Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy

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Reborn Dolls
For those new to reborning, I am a highly experienced professional reborner and have been reborning for about 5 years now being one of the first few ever reborners in Europe. My babies are sold all around the world to many delighted 'Mums'. This has taken a lot of hard work and dedication to improving my techniques continually and I am very proud of my achievements and totally dedicated to this art. I was thrilled with Elizabeth's realism and beautiful features.





Chutzpah #387

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Jews sans frontieres: Child killers in effect but not in intent?
A state whose military high command and the office of its defense minister are located at the heart of a crowded city, and which sends civilians, including their women and children, to “expand the boundaries of the country”...and which refers to its own armed soldiers who died in battle or were captured as “boys” – such state needs a very high level of nerve in order to blame others for hiding behind civilians and children.


Bad move, worse timing

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Wendy: 'Bring it on'
Wendy Alexander yesterday announced the biggest U-turn by Scottish Labour for generations by backing a referendum on independence. In the clearest sign yet that the Scottish public will be given a vote on separation, Ms Alexander moved to "call Alex Salmond's bluff" and support his referendum demand. She believes calls for independence would be defeated in a vote, removing it from the political agenda for a generation. "I don't fear the verdict of the Scottish people – bring it on," Ms Alexander said yesterday.
Labour took a kicking in Scotland before it took one in the rest of the UK so this might not be the right time for a Labour politician to support giving the Scottish people a vote on independence. Salmond is popular and doing a good job, in the eyes of many people up here. Add to that the growing support in England for separation and you have a very strong prospect for a yes vote in a referendum. We'll see what happens in 2010.


Feeds problem

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Running feeds from Magnolia is slowing down the page load times. This seems to be partly due to the number of bookmarks in my account. I've started a fresh account and I'm running the PaperRound feeds from it already and now I'll run the feeds for this page as well from that account. That should speed things up. Until I transfer the links over to the new account, which shouldn't take long, the sidebar feeds will be empty.

UPDATE: All done. I've just decided to start again with new tags/account. Just my luck that Magnolia is playing silly buggers today anyway, but once they sort out whatever it is they're doing we should be good to go.


On Feminism: "Gretchen Marcotte-Pinth-Garnell"

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Dennis The Peasant: An Open Letter to Radical Women of Color From Amanda Marcotte's Sister
While I'm not a feminist myself, and I'm about as white as you can get, even I understand that feminism is not merely a movement about middle-class white women and their interests. Rather, it's about a movement of middle-class white women trying to interest middle-class non-white women in their interests. In that sense, feminism is about black women, brown women, yellow women, queer women, straight women and women likely to feel put upon. It is about making the world a better place for middle-class white women, middle-class Radical Women of Color and those middle-class white men who submit to the dictates of middle-class white feminism, and it is a cause that should - in theory - unite all of you guys. Girls. Ladies… Whatever.

Can we at least agree upon that? I mean, that’s basically the rhetoric of inclusion and diversity and whatnot that you like to throw in the faces of those you disagree with, right?