February 2010
The Ghost Party
The Republican Party was dominant from 1861 to 1933. The Democratic Party was dominant from 1934 to 1980, the Ghost Party has been dominant ever since. To say this requires accepting many oscillations and digressions between the two non-ghost parties. What I wish to argue is that there is now a genuine third party of significant size and great volatility. It is really the Independent...
January 2010
"THIMK!"
Executive of the Future via animationarchive.org Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Excuse Me. Is That a Bedspread and a Rag Bag...
Description The dress was inspired and made from a quilt that is over 100 years old from the mountains of North Carolina. Antique lace, tea dyed embroidered fabric and silk and cotton yarn where brought together to make this “American” dream dress. A rooster, a typical farm animal is depicted on the ivory carved brooch found on the front of the dress. The ivory...
Curtains for Jerry- The World's Most Human Chimp
Every day, Jerry got up and got dressed in his gardener’s outfit. He puttered around the pond hoeing and hosing, but there was no audience of tourists around any more to watch him work. He was all by himself in the Jungle. One day, Jack Dutton handed Jerry a shovel and a hoe and told him he could do his favorite thing- go out and dig a great big hole. Jerry thought digging was terrific...
Welcome to Porn for the Blind
Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge. You can help! Help Porn for the Blind in its mission to produce audio descriptions of all the world’s pornographic website preview videos. Just use the form on the right, load up a preview clip, and...
OCD Run Amok: TheSnowCleaner
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Where do we get such men? Afghanistan, January,...
40U.S. Special Forces dismount from a U. S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter while executing a pinnacle landing on a mountain peak to disrupt insurgent communications in Zabul province, Afghanistan, Jan. 21, 2010. The Black Hawk crew is assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Aviation Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
"I am the light of the world."
29U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Alonzo, of the 177th Field Artillery Regiment, 172nd Brigade, allows an Iraqi police officer to look at his M-4 carbine assault rifle at a post in Hayy, Iraq. Light-enhancing combat rifle sights made by Trijicon for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan carry an ID number on them like the one pictured above (top center): “ACOG4X32JN8:12” - which reads as...
Watch Out for "Government Shovel Ready Projects"...
Uploaded by Mikko Paananen The road runs for over two thousand kilometres through the wildest terrain of the Asian continent, connecting Magadan and Yakutsk, and making an enormous loop through the Siberian mountains in order to reach the hundreds of gold mines that once operated there. Forced labour was used to construct every inch of this incredible project – at first by inmates of labour...
Susan Sarandon To Be Appointed Breast Equalization...
In a surprising development, President Obama plans to make Hollywood film star Susan Sarandon the Breast Equalization Czar.”This has been a long neglected problem, and my administration will be the first to do something about it,” said Mr. Obama. ”Susan Sarandon has been a longtime supporter of both Democrats and breast enhancement, and I believe she is the best person for...
Unemployed? Obama Is Hiring
Do you believe America is evil? Are you willing to bring down the very intuitions that brought you liberty and prosperity? Can you blindly follow orders, even when it seems counter to all reason and common sense? If you answered yes to these questions, the U.S. government is hiring and may have a position for you, and Monster.gov is where you apply. For decades we have fought to...
Anne Frank « Iconic Photos
Her diary was discovered by friends, and published by her father, the only member of the family to survive. The Diary of a Young Girl, published in 1947, includes photos of Anne and the people she hid with, plus a map of the secret annex in the house on Prinsengracht. On the cover was the above haunting photograph taken by an automatic photovending machine in 1939. The simple photograph of Anne...
The Pie Plate That Launched A Million Nuts
McMinnville, Oregon. 7:30 pm. May 11, 1950. Evelyn Trent was walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits on her farm while she saw an unidentified flying object in the sky. She called out to her husband, Paul, who took the above picture. At the urging of a friend, they later submitted the photo to the local newspaper the Telephone-Register, which put it on the front page on June...
Bagged Women from the Fashionistas Who Hate Them
HEAD TO TOE FASHION: A model displays a creation by German fashion designer Patrick Mohr at Berlin’s fashion week on Thursday. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press) via blogs.wsj.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
A is A
“This is John Galt speaking. I’m the man who’s taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You’ve heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis and that Man’s sins are destroying the world. But your chief virtue has been sacrifice, and you’ve demanded more sacrifices at every disaster. You’ve sacrificed justice to mercy and happiness to...
Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin Evolution
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Prayer
38Women pray during Mass held outside the city’s main Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. About one hundred people celebrated Mass Sunday morning just outside the Cathedral, which was totally destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Saved!
35In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Air Force Tech Sgt. Nicholas Wentworth hangs an intravenous solution inside an MH-60S Sea Hawk prior to flying an earthquake victim to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) o via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Robbing the Dead for the Coffin
31A man pulls the body of an earthquake victim from a coffin in order to steal the coffin at the cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Dead
Warning: This image contains graphic or objectionable content click here to view it.22A Haitian mass grave receives unclaimed, unidentified bodies in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Dead
21A young child’s dead body lies covered on a table outside the general hospital’s morgue via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Alive and Also Waiting
19A boy lies injured in a makeshift hospital after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Alive and Waiting
15A woman waits for medical attention for her son in Port Au Prince General Hospital on January 16th, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Alive
10Russian rescuers carry Senvilo Ovri, 11, a survivor of the earthquake, out of the remains of a house in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Alive and Conscious
9U.S. rescue worker Sam Grey, of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue, holds a monitor showing a woman, Jean Luis Sainte Heleine, 28, alive and conscious, buried under the collapsed University of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. via boston.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Brown Supporters: The Most Motivated Voters Ever?...
Martha held a rally @ Michael’s Harborside in Newburyport sat. Next to it is the Gillis bridge that goes over the Merrimack, Brown supporters lined the bridge which looks down into the parking lot. Tons of people driving by were leaning on the horns, We out numbered her supporters 5-1 It was HER RALLY. …Martha was an hour late, we heckled with a “where is Martha” chant. It was...
Brown Supporters: The Most Motivated Voters Ever?...
I’ve never seen anything like it. I ran campaigns for six years, and I’ve been watching campaigns for years more, and I’ve never seen the “We’ve got to win this race” attitude from regular voters like I’m seeing for Scott Brown. In a typical campaign, the hardest part is getting people to actually do things—show up at events, make phone calls, etc. They all talk a good game, but what you...
Mathrew Brady’s Lincoln « Iconic Photos
Despite being a homely man, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed being photographed. He recognized the compelling power of the photograph, and frequented emerging photostudios. There are over 120 daugerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, stereographic cards and cartes de visites of Lincoln. via iconicphotos.wordpress.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Joe Biden update: He meets on transparency today....
Everybody should just relax and take it easy. Unsubstantiated rumors that Vice President Joe Biden had suddenly gone a little loopy and ordered some of his official meetings opened to at least cursory public or media attention were just that — unsubstantiated rumors. After a recent public sighting, fears had mounted that the one-time, long-term senator might rebel...
China's Secret Stealth Bombers
China – Xian H-8 stealth bomber / bombing run over city / concept CGI artist – Chang Yu Hu / blog.sina.com.cn/zhangyufeiniao via environmentalgraffiti.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Green My Ass Lady. You're Party Closed Your Plant....
GOING GREEN: A woman protested against automobile factory layoffs during the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit via blogs.wsj.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
24 Million Schmillion: Enough of this Precious...
PRECIOUS FRUIT: Gloved employees displayed “Pichet et Fruits Sur une Table,” a painting by Paul Cezanne, via blogs.wsj.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Hello Dali!
NEW MONASTERY: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center bottom, prayed after the inauguration of the newly constructed Rigon Thupten Mindolling monastery near Bhubaneswar, India, Tuesday. via blogs.wsj.com Posted via web from Kaching! | Comment »
Word Around the Net: Picture of the Day
Friday, January 08, 2010 Picture of the Day What on earth is this? Concrete, that’s what. Scientists in Hungary developed this, using pre-formed blocks of concrete with fiber optics run through the material. Called “Litracon” the material allows light to pass through the building material, which can carry light as far as...
Street Legal Your Own Personal Tank
OK for those of you who have always wanted your own tank here it is. This is something you dont see everyday and a great conversation piece and collectors item This is a 1958 British FV601 (fighting vehicle) Saladin These vehicles were used by the British from the late 50s till 1972. Used by over thirty countries. Still used by some . Just seen a pic on TV of the conflict in Honduras...
The First Flag on Iwo Jima « Iconic Photos
The iconic photograph of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima remains an enduring symbol of American perseverance against overwhelming odds. Yet, as many know by know, the famous Rosenthal photo captured the second flag raising over the Japanese island. Earlier that day, another group of Marines–who later went back to combat as Rosenthal snapped the iconic image–raised the initial flag atop...
The Dreadnought Hoax « Iconic Photos
On February 7th, 1910, one Herbert Cholmondesly of HMFO demanded a special train from London’s Paddington Station to convey four Abyssinian princes to Weymouth docks. In fact, the troupe who boarded HMS Dreadnought that morning were pranksters, recruited by the noted adventurer William Horace de Vere Cole, the ‘Cholmondesly of the FO’. Under the elaborate disguises as African potentates were...
Paco Enterprises: Tee'd Off
Obama: Say, what’s that sizzling noise? Napolitano: I don’t know, but it seems to be coming from that box. Obama opens the box and removes the contents, which he places on his desk. Obama: Hey, that’s not a pair of golf shoes! What do you suppose it is? Napolitano: Beats me. Anyhow, as I was saying, we’d like to do a better job connecting the intelligence dots, but the Suspicious-Looking...