From Boots 'N All Travel Network, here is a list of 20 world geography trivia facts that are rather fun. For example...
1. Portland, Oregon, where it rarely snows, is about 130 miles farther north than Toronto, and over 200 miles farther north than Boston.
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This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
We Fight to Protect This...
Man Regrets Not Killing Daughter At Birth
May 11, 2008
from The J-Walk Blog
Another person driven insane by religion: 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'.
Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions.
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.
Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said...
'I have only two boys from now on. That girl was a mistake in my life. I know God is blessing me for what I did,' he said, his voice swelling with pride.
May 11, 2008
from The J-Walk Blog
Another person driven insane by religion: 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'.
Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions.
For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.
Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.
Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said...
'I have only two boys from now on. That girl was a mistake in my life. I know God is blessing me for what I did,' he said, his voice swelling with pride.
Did you know...
1. Sanctity of Marriage...
43% of first marriages end in divorce.
60% of second marriages end in a break-up.
75% of later marriages end in a break-up.
2. Many of those who oppose Universal Health Care in the US brag that we already have the best health care system in the world. But -
The rank of the United States among the leading 19 industrialized nations in preventing deaths with timely access to professional health care: 19.
3. Many conservatives in the US love to prattle on about stopping crime and punishing law-breakers. But -
There are 2,387 juveniles in the U.S. serving life snetences with no parole. In Israel, the only other country that sentences juveniles to life terms, there are 7.
(Perhaps folks in the U.S. are just more violent.)
(source - Playboy, June 2008)
43% of first marriages end in divorce.
60% of second marriages end in a break-up.
75% of later marriages end in a break-up.
2. Many of those who oppose Universal Health Care in the US brag that we already have the best health care system in the world. But -
The rank of the United States among the leading 19 industrialized nations in preventing deaths with timely access to professional health care: 19.
3. Many conservatives in the US love to prattle on about stopping crime and punishing law-breakers. But -
There are 2,387 juveniles in the U.S. serving life snetences with no parole. In Israel, the only other country that sentences juveniles to life terms, there are 7.
(Perhaps folks in the U.S. are just more violent.)
(source - Playboy, June 2008)
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Busism - Incumbency
"Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where I'm coming from."
---George W. Bush September 7, 2000
From comments made in Detroit, Michigan.
---George W. Bush September 7, 2000
From comments made in Detroit, Michigan.
No Help for the Wicked
More on the reason I don't believe the taxpayers should be bailing out folks who over-extended themselves in the housing market...
From Reuters...
From Reuters...
A California man who has defaulted on nine homes and expects banks to foreclose on all of them, forcing him into bankruptcy, says he now considers it a mistake to have invested in the real estate market.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Political images
Why George is the way he is...
Monica still lurks in our minds...
It ain't over 'til it's over...
Two-sided mouth...
He could've said it better himself...
Religion
Apr 29, 2008
Living In The Imagination
from The J-Walk Blog
"Imagine this: Religion a figment of human imagination. Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination.
That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as has been argued by some anthropologists. Instead, he argues that first, we had to evolve the necessary brain architecture to imagine things and beings that don't physically exist, and the possibility that people somehow live on after they've died."
Living In The Imagination
from The J-Walk Blog
"Imagine this: Religion a figment of human imagination. Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination.
That's the argument of anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as has been argued by some anthropologists. Instead, he argues that first, we had to evolve the necessary brain architecture to imagine things and beings that don't physically exist, and the possibility that people somehow live on after they've died."
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Bushism - John Ashcroft
"If he's—the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a—is a noble institution. I would—I would strongly reject that assumption, that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person."
---George W. Bush
January 14, 2001
from the NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokow.
---George W. Bush
January 14, 2001
from the NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokow.
Bushism - Inaugural
"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to— I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that."
---George W. Bush January 22,2001
---George W. Bush January 22,2001
Fark Headline - humor
Another great Fark headline...
"Three thousand, er, 4000 U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq to avenge the September 11 att -- to search for Weapons of Ma -- to bring democracy to the peop -- 3000, er, 4000 U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq"
"Three thousand, er, 4000 U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq to avenge the September 11 att -- to search for Weapons of Ma -- to bring democracy to the peop -- 3000, er, 4000 U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq"
Monday, March 24, 2008
Bushism - Certain and Uncertain
"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain—we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what America stands for... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain, to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."
---George W. Bush May 31,2000
Comments made during a campaign stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reported by the Washington Post.
---George W. Bush May 31,2000
Comments made during a campaign stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reported by the Washington Post.
He buys it only for the pictures...
Ah - I didn't create this commentary on Obama's candidacy, I just re-posted it...
Ah - I didn't create this commentary on Obama's candidacy, I just re-posted it...
Yeah - well - as long as we keep buying all of their oil and giving them all of our borrowed money, I guess they will have the right to feel as if they should run the world...
Click on the cartoon to view larger - A comment on the "no-tolerance" policies in many schools that treat our kids like criminals...
Time for another shot, I think...
Bushism - Smart Enough
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
---George W. Bush April 3,2000
As reported in U.S. News & World Report.
---George W. Bush April 3,2000
As reported in U.S. News & World Report.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
More On The Economy
I've written quite a bit lately about my fears for the economy. This video is from a Dutch television station. See what you think...
Ooooooh - we've made him mad now...
It didn't work this way for me during the Clinton years, but maybe for you?
It didn't work this way for me during the Clinton years, but maybe for you?
I'm not sure of the point of this - but it IS thought provoking...
Obama worries me a bit - but he is charismatic...
Bush visits his friends - and if there were justice in this world, he and a whole lot more would be incarcerated as well...
Bushism - Policy
"I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where."
---George W. Bush
August 11,2000
Referring to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. From an interview with the AP.
---George W. Bush
August 11,2000
Referring to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. From an interview with the AP.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Bushism - The Truth
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
---President George W. Bush,
Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
---President George W. Bush,
Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
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