Vatican Says Modern Feminism Dangerous for Family
This is the oldest trick in the book. Rather than accepting the much needed change in the social structure, the men-dominated Catholic church is back to blaming those dirty, weak, wretched women for the ills of the society. It started with the ‘Original sin’ and is still going on. They are getting blamed for gay marriages. Isn’t it surprising as in at least half of the gay marriages, women are not involved at all.
The pope makes an absurd argument that equality of a man and a woman in marriage weakens it, devalues it and then makes the society accept gay marriages. The bottomline to men is keep your woman supressed under your thumb as a slave; treat her as your property. If you start giving her lattitude, it will destroy our society.
What a disgusting message…
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Dr. Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the 3-dimensional structure of DNA passed away on Thursday. He worked out the detailed structure of DNA while working with Dr. Watson at Cambridge University. Their discovery was published in 1953 and they were awarded a Nobel prize for that work. He was a distinguished research professor at the Salk Institute in San Diego and also served as its president earlier.
Anyone who works with nucleic acids knows his name and uses in day-to-day research conversations. The complementary pattern of nucleic acid base-pairs is described as ‘Watson-Crick base-pairing’.
The world lost a great scientific mind today.
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Another nugget of information from Time:
Percentage of France’s population that is Muslim: 6%
Percentage of France’s prison population that is Muslim: 50%
What does this mean?
- Muslims in France are more inclined to commit crimes?
- French courts convict muslims more easily than people following other religions?
- convicts get converted to Islam when they get into prison?
I think the last is true in US from my very limited knowledge about prisons gained by watching HBO’s ‘OZ‘. Also, didn’t Mike Tyson come out of prison as a muslim?
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Mrs. Heinz-Kerry’s tough talk with the reporters got a lot of negative coverage earlier this week. The latest issue of Time magazine has an interview with the wives of democratic presidential ticket. The following exchange is taken from that interview. I don’t know if this conversation was edited to fit the word-limit.
TIME: In that first photo op you all had together, I was struck by that picture of Mrs. Kerry reaching for Jack Edwards’ thumb to dislodge it from his mouth. Was that just the old reflexes of a mother kicking in?
Heinz Kerry: No, no, no. I had one thumb-sucker and two non-thumb-suckers, and I stupidly and naively forgot I was in front of a lot of cameras. And what I was trying to do was make sure he wasn’t in the picture with a thumb in his mouth.
Two lines in the response given by Mrs. Heinz-Kerry seem completely contradictory to each other. She forgot that there were cameras and she did what she did to prevent the child from being photographed with a thumb in his mouth???
Hope she keeps quiet and don’t blabber around too much to hurt her husband’s chances in the election. That would be really sad.
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Create a new folder under bookmarks and put all the webpages that you open ‘first thing every morning’, in it. Under ‘general’ options, choose that folder as default home page. Whenever you start Firefox, it will automatically load all those pages in different tabs.
Cool, eh?
Thanks, Patrix!!
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Just upgraded to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (0.9). Just 4.7MB to download. It is amazingly easy to install and fast to use. It allows tabbed browsing with built-in pop-up blocker. There is a huge list of extensions that can be installed with it to do different kinds of things such as a gmail notifier to a built-in text editor.
I would highly recommend everyone to try out Firefox, if you haven’t already. I bet that you’ll not go back to Internet Explorer. Here is a link to download it.
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The New York Times > Technology > Microsoft to Bestow $75 Billion Windfall on Its Shareholders
Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, announced today that it will bestow on its shareholders a windfall totaling $75 billion.
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As part of that package, the company will issue a onetime cash dividend of $3 a share at a cost of $32 billion. … which will be distributed in December.
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the company’s decision to double its quarterly dividend from 4 cents a share to 8 cents a share.
I am glad to be a MSFT shareholder. Will have some of that $32 billion coming my way in December.
One other nice thing about this whole deal is:
Mr. Gates has already pledged that he will give all of the one-time stock dividend to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The contribution will increase the size of the foundation’s assets by 11 percent to $30 billion, making it roughly three times as large as the next largest foundation in the United States.
The Gates Foundation has been doing a phenomenal job of supporting vaccination and other healthcare issues for people in developing countries. Kudos!
This in no way changes my opinion about Microsoft products. There is a difference between liking the stock of a company and the company itself for its products and practices.
Update: As Warren Buffett says, one should differentiate between the company and the stock. They are connected but different entities. Just because one likes a company, it doesn’t mean it is a good stock to invest in and vice versa.
I don’t like Microsoft as a consumer because I think their products are crappy. It is fine with me that others like them. Microsoft has a hold over a huge market as most everybody uses these products. That makes the company profitable, hence, a good investment and makes the shareholder part of me like it.
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The neglect of the world community continues. The UN is trying to decide if the situation in Sudan is a genocide or ethnic cleansing before deciding on a plan to send help. The US senate wasted 3 days discussing a constitutional amendment to ban Gay marriage, but nobody did anything to move the government machinery to help the Sudanese.
There is one organisation, “Doctors without borders“, among many others that has setup medical and food help in Sudan since late last year. This group has a well known track reocrd of providing help in areas affected with war, famine and other disasters. They received the Nobel prize for peace a few years ago. If anyone wants to help the Sudanese, I’d suggest to make a donation to this group. Your donation will be used wisely and make an impact where it is really needed.
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News has been slowly trickling in over the last month or so about the horrendous ongoing genocide in Sudan. The UN, US and rest of the world has been busy fighting the unneccesary war in Iraq or fighting over the war in Iraq. They have completely ignored the situation in Sudan which will claim more than 300,000 lives this year even by the most conservative estimates.
Arab-dominated government backed group called ‘Janjaweed’ has been going on killing, raping, looting rampages for months now, through the towns where members of the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur tribes live. Their aim is to drive out these African tribes and capture more land for Arabs. Interestingly, both parties in this conflict are muslims. So much for the religion of peace that doesn’t discriminate among its believers.
After a visit by Colin Powell and Kofi Annan in recent weeks, more attention is being focused on getting a multinational peacekeeping force to provide protection and humanitarian help to the African tribes. These plans are still on paper. Hopefully, they will turn into reality soon.
Click on the link below to read two articles that appeared in New York Times and Washington Post describing the plight of West Sudanese.
Thanks for the links, Mayuresh.
Read more…
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AP declares 5 pc quota for Muslims – Deccan Herald
I wonder what is the percentage of college admissions/jobs that is under “unreserved” category? Must be less than 50%.
Think about it: Half of the people in government jobs (includes many colleges and universities) in India are employed on the basis of their birth and not chosen because of their capabilities. No wonder we can’t progress as a nation. Half the government workers are potentially unqualified to do their job. There was news about new legislation to extend reservation in Private sector. Hope that doesn’t get through.
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