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If John McCain had picked a Chimpanzee.......

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:18:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Seriously , we are trying to pick a President not a V.P.......... who cares about a VP anyway ..

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

This is a question for Republicans - and ~~Republicans~~ Democrats and Libertarians ~~only~~ alike - and I am serious and I really want an answer. See, the other day Jim Fiore posted a clip of a TV news reporter defending Palin's foreign policy experience by saying that Alaska was next to Russia. Then today Cindy McCain makes the same argument to George Stephanopoulos. I have also seen this argument pop up in a number of forums. So here is my question - and remember this is for Republicans only.

If John McCain had picked, oh, say, a chimpanzee, such as the nice looking one pictured below, for his running mate:

Would you now be citing passages from Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics to justify his choice? I may sound flip, but seriously, I want an answer.

Tags: society

Bill Gate's syndrome

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:07:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: With Internet delusion, patients typically incorporate the Internet into paranoid thoughts, including a fear that the Web is somehow monitoring or controlling their lives, or being used to transmit photographs or other personal information.

The delusions are fueling a chicken-and-egg debate in psychiatry: Are these merely modern examples of classic paranoia fed by the current cultural landscape, or is there something about media like reality television and the Internet that can push people over the sanity line?

“There is the old saying that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there’s not somebody after you,” said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

PSYCHOSIS in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an actor.

Or you think you are under intense surveillance by an army of spies, whom you refer to as the “www people,” as in the World Wide Web, and they wiretap your furniture and appliances.

Or else you refuse to drink water because you fear that another cup drawn from your faucet will, once and for all, deplete the world’s water supply.

Those thoughts are from three case studies of what psychiatrists interested in the intersection of mental illness, culture and society are calling, respectively, Truman Show delusion, Internet delusion and climate change delusion; all of them a window, through madness, into the modern world.

If you have delusions of grandeur in this century, you are probably not Napoleon, but you may be Bill Gates.

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Korean dog meat farm

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:20:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WTF ------Sad, very sad

Clip Source: www.idausa.org

Clip Source: www.all-creatures.org

(The Dog - Meat - 02) A freshly killed dog lies on top of a cage of birds. Cuts of dog meat rest on top of another cage in the foreground. All of this is visible to the caged dogs in the adjacent cages. This photo was also taken

Clip Source: www.all-creatures.org

Some traders raise a few dogs at a time and can sell them all in a day at the market. The prevalence of these small backyard operations is difficult to determine. There are usually a few residents in every neighborhood who raise dogs or steal or poison other people's pets in order to make a profit.

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Study Outlines The Added 'Emotional Labor' Of Black Professional Women

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:10:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Durr and Wingfield illustrate emotional labor as performance with a quote from an African American woman who says of her workplace peers, "They…are careful to remember…'that's not professional. Remember they got the s[hit] that'll get you bit! Keep your Negro in check! Don't let it jump up and show anger, disapproval, or difference of opinion. They have to like you and think that you are as close to them as possible in thought, ideas, dress and behavior.'"

Yes, that is apparently a science data point.

The paper, "Keep Your 'N' In Check: African American Women and the Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor," was presented on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 2:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston at the American Sociological Association's 103rd annual meeting.

Clip Source: www.scientificblogging.com

Sociologists Marlese Durr of Wright State University and her co-author Adia Harvey Wingfield of Georgia State University at the the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) say it is tougher for black women professionals than white women, lesbian women, all men, Hispanics, Latinos, Asians and even the French in America because black professionals engage in two types of "emotional performance" in the workplace that they say others do not: General etiquette and 'racialized' emotion maintenance.

And black women professionals place even more pressure on themselves, they state. Whether it's stressful, inauthentic or downright draining, Durr claims that emotional labor is "a crucial part of black women's self-presentation in work and social public spaces." These efforts to fit in can, in effect, make African American women feel isolated, alienated, and frustrated.

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Evolution of Hats

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:35:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here is the link http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_07/hats_chart.html

Clip Source: www.yalealumnimagazine.com

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Vintage Ad Promoting Cig Sexiness

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:13:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.popularwealth.com

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Halal, Kosher,Shechita

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:56:28 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Kosher is the term most people would associate with food conforming to Jewish law, but the word to describe the actual method used to slaughter animals is shechita.

According to the Torah - the body of written Jewish laws - the laws of shechita were given to Moses at Mount Sinai, and must be followed if Jews wish to eat meat

"It is absolutely the only method used, according to Jewish law. Eating kosher food is the foremost principle of being an orthodox Jew".

Shechita is performed with an extremely sharp knife, known as a chalaf, making a single cut across the front of the animal's neck, severing several arteries in order for it to bleed to death (as Jews are forbidden from consuming blood). Mr Cohen confirms that "this principle is the same, whether for a bird or a cow".

halal and shechita, are similar, in that both involve cutting the animal's throat. However, the most obvious difference between the two is that the latter does not require any kind of ritual blessing.

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Amphetamine and Saudi

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:38:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I do, after partying the whole night in the desert the night before you will need it to keep awake the next morning for work......... Or weight loss?

Clip Source: www.ft.com

Seizures of amphetamines have risen sharply in Saudi Arabia, suggesting a surge in consumption of the illegal stimulant in the kingdom, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported yesterday.

Saudi Arabia accounted for 28 per cent of all global amphetamine seizures in 2006, the latest year for which data are available, according to the UNODC's annual report.

The quantities impounded in the kingdom started to rise sharply in 2004 and reached 12.3 tonnes in 2006. "This is equivalent to the sum of all UK seizures - the biggest amphetamine market in Europe - from 2000 to 2006," the report said.

A further two tonnes of amphetamines destined for Saudi Arabia were seized in neighbouring Oman.

"If you are asking me for an explanation, I don't have it. I'm very perplexed," Mr Costa said.

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Wooden Bikes

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:51:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting idea , whatever it takes to go from A to B

Clip Source: www.kk.org

Wooden bicycles can be found all over the world. These handmade bikes are often larger-scale scooters that you sit on. Made with whatever wood can be found, they use small wooden home-made wheels covered with discarded rubber rims. Forward movement depends on the rider pushing with their feet.

These wooden bicycles are ridden in the Banaue region of the Philippines. During an annual festival celebrating the culture of the regional tribes, wooden bikes are raced by participants in native costume. Notice the cool foot-activated brakes. These photos are from the Flickr pool of Harry Palangchao.

This kid bike is also found in the Philippines. This one too has a foot-actuated drag brake.

The ones above are found in Burundi

Rwanda.

Republic of Congo

Rwanda

Tanzania.

Rwanda

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Skin-color preference in sub-Saharan Africa

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:40:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2007/07/skin-color-and-mating-preferences-among.html

Both very interesting articles . Too long to copy. Please go to source.

Clip Source: evoandproud.blogspot.com

It has long been noted that black men prefer lighter-skinned women, both in sub-Saharan Africa and in the black diaspora. For the United States, we can quote several writers. "A fair Negro woman … has such superior marriage chances that this fact is generally recognized as the major explanation of why passable women do not seem to pass out of the Negro caste as often as do passable men" (Myrdal 1944: 698). "The frequency with which Negro men choose women fairer than they are attests at least in part to the connection in the mind of the black man between fair skin and beauty" (Grier and Cobbs 1968:80). "Several research projects conducted in the last few years suggest that African-American men are more attracted to women who are lighter than they are, and that African-American women believe light skin makes them, or would make them, more appealing" (Layng 2006).

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Teacher lets students vote on whether to let little boy stay in class

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:47:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I know we have to be PC nowadays but since when did we have to ask a 5 years old for ideas. Is it Cute? or plain stupid.

Clip Source: blogs.usatoday.com

Teacher lets students vote on whether to let little boy stay in class

Officials say they've reassigned a kindergarten teacher whose Port St. Lucie, Fla., class "voted out" a 5-year-old boy who is being tested for a form of autism.

After the boy misbehaved last week, teacher Wendy Portillo "decided to bring him in front of the class and let the other kids tell him what they didn't like about him, kind of ridiculed him," Michelle Steele, a police spokeswoman, tells the Palm Beach Post.

The newspaper says students then voted 14-2 in favor of having the boy removed from Portillo's classroom.

"He was incredibly upset," Melissa Barton, the boy's mother, says in an interview with the Port St. Lucie News. "The only friend he has ever made in his life was forced to do this."

A school spokeswoman says Portillo has been removed from the classroom pending the outcome of an internal review.

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Virginity/college major chart

Tue, 27 May 2008 08:28:00 GMT

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MEANING OF FOLDING THE FLAG

Sat, 24 May 2008 05:10:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The 7th fold is a tribute to our Armed Forces, for it is through the Armed Forces that we protect our country and our flag against all her enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of our republic.
The 8th fold is a tribute to the one who entered into the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.
The 9th fold is a tribute to womanhood, and Mothers. For it has been through their faith, their love, loyalty and devotion that the character of the men and women who have made this country great has been molded.

Clip Source: scoutingbear.com

The 1st fold of our flag is a symbol of life.

The 2nd fold is a symbol of our belief in eternal life.

The 3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans departing our ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of our country to attain peace throughout the world.

The 4th fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in time of war for His divine guidance.

The 5th fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of Stephen Decatur, "Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong.

The 6th fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart that WE pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States Of America, and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

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Postcards From the Frontier: Unmovable American Images

Thu, 22 May 2008 07:21:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More commminstrelon were the scolders and scandalized of Europe’s elite. Shocked at the determination of her fellow travelers to cram more baggage on her coach than it could decently carry, a visiting Frances Trollope protested, “No law, sir, can permit such conduct as this.” She elicited the loud reaction of backwoods laissez-faire: “We makes our own laws, and governs our own selves . . . this is a free country, we have no laws here, and we don’t want no foreign power to tyrannize over us.” Mrs. Trollope thought the association of law with tyranny revealing, even if it came from men who had “evidently been drinking more than an [sic] usual portion of whiskey.” It suggested a bias on behalf of convenience as against custom, lawlessness transformed into freedom. And it typified the ways in which Americans drew distinctions between themselves and Europe.

Clip Source: www.worldaffairsjournal.org

When a reporter for the German magazine Stern glimpses in Barack Obama “the ancient American tale of one single hero in the fight against the system,” or when an Arab poll respondent says he despises predatory U.S. leaders but admires ordinary Americans, both are drawing from a stock of archetypal images that dates back two centuries. The American Revolution might have cut ties with the British Empire, but it did not rid the U.S. of any number of opinionated foreigners. Even those few Old Worlders who came to compliment the civilization of the New, as Lafayette did on his triumphant return to American shores in 1825, felt themselves able to remark mainly on the relative, rather than absolute, qualities of the new nation: the republic had shown, George Washington’s old comrade noted, “progress” since he had last seen it—there had been “wonders of creation and improvement.”

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Facial Hair Types

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:57:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dyers.org

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