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List of books Palin wanted banned--wow!

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:20:44 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Thanks to Eddie Angel on LJ

From Shakespeare to Huxley...92 in all... see entire list--it'll blow yer mind.

Clip Source: community.livejournal.com

Books (then) Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library. When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired. This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Blubber by Judy Blume

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Christine by Stephen King

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cujo by Stephen King

Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

Decameron by Boccaccio

The Living Bible by William C. Bower

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

struggling

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:06:56 GMT

clipped by: laumerritt

Clip Source: www.clipartof.com

Image description
Royalty-free people clipart picture of a woman in a purple dress holding up a heavy barbell with a man at each end, struggling to hold the weights up.

2/7/2008 - Two men hold weights as woman pretends to be strong.

BCBG Max Azria Spring 2009 Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:44:57 GMT

clipped by: pitim

Clip Source: myitthings.com

BCBG Max Azria pulled out all the stops to present a collection that was so unabashedly va-va-voom sexy that it left hearts pounding and tongues wagging by the end. A tonal palette of grays and whites was the backdrop for occasional flashes of bright color that were likened to “blurs into the urban landscape.”

The sexiness was evoked in flowing and draped jersey fabrics that hung effortlessly off the body. The relaxed, airy effect was played against cinched waists. A dusty purple washed silk gown with a grey belt and satin platform pumps accurately represented the nature of the collection by combing a loose and draped silhouette with a feminine and powerful waist that demands attention.

There was also a certain utilitarian “workman” chic that came through in jumpsuits and dresses with pockets that often contrasted with the overtly seductive nature of the garments.

A Top 40 Hit

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:21:29 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Another poem.

Clip Source: www.lablit.com

Excerpt from the NASA ROCKS collection

John Thomas Clark 10 August 2008

It’s a star-filled night in nineteen fifty-
eight and atop Lookout Point your car is
positioned toward the North Star, Polaris,

for the best airwaves. The DJ’s cool, drifty

voice says the top song on the Billboard poll
that week (after a special long distance
dedication) affirms the existence

of purple aliens who like rock-and-roll.

Now NASA beams “Across the Universe”
(Beatles Rule!) on its fortieth ann’y
to every outer space nook and cranny –

long distance dedication to dispurse

its funds. Dearthbound Beatles fans, Dr Geldzahler –

purpled, aliened – might sing with your research dollar.

Tags: who'd, 'a, thought? space, inspired, poetry

GOP Campaign Themes

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:20:45 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: They also find it Very Easy to Condemn those that give Service to Their Lives and Freedoms!

Last election cycle they Laughed at and Mocked the Military Service of one of the Presidential Candidates who Served This Country In Vietnam, just as I Did, and being in the same service branch, the U.S. Navy, they Spit on my Service, All my brother and sister Naval personal who served In-Country, and All the other Service Personal, but most of All, All Those Who Have Served This Country and Received It's Highest Honor For That Service, The Purple Heart!!!

I was waiting to see how they would Slam their Fellow Americans this year. Well they started early, peppering their talking points with the words needed, leading up to their Convention, and Let Both Barrels Go, Loud and Clear!!

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: jimstaro

Thu Sep 04, 2008

These people have No Self Worth, I'm talking about those that just hang to this imaginary, once proud, Republican Tag. Even still calling themselves Conservative!

They allow themselves to be led around like the robots they've become, and frankly some on the Democratic side are just as willing, but the fall into line and march in lockstep Falls Souly on the GOP!

They've been Silent and Accepting of the Lies that led our Troops into Occupations and All that has come about because of that, the torturing, the no-bid contracts, the corruption, the deaths and maiming' s................................................, and oh so much more!

They've been Silent and Accepting as our Freedoms have been slowly stripped away, and Accepting of Rule by Executive Branch Alone ignoring the fact they have hired others to Represent Them!

GOP Campaign Themes

All Those Who Have Served This Country and Received It's Highest Honor For That Service, The Purple Heart!!!

Tags: troops, speak, out

pets with hangovers-pictures

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:35:43 GMT

clipped by: silvanaraihane

Clip Source: snuzzy.com

9 Reasons Your Pet Should Give Up Drinking

09/02/08

Unless your pet wants to have embarrassing pictures flying around the Interwebs, helping him or her to kick the bottle NOW is a darn good idea. Here’s what can happen after…

6 beers:

2 glasses of wine:

2 bottles of wine (shared, of course):

too many margaritas:

3 Kamikazes:

7 rum & cokes:

1 large purple haze:

3 martinis:

1 bottle of tequila:

Dark Dancer clover ground cover

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:43:30 GMT

clipped by: polycline

Clip Source: www.waysidegardens.com

Botanical Name: Trifolium repens var. atropurpureum Dark Dancer

Smart Black-and-White Ground Cover!
Evergreen in warm climates.

cv. Dark Dancer. Here's a groundcover with a delightful difference: deep purple to black foliage and white blooms in summer! Ready to spread as far as you will let it, this exceptionally fast-growing, vigorous Four-Leaf Clover keeps its dark foliage from spring till frost, and even year-round in warm climates. The blooms show off the dark leaves to great effect, and the dense habit is quite attractive scrambling across bare ground.

Black Four-Leafed Clover thrives in sun to part shade, demonstrating great resistance to heat, humidity, and other garden stresses. It needs little attention from you to keep looking its best. 4 to 8 inches high, it spreads at least a foot wide unless restrained. You may find a few stems with just three leaves, but you'll have plenty more with the lucky four, especially as the plant grows to maturity! Zones 4-11.

Oil Bubbles Point to Eco Disaster in Paradise

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:17:39 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Collapse danger

"What is frightening is that the Hoyo appears to be leaking from an area where oil was stored," Jeffery told New Scientist.

Nor is the Hoyo Maru the only ship to be leaking oil – although for now, it is the only tanker which has been seen to leak.

Jeffery and his colleagues are now seeking Japanese historians and shipping experts who could remotely assess the contents of the Hoyo's oil storage tanks. If the ship is found to contain large amounts of diesel, this will need to be pumped out in order to avoid severe damage to the local biodiversity and economy.

The situation is likely to repeat itself around the Pacific over coming years. "A lot of these wrecks are in areas where the communities just don't have the resources to deal with oil pollution," warns Jeffery.

In 2003, the US government pumped 10 million litres of fuel from the sunken hull of the USS Mississinewa, a US tanker that was destroyed by the Japanese in 1944 in the Western Pacific.

Clip Source: environment.newscientist.com

A sunken oil tanker, one of dozens on the bottom of Micronesia's Chuuk Lagoon, is releasing streams of purple diesel bubbles. On 31 July, the resulting oil slick was 5 kilometres long.

Corrosion experts say the 52 wrecks in Chuuk Lagoon could collapse in a few years, yet no-one knows how much fuel was inside the vessels when they sank. The problem could take on astonishing proportions: more than 380 other tankers lie at the bottom of the Pacific.

The wrecks are overgrown with coral, house a huge diversity of tropical fish, and attract tourists, who provide welcome income to the local population.

The teams were told from the start that the wrecks occasionally leaked fuel, which at times washed up on local islands, polluting mangroves. It was originally thought that the leaks were of aviation fuel – some of the sunken ships carried thin drums of fuel to supply Japanese fighter planes in the region.

Tags: world war ii, sunken diesel tankers, supply japanese fighter planes, pacific ocean, micronesia

Plastic Moulding

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:34:35 GMT

clipped by: TheJurg

Clip Source: www.funaku.co.za

Category : Plastics - Blow Moulding

Hilfort Plastics (PTY) Ltd
3 Electron Street

Stikland

Tel: 021 948 0675
Fax: 021 948 0698
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Bowler Pet
Springfield Road

Philippi

Tel: 021 703 0460
Fax: 021 703 0474
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Ayber Bottle CC
10 Marine Drive

Paarden Eiland

Tel: 021 510 6014
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Peninsula Plastics
72 Bofor Circle

Epping Industria 1

Tel: 021 535 0735
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Petpak
Fitzmaurice Avenue

Eppingdust

Tel: 021 505 8500
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Purple Line Plastics (PTY) Ltd
Breach Road

Stikland

Tel: 021 948 5042
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Volcanic sunsets

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:57 GMT

clipped by: mariana3

Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

This weekend, observers around Europe are reporting the same "volcanic sunsets" widely observed last week in North America.

"This was probably due to aerosols in the stratosphere spewed by the August 7th eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian Islands."

Meanwhile, back in the USA, "the sky is on fire," reports Doug Zubenel of Kansas. "The colors tonight (Aug. 30th) were about as vivid as I have ever seen (photos)." One state away in Nebraska, Jerry Chab reports "the sky was white at the horizon and turned yellow, orange, red, purple, blue then finally black up high (photos). It was like a rainbow in clear skies!"

Tags: astronomy, climate, geology, volcano, sky, sunset

Intense colour photo

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:48 GMT

clipped by: IareSeriousBusiness

Clip Source: 2photo.ru

Tags: photography, photo, grapes, woman, purple, lips

Green Roofs Offer More Than Color for the Skyline

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:10:44 GMT

clipped by: zalisan
clipper's remarks: When sunshine hits a blacktop roof, it heats the building beneath it as well as the area nearby. When it hits plants on a roof, in contrast, the plants not only absorb the sunshine, but cool the air when the water in their leaves evaporates.

Temperatures on buildings with green roofs are up to 30 percent lower during the daytime in the summer than they are on those with conventional roofs, which means that tenants on the floors below do not have to run their air-conditioning as much. Con Ed has teamed up with Columbia University’s Center for Climate Systems Research to evaluate the benefits, using rooftop sensors to measure the temperature, wind and water runoff. Con Edison said it hoped to use the findings to encourage customers to install green roofs themselves.

David Westman, the resource conservation coordinator at Con Edison, said, “It’s not only the right thing to do, but it can make economic sense.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The roof of a Con Edison training center in Long Island City is covered with sedum, an absorbent plant typically found in deserts.

The thousands of recently planted green and purple shrublike sedum lining the roof of Con Edison’s training center in Long Island City look a bit out of place in the shadow of Manhattan’s skyline.

But the tiny absorbent leaves and modest but hardy roots of the sedum — typically found in desert climates — are at the center of a growing effort to reduce greenhouse gases, rainwater runoff and electricity demand in New York.

This month, Gov. David A. Paterson approved tax abatements to developers and building owners who install green roofs, or a layer of vegetation and rock that absorbs rainwater, insulates buildings and extends the lives of roofs. Sedum, which soaks up water quickly and releases it slowly, is an ideal plant for the job.

The best locations for green roofs are buildings with large, flat tops well exposed to the sun.

it can make economic sense.

25 Most Colorful Lakes on Earth

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:03:22 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Turquoise and Blue Lakes

Peyto Lake

Banff National Park

Alberta

Canada

Perito Moreno

Patagonia

Argentina

gets its vibrant turquoise color from light reflecting off suspended glacier ice melt particles.

Five Flower Lake

China

known for its crystal turquoise waters

The floor

is littered with ancient fallen trees from the surrounding forests.

This volcanic lake in Flores had been turned bright turquoise from algae and bacteria living in the water.

Bacteria may have turned this lake a blue/brown color but we can’t help thinking of steaming hot chocolate when we look at the picture.

Mmmm.

Blanca Lake

Washington

Yamdrok Tso

meaning Turquoise Lake

Tibet

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Green and Yellow Lakes

Bolivia

Wise Lake

South Carolina

turned green from overhanging trees

Kournas Lake

Crete

Golden Lake

Bluff Lake

Mississippi

Henley Lake

New Zealand

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Purple and Red Lakes

Switzerland

French Alps

Red salt lake

Tunisia

Bolivia

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

Token Sunset Lake Pics

Berlin

Lake Francis

California

Lake Murray

South Carolina

Lake Tahoe

California/Nevada

Lake Michigan

Tags: nature, photos, photography, colors

purple zebra

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:00:04 GMT

clipped by: new_me

Clip Source: www.hotfreelayouts.com

Love bracelet

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:40:22 GMT

clipped by: teacherina

Clip Source: www.activityvillage.co.uk

Love Bracelets

You will need:

Craft foam (in pink, purple or red)
Hook and eye fasteners
Foam stickers (hearts, flowers and letters) or other embellishments

Instructions:

Cut a rectangle of craft foam 1 inch wide and long enough to go around your wrist with an inch to spare. If you like you can cut the edges of the rectangle into a pattern.

Stick the eye fastening to one end of the front of the bracelet, and stick the hook fastening to the back of the bracelet at the other end.

Decorate with the foam stickers or other embellishments.

Tags: children valentine