Frustrated Horney Faggot Many Believe to Be BiPolar or Too Depressing To Hang With......LITERALLY. Have Trouble Understanding.... Then why ask: "Hey man! Sup?" Or, If Like My Mother; Having To Hang Up On Her Repeatedly Cause She Won't Stop Calling Me; Worried Her Son Will Die and No One Would Know if She Didn't!
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So Strong; yet so calm: Mary's Choice.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Social Justice?
Here are some quotes regarding socialism:
Sir Winston Churchill said, “You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.”
Alexis de Tocqueville said, “After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
Benjamin Franklin said, “Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.”
Fredrich August von Hayek said, “I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.”
America has NEVER been a democracy. Anyone who knows the history of our founding and the intentions of those who framed the foundation of our nation know this very well. Of course, revisionist history has painted a picture of America that is not at all true to what it really is.
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” (The Constitution of the United States)?
“If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interest, or that of their families, counties, and party, to that of the nation collectively, some provision must be made in the constitution, in favor of justice, to compel all to respect the common right, the public good, the universal law, in preference to all private and partial considerations... And that the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of history... To remedy the dangers attendant upon the arbitrary use of power, checks, however multiplied, will scarcely avail without an explicit admission some limitation of the right of the majority to excercise sovereign authority over the individual citizen... In popular governments [democracies], minorities [individuals] constantly run much greater risk of suffering from arbitrary power than in absolute monarchies...” (John Adams)
“No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’” (John Adams)
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” (John Adams)
“All good government is and must be republican. But at the same time, you can or will agree with me, that there is not in lexicography a more fraudulent word... Are we not, my friend, in danger of rendering the word republican unpopular in this country by an indiscreet, indeterminate, and equivocal use of it?...Whenever I use the word republic with approbation, I mean a government in which the people have collectively, or by representation, an essential share in the sovereignty.” (John Adams)
“No good government but what is republican…the very definition of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’”
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com
Never wise one half of two,
taking advantage the upper hand;
the other able, although fair,
not alway raising two objections.
Until definitely understanding better: the mating habit of angels
Just be wise aware: not always an angel, even if just briefly.
by Simply Jim
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com:
"Eva Slomobits, 82, a lifelong Democrat who campaigned for Weiner, said now, 'I definitely won't vote for him. I think of him as a different person.' 'He betrayed his wife,' Slomobits added. 'You have to think before you make a mistake.'
Others took the opposite position.
'Actually, I'm glad he's not resigning,' Patrick Riley said. 'What he does on his personal time is his business.'
Whether or not Weiner retains his congressional seat, many analysts believe he has almost certainly lost his spot as a front-runner in New York's 2013 mayoral election.
Weiner's admission of fault came after images were published on BigGovernment.com, a conservative website run by Andrew Breitbart, that apparently show Weiner shirtless
.
Breitbart's website was the first to publish an incriminating photo, sent May 27 via Twitter from Weiner's account, of a man in his underwear.
Weiner initially released written statements claiming that he was the victim of a hacker and a prank. He has since said he lied about being a victim because he was 'ashamed.'
'I didn't want to get caught,' he admitted."
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com:
"Cantor told reporters that with all the challenges facing the country, 'the last thing we need is to be immersed in discussion about Congressman Weiner and his Twitter activities,' according to Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring.
Asked if Weiner should resign, Cantor said that was up to the congressman and his constituents, but added: 'I certainly don't condone his activity and I think he should resign,' Dayspring noted.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who has been an ally of Weiner from the Republican side of the aisle, said Weiner will 'have to look at himself to make that decision,' but that Weiner's trustworthiness is spent.
Asked by CNN's Elliot Spitzer on 'In the Arena' Tuesday what advice he would have for Weiner, as a friend, Chaffetz replied: 'I don't see any option but to step down.'
As pressure built for some indication about the Ethics Committee's intentions, the panel's Republican chairman and ranking Democratic member issued a statement Tuesday night underscoring -- without mentioning Weiner -- their duty to impartiality and confidentiality:
'If and when an investigation is appropriate in any matter, the committee will carry out its responsibilities pursuant to our rules and with the utmost integrity and fairness,' said the statement from Reps. Jo Bonner, R-Alabama, and Linda Sanchez, D-California. 'Pursuant to our rules of confidentiality, we will not have any further comment at this time.'"
"Cantor told reporters that with all the challenges facing the country, 'the last thing we need is to be immersed in discussion about Congressman Weiner and his Twitter activities,' according to Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring.
Asked if Weiner should resign, Cantor said that was up to the congressman and his constituents, but added: 'I certainly don't condone his activity and I think he should resign,' Dayspring noted.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who has been an ally of Weiner from the Republican side of the aisle, said Weiner will 'have to look at himself to make that decision,' but that Weiner's trustworthiness is spent.
Asked by CNN's Elliot Spitzer on 'In the Arena' Tuesday what advice he would have for Weiner, as a friend, Chaffetz replied: 'I don't see any option but to step down.'
As pressure built for some indication about the Ethics Committee's intentions, the panel's Republican chairman and ranking Democratic member issued a statement Tuesday night underscoring -- without mentioning Weiner -- their duty to impartiality and confidentiality:
'If and when an investigation is appropriate in any matter, the committee will carry out its responsibilities pursuant to our rules and with the utmost integrity and fairness,' said the statement from Reps. Jo Bonner, R-Alabama, and Linda Sanchez, D-California. 'Pursuant to our rules of confidentiality, we will not have any further comment at this time.'"
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com
Pressure grows for Weiner to resign - CNN.com:
"'I wish there was some way I could defend him, but I can't,' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told reporters Tuesday. Asked what he would say if Weiner sought advice, Reid smiled and responded: 'I'd tell him to call someone else.'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who called for an ethics investigation Monday, released a letter Tuesday detailing her formal request for the inquiry.
Weiner publicly apologized Monday for sending flirtatious messages and images on Facebook and Twitter to six women over the past three years and then denying it for a week."
"'I wish there was some way I could defend him, but I can't,' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told reporters Tuesday. Asked what he would say if Weiner sought advice, Reid smiled and responded: 'I'd tell him to call someone else.'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who called for an ethics investigation Monday, released a letter Tuesday detailing her formal request for the inquiry.
Weiner publicly apologized Monday for sending flirtatious messages and images on Facebook and Twitter to six women over the past three years and then denying it for a week."
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Breitbart: I Released Rep. Weiner Photos for 'Vindication' - Interviews - FoxNews.com
Breitbart: I Released Rep. Weiner Photos for 'Vindication' - Interviews - FoxNews.com:
"MEAGAN BROUSSARD, RECEIVED PICTURES FROM REP. WEINER: I wouldn't say victim. But I would say, I don't know, I mean, he obviously has some issues of impulse control."
(clip ends)
(clip begins)
HANNITY: Joining me now with reaction, the author of the best new brand -- sorry.
ANDREW BREITBART, AUTHOR, "RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION": It's a cook book.
HANNITY: Exactly, cook book. "Righteous Indignation, Excuse Me While I Save the World." The man behind so much of the story is Andrew Breitbart is here. And Mr. Breitbart, it's not often that a journalist gets -- well, we have to start at the beginning. So, I'm watching Fox News today. And, you know, we got all the cameras sitting there, and they're all waiting for the congressman to come out. And all of a sudden you are holding a press conference at his podium. How did that happen?
"MEAGAN BROUSSARD, RECEIVED PICTURES FROM REP. WEINER: I wouldn't say victim. But I would say, I don't know, I mean, he obviously has some issues of impulse control."
(clip ends)
(clip begins)
HANNITY: Joining me now with reaction, the author of the best new brand -- sorry.
ANDREW BREITBART, AUTHOR, "RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION": It's a cook book.
HANNITY: Exactly, cook book. "Righteous Indignation, Excuse Me While I Save the World." The man behind so much of the story is Andrew Breitbart is here. And Mr. Breitbart, it's not often that a journalist gets -- well, we have to start at the beginning. So, I'm watching Fox News today. And, you know, we got all the cameras sitting there, and they're all waiting for the congressman to come out. And all of a sudden you are holding a press conference at his podium. How did that happen?
Monday, June 6, 2011
Intimacy Checkup
Intimacy Checkup: "The final form of intimacy is “sexual intimacy.” Sex provides some of life’s greatest treasures, it also exposes us to some of life’s greatest hurts. You’ll hear very little on TV or at the movies about the sadness and anger that accompany sexual rejection. You’ll hear very little about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies. You’ll hear very little about sexual dysfunction -- except in commercials! You’ll hear very little about the cynicism of people who have had every conceivable sexual experience except a good one.
Full sexual intimacy is so personal, so mysterious, so profound, so sacred that it ought to be reserved for people who are bound together in an exclusive, life-long relationship."
Full sexual intimacy is so personal, so mysterious, so profound, so sacred that it ought to be reserved for people who are bound together in an exclusive, life-long relationship."
Our Logo
Our Logo: "Our Logo
The stylized “G” . . .
in our logo was inspired by the great oak trees that surround our sanctuary. There’s something about those trees that speaks of strength and stability. Arborists tell us they were planted well over 100 years ago. Like a tree Jesus talked about in one of his parables, those oaks grew and “the birds made their nests in their branches.”
Our church is like that. In 1920, a handful of people planted a seed that has grown to become Glenn Memorial as we know it.
Over the years, thousands of people have found a spiritual home in Glenn’s branches. Countless others have had their sufferings relieved, their burdens lessened, and their hopes lifted by its missions and ministries.
Like the Glenn oaks, we have deep roots in the past. Our logo reminds us that the function of roots is to produce new growth.
“Loving God, Loving Neighbor” . . .
sums up our mission, which is to fulfill the First Commandment of Jesus by loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength; and loving our neighbor as ourselves. (Mark 12:30, 31)"
The stylized “G” . . .
in our logo was inspired by the great oak trees that surround our sanctuary. There’s something about those trees that speaks of strength and stability. Arborists tell us they were planted well over 100 years ago. Like a tree Jesus talked about in one of his parables, those oaks grew and “the birds made their nests in their branches.”
Our church is like that. In 1920, a handful of people planted a seed that has grown to become Glenn Memorial as we know it.
Over the years, thousands of people have found a spiritual home in Glenn’s branches. Countless others have had their sufferings relieved, their burdens lessened, and their hopes lifted by its missions and ministries.
Like the Glenn oaks, we have deep roots in the past. Our logo reminds us that the function of roots is to produce new growth.
“Loving God, Loving Neighbor” . . .
sums up our mission, which is to fulfill the First Commandment of Jesus by loving God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength; and loving our neighbor as ourselves. (Mark 12:30, 31)"
Nancy Pelosi calls for Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Anthony Weiner - latimes.com
Nancy Pelosi calls for Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Anthony Weiner - latimes.com: "spokesman for the campaign arm of House Republicans called on the Democratic leadership 'to explain why Congressman Weiner's actions never aroused any suspicion, and why they rushed to his defense.'
Rep. Steve Israel, who represents Long Island and chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, backed Pelosi's call for an ethics investigation.
'Congressman Anthony Weiner engaged in a deep personal failure and inappropriate behavior that embarrassed himself, his family, and the House. Ultimately, Anthony and his constituents will make a judgment about his future,' Israel said.
House Ethics Committee officials declined to comment on the matter."
Rep. Steve Israel, who represents Long Island and chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, backed Pelosi's call for an ethics investigation.
'Congressman Anthony Weiner engaged in a deep personal failure and inappropriate behavior that embarrassed himself, his family, and the House. Ultimately, Anthony and his constituents will make a judgment about his future,' Israel said.
House Ethics Committee officials declined to comment on the matter."
New International Version (NIV Bible) - Version Information - BibleGateway.com
New International Version (NIV Bible) - Version Information - BibleGateway.com: "New International Version (NIV Bible)"
AVMA - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association - 238(11):1435 - Abstract
TO THE LIFE BOATS
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"All I want, is making enough owning a nice house and a boat.'"
AVMA - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association - 238(11):1435 - Abstract:
"Procedures—Personal statements were read by investigators to identify the turning point for each applicant's decision to pursue a career in veterinary medicine and each applicant's intended career path.
Results—Veterinary practice experience and animal ownership were the most frequently stated reasons for pursuing a veterinary career; differences were not identified between males and females. More Caucasian applicants than underrepresented minority (URM) applicants stated veterinary practice experience and more URM applicants than Caucasian applicants cited animal ownership as a reason for pursuing a veterinary career. Many applicants did not cite a specific career path within veterinary medicine; applicants who indicated a career path most often cited veterinary practice. More females than males stated an interest in equine medicine, and more Caucasian applicants than URM applicants indicated an interest in mixed animal practice. More URM applicants than Caucasian applicants indicated a desire to pursue specialty training.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Results suggested that veterinary practice experience and animal ownership were important factors influencing applicants' decision to pursue a veterinary career, but many applicants had not selected a specific career path. Opportunities exist to influence the decisions of individuals to become veterinarians and the selection of specific career paths within the veterinary profession."
Oh me Gosh!
GOD HATES FAGS
Eye Bee M!
W.A.S.P's including me are doomed!
"Gays were a god given gift."
True or False?
Your honor,
Honestly!ThoughtiURM.
And...
SHE was taking it out on ME.
And...
I'm Methodist whether I want to be or not.
I've said many times,
"If anyone in the Bible I could sympathize with, that character would have to be Sarah Lott."
In response, Lot refuses to give his guests to the inhabitants of Sodom and, instead, offers them his two virgin daughters to "do to them whatever you like." [Gen 19:8]NASB However, they refuse this offer and threaten to do worse to Lot than they would have done to his guests, and then lunged toward Lot to break down the door. Lot's angelic guests rescue him and strike the men with blindness.
Then, (not having found even 10 righteous people in the city) they command Lot to gather his family and leave, revealing that they were sent to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. As they make their escape, the angels command Lot and his family not to look back under any circumstance. However, as Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed by Yahweh with fire and brimstone, Lot's wife looks back at the city in defiance of the angels' specific command, and she becomes a pillar of salt.
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-American-Standard-Bible-NASB/
Moses in talking with the Israelites during the Exodus, refers to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Deuteronomy 29:22-23:
"Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it. The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger."
Purple Cow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Purple Cow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Purple Cow is the name of a well-known poem by Gelett Burgess, written in 1895:
The original 'Purple Cow,' from 1895I never saw a purple cow.
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."
Famously, Burgess became somewhat exasperated with the success of his poem, of which he was constantly reminded. A few years later, he penned a riposte that became almost as well-known as the original.
Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—
I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you Anyhow
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!
The original 'Purple Cow,' from 1895I never saw a purple cow.
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."
Famously, Burgess became somewhat exasperated with the success of his poem, of which he was constantly reminded. A few years later, he penned a riposte that became almost as well-known as the original.
Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—
I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you Anyhow
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!
Humpty Dumpty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It has been suggested that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognize.
Humpty Dumpty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "“The face is what one goes by, generally,” Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.
“That’s just what I complain of,” said Humpty Dumpty. “Your face is the same as everybody has—the two eyes, so ” (marking their places in the air with his thumb) “nose in the middle, mouth under. It’s always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be some help.”"
Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics and pragmatics with Alice.
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ”
“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master that’s all.”
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”
Humpty Dumpty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "“The face is what one goes by, generally,” Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone.
“That’s just what I complain of,” said Humpty Dumpty. “Your face is the same as everybody has—the two eyes, so ” (marking their places in the air with his thumb) “nose in the middle, mouth under. It’s always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be some help.”"
Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics and pragmatics with Alice.
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ”
“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master that’s all.”
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!”
Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got, and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob
With vinegar and brown paper.["
"Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up Jack got, and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper,
To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob
With vinegar and brown paper.["
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs: "If, say, you were an anonymous artist painting the Garden of Eden during the Renaissance, why not portray the serpent as the devil to give some punch to your creation? And if you’re a preacher telling a story about Jonah, doesn’t it just sound better to say that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not a “great fish”?"
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs: "“Genesis mentions nothing but a serpent,” says Kevin Dunn, chair of the department of religion at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
“Not only does the text not mention Satan, the very idea of Satan as a devilish tempter postdates the composition of the Garden of Eden story by at least 500 years,” Dunn says.
Getting biblical scriptures and stories wrong may not seem significant, but it can become dangerous, one scholar says.
Most people have heard this one: “God helps those that help themselves.” It’s another phantom scripture that appears nowhere in the Bible, but many people think it does. It's actually attributed to Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's founding fathers."
“Not only does the text not mention Satan, the very idea of Satan as a devilish tempter postdates the composition of the Garden of Eden story by at least 500 years,” Dunn says.
Getting biblical scriptures and stories wrong may not seem significant, but it can become dangerous, one scholar says.
Most people have heard this one: “God helps those that help themselves.” It’s another phantom scripture that appears nowhere in the Bible, but many people think it does. It's actually attributed to Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's founding fathers."
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
“Cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
The “cleanliness” passage was coined by John Wesley, the 18th century evangelist who founded Methodism, says Thomas Kidd, a history professor at Baylor University in Texas.
Actually, that's not in the Bible – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs: "“In my college religion classes, I sometimes quote 2 Hesitations 4:3 (‘There are no internal combustion engines in heaven’),” Bouma-Prediger says. “I wait to see if anyone realizes that there is no such book in the Bible and therefore no such verse.
“Only a few catch on.”"
Bulb In, Bulb Out - NYTimes.com
“I find it really appalling and hypocritical . . . that you favor a woman’s right to an abortion but you don’t favor a woman or a man’s right to choose what kind of light bulb,” Paul said. “I really find it troubling, this busybody nature.”
Bulb In, Bulb Out - NYTimes.com: "The notion of light as a thoughtless commodity would have seemed fanciful to our distant ancestors. Before electricity, light was expensive, a product of exhaustible sources like whale oil. It was Edison who finally took it to the masses in limitless quantities. On Dec. 31, 1879, the inventor invited a crowd of thousands to his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., to witness a demonstration of his fantastic innovation, described in a patent as an “electric lamp for giving light by incandescence.”"
“I don’t think it’s cultural; I think it’s much deeper than that, that our reaction to long-wavelength light is warm and short-wavelength light is cold,” David DiLaura says. Humans don’t see all wavelengths equally well; DiLaura says the eye’s “sensitivity curve” is adapted to the spectral composition of light on the African savanna. The light that surrounds us can have psychological and physical effects. Research has suggested that altering wavelengths can affect students’ attention and that patients on the south side of a hospital, which gets more light, recover more quickly than those on the north. So it’s hardly surprising that the incandescent phaseout has prompted a visceral reaction.
“This is the world’s greatest marketing scheme,” he said. “You get the government to ban the competition.” A slight man with an air of gray-bearded grandiloquence, Brandston contends that his root objection to the law, which he calls “immoral,” is connected to his professional appreciation of incandescence, which mimics the natural spectrum. “It’s what we grew up with — it’s sunlight,” Brandston told me earlier on the phone.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
The 84th National Spelling Bee - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
The 84th National Spelling Bee - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic: "Sukanya Roy, 14, of South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, reacts after winning the 2011 National Spelling Bee, on Thursday, June 2, 2011. She won by spelling the word 'cymotrichous', which relates to wavy hair."
Scientists Create Antimatter They Can Actually Study - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
We know, at least lead to believe, or at least I was, that one day our sun will burn out; and all of this, at least the world as I know it, will be gone.
So....
if nothing in the beginning and nothing in the end....
why should it matter what's in between.
(0) + (0) = 2(0)
That's odd.
Kinda looks like two fetuses, a vagina,
and.....
a man just thought of something.
Then it occurred to me.....
how could man surplus of anything,
at least the very beginning,
less two women.
Anyone threat til Adam being Abel women switching loyalties.
Cain and the Lost Tribe
Find it interesting. when lost, you go in circles.
Had Cain and his tribe stayed a straight line;
theoretically,
you still end back where you started..
No wonder feel I've been made
woman's
(as oppossed to women's)
sacrificial pig!
impossible to be ...."THE FAIREST ONE OF THEM ALL"....without displeasing them all....if being what it takes .... "FAIR TO THEM ALL" .....how can I truly tell my story without telling their story
impossible to be ...."THE FAIREST ONE OF THEM ALL"....without displeasing them all....if being what it takes .... "FAIR TO THEM ALL" .....how can I truly tell my story without telling their story
"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"
Said another way....
coming in the back door!
Scientists Create Antimatter They Can Actually Study - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic: "'Everything in our universe is made of matter, but a century of physics has revealed that at the beginning of time, an exactly equal amount of antimatter existed. Then, two seconds after the Big Bang, something changed and suddenly there was more matter than antimatter. What we don't know is how matter won and opened the door to existence as we know it.'"
Richard Scarry's 'Busytown' Gets the Google Doodle Treatment - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
Richard Scarry's 'Busytown' Gets the Google Doodle Treatment - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic: "This morning, Google switched its homepage logo over to one of a fantastical cityscape featuring mice riding motorcycles and other anthropomorphic animals peaking out from windows and managing the rescue of a second-floor cat from a burning house."
The top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds - Lifehacks
The top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds - Lifehacks: "It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Ancient world dictionary finished — after 90 years - Yahoo! News
Ancient world dictionary finished — after 90 years - Yahoo! News: "'The Assyrian Dictionary gives us the key into the world's first urban civilization,' he says. 'Virtually everything that we take for granted ... has its origins in Mesopotamia, whether it's the origins of cities, of state societies, the invention of the wheel, the way we measure time, and most important the invention of writing.
'If we ever want to understand our roots,' Stein adds, 'we have to understand this first great civilization.'"
"Like all people at all times, they wanted to try to find some way of controlling their world," says Martha Roth, the dictionary's editor-in-charge and dean of humanities. "It's very difficult to draw the line between actually believing and being superstitious."
But the tablets reached far beyond royalty. Biggs says they included everything from a disputed paternity case to agricultural loans to famine, where desperate people sold their children for cash. "Life was very fragile ... it was much more risky that it is now," he says.
"It's not such a word means king," Roth says. "It's a matter of understanding the thousands and thousands of references to the word king in every document in every period."
Now that the dictionary is finished, Roth says there's a feeling of tremendous accomplishment and "a little bit of a sense of loss.... This has occupied my waking and sleeping moments for 32 years. You dream this stuff."
The end also brings a realization as more tablets are unearthed, more discoveries will be made.
"It's like driving a Porsche off the lot and looking in the Blue Book (listing a car's worth) and seeing how much value it's lost," Stolper says. "The moment it's done, it's out of date."
Biggs says the scholars are satisfied with the final version, but there is that lingering temptation.
"It might be nice to start over," he says, "but no one has the courage to do it anymore."
LOL
They ain't kidding.
LMAO
(maybe; maybe not!)
'If we ever want to understand our roots,' Stein adds, 'we have to understand this first great civilization.'"
"Like all people at all times, they wanted to try to find some way of controlling their world," says Martha Roth, the dictionary's editor-in-charge and dean of humanities. "It's very difficult to draw the line between actually believing and being superstitious."
But the tablets reached far beyond royalty. Biggs says they included everything from a disputed paternity case to agricultural loans to famine, where desperate people sold their children for cash. "Life was very fragile ... it was much more risky that it is now," he says.
"It's not such a word means king," Roth says. "It's a matter of understanding the thousands and thousands of references to the word king in every document in every period."
Now that the dictionary is finished, Roth says there's a feeling of tremendous accomplishment and "a little bit of a sense of loss.... This has occupied my waking and sleeping moments for 32 years. You dream this stuff."
The end also brings a realization as more tablets are unearthed, more discoveries will be made.
"It's like driving a Porsche off the lot and looking in the Blue Book (listing a car's worth) and seeing how much value it's lost," Stolper says. "The moment it's done, it's out of date."
Biggs says the scholars are satisfied with the final version, but there is that lingering temptation.
"It might be nice to start over," he says, "but no one has the courage to do it anymore."
LOL
They ain't kidding.
LMAO
(maybe; maybe not!)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Hermeticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermeticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "There are mentions in Hermeticism about 'metempsychosis' or the multiple occurrences of a being through the manifestation, before he gets liberated from any condition. As Hermes states:
O son, how many bodies we have to pass through, how many bands of demons, through how many series of repetitions and cycles of the stars, before we hasten to the One alone?"
Is it my fault having too much time on my hands!
Although far from brand new, a perfectly good left hand hardly used, someone if anyone welcome to help themself with.
My gut instinct tells me, all I need is someone brave enough weathering the crossing, leapfrogging me into Emory University unconditionally; then we go from there.
Until then, I'm stuck until mother letting go of my S.H.I.R.T!
I'm not cousin Gary Avery, jumping up and down, killing his father as he layed under a mattress.
Can you blame her!
O son, how many bodies we have to pass through, how many bands of demons, through how many series of repetitions and cycles of the stars, before we hasten to the One alone?"
"It doesn't have to be the end of the world to be the end of our world; just a world: YOURS or MINE."
~(James Edward Avery, DVM vs. Bob)~
The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.
Twisted Purple C.0.W!
Oliver!ArtfulDodger
~(6!9)~
Why is it,
I can't help but get this sick feeling I'm sparring with a bleached blond hacker turning blue, believing same as mother, determined having the last word?
Twisted Purple C.0.W!
Well, HONESTLY..
would be very happy to once understanding:
"Last words from whom?"
The brunett believing "crazy" the son with the eyes turned blue from the very beginning; or the white haired old lady across the street, two many gentlemen shaking all around, insisting her medications most important?
Six does not equal nine!
Until I know exactly who I'm talking too, everything so far is just my game, surviving while following all the leads,
wanting understanding exactly who side I'm suppose to be on.
Is it my fault having too much time on my hands!
Although far from brand new, a perfectly good left hand hardly used, someone if anyone welcome to help themself with.
My gut instinct tells me, all I need is someone brave enough weathering the crossing, leapfrogging me into Emory University unconditionally; then we go from there.
Until then, I'm stuck until mother letting go of my S.H.I.R.T!
I'm not cousin Gary Avery, jumping up and down, killing his father as he layed under a mattress.
Can you blame her!
HOP ON TOP OF POP!
by
James Edward "A" Solomon, jr.
"Teach! You've gotten me so confused,
don't know what to say!"
don't know what to say!"
"You tell ME! Why am I NOT Prince Charming?"
***
What do turtles and blonds have in common?
Once on their back they're screwed!
What's a brunette's mating call?
That blond bitch done yet!
How many women does it take to chang a light bulb?
Three!
One to change the bulb and two to form a support group.
How many men does it take to change a light bulb?
Three.
One to change the bulb and two to talk about the screwing.
Your honor,
Is it being fair to me, laughed so hard that day unscrewed by a pot smoking flowerchild now woman veterinarian?
She DID have TWO sons;
AND,
she WAS taking it out on ME...
PERIOD.
AND,
she even once told me,
"thought GAY MEN were a god given gift."
AND,
I never held it against her, believing wasn't good enough, having chosen another veterinarian as her partner
we BOTH thought a
GOD DAMN BITCH
(using some if not all of her own words of course).
*****
"Don’t conclude before you understand. After you understand, don’t judge. Life is what it is."
~("Are we or are we NOT..., "in Kansas anymore?")~
Bildungsroman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bildungsroman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A Bildungsroman tells about the growing up or coming of age of a sensitive person who is looking for answers and experience. The genre evolved from folklore tales of a dunce or youngest son going out in the world to seek his fortune. Usually in the beginning of the story there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on his journey. In a Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty. The genre often features a main conflict between the main character and society. Typically, the values of society are gradually accepted by the protagonist and he is ultimately accepted into society – the protagonist's mistakes and disappointments are over. In some works, the protagonist is able to reach out and help others after having achieved maturity."
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com: "She missed her son. The decision to send him to get educated in America was brave — and has changed the world in that Obama would not otherwise have become a black American. This is a central conundrum of a book that makes Obama’s white parent palpable for the first time.
In an affecting passage one colleague, Don Johnston, describes how Dunham “felt a little bit wistful or sad that Barack had essentially moved to Chicago and chosen to take on a really strongly identified black identity” that had “not really been part of who he was when he was growing up.” She felt that “he was distancing himself from her” in a “professional choice.”"
In an affecting passage one colleague, Don Johnston, describes how Dunham “felt a little bit wistful or sad that Barack had essentially moved to Chicago and chosen to take on a really strongly identified black identity” that had “not really been part of who he was when he was growing up.” She felt that “he was distancing himself from her” in a “professional choice.”"
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com: "I found myself liking Dunham — the nonjudgmental irreverence; the determination to live what she loved; the humor (after a stomach-turning surfeit of peanuts, she notes, “Yes, peanuts do have faces — smirky, nasty little faces, in fact”); the frankness with friends — “I don’t like you in your arrogant bitch mode.” Her 52 years were rich."
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com: "Such forbearance is one of her many obvious influences on her son. Taken to Indonesia as a young child on Dunham’s second marriage, then dispatched aged nine back to Hawaii to become an American in his grandparents’ care, Obama emerges here as a product of his mother’s presence and absence."
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com
A White Woman From Kansas - NYTimes.com: "Unbound by convention, Dunham the anthropologist was nonetheless the anti-hippie with her cache of can-do Kansan wisdom: “You’re not okay, I’m not okay, and I know how to fix it.”
The fixing was not quick. Dunham knew that. “Well, life is what it is,” she would say: As in getting pregnant at 17 by the first African student to enroll at the University of Hawaii, the brilliant Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who loved her and left her — for Harvard. Adulthood was thrust on her early. One colleague recalls her saying: “Don’t conclude before you understand. After you understand, don’t judge.”"
To an unusual degree, because of the absence and because he was half-black, he had to define his own identity — hence the almost feline coolness, the hermetic quality in the president.
The fixing was not quick. Dunham knew that. “Well, life is what it is,” she would say: As in getting pregnant at 17 by the first African student to enroll at the University of Hawaii, the brilliant Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who loved her and left her — for Harvard. Adulthood was thrust on her early. One colleague recalls her saying: “Don’t conclude before you understand. After you understand, don’t judge.”"
To an unusual degree, because of the absence and because he was half-black, he had to define his own identity — hence the almost feline coolness, the hermetic quality in the president.
Stagecoach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stagecoach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Passengers crowded into coaches caused conditions that prompted Wells Fargo to post these rules in each coach for passenger behavior:
Abstinence from liquor is requested, but if you must drink share the bottle. To do otherwise makes you appear selfish and unneighborly.
If ladies are present, gentlemen are urged to forego smoking cigars and pipes as the odor of same is repugnant to the gentler sex. Chewing tobacco is permitted, but spit with the wind, not against it.
Gentlemen must refrain from the use of rough language in the presence of ladies and children.
Buffalo robes are provided for your comfort in cold weather. Hogging robes will not be tolerated and the offender will be made to ride with the driver.
Don't snore loudly while sleeping or use your fellow passenger's shoulder for a pillow; he or she may not understand and friction may result.
Firearms may be kept on your person for use in emergencies. Do not fire them for pleasure or shoot at wild animals as the sound riles the horses.
In the event of runaway horses remain calm. Leaping from the coach in panic will leave you injured, at the mercy of the elements, hostile Indians and hungry coyotes.
Forbidden topics of conversation are: stagecoach robberies and Indian uprisings.
Gents guilty of unchivalrous behavior toward lady passengers will be put off the stage. It's a long walk back. A word to the wise is sufficient.[11]"
Abstinence from liquor is requested, but if you must drink share the bottle. To do otherwise makes you appear selfish and unneighborly.
If ladies are present, gentlemen are urged to forego smoking cigars and pipes as the odor of same is repugnant to the gentler sex. Chewing tobacco is permitted, but spit with the wind, not against it.
Gentlemen must refrain from the use of rough language in the presence of ladies and children.
Buffalo robes are provided for your comfort in cold weather. Hogging robes will not be tolerated and the offender will be made to ride with the driver.
Don't snore loudly while sleeping or use your fellow passenger's shoulder for a pillow; he or she may not understand and friction may result.
Firearms may be kept on your person for use in emergencies. Do not fire them for pleasure or shoot at wild animals as the sound riles the horses.
In the event of runaway horses remain calm. Leaping from the coach in panic will leave you injured, at the mercy of the elements, hostile Indians and hungry coyotes.
Forbidden topics of conversation are: stagecoach robberies and Indian uprisings.
Gents guilty of unchivalrous behavior toward lady passengers will be put off the stage. It's a long walk back. A word to the wise is sufficient.[11]"
Angel Wise
Angela Pain
Never wise one half of two, taking advantage the upper hand; the other able, although fair, not alway raising two objections.
Until definitely better understanding the mating habit of angels; just be wise aware; not always an angel, even if just briefly.
Definitely believe in sex education being taught in public school.
Be Wise. N
Thursday, June 2, 2011
5 Tips for Productive Brainstorming : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
5 Tips for Productive Brainstorming : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum: "5. Leave the meeting with Action Steps. Now that you’ve got some great new ideas, don’t forget to do something with them. Hold each person accountable for always moving the ball forward."
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum: "I’ve come across many small business owners who think only they know what’s best for their company and use a utilitarian, top-down approach to goal-setting. Some even end up hitting their targets. But nearly every one has told me how much harder the road to success was. They ended up wasting inordinate amounts of energy selling and reselling their vision to staff members, motivating them, training, retooling and otherwise rolling the boulder up the hill."
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum: "I’ve seen some leaders group employees into small task forces and assign specific areas for each to focus on, be it growing revenue, workplace culture or other areas that contribute to the overarching goals. If you’re small enough, meet one-on-one with as many employees as you can. Discuss their personal goals and collaborate on how they can be integrated with your ideas for the company’s future."
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
Hell Hath No Fury Like An Employee Ignored : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum: "Dwight Eisenhower said real leadership is getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it."
Animal Health SmartBrief
Animal Health SmartBrief:
"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.'
--Harvey S. Firestone,
American entrepreneur and industrialist"
"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.'
--Harvey S. Firestone,
American entrepreneur and industrialist"
Tar Heel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tar Heel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In the third volume of Walter Clark's Histories of the Several Regiments from North Carolina in the Great War, the author explains that the nickname came from the North Carolina troops ability to hold their ground during a battle. According to the book, North Carolina troops held their ground during a battle in Virginia during the American Civil War while other supporting troops retreated. After the battle, supporting troops asked the victorious North Carolinians: 'Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?' and they replied: 'No, not a bit; old Jeff's bought it all up.' The supporting troops continued: 'Is that so? What is he going to do with it?' The North Carolinian troops' response: 'He is going to put it on you'ns heels to make you stick better in the next fight.'[7]"
North Carolina State Governor Vance said in one of his speeches to the troops: "I do not know what to call you fellows. I cannot say fellow soldiers, because I am not a soldier, nor fellow citizens, because we do not live in this state; so I have concluded to call you fellows Tar Heels".
Tar Heel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A letter found in 1991 by North Carolina State Archivist David Olson somewhat supports this theory that Lee might have stated something similar to this. The letter dated from 1864 (in the North Carolina 'Tar Heel Collection') a Colonel Joseph Engelhard described the Battle of Ream's Station in Virginia. In that letter he states: 'It was a 'Tar Heel' fight, and ... we got Gen'l Lee to thanking God, which you know means something brilliant.'"
North Carolina State Governor Vance said in one of his speeches to the troops: "I do not know what to call you fellows. I cannot say fellow soldiers, because I am not a soldier, nor fellow citizens, because we do not live in this state; so I have concluded to call you fellows Tar Heels".
Tar Heel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "A letter found in 1991 by North Carolina State Archivist David Olson somewhat supports this theory that Lee might have stated something similar to this. The letter dated from 1864 (in the North Carolina 'Tar Heel Collection') a Colonel Joseph Engelhard described the Battle of Ream's Station in Virginia. In that letter he states: 'It was a 'Tar Heel' fight, and ... we got Gen'l Lee to thanking God, which you know means something brilliant.'"
Zebra (medicine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zebra is a medical slang term for a surprising diagnosis.[1] Although rare diseases are, in general, surprising when they are encountered, other diseases can be surprising in a particular person and time, and so "zebra" is the broader concept.
Zebra (medicine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Three master diagnosticians have noted, however, that cautions against making surprising diagnoses (e.g. of a rare disease) are not valid in practitioners with greater knowledge and experience:
In making the diagnosis of the cause of illness in an individual case, calculations of probability have no meaning. The pertinent question is whether the disease is present or not. Whether it is rare or common does not change the odds in a single patient. ... If the diagnosis can be made on the basis of specific criteria, then these criteria are either fulfilled or not fulfilled. -- A. McGehee Harvey, James Bordley II, Jeremiah Barondess[5]
A related, but distinct, term for an obscure and rare diagnosis in medicine is fascinoma."
Other medical aphorisms
Sutton's law - perform first the diagnostic test expected to be most useful
Occam's razor - multiple causes should not be posited without reason
Leonard's Law of Physical Findings - it's obvious or it's not there[6]
KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid
Hickam's dictum - "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please"
Zebra (medicine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Three master diagnosticians have noted, however, that cautions against making surprising diagnoses (e.g. of a rare disease) are not valid in practitioners with greater knowledge and experience:
In making the diagnosis of the cause of illness in an individual case, calculations of probability have no meaning. The pertinent question is whether the disease is present or not. Whether it is rare or common does not change the odds in a single patient. ... If the diagnosis can be made on the basis of specific criteria, then these criteria are either fulfilled or not fulfilled. -- A. McGehee Harvey, James Bordley II, Jeremiah Barondess[5]
A related, but distinct, term for an obscure and rare diagnosis in medicine is fascinoma."
Other medical aphorisms
Sutton's law - perform first the diagnostic test expected to be most useful
Occam's razor - multiple causes should not be posited without reason
Leonard's Law of Physical Findings - it's obvious or it's not there[6]
KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid
Hickam's dictum - "Patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please"
Theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Theism, in the broadest sense, is the belief that at least one deity exists.[1] In a more specific sense, theism refers to a doctrine concerning the nature of a monotheistic God and God's relationship to the universe.[2][3] Theism, in this specific sense, conceives of God as personal, present and active in the governance and organization of the world and the universe. The use of the word theism as indicating a particular doctrine of monotheism arose in the wake of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century to contrast with the then emerging deism that contended that God, though transcendent and supreme, did not intervene in the natural world and could be known rationally but not via revelation.[4]
The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning 'god'. The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–88).[5] Atheism is rejection of theism in the broadest sense of theism; i.e. the rejection of belief that there is even one deity.[6] Rejection of the narrower sense of theism can take forms such as deism, pantheism, and polytheism. The claim that the existence of any deity is unknown is agnosticism, and can be compatible with theism and with atheism.[7][8][9] The positive assertion of knowledge, either of the existence of gods or the absence of gods, can also be attributed to some theists and some atheists. Put simply theism and atheism deal with belief, and agnosticism deals with (absence of) knowledge; they are not mutually exclusive as they deal with different domains."
The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning 'god'. The term theism was first used by Ralph Cudworth (1617–88).[5] Atheism is rejection of theism in the broadest sense of theism; i.e. the rejection of belief that there is even one deity.[6] Rejection of the narrower sense of theism can take forms such as deism, pantheism, and polytheism. The claim that the existence of any deity is unknown is agnosticism, and can be compatible with theism and with atheism.[7][8][9] The positive assertion of knowledge, either of the existence of gods or the absence of gods, can also be attributed to some theists and some atheists. Put simply theism and atheism deal with belief, and agnosticism deals with (absence of) knowledge; they are not mutually exclusive as they deal with different domains."
NICE WATCH?
NOT A REAL DOCTOR
"HUSH!"
(INTERNAL MEDICINE)
VETS TALKING
"You can always tell a gay man by the shoes. They always wear nice shoes with a nice watch."
~ (X/X) DVM, ACVIM ~
"I don't. Not with a watch."
James E. Avery, DVM
Funny how strangly she reacted, quiet since; not even a clue then. All looking downward; me two limbs forward, missing a watch, shaking all around.
Thought she already knew I was gay; before even wanting in on my little game: everyone having just looked at the bottom of their shoes, but not until after having already looked at their fingernails.
Mark "NICE SHOES TOO!" DORFMAN!
DVM, MS, ACVIM (Internal Medicine)
Mark Dorfman is one of the founding partners of GVS and in addition to clinical practice in internal medicine, serves as the medical director. He is one of several GVS doctors that are known for their allegiance to the Florida Gators. He received his undergraduate and DVM degrees from the University of Florida, completed an internship at Louisiana State University and a residency at the University of Georgia. His clinical interests include gastroenterology, feline hyperthyroidism and urology. His personal interests include spending time with his two daughters, weight lifting, and watching movies.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown - Yahoo! News
‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown - Yahoo! News: "But at a City Council hearing Tuesday night, some locals expressed outrage that Zack was left to die. 'This just strikes me as not just a problem with funding, but a problem with the culture of what's going on in our city, that no one would take the time and help this drowning man,' said one resident, Adam Gillitt."
One witness to the event told a local news station that Zack was looking at people on the shore. "We expected to see at some point that there would be a concern for him," said another.
One witness to the event told a local news station that Zack was looking at people on the shore. "We expected to see at some point that there would be a concern for him," said another.
Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' - CNN.com
Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' - CNN.com: "Kazuko Sasaki, 69, the co-founder of the group, says she has a number of personal reasons why she wants to work at the plant. 'My generation, the old generation, promoted the nuclear plants. If we don't take responsibility, who will?'
But Sasaki is also pragmatic about the risks an older person is willing to take versus someone younger.
'When we were younger, we never thought of death. But death becomes familiar as we get older.
'We have a feeling that death is waiting for us. This doesn't mean I want to die. But we become less afraid of death, as we get older.'
Sasaki also says a 30-year old exposed to radiation at the crippled plant might get cancer at 35 or 40. At her age, she'd be 75 or 80, and might have gotten cancer anyway, she says."
But Sasaki is also pragmatic about the risks an older person is willing to take versus someone younger.
'When we were younger, we never thought of death. But death becomes familiar as we get older.
'We have a feeling that death is waiting for us. This doesn't mean I want to die. But we become less afraid of death, as we get older.'
Sasaki also says a 30-year old exposed to radiation at the crippled plant might get cancer at 35 or 40. At her age, she'd be 75 or 80, and might have gotten cancer anyway, she says."
Jim Nabor ( GOMER PYLE )-THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Remembering first time hearing this song, only after going on line wanting a pic of Gomer Pyle in my battle with Dekalb County over DADT. And I even claimed it as my favorite song, when polled by Cissy Gormerly for the Prescott Middle School Paper; the cheereleader not realizing me no longer a jock, just to become a grocery sackboy.
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Einstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works. His great intelligence and originality have made the word 'Einstein' synonymous with genius."
I consider this the greatest day of my life. Before, I have always found something to regret in the Jewish soul, and that is the forgetfulness of its own people. Today, I have been made happy by the sight of the Jewish people learning to recognize themselves and to make themselves recognized as a force in the world.
He and Kurt Gödel, another Institute member, became close friends. They would take long walks together discussing their work.
Other scientists also fled to America. Among them were Nobel laureates and professors of theoretical physics. With so many other Jewish scientists now forced by circumstances to live in America, often working side by side, Einstein wrote to a friend, "For me the most beautiful thing is to be in contact with a few fine Jews—a few millennia of a civilized past do mean something after all." In another letter he writes, "In my whole life I have never felt so Jewish as now."[39]
For Einstein, "war was a disease . . . [and] he called for resistance to war." But in 1933, after Hitler assumed full power in Germany, "he renounced pacifism altogether . . . In fact, he urged the Western powers to prepare themselves against another German onslaught."[46]:110 In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, "I made one great mistake in my life — when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification — the danger that the Germans would make them..."[47]
Einstein called racism America's "worst disease".[48] He later stated, "Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next. The only remedies are enlightenment and education".[49]
After the death of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in November 1952, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.[50] The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons".[38]:522 However, Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it:
All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official function. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.[38
On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948.[52] He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it.[53] Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."[54] He died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76, having continued to work until near the end.
Einstein's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location.[55][56] During the autopsy, the pathologist of Princeton Hospital, Thomas Stoltz Harvey, removed Einstein's brain for preservation, without the permission of his family, in hope that the neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent.[57] In his lecture at Einstein's memorial, nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer summarized his impression of him as a person:[46]
"He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn."
I consider this the greatest day of my life. Before, I have always found something to regret in the Jewish soul, and that is the forgetfulness of its own people. Today, I have been made happy by the sight of the Jewish people learning to recognize themselves and to make themselves recognized as a force in the world.
He and Kurt Gödel, another Institute member, became close friends. They would take long walks together discussing their work.
Other scientists also fled to America. Among them were Nobel laureates and professors of theoretical physics. With so many other Jewish scientists now forced by circumstances to live in America, often working side by side, Einstein wrote to a friend, "For me the most beautiful thing is to be in contact with a few fine Jews—a few millennia of a civilized past do mean something after all." In another letter he writes, "In my whole life I have never felt so Jewish as now."[39]
For Einstein, "war was a disease . . . [and] he called for resistance to war." But in 1933, after Hitler assumed full power in Germany, "he renounced pacifism altogether . . . In fact, he urged the Western powers to prepare themselves against another German onslaught."[46]:110 In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, "I made one great mistake in my life — when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification — the danger that the Germans would make them..."[47]
Einstein called racism America's "worst disease".[48] He later stated, "Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next. The only remedies are enlightenment and education".[49]
After the death of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in November 1952, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.[50] The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons".[38]:522 However, Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it:
All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official function. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.[38
On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948.[52] He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it.[53] Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."[54] He died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76, having continued to work until near the end.
Einstein's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location.[55][56] During the autopsy, the pathologist of Princeton Hospital, Thomas Stoltz Harvey, removed Einstein's brain for preservation, without the permission of his family, in hope that the neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent.[57] In his lecture at Einstein's memorial, nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer summarized his impression of him as a person:[46]
"He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn."
PSYCHO MOM: "I think you're going CRAZY!"
"I don't talk about my sex life! Why should I listen to yours?"
GOD DAMN IT, MOTHER!
HONESTLY ! Didn't know you had one!
Did I STOP you?
"I would rather you be DEAF than be gay."
MOTHER,
how does that HELP anything?
"I WOULD,
rather help you,
thought able to go to sleep and not wake up!"
Mother, you're eighty years old.
Is it being fair to me that just might happen?
So strange that feeling of hopelessness,
so vividly backed up against a dogwood tree my front yard.
What started off so uneasily certain rabbit tracks,
while singing Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer.
Then I remember the snow has long since melted
crying all alone on Christmas Eve,
the beginning of all that snow
shutting down such a big city.
Ellipsis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellipsis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "An ellipsis may also imply an unstated alternative indicated by context. For example, when Count Dracula says 'I never drink ... wine', the implication is that he does drink something else.
In reported speech, the ellipsis is sometimes used to represent an intentional silence, perhaps indicating irritation, dismay, shock or disgust. This definition is more known with younger, internet savvy generations.
In news reporting, it is used to indicate that a quotation has been condensed for space, brevity or relevance."
In reported speech, the ellipsis is sometimes used to represent an intentional silence, perhaps indicating irritation, dismay, shock or disgust. This definition is more known with younger, internet savvy generations.
In news reporting, it is used to indicate that a quotation has been condensed for space, brevity or relevance."
predicament
Coco Varrone is more than a special pet. This Golden Retriever is her owner’s constant comfort and helper. Coco came into Susan Varrone’s life to listen. Susan is hearing impaired and epileptic. Coco is trained to let Susan know if someone is at the door, to investigate an unusual noise, and to stay with Susan when she is not feeling well. When Coco spent many days at GVS gravely ill from suspected poisoning, Susan was faced with thinking about a life without her companion. Susan also had to find a way to effectively communicate with the GVS staff. Through the help of GVS Client Services Manager, Lea Custer, who is fluent in American Sign Language, Susan was able to navigate through some tough days. Fortunately, so did Coco. She made an amazing recovery few professionals expected, and is happy to be of service once again with her beloved family.
Wonder if the client was charged for the additional assistance or did Lea just happen to already know American Sign Language. To be given the title of GVS Client Services Manager implies an overhead that someone if not everyone having to pay; even if needing to go outside the clinic seeking the assistance needed.
In other words, glad someone fluent in American Sign Language was available immediately. Once in place, just the fact COCO LIVED, helped BIG TIME!
Was money ever an issue? Too little information. Being a referral clinic, most cases that would have been a financial issue have already been screened out by the referring veterinarian. Estimates before arriving pretty much insist on complete workups up front, even if not needed for the reason referred. That's pretty much where a client needing assistance is best served; able presented an estimate reflecting more accurate prognosis even if already a diagnosis.
The decision at that point is pretty much a thumbs up or down or extremely frustrating scene for all involved; most especially a pet trained the owner physically depended on, already having been isolated by her hearing impairment.
Could it have made difference? Only if not able finding someone, if needing one, when already knowing someone who's only temporarily unavailable.
Helen Keller, both blind and deaf, believed her hearing loss to be the most isolating.
- Anatole France
—Synonyms
1. Predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary refer to unpleasant or puzzling situations. Predicament and plight stress more the unpleasant nature, quandary and dilemma the puzzling nature of the situation. Predicament and plight are sometimes interchangeable; plight, however, though originally meaning peril or danger, is seldom used today except laughingly: When his suit wasn't ready at the cleaners, he was in a terrible plight. Predicament, though likewise capable of being used lightly, may also refer to a really crucial situation: Stranded in a strange city without money, he was in a predicament. Dilemma, in popular use, means a position of doubt or perplexity in which one is faced by two equally undesirable alternatives: the dilemma of a hostess who must choose between offending her anti-drinking guests or disappointing those who expected cocktails. Quandary is the state of mental perplexity of one faced with a difficult situation: There seemed to be no way out of the quandary.
Coco "Unless one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened."
Hospice vs AVMA Supportive Care
Hospice
Georgia Veterinary Specialists is dedicated to providing compassionate care throughout your pet’s lifetime. Even if your beloved companion is diagnosed with a terminal disease, we can help you provide a comfortable, loving environment much like that of hospice care for people. Hospice is supportive care – assistance in evaluating and managing your pet’s quality of life at each key stage. Hospice may last from days to years. During illness, your pet may suffer from losses of certain functions of daily living. Our team will help you identify, address and correct some of those, which may include:
Recognition and management of pain
Appetite and food intake
Dealing with incontinence
Managing immobility and/or paralysis
Assessing your pet for dehydration
Hygiene
We will educate you about medicines that are used in supportive care, including analgesics for pain, appetite stimulants, anti-nausea medications, subcutaneous fluids for hydration, as well as the administration of injections when necessary. We can advise you on mobility aids that can help aging, unsteady animals negotiate their environment more confidently. You can also turn to us to help you recognize the signs of impending death and the process of euthanasia, because we understand how difficult it is to know when “the time is right” to make that decision.
If hospice is right for you and your pet, please make an appointment with Dr. Susan G. Wynn.
Georgia Veterinary Specialists is dedicated to providing compassionate care throughout your pet’s lifetime. Even if your beloved companion is diagnosed with a terminal disease, we can help you provide a comfortable, loving environment much like that of hospice care for people. Hospice is supportive care – assistance in evaluating and managing your pet’s quality of life at each key stage. Hospice may last from days to years. During illness, your pet may suffer from losses of certain functions of daily living. Our team will help you identify, address and correct some of those, which may include:
Recognition and management of pain
Appetite and food intake
Dealing with incontinence
Managing immobility and/or paralysis
Assessing your pet for dehydration
Hygiene
We will educate you about medicines that are used in supportive care, including analgesics for pain, appetite stimulants, anti-nausea medications, subcutaneous fluids for hydration, as well as the administration of injections when necessary. We can advise you on mobility aids that can help aging, unsteady animals negotiate their environment more confidently. You can also turn to us to help you recognize the signs of impending death and the process of euthanasia, because we understand how difficult it is to know when “the time is right” to make that decision.
If hospice is right for you and your pet, please make an appointment with Dr. Susan G. Wynn.
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