What's your take on this? - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/Random thoughts and probing questionshourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Coconut and use of coconut and coconut products in food is good for healthhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/581518So some studies say. But others equate coconut to cholesterol, heart problems. What's your take. It's so confusing because what some studies say one day is completely upturned by other studies another day.When Obama won, can it be said that anti-racism won?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/578819When Obama won, people said anti-racism won, and if someone like Palin won, they would say women won? But do you think voting patterns are as simple as that. Or has it got to do with a reaction to the previous Pres, the management of the election campaign - particularly the media, strategic...Masked goons attack activists and cut their fingers.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/574920The condemnation comes from a right-wing fascist party and left-wing parties wanting to take power: They say the guilty must be brought to book. The liberal party that is in power remains silent. Do u think an alliance of the left-wing and right-wing forces even if the immediate short-term cause...Does takin part in mainstream politics help push social agendas you want tohttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/571941What I mean is that many times social workers join mainstream politics in that they stand for elections in the hope that the social issues that they are raising can be brought into mainstream political debate and acted upon. But when they get elected they realise that the fires that they have to...When someone goes on making digs at you, but in a very subtle mannerhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/568106in a mailgroup, or personally at social occasions, do you just pretend they don't happen or do you take the person head on or what other way? Your suggestions would be highly appreciated.When someone belongs to a disadvantaged community in society and takeshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/564565exception to his daughter deciding to get married to someone who belongs to a still more disadvantaged section of society, what would you say to him? That hey, why this sense of looking down on a person from another section of society? Or, hey, don't you think you are better placed to understand...Why are the world's problems taken up in the flavour-of-the-day mode?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/560818Climate change is a major problem, but so are many others. Why do there come certain phases when one problem becomes the flavour of the day and others that were the flavour of the day yesterday are confined to the corners or flames?Aren't racism and sexism two sides of the same coin?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/556535Aren't racism and sexism two sides of the same coin? i CAN'T HELP OPINING THAT racism and sexism are two sides of the same coin What do u say? They're made of the same metal but are visually different or rather they are differently manifested, Reposting this as got no response last time and I am...Aren't racism and sexism two sides of the same coin?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/555052i CAN'T HELP OPINING THAT racism and sexism are two sides of the same coin What do u say? They're made of the same metal but are visually different or rather they are differently manifested,When you posit an issue, what's better? The people who have stakes in ithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/bubush8695/545955spelling things out? Or those who do not have stakes spelling them out so it makes a point that they are supportive in principle even if they have no direct stakes in what they are saying?