Moral Priorities & Capital Controversy

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http://hamptonroads.com/2010/04/cucc...est-state-seal



<LI class=g>Virginia State Flag

Virginia State Flag large size graphic image and history.

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Multiple varieties of the seal have been used over the years, said State Capitol historian Mark Greenough. The modern version is based on language added to the state code in 1930, which specifies that Virtus is “dressed as an Amazon” while clutching a spear in one hand and a sword in the other.

The secretary of the commonwealth, Janet Polarek, is charged by law with being the keeper of the seal. Asked for an assessment of Cuccinelli’s interpretation, she declined to offer an opinion. When Virtus was fighting Tyranny, Polarek said, “a dress code was probably not her first concern.”

From the link posted by RascalPuff

http://www.5min.com/Video/Learn-abou...Women-69900482

{WonderWoman comics and Star Trek novels (Spock) were two saving graces in a world of harsh reality. LOL}

[RascalPuff]

"These are difficult times. The middle class family of the 1950s, headed by a husband, managed by a wife and enlivened by two children and a collie, is no more. In its stead we have single parent famiies, contract marriages, palimony suits, and serial monogamy. Women demand equal pay for work of equal value and take assertiveness training, and feminists organize to change long-standing political and social structures. Men are unsure about whether to expect a thank you or a snarl when they hold a door open for a woman, and clothing designers offer us the world of unisex dress. Hair length doesn't matter; the gender gap in finishing marathon races gets smaller every year; and 'affirmative action" has become embedded in our language. The variety and rapidity of the changes symbolized by these random examples have generated an expressly political back-lash by 'the New Right', doubts about individual identity and fears of sexual obliteration through equality. In response to such personal and social upheaval, professionals throughout the country - scientists, journalists, economists, and politicians - have begun to search out the real truths about sexual differences. And therein lies a tale."

Excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 1, Myths of Gender: biological theories about women and men, by Anna Fausto Sterling (1985)

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There is plenty to ponder at this link.

http://www.second-congress-matriarch...abendroth.html

Time to retire for night shift.

Another day, Kai.

As ever,

LW

[RascalPuff]

Social Science Dictionary
http://studymore.org.uk/sshglo.htm

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Social Science Dictionary
http://studymore.org.uk/sshglo.htm

LOL, that's somewhat unfair.....

Yes, I did point you at a somewhat lengthy article.

But, a whole dictionary?

Don't know if I can fit the whole thing into my reading schedule......

Someone has to mend the fences, tend the garden, care for the creatures, and oh, yes, there's that thing called 'gainful employment' to foot the bill for such indulgence, lol...

[RascalPuff]

Hi LW:
Just consider it a reference resource, ok? I listed it on my Favorites Bar for access when I wish to use it. : )

- Kai

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Hi LW:
Just consider it a reference resource, ok? I listed it on my Favorites Bar for access when I wish to use it. : )

- Kai

Thank you.

The link title of 'studymore.org.uk' made me chuckle.

You are masterful with language (even Greg tips his hat to you ) and the above could easily be taken for a double entendre.

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At one time of consultation, Wikipedia said "Sociology is the study of social rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups, and institutions." Then adding as a "typical textbook definition" the "study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies". Durkheim argues that sociology is the scientific study of society: Of the real social forces that contrain our individual actions (social facts).

From the link posted by RascalPuff

An interesting coincidence, in that just yesterday, I was working on a draft for a thread starter in relation to the isolation of the individual within society, with some thought as to examining the various challenges faced by the individual, when 'going it alone'.

When compared to persons who are members of an extended birth family, or a chosen network of companionship (support group, corporation, military etc.) the benefits that such affords the individual in both physical and tangible benefits (rewards, opportunities) and the emotional and psychological safety net of personal relationships of varying degree of intimacy, the marginalized in our society may be seen to include many categories of social status that do not immediately come to mind, notably some of the individuals you mention in post #3.

Yes. We have become a much 'freer society' in some ways, and divested ourselves of many of the responsibilities that form good 'social glue', IMHO.

Either of too much constraint OR too much freedom, can be a disruptive situation.

[RascalPuff]

Thank you.

The link title of 'studymore.org.uk' made me chuckle.

You are masterful with language (even Greg tips his hat to you ) and the above could easily be taken for a double entendre.

Dear LW:
Your complimentary vector inspires Truly Yours to ascending ambition as to which of us at TQ - certainly including Melanie, you, Lloyd, Steve, Austin , G. MJA, and so many others - may project the most impressive miasma of melifluously masterful multisyllabic manifolds. What was that word you used for a train of words tht begin with the same letter? Hadn't fathomed the entendre doble of the url until you pointed it out, but I can tell you I am innocent of such associations to a falta - which is Spanish for 'skirt'. Molly Keyboard (the most formidable counter-offensive instrument in el mundo) is going to tell my Wife on me for abandoning all modesty in Freud's lingerie alcove where they exhibit all the expensive slips.

Ciao : )
- Kai