Cool magic trick.
December 5, 2009
Remember. Glycerin emptied into a large glass container. Tabasco bottle clean, filled with glycerin, then dipped into a large glass container partially filled with glycerin. Presto!
Key. The index of refraction is the same for the glycerin and the bottle.
The Decline: The Geography Of A Recession. Latoya Egwuekwe.
An easy to understand visual on unemployment rates by county on a big U.S. map.
Dark, darker…gloomy. Any surprise?
Best animated image here or see the You Tube video.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed — that’s including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. “The Decline: The Geography of a Recession,” as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 — approximately one year before the start of the recession — to the most recent unemployment data available today. Original link: www.latoyaegwuekwe.com/geographyofareces sion.html. For more information, email latoya.egwuekwe@yahoo.com
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From Hungary. Where the dogs can put up a Christmas tree while you are at work.
December 20, 2008
Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery. Fox.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement — even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.
Senate Republicans on Monday called Reid’s comments “offensive” and “unbelievable.”
Reid certainly lacks respectability by bringing historical blight into modern day Senate activities.
Perhaps Reid is completely unaware of the concerns of conservatives, moderates, liberals, Independents, Democrats, and Republicans who see through the smokescreen of the current health care reform they are trying to pass. He would be wise to thoroughly review and answer the legitimate questions being raised by current Senate Republicans and others. Otherwise, and it looks mighty unfavorable of Reid that he is equating their issues along the same vein as supporters of slavery.
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A repost. Pearl Harbor Invasion December 7, 1941 updated. Honor and respect for all those involved, as well as those affected, by this act of war.
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‘A Date Which Will Live in Infamy’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt. December 7,1941.
Video: A day that still lives in infamy from Hot Air provides a little background and the video.
October 21, 2006
“U.S.S. Shaw exlploding in the background during the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Image courtesy of http://k6.woodward.edu/ms/2ndperiod-2sem/zil/portfolio/academics.html and http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm.
Image courtesy of http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect6/Sect6_9.html.
“Photo# 80-G-474789 Burning Ships in Pearl Harbor drydocks, 7 December 1941.”
Image courtesy of http://staff.imsa.edu/socsci/jvictory/help_07/exemplary_papers/tu_09_4/overcoming.html.
“President Franklin Roosevelt addresses a joint session of Congress asking for a declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Joint Committees of Congress. In 1945 Congress established a Joint Committee to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Attack, chaired by Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley. The investigation produced 67 volumes of testimony. This photograph is one of several submitted as an exhibit in the hearings of the Committee.”
Image courtesy of http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/Images/page_21/67b.html.
“Smoke billows out from U.S. ships hit during the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Image courtesy of http://www.annefrankguide.net/en-US/bronnenbank.asp?oid=18790.
The Japanese attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was the event that directly led to US involvement in the Second World War. The attack that started at 7.55 on Sunday morning December 7, 1941, led to the deaths of 2,400 Americans, with another 1,178 injured. Within two hours, five battleships had been sunk, and another 16 damaged. 188 aircraft were destroyed. But the main target – 3 US aircraft carriers – usually stationed at Pearl Harbor, but assigned elsewhere on that day, escaped damage.
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Image courtesy of http://inouye.senate.gov/Home/Hawaii.cfm.
“Pearl Harbor, taken by surprise, during the Japanese aerial attack. Wreckage at Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor.”
Image courtesy of http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewobject.pl?object=59314&tab=1.
“Japanese attack on the USS ENTERPRISE, afternoon of 24 August 1942. Third Japanese bomb hit on the flight deck of the ENTERPRISE. The photographer lost his life while taking picture.”
Image courtesy of http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewobject.pl?object=59311.
“U.S.S. Arizona Memorial”
Image courtesy of http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1353/.
National Park Service U.S.S. Arizona.
“The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor is “ground zero” where World War II began for the United States. The event where Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto stated: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant…”
The USS Arizona serves as the final resting place for many of the battleship’s 1,177 crew members who lost their lives on December 7, 1941.
Series : General Photographic File of the Department of Navy. Additional images.
These photographs document the activities of the United States Navy for the time period 1900-1958. The bulk of the records document the activities of the Navy during World War II.
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Nat Hentoff: The cold heart of Obamacare. The Orange County Register.
Everyone, regardless of political party, should keep in mind:
“If doctors and hospitals are rewarded for complying with government-mandated treatment measures or penalized if they do not comply, clearly, federal bureaucrats are directing health decisions,” Groopman and Hartzband wrote.
If congressional Democrats succeed in passing their health care “reform” measure to send to the White House for President Obama’s signature, then they and he are determining your health decisions.
Also remember that these functionaries making decisions about your treatment and, in some cases, about the extent of your lifespan, have never met you. They do not know your name, have not spoken directly to your doctor, and, of course, haven’t the slightest idea of what your wishes are. Is this America?
The Senate rarely convenes on weekends. But they are doing it now. All under the guise of ramming health care reform Democrat-style fast track, without due consideration for the inherent dangers involved in allowing government to come between doctor and patient.
Your doctor is your best health care advocate. Your government has a health bill filled with regulations about how your care will be managed. Just like they efficiently manage other governmental programs like the Post Office. ”We know what’s best for you.”
Is this what presidential candidate Barack Obama meant by “Change we can believe in?” Even if you voted for him, is this the change you will believe in if your doctor is overruled by the government in his or her treatment decisions about you?
Think slowly and clearly before you answer this question. Your response is crucial, and your life may depend on it.
“Big Brother Healthcare.”
Image courtesy of by LunaC of the Independents in News in Pictures November 16 – 22 at http://www.freakingnews.com/News-in-Pictures-November-16-22-Pictures–2677-0.asp.
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America’s senior citizens are chock full of life’s experiences. Having travailed far longer than their younger counterparts, they typically can interpret intentions and actions with ease and on the mark. At times with razor sharp precision.
Take a look at what a veteran in his nineties has to say about the course one certain President has taken thus far. And he has something to say about one certain First Lady as well. WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out ! The Absurd Report. Also at Clip Marks.
Snopes notes the letter is authentic.
Thank you for your innquiry [sic]. The letter is REAL and so is Harold Estes. A retired Master Chief Boatswains Mate, he dictated the letter to a secretary who printed it and Harold signed it personally. Thus Harold is the author, a dear friend, a very well known Navy leaguer and so please do mark this TRUE.
“Harold B. and Doris Estes in 2004.
Image courtesy of http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/25/ln/ln16p.html.
Dear President Obama,
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate. Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.
One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.
So here goes.
I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.
I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.
You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:
I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.
After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”
Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.
I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.
Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.
And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.
One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.
You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.
You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That’s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.
And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
Fore ‘n Aft has another image of the spry and wisdom-laden Estes. Even in 2004, he was instrumental in organzing a Thanksgiving turkey dinner on the USS Russell. Y’all come try our imu turkey, heah? Honolulu Advertiser.
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And The Loser Is… I Own The World.
Shivers of climategate have reached even Al Gore’s Oscar.
Never mind all the devastating new information about data manipulation, intimidation and cult-like coverups to “hide the decline” in global temperatures over the last half-century, they say.
It appears his Oscar has responded to global warming. And the Goracle is not too happy.
See the emotional image of both of them here.
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Knives come out for Obama’s ‘preening’ social secretary. The Independent UK.
Wow. Looks like the White House party crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, did not just walk into the first U. S. State dinner of their own accord. It was facilitated by White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, who instead of minding gatekeeper duty, found herself immersed in the extravagant social event. Never mind that the White House Social Secretary has historically been strictly responsible for orchestrating these events, not sashaying and mingling about as “an invited guest.”
Bottom line, White House social secretary broke protocol. Not only that, she declined to testify at a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on how the Salahi’s got into the dinner. White House spokeman Robert Gibbs chimed in her quite puzzling excuse.
“based on separation of powers.”
Next up, will she just be admonished, or will her boss(es), Barack and Michelle Obama, send her and her fellow Chicago-style skill set back to where that kind of socializing on the job is practiced?
O aide’s crasher ‘confession’. NYP. It appears Desiree Rogers used to make it a routine to let “extras” in to the parties months before the recent debacle.
“Come in. We’re open.”
Image courtesy of http://www.thehistoryshoppe.com/.
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Looking for a job as your favorite cartoon character?
Well look no further.
Check out the manhole cover sign image at Eat Liver.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Now hiring. Inquire within.”
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