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Sleep in comfort
01/13/06 at 4:43am
 
I have a 1973 oldie but Goodie camper that is for sale ... get yourself a nice place to rest your head while at creation Contact me via Email if interested.  
 
 If you'd like a picture send an Email  to Godsmark@aol.com
 
it only has a little over 80,000 miles and has many new parts.
[flash=200,200][/flash]Tires are like new less than 2000 miles on tires (by themselves are worth my asking price)
 
 only $1800 or best offer refridgerator heater stove sink everything works IT has AC but its a window unit and a generator is required but not included... Grin
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Re: Sleep in comfort
Reply #1 - 02/12/06 at 4:03am
 
I really hope you sell this thing Brother.  I gave your post some extra press on my main Creation page.  Hopefully a few more eyes will see it and maybe someone will bite.
 
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Re: Sleep in comfort
Reply #2 - 07/20/09 at 11:43pm
 
The politics of protest
Pierre Bourdieu has become a leading figure in the radical movements that have swept France in the last few years. He talked to Kevin Ovenden about anti-capitalism and resistance The Weight of the World was recently published in Britain. It describes through interviews in the early 1990s the 'social suffering of contemporary society'. Why is life getting harder for most people? There are similarities between what has happened to people's lives in France and in Britain. The main issue, of course, is neo-liberalism and what I call the retreat of the state. The state has abandoned a lot of areas that it was involved in, such as healthcare, education, and social provision. When we conducted this study it was only beginning. Now it is far worse. So for example, in France neo-liberal philosophy has become embedded in all the social practices and policies of the state. It has become internalised in the minds of the political establishment. The minister of education who was recently forced out of office, Claude Allre, was very similar to the one you have in Britain. He introduced into education so called 'tough policies'--a drive for efficiency and productivity. Instead of looking very carefully at how education works, the neo-liberals opt for a very simple solution. They create competition between schools and between the directors of schools, who have to compete for budgets and for students. This competition is fake--it is artificially constructed. It does not arise spontaneously from the way the education system works. power leveling
The education system was not perfect. I was very critical of it. But instead of correcting it and providing the means to better it, they destroy it by introducing this capitalistic vision of education. One could say the same about healthcare. I recently read a record of a meeting between a group of professors of medicine who are traditionally very conservative. They went to meet prime minister Jospin. He did not receive them. A technocrat met them instead. The transcript of the discussion is terrible. The people say, 'Look, I never demonstrated or participated in any strike or protest movement. But for the first time I am forced to speak out on behalf of my patients.' One gave an example of a 73 year old woman who had cancer, but her medicine was too expensive for the hospital's budget. Another said that his hospital does not have the money to pay anaesthetists, so there are no anaesthetists at night. He asked the technocrat, 'Would you send your wife to such a hospital?' He replies, 'That's a personal question which I will not answer.' We are seeing a blind and chaotic response to the problems of public institutions. We have had a very hierarchical system in healthcare for many years. But after 1968 younger people tried to change it. They tried to make the system more collective and introduce the idea of working as part of a team. Now that is being destroyed because they work under the threat of cuts and demands for greater productivity. Centre-left parties are in government across most of Europe. They are presiding over these neo-liberal policies. Do you see anything new in the way social democratic parties are governing? (World of warcraft Power Leveling)
I am very sceptical about the idea that there is this new approach called the Third Way or the Neue Mitte. We have, to varying degrees across the continent, basically neo-liberal policies dressed up with talk of a new form of politics which is not terribly new at all. So we find social democratic rhetoric being deployed to destroy the social democratic policies which grew up in the period after the Second World War. In France many of those pushing this offensive hail from the 1968 generation. They became radicalised then, but now are incorporated into the system. The failure of the Mitterrand years generated a backlash against the French So------t Party. Of course, the great revolt of December 1995 ushered in a wave of social movements which brought the So------ts back into power. But the aim of the government and its technocrats is to curtail and destroy those movements. Ministers and advisers use their prestige and experience from 1968 against the movements. When students occupied the ole Normale Supieur, the government figure arguing to send the police in firmly and swiftly had himself taken part in the occupations of 1968. People in Germany and in Britain often tell me that it must be wonderful to live in France with the 35 hour week and other reforms. But those gains are a result of the pressure of the movements. They are not freely given by the government. The left government believes it can be more successful than the right in controlling those movements. How do your sociological ideas influence your political stance? You developed your ideas when structuralism was the main influence on French intellectuals. (World of warcraft gold)
I was not a structuralist. That approach saw the world as composed of structures which strictly determine the way people act. There was no scope for human agency. As the structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser said in the 1960s, human beings were merely the 'unconscious bearers of objective structures'. The results of my anthropological work in Algeria in the 1950s did not fit into this structuralist framework. Of
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Re: Sleep in comfort
Reply #3 - 09/02/09 at 3:36am
 

 
We had a number of close calls that day. When we rose, it was obviously late and we had to hurry so  
 
as not to miss breakfast; we knew the dining room staff was strict about closing at nine o'clock.  
 
Then, when we had been driving in the desert for nearly two hours —— it must have been close to  
 
noon —— the heat nearly hid us in;[, the radiator boiled over and we had to use most of our  
 
drinking water to cool it down. By the time we reached the mountain, it was our o'clock and we were  
 
exhausted.wow power leveling, Here, judgement ran out of us and  
 
we started the tough climb to the summit, not realizing that darkness came suddenly in the desert.  
 
Sure enough, by six we were struggling and Andrew very nearly went down a steep cliff, dragging  
 
Mohammed and me along with him. By nine, when the wind howled across the flat ledge of the summit, we  
 
knew as we shivered together for warmth that it had not been our lucky day.
From a distance, it looked like a skinny tube, but as we got closer, we could see it flesh out before  
 
our eyes.flyff penya, It was tubular, all right, but fatter  
 
than we could see from far away. Furthermore, we were also astonished to notice that the building was  
 
really in two parts: a pagoda sitting on top of a tubular one-story structure., Standing ten feet  
 
away, we could marvel at how much of the pagoda was made up of glass windows. Almost everything under  
 
the wonderful Chinese roof was made of glass, unlike the tube that it was sitting on, which only had  
 
four. Inside, the tube was gloomy, because of the lack of light. Then a steep, narrow staircase took  
 
us up inside the pagoda and the light changed dramatically. All those windows let in a flood of  
 
sunshine and we could see out for miles across the flat land.
Knight Gold,
If you work as a soda jerker, you will, of course, not need much skill in expressing yourself to be  
 
effective. If you work on a machine, your ability to express yourself will be of little importance.  
 
But as soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to  
 
reach others through the spoken or the written word.And the further away your job is from manual  
 
work, the larger the organization of which you are an employee, the more important it will be that  
 
you know how to convey your thoughts in writing or speaking. In the very large business organization,  
 
whether it is the government, flyff penya,the large  
 
corporation, or the Army, this ability to express oneself is perhaps the mos do not understand why  
 
people confuse my Siamese cat, Prissy, with the one I had several years ago, Henry. The two cats are  
 
only alike in breed. Prissy, a quiet, feminine feline, loves me dearly but not possessively. She  
 
likes to keep her distance from people, exert her  
independence and is never so rude as to beg, lick, or sniff unceremoniously. Her usual posture is  
 
sitting upright,2moons gold, eyes closed, perfectly still.  
 
Prissy is a very proper cat. Henry, on the other hand, loved me dearly but possessively. He was my  
 
shadow from morning till night. He expected me to constantly entertain him. Henry never cared who saw  
 
him do anything, whether it was decorous or not, and he usually offended my friends in some way. The  
 
cat made himself quite comfortable, on the top of the television, across stranger's feet or laps, in  
 
beds, drawers, sacks, closets, or nooks. The difference between them is imperceptible to strangerst  
 
important of all the skills a man can possess
2moons power leveling,
We had a number of close calls that day
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