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You Won't Need A Saw

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:05:38 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Thank you very much

SAN FRANCISCO — A number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for holiday shoppers: product packaging that will not result in lacerations and stab wounds.

The companies, including Amazon.com, Sony, Microsoft and Best Buy, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products like electronics and toys almost impossible for mere mortals to open without power tools.

mpregnable packaging has incited such frustration among consumers that an industry term has been coined for it — “wrap rage.” It has sent about 6,000 Americans each year to emergency rooms with injuries caused by trying to pry, stab and cut open their purchases, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission

American Soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:33:24 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Yet another superb and poignant photo feature from The Boston Globe

Clip Source: www.boston.com

some photographs of U.S. soldiers currently in the thick of war in Afghanistan. Getty Images photographer John Moore spent some time recently in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, near the Pakistani border, with Viper Company of the 1-26 Infantry, and brought back these images, documenting what he saw. The final two photographs do not involve Korengal, but are striking examples of these difficult and complex times, and the sacrifice of one American family.

Imam Hashim Raza leads mourners in prayer during a funeral for Mohsin Naqvi at al-Fatima Islamic Center in Colonie, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Naqvi was a Muslim, a native of Pakistan (he emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old and became a citizen at 16) and a U.S. Army officer. He was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol last week in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) #

Hassan Naqvi mourns beside the coffin of his brother Mohsin Naqvi

Harry Redknapp - North London Messiah!

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:16:17 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: New Dr Who?, presidential adviser?, Prime Minister? Manager of Team GB? Harry's your man!

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

surely the country is wasting the transformative power of 'Arry. If he can mould a ragtag bunch of sulky slipshod starlets into a dynamic and attractive squad who play for each other and get thrilling results, then just think what he could do for the world at large.

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There's a shortage of fish in the world's oceans? Just put 'Arry in your trawler, he'll tell you where to cast your net and you'll come up with two tons of cod in no time.

Is your team still leaking goals at a furious rate 'cos your Hargreavian holding midfielder is as reliable as a sticking plaster on Ledley King? Fear not, let 'Arry's wondrous words stir him from his sickbed and watch him play a full 90 minutes with a bedstead on his back!

Seriously, if this ludicrous plan to have a Team GB footie team for 2012 goes ahead then who're you going to put in charge? It's gotta be 'Arry. Not that any of us really want such a thing, do we? For a start just exactly how many non-Englishmen are going to be in it, eh?

Tags: football, spurs, england, britain, redknapp

Boy hits mother with saw, offers $5

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:11:04 GMT

clipped by: wintertown
clipper's remarks: how terrible!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Boy allegedly hits mom with saw, offers her $5

FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Authorities say an 11-year-old boy hit his mother in the head with a saw and then offered her $5 not to call police. The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office reported that the boy and his 41-year-old mother got into an argument Wednesday when she was trying to get him to take his medication.

The boy left and went to another home, where he began hitting a tree with a saw. When the mother finally caught up with the boy, authorities say he hit her in the head with the saw, causing a minor laceration. A sheriff's report said that's when the boy began pleading with his mother not to call police and offered her a $5 bill.

The boy is facing an aggravated battery charge.

Information from: The Stuart News, http://www.tcpalm.com

F&@% THIS, SAYS ATTENBOROUGH

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:54:53 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Don't blame him.

Clip Source: www.thedailymash.co.uk

SIR David Attenborough said 'fuck this' last night after Strictly Come Dancing became the most popular television programme in the world.

The star of Celebrity Hummingbird Cash in the Attic
The veteran documentary maker slumped in his chair with his head in his hands, sobbing quietly before walking to the lavatory and throwing up for half an hour.

Sir David added: "We spent four years developing a camera we could put inside a hummingbird's egg so you could actually witness the development of those amazing wings.

"We then waited for the bird to hatch and grow and then filmed it at such close range you could see the expression on its face.

"But no, you're right. How tedious. If only we'd trained the little fucker to dance."

The BBC has now sold the 'Strictly' format to 34 countries, occasionally throwing-in a free VHS video of Life on Earth.

Sir David said: "Fuck, and I might add, this."

Tags: humour

The Artist Who Kills and Tattoos Pigs

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:12:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

The Artist Who Kills and Tatoos Pigs

Image via skirmisher.org

‘Because they grow fast and they are so much better to tattoo than fish.’- Wim Delvoye

Belgian Conceptual Artist Wim Delvoye has been tattooing live pigs since 1997. Tattoos that range from Disney characters such as Ariel the Mermaid to Louis Vuitton logos are spread all over the pig’s body. It’s a gradual process, that results in the pigs looking like Yakuza gang members. They are then killed at a certain age and their skins are stretched across canvases and made into paintings.

Image by Flickr user Dalbera

Typical of Delvoye’s beautiful/fugly aesthetics, he considers the pigs as growing paintings and regularly perverts nature in his work. With the help of a Japanese scientist for example, Delvoye made a machine that’s sole purpose was to produce shit: this 2000 piece was entitled ‘Cloaca.’

Creationism is bunk

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:15:32 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: The science:

Clip Source: rationalwiki.com

Young earth creationists deny much of astronomy, geology, biology, paleontology, chemistry, linguistics, geomorphology and physics in favor of pseudoscience and their biblically based view that the world is more or less only 6,000 years old.

we know that the world is not "young"

listed by the approximate minimum they put on the age of the earth

>10,000 years

Dendrochronology

Human Y-chromosomal ancestry

Oxidizable Carbon Ratio dating

Rock varnish

Thermoluminescence dating

>100,000 years

Coral

Fission track dating

Ice layering

Lack of DNA in fossils

Permafrost

Weathering rinds

>1,000,000 years

Amino acid racemization

Continental drift

Cosmogenic nuclide dating

Erosion

Geomagnetic reversals

Impact craters

Length of the prehistoric day

>1,000,000,000 years

Christian Child Abuse caught on tape

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:41:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Listen to this audio of a 9 year old girl being mentally abused. She is being forced to accept that Harry Potter put the devil in her.

This is child abuse. People like this needs to be locked up, but because of a taboo we allow on discussing religion people like this are allowed to continue, often encouraged.

Pardon me while I go throw up now

Clip Source: www.ihop-shreveport.com

So many people, even some well meaning ones question
why we have public book burnings of Harry Potter. Listen to
this almost unbelievable deliverance of a 9 year old girl. The
demon actually speaks to me through her and reveals that
he entered when she read the book "Sorcerer's Stone". The
demon also says that his mission is to "send her to hell". Is
it not reasonable to think that God would want us to have an
Acts 19"19 book burning in light of the destruction this evil
is doing to our children. Please make your voice heard
beloved !!!

Tags: religion, hypocrissy, mythology, abuse, child abuse

Darwinism is Bunk

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:26:50 GMT

clipped by: rvnurse2b

Clip Source: www.homeschoolblogger.com

Myth Number 10: Computer simulations prove evolution

Myth 9- Homologous (similar) structures prove evolution

Myth 8: There Are Clear Transitional Fossils

Myth 7: Ape-Human DNA Similarities

Myth 6: Apemen and Artistic License

Myth 5: Bad Design

Myth 4: Vestigial Organs

Myth 3: Antibiotic Resistance

Myth 2: Natural Selection Is Evolution in Action

Myth 1: All Scientists Agree

Tags: evolution, god, religion, myth, origin, darwin, education

Does Religion Make You Nice?Does atheism make you mean?

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:54:56 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: It is at this point that the "We need God to be good" case falls apart. Countries worthy of consideration aren't those like North Korea and China, where religion is savagely repressed, but those in which people freely choose atheism. In his new book, Society Without God, Phil Zuckerman looks at the Danes and the Swedes—probably the most godless people on Earth. They don't go to church or pray in the privacy of their own homes; they don't believe in God or heaven or hell. But, by any reasonable standard, they're nice to one another. They have a famously expansive welfare and health care service. They have a strong commitment to social equality. And—even without belief in a God looming over them—they murder and rape one another significantly less frequently than Americans do.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Many Americans doubt the morality of atheists. According to a 2007 Gallup poll, a majority of Americans say that they would not vote for an otherwise qualified atheist as president, meaning a nonbeliever would have a harder time getting elected than a Muslim, a homosexual, or a Jew. Many would go further and agree with conservative commentator Laura Schlessinger that morality requires a belief in God—otherwise, all we have is our selfish desires. In The Ten Commandments, she approvingly quotes Dostoyevsky: "Where there is no God, all is permitted." The opposing view, held by a small minority of secularists, such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, is that belief in God makes us worse. As Hitchens puts it, "Religion poisons everything."

Arguments about the merits of religions are often battled out with reference to history, by comparing the sins of theists and atheists. (I see your Crusades and raise you Stalin!)

Tags: atheism, god, religion

Priests Abused up to 400 Children in Dublin Diocese

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:40:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.ie

Saturday November 08 2008

Shocking new figures show that 400 children have been identified as possible victims of sex abuse by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese -- proportionately even higher then the catalogue of horrors found by a Government investigation into the Diocese of Ferns.

And settlement claims paid to victims suspected of being abused by 152 priests over the last 68 years has soared to more than €12m.

"It is most likely that this is not a final figure," Archbishop Diarmuid Martin conceded yesterday, when he disclosed the revised figures showing the horrendous scale of clerical paedophilia in the archdiocese since 1940.

The Ferns probe identified more then 100 allegations of child sex abuse between 1962 and 2002 against 21 priests.

Last February Cardinal Connell withdrew his High Court action to prevent Archbishop Martin from handing over allegedly privileged documents to the Government Commission of Inquiry into the archdiocese of Dublin

Tags: catholic paedophile priests

Old Love

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:18:27 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.pickettphoto.com

Clip Source: www.jewishsf.com

Softly, as groping fingers

Clasp, enmesh, entangle,

Each into each arthritic palm,

Unspoken is the affirmation,

The wordless message transmitted,

Never to be unsaid.

The Poppy Project

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:43:52 GMT

clipped by: egsnyder
clipper's remarks: Someone has started an initiative on Facebook to have everyone use the poppy as their profile picture out of respect for November 11th, 2008 -- Remembrance Day/Veterans Day.

I thought it would be fitting to replace my profile picture with this poppy image on this day of remembrance.

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egsnyder

Public Profile

Tags: poppy, nov 11, remembrance day, diversity, calendar

Moniks Brawl In Holy Church

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:05:52 GMT

clipped by: moonspirit4ever
clipper's remarks: All I can say is OMG

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

JERUSALEM – Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.

The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

Six Christian sects divide control of the ancient church. They regularly fight over turf and influence, and Israeli police are occasionally forced to intervene.

The Israeli government has long wanted to build a fire exit in the church, which regularly fills with thousands of pilgrims and has only one main door, but the sects cannot agree where the exit will be built.

A ladder placed on a ledge over the entrance sometime in the 19th century has remained there ever since because of a dispute over who has the authority to take it down.

Tags: monks, brawl, church

Photo Illustrations by Aaron Goodman

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:40:41 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.toxel.com

For more photo illustrations visit aarongoodmanphotography.com