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Mitologjia shqiptare: Çfarë besonin paraardhësit tanë?

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Mes të tjerash: «Të bardhat janë një lloj shtojzovallesh, vajza të bukura, pra, diçka si zanat. E Bukura e Dheut, edhe kjo është njëfarë zane. Kjo figurë mitologjike është e njohur jo vetëm në Ballkan, por edhe në botën arabe, nga duhet të ketë ardhur ndër ne. Dragoi, kuçedra, syri i keq, lugati, shtriga etj..»

Për artikullin e plotë, ndiqni këtë lidhje te gazeta Standard.

Phallic Polls

The picture really is worth a thousand words in this case.

Outing Bigotry

It's all out, folks!

The Judge in the Perry et al. v. Schwarzenegger case has released all video evidence presented in the court. That means that now you can find the mendacious and misleading ads for Proposition 8 in one good ol' web page.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Everyone is entitled to his or her view of morality; no one is entitled to imposing it on another human being.

Get over it!

'Little Terrorists'

Aaaaaaaah! This Texas representative seems to suggest that children born to illegal immigrants in the United States leave the country, become terrorists, and then come back and are a threat to our security. Yes.... Because only U.S. citizens can (re)enter the country, right?

This woman is an idiot. She cites dubious sources devoid of proof and, what's more, pushes down our throats the image of illegal immigration as a direct threat to our security. Security! It's one thing to say it's a fiscal problem, but to make any suggestion that they are 'little terrorists' serves only the purpose of eliciting images of brown babies with dynamite strapped to their bodies. And that is certainly the image that the fear-mongering Republicans want people to have in mind when voting this year.

Election years are depressing but also a good test for the sanity of our representatives. This woman has failed it.

Always Have an Ace in the Hole

Never thought that's what Ella meant when she sang that song....

(Source: Buzzfeed)

Pedophilophiles

Hah! The Dutch apparently have an Onion-like news network.... What do they call it? Probably 'Leek'; they like double vowels.

(Source: Buzzfeed)

You're Playing With the Adults Now, Billyboy...

Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann have had a back-and-forth exchange of insults for a few years now. While I really do not like Bill O'Reilly, I must say that Keith Olbermann's retorts to 'Bill-o the Clown' are often childish and rely on name-calling more than anything else.

Perhaps weary of his feud with Olbermann, O'Reilly is now taking on Rachel Maddow, oblivious to the fact that she is an adult and will not engage him in name-calling, but rather fact-throwing. And, as long as she is playing that card, Billyboy will be in trouble....

I say get out now. Get out fast and don't look back.....

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A Good Season for Xenophobia

With few things left to criticize and with much promise for appeal to ball-suckers (today's epithet for teabaggers), the GOP has turned its attention to the document it touts as 'perfect' and 'immutable,' but also as 'flawed' when it so pleases its members. Their calls to repeal or amend the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment are just a desperate effort to garner votes before elections take place. Frustrations with illegal immigrants are legitimate and certainly worth addressing, but man, do they know how to amplify and inflate facts only to portray illegal immigrants as our biggest threat or thorn in our eye.

The New York Times is on it.

The NYT is equally—and justifiably—critical of Sarkozy's latest series of xenophobic measures. They are the latest in his attempts to secure a few votes from the extreme right, or to distract public opinion from his failures as Monsieur le Président.

'It Is Sooooooo Ordered'

Stephen Colbert on how straight men can ruin marriage for gay men.

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Bring in the Straitjacket

Sharron Angle has outdone her loony self!

Not only does she say that Democrats will 'make government our God,' but also goes on to suggest that the First Amendment does NOT guarantee the separation of church and state, but rather protects the church from the state.

However 'in touch' she may be with mainstream America, people like Sharron Angle are dangerous to a secular democracy, which ours is, try as anybody might to convince us otherwise. Secularism ensures freedom of religion for large and small religious groups equally. Religious freedom is already strained today from many large Christian groups claiming more or less a stance similar to Angle's with regard to the First Amendment. Harming the Republic's secularism will only lead to theocracy and restrictions of freedom brought on by a majority's view of morality. If people like her get elected, it wouldn't be strange, in one generation, to see the United States transformed—if not de jure then de facto—into a theocracy of thugs that present-day Iran would envy.

SENATVS POPVLVSQVE AMERICANVS

If you ever wondered why the Senate is so much on the news and why very little seems to happen there, I strongly recommend you read this report from The New Yorker, which attempts to answer the question, 'Just how broken is the Senate?'

I'll let you discover for yourself. But here's a preview:

Even if the freshmen Democrats can somehow reform the filibuster next January, the Senate will remain a sclerotic, wasteful, unhappy body. The deepest source of its problems is not rules and precedents but, rather, its human beings, who have created a culture where Tocqueville’s “lofty thoughts” and “generous impulses” have no place.