Destroying private property is such a fun
And it is serious political statement…
For those senseless morons who have no political affiliation in the first place.
THESE people do not want to enact change.
All they want?
The chance to act OUT.
Children!
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I am on fire
When I lose
I am so mad
A fire hydrant
Is not safe from me
I hit and I punch
I break glass
I break my hand
When I lose
I am so on fire
That I am fried.
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Just because something seems odd…
Out of place.
The fact that it doesn’t fit into any predetermined slots devised today?
Doesn’t mean it’s a freak!
[via The Blaze] Scientists are trying to find out just where this newly discovered microorganism found in mud
from a Norwegian lake fits into the tree of life.
Time for a quick biology lesson. We know that in taxonomic classification we follow something called the phylogenetic tree (think: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species). Where scientists are struggling with this organism’s classification according to Popular Science is at nearly the highest level: kingdom.
So let’s start with what we do know. It’s eukaryotic, meaning it has cell membranes and nuclei. This also means under the current system, it would need to be classified in the kingdom Animalia,Plantae, Fungi or Protista. Popular Science states this organism, known more specifically as Collodictyon, most closely resembles an “algae-eating protozoan” but it doesn’t fit exactly into that category. Here’s why:
The organism is weird in several key ways. It has four flagella, for instance, which makes it different from bacteria and eukaryotes. Mammals, fungi and amoebae only have one flagellum — that’s the propeller-like feature that helps cells move (think of the “tail” of a sperm cell). Algae, plants and single-celled parasites called excavates are thought to have had two flagella. Collodictyon is somewhere between an excavate and an amoeba.
Also, the organism has the same internal structure as a parasite, but it uses amoeba-like protuberances to catch its food, which are blue-green algae. So again, it combines features from two branches of the eukaryotes, further evidence that it’s a primordial creature, the researchers say.
The research on this organism’s genetic makeup is being led by Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi with the Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG) at the University of Oslo. It wasn’t that long ago, 1990, that a brand new branch was added to the phylogenetic tree to include the new Domain and Kingdom Archaea, so Popular Science notes it is not out of the realm of possibilty as research on this organism continues for it to be found of a new branch.
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No…
In fact, all it could mean?
Is that it is wonderfully unique.
[via NYPost] Last week, the proprietors of the adultery-promoting Web site Ashley Madison offered $1 million
to anyone who can “prove” she’s had sex with Tim Tebow.
Sure, it’s a stunt by a site that caters to married people seeking affairs, snarking at a famous virgin. But it also tells us something about the modern quest for “authenticity.”
We supposedly prize “realness.” You see a contestant on a food-competition TV show told he’s not being “authentic” enough in his cooking. We hear that Mitt Romney suffers from not “being himself” — we don’t feel like we know the true Mitt Romney. Being called “fake” is one of the more devastating modern put-downs.
What, then, are we to make of the animosity toward Tebow — one of the most genuine people in public life?
It can’t just be that people dislike overt religiosity. Sports players come off the field all the time, look into the cameras and thank Jesus Christ for a win.
We don’t blink when they do it — maybe because it usually sounds so automated. I suspect we shrug off that in-your-face religiousness because some part of us doesn’t believe they truly mean it.
In other words, it seems fake, so we’re OK with it.
With Tebow, there’s no such skepticism. By now, his every word about his faith has been parsed and repeated; “Tebowing” is a phenomenon.
And it’s his earnestness — the quality we claim to want in our celebrities — that rubs some the wrong way.
They want “real,” sure — but they don’t want Tebow’s faith to be real.
In fact, even the Ashley Madison folks know it is genuine. The size of their offered prize tells you they don’t actually think they’ll find anyone. (After all, no one was offering $1 million to prove Britney Spears was not that innocent, back when she was proclaiming her virginity.)
And it bothers them that Tebow is Tebow.[...][Read More]
Dare to be who you are
Despite dissenter and all those who tell you…
It is not natural to be you!
No matter WHAT others might say to the contrary.
Celebrate your differences.
And live your life?
Without any society stipulated hindrances!
Be YOU!
And be proud of that.
The average distance between the Moon and the Earth is 384403 kilometers (238857 miles).
In others words?
It’s a long, freaking ways away.
And yet?
The moon, and its position in the sky, affects us.
Besides, you know…
Just looking awesome!
[via DailyMail] The moon is set to get a lot bigger this weekend – at least from our perspective on Earth.
And the ‘Supermoon’ – the nickname for a perigee full moon, closer to the Earth than usual – could cause tides to rise around the world as the moon’s close ‘fly past’ exerts 42% more tidal force.
The moon will appear bigger and brighter – sky-watchers promise this ‘supermoon’ will be 16% brighter than most when it begins on Saturday at 3.35pm GMT, 11.35am EDT.
Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon’s orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee).
Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon’s orbit.
A perigee full Moon brings with it extra-high ‘perigean tides,’ but this is nothing to worry about, according to America’s NOAA space-weather predicting agency.
In most places, lunar gravity at perigee pulls tide waters only a few centimeters (an inch or so) higher than usual.
‘To view this weekend’s supermoon to best effect, look for it just after it rises or before it sets, when it is close to the horizon. There, you can catch a view of the moon behind buildings or trees, an effect which produces an optical illusion, making the moon seem even larger than it really is,’ said Space.com, which reported the phenomenon.[Read More]
The sun as well, whose average distance from Earth is about 1 AU = 149597870.691 kilometers (92935700 miles).
Which, is just the tiniest bit further than the distance between us and the moon?
Inches really. (Especially on a map)
So how much of an effect could it have on us in reality?
Oh…
A LOT!
[via io9] Solar realignment could spell decades of cooler temperatures on Earth
Looks like the Sun is up to some more crazy stunts. The website Asahi Shimbun reportsthat the Sun may soon have four poles, according to research by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken Research Foundation. This, in turn, could lead to much colder temperatures on Earth… starting as soon as May 2012.
Writes Asahi Shimbun:
The researchers…found signs of unusual magnetic changes in the sun. Normally, the sun’s magnetic field flips about once every 11 years. In 2001, the sun’s magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere, flipped to the south.
While scientists had predicted that the next flip would begin from May 2013, the solar observation satellite Hinode found that the north pole of the sun had started flipping about a year earlier than expected. There was no noticeable change in the south pole.
If that trend continues, say researchers, the north pole could complete its flip in May 2012 but create a four-pole magnetic structure in the sun, with two new poles created in the vicinity of the equator of our closest star.
They also speculate that the sun may be entering a period of reduced activity, that could result in lower temperatures on Earth. [Read More]
Something to definitely keep in mind…
While looking at the amazing beauty of the sky:
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. ~Alfred Kreymborg
They remember.
And after we marvel at their wonder…
So should we.
Huge dog fan, here…
And for those of you?
Not so inclined.
What is WRONG with you?!
[via CBSNews] (CBS) – You could reasonably expect bomb-sniffing dogs to sniff-out bombs, right? After all, that’s the job description.
But now, some of the K-9′s specially trained to help fight terrorism, are being drafted for other work – to sniff out Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades, according to Reuters.
The dogs are members of “EcoDogs,” a three-year-old collaboration at Alabama’s Auburn University between the science departments and the school’s Canine Detection Research Institute, which trains dogs to detect explosives, the news service reports.
“The dogs are really, really good,” said Christina Romagosa, a biologist at Auburn.
She said in a test of python detection in south Florida, the dogs could cover a search area 2.5 times faster than a person.
“People can only see that the snake is there if they can see the snake. The dogs can smell the snake even if it’s not visually apparent to us,” she said.
Steury estimated training a new dog to detect a scent takes six to 10 weeks. Training for each additional scent takes “about 10 minutes. You can do it by accident if you’re not careful,” he said, by inadvertently rewarding the dog for something you weren’t looking for, which then becomes part of the dog’s repertoire.
Why is sniffing out snakes such important work?
According to Reuters, environmentalists fear the pythons are upsetting the native ecological balance of South Florida. The invasion is generally attributed to both irresponsible pet owners dumping their snakes and 1992′s, Hurricane Andrew, which destroyed an adjacent exotic snake warehouse.
Linda Friar, spokeswoman for the Everglades National Park, said the snakes are so thoroughly adapted to the Everglades, and the park is so wild and inaccessible that there is no expectation of eradicating them, even with the dogs’ help. The best hope is to prevent the pythons from spreading and be prepared for future invasions of new exotic species, she said. [Read More]
Dogs keep you from getting strangled to death (in your sleep), by the invasive snakes who have come into this country…
Just to kill you in your sleep!
(OK, maybe not so much…But MAYBE!)
And additionally?
Disregarding the completely obvious, of course, it should be noted that they have nary a complaint about riding b*tch.
Can you think of one other animal that can do that?
[via Yahoo] In this new video from China, a golden retriever (Li Li the Golden Retriever) guards its owner’s
bicycle as curious and amused spectators pass by.
When the owner (Luo Wencong) shows up, the very excited dog then actually climbs aboard the man’s bike.
[Whoa!]
But really, this video contains a third wonderful element. After the golden retriever hops aboard the back of the bicycle, his owner waits for the dog to bark, signaling that he is safely aboard.
The owner then begins peddling away, with his guard dog in tow. [Read More]
Nope.
But I sure can think of one that CAN’T.
Not to be pointing fingers or anything.
Just stating the facts.
Dogs save your life by fighting the big snake invasion & cats?
Are just cats.
So yes, it could POSSIBLY be my bias coming out in my assertion that, “Dogs are awesome.”
But I don’t think so.
Because they are awesome and for so very many reasons, other than the reasons that they protect your property and your life, they are the absolutely the gift of one…
To Flush, My Dog ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Loving friend, the gift of one
Who her own true faith has run
Through thy lower nature,
Be my benediction said
With my hand upon thy head,
Gentle fellow-creature!Like a lady’s ringlets brown,
Flow thy silken ears adown
Either side demurely
Of thy silver-suited breast
Shining out from all the rest
Of thy body purely.Darkly brown thy body is,
Till the sunshine striking this
Alchemise its dullness,
When the sleek curls manifold
Flash all over into gold
With a burnished fulness.Underneath my stroking hand,
Startled eyes of hazel bland
Kindling, growing larger,
Up thou leapest with a spring,
Full of prank and curveting,
Leaping like a charger.Leap! thy broad tail waves a light,
Leap! thy slender feet are bright,
Canopied in fringes;
Leap! those tasselled ears of thine
Flicker strangely, fair and fine
Down their golden inches.Yet, my pretty, sportive friend,
Little is’t to such an end
That I praise thy rareness;
Other dogs may be thy peers
Haply in these drooping ears
And this glossy fairness.But of thee it shall be said,
This dog watched beside a bed
Day and night unweary,
Watched within a curtained room
Where no sunbeam brake the gloom
Round the sick and dreary.Roses, gathered for a vase,
In that chamber died apace,
Beam and breeze resigning;
This dog only, waited on,
Knowing that when light is gone
Love remains for shining.Other dogs in thymy dew
Tracked the hares and followed through
Sunny moor or meadow;
This dog only, crept and crept
Next a languid cheek that slept,
Sharing in the shadow.Other dogs of loyal cheer
Bounded at the whistle clear,
Up the woodside hieing;
This dog only, watched in reach
Of a faintly uttered speech
Or a louder sighing.And if one or two quick tears
Dropped upon his glossy ears
Or a sigh came double,
Up he sprang in eager haste,
Fawning, fondling, breathing fast,
In a tender trouble.And this dog was satisfied
If a pale thin hand would glide
Down his dewlaps sloping, —
Which he pushed his nose within,
After,—platforming his chin
On the palm left open.This dog, if a friendly voice
Call him now to blither choice
Than such chamber-keeping,
“Come out!” praying from the door, —
Presseth backward as before,
Up against me leaping.Therefore to this dog will I,
Tenderly not scornfully,
Render praise and favor:
With my hand upon his head,
Is my benediction said
Therefore and for ever.And because he loves me so,
Better than his kind will do
Often man or woman,
Give I back more love again
Than dogs often take of men,
Leaning from my Human.Blessings on thee, dog of mine,
Pretty collars make thee fine,
Sugared milk make fat thee!
Pleasures wag on in thy tail,
Hands of gentle motion fail
Nevermore, to pat thee.Downy pillow take thy head,
Silken coverlid bestead,
Sunshine help thy sleeping!
No fly’s buzzing wake thee up,
No man break thy purple cup
Set for drinking deep in.Whiskered cats arointed flee,
Sturdy stoppers keep from thee
Cologne distillations;
Nuts lie in thy path for stones,
And thy feast-day macaroons
Turn to daily rations!Mock I thee, in wishing weal? —
Tears are in my eyes to feel
Thou art made so straitly,
Blessing needs must straiten too, —
Little canst thou joy or do,
Thou who lovest greatly.Yet be blessed to the height
Of all good and all delight
Pervious to thy nature;
Only loved beyond that line,
With a love that answers thine,
Loving fellow-creature!
Apparently some people just do NOT kow the definition…
Of the word “threat”.
If you are one of these misguided people?
Let me help you out:
n.1. An expression of an intention to inflict pain, injury, evil, or punishment.2. An indication of impending danger or harm.3. One that is regarded as a possible danger
Get it? Got it? GOOD!
Believe it or not? One can criticize and no matter HOW much one might tilt their head…
[via Mediaite] Radio and television host Dr. Drew Pinsky recently interviewed comedian Jon Lovitz on
Headline News where Lovitz defended comments he made about President Barack Obama’s push for higher taxes on Americans making the largest share of income. Pinsky
playfully[idiotically] accused an incredulous Lovitz of threatening the president and asked Lovitz if he had spoken with the Secret Service about the matter.RELATED: Actor Jon Lovitz Explodes At Obama: ‘What A F**king A**hole’
“The Secret Service is now out looking for you,” Pinsky opened the interview by asking Lovitz. “Did they come and talk to you?”
“No,” replied Lovitz.
“Well, you made some threats against the President,” said Pinsky. “No I didn’t. I didn’t make any threat,” Lovitz replied.
Lovitz went on to say that he said Obama was “lying” about the share of taxes that wealthy Americans pay.
“Saying that people in a certain tax bracket don’t pay their fair share of taxes – that’s not true,” said Lovitz. “47 percent of the country doesn’t pay any taxes because they can’t afford it and they have deductions.”
“So you have in a–$250,000 or more, you have a 35 percent federal tax and in California you have another 11 percent, that’s 46 percent,” Lovitz continued. “You have property tax, you have city tax, you have FICA, you have sales tax.”
When Pinsky said Lovitz was a “fat cat” who is “complaining,” Lovitz went on to clarify that he does not like Obama “saying those people in that category who came from nothing and worked hard and made something of themselves are now, they’re not paying their fair share of taxes.”
“It’s like the 1 percent versus the 99 percent,” concluded Lovitz. “He’s creating class warfare in a country with no class structure.” [Read More] [Read another take on the incident at Big Hollywood, HERE!]
Sorry!
It does NOT constitute a threat.
If one actually wants to see a threat…
One which obviously go un-investigated, for reasons that are beyond my capacity for understanding?
Here you go.
[via The Blaze] Minister Louis Farrakhan’s recent Saviours’ Day Convention address, given to a packed United
Center in Chicago this past February, carried with it some gruesome predictions about our president’s second term fate.
[...]
“Now the anger of the South – the Red States – against Obama is the same anger is the same anger the southerners had with President Lincoln. And this hatred ultimately combined with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which led to his assassination. The negative atmosphere and hatred against President Obama has created a climate for his assassination.”
The Nation of Islam leader got more specific with exactly who would be killing the President, calling out the Tea Party and Republicans specifically.
“If our brother wins, and I believe he will, the anger of those hardcore racists, the Tea Party zealots and the Republicans who want to make him a one-term president will be such that perhaps a patsy or two is already being prepared as in the case of John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray.”
The Minister finishes by declaring the assassination conspiracy will involve a Muslim patsy that has already been chosen.
“I believe they want a Muslim to kill President Obama. And I believe they may already have somebody in mind that they working on.” [Read More - Click HERE for exclusive video!]
Now that?
Yes…
Obvious threat. [Especially seeing as how just under a year ago, this same man was calling Obama a "murderer/assassin" Awkward.]
And now, if only the Secret Service can get their attention off the prostitutes, of which they apparently surround themselves with, and focus on the job at hand…
You know, PROTECTING THE POTUS!
They could easily figure this out, by not become the patsies they are obviously being positioned to be should anything truly dire happen.
Look away from the prostitutes, Secret Service, and PAY ATTENTION…
And adjust your priorities while you still can!
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.”
~Helen Keller
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Friends are the sunshine of life.
~John Hay
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