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To: goldworldnet who wrote (3468)	4/13/2006 1:30:25 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

We had farmers in our family, and they seemed to make it through ok. My dad's family was relatively wealthy, and they made it through great. My mom's mother was the daughter of a very poor German immigrant, and she really suffered. She suffered in the factories before the depression, and she suffered through the depression, and she was one hell of a worker. People without her energy probably suffered much much worse.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (3468)	4/13/2006 1:36:42 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

German town clears away booze and porn for Saudis Reuters ^ \| 4-11-06 \| Erik Kirschbaum ca.today.reuters.com BAD NAUHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - The pictures of naked women are being removed from the hotel's health spa, the hard-core porn channels switched off and all the alcohol will be removed from the mini bars before Saudi Arabia arrives. Germany is rolling out the red carpets for the 31 foreign teams and a million overseas visitors heading its way for the World Cup but the small resort town of Bad Nauheim north of Frankfurt is busy taking away temptation for its Muslim guests. Yet the luxurious Hotel Dolce Bad Nauheim is doing all it can to shield the Saudi Arabia team from all those western ways when they take up 59 of its 159 rooms on May 27 for the finals. The Saudis play Spain, Ukraine and Tunisia in the opening group stage. "We do have a photo exhibition in the pool area which shows a lot of skin and it goes without saying that it will be removed by then," Michel Prokop, the hotel's general manager, told Reuters. " "There are 20 tasteful portrait photos, but out of courtesy there will be no skin and no breasts," he added. There are also five art nouveau paintings hanging in a theater in the park that belongs to the hotel. The paintings by Wilhelm Kleukens feature naked boys wearing wings -- and will come down. "We're following some basic 'do's and don'ts'. The whole staff is taking cross cultural training sessions to make them aware of the differences of Germany and Saudi Arabia."

To: goldworldnet who wrote (3468)	4/13/2006 1:44:08 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

Anger, apology over "Condoleezza" quiz Seattle Times ^ \| April 13, 2006 \| Rachel Tuinstra seattletimes.nwsource.com Bellevue Community College President Jean Floten apologized Wednesday at an emotional open-campus meeting called after students complained about what they said was a racially offensive math question used on a practice test. Floten praised the courage of the students who brought the question to the college's attention, and promised that the college would redouble its efforts to improve racial and cultural sensitivity on campus, including increasing staff training and creating an ombudsman position. "We called this meeting, and we had the courage to meet each other and learn from each other and put that learning to use," Floten said. The hour-and-a-half meeting, attended by more than 150 people, opened an important dialog, but more needs to be done, said Chelsey Richardson, one of the students who brought the issue to college officials. When she felt her concerns weren't taken seriously, Richardson went to the media and to the Rev. Wayne Perryman, a Mercer Island civil-rights activist. Perryman sent out an e-mail to friends across the country, some of whom belong to conservative and civil-rights groups. Those friends forwarded the e-mail, creating a snowball effect. The college has since received hundreds of e-mails, said Bob Adams, spokesman for BCC. "The e-mails are primarily angry that this could happen; that's the most common theme," said Adams. Richardson, 25, said she found the question on a practice test for a math final she was studying for in March. The question read, "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second." The question went on to ask when the watermelon will hit the ground, based on a formula provided. The question propagates a racial stereotype and denigrates Secretary of State Rice, said Perryman. While Rice's last name wasn't mentioned, the reference was clear, he said. "How many Condoleezzas spell their name that way and how many Condoleezzas are associated with a federal building? It doesn't take much to connect the dotted lines," he said. Richardson, along with her friend Ilays Aden, met with the chairman of the math department who agreed to remove the question from the department's files. But the women left feeling the school needed to take a deeper look at how a racist stereotype could be inserted into the curriculum. "It's not just the question; it's beyond the question," Richardson said. "It's the roots of where the question came from." Perryman, who attended the meeting, said there would be no instant "microwave solutions" to the problem, but he was glad to see the college taking steps forward. The college declined to release the name of the teacher who wrote the question. Floten said the teacher has apologized and requested cultural-sensitivity training. The test question was originally written with the name of a comedian, Gallagher, whose signature shtick was to smash a variety of objects, often watermelons. Later, the question was rewritten, and the name was changed to Condoleezza, Floten said. In an e-mail to students, faculty and staff, Floten said she took "personal ownership that this act of institutional racism could happen despite a collegewide initiative pursued over many years to establish a safe and tolerant place for all to learn."

To: goldworldnet who wrote (3468)	4/13/2006 7:11:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 14758

I don't think FDR's programs made much difference economically. I recall my grandmother saying people loved him, he'd have been elected as long as he lived. It wasn't because he got great results though, people just liked him. The first great communicator. My family were all small farmers back then too. One grandfather a sharecropper - never owned an acre but farmed all his life and raised 11 kids. One of the older of those kids rode trains and slept in parks during the Depression years - told me about it - not a hobo, he didn't beg but worked at whatever was available. Him and the other kids all settled in various towns and cities and made a living. The other grandfather farmed 40 acres, 3/4+ hillside and worked at whatever jobs were around for 10-20 miles. They did all kids of things to make money, picked up walnuts and sold them, took eggs and garden produce to town every saturday and sold to people in town they knew who wanted fresh cheap produce - a dollar here and there. They had those yellow easter daffodils growing all around their house and in their own ordhard - would cut them, tie them in bunches, and take to a produce market and sell them - I remember doing as a young child, but can't imagine who would buy those flowers. I didn't see that. They worked on farms picking fruit, peppers, etc - which i did too as a child along with my grandmother and later as a teen. I had a paper route and made hay and all that stuff too. Was great for me. Kids miss a lot by not working. I was lucky to be able to spend a lot of time w/ my grandparents and hear firsthand how things were. Amazing how many people lived on little 40 acre farms in the old days - when I was growing up the farms had gotten big. Nowadays people have moved back to the country but not to farm just to live there.