最近花很多时间看junk news, 很久没看政治秀了。把sarah palin,吕秀莲、hillary、贝布托还有国外几个女政治家的谈话讲演翻出来。从前对吕秀莲了解不够,她是坐过5年牢房的人,这个资历使得她鹤立鸡群。监狱里,她用脸盆垫着,写出了长篇小说。
吕秀莲讲客家话,温馨体贴。布托惨,惨在她的婚姻,arranged marriage...悲剧,很希望读到更多她婚姻的记录。
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同印度的尼赫鲁家族一样,布托家族是巴基斯坦政坛的名门望族。贝·布托的父亲阿里·布托是巴基斯坦人民党的创始人,曾担任过巴总统、总理。今年53岁的贝·布托曾两度出任总理,并且是第一位穆斯林国家的女总理。还是同尼赫鲁家族一样,布托家族的前行路上,也总是伴随着血雨腥风。
1977年,从英国牛津大学毕业回国不久的贝·布托,经历了家族的厄运。父亲阿里·布托在军事政变中被免去总理职务,并于1979年被处以绞刑。也是从这一年起,贝·布托开始了长达5年的软禁生活,其中有34个月是在肮脏、黑暗的牢房中度过的,她还险些在手术台上遭到暗杀。痛苦的软禁生涯将她锤炼成了一个只为政治而生存的斗士。但这只“铁蝴蝶”的从政之路并不顺利。1988年、1993年,她两次出任政府总理,却两次因同样的原因——腐败,遭到总统的解职。而这都与贝·布托那场草率的婚姻有关。
按照巴基斯坦风俗,贝·布托的婚姻全部由她的家庭和男方家庭包办。1988年,在双方进行了近一年的“谈判”后,35岁的贝·布托才亲眼见到了未来的夫君、建筑业巨头扎尔达里。扎尔达里与布托同岁,出身于巴基斯坦南部一个阔绰的地主家庭。两人在见面后的第五天便闪电般订婚了。在举行婚礼前,布托从未和丈夫单独相处过,就算有家人在场也不相互握手。为了振奋人民党自阿里·布托身受绞刑后的低迷士气,他们有意将婚礼办成了一场热闹、隆重的“嘉年华”。当时,婚礼请柬在黑市上曾卖到上千卢比,甚至还出现了伪造的请柬。
- posted on 02/13/2010
"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."
"My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend."
George Carlin
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
Fran Lebowitz
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
Charles de Gaulle
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
Ted Turner
"I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
Marie von Ebner-Eschen
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
Mike Ditka
"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms."
Pablo Picasso
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Jonathan Swift
- posted on 02/13/2010
这女教授杀人上上瘾了,86年就杀过弟弟...你不给我评终身教授,我就宰了你再说。。。够暴力!
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The neurobiologist accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday had fatally shot her brother in 1986 in suburban Boston, the authorities in Massachusetts confirmed while questioning how the first case was handled.
A woman is taken into custody by Huntsville police on Friday in connection with the shootings.
Early Saturday, police in Huntsville charged neurobiologist Amy Bishop, 42, with capital murder in the shootings during a faculty meeting that also left three wounded. Saturday afternoon, the police in Braintree, Mass., announced that Ms. Bishop had fatally wounded her brother in their home 24 years ago, which The Boston Globe first reported on its Web site on Saturday. Ms. Bishop was never charged and the case records are no longer available, the Braintree police chief said.
“The release of Ms. Bishop did not sit well with the police officers,” Chief Paul Frazier said in a statement, “and I can assure you that this would not happen in this day and age.”
Chief Frazier said that Ms. Bishop fatally shot Seth Bishop in an apparent argument, but the police at the time called it an accident.
At a news conference on Saturday, however, Chief Frazier denied the Massachusetts shooting was an accident, and told reporters that he thought there could be a “cover-up” involved.
He said that at the time, Ms. Bishop fired at least three shots and fled into the street before police took her into custody at gunpoint, he said. Before she could be charged, then-police chief John Polio released her to the custody of her mother.
In 1986, The Boston Globe reported Mr. Polio as saying that Ms. Bishop, then in her late teens, asked her mother, Judith, how to unload a 12-gauge shotgun. While Ms. Bishop was handling the weapon, it fired, hitting her brother in the abdomen.
Twenty-four years later, Ms. Bishop, a grant-winning scientist and mother of four, is charged with murder. If convicted, she would be eligible for the death penalty in Alabama.
The shootings on the university campus opened a window into the pressure-cooker world of biotechnology start-ups, where scientists often depend on their association with academia for a leg up. Ms. Bishop was part of a start-up that had won an early round of financing in a highly competitive environment, but people who knew her said she had learned shortly before the shooting that she had been denied tenure at the university.
On Friday, Ms. Bishop presided over her regular neuroscience class before going to an afternoon biology faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.
There she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, said one faculty member who had spoken to people who were in the room. Then Ms. Bishop pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun and began shooting, firing several rounds before her gun either jammed or ran out of ammunition, the police said. At least one person in the room tried to stop Ms. Bishop and prevent further bloodshed, said Sgt. Mark Roberts of the Huntsville Police Department.
After Ms. Bishop left the room, the police said, she dumped the gun — for which she did not have a permit — in a second-floor bathroom. The people left behind barred the door, fearing she would return, the faculty member said.
Ms. Bishop was arrested outside the building minutes later, Sergeant Roberts said at a morning news conference on Saturday.
The 911 call came at 4:10 p.m., the authorities said. Few students were in the building, and none were involved in the shooting, said Ray Garner, a university spokesman.
Officials said the dead were all biology professors: G. K. Podila, the department’s chairman, who is a native of India, according to a family friend who answered the phone at his house; Maria Ragland Davis; and Adriel D. Johnson Sr. Two other biology professors, Luis Rogelio Cruz-Vera and Joseph G. Leahy, as well as a professor’s assistant, Stephanie Monticciolo, were at Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Cruz-Vera was in fair condition; the others were in critical condition.
Mr. Garner said Ms. Bishop, who arrived in the 2003-2004 academic year, was first told last spring that she had been denied tenure. Generally, the university does not allow professors to stay on after six years if they have not been granted tenure, and this would have been the final semester of Ms. Bishop’s sixth year.
The university does have an appeals process, and people who knew Ms. Bishop said she had appealed the decision.
Ms. Bishop was quick to talk about her tenure worries, even to people she had just met. A businessman who met her at a technology open house in January, and who asked not to be named because of the close-knit nature of the science community in Huntsville, said, “She began to talk about her problems getting tenure in a very forceful and animated way, saying it was unfair.”
“She seemed to be one of these persons who was just very open with her feelings,” he said. “A very smart, intense person who had a variety of opinions on issues.” - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 02/13/2010
john Edward 家里大闹,他的下属出了本书叫politician,写得真快。 私生子、sex tape,女助手,oh my god. 性丑闻是对政客杀伤力最大的,玩政治还是玩女人?玩命还是玩感情?哪一个让人死得更痛快?
- posted on 02/26/2010
每天都花这么多的时间在体育馆,见到这么多可爱的女人,我会很快就变成lesbian的。但如果说柔媚,我还是从男人身上学习柔媚,销魂蚀骨的柔媚。
詩篇50:15 並要在患難之日求告我; 我必搭救你, 你也要榮耀我
耶和华阿、我要求告你.我的磐石阿、不要向我缄默.倘若你向我闭口、我就如将死的人一样。
诗篇第28章 大卫
傳 道 書 3:19 因 為 世 人 遭 遇 的 , 獸 也 遭 遇 , 所 遭 遇 的 都 是 一 樣 : 這 個 怎 樣 死 , 那 個 也 怎 樣 死 , 氣 息 都 是 一 樣 。 人 不 能 強 於 獸 , 都 是 虛 空 。
Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish.
- posted on 02/28/2010
this is a very disgusting news, seems that e-dou was right, Obama has no power.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation's main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act.
Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama's signature Saturday.
The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, expands the government's ability to monitor Americans in the name of national security.
Three sections of the Patriot Act that stay in force will:
_Authorize court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones.
_Allow court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
_Permit surveillance against a so-called lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.
Obama's signature comes after the House voted 315 to 97 Thursday to extend the measure.
The Senate also approved the measure, with privacy protections cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government's authority to spy on Americans and seize their records. - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 03/01/2010
刚看完 Shutter Island。电影故事实在压抑极了,真实得残忍。很久没看到这么棒的电影,这么棒的演出了。
查wiki,原来是小说,松了口气,可今晚又要噩梦了。
- posted on 03/01/2010
Surrender
Whether you are doing it consciously or not, you are creating your life and the world. The principle of this creation is called the Law of Attraction. There are other spiritual laws about creation, but I’m simplifying things here. The important thing to remember is the true nature of “reality”, that reality is something we can mold.
Now the ultimate question to this premise is “Why, then, don’t we get what we want? Why is it so damn hard to have what we desire, like making enough money from my hobby so I can quit my job or finding my life partner?”
There are two things to consider here. One is the misuse of the Law of Attraction. The other, main point of this article, is surrendering to the bigger purpose of life.
Misuse of the Law of Attraction
Common misuse of the Law of Attraction includes:
1. Focusing on NOT having what you want instead of acknowledging the good things you already have and desiring to go further to have it.
Let’s say you are single and want to find a mate for intimacy and personal sharing. Someone you feel attracted and want to spend a lot of time together. Now, do you feel good about yourself — do you find yourself lovable and trustworthy? Are you grateful for the life you have now, for your friends, your past romantic partners for making you the person you are now? Or are you feeling lonely and miserable, needing to find that special person? If it’s the latter, you probably attract more of not having a mate. Or you attract someone that matches the loneliness and misery you harbor.
2. Not being clear and consistent about what you want. Many people seem to know exactly what they DON’T want, but not clear about what they want.
Do you find yourself desiring a life partner one day and then, on other days, saying something like “Oh, I’m just too busy to have a relationship right now. I want a raise…” This is like changing your order at a restaurant. Please be clear and consistent about what you want — this involves sincere exploration of your true desires.
Surrendering
Then there comes a point of surrender. This is different from giving up your desire because you see yourself as a powerless victim of life. This is about surrendering to the bigger purpose of your life that your conscious mind may not readily perceive.
Let me continue the example of finding a life partner. After my divorce, I decided to spend a year to recover my sense of well-being and to rebuild my life. Eventually, I felt ready for a new relationship. I actively sought out a new partner. I joined match.com. I asked my friends if they knew someone single. I did meet many men. But none led to long term relationship.
Was I doing something wrong? Back then, that is what I thought. Although I couldn’t put a finger what I was doing wrong.
I was quite happy with my life. I don’t say this in a way like, “I have a good-paying job, I have great friends, I’m fine. Nothing is wrong with me.” kind of way. Yes, I just wrote this line in a tongue in cheek kind of way because I saw so many online profiles like that. The truth was, yes, I was happy with my life, my job, my social life, but I wanted a romantic relationship and I couldn’t find it.
So, I wasn’t focusing on the negative NOT having part of my desire. And I was fairly consistent in my focus. Even though I didn’t know the term “the Law of Attraction” back then, I was taking the right approach.
Not getting what you want and be happy with it
Then I decided to quit my corporate job and relocate across America to Oregon. Gee, I couldn’t have done this if I had a boyfriend in Tennessee. I’m really accommodating when I’m in a relationship, and I most likely would have given up — or wouldn’t even have entertained — such idea if I were in a serious relationship.
I didn’t get what I sincerely desired — a life partner, an intimate relationship. Looking back, am I upset about this? No. On the contrary, I’m grateful. I couldn’t see far enough into the future when I was busy meeting men, but now I think this is exactly how I am meant to be living now. I can spend my time doing what I am meant to do — doing the Akashic Record Reading service and writing about spirituality — without the constraint of monogamous relationship.
This is what I mean by surrendering. You may not get what you desire, and it may be just as well. You will see how so much better it is not to have your wish come true — if you open up and accept the gifts of not having it, if you surrender.
Revelation
Recently I had a mini revelation. The memory of my first boyfriend popped in my mind suddenly. Well, I didn’t have sex with him, but I consider him to be my first boyfriend. We were seventeen years old. It ended prematurely because I was an exchange student in Australia and had to come back to Japan at the end of the year. I used to wonder what my life may have been like if I could stay and could keep seeing him.
In a flash, I saw myself with him together. Living together in a house. With kids. Doing the everyday things — get up, breakfast, get the kids ready for school, rush, work, etc. etc. The life I could have had with him. And OMG. I was tired of the repetition within a second!
I always knew I was not meant for motherhood — I find children adorable, but I was never big on becoming a mother myself. The biological clock that so many women talk about — I just never felt it. This — not particularly craving motherhood — was fine with me. But as I’ve been saying, romantic relationship was a different deal. I thought I really wanted it. Living with the guy I really like (and he likes me too), sharing all aspects of our lives. I thought I wouldn’t even mind taking care of kids if that’s what it takes for the relationship.
But no. When I saw that psychic vision, I realized I’m not meant for the regular marriage. Even if it’s a good one. I am meant for something else. For what? Well, look, I already have it. I can freely pursue my interests, build my life and my business. I connect with my clients with love. And being free from the conventional lifestyle keeps my thinking free and my body ageless.
Somehow I surrendered to the bigger purpose of my life. My ego mind could not see it for so many years, but my Higher Self knew what was best for me. This is how creation works sometimes.
(And now, from this liberated place, I can date ^_^ I see my new date from time to time while keeping my life my way. It works.) - posted on 03/16/2010
我本将心托明月,谁知明月照沟渠
天下的单相思总多过两相思。几乎都是你爱的,他不爱你;你不爱的,偏偏整天来缠着。 等到他开始注意你,你却早已移情别恋了。
去Catalina岛,等Ferry的时候听到一个伤心的爱情故事。今天google,才知道,其实真实的人生实在乏味,传说总是太浪漫。
Is the story true that the builder/owner of the Holly Hill House refused to let women on the property after his bride-to-be jilted him, because she didn't want to live in such an isolated place?
Lookout Cot (later Holly Hill House) was built in 1890 as a private residence by Peter Gano, a retired engineer from Pasadena. His sister was to come live with him, but she never did. He did allow women on the property.
LA nuts 写得不错,昨晚看了三章... - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 03/27/2010
博尔赫斯第一本书卖出二三十册,他很高兴,说比卖出一千册好,二三十个奇特的读者各有各的面貌,想法, 多好! - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 03/28/2010
gym 里的运动量跟国内的体校一样大。国人整体的身体素质远不如西方人。健身房里那么多美丽的女人。今天正式知道那个美丽的柬埔寨姑娘跟那个黑的大胖子女人同居。
鲜花插牛粪,没有比这更让人形象了。
卡缪时代的法官很人性。一再以她母亲去世他的态度为依据来指控他犯罪。一再以他是否相信基督来 救赎他。给他机会。 - posted on 04/11/2010
文学城上看到这则新闻,wiki一查,原来如此;
据英国媒体11日报道,大多数人只有在接受大脑手术时,才会允许外科医生用电钻在自己的脑壳上钻个洞。然而令人难以置信的是,现年67岁的英国牛津郡女贵族阿曼达·菲尔丁伯和她61岁的丈夫——“威姆斯和马奇伯爵”詹姆斯为了让大脑“吸收更多的氧气”,从而让自己变得“更聪明”,他们年轻的时候竟都用牙医电钻亲手在自己的头盖骨上钻出了一个洞!而詹姆斯曾经是英国著名学府牛津大学的学者和讲师,还教过美国前总统比尔·克林顿国际关系课。
据悉,“头骨钻孔有益健康”是一个古老的荒谬信仰,并在荷兰专家巴特·休斯博士的推广下传到了英国。阿曼达是二十几岁时从自己的前男友——一家伦敦画廊老板乔伊·梅伦那儿接受了这一怪诞的观点的。
时年23岁的阿曼达也用电钻在她的头骨上亲手钻了一个洞!阿曼达当年往自己头骨上钻洞的整个过程都被前男友梅伦用摄像机拍摄了下来。当阿曼达和梅伦分手后,她和同样已经离婚的詹姆斯堕入了爱河。在阿曼达的影响下,这个英国贵族为了“拓宽自己的智慧”,也接受了“头骨钻孔术”!
詹姆斯的许多家庭朋友——包括一些英国王室成员都认为他“发疯了”,所以当他1995年和阿曼达在埃及举行隆重的婚礼时,几乎没有几个王室成员前去参加他们的婚礼。而按正常情况,当时的英国王太后、玛格丽特公主都应出席他们的婚礼。
据朋友称,没有一个熟人相信“威姆斯和马奇伯爵”詹姆斯竟会信仰“头骨钻孔有益健康”的荒谬理论。相反,詹姆斯曾经是英国著名学府牛津大学的学者和讲师,他甚至还教导过后来成了美国总统的比尔·克林顿。尽管詹姆斯当时比获得罗氏奖学金到牛津大学深造的克林顿还要年轻一岁,但他却在牛津课堂中教过克林顿国际关系课。
Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss (born 30 January 1943) is a British artist and scientific director. She founded and directs a charitable trust, the Beckley Foundation, which does research in the field of human consciousness. The Foundation also organises seminars of world leading experts into the regulation of psychoactive substances on a global basis.
She studied Comparative Religions and Mysticism with Prof. R.C. Zaehner at Oxford University and later did extensive research into Psychology and altered states of consciousness. She gained notoriety in the early 1970s when she performed trepanation on herself, about which she made a short cult art film entitled 'Heartbeat in the Brain', shown only to invited audiences. During the '70s and '80s she painted, and produced conceptual artworks to do with consciousness, which were exhibited at PS1 in New York and other galleries in the US. She also wrote ‘Blood and Consciousness’.
Feilding is the youngest child of Basil Feilding (himself a great-grandson of the 7th Earl of Denbigh and the Marquess of Bath) and his wife and cousin Margaret Feilding. She grew up at Beckley Park outside Oxford. Since the late 60s she lived with Joseph Mellen with whom she had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding Mellen (born 1985). She and Mellen separated in the early 90s and on 29 January 1995, she married James Charteris, Lord Neidpath, 13th Earl of Wemyss, son of David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss.
Feilding has always had a great interest in the exploration of different ways of modulating consciousness in order better to understand how these techniques can be used for the benefit of the individual and society. She investigated many different ways of altering consciousness from meditation to the use of psychoactive substances and trepanation.
Feilding and other advocates believe that trepanation allows greater blood flow to the brain by altering cranial fluid dynamics, thus revitalising brain metabolism to its more youthful level, present prior to the fusion of the cranial bones.[citation needed] Recent research carried out by Feilding in collaboration with Prof. Yuri Moskalenko has provided evidence in support of this hypothesis. This is part of a larger research programme investigating how intracranial dynamics change as we age, and what can be done to increase cranial compliance to help limit some of the detrimental changes associated with aging. Through this research, a new, non-invasive means of assessing intracranial dynamics, ‘The Moskalenko Method’, has been developed by Moskalenko, Feilding, et al..
Feilding ran for British Parliament twice, on the platform 'Trepanation for the National Health' with the intention of drawing attention to the fact that its potential benefits should be scientifically investigated. 35 years later this research is taking place at the Sechenov Institute for Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg.
Through the Beckley Foundation, Feilding is engaged in a programme of research using psychedelics as tools to alter consciousness. In 2007, her study into the effects of LSD on consciousness was the first fully approved study involving LSD and human participants since prohibition ended all such research.
She has also initiated and is collaborating on a collection of other breaking edge research projects at the forefront of the revival of psychedelic research. These include: investigating the efficacy of using psilocybin as an aid to psychotherapy in overcoming addiction; a brain imaging study investigating the effects of psilocybin on cerebral blood supply and the recall of repressed memories; the neurophysiology underlying the effects of cannabis that the users find beneficial; the effects of cannabis on the creative process; the effects of the different components of cannabis and the importance of the THC/CBD ratio in mental health.
In 2007, Feilding convened the Global Cannabis Commission Report, authored by a group of leading drug policy analysts, which lays out a blueprint for possible reforms of cannabis control policies at national and international levels. The Report was presented at the 10-yearly UN General Assembly Global Drug Policy Review in Vienna in March 2009 (the Beckley Foundation is a UN accredited NGO). The Cannabis Commission Report is being published by Oxford University Press and the Beckley Foundation.
Feilding is also the founder of the Trepanation Trust. - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 04/11/2010
八卦媒体说玉婆Liz Taylor又要结婚了,但她今天又否认。快要死的人,现在结婚就是有关财产的是非了。倒不如花点钱,找个墨西哥大妈好好照顾自己,了结一生也就完了。把钱捐给慈善,也不知那些混蛋是否挥霍了捐款,到头来,还不如让homeless的人排队来领钱,给到一个个人手上,总比给那些什么银行家慈善机构的骗子们好些。
她现在还有个400 million吧, 搞一个LA全城的嘉年华会倒可能更好呢。
加州的学校都要早放暑假了,发给老师也是个好主意。
钱,你别再当魔鬼了,索走一条条人命。 - Re: 花好月圆 第四posted on 04/13/2010
看了一晚bill maher节目。
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