Bollywood Rumors

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[Robert] Stare at the sky, not at the cork: When I go to Japanese places, I usually get teriyaki or tempura. A decade in California, though, removed any incipient "fried is the only way to eat fish" prejudices of my youth, and I enjoyed salmon roll and yellowtail roll, with miso soup.

[Gay_blog.blogspot.com] gay news blog: February 2004: So, while we fight two foreign wars with no end to or means to pay for either, while the real international hot spots show little sign of cooling off, while we comb the bushes, seats, and cubicles next to us for terrorists, while we sputter into an attempt at economic recovery, while the offered solution to our budgetary imbalances is akin to offering a dozen doughnuts to a fat person to help his weight problem, while education budgets get shorted and shorter with increasing regularity, while paying all your medical bills becomes a more elusive and perpetually vanishing dream, while the fragility of both our shared environment and our physical co-dependence remains just one SARS-HIV-Mad Cow-Bird flu plague away from real calamity, while jobs migrate overseas and opportunities for re-tooling for the re-vamped economic environment have yet to re-reach the re-masses, while all these far more vital issues build into dark thunderclouds on every available horizon, we have our current political leaders getting us prepped for the coming busy election year by spreading anxiety about gay weddings and all the accompanying evils brought on by cake, champagne, rice, flower arrangements, and invitations to a few close friends and family.

[Theamericanscene.com] The American Scene: "The Cuban revolution is astonishingly free of repression and bureaucratization" . In the contest for writing the most fatuous line of political drivel, Susan Sontag was always a contender.

[Opinion.gaynewsblog.net] Gay Opinion Blog: February 2005: "My personal opinion is that there are much bigger things we need to be discussing than this," Walton said, "especially in church." While he said he hopes the debate will be civil, especially inside the church, he will focus on what he sees as "my one commission, that is, to love as we have been loved." "It's my job to love people. I'll let the courts legislate, let the law mete all the rest of this out." Sam Garrison, a longtime gay-rights activist in the Roanoke Valley, said "it's too early to tell for sure how the debate on marriage will go, one main reason being that every year that the Massachusetts experiment goes forward, there will be less and less objective reason for sane people to fear that 'the sky is falling.'" The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that its state constitution guaranteed gays access to marriage there. That action is widely seen as the impetus for a spate of state constitutional amendments, including the one being proposed for Virginia. "An honest and deep examination of the function of marriage from the government's standpoint, the governmental or public purposes which it does or ought to serve, would be refreshing and worthwhile," Garrison said.

[Stommel.tamu.edu] Unusual Literature: Most famously, Aladdin, who has no Arabic version predating his appearance in 18th-century France, may well have been the creation of translator Antoine Galland, not of Scheherazade. Irwin wryly glosses these early translations, which distortedly mirror the original Eastern exoticism with the reflections of their age's prejudices and their translators' personal eccentricities (notably the lexical, racial, and sexual obsessions of the Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Burton). The earlier Arabic compilations are no more reliable, however--Irwin devotes a separate chapter to forerunners (conjectural or lost) over several centuries, from India to Persia and Egypt. In a quixotic effort to amass 1,001 actual tales, these medieval compilers would incorporate local legends and real settings, sometimes approaching souk storytellers as sources.

[Dakbangla.blogspot.com] Dak Bangla Intelligence Scan : November 2004: It would be too trite a postulate to assume that only the Bangladeshi mullahs, including the 'highly educated' ones, are the only remnants of rusticity and obscurantism, but their counterparts in Pakistan, India, Egypt, Afghanistan and elsewhere are also equally, if not more, ignorant, intolerant and arrogant. While Moulana Delwar Hussain Saidi, one of the most well-known mullahs of Bangladesh, compares women with fruits and animals in his public speeches, the late Sheikh Jadd al-Haq of the Al-Azhar University in one of his public statements in 1999 (quoted by the BBC) justified female genital mutilation or 'female circumcision' as Islamic and antidotal to HIV (AIDS) infection. We know he was wrong on both counts. The cruel genital mutilation is a pre-Islamic Ethiopian and central African custom (practised by Muslims, Christians, Jews and animists in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa, west Asia and Southeast Asia) and has nothing to do with Islam.

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