“Look, as president, I swore to uphold the Constitution, and part of that Constitution is a free press. [laughing] …We’ve got a tradition in this country of a press that oftentimes is opinionated. The golden age of an objective press was a pretty narrow span of time in our history. Before that, you had folks like Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition — it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view.”

—	President Obama, in response to a question from Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner about whether or not Fox News was “a good institution for America and for democracy.” (via thepoliticalpartygirl)

Utah enacts "Criminal Miscarriage" law--Women who miscarry can now be prosecuted for criminal homicide

lettersfromtheattic:

malefeminists:

glass-onion-:

PLEASE read this!! Utah passed this legislation with an overwhelming majority, and the implications are dire for women and girls across the state. The only way to put a stop to it is to draw attention to their insanity. Even if you’re anti-choice, consider the extremity of this law and the precedent it sets for all American women.

(via DailyKos.com)

Reblogging this for more visibility.

Oh my God… WHAT.

Source: glass-onion-

The Vatican Bank AKA the Institute for Works of Religion is being investigated for money laundering.  It has previously been suspected of doing nefarious deeds for the Sicilian Mafia and the Gambino family, among others. The bank is run by a CEO, who reports to a group of Cardinals and, ultimately, to the Pope.

Bill Maher interviews Richard Tillman

A great video I love this guy and Bill's cool too! Watch this ...figrd

Note: Digital Read

URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?85z32zwvyqd13up

Excerpt:

“… The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they’re supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world.”

—	Henry David Thoreau (via quote-book)

Soon everyone will be homeless !

Arctic Ice in Death Spiral

The carbon dioxide emissions from burning such fossil fuels have now melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation and dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting.
…
There can be no recovery because tremendous amounts of extra heat are added every summer to the region as more than 2.5 million square kilometres of the Arctic Ocean have been opened up to the heat of the 24-hour summer sun. A warmer Arctic Ocean not only takes much longer to re-freeze, it emits huge volumes of additional heat energy into the atmosphere, disrupting the weather patterns of the northern hemisphere, scientists have now confirmed. (via tumblrbot love ya!)  Figgdimension

White Lines & Bubbleheads

Figgdimension2010 © Gregory m. Figg

If you'd like to see my 3-d illuminated art works for  2010 hit the link to my virtual gallery Figgdimension Gallery

Things My Mother Taught Me

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going kill each other, do it outside -I just finished cleaning!"

My mother taught me RELIGION - "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL: "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

My mother taught me LOGIC: "Because I said so, that's why."

My mother taught me FORESIGHT - "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll *give* you something to cry about."

My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS - "Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"

My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM - "Will you *look* at the dirt on the back of your neck!"

My mother taught me about STAMINA - "You'll sit there 'til all that spinach is finished."

My mother taught me about WEATHER - "It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."

My mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS - "If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you; would you listen then?"

My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY - "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times - Don't Exaggerate!!!"

My mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE - "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - "Stop acting like your father!"

My mother taught me about ENVY -"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"

funday comics:

  some great couples to think about...

Take a deep breath - why the world is running out of helium

ultrafastx:

Helium is made either by the nuclear fusion process of the Sun, or by the slow and steady radioactive decay of terrestrial rock, which accounts for all of the Earth’s store of the gas. There is no way of manufacturing it artificially, and practically all of the world’s reserves have been derived as a by-product from the extraction of natural gas, mostly in the giant oil- and gasfields of the American South-west, which historically have had the highest helium concentrations.
Despite the critical role that the gas plays in the modern world, it is being depleted as an unprecedented rate and reserves could dwindle to virtually nothing within a generation, warns Nobel laureate Robert Richardson, professor of physics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
The Earth is 4.7 billion years old and it has taken that long to accumulate our helium reserves, which we will dissipate in about 100 years.

So not good.  Better hope fusion becomes viable soon.

Source: macmankev

pornforblind:

More than 1,300ft above the roaring Rio Negro in Colombia, nine-year-old Daisy Mora prepares to throw herself over the abyss.
Attaching herself to an old and rusted pulley system she drops over the edge before plummeting at 40mph along a zip wire to the opposite bank half a mile away - a vertigo-inducing journey she has to take every day to get to school.
Farmers use them to transport goods to and from the closest town and, for children like Daisy and her five-year-old brother Jamid, it is how they get to school.
Jamid is too young to safely ride the wire on his own, so she has to carry him with her in a jute bag, controlling their speed with a wooden fork.

               May be we should appreciate more and complain a lot less !?  Something to think about.

copyright 2010 cagle cartoons ADAM ZYGLIS

  If  you like great art or your an artist check out ARTCELL
     Submit your art works for review or recommend an artist you love to see
        old or new any media any discipline . All are welcome  .
        
               

See more of  Cranio's urban art works at Got Graffiti?Got Graffiti 

crashinglybeautiful:

5. 
   

   Neither time nor space exists for the man who knows the eternal.
   
   Space and time are real for the man who is yet imperfect and space is divided for him into dimensions, time into past, present and future. He looks behind him and sees his birth, his acquisitions, all that he has rejected. That past is being continually modified by the future which is ever being added to it. From the past man turns his eyes to the future where death, the unknown, the darkness, the mystery, await him.
   
   Fascinated by these he can no longer detach himself from them. The mystery of the future holds for him the fulfillment of all his desires, which the past has denied to him, and in his dreams he flies to that brilliant horizon where happiness must exist, where he must seek it.
   
   No one will ever pierce the infinite mystery of the future - impenetrable in its evanescent illusion - neither magician, prophet nor God! But on the contrary it will be the mystery which will engulf man, which will not let him escape, which will break the mainspring of his life.
   
   Life is not to be approached through the past, nor through the mirage of the future. Life cannot be approached through intermediaries, nor conquered for another.
   
   That discovery can only be made in the immediate present - by the individual for himself and not for others - by the individual who has become the eternal “I”. That eternal “I” is created by the perfection of the self - perfection in which all things are contained, even human imperfections. Man, not yet having achieved that condition of life in the present, lives in the past which he regrets, lives in the future where he
   hopes, but never in the present which he ignores. This is the case with all men.
   
   Balanced between the past and the future, the “I” is poised as a tiger ready to spring, as an eagle ready to fly, as the bow at the moment of releasing the arrow.
   
   This moment of equilibrium, of high tension, is “creation.” It is the fullness of all life, it is immortality.
   
   The wind of the desert sweeps away all trace of the traveler.
   
   The sole imprint is the footstep of the present. The past, the future… sands blown by the wind.
   
   ~ J. Krishnamurti taken from: From Darkness to Light, 1929
   
   Thank you, The Beauty We Love

   Loading...

   Hide notes
   
   
6. 
   

   
   

   Reply

   250 max250

   cancel
    
7. figgdimension reblogged shadowfirebird:
   
   

   
   

   Reply

   250 max250

   cancel
   Loading...

   Hide notes
   
   

   
   

   Reply

   250 max250

   cancel
   Police officer jailed for assault is bailed on full pay | The Guardian

   shadowfirebird:
   

   ‘Sergeant Mark Andrews, 37, left Pamela Somerville bleeding on the cell floor after the assault at Melksham police station in Wiltshire.
   He was jailed for six months after the assault was caught on CCTV and his actions were reported by a fellow police officer.
   Andrews was released from prison this week pending an appeal after serving six days of his sentence. Wiltshire’s chief constable, Brian Moore, revealed Andrews was entitled to resume receiving his full salary.’
   ‘A spokesperson for the Independent Police Complaints Commission said it had no powers to act in the matter because “this is a local investigation.” ‘

   
   
   
   
   Loading...

   Hide notes
    
8. 
   
   
   
   figgdimension 
   
   

   
   

   Reply

   250 max250

   cancel
   
   

   
   

   The Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Australian researchers have discovered that the European Space Agency satellite Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument can detect coral bleaching down to 10 metres deep. - Space Rules

   Loading...

   Hide notes
9. :
   
   

   
   

   Reply

   250 max250

   cancel
   

   
   

   Two women with cigarettes sitting in front of mural.
   http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/

   Loading...

   Hide notes
   
   

Tim Wise » Tea Party Float Portrays Obama Whipping White Taxpayer…Thanks for the Subtlety! »

Amid denials by tea party that they are in any way motivated by white racial resentment and racial paranoia (about losing “their” country), comes now the following feast of psychological projection…a Tea Party parade in Yakima, Washington, in which some of those funny, ever ironic white conservatives have a guy dressed in an Obama mask, actually WHIPPING a white guy, wearing a shirt that says “Future Taxpayer.” WHIPPING him…Of course, the caption under the You Tube clip assures us that they really tried hard to find a Bush mask too — yeah right — so as to make this less offensive one suspects, but that’s a straight out lie. They weren’t upset when Bush created the deficit to finance illegal wars. They only have a problem with “big guvmint” when they think it’s going to disproportionately benefit “those people,” and we all know who they are…

A Kind of Revolution (excerpt 1)

Note: This is an excerpt from the fifth chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States of America: 1492-Present 

In Federalist Paper #10, James Madison argues that representative government was needed to maintain peace in a society ridden by factional disputes. The disputes came from “the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society,” The problem, he said, was how to control the factional struggles that came from inequalities in wealth. Minority factions could be controlled, he said, by the principle that decisions would be by vote of the majority.

So the real problem, according to Madison, was a majority faction and here the solution was offered by the Constitution, to have “an extensive republic,” that is, a large nation ranging over thirteen states, for then “it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other… The influence of factions leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States.”

Madison’s argument can be seen as a sensible argument for having a government which can maintain peace and avoid continuous disorder. But is it the aim of government simply to maintain order, as a referee, between two equally matched fighters? Or is it that government has some special interest in maintaining a certain kind of order, a certain distribution of power and wealth, a distribution in which government officials are not neutral referees but participants? In that case, the disorder they might worry about is the disorder of popular rebellion against those monopolizing the society’s wealth. This interpretation makes sense when one looks at the economic interests the social backgrounds of the makers of the Constitution. 

As part of his argument for a large republic to keep the peace, James Madison tells quiet clearly, in Federalist #10, whose peace he wants to keep. “A rage for paper money, for abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it.”

When economic interests is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges, while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough people to ensure popular support.

The new Mickey ears for 2010

Thousands More Dead Fish Turn Up in La. Waters

7. Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants

   Shirley is incredulous. “Why would anyone bring their children here and put them in water that has had millions of gallons of toxic chemicals dumped into it, not counting the oil itself?” she asks. “Why would you want to eat seafood that has been living and dying in the water, with all those contaminates?”

   Truthout has earlier reported on other fisherman in the area, James “Catfish” Miller and Mark Stewart, who have reported being eyewitnesses to the contractors in the Carolina Skiffs spraying dispersant as well.

   Meanwhile, local, state and federal authorities continue to claim that dispersant was only used south of Mississippi’s barrier islands and that the Carolina Skiffs and the large tanks they carry are only used to “skim” oil.

   “If dispersants were only being sprayed South of the islands, why would these 330 gallon hazardous goods tanks be located at two different work sites, right by the tank skiffs?” Shirley asks. “Why would the skiffs tanks be so clean if they were really skimming oil?”

   The Tillmans and thousands of other fishermen and residents along the Gulf of Mexico are deeply concerned about local, state and federal government complicity in what they see as a massive cover-up of the oil disaster by using toxic dispersants to sink any and all oil that is located.

   Dr. Riki Ott, a toxicologist and marine biologist, is a survivor of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska. She recently submitted an open letter to the US Environmental Protection Agency expressing many of these same concerns.

   Ongoing government denials of this problem neither fool nor dissuade Shirley. “I know what I have seen,” she told Truthout. “I know what I have been told. I know what I have experienced. I know what I have documented. I also know that I have taken hundreds of pictures to verify what I am saying.”

   Loading...

   Hide notes
   
   

Vendetta

Sacramento "Buy it now!" cheap...

Meg Whitman is now the biggest self-funding candidate in history

Pretty sure you could spend $119 million in Sacramento over the course of several years and effectively be Governor.

Also: isn’t this news even more odd since her major issue is job creation?

GASLAND : Watching movie means your a terrorist!?

If you go to see the Sundance Award winning film,“Gasland” at the IFC Center in New York City, or if you saw it on HBO this past summer, watched it on PBS or saw it at last fall’s Sundance Festival, then you’re a concerned citizen exercising your right and duty to stay informed.

However if you saw the film in Pennsylvania, watch out. According to a leaked document from the State Department of Homeland Security, published by Pro Publica, since so-called “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to … the energy sector,” your seeing the film in Pennsylvania could get your name circulated to law enforcement officials eager to protect the gas drilling industry from ordinary citizens like you.

As reported by Rachel Maddow and in the Pennsylvania paper, the Patriot News, Homeland Security Director James Powers compared himself to Tommy Lee Jones’ character in the film “The Fugitive.” Powers said, “I don’t care” which side of the issue someone is on — or if they’re innocent. “My concern is public safety.” However, the “intelligence” in the briefings includes lists of public meetings the state has determined anti-drilling activists plan to attend.

Even with gas drilling’s mounting record of water contamination, air pollution, explosions and fires, up until now no one had ever claimed that its dangers were attributable not to the process itself, nor to a lack of appropriate federal regulations, but instead to ordinary citizens exercising their free right of assembly to watch a film.

A message from Lady Gaga to the Senate Sept 16 2010