Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species - CNN.com

Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species - CNN.com: "With agriculture, the human female went from occupying a central, respected role to being just another possession for men to accumulate and defend, along with his house, slaves and asses."

Seismic cultural shifts about 10,000 years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality so subversive and threatening that for centuries, it has been silenced by religious authorities, pathologized by physicians, studiously ignored by scientists and covered up by moralizing therapists

Woman charged in France over babies' bodies - CNN.com

Woman charged in France over babies' bodies - CNN.com: "Douai, France (CNN) -- French prosecutors said Thursday they charged a woman with murder after she admitted giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period in northern France.
The woman, Dominique Cottrez, said she hid the pregnancies and deaths from her husband, who said he had no idea what she had done, prosecutor Eric Vaillant told reporters. Cottrez is overweight and was able to conceal the pregnancies, he said."

"USELESS DYKE"?

She was a public relations manager for the Coors Brewing Company and worked as a gay and lesbian outreach coordinator, helping to end a national gay boycott of Coors.

She was one of her father's top campaign aides and closest confidantes. In July 2003 she became the director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 2004 Presidential re-election campaign.

MARY CHENEY

AIN'T SHE SOMETHING ELSE?

Mary Cheney's sexual orientation is a source of public attention because of her father's political station as a staunch conservative, her political involvement with the Republican Party, and the 2004 Republican platforms in opposition to same-sex marriage. Some considered her presence during the campaign as bolstering, providing the Republican ticket with a "compassionate conservative" image

During the 2004 Presidential re-election campaign for the Bush-Cheney administration during which Cheney served as her father's director of vice presidential operations, the subject of her sexual orientation arose again.

Both Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards mentioned and praised Cheney's openness with regard to her sexual orientation when questioned regarding gay issues. Some commentators viewed these remarks as a cynical appeal to residual homophobia among blue-collar voters in key swing states.

The 2004 presidential election debates included mentions of the same-sex marriage debate and referred, initially indirectly, to Cheney.

During the Cheney-Edwards Vice-Presidential Debate, moderator Gwen Ifill asked a question to the Vice President in which his daughter was indirectly mentioned:

“ I want to read something you said four years ago at this very setting: 'Freedom means freedom for everybody.' You said it again recently when you were asked about legalizing same-sex unions. And you used your family's experience as a context for your remarks. Can you describe then your administration's support for a constitutional ban on same-sex unions?”

Dick Cheney reiterated his position of four years prior, stating the issue should be left to the states but that he supports the Bush administration. He did not mention his family nor his daughter in his immediate response to the question. In response, Edwards said:

“ I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her. It's a wonderful thing. And there are millions of parents like that who love their children, who want their children to be happy. ”

Although he was given 90 seconds to respond to Edwards' comments, Dick Cheney responded succinctly, "Well, Gwen, let me simply thank the senator for the kind words he said about my family and our daughter. I appreciate that very much." Ms. Ifill followed up: "That's it?" The vice president replied, "That's it," effectively ending the discussion of his daughter's sexual orientation. At the end of the debate, Mary Cheney appeared on the podium with her partner and the rest of the family.

During the third and final Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate, moderator Bob Schieffer asked, "Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?" John Kerry replied, "If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." This prompted an angry response from Dick Cheney, who stated, "You saw a man who will say and do anything in order to get elected. And I am not just speaking as a father here, though I am a pretty angry father."

Mary Cheney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 2000, the Bush-Cheney Presidential campaign freely discussed Elizabeth Cheney's marriage and children, but treated Mary Cheney's private life as off-limits. Nevertheless, Cheney's sexual orientation was publicly known, and some considered her presence during the campaign as bolstering, providing the Republican ticket with a "compassionate conservative" image. During an interview with Lynne Cheney, Cokie Roberts brought up the topic of Mary Cheney's having declared herself a lesbian. Mrs. Cheney responded by stating that her daughter had "declared no such thing," and criticized Roberts and the media for their interest in the story.

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"IT IS MY CHILD."

In December 2006, Cheney was reported to be pregnant; circumstances surrounding the conception were not reported. Cheney and Poe were said to be "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring 2007. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said on December 5. Some conservatives were critical, however. The Concerned Women for America called the pregnancy "unconscionable."

“U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne Cheney hold their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, born Wednesday in Washington. His parents are the Cheneys’ daughter Mary, and her partner, Heather Poe.”

On January 31, 2007, in a forum by Glamour Magazine at Barnard College of Columbia University, Mary Cheney stated that: "This is a baby... This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate by people on either side of an issue......It is my child."

*****

"Doing

THE RIGHT THING

for 

THE WRONG REASONS

has

NO MORAL WORTH."

****

THE CHENEY'S

 IN A NUTSHELL

1. Conservatives on every issues except issues that affects them.
2. Topic of Mary's gayness acceptable only on LIZ & DICK's terms; even going as far as getting angry when the hypocrisy is pointed out.
3. Remaining silent when the Bush/Cheney used Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage as a wedge issue; having the money to hire lawyers protect their interest (throwing the gay community under the bus).
4. Mary using her gayness (as well as the daughter of someone with connections) as Coor's outreach to the gay community; her believing she worked hard for her money and deserves to keep it.
5. Mary waiting until after the campaign to voice her opinion when it would have been more effective during the campaign; trying to salvage her reputation with the gay community as well as make some more money.
6. Mary believing the gay community doesn't have a right to vilify her; as if the issue of same-sex marriage has nothing to do with ....."It is my child!"
7. The Cheney's believing they have a right to privacy on this topic period when so many people were affected by their actions (or inaction).

Amazing how thoughtless, indifferent, insensitive people can be hiding behind a wall of money.

GAY GHETTOS

GAY GHETTOS

Any area of a (usually) large metropolis where gay people live, work and hang out. Often the neighborhood contains several gay bars, gay bookstores, and other "gay friendly" business establishments.

Some rather famous Gay Ghettos include the Castro district of San Francisco, Greenwich Village and Chelsea in NYC and Dupont Circle in Washington, DC.

Can a mother's affection prevent anxiety in adulthood? - CNN.com

MADONNA

While Mary, the Mother of Jesus, may be referred to as "the Madonna" in other contexts, in art the term is applied specifically to an artwork in which Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus, and central figure of the picture. Mary and the infant Jesus may be surrounded by adoring angels or worshipping saints, however paintings which have a narrative content are not usually referred to as a "Madonna", but are given a title that reflects the scene

French Coronation by Enguerrand Quarton

Can a mother's affection prevent anxiety in adulthood? - CNN.com:

"Babies whose mothers are attentive and caring tend to grow into happy, well-adjusted children. But the psychological benefits of having a doting mother may extend well beyond childhood, a new study suggests."

"The findings, which appear in the 'Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,'make a strong case for policies that would help foster positive interactions between infants and parents, such as paid parental leave, Maselko says."

Nocturnal Emission

Nocturnal emission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Some men have the dreams only at a certain age, while others have them throughout their lives following puberty. The frequency that one has nocturnal emissions has not been conclusively linked to one's frequency of masturbation. Widely known sex researcher Alfred Kinsey found 'There may be some correlation between the frequencies of masturbation and the frequencies of nocturnal dreams. In general the males who have the highest frequencies of nocturnal emissions may have somewhat lower rates of masturbation. Some of these males credit the frequent emissions to the fact that they do not masturbate; but it is just as likely that the reverse relationship is true, namely, that they do not masturbate because they have frequent emissions.'"

Had to laugh when stumbled across this video.  Tight bluejeans, tucked in shirt, and a huge belt buckle was the style.  Never could figure out when, where, or even why it happened! 

FIVE POINT ONE INCHES!

Must be the straight ones.  May explain why so committed to their careers.

 

STAR TREK: The Outcast

Part One


Part Two

Part Three


Part Four


Part Five

Video: Conservative Libertarian | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

Video: Conservative Libertarian The Daily Show Comedy Central

Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In the Book of Proverbs, it is stated that the Lord specifically regards 'six things the Lord hateth, and the seventh His soul detesteth.' namely:
A proud look
A lying tongue
Hands that shed innocent blood
A heart that devises wicked plots
Feet that are swift to run into mischief
A deceitful witness that uttereth lies
Him that soweth discord among brethren
While there are seven of them, this list is considerably different from the traditional one, with only pride clearly being in both lists."

Entire Jon Stewart Interview - Video - FoxNews.com

Entire Jon Stewart Interview - Video - FoxNews.com

Circle the Wagons!, Gregory F. Michno, Book - Barnes & Noble

Circle the Wagons!, Gregory F. Michno, Book - Barnes & Noble: "Setting the Record Straight on Frontier History
by Editor-ArmchairGeneral
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March 08, 2009: Veteran Western historian, Gregory F. Michno, and co-author, Susan J. Michno, are on a mission. They are out to set the record straight on the 'did they or didn't they?' question regarding Indian attacks on pioneer wagon trains. The prevailing conventional wisdom is that, despite the ubiquity of wagon train attacks in popular culture such as Hollywood film portrayals, these attacks were rare. As the Michnos prove in Circle the Wagons! Attacks on Wagon Trains in History and Hollywood, conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's 'plainly, simply, irrevocably wrong.' They decry as 'whitewashing' frontier history the recent disturbing trend of western historians to focus almost exclusively on white atrocities while simultaneously ignoring Indian depredations - presenting Indians merely as hapless 'victims' of white aggression. Therefore, ignoring the abundant historical record that clearly documents numerous Indian attacks on wagon trains,"

OMG!

WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS.....

or

BARACK OBAMA

 allowed

to indoctrinate our kids again?

Didn't even know that was the prevailing conventional wisdom.  

Under the impression our ancestors  got attacked.....

a lot! 

Arizona SB 1070: Turning anger on immigration law into votes - latimes.com

Too many movies I guess.

Star eating planet larger than Jupiter - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com

"THE GOD THREAT"


What's the big deal about a flood here; couple of towns torched over there. Everywhere nowadays faggots with A.I.D.S.

We know our sun won't burn forever.
Doesn't that mean our fate was sealed even before we started.

Hate to tell you this, but......
AIN'T WORKING!

Why not try something different.

Although we disagree as to when, where, and why, and how the human race came to be, we share the same beginning. Whatever that turns out to be is probably beyond our ability to comprehend.  

Think about it.

One immaculate conception!

Not only is that up for debate today; people back then didn't believe it either.
Would Jesus have lost the election to a "Jewish" murderer;
been crucified had they any doubt?

Not exactly what I would call an endorsement of one tribe over another. 

My suggestion would be......

find a way to get along with all of God children instead of believing favorite.

Cause nobody going anywhere without the rest of us!

Star eating planet larger than Jupiter - Science Fair: Science and Space News - USATODAY.com: "Hubble space telescope images confirm a star is eating one of its close-in planets.
The planet, called WASP-12b, has only about 10 million years left before the jumbo-sized world, cooking at 2,800 degrees in a tight orbit, is consumed by the star."

WE THE PEOPLE

The Liberalization of America

Indeed, the Declaration of Independence, which advocated liberty and individual rights, was an extremely liberal document in a coservative world dominated by totalitarian, absolute monarchies. The revolutionary war proved that the American colonists were willing to fight and die for this liberalist viewpoint. Our victory triggered this liberalization and was copied by France less than twenty years later. The constitution, which guaranteed these rights and ended religous domination of government officially put this liberalization into practice, despite the protests of conservative religous groups, who insisted on the continuation of an established state church that demanded taxpayer dollars whether the taxpayers believed in God or not. It wasn't until 1786 that the liberal view emerged victorious with the Statute of Religous Freedom that finally guaranteed "Freedom of Conscience", or the right to believe, or NOT believe in anything you wish.

the liberalization of America Democrats.com

Mind - Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds - NYTimes.com

Mind - Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds - NYTimes.com: "“The central pitch of any child psychiatrist now is that the illness is often in the child and that the family responses may aggravate the scene but not wholly create it,” said my colleague Dr. Theodore Shapiro, a child psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. “The era of ‘there are no bad children, only bad parents’ is gone.”"

THE VOCA PEOPLE

Very

Entertaining!

RACHEAL MADDOW

TAKES

on

BILL

O'REILLY

Albert Einstein's Faith?

''The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist,'' he said. ''I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.''

Albert Einstein

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty -- it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves ... Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavor to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature."

Krista Tippett: Albert Einstein's Faith: Was the Great Physicist Spiritual?:

I emerged from these discussions with a new sense of Albert Einstein -- not just as a great mind, but as a wise man. He was fully human and flawed, certainly in his intimate relationships. But he was undeniably an original, and not just as a scientist. If past, present, and future are an illusion, as he said, none of us ever really disappear. We all leave our imprint on what is now. I have a profound sense of Einstein's imprint, and it comforts me. I suspect that if he heard he was the subject of a program called Speaking of Faith more than fifty years after his death, he would make a funny, kindly, self-deprecating joke. But if he could listen with twenty-first-century ears, he might be intrigued by how his generous, questioning, "cosmic" religious sense is deeply kindred with the religious and spiritual yearnings of our age.

This post is excerpted from her book Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit

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''Imagination is more important than knowledge,'' Einstein said.

''The important thing is to not stop questioning.''

''Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something,'' Einstein once said, ''wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.''

Pope Benedict XVI: Immaculate Ejaculation!

"The most insideous and dangerous threat to the world today is same sex marriage"

- NaziPopeRATzinger-

HOMOPOLAR

1. frustrated horny faggot

2. masturbatory activist

While cruising online, came across this quote someone had written into their profile.  Any member of this site would have immediately thought....DRAMA QUEEN.....if even knew who was being quoted. 

  I sent him an email correcting his spelling of 'insidious', as many members were fussy about the spelling of "you're vs. your" and "they're vs there".
Had to help the guy out.

Thought I was the only guy on here who couldn't check his activism at the keyboard before going online cruising.

 

DO POPES HAVE DREAMS

THEY DIDN'T

ENVISION?

LOOK MA! 

NO

HANDS!

Immaculate Ejaculation

Pope Benedict XVI: Gay Marriage Is 'Insidious And Dangerous':

"Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called abortion and same-sex marriage some of the most 'insidious and dangerous' threats facing the world today, asserting key church teachings as he tried to move beyond the clerical abuse scandal."

mas·tur·ba·to·ry

(mās'tər-bə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē)

adj. 1.Of or relating to masturbation.

2.Excessively self-indulgent or self-involved: " [The play's] star . . . paces around his cell, smoking and snarling in a masturbatory rant" (Sam Whiting).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

im·mac·u·late

[ih-mak-yuh-lit]

–adjective

1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen.

2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled.

3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors: an immaculate text.

4. Biology . having no spots or colored marks; unicolor.
 

 

e·jac·u·la·tion

(ĭ-jāk'yə-lā'shən)

n. 1.

a.The act of ejaculating.

b.An abrupt discharge of fluid.

c.The expulsion of seminal fluid from the urethra of the penis during orgasm.

2.A sudden short exclamation, especially a brief pious utterance or prayer.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

en·vi·sion   

[en-vizh-uhn]

–verb (used with object)

to picture mentally, esp. some future event or events: to envision a bright future.

La Vie En Rose

La Vie En Rose

Edith Piaf

Louis Armstrong

AN ITALIAN BOY'S CONFESSION

AN ITALIAN BOY'S CONFESSION

'Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

I have been with a loose girl'.

The priest asks, 'Is that you, little Joey Pagano?'

'Yes, Father, it is.'

'And who was the girl you were with?'

'I can't tell you, Father. I don't want to ruin her reputation'.

"Well, Joey, I'm sure to find out her name sooner or later

so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?'

'I cannot say.'

'Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?'

'I'll never tell.'

'Was it Nina Capelli?'

'I'm sorry, but I cannot name her.'

'Was it Cathy Piriano?'

'My lips are sealed.'

'Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?'

'Please, Father, I cannot tell you.'

The priest sighs in frustration.

'You're very tight lipped, and I admire that.

But you've sinned and have to atone.

You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months.

Now you go and behave yourself.'

Joey walks back to his pew,

and his friend Franco slides over and whispers,

'What'd you get?'

  'Four months vacation and five good leads.' 

WE MADE IT! YEA!!!!

The Singing Kettle News

We're going on a
bear hunt
song

Im Westen nichts Neues

"Paul's visit on leave to his home highlights the cost of the war on his psyche. The town has not changed since he went off to war; however, he finds that he does 'not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world.' He feels disconnected from most of the townspeople. His father asks him 'stupid and distressing' questions about his war experiences, not understanding 'that a man cannot talk of such things.' An old schoolmaster lectures him about strategy and advancing to Paris, while insisting that Paul and his friends know only their 'own little sector' of the war but nothing of the big picture. Indeed, the only person he remains connected to is his dying mother, with whom he shares a tender, yet restrained relationship. The night before he is to return from leave, he stays up with her, exchanging small expressions of love and concern for each other. He thinks to himself, 'Ah! Mother, Mother! How can it be that I must part from you? Here I sit and there you are lying; we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.' In the end, he concludes that he 'ought never to have come [home] on leave.'"

Paul Baumer dies on an otherwise uneventful day near the end of the novel. His face has "an expression of calm, as though almost glad that the end had come."

All Quiet on the Western Front

Nothing New in the West
Wikipedia:

Im Westen nichts Neues is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.


The 1930 English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen gives the title as All Quiet on the Western Front. The literal translation of "Im Westen nichts Neues" is "Nothing New in the West," with "West" being the war front; the phrase refers to the contents of routine dispatches sent by the German Army.


Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as "there was nothing new to report on the western front" within the narrative. Explaining his retention of the original book-title, he says:


Although it does not match the German exactly, Wheen's title has justly become part of the English language and is retained here with gratitude.


The phrase "all quiet on the western front" later became popular slang for lack of action.

Cameron's 'big society' screaming to get out.....

There's a good idea in Cameron's 'big society' screaming to get out Jonathan Freedland Comment is free The Guardian: "The Conservatives have no answer to that, because they are committed to a doctrine that demands maximum flexibility of labour – even if that means getting on your bike and moving to the other end of the country – and that refuses to legislate for a living, as opposed to a minimum, wage. A big society needs people anchored in place and blessed with time, yet Conservative economics grants neither – except to the well-off."

Endless Migration: It's a bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!

What would you do

if

 One Hundred Fifty-One Passengers

depended on you to deliver them safely,

and

all you wanted to do was get back home to the wife and kids?

One Hell of a Pilot!

As the situation began to settle Thursday evening, the flight's pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, emerged as a hero, with praise being heaped on him by passengers, officials and aviation experts.

"I don't think there's enough praise to go around for someone who does something like this. This is something you really can't prepare for," said former Delta pilot Denny Walsh......

"You really don't practice water landings in commercial airplanes. Just the sheer expertise he demonstrated is amazing."

Don't get me wrong,

I'm glad everyone survived!

But........

where do we go from here?

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Bird migration

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bird migration is the regular seasonal journey undertaken by many species of birds. Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat or weather. These however are usually irregular or in only one direction and are termed variously as nomadism, invasions, dispersal or irruptions. Migration is marked by its annual seasonality. In contrast, birds that are non-migratory are said to be resident or sedentary. Approximately 1800 of world's 10,000 bird species are long-distance migrants.

The routes of satellite tagged Bar-tailed Godwits migrating north from New Zealand. This species has the longest known non-stop migration of any species, up to 10,200 km (6,300 mi).

Navigation is based on a variety of senses. Many birds have been shown to use a sun compass. Using the sun for direction involves the need for making compensation based on the time. Navigation has also been shown to be based on a combination of other abilities including the ability to detect magnetic fields (magnetoception), use visual landmarks as well as olfactory cues.

SULLY

I liked "SULLY's" style.

He was very humble about the whole ordeal.

Made money off of it also.

You could say....."A piece of GOOD LUCK, just fell in his lap!"

Can't picture him losing that humility or profiting excessively from his ordeal...... unless for a good cause.

To do so would be an injustice to pilots of all crash landings.

Yes! I very glad everyone made it off the plane alive.

Sully!

Job well done.

TIME WARP DANCE

Ah,

if only all problems
could be solved with singing and dancing.

Life

would be good!

Towards a just society | Michael Sandel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Towards a just society Michael Sandel :

"A politics of moral engagement: Some argue that politics and law should not become entangled in moral and religious disputes, for such entanglement opens the way to coercion and intolerance. This is a legitimate worry. Citizens of pluralist societies do disagree about morality and religion. Even if it's not possible for government to be neutral on these disagreements, is it nonetheless possible to conduct our politics on the basis of mutual respect?

The answer, I think, is yes. But we need a more robust and engaged civic life. In recent decades, we've come to assume that respecting our fellow citizens' moral convictions means ignoring them, or conducting our public life without reference to them. But this stance of avoidance can make for a spurious respect. Often, it means suppressing moral disagreement rather than actually avoiding it. This can provoke backlash and resentment.

Rather than avoid the various convictions that our fellow citizens bring to public life, we should attend to them more directly – sometimes by challenging and contesting them, sometimes by listening to and learning from them. There is no guarantee that public deliberation about hard moral questions will lead to agreement – or even to appreciation for the moral and religious views of others. It's always possible that learning more will lead us to like them less. But we cannot know until we try.

• This essay is adapted from Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?"

Cher and Raquel Welch - Woman

WOW!

Didn't know Raquel could sing!

Maybe it wouldn't have to be
just
Bernadette Peters.

phi·log·y·ny 
[fi-loj-uh-nee]

–noun

love of or liking for women.

Kings of Leon- Holy Roller Novocaine

Five Little Monkeys!

Michael Rosen - We're Going On A Bear Hunt

Evolution

evolution

Word Origin & History

1640s, "an opening of what was rolled up," from L. evolutionem "unrolling of a book," noun of action from evolvere (see evolve). Used in various senses in medicine, mathematics, and general use, including "growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing" (1660s). Modern use in biology, of species, first attested 1832 by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. Charles Darwin used the word only once, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and preferred descent with modification , in part because evolution already had been used in the 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development (first proposed under this name by Bonnet, 1762), in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not found in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (along with brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists popularized evolution . Related: Evolutionary . Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Our Living Language :

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection assumed that tiny adaptations occur in organisms constantly over millions of years. Gradually, a new species develops that is distinct from its ancestors. In the 1970s, however, biologists Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould proposed that evolution by natural selection may not have been such a smooth and consistent process. Based on fossils from around the world that showed the abrupt appearance of new species, Eldridge and Gould suggested that evolution is better described through punctuated equilibrium. That is, for long periods of time species remain virtually unchanged, not even gradually adapting. They are in equilibrium, in balance with the environment. But when confronted with environmental challenges—sudden climate change, for example—organisms adapt quite quickly, perhaps in only a few thousand years. These active periods are punctuations, after which a new equilibrium exists and species remain stable until the next punctuation.

TEA PARTY W/ TONGUE SANDWICHES

"The depression

pretty much passed over us unnoticed."

-mother's childhood memory-

Four Scores of Ten

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago," referring to the American Revolution of 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and used the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to consecrate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to exhort the listeners to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

THE

 ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE

Front row- Buddy Wolfe (second from rt); Middle row- Betty Jo Wolfe (third from rt),  Jeanette Wolfe (second from left), Back row- Robert Wolfe (second from rt)

A TONGUE THAT WAGGED!

Williams wrote the blog post in response to a resolution by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that called on Tea Party leaders to crack down on racist elements in the movement.

"Dear Mr. Lincoln,"

began the fictional letter posted by Williams. "We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!"

Williams went on to write that the Tea Party movement couldn't be racist because it opposed government bailouts for Wall Street banks and big corporations.

"Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn't that what we want all Coloreds to strive for?" the posting said. "What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds!"

Williams, a conservative talk radio host, said the post was intended as satire. He took it down as criticism mounted.

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Beef Tongue Sandwich

Tomato Gravy with Biscuits,

Pork Brains Scrambled with Eggs,

8

WHITE TRASH COOKING

8
Pork Brains scrambled with Eggs,

 Tomato Gravy with Biscuits,

Beef Tongue Sandwiches.

Always felt connected with the past through my mother's cooking.

Stuff cooked,

all kids but three,

would raise noses at;

even their stay-at-home moms.

Will admit....kinda gross the way that tongue boiled all day.
What was mother thinking?
hummmm?

So The Tea Party Express been cut off........

How does that stop The Tea Party Movement from being racist?

Won't stop them from poking their finger come time

to vote!