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Wednesday, June 06, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 9:39:07 AM
5-month-old baby injured in Mideast clash In an interview on NTV, a Russian television channel, Ariel Sharon said Arafat is "a murderer. He's a pathological liar." The interview was later rebroadcast on Israel's Channel Two.
Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black... Love the whole "murderer" part. As if Sharon isn't/wasn't.
Monday, June 04, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 4:55:06 PM
Veg recipes I'm getting all domestic on us...
Wednesday, May 30, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 9:38:46 AM
40th Amnesty International report aims at globalization, torture, executions - May 30, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 1:26:43 PM
Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 12:50:26 PM
Court Rules Disabled Golfer May Use Cart on P.G.A. Tour You know, this quote is what pissed me off...``Anytime you get to ride you gain an advantage, don't you?'' said Frank Nobilo, a PGA Tour regular from New Zealand. ``I think you do. It's the same reason they try to ban drugs in sports -- because it gives an advantage.''
How, how, how is a physical disability anything like using performance enhancing drugs? That statement to me wreaks of blind obedience to discriminatory practices - enables and justifies baseless claims of undue preferential treatment to those with disabilities. To me, it is society sanctioned discrimination. It is painful to watch and painful to listen to from afar. For Casey Martin, and for others like him, it must be terrible to listen to that hatred and disdain for something which they have no control over. How very sickening that we live in a world where people like Nobilo (because is not the exception but rather the norm) are able to, whether they mean to or not, hurt others with their insistence upon really inconsequential rules (that could be changed for all rather than punishing one for something which he cannot control.)
There comes a time when rules are trumped by basic human compassion. (Thankfully given a helping hand, in this case, by other rules - namely the ADA.) And isn't that what are rules are really about - ensuring everyone as comfortable and encouraging a life as possible?
To Casey Martin I not only congratulations, but I'm sorry you had to not only have your disability, but had to fight against others as well to overcome not only it, but artificial limitations which further hamper your persuits.
To the PGA and those who chose to not embrace the moral highground setting an example for others of the real meaning of good sportmanship, I pity you. Oh, and I'd really rather not witness Philip-Morris type commercials heralding all you do for others. The pain you cause people counts as much - why don't you make a commercial about that.
Friday, May 25, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 11:17:40 AM
So, I may volunteer this summer to work on this term limits project I know of. Background research, however, would be neccessary, which is what I'm doing now... you know, while I'm at work.
posted by grace kennedy 11:18:39 AM
Directory for Term Limits from Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network
posted by grace kennedy 3:25:45 PM
buy.com - Digital Camera I want this! I want, I want, I want. Hum... if I switch jobs, how can I afford this so I can take pictures of my great garden and my beautiful kitties??? This I must ponder.
Thursday, May 24, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 5:21:00 PM
Windowbox.com – There is a God (or maybe its the devil?) A whole website. Fifi is moving this weekend so I'm looking for ideas for a container gift for her.... would like to take some from my garden to give b/c it is getting so overgrown.
posted by grace kennedy 6:04:59 PM
Organicgardening.com
posted by grace kennedy 6:07:05 PM
Gardens Alive! Environmentally Responsible Products That Work
Monday, May 21, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 2:48:53 PM
Don Quixote, The Narrative
Friday, May 18, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 6:49:59 PM
The Cold War: 1945-1989 Now this is cool. Cold war era chronology.
posted by grace kennedy 7:19:36 PM
Intifada You know, I can't wait until I'm done with school so I can take and organize all my blog links.... whoo-hoo.
posted by grace kennedy 8:43:17 PM
Palestinian Refugees
posted by grace kennedy 9:40:34 PM
Deir yassin Remembered
posted by grace kennedy 9:41:31 PM
ADC Deir Yassin Petition
posted by grace kennedy 10:16:02 PM
Timeline of Events: Half a Century of Independence 1948-1998
posted by grace kennedy 10:19:19 PM
The Journal of Palestinian Studies
posted by grace kennedy 10:20:55 PM
Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS)
Wednesday, May 09, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 8:34:11 AM
In breath-taking audacity, the House will vote to punish U.N. over Human Rights seat.
So let me get this straight. We act like idiots by renigging on the Kyoto Protocol, long standing internacional treaties about arms, to quote a German newspaper "Throw [our] weight around in the Pacific", AND in the most remarkable acts of all, repeatedly violate international norms for human rights in Iraq, Palestine & Israel, and in our very own country.
I call for a moment of clarity to sit back and take the Archbishop Romero "long view." Go read it - the link is down there somewhere.
posted by grace kennedy 9:00:07 AM
The Farm Boy Sharon Recalls Struggle as a Way of Life –' What do you add about a man who is being manipulative? I'm at a sheer loss to express why he's continuing his line of thinking with the settlements. What he's not saying is that by continuing settlement development, the Israeli government is making the peace process even more difficult. Why? Because the goal of settlements is to ingender a Jewish area inside "Palestinian" areas, making it that much harder to draw peace boundries. What Palestinians are left with are many uncontiguous islands of territory, inside a sea of Israeli settlements. This is within the two separate, main partitions.
Sunday, May 06, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 9:28:48 PM
Miss me lately? Well, once school's done, I have stories about my new kitty and my bad hair coloring job... until then, read McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform (or empathize with me.)
Thursday, May 03, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 11:57:57 AM
Gore teaches final journalism class at Columbia – What an amazing experience it must have been to be able to have Gore as a prof right after he finished his term as VP. I'm sure he has some wonderful insights into the media - and I've heard he's an absolutely wonderful character one on one. The complete antithesis of the stuffed shirt image he's famous for. I've heard he has almost encyclopedic knowledge, has an acute sense of humor (who'd have thought?!), and knows policy as well as Clinton.
Wednesday, May 02, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 11:57:14 AM
DIARIO DE UN PERDEDOR – I've been looking for a journal in spanish to work on my skills....
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 12:11:07 PM
All Things Considered Max Cleland - Senate 2002 (14.4 | 28.8) -- The partisan battles of George W. Bush's presidency are swiftly being joined in the evenly divided Senate, where the change of a single seat could change the party in control. That makes every vulnerable incumbent a marked man, and no one is more aware of it than freshman Democrat Max Cleland of Georgia. A narrow winner in 1996, Cleland is already campaigning at full speed for his re-election bid in 2002. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.
I'm going to use this for my "journal" in Leg. Procedures... Oh, the work I have to complete. I'm so very very screwed.
BTW, funny work story that didn't make it into yesterday's rather cryptic journal entry.
So, yesterday I got up at a decent time and rolled my hair and did my makeup for work - far more than I normally do. I've recently (like in the last month) gotten a new outfit - very summery, but still nice. Is very "American" looking - long cotten sleeveless dress (red with blue flowers) and a denim top over it. Looks nice, I went to mass in it, so it was ironed... this'll work, I thought.
So I get dressed and for a change I actually look nice going to work and I don't have an interview that day.
And previously, I've mentioned I really don't give a rats ass about dress code because I feel it is intended to ensure everyone looks nice anyway, right? And if I can wear a denim shirt with my company logo on it, I don't see why I can't wear my regular denim shirt, as long as look nice and am not, say presenting a major project proposal to the Board of Directors. The whole telling me how to dress rather pisses me off and I've previously made it a game of mine to see how many days in a row I could break the dress code. (multiple violations in a day at times - as yesterday.
After our mid-morning meeting, before everyone's left the room (tacky), BigBoss calls me over and says to me in not too quiet a voice, "Grace, you know, you're wearing denim today." I nodded, eyes wide, with my perfectly innocent look plastered upon my angelic face. "And you're wearing open toed shoes." I nodded and smiled, while I examined my shoes, as if proving to myself that they did, in fact, as I'd suspected when I put them on this morning, show my brand new pedicure. "And that's_against_dress_code."
"But don't I look pretty today?" I said, and walked out of the room.
Dress-code my ass. I looked better yesterday than I look most days when I don't come to work with make-up and my hair looks like shit. Surely a manager of a eCommerce group at a major financial institution has more to important things to concern herself with than my shirt and my shoes, both of which look nice, but paint outside the lines. What about global warming, or that we further indebt third world countries, or that our content providers, are, apparently, illiterate. How about that? Why don't you get back to me when you have a real problem and don't waste my time with nit-picky, petty shit.
Monday, April 23, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 12:03:37 AM
Abstract Perrin Specialists in the culture of the Cuna Indians -a group settled in Panama and the Colombian region of Urabá-, usually say that the art of decorating molas, one which is associated with dress, decoration, and women, has no relation with religious, symbolic, and cosmogonic knowledge held by men. However, an analysis of designs and subjects shows that the oral art of men is reflected in the pictorial art of women, and viceversa. Dualism, metamorphosis, polysemia, symmetry, labyrinths and mythical entities, are representations of the world that in a conscious or unconscious way are shared by men and women.
This is information I need for a paper in spanish I have to write before tomorrow at 5:30. Thankfully only about 1.5 pages in spanish.
posted by grace kennedy 12:11:18 AM
Molas - technique, history and the Cuna Women who make them
posted by grace kennedy 12:15:50 AM
Thorup...Kuna Indians What they look like.
posted by grace kennedy 12:17:07 AM
Galeria de Molas en Venta The Peace Corps helped the Cuna women set up a cooperative in 1964. How amazing! See, what a small world.
posted by grace kennedy 9:48:08 AM
Police: Camby's sister held hostage in Conn. – In a case of apparent domestic violence, the sister is still being held hostage. Another sister and the mother were spirited out of the home earlier today. So very sad. to have to deal with that is one thing, and then the media coverage on top of that, eeewwww.
Sunday, April 22, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 3:16:03 AM
I watched the movie "Romero" tonight for my social justice class.
I can say with all honesty I'll never be the same. The horrors, the American culpability, the simply confounding question of "what - what to do." In the face of injustice, how does the mind find an equitable answer? What can be done?
Prayer of Archbishop Romero
posted by grace kennedy 10:54:45 AM
SHARON, Ariel Minister of Defence in the second Begin government in 1981, he masterminded Israel's invasion of Lebanon in June 1982. Under the findings of an official Commission of Inquiry (the Kahan Commission), he was held indirectly responsible for the massacres perpetrated in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. He resigned from his post in 1983 but remained Minister without portofolio until 1984.
This is the information I was looking for on Ariel Sharon. I'd told PX about my advisor knowing stuff about this, but didn't know enough about the historical events. My advisor had once had a note from Begin to Reagan, lying about Israel's doings. The CIA came and took the copy of the note away... blah, blah, blah. PX said the story had the earmarks of being untrue or a little inflated. I really don't think that's true, but... who knows.
posted by grace kennedy 10:59:04 AM
Re-Writing History: Ariel Sharon and.. (by Rabee' Sahyoun) - Media Monitors Network Let me just say, I am not anti-semitic when I make the statements I do about Israel and Palestine. Not in the least. The Jewish peoples began my own Christian legacy, and I have nothing but graditude for the peaceful work they've done.
But I also fervently do not agree with the Israeli state's actions. It is the state I hold accountable. Not individual Jewish people of conscience who want a fair and equitable end to the Conflict.
Besides, Ariel Sharon isn't even observant! Ha! Can you believe that!
posted by grace kennedy 11:03:48 AM
Sixteen Years After the Sabra-Shatila Massacre: The State of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, by Ghada Khouri, September 1998 – when I talked to PX, I was wrong about the numbers. I thought the number of people killed many thousand. Instead the number stopped at 2000, still no little drop in a bucket. (Bad grace, inflating numbers like that... bad, bad, bad.)
posted by grace kennedy 11:12:53 AM
In Remembrance Of Sabra And Shatila *The author is a researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre (London) and editor of its Return Review.
Friday, April 20, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 10:37:13 AM
News Analysis: Israeli Operation Earns Rebukes From All Sides From the NY Times, apparently there's a lot being said about "Operation Hot Days-Pastel Colors." What the hell kind of name is that? Huh? I'm curious how military come up with these mission names.
Thursday, April 19, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 11:23:20 AM
3 accused in church child abuse case – for the love of God - "Spare the rod, spoil the child" for the last damn time DOES NOT MEAN beat the hell out of your kids! It means, like a sheperd uses a rod to guide his sheep... He doesn't hit the sheep with the rod. The verse is found in Proverbs (though not literally as now repeated.)
Curiously, parents, it also says in Colossians 3:20-21 "Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged."
posted by grace kennedy 1:41:44 PM
For the Land and the Lord by Ian S. Lustick
posted by grace kennedy 1:44:15 PM
Refugees into Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Donna E. Arzt
posted by grace kennedy 1:46:15 PM
U.S. Middle East Policy and the Peace Process, by Henry Siegman, Project Coordinator
I'm trying to get my books ordered for both this paper, and what I hope is my senior thesis.
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 11:40:45 AM
Famous People Who Have Experienced Depression or Manic Depression What an interesting list. Kinda makes anyone who's been depressed, etc not feel like they are the only one or that nothing will ever become of them because they are....
posted by grace kennedy 12:03:00 PM
I Really Must Insist You Leave. What a neat new little journal. I got it from Roe over at Metrocake. Will have to catch up...
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 2:46:48 PM
British study addresses child sexual abuse in Catholic church You know, this kinda pisses me off. I did the math on this and if 21 of 5600 priests were convicted of offenses, that's 0.3%. POINT THREE percent.
And why just Catholic. What if they'd come out saying that (hypothetically), well, there were 21 of 5600 black men convicted of offenses, so let's subject all of them to testing?! The world would be enraged - that type of stereotyping and vast generalization, not to mention persecution, would not be tolerated.
Why only Catholic priests. I'm curious, what's the average in *all* religious communities? Hum? My mother was molested by a Baptist Deacon. Why not test them too?
Because I'll tell you why not. Testing isn't the answer. Prevention is. Testing just creates a superfluous arguement and creates an additional negative... Prevention and mental health access and education - positive things, are the answer. That's where you find the justice. None of us will find it by creating another injustice in testing all clergy (Catholic or Baptist or whatever).
And goddammit, fucking leave the Catholic priests alone a bit, huh? I'm sick to death of hearing how only Catholic priests committ these terrible acts because the fact is I know first hand *that* is not true. Start reporting on religious groups as a whole instead of singling out one group.
posted by grace kennedy 2:53:19 PM
The Louise Woodward Aftermath -- American Attitudes Towards Child Abuse and Motherhood
Monday, April 16, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 10:33:13 AM
Yoga - Yoga Institute and Bookshop So, I've been thinking about how I'm going to get a control over my stress again. Of course, I'm going to add something, but hopefully something good (to be disclosed at a later date) will happen today.
Sunday, April 15, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 1:05:27 PM
How could this happen? What a horrible, horrible godless position. Fears grow for children on slave ship - April 15, 2001 And we thought slavery was over.
posted by grace kennedy 7:27:15 PM
Inside Garden Hose I want this.
posted by grace kennedy 7:28:57 PM
Garden Coil 30'
Indoor/Outdoor
I should have gotten it that day at Sam's with G! There it was only $20!
posted by grace kennedy 7:32:35 PM
Garden Watering
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 10:31:06 AM
Justice Ginsburg blasts death penalty, backs moratorium – too bad Maryland didn't pass said moratorium.
Several years ago, one of my co-workers was amazed that *I*, grace kennedy, did not back the death penalty. Afterall, at ConservativeFinancialCo (at least at the time), I appeared to be a conservative Republican. I appeared all prim and proper and churchy-like.
But that, folks, was only my appearance. I never said things to indicate I was in fact in favor of the death penalty. In fact, I've opposed it since the 6th grade.
This girl and I, we took a business trip together. And one night, sitting in my hotel room, we watched a documentary program on A&E I think about a Houston family (where we were from) who were going to Huntsville (near where we live) to watch the execution of the man convicted of murdering 2 family members. (A brother and sister at a pawn shop.)
The whole show I was beside myself upset and the actions of the family. I'm by no means saying what the convicted murderer did was right, but the family – do they no understand that this man's death won't avenge their suffering. If he'd had a competant lawyer, he'd likely have walked free. If he hadn't been tried in Harris County, Texas, with a death penalty rate the highest of any county in Texas, the state with the most executions, he might not have been sentenced to die? If he'd been white instead of black... if he'd been rich instead of poor... The list goes on.
And the death penalty isn't supposed to be a punishment! The prison system is ideally to reform criminals and protect society from those which it finds too dangerous to let loose. Since, in this age of technology, we have the means to protect society from criminals without the death penalty, why oh why do we continue this cruel and inhumane and unjust "punishment?"
And before you give me that "in the Bible it says 'an eye for an eye'" crap, lemme tell ya... when that was written, in the context of the times, you'll find that it was written to keep others from going TOO FAR in punishment. People were gaining off the reparations owed and demanding too much from criminals. THAT is the context of an eye for an eye.
posted by grace kennedy 10:47:14 AM
Bodies of 4 gunshot victims found Murder-Murder-Murder-Suicide... very sad.
posted by grace kennedy 3:59:39 PM
Elecciones 2001 Peru is electing a new president right now, as some of you may know. Here's a profile of what was a leading candidate for the office - Lourdes Flores.
Be advised... link in spanish.
posted by grace kennedy 4:01:07 PM
elcomercioperu.com.pe - Sección Nacional - 10 de Abril del 2001
Monday, April 09, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 1:02:14 AM
"Just, Melvin: Just Evil" HORRIBLY HONEST
Just, Melvin Is More Than Just Shocking – Siskel and whatever the new guy is reviewed this film tonight on their show. One said it was like watching Jerry Springer, the other thought it a masterpiece. Whatever it may be, the main character, Melvin Just is simply an awful person. The movie, which premiers on HBO on April 15, tells the story of a man who molests 9 of his daughters and stepdaughters (and I think others in his family too). He might also be a murderer.
posted by grace kennedy 1:07:02 AM
Sundance '00 -- Documentary Competition Contains another review of "Just, Melvin" & that of an additional film I'd like to see, "Well-Founded Fear" about Asylum Officers.
Sunday, April 08, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 5:56:27 PM
Pax Christi USA – Today I'm finally writing my paper on Pacifism and Just War. Pax Christi, as an organization, figures prominently on the pacifism side, with compelling arguements. Wanna learn more? Maybe I'll post the paper online.
posted by grace kennedy 6:03:30 PM
Cnn.com has a pretty unnotable article on Susan Egan right now. I looked it over real quick, because while working on my paper, I am working with Eileen Egan, so the name caught my attention.
So anyway, I'm reading the article, and at the end, on her credits, I saw Men Don't Tell (1993) (TV) which I caught the very end of a couple of years ago on TV. The imdb.com commentator doesn't give it high points, but I remember clicking to the station right before Judith Light's character tackled a Christmas tree in a fit of anger and abuse. I watched till the end (not much longer) and remembered at the time thinking it was one of the most strikingly accurate portrayals of how abusive women really can be... and how, as women, society is willing to overlook their culpability or their capacity for this sort of abuse. That tree tackling is something that would have happened at my house, and wouldn't have been too terribly notable or unheard of on the scale of things. That would be something that was forgotten in relation to others.
Scary, non?
Thursday, April 05, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 1:22:33 PM
Family found slain in Colorado house – the family is described as "picture perfect." DDad had been suffering from depression.
posted by grace kennedy 1:26:20 PM
Keanu Reeves ex-girlfriend dies in crash – Okay.... I don't normally comment on celebrity stuff unless it involves domestic violence. If I were to award the "grace kennedy hard knocks award" to one person, I think Mr. Reeves would win, hands down. I'm not a huge fan, don't care if he can or cannot act – I've not even seen "The Matrix." Maybe I've confused him with someone else, but didn't he also lose a child last year, by this same woman?
How very sad.
Tuesday, April 03, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 12:56:51 PM
I'd search for the link, but I'm tired. Around last June, I wrote about not accepting a huge job offer from a consulting company based on a gut feeling. Something just didn't seem right. I had my hugely succcessful (and knows it) stockbroker friend look at the stock and the company's assets. At the time, they touted they had no debt. StockbrokerFriend approved.
But no matter the reassurances that came my way, I just had a 'feeling'. Man I'm good.
MarchFirst announces 1,700 layoffs
Monday, April 02, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 8:35:08 PM
Netcraft Web Server Survey – I've been looking for this damn link on an off now for about 2 hours. Finally! I found it!
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 10:51:11 PM
A national disgrace The U.S. withdrawal from Kyoto.
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 4:43:24 PM
Protest NPR’s Failure to Accurately Cover Israeli Brutality
from the American Arab Anti-Defamation League
posted by grace kennedy 10:27:58 PM
Automatic Sliding Patio Door Opener for Pets, Dogs and Cats – anyone know anything about Sliding Glass Pet Doors?
Hum... well, I may need to put the kitty boxes out on the patio... you know, two inside my one bedroom apartment would really suck.
posted by grace kennedy 10:31:44 PM
Quick Fit Door
posted by grace kennedy 10:34:30 PM
What's the difference between the door before this one andthis door with a 3" rise? What's a 3" rise for?
posted by grace kennedy 10:38:28 PM
More affordable? But permanent?
posted by grace kennedy 10:48:35 PM
Deluxe Patio Pet Door from AllPets.com $181.99
posted by grace kennedy 11:01:58 PM
Make Arrangements for Your Cat in Advance
Monday, March 26, 2001
posted by grace kennedy 1:52:07 AM
12. Does Heinz ketchup contain animal products? – I must eat crow. I'd read somewhere in all my vegetarian stuff that ketchup had blood as a "natural flavoring" in the ingredients, so I wouldn't eat it. Grossed me out.
Today, I caught endless flack for my non-ketchup eating ways. I was also told I was wrong, which, apparently I am.
I still may be too grossed out now at the thought though to eat ketchup again.
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