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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
 Ostara: fertility goddess
From Jennifer Emick,
Your Guide to Alternative Religions.
Have
you ever wondered where the celebration of the Christian holiday
celebrating the resurrection of Christ acquired its unusual name and
odd symbols of colored eggs and rabbits?
The answer lies in the
ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices. After
discovering that people were more reluctant to give up their holidays
and festivals than their gods, they simply incorporated Pagan practices
into Christian festivals. As recounted by the Venerable Bede, an early
Christian writer, clever clerics copied Pagan practices and by doing
so, made Christianity more palatable to pagan folk reluctant to give up
their festivals for somber Christian practices.
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
 Blather.Net - 'talking shite since 1997'
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
by Christopher Walsh
 “A good opposition makes a good government.” Doug Griffiths The aftermath is still being felt and it stings
for those who withstood the degradations of the campaign only to make it into this week bleeding and vulnerable.
There
is no dignity these days for men who were beaten in the streets by a
fickle electorate nobody understands. It was certainly a mob mentality
Monday night as Conservatives across this province came out in droves
to vote for what they probably saw as the continuation of “Alberta's
Century”. The Tories have done well branding themselves with the mark
of prosperity and good times. Everybody else can curl up and die....
The
Liberals won't return phone calls, the NDP never mattered and their
leader conceded the election the day before the vote, the Wildrose
Alliance have been put back into crazed, fringe party status and the
Greens think they accomplished something with their slate of university
punks running through the internet in real-life ridings.
Somewhere
around 42 per cent of Albertans turned out for the big show Monday
night, marking the lowest voter turnout in provincial history. A sad
commentary they say, for democracy and those veterans who fought and
died for the right to vote. Nobody would go to war these days for that
mess....
But there could be a new war for Stelmach approaching. And since there
is no real opposition to speak of, that conflict
may...come...from...within...The Party.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
By Christopher Walsh
 A group of fanatical Indians break
into chants and interpretive dance outside the entrance to the Chateau
Louis Convention Centre, shortly after Ed Stelmach's victory speech
Monday night. The blaring Hindu music from the Cadillac Escalade, mixed
with their gyrations and chants, was enough for some middle-aged white
Conservative supporters to seek safety back in the hotel, away from the
noise and frolicking.
One chubby Conservative was bent on finishing his smoke and stayed until it was done, against his better judgment.
“Don't worry,” I told him, after noticing his nervous looks. “They're on your side tonight.”
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