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Peter Beinart has an article on A Unified Theory of Hillary in today's issue of National Journal.The entire article is worth reading but one line really sums up the article and my overall opinion of Hillary Clinton: "Hillary does learn from her mistakes. But only after the damage is done." He also pointed out how her tunnel vision "might produce a presidency more stylistically akin to that of George W. Bush."
Beinart does have also have some praise for Hillary Clinton as being tough-minded, and does feel she might have a better chance of dealing with Congress than other recent Democratic presidents. Looking back to the years when Bill was in the White House, and even earlier, he had this to say:
From their days in Arkansas, Hillary took the lead in combating the scandalmongers who threatened Bill's career. Her default position was single-minded and relentless. She repeatedly urged her husband's advisers to meet attacks on Bill's character by going after the character of his opponents. (According to Bernstein, in 1992 she urged the campaign to fan rumors about George H.W. Bush's infidelity.) It was Hillary who called in Dick Morris when Bill was losing his bid for reelection as governor in 1980, and who became Morris's point of contact when the Clintons entered the White House. According to Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s biography Her Way, when a liberal Arkansas staffer objected to Morris's presence, Hillary responded, "If you want to be in this kind of business, this is the kind of person you have to deal with."
Tough-minded, but also showing the lack of principle she is known for.
Clinton has a history of making big mistakes on the big issues, such as her handling of health care reform:
Hillary's failure to see that her model, which she had developed in Arkansas, was not working and needed to be altered midstream. As in Arkansas, Hillary—now aided by Magaziner—kept tight control of the process. At task force meetings, Bernstein notes, participants were forbidden from copying draft documents or, in many cases, even taking notes. The secrecy alienated not only members of Congress, health care activists, and the press, but key figures in the Clinton administration as well. Hillary and Magaziner both knew a great deal about health care policy. But neither knew as much about health care politics as Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, or Office of Management and Budget Director Leon Panetta. Yet because of the task force's secrecy, and because they feared directly confronting the president's wife, Bentsen, Panetta, Shalala, and others in the administration often felt marginalized. As Haynes Johnson and David Broder document in The System—their indispensable book on the health care battle—Clinton officials angered by their lack of influence repeatedly leaked damaging information to a press corps angered by its lack of access.
Her biggest mistake was in getting her husband to agree to promise to veto anything other than what Hillary wanted, despite the fact that the Republican counter-proposal was extremely similar to the Affordable Care Act passed under Barack Obama, and would have served as a point to negotiate from at the time rather than having to wait until just recently to achieve health care reform. Some Clinton staffers recommended considering more modest proposals from moderate Democrats when it became clear that her entire package could not pass in Congress.
But Hillary resisted switching course, and she and Magaziner won the day. In his State of the Union address the following January—at Hillary's urging and over Gergen's opposition—Bill pledged to veto any health care bill that did not provide universal health coverage, even though key figures in his own party already believed that was the only kind of health care bill Congress would pass.
Hillary proceeded to move to the right to counter the false impression spread by the right that she was a left-wing radical.
IF HILLARY'S FAILURE to improvise contributed to the demise of health care reform, it also contributed to her greatest foreign policy blunder—her support for the Iraq War—and her subsequent loss to Barack Obama in 2008.
As with health care reform, Hillary's transition from first lady to elected official relied on a clear plan, a key component of which was: Disprove the caricature of herself as a left-wing radical (an effort made easier by the fact that the caricature had never been remotely true). In her New York Senate race, Tomasky notes, Hillary ran to Rudy Giuliani's right on abortion: She supported parental-notification laws; he did not. In the Senate, she cosponsored legislation with former impeachment champion Sam Brownback to study the effects of mass media on children and hired a staffer to reach out to abortion foes.
Clinton has also come under criticism recently for not supporting marriage equality until 2013, long after this became the politically safe position to take. She has most recently received unfavorable criticism for her handling of an interview with Terry Gross on this subject.
For the right to call Hillary Clinton a left-wing radical is even more absurd than their current claims that Barack Obama is a socialist. How would they respond if an actual leftist were to become president?
Beinart went on to describe how, after 9/11, Clinton joined Joe Lieberman on the far right of the Democratic Party, going as far as to claim 9/11 as justification for the war in Iraq and failing to recognize her mistake until virtually everyone else had abandoned her original view:
Almost as soon as the twin towers fell, Hillary began staking out positions on the right edge of her party. On Sept. 12, from the floor of the Senate, she warned—in language similar to George W. Bush's—that regimes that "in any way aid or comfort [terrorists] whatsoever will now face the wrath of our country." As Gerth and Van Natta detailed, Hillary did not just vote to authorize war with Iraq—something most other nationally ambitious Democrats did as well—she justified her vote by citing Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaida, a claim echoed by only one other Senate Democrat, Joe Lieberman.
Even once it became clear that governing postwar Iraq would be far harder than the Bush administration had predicted, Hillary gave little ground. In a December 2003 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, she called her Iraq decision "the right vote" and insisted that "failure is not an option." As late as February 2005, when Iraq was already in civil war, she drew attention to the "many parts of Iraq that are functioning quite well" and warned that it "would be a mistake" to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops.
In bucking her party's liberal base, Hillary almost certainly believed she was doing the right thing. She was "cursed," she declared, when explaining her refusal to join John Edwards's 2007 call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops, "with the responsibility gene." Hillary's intellectual failure lay in her inability to recognize that the definition of "responsibility" she had developed during the 1990s, with its emphasis on American freedom of action and the utility of military force, was being abused and misapplied in Iraq. Her political failure lay in her inability to see how dramatically the center of gravity in her party was shifting away from her point of view.
As the situation in Iraq went south, liberal activists—enraged at the Democratic Party's ideologically hawkish, politically submissive leaders—launched an intraparty rebellion. The first sign came in 2003, when blogs like Daily Kos and activist groups like MoveOn.org powered Howard Dean's stunning insurgency against a field of Washington Democrats who had backed the war. Yet during that period, Hillary and her top advisers were remarkably slow to recognize that the ground was shifting underneath their feet, and that the centrist strategy they had laid out at the beginning of her Senate career was now dangerously outdated.
Clinton's failure to recognize how the Democratic party was changing could be seen in her choice of Mark Penn to be chief strategist for her campaign: "Hillary put her fate in the hands of a consultant who not only discounted their influence but loathed them." Her presidential campaign only reinforced suspicion of her among many liberals:
But while she may have had no good way to discuss her Iraq vote, Hillary could have at least signaled to angry liberals that she would act differently on Iran. Instead, she picked a fight over Obama's willingness to meet Tehran's leaders without preconditions, a fight that to many liberals confirmed that Obama would change Bush foreign policy while Hillary represented more of the same.
More broadly, Hillary's campaign failed to adequately recognize that her Iraq vote had convinced many liberals that she lacked the courage of her convictions. As an actress playing Hillary quipped on Saturday Night Live in January 2007, "I think most Democrats know me. They understand that my support for the war was always insincere." In that environment, Hillary's unwillingness to embrace controversial liberal causes for fear that they'd be used against her in the general election became a character issue. Arguably, the key moment in Hillary's demise came at a Drexel University debate on Oct. 30, when she refused to forthrightly endorse New York state's plan to issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants and was slammed by her opponents and the press for trying to have it both ways. Eleven days later, in perhaps his most important speech of the primary campaign, Obama wowed a Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa, declaring that "not answering questions because we are afraid our answers won't be popular just won't do." At a time when Democratic primary voters were hungry for authenticity and backbone, Penn's efforts to inoculate Hillary against right-wing attack convinced many liberals that she lacked both.
Beinart concluded (emphasis mine):
NONE OF THIS is to suggest that Hillary would be an ineffective president—only that her successes and failures would look different from Bill Clinton's and Barack Obama's. Bill's failures often owed to indiscipline. Obama's have stemmed in part from aloofness. If past is prologue, Hillary's would stem in significant measure from unwillingness to change course. Hillary does learn from her mistakes. But only after the damage is done.
Her successes as president, on the other hand, would likely result from the kind of hands-on, methodical, unyielding drive that both Bill Clinton and Obama struggled to sustain. In her wonkishness and her moderate liberalism, Hillary has much in common with Obama and her husband. But her "tunnel vision"—in the words of a close friend quoted in Sally Bedell Smith's For Love of Politics—might produce a presidency more stylistically akin to that of George W. Bush. For years now, Democrats have yearned for a leader who champions their causes with the same single-minded, supremely confident, unwavering intensity that they believe Republican leaders bring to theirs. For better and worse, they may soon get their wish.
For better and worse. While undoubtedly far better than a presidency in the hands of any imaginable Republican opponent at present, I also feel that Democrats who are now so willing to hand her the nomination will also see the worse aspects.
Other controversies also surround Clinton at present. Matthew Contenetti has raised criticism this week of Clinton's early defense of child rapist. See Doug Mataconis and Steve M for responses.
Even a simple question from The New York Times Book Review has created controversy as it reinforced views of Clinton as being calculating and dishonest:
If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be?
At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.
Gawker's reaction was that, "Some people like Hillary Clinton. Other people dislike Hillary Clinton. However you feel about Hillary Clinton, it is difficult to deny that she is one of the most cold and calculating political figures in all the land." This led to a link to a 2013 article on Clinton's Cowardice As a Political Philosophy, which looked at her views on Iraq and gay marriage.
The Daily Banter responded:
But does Clinton calling the Bible her most influential book tantamount to a political calculation?
Yes it does.
It would be one thing if Clinton meant that the Bible has been the most influential on her because it's had a profound impact on the course of human history for more than 2,000 years. However, she wasn't talking about the book's cultural and political impact, but rather the influence it's had on her personally as a reader of it.
Because if the book with the biggest influence on Hillary Clinton were truly the Bible, she would never have gotten to where she is. The Bible, however beloved it may be, is not a book conducive to thinking. Rather, the Bible deals in revealed wisdom written by men of antiquity who probably knew less about the natural world than a contemporary American fifth grader. Without question there are passages in the Bible that may very well have given her a modicum of wisdom, comfort, and encouragement, but for every such excerpt there is one or more that couldn't be more disturbing and anathema to what we today call common decency.
There is no time to air all the dirty laundry of the Bible here. Besides, most Americans are familiar with its horrors, yet many seem to accept it as a sort of general guide on how to live by focusing on passages they find agreeable while discarding the rest.
The "rest" would include the multiple instances of mass killing in the Old Testament, including the great flood started by god that wiped out nearly all of humanity. Homosexuals, witches, and Sabbath-breakers are ordered killed. The Ten Commandments say that one must only worship Yahweh, who judges people merely for what they think. Interestingly enough, rape is not mentioned in the commandments.
In the New Testament, we come to learn that those who do not accept that Jesus was brutally tortured and killed for their sins will suffer in hell in anguish for all eternity simply for not believing. This is founding principle of Christianity.
And yet this is the text that Hillary Clinton — a Yale Law School-educated former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State — says is the book that's had the biggest impact on her life.
You can believe it if you like. And if you do, there's a bridge near me I'd like to sell you.
While hardly the biggest campaign issue, this also underscores Hillary Clinton's lack of self-awareness, failing to understand how a dishonest and calculating answer such as this does nothing to appease the right while reinforcing reservations about her from the left.


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911:Occult symbolism XII
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Linked with the central mystery were countless lesser mysteries, the hidden meaning of which was known only to the initiates, but the outward forms were practiced by all the people. Among these were the doctrines of purgatorial purification after death, salvation by countless sacraments (such as priestly absolution), sprinkling with holy water, the offering of round cakes to the queen of heaven (as mentioned in the book of Jeremiah), dedication of virgins to the gods (which was literally sanctified prostitution), weeping for Tammuz for a period of 40 days prior to the great festival of Istar (who was said to have received her son back from the dead); for it was taught that Tammuz was slain by a wild boar and afterwards brought back to life. To him the egg was sacred, as depicting the mystery of his resurrection even as the evergreen was his chosen symbol and was set up in honor of his birth at the winter solstice, when a boar's head was eaten in memory of his conflict and a yule log burned with many mysterious observances. [36]
- The egg is used as a symbol of ressurection
- Also see:
The pagan festival of Astarte or Ishtar (Easter) is always held in late april to celebrate the earth regenerating itself after winter. Eggs and rabbit (Note: Rabbit symbol for Playboy Magazine) symbols were used for fertility
- Vatican Egg symbolism
- Commercial usage of the egg symbol
Easter egg tradition using the rabbit symbol.
Kinder egg
Cosmic egg
- See also: pine cones, Cosmology
- Eggs (Easter). Eggs were symbolical from an early time. There was the "Mundane Egg", in which Brahma gestated, with the Hindus the Hiranya-Gharba, and the Mundane Egg of the Egyptians, which proceeds from the mouth of the "unmade and eternal deity", Kneph, and which is the emblem of generative power. Then the Egg of Babylon, which hatched Ishtar, and was said to have fallen from heaven into the Euphrates. Therefore coloured eggs were used yearly during spring in almost every country, and in Egypt were exchanged as sacred symbols in the spring-time, which was, is, and ever will be, the emblem of birth or rebirth, cosmic and human, celestial and terrestrial. They were hung up in Egyptian temples and are so suspended to this day in Mahometan mosques. [37]
- The philosophical or cosmic egg is another nearly universal symbol. Alchemically, the egg is a symbol of the cosmos, as it is in a multitude of folk legends. In Hindu cosmology, it is the source of the universe. The egg as a container of the universe is found in many ancient religions. The egg symbolizes birth and potential. It contains within a miniature Phanèssun, and it features prominently in solar mythology. The gods Vishnu, Phanès (Orphism religion), and Mithras, are all "egg born" solar deities. Another solar entity, the rooster, is also born of an egg. [38]
- Eggs of Ostara
The birth of Mithras from the Cosmic Egg. As Soma is born from the Golden Embryo. [3]
Some archaeologists refer to this stone (egg shaped) as an omphalos stone, and compare it to similar stones found in Delphi. The omphalos stone identified a site as a "centre of the world", as well as a meeting place of heaven and earth. [4]
- Various notes:
- See also: Human skull symbolism
Skulls and bones
- Various notes:
- See also: X symbolism
- "The Jesuit Order would fly the Skull & Crossbones on their Black ships. These ships were shown in the program 'Shogan' with Richard Chamberlain from the eighties. Their known as the Brotherhood of Death. This is where the Knight of Malta controlled, Nazi SS got their name and then the Russell Trust, Yale society 'Skull & Bones'. Study certain Jesuit churches and their fascination with the skulls and bones. Study the I-Mori and their fascination with skulls." -Craig Oxley
- Various skulls and bones:
Skull And Crossbones At The Vatican [5]
The skull and crossbones, as seen in this photo at the Shrine of Saint Joseph in downtown Saint Louis, Missouri, is an obvious symbol for death
Note: the Butterfly.Logo of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University, of which Prescott Bush, George Bush Sr. and George Bush were/are members. Membership is for life.
- George Bush Sr S&B2.jpg
(see previous)
Deaths Head on front of Imperial German helmet
Picture showing Deaths Head on Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II own Liebgarde Hussar regiment of Potsdam, Berlin.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the June 25th 2007 cover of TIME magazine.
- Black Hand skulls and bones: The Constitution of the Unification or Death Society (IV. The Seal and the Oath of Allegiance, Article 34.)
- The Organisation's official seal is thus composed: In the centre of the seal there is a powerful arm holding in its hand an unfurled flag on which - as a coat of arms - there is a skull with crossed bones; by the side of the flag, a knife, a bomb and a phial of poison (The Jesuits Favorite assassination method, another of their trademark). Around, in a circle, there is the following inscription, reading from left to right: "Unification or death", and in the base: "The Supreme Central Directorate". [39]
Seal of Black Hand (Serbian: Црна рука / Crna Ruka), officially Unification or Death.
Note: Black Hand along Young Bosnia was a Mazzini enterprise which after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand Archduke of Austria, caused WWI linking the Jesuits direclty to WWI.
- Nazi Totenkopf:
The German secret service logo is the symbol of Jupiter, or Lucifer. Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst Walter Shellenberg says this: The SS had been organized by Heinrich Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola constituted a model which Heinrich Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment (As quoted in World War Two in the News: "Death of Heinrich Himmler." ). [6]
Nazi Totenkopf ring
The Deaths Head emblem used by the Nazi SS.
- Sedlec Ossuary
- Capuchin Church (Vienna)
- Chapel of Bones Pictures - Capela dos Ossos in Evora, Portugal
Also see: Catacombs, bone chapels.
Society of Jesus Logo made from human bones [7]
Schwarzenberg Coat Of Arms at Sedlec Ossuary [10]
Bone chandelier in the Sedlec Ossuary [11]
- Various notes:
- Various notes:
- See also:
- Parthenogenesis (divine birth, virgin birth)
- "The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece", Marguerite Rigoglioso, ISBN 978-0230614772
- audio: gnosticmedia interview
- "The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece", Marguerite Rigoglioso, ISBN 978-0230614772
- Catholic Virgin Mary
- See also:
- According to Dr. Anthony Perks' ("Stonehenge: A view from medcine" [40]) new theory that Stonehenge symbolically represents a vulva at childbirth when viewed from the sky; the Altar stone represents the clitoris. The U-shaped "Horseshoe" formed by the bluestone trilithons represents the labia minora and the outlines the vaginal opening of the symbolic Stonehenge birth canal. The outer circle of trilithons, and possibly the outer bank or mound, represents the labia majora. [41]
- The ring (or hoop) is an ancient female symbol. Many people still refer to it by its ancient Sanskrit name, "yoni."
- The word "yoni" can refer to the external female parts, i.e. the vulva, or to the entire female genital system including the vagina. Interestingly, in many ancient cultures including Roman society, prostitutes solicited passers-by by sitting in their windows and holding up their hands with thumb and index fingers coming together at the tips thus showing their trade symbol, the yoni.
- Many ancient statues and images show goddesses holding rings in their hands or with rings attached to various parts of their bodies. The rings were not always perfectly round, however. Sometimes, they were oval or even double-pointed ellipses. Why was this so? In the process of childbirth, the shape of a woman's vulva will first stretch into a double-pointed ellipse. As the child's head begins to crown, the edges will slightly round off forming an oval. Finally, as the child proceeds to full birth, the top and bottom of the vulva smooth out even more, forming a circle. Therefore, all of these shapes have come to symbolize the female procreative role.
- A yoni is also symbolic of a temple where the "divine essence" of a woman is worshipped. This is another reason why temple prostitution was considered sacred. The "Queen of Heaven" (Semiramis) was worshipped as men entered into her temple, i.e. as they had sexual intercourse with one of the temple prostitutes. [42]
Yoni (paleolithic Ferrassie), Shri-Yantra has superimposed yoni-lingam motifs,Yoni (South India) [12]
- Various notes:
- See also:
todo: mammary-breast domed buildings
The top of the building which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, is shaped as a female breast and has milky-white water squirting onto it 24 hours a day.
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was first constituted in the chapel of Notre Dame Church in Montmartre, Paris, 1534. Now this church is called the Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart). [13]
The Großer Platz: Part of Hitler's "Germania" project, the building would have been over 200 metres high and 250 metres in diameter, sixteen times larger than the dome of St. Peter's.
todo: milk grotto Bethlehem
The white patches on the walls of the milk grotto in Bethlehem are supposedly preserved milk from the breasts of Mary that apparently squirted against the walls as she nursed the baby Jesus. [14]
- See also:
- List of fertility deities
- Min (god). This egyptian god Min was a fertility dark-skinned god depicted with an erected penis and a flail. Also know as Khem or Min, he was the god of reproduction; as Khnum, he was the creator of all things, "the maker of gods and men". His cult was strongest in Coptos and Akhmim (Panopolis)... As the central deity of fertility and possibly orgiastic rites Min became identified by the Greeks with the god Pan.
- Priapus (called "Mutinus Mutunus" in Ancient Rome): "fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia."
The co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the successors of Emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161), set up a column to honor the deified Antoninus. [15]
Most often, pairs of giant monoliths of red granite from Aswan were erected in front of the massive double towers of a temple gateway. As a symbol of the sun, the creator-god of the ancient Egyptian pantheon, the giant obelisks marked the temple as a zone of sun worship. Therefore obelisks are not found in front of every temple, but only in temples associated with the sun-god. [43]
- The pagan association of the obelisk was something well understood by the church. The Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher [44] in his book Obeliscus Pamphilius, published in 1650, gives an account of the ancient views of the obelisk as the "digitus solis", or "finger of the sun" . Pope Sixtus V (1585 - 1590) had the Egyptian obelisks erected all over Rome, as Counter-Reformation monuments. [45] (Also see: Nature as model: Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design p. 174, By Luke Morgan)
- The word matstsebah in Hebrew means standing images or obelisk and it can be found in many places of the Bible. Here is Strong's definition of the Hebrew word matstsebah: H4676. matstsebah, mats-tsay-baw; fem. (causat.) part. of H5324; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by anal. an idol:--garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
- In the following verses matstsebah has been translated as image(s)-
- Exo 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
- Exo 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- Lev 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
- Deu 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- Deu 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- 1 Ki 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- 2 Ki 3:2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
- 2 Ki 10:26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
- 2 Ki 10:27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
- 2 Chr 14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
- 2 Chr 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- Jer 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
- Micah 5:13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
- In the following verses matstsebah has been translated as image(s)-
- Another Hebrew word is also used for "sun images" or obelisks, the word chamman. Again, here is the Strong's definition-: H2553. chamman, kham-mawn; from H2535; a sun-pillar:--idol, image.
- Chamman is also translated as simply image(s) in the King James:
- Isa 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
- Isa 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
- 2 Chr 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- Chamman is also translated as simply image(s) in the King James:
- The word matstsebah in Hebrew means standing images or obelisk and it can be found in many places of the Bible. Here is Strong's definition of the Hebrew word matstsebah: H4676. matstsebah, mats-tsay-baw; fem. (causat.) part. of H5324; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by anal. an idol:--garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
- Masonic explanation
- From Masonic Literature, the only place where we can get some understanding of the symbols we are confronted with when we go to Rome and visit St Peter's Square. "The Sun is symbolized by a point in the middle in Freemasonry.. In this case the obilisk serves as the middle. The Ancient Astronomers saw all the great Symbols of Masonry in the Stars, (l'Etoile Flamboyante). The Sun is still symbolized by the point within a Circle; and, with the Moon and Mercury or Anubus, in the three Great Lights of the Lodge. .. (they) were ascribed peculiar divine powers. (It is also) an emblem of UNITY. (Morals and Dogma , by Albert Pike- p. 486) "The celebrated Labyrinth was built in honor of the Sun; and its twelve palaces, like the twelve superb columns of the Temple at Hieroplolis. The figure of the pyramid (on top of the obelisk) and that of the obelisk, resembling the shape of a flame, caused these monuments to be consecrated to the Sun and the Fire. Obelisks were erected in honor ot the Sun. (Ibid., - p.459,460). The worship of the Sun became the basis of all the religions of antiquity. To them the Sun is author of life, heat, and ignition.. His (the sun's) beneficient influences caused his identification with the Principle of Good; and the Brahma of the Hindus, the Mithras of the Persians, and Athom, Phtha, and Osiris, of the Egyptians. the Bel of the Chaldeans, the Adonai of the Phoenicians, the Adonis and Apollo of the Greeks became but personifications of the Sun, the regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and rejuvenates the world's existence. (Ibid., - p. 593) [46]
- Various notes:
- The obelisk enacts the same formula as the pyramid - maximum height for minimum base - but in different material, leading to different scale and architectural setting. The tip of the obelisk might be covered in shining metal - gold or the gold-silver alloy electrum; this would catch the first ray of the sun just before dawn, dramatising the illuminating and life-giving power of the creator. These effects are specified in the inscriptions of New Kingdom obelisks, which also make clear the intimate relation of king and sun-god (see the pages on kingship on this website). [47]
- The obelisk consists of four trapezoids and a pyramid capstone. [48]
- See also:
- Asherah In Israel and Judah and Asherah pole
- Ogham & Ogham Stones
- Occult symbolism: Phallus
- Roman triumph: "a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome. Its origins and development remain obscure: ancient Roman historians placed the first triumph in the mythical past. The triumph publicly celebrated and sanctified the military achievements of an army commander who had won great military successes"
- "Obelisk's of the world"
- "Does your Church worship Baal?"
- "Grover's Guide to Campus Phallic Symbols"
- "Be Fruitful and Multiply"
- To research: Phoenician Beth-el ("house/stone of god"). See also: Betyle stone.
- The obelisk enacts the same formula as the pyramid - maximum height for minimum base - but in different material, leading to different scale and architectural setting. The tip of the obelisk might be covered in shining metal - gold or the gold-silver alloy electrum; this would catch the first ray of the sun just before dawn, dramatising the illuminating and life-giving power of the creator. These effects are specified in the inscriptions of New Kingdom obelisks, which also make clear the intimate relation of king and sun-god (see the pages on kingship on this website). [47]
Karnak obelisk, (near Luxor, Egypt)
Heliopolis obelisk (without hieroglyphs??), Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City (placed in 1586) (see also: Obelisks in Rome)
Heliopolis obelisk obelisk, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy (placed in 1589)
Sanssouci obelisk, Potsdam, Germany (build in 1747)
Gamla stan, Sweden (build in 1800)
Heliopolis obelisk, Paris (placed in 1833 from Thebes, Egypt)
Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Massachusetts, US. (build between 1827 and 1843)
District of Columbia obelisk (build between 1848-1884)
See also: [16]Hyde Park Obelisk, Sydney, Australia (build in 1857)
Heliopolis obelisk, City of London (placed in 1878 from Alexandria, Egypt)
Heliopolis obelisk, New York (placed in 1881 from Alexandria, Egypt)
Bennington Battle Monument, Vermont, US. (build in 1889)
Buenos Aires obelisk, Argentina (built in 1936)
San Jacinto Monument, US (build in 1939)
Note the pentagram top and the nearby pyramid object. See also: [17].Altamira, Caracas, Venezuela (build in 1944)
Obelisk of São Paulo, Brazil (build between 1944-1970)
Halde Hoheward, Germany (build in ?)
Messeturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1991).
It is the second tallest building in Germany and the also the second tallest in the European Union.? building in Singapore.
In the background is the Singapore Flyer ferris wheel.The 2nd tallest obelisk in the world--2nd only to the Washington Monument, Phoenix Park , Dublin.
Note: The Phoenix is the Masonic animal by Excellence.Obelisk Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial-Jerusalem inside an six pointed star (surrounded by 6 hexagons) [18]
Obelisk on the Malecon in Santo Domingo to commemorate the Mirabal Sisters [19]
- Obelisk graves of the 'elite':
Obelisk grave marker of John D. Rockefeller
Obelisk gravestone of Thomas Jefferson
Obelisk gravestone of James Madison
- Black obelisks:
The Obelisk of Manishtushu found at Susa [20]
This black obelisk was erected by Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC). [21]
Black siltstone obelisk of King Nectanebo II of Egypt, Thirtieth dynasty, about 350 BC. According to the vertical inscriptions Nectanebo set up this obelisk at the doorway of the sanctuary of Thoth, the Twice-Great, Lord of Hermopolis.
"This Obelisk, erected for Francis North of Guildford, is in memorandum of the exceptional hospitality shown to Frederick the Prince of Wales, most noble, during his stay at the Wroxton Abbey, September 1739" [22]
Obelisk in Elmwood Historic Cemetery on grave of successful banker and capitalist "J.J. Squier". [23]
Fritz Scholder's Obelisk at the National Museum of the American Indian- Washington DC
- Various notes:
- According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th ed., 2009), "The Maypole dance derives from spring rituals glorifying the phallus," (n. p.) It suggests that maypole dances are a relic of ancient Greek rituals that celebrated the life-death-rebirth mystery of the Isis-Ishtar-Iananna story.
- The May Pole is a phallic symbol impregnating the birth canal being woven around it by the dancers. There are two thoughts on the symbology for the white and red streamers. One is that the red stands for the Sun God and the white for the Virgin Goddess. The men, holding the red streamers, and the women the white, weave the birth canal together, representing the union of Goddess and God. [49]
- That maypole is the phallus. The strings are the semen shooting out of it. Semen is where we get the word "seminary" A seminary is a school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis. May Day is a phallic holiday. [50]
Maypole is nothing more than phallos. [24]
(todo, male/female symbol?)
- Various notes:
- In Ancient Egypt:
- (todo), see also: Sacred blue lily.
- Ancient south american culture:
- "Moche erotic pottery is fascinating, not only due to the vast number of sexual activities represented, but also because procreative coitus was only depicted in a limited number of circumstances when the male involved wore ceremonial garb, the female had two braids which ended in snake's heads, and the copulation occurred under an elaborate roof of a ceremonial building. In these scenes of procreative sex, additional figures are always depicted watching the couple in the building and holding their hands as though in supplication. The precise meaning of this has never been established."
- In Ancient Greece:
- "Orgion was a secret rite of the Greek Mystery religions, practiced in the worship of Demeter at Eleusis (mentioned in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) or in worship of Dionysus (Herodotus 2.81), the Cabeiri, Demeter Achaia (Herodotus 2.51, 5.61), Orpheus, Eumolpus, or Cybele. The term could also refer to rites or sacrifices in general, the verb ὀργιάζω denoting ritual celebration." [51]
- In Ancient Rome:
- Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus in Greek).
- In Ancient Egypt:
Spintria, Roman brothel tokens, display various services in relation to the obverse value of the coin. [25]
(image origin?) [26]
Khajuraho (King). Shakti embracing a recumbent Shiva. [27]
- Various notes:
JungleBook CD Disney movie displaying the Pedophile Symbol
Flight Of The Navigator Disney movie displaying the symbol
See: Catholic sex abuse crisis
Note the Saturno hats (which represent the planet Saturn).Greek Gymnasia was the showcase for "naked" athletic boys and the practice of pederasty. Pederasty or paederasty is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male. The word pederasty derives from Greek (paiderastia) "Love of Boys". Dionysius II's court was known in particular for its "Love of Boys". Unlike King Sneferu of Kemet, few if any called the Dionysiuses of Syracuse "Kings". [32]
Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) [33]
Artwork from classical Greece depicting male love and homosexual traditions. Many works portray the gay loves of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology. [34]
- Homosexual agenda (Main Article)
- The Thrissur Pooram is an open air stadium converted into an orgy park [52]
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Sodomy
- History of prostitution
- List of prostitutes and courtesans
- Sacred prostitution
- Category:Royal mistresses
- Human trafficking and Sexual slavery
- Prostitution of children
- todo hermaphrodite / Androgyny / Transexuals
- Not unique to these sites but unlike most Indians temples which concentrate on Hindu and Buddhist figures, here were many such erotic motifs. Supposedly the modern prudishness in India is an English influence. At Belur, the whole spectrum of existence including violence, music, dancing, agriculture, animals and also sex were represented. Music, orgies... And for those who think such things are new ideas - it wasn't just a matter of various positions but multiple partners, homosexuality and bestiality to boot. [53]
One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the largest group of medieval Hindu and Jain temples, famous for their erotic sculpture. [35]


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lot of you guys might believe that political correctness originated
under the communism of the Soviet Union, and yes, this is the setting
in which the term was born. Its first popular use was by
equalitarian socialists of the mid-20th century to describe dogmatic,
hard-line communists who toed the official party line over things
like compassion or common sense. Since then, it has been embraced by
the "new left" within various social and political
institutions, most notably, government, education and the media.
political correctness is not a new thing. It is not a left/right
thing or a western thing. It is not the brainchild of Cultural
Marxism, no matter how well or how eagerly cultural marxists may
employ it as a bludgeon in order to control public discourse.
its core, political correctness is about is the dominant belief
system, the dominant social and political paradigm, dictating what
people are allowed to say and what ideas people are allowed to
express, which in turn dictates what others are allowed to hear and
what ideas they are allowed to be exposed to.
this sense, a fundamentalist Imam issuing a fatwa against someone who
published a cartoon of Mohammad is no different from the ousting of
Larry Summers from his position as president of Harvard for daring tosuggest that there might be biological differences between men andwomen that affect their levels of success in different fields ofstudy. Here we have two wildly different belief systems at
work--radical Islam and progressive feminism, but in both cases,
individuals are being punished for expressing ideas that are
considered taboo by the establishment.
in the west, the dominant paradigm that dictates which ideas are
politically correct and which are not leans to the left. It favors
progressivism, feminism, socialism, egalitarianism, sexual freedom,
environmentalism and diversity. Its thought-terminating,
conversation-ending cliches reflect that paradigm. But accusatory
words like sexist, racist, homophobe, misogynist, over-privileged
white male, rape apologist, woman-hater, Neanderthal, right wing-nut
and even climate change denier are no different in intention and
effect from those in use 500 years ago: heretic, infidel, blasphemer,
apostate, heathen, witch.
words and ideas are extolled by the establishment. Incorrect ones are
censured or banned.
political correctness is generally thought of as the means by which
governments and formal institutions can establish political control
of society and curtail freedom of thought partly through controlling
and manipulating language, suggesting an official top-down system of
enforcement and control--here in the west, it has morphed into a
multi-headed hydra, attacking ideas from the top-down, the bottom up,
and playing all ends against the middle.
of its primary feeding and breeding grounds in the US and Canada lies
on the typical university campus, where administrators, intentionally
or unwittingly, students' unions and student "social justice"
warriors have created a kind of perfect storm of thought suppression in the very realm of our society supposedly devoted to freedom of
thought and the free exchange of ideas.
November of 2012, author and psychologist Warren Farrell was invitedby the Canadian Association for Equality to speak at the Universityof Toronto. Among Farrell's credentials are his election twice to the
board of directors of the New York chapter of the National
Organization for Women, having his books featured in Oprah's book
club, and being named by the Financial Times as one of the world's
top 100 Thought Leaders. He runs regular workshops for couples
looking to communicate more effectively with each other, and frankly,
he's the most polite, kind and soft-spoken man you could hope to
problem was that the topic of his talk was the "boy crisis".
He planned to address the high rate of male suicide (3 to 4 times
that of girls and young women), the growing "failure to launch"
phenomenon regarding young men, and falling levels of male
educational attainment. Oh, and then there's the dire sin of his
questioning of the feminist assertion that men are, and have ever
been, as a class, the oppressors of women as a class.
social justice warriors, in conjunction with the university's women's
studies department, the student union, and the local chapter of the
Canadian Union of Public Employees, set up a human barricade at thedoors to the building, refusing to allow attendees to enter. They
openly claimed they were there to shut down an event that was
"promoting patriarchy". They claimed that some of Farrell's
research findings have been misogynistic, and promote rape and
incest. They verbally bullied, harassed, assaulted and abused several
attendees, who were pulled to the side by police for their own
protection. When police intervened to remove the human barricade so
attendees could enter, the protesters turned their hostility on
police, some of them committing assault.
to prevent a discussion on why young men commit suicide so much more
often than young women, why they're increasingly flunking out of
school, and why they're experiencing a growing reluctance to take on
adult responsibilities.
then, the Canadian Association for Equality has sponsored other
events at universities in Ontario--Ryerson, the University of
Toronto, the University of Ottawa and Queens University--to speak
about the problems facing men and boys in our culture, and to
criticize feminism's sexist double standards. Many of these talks
were disrupted by protesters who turned lights on and off, pulled
fire alarms, shouted through bullhorns while banging and chantingjust outside the lecture hall doors, and in the most recent case, atalk by Professor Janice Fiamengo at her own university in Ottawa, by
attending, and then shutting the talk down by banging desks, blowing
horns, singing, chanting and shouting.
American civil rights lawyer Harvey Silvergate bemoans this new
culture on North American campuses. As a young, idealistic student at
Harvard, he participated in the Free Speech Movement, and he lamentswhat he calls the Harvard bait and switch--that now so many of the
very liberals who protested in favor of freedom of speech and thought
on campus have flip-flopped since they became numerically dominant on
university campuses, in faculty and administration. He is in the
unenviable position of being a staunch liberal who feels compelled to
defend the rights of conservative students, pro-life students,
Christian and traditionalist students, through his work with the
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an organization he
founded. Not because he agrees with their politics, but because they
are now the ones whose voices and rights are being marginalized by
the politically correct establishment.
is the nature of power that it seeks to preserve itself, and one of
the most effective ways to do that is to suppress dissenting speech
and thought. Unlike many people these days, I refuse to specifically
implicate the political left in a repressive and abusive behavior
that is just as common in highly conservative institutions when
conservatism is the dominant paradigm. Political correctness is not a
problem with any particular ideology--it's an ideology problem, a
human problem, and it will always be the political underdog who most
highly values the right to free expression of ideas.
a vocal anti-feminist for the last four years, whose current place
of business is YouTube, I am extremely concerned by the idea that any
institution presenting itself as a venue to share information and
ideas might place unreasonable or biased limits on freedom of thought
and expression. And one of the more insidious developments in recent
years has been the shifting of the ideological battlefield away from
arenas where free speech is guaranteed, whether by the US
Constitution or Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and into
the private sector. While governments in free societies must tolerate
speech they don't like, privately owned businesses are uniquely
vulnerable to any threat to their bottom line, and exempt from
anti-censorship laws.
year, a feminist launched a media campaign designed to draw attention
to misogynistic pages and groups on Facebook. Admittedly, some of
these pages were pretty horrific--glorifying violence against women,
and promoting hate. Mortified by all the negative publicity, Facebook
agreed to allow feminist consultants who were experts in "spotting
misogyny" to train their community standards staff in how to
better moderate that privately owned online community.
the months that followed, a lot of misogynistic pages were removed.
However, also caught in the anti-misogyny sweep were pages whose only
sin was to publish government statistics on domestic violence, or to
draw attention to harmful or criminal behaviors most commonly
committed by women--things like infanticide and paternity fraud.
Allowed to stand for months on end were pages devoted to promoting male genocide, or to discussing why all men are pigs.
while I am no fan of censorship--either by government or by private
entities--what is good for the goose should reasonably be considered
good for the gander. But in the world of gender politics, this is
almost never how it plays out.
year or two ago, JC Penny was called on the carpet by outraged Social
Justice Warriors for marketing t-shirts to girls that claimed, "I'mtoo pretty to do homework, so I make my brother do it for me."
Chagrinned by media backlash and a potential boycott over accusations
of misogyny and sexism, JC Penny pulled the shirts from their shelves,
where they had once sat alongside a plethora of merchandise claiming
"Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them." As far as I know,
"Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them" is still a brand
available on the shelves at various retailers.
a campaign was recently launched on Twitter to pressure ComedyCentral to cancel the show "The Colbert Report" over asatirical tweet that used racism against Asian Americans to highlightthe absurdity of Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder's offer toopen a foundation for "original Americans" rather thanchange the racist name of his team. The Tweet read, "I
am willing to show #Asian community I care by introducing the
Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or
in mind, this Tweet was lampooning Dan Snyder, not Asian Americans.
It was ridiculing racism and racists, not any given race. But Social
Justice Warriors picked up their pitchforks and sallied forth,
nonetheless. Apologies abounded, the tweet was removed, and somehow,
the social justice warriors only got angier.
Harvey Silvergate said, free speech for me, but not for thee. And
while Colbert might be a big enough cash cow for Comedy Central to be
willing to weather this internet tempest in a teacup, not everyone
who speaks against the status quo is profitable enough for TV
networks, radio stations, and online social networking sites and
hosting services to tolerate the hit to their wallet.
in point, Justin Vacula, a prominent member of the atheist skeptic
community, was forced to resign his position as head of his chapter
of the Secular Coalition for America because he had the temerity to
be skeptical about feminist claims of rampant sexual harassment and
assault at conferences and events. Yes, you heard me, a leader of a
community that values skepticism of any and all claims and bases
itself on solid empiricism and the scientific method was ousted from
a prominent position in that community because he refused to accept
vague, ephemeral and completely unsubstantiated claims that women
were being harassed and raped willy nilly at conferences. He was
deemed unfit among the skeptical community because of his skepticism.
Meanwhile, the methods by which his enemies coerced him into stepping
down included slander, libel, employment blacklisting and an
organized letter writing campaign to his parents, who were publicly
doxxed, to tell them what a horrible, misogynistic son they'd raised.
similar case involved a father of four named Gregory Allen Elliott in
Toronto. He'd offered his services as a graphic designer to an
organization called women in toronto politics, founded by outspoken
feminist Steph Guthrie. Here was a man so devoted to promoting women
in politics that he offered to design posters and advertisements to
assist in that endeavor. Where he went wrong was in criticizingGuthrie and her friends on Twitter for their current and planned real
life harassment of a man whose legal actions they disapproved of--a
game developer who'd created a crude and vulgar video game app
targeting another feminist's ideas and actions. The three women in
the case made public the game developer's real name, address and
other identifying information, had tweeted to all software companies
in the region to not hire him, and were planning to poster his home
town with evidence of his sins.
Allen Elliot told them over Twitter that he disapproved of their
vengeful mentality and their harassment of a man who had done nothing
illegal, and who had published a game clearly labelled and explained
as a satire and criticism of a single individual's ideas. Police
found nothing in Mr Elliott's tweets that even hinted at
intimidation, threats or violence.
those tweets are the basis for a pending charge of criminal
harassment against Mr Elliott. Yes, you heard me. A man tweeting that
he disapproves of a group of women conspiring to harass someone is,
apparently, itself criminal harassment. Elliott is currently on trial
for daring to say he thinks Steph Guthrie and her feminist friends
are horrible people.
then an acquaintance of theirs violated judicial protocol and wrote
directly to the judge that these women had conspired to make a public
example out of Mr Elliot through manipulation of the justice system.
The judge has ordered that the allegations be investigated.
just the day before yesterday, in my home town, radio station 630CHED
was forced to pull an opinion poll and apologize to local
professional umbrage-takers. Their dire crime? After a news piece
quoted an Edmonton police spokesperson as having said victim blaming
is still too common in cases of sexual assault, CHED set up a poll to
find out just how prevalent it is. The question was, "when a
person is assaulted, is the victim ever to blame?"
uproar is a bit of a head-scratcher. If it was not offensive to have
Edmonton Police services say "victim blaming still happens too
often", how on earth is it now offensive to have a radio station
run a poll to figure out what percentage of people think this way?
again, what happens? The offending poll--or story, or op-ed, or
tweet--gets pulled, and the "offender" apologizes like
there was no tomorrow, often to no avail. Ask Larry Summers what good
his several apologies did him. He was still out of a job six months
later. In fact, I think apologizing was his first mistake--the
outrage over his hypothesis was not grounded in any sort of reason or
logic. It was pure irrational emotion, so raw that a female professor
in the audience later claimed, completely sincerely, she could not
believe what she was hearing and literally felt like she was going to
throw up.
hypothesis--one of three he presented as possible reasons women do
not achieve at the extreme high end of ability in math and physics
quite as often as men do--was that because men have a flatter
distribution curve for many traits (including intelligence), there
are simply more men than women at both ends of the curve when you're
talking several standard deviations from the mean. In other words,
there are more male idiots than female ones, and more male geniuses
than female ones.
is nothing untrue or unreasonable about this statement. And I find it
telling that the professor who was driven to nausea over her complete
misinterpretation of what he said--which was also repeatedly
misinterpreted in the media--felt no offence over Summers' intimation
that there are more stupid men than stupid women. In fact, she seemed
to not even notice it, given her interpretation was that he'd claimed
that men were inherently more intelligent than women, and more gifted
in math and science.
are even more troubling in Europe. Some examples from the last couple
of years in the UK include a young man being charged with a crime forcalling a police officer's horse "gay", and an elderly
woman being arrested for shouting outside a mosque that Muslimsshould fit in or go back where they came from, only blocks away from
a spot where a fundamentalist Imam was routinely preaching Jihad to
passersby, unmolested by police.
recent proposal for a bill presented to the European Union suggested
codifying something described as "group libel" in itslegislation. It laid out a scheme by which any negative, ridiculing
or mocking speech against any identifiable group of people--stated
examples of which included religions, races, ethnicities, and
feminism--would be actionable in a court of law. In Sweden, political
pundits have called for laws to make anti-feminist speech criminal.
In Spain, they recently passed an act that officially declares
femicide, defined as the killing of any woman by any man, a special
crime subject to stiffer penalties than any other type of homicide,
and if the European Union were to accept "group libel" as a
valid concept, speaking against such a feminist law would become
effectively illegal.
most horrifying thing I have observed in my four years of picking
apart and criticizing political and scholarly feminism is the
willingness of those who desire to control the discourse to silence
and marginalize dissenting voices. In this way, the feminist movement
is no different from any other totalitarian ideology, however, they
have a weapon more effective than any religion or communist
government--they claim to represent women, therefore any criticism
levelled against them can be construed as damaging to women. And
we're just not that rational when it comes to things that harm
women--hence the Violence Against Women Act, specifically to protect
the very members of our society who are the least likely to suffer
radicals are the loudest and most influential voices and the silent
majority remains too silent, even when they might otherwise want to
speak. Because when they do speak, they end up, like self-described
equity feminist Christina Hoff Sommers, listed in the anti-feminismsection of feminism's wikipedia page. Or they end up having to resign
from their position as head of an organization or institution.
has a multitude of disagreements within its big tent, so many that
some have taken to using the word "feminisms" to describe
the movement, but the instinctive response to outsiders levelling
criticism at any feminist or branch of feminism tends to be a
powerful desire to circle the wagons against the external threat. To
defend the label rather than disavow bigots, censors or liars, or to
refuse to examine how even their more mainstream ideas play a
significant role in creating such radicals.
not difficult to expose feminism for what it is--a set of
unfalsifiable hypotheses that have no basis in empirical reality, and
which are about as effective as a coin-toss in predicting reality.
What IS difficult is maintaining a venue in which to perform that
exposition so others can see it. Feminists interested in silencing
people like me often employ the community moderation processes of
social networking sites, processes that are often automated, to shut
down the accounts of people they don't like or to have their materialremoved. My Youtube channel is quite sizeable, and I put money in
Youtube's pockets, so they generally put a pair of human eyes on any
flagging or complaints against me. Smaller channels, those for whom
the unfailing guarantee of freedom of expression is most important,
are not so lucky.
have heard many people in the gender debate say that if you're having
to step down from a job or fear violent retaliation because of your
ideas, that obviously means your ideas are invalid or bad or wrong or
harmful. Tell that to Copernicus. Tell it to Galileo. Tell it to that
dude who suggested that washing your hands between handling a corps
and delivering a baby could save lives--the medical establishment
thought he was a total quack for decades, and shunned him
idea needs to be open to challenge and scrutiny. It needs to be
allowed to compete in a free marketplace. And yet so many feminists
I've interacted with seem to see George Orwell's 1984 not as a
warning, but an instruction manual. Like Newspeak, the only language
that gets smaller every year, the body of ideas on a number of issues
is in danger of also getting smaller, year by year.
it's up to the political underdogs to not only hold back the social
and political forces that threaten to erode freedom of expression,
despite guarantees written into our constitutions and national
charters, but to not pull a Harvard bait and switch and become the
very thing we're fighting against, if and when we become the dominant
voice in society.


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Welcome to the website of photographer Jaroslav Kucera, who offer you a complete overview of his life and work. In the "gallery" you can see more than 500 photos of the many cycles that create or are still working.
In addition to black and white photographs with a social subtext, you can look and color photographs of historic architecture. If you want to meet briefly with his most famous photographs is prepared for you "Gallery Top 50" with fifty photos and short biography.
Photographer Jaroslav Kučera
He was born on 19 December 1946 in the municipality of Ředhošť in the Litoměřice district. In 1996 he graduated from the Secondary School of Civil Engineering in Mělník. The following year he commenced studies at College of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He was accommodated at the Strahov campus, where he became a
co-founder of the Strahov Fotoclub. It was here where he conducted exhibitions for the first time.


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"Hi, my name is Amy and I came to Dr. Kormarnyckyj's office about a year and a half ago. I've had multiple appointments since then, but during each appointment everyone was fabulous. The assistant is always sensitive, nice, caring, genuine and always has the patient's intention at heart. The receptionist up at the front always has a smile on her face and is willing to help whenever necessary. Dr. K truly, truly cared from appointment #1 to appointment #20 or however many we had. He was always there, always caring and always did what we needed to do. All in all the service was great, even during the not so fun times of surgery and extractions and all of that, he was great. Multiple appointments, but every single one of them I left feeling good about the service and what they did for me here. I highly recommend coming to Dr. K."
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"I've had to come back since, to have another one done because my tooth had to be pulled and again he's doing the one process, the one time. I'm not having to get the tooth pulled and then go to the periodontist for the implant. It's a one shot deal, which is much, much easier and less traumatic I think.
I came again for another one, so in the last 5 years I've been back for the 3-tooth procedure was the one time; then I had to get the 2 more implants, one on each side on the upper. And the same thing, the only thing is you have to wait of course for to get your implant done so you have to wait about 3 months. Other than that as far as dental procedures go for that rather than going through the root canal and some else pulling it and going through that agony. This is far superior I thought "
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"For the procedure, he told me I'd be taking some pills that would relieve my anxiety and I would be awake, which scared me to death. I would have to say that everything Dr. K promised was that and more. I had absolutely no pain, the medication he gave me put me out in a sense I was probably still half awake, but not completely, I don't remember any of the surgery. The great thing about it is after the surgery I've had no pain, not one instant of pain it's been a whole week since the surgery. I also the way he gave me the pills and not actually putting me completely to sleep, I didn't have the 2-3 days of grogginess which makes me ill. I'm happy, I'm thrilled, and I'm excited. I can't wait for the full outcome about; I can't say enough good things. Dr. K's awesome. I walked in with a mouth full of bad teeth, and I walked out the same day with a mouth full of absolutely as you can see, amazing teeth. It's a quick shot with a promise beyond my imagination, it's awesome. Thank you."
"Hi I'm Kathy. I came to see Dr. Komarnyckyj as a second consult because I was a little upset over the news that I needed a couple implants. I wasn't real comfortable not knowing what I was getting into, but Dr. Komarnyckyj talked to me and answered every question I had. He thoroughly made me comfortable with the procedure and I had total trust in what he was going to do. Today I came in for my final check up and I'm happy to say that I am very glad that I came to see Dr. K and I would recommend him to do your implants."
"My name is Lisa. I had a dead tooth and my regular dentist suggested, well we discussed the options of what I should do. I decided an implant would probably be the best bet, so he recommended Dr. Komarnyckyj. I came to the office and I must say it was the best dental experience of my life. He pulled the tooth originally and no pain. It was a very pleasant experience. Then I healed for a while and came back and had the implant which was easy as falling off a log. The nicest thing is, after all of my dental treatments in this office, I got Häagen-Dazs ice cream! Now who ever gives you that when you go to a professional? The staff was wonderful, they know what they're doing. The receptionist is willing to work with you as far as scheduling appointments. Of course, Dr. K knows what he's doing, he's an extremely nice man and dedicated professional. Like I said, it was probably the best dental experience of my life and I highly recommend him."
Dr. Komarnyckyj: "This is Lois M. and she has had some dental implants done to replace some teeth to help stabilize her lower denture. Lois, could you tell us about how long you've had your teeth missing?"
Lois: "I was 14 years old, a freshman in high school. I was a hit and run victim and it knocked out my front teeth. I had to have surgery to get the roots out and I ended up with partials. When you get partials, they ruin the rest of your teeth eventually, It doesn't matter how good you take care of your teeth
"Hello my name is Mari and I came to Dr. Komarnyckyj because I needed a tooth implant. Doing a lot of research, I was kind of afraid to get this done, but at the same token I needed something that was more permanent for me since I'm a diabetic. I wanted to find out what the pro's and con's where. Dr. K was recommended to me by my own dentist. I came and met the staff and consulted with Dr. K very friendly man and took interest in my case. I was concerned because I am diabetic, but he put it to personal touch which put me at ease right from the start. His mother is also diabetic so he has done some dental work on her as well…implants as a matter of fact, so that convinced me. The staff here with Dr. K is absolutely fantastic they set you at ease right away and they make you comfortable. Any questions you have, any concerns or any anxieties they relax you right away. I had my implant done, painless absolutely painless. The recovery was painless, no problems. I came for check up's, I got my crown and I'm very grateful to the staff and Dr. K for allowing me the opportunity of going through this process, painless. Thank you."
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"Hi, my name is Marie. I was recommended to Dr. Komarnyckyj by my friend Wally. I had two implants placed on the top of my mouth and I had a very pleasant experience in Dr. K's office with very little discomfort. I could go to work the next day which I was very happy about that. I've worn a partial for quite a while, and I was really happy to get rid of the partial. My dental implants feel really good and I recommend Dr. K's office to anyone, they will have a very pleasant experience."
"Hi, I just want to tell you a little bit about my experiences here in this office. This is the third implant that I've done and the other two times that I had an extractions and implants done, I really made them totally knock me out. But, this office convinced me that I could probably do it without the extra sedatives and I was completely impressed with the process. The entire thing did not hurt one single bit and I wasn't even in pain the night after the extraction and surgery. I was very pleased. I was only in the office a very short amount of time and everything was great."
"Hi my name is Don. I went to my dentist because I had a crown fall off and after looking at the tooth said it was a bad tooth and has to come out. He directed me to Dr. Komarnyckyj. I came out here and Dr. K pulled the tooth, I never felt the tooth go. It was amazing! He then put the post for the implant into the jawbone and it was nothing like what I even imagined it would be. There was absolutely no pain. There was no pain with pulling the tooth, there was no pain putting the implant post in which is a screw that goes into the jaw and then a post that goes into that. It was an interesting thing, it took 10-15 minutes and Dr. K said, "Alright, you're all set". I just said, "You've got to be kidding me!" I was there for like 5 minutes expecting much more of a deal and it was nothing like that. I had no concept of what getting an implant would be, but the bottom line is I would do it again in a heartbeat because it was amazing. My dentist then put the crown on over the implant. The whole thing was totally painless and a great experience, I recommend it to anybody who needs that kind of process."
"Hi my name is Edgar and I was referred to Dr. Komarnyckyj by my dentist. I was plead for implants which I had a lot of fear of. But Dr. K managed my fear really well and all my questions and concerns were answered properly. I thank the staff and I thank Dr. K, I will refer anybody I know to Dr. K for future reference."
"Hi my name is Erika, I was referred to Dr. Komarnyckyj from my general dentist. I needed to have an implant done on a back tooth that I had a crown on for quite a few years and it decided to give out on me so I had no other option other than to have an implant or to have no tooth. So I decided to go forward and do the implant and it has been an experience that I can't even say… going into it, I was a little nervous and hesitant about how much pain and how much time and all that. But, it has been amazing. I am so happy that I went forward and did it, because now I have a brand new tooth. Dr. K and his whole staff have been so accommodating and so pleasant to be around. I appreciate their time, willingness and dedication to making it a positive experience. I look forward to enjoying my new tooth."
"Hi my name is Gena and I was referred to Dr. Komarnyckyj by my dentist as I needed to get an oral implant. About 6 months ago, we started the procedure and it's now done. I have the crown on and I feel really good about it. I first got this procedure done to save another tooth, and now I don't have to worry about the possibility of losing that tooth. Dr. K and his whole office staff have been wonderful, informative, and patient; I would refer him to anybody. So if you need an oral implant, you need to call Dr. Komarnyckyj."
"Hi my name is Joana. I came to Dr. Komarnyckyj a couple years ago, I had an implant that had failed. I was a little nervous about having it redone. But when I came here the staff was really kind, generous and really made me feel comfortable. It's been a little over 2 years now since I've had this process because it takes a little while. But every appointment that I've ever come into, I've felt so comfortable. They know my name, they know my history. I would recommend this office to anyone who is interested in a dental implant because this process has been really, really easy. I recommend Dr. K, he is a very, very awesome doctor. So come in, pay him a visit and I'm sure you won't regret it"
"My name Joann and I was referred to Dr. Komarnyckyj by my regular dentist. I needed an implant and I came here and the experience was unbelievable. There was no pain, no discomfort and the staff was fantastic. I can't say enough about my experience with Dr. K and his staff. The follow up appointments with the staff were great, the receptionist called me and always reminded me of my appointments. The assistant was fantastic, she was my primary care after Dr. K, and Dr. K himself was just wonderful. Again, I can't emphasis how it was such an easy procedure and I absolutely felt no discomfort or swelling or anything. I highly recommend to anybody who needs an implant or is thinking about getting implants to call this office, you won't be sorry. Thank you."
"Hola, mi nombre es Juliana. Me hice un implante con el Dr. Komarnyckyj. Me siento muy, muy contenta porque la verdad es que me gusto mucho. Estoy muy feliz por el implante y me siento muy bien. Recomeindo implantes a quien lo necesite. Gracias a todos por el trabojo, fue muy bien hecho."
"Hello, my name is Julie, Dr. Komarnyckyj did my implant. I was referred to him by my general dentist. The experience was very positive. The staff and doctor obviously know exactly what they are doing, I felt very comfortable and I know they are very knowledgeable about this practice. There is no pain at all, it is very efficient and the end product looks very good. There was nothing bad that happened afterward, so I'm very pleased with the whole experience and I highly recommend it."
"My name is Karen and I came to Dr. Komarnyckyj about 9 months ago, but it took me 6 years to get up the nerve to get a dental implant. I had the tooth pulled about 6 years ago and just tolerated the gap in my lower jaw for that long. It wasn't until I came here to talk to Dr. K about gum restoration that I also talked to him and his wife Oksana about having my dental implant taken care of. Normally when I've gone for consultations for this, I would get very nervous, but they put me at complete ease and I was able to go through it because I respected the staff. Everyone was top notch and I never at any time felt I wasn't doing the right thing. I knew I was here because I should be and I needed to finish up this process. A "Big" thanks goes to them because I now have a full set of teeth again and I'm thrilled with the results."


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Female Heart Attacks
Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction). Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack... you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack
'I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might have brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'AAhhh', this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a full glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE in hindsight, it was probably my aorta spasms, gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, "Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!"
I lowered the foot rest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else...but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics ... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to un-bolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the radiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.
I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents. Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.
- Be aware that something very different is happening in your body, not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up...which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
- Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can, take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road. Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr will be notified later.
- Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there.
Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
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Coca-Cola China files police claim against 'false' fungicide rumors
Coca-Cola Company media relations director Petro Kacur told BeverageDaily.com last night that a report carried by Chinese state news agency Xinhua on Tuesday was accurate.
"We take the move not only to safeguard the reputation of our brand, but also to help create a fair and healthy business environment, an environment where virtue is rewarded and vice punished," Bai Changbo, vice president of Coca-Cola Greater China was quoted as saying.
Xinhua said reports had circulated online in recent days stating that Coca-Cola China had admitted in a high-profile television program that its orange juice products contain the fungicide Carbendazim.
'Absolutely no safety issue'
Additionally, the reports claimed that the program warned viewers not to consume Coca-Cola orange juice products (the firm's principal brand in China is Minute Maid) due to the alleged carbendazim presence.
But both Coca-Cola China and the producers of the program, Topics in Focus, denied that to the agency that such a program had ever been made, while Xinhua said it could not find any such episode itself.
Kacur told this publication last night:"I want to make sure you understand that these false rumors stem from the US finding of carbendazim in Brazilian orange juice shipments from last year.
"And that there is no carbendazim in juice in China. The orange juice in China is in full compliance with the national standards and there is absolutely no safety issue," he added.
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Carbendazim, used by orange growers in some nations to combat black spot mold, is classified as an unlawful pesticide residue in orange juice in the US, and imports of orange juice or concentrate found to contain measurable levels (10ppb is the current detection threshold) are refused entry.
The fungicide hit the headlines when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began sampling orange juice shipments (most come from Brazil) in January 2012, after a December 2011 tip-off from Minute Maid producer Coca-Cola about carbendazim levels in some orange juice products.
Accordingly, the FDA implemented mandatory sampling of all shipments of imported orange juice and orange juice concentrate for the fungicide, before returning to a surveillance approach on April 26 2012.


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For eight years, Daniel Schmidt has been doing his best to support himself and his abusive, disabled mother. He took a job at a local grocery store, dropped out of college, sacrificed his future to look after her, and she has nothing but contempt for him.
How about I just smack Daniel around and tell him to snap out of it? It worked for Cher and Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck, right?
The trouble with this opening is that it makes Daniel sound like someone I don't want to spend a paragraph with, let alone a book with. What do you like about him? What motivated him to do all this sacrificing for his mother? Why didn't he leave her to be eaten by wolves?
I don't assume he's a selfless lad because of this; I see a spineless wuss. You've got to make us see his merits here.
One day, Daniel decides not to go straight home after work but to instead take a walk in the woods, and his life changes forever. He meets a young girl named Anja and feels compelled to follow when she invites him to come back to Herbst, a magical village deep in the woods. The villagers welcome him with open arms and for the first time in as long as Daniel can remember, he feels appreciated.
"Feels compelled to follow" is so passive I want to start smacking YOU around now, not Daniel. This is not the reaction you're looking for.
Herbst is a place where people who need to can escape their old lives and start over, and
This, right here, is where your story begins, and a much better first line:
Daniel desperately needs a fresh start. Herbst also can only exist as long as Anja does, and a man lurking in the woods is trying to kill her.
Why is someone trying to kill her? The story is not about how Daniel got there, but what happens now that he's there.
When Daniel and three other newcomers to the village come together to protect Anja, they find themselves up against more than just a man. They have to protect her from an embodiment of the evils of the world they left behind, who seeks to bring unending winter to the village of
This is so general as to be meaningless. You must be specific. "More than just a man"...does that mean he's also a woman? A goat? A shark? I know you mean something else, but this is not the place to be coy about what makes him more than a man.
Eternal Autumn, a 94,000-word fantasy novel, is complete and available at your request.
Thank you for your time,
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If I mention this often enough will you stop doing it?
If I see this in a letter addressed to the Query Shark, your chances of getting on the blog drop to zero. If I see it, you haven't read the archives. Or you read the archives and didn't pay attention. I've mentioned this enough times that I'm
Learn it. Know it. Follow the damn directions.
Dear Query Shark
Deep in an ancient forest, there is a little village called Herbst. Fiery autumnal hues light up the trees of the village year-round, the air is crisp and cool, and the mountaintops are capped with snow.
well, ok, sure but so what?
Unless fiery autumnal hues is the name of the protagonist, it doesn't belong in the first paragraph. And fiery autumnal hues is just plain bad writing. It doesn't say anything more than "red and orange." If you choose to describe red and orange leaves in some fancy way, it should add to the description not just gild it.
If I got this query I'd stop reading right here.
Not many of the villagers are originally from Herbst. Most of them came from ordinary places, like New York or Alabama. How they arrived at Herbst varies, but they all had two things in common – they all needed to escape their old lives, and a young girl named Anja showed them the way.
Describing New York as ordinary and like Alabama made me laugh out loud, and not in a good way.
"A young girl named Anja showed them the way" is actually pretty creepy. You've said this is set in real time, and real space when you invoke New York and Alabama. Thus you've limited your time and space to what will feel emotionally true to us here and now. The only thing I want to know about Anja is why she isn't in school and why she's running around like the Pied Piper of Pelham.
If you want to create a world where young girls lead people out of their old lives, you'd do much better to not invoke the present day.
Through each other's support and Anja's help, Herbst became a place where people could leave their miseries behind and start over.
So far, this sounds like Big Sur in the 60's plus nothing is happening. This is a bad sign.
At least, that's what it used to be.
Finally you get to a point where there is some tension. This is in fact where your story and your query letter start: Herbst used to be a refuge for people. Then....
A stranger has arrived in the forest, hell-bent on murdering the little girl and destroying the village. When four newcomers to the village band together to protect her, they find themselves not only fighting against the new evil lurking outside the village gates but the evils of the old world they left behind, and they discover Anja's true connection to the village of Herbst.
So, the stranger, I'm guessing he's not the protagonist? Too bad. He's the only interesting one here. Why is he hell-bent on this seeming wicked deed? Oh he just wants to kill her isn't a really compelling motivation (not that I haven't experienced it myself quite recently.)
Eternal Autumn, a 94,000-word novel for young adults, or those who wish they were still young, is available at your request.
If I hadn't stopped reading in the first paragraph, here's where I would have.
For starters, this isn't a YA novel at all. YA novels have protagonists in their teens (your novel doesn't). Generally they deal with issues or themes (and have plots) that are of concern to teen readers (your novel does not).
And "those who wish they were still young" is just rude.
Lots of adults read YA because it's good writing, not because they want to be 16 again. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to think of anyone in my office who reads YA who wants to be 16 again.
I see this kind of "oh my book is YA" now that YA is really hot. Unless you've read 150 YA books that were published in the last three years, you should not even think about writing a YA book or think you know what it is.
Thank you for your time,
This is a form rejection.