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15 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:14:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

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15 Things It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Never lick a steak knife.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

Tags: aging

Origin of Vision discovered

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:32:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very cool stuff.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

You are reading these words right now because 600 million years ago, an aquatic animal called a Hydra developed light-receptive genes—the origin of animal vision.

It wasn't exactly 20-20 vision back then though.

Hydras, a genus of freshwater animals that are kin to corals and jellyfish, measure only a few millimeters in diameter and have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

Though they don't have eyes or any specific light-receptive organs, researchers think that the light-sensing proteins concentrated in the mouth area of the Hydras help them to use light sensitivity to search out prey.

"We now have a time frame for the evolution of animal light sensitivity," said study leader David Plachetzki, a UC Santa Barbara graduate student. "We know its precursors existed roughly 600 million years ago.

These findings, detailed in a recent issue of the online journal PLoS ONE, counter arguments by anti-evolutionists that evolution can only eliminate traits and cannot produce new features

Tags: origin, vision, sight, eyes, biology, evolution

How long would it take to go through the earth?

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:55:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Details and what each equation is are at the source.

Ironically, it's about 42 minutes one way. 42 all the way!!

Clip Source: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu

Suppose you could drill a hole through the Earth and then drop into it. How long would it take you to pop up on the other side of the Earth?

The traveler accelerates toward the center of the Earth and is momentarily weightless when passing through the geometric center at about 7900 m/s or almost 17,700 miles/hr. The traveler would pop up on the opposite side of the Earth after a little more than 42 minutes.

Tags: science, equations, physics, smart, stuff, i'll, never, solve

Pentagon Admits Use Of White Phosphorous

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:43:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Chemical weapons. How deep into the moral abyss can the US sink? There seems to be absolutely no limit.

WARNING: The video contains very graphic images.
Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

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Pentagon Admits Use of White Phosphorus

Pentagon Reverses Position and Admits U.S. Troops Used White Phosphorous Against Iraqis in Fallujah

The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago.

Chemical weapons experts say such attacks are in violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons.

White phosphorous is often compared to napalm because it combusts spontaneously when exposed to oxygen and can burn right through skin to the bone.

Peter Kaiser, of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said, "Chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons."

reporters have noted the use of white phosphorous since the war began

"We fired "shake and bake" missions at the insurgents, using WP [White Phosphorous] to flush them out and HE [high explosives] to take them out."

Tags: chemical weapons, wmd, hypocracy, murder, torture, ethics, usa, war, crime, lies, evil, bush, neoconservatism,

GIANT gabage patch floating in Pacific

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:58:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is absolutely unbelievable. If you're never drive across To put this in perspective, Texas, the second larges state in the union, includes roughly 267,339 sq. mi, or 7.4% of the nation's total area. And our mommies can't clean up after us this time.

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An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii.

Chris Parry with the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco said the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has been growing a brisk rate since the 1950s, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

The trash stew is 80 percent plastic and weighs more than 3.5 million tons.

"At this point, cleaning it up isn't an option," Parry said. "It's just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues."

Tags: pollution, environment, plastic, recycling

Children's sexuality shouldn't be stifled

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:26:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Children must learn about sexuality, otherwise things can go very wrong," said Langfeldt. "Children can't object to something they don't know about, and children can more easily and readily report assaults if they already are aware of their own sexuality."

Juul conceded that "many are disturbed by children's sexuality, but I think it's important to put it on the agenda. That, in fact, is what we're doing."

Clip Source: www.aftenposten.no

Norwegians woke up Tuesday morning to news that a respected Oslo pre-school teacher, backed by child psychologists, thinks children should be allowed to openly express their own sexuality, not least through sex play and games in the local day care centers known as barnehager, or kindergartens.

Pia Friis, leader of the popular Bjerkealleen Barnehage in Oslo and a well-known pre-school educator, told newspaper Dagbladet on Tuesday that children should be allowed to express their own sexuality at day care centers. She doesn't want to stifle what comes naturally

Children, she said, should be able "to look at each other and examine each other's bodies. They can play doctor, play mother and father, dance naked and masturbate.

But their sexuality must also be socialized, so they are not, for example, allowed to masturbate while sitting and eating. Nor can they be allowed to pressure other children into doing things they don't want to."

Tags: education, children, kindergarten, norway, society, sexuality

THE LIE OF THE CENTURY

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:27:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo on the left showed "Decontamination Vehicles". But when United Nations inspectors visited the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were just firefighting equipment.
Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found.
Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of Anthrax. None was ever found.
Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had already confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples the US had left as "standards" for testing. When the UN suspected that the US samples had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to destroy the samples before comparison tests could be carried out.

If you want to know more go to the link and read it all.

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Did the government of the United States lie to the American people, more to the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to Congress, to initiate a war of conquest in Iraq?

Then there was the claim about the "Mobile biological weapons laboratories".

This claim fell apart when it was revealed that these trailers were nothing more than hydrogen gas generators used to inflate weather balloons. This fact was already known to both the US and UK, as a British company manufactured the units and sold them to Iraq.

Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after another. Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose only possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's own State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam was legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum or otherwise were found.

Tags: the, lie, of, century

If they die, they die. Just don't hurt profits!!

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:57:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Are you kidding me!!!??? The United States government chose to withhold information about airline security because if people knew just how risky it was they may not buy tickets???

OMG...i think we really are living in the United Corporations of America!

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

MOFFETT FIELD, California (AP) -- An unprecedented national survey of pilots by the U.S. government has found that safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than previously recognized. But the government is withholding the information, fearful it would upset air travelers and hurt airline profits.

"NASA should focus on how we can provide information to the public, not on how we can withhold it," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a statement. He said the agency's research and data "should be widely available and subject to review and scrutiny."

Tags: government, nasa, flying, airlines, safety

There Are No Words For This

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:30:05 GMT

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Clip Source: thornesworld.blogspot.com

The space between

The tears we cry is the

laughter that keeps us coming back for more

The space between

The wicked lies we tell to keep us safe from the pain

There are no words to encompass this.
Horror. Tragedy. Impossible.
They all seem to float around the edges flirting with the truth, but none truly approcach it.

The awful: My grandson, my lil Pharoah, our precious Egyptian Prince died night before last. A perfect being of incredible light and joy, created and nurtured in love; gone. He stopped breathing. We don't know why.

Bereft, destroyed, devastated. More words that are mere ghosts of reality to describe my poor daughter, my Fawn and her husband, our Aaron in their loss.

Tags: i, love, you, thorne

Is Life finely tuned, or a cosmic accident

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:37:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If there is 1/1Billion chance of there being the right properties in a 'Big Bang' to create life, then you just need 1 Billion 'Big Bangs' . One of the threads on theory regarding the presence of life in the Universe. Having such inadequate information to come to any conclusions there are a number of projections, but it seems the best education we are getting, is in the the development of more and more sophisticated instruments and measuring techniques. We may keep opening doors only to find more doors. Or someone may find a key, while they were looking for something else.

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Is Life Finely-Tuned or a Cosmic Accident?

Forget science fiction. If you want to hear some really crazy ideas about the universe, just listen to our leading theoretical physicists.

Wish you could travel back in time? You can, according to some interpretations of quantum mechanics. Could there be an infinite number of parallel worlds? Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg considers this a real possibility. Even the big bang, which for decades has been the standard explanation for how the universe started, is getting a second look.

Now, many cosmologists speculate that we live in a "multiverse," with big bangs exploding all over the cosmos, each creating its own bubble universe with its own laws of physics. And lucky for us, our bubble turned out to be life-friendly.

But if you really want to start an argument, ask a room full of physicists this question: Are the laws of physics fine-tuned to support life?

Read the full story here...

Tags: life, cosmos, universe, physics

How Did Dad Die?

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:30:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

LANCASTER, N.Y. — CamerynLee was only 3 years old when her father, Lance Cpl. Eric J. Orlowski, a Marine Corps reservist, was killed in an accidental shooting during the first days of the Iraq war. Now 8, she is suddenly hungry for information about the man she remembers only in sketchy vignettes: Did he like chicken wings as much as she does? How about hockey? Was he funny?

“When it happened, I don’t think she fully understood,” said her mother, Nicole Kross, 29. “At that age she really didn’t ask too many questions. It’s all coming out more now.”

In a grim marker of the longevity of the war, children who were infants or toddlers when they lost a parent in action are growing up. In the process, they are coming to grips with death in new, more mature and at times more painful ways — pondering a parent they barely knew, asking pointed questions about the circumstances of the death and experiencing a kind of delayed grief.

Tags: tell, them, gw

If Fox 'News' was around to Report History

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:52:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yeah it would have been HisStory! Just like it is today! :-0 !

"Fair and balanced" if one equates reading lies off a teleprompter as 'informative and equitable' ... Who loves lies? Who cherishes lies? Who finds lies comforting & pleasing? Who is the father of lies anyway? So who do liars serve?
And what about those who serve up or devour lies, thereby supporting, spreading deciets like a virus [meme]... in the traffic of lies, does it matter if one originates the deception? If they promulgate false witness, support harm of those who have been falsely accused, is that not complicity? And how can one serve God, objectively, if they love lies, spread lies, support liars... ??? I think those who play with themselves and others are unwitting dupes who decieve themselves BEFORE they decieve anyone else. Just my opinion. And they serve evil, just like every liar before them.

Personally I cannot stand lies. Or liars. MSM or otherwise.

Thou shalt NOT is clear... lies, false witn

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If Fox News Had Existed Throughout History

what might we have seen on our screens in Fox News had existed throughout history?

pictures below may give us some clues

Tags: fox 'news', faux news, history according to fox, humor, msm can lie legally to public, court sanctioned deciet, pr spin

South Africa win world rugby cup

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh joy unspeakable!!!!

Clip Source: www.rugbyworldcup.com

South Africa win world cup

PARIS, 20 October - South Africa defeated England 15-6 in the world cup final at Stade de France on Saturday to add a second Webb Ellis Cup to the one they won as hosts in 1995.

Tags: rugby, sport, south africa

WAR is a racket.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a free book, and one of the best ever written. Please take the time to at least look at it.

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by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient:

Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC [Retired]

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

I am not a fool as to believe that war is a thing of the past. I know the people do not want war, but there is no use in saying we cannot be pushed into another war.

In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die.

TO HELL WITH WAR!

http://www.WarIsARacket.com

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Humor facilitates navigation through complex social space

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:21:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: findings indicate that the brain networks recruited during a humorous experience differ according to the type of humor being processed

Clip Source: cercor.oxfordjournals.org

Humor is a hallmark of human discourse. People use it to relievestress and to facilitate social bonding, as well as for pureenjoyment in the absence of any apparent adaptive value. Althoughrecent studies have revealed that humor acts as an intrinsicreward, which explains why people actively seek to experienceand create humor, few have addressed the cognitive aspects ofhumor.

Our findings indicatethat the brain networks recruited during a humorous experiencediffer according to the type of humor being processed, withhigh-level visual areas activated during visual humor and classiclanguage areas activated during language-dependent humor.

These results suggest that humor may have coevolved with anothercognitive specialization of the great apes and humans: the abilityto navigate through a shifting and complex social space.

Tags: humor, cognition, brain