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Happy Birthday Tany

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:55:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Your day; your day . . .

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2012 Is Already Here

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:40:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It started off same as always; coupla fossils saying how our Banjo Patterson was a better poet than Walt Whitman, how Con the Fruiterer is funnier than Seinfeld, only they're Aussies so no one knows about 'em," recalled witness Kevin Porter. "Then this bloke Martin pipes up and says Australia's main problem is that it's stuck in Australia, and everybody says 'Too right!'"

"Well, it made sense at the time," Porter added.

By 2 a.m., powered by national pride and alcohol, the 3-million-square-mile land mass was barging eastward through the Coral Sea and crossing into the central Pacific, leaving a trail of beer cans and Chinese take-away in its wake.

When dawn broke over the Northern Hemisphere, the continent suddenly found itself, not only upside down, but smack in the middle of the Atlantic, and according to most of its 19 million inhabitants, that's the way it's going to stay.

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AUSTRALIA GETS DRUNK, WAKES UP IN NORTH ATLANTIC

Sydney, 800 miles S. of Nova Scotia (SatireWire.com) — After what witnesses described as an all night blinder during which it kept droning on about how it was always being bloody ignored by the whole bloody world and would bloody well stand to do something about it, Australia this morning woke up to find itself in the middle of the North Atlantic.

"Good Lord, that was a booze up," said a bleary-eyed Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, speaking from his residence at Kirribilli House, approximately 600 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

According to Australians and residents of several countries destroyed or lewdly insulted during the continent's nearly 7,000-mile saltwater stagger, the binge began just after noon yesterday at a pub in Brisbane, where several patrons were discussing Australia Day and the nation's general lack of respect from abroad.

For You TN

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:51:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Sometimes life is hard to bear,
When a friend is not there."

Clip Source: 100-poems.com

Instead of different words, however, we're stuck with simple adjectives. Close friend. Best friend. Childhood friend. Intimate friend. Trusted friend. Beloved friend. But whether you use adjectives or different words, few could deny the nearly infinite meaning in such a simple word.

Friends are special people. We can't pick our family, and we're sorely limited in the number of them at any rate. Society and mores (and often our own conscience) dictate we select a single mate. But our friends can be as diverse and infinite as the adjectives we choose. Our friends, in a very real sense, reflect the choices we make in life.

Let the countdown begin.

Carrie Prejean Sex Tape

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:53:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah...

I know....

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Military suicides fuel worry that military personnel too strained for Afghanistan surgern

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:17:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonder what it takes for this to matter enough to foreign policy leaders.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Military Suicides Fuel Worry That Army Is Strained

The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel after years of repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Tags: military

Carrie Prejeans Lawsuit Fizzles Due To Sex Tape

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:04:18 GMT

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Clip Source: wbztv.com

Did the legal battle between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers suddenly conclude because organizers presented Prejean with a sex tape starring the religiously devout beauty queen?

Celebrity site TMZ says yes and CNN, last night, said a source with knowledge of the settlement confirmed it. CBS News has no independent verification of the story at this time.

n August, Prejean sued Miss California USA organizers for libel, slander and religious discrimination. She accused them of telling her to stop mentioning God, even before she made controversial remarks against gay marriage.

The pageant countersued Prejean last month, claiming the buxom blonde still owed them $5,200 for the breast implants they helped her buy.

the warring factions abruptly made peace on Tuesday

As for that alleged sex tape reportedly starring Prejean

Managing Editor Harvey Levin claimed in a Wednesday webcast that the tape, which he said features just Prejean, was too graphic for their taste.

Monkey Brand Black Toothpaste Powder

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:43:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I got some of this stuff at Vik's in Berzerkeley because, well... monkeys.

I tell you what, though: my teeth haven't felt this clean in ages.

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Close your eyes and imagine this. Charcoal, ground to a fine powder. Vicks Vapor Rub, in all it’s eye watering, nasal clearing goodness. Now imagine these two things together, in your mouth!

Sure, at first imagining, Charcoal plus Vicks Vapor Rub may not sound too appetizing; and I will admit that it is an acquired taste. Once you have acquired the taste though, and the ability to stomach the gritty, dry, gagging texture, you have a toothpaste that gets your mouth clean like no other. It is a bit like sandblasting the gunk off your teeth. They are really squeaky clean after the rinse. And believe it or not, it is both a whitening toothpaste and an Ayurvedic Medicine! Oh Monkey Brand has it’s down side, the spatter of black dried spit that coats the sink and walls, the aforementioned texture and the container that is strangely hard to open. Don’t let that deter you though, sweep those negatives aside. Join the Monkey Crew and get your teeth clean in a way you never imagined before.

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License To Wonder

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:59:50 GMT

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Clip Source: judson.blogs.nytimes.com

There are plenty of (probably) apocryphal tales about what inspired a great discovery, from Archimedes in his bathtub, to Newton and his apple.

Among the most famous is the story of Rosalind Franklin and her non-discovery of the structure of DNA.

She had the data. Why didn’t she reach the solution?

There are several answers to this; but one is that she had a fixed idea about how the problem should be solved.

But there’s one way in which we should not be limited: imagination. As Einstein put it, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Women evolving to be heavier and shorter

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smartplanet.com

Thin may be in, but by 2049, the average women will a touch “chubbier and shorter,” according to a Yale University study on natural selection gleaned from two recent generations of women.

Actually, thin is sort of out given the unhealthy and sometimes deadly effects of starvation diets on models who face the unemployment line if they don’t remain in the words of one article “boney apparitions.” Things are headed in the opposite direction anyway, says the new study.

Descendants of the women in The Framingham Heart Study on average are predicted to weigh about a kilogram more and be two centimeters shorter. If that’s bad news, here’s the good: women will also have lower blood pressure and chloresterol. Ths study also found women will have babies up to five months earlier and go through menopause up to 10 months later, resulting in a longer child-bearing period.

Nonviolence As Their Weapon

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:33:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It was 2001. Khatib watched in horror as Israeli soldiers shot an unarmed friend at a checkpoint. Two weeks later, the militant Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade made a revenge attack on the checkpoint, killing seven soldiers.

"My first reaction was 'Good for Al Aqsa!' " Khatib said. Then he realized the dead soldiers belonged to a different unit, not the one on duty when his friend was shot.

"It made me wonder: This cycle of death, of violent action and reaction, how we can break it?"

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"If they cannot accuse us of terrorism, they cannot stop us. The world will support us."

His message is a hard sell: Khatib, 35, is a modern-day Gandhi in a culture that enshrines the language of the gun, even if most Palestinians have never used one. And the risks of his activism are enormous.

The Israeli army has targeted him. He was arrested, severely beaten and threatened with death during a series of midnight raids on the village this summer

He believes Israel is trying to crush nonviolent activists because it would rather take on an armed insurgency.

Today's nonviolence initiatives tap into nostalgia for the first intifada, in what Khatib calls a sober reaction to the armed uprising that bloodied the first half of this decade after peace talks broke down.

Khatib, who dropped out when things turned violent, remembers the killings that changed him.

Getting a positive outcome

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:17:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sure, blasting someone in a comment feels good at the time, but what does it do to your reputation? How might it affect your future relationships? How might it prevent a positive outcome in a future interaction?

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In every interaction we have, be it online or in person, we have a choice in how we choose to interact.

Here’s an important concept:

Nice does not mean spineless

Being nice does not mean hiding under a cover, not poking your head up lest you offend someone. Being nice is a mindset that allows you to appropriately respond to others in a manner that results in positive outcomes. Not every result will be sunshine and roses, but if you are nice then you held up your end of the bargain.

The Beatles- Hey Bulldog

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:18:44 GMT

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Somali man aged 112 marries girl of 17

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:41:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "I didn't force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry," the groom said. The bride's family said she was "happy with her new husband". Somali adolescent girls are often married off to older men.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

He is old enough to be her great-great-grandfather. But Ahmed Muhamed Dhore, a Somalian who claims he is 112 years old, said he had realised a "dream" by marrying a 17-year-old bride.

Dhore – who says he was born in 1897, the year that Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee – already has 13 children by five wives, but said he would like more with his newest, Safiya Abdulle.

Hundreds of people attended the extraordinary ceremony this week in Guriceel, in the region of Galguduud. "Today God helped me realise my dream," Dore said. He and his new wife, who is almost a century his junior, are from the same village in Somalia, he said, adding that he had waited for her to grow up to propose. He says his children and two other wives agreed to the marriage, as did Abdulle's parents.

It's Never Easy

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:25:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: iamonetoo told me once that she didn't understand why it had to be so hard to be herself.

She could have taken the easy way. But she didn't and I admire her.

Social change is hard, long and difficult work. It will often spawn hatred by other's who are just ignorant of human differences.

That's ok; the struggle of civil rights for everyone is always worth it

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listen up peoples: freedom struggles are difficult and filled with losses and setbacks. It’s not fair and many of us are not going to see the very things we are fighting for, but if you want quick results it’s time to find something else to do. If you are not in it for the long haul, what’s the point? If you think struggles for rights are easily earned in one election cycle, you are not paying attention to the narrative called American history.

Nothing wrong with being angry and disappointed today, but when you are finished put the armor back on because the struggle still continues.

Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt - Waiting (Acoustic Version)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:46:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For Debbyski, I have a feeling you'll like this!

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