Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg, the house you linked to above is listed in its last assessment record as having 840 sq/ft of living space.
If you have a certain piece or pieces of furniture you need to take with you, measure them before you go -- they may rule places out (this happened with our vintage dining room table, that we weren't going to get rid of). Also, you'll be surprised at how many places you walk into and think, "there's nothing wrong here, but I can't picture myself in this space."
sarameg, the house you linked to above is listed in its last assessment record as having 840 sq/ft of living space.
Wow. That house could be almost as long as three football fields, if it were one story and one foot wide inside.
Random photo ' the day: [link]
More than 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre perform Michael Jackson's Thriller dance in celebration of a religious festival in Cebu City central Philippines.
Is it just me, or is this an incredibly stupid thing the UN just passed?
UN anti-blasphemy measures have sinister goals, observers say
UNITED NATIONS - Islamic countries Monday won United Nations backing for an anti-blasphemy measure Canada and other Western critics say risks being used to limit freedom of speech.
Combating Defamation of Religions passed 85–50 with 42 abstentions in a key UN General Assembly committee, and will enter into the international record after an expected rubber stamp by the plenary later in the year.
But while the draft’s sponsors say it and earlier similar measures are aimed at preventing violence against worshippers regardless of religion, religious tolerance advocates warn the resolutions are being accumulated for a more sinister goal.
“It provides international cover for domestic anti-blasphemy laws, and there are a number of people who are in prison today because they have been accused of committing blasphemy,” said Bennett Graham, international program director with the Becket Fund, a think tank aimed at promoting religious liberty.
“Those arrests are made legitimate by the UN body’s (effective) stamp of approval.”
Passage of the resolution is part of a 10-year action plan the 57-state Organization of Islamic Conference launched in 2005 to ensure “renaissance” of the “Muslim Ummah” or community.
While the current resolution is non-binding, Pakistan’s Ambassador Masood Khan reminded the UN’s Human Rights Council this year that the OIC ultimately seeks a “new instrument or convention” on the issue. Such a measure would impose its terms on signatory states.
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The 2008 draft “underscores the need to combat defamation of religions, and incitement to religious hatred in general, by strategizing and harmonizing actions at the local, national regional and international levels.”
It also laments “Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism.”
But Western democracies argue that a religion can’t enjoy protection from criticism because that would require a judicial ruling that its teachings are the “truth.”
“Defamation carries a particular legal meaning and application in domestic systems that makes the term wholly unsuitable in the context of religions,” says the U.S. government in a response on the issue to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
I've been hearing about this stuff for a while now, and it just makes me really angry.
Looks like I'm rescheduling house hunting. Realtor just emailed me to tell me she came down with something Monday night and is still feeling vile. I hope I didn't infect her, but I probably did. I think this stuff started Monday.
This has got to be one of the most bizarre threads ever: Anger Is the Swiss Army Knife of Emotions T-shirt
BoingBoing sez:
For the past week this Flickr thread, which started off as a post about a T-shirt and gradually devolved into a sparkle-off and Neil Patrick Harris appreciation page, has been the most bedazzlingly ridiculous thread on the Internet. And it just keeps growing. Get your glitter tutorial on (or just head over to Blingee) before heading over. Oh, you may also want to brush up on Godwin's Law first.
eta: Some of the images/icons are sorta NSFW....
well I came in for half a day. it was the last day for some training and I have 2-3 invoices that are extremely overdue that I want to just get resolved. Once I do that, I am gone.
ugh. Utter terror is setting in and my hands are shaking. Please tell me it's all gonna be okay? In a convincing tone of font?
It will be okay, Allyson. This is a temporary setback, and not your fault. You have a huge network of family, friends, invisible people in the computer, and pets who are ready, willing and able to help.