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Fatwah envy

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:36:10 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

We prefer our Jebus impotent, please

Somebody took offense again. An art museum in England is exhibiting some controversial statues, and of course some kook can't just stay away, they have to make sure no one else gets to see them.

A Christian group is taking an art centre to court, claiming it displayed an indecent statue of Jesus Christ.

The artwork was part of an exhibition at Gateshead's Baltic Centre featuring several plaster figures with erections, including ET, Mickey Mouse and Jesus.

Lawyers for Christian Emily Mapfuwa, 40, of Essex, are bringing a civil case for outraging public decency.

It seems a little unkind to demand that the poor guy be eternally flaccid, as well as tortured. And look! Fatwah envy!

Mrs Mapfuwa, of Brentwood, said Baltic would not have dared depict Mohammed in such a way.

Drunk Builders & Mad Architects

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:51:28 GMT

clipped by: tanjazaric

Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

How would you explain that all these "structures" passed the quality control and house inspections? Only by the possible fact that controllers and inspectors were drunk too. Or just near-sighted. I really want to believe the latter, but in some countries they are actually neither drunk or blind - but handsomely bribed. See for yourself:

It all starts with mad designs:

Foundation? Basement? Who needs it, lets get more creative:

Oh, I like that. Great idea -

Something somewhere did not work out for these builders... -

More than plumbing. A work of art.

One is labeled "Red", the other "Blue". Can't go wrong here -

There is something in my wa...

This one will launch you into the air:

...or into the basement:

Some statues don't stay erect for very long (this time earthquake was responsible) -

Whatever it was before... (we really hope it was more than that):

Best theft protection:

Using the old bus as a brick storage:

Don't park your BMW anywhere close to these guys:

Enter the bathroom (with caution):

Tags: architecture, buildings, construction

Jon Stewart: I’ve got as much authority as McCain in the Georgia situation.

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:56:23 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Dropy Dog and Howdy Dudy ain't gonna cut it, McCain.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Jon Stewart mocks President Bush’s lack of short-term memory about when it’s OK to invade other countries, as well as McCain’s presumptuousness for dispatching “Droopy-Dog and Howdy Doody” (Lieberman and Graham) to Georgia, despite his status as candidate for President.

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Do you guys have any short term memory? Do you have anything? You just said, yeah let’s be clear about it, you can’t just overthrow a government, occupy a capital, knock over their statues, stack their prisoners, refer to the, refer to the horrific level of civilian casualties as birth pangs of democracy. Of course obviously this situation isn’t just the dangerous escalation of once mordent cold war hostilities. It’s a chance for our Presidential nominees to get inside the Commander in Chief simulator, and play a little make believe.

Tags: russia, georgia, campaign, mclame, politics, looserman

Weird Statues...

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:44:49 GMT

clipped by: birdie-brain

Clip Source: haha.nu

Tags: weird, strange, statues, statue, world, strange statues around the world

Dozens blinded in India looking for Virgin Mary in the sun

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:47:42 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

At least 50 people have lost their sight after staring at the sun hoping to see an image of the Virgin Mary, according to reports.

Alarmed health authorities in India's Kottayam district have set up a sign dispelling rumours of a miraculous image in the sky and warning of the dangers of looking into direct sunlight.

Forty-eight cases of sight-loss, allegedly caused by photochemical burns on the retina, have been recorded at St Joseph's ENT and Eye hospital in the region since Friday.

Despite warnings, and the potentially harmful effects of their actions, believers are allegedly still flocking to a hotelier's house in Erumeli near where the divine image is said to have appeared.

The hotelier, who has since moved, had claimed that statues of the Virgin Mary in his house have been crying honey and bleeding oils and perfumes.

Tags: india, christian, health, sun, medical

Google Earth Cool Places

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:42:11 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.googleearthcoolplaces.com

Tags: geography, geology, interesting, nature, science

The Library at Nineveh

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:35:46 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

In 1849 a young English adventurer called Henry Layard started digging into a small hill. It was on the banks of the River Tigris in Northern Iraq and underneath it was the ancient city of Nineveh.

Layard found extraordinary things - wonderful carved reliefs, ancient palace rooms and great statues of winged bulls. He also found a collection of clay tablets, broken up, jumbled around and sitting on the floor of a toilet. It was the remnants of a library and although Layard didn’t know it at the time, it was one of the greatest archaeological finds ever made.

Clip Source: knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk

Collectively, the Nineveh tablets are rather loosely known as Assurbanipal's Library, after the monarch who ruled Nineveh in 668-c.630 BC

Clip Source: www.britishmuseum.org

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the myth of the goddess Ishtar's visit to her sister, the underworld goddess Ereshkigal

Clip Source: www.britishmuseum.org

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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The Epic of Creation

the British Museum has enumerated some 3,700 scholarly tablets from Assurbanipal's Library written in Babylonian script and dialect

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

12 Monuments Dedicated to Amazing Women

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:55:02 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08

Clip Source: weburbanist.com

12 Monuments Dedicated to Amazing Women: From Joan of Arc to the Working Women of Amsterdam

In Zalongo, northwestern part of Greece, lies a grandiose monument dedicated to the Women of Kassope

on the Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, The Famous Five or The Valiant Five statues

n the memory of

the women’s rights movement in Canada in 1920s, because at that time women weren’t allowed to vote.

Queen Victoria

monument was sculpted 40 years later by Louis-Philippe Hébert, from Quebec

Unknown Woman Worker monument is located in Belfast, UK,

emblematic figure in French history

Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc)

National Women’s Monument or the Vrouemonument from Bloemfontein, South Africa

dedicated to

27,000 martyr women who died during the Boer War

Rosenstrasse monument

old Jewish quarter of Berlin

Dulcinea,

Located in Madrid, Spain

Sybil Ludington,

in Carmel, New York,

Molly Pitcher

in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

New York State Women Veterans Memorial

Madison Avenue

Red Light District Statue in Amsterdam

Tags: monuments, women, memorials, joan of arc, heroines, womens lib, womanhood

The history of Jocko

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:24:59 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: I never knew any of this.

Clip Source: www.mountainhomeplace.com

The story begins the icy night in December 1776 when General George Washington decided to cross the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on the British forces at Trenton.

Jocko Graves, a twelve-year-old African-American, sought to fight the Redcoats, but Washington deemed him too young and ordered him to look after the horses, asking Jocko to keep a lantern blazing along the Delaware so the company would know where to return after battle. Many hours later, Washington and his men returned to their horses who were tied up to Graves, he had frozen to death with the lantern still clenched in his fist. Washington was so moved by the young boy's devotion to the revolutionary cause he commissioned a statue of the "Faithful Groomsman" to stand in Graves's honor at the general's estate in Mount Vernon.

the Jocko statues pointed to the safe houses of the Underground Railroad. Along the Mississippi River, a green ribbon tied to a statue's arm

indicated safety; a red ribbon meant danger.

Tags: jocko, lawn jockey, underground railroad