Little monsters -- when kids raise themselves
----------
ifeminists.com
by Tresa McBee
Children, regardless of background, can't raise themselves.
Look what happens when they do. (10/16/02)
http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1015b.html
Little monsters - When kids raise themselves
October 15, 2002
by Tresa McBee
student of philosophy, science, skepticism, politics. Libertarian*, Physicist, Inventor, Eudaimonist, Extropian www.matus1976.com
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Global progress in slashing poverty
----------
Christian Science Monitor
Broad new studies suggest that the world has made
extraordinary progress in slashing poverty in recent
decades. Experts debate the causes, but improvements
coincide with an opening of markets. (09/26/02)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0926/p01s02-usec.html
Global progress in slashing poverty
Studies suggest big economic strides, but many debate the pace and causes of
progress.
----------
Christian Science Monitor
Broad new studies suggest that the world has made
extraordinary progress in slashing poverty in recent
decades. Experts debate the causes, but improvements
coincide with an opening of markets. (09/26/02)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0926/p01s02-usec.html
Global progress in slashing poverty
Studies suggest big economic strides, but many debate the pace and causes of
progress.
(An interesting article from Reason magazine on the gender inequalties in
carrying out death sentances, citing the tendancy to potrary murderous
women, such as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos as 'victims' themselves,
even though Wuornos admitted to killing for the joy of it and greed, a play
written about her, titled 'Self Defense' features Wuornos as a tragic
innocent and the men who brought her to justice as patriarchal pigs. Is it
politically correct now for women to murder men? - Mike)
Lethal injection gender gap
----------
Reason
by Cathy Young
"Why aren't women clamoring for the right to be killed by
the state?" (10/08/02)
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy100802.shtml
Excerpts -
"Wuornos's gender alone makes her case a rarity. Seven women have been
executed in this country since 1976 (when capital punishment was reinstated
by the Supreme Court), along with nearly 800 men. Women commit about 10
percent of all murders in the United States, yet receive only about 2
percent of the death sentences and account for about 1 percent of death-row
inmates, since their sentences are more often commuted or reversed. Yet the
debate about the unfair application of the death penalty in America has
focused almost exclusively on disparities of race and class, while virtually
ignoring gender"
"Still, while women commit nearly 30 percent of spousal murders (excluding
homicides ruled to be in self-defense), they account for 15 percent of
prisoners sentenced to death for killing a spouse. "
"Witness the case of Wuornos, who fatally shot and robbed seven men she
picked up as a prostitute-and became, to some, a symbol of abused
womanhood...Interestingly, Wuornos now says that her claims of self-defense
were a lie
and that she killed out of hate and greed. But that's unlikely to change any
minds. Carla Lucero, author of the opera Wuornos, has said that Wuornos's
desire to be executed is merely a powerless woman's attempt to control her
destiny."
carrying out death sentances, citing the tendancy to potrary murderous
women, such as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos as 'victims' themselves,
even though Wuornos admitted to killing for the joy of it and greed, a play
written about her, titled 'Self Defense' features Wuornos as a tragic
innocent and the men who brought her to justice as patriarchal pigs. Is it
politically correct now for women to murder men? - Mike)
Lethal injection gender gap
----------
Reason
by Cathy Young
"Why aren't women clamoring for the right to be killed by
the state?" (10/08/02)
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy100802.shtml
Excerpts -
"Wuornos's gender alone makes her case a rarity. Seven women have been
executed in this country since 1976 (when capital punishment was reinstated
by the Supreme Court), along with nearly 800 men. Women commit about 10
percent of all murders in the United States, yet receive only about 2
percent of the death sentences and account for about 1 percent of death-row
inmates, since their sentences are more often commuted or reversed. Yet the
debate about the unfair application of the death penalty in America has
focused almost exclusively on disparities of race and class, while virtually
ignoring gender"
"Still, while women commit nearly 30 percent of spousal murders (excluding
homicides ruled to be in self-defense), they account for 15 percent of
prisoners sentenced to death for killing a spouse. "
"Witness the case of Wuornos, who fatally shot and robbed seven men she
picked up as a prostitute-and became, to some, a symbol of abused
womanhood...Interestingly, Wuornos now says that her claims of self-defense
were a lie
and that she killed out of hate and greed. But that's unlikely to change any
minds. Carla Lucero, author of the opera Wuornos, has said that Wuornos's
desire to be executed is merely a powerless woman's attempt to control her
destiny."
Woman's 'Faith' kills her daughter
When doctors told Jacqueline Crank to get her daughter to a hospital for the
tumor that was growing on her shoulder, the Tennessee woman turned to Godi
nstead.
Now the woman could face murder charges on top of the aggravated child abuse
and neglect charges that she and the girl's "spiritual father," Ariel Ben
Sherman, already face.
The 15-year-old girl, Jessica Crank, died on Sept. 15 from a rare form of
bone cancer. One last attempt at using faith to help the girl was attempted
at her funeral on Sept. 18, when Sherman asked a group of members of his New
Life Ministries to pray over the girl's open casket for her resurrection.
The girl did not rise from the dead, but Sherman - who was charged with five
counts of child abuse in Oregon in 1984 and convicted of criminal
mistreatment - said that should not be any reason for those in his church to
lose faith.
"Jesus is a healer," Sherman said at the funeral service. "Jessica believed
that, too."
There is no legislation against people making their own decision not to go
to a doctor, but when a parent decides not to seek medical care for a sick
child, it can be considered child abuse or worse, if the child dies.
Tennessee is one of 38 states that allow parents to turn to prayer or faith
healing to treat their children's illnesses and not seek medical care, but
in most of those states the law specifies that if a child's condition is
life threatening, a physician must be consulted.
Basketball-Sized Tumor
Crank was arrested in June, a month after she took Jessica to a Lenoir City,
Tenn., clinic and, according to police, did not take the girl to an
appointment with an emergency room doctor at the University of Tennessee
Medical Center in Knoxville.
"[Clinic workers] took her X-rays and looked for two hours trying to find an
orthopedic surgeon and she left there under the assumption [of the clinic]
she was going to UT hospital and never arrived there," Lenoir City police
Officer Lynette Ladd said. "They called the area hospitals and doctor's
offices and she hadn't been anywhere, so they turned it over to us."
Jessica already had a basketball-sized tumor on her shoulder when her mother
brought her to the clinic. After her mother was arrested and the girl was
put in the hospital, she was diagnosed with bone cancer.
Before the girl died, attorneys for Jacqueline Crank and Sherman tried to
convince the court to take a deposition from her, because they said the girl
supported the decision not to take her to a doctor, but the judge denied the
request.
"It's the court's opinion it would be a great injustice to subject this
dying child to the procedure of a deposition," Loudon County Sessions Judge
William Russell said in his ruling.
"I cannot defend this mother without taking this deposition," Gregory
Isaacs, the attorney for Jacqueline Crank, said at the hearing.
Loudon County Assistant District Attorney Gary Fox argued that it made no
difference whether the 15-year-old wanted to rely on prayer.
"That's not a decision that the child makes. That's a decision that the
parents make," he said.
Power of the Holy Spirit
While a parent's decision not to do everything possible - even if it
conflicts with religious beliefs - to help an obviously desperately sick
child might seem bizarre to many people, relying solely on faith to cure
disease has held a place in American religious life for more than a century,
at least since the emergence of the Christian Science church in the 1880s.
Until the 1960s, most of the legal cases dealing with parents withholding
medical care for their children involved Christian Science followers, but in
the 1960s there were increasing numbers of members of other denominations
who were charged with crimes for turning to prayer rather than medicine for
their kids.
The practice of seeking divine assistance in times of illness is not
uncommon among Methodists, Episcopalians and Pentecostals, though it is rare
for members of those denominations to turn to prayer to the exclusion of
medical care, according to religious scholars.
Most often, those who will turn their backs on medical science are followers
of the so-called charismatics, preachers who emphasize the power of the Holy
Spirit and point to certain scriptures, notably from Acts and Paul's Letter
to the Corinthians, said J. Gordon Melton, the director of the Institute for
the Study of American Religion.
The strides made by medical science over the last century may have taken
away some of the impetus to turn away from doctors and seek another answer
for illness, Melton suggested.
Massachusetts Sect on Trial
The issue was again brought to national attention in the late 1980s and the
1990s with a series of cases, including that of David and Ginger Twitchell,
two Christian Scientists who were convicted of manslaughter in the death of
their son, for whom they did not get medical care.
Their conviction was overturned three years later on technical grounds.
More recently, three members of a sect in Attleboro, Mass., known as The
Body were accused of murder in the April 1999 starvation death of a
10-month-old boy. The boy was taken off solid food and forced to take
nourishment only from his mother's breast, even though the woman was not
producing nearly enough milk to feed him.
The decision was made to take the boy off solid food after the youngster's
aunt said she had a divine revelation ordering the change. The boy's father,
Jacques Robidoux, was convicted of first-degree murder, while the mother,
Karen Robidoux, and the woman who said she had the vision, Michelle Mingo,
are both awaiting trial.
Jacqueline Crank and Sherman are due back in court for their next hearing on
Oct. 11.
ABCNEWS affiliate WATE in Knoxville contributed to this report.
When doctors told Jacqueline Crank to get her daughter to a hospital for the
tumor that was growing on her shoulder, the Tennessee woman turned to Godi
nstead.
Now the woman could face murder charges on top of the aggravated child abuse
and neglect charges that she and the girl's "spiritual father," Ariel Ben
Sherman, already face.
The 15-year-old girl, Jessica Crank, died on Sept. 15 from a rare form of
bone cancer. One last attempt at using faith to help the girl was attempted
at her funeral on Sept. 18, when Sherman asked a group of members of his New
Life Ministries to pray over the girl's open casket for her resurrection.
The girl did not rise from the dead, but Sherman - who was charged with five
counts of child abuse in Oregon in 1984 and convicted of criminal
mistreatment - said that should not be any reason for those in his church to
lose faith.
"Jesus is a healer," Sherman said at the funeral service. "Jessica believed
that, too."
There is no legislation against people making their own decision not to go
to a doctor, but when a parent decides not to seek medical care for a sick
child, it can be considered child abuse or worse, if the child dies.
Tennessee is one of 38 states that allow parents to turn to prayer or faith
healing to treat their children's illnesses and not seek medical care, but
in most of those states the law specifies that if a child's condition is
life threatening, a physician must be consulted.
Basketball-Sized Tumor
Crank was arrested in June, a month after she took Jessica to a Lenoir City,
Tenn., clinic and, according to police, did not take the girl to an
appointment with an emergency room doctor at the University of Tennessee
Medical Center in Knoxville.
"[Clinic workers] took her X-rays and looked for two hours trying to find an
orthopedic surgeon and she left there under the assumption [of the clinic]
she was going to UT hospital and never arrived there," Lenoir City police
Officer Lynette Ladd said. "They called the area hospitals and doctor's
offices and she hadn't been anywhere, so they turned it over to us."
Jessica already had a basketball-sized tumor on her shoulder when her mother
brought her to the clinic. After her mother was arrested and the girl was
put in the hospital, she was diagnosed with bone cancer.
Before the girl died, attorneys for Jacqueline Crank and Sherman tried to
convince the court to take a deposition from her, because they said the girl
supported the decision not to take her to a doctor, but the judge denied the
request.
"It's the court's opinion it would be a great injustice to subject this
dying child to the procedure of a deposition," Loudon County Sessions Judge
William Russell said in his ruling.
"I cannot defend this mother without taking this deposition," Gregory
Isaacs, the attorney for Jacqueline Crank, said at the hearing.
Loudon County Assistant District Attorney Gary Fox argued that it made no
difference whether the 15-year-old wanted to rely on prayer.
"That's not a decision that the child makes. That's a decision that the
parents make," he said.
Power of the Holy Spirit
While a parent's decision not to do everything possible - even if it
conflicts with religious beliefs - to help an obviously desperately sick
child might seem bizarre to many people, relying solely on faith to cure
disease has held a place in American religious life for more than a century,
at least since the emergence of the Christian Science church in the 1880s.
Until the 1960s, most of the legal cases dealing with parents withholding
medical care for their children involved Christian Science followers, but in
the 1960s there were increasing numbers of members of other denominations
who were charged with crimes for turning to prayer rather than medicine for
their kids.
The practice of seeking divine assistance in times of illness is not
uncommon among Methodists, Episcopalians and Pentecostals, though it is rare
for members of those denominations to turn to prayer to the exclusion of
medical care, according to religious scholars.
Most often, those who will turn their backs on medical science are followers
of the so-called charismatics, preachers who emphasize the power of the Holy
Spirit and point to certain scriptures, notably from Acts and Paul's Letter
to the Corinthians, said J. Gordon Melton, the director of the Institute for
the Study of American Religion.
The strides made by medical science over the last century may have taken
away some of the impetus to turn away from doctors and seek another answer
for illness, Melton suggested.
Massachusetts Sect on Trial
The issue was again brought to national attention in the late 1980s and the
1990s with a series of cases, including that of David and Ginger Twitchell,
two Christian Scientists who were convicted of manslaughter in the death of
their son, for whom they did not get medical care.
Their conviction was overturned three years later on technical grounds.
More recently, three members of a sect in Attleboro, Mass., known as The
Body were accused of murder in the April 1999 starvation death of a
10-month-old boy. The boy was taken off solid food and forced to take
nourishment only from his mother's breast, even though the woman was not
producing nearly enough milk to feed him.
The decision was made to take the boy off solid food after the youngster's
aunt said she had a divine revelation ordering the change. The boy's father,
Jacques Robidoux, was convicted of first-degree murder, while the mother,
Karen Robidoux, and the woman who said she had the vision, Michelle Mingo,
are both awaiting trial.
Jacqueline Crank and Sherman are due back in court for their next hearing on
Oct. 11.
ABCNEWS affiliate WATE in Knoxville contributed to this report.
Thomas Paine: A Hero for the World
http://www.cygnus-study.com/pagepaine.shtml
Every once in a while, the world is fortunate to have a great person come to
edify. Generally the person is completely ignored or disdained by their own
generation but increasingly valued by subsequent ones. Such is the case for
the greatest American hero, Thomas Paine.
Thomas Paine came to live in the United States in 1774 at the invitation of
Benjamin Franklin. Soon after his arrival, he began to speak his mind and
was both hated and loved by many.
Paine was the greatest defender of the disenfranchised that this country has
ever known. He was a prolific writer and the first piece that he ever had
published was against slavery in America. He pled for the rights of black
people, and stated that it was an offense to all humanity that they should
be imprisoned and forced into submission. A few short days after the
publishing of this article, the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed.
Some 90 years later the Emancipation Proclomation finished the job that
Thomas Paine got started.
Paine continued to fight for rights. He fought against the practice of
dueling, claiming that it was a "barbarous act" that did not solve the
right/wrong issue. He fought against the mistreatment of animals with, "A
Protest Against Cruelty to Animals." He fought for equal rights for women
with, "A plea for the Rights of Women," one of the earliest documents of
it's kind in the New World.
Thomas Paine was the first to coin the phrase "The United States of
America". He was the first to suggest that colonies become united. He was
the first to suggest separation from Great Britain.
The United States of America was born as much from the pen of Thomas Paine
as it was from the sword of George Washington.
For the next decade or so, Thomas Paine set about making the newly founded
nation as strong as possible. He sailed to France with Ben Franklin in order
to secure six million silvers for a loan, as well as clothing and military
stores. He raised 1.5 million dollars in 1780 to pay the army which had been
considering mutiny.
At the end of all of this, he knew that his work had been done in America.
Being a man not prone to idleness, he set out for England to educate the
people there.
Once in England, Thomas Paine wrote the well known book, "Rights of Man". In
the book he wrote that all people were of the same mother and as such
deserved the same equal treatment. He wrote that the upper ruling class was
there by birth and not through some feat or divine placement. Needless to
say, this text caused BIG trouble in the monarchy of England.
Immediately upon publication in England, the Rights of Man was suppressed.
The author was indicted. Those who published it and those who sold it were
arrested. To avoid arrest and probable death, Paine left England. However,
his ideas had left their mark on the nation and the English people today
enjoy a freedom that stems back to those who rallied around Paine's text.
After leaving England, Paine went to France where he had become widely
famous. His actions in America were well known.The pamphlet "Common Sense"
had been published in French and was having an immense effect. The French
knew of the "Rights of Man". Paine was so popular in France that he was
elected to the National Convention by three political parties. Once in
government, he founded the first Republican Society in France and wrote
their manifesto. These actions helped to give Paine the reputation as the
"defender of popular rights" throughout America, England, Scotland, Ireland
and France.
Despite his popularity, trouble soon found Thomas Paine in France. After the
French Revolution, the king of France was to be executed as a traitor. The
National Convention wanted the King dead. But Thomas Paine, being the great
humanist that he was, made a plea to the Convention to spare the king's
life. He asked that the king be exiled to the United States. He asked not
only as a citizen of the United States but also as a member of the
Convention. This action of asking for sparing the king's life was, at that
time, a request to also be executed.
Robert Ingersoll, a widely published Agnostic, wrote of Paine, "From the
moment that Paine cast his vote in favor of mercy - in favor of life - the
shadow of the guillotine was on him. He knew that when he voted for the
King's life, he voted for his own death."
Paine recognized his predicament, and knew that his time on Earth could be
very short. Knowing that there was no time to lose, he set out to write "The
Age of Reason". The book contained Paine's thoughts on "revealed religions"
and the Bible. This writing was as threatening to the church as "The Rights
of Man" had been to the monarchy. In writing "Age of Reason," Paine sought
to break the bonds that the church held on the common man. The book is as
powerful a source of revelation today as it was when it was written some two
hundred years ago.
Ingersoll again points out, "Not one argument that Paine urged against the
inspiration of the Bible, against the truth of miracles, against the
barbarities and infamies of the Old Testament, against the pretensions of
priests and the claims of kings, has ever been answered." And it is true
even 100 years after Ingersoll wrote that.
In 200 years, no one has been able to disprove the points that Paine made
against the Bible. What are we to make of this?
Thomas Paine was arrested just a few short hours after completing the first
part of the Age of Reason in December, 1793. He was forgotten by almost
everyone but not the future American president, James Monroe. Monroe wrote
in Paine's behalf and won his release in November of the following year.
While in prison, Paine finished his work on part II of "Age of Reason".
After his release, Paine remained in France for some time before returning
to America, expecting to live out his days among those he had helped to gain
their independence. What he got was widespread hatred. The Federalists hated
him because of how he fought for the rights of the people. The slave-traders
hated him for trying to ruin their business. The clergy hated him for his
work, and he was labeled an atheist, a blasphemer, a hater and enemy of God
and men, alike.
I leave the end of Thomas Paine's life to the words of Robert Ingersoll:
"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his
old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side,
execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his
services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and
balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions
remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still
tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his
death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the
friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts.
On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend.
At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military
display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of
the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated
the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with
gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine."
http://www.cygnus-study.com/pagepaine.shtml
Every once in a while, the world is fortunate to have a great person come to
edify. Generally the person is completely ignored or disdained by their own
generation but increasingly valued by subsequent ones. Such is the case for
the greatest American hero, Thomas Paine.
Thomas Paine came to live in the United States in 1774 at the invitation of
Benjamin Franklin. Soon after his arrival, he began to speak his mind and
was both hated and loved by many.
Paine was the greatest defender of the disenfranchised that this country has
ever known. He was a prolific writer and the first piece that he ever had
published was against slavery in America. He pled for the rights of black
people, and stated that it was an offense to all humanity that they should
be imprisoned and forced into submission. A few short days after the
publishing of this article, the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed.
Some 90 years later the Emancipation Proclomation finished the job that
Thomas Paine got started.
Paine continued to fight for rights. He fought against the practice of
dueling, claiming that it was a "barbarous act" that did not solve the
right/wrong issue. He fought against the mistreatment of animals with, "A
Protest Against Cruelty to Animals." He fought for equal rights for women
with, "A plea for the Rights of Women," one of the earliest documents of
it's kind in the New World.
Thomas Paine was the first to coin the phrase "The United States of
America". He was the first to suggest that colonies become united. He was
the first to suggest separation from Great Britain.
The United States of America was born as much from the pen of Thomas Paine
as it was from the sword of George Washington.
For the next decade or so, Thomas Paine set about making the newly founded
nation as strong as possible. He sailed to France with Ben Franklin in order
to secure six million silvers for a loan, as well as clothing and military
stores. He raised 1.5 million dollars in 1780 to pay the army which had been
considering mutiny.
At the end of all of this, he knew that his work had been done in America.
Being a man not prone to idleness, he set out for England to educate the
people there.
Once in England, Thomas Paine wrote the well known book, "Rights of Man". In
the book he wrote that all people were of the same mother and as such
deserved the same equal treatment. He wrote that the upper ruling class was
there by birth and not through some feat or divine placement. Needless to
say, this text caused BIG trouble in the monarchy of England.
Immediately upon publication in England, the Rights of Man was suppressed.
The author was indicted. Those who published it and those who sold it were
arrested. To avoid arrest and probable death, Paine left England. However,
his ideas had left their mark on the nation and the English people today
enjoy a freedom that stems back to those who rallied around Paine's text.
After leaving England, Paine went to France where he had become widely
famous. His actions in America were well known.The pamphlet "Common Sense"
had been published in French and was having an immense effect. The French
knew of the "Rights of Man". Paine was so popular in France that he was
elected to the National Convention by three political parties. Once in
government, he founded the first Republican Society in France and wrote
their manifesto. These actions helped to give Paine the reputation as the
"defender of popular rights" throughout America, England, Scotland, Ireland
and France.
Despite his popularity, trouble soon found Thomas Paine in France. After the
French Revolution, the king of France was to be executed as a traitor. The
National Convention wanted the King dead. But Thomas Paine, being the great
humanist that he was, made a plea to the Convention to spare the king's
life. He asked that the king be exiled to the United States. He asked not
only as a citizen of the United States but also as a member of the
Convention. This action of asking for sparing the king's life was, at that
time, a request to also be executed.
Robert Ingersoll, a widely published Agnostic, wrote of Paine, "From the
moment that Paine cast his vote in favor of mercy - in favor of life - the
shadow of the guillotine was on him. He knew that when he voted for the
King's life, he voted for his own death."
Paine recognized his predicament, and knew that his time on Earth could be
very short. Knowing that there was no time to lose, he set out to write "The
Age of Reason". The book contained Paine's thoughts on "revealed religions"
and the Bible. This writing was as threatening to the church as "The Rights
of Man" had been to the monarchy. In writing "Age of Reason," Paine sought
to break the bonds that the church held on the common man. The book is as
powerful a source of revelation today as it was when it was written some two
hundred years ago.
Ingersoll again points out, "Not one argument that Paine urged against the
inspiration of the Bible, against the truth of miracles, against the
barbarities and infamies of the Old Testament, against the pretensions of
priests and the claims of kings, has ever been answered." And it is true
even 100 years after Ingersoll wrote that.
In 200 years, no one has been able to disprove the points that Paine made
against the Bible. What are we to make of this?
Thomas Paine was arrested just a few short hours after completing the first
part of the Age of Reason in December, 1793. He was forgotten by almost
everyone but not the future American president, James Monroe. Monroe wrote
in Paine's behalf and won his release in November of the following year.
While in prison, Paine finished his work on part II of "Age of Reason".
After his release, Paine remained in France for some time before returning
to America, expecting to live out his days among those he had helped to gain
their independence. What he got was widespread hatred. The Federalists hated
him because of how he fought for the rights of the people. The slave-traders
hated him for trying to ruin their business. The clergy hated him for his
work, and he was labeled an atheist, a blasphemer, a hater and enemy of God
and men, alike.
I leave the end of Thomas Paine's life to the words of Robert Ingersoll:
"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his
old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side,
execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his
services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and
balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions
remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still
tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his
death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the
friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts.
On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend.
At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military
display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of
the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated
the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with
gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine."
The 'boy parent dilemma'
----------
Liberty For All
by Glenn Sacks
"By any measure, our schools are failing our sons. Boys at
all levels are far more likely than girls to be
disciplined, suspended, held back, or expelled. By high
school the typical boy is a year and a half behind the
typical girl in reading and writing, and is less likely
to graduate high school, go to college, or graduate
college than a typical girl." (09/02)
http://www.libertyforall.net/2002/archive/sept16/boy-parent-dilemma.html
The 'Boy Parent Dilemma'
by Glenn Sacks
----------
Liberty For All
by Glenn Sacks
"By any measure, our schools are failing our sons. Boys at
all levels are far more likely than girls to be
disciplined, suspended, held back, or expelled. By high
school the typical boy is a year and a half behind the
typical girl in reading and writing, and is less likely
to graduate high school, go to college, or graduate
college than a typical girl." (09/02)
http://www.libertyforall.net/2002/archive/sept16/boy-parent-dilemma.html
The 'Boy Parent Dilemma'
by Glenn Sacks
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Stop energy eco-imperialism
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International Policy Network
by Barun Mitra
"Energy poverty is directly related to economic poverty, and
India's national and state governments have engaged in prolonging
both types by inhibiting development of new energy sources,
overregulating existing energy supplies, and unnecessarily
intervening in energy markets." (11/07/02)
http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=415
Excerpts -
"The immediate need of poor people in India and other poor countries is to consume more energy, in any form. Likewise, India’s economy needs reliable, cheap energy of any kind to fuel economic growth and improved quality of life....India’s economy needs reliable, cheap energy of any kind to fuel economic growth and improved quality of life. "
"The human health, economic, and environmental impact of burning these ‘renewable’ fuels is immense. Young children and women spend hours each day in the drudgery of collecting firewood or collecting, drying, and storing manure for use in cooking, heat, or light – rather than attending school or engaging in more satisfying or productive economic activity."
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International Policy Network
by Barun Mitra
"Energy poverty is directly related to economic poverty, and
India's national and state governments have engaged in prolonging
both types by inhibiting development of new energy sources,
overregulating existing energy supplies, and unnecessarily
intervening in energy markets." (11/07/02)
http://www.policynetwork.net/article.php?ID=415
Excerpts -
"The immediate need of poor people in India and other poor countries is to consume more energy, in any form. Likewise, India’s economy needs reliable, cheap energy of any kind to fuel economic growth and improved quality of life....India’s economy needs reliable, cheap energy of any kind to fuel economic growth and improved quality of life. "
"The human health, economic, and environmental impact of burning these ‘renewable’ fuels is immense. Young children and women spend hours each day in the drudgery of collecting firewood or collecting, drying, and storing manure for use in cooking, heat, or light – rather than attending school or engaging in more satisfying or productive economic activity."
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