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A woman has been charged with the murder of missing Bellarine man Douglas Kally after Victorian police discovered human remains in a residential backyard.
Angela Williams, 43, of the beachfront town of St Leonards, was charged with one count of murder following an out-of-sessions court hearing at Geelong police station late on Friday.
Hours after arresting and interviewing Williams on Friday, homicide detectives unearthed human remains which they have yet to identify.
The find followed two days of digging in a backyard that was understood to be at Mr Kally's last known address, at Indented Head, southwest of Melbourne.
Mr Kally, a father of five who was also known as Dragon Dordevic, was reported missing by his family in October 2008, having told them he was moving to NSW.
The 48-year-old's last reported sighting was by co-workers in July or August that year and police said his disappearance appeared suspicious.
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both heaters are from DJ Orion's free Animus EP. Whose title references Carl Jung.
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Hello Everyone
I am trying to locate other builders of modern homes, besides Eichler. I love Eichlers but I don't have to own an Eichler if I can find the open feeling in other styles of homes. I thought being open to more builders would expand my home search.
I have seen in this lounge, the names Usonian, Cliff May, Streng, Alexander. Two realtors have mentioned Mackey's but they can't tell me where they are.
Can anyone provide any more information on any of these homes, their plans, locations or other styles of homes not mentioned?
Thank you so much for your help.
Cleo, focus on architects, rather than builders. Architects design, builders produce the design.
Cliff May was primarily an architect who mostly hired builders
Joe Eichler employed world class architects A. Quincy Jones & Fred Emmons, Anshen + Allen, Claude Oakland
Alexander, a builder in SoCal, hired architects Palmer & Krisel
Richard Neutra was an architect
Usonions were a particular style of home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, an architect
There are many great books out there
Found this from other websites
Briefly mentions 'Branden' and 'Gavello' (and of course Eichler) not much in the way of pics or other info.
[url] http://www.svmodern.com/sv-modern-residential.html[/url]
Hi - this is Heather from SVMODERN.com. Apologies for the late reply - just discovered this post. Assuming that you are interested in residential builders in the Northern California area, would highly recommend that you visit the web site of local realtor and MCM afficionado, John Fyten (http://www.johnfyten.com). You'll find a wealth of information on his site including information on Mackay, Gavello, and Branden homes.
1.) Mackay Homes - while the majority of John Mackay homes are traditional ranches, there is a small development of homes in Santa Clara, CA that look A LOT like Eichlers. That's because the man behind their design was the architect Bob Anshen (who also worked for Eichler). For a 1960s Mackay Homes brochure (The Woodlands, Walnut Creek, CA), see... http://www.woodlandsassn.org/mackaybrochure2.htm
2.) Gavello Homes - to the best of my knowledge, the greatest concentration of Elmer Gavello-built homes is in Sunnyvale, CA (see, for example, homes in "Gavello Glen"). Like Eichler, Gavello employed the services of Anshen & Allen. Most notable, perhaps, are the Gavellos with the steep gable roofs (VERY similar to the Claude Oakland-designed gallery models for Eichler).
3.) Branden Homes - while few people will recognize the name, Alec Branden built over 10,000 homes in Northern California before his untimely passing in 1972, at the age of 51. Branden housing developments in the SF Bay Area include Brentwood Village (Newark), Lakewood Village (Sunnyvale), Palma Ceia Village (Hayward), Peralta Village (Fremont), and Tropicana Village (San Jose). Branden built both traditional and contemporary ranch homes. For a 1950s Lakewood Village home brochure, see http://www.lvna.net/LV/History/history.html
Branden used the architect David T. Johnson in the design of his homes. Please look for an article on Branden's Lakewood Village development in an upcoming issue of Atomic Ranch magazine (another great resource for MCM homes)
Hope this helps! Heather
Stern & Price
They built the Cliff May subdivision in Cupertino in '52. Later they were successfully sued by May for copying his designs.
Hi, Where exactly are the Clifford May-designed homes in Cupertino? And how large of a development was it? I've always wanted to drive by and take a look. Many thanks! Heather
next to the Fairgrove Eichler tract. Not real pretty as they were not as organized as the Eichler neighborhoods. Much redevelopment, but still a couple nice gems left. NW of Lawrence Expressway and Bollinger Rd. You'll find more in Castro Valley and Novato. There was reasently one for sale in the Oakland Hills above Berkeley that sold, pretty nice. Since it was a prefab, there may be more.
Richard Smith, Broadmoor Exclusives in Tustin. SoCal.
In Southern California, is anyone familiar with George Sommers ? (the original plans for our MCM home in Westchester were drawn-up by one "Geo. W. Sommers, 133-1/2 Vermont Ave, Los Angeles " ... see photo in post #8 of the thread: Non-Eichler owners introduce yourself). Do not know if Sommers was architect or builder, or what other homes in Southern California (Los Angeles area) he may have been responsible for designing/building. Every-so-often I'll do a search on Google, but I have yet to locate anything relevant on the web. Any help would be appreciated!
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1. Snow! Well, more slush now, but still, seasonal and beautiful (briefly, before becoming grey and crap and dog wee stained). View from L's bedroom:
Most pathetic sight on a snowy day: a weepette (or "wimpet" as my neighbour misheard, which also seems appropriate) in a too small dog coat with half its bony arse exposed, being forced to "have fun" in the park. Creature really, really needs a new coat. Amount of time wasted on stupid websites looking at ludicrous whippet clothing: redacted.
2. Younger child increasingly eccentric. Spent half yesterday looking up and painstakingly copying out Chinese characters. Has taken to wearing a woolly hat with pyjamas in manner of a potholing Wee Willie Winkie. Still singing Verdi constantly. Requested a snack of "half a raw onion" for school tomorrow. At his paroxysm of weirdness yesterday, he made me converse IN CHINESE with a plush red blood cell for several minutes even though my Chinese is limited to a poorly pronounced "Hello, how are you, my name is Emma" (so he tells me. For all I know, I might be saying"you have a compelling forehead") and "The Great Wall of China". The plush blood cell did not have much in the way of conversation anyway. I have pressed a DS into his clammy hands this evening but he is still singing "Wassily Kandinsky" to the tune of Gangnam Style, which does not even scan properly.
3. Haven't actually been reading NW, as suggested over in the sidebar, because I started it, but was still slightly reeling from May We Be Forgiven which was so odd I needed some time to digest it. Instead, I finished someone else's cake memoir (research, but quite gripping), inhaled India Knight's Mutton in half a day (very cheery) and started on a pleasant series of archeology themed thrillers. Sigh. The brow, he is resolutely low. Next, either I attack NW again, or possibly move straight to The Yips. Thoughts?
4. FINALLY went to the Dr Guislan psychiatric museum in Ghent, a long promised treat, with Eireann. Sadly the Roca collection of wax venereal diseases and pickled curiosities had moved on, but it was still rather amazing. The building is beautiful and the collection deeply weird.
The door where you stick your sticker:
And Dr Mesmer's glass organ!
Ghent was looking absolutely stunning in the winter sunshine, and the train journey was cosy and delightful, with frost tipped grass in the fields and a low, cold mist through which I could occasionally make out sturdy horses with teddy bear soft thick winter coats standing, watching the train pass with understated equine curiosity (get your anthropomorphism here! Cheap and plentiful!). It made me wonder why I leave the house so rarely, but as Eireann and I discussed, the temptation to stay in and become a hermit is strong. "I could be working!" you justify to yourself, idiotically, even though you plainly aren't in fact working, as you forage a meal of old digestive biscuits and chicory from the back of the cupboards. Well, you think it rather than saying it, because you have probably lost the power of speech because you haven't seen another soul for days. Anyway. It made me determined to go out more. "Out". There is a whole lot of "out" out there. I have lists. There is, for instance, a medical waxwork museum somewhere in Anderlecht that has my name all over it.
5. Wintry joy is: a new series of Minuscule on DVD. I adore Minuscule: it is clever and touching and funny and if you have children of any age and any nationality (there's no dialogue) to buy a present for this Christmas, you could do a lot worse than this. I can't decide which is my favourite, but I especially love the newly introduced team of evil red ants (there is a particularly lovely twist on them in the longer bonus episode, La Nuit des Mandibules, which filled me with happiness). You can watch quite a few episodes here to get a taste.
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Loyola led 33-22 at halftime, but the teams were tied at 57 at the end of regulation.
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How long have you guys waited for a lesson on an emo version of Hello Kitty? I can remember getting requests left and right for me to make a tutorial that can show "how to draw emo Hello Kitty", step by step. Now because she is already a pretty simple figure to draw from pop culture, all you will really be doing is adding some tweaks to her already pretty and adorable stature. As you know the normal Hello Kitty has no hair just a red bow. In this lesson you will be keeping the bow, but actually have it clipped to a full head of long straight emo style hair. Instead of a happy expression on her face, she will be drawn with a non-expressive look. This is going to be easy to do because what gives her that stare is the way her bangs cover her left eye. The clothing is going to be your typical emo fashionable attire which will be colored with black, grey, and pink tones. In the end you will have an awesome drawing of one of the world's most popular emo figures. Learning "how to draw emo Hello Kitty" is not only going to be exciting, it's also going to be fun. I will meet you guys back here in a bit so stay tuned in for more drawing fun.
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|17 Jun 2014, 11:56 PM
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Tuffmail - time to move on
Hi all,
It has been a loooong time since I last posted, still pop in now and again to catch up on the world of email This is a testament to how well I have been served by Tuffmail since joining in 2006. However, I feel it's long past the time to change.
There are a number of reasons for this, there has been no development of the service for a very long time, support seems to have gone down hill since John sold the service and a small issue I have had with paying by PayPal has been on-going for what must be two years and that does not fill me with confidence.
I have a feeling that all may not be well at Tuffmail and as I have the time over the next few weeks to make the change I may as well get started!
My email setup with Tuffmail consists of two domains, 4 mailboxes with 2GB of storage shared between them. I would like to move to something which is at very least similar, ideally with more storage and the option to add another couple of mailboxes for little cost.
I currently pay $72 a year and could do with reducing this as much as possible I have seen EuMX, Gandi, Zoho and Polarismail mentioned on the forum. Can anyone offer their experiences of these services or suggest any alternatives that I have missed that would be worth taking a look at?
Thanks all!
|18 Jun 2014, 01:40 AM
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Fastmail and Runbox (both) have forums here at EmailDiscussions, where you can receive ongoing information and updates about these services.
PolarisMail and EuMX also have representatives here, who are forum members, who often login to answer questions and concerns.
I have not used Gandi or Zoho.
It is sad that Tuffmail is deteriorating. I used them myself (when John was in charge of the company) - it was dead solid perfect at that time.
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|18 Jun 2014, 02:09 AM
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I agree with David. A year or so ago, I moved my domains for which Tuffmail was providing email services to RunBox. I've been satisfied with RunBox. The staff is very responsive. The interface and technical options are entirely different compared to Tuffmail, but they get the job done. The service that I continue to be the most satisfied with is LuxSci, but you will have to pay more than $72 per year.
|18 Jun 2014, 04:35 AM
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|18 Jun 2014, 10:24 AM
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Funny you should post this...I've been with Tuffmail since November 2005 and I am moving on as well. I went to change my password after eBay was hacked last month since I use the same password for my e-mail account (I now use Keepass and will make all my passwords different as time goes on). Couldn't do it. Contacted Derek and his response was prompt, but he changed my admin back into a "user page" that was very basic. I was, however, able to change my password from this simplified page. I then asked him to change it back to my normal admin page which he promptly did.
He seems to be in the "keep the lights on" mode and doesn't seem to be upgrading or improving anything. If the outside of the house isn't painted, I can only guess what's inside the house. Anyways, I moved my e-mail hosting to my web provider Eleven2 since e-mail access automatically comes with my hosting package. I think I am grandfathered under Sharkspace's old plan, but basically it's $4.75/month for web, ftp and e-mail...20GB of disk space, 500GB of bandwidth and unlimited e-mail boxes and aliases. Roughly $57/year. It took me a day or two to setup the forwarders, filter rules and import all my old e-mail. I HATE the new Horde email version they are using there, so I switched to Roundcube and that seems OK.
The two annoying things are I get a bit more spam than Tuffmail and it doesn't seem to have auto-refresh like Tuffmail did. I can live with these annoyances and so far...everything is working.
|18 Jun 2014, 08:16 PM
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|18 Jun 2014, 10:39 PM
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Also sad to see Tuffmail stagnate. I used them in the past as well, and under John, Tuffmail was pretty much perfect. I agree with other posts here in this thread -- I'm currently using FastMail (although their support response time leaves something to be desired), Luxsci (love these guys, more expensive, but best support on Earth), and I'm warming up to Runbox as well (just hoping they get 2FA implemented soon). Best of luck with your transition. Many folks in this fine forum will give you good advice should you need help.
|18 Jun 2014, 10:49 PM
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|19 Jun 2014, 10:20 AM
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I see they recently added DNSSEC support to their included DNS services, which is great. Still waiting for Fastmail to offer that. They don't appear to have pushbutton DNS config for hosted domains.
A couple of years ago their forum mentioned preliminary Activesync support via Z-Push, though their mail services page doesn't mention it. It's not clear if it's an official feature.
|21 Jun 2014, 01:24 AM
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It's interesting to read all of your comments. I remember many moons ago that Runbox had regular reliability issues but it's pleasing to see that they have got back on track. They have always been on my consider list (due to their constant participation on this forum in fact) and I notice their pricing is much more competitive now than it used to be for a user with my needs.
aleinss, my experience is much as you describe. I have an automatic setup for quarterly payments and my most recent bill of 13th Jun has not been taken by them as it normally would - it just shows as payment overdue on my account. No changes have been made to my credit card (nor have I received a payment failed message) so i don't know what's going on with them.
However, I have spent a few days investigating the following:
So it looks like Eumx is the way to go. However, I am finding it a bit like pulling teeth. I don't quite understand their family packages as they are not shown anywhere on the site and so I am having to send them constant questions. It would make more sense if the updated their packages page.
|21 Jun 2014, 05:36 AM
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Sure, EuMX is a great product, but . . .
At the end of the day, when it comes down to reliability and the need to be able to quickly contact a knowledgeable human to solve any problem, especially if you have the needs of a family or SOHO to satisfy, you may need to look elsewhere.
As you are the same side of the pond as me (a few miles down the road, in fact!) I would IMHO suggest Runbox could most probably fulfil your needs.
|21 Jun 2014, 05:44 AM
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I do agree it is a lot easier to manage for an unexperienced user at the moment....but EuMX have new management tools in the works...and plethora of other features not available at Runbox...support is also pretty decent.
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Junior's audacity
I thought it was stanky a couple of weeks ago when Tori Spelling and her husband KFed Jr were all mopey faced about her being sick. Of course they shared it on Twitter. And if you suspected it to be a sympathy grab, you wouldn't be entirely off base.
Because Jr's ex wife Mary Jo Eustace wrote a book. It's called Divorce Sucks: What to Do When Irreconcilable Differences, Lawyer Fees, and Your Ex's Hollywood Wife Make You Miserable. Naturally she rags on that piece of sh-t and that useless twat he left her for. And the best part is…
Mary Jo looks better.
This is Mary Jo in the new issue of HELLO! Canada photographed in Los Angeles. That little girl was only 6 weeks old when Jr abandoned them, encouraged by Tori. She was adopted, and then her father decided he didn't feel like sticking around. Now there's a man.
Mary Jo tells the magazine about her first meeting with Tori, about Tori's mantra – that she kept trying to convince her that "I'm a good person". Then that bitch would show up at her house wearing sweats because she claimed she wanted to look her worst since Mary Jo is so "old".
Think about that for a minute.
Tori Spelling made herself LESS attractive as a courtesy???
To whom?
It's a crime against humanity. Can you f-cking imagine? Side by side, compare. When she looks in the mirror, is she seeing what we're seeing?
When it comes to KFed Jr, there's always a business opportunity. Even involving Mary Jo.
That motherf-cker had the audacity to pitch a reality show about Mary Jo finding romance. And HE would play Cupid. Mary Jo was contacted by a producer, she was offered the project… and her response:
"There is not enough money in the universe to make me do this. I would rather take my gall bladder out with a shrimp fork!"
The new issue of HELLO! Canada is on newsstands now.
Mary Jo was on Good Morning America and Dr Phil and Joy Behar yesterday. Also Access Hollywood, Extra, Inside Edition, and Bonnie Hunt. She'll also be featured in People Magazine and Us Weekly.
Tori and Jr will be counter-pimping soon.
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What if Christ met Krishna? Christ and Krishna are two of the greatest teachers of love that the world has ever known. Would they speak of love, even make love? This delightful possibility is considered here today in honor of Krishna's birthday or Janmashtami (Aug. 25, 2016).
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What if Christ and Krishna made love?
|"Jesus and Lord Rama" by Alex Donis
Many have noticed the similarities between Christ and the Hindu deity Krishna, but now the two god-men are portrayed as gay lovers in the work of artistic visionaries like artist Alex Donis, whose work appears at right, and poet Brian Day. His poem "Krishna and Jesus in Algonquin Park" is reprinted in full below.
Those who value love, sexuality and interfaith dialogue may find enlightenment by imagining an erotic encounter between Jesus and Krishna.
Like Christ, Krishna is a savior who taught love. Both are believed to be divinely conceived by God and a human woman, making them human AND divine. Jesus called himself a shepherd and Krishna herded cattle, but both healed the sick, worked miracles and forgave enemies.
One difference between the two is that Jesus is considered celibate in Christian tradition, while Krishna is a fantastic lover who is "all-attractive" to men as well as women. Legends glorify Krishna's many amorous encounters with all kinds of admirers: female and male, milkmaids and cowboys, human and divine.
A related question is: Did Jesus visit India? Krishna's worship dates back 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, so they could not have met in the physical world, but it is possible the Jesus did travel to India. One popular theory suggests that Jesus went to India during his "unknown years" between ages 12 and 30, the period that is not documented in the New Testament. There he learned Hindu and Buddhist wisdom that is similar to his teachings in the Bible.
Would sparks fly if these two great teachers of love did meet? Toronto teacher Brian Day writes about their ineffable intimacy in "Krishna and Jesus in Algonquin Park," a poem from his book "The Daring of Paradise." The book, which explores the commonalities between multiple religions in a homoerotic way, was released by Guernica Editions in 2013. Many thanks to Brian for permission to reprint the whole poem below. Algonquin Park is a provincial park in Ontario, Canada.
Another Day poetry book, "Conjuring Jesus," features homoerotic poems about Christ. His book "Azure" includes "The Love Between Krishna and Jesus," a poem that begins, "They approach one another with cool flowers of language…"
In a related work, California artist Alex Donis painted a sublime interfaith kiss in "Jesus and Lord Rama." (Krishna and Rama are both blue-skinned incarnations of Vishnu.) It is part of his "My Cathedral" series of kisses between unlikely same-sex pairs.
The Donis exhibit electrified viewers when it opened in San Francisco in 1997. Heated arguments erupted in the gallery, followed by threatening phone calls and letters, and then physical violence. Vandals threw rocks and traffic barriers through the gallery windows—not once, but twice in three weeks. They smashed two of the artworks: first Jesus and Rama, and then Che Guevara kissing Cesar Chavez. The Christ-Rama image and its harrowing story appear in my book Art That Dares: Gay Jesus, Woman Christ, and More. Many thanks to Alex for permission to post the controversial painting here.
Most modern scholars reject the theory that Jesus visited India, but the idea has been explored in many books, including the 19th-century volume "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ" (The Life of Saint Issa) by Nicolas Notovitch and "Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion" by Holger Kersten. There is even a movie version, "Jesus in India," based on the book "King of Travelers: Jesus' Lost Years in India" by Edward T. Martin.
A thoughtful analysis of the similarities of Hindu-Christian philosophies is presented in "The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism" (Christ the Yogi) by Ravi Ravindra.
Krishna also plays a central role in another Hindu festival that is especially popular with third-gender people. The Aravan Festival, held in April-May in south India, celebrates the marriage of Krishna and the male deity Iravan, considered the patron god of transgender communities. Iravan's dying wish was to marry, so Krishna granted his wish by switching to his female Mohini female form and wedding him.
The idea of a queer Jesus shocks and offends some traditional Christians, but he can be liberating for LGBT people and our allies. The pansexual Krishna may serve the same purpose among Hindus.
People throughout history have pictured Jesus looking like one of them: black Jesus in Africa, white Jesus in the West, and Jesus who looks Asian or Latin American in those parts of the world. It's OK to add queer Christ to the mix because he taught love for all and embodied God's wildly inclusive love for everyone, including sexual minorities. Gay Jesus images are needed now because conservatives are using religious rhetoric to justify discrimination against queer people.
If Jesus and Krishna met, would there be conflict or kisses? Brian Day's new poem offers a beautiful glimpse into how they might love each other.
in Algonquin Park
They hoist their canoe to the lichened rocks
and face the smooth light they've paddled across.
Shucking the weight of their pale-coloured clothes
and plunging to the knuckly cupped hand of the lake,
they meet in the green, share their scents with the water,
feel their bodies enlivened with cool liquid sensation,
and turn in the still black waters of their minds.
As they ripple the mirror between world and world,
each sights the stroking phantoms of the other's limbs,
and touches skin as papery smooth as birch.
They climb the smoothed ladder of rocks at the shore,
their abdomens slick and quick with their breath,
and lie with their backs baked sweet with stone.
Blue and clouds tumble to creation in their eyes.
Leading each other down pine-cooled trails,
the air sultry with blueberry and warm golden grasses,
they step to the island's needled shade,
and each scents the lake-sweet on the other's skin.
When evening has come and their hungers are sated,
their senses warmed by the perch where they sit,
their thoughts float calm as loons on the water—
then plunge to surface, later, someplace else.
Their bodies as languid as the swaying of trees,
they listen to the applause of breeze in the aspens,
know the touch of each star as it plays on their skin,
and lie down in the circling of heavens on earth.
Reprinted with permission from the book "The Daring of Paradise," published by Guernica Editions.) "
Krishna-like figures are shown in more sexually explicit homoerotic scenes by artist Attila Richard Lukacs. They can be viewed in his "Varieties of Love" series at the following link:
Diane Farris Gallery
Here are other popular images that add Buddha to the mix to depict interfaith friendship at the highest level.
"May Loving-Kindness Abound" from Changingworld.com shows figures from three religions offering blessings. Jesus holds a lotus blossom as he sits cross-legged between Krishna and Buddha.
The above image of three religious figures is often posted online with a quote from bisexual spiritual teacher Ram Dass: "We're all just walking each other home."
For more info on Krishna and other Hindu deities who transcend sexual and gender norms, visit the Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association at:
The GALVA website is packed with fascinating material on Hindu saints and deities who embody the full spectrum of gender and sexual diversity, including but not limited to LGBTQ and "third sex."
Related book:
"Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex: Understanding Homosexuality, Transgender Identity, And Intersex Conditions Through Hinduism" by Amara Das Wilhelm.
Top image: "Krishna and Christ," artist unknown
Does anybody know who created the picture of Krishna and Christ at the top of this post? Or the one of Christ, Buddha and Jesus walking together? They are all over the Internet, but I haven't been able to identify the artists. I would love to honor the artists by name.
Thanks to Mario Gonzalez for the tip about images.
This post is part of the LGBT Saints and Queer Christ series by Kittredge Cherry at the Jesus in Love Blog. Saints, martyrs, mystics, prophets, witnesses, heroes, holy people, humanitarians, deities and religious figures of special interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and queer people and our allies are covered on appropriate dates throughout the year. The queer Christ series gathers together visions presented by artists, writers, theologians and others.
Copyright © Kittredge Cherry. All rights reserved.
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I'm a digital nomad. Almost all my worldly possessions are in storage. I'm currently, but temporarily, living in Sparta, Greece, and have been doing so for more than two months. Next month, I'll be moving to Africa.
You may have heard of us digital nomads. We use mobile computing and the Internet to work from wherever. You'll find us on any of hundreds of digital nomad-focused blogs. A small handful of these blogs are fantastic, but most of them are annoying fluff. ( Here are some of the great ones.)
The fluffy digital nomad bloggers tend to show pictures of themselves on a deserted beach or mountain top, which makes the lifestyle look picturesque, but lonely and pathetic. (Just scan ( Google Image Search for the term "digital nomad" for some choice examples.)
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What's wrong with most of those blogs
The digital nomad lifestyle is often interesting and exciting and people want to express that. So when they're on the beach with a laptop, they feel like that's a digital nomad scenario so they take a lot of pictures of that.
They don't photograph the sweaty slog through the dirty city earlier in the week, or the 12-hour bus ride, or the two-hour hunt for Wi-Fi, or the nine hours spent in a dark, shabby room meeting a deadline. They don't photograph the power failures, the plumbing, the traffic, the mosquitos, the poverty, the roving packs of feral dogs, the corrupt policemen, the mangled street beggars and other such things they encountered along the way. That might compromise their relentless sales pitch for the idyllic digital nomad lifestyle.
As a result, the public image of digital nomadism is all postcard-perfect landscapes, charming restaurants and relaxing hammocks in the shade designed to torture the cubicle-bound.
What it's really like to be a digital nomad
Living as a digital nomad is exactly like working from home in some ways, and totally unlike it in others.
I get up in the morning when my iPhone alarm goes off, make coffee and start my routine. I catch up on email and the news, interact a little with my friends on Google+, then get to work. I'm glued to the same laptop and iPad I used in Silicon Valley (though I do miss my 27-inch iMac). I use the same software and web sites.
My personal life is similar, too. I'm not a tourist. I live here. I have a local library card and a membership at a local gym. I run into friends I know on the street. Most of the food I eat is made by my wife or me in the kitchen in our apartment. I do dishes and take out the trash. I recently saw Batman and Resident Evil at the local movie theater.
The difference is that when I look up from my laptop, I can see the breathtaking Taygetus mountains, where ancient Spartans used to hunt wild boar for their black soup, instead of my old apartment complex parking lot.
When I look up from my laptop, I see the Taygetus mountains, where ancient Spartans used to hunt. (Image: Mike Elgan)
When I have an occasional day off, I can visit other historic places like Olympia or Athens.
Man-made things are smaller outside America. Smaller cars, smaller houses, less water pressure in the shower, less air conditioning, less food variety and so on.
And things for digital nomads are smaller still: The screen on my MacBook Pro, which I use to watch downloaded iTunes movies, is much smaller than the giant flat-screen TV I've got packed up in storage. My wine opener, bottle opener, can opener and scissors are all attached to my Swiss Army Knife. All my possessions fit into two backpacks.
What's really great about being a digital nomad
The great thing about being a digital nomad isn't the ability to work on the beach (which is uncomfortable and annoying, by the way). Digital nomad living gives you two quality-of-life loopholes.
First is a financial loophole. Generally speaking, pay is higher in expensive places and lower in cheaper places. You get paid like you're in an expensive place, but you're actually in a cheap place.
The second is a psychology loophole. Our minds crave something new. And when you're a digital nomad, novelty is free. Let me explain.
As we live our lives, we get used to everything around us. It bores us. That's why we try a new restaurant or go to the movies or remodel the kitchen or buy new clothes - we want something new.
When you stay in one place, novelty is expensive. But when you're a digital nomad, novelty is free.
For example, I'm currently renting a small studio in Sparta. It's much smaller and simpler than any place I've owned or rented in America. Yet it's a perfect place to live for three months. Why? Because it's new to us!
Last night, we had the most fantastic meal at a nearby taverna, a traditional family-owned neighborhood restaurant. To the locals, the restaurant is no big deal. But to us, it was fantastic.
And that's the secret sauce of digital nomad living: What's ordinary for locals can be the experience of a lifetime for visitors. And when you're a digital nomad, you're always a visitor.
What's not so great about being a digital nomad
The worst thing about being a digital nomad is that nobody understands what you're doing. Friends and colleagues treat you like you're on Mars, even when you're available (as I am) via the same phone number, same email address and same social network. Location doesn't matter anymore, but you've got to work really hard to remind people of that.
Plus, there are situations when paying bills, getting things shipped, interacting with various companies and government agencies grind to a halt because you don't fit into their pre-existing categories. They need a home address. They require you to pick something up in person. They need you to send a fax.
Another chronic problem is with the dreaded ( Schengen Area, a collection of 26 mostly European countries that act as a single entity for visitor limits.
You can stay for three months for each six-month period in the whole Shengen Area before you become an illegal visitor.
So, for example, if you want to stay in France, Spain and then Germany for two months in each country, you'll be lucky to escape from Spain without a big fine. And they won't let you into Germany at all, because you violated your three-month Shengen time period.
In fact, you may be banned from Germany and the rest of Europe for up to five years. Your passport can even be stamped "illegal immigrant." That's not what you want on your passport when your plan is to enter a new country several times a year.
So Europe-loving digital nomads have to leave Europe after three months and live somewhere else for at least three more months before coming back to Europe.
Violating Shengen stay requirements is just one of many ways to screw yourself as a digital nomad.
Short-term accommodation sites like AirBnB have a dirty little secret that nobody talks about: Honesty can get you blacklisted.
You'll notice that nearly all the reviews of places to stay on AirBnB are positive. Why? Because if you post a negative review, the host is likely to post a negative review about you in retaliation. And once you have a negative review as a guest, nobody will rent to you. So if you use AirBnB, you must never be honest about a bad experience or you risk being blacklisted forever.
AirBnB guests naive enough to tell the truth have been excluded from participation. As a result, the reviews are useless, and every AirBnB experience is a roll of the dice.
When you're a digital nomad, you're cut off from many of the online services available to Americans in the United States. Amazon.com, Pandora and all the other streaming music services, Netflix and other video sites are simply blocked abroad.
Amazon will ship only to the country where your credit card is based. Content streaming services are for specific countries and regions only. You don't realize how great these services are until you're no longer allowed to use them.
If it sounds like I'm complaining, I'm not. Living as a digital nomad is the coolest thing I've ever done. But the reality of the lifestyle is far different from the shallow, skewed vision trotted out by the average digital nomad blog.
If you're interested in the truth about digital nomad living, circle my Google+ page, called The World Is My Office, where I'll share my real experiences, and also point you to the posts and stories by others who are also telling the truth about what it's really like to be a digital nomad.
Work is work, no matter where you are. But in Athens, you also get a view of the Acropolis. (Image: Mike Elgan)
Mike Elgan writes about technology and tech culture. Contact and learn more about Mike at Elgan.com, or subscribe to his free e-mail newsletter, Mike's List. You can also see more articles by Mike Elgan on Computerworld.com.
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Tennessee state senator Bill Ketron insists that his proposed anti-Sharia measure (formally known as the "Material Support to Designated Entities Act") is not intended to criminalize the peaceful practice of the Muslim religion. Instead, it would permit the prosecution of those who offer tangible support to entities identified by the state attorney general as "Sharia organizations" devoted to promoting Islamic rule through violence. Such an act would be a felony punishable by a fine of unspecified size and a prison term of up to 15 years.
If enacted and applied with a degree of intellectual honesty, Ketron's measure would require Tennessee law enforcement to shut down every military base and recruiting office in the state, as well as rounding up all resident veterans of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Promoting Sharia law in Iraq through the use of criminal violence has been the official policy of the United States Government since the new Iraqi constitution was finished in late 2004.
As U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Stephen Coughlin – described as the Pentagon's leading expert on Sharia law – pointed out in a recent deposition: "Article 2 of the Iraqi Constitution states that 'Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation.[...] No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.'" That constitution was not produced by Iraqis themselves; it was drafted by a committee created by the Coalition Provisional Authority, the U.S-created cabal of social engineers and war profiteers that supervised the occupation and "reconstruction" of Iraq from 2003 until 2005.
During the past decade, only one formerly secular country fell under the rule of sharia law: Iraq. This wasn't done by al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, or any of the other Islamist groups that torment the dreams of people suffering from toxic levels of exposure to the War Party's propaganda; it was done by the government afflicting the United States of America.
Though his qualifications as an imam are sketchy at best, Tennessee State Senator Ketron presumes to define "Sharia" as "a legal-political-military doctrinal system combined with certain religious beliefs" that "requires all its adherents to actively and passively support the replacement of America's constitutional republic...." Jihad and sharia, Ketron insists, are "inextricably linked," and the "imposition of sharia on non-sharia adherent states is to be brought about both by criminal and violent means ... and by lawful and non-violent means...."
This means that even those who peacefully and lawfully practice the tenets of sharia can be considered criminal subversives:
"The knowing adherence to sharia and to foreign sharia authorities constitutes a conspiracy to further the legal, political, and military doctrine and system which embraces the law of jihad.... The knowing adherence to sharia and to foreign sharia authorities is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the United States government and the government of this state through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the United States and Tennessee Constitutions by the likely use of imminent criminal violence...."
Once again, if applied with the kind of consistency required by the principle of equal justice under the law, Ketron's measure would dictate the prosecution of military personnel who participated in the patently unconstitutional Iraq war. In addition to deploying U.S. servicemen to kill and die on behalf of sharia, that war – and the vile policies that sprouted from it – fortified the "leader principle" at lethal expense to whatever was left of our republican institutions.
Every crime contains at least two components – the malign intent (mens rea), and the guilty act (actus reus). Perhaps Ketron and his comrades will insist that Iraq war veterans are exempt from the anti-Sharia act because most of them didn't knowingly adhere to the doctrine they were propagating at gunpoint. This would mean that in their case mens rea was absent, despite the violent, criminal acts that were committed. However, in the case of peaceful Muslims, mere belief in their religious code would be construed as both criminal intent, and a guilty act.
Tennessee's Muslim population, while quite small, is growing – a trend that has been exploited by compulsive Mosque-baiters seeking to capitalize on fears of "creeping sharia."
Most of the growth consists of refugees driven from their homes in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, and other countries that have experienced the healing touch of the Empire's armed benevolence. Ending armed entanglement in, and covert subversion of, Muslim countries would do a great deal to stop the exodus of refugees, and reduce the possibility of cultural conflicts here at home. Ketron doesn't appear interested in solutions that might actually work; like any aspiring Grand Inquisitor, he's much more interested in tearing windows into men's souls.
Among the onerous provisions of Sharia law are restrictions on the sale and consumption of wine and other alcoholic beverages. One possible reason why Sen. Ketron is so anxious to arrest the tide of Sharia-inspired fanaticism may be the difficulty he has experienced in trying to enact legislation permitting non-Muslim residents to purchase wine at grocery stores.
In a letter to a constituent, Ketron lamented that the influence of religious fanatics who consider wine to be haram (unclean) made it impossible for his measure to find traction: "I am currently trying to pass legislation that allows wine to be in the grocery stores again, and the liquor lobbyist has threatened ... to 'unleash the preachers' across the state." In fact, at least one of Tennessee's subdivisions, Moore County, seems to be in danger of succumbing to sharia, insofar as alcohol prohibition is concerned.
Oh, wait – the fanatics responsible for this are Baptist preachers, not Muslim imams, and the problem (as Ketron acknowledged) isn't that Tennessee has fallen under the shadow of the Crescent, but rather that it's being strangled by the "Bible Belt." That comparison, I must admit, is a little unfair, since in at least some Muslim countries Sharia-based restrictions on the sale and consumption of liquor don't apply to non-Muslims.
Within the constituency to which Ketron is pandering we will almost certainly find more than a few people who were thrilled to the marrow by the recent town meeting confrontation between Rep. Allen West (R. Florida) and Nezar Hamze, executive director for the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Rep. West, who was cashiered from the military for abusing a detainee in Iraq, presents himself as an authority on the iniquity of Muslims. The source of his expertise is the experience he obtained by killing so many of them who were defending their homes against a foreign army that had invaded their country.
Mr. Hamze, who – unlike West – has actually read the Koran, brought a copy of it to the town meeting and asked West to show him where that book sanctions violence against innocent people. Rather than offering an honest answer, West recited a litany of crimes committed by people professing the Muslim faith since the Seventh Century.
Apparently, Hamze and those who share his religion – whether or not they have ever committed or countenanced a crime as individuals – are collectively guilty for the atrocities to which West alluded. However, we Christians bear no similar moral burden for criminal acts committed in the name of the Cross.
I suspect that West, his pose as a Christian statesman/warrior notwithstanding, knows as little about the Bible as he does about the Koran. At the very least, his copy of the Holy Book apparently doesn't contain the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel, in which the Author informs us: "The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him."
Beneath the sanctimony and hypocrisy displayed by West in that exchange, we confront, once again, a dreadful irony: Unlike West the "war hero," CAIR representative Hamze has never shed blood on behalf of sharia.
Allen West's pugnacious ignorance has made him a matinee idol to the same people who are being conditioned to view British welfare parasite Andy "Anjem" Choudary as the second coming of the Sudanese Mahdi.
Choudary, who heads up a tiny knot of nitwits calling themselves "Islam4UK," is on the speed-dial of every cable TV producer looking for a savagely bearded Muslim caricature to spice up an otherwise drab interview segment. He has performed his Stone Age Muslim Barbarian shtick on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amapour, CNN's Parker/Spitzer program, and numerous other TV shows.
This Thursday (March 3), Choudary is planning to hold a demonstration in Washington for the supposed purpose of inciting American Muslims to rise up on behalf of sharia.
Choudary touts himself as a voice of "authentic" Islam, and those who peddle anti-Muslim alarmism eagerly validate that title. Despite having no clerical credentials or any verifiable expertise in the tenets of his religion, Choudary claims to be a "sharia law judge."
While studying to become a lawyer, Andy (his real given name) Choudary was a boozing, porn-consuming party animal who somehow persuaded dozens of women to sleep with him – offenses that, according to his own pronouncements, would earn him a "lashing."
Andy was expelled from the legal profession in 2002. He's been a failure as a husband and father, and at present he is a welfare-devouring loser. He has no standing as a cleric, and I doubt his influence extends far beyond his tax-fattened shadow. Yet somehow we're supposed to see him as a threat?
Choudary is a sideshow caricature right out of professional "wrestling"; he's like the Iron Sheik, minus the subtlety. Like any good "Heel," Andy the self-appointed imam knows how to work an interview to build "heat" for his chosen angle, which is why trend-sucking idiots like Sean Hannity insist on giving him exposure. But the inescapable fact is this: Choudary and the handful of subsidized mouth-breathers he gathers around him are about as representative of Islam as Fred Phelps and his little troupe of in-bred, hate-intoxicated losers are typical of Evangelical Christianity.
Unless somebody discovers how to weaponize stupidity, Andy Choudary will never pose a genuine threat to anybody. Yet the herd-poisoners who compose the War Party's media auxiliary are turning Choudary into the face of jihad.
By the end of the week, millions of people will know his name, execrate him on cue, and be satisfied that they're well-informed and commendably patriotic. Not even a bare handful of them are familiar with Mohammed Junaid Babar, an actual Muslim terrorist who helped plan and coordinate the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks in London, in which four coordinated suicide bombings murdered scores of people, and mutilated hundreds more. Despite his crimes and his professed hatred for America, Babar has been freed from prison after serving no more than two years behind bars – thanks to the intervention of the federal government.
Babar, who helped set up the camps in Pakistan where the 7/7 plot was organized, was imprisoned in June 2004. Final sentencing was deferred, however, because of what the Federal Government calls his "exceptional cooperation" with law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Babar's "cooperation" began more than a year before London experienced a shock comparable to 9/11; according to the London Daily Mail, Babar had identified the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks no later than August 2004. Yet the massacre took place anyway – and Babar was released from federal prison after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence.
"People get four and a half years for burglary," observes Graham Foulkes, a British magistrate judge whose 22-year-old son, David, was among the victims of the terrorist plot Babar helped organize. "They can get more for some road traffic offenses. So for an international terrorist who's directly linked to the death of my son and dozens and dozens of people to get that sentence is just outrageous."
The outrage is compounded by the fact that Babar was actually behind bars for only a fraction of that time. At his parole hearing it was mentioned that Babar "has been out on bail for a considerable period of time, over the last year and a half or so...." In fact, as Foulkes points out, prior to being paroled, Babar was allowed to wander the streets of America for at least two years, during which time he married and began a family.
Babar, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, went to Pakistan following 9/11. His travels (including visits to London, where he communed with members of the radical al-Muhajiroun group) were carefully monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies.
There is reason to believe that his "cooperation" actually began no later than 2003. This would mean that he was organizing Pakistani terrorist training camps under the supervision of U.S. intelligence – and that his "arrest" was actually a case of an asset being "brought in from the cold."
In testimony before a British court in 2007, Babar described how he and his al-Muhajiroun comrades (who may have included fellow controlled asset Andy Choudary, who joined the group sometime after 2002) would repeatedly watch videos of the 9/11 attacks and how everyone present "was in praise of those who carried it out."
During Babar's parole hearing, federal officials blithely dismissed those utterances – as well as Babar's central role in organizing and facilitating mass murder in London. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan McGuire, "the government draws a distinction between Mr. Babar's views [regarding terrorism as a "holy war" against America] and Mr. Babar's intent on acting on that view."
This lenience is remarkable, considering the fact that the same U.S. Government just won a 25-year prison sentence against 21-year-old Virginia resident Zachary Chesser for offering "material support" for terrorism. Chesser, who converted to Islam in 2008, posted incendiary comments on Muslim-themed websites, including links to documents about jihad and what was described as a death threat directed at the creators of South Park in retaliation for depicting Mohammed.
Chesser expressed remorse in a letter to the court. In announcing the sentence, however, District Judge Liam O'Grady was unimpressed by the young man's act of contrition, denouncing him as "an extraordinarily energized traitor to your country." This imprecation was hurled in the face of a foolish young man who had not actually done anything to harm anybody.
Chesser's problem is that he never performed a patriotic service comparable to that offered by prized intelligence asset Babar, whose hands incarnadined with the blood of at least 52 innocent people, or the military heroes who brought the blessings of sharia rule to Iraq.
William Norman Grigg [send him mail] publishes the Pro Libertate blog and hosts the Pro Libertate radio program.
Copyright © 2011 William Norman Grigg


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President Obama Crosses the Rubicon and Burns His Bridges with Pro-Life Voters
Tony BeamDr. Tony Beam's Weblog
- 2009 Mar 15
Regardless of what you might think of former President George Bush you have to admit when it comes to protecting life he is at the top of the presidential stack. During his presidency, he signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, appointed two solid, pro-life Justices to the United States Supreme Court, signed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and from day one prohibited the proliferation of research that would use human embryos the way the Nazi's used Jews during World War II.
What a difference a President can make. Already, President Obama has rescinded the Mexico City Policy that prohibited the federal government from using tax money overseas to perform abortions. Granted, the Mexico City Policy has been used as a political football over the course of several administrations. Established during the Reagan Administration, the ban has been reinstated then reversed by Republican and Democrat presidents and has thus become a sort of political measuring stick of an administration's view of life. According to a Gallup Poll taken after Obama's decision it was the most unpopular of his young presidency. Only 35 percent approved of Obama's rescinding of the policy while 58 percent disapproved.
But as time goes by, Obama's action on the Mexico City Policy will fade into the background of political noise on Capital Hill and will cost him little in actual political capital. Anyone who happened to be awake and paying attention during the campaign cannot be surprised to see Obama making pro-abortion moves. After all, as a state Senator from Illinois, he vehemently opposed and over four years voted against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Act. The law would simply force doctors to save the life of a baby that survived an abortion attempt. It was a bill to stop infanticide and yet then Senator Obama saw it as a "backdoor attack on a woman's legal right to abortion."
But on March 9th, President Obama crossed the Rubicon and burned his bridges with pro-life voters by lowering the value of human embryos to that of laboratory mice. On January 10, 49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in Italy committing himself and his army to war with the Empire. According to the Roman historian Suetonius, upon crossing Caesar uttered, "alea iacta est" or "the die is cast." Certainly, the die is now cast for a radically pro-abortion administration to continue its assault on life in the womb. Life is now expendable if the possibility exists, no matter how remote, that someone's suffering might be alleviated if we kill enough embryos. Never mind the fact that not one single significant breakthrough has been achieved through embryonic research. Umbilical cord blood and regular stem cell research has brought about some amazing scientific breakthroughs.
What makes this decision all the more insidious is the fact that scientists are making great strides toward being able to produce cells that act like embryonic cells without destroying any human embryos. But of course, this means nothing to President Obama since he owes a major political debt to the radical pro-death section of the Democrat Party.
Upon hearing the news that the ban had been lifted, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activity said, "This action is morally wrong because it encourages the destruction of innocent human life, treating vulnerable human beings as mere products to be harvested."
On the other side of the argument you have Rev. Joel Hunter who serves on the White House Advisory Panel. Hunter said, "The principle is still that it's not only understandable but in some ways moral to use embryonic stem cells that are destined for destruction for research for helping people." "In some ways moral"... I would really like to hear Hunter describe moral scenarios for the destruction of human life. I wonder if it occurred to him while he was speaking that he was using the same argument to justify destroying life that the Nazi's used to justify experimenting on the Jews during the Holocaust. Since Jews weren't really people and since they were going to be sent to the gas chambers anyway why not learn something by torturing them?
In his haste to allow federal funding for research on human embryos, President Obama forgot to put any restrictions on how the embryos can be obtained. It is now perfectly legal to create human embryos for the purpose of killing them through experimentation. The only obstacle standing in the way of open season on embryos is something known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment which has been included in every spending bill since in every fiscal year since 1996. The amendment reads, "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death" is explicitly banned. Ironically, that language was included in the omnibus-spending bill Obama signed just two days after reversing the Bush ban. But Democrats in both the House and the Senate are already lining up legislation that will overturn this legislative protection for human embryos.
Is this what President Obama was talking about when he said he would bring "change we could believe in?" Maybe tomorrow he will toss a bone to the PETA crowd by banning experiments on lab rats.
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