Why ruin a good story with the truth?

Who cares...

2011-11-20T02:37:00.001-06:00

what i have to say.

Interesting

2011-05-22T16:43:00.002-05:00

The morning coffee is a ritual beloved by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Now a team of inventors has promised to improve this daily pleasure with metal beans that can keep your drink warm for up to five hours. The beans, called Coffee Joulies, cool down your beverage to a drinkable temperature three times faster than normal, and then maintain that temperature.

Using Coffee Joulies couldn't be simpler; all you have to do is add a few to your drink as soon as it's poured.

And you don't have to be a coffee lover to get the most out of the beans - they work in any hot drink, be it tea, hot chocolate or milk.
Unfortunately, the beans - which are due to shortly go on sale in the U.S. with a retail price of $50 for a bag - only work at their best when the cup is insulated with a lid.

Place them in a standard kitchen mug and Coffee Joulies will keep your drink in the optimum temperature range for only a few minutes longer than usual.
In a thermos flask, however, then the beans should keep your coffee at the perfect temperature for up to five hours.

But don't forget to make more coffee than usual - the beans take up 15 per cent of the volume of your mug or flask.

Рекламка...

2011-03-24T09:20:00.001-05:00

какво да кажа по въпроса... денят ми започна с мисълта, че няма нищо по-гадно от потна негърка! после намерих това:

Why I Didn't Know That You Exist!

2010-10-05T07:25:00.003-05:00

It is never too late to wake up...

Picture courtesy of Ventsislav Zankov.

Delightful find!

2010-07-24T04:38:00.002-05:00

Courtesy of NEX Magazine:

Rima Staines is an artist, writer, and clockmaker who paints and draws the things she sees when exploring this fairytale realm…where she spends most of her time. Although she was born a Londoner in the 20th century she has always had one foot in Early Medieval Europe. She doesn’t really know what to do about this. Rima’s curiosity leads her through the many worlds of words, languages and lettering, books and stories, puppetry, nature and interesting people, music, superstitions, folklore and fairytales, and most of all the otherness that can be found on the periphery of our lives, the strange and grotesque, the absurd and unnerving…that topsy turvy in between place where things are not quite what they seem…

Rima paints and draws on wood and paper. She enjoys entwining script and image closely and loves to write stories to tell her characters’ tales using forgotten words and other languages. She also makes Things from Wood and has been initiated into the mysteries of Binding Books.

For inspiration she surrounds herself with images of skeleton leaves, medieval manuscript pages, ancient faces, Russian icons, old toys, bells & gypsy caravans, huts in the snow, jars & boxes, old violins, rusty keys & children’s rhymes…and most dear of all things The Music – which inspires Rima more than anything…

She travelled for a year and a day in a hand built wooden house on wheels and is now sitting amongst books and paints in an old house on the edge of Dartmoor.

At intothehermitage.blogspot.com her tale unfolds.

Please, WATCH THIS MOVIE!

2010-05-06T19:17:00.002-05:00

And rethink your eating habits!

Me, personally, after I've watched it I'm going vegan.

I Won't Comment On The Health Bill Thing...

2010-03-22T11:23:00.004-05:00

... a lot. Just this:

The Obama Takeover Checklist...O.K. Lets see... So far since Obama has taken office he has nationalized: The Banking Industry The Mortgage Industry The Auto Industry The Student Loan Industry The Health Insurance Industry What's next?

The Energy Industry The Food Industry Etc Etc.. Do you see a pattern developing here people? The NEXT THING he will do is grant AMNESTY to 30 million illegal aliens! Then guess who will be voting for him in the next election? You got it.. the 30 million illegals he just bribed..

And here is the prove:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/03/22/endo.rally.lok.cnn

With all that said now I'll fuck off and post a picture of Tom Ford's naked ass.

Alexander McQueen's Last Collection

2010-03-12T00:10:00.006-06:00

This video captures details you can't see in plain pictures — such as the feathered shoes, with heels of gold filigree, and the intricate embellishment and prints on the dresses. It's SO beautiful. I'm speechless ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyRwLZZIKUs

For 15 minutes, in a Paris drawing room flounced with gilt, Alexander McQueen came back to life.

When the first model walked into the room, there was an audible intake of breath. Four weeks after the designer's death, the collection he had been working on was finally unveiled.

And his spirit was right there - in the skullcap of bandages dissected by a mohican of lacquered feathers, in the fierce black boots with gold angels sculpted into the heels, in the muscular power of a tight crimson bodice.

Every piece was cut on the stand by McQueen, the audience was told beforehand. Once the clothes appeared, there could have been no doubt.

Of the outfits, 16 were 80 per cent finished - they were completed by his team and seen for the first time on Tuesday. The collection was truly spectacular. The mood, in the face of the evidence of what fashion has lost, was bleak.

Seven tiny presentations of the collection are being held. Altogether, about 70 people will see the clothes. The audience at the first presentation included a handful of fashion editors and Roger Polet, the boss of Gucci Group.

His unfinished last collection looked to Byzantine art, to eternity and to angels. In folds of double duchesse satin, in a short dress tightly waisted and extravagantly swagged at the hip, could be glimpsed the infant Jesus from Jean Fouquet's 1450 painting of the Virgin and Child.

In the work of master carver Grinling Gibbons, McQueen found details which he translated into crocodile shoes with gilded wooden heels hand-carved into elaborate columns of twisted ivy festooned with acorns.

There were chill moments, such as when the Paris sunlight caught the sculpted heel of an ankle boot revealing the carving of a broken skull. The skull had come to be something of a McQueen trademark, but here it appeared crushed.

ELLE Editor-in-Chief Lorraine Candy said, “It was a poignant and moving memorial. The opera that McQueen had listened to while working on the collection played out and the audience was moved to tears. It was the most feminine, womanly and ethereal collection he had shown in years - very peaceful and personal to him and a fitting way to present it. It felt like goodbye”.

Elsewhere, McQueen's interest in 15th century art seemed to dwell on the Netherlandish solemnity of Hugo van der Goes and the early surrealism of Hieronymus Bosch. But there were also Botticelli and Foquet's sweet-faced Madonnas and peachy cherubs.

This was the last ever collection by Lee Alexander McQueen, but it will not be the last collection to bear the Alexander McQueen name. A week after the designer's death, Polet announced that the label would continue.

There has been no announcement as to who will replace McQueen. A note given to each of the audience read, ''Each piece is unique, as was he.''

AFP reports the appearance of the first model in McQueen's showing caused audible gasps. The Times' fashion director Hilary Alexander said: 'The showing was an emphatic demonstration of the intense skill and artistry of McQueen, but all the more tragic for being such a brief and poignant reminder of what the fashion world has lost.'

There Is Some Beauty Left In Bulgaria...

2010-03-11T12:48:00.003-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpymJv33mQU

Maybe...

2010-02-20T01:40:00.001-06:00

Да се гръмна или да се застрелям!

2010-01-31T00:04:00.002-06:00

Ето на това мойто му се вика ИЗПЛИСКВАНЕ!

Както си седях щастливо под една палма с коктеилче в ръка и цунамито ме помете! Всичко е обърнато на опаки и се налага пълно преподреждане...

Fucking HELP!

(¯`•.¸,¤Happy New Year¤,¸.•´¯) and Soundgarden Reunion!

2010-01-01T01:32:00.005-06:00

Chris Cornell Announces Soundgarden Reformation

Hold on to your hats rock ‘n’ roll fans! Chris Cornell has announced that his beloved nineties band, Soundgarden, are getting back together!

After the break-up of the band, Cornell found success with Audioslave in the noughties and released a number of moderately successful solo albums, including 2009’s collaboration with Timbaland, Scream.

Cornell posted a message to fans on Twitter shortly before the change of the decade saying, “The 12 year break is over & school is back in session… Knights of the Soundtable ride again!”

Find out more here: http://www.soundgardenworld.com/

Something For The Ladies or The Canonization Of Tom Ford

2009-12-21T22:24:00.006-06:00

Just the thought of Him makes my vibrator runs out of battery!

I know the girls in here will understand me, and the boys will produce a little, pathetic sound that slightly resemble a sentence and it goes something like: wasnthegay?!

I still wait for the answer of WHY men can’t deal with the eternal handsomeness of a gay guy! Maybe because a gay man really takes care of himself, is not afraid of the word moisturizer, goes to the gym and shaves everywhere!

Or maybe because women simply adore gay men for all of the above plus the fact that they can talk to them about stuff!

How many of you out there have a boyfriend, husband or a brother that finds shopping and the hours dedicated to it pointless?! “How can you pay so much for that shit?”. “Do you really need to spend 500 on a serum??”. “Oh Gawd… I didn’t know you need that many shoes!”

Men like to shop in a hurry. It's a manly thing to go in and out of a shop, get what you need and leave. It makes them proud – it's so grand to save time from shopping but to give 6 hrs of your fucking life to WrestleMania!

Unfortunately many men treat their partners with the same kindness like they treat a visit to the store – In and out for 5 minutes. Bland and boring like a trip to Wal Mart in a scary hillbilly town on Black Friday.

With a gay man you can go shop for hours without hearing a single moan! He won’t argue if you want to spend 1000 on Jimmy’s or 3000 on a Gucci bag. The only thing he’ll say is that you have an exquisite taste!

You can cry your heart out to him and he won’t be scared of your tears – he will simply share them. You can lay in bed with him and cuddle without the thought that he’ll love you more only if you fuck.

Gay guy makes the perfect husband! (I better know next time) He’ll never judge. He’ll never cheat on you with your best girlfriend. He’ll never prefer golf more than you. The chance that he’ll ever leave you are close to zero because you are his best friend! I don’t fucking care if he gets it in the butt everyday. It's sexy for a woman but gross for a man?! Besides it's none of my business what everyone does in bed. I don’t wanna know!

But the point of all of the above is just an introduction to the Second Coming Of Jesus Into My World! Plus, if I put a title to this thread that say Jesus how many of you’ll really read it?! I won’t!

Jesus came into my life the other day in a cloud of Grey Vetiver, clad into the whitest white shirt and the best tailored suite I’ve ever seen on a man! His handsome face has that tiny smirk of knowledge that says “I know I’m drop dead gorgeous bitches!”

Normally all ends there – you see him, you die and resurrect only to talk about it.

But in my case He opened His mouth… And words started to come out of it and that incredible soulfulness, gentleness and sincerity made that aura around him glow for real!

Tom Ford is like nothing that I've ever seen before! The last time I was so impressed was when I saw the Mona Lisa for the first time. I’m fortunate enough to have a crazy and exciting life that throws me all around the world like a mad monkey. I have the privilege and sadness to meet people from any walks of life, rich and poor. So please don’t assume that those thoughts are coming from the mouth of some 20 yr old ignorant idiot who never left the borders of Stupidville, Mississippi. Besides I’m European.

The beauty of this man is indescribable but what is even more unique about him is the fact that all comes not only from outside but most importantly from inside!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQqgWJ4JfHc&feature=related

And now we come to the final part of The Eulogy called Ifuckinglostmymind. It's about A Single Man - Tom Ford’s Directorial debut.

You read the links. In a mean time I'll run to the store for batteries.

http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_14041192

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/how-tom-ford-became-the-toast-of-hollywood-1847009.html

The Torture Over Johnny Depp By Tim Butron Continues - New Alice in Wonderlan Trailer

2009-12-16T18:12:00.001-06:00

I Vow to Thee, My Country

2009-12-16T00:16:00.002-06:00

For no particular reason except the fact that somewhere, deep inside of me, is how I feel when I think about my country of birth...

No, I'm not British but the song is beautiful!

I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love;
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
I heard my country calling, away across the sea,
Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me.
Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead.
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns,
I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.

Happy Monday Bitches! THE Great Chris Cornell - Black Hole Sun LIVE at Norway Quart Festival 2005

2009-12-14T21:03:00.006-06:00

Slightly, charmingly drunk Chris and audience ;)

To the guy in the front row that CC refers to: I WOULD LIKE TO MARRY YOU! PLEASE CALL ME! :))

How Classy Mr. President!

2009-12-10T11:53:00.002-06:00

Barry showed his eternal class and style one more time!

Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs

Gwladys Fouché and Ewen MacAskill
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 December 2009 20.00 GMT

Barack Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prizewinner.

Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.

The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.

He has also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway.

According to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.

"Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. "This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy," she told VG.

The Norwegian Nobel committee, which awards the peace prize, dismissed the criticism. "We always knew that there were too many events in the programme. Obama has to govern the US and we were told early on that he could not commit to all of them," said Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee.

Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the royal palace.

Peace activists opposed to the Afghanistan war are planning a 5,000-strong protest in Oslo.

The visit will test Obama's rhetorical skills as he seeks to reconcile acceptance of the Nobel peace prize with sending an extra 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan.

White House officials said that Obama, who was planning to work on the final draft of his speech on his flight from Washington to Oslo, would directly address the issue of the irony of being awarded the peace prize while escalating the war.

The Nobel peace committee has been criticised for awarding Obama the prize before he has any major accomplishments in international relations.

A White House official said that it was not necessarily an award that Obama would have given himself.

Sir Richard Branson Did It! VSS Enterprise Is A Fact!

2009-12-10T00:41:00.004-06:00

I really like the guy especially since he bleached his teeth!

Sir Branson is not your ordinary entrepreneur and the fact that he really started his empire form scratch in Britain makes him even more appealing!

http://www.virgingalactic.com/

On a cold and windy night at the Mojave Air and Space Port, the VSS Enterprise was unveiled to the public tonight(December 8, 2009). Attached to its mother ship, the vehicle better known as SpaceShipTwo is expected to be the first commercial spacecraft when it enters service with Virgin Galactic.

SpaceShipTwo was built by Scaled Composites under the guidance of legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan. The carbon composite spacecraft uses the same fuselage as its mother ship, VMS Eve. After a year of rigorous testing, VMS Eve completed flight testing earlier this fall. Rutan didn’t specify when flight testing for SpaceShipTwo would begin, though it is expected to start early next year.

Sub-orbital passenger flights could start as early as 2011 from Virgin Galactic’s space port in New Mexico which is currently under construction. Tickets for the early adopters are $200,000 for a training program culminating with the ride into space. Both Rutan and Virgin Galactic founder, Sir Richard Branson have repeatedly said they expect the prices to drop rapidly similar to many new technologies, including the early days of air travel.

Once flight testing is complete, production will begin on a fleet spacecraft like SpaceShipTwo in order to meet the expected demand for rides into space. Rutan and Branson have partnered in a company known simply as The Spaceship Company. The joint venture will produce both the WhiteKnightTwo mother ships and the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. Rutan says he expects that 40 to 50 spaceships will be needed in order to satisfy the market needs. Branson’s Virgin Galactic has the exclusive use of the launch system for the first 18 months of operation.

Rutan said tonight’s unveiling is the culmination of many years of thinking, designing and working on making space travel more accessible to more people outside the ranks of government space programs.

“All of us at Scaled are tremendously excited by the capabilities of both the mother ship and SS2. Today is the culmination of a dream that began many decades ago, was stimulated by Paul Allen’s funding of our X-Prize-winning SS1 and then moved forward to commercial reality by Sir Richard and Virgin’s visionary investment in a new future for space transportation.”

Branson said seeing SpaceShipTwo for the first time is very exciting and he looks forward to the next steps towards commercial space flights.

“The unveil[ing] of SS2 takes the Virgin Galactic vision to the next level and continues to provide tangible evidence that this ambitious project is not only moving rapidly, but also making tremendous progress towards our goal of safe commercial operation.”

In a video released by Virgin Galactic (below), both Rutan and Branson continue their salesmen jobs promoting the passenger flights into space with each of them touting the safety and beauty of flying on Virgin Galactic. The video features footage from the successful SpaceShipOne flights in 2004 and animations of future flights of SpaceShipTwo, including an overview of the flight profile for passengers with the “care free” re-entry system developed by Rutan for SpaceShipOne.

With more than 300 future passengers already putting up the $200,000 for a seat on SpaceShipTwo, there appears to be a strong demand for the rides to the blackness of space. After a few successful flights are broadcast to the world, more people are expected to line up for a window seat on the first commercial spaceship. And hopefully prices will drop so that some day those who want to enjoy the thrill of space flight can trade a week on the beaches of Waikiki, for a view from more than 350,000 feet.

What In The World... The Norwegian Mystery Spiral

2009-12-09T21:06:00.004-06:00

What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?
If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.
Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world.

The mystery began when a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain in the north of the country. It stopped mid-air, then began to move in circles. Within seconds a giant spiral had covered the entire sky. Then a green-blue beam of light shot out from its centre - lasting for ten to 12 minutes before disappearing completely.
Onlookers describing it as 'like a big fireball that went around, with a great light around it' and 'a shooting star that spun around and around'.
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute was flooded with telephone calls after the light storm.

Totto Eriksen, from Tromsø, told VG Nett: 'It spun and exploded in the sky,'
He spotted the lights as he walked his daughter Amalie to school.
He said: 'We saw it from the Inner Harbor in Tromsø. It was absolutely fantastic.
'It almost looked like a rocket that spun around and around and then went diagonally down the heavens.
'It looked like the moon was coming over the mountain, but then came something completely different.'
Celebrity astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard said he had never seen anything like the lights.
He said: 'My first thought was that it was a fireball meteor, but it has lasted far too long.
'It may have been a missile in Russia, but I can not guarantee that it is the answer.'

Air traffic control in Tromsō claimed the light show lasted 'far too long to be an astronomical phenomenon'.
Norwegian defence spokesman Jon Espen Lien also said the lights were probably from a Russian missile test claiming it was normal for Russia to use the White Sea and the Barents Sea as a testing ground.
Tromsō Geophysical Observatory researcher Truls Lynne Hansen agreed, saying the missile had likely veered out of control and exploded, and the spiral was light reflecting on the leaking fuel.
But the mystery deepened last night as Russia denied it had been conducting missile tests in the area.
A Moscow news outlet quoted the Russian Navy as denying any rocket launches from the White Sea area.
Norway should be informed of such launches under international agreements, it was stressed.
The Russian Defence Ministry was unavailable for comment.

Please! NOT White Collar's Matt Bomer!

2009-12-08T10:58:00.010-06:00

The cutest, smartest, fun and exciting show on TV is a fact and it is called WHITE COLLAR!

Last time I've seen better pairing in a leading characters was in Lethal Weapon between Danny Glover and Mel Gibson. Now Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay made up surprisingly well for the sake of lost times.

All was great until some jelous twatt with a two inch long penis decided to proclaim Matt Bomer gay! (Even if he is, this is none of my business! The chances of me shagging him are less than the possibility of Lady Gaga being a woman!). I guess this is the same individual or a kind of male individuals who can't get over the fact that their girlfriends, wifes, mothers and friends find handsome male actors so appealing that they drool uncontrollably, in a trans, by the site of their faces on TV or the big screen!

What about that trash - Pamela Anderson? Or the universal whore Jenna Jamison? Or the whole army of cheap chicks who posses a breasts the size of the Sain Peter's Dome and a brain with the size of an insect's embrio?! Does women rush to label them lesbians?! Of cource not! But David Beckham is gay. Tom Cruise is gay. Ricky Martina is gay. Gerard Butler is gay. Do I need to count further?!

There is a problem for a man to except another man's hansomness. This is an eternal fact, so funny and pathetic that makes the male existence even more worthless unless the dude don't work in Google or CERN! But than he'll be short, ugly, hairy and unattractive!

I have a suggestion for all of you out there, unsure and gloomy men! Go and jerk off (literally) to the 3 dollar issue of Playboy! Go jerk off (literally) to a porn channel, late at night, trying to hide away from your girlfriends and wifes! But please, leave our fantasies alone! And let us drool in peace!

Nope. I'm Not Dead.

2009-12-07T23:56:00.002-06:00

Hey there peeps! Sorry I've left you for a while but the past few weeks required a lot of unrequited work and activities.

I'm back and ready to post my nonsence and read yours!

Tell me what I've missed!

The Large Hardon Collider Is Ready To Rumble!

2009-11-09T21:52:00.007-06:00

Lady's and Gentlemen!

Please! Fasten your seatbelt! We are just a step a way of disappearing or learning the secrets of the Big Bang.

CERN
News: 9 November 2009

Particles have gone half way round the LHC.

Splash event recorded by the CMS experiment on 7 November. The electromagnetic calorimeter is in red, the hadronic calorimeter in blue, the muon system is yellow and magenta. The barrel muon detector was on standby and the inner tracking detector was off.

On Saturday evening, at around 8 p.m., after passing through the LHCb detector, for the first time since last year's incident, protons arrived at the doorstep of the CMS experiment, thus completing half the journey around the LHC's circumference.

Low energy protons from the LHC were dumped in a collimator just upstream of the CMS cavern. The calorimeters and the muon chambers of the experiment saw the tracks left by particles coming from the dumping point (a so-called 'splash event', see image). During the weekend, bunches of protons were also sent in the clockwise direction passing through the ALICE detector and were dumped at point 3.

More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.

According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”

"For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion."

When CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project -- known as "the grid" -- is built atop completely fiber optic networks, and utilizes modern routing centers. By keeping traffic out of our current phone and data systems, the researchers have been able to achieve speeds heretofore unseen on previous networks. The system connects from CERN to 11 centers around the globe, and will be switched on when the Large Hadron Collider is activated, on what the group is calling "Red Button Day." Project heads believe a network with this speed will lead to all sorts of futuristic innovations -- like true cloud computing, holographic video conferencing, and really, really fast pirating of the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series.

Personally, I'm surprised they haven't made a porn movie titled "Large Hard On Collider" starring Higgs Boneon, Black Hoe and Sexy Suzy Stranglet.

P.S. Understanding CERN for kids and dumb adults:

https://project-cernland.web.cern.ch/project-cernland/

Here's a little something I discovered:

1. CERN's longitude is at 6.06660°E

2. The symbol for CERN is also a stylized 666, check it out sometime.

The Fourth Kind - THE Most Disturbing Movie Ever Made?

2009-11-06T19:00:00.010-06:00

There was a string of disappearances in the small town of Nome on the west coast of Alaska, not far from the Bering Strait. In 2005, the FBI was brought in to investigate. The victims were largely native men traveling to the town from smaller villages, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

The FBI looked into about 20 cases, finding alcohol and frigid temperatures to be causes. Nine bodies were never found.

The title itself is derived from a "scale of measurement" that was "developed in 1972" to categorize alien encounters, best known through its use in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." (On the scale, the first kind of encounter is defined as a UFO sighting; the second, collected evidence of extraterrestrials; and the third kind is contact.)

The "fourth kind" is alien abduction, the hardest encounter to prove until now, said NBC Universal, parent company of distributor Universal Studios, in a press release. First time writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi was unavailable for comment, but according to a fact sheet handed out at screenings, he discovered the disappearances that plagued Nome in 2004 when a friend told him of a Dr. Abigail Tyler.

During sleep studies "in fall 2000, the therapist's patients, under hypnosis, exhibited behaviors that suggested encounters with nonhumans," the statement read.

According to the press material, Tyler recorded footage depicting disturbing scenes, which director Osunsanmi uses alongside re-enactments starring Milla Jovovich and Will Patton in a split screen. To further push the reality bit, Jovovich informs the audience right up front that she "plays the role of Dr. Abigail Tyler," and that the images they are about to see are very disturbing.

If you search for Dr. Abigail Tyler, Nome Alaska, a website called "Alaska Psychiatry Journal" provides a "biography" of Dr. Tyler with "related articles" on the topics of sleep disorders, emotional issues, hypnotherapy and regression therapy. However, the website does not have a homepage or contact information.

Several days ago the information about Dr. Tayler have been removed and so are ALL the articles about a person with that name. The screen shot I took of the "broken" link reads the following:

Dr. Abigail Tyler, Ph.D. is a research psychologist currently conducting clinical studies in the area of sleep disorders and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) in Nome, Alaska, toward developing more effective treatment plans for patients suffering from these related disorders. Dr. Tyler's work has been most recently published in the June 1997 issue of the American Journal Psychiatry in an article detailing her work with Dr. Samuel Burden, MD, entitled "Short-Term Behavioral Effects of Variance in Light Exposure on Suprachiasmatic Nucleus."

In progress since late 1997, Dr. Tyler's studies engaging community members of Nome are reportedly already uncovering striking similarities among her subject's accounts of their sleep disorder experiences. Dr. Tyler's findings promise to exponentially expand the psychological basis of understanding surrounding sleep disorders of all kinds, especially as related to posttraumatic stress disorders and focus on the conscious and hypnosis-enhanced accounts of a sample group of adult males and females in their 30s and 40s.

Copyright 1997 Medical Journal Archive
Source(s):
http://alaskapsychiatryjournal.org/entries/Dr-Abigail-Tyler-Bio.html

The Fourth Kind was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. It's the reality of the whole thing that got me. (I'm talking about abduction, not the footage. There was one particular moment that tipped me off. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it. I've read reviews that claim “the audience is too sophisticated to believe that this is real footage,” etc. To which I must respond, “Yeah, so what?” I'm also too sophisticated to believe that a clown doll is going to come to life and kill someone. It's still fun to watch.) Like I said, the reason alien movies still have the power to scare me is that no one has been able to prove that the crazy abduction people are lying. Um...I hope they are.

Filming locations for The Fourth Kind (2009)

Los Angeles, California, USA

New Boyana Film Studios, Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

Vitosha, Bulgaria

UPDATE: OK... I feel like an idiot now... One naive idiot! Or... the cover up is simply brilliant!

Over night the whole story have changed from true to a hoax. No real footage. No Dr. Tyler. No aliens. Strange.

"If we are to believe the premise of The Fourth Kind, the latest found footage thriller to merge "reality" with fictionalized storytelling, Dr. Abigail Emily Tyler uncovered a rash of alien abductions in the remote city of Nome, Alaska -- and paid a huge price in the process. She lost her husband, her daughter, and perhaps most significantly, her sanity. Even though she maintains the truth of what happened over the course of nine days in October of 2000, there is still a great deal of speculation over whether her audio and video recordings are nothing more than an elaborate hoax.

Now writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi has hired actress Milla Jovovich to play Tyler in a combination documentary/docudrama about the case, using the actual "evidence" the psychiatrist collected as a means of verifying her story. Throughout the course of this intriguing, and often inventive film, Osunsanmi uses split screen, allowing the "truth" to certify and accentuate the performances onscreen. Oh, and if you're wondering about the use of quotes, there are many online who are convinced that this entire story is a scam, a ruse carefully crafted by Universal to market a film employing an unusual, unorthodoxed style of storytelling.

Indeed, there are many who claim that Dr. Tyler does not exist. Others point out that the supposed "true stories" used during the course of the film cannot be real as they appear staged and too "shocking" to have sat around unexplained for nearly nine years. So there really is no Will Tyler, no mysterious death that keeps Abigail up at night. There's no "Tommy" (Corey Johnson), a man who takes his late night visits from the unexplained "owls" as a motive for a horrific crime. Or "Scott" (Enzo Clienti), who, when hypnotized by Dr. Tyler, recounts his visits from these mysterious being and suddenly develops unearthly powers. There's no Sumerian language expert, no rugged sheriff (Will Patton) or understanding fellow shrink (Elias Koteas) to question -- and eventually confirm -- what happens to our heroine.

Indeed, what The Fourth Kind turns out to be is a major meta-experiment in which the facts are not, the truth is far from it, and both are purposefully manufactured in order to support an already specious and otherwise entertaining concept. Movies about actual alien encounters have never been very successful, and Osunsanmi is convinced that this new, provocative means of selling the idea will work -- and indeed, it does. If you knew nothing about this film going in, treating it as nothing more than a fictionalized account of some true incidents that happened to some unlucky Alaskans, you'd find the whole experience horrific, and quite satisfying. The side-by-side comparison gives the main "action" sequences a cleverness and urgency that a lack of context -- real or fake -- fails to deliver.

Yet one can't shake the nagging sensation that, if successfully discovered to be a hoax, audiences will rapidly dismiss this movie as a smart-ass slap in the face. Indeed, the first five minutes of the movie are so earnest in their desire to prove the veracity of what you will see that to learn it may all be a put-on turns something intriguing into a rather mean in-joke. This doesn't mean that Osunsanmi doesn't have a skill at creating suspense and unusual approaches to dread, and we do get caught up in the increasing fear of the unknown. Still, The Fourth Kind might end up the most controversial film of 2009 -- and not for the reasons the film tries to forward. Alien abduction is one thing. Entertainment fraud is another".

Judge for your self and make up you own mind!

Animals Make The Perfect Humans

2009-11-03T11:22:00.002-06:00

Editor's note: Rita Mae Brown is a novelist, a gay rights and feminist pioneer, a writer of two mystery series and an animal lover. She is an avid horse rider and lives on a farm in Virginia with cats, house dogs and a pack of fox hounds. Her latest book is "Animal Magnetism: My Life with Creatures Great and Small."

In case there are a few on two legs who aren't convinced, allow me to present my case.

Your dog is a great food tester. If she won't eat it, you'd better not either.
No cat snores as loudly as a human.

Your cat, dog, horse or bird doesn't care if you're young or old, rich or poor, fat or thin. She loves you just as you are.

No animal has ever tortured himself by trying to be perfect.

No herd of horses or pack of hounds will ever ask you to clap your hands in unison. Nor will any animal -- even in front of a TV camera -- introduce another as "the lovely and talented ..."

Humans routinely breed past the food supply. Most animals are too smart to do this.
Some animals are monogamous. Some are not. They accept their fundamental natures. When it comes to humans, the kindest way to approach this is to understand that monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

Animals do not pay for sex.

Animals cannot damage the water table. Humans are doing this all over the world even as you read this.

No animal is ever a hypocrite.

A cat doesn't care if another cat is black or white, so along as she catches mice.

A dog may steal from you but will never lie to you.

Given their unbelievable olfactory powers -- humans have about 6 million scent receptors; a dog has about 110 million -- your dog can smell friend or foe. Your dog knows who is sexually attracted to you and vice versa. You dog knows when you are about to have a heart attack or an epileptic seizure. They can even smell illness in you even before doctors catch wind of it (i.e. cancer). The point is, trust your dog.

You can also trust your cat concerning most of the above examples as long as you realize: Dogs have owners; cats have staff.

A dog would not allow another dog to eat if it weren't in on the hunt. In the animal world, you have to pull your weight. Dogs and cats recognize mental illness in humans. Many of them can deal with it. Many of us cannot.

Horses can work well with a physically compromised person. They are very giving animals.

We are medium-size animals who survived and then flourished by hunting in packs, by cooperation. A horse is a large animal. The journey from your mind to a horse's mind is the longest journey you will ever take.

If successful, it will be one of the strongest bonds of both of your lives, one you can never really explain to another human who has not made the journey. It is a bond of deep emotional richness.

No animal will ever correct your grammar. Given that service dogs have a vocabulary of 300 or 400 words, this shows remarkable restraint on their part.

An animal knows when she is dying. However, she does not carry around the notion of her individual death. This, I believe, is the true gap between us and other sentient creatures. It is the root of our discontent, denial and search for escape.

Personally, I believe death is a greatly overrated experience. Much of it irritates me. I know when the good Lord jerks my chain, I'm going.

Animals remember. They have some concept of the simple past, but they live triumphantly in the present. Few of us do.

Most animals have a sense of humor. Horses seem to have a highly developed one.
Humans routinely deny this until they find themselves the butt of the joke.

Thanks to technology, we believe we are more powerful. Take that away, and our limitations (bad night vision; no fangs or claws; long dependency of offspring; terrible slowness compared to, say, a cat; etc.) make us falter. One of the reasons we made a social contract with domesticated animals years ago was to "borrow" their power, speed, senses. In return, we feed them, care for them. We have broken this contract. They have not.

No animal will ever speak those dreadful words, "We have to talk."

Give thanks that your cat does not own a credit card. Aren't you sorry you do?

No animal will ever send you a Christmas card and expect one in return. Surely, the devil invented the Christmas card.

I rest my case.

Fuck You Very Much!

2009-10-26T15:21:00.003-05:00

I'm Deleting My Previous 3 Posts

2009-10-26T14:29:00.002-05:00

Because Guantanamo is still open.

End of free speech!

Adam Lambert singing with Queen

2009-10-21T22:22:00.004-05:00

Tom Cruise inspired Christian Bale for his role in ‘American Psycho’

2009-10-21T21:49:00.003-05:00

Mary Harron, the director of the film adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' 1991 classic novel, American Psycho, sat down for an interview recently and was asked about Christian Bale's inspiration for the book's Manhattan serial-killing monster, Patrick Bateman. He found it on David Letterman. BlackBook reports:

It was definitely a process. We talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn't actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

The movie was the Disney version of the book, but whatever. This might be the greatest thing you read all day, because if anything has ever made more perfect sense in your life someone needs to let me know. Every time I see Tom Cruise, I fully expect him to unzip his skin suit to tell me I'm gonna be a slave worker on his home lizard planet. Dude is creepy. But I gotta go right now, I have to return some videotapes.

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol Review From Mars

2009-10-16T19:52:00.002-05:00

I want to be fair to Dan Brown.

Elitist literary critics say that Brown is not a good writer, and that his stories are bland. I personally think that if you manage to genuinely entertain, even awe, your audiences, then you have accomplished something worthy of reading. I also think that "The Da Vinci Code" was nearly an impossible act to follow. People will have all sorts of crazy expectations for your next book that you won't be able to fulfill. As such, I write this review as fair as I can, trying to assess it on its own merits, but comparisons are inevitable.

The Lost Symbol isn't a bad book, but it is a letdown. I didn't like this one for the same reason I didn't like Angels and Demons as much. Also, Brown doesn't advance the story at a good pace. A good two-thirds of the book (I'm not exaggerating, I counted the pages) was filled with variations on such a scene:

Character A: Have you heard of X?
Character B (usually Langdon): Yes, but I thought that was just a myth.
Character A shows or tells B something.
Character B reacts with shock.
Then, insert scenes of people walking from one place to another, being chased.
Then, insert the sentence "Suddenly everything made sense." At least for the next ten pages.
Repeat.

After reading this, I had to wonder whether Brown is a writer on Lost, where people can't seem to give straight answers, and where scenes never resolve any questions.

Here's my advice to Dan Brown:

1. Fire your editor. There were some whole passages, even chapters, that served no purpose other than to inflate your book to an unnecessary size. I don't mind reading big books, but I do mind reading through unnecessary words. Ch. 69, for example, is unnecessary. If your editor didn't ask you to take it out, then he should be fired. Sorry.

2. We don't need to know exactly how every character moves from one location to the next, which turn they took, what street they walked across. If it serves the plot, if the geography is important (as it was in Angels and Demons), then fine. Geography was crucial at certain moments in this book, but many times, the passages when you describe how someone moves from one part of a house to another part, what door they opened and closed, all that is boring and tedious.

3. Don't write your novel like a screenplay. Whether you've done it consciously or not, your short chapters read as if you had in mind exactly what camera shots you expect out of an inevitable movie adaptation. Leave that to the screenwriter. If they can adapt a book like "Naked Lunch," they can surely adapt your book as well. Write your novel as a novel.

4. Be careful of hubris. You're in a unique and rare position that, I'm sure, many authors dream of: your books will sell millions by default and you will get a multi-million dollar movie deal without question. Good for you! Some authors handle that well (e.g. J.K. Rowling), some don't (e.g. Stephen King, Michael Crichton). It's not that the latter are bad writers, but that they are capable of writing some really bad stuff. Having said that, I'm not saying that The Lost Symbol is bad, just that it needs to lose about 100-pages of unnecessary, repetitive scenes. Speaking of Crichton, the reason I stopped reading him is that he became too formulaic. All his books are about a bunch of mismatched experts going to some remote location and something goes wrong. Formula isn't bad per se. Rowling is formulaic too. Most of her books revolve around the Hogwarts school year, but she puts enough story in there to make it work. You should do more of that.

5. Know what you're good at. You know your technology, which makes your book authentic. You also know that your readers are likely to go Google a painting or artist you mentioned and be awed by what you described. That's great! I bet that also saves you the pain of having to request reprint permissions of artwork and such. Also, since most people don't know their history, let alone the etymology of words they use everyday, you have literally an endless supply of stories. That's what you're good at. I'd say, forget the science stuff. It's interesting, but, as with Angels and Demons, it's an awkward fit. I don't recall there being any modern science in The Da Vinci Code and I was fine with that.

6. Try a recurring character. Langdon is fine, but consider having a character or two that returns in subsequent books. Make them interesting, of course, and don't make them a love interest.

So, here's the good news. Dan Brown hasn't nuked the fridge, at least not for me. Also, now that this book is out in the open, readers are likely to give his next book a much fairer assessment. So, I look forward to reading that, but, I probably won't be buying it on the first day it's out.

Hats Off To Eddie Izzard!

2009-09-16T09:57:00.005-05:00

I've always loved Eddie Izzard, but now I want to marry him and have his children. An amazing achievement for such a good cause. What a wonderful, wonderful man!

I just wish it had been better publicised in order to raise more money.

Here is the story:

High heels, of course, are now out of the question. Blisters and missing toenails mean Eddie Izzard will probably be settling for slippers for the foreseeable future.

But after running 43 marathons in 51 days, he doesn’t mind a bit.

The comedian whose epic 1,105-mile journey raised £200,000 for Sport Relief has finally hung up his trainers.

He looked exhausted but in good spirits as he ran up the steps of the National Gallery in London raising his hands triumphantly in the air.

‘I feel dead,’ he declared as hundreds of wellwishers cheered his arrival.‘Being here [with everyone ] is very nice. When I left here seven-and-a-half weeks ago there was nobody here and it was just another cold morning. ‘And now there is a lot of people here – even in the rain. ‘I think the worst part of the experience was the last three minutes sprinting down The Mall, which was really tough. I don’t think what I did was amazing. Anyone can do it.’

That, however, is debatable. Izzard clocked up more than 27 miles – further than a marathon – every day, six days a week, since he set off on July 26. The man who trained for only five weeks before his Herculean effort found things became much easier once he hit the road.

When he started, he was completing the daily distance in around ten hours. By the time he had finished he had halved his time to a little over five. He had hoped to make the final leg from Potters Bar in Hertfordshire to central London in under the five-hour mark but missed his target by just 30 seconds.

Sports scientists put his boosted performance down to the ‘training effect’. As the body adjusts to training it copes better with the physical demands as muscles enlarge, the heart rate adapts and lowers, and lung capacity and breathing improves.
‘It’s changed my body,’ Izzard said.

‘I’ve been stuffing food in my mouth morning, noon and night and now I have to stop
doing that.

I’m completely exhausted and I can’t sleep properly. The first three weeks were the toughest, when it started raining, but I’m a relentless idiot. I’m supposed to have an ice bath now. Then I am going to have a party somewhere dry and then I am going to sleep for a week.’

Izzard travelled with his tour manager, a sports therapist and an ice-cream van, which dispensed free ice-creams to supporters as he ran.

His daily routine began at 9am with a warm up and a massage followed by a porridge breakfast before setting off around mid-morning. He took in 5-6,000 calories a day including pasta, cakes and biscuits.

His feet and ankles took the most punishment over the 1,100-mile route from London to Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and back to London. ‘I had about five or six blisters
at the top and it’s now down to two on the outer toes,’ he said.

‘They look like aliens. And I lost my toenails on my outer toes as well. I don’t think I’ve lost weight because it turns into muscle, so you probably put on weight. I've probably leaned up.’

Last night John Brewer, a professor in sport at Bedfordshire University, said pounding the pavement for so long could cut Izzard down to size. ‘He might actually be a little bit shorter,’ he said. Studies have shown that marathon runners tend to lose between one and two centimetres in height because the spine constricts slightly. That is a short term effect and the height will come back up again.’

More than 750,000 people followed Izzard’s Twitter updates on his journey. And quite a few came along for the run.

Izzard remembers stopping for a burger at a fast-food drive-through and a group of girls suddenly deciding to run with him. Another group of boys kept up with him for five miles.

Anyone wishing to sponsor Izzard for his run can log on to www.comicrelief.com/donate/eddie.

AUDIOSLAVE Revelation, Set It Off (Live on David Letterman)

2009-09-13T13:19:00.004-05:00

Fuck you Yoko Ono or whatever your bitch name is! You broke up THIS:

9-11 Chris Cornell Imagine (Live on Conan)

2009-09-12T03:29:00.001-05:00

The greatest Rock Voice! Ever!

Thank you Chris...

9/11

2009-09-11T10:21:00.004-05:00

For all those innocent souls who lost their lives at that day. I can't forget it.

For my English readers I'll recomend to watch:

Loose Change 9/11 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501#

Zeitgeist http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#

За да не ме изядат английски говорящите ще кажа само:

Светът никога няма да забрави как група алчни идиоти потъпкаха държавност и демокрация и съсипаха съвременния свят като го лишиха от всакаква надежда и морални ценности.

Светът няма да забрави как заради военни поръчки, петрол и наркотици, една клика в която влизаха висши военни и президента на САЩ инсценираха този измислен атентат...

3000 жертви са нищо в сравнение с моралните поражения от това дело - то уби всяка вяра че поне по върховете хората не са лъжливи и крадливи изроди.

След тези 3000 жертви последваха още няколко милиона невинни от Ирак и Афганистан, след това ще има милиони и милиарди невинни от Иран, Индия и Пакистан...

Света върви към разруха и двете кули бяха само началото...А това че Обама продължава с лъжите означава само че и той и пионка от тази игра...

When I Am 104!

2009-09-08T06:21:00.002-05:00

Today is her 104th birthday, but that hasn't stopped Britain's Ivy Bean from being an avid Twitter user and possibly the oldest person on the social networking site.

From the care home where she lives in the northern English city of Bradford, near Leeds, Bean updates her more than 27,000 Twitter followers about the ups and downs of her life -- from getting her hair done with her good friend Mabel, to eating fish and chips and watching her favorite game show, "Deal or No Deal," on TV.

Last month, she tweeted her sadness that her friend Norma had passed away overnight.

Before getting onto Twitter, Bean was already active on Facebook, where she maxed out her 5,000-friend limit in no time.

Bean says she prefers Twitter because it's easier than Facebook -- it only requires updating. She has linked both accounts so that her tweets automatically show up on Facebook.

Bean says she knows people must think it's amazing that she's so active on online, but she thinks it's a good way of keeping in touch with people.

And for those who find it hard to jump on the Twitter bandwagon, Bean offers this advice: "Keep on at it."

"Old" is not the first -- or second or even 10th -- word that comes to mind with Bean, an engaging, lively and friendly lady with a warm and infectious smile.

A resident of Hillside Manor, she recently won a gold medal at the residential home's Over-75 Olympics in the Frisbee-throwing category. And she enjoys bowling on the home's Nintendo Wii.

No surprise, perhaps, for a lady who was a gymnast when she was younger.

What do her friends think of her online popularity? "I think they might be jealous," she said with a joking laugh.

Others at Hillside Manor also have Twitter accounts, but not Bean's friend, Mabel Davis, 87.

"Just put me on yours, Ivy," she says.

Already, Bean's centenarian tweeting and Facebooking have attracted international attention, and news outlets from around the world have interviewed her.

Bean's daughter, Sandra Logan, 61, said she arrived for a visit one day only to find her mom busy with a call.

"I'm on the phone with Israel," Bean called out to her daughter.

Part of the reason Bean is so active online is because the care home makes activities for its residents a priority. One resident wanted to learn more about photography, so he now takes a course once a week at a local college. The home also helped another resident get a passport so he could visit his son in Spain.

Hillside Manor also recently hosted a quiz with students from the local college. The subject was history. The Hillside Manor residents won.

"We're trying to do something different than knitting or crochet," explained Pat Wright, the home's manager.

Bean came from a large family with four brothers and three sisters. All are gone, Logan said.

Bean, who was in the middle of her siblings, was approaching 40 when she got married during the "great war" to Harold Gibson Bean. He was a cook in the army, and she worked in a mill.

After the war, the couple got a job "in service" to a wealthy family. Ivy Bean was a housekeeper and her husband was the cook and butler to Lord and Lady Guinness in Northamptonshire, England. Daughter Sandra, their only child, was born two years later, in 1947.

The couple retired together but Harold Bean died a few years later, when he was in his 70s, Logan said.

Bean now has three great-grandchildren with two more on the way, Logan said. They all call their famous great-grandmother "Little Nan."

Wright says Bean is "very open" to new suggestions and new ideas and is always willing to have a go at something.

"She must have been like that all her life," Wright says. "It's not a new thing. I think if you're one of those people that'll try anything through your life, it doesn't stop when you get old."

As she types an update on her Twitter page, Bean certainly seems to be displaying an open mind. Would she agree?

"I don't know if I have or not," Bean says. "But there's something there. There must be!"

Her Twitter nik is ivybean104.

I looked up the "N" word in the dictionary, and there was a picture of Van Jones

2009-09-06T10:16:00.006-05:00

No, the above is not my quote. I'm just using it. :)

"The political radicalization of Van Jones, President Obama's "green jobs" adviser, dates back to 1992, when he and hundreds of others took their anger to the streets of San Francisco in the infamous Rodney King protests.

Jones, a Yale Law School student who was working in the Bay Area as an intern, was part of a mob that stormed the city following the acquittal in Los Angeles of four white police officers who had been charged with beating King, who is black, after a car chase.

In an essay he wrote soon after the rioting and republished in The Huffington Post in May 2007, Jones said he "just marched around and chanted slogans" as other protesters set trash cans afire, smashed car windows and threw rocks at passing motorists. But he clearly reveled in the protest.

"Our moment had finally come! We were righteous, fired up, weren't takin' no more!" Jones wrote. "We were one thousand strong on Market Street, with the Bay Bridge shut down in rush hour traffic and the grounds around the state building swarming with angry mobs! Our rallying cry was for justice; our demand was that the System be changed!"

Jones continued, "Yes, the Great Revolutionary Moment had at long last come. And the time, clearly, was ours! So we stole stuff. Y'know, stole stuff. Radios, tennis shoes. Well, not everybody, of course."

Days after he wrote the essay, Jones was arrested along with hundreds of participants in a "peaceful protest" march.

Charges against him ultimately were dropped, and he says he received a "small" settlement.

"I was arrested simply for being a police observer," he later said.

Jones, in the piece he wrote for The Huffington Post, said his essay "captures the pain, frustration and aspirations of a much younger person. But I think it speaks well to the thought process of many young activists at the time."

"But the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization," he wrote. "The political agenda I articulated for myself and my generation in this essay remains largely undone and incomplete."

Indeed, Jones' "disaffection with the system" appeared to continue. In a June 2008 speech to the National Conference for Media Reform, Jones blasted a proposed prison in Memphis that he compared to a "huge slave ship on dry land."

"You don't have to call somebody the n-word if you can call them a felon," Jones said in the speech, which can be seen on YouTube . "The fight against this new Jim Crow, this punishment industry, where for-profit prison companies are now being traded on the stock exchange ... that struggle is being met as it was 40 years ago."

In his 2007 reflection on the aftermath of King's beating, Jones said he was among those who chanted "no justice, no peace" during the "understandable, unavoidable, even necessary" riots.

"These riots were not revolution; without revolutionary values and revolutionary organization, they were merely sharp outcroppings of the systemic chaos that social injustice breeds," Jones wrote. "But flashpoints of rage can never substitute for radical social vision or grassroots coordination."

Jones, the founder of Green for All, which focuses on creating environmentally friendly jobs in poor areas, continues to be a focus of President Obama's critics after video surfaced of him referring to Republicans as "assholes" and it was revealed that he once joined the "9/11 truther" movement, which contended that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks might have been an inside job by the Bush administration.

In 2004 Jones signed a statement calling for then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and others to launch an investigation into evidence that suggests "people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

The statement asked a series of critical questions hinting at Bush administration involvement in the attacks and called for "deeper inquiry." It was also signed by former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.

Jones distanced himself from the position on Thursday, saying, "In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration -- some of which were made years ago. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize. As for the petition [9/11 statement] that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."

An aide to Jones told FOX News he "did not carefully review the language in the petition." The aide did not say when Jones signed the petition or when he became aware of the controversy.

Thursday's apology followed Jones' mea culpa on Wednesday, when he expressed his remorse for "offensive words" he uttered in February, when he called Republicans "assholes." He said those remarks "do not reflect the views of this administration" and its bipartisan aims.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs limited his remarks about Jones on Friday, saying only that he "continues to work in this administration." As to the Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists, Gibbs said, "It's not something the president agrees with."

At least one congressman, U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has called for Jones' resignation.

Democratic strategist and FOX News contributor Bob Beckel predicted that Jones would be out of a job by Labor Day, and he wondered how Jones got the "czar" post in the first place.

"He's got every right in the world to be a self-avowed communist, but the Secret Service would no more allow a self-avowed communist into the White House as they would Charlie Manson, so that's what I don't get," Beckel said.

"There's something more in here about the breakdown of the system. Yes, it broke down with the Obama administration, but it also broke down with those people who are responsible for doing the background check," he added."

Frequently, the ones who squeal the loudest did not bother to vote in the last election.

If you really are unhappy with the way things are going, simply vote your congress person out next year. You do not need to wait until the next presidential election to reverse what has gone on and what is about to go on.

The health care bill is about to be jammed down our throats, there is about to be a political assassination of our CIA, The czars loyalty to the U.S. is questionable, we are about to (or have) bankrupt our country and any decision that is made or position stated is subject to change the next day.

The 2010 election will be held on Tuesday 2 November, with at least 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested and all 440 U.S. House seats coming up for election. If you are happy with the way things are going - VOTE! If you are unhappy with the way things are going - VOTE! Change the House, change the Senate and all these bad decisions will be reversed. A large percentage of Americans called for replacing 100% of Congressman. This percentage will grow.

Sorry, I Have To Post This

2009-09-04T04:57:00.001-05:00

Vomit!

2009-09-02T06:30:00.003-05:00

Sorry Todd buddy, I have to RP your article! And I'm still whipping the vomit off my keyboard.

Jim-Bob Duggar and his human slot machine wife, Michelle, are expecting their 19th child. If you want to do the math on this, their oldest son is 21. People reports:

"We are so thrilled," says Michelle, 42. "We just couldn't believe it is happening." Jim Bob, 44, agrees: "This never gets old. We are so grateful for each child. We are looking forward to our first grand baby and our 19th child." Oldest son Joshua, 21 and his wife Anna, 21, are expecting daughter Mackynzie Renée next month, so she will be older than her new aunt or uncle. "I think it is going to be awesome, it is going to be great," says Josh about the news that his parents are expecting. "We have been looking forward to the arrival of my little girl and to now get to celebrate for my parents, it's a wonderful thing."

Jesus, who does this dude think he is, Noah? He doesn't have to go forth and repopulate the Earth. Damn dude, give this chick a break. She's been pregnant for twenty years. Her vagina probably looks like Stargate by now.

Being an atheist and someone who actually gives a shit about the environment, I would not be bothered to wake up tomorrow and find out this entire family died in a gas leak.

This applies to anyone else preaching about Jesus, Xenu, Mohammed, Yahweh, Joseph Smith (Mormons), etc.

I'm supposed to care about my impact on the planet while these religious people proudly breed like divine cockroaches?!

Anthony Kiedis's Scar Tissue

2009-08-20T13:01:00.002-05:00

No matter how awesome you think you are, you have come nowhere near the sheer volume of drugs which Anthony Kiedis has consumed, nor have you had as much incredible sex with as many spectacular women. That, roughly speaking, is the theme of Kiedis’ autobiography and, if even half of what he says is true, it’s hard to imagine that anyone will ever be able to trump him in either endeavor.

For those who do not know, Anthony Kiedis is the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a merry band of funksters who have over the course of a career spanning two decades broken down a startling number of musical barriers in the mainstream and produced some fantastic music along the way.

The most damning indictment of the book is that there is literally no narrative structure here; Kiedis does not impose any sort of dramatic development on his story, so unless one is familiar with the outlines of Chili Pepper history, this is just one really, really, really long picaresque. And I use that word in its strongest pejorative sense: this is 465 pages of “this happened; then this happened; then this happened; then this happened; oh, and then this happened; did I mention that this happened? No? Anyways, then this happened; then this happened…” and on and on seemingly ad infinitum.

Which is too bad: the Chili Peppers’ story could make for fascinating reading. They let their freak flag fly and eventually the music-buying public wandered over, trying to figure out what these guys were up to. They never really compromised their music, with even their poppiest tunes (except for the execrable One Hot Minute) slanted just slightly off-kilter to what the rest of the mainstream was doing. And the personalities in the band are, to put it mildly, eccentric: Kiedis is the beautiful, rapping, flowing, sex god, drug addict, front man; bassist Flea is the manic musician, the kind of guy who would probably be terribly unsettling to sit beside on the subway, but who, by all accounts, has a heart of gold; current (and former… it’s a long story) guitarist John Frusciante is a drug-damaged artiste; and Chad Smith, the drummer (of course) is the odd one out, the guy who doesn’t seem to fit in so well. Very little of this comes through in Scar Tissue; for example, Smith, who has been drumming for the band for more than fifteen years is barely mentioned, and almost no interactions between Kiedis and Smith are recounted, other than a drunken near-brawl in a hotel.

The story of the band really needs to be told by an outsider. Kiedis’ account (and yes, I understand that it is an autobiography, but come on) is too relentlessly solipsistic: other people function so tangentially to the story that they end up being props. One of the more chilling moments in reading the book is realizing that the overdose death of Hillel Slovak (the Chili Peppers’ original guitarist), who Kiedis refers to as his best friend and “soulmate”, prompts approximately a page of reflection from Kiedis. That’s it. After that, it’s on to further bouts of drug-taking, startlingly dysfunctional relationships with women and occasional musings on sobriety. More than anything this is the story of a raging drug addict who happens to be in a successful band. Unfortunately, the drug addict’s story (and, really, eventually they’re all the same) can’t sustain itself for the length of the book: it just becomes monotonous.

After plowing through the book, I still can’t decide whether to like Kiedis or not. There definitely were times when you recoil from him: self-absorbed; a remorseless juvenile delinquent and petty criminal; destructive to those around him. But, bizarrely, he still generally comes across as an alright guy. There’s an interesting story to be found somewhere in here, but Kiedis isn’t the one to tell it.

As Of Today I Will Boycott Everything Japanese!!!

2009-08-19T12:14:00.004-05:00

Have you ever looked in the eyes of a dolphin?! Did you ever came close to one?! Did you ever felt his rubbery cold skin?! Did you watch him feed on sun rise, close to the beach?!

If you ever came close to one of those magnificent creature the love you felt for him will change your life. It did mine.

How can you kill a dolphin? What kind of a monster you have to be?

As of today, after I've watched this documentary I wont buy, eat, watch, breath, sponsor, use ANYTHING that comes out of Japan!!!

Sometimes (and much lately) I think that the Human race don't have the right to exist.

Well... dude...

2009-08-12T08:08:00.002-05:00

A 9mm pistol holstered clearly to his side, and holding a placard that references spilling the blood of patriots, this gunman is waiting for none other than Barack Obama.

But instead of being wrestled to the ground by police and taken away to prison, William Kostnic is left untouched - because it is legally OK to carry a weapon in New Hampshire so long as it is not concealed.

Kostnic was waiting for the U.S. president before a town hall meeting in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday. He stood in the grounds of a nearby church, which was private property, and police had no objections to his presence, MSNBC reported.

Even American commentators were taken aback at the sight.

'Just to be clear,' a baffled MSBC anchor said to the reporter on the scene.

'You're saying a guy has a gun in the open - where we already know there are concerns about every president's safety, but certainly this president... and the guy's just being allowed to stay there? Is that right?'

The reporter replied that the chief of police had told him that 'the law allows this man to be here'.

The gun was registered to Kostnic, he said, was not concealed, and the man was standing on private property.

The reporter did rush to add that authorities were 'well aware' of Kostnic's presence.

It was unclear how far the church was from the Portsmouth High School, where Mr Obama was due to speak, or if Kostnic was still there by the time the president arrived.

The MSNBC reporter descried the church as being 'at the top of the roadway that leads to the high school'.

The placard Kostnic is carrying is a reference to a Thomas Jefferson quote: 'The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.'

Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205999/Only-America-Gunman-waits-outside-town-hall-meeting-Obama--police-say-OK.html

A Delightful Read - Nickie Goomba

2009-08-10T10:11:00.003-05:00

I don't know how we've found each other... I guess it's the magic of the Internets or the magic of the FBI.

Anyways, Mr. Goomba's Blog is the one of the most refreshing, witty and smart reads I've came across lately. It deserves my interest and so is yours!

Check it out: http://itdontmakesense.blogspot.com/

Obama's Health Care Scam, uuhhh... Plan

2009-08-09T06:50:00.004-05:00

I've found an very interesting article, here is the link:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/134838.html

On a second thought...

I, in one of my weaker moments, actually listened to part of The Won's
press scam, errr... conference last night. That guy is a weak liar. He
should hire Clinton to properly train him on how to lie.

This is NOT a health care plan. We already heave a health care plan
that covers everyone in the USA. It is a health insurance scam.

A few nights ago he was asked why congress and his staff would not be
covered by his plan. Steve Koff asked:
Two questions. One, can you guarantee that this legislation will lock
in and say the government will never deny any services, that that's
going to be decided by the doctor and the patient, and the government
will not deny any coverage? And, secondarily, can you, as a symbolic
gesture, say that you and the Congress will abide by the same benefits
in that public option?

He stated :
"Well, number one, not only in the public option, but the insurance
regulation that we want to put in place will largely match up with
what members of Congress are getting through the federal employee
plan.

That's a good example of what we're trying to build for the American
people. The same thing that Congress enjoys, which is they go, there's
a marketplace of different plans that they can access, depending on
what's best for their families. ."

My thoughts... Try the plan on Congress and their staffs and Obama and
his staff first. If, after a few years, it is working for them, then
allow the rest of the USA to try his health insurance plan.

Любопитно...

2009-08-08T07:54:00.004-05:00

От както публикувах нЕколко матряла вече си имам Stalkers!

Таз малка и палава програмка в лявата страна на блога ми показва кой влиза и кой излиза, какво чете и по колко време стой. Имам и друга обаче, която виждам и имам достъп до само аз. Иначе от първата ако си леко умен или параноичен си изтриваш следите много лесно.

Някой е влизал и разглеждал около 25 пъти една и съща снимка в блога ми... Пич, ако имаш нужда от успокоителни - кажи, ще ти препоръчам доктор! А пък ако просто ей така си маструбираш на снимката с Мерилин Монро значи проблемът ти е доста по-сериозен...

Ще потърпя още малко, защото за сега ми е забавно, но ако кретенизма продължава, ще "затворя" блогът и само тези, които го следят официално ще могат да ми четат глупостите ;)

А иначе Животът е леко кекав и в странно настроение. Преди няколко дни ми каза, че искал да иде на почивка, аз му казах да не се ебава и да си действа по преднасначение. Амаа ха! К'ви са тия извинения! И на мен ми се иска да живея в Монако и като излеза на улицата да не срещам мутанти, но то всичко не става по желание!

Хайде! Този с хормоналните нарушени да си обува чехличките от снимката и да ми се маха от личното пространство!

IT IS Coming, Mr. President!

2009-08-04T23:20:00.004-05:00

A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.

The image, which has been adopted by Mr Obama's critics, shows him wearing the white face paint and smudged red lips of the character most recently played by the late actor Heath Ledger. Beneath the picture reads the word 'socialism'.

The creator of the image remains unknown, but the website that first published the image crashed yesterday because so many had been attempting to view it. It has since been spotted in Los Angeles and Atlanta after it appeared in U.S. media.

The right-wing editor of the American Thinker website (http://www.americanthinker.com/), Thomas Lifson, wrote today: 'It is starting. 'Open mockery of of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly middle-of-the-roader.'

But the President's supporters have condemned the image, calling it 'mean-spirited and dangerous.'A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist 'goes beyond political spoofery.'

The image comes as the President faces criticism over his plans to create a $1trillion healthcare programme.

Republican chairman Michael Steele first used the word 'socialism' in relation to Mr Obama two weeks ago as he slammed the President's attempts to push Congress into passing the healthcare reforms.

All this makes me very, very happy! :))

Where am I?!

2009-07-29T04:47:00.002-05:00

Here!

Michael Jackson's Last Rehersal, June 23 '09

2009-07-02T20:01:00.002-05:00

This is what we'll all miss.

CNN: Michael Jackson's Last Rehearsal Video Released - The top video clips of the week are here

How LA Galaxy Fooled Itself That Can Handle Beckham

2009-06-30T20:11:00.008-05:00

I knew it from the beginning that this will be a disaster - Beckham going to America. Who in their right mind and status will change England for California?! I know... It sounds appealing for someone who have seen America only trough the movie screen or visit it for a month.

It is a completely different story to live here permanently. No matter how much money you make.

I remember that he didn't do well at the World Championships and Team England decided to drop the coach and him out of it. I guess this lead to the "brilliant" decision to move to America.

How LAGalaxy hates him. You can not add 2 and 2 together if one of the 2's is made of oil and the other one is water. They'll never mix. That is how different he and the rest of the team mates are.

I've just read a part of that new book and I'll be damn! I wish I've wrote it before this dude, because I knew that this is exactly what was going to happen!

Why bother talking about Beckham?! Because he is not only good looking but more over was I curious to use his "coming to America stunt" as tool for my own justification.

Here is part of the book:

This article appears in the July 6, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine.

Reprinted from The Beckham Experiment, by Grant Wahl. Copyright © 2009 by Grant Wahl. Published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House Inc.

After his five-month loan to Italian superclub AC Milan, David Beckham is expected back with the Los Angeles Galaxy and scheduled to play on July 16 against the New York Red Bulls at Giants Stadium. But when he takes the field the mood will be far less giddy than the one that heralded his arrival in the U.S. in 2007. In Beckham's two years with the Galaxy he has successfully sold jerseys and served as celebrity eye candy, but the soccer story has been an epic disaster, from his injury-plagued season in '07 through a loss-filled campaign in '08.

Beckham's side made sure he became team captain, and later they engaged in a behind-the-scenes takeover of Galaxy management. Yet L.A. failed to reach the MLS playoffs both years. By the end of the '08 season Beckham was barely speaking to his teammate Landon Donovan, MLS's leading scorer, who questioned the Englishman's commitment to the team.

The Beckham Experiment is a story of worlds colliding, bringing together the planet's most famous athlete with teammates who earned as little as $12,900 a year. But that inequity was only the start of a downward spiral that, on the eve of Beckham's return, has turned into a soccer fiasco.

*****

The summit meeting took place at Mastro's, a high-class steak house in Beverly Hills. On July 25, 2007 -- three days after their welcome-to-Hollywood party, hosted by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith -- David and Victoria Beckham joined Landon Donovan and his wife, Bianca Kajlich, for a get-to-know-you meal. At the Home Depot Center, 10-foot-high profiles of Beckham and Donovan stared at each other from huge banners. Now, for the first time, the team's two biggest stars were facing each other across the dinner table.

Nearly anywhere else in the world, Donovan's achievements would have made him a household name, a fixture on the covers of sports magazines and (considering that his wife starred in the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement) celebrity rags. As a 20-year-old at the 2002 World Cup he had scored the goal that sealed the most important victory in U.S. men's soccer history, a 2-0 second-round defeat of archrival Mexico. Now 25, Donovan had won three MLS titles and been voted the national team's player of the year a record three times. Yet it was his fate -- equal parts fortune and misfortune -- to have been born in the U.S. Which is to say that the three dozen paparazzi outside Mastro's were not there for him.

Beckham was supplanting Donovan as the main attraction in U.S. soccer, and if MLS's Beckham Experiment was to work, Donovan needed to be happy. Beckham knew it. So did Frank Yallop, the team's mild-mannered coach, who had left nothing to chance. Yallop put Beckham's locker next to Donovan's, the better to encourage their interaction, and the coach had arranged this dinner, bringing along his own wife, Karen, in the hope that there would be less pressure on the two couples if it were a table for six.

Link to the rest: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/06/29/beckham.book/index.html

Chris Cornell sings Billie Jean

2009-06-29T06:58:00.002-05:00

Live at Peace And Love, Stockholm June 25, 2009.

Filipino Prisoners Perform Again As Michael Jackson Tribute

2009-06-28T13:29:00.002-05:00

The Last Legend Has Died

2009-06-26T10:21:00.005-05:00

...and with him part of my childhood.

He was an Universal phenomenon. In any shape and form. RIP.

I'm adding the post from Lisa Marie Presley's blog because it is so honest and moving:

He Knew.

Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.

I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death.

At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, “I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.”

I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.

14 years later I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.

A predicted ending by him, by loved ones and by me, but what I didn’t predict was how much it was going to hurt when it finally happened.

The person I failed to help is being transferred right now to the LA County Coroners office for his Autopsy.

All of my indifference and detachment that I worked so hard to achieve over the years has just gone into the bowels of hell and right now I am gutted.

I am going to say now what I have never said before because I want the truth out there for once.

Our relationship was not “a sham” as is being reported in the press. It was an unusual relationship yes, where two unusual people who did not live or know a “Normal life” found a connection, perhaps with some suspect timing on his part. Nonetheless, I do believe he loved me as much as he could love anyone and I loved him very much.

I wanted to “save him” I wanted to save him from the inevitable which is what has just happened.

His family and his loved ones also wanted to save him from this as well but didn’t know how and this was 14 years ago. We all worried that this would be the outcome then.

At that time, In trying to save him, I almost lost myself.

He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated.

When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad.

Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson’s being or actions.

I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him.

I was in over my head while trying.

I had my children to care for, I had to make a decision.

The hardest decision I have ever had to make, which was to walk away and let his fate have him, even though I desperately loved him and tried to stop or reverse it somehow.

After the Divorce, I spent a few years obsessing about him and what I could have done different, in regret.

Then I spent some angry years at the whole situation.

At some point, I truly became Indifferent, until now.

As I sit here overwhelmed with sadness, reflection and confusion at what was my biggest failure to date, watching on the news almost play by play The exact Scenario I saw happen on August 16th, 1977 happening again right now with Michael (A sight I never wanted to see again) just as he predicted, I am truly, truly gutted.

Any ill experience or words I have felt towards him in the past has just died inside of me along with him.

He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together.

I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now.

He deserves to be free from all of that and I hope he is in a better place or will be.

I also hope that anyone else who feels they have failed to help him can be set free because he hopefully finally is.

The World is in shock but somehow he knew exactly how his fate would be played out some day more than anyone else knew, and he was right.

I really needed to say this right now, thanks for listening.

~LMP

Crew Begind Work On World's Deepest Underground Science Lab In Quest To Understand Dark Matte

2009-06-23T06:19:00.003-05:00

I've heard that on the news early this morning and what caught my attention were two words: Dark Matter.

This whole race to produce IT is very controversial to me and I don't buy all those nonsense about how scientists would like to find out about the creation of the Universe. I'm almost sure someone paid them enough to think that way.

Here is the copy of the only article which is repeated over and over all over the net. I hope someone comes out with more info because I really want to know what is going on. No one builds a whole in the ground for 550 Million Dollars.

Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists' quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.

Scientists, politicians and other officials gathered Monday for a groundbreaking of sorts at a lab 4,850 foot below the surface of an old gold mine that was once the site of Nobel Prize-winning physics research.

The site is ideal for experiments because its location is largely shielded from cosmic rays that could interfere with efforts to prove the existence of dark matter, which is thought to make up nearly a quarter of the mass of the universe.

The deepest reaches of the mine plunge to 8,000 feet below the surface. Some early geology and hydrology experiments are already under way at 4,850 feet. Researchers also hope to build two deeper labs that are still awaiting funding from Congress.

"The fact that we're going to be in the Davis Cavern just tickles us pink," said Tom Shutt of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, referring to a portion of the mine named after scientist Ray Davis Jr., who used it in the 1960s to demonstrate the existence of particles called solar neutrinos.

Davis and a colleague named John Bahcall won a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize for physics for their work.

The old Homestake Gold Mine in a community called Lead (pronounced LEED) was shut down in 2001 after 125 years. Pumps that kept the mine dry were turned off years ago, so workers have been drying it out to prepare for the new research.

Before the labs are built, crews must also stabilize the tunnels and install new infrastructure. The lab at 4,850 feet is not much to look at yet. A rusty orange film covers the walls, floors, ceilings and debris left behind by miners.

The first dark matter experiment will be the Large Underground Xenon detector experiment — or LUX — a project to detect weakly interacting particles that could give scientists greater insight into the Big Bang explosion believed to have formed the universe.

Shutt, along with Brown University's Rick Gaitskell and nearly a dozen collaborators will work at the site to search for dark matter, which does not emit detectable light or radiation. But scientists say its presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter.

Scientists believe most of the dark matter in the universe contains no atoms and does not interact with ordinary matter through electromagnetic forces. They are trying to discover exactly what it is, how much exists and what effect it may have on the future of the universe.

Physicists have said that without dark matter, galaxies might never have formed. By learning more about dark matter, they hope to understand better whether the universe is expanding or contracting.

The research team will try to catch the ghostly particles in a 300-kilogram tank of liquid xenon, a cold substance that is three times heavier than water. If they tried to detect dark matter above ground, the highly sensitive detector would be bombarded by cosmic radiation.

Scientists hope to start construction on the two deepest labs by 2012 and open them by 2016. The projects are expected to cost $550 million.

Tim Burton's new "torture" over Johnny Depp - Alice In Wonderland

2009-06-22T07:48:00.008-05:00

Once in an interviews the heavenly Johnny Depp suggested that Tim Butron likes to torture him a bit by putting him in all those crazy characters. Here is another one - Johnny is the inspired choice to play the Mad Hatter in the new Burton's adaptation of the Lewis Carroll's surreal 1865 classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Young Aussie Mia Wasikowska will be Burton's Alice.

At the 2008 Scream 2008 Awards in Los Angeles Burton got something called the Immortal Award and the Scream people boldly say that Burton has "contributed more to the genres of fantasy, sci-fi and horror than any other filmmaker of his generation," and there's certainly an argument to made that they are completely right. "Batman," "Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands," "Ed Wood," "The Nightmare Before Christmas"...the list just goes on and on. Burton's film visuals -- a sort of cemetery cabaret ethos -- have put him on an short list (Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen spring to mind) of filmmakers who have such distinctive on-screen traits that they become evocative brand names to even casual filmgoers.

With "Alice in Wonderland," the defining pop-culture version of the story for modern American audiences is the 1951 Disney animated adaptation with its little blond Alice in her blue dress with white pinafore. That film was met with acidic reviews by the literary world (especially in England) for its bland and blunted vision of the Carroll classic. Burton is not a fan of the film, either, and, as with "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," it appears his mission is to reclaim a children's classic, resharpen its edges and remind everyone that sapping the weirdness out of a tale often renders it flat and forgettable.

"It's a funny project. The story is obviously a classic with iconic images and ideas and thoughts. But with all the movie versions, well, I've just never seen one that really had any impact to me. It's always just a series of weird events. Every character is strange and she's just kind of wandering through all of the encounters as just a sort of observer. The goal is to try to make it an engaging movie where you get some of the psychology and kind of bring a freshness but also keep the classic nature of 'Alice.' And, you know, getting to do it in 3-D fits the material quite well. So I'm excited about making it a new version but also have the elements that people expect when they think of the material." said Burton.

How easy was it to persuade Depp to conjure up yet another enigmatic oddball? "He loves doing that. That's never a problem. He doesn't like to be the same way twice. That's good, it always keeps it fresh and all. And he likes the material we have here and he gets it. It's nice to have people involved that are fans of the material and all."

We all know how the story goes: Seventeen-year-old Alice struggles to fit into Victorian society and is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of people at a garden party. She flees the party and spots the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and follows him down a hole and into Wonderland.

The look of the film is typical Burton style with Victorian styling and extreme color contrasts. As well as being transformed by their costumes, the cast's features have been digitally altered, making them look far removed from their normal selves.

As the tea-drinking, unbirthday-celebrating Mad Hatter, Johnny's eyes are yellow and enlarged. Producer Richard Zanuck said: 'This character is off his rocker. He is so much fun and so nutty, I can't imagine anyone else doing it.'

The film also stars Burton's muse and real-life partner Bonham Carter, whose head has been digitally swelled to play the Red Queen.

Dressed in full royal regalia, Bonham Carter's body is dwarfed by her bulbous head, a physical reflection of the Queen's enormous ego. The Red Queen has overthrown her sister, the White Queen (Hathaway) and has turned Wonderland from a peaceful kingdom to a land of paranoia and fear.

Little Britain star Lucas plays rhyming twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who has been digitally manipulated to look egg-shaped using motion-capture technology. The pair are two of the first characters to meet Alice upon her arrival in Wonderland and introduce her to the Mad Hatter.

Explaining his casting of newcomer Wasikowska as Alice, Burton said: 'We met a lot of people, but she just had that certain kind of emotional toughness, standing her ground in a way that makes her kind of an older person with a younger person's mentality.'

The film also stars Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock, Rickman as the Caterpiller, Fry as the Cheshire Cat and Back To The Future actor Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts.

• Alice in Wonderland will be released in both traditional and 3-D format on March 12, 2010. I can not wait to see it!

Какво ме развесели днес!

2009-06-18T15:03:00.005-05:00

След депресантните новини за мафиоти и престъпници, които искат да се влеят в редиците на легално разграбващите България (разбирай политици и управляващи), за напълно реалната възможност комунистите да фалшифицитат предстоящите избори, както направиха с тези за Евро Парламен, убийствата на безпризорни животни и нищетата в душите на голяма част от останалите в БГ, на човек му остават няколко варианта:

1. Да се гръмне, че да свърши целият мизерабъл по-бързо, но пък това си е чиста проба бягство! Някъде там в небитието ще те причака някой караконджул, ще ти покаже Библията като доказателство за съществуването на Ада и ще те тупне в казан да те вари до безвремие. Представи си ако попаднеш заедно с някой, на който му миришат краката! Смрад до за винаги! Не. Не става.

2. Да си събере багажчето и да замине за чужбина. И това е вид бягство, но в него си жив и цял, и винаги имаш възможност да се върнеш там, от където си тръгнал.

3. Да се натряскаш, напушиш, нашмъркаш, че да забравиш къде си за известно време. И това кофти. The Day after е по-шибан от The day before. Тогава наистина осъзнаваш къде се намираш, а 1033-та пичове с чукове, които неизвестно как са се нанесли в главата ти и бухат като луди, спомагат за осъзнаване на заобикалящата те реалност. И това кофти.

4. Да вземе да се бори за промяна и да стане съвременен революционер! Не е лошо като идея. Прекрасно дори! Проблемът е, че се е родил в България. Там няма много останали Човеци, но има огромно изобилие от хора. В България не можеш вече да промениш почти нищо, защото няма духовни ценности, които да са в началото на каквато и да е била промяна.

5. Да се смее. Истерично и постоянно. Да не взима нещата много на сериозно и да си гледа собственият живот. Да бъдеш енигматичен егоист в България е не само полезно, но и изключително здравословно!

Накланяйки везната в полза на вариант Номер 5 (след многократно изпробване на варианти 2, 3 и 4) ще ви споделя следващият тъпизъм, защото нищо сериозно не ми се пише!

BRÜNO TALKS

2009-06-16T11:54:00.006-05:00

These, friends, are the pressing questions of our age: Is a pair of Jeans really worth $700?; Is it okay for a guy to manscape?; Should a gentlemen ever go “commando?”

And for answers we turned the swingin’est, gayest (and fakest) Austrian fashion journalist we could find.

Hey, Brüno, I recently started collecting unemployment. Any style tips for someone on a tight budget?
Times are hard, but if you shop around und are prepared to vear some things twice before throwing zem avay, it is still possible to look good on a clothing budget of about $20,000 a veek. Ich mean, obwiously you vill need a bit more zan zat if you are planning on leaving ze house.

Dear Brüno, is it okay to “manscape” down there?
It’s more zan okay; it is most essential. Be careful if you do it yourself, though—yesterday ich tried to self-wax mein arschenhaller und glued meinself to ze bed. Manscaping ist important, but not as crucial as getting regular anal bleaching. If Brüno didn’t get his schmutziger arschenhaller bleached twice a month, his shtinker vould resemble Dizzy Gillespie during a trumpet solo. In Austria anal bleaching ist considered so important zat it’s paid for by ze state. In fact, you cannot run for office if you don’t have a vhite arschwitz. Indeed, ex-chancellor Kurt Waldheim vas elected on ze back of a prishtine anus. Zere are added benefits to getting ze bleaching—on my last session, mein beautician, Klaus, found ze long-lost head of a David Beckham action figure up zere.

Dear Brüno, where should I be putting my iPhone? The wife says the belt clip is totally out, But it looks like a tuna sandwich in my pocket. Anyplace else?
Vhat ein stupid question. Keep it in your assistant’s pocket, obwiously.

Dear Brüno, I am all in favor of protecting the animals, but what is reasonable? I won’t wear fur, but do I need to give up my leather jackets or shoes?
Ich vant to make it clear: Brüno ist totally against vearing fur—it’s too expensive und high-maintenance. I mean, vhy don’t giant pandas have a label on zem saying zey’re not machine vashable? Regarding shoes und jackets, if you vant to be ein Leatherboy, zat’s fine.

Dear Brüno, if forced to choose: Dolce or Gabbana?
Gabbana. Dolce is bald, so zere’s no hair to grab hold of.

Dear Brüno, can men wear heels? When and why?
Of course. Some guys look great in heels—ze singer Pink, for example. Alzo, mein last boyfreund, Diesel, vas a genuine Pygmy only three eight, so ich made him vear heels so he could give me plow jops mitout me having to bend mein knees.

Dear Brüno, I am shocked by the cost of jeans these days. I saw one pair that retailed for $700—how is that possible?
Zat’s ze great thing abaus ze recession—stores are cutting zeir prices.

Dear Brüno, how can I get some “Efron hair”? Or at least some “Pattinson hair”?
Ich vouldn’t bother getting a Zac Efron hairstyle right now, cos ich am about to change mine and he’s certain to copy me again. In terms of grooming, ze only thing he hasn’t copied me with ist getting his ballensack pierced—vell, he hadn’t had it done ze last time ich saw him.

Dear Brüno, how would you define “Obama style”?
Firstly, ich vant to say zat I find Obama an inspiration—it gives me great hope zat, after years of struggle, someone can at last get to ze White House, despite being incredibly hot. On ze other hand, it’s slightly disappointing that he needed zat beard, Michelle, to help him—but vone shtep at a time. In terms of his style, he perfectly bridges Serious und Sexy...Oval Office und Oval Orifice.

Dear Brüno, my wedding is approaching and I am desperate to impress my bride. What is appropriate groom’s attire for a Labor Day nuptial?
If Brüno vas about to be married to a voman, I’d be vearing a noose.

Dear Brüno, when I walk into a fancy designer-clothing store, the sales clerks are brusque and intimidate me. Is there anything I can do to be treated better?
You sound like ein “normie” to me—I’m glad zat high-end stores are trying to keep ze likes of you avay. Vhen I go to a store, ze first thing I look for ist ein vheelchair ramp—if zey’ve got one, I won’t go in. Ich find zose mongoloidische guys such a downer.

Dear Brüno, lately I’ve been digging this French guy Sarkozy’s look; who’s on your list of the best-dressed world leaders of all time?
Zere is one thing wrong mit ze way Sarkozy looks—it’s zat accessory beard called Bruni who follows him around everyvhere he goes. She’s about three feet taller zan him! It looks like he’s dating a post-op trannie! He either needs to start vearing platform shoes or push her round in a vheelchair or send her back to ze agency. Vhile I’m on ze subject of badly dressed leaders, please someone lock Nelson Mandela up again so ve don’t have to keep looking at zose hideous flowery shirts!

Dear Brüno, who are the other best-dressed world leaders of all time?
JFK. Obama. Castro. Timberlake.

Dear Brüno, what do you sleep in?
In reality, ich sleep in a seaweed body wrap under a Zac Posen Navy-Cut Nightshirt. In mein dreams, ich sleep naked in a giant reed basket drifting slowly down ze Nile, cradled in ze arms of Daniel Radcliffe.

Dear Brüno, what’s your feeling on getting your teeth professionally whitened?
If people vant to pay for it—zat’s up to zem. Personally, ich have never had to pay for it, und ich prefer it on ze chest to ze mouth, anyvay.

Dear Brüno, what is your definition of “creative black tie”?
Okay, off ze top of mein head—a yellow Adrienne Landau printed chinchilla rex rabbit newsboy hat, worn mit ein Cynthia Steffe blue-violet velvet cadet jacket over a Cavalli back-belted chunky oatmeal sweater vest on top of a Cacharel gala shirt in silver, matched mit John Varvatos stretchtwill-brocade sailor pants over Stella McCartney patent snakeskin monk shoes offset by Costume National elbow-length leather gloves, und to accessorize, maybe a rudraksha-bead twenty-two-karat white-gold Neil Lane Infinity Pendant. Simple. Timeless. Classic.

Dear Brüno, my nostril hairs are constantly poking out of my nose, and I’m always having to trim them back with tiny scissors. I’m afraid if I stop trimming them, they’ll continue growing until they’re ridiculously noticeable and flagellating out of my nose. Should I continue to trim, or is there a better solution?
Brüno was the first Austrian ever to have chemo purely for ze purpose of hair removal. It really is ze perfect solution for unvanted vhiskers—und not only zat, ze weight-loss benefits due to ze womiting it causes are amazing! If you’re struggling to find a doc who’ll give you ein prescription for zis, call min—you can find him in ze Vienna Yellow Pages, his name’s Oskar Mengele. He does other services, too—he just gave mein godson Florian lipo for his sixth birthday!

Dear Brüno, my wife and I have planned a Mediterranean vacation. I have never been there before, and I’m unsure about proper beach attire. Your advice?
Nine years ago, ich vas on holiday in French Polynesia, collecting shells on ze beach at sunset in a buckskin thong, vhen I caught ze eye of zat beautiful Pygmy Diesel, who vas vorking at ze Schrager spatel ich vas staying at as an oil boy. Within zwanzig minutes, he’d stolen mein heart, mein vallet, und alzo ze contents of mein kugelsack.

Dear Brüno, I’m a big believer in a “uniform”—wear the same clothes day in, day out. If you had such a uniform, what would it be?
Sadly, the glory days of ze Austrian uniform vere sixty-five years ago. Zis season’s vardrobe essential, thanks to Madonna und me, is ze “Little Black Child.”

Dear Brüno, the United States military is constantly trying to update its battle gear in the field. Are there ways you would modify the current uniform?
In mein country it’s verboten for ze soldiers to shtup each other—as ein result, to keep ze cravings at bay, over 80 percent of ze Austrian army vear Dickorette patches as part of zeir uniform. Army uniforms have to change; camo zese days ist ein total nicht nicht. I mean come on, it hasn’t been on ze runvays for over fourteen seasons now! For spring-summer 2010, ich vould put ze U.S. Army in bright pastels und slogan T-shirts, stuff like “Soldier Boy” or “Shoot Me from Behind.”

5 Worst Websites

2009-06-14T01:10:00.010-05:00

eHarmony.com

My main beef with this online dating site is its power to cause utter despair. eHarmony claims its more "scientific" approach to matchmaking differentiates it from competitors — its users complete extensive personality questionnaires in order to be connected to others based on compatibility. In early 2006, eHarmony announced that more than 16,000 couples had married during the previous year as a result of meeting on the site, citing a 2005 Harris Interactive poll. That's about 90 people finding love every day, a track record bound to inflate expectations. On a more typical dating site, where users are prone to making snap judgments based on photos and sketchy profiles, if you don't find that special someone, you're less likely to take it personally. It's easier to shake off because, after all, that's hardly the real you up there on that site. But if you've taken the time to answer eHarmony's 436 compatibility survey questions and paid its premium charges ($21 to $60 a month, depending on how many months you prepay), and the site then delivers terrible recommendations — or worse, rejects you as unmatchable — what do you tell yourself then? The company's advice, to stick with it for several months to improve your odds of finding a soul mate, sounds all too self-serving (the longer you use the site, the more you pay). The site also discriminates against gays.

Evite.com

We're only mad at Evite because we need it so much and we know it could be so much better. The site, in short, is crying out for an overhaul. With more and more sites emphasizing flexibility and user control over content, Evite's fill-in-the-blanks approach feels clumsy and dated. The ads are intrusive, and navigation's a drag. The service has also been slow to adopt some of the media-sharing tools that have become standard ways of the Web. You can upload photos, but only after the party, and you can forget music and video. The company says these features are in development. We can't wait.

Meez.com
It has become trendy to tack poems, photos, icons, logos and other digital flotsam and jetsam onto e-mail messages. We understand that digital signatures have a practical use, particularly when they provide the kind of info you'd see on a business card. And we don't doubt that, for some people, a U2 lyric can express how they feel better than they could. But the 3-D animations and other digital doodads created with the help of Meez and other sites of its ilk — Blingee, Iconator — are just plain annoying. They also clog the recipient's inbox with unnecessary bits. Sites like Smiley Central, which offers a seemingly endless assortment of cutesy creatures for dressing up e-mail, instant messages and blog posts, require you to download a browser plug-in. The company insists the app is neither spyware nor adware, but it can still slow your computer down.

MySpace.com

It was once by far the most popular social network and one of the top 10 online destinations overall. And, yes, TIME.com named MySpace one of its 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. But since then, things have taken an ugly turn, and we're not just talking about poor page design. It seems the community has become infested with marketers and other opportunists who create false profiles and essentially spam other users, all under the guise of "making friends." Of course, there have always been loads of MySpace profiles of fictional characters, created to help market a movie or promote some other brand. But it's the bait-and-switch tactics from these leeches (Want to be my friend? Buy a ringtone! Fill out this survey!) that have taken things to a whole new — and sad — level.

SecondLife.com

We're sure that somebody out there is enjoying Second Life, but why? Visually, this vast virtual world can be quite impressive, but it's notoriously slow to load (it runs on free software you have to download) and difficult to navigate, even with a broadband connection. You interact in the space through an avatar, but creating and personalizing this animated representation of yourself is tedious. Movements feel clunky, and there can be a terrible lag. As on many sites, there's a learning curve for novices, but Second Life's is simply too steep. And there are crazy people around every corner — disruptive types who spread graffiti and get in your way and throw you off your groove. Fans praise Second Life as a virtual hangout where you can meet and chat and buy sneakers and real estate (that's fake stuff for real money) and dance and go bowling and have sex — suggesting that "virtual humans" doing "human things" online in Second Life is somehow less pathetic than, say, cooking Kaldorei spider kabobs or making magic pantaloons in World of Warcraft. The corporate world's embrace of the place as a venue for staff meetings and training sessions does seem to lend Second Life a layer of legitimacy. But maybe it's a case of some CEOs trying too hard to be hip.

If The Ultimate Beauty Have a Name...

2009-06-12T09:01:00.004-05:00

...it will be called Sienna Miller!

I've Survived A Kidney Stone!

2009-05-27T05:48:00.005-05:00

“It’s the closest that a man will ever come to experiencing the pain of childbirth” the attending nurse proclaimed with a noticeable glee in her eyes. Her comment only added to my misery as I writhed in pain on a stretcher in the emergency room, waiting to pass a kidney stone.

Mineral deposits such as those that formed in my kidneys develop in one out of ten people during their lifetime and account for nearly ten out of every 1,000 hospital admissions. Stones can result whenever a chemical imbalance occurs in the kidney. The type of stone that forms depends upon the exact nature of the chemical imbalance and reflects different etiologies. Calcium oxalate stones, the most common type, result from dehydration or excess levels of oxalate in the diet (Oxalate is found in certain vegetables, nuts, berries, chocolate, and tea). Sodium urate stones, a second type, are caused by an inborn error in metabolism that leads to excessive production of uric acid.

If kidney stones are part of God's grand plan, couldn't He at least have made the fucking ureter just a bit wider?!

And what is the Godly thing about that crazy creation of a razor blades! That is why I don't believe in God. I believe in Science.

SENSATION is THE True Sensation!

2009-05-16T16:54:00.005-05:00

The very first edition of Sensation (formerly known as Sensation White) took place on July 1st 2000 as a tribute to Miles Stutterheim, the brother of ID&T founder and CEO Duncan Stutterheim who died in a car crash that year. Attendees were asked to dress in white, thus creating an image so staggering that the dress code has remained the same ever since.

To date, over half a million people around the world have experienced this spectacular theatrical dance and music phenomenon. Sensation has since expanded beyond Amsterdam, with shows in countries across Europe including Belgium, Germany, Poland and Russia. I suggest you keep a close eye on the tour schedule for 2009, as Sensation is planned to take place in countries including Australia, Spain, South America and many more…

Some of the worlds best DJs have played Sensation over the years, each helping to guide party-goers through eight hours of the hottest house, electro and trance paired with eye-popping entertainment, including stage shows, acrobats, state-of-the-art lightshows, lasers and fireworks.

Armin van Buuren, Axwell, Carl Cox, David Guetta, Erick Morillo, Fedde le Grand, Richie Hawtin, Sebastien Ingrosso, Steve Angelo, Sven Vath, and Tiësto have all graced the Sensation decks at some point, with many referring to it as the highlight of their careers.

On Saturday, March 14th 2009, the second edition of Sensation, themed “The Tree of Love”, took place in Chile at the spectacular venue of Estación Mapocho. The line-up included a debut Sensation performance by international artist Junkie XL, along with sets from Marco V, Monika Kruse, and Ron Carroll, Sensation resident Sebastien Ingrosso, and local heroes Franko & Stephanie. Don’t miss out on what might be the best night of your life!

Official Sensation website: http://www.sensation.com/

Obama Targets Secret Offshore Accounts and The 10 New Hiding Places for Swiss Bank Account Funds

2009-05-12T20:53:00.005-05:00

Obama fucked up even the most sacret thing of all - A Swiss bank Account!

On Wednesday, according to news reports, the Swiss bank UBS will turn over the names of suspected American tax "evaders" to U.S. authorities. And so dies an age-old policy, going back to the Middle Ages, of complete secrecy in Switzerland’s financial transactions. “The Swiss are saying this is the end of Swiss banking as they knew it,” one offshore tax specialist told The New York Times.

Senior administration officials briefed reporters Sunday evening in a conference call ahead of the announcement that will be made by President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

The two components of the president's plan include reforms that ensure the tax code does not handicap companies seeking to create jobs at home, as well as reforms that reduce the amount of tax revenue lost to tax havens.

The White House is targeting companies that use loopholes in the law that allow them to legally avoid paying billions in taxes. It also focuses on wealthy individuals who break the law by creating hidden overseas accounts.

The Obama administration plans to raise $103.1 billion by removing tax advantages for investing overseas and will use that money to help make a tax credit permanent, the officials said. The administration also hopes to raise $95.2 billion over the next 10 years by cracking down on overseas tax havens.

The White House, under the plan, would eliminate the "check-the-box" provision which allows corporations to designate overseas subsidiaries as branches of the company, not subjected to taxes. This tax loophole enables companies to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

One senior administration official said it has cost the U.S. government $86.5 billion over 10 years and is "the most unjustified loophole in the international tax system which needs to close down." It is a legal practice, the officials said, involving "companies taking advantage of a very bad law."

The U.S. government also loses about $9 billion in tax revenue from wealthy individuals who use illegal tax havens overseas, a senior administration official said.

The White House will announce the changes as part of the administration's budget. The plans include the Internal Revenue Service hiring almost 800 employees, who would be devoted to cracking down on overseas tax abuse.

The administration expects these initiatives to raise at least $210 billion over the next 10 years "to cut taxes for American families, increase incentives for businesses to create jobs in America and reduce the deficit."

When asked about the intense lobbying effort already underway against these reforms, including 200 opposition letters sent to Congress, a senior administration official said, "We expect many lobbying against us ... "

The left is at it again. Obama has phrased it well. He is looking to remove tax loopholes. Loopholes. That is a loaded word. A loophole denotes an intention to cheat the government out of its money. In fact, these overseas accounts are legal. Money made overseas is taxed overseas. In order to provide a little tax relief for US businesses, the US government does not tax this money made overseas until it comes back into the country. Thus, the overseas accounts.

It should be noted that foreign firms are largely credited all the taxes they pay in the United States. It would be debilitating to US competition in foreign markets if we then had to add into costs a double taxation of goods and services.

Make no mistake. The Left and Obama believes that your money is actually their money.

But this is much to complicated to explain to the average American – instead, lets stoke some class envy and greed to continue wealth redistribution.

Whoa! Now where will super-villains, underworld kingpins, and run-of-the-mill tax-evading rich guys stash their money? Here are some suggestions:

1. Zimbabwean bank accounts. Pro: Dictator Robert Mugabe is almost guaranteed never to give your name to the Western “colonialists.” Con: A week after being converted into the local currency, your $60 million won’t be enough to buy a loaf of bread.

2. Hollywood. You certainly wouldn’t be the sleaziest producer in town. When the I.R.S. comes a-knockin’, just say you gave all your money to Aronofsky and told him to “follow his vision.”

3. Iraq. What’s a hundred million or two in a country where $9 billion can just … disappear?

4. Under the floorboards. Sometimes, the old solutions are the best ones, especially when no one in today’s real-estate market has the money to pry up the parquet.

5. Neverland Ranch. Hey, it’s for sale. And compared to what Michael got away with, what you’re doing is practically legal.

6. The Republican National Committee war chest. Defend the filibuster! With Switzerland out of the game, it’s more important than ever to keep Obama from forcing rich guys like you to pay their fair share of taxes.

7. Cuba. Slip some cash to the customs officer in Mexico City and have that crazy friend from high school who fell of the deep-end help you secure a real offshore account, in Havana. Just pray those right-wing exiles all die off before the Castros finally lose their grip on power.

8. Dick Cheney’s Bat Cave. If it kept Dr. Strangelove safe, there’s no way anyone’s getting to your dough.

9. Newspapers. Hahaha, just kidding! Even criminals aren’t that desperate.

10. U.S. dollars. More and more worthless every day. No investigator would ever think to look for your money there!

NASA's Most Dangerous Endeavour

2009-05-11T07:23:00.006-05:00

NASA is set to dispatch seven astronauts on its most dangerous ever shuttle mission as it attempts to rescue the $7 billion Hubble Space Telescope from meltdown.

Led by former US Navy fighter pilot Scott Altman, 49, a one-time stunt flier for actor Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun, the crew of Atlantis will repair and upgrade the orbiting observatory, risking a potentially deadly space-junk collision that could leave them stranded 350 miles above Earth.

The mission, which is costing NASA $1.4 billion and is due to blast off from Florida tomorrow, is considered so perilous that it was once canceled by space agency chiefs who feared that it could cost the astronauts their lives.

It was resurrected only after they agreed to place a second shuttle and crew on emergency standby, ready to blast into space to save their colleagues should a catastrophe occur. The move is unprecedented in the 28-year history of the shuttle fleet.

'It’s a belt-and-suspenders kind of approach - but when your suspenders fail, you’re glad to have the belt,' said Commander Altman, who is due to launch with his crew from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral tomorrow evening, returning in 11 days.

'I don’t know if I’ll be breathing comfortably until our wheels stop back at KSC,' he added.

Should a rescue become necessary, it would provide the greatest space drama since the abortive Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, say NASA insiders, when three astronauts limped their crippled spacecraft home just hours from death, following an on-board explosion.

Among the greatest hazards facing Atlantis is the intense amount of space junk - such as broken satellites and dead rockets - that is cluttering the area where the shuttle will rendezvous with Hubble.

Shuttle flights usually only go to the International Space Station no more than 250 miles up - but at 350 miles, where Hubble flies, the hazards are far greater.

If Atlantis suffers damage, the crew would be marooned.

Hubble is considered the most valuable astronomical tool since Galileo first designed a telescope in the 17th century.

Since 1990, its high-precision lenses have peered deeper into space than any previous instrument, glimpsing back more than 13 billion years in time to provide scientists with breathtaking images of the cosmos under development, showing galaxies not long after they merged from the Big Bang.

Orbiting Earth 97,000 times and traveling around three billion miles, it has sent back nearly 600,000 photographs that have forced the rewriting of astronomy textbooks and unlocked some of the greatest mysteries of the universe.

On Wednesday Atlantis will catch up with the Hubble, where the astronauts will use the shuttle’s robotic arm to grapple it while both craft orbit Earth at 17,500mph.

During five highly risky spacewalks, they will clamber aboard Hubble to repair and replace instruments contained inside, upgrading its capabilities and prolonging its life for another five years.

Without new cameras, gyroscopes and batteries, Hubble will otherwise burn out. But with the space shuttle fleet due to retire next year and its successor not due for completion until at least 2015, this is the last chance to fix its problems.

'The adrenalin is certainly pumping,' said Dr David Leckrone, NASA's senior Hubble scientist.

Astronaut John Grunsfeld likens the intricacy of the tasks he and his colleagues will perform to 'performing brain surgery in space.'

They will face major hurdles, such as unscrewing dozens of minute screws while wearing gloves five layers thick and removing razor-sharp circuit boards capable of piercing the $10 million spacesuits that keep them alive in the vacuum of space.

'I would consider this the climbing Mount Everest of spacewalking missions,' said Mr Grunsfeld, 51.

'The big unknowns are where we’re pushing the envelope further than its been done before in spaceflight…we’re trying some techniques that haven’t been done before.

'In training it’s been going very well…the only hesitation I have is that Hubble has a way of surprising us.'

There have been previous servicing missions to the Hubble, but this will be the last – and the most risky.

'You could say "Oh it’s going to be a piece of cake, we’ve done this five times" - except on this mission we are going to be repairing instruments that were never designed to be repaired in orbit,' explained Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for science missions.

He added: 'This is really going to be tough, the toughest servicing mission we have ever attempted.'

NASA promises that, if successful, Atlantis’s mission will allow Hubble to once more 'push the boundaries of how deep in space and how far back in time humanity can see.'

Commander Altman, who said: 'It’s going to be a busy time, it is challenging - and it’s going to be amazing.'

Happy Mother's Day From Justin Timberlake, SNL May 9th, 2009

2009-05-10T22:27:00.001-05:00

Justin Timberlake Immigrant Tale, Saturday Night Live May 9th 2009

2009-05-10T21:53:00.003-05:00

Chris Cornell - Long Gone On Letterman May 8th 2009

2009-05-09T09:38:00.000-05:00

I don't know what to say...

California Burns! Again.

2009-05-08T10:16:00.005-05:00

California burns, I'm sorry for that, but the pictures that come out of it are fucking amazing!

More here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1178185/Thats-sunset-Surfers-waves-Santa-Barbara-burns.html

IDIOT!

2009-05-07T00:08:00.005-05:00

WHO? - The President of The United States!

WHY?!

That's why!

Jet Flyover Frightens New Yorkers

An Air Force One lookalike, the backup plane for the one regularly used by the president, flew low over parts of New York and New Jersey on Monday morning, accompanied by two F-16 fighters, so Air Force photographers could take pictures high above the New York harbor.

But the exercise — conducted without any notification to the public — caused momentary panic in some quarters and led to the evacuation of several buildings in Lower Manhattan and Jersey City. By the afternoon, the situation had turned into a political fuse box, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg saying that he was “furious” that he had not been told in advance about the flyover.

At 4:39 p.m. Monday, the White House issued an apology for the flyover. Louis E. Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, who served in the Clinton administration as secretary of the Army, said in a statement:

Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it’s clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

The mission on Monday, officials said, was set up to create an iconic shot of Air Force One, similar to one that was taken in recent years over the Grand Canyon.

When President Obama learned of the episode on Monday afternoon, aides said, he, too, was furious. Senior administration officials conveyed the president’s anger in a meeting with Mr. Caldera on Monday afternoon.

A senior administration official said that an F.A.A. official notified Mayor Bloomberg’s office last week about the flyover. She said that Marc Mugnos, the director of operations in the office of citywide event coordination and management, was the official notified about the Air Force operation.

The flyover, which began around 10 a.m., resulted in widespread confusion and a flood of calls to emergency hot lines. Perplexed officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and other authorities were inundated with calls from anxious ferry passengers, office workers and residents.

The mayor said the Police Department and someone in his administration – he did not say who – received an e-mail from the Federal Aviation Administration late on Thursday, informing them that there would be “a fly-by for a photo-op, as they described it.”

However, Mr. Bloomberg said he was not apprised of the flyover until his BlackBerry started buzzing this morning with messages from people asking if he knew what was going on. He characterized it as a breakdown in communication that “will never happen again.”

“First thing is, I’m annoyed – furious is a better word – that I wasn’t told,” he said at a City Hall news conference held to discuss the swine flu cluster in Queens.

In unusually harsh language, the mayor criticized the Defense Department for conducting the exercise and the Federal Aviation Administration for being secretive about it.

Jim Peters, an F.A.A. spokesman, said “the photo op was approved and coordinated with everyone.” Notification was made in advance to the mayor’s office, “including its 911 and 311 operation centers,” the New York City Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, the United States Park Police and other agencies, he said.

The Police Department confirmed that it had been notified about the event but said it had been barred from alerting the public. “The flight of a VC-25 aircraft and F-16 fighters this morning was authorized by the F.A.A. for the vicinity of the Statue of Liberty with directives to local authorities not to disclose information about it but to direct any inquiries to the F.A.A. Air Traffic Security Coordinator,” the Police Department said in a statement.

The mayor criticized the secrecy around the flyover. The e-mail notification “did have the normal language of saying this is sensitive information, should be distributed on a need-to-know basis, that they did not plan to have any publicity about it, which I think is ridiculous and just poor judgment,” Mr. Bloomberg said.

He added:

Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo-op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination. Poor judgment would be a nice ways to phrase it, but they did. I also think that once they had told us, we should have done a better job. Had I known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to. It is the federal government and they can do in the end what they please, but I would have tried to stop it. I don’t know there’s a lot else to say other than they shouldn’t have done it.

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said Monday afternoon that he was unaware of the flyover. At his daily press briefing, Mr. Gibbs initially referred questions to the F.A.A. and the Air Force. When told that those government offices were referring questions to the White House, Mr. Gibbs said: “I have no information on this other than what I saw.”

Mr. Gibbs, pressed by reporters, said he had seen news reports of the flyover, but declared: “I was working on other things. You might be surprised to know that I don’t know every movement of Air Force One.” Later, he added that he would look into the matter.

The flyover was scheduled for 10 to 10:30 a.m. The plane is designated by the Defense Department as a VC-25 but is recognizable to the public as a Boeing 747.

Unaware of the planned exercise, hundreds of office workers flooded out of buildings, worried about the prospect of terrorism.

“People came pouring out of the buildings, the American Express Building, all the buildings in the financial district by the water,” said Edward Acker, a photographer who was at the building, 3 World Financial Center. “And even the construction guys over by 100 North End Avenue area, they all got out of their buildings. Nobody knew about it. Finally some guy showed up with a little megaphone to tell everyone it was a test, but the people were not happy. The people who were here 9/11 were not happy.”

Mr. Acker added: “New York City police were standing right there and they had no knowledge of it. The evacuations were spontaneous. Guys from the floor came out, and one guy I talked to was just shaking.”

Even the markets dipped shortly after 10 a.m., though it was unclear if the alarm over the planes was a factor. Starting at 10:02 a.m., three main market indexes started dropping precipitously. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 40 points in 10 minutes, starting 10:15 a.m., before it rebounded more than 50 points.

In Jersey City, construction workers were evacuated from a condominium tower under construction at 77 Hudson Street.

The workers, who were on the 32nd floor of the construction site, said the plane circled three times past the Goldman Sachs tower, the tallest building in New Jersey. On the second pass, they said, the jet appeared to be only a few dozen feet from the building — close enough to clip the side of the skyscraper. A fighter followed right behind, mirroring its moves.

The construction site as were other buildings in downtown Jersey City, including offices in the Exchange Place financial complex.

Carlina Rivera, 25, who works at an educational services company on the 22nd floor of 1 Liberty Plaza, said her co-workers were spooked in part because their offices are so close to the site of the 9/11 attack. “As soon as someone saw how close it got to the buildings, people literally ran out,” she said. “Probably about 80 percent of my office left within two minutes of seeing how close it got to our building.”

Ms. Rivera, who was a high school student in the East Village when the 9/11 attack occurred, added, “I did feel a little bit foolish for staying in the office while everyone left.”

Ms. Rivera said eventually there was a message made over the public announcement system that the plane was an advertisement for a movie — which she said that did not coincide with what they were reading online about the plane taking pictures of the Statue of Liberty. “It was a little confusing. What was the truth?” she said.

At 1 Liberty Plaza, according to another person who works in Lower Manhattan, a loudspeaker announcement said at 10:55 a.m., “Planes were observed flying low over Lower Manhattan, but were part of an approved federal action.”

Johnny Villafane, 42, of the Upper West Side, said, “The plane did a 360. There was a vibration. The glass in the skyscrapers was shivering.” He added, “It sounded like the building were cracking, everything started shaking. I thought the plane was coming down.”

Notify NYC, a pilot electronic service intended to quickly provide emergency alerts to New Yorkers who sign up for them, did not prove particularly effective.

Text messages and e-mail messages explaining the flyover were sent out at 10:38 a.m., after the exercise was already scheduled to end. “The community was startled, and would have preferred advance warning,” said Catherine McVay Hughes, vice chairwoman of Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan.

Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority, which runs the region’s three major airports, said the low-flying planes prompted confusion. “This has nothing to do with any of our airports,” he added.

The Staten Island Advance reported that the Federal Aviation Administration had authorized the flights and that the flights were “pre-planned.”

President Obama was not aboard the plane, nor was he in the New York area. He gave a speech at 9 a.m. at the National Academy of Sciences in downtown Washington.

Crash Kings - The New Uniqueness

2009-04-30T09:07:00.004-05:00

They were the opening act for Chris Cornell's concert in Kansas City on April 22, 09 and man oh man, was I surprised!

I don't remember the last time I've gasped 'WOW' about anyone's music but I think it was when I've listened to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the first time.

Los Angeles power-pop balladeers Crash Kings have a blurb on their AbsolutePunk profile that begins, “Crash Kings sound like nothing you’ve heard before.” It’s not true at all. Crash Kings sound like Ben Folds and Jack White joined CK bros Weezer in a Queen tribute band. Look at “Mountain Man,” for example. Dead-on White Stripes lead vocals, theatrical piano-driven back-up (hello, Ben Folds) and epic guitar crunch a la Weezer emulating Queen.

“1985″ is more funk than rock, emphasizing the Ben Folds angle only to quickly rule it out with harmony so tight it sounds like a clever snake is singing both parts in one supernatural voice. It sounds diabolical. Surely you’ve heard a few diabolical things by now.

So anyway, Crash Kings don’t sound like nothing you’ve heard before. In fact, they sound a lot like plenty. But here’s a thought: Suppose you were to eat a sandwich made of tuna fish, peanut butter, and caramel. BUT suppose it was delicious. It wouldn’t be out of line for you to exclaim, “This is like nothing I’ve ever tasted before,” when in fact, it is exactly the same as three things you’ve had regularly since you were a kid (four, with the bread). It’s the unexpected combination of things that you already like, that gets you shouting. Crash Kings are like that. Try them. Shout a little. http://www.myspace.com/crashkings

Swine Flu?! The Pigs Will Be Offenden!

2009-04-29T19:15:00.004-05:00

Nonessential travel to Mexico from the United States has been restricted. Governments around the world are taking all kinds of precautions to stop the pandemic's spread, including Russia and China banning U.S. pork imports.

President Barack Obama stated the swine flu situation is cause for "concern," but not "panic," but you wouldn't know it by the amount of media attention the supposed-"pandemic" is receiving.

Get a grip. This is no pandemic - it is the business of fear.

According to a National Public Radio report Tuesday, only 149 people have died of swine flu, all in Mexico. There are only 48 confirmed U.S. cases, all of which are suspected to have contracted the flu while in Mexico.

These infection rates are extremely low, but the global reaction is branding any country with an outbreak as completely hazardous, no matter how small the numbers and how isolated the cases may be.

Remember SARS? Remember the avian flu? Both were touted as pandemics in the making, capable of killing millions and crippling world economies and governments.

After the initial media attention died down, however, both "pandemics" passed largely unnoticed. The current situation with the swine flu is just the next in a line of would-be pandemics.

While some say the World Health Organization's actions are simply cautionary, the drastic measures the organization is taking are causing a global panic.

In any kind of medical outbreak situation, people look for the "silver bullet" cure-all pill that will make the problem go away. Unfortunately, one does not exist.

Currently, it is suggested that Tamiflu and Rolenza (oseltamivir and zanamivir, respectively) are the only antiviral medications to be used in swine flu cases to avoid drug resistance. Annual flu vaccinations do not protect against swine flu because the virus strains are different.

In response to the swine flu situation, Roche, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures Tamiflu, have beefed up production rates of the drug. The WHO announced it has enough stockpiled to treat about 5 million cases.

Interestingly enough, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld served on the board of trustees of Gilead Sciences, the company that developed Tamiflu. He holds stock valued between $5 and $25 million in the company, according to a CNN article on his financial holdings.

With the drug's production and sales increasing, so will the company's stock and Rumsfeld's personal profits. Talk about being a profit hog, right?

Furthermore, Tamiflu is not all that effective against swine flu - or any mutation of the flu virus, to be honest.

As the flu virus replicates and infects more cells, Tamiflu's ability to combat the infection diminishes. Because of this, according to Epocrates, a pharmaceutical reference guide, Tamiflu should be taken within two days of the appearance of symptoms - the sooner, the better.

Even when Tamiflu is taken as early as possible, its effectiveness is debated. Some doctors believe taking Tamiflu at the earliest sight of symptoms will only reduce suffering for as little as 16 hours, according to an article in Nature Magazine.

Even knowing the Tamiflu's potentially uselessness, countries around the world have stockpiles of the drug in case of a potential outbreak. Texas Governor Rick Perry has already requested over 37,000 doses of Tamiflu in response to his state's swine flu sufferers.

At the height of the avian flu pandemic, South Asian doctors concluded Tamiflu was useless against that strain of the virus. Will the swine flu prove to be different?

In situations like swine flu, the first and most important thing to do is remain calm. Until mass numbers of people are dropping dead, I think the general population does not have much to worry about.

Erin McCarthy's article, "WHATEVER TITLE WE CHOOSE," offers a number of steps to protect against swine flu (and a number of other health problems in the process).

Instead of preaching doomsday in the face of a potential global pandemic or waiting in sterilization for a magic cure, just be smart and be healthy. Your body will thank you.

And on a little lighter note here are the Top 10 Swine Flu conspiracy theories:

http://retardzone.com/2009/04/27/top-10-swine-flu-conspiracy-theories/

We All Have 3 More Years?!

2009-04-20T13:53:00.003-05:00

I have no idea why those kind of articles started to emerge lately. Here is another one that ain't happy either.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1171951/Meltdown-A-solar-superstorm-send-dark-ages--just-THREE-years.html

How Ashton Kutcher And Oprah Fucked Up Twitter

2009-04-18T08:20:00.002-05:00

Twitter is no longer cool... Oprah found out about it.

Twitter has been hyped, obsessively covered by "gee-whiz!" journalists and even studied by experts. But now that the micro-blogging platform is the third most popular social network behind Facebook and MySpace, and growing way beyond its core early-adopter crowd, is it hitting the hype cycle's dreaded "trough of disillusionment"?

Let's review the evidence.

A CNN headline recently asked, Is Twitter's breakneck growth causing a backlash? The accompanying piece noted that the site's unique visitors are up 1,374 percent between February 2008 and February this year, with up to 7 million users from only 475,000, according to Nielsen NetView. Facebook, for the record, grew 228 percent, to 65.7 million users. "With all of those new Twitterers, fail whale sightings and site crashes seem more frequent," CNN's John D. Sutter wrote.

This week has seen Oprah join Twitter, CNN and Ashton Kutcher battle it out for 1,000,000 followers, and a bunch of other famous people jump into the world of twitter.

Evan Williams (Twitter's co-founder) may be all a-twitter about tomorrow's big Twitter day, but for me, Oprah joining the micro-blogging service and talking about it on her show is the beginning of the end.

Twitter is officially dead.... Oprah sat on it.

Richard Quest - Another Priceless Twitter Finding

2009-04-13T07:59:00.009-05:00

OK.. here is something I have to share with you my little friends - Richard Quest!

I wanted to keep him just for myself, but I'll share with you the joy and laughter by observing him on CNN almost everyday. He is funny, sharp as a razor, incredibly intelligent, incredibly funny and not your usual type of CNN anchor. Forget Anderson Cooper! He gives you the news in the most unique and fun way. Unfortunately they removed him from CNN USA due to his struggle with drugs. I couldn't believe he had this problem but who doesn't have a skeletons in their closet, right?!

So, the story is that he got arrested more than a year ago in Central Park in NY. The reason?! He was wandering semi naked in the middle of the night, high as a kite on Cristal Meth! I was so disappointed of him. Why not coke?!

I understand he is clean now, went trough rehab and stuff. I guess CNN have forgiven him, but now he is in London instead in the US.

He also twiits, I've found him here http://twitter.com/richardquest

Screw You Mr PrEs1dEN7!

2009-04-10T06:31:00.009-05:00

And here is one of the many reasons why!

Normal folk who is decently waiting for the fuck long emigration procedures will be very happy to find out that you'll screw them from behind! It will hurt! Trust me!

I have a friend who came to America legally. She is waiting 6 long years to receive immigrant visa for her son! They've missed years of their life together. And the illegals will got a present they do NOT deserve?!

I am disgusted.

Obama's post-election thank you to Latinos: Officials plans to give 12m illegal immigrants U.S. passport

Barack Obama is to push forward with a plan to offer citizenship to up to 12million immigrants living illegally in the United States.

Furious Republican opponents said the proposal was 'disastrous' at a time when so many Americans are losing their jobs.

They claimed it was 'payback' for Mr Obama's Hispanic support in November's presidential election and a means of guaranteeing votes in 2010.

The number of Latino voters in the U.S. nearly doubled from 5.9million in 2000 to more than 10million last year.

More than three-quarters of new immigrants voted for Mr Obama.

Latinos are by far the majority of illegal immigrants in the US, with most crossing the border from Mexico.

The president's aides said yesterday that he plans to pursue his campaign pledge to reform immigration legislation by the end of his first year in office.

The administration wants to crack down on future illegal immigration, but allow those already in the U.S. to apply for citizenship - after paying a fine.

'They broke the law and we can't excuse that - but we can't deport 12million people,' Mr Obama said during the final days of his successful presidential campaign last year.

The White House insist the amnesty would not be an added burden on the U.S. workforce, but would simply recognize those illegal immigrants already working in the country.

However, Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said that it would be 'politically disastrous' for Mr Obama to go ahead with his amnesty plan.
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Latinos are by far the majority of illegal immigrants in the US, with most crossing the border from Mexico (pictured)

Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration, said Mr Obama faces an ‘explosion’ if he presses forward with his plan this year.

‘It just doesn’t seem rational that any political leader would say, let’s give millions of foreign workers permanent access to US jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs,’ Mr Beck told the New York Times.

Even members of the Democratic Party fear that any attempt at immigration reform could lead to a public backlash at a time when the president has his hands full trying to deal with the recession.

Cecilia Munoz, deputy assistant to the president, said Mr Obama is seeking ‘policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system.

‘He intends to start the debate this year,’ she added.

The president is expected to convene working groups over the summer comprising of lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups to discuss possible legislation for as early as the autumn.

BRUNO

2009-04-02T19:43:00.003-05:00

Oh God not again... :)))

http://www.thebrunomovie.com/bruno-movie-trailer/

The Land Off The Free!

2009-03-31T20:06:00.006-05:00

Step aside for a moment Chris honey. I have to share something with our readers.

Here is a real reason for all the folk that doesn't exercise to start right now!

They will scan us at airports like in a fucking movie man! What is next?! Drawing blood when you are buying cigarettes? Isn't it enough that they scan your ID now?

So... full body scan... Some wanker will look at my naked body without my permission just because the damn government said so. I find that utterly disgusting and such an invasion of privacy!

But here are the details:

Travelers in America are being asked to pass through whole body scanners at airport security checkpoints, which penetrates their clothing.

The new technology, developed by New York based L3 Communications, has raised concerns after it was revealed that underwear is visible in the scans.

It has drawn comparisons with scanners on the 1990 science fiction film Total Recall, which revealed the bodies of Mars-bound passengers beneath their clothing.

Lifting their arms about their heads the sensors scan the body for about three seconds. The sensors can detect part of the electromagnetic spectrum that emits energy from the body at wavelengths of one millimeter.

Because the energy from a human body is radiated at a higher rate than plastic, metal and ceramic, the unit can then reveal those objects.

The scan blurs out the face of the passenger, and the image is not stored (yeah right).

However, the American Civil Liberties Union said the body scanning technology could be too intrusive as it could project images of mastectomies and catheter tubes.

The Transportation and Security Administration has placed the scanners in airports in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Miami, San Fransisco, Tulsa, Okla and Albuquerque, in a pilot program.

It is currently a voluntary system.

A spokesman for the TSA said the new scanners were better for travelers with hip or knee replacements, as they are currently patted down if their prosthetic sets off a security alarm.

And here is the comment under a similar post like this one. Speaks volume about the brain washed heads of many Americans:

"I really really don't understand why the people have a problem with this. It's for SECURITY!!!!! It's not a peep show. It's to stop some people harming others. Why is everybody so against it? They say private rights. How about the right to remain secure? These people are going to be the first ones to complain about a terrorist not being stopped at the security check...
- J, WA, USA, 01/4/2009 15:14"

Cris Cornell, Long Gone 2009 Jimmy Kimmel Live

2009-03-29T22:31:00.000-05:00

The 10 Best Movie According To Me, #3 Heat (1995)

2009-03-28T20:18:00.006-05:00

I wonder if Pacino and De Niro flipped a coin before the movie began filming to see which of them would play which part? It could easily have gone either way. But as both of them contend during the course of the film, "You don´t want to know." It´s a good film. That´s all we need to know.

And the best, real shooting scene in a movie, ever:

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, #2 The Birdcage (1996)

2009-03-28T20:10:00.004-05:00

"The Birdcage," starring Robin Williams as a gay father who tries to play it straight for his son's future in-laws, is a very careful remake of "La Cage Aux Folles," a 1978 French film based on the famous stage play of the same name.

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, # 1 The Matrix (1999)

2009-03-28T19:51:00.009-05:00

I'm done with that shit. I have no idea what is getting into me from time to time. Who gives a rats ass what are the best movies according to me! :))

The Matrix grabs you by the eyeballs, hypnotizes you into a state of visual ecstasy, and doesn’t much care if your brain is following or not.

And special kudos to the mysterious Wachowski tag team, who have created a lurid, splashy nightmare for the end of the millennium.

Drunk On Desire Like A Nun

2009-03-28T10:34:00.003-05:00

So open promise fades
and the sun forgets to rise
I'm lonely and I'm thirsty
but it's better I stay dry
No more than two drinks away
from crying

Stare into the glass
and wait for the time to pass
And thank you for the offer
but you know I must decline
No more than two drinks away
from crying

There used to be a time
When I could hold my head up high
My life stretched out before me
and rivers flowed with wine
and had my love beside me
and everything was fine
But now the ride is over
It's hard to say goodbye

I Gave Up To Twitter! And Chris Cornell.

2009-03-26T07:26:00.011-05:00

I've been trying to stay away form this latest trend. I don't believe in micro blogging I guess and besides I don't feel comfortable being followed by strangers! Unless you are Chris Cornell and want to sell albums!

Than I've decided to take a look... Just for a few minutes! Not more, I've promised. I'm a lair.

Now we twitt. It's surreal. The urge to tell him that his neck looks like the one of a turtle made me sigh in. I'm worried about his weight - he looks way too damn skinny! I guess that's what happens when you eat only shrimp and you don't get enough sleep.

Sweet man. I can't believe that he is so hysterically funny and intelligent. You always get those dirty looking rock stars with the attitude of an atomic bomb. He is so approachable. Looks and sounds a little moody and grumpy, but I guess that makes him even more appealing. Maybe because his wife is Greek and he have to go trough the ordeal of dealing with at least 5 screaming relatives trying to talk to each other in a normal tone. In situation like this you got two options: To kill yourself or develop a great sense of humor.

Now I can talk to him from my bed (surprisingly he answers!). From my car. From my kitchen table. From the elevator. From the bath tub. If Sigmund Freud was reading this he was going to say that I'm thinking about sex. Damn skippy! :) What is more erotic than twitting to Chris Cornell from under the sheets! I guess being with Chris Cornell under the sheets! OK. I'm stopping here. This post will end up uber horny.

Anyway, I didn't want to suffer all by myself so I'm inviting you to join tweeter! I would like for you to share the pain of being so close to perfection and to realize it painfully every second of the day that you can't ever get it!

@ Chris: Please EAT something! :)

Adam Lambert Tracks Of My Tears

2009-03-25T23:03:00.000-05:00

No comment!

Chris Cornell Interview For SkeetTv

2009-03-25T21:06:00.000-05:00

Space Storm Alert: 90 Seconds From Catastrophe

2009-03-23T20:20:00.004-05:00

Forget the Mayans and the Doomsday 21-12-20012! Here is the new reason for universal scare and depression - The Sun will burn us. Literally. We all will drain in Plasma!

Yes, I am a Drama Queen. And I would like to share my new reason for refusing those French classes - I wont need French in about 3 years! :)

IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colorful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation's infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event - a violent storm, 150 million kilometers away on the surface of the sun.

It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn't create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that.

Over the last few decades, western civilizations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. "We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster," says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.

It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible. The surface of the sun is a roiling mass of plasma - charged high-energy particles - some of which escape the surface and travel through space as the solar wind. From time to time, that wind carries a billion-tonne glob of plasma, a fireball known as a coronal mass ejection (see "When hell comes to Earth"). If one should hit the Earth's magnetic shield, the result could be truly devastating.

The incursion of the plasma into our atmosphere causes rapid changes in the configuration of Earth's magnetic field which, in turn, induce currents in the long wires of the power grids. The grids were not built to handle this sort of direct current electricity. The greatest danger is at the step-up and step-down transformers used to convert power from its transport voltage to domestically useful voltage. The increased DC current creates strong magnetic fields that saturate a transformer's magnetic core. The result is runaway current in the transformer's copper wiring, which rapidly heats up and melts. This is exactly what happened in the Canadian province of Quebec in March 1989, and six million people spent 9 hours without electricity. But things could get much, much worse than that.

Read the full depressing article here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true

And here is more:

The Government(UK) was urged today to make contingency plans for a freak solar flare that could 'knock out' the National Grid and create severe water and food shortages.

Labor former minister Graham Stringer said Britain should be prepared for a repeat of the solar storm of 1859, which hit Earth and paralyzed much of the telegraph system.

In a Commons motion, Mr Stringer said such an event could now 'knock out the National Grid, which would lead to a loss of water supply, transport and food and therefore create a national emergency'.

The so-called 'Carrington event' was a magnetic storm that struck Earth in 1859 and caused the failure of telegraph systems all over Europe and North America. Auroras were reportedly seen as far south as Florida.

Now a report funded by NASA claims such a storm today would lead to 'planetary disaster.'

The NAS study released this January outlined the devastating impact it would have. For instance it could leave half of the US without power within 90 seconds, without coal after 30 days and would take the country a decade to recover.

Such a scenario would also cost an estimated 1.5trillion - and that would just be in the first year.

Science fiction? Not according to Mike Hapgood who chairs the European Space Agency's space weather team.

'I don't think the NAS report is scaremongering,' he told the New Scientist.

'This is a fair and balanced report.'

Our 21st century way of life relies heavily on technology, but scientists say this has left society at risk of a 'planetary disaster.'

Unlike many recent natural disasters, a huge solar flare would cause the greatest suffering in developed countries.

Plasma balls blasting out from the surface of the sun could wipe out our modern electricity grids, which would draw the energy to them like antennas and quickly overload.

This would have a knock on effect on many of the systems that support our lives, including water and sewage treatment, medicine cooling, supermarket delivery, power station controls and financial markets.

To rebuild the grid, the melted transformer hubs would need to be replaced but new ones take up to a year to make to order.

At present NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is the most important indicator of incoming space weather. It can give 15 to 45 minutes warning of geomagnetic storms and power companies need 15 minutes to prepare systems for a critical event.

However, ACE is 11 years old and already operating beyond its planned lifespan with no planned replacement.

'We will largely lose the early warning capability,' Mr Hapgood said.

As well as this, the flare emitted during the Carrington event traveled so fast it took less than 15 minutes to reach Earth anyway.

The NAS report was released to spark debate and chief author Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado hopes it will push decision-makers into action.

'It takes a lot of effort to educate policy-makers, and that is especially true with these low-frequency events,' he said.

'But we are moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster.'

The See Trough Conspiracy

2009-03-23T20:08:00.006-05:00

I've ran across one of the most intriguing and smart materials written lately about the deep shit we are all in. I've read over and over again the name of the magazine all that came from. I couldn't believe it. It read "Rolling Stone"!

If the folks form RS start to think that way we are really and eternally doomed!

Because the article is way to long to drag it here I'm giving you the link as well:

The Big Takeover
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

MATT TAIBBI Posted Mar 19, 2009 12:49 PM

It's over — we're officially, royally fucked. No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG, itself a profound symbol of our national decline — a corporation that got rich insuring the concrete and steel of American industry in the country's heyday, only to destroy itself chasing phantom fortunes at the Wall Street card tables, like a dissolute nobleman gambling away the family estate in the waning days of the British Empire.

The latest bailout came as AIG admitted to having just posted the largest quarterly loss in American corporate history — some $61.7 billion. In the final three months of last year, the company lost more than $27 million every hour. That's $465,000 a minute, a yearly income for a median American household every six seconds, roughly $7,750 a second. And all this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste. Yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society and was unable to spot holes in the national economy the size of Libya (whose entire GDP last year was smaller than AIG's 2008 losses).

So it's time to admit it: We're fools, protagonists in a kind of gruesome comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part about it is that we're still in denial — we still think this is some kind of unfortunate accident, not something that was created by the group of psychopaths on Wall Street whom we allowed to gang-rape the American Dream. When Geithner announced the new $30 billion bailout, the party line was that poor AIG was just a victim of a lot of shitty luck — bad year for business, you know, what with the financial crisis and all. Edward Liddy, the company's CEO, actually compared it to catching a cold: "The marketplace is a pretty crummy place to be right now," he said. "When the world catches pneumonia, we get it too." In a pathetic attempt at name-dropping, he even whined that AIG was being "consumed by the same issues that are driving house prices down and 401K statements down and Warren Buffet's investment portfolio down."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/1

What Does 1 Trillion Dollars Look LIke?

2009-03-23T19:55:00.012-05:00

To my previous post (http://constanttine.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-think-ive-got-it.html) I would like to add this:

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.

Go ahead...

Scroll down...

Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...

See the little figure at the left bottom corner?! That is you!

Notice those pallets are double stacked...and remember those are $100 bills!

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.

I think I've got it!

2009-03-23T19:23:00.008-05:00

Now I know why They elected THIS ONE to the White House!

I'm scratching my beautiful head since November '08... I remember watching TV on January 21 and thinking that I have out of body experience. Now I know why all that happened.

His agenda is to bankrupt and ruin America! With his new budget he is making damn sure that after 10 years there will be only one Great Power left on Earth - China!

And it is not only lil ole me that saw trough that empty suit!

A top Republican who snubbed Barack Obama’s offer of a Cabinet post has dealt another damaging blow to the president by claiming his economic policies would bankrupt America.

Judd Gregg warned Mr Obama’s 'spend, spend, spend' budget plans would leave the U.S. trillions of pounds in debt.

‘This clearly creates a scenario where the country’s going to go bankrupt. It’s that simple,’ said the senator who changed his mind after initially accepting the Commerce Secretary job.

He spoke out as Mr Obama was preparing to address the nation in yet another attempt to sell his financial recovery plan to a skeptical public on Tuesday.

One of the president’s top financial aides, Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, went on Fox News Sunday to try to ease the gloom by declaring that the administration is ‘incredibly confident’ the economy will rebound within a year.

‘We will be seeing signs the economy is turning around,’ she said.

Mr Obama is desperate to regain the initiative after appearing to be blindsided and wrong-footed in his response to the bonus scandal at bailed-out insurance giant AIG.

The fury over the bonus payouts boiled over so dangerously that AIG executives have been flooded with death threats and they have employed security guards and been warned not to go out alone.

At the weekend, a bus company was even organizing tours around the multi-million pound homes of AIG bosses in upmarket suburbs in Connecticut.

One tour stop was a mansion owned by Douglas Poling, a senior executive at the embattled insurer, who says he is giving back the biggest single AIG bonus of £4million, which he received a week ago.

But the debacle shows no sign of fading away.

Last night, Vice President Joe Biden’s economic advisor admitted a plan to impose a 90 per cent tax to reclaim the £100million paid out in AIG bonuses may have gone ‘too far.’

Jared Bernstein said a bill passed last week by the House of Representatives may face legal problems by using the tax code to ‘surgically punish a small group.’

Mr Obama was expected to announce a plan on Tuesday to help thaw America’s still frozen credit system that has compounded the recession by denying loans to businesses and consumers.

The Treasury Department hopes to take as much as £700billion in so-called toxic assets off the books of endangered banks.

Billions of taxpayer enticements will be shelled out to private investors to persuade them to buy the bad debts and hold on to them until the economy recovers.

In response to the AIG debacle, there is also likely to be much tighter regulation of executive pay at banks and financial institutions.

The president will follow up the announcement with a nationally broadcast news conference aimed at promoting his budget plans to create jobs by revamping US health care, education, energy and tax policies.

‘I realize there are those who say these plans are too ambitious to enact,’ the president said in his weekend radio address.

‘To that I say that the challenges we face are too large to ignore. I didn’t come here to pass our problems to the next president or the next generation – I came here to solve them,’ he added.

Appearing on CNN, Senator Gregg, a senior member of the Senate Budget Committee, said he had no regrets in withdrawing his nomination to join Mr Obama’s Cabinet.

He said the scale of the administration’s spending plan in the midst of a prolonged recession would leave the next generation with a country too expensive to afford.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said that the president’s policies would raise government spending to an all-time high.

The watchdog group said the huge deficits would mean the US would have to borrow nearly £6.5trillion over the next decade – £1.6trillion more than Mr Obama predicted when he first unveiled his budget last month.

The tour of AIG executive homes was dubbed ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous’ by activist organizers, Connecticut Working Families, a small liberal political party.

But some of the recipients of the biggest cheques have already announced they are giving the money back.

Security guards met visitors at a mansion belonging to Douglas Poling, the AIG vice president for energy and infrastructure investments who got the biggest (pounds) 4 million payment.

A spokesman said Mr Poling was returning the money ‘because he thought it was the correct thing to do.’

The USA's national debt is RAPIDLY approaching the point where the interest alone will be greater that what the government can collect in taxes. This country, as we know it, will cease to exist!

Candidate Ron Paul had it right - bolster the economy by decreasing taxes. Revenues will increase as a result of a strengthened economy. Delete federal spending beyond what the constitution calls for, and, use that money to PAY DOWN THE NATIONAL DEBT.

Extreme Shepherding?! Oh Yeah!

2009-03-19T22:21:00.003-05:00

A flock of glowing sheep being cajoled into a series of highly unlikely positions on the side of a Welsh mountain have become the latest internet sensation.

The hilarious 'Extreme Shepherding' viral by the 'Baa-Studs' team opens with a soundtrack reminiscence of a spaghetti western before introducing key participants such as Emris 'the Electrician' and Gerry 'the Player'.

Armed with their shepherding skills, a cast of willing sheep, a small video camera and a generous dollop of technical wizardry the team set to work and let their imagination run wild.

Quirky virals to promote products over the internet are not new and recent ones which have been lauded include the drumming ape for Cadbury's and the impromptu commuter dance at Liverpool Street station for T-Mobile.

The first treat in this viral - all in the name of promoting a new range of TVs - is seeing the sheep moved into position where black sheep form the head of a massive 'sheep' on the side of a mountain and the white ones the body.

Then enter stage left a little bit of technical jiggery-pokery and suddenly it seems as if it is walking.

Then the sheep appear to run off for a costume change and re-emerge decked out with LED lights on their fleece.

For the next installment, shot at night, they are lined up to play a large-scale sheep version of the Seventies arcade classic Pong.

Initially, the viewer is unsure what is going on but gradually the full picture emerges. A ball of sheep is 'pinged' from one side of the hill to the other until one gets through and a cheer can be heard from the farmers.

Next up is a recreation of the Mona Lisa. To do this the sheep are this time decked out in colored lights and with clever editing and yet more technical wizardry they appear to compose the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

The final flourish is a firework display. This time a sheepdog has lights attached to him and we see him racing off up a hill in the direction of a flock of sheep, also with lights. His arrival sends them spinning off into various directions.

The 2min 44sec clip ends with the sheep shaping the word 'Fin' in a nod to art house French cinema.

Whatever trickery was used, Samsung can be satisfied it has achieved a talking point with this first of viral sheep advertising.

Adam Lambert - The King Reincarnated!

2009-03-17T21:04:00.006-05:00

Let me TELL you what the cat dragged in!

The reincarnated Elvis Presley!

I'm stunned, speechless and magnetized by Adam's voice.

Judge it yourself. I can't write no mo! :))

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, # 4 Rock N Rolla (2008)

2009-03-16T22:57:00.008-05:00

Well, glory be, Guy Ritchie is back and back in a big way. His debut film, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, branded Ritchie the brash young wunderkind of Brit film; Snatch, for its part, confirmed his place as the patron of the punters and thugs.

And then he married Madonna and made Swept Away as a star vehicle for his new bride. And the less said about that film, the better.

Rock N Rolla is vintage Ritchie, a multi-stranded ensemble film revolving around a motley assortment of London thugs, gangsters, dealers and other unsavory sorts all shot with a blazing sense of style, obvious affection and pitch black humor.

Guy Ritchie makes films like Elmore Leonard writes novels. You don't begin to read a Leonard novel without being in the proper frame of mind. They're eccentric and given more to Fall seriousness than Summer sorbet.

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, #5 In America (2003)

2009-03-16T22:45:00.003-05:00

In America is a unique and moving look at the so-called "immigrant experience" that is as much about family dynamics as it is about the struggle to survive in an unfamiliar country.

Directed, co-written, and co-produced by Jim Sheridan, who is best known for his Daniel Day-Lewis collaborations, My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The Boxer, In America represents a balanced portrait of the highs and lows of life for those who have ventured beyond familiar terrain in the search of something new.

Lovingly shot, with a remarkable debut from Sarah Bolger, who along with sister Emma, gives one of the greatest ever child performances.

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, #6 A Street Car Named Desire (1951)

2009-03-16T22:22:00.007-05:00

Marlon Brando didn't win the Academy Award in 1951 for his acting in "A Streetcar Named Desire." The Oscar went to Humphrey Bogart, for "The African Queen." But you could make a good case that no performance had more influence on modern film acting styles than Brando's work as Stanley Kowalski, Tennessee Williams' rough, smelly, sexually charged hero.

The movie was shot, of course, in black and white. Dramas made in 1951 nearly always were. Color would have been fatal to the special tone. It would have made the characters seem too real, when we need them exactly like this, black and gray and silver, shadows projected on the screens of their own dreams and needs.

Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, "Streetcar" is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies.

WATCH THE WHOLE MOVIE HERE:

The Mysterious Giants - Humpback Whales

2009-03-16T09:26:00.004-05:00

This most charismatic and beloved of whales was subject to centuries of intense — and eventually illegal — hunting pressure. In the days before whaling, up to 1.5 million humpbacks roamed the worldwide oceans. In the 19th and 20th centuries, these numbers were all but wiped out by commercial whaling. Today, humpbacks are tightly protected and recovering with an estimated 80,000 worldwide, though Japan plans to resume hunting of humpbacks in the next two years. Barbaric!

The humpback whale is a baleen whale and a rorqual whale that sings amazing songs. It performs complex and cooperative feeding techniques (Watch Video below).

The humpback has a bulky head with bumpy protuberances (tubercles), each with a bristle. Humpbacks are acrobats of the ocean, breaching and slapping the water. They live in pods and have 2 blowholes.

The name humpback describes the motion it makes as it arches its back out of the water in preparation for a dive.

Humpback whales grow to be about 52 feet (16 m) long, weighing 30-50 tons (27-45 tonnes). The females are slightly larger than males, as with all baleen whales. The four-chambered heart of the average humpback whale weighs about 430 pounds (195 kg) - about as much as three average adult human beings.

Humpbacks travel in large, loose groups. Most associations between humpbacks are temporary, lasting at most a few days. The exception is the strong and lasting bond between mother and calves.

Humpbacks are very acrobatic, often breaching high out of the water and then slapping the water as they come back down. Sometimes they twirl around while breaching. Breaching may be purely for play or may be used to loosen skin parasites or have some social meaning.

Spyhopping is another humpback activity in which the whale pokes its head out of the water for up to 30 seconds to take a look around.

Humpbacks also stick their tail out of the water into the air, swing it around, and then slap it on the water's surface; this is called lobtailing. It makes a very loud sound. The meaning or purpose of lobtailing is unknown, but may be done as a warning to the rest of the pod. Humpbacks lobtail more when the seas are rough and stormy. Slapping a fin against the surface of the water is another unexplained humpback activity.

Humpback whales normally swim 3-9 mph (4.8-14 kph), but can go up to 15-16.5 mph (24-26.5 kph) in bursts when in danger. Feeding speeds are slower, about 1.2-3.5 mph.

Humpback whales are the noisiest and most imaginative whales when it comes to songs. They have long, varied, complex, eerie, and beautiful songs that include recognizable sequences of squeaks, grunts, and other sounds. The songs have the largest range of frequencies used by whales, ranging from 20-9,000 Hertz. Only males have been recorded singing. They sing the complex songs only in warm waters, perhaps used for mating purposes. In cold waters, they make rougher sounds, scrapes and groans, perhaps used for locating large masses of krill (the tiny crustaceans that they eat).

There are 3 separate populations of humpbacks, those living in the North Pacific Ocean, those in the North Atlantic Ocean, and those roving the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere.

Humpback whales take long seasonal migrations. They mate and calve in tropical waters during the winter and then travel to cold polar waters during the summer to feed. During the summer in the warm waters, adults do not eat, but live off their ayer of blubber (fat); the young calves feed on rich mother's milk.

Humpbacks migrate at 3-9 mph (4.8-14 kph). They have incredible powers of endurance, traveling over 3,100 miles (5000 km) during each seasonal migration with almost no rest along the way. During migrations, they cover over 1,000 miles per month.

Humpback whales have a life expectancy of 45-50 years.

Even Chaney Knows How Much Obama Sucks!

2009-03-16T07:41:00.005-05:00

Chaney is one sneaky crook and arrogant dick! But anything that comes out of anyone's mouth (even from the psycho bitch Ann Coulter) against Obama is a song to my ears!

The lemmings led America over a cliff. In just 6 weeks, Obama spending has equaled the cumulative total of ALL presidents before him since George Washington with his new budget.

Thanks news media! The left leaning press should be really proud of itself. And I think Cheney, who I never did like, unfortunately is correct in his assessment. God help us.

Here is the story:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney last night blasted Barack Obama for putting Americans in greater risk of terror attacks and exploiting the deepening recession to push his left-wing policies.

The outbursts came as a new poll revealed the president is facing a public backlash against his handling of the financial crisis.

According to a Rasmussen survey, Mr Obama’s popularity has now slipped lower than George Bush’s approval rating in the early months after he first moved into the White House in 2001.

Just 56% of Americans say they approve of his performance so far - while 43% say they disapprove. The findings contrast with sky-high ratings in his first few weeks in power.

Mr Cheney, long seen as the driving force behind the Bush White House, launched his double-pronged attack on the president in his first TV interview since leaving office.

He claimed Mr Obama has left America more vulnerable to attack by reversing anti-terrorism policies such as harsh interrogations of suspects.

Since becoming president, Mr Obama has also halted military trials of suspected terrorists and announced plans to shut down the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.

But the ex-vice president said such measures were ‘absolutely essential’ to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks.

Going on the offensive over the financial crisis, Mr Cheney was adamant the Bush administration was not to blame for America’s economic collapse.

‘Stuff happens, and an administration has to be able to respond to that and we did,’ he said.

‘I don’t think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances. It’s a global financial problem.’

He said Mr Obama is using the recession ‘to try and justify’ the largest government growth ‘in the history of the Republic.’

‘I worry a lot that they’re using the current set of economic difficulties to try to justify a massive expansion in the government, and much more authority for the government over the private sector.

‘I don’t think that’s good. I don’t think that’s going to solve the problem,’ he added.

Although Mr Cheney didn’t use the word socialism, analysts say it was clearly his intention to stir up Republican unrest over the administration’s left-leaning policies.

Mr Obama has also faced criticism from his own Democrat colleagues for sounding too negative in the first weeks of his presidency.

Aides fear the torrent of gloomy news has contributed to his slump in popularity.

In addition to his plummeting approval rating in the Rasmussen poll, the latest Gallup survey shows that 83% of Americans are worried that the steps the president is taking to fix the economy may not work and that the recession will get worse.

Another 82% said they are concerned about the amount of debt America is piling up.

Undeterred, Mr Obama tried to sound upbeat over the economy in his remarks over the weekend.

Responding to question marks raised in China over America’s solvency, he insisted that ‘every investor can have absolute confidence in the soundness of investments’ in the US.’

He added: ’There’s a reason why even in the midst of this economic crisis you’ve seen actual increases in investment flows here into the United States.

‘I think it’s a recognition that the stability not only of our economic system, but also our political system, is extraordinary.’

Mr Obama will hope for a further boost this week as Congress begins work on the budget that forms the central plank of his efforts to revive the economy.

Carl Warner Foodtography

2009-03-15T22:05:00.007-05:00

Попаднах случайно на една от "картините" му - прекрасен пейзаж от... Прошуто/италиански бекон! Море от червено зеле! Планини от броколи! Езера от сьомга с брегове от картофи! Къщички от чесън! Залез от пармезан и магданоз! А си мислех, че вече нищо не може да ме учуди... Ха!

Изкуството му е едно от най-впечатлилите ме в тази област неща и тук е момент да се зарадвам, че захвърлих фото апарата преди години. За такова нещо се иска Фантазия, а аз имам само Мисли :)

Не мога да публикувам всичките му снимки, за това Ви давам линкове:

http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=20&hl=bg&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:bg:official&um=1&q=carl+warner&start=20&sa=N

http://www.lenswall.com/subjects.php?s=100

http://www.carlwarner.com/small.html

The Incredible Dolphins

2009-03-15T14:14:00.003-05:00

SeaWorld has revealed amazing footage of dolphins blowing bubble rings out of their blowholes.

They are captured blowing puffs of air and angling their heads so that they rise in a straight line thereby creating the perfect circles.

The underwater mammals from Sea World Orlando's Dolphin Cove are shown playing with the large bubble rings and spinning them around with their noses. They also bite into them to create smaller circles.

'It's a cool behavior the dolphins seem to learn from one another,' one trainer said.

Another said it was the 'most incredible thing' he had ever seen.

Most of the playful mammals who display the behaviour are females. This may be because males are preoccupied with socialising with eachother.

SeaWorld has kept dolphins for more than 30 years, but one trainer said they were still surprising them.

'Just when you think you've seen it all, something new comes up,' he said.

'These animals have alot more to teach us.'

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, # 7 About Schmidt (2002)

2009-03-15T14:02:00.005-05:00

Jack Nicholson's performance in About Schmidt is all the more subtle and impressive when one considers the Hollywood Jack the icon of cool, wickedness, and devil-may-care esprit de corps. Not that an actor can't be different than his Hollywood persona, but the contrast in this case makes his performance shine for its low key brilliance.

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, # 8 Igby Goes Down (2002)

2009-03-14T21:50:00.004-05:00

Who knew that something good can come out of the Culkin's family!

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, #9 Magnolia (1999)

2009-03-14T13:11:00.002-05:00

One of Tom Cruise's best performances to date.

If it wasn't for the misconception of Scientology (which in fact no one gets unless they try to research and read a little before sounding totally stupid) he was going to be praised even for Valkyrie! Being honest with you I have to admit that he did one hell of a decent movie.

Get On Your Boots!

2009-03-13T13:58:00.003-05:00

The 10 Best Movies Ever According To Me, #10 Nacho Libre (2006)

2009-03-13T11:03:00.007-05:00

I don't want to be serious lately. It hurts!

Almost everyone else is posting their depressing thoughts online, I guess it's a trend?! More dramatic you are more people you drag to your blog. Lame.

Therefore I'm starting today with posting my 10 favorite movies in no particular order. I hope you'll watch some of them because they really will make you laugh, cry and be serious if you wish to do so.

If I get a soul diarrhea in between I'll let you. You can bet on it! ;)

But for now laugh with me and Nacho Libre!

Happy Birthday To Me

2009-03-01T01:11:00.004-06:00

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.