Thursday, December 31, 2009
My Dog
My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day. She has her food prepared for her. She can eat whenever she wants, 24/7/365. Her meals are provided at no cost to her. She visits the Dr. once a year for her checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise. For this she pays nothing, and nothing is required of her. She lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than she needs, but she is not required to do any upkeep. If she makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. She has her choice of luxurious places to sleep. She receives these accommodations absolutely free. She is living like a queen, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever. All of her costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day. I was just thinking about all this, and suddenly it hit me like a brick in the head,
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
cem anos de solidão
"Os punhados de terra tornavam menos longínquo e mais certo o homem que merecia aquela degradação, como se o chão que ele pisava com as suas delicadas botas de verniz noutro lugar do mundo lhe transmitisse a ela o peso e a temperatura do seu sangue num sabor mineral que deixava um rastro áspero na boca e um sedimento de paz no coração."
Cem Anos de Solidão, Gabriel García Márquez
Obama: Can You Say “Terrorist”?
Roanoke Times, 12-29-09, Pg 1: Security in air chaotic after bomb attempt
The Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano said our security system worked well after the terrorist bomb attack on an aircraft landing at Detroit. Days later, Obama finally talked about an “isolated incident”. Days after that Napolitano acknowledged that there was a failure in the intelligence system. Days after that Obama finally talked about serious flaws in our intelligence system and admitted that weeks before the “attempted attack” much was known about the suicide bomber he finally described as “an extremist”.
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It’s now clear that the potent explosive material the suicide bomber carried was consistent with other terrorist bombings and is not readily available. Also it’s now clear that Al Qaida in Yemen has played a key role in this bombing and the Fort Hood attack.
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What’s with the “attempted” thing? The device was activated and detonated; it set the plane on-fire! How many folks need to die or be injured before Obama and his team will use the word attacked?
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Obama is a very learned academic, but still cannot say the word “TERRORIST” or “TERRORIST ATTACK” relative to this incident or to the Fort Hood terror attack by Major Nidal Malik Hasan. What is his problem? Oh yes – during the campaign and during his inaugural address he declared the “war on terror” was over and he was launching a campaign of “appeasement without preconditions” with all the folks who are trying to destroy us. Wouldn’t want to disturb the wonderful success he’s having with that approach.
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At what point, or after how many Americans are killed and injured, will Obama wake-up and hear and smell the bombs going off and react in an appropriate manner? And, when will the liberal media start holding Obama and his team to the same critical standards of critique they applied to George Bush?
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How about an expose on the totally political nature of the appointments of Janet Napolitano to Homeland Security and Leon Panetta to CIA chief, to key national security cabinet posts, without any experience or qualifications for those job appointments by either one.
How’s that working out for us now?
Just More Hope and Change we can believe in! Yes we can!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/obamas-patriot-act-chickens-coming-home.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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The Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano said our security system worked well after the terrorist bomb attack on an aircraft landing at Detroit. Days later, Obama finally talked about an “isolated incident”. Days after that Napolitano acknowledged that there was a failure in the intelligence system. Days after that Obama finally talked about serious flaws in our intelligence system and admitted that weeks before the “attempted attack” much was known about the suicide bomber he finally described as “an extremist”.
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It’s now clear that the potent explosive material the suicide bomber carried was consistent with other terrorist bombings and is not readily available. Also it’s now clear that Al Qaida in Yemen has played a key role in this bombing and the Fort Hood attack.
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What’s with the “attempted” thing? The device was activated and detonated; it set the plane on-fire! How many folks need to die or be injured before Obama and his team will use the word attacked?
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Obama is a very learned academic, but still cannot say the word “TERRORIST” or “TERRORIST ATTACK” relative to this incident or to the Fort Hood terror attack by Major Nidal Malik Hasan. What is his problem? Oh yes – during the campaign and during his inaugural address he declared the “war on terror” was over and he was launching a campaign of “appeasement without preconditions” with all the folks who are trying to destroy us. Wouldn’t want to disturb the wonderful success he’s having with that approach.
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At what point, or after how many Americans are killed and injured, will Obama wake-up and hear and smell the bombs going off and react in an appropriate manner? And, when will the liberal media start holding Obama and his team to the same critical standards of critique they applied to George Bush?
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How about an expose on the totally political nature of the appointments of Janet Napolitano to Homeland Security and Leon Panetta to CIA chief, to key national security cabinet posts, without any experience or qualifications for those job appointments by either one.
How’s that working out for us now?
Just More Hope and Change we can believe in! Yes we can!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/obamas-patriot-act-chickens-coming-home.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/06/inconvenient-terrorist-attack.html
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Governmental Open Source Software Resource Center
The preliminary program of the HUNAGI Conference will follow asap here:
Monday, December 28, 2009
UNSDI NL NCO Newsletter 2009 Nr2 published
"In this Newsletter I will briefly inform you on the status of the UNGIWG-UNSDI developments, the status of the UNSDI developments in the Netherlands and some info on the participation of UNSDI-NCO in the FAO/ITC e-consultation and the availability of ITC's GEONETCast Toolbox.
Furthermore we have embarked on the use of social network tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube. The respective links can be found on our www.unsdi.nl home page. New subscriptions to this Newsletter can be made and more news can be found at the www.unsdi.nl/news page." For details and register for subscription please visit the site by clicking on the header.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Galileo’s Telescope 400th Anniversary, sunspots and climate
Roanoke Times, 12-27-09, Pg 10: Celebrate the 400th anniversary of modern astronomy by John Goss (goss.john@gmail.com)
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A very nice review of Galileo’s invention without ever touching upon the politically incorrect connection to the current debate about ClimateGate and Global Warming.
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Indeed Galileo studied the stars with his new invention. He also studied in detail and documented sunspots.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/sunspots.html
To see many examples of Galileo’s sunspot observations:
Google; Images; Galileo Sunspots
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Galileo’s sunspot data has been used to demonstrate that the period of low solar activity in the middle ages led to atmospheric changes that brought on the Little Ice Age. Sunspots were rarely observed during the Maunder Minimum in the second part of the 17th century (approximately from 1645 to 1715). This coincides with the middle (and coldest) part of a period of cooling known as the Little Ice Age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot
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Note: The end of the little ice age (circa 1750) begot our current 250 years of natural global warming:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees. NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees? Note how glibly our government employee describes what is 50% of the 0.6 degree Global Temperature increase in 74 years (since 1935) as shown on the NASA data base.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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No wonder the ClimateGate Alarmists are having so much difficulty with their man-made CO2 warming hypothesis and find the need to “fix” data that is in conflict with their hypothesis.
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Was this all in Gore's "inconvenient truth" or did I miss it somehow?
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It appears the only major news organization to cover the ClimateGate scandal is “The Daily Show” with anchor-man Jon Stewart. (large file takes time to load)
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClimateGate/ClimateGate.swf
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Prior blog items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-warming-climategate.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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A very nice review of Galileo’s invention without ever touching upon the politically incorrect connection to the current debate about ClimateGate and Global Warming.
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Indeed Galileo studied the stars with his new invention. He also studied in detail and documented sunspots.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/sunspots.html
To see many examples of Galileo’s sunspot observations:
Google; Images; Galileo Sunspots
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Galileo’s sunspot data has been used to demonstrate that the period of low solar activity in the middle ages led to atmospheric changes that brought on the Little Ice Age. Sunspots were rarely observed during the Maunder Minimum in the second part of the 17th century (approximately from 1645 to 1715). This coincides with the middle (and coldest) part of a period of cooling known as the Little Ice Age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot
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Note: The end of the little ice age (circa 1750) begot our current 250 years of natural global warming:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/GlacierHistory250Years/index.htm
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Roanoke Times, 4/5/09, Pg 11: AP: Quieter sun (fewest sunspots since 1913) bodes well for Earth. Nice for GPS, satellites, shrinks the atmospheric boundary by 125 miles and marginally reduces the global warming by about 0.3 degrees. NASA’s chief solar physicist Hathaway says we don’t know why it happens.
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Marginal reduction of 0.3 degrees? Note how glibly our government employee describes what is 50% of the 0.6 degree Global Temperature increase in 74 years (since 1935) as shown on the NASA data base.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/sunspots-climate-and-claptrap.html
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No wonder the ClimateGate Alarmists are having so much difficulty with their man-made CO2 warming hypothesis and find the need to “fix” data that is in conflict with their hypothesis.
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Was this all in Gore's "inconvenient truth" or did I miss it somehow?
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It appears the only major news organization to cover the ClimateGate scandal is “The Daily Show” with anchor-man Jon Stewart. (large file takes time to load)
http://www.roanokeslant.org/ClimateGate/ClimateGate.swf
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Prior blog items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/global-warming-climategate.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Obama’s Patriot Act Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Roanoke Times, 12-27-09, Pg 1 & 3: Nigerian man was charged Saturday with an act of attempted terrorism of an airplane landing at Detroit.
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Attempted terrorism? What are Obama and his AG Holder smoking? The Muslim terrorist set off an explosive device on an airborne passenger plane that set the plane’s interior on fire!
This vanilla soft-ball article is amazing when compared to how this incident would have been covered if Bush were still president
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The Jihad chickens are coming home to roost and reality is setting in!
Gee Michelle, I don’t think we’re at Yale anymore!
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a muslim from Nigeria, who had traveled to Yemen, tried to bomb a plane landing in Detroit. He was on several security lists, was “turned-in” by his father to a US Embassy as an Al Qaida security threat, but apparently consistent with Obama political correctness policy, had not yet “broken the law” and therefore was just another nice young Muslim man on a pleasure trip to the US.
The height of hypocrisy is that now Obama and the Democrats are going to hold hearings to find out what went wrong.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581211,00.html
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Obama and the Democrats and Liberals were happy to capture the US government so they could declare that the war on terror is over, we love all Muslims, GITMO is history and the Patriot Act is dead!
How’s that working out for you now?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/roanoke-times-misdirected-hostility.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/censure-bush_22.html
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Home grown terrorists have continued to organize and pursue their quest for jihad.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/domestic-terrorism-label-politically.html
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However, Obama continue to avoid designating Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, his attack on soldiers at Ft Hood a terrorist attack and awarding the dead and wounded the Purple Heart Metals and the combat-inflicted disabilities benefits they deserve!
However, Obama and Michelle did wish the troops happy holidays. Nice touch.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/radical-muslim-terrorists-in-us.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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Obama’s homeland security chief, Janet Napolitano , who for months refused to acknowledge that there is a war on terror, now clearly has show herself to be the incompetent non-experienced person she is and has been. Yet another cabinet choice based on politics and PC for a post that’s vital to our national and personal security.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/domestic-terrorism-label-politically.html
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It’s clear that Obama’s Political Correctness Policies have become this administrations primary management focus and anyone who identifies a Muslim as a potential problem immediately becomes the focus of concern about himself.
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Just More Hope and Change we can believe in! Yes we can!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-doctrine-summary-execution-better.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
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Attempted terrorism? What are Obama and his AG Holder smoking? The Muslim terrorist set off an explosive device on an airborne passenger plane that set the plane’s interior on fire!
This vanilla soft-ball article is amazing when compared to how this incident would have been covered if Bush were still president
-
The Jihad chickens are coming home to roost and reality is setting in!
Gee Michelle, I don’t think we’re at Yale anymore!
-
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a muslim from Nigeria, who had traveled to Yemen, tried to bomb a plane landing in Detroit. He was on several security lists, was “turned-in” by his father to a US Embassy as an Al Qaida security threat, but apparently consistent with Obama political correctness policy, had not yet “broken the law” and therefore was just another nice young Muslim man on a pleasure trip to the US.
The height of hypocrisy is that now Obama and the Democrats are going to hold hearings to find out what went wrong.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581211,00.html
-
Obama and the Democrats and Liberals were happy to capture the US government so they could declare that the war on terror is over, we love all Muslims, GITMO is history and the Patriot Act is dead!
How’s that working out for you now?
-
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/08/roanoke-times-misdirected-hostility.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/03/censure-bush_22.html
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Home grown terrorists have continued to organize and pursue their quest for jihad.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/domestic-terrorism-label-politically.html
-
However, Obama continue to avoid designating Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, his attack on soldiers at Ft Hood a terrorist attack and awarding the dead and wounded the Purple Heart Metals and the combat-inflicted disabilities benefits they deserve!
However, Obama and Michelle did wish the troops happy holidays. Nice touch.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/radical-muslim-terrorists-in-us.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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Obama’s homeland security chief, Janet Napolitano , who for months refused to acknowledge that there is a war on terror, now clearly has show herself to be the incompetent non-experienced person she is and has been. Yet another cabinet choice based on politics and PC for a post that’s vital to our national and personal security.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/domestic-terrorism-label-politically.html
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It’s clear that Obama’s Political Correctness Policies have become this administrations primary management focus and anyone who identifies a Muslim as a potential problem immediately becomes the focus of concern about himself.
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Just More Hope and Change we can believe in! Yes we can!
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-doctrine-summary-execution-better.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
make up
I thought I would show you this photo without enhancement first lights to bee seen as stepping out of the railay station, and ouside the tourist information centre.
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Ok its not the sky. this is an enhancement on the xmas lights here in luxor
all they did was throw some lights on anything that grew out of the soil ie cacti and trees
not much else made an effort so as I said my enhancement makes them look better.
Ibrotel put 4 stars on it last year and that's where they stayed to save putting them back up again this year.
aOk its not the sky. this is an enhancement on the xmas lights here in luxor
all they did was throw some lights on anything that grew out of the soil ie cacti and trees
not much else made an effort so as I said my enhancement makes them look better.
Ibrotel put 4 stars on it last year and that's where they stayed to save putting them back up again this year.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Pope Benedict has delivered his traditional Christmas message at the Vatican, hours after a woman leapt at him and dragged him to the ground.
The Pope spoke in a firm voice in front of thousands of pilgrims, appearing undaunted by the earlier incident.
He said the Church was a "source of unity" for many people across the world and called for those in conflict zones to show respect for one another.
The Vatican said the woman who jumped at the Pope had been taken to hospital.
Vatican officials said she appeared to be mentally unstable, and that she had attempted to get to the Pope at the same event last year.
French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 87, who was standing a few metres away, fell and broke his hip during the incident.
Multi-lingual address
The assault took place as the pontiff was about to celebrate Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter's Basilica.
The BBC's David Willey, in Rome, says the Vatican is trying its best to play down the incident.
Pope Benedict spoke for about 30 minutes before leaving the podium
But our correspondent says the Pope's security is a very difficult issue as the pontiff has to interact with the congregation and many Catholics would be angry if he was only ever seen from behind a screen.
The 82-year-old pontiff made no mention of the incident during his Christmas message.
Instead he focused on the world's needy and praised the work of the Church in places like the Philippines, Korea and Sri Lanka.
He said the Church was a "source of unity" for many people across the world and called for those in conflict zones to show respect for one another.
The Vatican said the woman who jumped at the Pope had been taken to hospital.
Vatican officials said she appeared to be mentally unstable, and that she had attempted to get to the Pope at the same event last year.
French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 87, who was standing a few metres away, fell and broke his hip during the incident.
Multi-lingual address
The assault took place as the pontiff was about to celebrate Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter's Basilica.
The BBC's David Willey, in Rome, says the Vatican is trying its best to play down the incident.
Pope Benedict spoke for about 30 minutes before leaving the podium
But our correspondent says the Pope's security is a very difficult issue as the pontiff has to interact with the congregation and many Catholics would be angry if he was only ever seen from behind a screen.
The 82-year-old pontiff made no mention of the incident during his Christmas message.
Instead he focused on the world's needy and praised the work of the Church in places like the Philippines, Korea and Sri Lanka.
He deplored the continuing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spoke of the problems facing people in Madagascar, Guinea, Niger and Honduras.
He then wished pilgrims a happy Christmas in 65 languages - drawing delighted cheers from the crowd.
MSONDO KUINGIA MTWARA
BENDI kongwe ya muziki wa dansi nchini Msondo Music bandi watafanya zihara ya utambulisho wa albam yao mpya ya huna shukrani i ambapo Msemaji wa bendi hiyo Rajabu Mhamila 'Super D' ameliambia gazeti hili kwamba Bendi hiyo kwa sasa ipo mikoa ya kusini kuwapa wapenzi burudani za x masi na kutakiana heri ya mwaka mpyaAlisema katika utambulisho huo kwa mashabiki wa Msondo pia watapata nyimbo mpya kabisa zilizotungwa kwa ajiri ya albam ya mwaka 2010
Wanamuziki wa bendi ya msondo ngoma wakiwajibika wakati wa moja ya maonesho yao ni Roman Mn'gande Romario na Hamisi Mnyupe.(Picha na Rajabu Mhamila)
Akielezea maandalizi zaidi Mhamila alisema licha ya kutambulisha albam bendi hiyo pia wamejipanga kutoa zawadi kwa mashabiki wao, ambapo albam yao mpya,iliyoingia sokoni hivi kalibuni kuuzwa mtaani pia wameombwa kununuwa albam hiyo wapate kusikiliza majumbani mwao kwa ajiri ya sikukuu katika ziara hiyo ya utambulisho wa albamu siku ya alhamisi watakuwa Lindi katika ukumbi wa Comit Center, ijumaa Mtwara watapiga katika ukumbi wa Jakaya aidha jumamosi watapiga Masasi katika ukumbi maarufu na jumamosi watakuwa nachingwea katika ukumbi wa nachngwea pub, katika mkesha wa mwaka mpya watakuwa Rwangwa
Alisema nyimbo zitakazotambulishwa katika dhihara hiyo ni pamoja na wimbo uliobeba albam hiyo, Huna shukrani uliotungwa na Saidi Mabera,Kiapo (husein jumbe) aki yangu ipo wapi (Uluka Uvuluge) Mama Cos, uliotungwa na marehemu (Josephe Maina) Albino (Juma Katundu) Machimbo Isihaka Kitima dj papa upanga) na Cheo ni Dhamana (Eddo Sanga)
Aidha aliwataja wanenguaji watakaokuwa wanatoa burudani katika safu hiyo kuwa ni Amina Said 'quen Emmy' Nacho Mpendu 'mama Nzawisa' na Amiri Saidi 'Dongo' aidha rapa wa bendi hiyo Romani Mng'ande 'Romario' atawachenguwa mashabiki watakaofika katika onesho hilo wakiongonzwa na mkurugenzi wa bendi hiyo Muhidini Gurumo,na kiongozi wa bendi hiyo Saidi Mabela
Alisema nyimbo zitakazotambulishwa katika dhihara hiyo ni pamoja na wimbo uliobeba albam hiyo, Huna shukrani uliotungwa na Saidi Mabera,Kiapo (husein jumbe) aki yangu ipo wapi (Uluka Uvuluge) Mama Cos, uliotungwa na marehemu (Josephe Maina) Albino (Juma Katundu) Machimbo Isihaka Kitima dj papa upanga) na Cheo ni Dhamana (Eddo Sanga)
Aidha aliwataja wanenguaji watakaokuwa wanatoa burudani katika safu hiyo kuwa ni Amina Said 'quen Emmy' Nacho Mpendu 'mama Nzawisa' na Amiri Saidi 'Dongo' aidha rapa wa bendi hiyo Romani Mng'ande 'Romario' atawachenguwa mashabiki watakaofika katika onesho hilo wakiongonzwa na mkurugenzi wa bendi hiyo Muhidini Gurumo,na kiongozi wa bendi hiyo Saidi Mabela
ELIETE AND KIKI CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WHILE PREPARING TO GIVE BIRTH!
Tetine's tropical punk star Eliete Mejorado and curator Kiki Mazzucchelli, showing their pregnant bodies while awaiting for the arrival of Yoko Bethania Mejorado Verner and of Lula Obama Mazzucchelli Canonico. Proud father to be, Bruno Verner smiles in the back.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Obama Doctrine: Summary Execution Better Than Water-Boarding
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Not found in the Roanoke Times: (Too politically embarrassing to cover)
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“Muhammad ud-Deen via AP: Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed to Be Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike. Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen with alleged terror links, whom Maj. Nidal Hasan (the Huston US Army terrorist) corresponded with. The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood reportedly is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region's top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581053,00.html
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The liberals and left-wingers who have been so upset with our treatment of terrorists and Obama who just can’t close GITMO fast enough are now perfectly happy summarily killing targeted people in yet another country, Yemen! Apparently the liberals are OK with killing people without arrest, charges or legal process!
They have embraced the new Obama Doctrine: Summary Execution Better Than Water-Boarding. It’s also cheaper, simpler and lots faster.
Talk about your liberal bipolar-conflicted political, mental and ethical processes and the height of gross hypocrisy.
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Prior RoanokeSlant Blog item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
Wednesday, October 28, 2009: Why Obama Doesn’t Need GITMO or Patriot Act:
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Roanoke Times, 10-25-09, Pg 8: Hit list of drug kingpins worries Afghan officials. Obama has a hit-list of Afgans to target with drone-missiles strikes. He refuses to share the list with Afgan government or military. Afgan officials are worried that Obama will “act on his own to kill suspected drug lords, based on secret evidence, instead of handing them over for trial”!
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What a stroke of genius. - Why didn’t Bush and Cheney think of this?
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This item highlights the disgusting fact that Obama and team are still stone-walling the designation of Maj. Nidal Hasan as a terrorist, his vicious attack as a terrorist attack, and awarding all those killed and wounded with the Purple Heart Medals they justly deserve.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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Just more hope and change we can believe! Yes we can!
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Not found in the Roanoke Times: (Too politically embarrassing to cover)
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“Muhammad ud-Deen via AP: Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed to Be Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike. Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen with alleged terror links, whom Maj. Nidal Hasan (the Huston US Army terrorist) corresponded with. The radical Muslim imam linked to the rampage at Fort Hood reportedly is believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that may have also taken out the region's top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581053,00.html
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The liberals and left-wingers who have been so upset with our treatment of terrorists and Obama who just can’t close GITMO fast enough are now perfectly happy summarily killing targeted people in yet another country, Yemen! Apparently the liberals are OK with killing people without arrest, charges or legal process!
They have embraced the new Obama Doctrine: Summary Execution Better Than Water-Boarding. It’s also cheaper, simpler and lots faster.
Talk about your liberal bipolar-conflicted political, mental and ethical processes and the height of gross hypocrisy.
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Prior RoanokeSlant Blog item:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-obama-doesnt-need-gitmo-or-patriot.html
Wednesday, October 28, 2009: Why Obama Doesn’t Need GITMO or Patriot Act:
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Roanoke Times, 10-25-09, Pg 8: Hit list of drug kingpins worries Afghan officials. Obama has a hit-list of Afgans to target with drone-missiles strikes. He refuses to share the list with Afgan government or military. Afgan officials are worried that Obama will “act on his own to kill suspected drug lords, based on secret evidence, instead of handing them over for trial”!
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What a stroke of genius. - Why didn’t Bush and Cheney think of this?
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This item highlights the disgusting fact that Obama and team are still stone-walling the designation of Maj. Nidal Hasan as a terrorist, his vicious attack as a terrorist attack, and awarding all those killed and wounded with the Purple Heart Medals they justly deserve.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-hearts-for-wounded-veterans-at.html
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Just more hope and change we can believe! Yes we can!
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'MANIFESTO FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION IN BRASILIA', A MANIFESTO BY MATHIEU COPELAND AND PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA
BRASILIA:
Centro da revolução estética e intelectual
Centre of the aesthetic & intellectual revolution
The manifesto for a revolution, as this completes the journey into the revolution...
The revolution starts now!
In 1967, Helio Oiticica responded to Brasilia, (which was built in 41 months, from 1956 to April 1960, when it was officially inaugurated) by creating Tropicalia, the anti-utopia, the reality of the favelas against the dictatorship of rationality, order and concrete. Confronting these two realities, we shall call for a new vision of Utopia, a CONCRETE UTOPIA! An utopia made of reality, concrete & steel! Brasilia will again be the platform for the development of other modernities and new realities: in other words, Brasilia will embody the centre of the aesthetic & intellectual revolution!
Centro da revolução estética e intelectual is the recreation of the mythical centre of the intellectual revolution: a myth, yet a myth in which we trust!
The two evident trends seem to be that either a revolution concludes its course and becomes a new standard, or following a permanent circle becomes a permanent revolution. The creation of the centre in turns becomes the embodiment of both the playful environment it creates & the serious goal it affirms, and becomes a meeting point of ideas, a cross over of cultures within a third place, the museum.
The revolution within the institution becomes a call that embraces movements, living entities, and breaks for reflection. More than ever we shall rethink the institutions, and rethink the museums that the cities where we live have become. We shall call for the most radical levelling, not the kind that we experience in our everyday life through global similarity and standarisation, but indeed the levelling of our cities, to level everything to zero and start again. And this time, we shall seek no permanency, only new and ephemerals architectures.
The following shall be applied to our everyday life, to our common activities, and to all the institutions that surround us, to all the structures that define our experiences. A third of all museums will have to close for a year, as the other two third continue their activities, and as the year draws to an end, another third will close, and so forth & and so on. Let the dust settle, and from there a new harvest will breed again with more strength from these now fertile grounds.
We now must create an economy of cultural subversion, more than ever we shall create a community in our amnesiac society.
The revolution inhabits the city, and the city becomes the host & the primary resource for the revolution: both a shelter and an entity that digests its own constituting material: a cannibal that is sustained by the city, and that feeds itself from it: neo antropophagia!
The revolution uses the museum as a map, and envisages to use the Espaço Lúcio Costa (the museum of the creation of the city of Brasilia) as the plan, and the city as its operational field. The revolution uses the newspapers of the city as its own catalogue. Spreading the rumours and all worded artefacts only based on beliefs (Spoken Words to the World), the exhibition goes deep into the future, as we recover faith in a new modernism!
The Revolution is such a modernist form! Yet a formalist revolution, such a revolutionary idea!
The Centre is everywhere, omni present, as the centre is within us! Activating art, dance & celebration, the revolution becomes a popular invitation to celebrate art within society. Our belief in modernism does not become a quote or a citation, but to the contrary the means to create new work and non-work and to work with & within the originals – and among these create a circles of old masters as the bearers of Knowledge! We do not reproduce, we breed and we generate a new understanding of the past in inscribing in the present the seeds of the future!
The revolution is ultimately abstracted from the city, the structure of previous modernist models! The Centre Is Not Complete – The Centre Is Everywhere. The seeds of this revolution are within this affirmation, and affirms that all becomes the centres of the centre! The appraisal of humankind in this age of global chaos. Millions of people, arriving from everywhere, from other planets, arriving to the centre, to the centre of the revolution. The Centre Is Everywhere! The Revolution Is Everyvhere!
The centre is within us! The revolution generates life, reality, blood, breaths, and is akin to a mother giving birth: the revolution generates the future, and the future is NOW!
The manifesto for a revolution, as this completes the journey into the revolution...
Mathieu Copeland & Pablo Leon de la Barra
Summer 2008
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Mathieu Copeland and Pablo Leon de la Barra's Manifesto for a Revolution in Brasilia
http://www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de/verlag/empfehlungen/aesthetische_theorie/isbn_3865606946.aspx
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