BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

...and the courts are finally catching up. Wanted to add some thoughts from around the web about attitudes towards women, commitment, abuse, coercion and what happens when one uses others. (WARNING: STRONG SEXUAL LANGUAGE): Excerpt from a post on the harm of pornography and the expectations men have of women and women have of themselves, sexually: 1. currently a lot of porn hurts women in its production... if you use porn and it isn't drawn or written, there is a good chance your porn is NOT "eco-friendly," so don't kid yourself. deep throat, arguably the most mainstreamed porno ever, involved rape and abuse... i would hazard a guess and say that MOST porn involves some degree of coercing women, abusing women, and/or taking advantage of the prior abuse of women so even if you think that porn consumption has no negative effect on women, porn production very definitely has a negative effect on women. if you boycott shampoo that is tested on animals, you should probab...

Believers in Barack By Thomas Sowell Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend. It is much the same story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don’t want to be confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts. An e-mail from a reader mentioned trying to tell his sister why he was voting against Obama but, when he tried to argue some facts, she cut him short: “You don’t like him and I do!” she said. End of discussion. When one thinks of all the men who have put their lives on the line in battle to defend and preserve this country, it is especially painful to think that there are people living in the safety and comfort of civilian life who cannot be bothered to find out the facts about candidates before voting to put the fate of this nation, and of generations yet to come, in the hands of someone chosen because they like his words or style....

SECRETS OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT'S RECRUITING TACTICS This is an IMPORTANT read! These are the SAME tactics used by online predators , politicians, cyberpaths , players , terrorist organizations, sex addicts, salespeople... so why does this not surprise me that the Christian Right would use these same cultic NLP tactics ? Never forget: PREDATORS HUNT THE WOUNDED! - Barbara There is a false, but effective, fiction that one has to be born again to be a Christian. The Christian right refuses to acknowledge the worth of anyone's religious experience unless -- in the words of the tired and opaque cliché -- one has accepted " Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior ." The meltdown, often skillfully manipulated by preachers and teams of evangelists, is one of the most pernicious tools of the movement. Through conversion one surrenders to a higher authority. And the higher authority, rather than God, is the preacher who steps in to take over your life. Being born aga...