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Cargo Liners for cars at great prices

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:38:05 GMT

clipped by: therichjerks
clipper's remarks: Great prices and free shipping on car interior accessories - floor liners, cargo liners, side window deflectors, car covers, and floor mats

Clip Source: www.floormatsnmore.com

Welcome to Floor Mats n' More, a KWD Ventures Store.

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Tags: car covers, car floor liners, side window deflectors for cars

Internal Perceptions / External Perceptions

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:13:43 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: Within a particular cultural system, you always have to entertain second opinions from interested parties. It is not a contraversial statement that Stalin was evil, internationally. However! In Russia there are still many invested in Stalin and Nationalism who will try to rationalize it.

Similarly, internationally, it is not a controversial statement that Bush was a monstrous, hostile, and unjust President. But in America there will people that will argue and try to justify torture and persecution that Bush perpetrated.

An apologist is an apologist. If we cannot take responsibility for our own moral lapses, how can we possibly find our moral compass?

People who refuse to look beyond their narrow world view discredit themselves.

Clip Source: community.nytimes.com

Since execution often took place in the basements of the militia HQ, bodies were buried not too far away. He said trenches were made into which the bodies of the "enemies of the state" were dumped and covered with lime, then another layer of bodies was placed and the procedure repeated.
When we asked grandfather how he felt about doing his work, he only repeated that they were "enemies of the state" and he thought what they did was right.

What does nationalism have to do with it? They stoked patriotism, which is different.

Clip Source: community.nytimes.com

The truth is that Stalin is far from being the cannibal that he is portrayed asby many historians. And the archives confirm this.
Nobody denies the fact of repressions but that was a necessary step in a country that was getting close to the war with Germany

Tags: stalin, bush, torture, rationalization, international, opinion, crimes against humanity

Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:24:16 GMT

clipped by: chiggles
clipper's remarks: Growing greenery on walls of all shapes and sizes.

Clip Source: pingmag.jp

Patrick Blanc overgrows the vertical surfaces of buildings in the most beautiful way. What he creates is far away from any fancy horticultural show, his Vertical Garden could rather be called eco-art, or greener architecture consisting of a variety of plants trailing gently up any interior or outside wall. Imagine the Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon but this time on modern concrete buildings. But Patrick is not just simpy putting green on the walls which last for a day or two: set up with a highly scientific background he studies the many ways plants adapt to extreme situations at the CNRS, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris since 1982. Let’s have a closer look at these organic wallpapers of botanist Patrick Blanc today.

There’s no soil involved at all?

Plants don’t need soil in any situation because the soil is merely nothing more than a mechanic support.

Tags: vertical garden, gardening, green

Art to life

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:55:37 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: I love this.

Clip Source: wickedhalo.blogspot.com

Earlier this year, actress Julianne Moore was shot by Peter Lindbergh for a fashion spread for Harper's Bazaar, in a shoot which took inspiration from art paintings.

Check out the results, side by side with the originals:

"Woman With a Fan", 1919 by Amadeo Modigliani

"The Cripple", 1997 by John Currin

"Man Crazy Nurse #3", 2003 by Richard Prince

"Seated Woman With Bent Knee", 1917 by Egon Schiele

"Madame X", 1884 by John Singer Sargent

"Adele Bloch-Bauer I", 1907 by Gustav Klimt

Tags: photography, art, julianne moore, painting, peter lindbergh

Chewy Ginger Molasses Cookie

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:16:55 GMT

clipped by: coconutshell
clipper's remarks: Yummy!! I always use fresh ginger in any ginger cookie recipe, and quite a lot of it.....gives the cookies a bit more of a zing to it. This stuff is great with a nice cuppa tea...

Clip Source: www.foodaphilia.com

1 1/2 cups of shortening (I used butter flavored Crisco sticks)
2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup of dark molasses
4 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
some finely grated ginger (this is an addition from Michelle's mother, so there isn't an exact amount, I would say I added about a teaspoon, and the cookies were very gingery)

Turbinado sugar (enough for rolling)

cream the shortening and sugar

Add the molasses and eggs and mix until well blended

Sift the flour and measure 4 1/2 cups

Add the spices, salt, and baking soda and whisk to combine

Turn the mixer to low or stir, and add the flour slowly until well mixed. Stir in the freshly grated ginger and chill the dough for at least an hour

roll tablespoonfuls of the dough into balls and roll the balls in the turbinado sugar

dough balls about an inch apart on a greased or parchment-lined cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes in a 350 degree ove

Tags: recipe, cookie, ginger, molasses, baking

Amazing pix!

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:07:02 GMT

clipped by: arrams40

Clip Source: content2.clipmarks.com

Funny Pics

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:52:51 GMT

clipped by: cegjazzman54

Clip Source: news.pspspot.net

This is one simple proof that wrestlings are staged. Look at the guy hitting himself.

Poor Girl

Body Surfing Gone Bad

Scroll The Man Down lol

The Island, The Boat and The Car

Bone bigger than dog.

Beluga whales, so sweet.

Commando Monkey, best picture hands down.

Physics Class

Ouch i hurts.

Free Fall

Sweet.

Monkey is adverising for CocaCola

God or Darwin? some statistics...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:58:25 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: though i used the same headline as the article, i do not agree to it. Evolution is not equal to religion and they are merely two different perspectives of the same reality. Each one portrays a different worldview, a different world, a different view. the direction in religion is one of preservation, maintaining the existing order as it , whilst in evolution the dynamics are in constant motion of exploring new orders which by nature are transitory.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

God or Darwin? The world in evolution beliefs

Find out where on earth only 8% of people believe in evolution

The British Council has asked, with the help of Ipsos MORI, over ten thousand adults across ten countries from China to the USA, just what they think of evolution.

The results show that the majority of adults surveyed have heard of
Charles Darwin and know at least a little about his theory of
evolution. But they also show that there are significant minorities of people who either want nothing to do with evolution - and think it should either not be taught in schools or alongside creationism.

Beliefs in evolution

Countries

Heard of Darwin

Agree the scientific evidence for evolution exists

Think it is possible to believe in a God and evolution simultaneously

Argentina 86 44 62 China 90 55 39 Egypt 38 8 45 Great Britain 91 51 54 India 62 38 85 Mexico 91 52 65 Russia 93 39 54 South Africa 27 8 54 Spain 72 39 46 USA 84 33 53

Tags: evolution, darwin, religion

A Moved Mover

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:38:09 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: An interesting account that names and refute all arguments favoring a godly existence of any sort.
...
As David Hume wrote over 200 years ago in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,
"What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought,
that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?"

Clip Source: www.ebonmusings.org

Unmoved Mover

God is not a being that exists by mere definition (as the ontological argument unsuccessfully tries to establish); nor is God a mere mental state, with no existence independent of people's minds (at least, not according to most theists); nor is God's existence a necessary proposition to make sense of the world (as the presuppositional argument tries and fails to claim). Therefore, we can safely conclude that God's existence is not a properly basic belief, but rather an empirical proposition about the external world; it can only be properly supported by evidence, not mere assertion

it may surprise them to learn that all the most commonly heard arguments for God's existence have been around in one form or another literally for centuries

all of them were refuted soon after they were first proposed

The Ontological Argument

The Cosmological Argument

The Design Argument

The Moral Argument

The Presuppositional Argument

Other Arguments

Tags: atheism

wieght loss surgery befits diabetics

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:14:11 GMT

clipped by: tweezer

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Weight-Loss Surgery May Be Beneficial for Diabetes

Two new diabetes studies lend further support to the idea that weight-loss surgery may benefit those with Type 2 disease.

Tags: health

wolfie

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:17:13 GMT

clipped by: arrams40
clipper's remarks: Beautiful!

Clip Source: www.americanparknetwork.com

Mark Ruffalo reads Henry David Thoreau

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:18:55 GMT

clipped by: The Infowarrior
clipper's remarks: I will never tire of reading or hearing Thoreau.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Mark Ruffalo reads Henry David Thoreau

[Video]

Actor Mark Ruffalo reads Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay, "Civil Disobedience." Part of a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove) at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA on Feb 1, 2007.

Mark Ruffalo Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience Voices People's History Zinn Arnove Spoken Word

Tags: henry david thoreau, mark ruffalo, civil disobediance

Bird of paradise

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:17:12 GMT

clipped by: beaukivi
clipper's remarks: To my beloved...

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

to my bird of paradise

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Tags: i love you tn

Robert DeNiro: "I'm a Good Source of Riboflavin"

Tue, 20 May 2008 05:16:11 GMT

clipped by: ericw
clipper's remarks: Elmo and Robert DeNiro on Sesame Street. Yes, the things you learn to appreciate and enjoy as a parent.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: funny, innocent, elmo, deniro, sesame street, cabbage, dog, actor, riboflavin

Is your Kid gifted??? odds are 'NO'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:09:53 GMT

clipped by: dfiskey
clipper's remarks: as a parent i found this to be a good quick read...healthy perspective on things..

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Is your kid really gifted? Probably not

Did your child walk and talk early? Does she have a brain like a sponge? Scribble magnificently? Love learning? Ask questions that leave you marveling (and scrambling to Google an answer)?

Wow, clearly she's a genius!

Or, um, maybe not.

The vast majority of children are not gifted. Only 2 to 5 percent of kids fit the bill, by various estimates. Of those,