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50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:39:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Watercolor paintings are considered as a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions, and bright feelings using water-soluble pigments. This medium of art is still very popular nowadays, and therefore we have prepared a list of some really impressive watercolor artworks that will surely inspire you."

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Beautiful Watercolor Paintings

Bouquet in the Window

Where Time Stands Still

Tags: watercolor, paintings

How the Mysterious Giant Spiral Happened. Sorry people, no alien invasions. Yet.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:42:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm sorry but this article is wrong. The light was actually caused by all the Taco Bell I ate.

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It wasn't the fury of Thor or an alien portal or the Second Coming of Hey-Zeus. Here you have the explanation of the mysterious giant spiral that happened yesternight in Norway, computer simulation included.

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The video shows a rocket running out of fuel and spiraling out of control, which looks exactly like the photos and videos.

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Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard says it's 99.9% safe to say that it's a rocket out of control, while some newspapers and TV channels are quoting Russian military sources, confirming that this is a failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea.

The Norwegian defense has confirmed that, even while they have not admitted the failure, the Russian Navy alerted them about the tests prior to the giant spiral appearing in the skies. And if that wasn't enough to convince everyone, here are two images of the missile trails being blown away by the wind, at dawn:

Tags: mysterious giant spiral, not the fury of thor, not an alien portal, not the second coming of hey-zeus

Shirley Temple - On the Goodship Lollipop

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:28:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: She was so cute!!!! ;o)

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Tags: shirley temple, on the goodship lollipop, soundtrack, music

Gay marriage's inevitability in doubt

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:27:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To make the case for gay marriage, protests are counterproductive, persuasion is what’s necessary. Proposition 8 won because we, and I say "we" because I am part of the gay community, failed to make the case why gay marriage is good for society. The gay community needs NEW LEADERS for Christ's sake. We don't need useless morons like Perez Hilton and Adam Lambert opening up their mouths and spewing stupid nonsense. You don't make progress by screaming and yelling at the other side.

We should see a housecleaning at gay organizations and the selection of new leaders who refuse to demonize social conservatives, but seek to persuade them instead. Angry protests from the lot of vicious queens is useless. And until they wake up and understand this, forget about it.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

The same-sex marriage movement appears likely to end a banner year with a string of stinging defeats that opponents say have undermined a core proposition of the movement - that the acceptance of gay marriage is, sooner or later, inevitable.

After a year that saw laws allowing same-sex marriage expand from a lonely toehold in Massachusetts to five other states and, likely, the District of Columbia, the defeats have served at the least as a reality check to proponents of gay marriage.

A Maine referendum that was seen as the best chance for popular approval of same-sex marriage instead was soundly defeated. The state senate in liberal New York voted down a marriage bill by a margin - 38 to 24 - that stunned advocates and the state’s governor, who had predicted victory. And a same-sex marriage measure limped to the floor of the New Jersey state senate Thursday after squeaking out of committee over the opposition of prominent Democrats.

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Shirley Temple - Polly Wolly Doodle

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:26:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a cutie.

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Tags: shirley temple, polly wolly doodle, music, soundtrack

17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat [INFOGRAPHIC]

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:01:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cats also have the ability to stick their paws in your face at 6am when they get hungry.

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Martha's Vineyard rich liberals: "No wind turbines, they spoil my ocean view"

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:09:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The hypocrisy of the wealthy celebrity warmists whose lifestyle makes a daily carbon footprint as large as one of China’s coal-fired plants is astounding.

They reject a wind farm in Nantucket bay because it will spoil their view. I could care less that Al Gore has made a bigger mess of the environment with his nine concerts than years of single toilet paper use by the entire population could compensate for.

I am tired of hearing that it’s my responsibility to reduce this myth of global warming. I’m tired of being told I’m “addicted to oil,” when the country’s entire infrastructure is built on the automobile. These people are idiots. I'd like to throw them all into Nantucket Bay where they'll be Aquaman's problem instead.

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Photo by Mark Alan Lovewell

OUTRAGE: Chilmark resident Andy Goldman and his wife, Susan Heilbron, are opposed to Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to build 166 450-foot turbines between Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.

Blazing a trail for renewable energy, Gov. Deval Patrick is alienating Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal rich and famous by pushing a plan to lease state waters for 166 450-foot-high wind turbines between the pristine vacation spots of Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.

“I plead guilty to thinking global warming is a real problem, but that doesn’t mean everybody who has a plan with the word ‘green’ has to be supported,” Goldman said.

James Feiner, a Vineyard real estate broker, claims he lost a $2 million-plus home sale on Gay Head this fall when his client - an environmentalist, no less - got wind of Patrick’s plan and bolted.

A mortified Feiner wasn’t even aware it was being discussed.

“For them to run a band (of turbines) from Cuttyhunk to Nomans Land is idiotic,” Feiner said.

Tags: hypocrites x 1000

Hypocrisy Abounds at Climate Change Summit

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:00:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This hypocrisy will once again be on full display at the United Nations summit on climate change which will soon take place in Copenhagen. As world leaders gather to try to find ways for the rest of us to cut emissions, they themselves will be flown in private jets and driven in limos. So far more than twelve hundred limos have been ordered for the event with more expected, and according to airport officials in Copenhagen more than one hundred and forty private jets have already been chartered for the event in which the world is supposed to take a hard stand against emissions.

So as our fearless leaders gather to lecture the third world and normal citizens of western countries how they are killing the planet, they themselves will be creating more than forty thousand tonnes of emissions, which is the same amount a city of 500,000 would produce in the same amount of time. Sometimes irony and hypocrisy aren’t strong enough words.

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One of the biggest problems with the issue of climate change is that many of those who are talking the most are actually doing the least to make changes in their own lives. This was evident in the past as hundreds of private jets were chartered to usher celebrities around for a concert raising money for climate change. Al Gore makes an Oscar winning documentary about global warming but lives in a mansion and routinely uses private jets and limos. Celebrities have been known for their hypocrisy for a long time, lecturing the rest of us to cut emissions while they hob knob around the globe in private jets and live in houses that have the carbon equivalent of a whole neighborhood.

As world leaders gather to try to find ways for the rest of us to cut emissions, they themselves will be flown in private jets and driven in limos.

So far more than twelve hundred limos have been ordered for the event with more expected

Tags: idiots, hypocrisy, stupid

Virginia Veteran Wins Battle to Keep His Flagpole in Yard

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:46:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What America has become.....thanks to liberals. The folks doing this are not worthy to tie this man's shoes. I betcha they're all squishy compassionate libs, all worried about unimportant bullshit.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

RICHMOND, Va. — A 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowner's association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday.

The Sussex Square homeowners' association likewise has agreed to drop threats to take legal action against retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said.

The association had threatened to take Barfoot to court if he failed to remove the pole from his suburban Richmond home by Friday. It had said the pole violated the neighborhood's aesthetic guidelines.

Neither Barfoot's daughter, Margaret Nicholls, nor homeowners' president Glenn Wilson immediately returned telephone messages.

Dropping the issue effectively ends a request that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday called "silly."

Warner and Sen. Jim Webb, both Virginia Democrats, had rallied behind Barfoot, a World War II veteran.

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The Job-Creation Snow Job - Thomas Sowell

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:15:00 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Obama keeps talking about the jobs his administration is “creating,” but there are more people unemployed now than before he took office.

What does it take to create a job? It takes wealth to pay someone who is hired, not to mention additional wealth to buy the material that person will use.

But government creates no wealth.

Without creating wealth, how can they create jobs? By taking wealth from others, whether by taxation, selling bonds, or imposing mandates.

However it is done, transferring wealth is not creating wealth. When government uses transferred wealth to hire people, it is essentially transferring jobs from the private sector, not adding to the net number of jobs in the economy.

If that was all that was involved, it would be a simple verbal fraud

None of this is peculiar to the current administration. The Roosevelt administration created huge numbers of government jobs during the 1930s — and yet unemployment remained in double digits throughout FDR’s first two terms.

Comparing Bush vs Obama for the Nobel Prize

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:01:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not even close.

Clip Source: www.intellectualconservative.com

Bush is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Obama.

I think Bush is deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize not because of Afghanistan or Iraq (although I do think Afghanistan and Iraq are ultimately better off without al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, respectively). I believe Bush is more deserving because he initiated the largest foreign aid humanitarian effort ever undertaken by a single country.

During his 2003 State of the Union Address, President Bush launched The President's Emergency Relief Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).² He asked Congress to commit $15 billion over five years to this program.

According to a study released by Stanford University School of Medicine in April 2009, 1.2 million people (mostly in Africa) are alive who would have otherwise not been as a direct result of PEPFAR.

The policies of President Obama haven't saved a single life.

Environmentalists seek to wipe out soft toilet paper - or at least put the skids to it

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:36:16 GMT

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"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."

So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin) to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products.

Environmentalists said other countries — particularly in South America, Africa and Asia — seem to be OK with "soft enough."

Greenpeace has come up with a "toilet paper guide," which looks at recycled content and the use of chlorine bleaches.

Probably no surprise that brands with names such as Green Forest, 365, Earth Friendly, Natural Value and Seventh Generation scored the highest on the Greenpeace scale.

Bringing up the rear: Charmin, Cottonelle, Angel Soft and, of course, Quilted Northern, which sounds thick enough to keep someone warm on a cold night in Minnesota.

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Tags: stupid and sad, eco-idiocy

Obama urging NEW stimulus and MORE spending

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:56:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama got his job through nothing but speeches. Maybe his speeches can get us jobs.

I missed the jobs summit. Did Paul Krugman save the economy?

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Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

Despite Republican criticism concerning record federal deficits, Obama said the U.S. has had to "spend our way out of this recession" with so many people out of work but insisted he was still mindful of a need to confront soaring deficits. More than 7 million Americans have lost their jobs since the recession began two years ago, and the jobless rate stands at 10 percent, statistics Obama called "staggering."

Congressional approval would be required for the new spending.

He did not give a price tag for the new package but said he would work with Congress on deciding how to pay for it.

Tags: idiocy

Iran to Bolivia: Here's $1.2M for a new hospital. By the way, nurses should wear the hijab.

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:24:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Iran to Bolivia: Here's $1.2 million toward a new hospital. By the way, could you make the nurses wear the hijab? Awesome, thanks.

Clip Source: www.therealitycheck.org

On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital in Bolivia sparked a national outcry among women’s rights advocates within Bolivia.

In an international teleconference in La Paz held between Bolivian President, Evo Morales, and Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate the hospital’s opening, nurses were shown wearing hijabs as part of their new uniform regulations.

This imposition of political Islamic pseudo-religious attire from another country is causing a rift within Bolivian political ranks. Even though the Morales administration is the profoundly socialist MAS party, the Iranian demand is still seen as an affront on Bolivian cultural integrity especially in a country with a Roman Catholic majority.

Lourdes Millares, the Deputy for the Democratic and Social Power Party called the Iranian hijab demand, “…an assault on the dignity of women…”

Tags: stupid

35 Powerful Photos That Each Tell A Story

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:12:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We express sincere appreciation of the hard work of all photojournalists who are working for humanity, sometimes risking their life for the sake of their duties and responsibilities. This article is a tribute to all of them and their accomplishments and works."

Clip Source: www.noupe.com

A picture is worth a thousand words that is the motto of photojournalist, a photojournalist attempts to produce straight, truthful and realistic photography of a particular subject, most frequently pictures of people.

Photojournalists are doing really a great job over the world for humanity, they are working for peace, for human rights, for raising humanity problems and issues, for pointing out the people living below the bottom line of poverty, for raising awareness about educational and child labor issues and much more… Our today’s post is about Inspirational Documentary and Photojournalism Photos. In this post we showcase 35 powerful, touching and emotional photos that do not just display state of affairs, but also tell a story.

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. At all times, we have many thousands of people seeing through our eyes and expecting to see the truth. Most people immediately understand an image.”

Tags: photojournalism, documentary photos