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Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

THE SAVAGE NATION!!!!!! 7-28-10

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Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

Love-Parade at Duisberg Ends in Tears

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Editor: So far, there hasn't been a lot of coverage of this event in the USA and little mention was made of the explicit and decadent nature of the event, except on some conservative German Catholic news blogs, but there are others who see it correctly, as Kathnet reports: [Kath.net] "Welcome to the sexiest party in the world!" wrote "Bild" still on 23 July, the day before the Love-Parade in Duisburg. Instead of sexiness, journalists are coming to describe it in terms of biblical decine after the mass panic with 19 dead and hundreds of injured. "Hell at the Love-Parade",...

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

THE SAVAGE NATION!!!!!! 7-27-10

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Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

English-only ordinance approved in Lino Lakes, Minn. (Common sense legislation)

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LINO LAKES, Minn. — An English-only ordinance was adopted Monday night by the Lino Lakes City Council in a decision that will bar the Twins Cities suburb from using city money to provide translated copies of many city documents. Council members voted 4-1 in favor of the ordinance during a meeting that attracted about 50 people. Councilwoman Kathi Gallup cast the lone no vote. City Councilman Dave Roeser, the chief proponent, has said the measure was motivated by economics. But no one has ever sought translated documents, and opponents have called it anti-immigrant grandstanding. ..... The measure requires all city...

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

THE SAVAGE NATION!!!!!! 7-26-10

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Abercrumbie & Flitch Under Fire: Old People Should Stay Out of Malls

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Abercrumbie & Flitch, the trendy fashion retailer, is under fire from customers and the media for its newest sales campaign. The retailer is calling it “Old sCOOL” and features scantily clad elderly folks modeling the store’s latest line of apparel. Store spokesman and mastermind of the campaign, Stewart Kindly, said that the new campaign is meant to bring older customers back into the stores because, “Old people are cool, ya know?” Mr. Kindly said that increasingly, older Americans are feeling left out of the loop in America’s malls where the retailer has most of its outlets. The chain felt that...

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM

Lost in Translation

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New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the structures in languages (without our knowledge or consent) shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Take "Humpty Dumpty sat on a..." Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. In English, we have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we say "sat" rather than "sit." In Indonesian...

Published on Thursday 29th of July 2010 11:09:36 PM