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Behind The Facade

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:18:29 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Reality is unforgiving. There is no escape.
The Michael-mania that has erupted since Jackson’s death — not just an appreciation of his music, but a giddy celebration of his life — is yet another spasm of the culture opting for fantasy over reality. We don’t want to look under the rock that was Jackson’s real life.

As with so many other things, we don’t want to know."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Meeting Michael Jackson in the mid-1980s was one of the creepier experiences of my life.

There was something about his overall behavior that weirded me out. He seemed, even then, to be a person who was trying with all of his being to step outside of reality and leave it behind.

Emmanuel Lewis, the child star of the hit TV series “Webster,” was with Jackson that evening.

I remember thinking as I left the Garden that Jackson had treated Lewis almost as a pet.

In many ways we descended as a society into a fantasyland, trying to leave the limits and consequences and obligations of the real world behind. Politicians stopped talking about the poor. We built up staggering amounts of debt and called it an economic boom. We shipped jobs overseas by the millions without ever thinking seriously about how to replace them. We let New Orleans drown.

Katie Holmes Confirmed on [So You Think You Can Dance] / Katie Holmes sex tape

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:39:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: VIDEO LEAKED
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Katie Holmes Confirmed on [So You Think You Can Dance] / Katie Holmes sex tape

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Sexy Naughty Teens

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:39:36 GMT

clipped by: Grantlee120
clipper's remarks: Naughty Teens are most desired by all men. Their naughty behavior makes life full of entertainment. If you are interested to meet the most beautiful and Naughty Girls, http://www.girlnaughty.co.uk/ can fulfill your this desire.

Clip Source: www.69adulttoys.com

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Landmark Ruling

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:37:37 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "One change the ruling could bring soon,activists said, is in dealings with corrupt police officers, who reportedly sometimes extort money by threatening to apply the law or "out" gays and lesbians to friends or family.

Akash Verma, 26, a Delhi resident, said he was returning home late one night in 2004 when two intoxicated policemen who suspected he was gay stole about $20 from his bag and demanded sex, but released him. Verma said other officers later "strongly advised" against filing a complaint.

Although Verma's account could not be independently verified, gay rights activists said such behavior by police is not uncommon."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

The Delhi High Court issued a landmark ruling Thursday decriminalizing homosexuality, a move that could bring more freedom to millions of people in this deeply conservative nation.

The ruling said that treating relations between consenting adult homosexuals as a crime is a violation of basic human rights safeguarded under the Indian Constitution.

For many homosexuals, the immediate effect on their personal lives will not be dramatic. There's still a strong social stigma here against gays and lesbians, with young people often pressured to marry early and produce grandchildren.

"There's still a mental block," said Rahil Zafar, 22, a student, wearing a bandanna over his face to hide his identity from television cameras as he celebrated. "I don't want my family to know. They keep the pressure on me."

TSA To Start Patrols of Chicago Commuter Trains

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:22:56 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Looking for, among other things, "suspicious activity." Civil rights? Not so much.

Clip Source: www.suburbanchicagonews.com

ELGIN — Area Metra riders soon will have to make room for a new kind of passenger along their daily commutes.

Metra announced Tuesday plans to allow security teams from the federal Transportation Security Administration to regularly patrol trains coming in and out of Chicago.

Metra spokeswoman Meg Reile said the measure was not in response to any specific threat to the trains, but rather part of an overall effort to enhance safety.

Known as Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response, or VIPR, teams are composed of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, explosives detection canine teams and behavior detection officers, who look out for passengers displaying suspicious activity. VIPR was formed in response to the 2004 commuter train bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.

Romantic Love does not exist...says God

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:48:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.brainfartsonline.com

HEAVEN – February 14, 2009 – God announced today that romantic love, as it has come to be known by modern human societies, does not exist.

What humans perceive to be this type of love, He stated, is actually just the result of genetic programming inserted into our DNA that compels us to propagate the species. All forms of life have it, He revealed.

“It’s just that humans have taken it so far because they like to feel superior,” God noted in a press release. “But you don’t see rabbits playing silly emotional games, buying each other jewelry, and making goo-goo eyes. Rabbits are just taking care of business. I swear, people are ri-goddamn-diculous sometimes.”

romantic love is one of the most powerful of all emotions – from man’s earliest recorded history we have seen various forms of behavior patterns and related emotions that support this notion. Organized religion has embraced the concept and turned it into marriage

Tags: romantic, love, god

The Trouble With Socialism

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:58:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Liberals can never say exactly what they want because it’s scary. That’s why they don’t work on talk radio. If they say what they’re goals are unfiltered, it even scares themselves. Look at college campuses; if liberals were unrestrained, is there any doubt their final goal would be socialism and fascism? They inch into any control they can have about our finances and behavior and clamp down on it like wolverines never letting go, but they never talk about their ultimate goals except in the vaguest terms (”Change and happiness!”) because they’re well aware of how much it would freak people out. They want socialism and government control, but they just don’t want to state it that way.

Conservative ideals can be stated frankly, though, and not send people running. It can be a little scary - freedom and responsibility is scary - but it’s an argument people will accept.

We need to state frankly what our goals are. Lay out a real vision for the future to inspire people.

Clip Source: www.nbra.info

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Tags: no to socialism, yes to freedom

Monkey see, monkey do...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:48:48 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: "These four kinds of behavior — empathy, the ability to learn and follow social rules, reciprocity and peacemaking — are the basis of sociality.

De Waal sees human morality as having grown out of primate sociality, but with two extra levels of sophistication. People enforce their society's moral codes much more rigorously with rewards, punishments and reputation building. They also apply a degree of judgment and reason, for which there are no parallels in animals."
Natural selection favors organisms that survive and reproduce, by whatever means. And it has provided people, he writes in "Primates and Philosophers," with "a compass for life's choices that takes the interests of the entire community into account, which is the essence of human morality."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Biologist sees human morality evolving from the sociality of primates

Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.

all social animals have had to constrain or alter their behavior in various ways for group living to be worthwhile. These constraints, evident in monkeys and even more so in chimpanzees, are part of human inheritance, too, and in his view form the set of behaviors from which human morality has been shaped

Many philosophers find it hard to think of animals as moral beings, and indeed de Waal does not contend that even chimpanzees possess morality. But he argues that human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.

Tags: biology, morality, society

Shakespeare - blame others

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:20:32 GMT

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Clip Source: corner.nationalreview.com

This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!

~Shakespeare (Edmund, in Lear)

Bag Cell Peptides

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:39:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: BIO-SYNTHESIS, INC., is a leading life science products company with over 20 years of experience in the design and synthesis of Custom Peptide, small molecules and reagents for small scale research and bulk pharmaceutical trials. Using state of the art technology in our well-equipped laboratories.

Clip Source: bio-synthesis.blogspot.com

Bag Cell Peptides

Definition

Bag cell peptides (BCPs) are a class of small neuropeptides secreted by the bag cell neurons in the marine mollusk Aplysia1. They trigger a series of reproductive behavior in this mollusk that finally culminates in egg-laying1.

Discovery

BCPs were originally identified in the bag cell extracts of abdominal ganglion of mature Aplysia that were obtained in Venice, CA2. They were isolated based on their ability to cause bag cell excitation2.

Classification

Bag cell specific gene that encodes for the precursor form of the egg laying hormone also contains sequences that encode several small BCPs: a-BCP, b-BCP, g-BCP2, d-BCP3,4 and e-BCP5.

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An Ant Colony Rivals Human Spread..

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:11:55 GMT

clipped by: Gul Agha

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Ant mega-colony takes over world

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.

Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.

In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the 'Californian large', extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan.

While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart.

it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.

Tags: insects, behavior

The Plight of the Gorilla Who Escaped

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:09:02 GMT

clipped by: celestialdancer
clipper's remarks: Can't help but "feel" for this gorilla. I think I might feel as crazy as he does if it was me.

Clip Source: uglyoverload.blogspot.com

[Video]

This is Bokito, a gorilla housed in the Rotterdam Zoo, who achieved international fame on May 18, 2007, for escaping his enclosure, attacking a woman, and then going on a smashing spree in a nearby restaurant. He was sedated with a tranquilizer gun and placed back in his enclosure, which is (has been?) to be upgraded to include one-way mirrors for visitor viewing, as opposed to the open windows that had him living in a fishbowl environment.

The woman he attacked had been visiting him on average four times a week, and claimed a special bond with him. She is seen in the video below.

any primatologist will tell you, don't make eye contact with primates: it will see such behavior as a challenge and will make them angry

It's no wonder that Bokito sought out this woman and savaged her, including a many-times-over fractured arm and over 100 bite marks.

Despite having been warned by zoo staff to stop antagonizing Bokito, she's now suing the zoo (or was, as of 2007).

Tags: ethics of zoos, gorilla escape, gorilla attack

"'Nothing Evil to Say'"

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:54:48 GMT

clipped by: kris_tea
clipper's remarks: The verses she is talking about come from Titus 2

Clip Source: www.girltalkhome.com

“Nothing Evil to Say”

This purpose is stated in verses 5, 8, and 10. We are to love our husbands and children, pursue self-control and purity, be workers at home, kind and submissive:

that the word of God may not be reviled. (v. 5)

so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (v. 8)

so that in everything [we] may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. (v. 10)

Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn’t judge us by our theology; the world judges us by our behavior. People don’t necessarily want to know what we believe about the Bible. They want to see if what we believe makes a difference in our lives. Our actions either bring honor to God or misrepresent His truth.

How sobering it is to realize that our behavior has the potential to discredit the gospel.

Workplace Rights

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:21:23 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: cont.

If you don’t talk about your personal life at all, you don’t form connections or friendships with your co-workers. You are perceived as ‘distant.’ That is not a behavior that tends to lead to promotion or professional recognition.

The remaining option is to change pronouns and names. This is a nuisance. Forming relationships with co-workers based on lying is not likely to lead to long-term friendships. If you do form friendships, you have to go to great lengths to keep your work friends away from your real friends, where ‘real’ is defined as people you don’t feel compelled to lie to.

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Homophobia and discrimination in the workplace

In college I wrote my senior thesis on homophobia in the workplace. I had to give a presentation to my classmates, most of whom had never considered the issue. The common sentiment was that homosexuality belonged behind bedroom doors and should not be discussed in the workplace. It is the equivalent of a 'don't ask, don't tell' employment contract. Like many people, my classmates were oblivious to the many ways they indirectly, and directly, identify themselves as heterosexual to their co-workers every day.

Whether you have a picture of your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend or kids in your office or you chat with co-workers about a camping trip, movie or dinner last night with your family or beloved, you are identifying your sexual orientation indirectly, in countless ways, every day.

When you are gay and do the same thing, it may make co-workers uncomfortable, you risk becoming water cooler fodder and/or you may be fired.

Stressed men more likely to gamble

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble

New research, to be published July 1 in the journal PLoS One, shows that men under stress may be more likely to take risks, correlating to such real-life behavior as gambling, smoking, unsafe sex and illegal drug use

In contrast, stressed women moderate their behavior and may be less likely to make risky choices, the study found.

"Evolutionarily speaking, it's perhaps more beneficial for men to be aggressive in stressful, high-arousal situations when risk and reward are involved,"

"Applied to financial risk taking, it's akin to competition for territory or other valuable resources."

Stressful experiences have been shown to stimulate the release of cortisol, commonly known as the "stress hormone." Participants randomly assigned to the stress group held a hand in ice-cold water, which raised cortisol levels, particularly among female participants. No participants were using hormone birth control.