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Clipmarks | Live ClipsWhats Your new year resolution friend?clipped by: mugofcoffeeclippers remarks: More @ site... By Celes [ | ![]() Bearclipped by: Vinyl Hippo![]() The Human Butterfly Crop Circleclipped by: celestialdancerclippers remarks: Created 7th August 2009 in the Netherlands. Crop circles are one of those things which inspires as much awe as skepticism from people. Hence, I thought long before clipping this. Personally, I find the image utterly beautiful and the symbolism even more inspiring. [Video] ![]() Aptly said and true too!clipped by: mugofcoffee![]() Was Jesus wealthy?clipped by: wiccantexanEach Christmas, Christians tell stories about the poor baby Jesus born in a lowly manger because there was no room in the inn. But the Rev. C. Thomas Anderson, senior pastor of the Living Word Bible Church in Mesa, Arizona, preaches a version of the Christmas story that says baby Jesus wasnt so poor after all. Anderson says Jesus couldnt have been poor because he received lucrative gifts -- gold, frankincense and myrrh -- at birth. Jesus had to be wealthy because the Roman soldiers who crucified him gambled for his expensive undergarments. Even Jesus parents, Mary and Joseph, lived and traveled in style, he says. as Christians gather around the globe this year to celebrate the birth of Jesus, another group of Christians are insisting that Jesus beginnings werent so humble. They say that Jesus was never poor -- and neither should his followers be. Their claim is embedded in the doctrine known as the prosperity gospel NESTLE BOYCOTTclipped by: katsteevnsclippers remarks: By Cee Miracles Wanting to do right by their babies, mothers used the formula. When they ran out, they had to buy the formula and most of them were too poor to do so. By that time also their breast milk had dried up. So they skipped feedings and/or added more water. Often the water was contaminated. Babies died; their growth was stunted; their brains damaged, they succumbed to simple diseases, etcetera. NESTLE also gave their formula to nursing mothers in other poor countries, e.g., in Africa and South and Central America. This formula lacked nutritional ingredients that were in the regular formula, with the same or similar results as above. Anyone remember the successful NESTLE BOYCOTT of the late 1970s? It achieved its immediate aims globally, but after a brief hiatus, in 1988 the NESTLE boycott ... of ALL NESTLE products [baby food, cereals, etcetera] resumed and is still ongoing ... for reason. Just Google ... The Nestle Boycott ... for information Back in the 70s NESTLE was sending uncredentialed women who dressed up as nurses to give third-world nursing mothers free packages of baby formula. NESTLEs campaign insisted that its Infant Formula was far superior to breast milk, and breastmilk did not give babies the full nutrition they really needed. Top 10 Unusual Cat Breedsclipped by: CrazyRedHead10 Devon Rex ![]() The Devon Rex is especially unique in that their down hair is curly. They also have rather large eyes, and large, low-set ears. 9 Scottish Fold ![]() has a dominant genetic mutation that causes the cartilage in their ears to have a fold, sometimes even up to two or three folds 8 Japanese Bobtail ![]() Japanese bobtails are born with a rabbit-like puff tail, and some will even hop like rabbits, rather than running 7 Khao Manee ![]() The Khao Manee (or ?White Jewel?) was the royal cat breed of Old Siam. In the UK alone, kittens go for eight to ten thousand dollars. 6 Savannah [Video] Savannahs are incredibly interesting cats. They are the result of breeding a standard domestic cat with the serval, an African wild cat. 5 Teacup Persians ![]() Full grown, they are about 8 inches tall while sitting. 4 Munchkin ![]() 3 Pixie-Bob ![]() The Pixie-Bob was bred from exotic-looking stray and wild cats, rather than actual bobcat hybrids 2 Minskin ![]() 1 Sphynx ![]() The Sphynx, or Canadian Hairless, is a breed of cat that is born without fur. Merry Christmas From Afghanistanclipped by: Normn8or
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Soldiers return best gift for families this Christmas
clipped by: infidel70clippers remarks: Loved ones line up to meet company that was deployed for almost a year
For the families of the 63 men and women of Fort Benning?s 690th Medical Company, the best gift this holiday season came to Lawson Army Airfield on Christmas night. And when they filed into the terminal, they were wearing their camouflage uniforms ? and Santa hats.

After almost a year in Iraq the ground ambulance company, an element of the 14th Combat Support Hospital, made its way home. Originally scheduled to arrive on Christmas Eve, soldiers landed on post about 6:30 p.m. on Christmas.
?I?m just so proud, my heart is in my throat,? said Diane Rebman, who was waiting with her husband for the arrival of their son Will. ?This is a Merry Christmas.?
The path that took soldiers home led from Iraq to Qatar to Kuwait and then to Germany. From there it was a 10-hour flight to the airfield.
Inside the terminal ? named Freedom Hall ? families and friends gathered with balloons and posters to welcome their heroes.
Plurality Believes Stimulus Plan Hurt the Economy
clipped by: n2soonersA new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of voters nationwide believe the $787-billion economic stimulus plan has helped the economy. However, 38% believe that the stimulus plan has hurt the economy. This is the first time since the legislation passed that a plurality has held a negative view of its impact.
The Political Class has a much different view than the rest of the county. Ninety percent (90%) of the Political Class believes the stimulus plan helped the economy and not a single Political Class respondent says it has hurt. (See more on the Political Class).
The underlying reason for skepticism about the stimulus plan is that 50% of voters believe increasing government spending is bad for the economy. Just 28% believe that increased government spending helps the economy.
Update: Investigators: Northwest Bomb Plot Planned by al Qaeda in Yemen
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: Investigators say the suspect, Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian student whose birthday was last Tuesday, has provided detailed information about his recruitment and training for what was supposed to be a Christmas Day suicide attack.
Hat tip: ABC News
Less than two months after 13 Americans were murdered by a militant Islamic fundamentalist, another terrorist attempted to kill several hundred people aboard a jumbo jetliner.
The announcement said the device contained PETN (pentaerythritol), which the Justice Department called ?a high explosive.?
?FBI agents recovered what appear to be the remnants of the syringe from the vicinity of Abdulmutallab?s seat, believed to have been part of the device,? the released added.
The government said: ?Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian national, boarded Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on December 24, 2009 and had a device attached to his body.
The plot to blow up an American passenger jet over Detroit was organized and launched by al Qaeda leaders in Yemen who apparently sewed bomb materials into the suspect?s underwear before sending him on his mission, federal authorities tell ABC News.
The U.S. charged a 23-year-old Nigerian man with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day, and with placing a destructive device on the aircraft, the Justice Department announced.
Hat tip: ABC News

Dumb, ugly and liberal: a deadly combination

Let?s not jump to any conclusions about the Nigerian. The passengers obviously acted stupidly.
Civil War?
clipped by: katsteevnsRussian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued orders to his Northern Command?s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ?begin immediately? increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.

According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks ?numerous? meetings with his war council about how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nations banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a ?last ditch gambit? whose success is ?far from certain?.
Richard Hawley: For your lover, give some time
clipped by: cakebellyHome Found In Narazeth
clipped by: debbyskiclippers remarks: It is a gift to me also to see the historical significance of what it means to follow Christianity.
It poses the very important question: How did the religion of Jesus become pro-rich, pro-war and only pro-American?
For Christians, it is a provocative question that should haunt us in what often seems to be a Christ-forgetting country.

Chimpanzees Dancing with Fire
clipped by: chestnut501clippers remarks: When it comes to understanding fire, chimpanzees might have a leg up not only on the rest of the animal kingdom, but also on those of us in the human species who would sprint in the other direction at the sight of a blaze. A study published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology argues that these primates don?t panic when the flames start, and could even understand the basics about how fire behaves.

Help End Modern Slavery - Your Calling?
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Former Vampire Candidate For Governor Jailed, Vows To Run Again
clipped by: wiccantexanclippers remarks: Oh, yeah, we pagans are all so proud to have this fellow use us as a political party.... *cough*
Top 10 Evil Doctors
clipped by: Saylerclippers remarks: Doctors are said to be people that help those who are sick or in need of medical treatment. Most doctors are seen as benevolent towards society as a whole, but maybe not by those people who need to get their routine vaccinations.
Though we hope our doctors are nothing less than helpful and trustworthy, throughout history, there have been extremely evil doctors who have ruined lives, and even killed some of their patients. Here is a list of ten doctors that surely aren?t ones to go to for your regular check-up.
10. Jack Kevorkian




An extremely controversial topic in today?s world, Jack Kevorkian is known for ending the lives of his terminally ill patient?s through assisted suicide. He was a champion for the right and is often quoted saying ?dying is not a crime.? It is said that he allowed 130 or more of his patients to die with his help. Kevorkian created his own euthanasia machines that would allow a patient to die two ways. The first was the ?Thanatron?, which used an IV to inject the patient with saline, sodium thiopental, and potassium chloride. He also used the ?Mercitron,? which involved a gas mask that utilized carbon monoxide. Eventually, his actions were investigated and he was arrested on charges of second-degree murder and served jail-time from 1999-2007, but today is on parole.
The odds of dying from swine flu
clipped by: MPRachelHow to Imagine the Tenth Dimension
clipped by: Vinyl HippoIll Be Damned If Ill Let You Misrepresent Me
clipped by: debbyskiclippers remarks: Blueridge says: Motive: Her romantic advances were rejected. There is no "hate crime" law for this, and depicts a similar scenario to one proposed in a Clipmark here, in its horrific reality. She will get life, while the "friend" she hated, got death. "Crimes of passion" are born of those who are not gratified in trying to obtain their selfish pleasures (like the men of Sodom who were storming Mayor Lots House to "make sport" w/ two visitors, to take them by force). Passion is not "love", it is self-love, for personal gratification, and holds the targeted "romance" object as personal property, which they claim possession of mentally (giving birth to unjust jealousy), and therefore usurp to themselves a claim to use force to obtain or revenge. Sometimes in crime, other times something less. Note too the murderer was portrayed as a victim for "coming out as a lesbian". Astonishing.
Snowfall records in Dallas and Oklahoma
clipped by: pkronfieldclippers remarks: I want to see a glacier advance into Tennesse and grind/smash AlGores energy wasting mansion to splinters. Some global warming!
Who lets a baby out naked on a farm?
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Fave Comment: You find a naked boot-wearing baby getting a blowjob from a cat adorable? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!? ? Fuzunga
Pagans Botch Winter Solstice Celebration
clipped by: fatlesterclippers remarks: A crowd of hundreds of polytheists showed up at Stonehenge at the crack of dawn in freezing temperatures to celebrate the winter solstice, the most important pagan holiday of the year. Unfortunately, they were a day early. The Gods did not take pity on them, however, and Zeus has vowed to smite those that put their ignorance regarding their "religion" on display for all to see...
Pagans celebrate winter solstice on the wrong day
Pagan worshippers, who braved freezing dawn temperatures to celebrate the winter solstice at Stonehenge, were dismayed to discover they had turned up on the wrong day.

A crowd of around 300 people, wearing traditional costume, met at the mystical stone circle on Monday morning to mark the rising of the sun on the shortest day of the year.
But unfortunately their calculations were slightly out meaning they had in fact arrived 24 hours prematurely.
The winter solstice occurs when the tilt of the earths axis is at its furthest from the sun ? some 23 degrees 26 minutes off vertical ? delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.
National Irish Bank: to stop handling cash
clipped by: bhgfarmsclippers remarks: could this happen here? By the way the entire article is below.
National Irish Bank Stop Handling Cash
National Irish Bank says it is moving to a Scandinavian model of "cashless banking" - with an increased reliance on ATMs and debit cards.Obama Says, Let Them Eat Cake ? Rents $8.9 Million Hawaii Home for Holidays
clipped by: infidel70clippers remarks: White House will spin this as stimulating the economy.
Perception is everything ? Living La Vita Loca while the rest of America worries whether they will have a pay check and a home. Is this really the image that Obama wants to project to the American people? How could a President who for one second tires to tell American people that he understand their plight and feels their pain while renting this 7000 sq foot home out?
Some things just look and smell inherently wrong. Paying Senators off for their vote was one. Staying in this over the top rental property while average Americans go belly up is a second.

While millions of Americans lose their jobs and homes, the Obama?s jet off to Hawaii and rent an $8.9 million home for the holidays. While most Americans cannot afford to take a vacation and are doing ?staycations? instead, Barack Obama and family in tow are roughing it up as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous as We the People foot the expense.
Iran: Government Mercenaries Beating Women Down In the Streets
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Iran Khabar Agency - December 26, 2009, 12:30 pm
Atmosphere from Revolution Square to Azadi Square is very fiery. Many cars can be heard honking, and people show the victory sign.
Vali Asr intersection is very crowded
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Lets Roll 2 by Mark Steyn
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: If the facts remain broadly as outlined, this incident has serious implications for airline travel: A man is on the no-fly list but is allowed to board the plane. Everyone flying on an inbound long-haul flight to the United States is forced to hand over excessively large amounts of liquids and gels and put the small amounts permitted into separate plastic bags, yet the no-fly guys material for bomb-making sails through undetected.
This time the last line of defense worked. Next time, the paradise-seeking jihadist might get lucky and find himself sitting next to, say, Charlie Sheen, too immersed in a lengthy treatise on how 9/11 was an inside job to notice the smoldering socks in the next seat; or to the same kind of nothing-to-see-here crowd who thought Major Hasans e-mails were "consistent with his research interests". (http://bit.ly/6qYzZd)
On September 11th 2001, the governments (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act.
On December 25th 2009, the governments (post-9/11) security procedures all failed, and the only good news came once again from alert individuals:
Schuringa, sitting in seat 20J, in the right-most section of the Airbus 330, looked to his left. "I saw smoke rising from a seat ... I didn?t hesitate. I just jumped," he said.
"I searched on his body parts and he had his pants open. He had something strapped to his legs."
The unassuming hero ripped the flaming, molten object ? which resembled a small, white shampoo bottle ? off Abdul Mutallab?s left leg, near his crotch. He said he put out the fire with his bare hands.
Schuringa yelled for water, and members of the flight crew soon appeared with fire extinguishers. Then, he said, he hauled the suspect out of the seat.
Unique And Amazing Places
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Caravan in the Desert
clipped by: arslionthe past matters to plants
clipped by: doodleiciousclippers remarks: they interact more than we know- it appears..............

The Past Matters to Plants
ScienceDaily (Dec. 26, 2009) ? Its commonly known that plants interact with each other on an everyday basis: they shade each other out or take up nutrients from the soil before neighboring plants can get them. Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have learned that plants also respond to the past.
Emily Farrer, Deborah Goldberg, and Aaron King modeled four years of population fluctuations in four species common to the Michigan dry sand prairie to determine how plants interacted with each other. They found that plants tended to compete, or negatively affect one another, over the summer, fall, and spring; but interestingly the researchers also found that the more crowded together plants were in one growing season, the more their growth was enhanced the following year.
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2009
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10) Humpback Whales to Leap off Endangered Species List

9) Researchers Love for Wife Leads to MS Breakthrough
Hey, Whatever Happened to SWINE FLU ?
clipped by: leevardito swine flu?
Vaccine pitch fest
Very Demotivational Posters That Demotivate Us
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Twittering is for boring old farts
clipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: This boring old fart doesnt twitter, and there are many other BOFSDTs who dont.
I t was the year when Twitter came and went ? a fad formed in February and dropped in December, proof that this is the land of the short attention span.
Australia has long been legendary as a nation of early adopters, the ideal test market for gadgets and products. We embraced colour TV, the VCR, the mobile phone, the games machine and the DVD faster than any other outpost of Western culture.
Now its apparent that another of our traits could be useful to the international marketing industry ? we are early discarders. On television, we lost interest in Lost, Ugly Betty, Heroes, PrisonBreak, 24 and FlashForward long before the Americans.
Back in February, when the media started trumpeting Twitter as the hottest self-promotion tool since the megaphone, I asked a social researcher what he made of it. "Its a classic case of BOFSDT," he replied. That acronym stands for Boring Old Farts Suddenly Discover Technology.
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It would be a shame to throw this brown leather Lazy Boy type recliner away.
clipped by: swampfoxzclippers remarks: Yes, yes, sure, if your parents caught a glimpse of it they?d wonder what the hell had gone wrong with you, and send the pastor over to have a talk.

It would be a shame to throw this brown leather Lazy Boy type recliner away. Somebody could really enjoy this recliner. It belongs to the estate of a deacesed friend and needs to be removed from the home.
Yes, it would be a shame, a damned shame. There?s years of use left in that thing.
Sure, the (p)leather is stained, worn, and torn.
Sure, it smells like the man who sat in it every day for 40 years. And the beer he spilled on it. And the cigarettes he smoked until he finally quit 12 years ago.
Sure, the filth covering the carpet around the chair started on the chair and had to either slide off or leak through it to get to the floor. Over and over.
And yes, sure, there may be dormant spores of Legionnaire?s Disease the former chair-sitter brought back from Philadelphia in ?76, visiting for the the Bicentennial.
Glitter-Sized Solar Cells For Electricity-Producing Clothes
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As with any new and exciting technology, applications seem limitless. The current generation of photovoltaic cells are wafers around 6 square inches. In contrast, these tiny cells could be mounted on flexible substrates, such as on fabric or oddly shaped surfaces.
As an added bonus, the mass-produced micro-cells will also eventually be cheaper to make and install than current solar power cells. This could finally pave the way for buildings that pay their own energy costs with solar power. Or it could mean charging your iPod on the go from a solar-power-collecting shirt.
The First 3-D Image of a Mandelbrot Fractal Is Stunning
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Sigmund Freud saved by Nazi admirer
clipped by: pennyserenadeSigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was saved from Hitler?s persecution of the Jews by a long-standing Nazi who was fascinated with his work, a new book reveals.
The fate of Freud and his family in Vienna hung in the balance after Hitler?s forces took over Austria in 1938. The psychoanalyst was first protected, then helped to escape to Britain, by Anton Sauerwald, a Nazi who had been put in charge of his assets.

Death Care
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Photo: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
Christmas Terror Bombing Throws Monkey Wrench In Obama?s Plans To Close Gitmo
clipped by: infidel70clippers remarks: That instability has contributed to concerns within the Obama administration and from its domestic critics about returning prisoners there for repatriation.
Growing evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a commercial airliner as it landed in Detroit Friday spent time in Yemen and may have been fitted with customized, explosive-laden clothing there could complicate the U.S. government?s efforts to send home more than 80 Yemeni prisoners currently at Guantanamo Bay.

Since Yemenis represent almost half of the roughly 200 remaining prisoners at Gitmo, new hurdles to their resettlement could spell more trouble for President Barack Obama?s plan to close the island prison while transferring a limited number of detainees to a prison in the U.S. Six Yemeni nationals were returned home earlier this month, and officials hoped more transfers would follow.
Will The Recession Scar You For Life? Economists Say Yes
clipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: Unfortunately, a side-effect of recession experiences is that people stop believing in the very public institutions that might - if reformed - be able to help with this redistribution. I dont think distrust of institutions is a bad thing. That distrust makes sure people dont become sheeple and makes them constantly scrutinize, criticize and exert pressure on their governments, instead of just having blind faith that they will "do the right thing".

Shea points out that if this study turns out to be correct, we can expect the generation coming of age in the next 10 years may have a more "European" attitude toward inequality.
WW2 Peoples War
clipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.

Anderson Shelters
by Brian Walker
What problems does Google Wave solve?
clipped by: JICWyllieclippers remarks: Helping businesses to become more profitable and the economy to grow ...
I believe that people who don?t see what Google Wave is for are simply looking at it from the wrong angle. Wave is not a social tool. It?s not Twitter, it?s not GTalk, it?s not Facebook. It was never designed to appeal to the crowds of geeks who are currently trying it out.
Wave is built for the corporate environment. It?s a tool for getting work done. And as far as those go, it?s an excellent tool, even at this very early stage.
It will probably take years before Wave fully penetrates large corporations and replaces the email systems everyone is used to. But it solves so many thorny problems with email that it might well manage to do so, where so many other tentative ?email fixes? have failed.
In the meantime, we should stop judging it as a social tool and start looking at how we can use it for real work. Invite your colleagues to it, and get working.
Pee Wee Obamas Big Adventure
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: As a reference point when Bill Clinton went to Asia for a week in 2000, that trip alone cost $63 million for all of the necessities of a glutton White House. Dont think for a second that the gluttonous Obamas are saving one dime. I ask people to remember Ronald Reagan vacationing at the Reagan Ranch. I ask people to remember George H. W. Bush who vacationed Kennebunkport at his family house. I ask people to remember George W. Bush in vacationing at his Texas ranch. Those properties were all paid for and did not cost $40,000 in rent. These Republicans if you recall liked to ride horse in Reagan, fish in Bush 41 and Bush 43 liked running a chainsaw. All cheap entertainment. There was never any entourage of pigs in family and friends seeing who could suck an expensive vacation off the US taxpayers. All three of these Republican Presidents dealt with economic catastrophes and understood the value of every cent they were spending. Yet Obama rolls in and cant find
So for 10 days in Hawaii, the Obamas on lodging ALONE will be $40,000.
It is a given that the two mansions occupied in this taxpayer now pays for the Obama playmates and any relative not in Kenya vacation will also be $40,000 for the 10 days.

Video: The Known Universe
clipped by: TomDHallclippers remarks: Excellent portrayal of the size and beauty of the universe.
Hot Air: Welcome to the Obama Administration?s ?New Transparency?
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: I?m sure it is ? for analysts and Fannie and Freddie workers, but I?m not sure taxpayers should share that optimism. The report states the U.S. Treasury will receive preferred stock paying 10% dividends and warrants to acquire nearly 80% of the common shares in Fannie and Freddie. However, the Treasury has already loaned $60 billion to Fannie and $51 billion to Freddie. At this point, it?s hard to believe more money is the answer. Maybe the New York Times was right: Democrats plan to talk about deficit reduction in 2010 but not do anything about it for now. Or as President Obama puts it: ?Mr. Obama calls it ?a false choice? to pit spending to spur the economy against reducing the deficit. His advisers say the president, and American voters, favor both " spending to create jobs in the short term, and commitment to spending discipline and deficit reduction over the long term.?
Hot Air and the Wall Street Journal noticed the Obama Administration dropped a financial bombshell on Christmas Eve:
?The Treasury announced Thursday it was removing the caps that limited the amount of available capital to the companies [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] to $200 billion each.
Unlimited access to bailout funds through 2012 was ?necessary for preserving the continued strength and stability of the mortgage market,? the Treasury said. Fannie and Freddie purchase or guarantee most U.S. home mortgages and have run up huge losses stemming from the worst wave of defaults since the 1930s.
?The timing of this executive order giving Fannie and Freddie a blank check is no coincidence,? said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the House Financial Services Committee. He said the Christmas Eve announcement was designed ?to prevent the general public from taking note.?"
FBI Considered "Its A Wonderful Life" Communist Propaganda
clipped by: thisnamecantbetakenFBI Considered "Its A Wonderful Life" Communist Propaganda

I love Its a Wonderful Life because it teaches us that family, friendship, and virtue are the true definitions of wealth.
In 1947, however, the FBI considered this anti-consumerist message as subversive Communist propaganda (read original FBI memo).
According to Professor John Noakes of Franklin and Marshall College, the FBI thought Life smeared American values such as wealth and free enterprise while glorifying anti-American values such as the triumph of the common man.
The FBI specifically detested the way Mr. Potter was portrayed:
The casting of Lionel Barrymore as a "scrooge-type" resulted in the loathsome Mr. Potter becoming the most hated person in the film. According to the official FBI report, "this was a common trick used by the communists."

How Dirty Is Your Mind?
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How Dirty is your mind?

8 Gifts that will collect dust after Christmas Day
clipped by: swampfoxzclippers remarks: We all give or receive Christmas gifts, year after year, that will ultimately be used one or two times before getting boxed up and banished to the attic to collect dust for eternity. Many of these items flood Ebay after every Christmas, or show up at a garage sale in the spring so they can collect dust at someone else?s house. Some people will even try to exchange them, even though they?re now not only USED pieces of crap, but there?s technically nothing wrong with them to begin with. It?s not that we don?t like these gifts or the thoughtfulness behind them ? quite the opposite in in fact ? we?re excited about these presents. Unfortunately that excitement wears off the moment they start becoming a pain in the ass to use or clean. This usually happens before we ring in the new year.

Breadmaker

Disc Washer/ Scratch Repair Thing

Fondue Set

Any Board Game

Miscellaneous Organizers

Keyboard Vac

Foot Spa

Chair Massager

China in a Bull Shop
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: At any rate, it?s clear that Obama is much more willing to spend a reasonable amount of time at a $10 million estate in Hawaii than he was a week in Copenhagen, or even an hour in church on Christmas.
by Dan Collins
Read full post @ http://bit.ly/4Gm5WK
I agree on one point that Mark Lynas makes in this Guardian piece: China?s cozying of Sudan is dreadful.
Birds first, not your pesky moggie.
clipped by: notareargunnerclippers remarks: It will never be enforced. Blackpool Council withdrew the mandate for Fishers Field in South Shore where i was said to left to the council for children to play football if there are an Americans reading this that is the gentlemans game played by overpaid children, sorry soccer.
I bumped into a former professional footballer who was taking his little boy and their dog on the field for exercise. Werll notr really. The child would get his exercise and the dog would have a shit. Okay, perhaps picked up by the intelligent soccer player. But the Parvo Virus cannot be picked up in a plassie bag!!!
There are few dog owners who actually carry cleaning fluid along with all the accessories for cleaning up after their pets. Unfortunately they are so few, and the irrepsonsible so many.
New estate bans cats and dogs to protect birdlife
A property developer has banned homeowners from keeping cats or dogs to protect birdlife on nearby heathland.
Residents on a new estate who fail to comply with the ban could ultimately face eviction.
The heathland is home to the endangered Dartford warbler as well as nightjars and woodlarks.
Pain or Prayer: Anthropologist Studies Religions
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This question has been exercising University of Oxford anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse for over two decades. He is not the first to note that religions tend to fall into two distinct types -- those based on extensive teachings, such as Christianity and Islam, and those based on iconography and personal interpretations, including most small-scale religions and cults. Whitehouses particular take, though, is to suggest that rituals themselves generate this dichotomy.
Clerics Seek Peace through Humor, Dialogue
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A small twist...
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Perhaps I need you...
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A day in the internet...just wow!
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Seniors are Americas new Jews
clipped by: jatflaclippers remarks: FTA: "Seniors now find themselves as the official go-to group for a president intent on taking both life and property and giving to those who are younger, more diverse, to illegal immigrants, and Democratic Party allies. Consequently, the Obama-led Democrats, with the help of intellectual and media elites, have declared open season on grandma and grandpa, with Newsweek Evan going so far as to feature a cover detailing "The Case for Killing Granny."
My son & I were discussing this after I had put my Mother to bed. The best way to provide for Congress Health Care Bill is to limit the number of users. The best way to "help the Planet" is to decrease the population. The best was to "save Social Security" is to eliminate the number of people who need it. Im not a journalist, an elitist, a Marxist, a numbers-cruncher but even I can see what they are doing. Those who no longer are major contributers to society have no rights in Obamas society.
Seniors are Americas new Jews
Fantastically Named People
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1. Canaan Banana
7. Prince Octopus Dzanie
8. Argelico Fucks
9. Learned Hand
10. Ima Hogg

13. Adolf Lu Hitler Marak
14. Ten Million
19. Jaime Sin
Inside the womb!!!
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Natures Wrath
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Women Remember First Pair of Shoes More Than First Kiss
clipped by: thisnamecantbetakenclippers remarks: Ah, I remember it well! Nothing beats a pair of good quality Italian shoes. *sigh* Hmm....the first guy I kissed was Italian, too.
I see a pattern here. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69O4PXzAQ5Y

Ladies, we know what?s important to you, and it?s not us. Yes, we?re talking about your footwear and we know full well that you?ll choose a great pair of shoes over a guy any day of the week. But now there?s scientific evidence to prove this.
A recent survey found that a whopping 92 percent of women could remember the first pair of shoes they bought with their own money. That?s a whole lot more than the two out of three women who could remember the name of the person they first kissed.
Amazingly, 96 percent of women have felt sorry about throwing away of pair of shoes, whereas only 15 percent regret dumping a boyfriend.
So men, now you know where you stand. Somewhere well below a pair of great high heels.
What is panic attacks disorder? How to treat panic attack disorders naturally
clipped by: Taffy-wilsonclippers remarks: natural Treatment is having very successful ratio to relief fast from panic attacks. This article is having very good information regarding same.
What is panic attacks disorder? How to treat panic attack disorders naturally

Homeland security head: The security system worked
clipped by: jatflaclippers remarks: If the security system worked, how did this man get past the security??? Does it now consist of one lone, alert passenger tackling the perp? The only good things that happened was the actions of that passenger and the fact that the detonator failed!!
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says investigators did not have enough information to keep a terror suspect from boarding a flight bound for Detroit and that the system worked as it should have.
Napolitano says that within 60 to 90 minutes of the incident all 120 flights that were in the air at time were contacted to make sure the attempted bombing did not extend beyond the flight to Detroit.
ObamaCare Sparking 10th Amendment Action in Seven States
clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: Graham has been all over cable news today visibly angry about the vote-buying by Reid that secured the votes of Senators Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as well as possibly other senators as yet unknown.
DeMint has also been active, especially on the issue of the Reid amendments provision seeking to bar future congresses from changing even a single word of Section 3403 on the Independent Medicare Advisory Board (IMAB).
The IMAB will become the federal health care ground zero under Obamacare if it becomes law. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a link to DeMints floor speech on the issue and additional information, analyses, and links.
Nelsons deal with Reid has attracted the most attention because it exempts Nebraska from paying its share of Medicaid expenses in perpetuity. Medicaid expenditures are among the most expensive federal mandates on state governments, and the Obamacare bill will significantly increase costs
Looks like the steadily growing list of constitutional, ethical and political outrages that constitute the Harry Reid version of Obamacare is sparking a rebellion in the states, as AP reports South Carolinas attorney general plans to investigate the vote-buying that surrounded the proposal in the Senate majority leaders office.
According to AP, South Carolinas Henry McMaster is being joined by the attorneys general of Michigan and Washington state in a suit to determine the constitutionality of the Obamacare proposal. Their initiative was prompted by a request from South Carolinas two senators, Lindsay Graham and Jim DeMint, both Republicans.
Attorneys-general in at least four other states are also considering joining McMasters, according to AP. A move by a group of states to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare could reinvigorate the efficacy of the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states or the people all rights not specifically granted to the federal government.
Wow?Just Wow.
clipped by: swampfoxzclippers remarks: emailsfromcrazypeople.com
Hi R****,
It was great seeing you and your husband the other day! Your son looks so big! The reason I?m writing to you today is a small matter of concern, mainly your dog. I?ve seen the way he?s been looking at my Fifi and I don?t like it. I can?t afford to take care of puppies right now so please make sure he stays away from my dog.
Hope to see you soon!
J****
R**** ********* 22 August at 14:23
Hi J****,
Ranger isn?t an outside dog and only goes outside to do his business on the other side of the house from your yard. If he?s ever outside of the yard, he?s always on leash, so he shouldn?t bother your dog.
Cheers,
R****
J**** ***** 25 August at 12:42
I warned you about your dog! He raped my baby and now Fifi is pregnant! I told you I can?t afford puppies, so I expect you to cover all costs. I?ll drop the vet bills off tonight.
I?m sorry to hear that
New Years Eve brings lunar rarity
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In a wonderful quirk of coincidence December 31st, 2009 is not just New Year?s Eve. It?s not just the end of a decade. It?s also a night of a blue moon? in partial eclipse.
A blue moon occurs when there are 13 full moons during a calendar year rather than 12. This is the result of the fact that the lunar cycle is slightly shorter than our calendar months, meaning there is an ?extra? full moon every 2.7 years.
The peak of the shadow this time round will be at 19:22:39 UTC (that?s also known as Greenwich Mean Time or UK time) and will be visible in most of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia. So as a very generalized guide:
And as if the decade?s end/blue moon/partial eclipse wasn?t freaky enough, get this: it occurs on the final day of the International Year of Astronomy.
THE OBAMA FRAUD
clipped by: mountainpalmTheatrical Trailer - FRAUD
India governor, 86, resigns after 3-woman sex tape
clipped by: infidel70The 86-year-old governor of a southern Indian state resigned Saturday, a day after a television news channel broadcast a tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women, an official said.
Gov. Narain Dutt Tiwaris office has denied the allegation, denouncing the tape as fabricated.
Tiwari, a veteran governing Congress party leader in Andhra Pradesh state, sent his resignation letter to the Indian president on Saturday, citing health reasons, a state official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The scandal hit as Andhra Pradesh is engulfed in social unrest. Outrage over a delay in creating a new state there erupted into violent demonstrations in several cities earlier this week.
Pressure mounted on Tiwari to quit after the tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women was broadcast Friday, prompting the opposition and womens right groups to hold street protests in Hyderabad, the state capital, demanding his resignation.
Robin Hood of Las Vegas takes from the rich casinos to give to the poor
clipped by: pennyserenadeTheir three-year-old daughter, Madison, had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and they were $35,000 (£21,000) in debt.
But when they heard what the caller had to say, they broke down in tears, hardly able to believe their ears. He was a mysterious, high-rolling Las Vegas gambler who had been choosing needy families to give them his winnings. "You have been chosen," the voice told the Keglers. "Im flying you to Vegas, and Im going to win your money for you." What followed seemed like a dream. A stretch limousine to the airport, first-class flights and a Rolls Royce to their 8,000 square-foot suite in the Palazzo hotel. There, Mr Kegler, 48, and his wife, 29, were met by their benefactor, who promptly staked huge amounts of his own money in a marathon card session.
ZOMBIE CONSUMES POOR KITTIES LAST BRAIN CELL
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Policewomen in Afghanistan have special roles to fill
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IN RETROSPECT
clipped by: mountainpalmPeter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
Abstinence proponents look for aid from new health bill
clipped by: ratilfarclippers remarks: I hope they die off. I mean, who wants to fund such stupidity?
Proponents of sex education classes that focus on encouraging teenagers to remain virgins until marriage are hoping that the rescue plan for the nations health-care system will also save their programs, which are facing extinction because of a cutoff of federal funding.
The health-care reform legislation pending in the Senate includes $50 million for programs that states could use to try to reduce pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease among adolescents by teaching to them to delay when they start having sex.
Under the federal budget signed by President Obama, such programs would no longer have funds targeted for them.
"Were optimistic," said Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association, which is lobbying to maintain funding for the programs. "Nothing is certain, but were hopeful."
Critics of sex education programs focused on abstinence, however, are fighting to permanently end funding, saying there is clear evidence that the approach is unsuccessful.
Is this how the magic happens?
clipped by: swampfoxzAncestral Whales May Have Given Birth on Land
clipped by: celestialdancerclippers remarks: "This intermediate species may have spent most of its time in the water, coming onto land to rest, mate, and give birth. A second, even more complete Maiacetus fossil was found nearby; it appears to be a male, slightly larger."

While digging for fossils in Pakistan, paleontologist Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan discovered the fossil skeleton of a 47-million-year-old pregnant whale with her fetus positioned for headfirst delivery?a surprise since modern-day whales are born tail-first to prevent drowning. The clear implication: Ancestral whales may have given birth on land.
Titanoboa The Biggest Snake of All Time
clipped by: celestialdancerclippers remarks: "...Titanoboa also shows that rain forests can thrive at substantially higher temperatures than they do in the modern Amazon."

Stealth Boat Ady Gil joins Sea Shepherd
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With the addition of the Ady Gil, however, the Sea Shepherd can use its tremendous speed to shake any tail and do a little reconnaissance of its own. The Japanese have confirmed that two vessels will be used to track the SS ? but we assume that second one is still with the rest of the whaling fleet. ?Once we unite with our other vessel we should be in a position to seriously turn the tables on this Japanese security ship that is stalking us,? said Captain Paul Watson.
Christmas Tree Worm
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The aptly Christmas Tree worm does not care if it?s 10 days until Santa shoots down the chimney or 200. It features two chromatically-hued spiral structures that are most commonly the only thing seen by divers. In actuality, these multicolored spirals are merely the worm?s highly-derived respiratory structures.
Unlike your Christmas tree, these beautiful spirals are are gorgeous death traps that serve one purpose: catching prey and pushing it towards the mouth. ?Each spiral is actually composed of feather-like tentacles called radioles, which are heavily ciliated which allows any prey that are trapped in them to be transported straight towards the worm?s mouth. While they are primarily feeding structures, S. giganteus also uses its radioles for respiration. It is because of this that the structures are commonly called ?gills?.





Four percent of adults worldwide using cannabis: Lancet
clipped by: MichaelEhlineclippers remarks: Around nine percent of people who ever use cannabis become dependent on it, says the paper. By comparison, the risk of addiction for nicotine is 32 percent, 23 percent for heroin, 17 percent for cocaine and 15 percent for alcohol.
Four percent of adults worldwide using cannabis: Lancet

early four percent of adults around the world use cannabis, even though the drug raises many major health concerns, according to a paper published in The Lancet.
Photograph by: Christopher Furlong, Getty Images
PARIS - Nearly four percent of adults around the world use cannabis, even though the drug raises many major health concerns, according to a paper published in The Lancet on Friday.
It cited figures from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, which estimated that in 2006 there were 166 million users of cannabis aged from 15-64, or 3.9 percent of the worlds population in this age category.
"Acute adverse
Some evidence has emerged that levels of THC found in seized cannabis have risen in the past two decades, says the study.
SERMON FOR THE WEST by ORIANA FALLACI ( R.I.P)
clipped by: Normn8orclippers remarks: On October 22, 2002, Oriana Fallaci addressed an audience at the American Enterprise Institute. Following are short excerpts from her talk. Ms. Fallaci, a native of Florence, Italy and a life-long journalist, caused turmoil across Europe with the publication of her book The Rage and the Pride, calling the West to stand up to the Islamic world.
link to the transcript http://rrresistenza.blogspot.com/
SERMON FOR THE WEST by ORIANA FALLACI ( R.I.P)
link to the transcript http://rrresistenza.blogspot.com/
What is High Blood Cholesterol?
clipped by: jenadd123"Serfdom vs. Liberty in 2010"
clipped by: mklosinskiclippers remarks: Good editorial.
It was in 1774 that John Adams reminded how the "most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiple oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties."
And thats not merely to "oppress the individual or a few," the father of the Constitution added, "but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited."
Mr. Adams, of course, would have been labeled a "right-wing extremist" or a "militia maniac" by todays "progressives" in Congress who have been working so assiduously to soil the fabric of America. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would dismiss Adams sentiment as "un-American" and tap dance around its implications of unconstitutional freelancing.
Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?
clipped by: Normn8orclippers remarks: We will soon be Killing Communists in our very own Streets.
You just cant make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.
On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpols property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.
2010-The Year of the AWAKENING
clipped by: mountainpalmclippers remarks: I?ve always been a fan of Mr. Rogers. His trip around the world on a Motorcycle is an experience in itself. What an adventure that must have been. As for Bernanke and Greenspan, Jim is so correct. Bernanke is just one of many from Goldman Sachs that now is part of the Obama the Joker administration. Bernanke is just helping out his fat cat friends the same that Obama claims to be opposed to. What a charade.
I love Jim Rogers sense of humour , I usually follow all his interviews from this blog http://www.JimRogers.tk
370 Passwords You Shouldn?t (And Can?t) Use On Twitter
clipped by: alexsuslinclippers remarks: I would guess that many of these passwords were taken from published lists of passwords used when cracking accounts. If you currently use passwords which resemble any of these listed below, Id encourage you to change them as soon as possible.
holiday
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Airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was barred from Britain
clipped by: foxyarseAirline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was barred from Britain
Former student who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet had UK visa request refused in May

THE son of a prominent Nigerian banker, who allegedly attempted to blow up a transatlantic flight over America, was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, graduated from a university in London last year but his visa request was refused in May when he attempted to apply for a new course at a bogus college.
Abdulmutallab, described as a devout Muslim, attempted to ignite an explosive device on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day after shouting about Afghanistan.Bomb materials had apparently been sewn into his underwear, an authoritative American report said.
The incident led to increased security at UK airports and delays of up to five hours for passengers in Britain yesterday.
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
clipped by: Socratoadclippers remarks: The lesson is that not all data is created equal in our mind?s eye: When it comes to interpreting our experiments, we see what we want to see and disregard the rest. The physics students, for instance, didn?t watch the video and wonder whether Galileo might be wrong. Instead, they put their trust in theory, tuning out whatever it couldn?t explain. Belief, in other words, is a kind of blindness.
Insect Photos 2009
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In 2009 the world?s macrophotographers- both amateur and professional- continued to capture breathtaking images of the arthropod microscape. I?ve been bookmarking insect photos from around the web that catch my eye, and after spending some time this week reviewing the candidates I?ve selected nine favorites. Wow. These are the images from fellow photographers that most captured my imagination over the past year.
Inside the Statue of Liberty
clipped by: Saylerclippers remarks: French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty, which was a gift from France to the United States. The Statue of Liberty was completed on October 28, 1886. Towering over Liberty Island in New York, the Statue of Liberty was a finalist in the campaign to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World.
Bernard Coulombe has big plans for a mineral shunned here but valued in the developing world
clipped by: stokerclippers remarks: Mr Asbestos or Mr Death?

Bernard Coulombe has big plans for a mineral shunned here but valued in the developing world
Meet Quebecs Mr. Asbestos
"If everything goes well ? and everything has to go well ? we will be working in the underground mine and starting to produce in 2010. I can tell you, not just the Indian customers, but the big users of the world ? Mexico, Venezuela, Pakistan, Vietnam. Theyre waiting for us."
Never Let a World in Crisis Go to Waste
clipped by: AntaraScroll far enough down in Google News and youll find the story that will change this country forever, dragging us across the Rubicon from a free country to a country where the government owns your very body, and as mentioned earlier, burning the bridge behind:

Fortunately for the Obamination Administration, which doesnt like to ever let a crisis go to waste, a world without competent American leadership is guaranteed to provide the complicit statist media with a perpetual smokescreen of crises.
Preparing for the New Year
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Second man arrested on jet in Detroit
clipped by: pennyserenadeDETROIT - A passenger onboard the same Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day was taken into custody in Detroit on Sunday after becoming verbally disruptive upon landing, officials said.
Koalas Began As Possums???
clipped by: celestialdancerclippers remarks: "And to hear those low-frequency calls, koalas developed a middle ear with high volume compared to other marsupials."

Food was one driver, they say?millions of years ago koalas ate a variety of foods. The dietary switch to an exclusive eucalypt diet seems to have occurred during the late Miocene period, some 12 to five million years ago, when a drying climate made eucalyptus the dominant forest species [Canberra Times]. As a result, they lost their snouts and developed powerful jaw muscles.
Finally Some Photos of the Rare Cross Gorillas
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The Cross River Gorillas have been named the rarest subspecies of Gorilla, and just recently, the first professional footage has been captured according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. These gorillas live in the densest part of the jungle in Cameroon and are very rarely spotted, little less captured on film of any sort.
The Cross River Gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the IUCNs Red Cross List. It?s estimated that there?s less than 300 living between Nigeria and Cameroon. The professional footage was taken at Cameroon?s Kagwene Sanctuary Gorilla Sanctuary where about 16 gorillas live. Camera people staked out a fig tree believed to be a popular feeding spot in order to get the footage.
In the sanctuary, the Cross River Gorillas are protected. But, they have become extremely endangered in other areas due to hunting and poaching.
Whale Fossil Discovered In Oz (Australia)
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This week in Australia, an ancient whale fossil estimated between 25 and 28 million years old has been discovered, and offers some unique insight into evolution and predatory habits.
The whale, which has been dubbed the ancient dwarf whale since it measures only about 9 feet in length. It?s believed that this whale shares eating habits of today?s baleen whales like the minke, humpback and blue whale. The jaw and skull structures indicate that like today?s species it might use a mud sucking and filter feeding method of eating. However, what?s also unique about this particular fossil of the whale is that it also has teeth - unusual for a whale of this type.
Researchers believe that this what is also a bit of an evolutionary anomaly. Likely an ancestor of larger similar whales that adapted in order to eat small prey through mud sucking methods as well as larger prey with its teeth.
fisheries need to fix this
clipped by: jessclipzWelcome to Islam Religion of Peace!
clipped by: foxyarseclippers remarks: They must be just the right size to inflict a lengthy, torturous painful death carried on for hours of fun and joy! Iranian officials deny the stoning. In an interview with Le Figaro on September 10, 1994, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was questioned straightforward: "Are women accused of adultery being stoned in Iran?" Rafsanjani replied: "No, no such thing exists in Iran. This has been fabricated to damage Iran." Well, here is the proof. The picture speaks a thousand words! Welcome to Islamic Republic of Iran! After 1979 (Islamic Reaction), our nation had turned to a Pile O Shiite! It is 30 + years that we have been drowning in Shiite. When will we free Iran? It is totally up to you? Are you Iranian or are you Muslim? You can?t be both! It is an oxymoron to be both! The sooner you decide, the sooner we can determine our future!
Welcome to Islam Religion of Peace!

Senator Max Baucus In A Drunken Tirade On Senate Floor
clipped by: infidel70During the general debate on the health care legislation that recently passed the Senate, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat from Montana, took to the floor of the Senate and engaged in a drunken tirade. Oblivious to the fact that he was slurring his words and mangling his sentences, Senator Baucus shouted down opponents as he let loose a rambling, and at times incoherent, tirade against those dastardly Republicans who refused to be bipartisan.

This drunk is the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, charged with overseeing our taxpayer dollars. As is clearly evident from this video, the less than honorable Baucus should not be in charge of a toll booth, much less have a say in the crafting of legislation that will affect every single American.
For shame.
Colorado Ski-Resort to legalise cannabis.
clipped by: beanzColorado resort legalises cannabis, but not on the ski slopes
At-risk kids: Successful New York program a possible solution
clipped by: arifsaliclippers remarks: Interesting program. I firmly believe that community/family approach for holistic kids education has a better chance of success.
Riots in Iran
clipped by: Roque Nuevoclippers remarks: If the last paragraph I excerpted pans out into more than "scattered reports," then the theocracy will be on its last legs. Fraternization of the forces of order with the people theyre supposed to be putting in order has been the death-knell of regimes from that of Louis XV to Czar Nicholas II to East Germany (1989).
BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Iranian police opened fire into crowds of protesters on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and setting off a day of chaotic street battles that seemed poised to deepen the country?s civil unrest, as demonstrators flooded the streets in cities across Iran and fiercely fought back against security forces, witnesses and opposition Web sites said.
There were scattered reports of police officers surrendering, or refusing to fight. Several videos posted to the Internet show officers holding up their helmets and walking away from the melee, as protesters pat them on the back in appreciation. In one photograph, several police officers can be seen holding their arms up, and one of them wears a bright green headband, the signature color of the opposition movement.
Hamas weapons industry in Gaza
clipped by: infidel70clippers remarks: Apparently the siege in Gaza is not so tight... See how Al Jezzira reports on the Hamas weapons industry in Gaza
Roses and Glass roses
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The Filibuster....Senator Tom Harkins Reform Bill
clipped by: chestnut501clippers remarks: Including a scene from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Senator Tom Harkin is planning on making the filibuster an issue in the new year by introducing legislation which would reform it.
You?re supposed to filibuster something that is a deep seated issue. But in September, we had an extension on unemployment insurance. We had a filibuster that lasted over three weeks. They held up everything. And in the end, the vote was 97 to one. Filibusters are no longer used to debate something, but to stop everything.
Harkin?s reform bill?
Makes total sense to me.
The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm
clipped by: HansWobbeclippers remarks: An excellent article focusing on government, but also applicable to governance (of large organizations).
In 1956, the economist Charles Tiebout provided the framework that best explains why people vote with their feet. The ?consumer-voter,? as Tiebout called him, challenges government officials to ?ascertain his wants for public goods and tax him accordingly.? Each jurisdiction offers its own package of public goods, along with a particular tax burden needed to pay for those goods. As a result, ?the consumer-voter moves to that community whose local government best satisfies his set of preferences.? In selecting a jurisdiction, the mobile consumer-voter is, in effect, choosing a club to join based on the benefits that it offers and the dues that it charges.
Duck Veggies
clipped by: Kelika
Duck Cucumber: Bumpass found this unusual shaped cucumber in her back garden in Hogsthorpe, Lincs, United Kingdom.



Re: Kelikas Clip-Stealth boat Ady Gil
clipped by: mcsmithblackclippers remarks: Intriguing clip by Kelika led me to do a little research. More from the article below: "Now the newly-renamed vessel has been unveiled as the Sea Shepherds new weapon in the organisations sixth campaign against whaling, Operation Waltzing Mathilda, which will launch from Australia early next month. The craft, which is capable of up to 50 knots, will be used to intercept and physically block harpoon ships from illegally slaughtering whales. The Ady Gil and the Steve Irwin are the two remaining ships in the Sea Shepherd Society?s fleet. A third vessel ? the Farley Mowat ? was sent to protest against Canadian seal hunting last year and was seized by offiicials."
Pictured: The bullet-proof Batmobile set to wreak havoc on the Japanese whaling fleets
The mean-looking Ady Gil is the Sea Shepherd Conservation Societys newest weapon in their ongoing battle against Japanese whalers.
The trimaran - previously known as Earthrace - recently set the world powerboat record for circumnavigation.

Wave piercer: The ship can submarine up to 23 feet underwater and runs on renewable biodiesel fuel

Sleek: The Ady Gil is capable of up to 50 knots and will be used to block harpoon ships from illegally slaughtering whales

Earthrace was renamed as a tribute to the ship?s benefactor, Hollywood businessman Ady Gil, who donated two thirds towards the $1.5m cost.
In preparation for its journey, a ton of Kevlar armour has been added to the Ady Gil to limit damage caused by the Antarctic ice ? technically making it bullet proof too.



Fudge Babies
clipped by: Fat Pennyclippers remarks: Definitely want to try these out - they are made out of ingredients that are available to me for once!

Ingredients:
Directions:
1. Chop/blend all the ingredients, using a food processor, Magic Bullet, etc.
2. Roll into cutey-pie little balls. (Use plastic wrap if you need to.)
The STUPIDITY of AIRLINE SECURITY
clipped by: leevardiclippers remarks: ...very good common-sense article. I reckon we should "boycott" the airlines until they "get it right"
Ive had it with this sort of half-assed response to terrorism:
Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security
Flight attendants on some domestic flights are informing passengers of similar rules. Passengers on a flight from New York to Tampa Saturday morning were also told they must remain in their seats and couldnt have items in their laps, including laptops and pillows.
Let me make myself clear: I am very interested in not being blown to smithereens by some Islamic Nutjob who believes his personal path to a bunch of virgins lies in killing "infidels."
In Death, Little Boy Teaches Others How to Live
clipped by: clip-on-tieDanny Stanton, 4, died of a seizure 14 days before Christmas

The Top 10 Quotes by Confucius.
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So Youre Safe with Airline 3 0z Liquid/Gel Restriction ?...Heres 2 Oz PETN in ACTION !
clipped by: leevardiPS: If youre wondering what PETN, the explosive that allegedly this guy and Richard Reid tried to use will do, heres an example from Youtube. This is supposedly 50 grams of the stuff - less than two ounces - taped to a tree. Still think that 3oz "liquid or gel" restriction is all about safety eh? Still think this was a "firecracker"? Uh, no.
Explore .... Dream .... Discover
clipped by: SocratoadCan Trees Save Us from Climate Change?
clipped by: chestnut501clippers remarks: Trees and other plants suck up carbon dioxide, so we might think planting forests will halt global warming.
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This one-hour program is divided into five chapters. The Forgotten Maya Temples. In 1774, Spanish explorer Jose Calderon rediscovers the temples of Palenque and the ancient hieroglyphs of the Maya, a people whose culture was decimated by the Spanish conquistadors.





























































































