GinnyTosken
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A Texan and Totalitarianism
by GinnyTosken incongress is now reviving a proposal killed last year by senator phil gramm, the texas republican who was then chairman of the senate banking committee.
the bill, introduced by the clinton administration, would give the treasury secretary broad power to bar foreign countries and banks from access to the american financial market unless they cooperated with money-laundering investigations.
it was strongly opposed by the banking industry and mr. gramm.. "i was right then and i am right now" in opposing the bill, mr. gramm said yesterday.
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Boston Tea Party--A Terrorist Act?
by GinnyTosken ini'm not sure what i think about this myself and am curious to hear your opinions.. here is an account from paul johnson's a history of the american people.. ginny.
the origins of the boston tea party had nothing to do with america.
the east india company had got itself into a financial mess.
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Amish Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Battery
by GinnyTosken ini read this in today's local paper.
it has interesting parallels to the watchtower society's stance.
(bolding in article is mine.).
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Taliban, Lot, and Men of Sodom
by GinnyTosken inreading an article in the new york times, i came across a description of the taliban and mullah omar, the man who started the movement:.
isolating the taliban has been easy but ineffective because they insulate themselves.
television is banned.
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Compassion for the Enemy
by GinnyTosken ina few paragraphs from the elements of love by sam keen.. ginny.
the flower of compassion can bloom at any moment, even in the ambience of enmity.. a friend told me a story of a kind that has been repeated countless times in the history of warfare.
"we were in a firefight not too far from da nang.
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How do you spell God?
by GinnyTosken inthis summer i wanted to give my son a religious education.
by "religious education" i mean that i wanted to educate him about various religions without indoctrinating him to believe any specific way.
i want him to be knowledgable enough to be culturally literate and able to make an informed decision about his spiritual needs.. we have been reading together in genesis, but i also browsed at the library to find a book that might give us more detail about specific religious beliefs.
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Pat Boone, Heavy Metal Artist
by GinnyTosken inpat boone is now an instrument of the devil.
he has "sold his soul for rock and roll," singing satanic songs on his heavy metal album.. support sister rossetta in her pat boone boycott:.
http://www.rossetta.com/patboone.htm.
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The Passionate Life
by GinnyTosken inone of my favorite books is sam keen's the passionate life.
sam keen regards eros as an impulse or energy that links us to the whole web of life rather than a strictly sexual-romantic thing.
his goal in this book is to help us recover 'a healthy passion' for life.
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Fighting Words (formerly "Biga Peula")
by GinnyTosken inthis comes from they have a word for it: a lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words & phrases by howard rheingold.. ginny.
biga peula (kiriwina, new guinea).
potentially disruptive, unredeemable true statements.
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Honey, Have You Seen the Remote?
by GinnyTosken ini wonder if this tidbit will appear in "watching the world"?.
ginny.
honey, have you seen the remote?.