dreamingspires posterous

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P2 allows threaded comments and interactions - if you are running groups who need to interact via your blog this is good.

For more info read P2: The New Prologue
You can find P2 in wordpress admin interface under appearance, themes.

Thanks to @wordpressguy for a heads up on this one

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1 We are all free and equal
We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way

2 Don't discriminate
These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences

3 The right to life
We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety

4 No slavery - past and present
Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.

5 No torture
Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us

6 We all have the same right to use the law
I am a person just like you

7 We are all protected by the law
the law is the same for everyone.  It must treat us all fairly.

8 Fair treatment by fair courts
We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.

9 No unfair detainment
Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country.

10 The right to trial
If we are put on trial this should be in public.  The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do.

11 Innocent until proven guilty
Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven.  When people say we did a bad thing we have th eright to show it is not true.

12 The right to privacy
Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters, or bother us or our family without a good reason

13 Freedom to move
We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish

14 The right to asylum
If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe.

15 The right to a nationality
We all have the right to belong to a country.

16 Marriage and family
Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated

17 Your own things
Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.

18 Freedom of thought
We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.

19 Free to say what you want
We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.

20 Meet where you like
We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don't want to.

21 The right to democracy
We all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.

22 The right to social security
We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and child care, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.

23 Worker's rights
Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union

24 The right to play
We all have the right to rest from work and to relax

25 A bed and some food
We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, peole who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for.

26 The right to education
Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations ad how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn

27 Culture and copyright
Copyright is a special law that protects one's own artistic creations and writings; others cannot make copies without permission. We all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that art, science and learning bring

28 A free and fair world
There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world.

29 Our responsibilities
We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.

30 Nobody can take away these rights and freedoms from us

Thank you to the teenage girl who determinedly put this leaflet into my hands, my having dodged the first attempt. 

www.humanrights.org.au
www.youthforhumanrights.org

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suppose I am alive and
suppose it's all an accident and there's no purpose
my mind skits around it
and revels in it while ignoring the question

it's free, no responsibility just a choice whether to enjoy and live, to exist, to subsist,
if I'm lucky enough to have been given that choice

which I am

so what to do with this new found freedom

i don't have to have something written on my tomb stone
or answer a questionnaire on what I have accomplished in my life before I peg it

the answer is nothing, something, it doesn't matter, life is still worthwhile, in the sense I exist and then I won't. and that's ok. 

it's all an accident, or something, and here I am and here I won't be.
so I take no more responsibility that I am alive.  it wasn't my choice.  but I am alive and I will live.

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Author Sam Martin shares photos of a hobby that's trending with the XY set: the "manspace." Come on girls -- what about the XX space.

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"...the fact is my computer skill-set has all the breadth, scope, and authority of Kanye West's Little book of Manners.  I can email, I can write, I can surf.  I'm on Facebook, If I'm patient I can download photographs from my camera and even, hold onto your hats, resize the images.  And.... that's it.  I skitter on the heaving surface of the interweb like a flea on a large, cantering dog.

Which was all well and good until I realised I needed a website.  Hello, world of pain.  There may be something more challenging and hideous than getting a website together, but it would have to involve a) multiple births/large heads/no anaesthetic; b) organising a royal wedding; or c) being stuck, in a room with Kyle Sandilands while he explains why he shouldn't lose his job at Austereo.

I'm not even trying to build the website.  Hell no.  There are not enough hours left in the days between now and my eventual demise (from too much sex and absinthe) for me to learn how to do that.  I have people for that, and by 'people' I mean long-suffering computer literate friends who are talking me through the options and ramifications of my choices, using soothing tones and as many words of one syllable as they can muster.  I'm trying to choose between HTML and Flash as a platform and, I swear, it's like asking a stoat if they prefer Gucci or Prada....

If it weren't for the necessity of clawing my way into the 21st century (given that newspapers and 'old media' are the Tasmanian Tiger of 2009), and promoting a book, a comedy show and my availability of deejaying weddings and batmitzvahs, the whole project would be in the Too Hard Basket. Next to 'Writing the next Harry Potter', 'Beating the world crayfish-eating record of 321 crays in 12 minutes' and Winning Miss Universe."

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