She’s just another drunk. With the right attitude and some good help, she’ll get better. You’re not helping.
Get a life.
Message to all the Lindsay Lohan freaks:
Reply
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Panchen Lama vows to work for harmonious country, world
The living Buddha and leader of Tibetan Buddhism paid a four-day visit to Chengde city in Hebei Province from last Thursday to Monday.
I figured they’d be trotting the kid out soon when they said there was no point negotiating with HHDL. Time to try to establish some legitimacy for the Panchen. At least he’s still alive — as far as we know.
Burning in Hell with Harry Potter
I know that many Christians take the fingers-in-the-ears-and-say-la-la-la-la approach to other religions, but I think it is important to understand even if you do not agree. And I don’t want to push my religion on my children. I want them to be exposed to all the choices. I want them to understand the controversy.
http://emergingfromthefire.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-potter-and-burning-in-hell.html
Specter: Administration has 18 hours to clarify Gonzales testimony on wiretapping
“Given the difficulty of discussing classified matters in public, I
think it is preferable to have a letter addressing that question [of
Gonzales’ veracity] from the administration … by noon tomorrow, which
will be made available to the news media,” Specter wrote in the
statement. “The administration has committed to producing such a
letter.” …
TheHill.com – Specter: Administration has 18 hours to clarify Gonzales testimony on wiretapping
Chinese Plan to Build Highway to Everest Base Camp in Doubt? I doubt it.
In April, organizers for the Beijing Summer Olympics announced
ambitious plans for the longest torch relay in Olympic history – an
85,000-mile, 130-day route that would cross five continents and reach
the 29,035-foot summit of Everest, the world’s highest peak.
China says it has ruled Tibet for centuries, although many Tibetans
say their homeland was essentially an independent state for most of
that time. Chinese communist troops occupied Tibet in 1951, and Beijing
continues to rule the region with a heavy hand.
Planned road up Everest faces hurdles – International Herald Tribune
Richistan — The Gap Between the Rich and The Rest
America’s super-rich have returned to the days of the Roaring Twenties.
As the rest of the country struggles to get by, a huge bubble of
multi-millionaires lives almost in a parallel world. The rich now live
in their own world of private education, private health care and gated
mansions. They have their own schools and their own banks. They even
travel apart — creating a booming industry of private jets and yachts.
Their world now has a name, thanks to a new book by Wall Street Journal
reporter Robert Frank which has dubbed it “Richistan.” There every
dream can come true. But for the American Dream itself — which
promises everyone can join the elite — the emergence of Richistan is a
mixed blessing. “We in America are heading towards ‘developing nation’
levels of inequality. We would become like Brazil. What does that say
about us? What does that say about America?” Frank said.
AlterNet: Is the US Heading for ‘Developing Nations’ Inequality Levels?
Pleas on Larry King for Lohan, But What About Other Drug Offenders?
AlterNet: Pleas on Larry King for Lohan, But What About Other Drug Offenders?
There’s nothing wrong with Lohan’s entertainment industry friends, and a star-struck public, pleading for empathy for her and urging the courts to spare her a jail sentence, and to give her the help that she obviously needs. But there are thousands of drug offenders that need the same compassion and help as Lohan. The big difference is that these drug abusers aren’t high-profile, bankable screen commodities. They are mostly poor blacks and Latinos. The estimate is that nearly one-fourth of the more than one million blacks that pack America’s prisons are there for non-violent, drug-related crimes. It costs billions to keep them there.
Chomsky: There Will Be a Cold War Between Iran and the U.S.
As was the norm during the Cold War, resort to violence is regularly justified as a reaction to the malign influence of the main enemy, often on the flimsiest of pretexts. Unsurprisingly, as Bush send s more troops to Iraq, tales surface of Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Iraq — a country otherwise free from any foreign interference, on the tacit assumption that Washington rules the world.
In the Cold War-like mentality that prevails in Washington, Tehran is portrayed as the pinnacle in the so-called Shiite Crescent that stretches from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon, through Shiite southern Iraq and Syria. And again unsurprisingly, the “surge” in Iraq and escalation of threats and accusations against Iran is accompanied by grudging willingness to attend a conference of regional powers, with the agenda limited to Iraq-more narrowly, to attaining U.S. goals in Iraq.
Presumably this minimal gesture toward diplomacy is intended to allay the growing fears and anger elicited by Washington’s heightened aggressiveness, with forces deployed in position to attack Iran and regular provocations and threats.
AlterNet: Chomsky: There Will Be a Cold War Between Iran and the U.S.
From the New York Times
Toiling in the Dark: Africa’s Power Crisis
By MICHAEL WINES
Crippling electricity shortages in sub-Saharan Africa have
begun to hamper the region’s development.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/world/africa/29power.html?th&emc=th
Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian
State
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
More than 30 evangelical leaders are stepping forward to
say that those claiming a biblically-mandated hard line of
support for Israel do not speak for them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/us/29evangelical.html?th&emc=th
China Moves to Refurbish Damaged Global Image
By DAVID BARBOZA
China is cracking down on pirated goods and has vowed to
hold producers responsible for unsafe products.
Now, if it weren’t for those pesky Tibetans…
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/world/asia/29safety.html?th&emc=th
Mr. Gonzales’s Never-Ending Story
Americans have been waiting months for President Bush to
fire Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who long ago proved
that he was incompetent and more recently has proved that
he can’t tell the truth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/opinion/29sun1.html?th&emc=th
The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s
By LAWRENCE DOWNES
For the first time, I understood viscerally how some
Catholics felt in the ’60s, when the Mass they loved went
away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/opinion/29sun3.html?th&emc=th
Worried About the Weather, and the Land
Four writers report on how the environment is faring in
their parts of the globe. Here are their dispatches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/opinion/29climate.html?th&emc=th
- ON THIS DAY -
Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20070729.html
A Sri Lankan Buddhist Regrets…
Black July and the Rule of Unreason | Asian Tribune
For Sri Lanka, the cruellest month is not April but July.Reconciliation cannot come without truth. And the truth is that in July 1983 we, Sinhalese, disgraced ourselves beyond words, beyond comprehension, beyond belief. We shamed our history, our culture, our very humanity. And we endangered our future. The Sinhala Only gave birth to Vellupillai Pirapaharan but without the horror that was Black July – and with enough devolution at the right time – the monster may well have become a mere footnote in history. Instead we taught our Tamils, in the most unmistakable and unforgettable manner, that they need a protector who is at least as vicious as we can be on occasion. And Tamils learnt the lesson only too well. The choices they made post-Black July were all coloured and warped by Black July. Those choices have cost and are costing the Tamil community dearly. But this is cold comfort to us, because the plague of extremism has made a triumphant return amidst us; today we are more prone to remaking old mistakes than we have been at any time since July 1983. …
Lughnasadh: Pagan Celebration
Both Pagans and Christians celebrate the first harvest. Originally, it
was not held on August first, but on the day of the initial harvest.
The Pagans primarily call it Lughnasadh, pronounced LOO-nas-ah,
August Eve and Lammas, while the Christians call it Lammas, Harvest
Home, Feast of Bread and Harvest Festival. Christians celebrate by
baking bread, then placing it on the church’s altar. Some also put
fruit there. Prayers of Thanksgiving are said and there are hymns of
gratitude. …
Lughnasadh: Pagan Celebration: Also Called Lammas, Harvest Home or Festival, Feast of Bread
Chinese Disabled Performing Arts Troupe (deaf)
Take a breath — Meditation in schools is not a religious practice that raises any church-state issues.
The common rallying point for any anti-mindfulness coalition would be
opposition to teaching practices that trace their roots to Buddhism and
Hinduism in public schools. Why should mantras and meditation be
allowed to slip past the formidable barrier of legal precedent that has
largely kept prayer out of the schools for the last 50 years?
The short answer to that question: When they’re stripped of their
Eastern cultural trappings, meditation and other mindfulness techniques
are not religious practices, so there’s no reason to ban them in public
schools. Choral music comes out of Christian church traditions, but no
one objects to a school choir.
Blessings via the Internet
A service recently launched by Modefine Ltd., a Cyprus company, enables
worshipers to log on and watch as a priest utters a prayer for them.
“This takes things to a new level,” said James Martin, a Jesuit priest
and associate editor of the Roman Catholic magazine America, who has
watched religious trends develop on the Internet. Martin said in a
telephone interview that the technology also gives believers a new way
to carry out an old practice: asking others to pray for them in sacred
places.
“Going to Israel is quite expensive,” said Martin. “So for people who
can’t afford it but can afford their monthly [Internet] bill, this is
one way to do it.”
