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LIFE'S LITTLE INSTRUCTIONS

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:27:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.opey.com

Always do your share and a little bit more.

Forgive.

A person never looks so tall as when he stoops to help another.

When you say, "I love you", mean it.

When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?".

Call your Mom! NOW

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

Marry someone you love to talk to. As you get older, conversational skills will be as important as any other.

How to for pigeons

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:57:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kramericatoday.com

Tags: comic blog

palin really has gone rogue

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:45:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: makes me think of that hall n' oats song ......sarah.....smile..... something tells me she won't be smiling for quite some time..........

Clip Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Kevin Rivoli / AP Photo UPDATE: The governor’s resignation speech seemed less like a farewell than like an inauguration of a new campaign. She’s unhinged, writes Michelle Goldberg—but so is much of her competition.

Most speculation about why Sarah Palin decided to quit her governorship falls into one of two camps. Some think that there’s a big scandal looming: as the always perspicacious Josh Marshall wrote, “I would not be surprised if this latest round of revelations shook something else loose that we haven't heard about yet.” Her bizarre press conference felt rambling and manic, almost breathless, and she assumed a martyred pose in talking about the numerous ethics complaints that have been made against her. She certainly sounded like someone facing oncoming disaster.

In Alaska there weren’t many paths to fame. What else could she have done besides politics?

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The Most Famous Lady In The USA

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:45:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: U have to do it once in your life if in NY.

Clip Source: govne.ws

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will officially reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public on July 4, 2009. About 20 lucky visitors will be among the first to climb the 354 steps to the crown on Saturday morning, but thanks to the power of technology, everyone can join in the celebration. The public can view photos of the day’s events on Flickr and follow Lady Liberty on Twitter.

July 4th marks the first time visitors can tour the crown since it was closed following the 9/11 attacks. About 240 visitors per day will be able to tour the crown, but you can visit the Statue of Liberty anytime from home by taking the new Statue of Liberty National Monument virtual tour

Tags: american history, news, photography, art, symbol

The Fourth of July: Throughout the Decades

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:44:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It would appear that J.C. Leyendecker stands above the crowd for the sheer number of Fourth of July covers.

Clip Source: www.saturdayeveningpost.com

Artist Guernsey Moore did many turn-of-century covers (at the turn of the 20th century, not the 21st), and the June 30, 1900, issue appears to be our first Fourth of July cover. Using colonials as representative of the Fourth was popular before the days of fancy fireworks and Fourth of July parades, although firecrackers showed up early.

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Clip Source: www.saturdayeveningpost.com

The July 4, 1903, cover shows a man setting off firecrackers and milady, in long skirt, is less than thrilled with the noise (covering her ears was a hint). Hmmm, this theme seems familiar: fast forward to the roaring 20s and J.C. Leyendecker’s cover depicting a young boy setting off a cap gun to make patriotic noises and a little girl covering her ears. Apparently, females do not care for loud noises.

But you didn’t really think we would leave our beloved Norman Rockwell out of our celebration, did you? His July 6, 1946, cover shows workmen cleaning the torch on the Statue of Liberty.

Tags: art & literature, july 4th

Wtf....the bonds might be real after all?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:05:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: full read@ source, bit long

Clip Source: www.asianews.it

Everything suggests that the American bonds seized at Chiasso are real

Official U.S. sources continue to say they are fakes, but there is no news that American experts have inspected them in person. Arrested for another matter, the director of a U.S. radio who says the bonds are real and Japan was trying to sell in Switzerland, not trusting the ability of the United States to honour its debt.

Milan (AsiaNews) – Four weeks have passed since American bonds were confiscated from two Japanese men who were travelling on a direct train to Chiasso, Switzerland, and while there has been clarification of some - very few -points, Italian authorities have remained silent on the rest of the episode.

In addition, a strange coincidence in the timing of the arrest of a director of an internet radio who had made revelations regarding the incident ,increases the already strong oddities surrounding the case.

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Tags: bonds, fake or real?

Moral virtue is crucial for intellectual health

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:00:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nothing is more apparent.

Clip Source: wisdomandfollyblog.com

Lesson #10—Alvin Plantinga (21^st century): Moral virtue is crucial for intellectual health. Plantinga is one of the premier Christian thinkers of the last generation. At a time when theists were retreating in the philosophical community, he had the temerity to suggest that belief in God is not only reasonable but is in fact a proper starting placefor knowledge. This was, of course, axiomatic for the Reformers, but Plantinga made a persuasive philosophical case for the idea. In light of this insight, he has developed a rich Christian psychology (especially in his Warranted Christian Belief), complete with an arresting account of how sin corrupts cognition and how, correlatively, right living is crucial for the proper function of our cognitive faculties. Virtue, as it turns out, is as important for the mind as the mind is for the life of virtue.

Houston - First dome-city

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:01:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And now for a little comic relief from leftist whack-jobs.

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Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:03:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.

The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye - has now pierced his world of darkness.

The procedure, performed fewer than 50 times before in Britain, uses the segment of tooth as a holder for a new lens grafted from his skin.

Seeing clearly: Martin Jones opens his newly-sighted eye fitted with a tooth

Mr Jones, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, married his wife Gill, 50, four years ago.

It was only when a revolutionary new operation was pioneered at the Sussex Eye Clinic in Brighton that he was given a chance to have his sight back.

Surgeon Christopher Liu used a living tooth to carry a new lens because Mr Jones' eye could reject a plastic implant

Tags: science

Left in Dark Times, Bernard-Henri Lévy

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:13:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Maybe the most important book of our time! I think I will move this to the top of my list MORE: The neoprogressives believe "liberalism is the source all the planet's evils," Lévy writes (p. 90), so they must declare innocent those Third World despots who "meddle with their citizens and treat them like cattle," because in the neoprogressive dogma "the System, and the System alone, bears full responsibility." They reject that the great revolutions, including the British and the American, were explicitly liberal, and used liberal thought in their struggle against absolutism (p. 92). The liberal market-based republics can more easily be portrayed as Evil, when liberty, which might be thought their finest aspect, disappears from view.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism. Trans. Benjamin Moser. New York: Random House, 2008. Pp. xviii + 233.

Bernard-Henri Lévy's new book is annoying as a memoir but, when carefully read and pieced together, devastating as an indictment. Getting there will require the reader's determination. Take the time to get past stylistic self-indulgence, forgive some hyperbole, patch up a few logical gaps, and what's left is still essential reading. It uncloaks the most disturbing political trend of our time: the rise of a new absolutist ideology, one that is global, anti-liberal, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and pro-Islamofascist, and despite being irreligious is also—and this will require explanation—anti-secular.

Oxymoronic Left, new barbarism, neoprogressivism, red fascism—Lévy does not keep to a single name for it. What he does make clear is that it is emerging from the cadaverous Left, the "backward falling corpse"

[UPDATED] There'll be no tent for God at Camp Dawkins

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:21:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Further One of my dominant motivations, passionately expressed in The God Delusion, is an abhorrence of childhood indoctrination, of atheism just as much as of religion. It is in this spirit that the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has made very modest contributions to Camp Quest. Lois Rogers' traducing of both Camp Quest and me is, alas, par for the course for religiously motivated journalists. Fortunately, I am not the litigious type, but an apology would be nice.

Clip Source: richarddawkins.net

by Lois Rogers - TIMESONLINE

UPDATE: Response from Richard Dawkins:

The Editor
The Sunday Times

London

Sir

The duplicity of Lois Rogers' title, "Dawkins Sets up Kids' Camp to Groom Atheists" (Sunday Times, June 28th), is exceeded only by its Jesuitical opening line, "Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week's summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life." I had nothing to do with the setting up of Camp Quest, and it is not, in any sense whatever, inspired by me, or influenced by me. The British version, run by Samantha Stein with no help from me, follows the admirable American model founded some years ago by Edwin and Helen Kagin, of Kentucky.

Lois Rogers asked me for a quotation, and she thanked me warmly for the following: "Camp Quest encourages children to think for themselves, sceptically and rationally. There is no indoctrination, just encouragement to be open-minded, while having fun." Isn't that about as far from Jesuitical grooming as you could imagine?

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Sarah's Straight Talk

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:13:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Perhaps there is some new and interesting scandal that Palin has yet to let us in on. (If so, I hope it involves a soul mate.) Otherwise, it would appear that this is all about her desire to start raising money and setting up operations for a presidential run in 2012 So if she’s starting to run, it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around. Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Truly, Sarah Palin has come a long way. When she ran for vice president, she frequently became disjointed and garbled when she departed from her prepared remarks. Now the prepared remarks are incoherent, too.

Smiling manically, she looked like a parody of the woman who knocked the Republicans dead at their convention. She babbled about her parents’ refrigerator magnet, which apparently had a lot of wise advice. And she recalled her visit with the troops in Kosovo, whose dedication and determination inspired her to ... resign.

The timing of Palin’s announcement was extremely peculiar. Not only did she interrupt the plans of TV newscasters to spend the entire weekend pointing out that Michael Jackson is still dead, she delivered her big news just as the nation was settling into Fourth of July celebrations. You’d have thought she didn’t want us to notice.

The Most Powerful Military Force in the World is the American People

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:49:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "America is the only Jeffersonian militia in existence today, and the American public is the largest, most heavily armed military in the world. In actuality, the entire world is defenseless to it – even the New World Order. A four million person army could invade the Atlantic shore tomorrow, and that military would certainly cause some initial chaos, but soon after, it would find out that it is drastically outnumbered and doomed to total extinction, if the American militia simply got up off the couch chose that to be their fate." Founding Father Edmund Randolph said: “A people who mean to continue free must be prepared to meet danger in person, not to rely upon the fallacious protection of… armies.”

Clip Source: restoretherepublic.com

George Mason, seemingly precognitively, wrote: “when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great-Britain, the British parliament was advised… to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually.” This is where we are today. The lying corporate media has us all looking different directions while this is going on, focusing on other, meaningless stories (the gay marriage debate, stories about Madonna, Obama, and Brittany Spears, etc.). And much more importantly, our government-controlled education system in America has never given us the correct story of history that shows just how important the guns are, and which shows what the power of a Jeffersonian militia can do, as happened with the Revolutionary War. That is the point of this article: to show you what history really is, which is the struggle for who controls the weapons.

Sarah’s Straight Talk

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:30:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“And a problem in our country today is apathy,” she said on Friday as she announced that she would resign as governor of Alaska at the end of the month. “It would be apathetic to just hunker down and ‘go with the flow.’ Nah, only dead fish ‘go with the flow.’ No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time ... to BUILD UP.”

Basically, the point was that Palin is quitting as governor because she’s not a quitter. Or a deceased salmon.

A Fresh Fourth

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:28:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Looked at from a certain distance, all of the Independence Days in one’s life resemble a string of firecrackers. Bang, bang, bang, bang, and suddenly here you are in the present, on another Fourth, thinking about the difference between this one and the ones that came before it — the weather and the menu and the fireworks and the friends and family you celebrate with.

The Declaration of Independence speaks of truths and rights, but we are more likely to understand that document in terms of the freedoms we feel. And yet how often do we really enumerate those freedoms, really assess their costs and count up the obligations they imply?

It’s tempting to seek a kind of refuge in the Saturday-ness of this Fourth, to let the meaning of the holiday slip a little in the interest of a relaxing day in the backyard or at the beach

But there is a special understanding and joy in having struggled for it