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Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls Cheney Evil

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:38:10 GMT

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Weeks after President Obama was inaugurated, Dick Cheney gave an interview to Politico slamming Obama’s detainee policies and warning that he was making America less safe (charges he repeated again last Sunday). Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff who left the Bush administration in protest, wrote an essay on the Washington Note last evening slamming Cheney’s fearmongering. Wilkerson calls Cheney “evil” and says his detainee policies were only “assisting” terrorists:

Colin Powell’s former chief of staff: Cheney is ‘evil,’ his fearmongering is ‘assisting’ al Qaeda.

Men are so Simple and Women are sooo complicated [PIC] Funny

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:51:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is soooooooo true.

Clip Source: www.wikimaniacs.com

Men are so simple..cheerz!

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Tags: funny, humor

Obama Administration Follows UCS Recommendations to Protect Scientific Integrity

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:11:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ucsusa.org

Additional Download(s): President Obama Memorandum on Scientific Integrity

WASHINGTON (March 9, 2009)—Today President Obama issued a memorandum that follows Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recommendations to prevent the abuse, manipulation and suppression of federal science.

The following is a statement by Dr. Francesca Grifo, director of the UCS's Scientific Integrity Program:

"Just a few years ago, almost 15,000 scientists across the country signed a UCS-sponsored statement denouncing the politicization of federal science, and today's memorandum is proof that the Obama administration heard their cry.

60 percent of the EPA scientists who filled out a 2007 survey said they personally experienced at least one instance of political interference in their work over the previous five years.

"We've reached an important milestone in restoring scientific integrity to federal decision making, but a lot of work remains to be done to ensure interference does not occur in the future.

More Americans Are Saying No to Religion

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:09:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Finally.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation

These dramatic shifts in just 18 years are detailed in the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), to be released today

despite growth and immigration that has added nearly 50 million adults to the U.S. population, almost all religious denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS survey in 1990

More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories of who they are. They say, 'I'm everything. I'm nothing. I believe in mysel

INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC, VIDEOS: Compare states, dates, religious groups and non-religious numbers

FAITH & REASON: What's your religious 'path'?

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Don't blame secularism for driving up the percentage of Americans who say they have no religion

These people aren't secularized. They're not thinking about religion and rejecting it; they're not thinking about it at all

Why Socialism - Albert Einstein

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:26:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obviously you must click through to the source for any real value of his thoughts.

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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

Why Socialism?

By Albert Einstein

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism.

Russell on Religion & Atheism

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:39:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.
Bertrand Russell

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Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. [...] A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

About two years later, I became convinced that there is no life after death, but I still believed in God, because the "First Cause" argument appeared to be irrefutable. At the age of eighteen, however, shortly before I went to Cambridge, I read Mill's Autobiography, where I found a sentence to the effect that his father taught him the question "Who made me?" cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question "Who made God?" This led me to abandon the "First Cause" argument, and to become an atheist.

Adding Up Total Bailout Tab = $8.8 Trillion

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:03:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In the clip, the top number is Committed & the bottom is Spent. The top section of the clip is a break down of the Gov as Investor & that summary is below (too much to clip):

The Government as Investor
$4.6 trillion

Spent: $921 billion

Includes direct investments in financial institutions, purchases of high-grade corporate debt and purchases of mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Through Feb. 10, the government has made commitments of nearly $8.8 trillion and spent $2 trillion.

Commercial paper

Committed: $1.6 trillion

Spent: $257 billion

Public-private investment fund

$1.0 trillion

Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) | See TARP recipients »

$700 billion

$510 billion

Federal Home Loan Bank securities

$600 billion

$212 billion

Money market funds

$600 billion

$17 billion

A.I.G.

$53 billion

$44 billion

Bear Stearns

$29 billion

Reserve U.S. Government Fund

$4 billion

The Government as Lender

$2.4 trillion

Spent: $666 billion

A significant expansion of the government's traditional overnight lending to banks, including extending terms to as many as 90 days and allowing borrowing by other financial institutions.

The Government as Insurer

$1.8 trillion

Spent: $252 billion

Includes insuring debt issued by financial institutions and guaranteeing poorly performing assets owned by banks and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Best 2008: Awesome, Funny, Disturbing Photos.

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:44:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best 2008: Awesome, Funny, Disturbing Photos.

Clip Source: www.funtim.com

Just awesome disturbing, funny and thought-provoking photos of 2008.

Best Photos of 2008

By Spiegel online

Tags: Best Photos of 2008

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Long Exposure Photography

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:29:45 GMT

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Clip Source: digital-photography-school.com

photo by MumbleyJoe - exposure: 114 sec

Image by Matthew Fang - Exposure: 117.4 sec

image by Paulo Brandão - exposure time: 124 sec

photography by BUR?BLUE - Exposure: 656 sec

Image by Nrbelex - Exposure: Not Given

Photo by MumbleyJoe - Exposure: 20 sec

Image by Insight Imaging: John A Ryan Photography - Exposure: 30 sec

by MumbleyJoe - Exposure: 31.9 sec

Photography by Sara Heinrichs - Exposure: 20 sec

Image by c@rljones - Exposure: 60 minutes

Image by MSH* - Image by 15 sec

Photo by Express Monorail (°O°Joe) - Exposure: 10.9 sec

by Andrew Stawarz - Exposure: Composite of 100 shots - each of 30 seconds

Photo by _mpd_ - Exposure: 23 sec

Best of Urban Decay Photos

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:24:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Too many pics to clip all the comments...check out the originals!

Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

phill.d
“It never ceases to amaze me the different colours and effects you can achieve in a boring concrete R.C.P drain.”

Magnus Lindqvist
“Your Worst Nightmare”. “This is a bit different from what I normally shoot. I had this shot in my head for a very long time but it wasn’t until last weekend I finally shot it. The only light source is a shop light behind the door. The place is very narrow and kind of creepy. I had to make sure that the door behind me stayed open or it would have locked me in.” Lexington, Kentucky.

*pippyzz*
Fuckin’ days.

Escapista
That Train Don’t Stop Here Any More.

fotografie.berlin
“This Picture is not photoshopped. It’s real. Don’t really know how and why they made it.”

GraemeNicol
American Dollar.

Mr. Mark
Classic Blues in Cuba.

trocker
“Sienkiewicza”

Shifted*Exposure
Sun Beam.

stOOpidgErL
“Where Was God That Night”

photosecosse
Nevada City, Cart and Cabin, Ghost Town, Montana, USA.

Jano De Cesare
Corner mood. A corner in an abandoned asylum in Pistoia, Tuscany.

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The stunning beauty of infrared-ish photography

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:22:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smashingmagazine.com

10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know About The Middle East

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:47:03 GMT

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Clip Source: dmiessler.com

10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know About the Middle East

Most Westerners know very little about the Middle East and the people that live there. This lack of knowledge hurts our ability to understand, and engage in intelligent discussion about, current events.

Arabs are part of an ethnic group, not a religion.

Not all Arabs are Muslim

Islam is a religion. A Muslim (roughly pronounced MOOSE-lihm) is someone who follows the religion.

Shia Muslims are similar to Roman Catholics in Christianity

People from Iran are also known as Persians, and they are not Arabs.

Arabs are Semites.

According to the Bible, Jews and Arabs are related

What’s depressing is the fact that this only took me 30 minutes to write, and you 2 minutes to read. Yet most people in the West (and especially in the United States) lack even this cursory level of knowledge about the region.:

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Hilarious Real Newspaper Classified Ads

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:32:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.uphaa.com

Mind bites - beautiful photography with science quotes

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mind Bites is a beautiful photography project by artist Will Lion which combines striking images with quotes from cognitive science research

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Mind bites

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Mind Bites is a beautiful photography project by artist Will Lion which combines striking images with quotes from cognitive science research

the research quotes taken from studies on memory to hormonal influence on the earnings of lap dancers

The full set of Will Lion's 'Mind Bites' project is both visually engaging and thought-provoking which is the essence of much great art

successes and failures

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080626102337.htm

List of Lists for 2008

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:21:39 GMT

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