Hypatia of California: Another Fake Election 2008

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Friday, September 5, 2008

Republican Convention Has Fewest Black Delegates in 40 Years

by Deborah Lake

http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/09/rnc_has_fewest_black_delegates.html

It appears that the number of Black Republicans (a phenomenon I never understood, because Republicans are against equal rights for everyone except white men) has decreased somewhat.

I always thought that Black Republicans were some of the saddest people on earth, until I learned about the Log Cabin Republicans, gays and lesbians who supported a party whose platform specifically denies them equal rights.

Sigh...

So, I am cheered by this news, and the fact that Sarah Palin will soon shoot herself in her redneck foot, and retire from the limelight.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Mod (erate) Squad (pic) (lol)

Monday, February 18, 2008

OBAMA ROBBED IN NY

Why isn't this in the corporate media? Here, it's just the New York Post... Normally, I pay no attention to the Post, being as it is a Rupert rag. However, this article appears to be straightforward reporting.

I have not been an Obama supporter, but I am even less of a Hillary supporter, and it appears that her negatives have caught up with her. Witness the Obama roll.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162008/news/regionalnews/obama_robbed_in_ny_97932.htm Read more at this link, if interested.

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS

February 16, 2008 -- Barack Obama's primary-night results were strikingly under recorded in several congressional districts around the city - in some cases leaving him with zero votes when, in fact, he had pulled in hundreds, the Board of Elections said today

Unofficial primary results gave Obama no votes in nearly 80 districts, including Harlem's 94th and other historically black areas - but many of those initial tallies proved to be wildly off the mark, the Board of Elections confirmed.

Truth is, in some districts getting a recount, the senator from Illinois is even close to defeating Hillary Clinton.

Initial results in the 94th District, for example, showed a 141-0 sweep for the New York senator, but Board of Elections spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez said today that the ongoing recount had changed the tally to 261-136.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

President Fred Thompson and The First Lady

Just a little shot of what the Republican Party was thinking you might want in a Presidential couple.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272613846.shtml

It isn't so much that Mrs. Fred Thompson is a skank. It's that the Republican Party seems to worship its skanks while pretending to be pious, viz. Ann Coulter.

~Deb

Please come to Denver...

by Deb Lake

Progressives of all stripes, the Democratic Convention Summer of 2008, is shaping up to be a very interesting moment in history. The City of Denver has already determined that it will not even discuss honoring the First Amendment rights of citizens.

"The Denver City Council decided it would not hear argument for a proclamation that assures that protesters’ First Amendment rights would be protected for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver."

http://www.workers.org/2007/us/denver-0621/

To learn more about the Convention, and the planned First Amendment political activities, go to these two sites:

http://www.08dnc.com/index.cfm An unofficial convention guide.

http://www.recreate68.org/

August 25 –28, 2008

Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria (Greek: Ὑπατία; born between 350 and 370 CE – 415 CE) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Coptic Christian mob who blamed her for religious turmoil. She has been hailed as a "valiant defender of science against religion", and some suggest that her murder marked the end of the Hellenistic Age.

A Neoplatonist philosopher, she followed the school characterized by the 3rd century thinker Plotinus, and discouraged mysticism while encouraging logical and mathematical studies.

Hypatia was the daughter of Theon, who was her teacher and the last known mathematician associated with of the Musaeum of Alexandria. She traveled to both Athens and Italy to study before becoming head of the Platonist school at Alexandria in approximately 400 CE. According to the Byzantine Suda, she worked as teacher of philosophy, teaching the works of Plato and Aristotle. It is believed that there were both Christians and foreigners among her students.

Although Hypatia was herself a pagan, she was respected by a number of Christians, and later held up by Christian authors as a symbol of virtue. The Suda controversially declared her "the wife of Isidore the Philosopher" but agreed she had remained a virgin.

Hypatia maintained correspondence with her former pupil Bishop of Ptolomais Synesius of Cyrene. Together with the references by Damascius, these are the only writings with descriptions or information from her pupils that survive.

The contemporary Christian historiographer Socrates Scholasticus described her in his Ecclesiastical History:
There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such attainments in literature and science, as to far surpass all the philosophers of her own time. Having succeeded to the school of Plato and Plotinus, she explained the principles of philosophy to her auditors, many of whom came from a distance to receive her instructions. On account of the self-possession and ease of manner, which she had acquired in consequence of the cultivation of her mind, she not unfrequently appeared in public in presence of the magistrates. Neither did she feel abashed in going to an assembly of men. For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria

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