A Deer Migration You Have to See to Believe

A short but beautiful doc. on deer migration in Wyoming.

In order to travel 150 miles to their wintering grounds the deer cross 3 major highways, over 100 fences, and many river/reservoir crossings.

"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
Hic-no, Sir.  hic.
"You appeared to be swerving.  Have you had anything to drink, sir?"
I can-hic-tbe drunk ocifferrr, hic.  I'm an ele-hic, a hic-ephant, an elephant.  hic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/drunken-elephants-sleep-hangovers-article-1.1767309

Football Ghost video- Phantom caught on camera freaks out fans by glidin...

Yikes!

A ghost runs thru the stands at a soccer game.

"Quacka-ass quacka!"

More funny pics at:

http://www.funnyordie.com/slideshows/53da67bfd2/21-best-pics-of-all-time-of-the-week-volume-18

Scientists declare, "women now completely obsolete!"

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-engineered-vagina-normal-life/story?id=23386752

How Many Peeps Can A .50 Cal Go Through? Part 2

Best. Video. Evar.

Guess what happens when you decide to stand so close to a train that the conductor can reach out and touch you with his foot?

Honest Trailers - The Wolf of Wall Street

Esp. worth watching until the end to see all of the people who have Oscars instead of DiCaprio.

Anthropomorphic metaphor form fun!!!

I can't possibly be the only person to note the irony of the NYC announcement that they are going to stop spying on the Muslim community occurring on the one year anniversary of the last Islamic terrorist attack on American soil, right?

http://espn.go.com/boston/story/_/id/10786467/solemn-tributes-mark-anniversary-boston-marathon-bombing

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/15/nypd-muslim-spy.html

FYI, multicultural suicide.
Nice job NYC.

Why don't we put this in anthropomorphic metaphor form for fun!!!

Let's pretend that we're all beautiful sparrows or friendly woodchucks or even handsome tortoises. And let's also pretend that the American Muslim community is represented by elephants.
Most of the elephants just wander around in herds and splash in the watering holes or roam about grazing and just generally doing elephant stuff.
No problem.
But on occasion, something frightens or angers the elephant herd and it tramples a few turtles or badgers.
Like last year at the Boston Marathon when the elephants killed 3 and injured an estimated 264 others.
And that one time 10 years ago when some very angry elephants killed nearly 3,000 buffalo and squirrels by flying planes into a very large building.

Now the mayor of NYC has decided:
"We're cool!  There's no reason at all that we should keep an eye on that herd of elephants - we just wanna be friends and, since friends don't spy on friends, we're just gonna assume that those elephants are just being elephants and will never trample any of our little bunnies again!"

Neat!
But since the best predictor of future actions of a given person and/or persons is their past actions, you can go ahead and bet on many more elephant tramplings.

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Update fun!!!

(But be sure to read the fine print to see how and who terrorists are counted.)

CNN's Peter Bergen: Right Wing Extremists Have Killed More than Jihadists Since 9/11

On the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen has published a story claiming right-wing extremists have killed more Americans than have jihadists since 9/11.

Bergen writes "According to a count by the New America Foundation, right wing extremists have killed 34 people in the United States for political reasons since 9/11...By contrast, terrorists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology have killed 23 people in the United States since 9/11."

In addition to his role at CNN, Bergen is a Director of the International Security Program at The New America Foundation. In fact, he helped put together the dataset on which his article is based. The list of murders by jihadists and right-wing extremists can be found here.

Part of the gimmick here is the limitations Bergen and NAF have drawn around this comparison, starting with the decision to only look at attacks since 9/11. Obviously if you leave out the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil that helps the outcome. NAF also excludes Americans killed abroad so, for instance, the four Americans killed by jihadists in Benghazi don't count.

But even when restricted to attacks inside the U.S., NAF's list seems to have made some questionable choices. For instance, NAF includes Joshua Cartwright on the list. In 2009, Cartwright was reported to police after beating his wife. Police attempted to arrest him for domestic violence at a local shooting range. A shootout ensued in which two police officers were killed. NAF apparently includes Cartwright on its list of terrorists because his wife remarked that he was"severely disturbed" by the election of Barack Obama.

NAF's list of right-wink attacks also includes Andrew Joseph Stack, who flew a plane into an IRS office in 2010. This is surprising given that Stack's manifesto/suicide note included attacks on the "monsters of organized religion," GM executives, health insurance companies, wealthy bankers, "presidential puppet GW Bush," the "American nightmare" and, finally, capitalism itself with a positive nod to the communist credo.

On the other hand, the NAF list fails to include a number of attacks which seem connected to radical Islam. For instance, this 2004 murder of a Jewish student by a Saudi who had become more religiously conservative prior to the attack. After slicing the victim's throat, the killer fled to a mosque.

The list also omits several honor-killing style murders, such as a Muslim man in New York who beheaded his wife when she announced she wanted a divorce. It also omits the case of Yaser Said who was suspected to have murdered his two teenage daughters for dating non-Muslim men. Said is still wanted by the FBI. In a similar case, Chaudhry Rashid allegedly strangled his 25-year-old daughter when she tried to end her arranged marriage.

Granted these attacks weren't terrorism since they were directed at family members. Then again, NAF includes David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby's murderof Pedersen's father and stepmother on the list of right-wing attacks. Why should these personal crimes be included?

The most striking omission from the NAF list of jihadist attacks is John Allen Muhammad, the Muslim sniper who killed 10 strangers in the DC metro area back in 2002. While no definite motive for the killing spree was ever determined, Muhammad's accomplice Lee Malvo made numerous references to Osama bin Laden and jihad in writings he made in prison after the killings. According to the NY Times, Muhammad was eligible for the death penalty in Virginia because the jury agreed he had committed an "act of terrorism."

In 2002, one commentator connected Muhammad to a series of attacks inspired by al Qaeda. He wrote "John Allen Muhammad, the Washington DC sniper, who has reportedly expressed admiration for the al Qaeda hijackers, also seems to fit this worrisome new pattern." The author of that piece on "Al Qaeda 2.0" was Peter Bergen.

Peter Berg may want to look at this list of Islamic attacks over the last month and decide that he's a horrible, partisan, asshat, who is wrong and stupid to defend Islam since that would be the equivalent of defending the KKK.

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Islamic terror attacks on American soil.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm

Photographer Asher Svidensky captured these images of a young girl hunting with a Golden Eagle in Mongolia last year.

More pictures at:  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26969150

Best part:  the eagles are not bred in captivity but are captured in the wild as eaglets.  

When the eagles are mature they are re-released into the wild to ensure future generations and given a slaughtered sheep as a parting gift and thanks for their hard work.

Photographer's website:  http://www.svidensky.com/

The Homesman Official International Trailer #1 (2014) - Hilary Swank, To...

This could be good.

Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful | Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios

I don't know why but for some reason listening to Jim Morrison debate on what to have for lunch - sandwhiches or chicken delight - is endlessly entertaining.

Lyle Lovett - "That's Right, You're Not From Texas"

A great song written by Lyle Lovett after ditched that Smyrna tramp Julia Roberts.

Love those horns in the opening.

Francine Reed - Wild women don't get the blues

I don't want to brag here on my little blog-o-rama and I would certainly never kiss and tell but I'm pretty sure I've got Francine Reed on "lockdown".

I went to see her perform last night at The Family Dog - she was great as she always is.

She finished her set a copula minus a microphone.  Just her belting it out as she strolled amongst loyal followers.  Pretty amazing to see someone sing like that.

As she was leaving she saw my bike outside and and asked who owned it.

"That's an awesome looking bike.  I love that look."

To which I piped up, "I've got a spare helmet, Francine.  I'm not afraid to put you on that thing and take you for a ride."   (Double entendre intended.)

Watching her get a little flushed was well worth any possible embarrassment.

We had a little laugh and I'll be seeing her next Sunday (when she plays at The Family Dog again.)

If you have trouble reaching me on Sunday evenings this summer.....

It's just good science.

Islamic Cleric Warns Offering Girls Physical Education Classes Could Lead to ‘Prostitution’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/10/islamic-cleric-warns-offering-girls-physical-education-classes-could-lead-to-prostitution/

But if they get their PE classes and do become prostitutes, just remember:

Women having sex including rape victims should be hanged ,says SP leader Abu Azmi

http://www.saharasamay.com/nation-news/676551351/women-having-sex-including-rape-victims-should-be-hanged-says-sp.html

Exactly the same as we do it here in the south:
You get raped, you get hung.
(or hanged if you prefer).
No exceptions, no excuses.
That applies to everyone across the board.
Except for men because they have to live long enough to get all jihady and then get those virgins.
At least those ladies had the common decency to die before they had sex so they could be whores in the afterlife where Mohammed is cool with it.
Anything goes there - one big heavenly orgy.
But not down here by God!
That would be wrong and not right.

The cherry trees are blooming again in Japan.
If you ever have the chance it is definitely worth your time to get over to Kyoto and take a long quiet walk along The Philosopher's Path amidst the trees.
It's remarkable to see in person.
I did it back in spring of 2007 - just gorgeous.

 More pictures at:
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3906.html

For No Good Reason Official Trailer 2 2013 Johnny Depp, Ralph Steadman...

One of the trailers at the theater last night was for this new documentary, For No Good Reason, about artist Ralph Steadman.

You may not know his name but you have probably seen his work.

Looks like good stuff.

The Lunchbox | Official Trailer | Irrfan Khan | Nimrat Kaur | Nawazuddin

I saw the new movie, The Lunchbox, last night and just loved it.

A great story that follows the beginning of a relationship between a widower and a housewife trying to get the attention of her tuned out husband when the lunchbox she sends for him mistakenly goes to the widower.

Irffan Khan and Nimrat Kaur are both magnificent.  Khan played the titular role in The Life of Pi which was a huge hit last year and one of my all time favorite books.

Both he and Kaur, who is just gorgeous btw, possess an amazing talent for displaying incredible, subtle, and complex emotions with just their expressions and posture.

Often Khan will gaze off into the distance and you know at once that he has gone somewhere deep into his own psyche and you quite nearly feel his joys and pains with him.

They are both great actors and deserve much praise.

I hope this movie will propel both to new international heights as they are both huge stars in their native India.

Go see the movie - it's worth your time!

John Mellencamp Theo and Weird Henry

Earlier this week I posted a John Mellencamp song, Martha Say, off his under-rated album

Big Daddy.

This is another favorite from that record and always reminds me of the good times I shared with some of my good friends back in Middleburg, FL.

W/ Wes Hastings working on the old Chevy at the Johns' house.

With Gary Weyandt at "Ma & Pa's" house.

With High School Sweetheart Fred.

 With Steve Tope and Michael Miller at the late Natalie Findley's house.

Wow.  That hair is so awful I'm starting to sympathize with the dean of students.

One of my longest serving friends, Derek Fowler, at his mom's house down on Black Creek.

I still have the drums and PA system.

(Derek is expected to be released on good behavior soon.))

Keith and Wes at my former boss Phillip Tremblay's wedding.

A timely article from Elite Daily.

http://elitedaily.com/life/why-the-friends-you-grew-up-with-will-be-the-best-friends-youll-ever-have/

I already wrote a couple lines about this story but their headline is much better than mine.
This is exemplative of a growing trend in the university system of silencing opposition voices in the name of political correctness.  It's a bit disturbing that these institutions seemed to be doing so much to silence freedom of expression instead of encouraging it.

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/8698/20140409/brandeis-honor-muslim-women-critical-islam-commencement.htm

(Also, I may have just made up the word "exemplative".) (Or misspelled it.)

Brandeis Not To Honor Muslim Woman for Being Critical of Islam

By Stephen Adkins, University Herald Reporter

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, has decided not to grant an honorary degree to a Muslim woman and a supporter of women's rights at its May 18 commencement ceremony for making critical comments on Islam.

Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is a public figure. The university said that it admired and recognized her work to defend the rights of women and girls worldwide. However, Ali's earlier statements conflicting with Brandeis University's core values could not be ignored, said university officials in a statement, Tuesday.

The officials said that they were not aware of Ali's past statements.

Speaking about the religion in a 2007 interview with Reason Magazine, Ali said, "Once it's defeated, it can mutate into something peaceful. It's very difficult to even talk about peace now. They're not interested in peace. I think that we are at war with Islam. And there's no middle ground in wars," abc reports.

Ali, brought up in a conservative Muslim family, survived a civil war, genital mutilation and physical abuse.

In a separate letter, more than 85 of 350 faculty members requested Brandeis to remove Ali's name from the list of honorary degree recipients. Meanwhile, students created an online petition Monday, seeking her removal from the list too and have gathered thousands of signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.

"This is a real slap in the face to Muslim students," said senior Sarah Fahmy, a member of the Muslim Student Association who created the petition. "But it's not just the Muslim community that is upset but students and faculty of all religious beliefs. A university that prides itself on social justice and equality should not hold up someone who is an outright Islamophobic."

In a letter to Brandeis President Frederick M. Lawrence, Council on American-Islamic Relations' National Executive Director Nihad Awad said that presenting an award to an advocate of religious discrimination like Ali is similar to encouraging work of "white supremacists and anti-Semites."

"Granting her an honorary degree is unworthy of the American tradition of civil liberty and religious freedom represented by Justice Louis Brandeis and the great university that carries his name," Awad said in the letter, PR Newswire reports.

Thomas Doherty, chairman of American studies, declined to sign the faculty letter. He said that it would have been fantastic for the university to honor a strong believer in human freedom and women's rights.

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

This great little video gives a brief history of the now iconic poster "Keep Calm and Carry On."
I found the video on Messy Nessy's blog within an article about wonderful little bookshops around the world.

It's worth your time.

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/28/10-inspiring-bookshops-around-the-world/

HD - Saving Face Trailer (Documentary)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/10748667/The-game-is-up-for-climate-change-believers.html

A good article about "climate change" and an obvious and often overlooked but simple way to tell that global warming/change predictions are so wrong:

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By Charles Moore

Most of us pay some attention to the weather forecast. If it says it will rain in your area tomorrow, it probably will. But if it says the same for a month, let alone a year, later, it is much less likely to be right. There are too many imponderables.

The theory of global warming is a gigantic weather forecast for a century or more. However interesting the scientific inquiries involved, therefore, it can have almost no value as a prediction. Yet it is as a prediction that global warming (or, as we are now ordered to call it in the face of a stubbornly parky 21st century, “global weirding”) has captured the political and bureaucratic elites. All the action plans, taxes, green levies, protocols and carbon-emitting flights to massive summit meetings, after all, are not because of what its supporters call “The Science”. Proper science studies what is – which is, in principle, knowable – and is consequently very cautious about the future – which isn’t. No, they are the result of a belief that something big and bad is going to hit us one of these days.

Some of the utterances of the warmists are preposterously specific. In March 2009, the Prince of Wales declared that the world had “only 100 months to avert irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse”. How could he possibly calculate such a thing? Similarly, in his 2006 report on the economic consequences of climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern wrote that, “If we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least five per cent of global GDP each year, now and forever.” To the extent that this sentence means anything, it is clearly wrong (how are we losing five per cent GDP “now”, before most of the bad things have happened? How can he put a percentage on “forever”?). It is charlatanry.

Like most of those on both sides of the debate, Rupert Darwall is not a scientist. He is a wonderfully lucid historian of intellectual and political movements, which is just the job to explain what has been inflicted on us over the past 30 years or so in the name of saving the planet.

The origins of warmism lie in a cocktail of ideas which includes anti-industrial nature worship, post-colonial guilt, a post-Enlightenment belief in scientists as a new priesthood of the truth, a hatred of population growth, a revulsion against the widespread increase in wealth and a belief in world government. It involves a fondness for predicting that energy supplies won’t last much longer (as early as 1909, the US National Conservation Commission reported to Congress that America’s natural gas would be gone in 25 years and its oil by the middle of the century), protest movements which involve dressing up and disappearing into woods (the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the Mosleyite Blackshirts who believed in reafforestation) and a dislike of the human race (The Club of Rome’s work Mankind at the Turning-Point said: “The world has cancer and the cancer is man.”).

These beliefs began to take organised, international, political form in the 1970s. One of the greatest problems, however, was that the ecologists’ attacks on economic growth were unwelcome to the nations they most idolised – the poor ones. The eternal Green paradox is that the concept of the simple, natural life appeals only to countries with tons of money. By a brilliant stroke, the founding fathers developed the concept of “sustainable development”. This meant that poor countries would not have to restrain their own growth, but could force restraint upon the rich ones. This formula was propagated at the first global environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972.

The G7 Summit in Toronto in 1988 endorsed the theory of global warming. In the same year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up. The capture of the world’s elites was under way. Its high point was the Kyoto Summit in 1998, which enabled the entire world to yell at the United States for not signing up, while also exempting developing nations, such as China and India, from its rigours.

The final push, brilliantly described here by Darwall, was the Copenhagen Summit of 2009. Before it, a desperate Gordon Brown warned of “50 days to avoid catastrophe”, but the “catastrophe” came all the same. The warmists’ idea was that the global fight against carbon emissions would work only if the whole world signed up to it. Despite being ordered to by President Obama, who had just collected his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the developing countries refused. The Left-wing dream that what used to be called the Third World would finally be emancipated from Western power had come true. The developing countries were perfectly happy for the West to have “the green crap”, but not to have it themselves. The Western goody-goodies were hoist by their own petard.

Since then, the international war against carbon totters on, because Western governments see their green policies, like zombie banks, as too big to fail. The EU, including Britain, continues to inflict expensive pain upon itself. Last week, the latest IPCC report made the usual warnings about climate change, but behind its rhetoric was a huge concession. The answer to the problems of climate change lay in adaptation, not in mitigation, it admitted. So the game is up.

Scientists, Rupert Darwall complains, have been too ready to embrace the “subjectivity” of the future, and too often have a “cultural aversion to learning from the past”. If they read this tremendous book they will see those lessons set out with painful clarity.

The power of editing.

English Teacher Responds to Student’s Profane, Ignorant Letter in Most Amazing Way Possible

Apr. 8, 2014 11:25pm Jason Howerton

An English teacher at McKinley High School (city unknown) reportedly found a profane letter from a student taped to the door of the classroom.
The teacher had a few options: Call some parents, scold her entire class or maybe take the letter to the principal.
Instead, the unidentified teacher did something so much better.
The educator meticulously went through each and every line, correcting a plethora of mistakes using a red pen.
The teacher concluded with a simple message at the bottom of the page: “Please use your education appropriately. Proofreading takes five minutes & keeps you from looking stupid.”
Though the image is going viral on Reddit, there is always a chance that the letter was faked. We just really, really hope it’s 100 percent real.

I took these pictures while walking the doggy this weekend.

All your Gods are dead. Part II.

Is anyone starting to realize that I may actually be on to something when I speak about the media and how it has an agenda?

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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/04/Lying-About-Climate-Change-To-Advance-The-Green-Agenda-Is-Good-Says-Peer-Reviewed-Paper

Lying about climate change to advance the environmental agenda is a good idea, say two economists in a peer-reviewed paper published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

The authors, Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao, take it as a given that both the media and the science establishment routinely exaggerate the problem of climate change. But unlike the majority of their colleagues in academe - who primly deny that any such problem exists - they go one step further by actively endorsing dishonesty as a way of forcing through (apparently) desirable public policy.

The abstract of their paper reads:

It appears that news media and some pro-environmental organizations have the tendency to accentuate or even exaggerate the damage caused by climate change. This article provides a rationale for this tendency by using a modified International Environmental Agreement (IEA) model with asymmetric information. We find that the information manipulation has an instrumental value, as it ex post induces more countries to participate in an IEA, which will eventually enhance global welfare. From the ex ante perspective, however, the impact that manipulating information has on the level of participation in an IEA and on welfare is ambiguous.

This paper will be excellent news for climate scientists working at institutions like NASA GISS, the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and Penn State University.

For many years now, they have faced the huge challenge of trying to maintain their academic credibility and generous government grant funding despite increasing evidence that man-made global warming theory is a busted flush and that really it is about time they all found jobs more suited to their talents, such as enquiring whether sir would like a large fries and McFlurry with his Big Mac.

Now, thanks to the inspired sophistry of their new friends Assistant Professors of Economics Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao their various data manipulation, decline-hiding, FOI-breaching, scientific-method abusing shenanigans have been made to seem not evil or wrong but actively desirable for the good of mankind.

This is not quite the first time that climate scientists have advocated lying in pursuit of the higher cause of greater global regulation, one world government, economic stagnation and higher energy prices.

First to do so was the late Stephen Schneider who famously argued as early as 1989:

"So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This "double ethical bind" which we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both."

James "Death Trains" Hansen - formerly Chief Alarmist at NASA GISS - too has made the case that "scary scenarios" can be a good way of concentrating the gullible public's mind in the absence of solid evidence.

But no peer-reviewed scientific paper till now has articulated the case for lying quite so brazenly as this one by
Fuhai Hong and Xiaojian Zhao. A Nobel Prize for their sterling service to the cause of Climate Alarmism is surely now a mere formality.

Wild Feathers - Hard Times (Bing Lounge)

Another great performance by Wild Feathers.

These guys are really good.

"Sparky, est l'homme qui a tué votre maître dans cette salle aujourd'hui?"
Le Woof.
"Et pouvez-vous dire que l'homme de la cour?"
Le Grrrrrrr.
"Merci Sparky. Vous pouvez prendre votre siège."

http://www.thelocal.fr/20140403/another-dog-testifies-in-french-murder-case

Look, I like St. Paddy's Day as much as the next guy but that is no reason to have sex in a dumpster.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/18/couple-caught-sex-video-dumpsters-delaware_n_4985591.html?hpweird=y

"Ummm..., excuse me. Waiter? There seems to be something in my soup."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26734289

Honor Diaries - Official Trailer

Worth a look.

Muslim violence and oppression against pretty much anyone who is not muslim is well documented, and even Muslim women, who are often not allowed to drive, vote, see a doctor, have an opinion, marry whoever they want, get an education, get a job, travel, be seen, go anywhere without a male relative, etc., are often the target of violence.

For some reason the politically left here in the U.S. continues to support and defend Muslim culture.

Funny that the same folks who would mock the Catholic church, the pope, and in particular the history of pedophile priests within the church, would come to the defense of a religion that openly calls for the murder of gays, non-muslims, and minorities of almost all sorts.

Currently muslims in the mid-east and Africa have been massacring christians and burning down churches and gleefully posting about it online.

Which is not to mention the violence they have committed in countries like Sweden and Norway, where liberal asylum policies have led to ever increasing rates of sexual assaults against Swedish women.

Oh yeah, there has been at least one honor killing in the U.S., and in countries like England and France they have steadily risen along with influx of Muslim immigrants.

But it is the religion of peace.
Oh, and CAIR - the council on Islamic relations?
Links to terrorists.
The FBI declared that back in 2009.
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/

And of course, right on cue this morning, two female reporters are shot while covering upcoming elections in Afghanistan.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26881347



Update:
This picture taken by Martin Parr seems innocent enough on the surface.
After all, it's just a group of people praying, what could be bad about that?
Until you realize this picture was taken outside of Paris during a normal work day.
Would anyone be so tolerant of a catholic group deciding to take their religious services outside on a busy street everyday, several times a day?
What if you worked or lived on this street or had to make deliveries?
Do you think the local authorities would allow a large group of Presbyterians to shut down a public street every single day so that they could pray?
Would you be so tolerant and understanding if you had to schedule your life around their religious services, esp. in a country that prides itself on being fairly secular?

Extra Credit:
If you've ever found yourself wondering exactly who starts all those car fires in Paris every year at Christmas/New Year's, you can stop cogitating now.

Extra Extra Credit:
According to The Telegraph only 1,067 cars were burned this year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10546263/Only-1067-vehicles-set-ablaze-on-New-Years-Eve-in-France.html

Emma and Cinnamon | Little Girl and Horse Are Best Friends

Well this is pretty darn cute!

http://www.chevalierautourdumonde.com/

This man rode a horse across Canada.
To promote chivalry.

Lucy TRAILER 1 (2014) - Luc Besson, Scarlett Johansson Movie HD

This could be interesting.  From Luc Besson who did The Transporter series with Jason Statham and Taken with Liam Neeson.

Hipsters Love Coffee

Anything that makes fun of hipsters is ok by me.

Have you noticed how little sense of humor hipsters have about themselves?
Nerd rage is a real thing people.
Just sayin'.

ALERT! Yellowstone Buffalo Running for Their Lives!

In further "The earth is about to stop" news, herds of buffalo are seen running fast and far from Yellowstone Park, where there has been a great deal of seismic activity over the past few days.

Is it the end of times?

Will California drop into the Pacific?

How long before we can get a reality show up and going?

“He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,”

And you send your kid to a public school?
This sort of nonsense is endemic.
If it's not this, it's bullying, or how we raped the land and screwed the indians.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/31/White-Privilege-Conference-Whites-Are-Never-Cured-from-Racism

I had this conversation with a former friend:
"Why the hell do you send your kid to public school to have his head filled with this garbage, to be indoctrinated by idiots, when you have a wife that's 10 times smarter than any of the kids teachers and stays home to care for him?"

Whatevs.

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When they can't legislate they over regulate.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/31/EPA-Raids-Ammunition-Component-Factory-In-Montana

After Sandy Hook, there was a massive push for more gun control.
You may remember a couple of newspapers publishing the home addresses of gun owners, including police and corrections officers.
After that there was a massive push back and the gun grabbers retreated.
But don't don't make the mistake of thinking they've gone away.
In Montana the EPA raided an ammunition factory.
The end.

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http://www.infowars.com/cops-to-inspect-homes-without-notice-for-illegal-tenants/

And you think I'm crazy and paranoid.
This story from Long Island where the cops will be inspecting homes for illegal tenants.

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And this man, arrested for a dummy shotgun shell after a SWAT team broke down his door and raided his home.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/02/11/dc-man-set-hearing-after-cops-raid-turned-one-shotgun-shell


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And finally a story about a drunken bear.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5756809/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/bear-downs-beers-passes-out-campground/#.Uzrvoa1dX-U

BAKER LAKE, Wash. — When state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.

“He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer,” said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest. The beast then consumed about 36 cans of Rainier.

A wildlife agent tried to chase the bear from the campground but the animal just climbed a tree to sleep it off for another four hours. Agents finally herded the bear away, but it returned the next morning.

Agents then used a large, humane trap to capture it for relocation, baiting the trap with the usual: doughnuts, honey and, in this case, two open cans of Rainier.

That did the trick.

“This is a new one on me,” Heinck said. “I’ve known them to get into cans, but nothing like this. And it definitely had a preference.”