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“Ron Paul: We have you surrounded. We are the media,” sounded the voice from a megaphone as Paul staffers ushered him into a waiting SUV, just minutes after he arrived at the restaurant.

Holding the megaphone was a man dressed roughly as a wizard, with shaggy hair and tousled beard, wearing a massive black boot upside down on his head.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/203039-media-mob-forces-paul-to-leave-nh-campaign-event-early

Lance Wallnau, a major proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, explained that the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged as a result of the fact that the Devil, and not right-wing Christians, was in charge of Wall Street banks, which he says led to the economic crisis. Wallnau said that along with the economics mountain, “the Devil will send kings” to different cultural mountains, such as government media, arts and education, to “screw it up.”

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I don’t usually prelude the clipped copy that I feature here on my scraps blog, but I find this of particular note. Following a thread on ask.metafilter, I came across this particular comment, which lead to this bit of insight from ‘Craig’s Spring Branch Blog’ that I feel I ought to share:

The earliest cite I found was Osgood and Richard, “From yang and yin to and or but” from 1973. Osgood apparently coined the description “golden section” after the golden ratio in ancient Greek geometry. 1 : .616 which are the proportions of the edifice of the Parthenon, for example. There is a trove of material on google scholar with many examples and themes. The most interesting of which is that we may even have an essential brain circuit for sorting whatever we encounter in our environment, such that we find 62 percent of it appealing at a subconscious lever and 38 percent of it unappealing.

Stigma is specifically analyzed within this paradigm in Raskin, Harasym, Mercuri, and Widrick, “Construing stigmatized identities: a golden section study”. The most stigmatized are the homeless and the mentally ill. They are looked down upon even more harshly than criminals. Criminals are of only slightly lower status than politicians. It was not clear whether we should laugh or cry about this last finding. I did neither but merely noted it.

http://craigsspringbranchblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/zombies.html

Prof. Boswell’s academic study is so well researched and documented that it poses fundamental questions for both modern church leaders and heterosexual Christians about their own modern attitudes towards homosexuality.

For the Church to ignore the evidence in its own archives would be cowardly and deceptive. The evidence convincingly shows that what the modern church claims has always been its unchanging attitude towards homosexuality is, in fact, nothing of the sort.

http://www.christianity-revealed.com/cr/files/whensamesexmarriagewasachristianrite.html

“It basically leaves it up to a website owner to determine what is a crime,” U.S. District Judge George Wu said in 2009. “And therefore it criminalizes what would be a breach of contract.”

But an odd coalition including the ACLU and the conservative FreedomWorks sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in August arguing that the Justice Department’s request would amount to a “gross misuse of the law.”

http://m.examiner.com/computer-user-in-national/justice-department-seeks-to-make-lying-online-a-crime

Given that the film has no stars and addresses the rapes of tens of thousands of women during a war scarcely on Americans’ radar since it ended 16 years ago, Jolie’s involvement in it is undoubtedly its strongest selling point. Landing as it does during a season packed with spectacular entertainment movies, it needs her to promote it.

“The people felt as though the world had forgotten them,” Jolie said of the Bosnian war victims in an interview with Janine di Giovanni in Newsweek. “It was a time of great pain, and I wanted to depict how courageous people were — without offending anyone. It was made to remind everyone of the war — but only a small group of people will probably understand.”

http://artinfo.com/news/story/754565/why-labeling-angelina-jolies-hard-hitting-film-about-rape-in-bosnia-a-vanity-project-is-sexist?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artinfo-all+%28All+Content+%7C+ARTINFO%29

Federal officials have said Harpham acted alone.

The pipe bomb was loaded with lead fishing weights coated in rat poison, which can inhibit blood clotting in wounds, officials have said. The bomb was discovered and disabled before it could explode.

The parade on Jan. 17 drew a crowd of about 2,000 on a cold winter morning. It was forced onto an alternative route after the bomb was found. Harpham walked in the parade and took pictures of young black children and of a Jewish man who was wearing a yarmulke, prosecutors have said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXstIoEDE51cc2j-dsCfObM1VlZQ?docId=907b4834cd37421fb9c65dcf093c3b5d

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