Sunday, December 03, 2006
Brrrrr!
Seselj Hunger Strike in 4th Week
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/03/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_Seselj.php
First let me say that while the fast unto death has an ancient tradition among the pre-Christian Celts and the people of India as a means of obtaining justice, I don't know of a similar tradition among the ancient Slavs.
Fasting, sometimes fairly rigorous, is a tradition of both the Catholic and Orthodox believers as a means of improving the soul, but that is a different matter from fasting in search of an earthly goal. In that situation it becomes an ugly form of emotional blackmail, which is why fasting unto death is not moral as far as I'm concerned. Justice is on the merits of the case not on this type of emotional blackmail.
Sanatarium in Bulgaria had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73516
Botanical Garden in Bulgaria may be forced to kill cactuses
Litvinenko Investigation to span Europe
Pinochet Given Last Rites
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73522
Pinochet has led an evil life for so long. I guess he knows he'd better do some repenting.
Macedonia's Winter Events
Which leads to our own Yakima Gulag Winter tradition, the Madrigal Feaste. The last night is tonight. Last night I attended with three friends, and we were fortunate enough to have a table close to the front. The catering was EXCELLENT. Instead of ho hum canned beef stew, the new caterers prepared a spinich salad with raspberry vinnaigrette, tiny roast potatoe, everyone got about three of those, and roast beef! not canned soup, ROAST BEEF! Desert was apple pie, very good apple pie it was too! and all the coffee or tea you might like, and I almost forgot the sourdough bread! It did need to be cut, which was a little inconvenient, but it was delicious, really delicious. Now we zeks at the school were able to obtain tickets at $10 a piece with student ID, the general public, (urkis, nomenklatura,administrators) were $20 a piece Tonight is the last night. Pictures may be seen at the Yakima Gulag's Flikr page.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/03/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_Seselj.php
First let me say that while the fast unto death has an ancient tradition among the pre-Christian Celts and the people of India as a means of obtaining justice, I don't know of a similar tradition among the ancient Slavs.
Fasting, sometimes fairly rigorous, is a tradition of both the Catholic and Orthodox believers as a means of improving the soul, but that is a different matter from fasting in search of an earthly goal. In that situation it becomes an ugly form of emotional blackmail, which is why fasting unto death is not moral as far as I'm concerned. Justice is on the merits of the case not on this type of emotional blackmail.
Sanatarium in Bulgaria had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73516
Botanical Garden in Bulgaria may be forced to kill cactuses
Litvinenko Investigation to span Europe
Pinochet Given Last Rites
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73522
Pinochet has led an evil life for so long. I guess he knows he'd better do some repenting.
Macedonia's Winter Events
Which leads to our own Yakima Gulag Winter tradition, the Madrigal Feaste. The last night is tonight. Last night I attended with three friends, and we were fortunate enough to have a table close to the front. The catering was EXCELLENT. Instead of ho hum canned beef stew, the new caterers prepared a spinich salad with raspberry vinnaigrette, tiny roast potatoe, everyone got about three of those, and roast beef! not canned soup, ROAST BEEF! Desert was apple pie, very good apple pie it was too! and all the coffee or tea you might like, and I almost forgot the sourdough bread! It did need to be cut, which was a little inconvenient, but it was delicious, really delicious. Now we zeks at the school were able to obtain tickets at $10 a piece with student ID, the general public, (urkis, nomenklatura,administrators) were $20 a piece Tonight is the last night. Pictures may be seen at the Yakima Gulag's Flikr page.
# posted by Katja R. @ 11:14 AM 
