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California Soon To Be Reading By Candlelight

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:16:20 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: If the Great and Powerful Algore demands 100% compliance - Kaleefornia shall comply. Well, half-way anyway.

And when the ecofreaks sue to prevent all those windmills and solar farms and new transmission lines that are required? Well, candles await.

Keep it up California. You will show the way down into the New Dark Ages.

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Mother Nature demands Californians pass Prop. 7

There is no longer a debate in California over whether we need to shift to renewable energy sources. Nor can anyone successfully say that Proposition 7's target of 50 percent renewable by 2025 is too ambitious. Al Gore says we need to do 100 percent by 2018.

I studied the text of Prop. 7 without any preconceived opinions. My considered judgment is that it clearly meshes with existing California law to achieve two basic and necessary goals.

S. David Freeman is a lawyer and engineer with 30 years experience as a chief executive of large electric utilities, including those serving Sacramento and Los Angeles, where he advanced the use of renewable energy used efficiently. He has been honored by the Los Angeles Coalition for Clean Air, CEERT, Global Green, and the National Wildlife Association for his commitment to renewable energy, clean air and clean water.

Tags: energy, ecology, environment, solar, wind

What Happens When You Don't Build Power Plants

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:33:27 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: But Britain will be green, green, green. Of course lots of that will be because people will have to start crapping in their backyards - but think of the wonderful flowers that will grow. And the huge increase in green jobs (making candles, digging up peat to burn for heat, etc.) will more than offset the loss caused by going back to 19th century technology.

Clip Source: www.express.co.uk

Britain is “quite simply running out of power” and blackouts are almost inevitable within the next few years.

Only last Thursday, National Grid issued an urgent call for power after a series of power station breakdowns. Suppliers were asked to bring all their available generating capacity online, including costly oil-fired stations.

The “retirement” of a string of nuclear and coal-fired power stations will see 37 per cent of the UK’s generation disappear by 2015, partly because of EU environmental directives.

Blackouts could force the Government to impose electricity rationing, last seen in the Seventies. The REF report says the Government “should prepare itself to intervene with social policy to prevent hardship and maintain order”.

“There’s a very real chance that power, will not even be there when you need it. That’s when you start worrying about social disorder.”

Tags: britain, riots, power, electricity

Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:17:11 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Since witnesses first reported the unexplained marking—which appears to resemble a 19th-century male figure with a high forehead and large beard—this normally quiet town has become a hotbed of biological zealotry. Thousands of pilgrims from as far away as Berkeley's paleoanthropology department have flocked to the site to lay wreaths of flowers, light devotional candles, read aloud from Darwin's works, and otherwise pay homage to the mysterious blue-green stain.

Clip Source: www.theonion.com

DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton.

"I brought my baby to touch the wall, so that the power of Darwin can purify her genetic makeup of undesirable inherited traits,"

"To those who would deny that genetic drift is responsible for a branching evolutionary tree of increasing biodiversity amid changing ecosystems, we say, 'Look upon the face of Darwin!'"

"Over millions of successive generations, a specific subvariant of one species of slime mold adapted to this particular concrete wall, in order to one day form this stain, and thus make manifest this vision of Darwin's glorious countenance," Cosgrove said, overcome with emotion.

Tags: evolution, darwin, humor

On generosity

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:57 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie

Clip Source: thinkexist.com

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Mitch Albom quotes

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

Albert Pike quotes

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha quotes

Clip Source: thinkexist.com

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”

Albert Einstein quotes

“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

Ring of Fire...nice pic...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:29:26 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee

Clip Source: www.time.com

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Ring of Fire
In this 25 second exposure, Thai Buddhists carry candles around a large Buddha on Asanha Puja Day near Bangkok.

Adrees Latif / Reuters|

Woman injured by sword in Wiccan ceremony

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:23 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.jconline.com

A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.

Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her left foot with the sword while performing the rite at Oak Hill Cemetery, police said.

Gunther said she was performing the ceremony to give thanks for a recent run of good luck. The ceremony involves the use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the full moon.

Gunther said was aiming to put the sword in the ground, but hit her foot instead.

"It wasn't the first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot," she said.

No charges were filed, police said. The Wiccans were warned that being in the cemetery in the city about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis after posted visiting hours constitutes trespassing.

Tags: religion, wicca, pagan, humor, ceremony, ritual

Pope Reasserts Catholic Supremacy Over Protestants

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:37:04 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: His Unholiness reasserts the pre-Reformation, tyrannical and usurping tradition of Papal authority and Roman Catholic supremacy as if Jesus Christ himself taught or authorized his ceremonial priest-craft and Latin Mass (which is idolatry), where his Blasphemy, through waving his magic wand and reciting Latin formula ( hocus pocus) is able to (if you believe this) transform (transubstantiation) mere wafers of bread ("heil presto"--poof!) into the "body of Christ"!

Jesus and the apostles never taught such superstition (which hails from Roman paganism, mixed well in its holidays and ecclesiastical hierarchy). The Pope is following the false teaching of Simon Magus, the sorcerer, instead of Simon Peter the apostle. Ritual, ceremony, miters, crosses, candles, pilgrimages, liturgies, and shepherd staffs all make a show of religion (tracing back to Babylonian religions) contrary to the writings of the new testament.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Pope: Other denominations not true churches

Benedict issues statement asserting that Jesus established ‘only one church’

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.

Benedict approved a document from his old offices at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that restates church teaching on relations with other Christians. It was the second time in a week the pope has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that modernized the church.

On Saturday, Benedict revisited another key aspect of Vatican II by reviving the old Latin Mass. Traditional Catholics cheered the move, but more liberal ones called it a step back from Vatican II.

saying it was not a break from the past but rather a renewal of church tradition.

Tags: pope, roman catholicism, christianity, antichristianity, mass, reformation, priest-craft

jumping Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:25 GMT

clipped by: chuckiesf
clipper's remarks: A hundred years young, Esther Levy celebrates after blowing out candles on her birthday cake at Sunrise Assisted Living in Yonkers, N.Y. Esther, a Holocaust survivor who is deaf and mute, was treated to a performance by the ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment that relied heavily on visual effects.

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Tags: esther levy, 100th birthday, cake, holocaust survivor, brithday girl, assisted living, girls gone wild

How Is a Hurricane Like Christmas?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:54:21 GMT

clipped by: Rustee
clipper's remarks: From the comments:

Your home is left in ruins by unexpected company.
You spend a lot of time getting your house ready, and then you spend a lot of time getting your house back to normal.
You spend more money than you plan to.
You pray.
People are incredibly kind and generous to one another. The spirit of giving is alive and well for both *Seasons*.

And how about...
You might have a tree in your living room, and end up discarding it afterwards.

Clip Source: galvestondailynews.com

Hopefully, this will add a little gallows humor to an otherwise grim topic.

1. You get off work
2. You receive lots of calls and e-mails from friends and relatives
3. T.V. shows are preempted for specials.
4. You do last minute shopping in overcrowded stores
5. You drag out boxes that haven't been used in a year
6. You purchase large quantities of food that you don't normally buy
7. You travel out of town on busy highways and stay with family members

8. You end up lighting lots of candles

Tags: humor, weather

Gathering of the Loonies

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:06:05 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: And remember, you're promised a "dazzling array of world class speakers"!!! Such as Ken Ham, the creator of the Creationist Museum in Kentucky.

I suggest anyone within a 100 mile radius of this event stock up on flashlights and candles as you witness the advent of the Dark Ages.

Clip Source: rememberthycreator.com

The Pikes Peak Center Conference

The Beginning and the End of the Universe

The pre-conference events will include a special breakfast for pastors and other Christian education leaders on June 26, 2008, prior to the Conference. Dr. Henry Morris, III, CEO of the Institute for Creation Research will be our keynote speaker. We are working towards a goal of having at least 300 Pastors and Christian education leaders at this event. Every evangelical Pastor in the Pikes Peak region will be invited to be a special guest at our expense. Each guest will receive a free gift pack and there will be no solicitation of funds at this event.

Ken Ham
Answers in Genesis

The Conference itself will feature a dazzling array of world class speakers

As a bonus feature we will be offering a Creation-themed, world class dinosaur and fossil display presented by the Creation Truth Foundation.

Tags: creationism, science, religion

Politics and the English Language - G. Orwell

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:11:34 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions and not a "party line." Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, White papers and the speeches of undersecretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech."

George Orwell

Clip Source: www.mtholyoke.edu

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern

One Year Since Madeleine Disappeared

Sat, 03 May 2008 22:42:00 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: And yellow wrist bands from the Find Madeleine campaign were also given out and a photographic slide show of Madeleine was played to music to emphasise the positivity the McCann family has shown in the search for Madeleine.

In the letter, Kate and Gerry thanked the people of Praia da Luz for their initial and ongoing support, as well as their efforts to help in the search to find their daughter, when she went missing one year ago.

The letter spoke of Gerry and Kate’s hope that they will one day find their daughter and that their family can once again be complete.

Clip Source: portugalresident.com

Photo: Mark Rawcliffe - PORTUGAL IMAGES" />

A SPECIAL service was held to remember Madeleine and all missing children at the Nossa Senhora da Luz church in Praia da Luz at 6.30pm today (Saturday).

The emotional service, in both English and Portuguese, was conducted by the local catholic priest José Manuel Pacheco and resident Anglican Church priest Father Haynes Hubbard.

Yellow and green candles were handed out to the congregation to be lit during the service to serve as a light of hope.

Photo: Mark Rawcliffe - PORTUGAL IMAGES" />

Members of the McCann family, including Gerry McCann’s brother John, who arrived in Portugal earlier this morning, were present at the service and read a letter from Kate and Gerry to the congregation.

After the service, members of the McCann family stood outside the church with members of the congregation around them in a large circle and released yellow and green balloons.

John McCann told The Resident that this evening, members of the family would all be taking part in a private and symbolic lighting of candles.

Tags: kate and gerry mccann, portugal, praia da luz

Unusual chocolate flavoured items

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:35:31 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.purpleslinky.com

12 Odd & Unusual Chocolate Flavored Items

Chocolate Toothpaste

Chocolate Bubble Bath

Chocolate Soap

Chocolate Candles

Chocolate Dress

Chocolate Perfume

Chocolate Wine

Chocolate Pasta

Chocolate Gum

Chocolate Sushi

Chocolate Beer

Chocolate Bandages

Tags: chocolate, odd

Mayor welcomes "Witch school"

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:34:29 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: Sounds like a fair mayor to me. The young Pastor could take a lesson in tolerance, it seems, and tone down the drama.

Clip Source: www.unexplained-mysteries.com

When witch school came to town, Mayor Terry Prillaman stopped in to welcome the owners, as he does whenever a new business opens. "If you don't like them, don't patronize them

Youth pastor Andy Thomas, though, believes the arrival of witches in this town of 1,200 created a "spiritual battle" pitting "the forces of darkness against the forces of light.

the school operates mostly online

it has more than 190,000 registered members.

Five people run online classes, ship books and merchandise and sell wands, incense, candles and other items.

The school's website refers to Rossville as a "pagan colony." The school offers séances, initiations and rituals

two people showed up at a City Council meeting to object to the school.

people who said the witches shouldn't have been allowed to move here. "I told them, 'I don't remember voting on you coming into town,' " he says. "Back in the 1920s, there was quite a presence here" of the Ku Klux Klan, Prillaman says

Tags: wicca, school, controversy

24 hours in pictures - May 19

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:02:51 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Burma: Women sit next to their destroyed home in the Irrawaddy delta

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

hunderstorm passes dramatically over the village of Bardovci near Skopje, Macedonia

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

policeman uses a fire extinguisher on a man who was set alight during ongoing anti-immigrant attacks in the Ramaphosa slum

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Beichuan

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Dublin, Ireland: The Keltic Dreams Irish dancing group from the New York's Bronx mix traditional Irish and African dance, hip-hop and salsa

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Cannes

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Beruit

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Belgrade, Serbia: People light candles during an Aids International candlelight memorial

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Belgrade

hailstorm

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Fort Mitchell,

fundraiser at a private residence

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Students pay their respects to victims of the earthquake during a school ceremony as China begins three days of national mourning

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Buddhists celebrate the holy day to commemorate the birth, enlightenment and passing of Buddha

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Lyon's football supporters celebrate with the players in Terreaux Square after their team wrapped up their seventh straight French championship with a 3-1 win at Auxerre

Tags: photos, world

Clipmarks | Candles Clips

California Soon To Be Reading By Candlelight

Mother Nature demands Californians pass Prop. 7

What Happens When You Don't Build Power Plants

Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain

On generosity

Ring of Fire...nice pic...

Woman injured by sword in Wiccan ceremony

Pope Reasserts Catholic Supremacy Over Protestants

Pope: Other denominations not true churches

Benedict issues statement asserting that Jesus established ‘only one church’

*jumping* Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

How Is a Hurricane Like Christmas?

Gathering of the Loonies

The Pikes Peak Center Conference

Politics and the English Language - G. Orwell

One Year Since Madeleine Disappeared

Unusual chocolate flavoured items

12 Odd & Unusual Chocolate Flavored Items

Mayor welcomes "Witch school"

24 hours in pictures - May 19

jumping Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!