Before central heating, refrigerated foods and Jesus Christ, generations of wise Celtic women celebrated Imbolc, a festival of the pagan goddess Brighid, Ireland's *other* patron saint. Sister to faery folk, protector of animals, Brighid is Mary of the Gael, goddess of poetry, prophecy, handcrafts, and healing.»

Thoughts on Natasha Walter - The Return Of Sexism. Sexism has re-advanced, and it is enabled through the pornification of just about everything and via the smoke and mirrrors charade that this porn culture is any way empowering for women.»

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has a parliamentary democracy, which means that Government is voted into power by the people, to act in the interests of the people. The Westminster Parliament is in fact the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world.»

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Playing soon on a screen near you, it's the IOC's Triple Screw— of land stolen from NDNs, contracts to cheat taxpayers, missing and murdered wimmin too! From Obama's IRS auctioning away acres of a Sioux tribe's reservation, to Olympic™ gender bigotry & anti-democracy, two threads mesh at Vancouver in February.»

Only raw gender bigotry explains the International Olympic Committee's refusal to recognize and reward female athletes for their championship-level feats. Sportswomen set world records while vaulting political and financial barriers imposed by IOC Pres. Jacques Rogge, who seems hell-bent on raising sexism to an Olympic™ sport.»

America's own Real Estate Shyster-in-Chief, Barack Obama, is selling out *two* nations with a new Sioux Indian land grab by the IRS. His hypocritical Christmas gift is a deal for a wind energy cartel but steals taxpayers' money and a tribe's future.»

What if...Christians lost their majority in the USA? In American schools based on XYZ beliefs, could a Christian child take off Christmas or Easter? Imagine parents juggling job schedules as minorities at a typical XYZ-majority workplace. Or is the truly American way secular and constitutional from top to bottom?»

Little else can unite Pakistanis like a hypocritical Peace Through War policy of an arrogant U.S. president, deciding their fate at his leisure half a world away. Is he different from Bush? The warmonger's acceptance of a Nobel peace prize is the latest bitter irony that Obama is worse than Bush's harshest critics imagined.»