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Cinnamon tabby tiger

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:44:18 GMT

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Top 10s (inc the top ten Mysteries of the Mind)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:38:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Top 10 Reasons for interesting happenings and things...

Much of what we don't understand about being human is simply in our heads. The brain is a befuddling organ, as are the very questions of life and death, consciousness, sleep, and much more. Here's a heads-up on what's known and what's not understood about your noggin. -Jeanna Bryner

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

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The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)

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Top 10 Useless Limbs (and Other Vestigial Organs)

Top 10 Beasts and Dragons: How Reality Made Myth

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth

Top 10 Killer Tornadoes

Life Of Her Party

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:25:15 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "When McCain gets in trouble, he pulls out the P.O.W. card. Now Republicans are pulling out the sexist card. But when you use sexism as an across-the-board shield for any legitimate question, you only hurt women. And that’s just another splash of reality."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

For many years, reality was out of vogue with Republicans. They ignored the reality of Iraq and Katrina, of Pakistan and Osama bin Laden.

When confronted with their colossal carelessness around the globe and here at home, their mantra was, as Rummy put it, “Stuff happens.”

Now reality, in all its messy, crazy, funky glory, has flooded the party, in the comely, crackling form of Sarah Palin.

It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a “poverty of values.” It also seems like a long time — and another McCain ago — that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child.

This week, the anti-abortion forces celebrated the news of Bristol’s pregnancy, using it as further proof that their beloved Governor Palin — who will no more support sex education than polar bears — was committed to the cause.

Collection of Oddities

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:17:31 GMT

clipped by: jplnoons
clipper's remarks: Some of the funniest oddities around the world.

Clip Source: my.mmoabc.com

The saying is true, cops are pigs!

True meaning of mobile phone.

Nothing like a passed out hobo at your wedding.

He's a really big fan of Titanic.

Look, it's Mario and Luigi!

Inspector Rectum.

The best graduation gift... AK-47.

Woody?

That's not the car.

Father of the year.

Cheese!

It's a hot day.

Barney is a racist.

Poop in your pants?!

Nice sunbathing.

This is called the Stink Hook move.

What a coincidence.

They found their hero!

Good parenting 101.

Nothing says I love you like puking on your friend.

Not everyone who wears a thong is sexy.

She only has one thing in mind.

Uber wedgie!

Tags: funny, humor, oddities, pictures

-Are Humans Destroying the Planet's Web of Life?

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:33:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very sobering, disturbing article. Just put global climate disruption aside and think about what we humans are doin to the life in the oceans and the air and land, the forests, the over fertilizing, the plastics...it's abominable and has to be changed or we die.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

“Humanity doesn’t need a moon-base or a manned trip to Mars. We need an expedition to planet Earth, where probably fewer than 10 per cent of species are known to science, and fewer than 1 per cent of those have been studied beyond a simple anatomical description and a few notes on natural history. At the same time, we are engaged in a genocide against those species, known and unknown; the sixth mass extinction has begun."

E.O. Wilson, Harvard evolutionary biologist and author of "The Creation."

n the 200 years since French naturalist Georges Cuvier first floated the concept of extinction, after examining fossil bones and concluding "the existence of a world previous to ours, destroyed by some sort of catastrophe", we have slowly begun to recognize a potentially lethal threat to our planet and human existence.

forget about life's origins and focus on the fact that while nature achieves "sustainability through complexity," human activities are driving myriad species into extinction

Too Far Right!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:38:04 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Your father raped you? Too bad. Global warming an issue? Poppycock. Teach creationism in science class? Sure, let the students decide.

Ultra right wing religious fanatics are salivating all over themselves over McSame's choice.

A Hillary replacement? Ha! Going to draw Hillary supporters away from Obama? In a pig's eye. Republicans must believe that women voters are all stupid idiots.

This is McCain's judgment in action!

Clip Source: airamerica.com

Sarah Palin is Bad for Women

There can be no doubt that Palin’s selection is purely tactical — a decision based more on image and balance than on substance and qualifications. Palin’s youth, beauty, and distance from Washington were all chosen because they directly counter shortcomings of McCain. Her indisputable conservatism in areas where McCain has appeared moderate — abortion, the Second Amendment, drilling — as well as her “strength” in domestic issues, balances nicely with McCain’s flip-flopping war-focused campaign.

Quite frankly, conservatives have rewarded a woman politically for deciding to keep a baby and for sending her son to Iraq. For this reason, Palin’s selection is a great disservice to women — and further evidence of how truly destructive a Republican victory will be for American women.

Collection of Eye-Catching Advertisments

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:32:44 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: my.mmoabc.com

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Scottish minister backs fight against rural homophobia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:33 GMT

clipped by: queah

Clip Source: www.pinknews.co.uk

The Minister for Communities and Sport in Scotland has said the country's SNP government is committed to fighting prejudice and discrimination against LGBT people.

Stewart Maxwell MSP made his comments on a visit to Dumfries LGBT Centre last month.

Dumfries and Galloway is the only rural region in Scotland that "visibly tackles issues like homophobia and exclusion," say centre staff.

In government the SNP has supported a new homophobic hate crimes bill but it has been delayed.

Scottish studies have revealed that violence against the gay community is reaching a devastating level.

According to one such report, 36 percent of LGBT people have experienced abuse or violence in the last year, compared to 2.5% of the general population.

Fish Or Foul

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:56:31 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The catch is that, when it comes to food, we all think of ourselves as experts. But we taste with both our tongues and our minds, and it’s easy to lead minds astray. Brownies taste better, for example, when served on china rather than on paper plates, research has shown. And we prefer wine with a pedigree, even if it’s a phony one. Sometimes all it takes is an alluring name. Until a few decades ago, Patagonian toothfish was a trash fish not worth trying to give away. Renamed Chilean sea bass, it sold so fast that it nearly disappeared from the sea.

Expectations are everything. In one recent test, psychologists asked 32 volunteers to sample strawberry yogurt. To make sure the testers made their judgments purely on the basis of taste, the researchers said, they needed to turn out the lights. Then they gave their subjects chocolate yogurt. Nineteen of the 32 praised the strawberry flavor. One said that strawberry was her favorite flavor and she planned to switch to this new brand.

An Even Poorer World

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:38:19 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There is a lot more poverty in the world than previously thought. The World Bank reported in August that in 2005, there were 1.4 billion people living below the poverty line — that is, living on less than $1.25 a day.

That is more than a quarter of the developing world’s population and 430 million more people living in extreme poverty than previously estimated. The World Bank warned that the number is unlikely to drop below one billion before 2015.

The poverty estimate soared after a careful study of the prices people in developing countries pay for goods and services revealed that the World Bank had been grossly underestimating the cost of living in the poorest nations for decades. As a result, it was grossly overestimating the ability of people to buy things. And the new research doesn’t account for the soaring prices of energy and food in the past two years.

When Hell Freezes Over

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:31:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wayodd.com

Love

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:46:53 GMT

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Clip Source: 90.gmodules.com

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go" Herman Hesse

Steve, don't eat it!

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:30:47 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.thesneeze.com

Potted Meat Food Product

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Pickled Pork Rinds

These are not the crunchy pork rinds you'll often see over by the chips. These are their grosser, soggier, potentially botulism-ier cousins

Clip Source: www.thesneeze.com

Breast Milk

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Natto

fermented-on-purpose soybeans from Japan. That's what Natto is.

Clip Source: www.thesneeze.com

Cuitlacoche

Cuitlacoche is a black fungus that infects corn fields, making the kernels bulbous and swollen as they fill with spores.

Clip Source: www.thesneeze.com

Silkworm Pupas

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The Tree Brain

Over the last 4 years we've tracked the annual growth of fungus on the trees in front of my house, but the time for tracking was over. The time for chewing was here.

Do not believe

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:01:55 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.lucidcafe.com

Buddha said:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

give up what is wrong and evil;
undertake what is good;
abandon thoughts that have to do with bringing suffering to any conscious being; cultivate thoughts that are of loving kindness, that are based on caring for others' suffering, and sympathetic joy in others' happiness.

Abstain from talk that brings harm or discredit to others (such as backbiting or slander) or talk that creates hatred or disharmony between individuals and groups.

I KNEW IT!!!!

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:54:10 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: GASP! The article is 2 years old but golly gee now I know why I always thought she was soo . . . dreamy. Why did I quit reading comic books? She was never in love with Batman? I can only imagine Renee thinking "hot darn!!!" as Batwoman makes the scene if you know what I mean . . .

Clip Source: www.feministing.com

Batwoman - real name Kathy Kane - will appear in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month.
In her latest incarnation, she is a rich socialite who has a romantic history with another 52 character, ex-police detective Renee Montoya.

52 will be published in the UK as a graphic novel by Titan Books in 2007.

I love it. And I donâ€™t even read comics. (Though I may now.)