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The dignity of plants

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:31:50 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com

When man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing, but worships everything.

Contrary to a widespread impression, G.K. Chesterton apparently never said that.

Still, it's a fine statement, and relevant to the modern form of Paganism which views the lives of the unborn, ready-to-be-born, or born-damaged as insignificant, but the social lives of Goldfish - and now the souls of asparagus - as sacred.

A quote from Smith at Weekly Standard:

"What is clear, however, is that Switzerland's enshrining of "plant dignity" is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.

Why is this happening?

Politics

Sun, 04 May 2008 23:06:23 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: So, he went down the hall to his parent’s bedroom and found his father’s side of the bed empty and his mother wouldn’t wake up. Then he saw a light on in the guest room down the hall, and when he reached the door, he saw through the crack that his father was in bed with the maid. Because he couldn’t do anything else, he turned and went back to bed.

The next morning, he said to his father at the breakfast table, "Dad, I think I understand politics much better now."

"Excellent, my boy," he answered, "What have you learned?"

Little Johnny thought for a minute and said, "I learned that while the capitalism is screwing the working class when the government is sound asleep and ignoring the people, the futures is full of shit."

Clip Source: www.dirtyjokesinc.com

Little Johnny came home from school one day and said to his father, "Dad, what can you tell me about politics? I have to learn about it for school tomorrow."

The father thought some and said, "Okay, son, the best way I can describe politics is to use an analogy. Let’s say that I’m capitalism because I’m the breadwinner. Your mother will be government because she controls everything, our maid will be the working class because she works for us, you will be the people because you answer to us, and your baby brother will be the future. Does that help any?"

Little Johnny said, "Well, Dad, I don’t know, but I’ll think about what you said."

Later that night, after everyone had gone to bed, Johnny was woken up by his brother’s crying. Upon further investigation, he found a dirty diaper.

Tags: humor

Sun dog -nature

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:45:28 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: A sun dog or sundog (scientific name parhelion, plural parhelia, for "beside the sun") is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Sundogs typically, but not exclusively, appear when the sun is low, e.g. at sunrise and sunset, and the atmosphere is filled with ice crystal forming cirrus clouds, but diamond dust and ice fog can also produce them. They are often bright white patches of light looking much like the sun or a comet, and occasionally are confused with those phenomena. Sometimes they exhibit a spectrum of colours, ranging from red closest to the sun to a pale bluish tail stretching away from the sun.^[1] White sundogs are caused by light reflected off of atmospheric ice crystals, while colored sundogs are caused by light refracted through them.

Egypt

There are records among the writings of the Ancient Egyptians that discuss two suns in the sky, and one that discusses the sun setting in the east, or moving backward.

A passage in Cicero's On the Republic (54-51 BC) is one of many by Greek and Roman authors who refer to sundogs and similar phenomen

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Tags: science

10 Incredible Old Magazine Covers

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:13:20 GMT

clipped by: WebWolf Hosting

Clip Source: www.oddee.com

10 Incredible Old Magazine Covers

Cosmopolitan (1942)

Future President Gerald Ford, in his younger days as a male model

Time (May 7 - 1945)

Cover on Hitler's death

Scientific American (1906)

"Panama Canal Plan approved by Pres. Roosevelt"

Radio Electronics (1949)

Featuring the "Radio Hat", a two tube battery operated radio.

Modern Mechanix (1936)

Featuring what could be the first Jet ski

Life (1959)

To get this photo for the November 9, 1959, cover, the great portraitist Philippe Halsman needed Marilyn Monroe to jump 200 times.

Sports Illustrated (1954)

First Issue

Cosmopolitan (1897)

College Humor Magazine (1925)

College Humor was a popular humor magazine from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Now the name is more famous for the website CollegeHumor.com

Time (1984)

Featuring Bill Gates for the first time

The birth of a chicken

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:00:47 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: A photo essay from an egg to birth.

Clip Source: fun.ql4.org

Tags: photo

Lizard crawls out of mouth of a caught fish

Sun, 04 May 2008 18:15:08 GMT

clipped by: michellezm
clipper's remarks: "I said, 'Hey, John, the skink's alive.' John said, 'Wow man, it just blinked at me, and look, it's breathing.'"

The lizard began to struggle and with a little help from the fisherman it crawled from its captor's jaws. There were some teeth marks down its back and the tail was partially digested, but when they put it back on the river bank it happily scurried off.

"We witnessed the ultimate will to survive," Simson said. "The skink had probably slowed down its heart rate in order to stay alive for that length of time underwater without air."

There are more amazing photographs of Simon's fishing adventures on his Web site at www.kettafly.com.

I couldn't clip the photos from the Courier Mail. Worth viewing.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

An American angler on a fishing expedition in Australia made a fascinating catch: As he was taking pictures of his prize, the fish began to regurtitate a lizard, which moments later crawled out of the fish's mouth.

• Click here to view photos from the Courier Mail.

Visiting American angler John Berzins was fishing with guide Al Simson in the Doughboy River on the western side of northern Cape York this week when he hooked the fish.

While admiring the fish, it started regurgitating its last meal, which clearly should have been dead and looked dead with its lifeless eyes.

The small skink had been swallowed by the fish in a remote Cape York river and already was partially digested when the fish was caught by a fisherman. The saratoga is much-sought-after by sports fisherman because of its willingness to attack anything that moves and its fighting qualities.

"As I was looking through the lens of the camera I noticed that the once-glazed over eyes of the skink were now black," he said.

Cinema Paradiso: Toto watching the forbidden Kisses

Sun, 04 May 2008 18:03:17 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: from the comments on youtube:
"Bella... bella... es una gran pelicula..."

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

cinema paradiso

[Video]

Tse-whit-zen

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:00:38 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.archaeology.org

Nine hundred boxes of artifacts excavated from Tse-whit-zen, a 2,700-year-old fishing village in Washington State, are “hung up in a bureaucratic no man’s land.” Some $10 million was spent on archaeological work at the failed dry-dock site, but funding has since dried up. Who owns the artifacts, and who should pay for their analysis?

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

A Seattle Times special report · May 22 - May 25, 2005

THIS SERIES

MULTIMEDIA

Narrated slideshow
The Tse-whit-zen story comes to life in this moving slideshow.

Flash 6+ required

Clip Source: www.bellinghamherald.com

One of the Pacific Northwest's most astonishing archaeological finds in a generation has languished for more than a year, lingering on metal shelves in a Seattle warehouse, unseen by the public and unexamined by scientists

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

Spindle whorl

Tribal member Arlene Wheeler

Bone comb

Tribal member Jamie Valadez