Remembering my grandmother. In the summer she would give us kids iced tea in colorful aluminum glasses. The metal tumblers were super ice cold with condensation on the outside. The icy tumbler was better than the iced tea!
My sister always like the pink one. I think I’ll send her a set for Mother’s Day.
I’ve been using the Alexa toolbar for several years because of the extra site information it provides. Click the picture to download your own copy.
PLUS they finally got with the program and made it Firefox-compatible.
Enjoy!
More blog-fodder from Yahoo! Answers.
I think we can all agree that consistently objectifying women is not just wrong, it is dysfunctional. By objectifying I mean that the viewer isn’t concerned with the woman’s needs and desires but only with his own. This lack of empathy, **when taken to extremes**, is the hallmark of a sociopath or a narcissistic personality.
In Muslim cultures this objectification is so ubiquitous that the women must wear burqas to protect themselves from being attacked. Displaying the female form, the clerics claim, incites sexual excitement in men and invites rape.
The United States actually has a great deal more censorship than most European countries. It started with the Comstock Laws, laws that were intended to oppress women by denying them healthcare information. In Europe, casual nudity is unremarkable and nobody is inappropriately aroused by it, while in the U.S. a little too much neck or leg on TV provokes a great outcry.
If I’m understanding you correctly, you are telling us that Americans are **not** able to appreciate the human form, male or female, without being sexually overwhelmed. Does your minister also promote rape? I hope not.
Prehistoric fertility totems, ancient Greek statues, and Renoir’s paintings: these are all nudes, too, and if you have your way they will be censored along with the sleazy garbage that you and I don’t care to look at.
Narcissism
http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/empathy.html
Australian fury at Muslim cleric’s claim that women provoke assault
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/27/wmeat27.xml
The Comstock Laws
http://law.jrank.org/pages/5508/Comstock-Law-1873.html
Email to a Fundamentalist who obsesses on what he claims is a religion that “espouses rejoicing.”
Your religion also espouses killing members of other religions as part of its teachings. That makes you a danger to many members of this list.
I have never understood why people have to have “faith.” Is it because their religion causes a rift with the higher self? What, no more epiphanies? No more divine revelations? No more burning bushes? That’s ok, you can still have faith.
I prefer to believe in the sunset in Pacific Grove, California; a trip down the Wading River in the pine barrens of New Jersey; the view from a boat on Loch Ness; driving up into the sharp red mountains in Arizona. There is no imaginary playmate in my head trying to claim my feelings at those times.
The awe, the sense of something bigger than yourself? The earth is a big beautiful place, and that feeling means you are at the very edge of becoming part of it. Can’t have any of that Pagan nonsense in our heads! Quick, say that God made the things that gave you that feeling.
On the other hand, nobody ever builds a high wall around God except maybe Jesus or the Pope. I can see the attraction in diverting your feelings to something that you believe will never abandon you no matter what evil you do.
This is good, a series of pictures of what folks do to co-workers who are away on vacation. My favorite is the sprouts in the keyboard, a nice “welcome home” for the nature-lover in the office.
I’m reminded of what the entire office did to DH before we were dating. Moths in the cedar pencil holder, a phone list with the phone numbers removed, drawers reversed on the desk. The drawers weren’t just moved, the slides were moved so that the file drawer was on the other side. As he explained it, he didn’t get that the drawers were reversed. He perceived it as a vague uneasiness, a sense that something was wrong but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. You feel that way after a four-week vacation, right?
Everything on the cork board was photocopied and the photocopies placed up on the board. His new diploma was reduced to about 1.5×1.5 inches. All the implements in his pencil holder were rubber-banded together so that when he pulled out a pencil the whole bunch sprang out.
What we did to his teaching manual was the most insidious. One of the guys photocopied some pr0n – I have no idea why he had pr0n in the office. I took the manual to the print shop, removed the GBH binding, punched the pr0n and bound it back into the document. Poor fellow was teaching a course from the manual.
Bored technicians and engineers are a dangerous lot.
Murphy is alive and well. The power supply blew in the middle of a push to get a design out the door. Fortunately we found a cheap replacement at my electronics store of choice, NewEgg.com.
Genetic Roulette is based on the book of the same name by Jeffrey M. Smith
Seeds of Deception is rated the number one book on the subject and has had a substantial influence on public perception and even legislation. Smith has reached tens of millions of people through hundreds of media interviews. He produced the video Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals, and also writes a popular monthly syndicated column. He is on the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, was the former vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory, and ran for U.S. Congress in his home state of Iowa to raise public awareness of the health and environmental dangers of GM foods.
Jeffrey M. Smith
A genetically modified organism (GMO) has had genes from other species inserted into its DNA. The inserted genes provide the plant with new properties. Disease resistance, insect toxicity and cold tolerance are some of the uses of genetic modification.
There are a number of ways for this technology to go bad including allergies and poisoning. There have been no studies on the long-term effects of eating genetically modified foods, only anecdotal evidence as to the dangers.
If you use soybean, corn, cotton or canola you may be using GMO products without being aware of it.
come from species, such as bacteria and viruses, which have never been in the human food supply.
It is a fact that the health of Americans has been declining over the last 50 years.
The sad fact is that the United States is experiencing an epidemic of obesity.
However, it was recommended by The Institute for Responsible Technology, a
Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet?
When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology.
After two decades, physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock, and pets that have been fed GM foods are now on the rise in the US population. And when people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), their health improves.
This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.
Institute for Responsible Technology
Institute for Responsible Technology: Health Risks
GMOs may make you allergic to non-GM foods
- GM soy drastically reduces digestive enzymes in mice.[21] If it also impairs your digestion, you may become sensitive and allergic to a variety of foods.
- Mice fed Bt-toxin started having immune reactions to formerly harmless foods.
- Mice fed experimental GM peas also started reacting to a range of other foods. (The peas had already passed all the allergy tests normally done before a GMO gets on the market. Only this advanced test, which is never used on the GMOs we eat, revealed that the peas could actually be deadly.)
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Came across this while researching PlumpyNut.
The United States are inhabited by about 300 million people with an unemployment rate of about 5 percent. If you’re interested in the rest of the world, look up Kwashiorkor.
According to Medline, Kwashiorkor is a form of malnutrition characterized by thinning hair, edema, and of course weight loss. You’ve seen the photos of emaciated babies with swollen bellies – that’s Kwashiokor. The swollen belly can be due to edema, but it often is a sign of an overtaxed liver. Death is generally from liver failure.
According to the World Health Organization, the cause of Kwashiorkor is not fully understood. However, one of the main factors is a high carbohydrate, low protein diet. Carbs are cheaper than proteins, so poor people around the world are at risk for kwashiorkor.
The World Health Organziation points to a diet of corn or maize as a contributing factor. Corn is cheap and plentiful, but it is nutritionally incomplete. Complete-protein grains such as quinoa are preferable. They are also prohibitively expensive.
As an aside, I’ve eliminated corn breakfast cereals from my diet. I’ve already stated that corn contains incomplete proteins. There are 9 essential amino acids – protein building blocks that humans can’t synthesize and so must get from food. Two of them, lysine and tryptophan, are missing from corn.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), combining corn with beans makes complete protein. This is not an option for literally billions of the world’s population. It is estimated that 800 million children around the world suffer from Kwashiokor.
This rather chilling video demonstrates through video clips and interviews that children’s programming can have a profound effect on them, from predisposing them to subliminal messages to changing their entire worldview. The depth of dark manipulation by Disney is a definite must-see for parents and professionals alike.
I think we should bring back the codpiece.
Tiberon Film festival picture:
Codpieces in the Stanley Kubric film A Clockwork Orange
Presidential Piece:
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