2005.4.17=7[#107]:4703.3.9[#60+8/60]: [Butterfly] [[Mozart>Turkey]] 1)US Religious Right's Rise. 2)US Military Foreign Involvement. 3)Ancient Greece.

[Taiwan Butterflies] http://www.traveltaiwan.com/e/ei.htm http://butterflywebsite.com/articles/waynehsu/gatepost.htm Fine mild: Up 5:30! "Winter Sonata" again, reach Hakka Sch. 10 just finishing exercise, then Rumba again, start Tango very nicely, Mei good from Ohlone class, but still in bad mood. One vege dumbling and one sweet rice? cake, then home Jyun washes garage then cuts front grass, a little clear noodle from Mei. Fidelity lady comes meets Mei's angry refusal to sign, she reveals her own trouble to the point of giving up, leaves. Now Booktv Jane Fonda again, she spoke very eloquently for an American progressive clear voice so rare for me, being a real American patriot, from 4.14=4. I have just put her and RR to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to yesterday's blog to come here for the rise of US religious right, and ancient Greek, now 4:09pm. After Mei tel many times, Leo tel and tells me he has fixed his car and coming to the house, and that he came yesterday only to find it was only no bath hot water so he needed tools. Finally finished emails at 6:45pm, finishing here, but have not checked SJMercury News yet. 7:25 to o.h., soon dinner, Mei tel. Leo finished work at 9pm for $100. Before 12:10 bed: NHK repeats morning's Mozart's early opera, in German not Italian as usual at that time, about Turkic harem, with big success: http://tinyurl.com/crzqd [ my fantacy: the start of German good relation with the Middle East? What about Turkic March"? ] [[ "Shakespeare's Othello is a colonial picture of the "Moor" lost in a superior culture. Othello is admirably proud, but also a cutie and not that bright. The same sense that the potential invader combines danger with amusement value is there in the explicitly Turkish sexual politics of Mozart's Entführung and in the central character of Osmin, a joke figure but also a menacing presence." ]] http://tinyurl.com/7j35u 1) The Rise of the Religious Right in the USA: (1) "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times, March 23, 2005); From "The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org": http://www.theocracywatch.org/ "" The powerful Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Tom DeLay (R-TX) embodies government by divine guidance: He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me. Tom DeLay represents an ultraconservative religious movement seeking to impose a narrow theological agenda on secular society. "" "" They are the seven highest ranking Republican Senators in the U.S. Senate. Every one of them received a scorecard of 100% from Christian Coalition. "" (2) "Frist Embraces Radical Right's Religious McCarthyism: Letter Urges Frist to Repudiate 'Dishonest, Destructive, Despicable' Tactics: "" Senator Bill Frist is joining forces with radical right religious groups using malicious charges of religious bigotry to build support for Frist's plan to dismantle checks and balances that prevent one-party domination of the federal judiciary. People For the American Way today called on Frist to repudiate such tactics. "" (3) "" Theocracy 101: "Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost", Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:34:32 -0500Summary: Sick of ‘secular’ America? Meet the Dominionists. Their message? “”As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors—in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.” Has the Christian Right reached the peak of absurdity? Alarmingly, history tells us that many ideals that seem unwieldly, and yes even outright stupid, can become popular. So meet the Dominionists, and have a good think on what the future might hold in store… [Posted By faelnarr] By Bob Moser Republished from Rolling Stone Magazine The 'Dominionists', an old-testament Christian evangelical group, are plotting to remake America in their own image. "" 2) US Military Involvement Abroad ( -1993): "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993", by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm 3) "A major breakthrough in the study of ancient Greek and Roman texts may lead to the revelation of hundreds of lost comedies, tragedies and epic poems. Using an infrared technique", from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; April 17, 2005, tTime: 17:27 UTC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece :"Ancient Greece".