Here's a picture of a courageous super-woman. No, it's not. It shows a bad mother and disgrace to the feminist cause. The argument has been raging since the unexpected return to work of Rachida Dati, the French Justice Minister. Only five days earlier, she gave birth to her first baby -- by caesarean section. The father's identity remains a state secret. More on that below Dati, 43, the glamour-figure of President Sarkozy's government, left her clinic in the 16th arrondissement yesterday morning. In freezing weather, the single mother showed Zohra, her baby, to admirers (picture below). An hour later, she turned up looking trim in stiletto heels and a tight suit for the weekly cabinet session. Sarko opened by contratulating "la jeune maman" -- the young mummy. The very image-conscious Dati was pulling off one her stunts. Her decision to forego the standard three-month maternity leave was ridiculed by those who see her as a pushy, over-promoted favourite of the President. Her admirers saw her return as typical of the pluck that took her from a childhood on the immigrant housing estates to one of the highest government posts.
Here's a picture of a courageous super-woman. No, it's not. It shows a bad mother and disgrace to the feminist cause. The argument has been raging since the unexpected return to work of Rachida Dati, the French Justice Minister. Only five days earlier, she gave birth to her first baby -- by caesarean section. The father's identity remains a state secret. More on that below
Dati, 43, the glamour-figure of President Sarkozy's government, left her clinic in the 16th arrondissement yesterday morning. In freezing weather, the single mother showed Zohra, her baby, to admirers (picture below). An hour later, she turned up looking trim in stiletto heels and a tight suit for the weekly cabinet session. Sarko opened by contratulating "la jeune maman" -- the young mummy.
The very image-conscious Dati was pulling off one her stunts. Her decision to forego the standard three-month maternity leave was ridiculed by those who see her as a pushy, over-promoted favourite of the President. Her admirers saw her return as typical of the pluck that took her from a childhood on the immigrant housing estates to one of the highest government posts.
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The names of other possible fathers are still circulating. José-Maria Aznar, the former Spanish Prime Minister, is first among them despite his public denials last autumn.
Uh, I hope the baby takes after the mother...
I'm going to start an Internet rumour right here: DSK is the father! "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
she thinks her job is more important than her newborn child!
Of course, she would be in quite good (or bad) company by that standard... "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
Dati may be playing iron-woman to her neoliberal set, decades too late, but she seems to have plenty of other complaints to write about that are not gender-exclusive: Not surprisingly, (a) man will never be judged in a comparable situation.
If the media continues to give voice to people who don´t know what the hell they are talking about, is it any wonder that the vat acts as if it has the right to impose dogma-sans-experience for the whole world about WOMEN, FAMILY, SEX...? Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
The rodents are believed to have gnawed their way through cables, sparking the blaze at the property belonging to former MP Lord Mayhew on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters battled the flames for almost two hours at the two-storey cottage in Goudhurst, near Cranbrook, Kent, currently inhabited by tenants. Lord Mayhew told the Kent Messenger: "The fire broke out in a void behind an airing cupboard and the most probable cause was squirrels chewing through cables." A spokeswoman for Kent Fire and Rescue Service estimated about 90% of the first floor and roof void had been "severely damaged".
The rodents are believed to have gnawed their way through cables, sparking the blaze at the property belonging to former MP Lord Mayhew on Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters battled the flames for almost two hours at the two-storey cottage in Goudhurst, near Cranbrook, Kent, currently inhabited by tenants.
Lord Mayhew told the Kent Messenger: "The fire broke out in a void behind an airing cupboard and the most probable cause was squirrels chewing through cables."
A spokeswoman for Kent Fire and Rescue Service estimated about 90% of the first floor and roof void had been "severely damaged".
Alien reptiles, more like.
http://proxyland.blogspot.com/ Financial Oxymoron of the Year: The envelope, please.
As the year wore on, analysts warned of an Oxymoron Bubble. Nearly every two-word phrase on the business page seemed to qualify. To wit: financial services financial system market discipline government oversight business judgment free market Let's throw in Federal Reserve. And is it too soon to add modern civilization? OMG, I need to get a grip.
financial services financial system market discipline government oversight business judgment free market
Let's throw in Federal Reserve. And is it too soon to add modern civilization? OMG, I need to get a grip.
"European Union"? Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
defense spending
Defense spending will have a small part of the [stimulus] package, but some is expected to be included along with domestic programs. And in his own testimony before the House, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein argued that the bill could be an opportunity to address the need to replace and repair equipment strained by the war in Iraq. "Both supplies and equipment will eventually need to be replaced," Feldstein said. "Now is the time to do that."
"Both supplies and equipment will eventually need to be replaced," Feldstein said. "Now is the time to do that."
The Difficulty of Being an Informed American | 8 Jan 2009
It is the same propagandistic American print and TV media that have rationalized Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan based on seven years of lies and deception. It is the same media that today provids only Israeli propaganda as "coverage" of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza. It was the New York Times that spiked for one year the leaked information from the National Security Agency that the Bush regime, in violation of US law, was illegally spying on Americans without warrants. The "liberal" New York Times agreed to suppress the story so that Bush would not face reelection under the cloud of his outlaw behavior. Conservatives think the Washington Post is "liberal media" despite the fact that the editorial and commentary pages are controlled by neocons and their sympathizers. ... People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran's Press TV, Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media. The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli governments. Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English. There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media. Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli government as Haaretz would be closed down. The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers. Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb....
It is the same media that today provids only Israeli propaganda as "coverage" of the Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
It was the New York Times that spiked for one year the leaked information from the National Security Agency that the Bush regime, in violation of US law, was illegally spying on Americans without warrants. The "liberal" New York Times agreed to suppress the story so that Bush would not face reelection under the cloud of his outlaw behavior.
Conservatives think the Washington Post is "liberal media" despite the fact that the editorial and commentary pages are controlled by neocons and their sympathizers. ...
People who have access to television services that provide English language foreign broadcasts, such as Iran's Press TV, Russia Today, or Al Jazeera, can get get news and insights from those parts of the world demonized by the US media.
The BBC World Service still reports facts while covering itself by providing the views of the US, UK, and Israeli governments.
Both the Asia Times and Israeli newspapers, such as Haaretz can be read online in English. There are other such newspapers, and all of them provide information that Americans will never see in their own media. Any American newspaper that was as truthful about the Israeli government as Haaretz would be closed down.
The only US print source with which I am familiar in which some honest reporting can be found on a regular basis is the McClatchy papers.
Americans addicted to print media must turn to alternative newspapers, which tend to be weekly or bi-weekly. However, the news and commentary provided are often superb....
I hope he feels better soon. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
I didn't read Counterpunch until last year, when I discovered Hudson there. Of course, I haven't read Roberts's book. So I've been inclined to interpret his choice of topics as an expression of a psychological process, rather than fee-for-output if you will.
It's been said somewhere, extreme "conservativism" and "liberalism" meet at an intdeterminate point along a circle of political expediency. If so, I nominate Roberts's for most agitated photon on the wheel. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
You can find more of his writings, and similar articles, at antiwar.com, which is a right-libertarian site; the fact that a lot of articles are shared with counterpunch does lend some support to your claim.
Is love just a chemical cocktail?
Writing in the respected scientific journal Nature, Professor Young argues that love can be explained by a series of neurochemical events in specific brain areas.
Unfortunately there are no effective painkillers to dull the excruciating experience of Brian Ferry. You can't be me, I'm taken
