deadair
Orson Wells
Canada Clip - MC Frontalot - self proclaimed leader of the nerdcore - all throwaway jokes - but some i dont get
The reason why I played it is because - 46% approval rating / Queen Elizabeth
Vampire - new clubs - you were right
-------------------------------------------
old show - no one wanted to do old show - but still not that bad
new stuff - new segment
pownce.com/deadairkwcw (shutting down)
---------------------------------
LAW SCHOOL APPLICATIONS
1st - SO expensive - where is this $100 going
2nd - Credit Card Freak Out- shut me down
3rd - AutoComplete - Military - Name - DISHORORABLY DISCARHGED
4th - stress/wrong school
5th - scholarships - essay topics for the
6th - transgenderd
CHRISTMAS THINGS
- we decorated the house - lights how long did it take
- made in indonesia, shipped to china to print then here to sell
- fake tree real tree deabte
MY NEW FAVORITE XMAS THING
The Christmas pickle is a pickle-shaped ornament hidden in the tree. The child who finds it first on Christmas morning receives an extra present. While the Christmas pickle is believed to be a German custom, it is fairly unknown in Germany but widely spread across the USA. In fact it is completely of American origin. [1] The christmas pickle is a very fun game and is a favorite in most American households.
TECH THINGS -
1st - di.fm
2nd - http://www.blackbirdhome.com/
3nd - Gmail account - first run - I CAN'T USE THE NEW THING
HOUSE
tea in the sink
our landlord clean the pumpkins off
BANKS STUFF
Online account - spanish
Unied Arab Emerates
do you want to talk greece?
================================================================================
hamburgelor
1.========================================================
THE ROLE: Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
WHO LET IT GET AWAY: Sean Connery, who’d never read the
J.R.R. Tolkien series and claimed he “didn’t understand the
script.” (Can you say karma?)
THE ROLE: Neo in The Matrix
WHO LET IT GET AWAY: Will Smith
turned it down to star in the forgettable action flick Wild
Wild West, and the part went to Keanu Reeves.
REGRETTABILITY METER: Low. In an interview with Wired, Smith
said, “I would have absolutely messed up The Matrix. At that
point I wasn’t smart enough as an actor to let the movie
be—whereas Keanu was.”
2.========================================================
In a recent report of DUI excuses in the Swedish newspaper
Nerikes Allehanda, a 56-year-old woman had asserted that,
though she had been drinking, her driving was not affected
because she had remembered to keep one eye closed. [The
Local (Stockholm), 10-30-08]
3.========================================================
Dateline: Page Six
Is Bill Murray NYC New Party Boy
4.========================================================
Veteran Massachusetts thief Robert Aldrich applied for
compensation because his latest arrest happened to have been
illegal, and a state law permits recovery for lost income
during wrongful incarceration. However, in November, a
Suffolk County judge turned him down as she was unable to
find any "income" that Aldrich might have earned during his
six wrongful months in jail except from more burglaries
[United Press International, 11-5-08]
5.========================================================
One of the items in a November seized-contraband auction by
the Denver Police Department was a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass
that was ultimately bought for $350 by a 19-year-old woman,
but which is still evidence in an active murder
investigation. Police eventually took back the car, which
has bullet holes and a bloody interior and contained blood-
stained clothing. Furthermore, a second shooting victim who
was in the car[Denver Post, 11-20-08]
6.========================================================
A New York Times dispatch from India highlighted the growing
problem of intra-family frauds in which one member claims a
living relative's land or wealth by swearing to the
government that the relative is dead. According to the
Times, the "deceased" had finally begun to fight back. An
advocacy group, the Association of Dead People, helps
aggrieved citizens figure out how to prove that they are
alive, which can be difficult, given India's slow-moving
bureaucracies. The association's founder said that he
personally had tried to authenticate his existence by public
actions such as running for office, filing lawsuits and
getting arrested, but that he nonetheless remained
officially dead. [New York Times, 10-24-00]
7.========================================================
Albinos in Africa find a haven from being hunted
WITH their milky white skin, wispy hair and haunting, pale
eyes, they are called �the living ghosts� by locals.
And the vulnerable albinos of Tanzania in East Africa have
more than insults to fear.
They are being hunted down and hacked to death to satisfy a
growing demand for their body parts and blood to use in
black magic. **I think Good Move
8.========================================================
Sugar can be addictive, Princeton scientist says
Animal studies show sugar dependence
A Princeton University scientist will present new evidence
today demonstrating that sugar can be an addictive
substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals
in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse.Professor Bart
Hoebel and his team in the Department of Psychology and the
Princeton Neuroscience Institute have been studying signs of
sugar addiction in rats for years. Until now, the rats under
study have met two of the three elements of addiction. They
have demonstrated a behavioral pattern of increased intake
and then showed signs of withdrawal. His current experiments
captured craving and relapse to complete the picture."If
bingeing on sugar is really a form of addiction, there
should be long-lasting effects in the brains of sugar
addicts," Hoebel said. "Craving and relapse are critical
components of addiction, and we have been able to
demonstrate these behaviors in sugar-bingeing rats in a
number of ways."
9.========================================================
The chain's junior bacon cheeseburger is ranked as 'the most
unhealthful' value item available among the offerings of
national fast-food chains, according to the Cancer Project.
By Jerry Hirsch December 9, 2008
Recessionary eating isn't always healthful eating,
especially when it comes to the $1 value menus pushed by
fast-food chains to keep sales growing through the economic
slump, according to one health watchdog.Jack in the Box's
Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was ranked "the most unhealthful"
value item available among the offerings of national fast-
food chains, according to an analysis by dietitians with the
nonprofit Cancer Project in Washington that is scheduled to
be released today.The $1 burger from San Diego-based Jack in
the Box topped the ranking because of its hamburger patty
and "hefty helpings of cheese and mayo-onion sauce," said
Krista Haynes, Cancer Project staff dietitian.
'
10.========================================================
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Ninety percent of U.S.
adults say they pray -- more than half say it's once a day
or more -- in times of economic distress or plenty,
researchers said.Lead author Wendy Cadge, a sociologist at
Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., found that the
prayers fell into one of three categories -- about 28
percent of prayers were requests of God, 28 percent were
prayers to both thank and petition God, while another 22
percent of the prayers just thanked God.
11.========================================================
Japanese Man Makes Airport Home
By MARIA GALLUCCI
MEXICO CITY (Nov. 21) - Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at
the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months,
and he has no plans to leave.
For reasons he can't explain, the Japanese man has been in
Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since
Sept. 2, surviving off donations from fast-food restaurants
and passengers and sleeping in a chair
12.========================================================
Joe the Plumber: McCain "Appalled Me," Made Me Feel
"Dirty"Huffington Post
Think Progress reports that Joe Wurzelbacher isn't a huge
fan of the man who made him famous. He told conservative
radio host Glenn Beck that he felt "dirty" after "being on
the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take
place."
Canada Clip - MC Frontalot - self proclaimed leader of the nerdcore - all throwaway jokes - but some i dont get
The reason why I played it is because - 46% approval rating / Queen Elizabeth
Vampire - new clubs - you were right
-------------------------------------------
old show - no one wanted to do old show - but still not that bad
new stuff - new segment
pownce.com/deadairkwcw (shutting down)
---------------------------------
LAW SCHOOL APPLICATIONS
1st - SO expensive - where is this $100 going
2nd - Credit Card Freak Out- shut me down
3rd - AutoComplete - Military - Name - DISHORORABLY DISCARHGED
4th - stress/wrong school
5th - scholarships - essay topics for the
6th - transgenderd
CHRISTMAS THINGS
- we decorated the house - lights how long did it take
- made in indonesia, shipped to china to print then here to sell
- fake tree real tree deabte
MY NEW FAVORITE XMAS THING
The Christmas pickle is a pickle-shaped ornament hidden in the tree. The child who finds it first on Christmas morning receives an extra present. While the Christmas pickle is believed to be a German custom, it is fairly unknown in Germany but widely spread across the USA. In fact it is completely of American origin. [1] The christmas pickle is a very fun game and is a favorite in most American households.
TECH THINGS -
1st - di.fm
2nd - http://www.blackbirdhome.com/
3nd - Gmail account - first run - I CAN'T USE THE NEW THING
HOUSE
tea in the sink
our landlord clean the pumpkins off
BANKS STUFF
Online account - spanish
Unied Arab Emerates
do you want to talk greece?
================================================================================
hamburgelor
1.========================================================
THE ROLE: Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
WHO LET IT GET AWAY: Sean Connery, who’d never read the
J.R.R. Tolkien series and claimed he “didn’t understand the
script.” (Can you say karma?)
THE ROLE: Neo in The Matrix
WHO LET IT GET AWAY: Will Smith
turned it down to star in the forgettable action flick Wild
Wild West, and the part went to Keanu Reeves.
REGRETTABILITY METER: Low. In an interview with Wired, Smith
said, “I would have absolutely messed up The Matrix. At that
point I wasn’t smart enough as an actor to let the movie
be—whereas Keanu was.”
2.========================================================
In a recent report of DUI excuses in the Swedish newspaper
Nerikes Allehanda, a 56-year-old woman had asserted that,
though she had been drinking, her driving was not affected
because she had remembered to keep one eye closed. [The
Local (Stockholm), 10-30-08]
3.========================================================
Dateline: Page Six
Is Bill Murray NYC New Party Boy
4.========================================================
Veteran Massachusetts thief Robert Aldrich applied for
compensation because his latest arrest happened to have been
illegal, and a state law permits recovery for lost income
during wrongful incarceration. However, in November, a
Suffolk County judge turned him down as she was unable to
find any "income" that Aldrich might have earned during his
six wrongful months in jail except from more burglaries
[United Press International, 11-5-08]
5.========================================================
One of the items in a November seized-contraband auction by
the Denver Police Department was a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass
that was ultimately bought for $350 by a 19-year-old woman,
but which is still evidence in an active murder
investigation. Police eventually took back the car, which
has bullet holes and a bloody interior and contained blood-
stained clothing. Furthermore, a second shooting victim who
was in the car[Denver Post, 11-20-08]
6.========================================================
A New York Times dispatch from India highlighted the growing
problem of intra-family frauds in which one member claims a
living relative's land or wealth by swearing to the
government that the relative is dead. According to the
Times, the "deceased" had finally begun to fight back. An
advocacy group, the Association of Dead People, helps
aggrieved citizens figure out how to prove that they are
alive, which can be difficult, given India's slow-moving
bureaucracies. The association's founder said that he
personally had tried to authenticate his existence by public
actions such as running for office, filing lawsuits and
getting arrested, but that he nonetheless remained
officially dead. [New York Times, 10-24-00]
7.========================================================
Albinos in Africa find a haven from being hunted
WITH their milky white skin, wispy hair and haunting, pale
eyes, they are called �the living ghosts� by locals.
And the vulnerable albinos of Tanzania in East Africa have
more than insults to fear.
They are being hunted down and hacked to death to satisfy a
growing demand for their body parts and blood to use in
black magic. **I think Good Move
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Sugar can be addictive, Princeton scientist says
Animal studies show sugar dependence
A Princeton University scientist will present new evidence
today demonstrating that sugar can be an addictive
substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals
in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse.Professor Bart
Hoebel and his team in the Department of Psychology and the
Princeton Neuroscience Institute have been studying signs of
sugar addiction in rats for years. Until now, the rats under
study have met two of the three elements of addiction. They
have demonstrated a behavioral pattern of increased intake
and then showed signs of withdrawal. His current experiments
captured craving and relapse to complete the picture."If
bingeing on sugar is really a form of addiction, there
should be long-lasting effects in the brains of sugar
addicts," Hoebel said. "Craving and relapse are critical
components of addiction, and we have been able to
demonstrate these behaviors in sugar-bingeing rats in a
number of ways."
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The chain's junior bacon cheeseburger is ranked as 'the most
unhealthful' value item available among the offerings of
national fast-food chains, according to the Cancer Project.
By Jerry Hirsch December 9, 2008
Recessionary eating isn't always healthful eating,
especially when it comes to the $1 value menus pushed by
fast-food chains to keep sales growing through the economic
slump, according to one health watchdog.Jack in the Box's
Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was ranked "the most unhealthful"
value item available among the offerings of national fast-
food chains, according to an analysis by dietitians with the
nonprofit Cancer Project in Washington that is scheduled to
be released today.The $1 burger from San Diego-based Jack in
the Box topped the ranking because of its hamburger patty
and "hefty helpings of cheese and mayo-onion sauce," said
Krista Haynes, Cancer Project staff dietitian.
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10.========================================================
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Ninety percent of U.S.
adults say they pray -- more than half say it's once a day
or more -- in times of economic distress or plenty,
researchers said.Lead author Wendy Cadge, a sociologist at
Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., found that the
prayers fell into one of three categories -- about 28
percent of prayers were requests of God, 28 percent were
prayers to both thank and petition God, while another 22
percent of the prayers just thanked God.
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Japanese Man Makes Airport Home
By MARIA GALLUCCI
MEXICO CITY (Nov. 21) - Hiroshi Nohara is on a layover at
the Mexico City airport. It has lasted almost three months,
and he has no plans to leave.
For reasons he can't explain, the Japanese man has been in
Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since
Sept. 2, surviving off donations from fast-food restaurants
and passengers and sleeping in a chair
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Joe the Plumber: McCain "Appalled Me," Made Me Feel
"Dirty"Huffington Post
Think Progress reports that Joe Wurzelbacher isn't a huge
fan of the man who made him famous. He told conservative
radio host Glenn Beck that he felt "dirty" after "being on
the campaign trail and seeing some of the things that take
place."
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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