Sunday, January 14, 2007
Freezing as usual in the Yakima Gulag
When you aren't roasting here, you are freezing here. When you aren't freezing you are roasting.
The Human Be-In
http://60sfurther.com/HumanBe_In.htm
This weekend is the anniversary of the 'Human Be-In' an event at which my family was present. My mother, step-father, sister and I had gone to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood because there was a very nice bakery run by a couple of older Russian ladies, for borscht, and piroshkis. We actually were about halfway there when a young girl who was leafleting the people on the sidewalk handed each of us a brightly colored handbill, which said 'Human Be-In' and named the time. Well we went to have our piroshkis and borscht, and and discussed together whether we should go or not. None of us looked like 'hippies' I had a new pants suit sent to me by my grandmother for Christmas, it was plaid, and in the 'mod' style, and I was wearing white go-go boots, then all the rage. My sister had an outfit rather similar, these outfits came with a choice of skirt or pants, and she was wearing the skirt that went to hers. My mother was wearing a conventional sort of dress, my step father had his work clothes on actually, he never wore jeans in those years unless he was doing some sort of heavy work. That was rare, he was a civil servant, a social worker. Anyway my mother had noticed the selective way this girl handled the crowd, "There were 'hippies who were not given a leaflet, there were only a very few 'straighties' given a leaflet" she remarked. So that was the deciding remark. We headed for the polo fields. There was an absolutely enormous crowd, it was peaceful and everyone seemed to have food or wine, it was well that we took some extra piroshkis with us. We ended up sharing piroshkis, and drinking wine with some people seated near us. They also shared some grass with us. We each took a quick puff and passed the thin joint back around. It may be that it was too little to get anyone high, but none of the events warned of in 'Girls Hygiene and Physical Education' class came to pass. I was not inclined to suddenly rip my clothes off and dance or anything else, everyone in our near vicinity was acting very calmly, enjoying the music and poetry. Some members of the at that time new Society for Creative Anachronism rode into the Polo Field on horses, wearing Viking like clothing. It looked natural on them. Other cool stuff happened. I'd forgotten it was the anniversary, but they had a brief note of it on N.P.R. this morning.
NastyRakija distilling accident
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75351
Much as I am in favor of people having the right to make their own rakija at home, the process is not without dangers.
U.S. Film Maker Accused of Exploiting Child Labor in Bulgaria
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75353
Bulgarian Nurses Relatives Given Rude Treatment in Libya
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75352
The whole mess with the nurses in Libya is more and more sureal, more and more disgusting.
The Human Be-In
http://60sfurther.com/HumanBe_In.htm
This weekend is the anniversary of the 'Human Be-In' an event at which my family was present. My mother, step-father, sister and I had gone to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood because there was a very nice bakery run by a couple of older Russian ladies, for borscht, and piroshkis. We actually were about halfway there when a young girl who was leafleting the people on the sidewalk handed each of us a brightly colored handbill, which said 'Human Be-In' and named the time. Well we went to have our piroshkis and borscht, and and discussed together whether we should go or not. None of us looked like 'hippies' I had a new pants suit sent to me by my grandmother for Christmas, it was plaid, and in the 'mod' style, and I was wearing white go-go boots, then all the rage. My sister had an outfit rather similar, these outfits came with a choice of skirt or pants, and she was wearing the skirt that went to hers. My mother was wearing a conventional sort of dress, my step father had his work clothes on actually, he never wore jeans in those years unless he was doing some sort of heavy work. That was rare, he was a civil servant, a social worker. Anyway my mother had noticed the selective way this girl handled the crowd, "There were 'hippies who were not given a leaflet, there were only a very few 'straighties' given a leaflet" she remarked. So that was the deciding remark. We headed for the polo fields. There was an absolutely enormous crowd, it was peaceful and everyone seemed to have food or wine, it was well that we took some extra piroshkis with us. We ended up sharing piroshkis, and drinking wine with some people seated near us. They also shared some grass with us. We each took a quick puff and passed the thin joint back around. It may be that it was too little to get anyone high, but none of the events warned of in 'Girls Hygiene and Physical Education' class came to pass. I was not inclined to suddenly rip my clothes off and dance or anything else, everyone in our near vicinity was acting very calmly, enjoying the music and poetry. Some members of the at that time new Society for Creative Anachronism rode into the Polo Field on horses, wearing Viking like clothing. It looked natural on them. Other cool stuff happened. I'd forgotten it was the anniversary, but they had a brief note of it on N.P.R. this morning.
NastyRakija distilling accident
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75351
Much as I am in favor of people having the right to make their own rakija at home, the process is not without dangers.
U.S. Film Maker Accused of Exploiting Child Labor in Bulgaria
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75353
Bulgarian Nurses Relatives Given Rude Treatment in Libya
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=75352
The whole mess with the nurses in Libya is more and more sureal, more and more disgusting.
# posted by Katja R. @ 9:49 AM 
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Not to mention recent wikipedia controversy involving Bosniaks and Serbs.
It is interesting how Serbs promoted invented word "Serpophobia" on the internet.
First they introduced the word to wikipedia, and then thousands of other scrapper sites copied content from wikipedia, and now Google yields thousands of matches for this invented word.
Of course, while Bosniaks wanted to do the same, and create an article Bosniakophobia (local: Bosnjakofobija), Serbs quickly jumped and voted "NO!". And of course, attempts to create Bosniakophobia article failed thanks to Serbian activism on wikipedia!
They don't use wikipedia for educational, but for their nationalistic/politic/propaganda purposes. It is sickening to see Serbian propaganda poisoning Wikipedia's objectivity in ex-YU articles.
What Bosniaks need to do is focus more on wikipedia's Srebrenica Massacre article which is under attack by pro-Serbian vandals and revisionists/deniers on a daily basis. Bosniaks also need to stick together and create Bosniakophobia article @ Wiki.
Definition of Bosniakophobia (Bosnjakofobija)
Bosniakophobia is a sentiment of hostility or hatred towards Bosniaks and the concept of multi-cultural and united Bosnia-Herzegovina in its present borders. Its use in the English language has been limited. Bosniakophobia is widespread in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia.
One of the most notable manifestation of Bosniakophobia is the denial of 1995 Srebrenica Genocide in which Serb forces slaughtered over 8,000 Bosniaks in U.N. designated "safe" enclave of Srebrenica.
It is interesting how Serbs promoted invented word "Serpophobia" on the internet.
First they introduced the word to wikipedia, and then thousands of other scrapper sites copied content from wikipedia, and now Google yields thousands of matches for this invented word.
Of course, while Bosniaks wanted to do the same, and create an article Bosniakophobia (local: Bosnjakofobija), Serbs quickly jumped and voted "NO!". And of course, attempts to create Bosniakophobia article failed thanks to Serbian activism on wikipedia!
They don't use wikipedia for educational, but for their nationalistic/politic/propaganda purposes. It is sickening to see Serbian propaganda poisoning Wikipedia's objectivity in ex-YU articles.
What Bosniaks need to do is focus more on wikipedia's Srebrenica Massacre article which is under attack by pro-Serbian vandals and revisionists/deniers on a daily basis. Bosniaks also need to stick together and create Bosniakophobia article @ Wiki.
Definition of Bosniakophobia (Bosnjakofobija)
Bosniakophobia is a sentiment of hostility or hatred towards Bosniaks and the concept of multi-cultural and united Bosnia-Herzegovina in its present borders. Its use in the English language has been limited. Bosniakophobia is widespread in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia.
One of the most notable manifestation of Bosniakophobia is the denial of 1995 Srebrenica Genocide in which Serb forces slaughtered over 8,000 Bosniaks in U.N. designated "safe" enclave of Srebrenica.
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: 4:49 PM
Wikipedia isn't used at all as an academic reference. No serious person uses it as a research source, because it's innaccurate on such a huge number of matters, that it is not worth the 10th percent of a calorie required to click onto it. All it does for anyone to vandalize information there is make the vandals even less credible for mucking about in a site that is not worth bothering about.
The robotic harvesting thing means that someone has to go through everything by hand. Someone Bosnian put something innacurate about Queen Katarina for example, that it was rumored her first love was a man who was not born until 100 years after her death! This was put in by a Bosnian Muslim author of a fictionalized biography of her, and had words like 'boffo'
I am pretty good at doing the massive research project online, and I find that it's a real problem when Wikipedia gets into the mix because there's no accountability. In time if it keeps up, we're going to have to go back to sometimes really rare print media. In some cases the media will be GONE!
Some libraries have actually gotten rid of really precious and special old books.
The San Francisco Public Library for example got rid of old books that had valuable historical information after they 'modernized'.
I don't like history by who shouts loudest. I don't like the soccer hooligan mentality taking over history. There was damn well enough of that in the old encyclopedias anyway. The Britanica and other encyclopedias were noticably biased.
I am pretty good at doing the massive research project online, and I find that it's a real problem when Wikipedia gets into the mix because there's no accountability. In time if it keeps up, we're going to have to go back to sometimes really rare print media. In some cases the media will be GONE!
Some libraries have actually gotten rid of really precious and special old books.
The San Francisco Public Library for example got rid of old books that had valuable historical information after they 'modernized'.
I don't like history by who shouts loudest. I don't like the soccer hooligan mentality taking over history. There was damn well enough of that in the old encyclopedias anyway. The Britanica and other encyclopedias were noticably biased.
San Francisco, there was an article ages ago about it in the 'New Yorker Magazine'my late mother actually stole some books from the stacks years ago and then felt really really guilty but never gave them back, then after the big earthquake in 1987, they pulled this bullshit 'modernization' crap so i sent her the article over my fax machine and said 'never feel guilty for an honest theft again!'
She was horrified. By the way I still have a number of those books.
She was horrified. By the way I still have a number of those books.
I'm sure all this stuff helped my mother die younger than she should have, that and Melody, the red cow.
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