Need to hear the Blues? check out FittyB-Lo

This Alaskan garage band (garage since they all have other day jobs?) will have your toe tappin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQT9GuEx5zw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thank you

My blog will receive its millionth hit today, notable since we earthlings use Base Ten for our Mathematics.
So i am putting up the original header, of Konza Prairie Dog of the Thunderpaws Tribe Jumping the Mailbox.
Thanks Ya'll.
 

Bulldog Surfing Guaranteed to Give Your Heart a Lift

For cute bulldog pics, click HERE or HERE.

But for a few minutes of pure happiness for your heart, watch this.

 

Godspeed Neil Armstrong

We Loved the Moon more after 1969.

"A lot of people couldn't figure out Armstrong," the author Tom Wolfe wrote in his novelization of

the space race, The Right Stuff. Maybe that was because there was nothing to figure out, he was exactly who he said he was, a pilot and an engineer.

Moon landing video and story HERE

more moon pictures HERE and HERE

A symbol of mankind’s giant leap, this photo
of man’s small step—astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s—shows
 one of the first human prints left on the surface of the moon.
Aldrin took this photo of his own footprint during NASA’s 1969 Apollo 11 mission.

 

Beauty

I don't care for the news.
Rather,

CAT FINDS THE WOODCHUCK HOLE
MMM MM "MEMBER 'BOUT CURIOSITY??

 Hey.

Teenage Girl Held Captive Three Years in Illinois Escapes

 Again: a young girl held captive, beaten,  raped, finally escapes. I have to wonder, How many of these are undetected?
Three years of captivity resulted in a child. Unimaginable.

 Elizabeth Smart. Phillip Garrido and Jaycee Lee Dugard

The Chicago Tribune video and story HERE

The 2 year old boy in the house is taken away

excerpt:
"... A teenager held captive in a house for more than three years before escaping with a relative's help initially went there voluntarily but wasn't allowed to leave when she wanted to go home, an Illinois police chief said Friday.

...the 19-year-old St. Louis woman bolted from the home Monday and told investigators her time in captivity included almost daily beatings and sexual assaults. One of those attacks resulted in a now-2-year-old boy rescued when a police SWAT team raided the home Thursday and arrested a 25-year-old man and his mother, Clark said.
The police chief said the three days between the teen's report and the raid on the home was largely spent substantiating her story. Clark also said investigators were working a separate sexual-assault case and lacked the manpower to go any faster.
...St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly, the county's top prosecutor, told The Associated Press on Friday that conditions in the home were "definitely deplorable."

Initial evidence suggests that "some of the details are consistent with what the young lady is saying, and I think there's something to it." he said. "We're still trying to figure out what the heck is going on."
Clark said the teenager met the man socially "through someone else when they were partying, and a relationship built," eventually leading to her visit of his home about the time she was reported missing.

The trubune also reported, "The young woman has told police she repeatedly tried to escape the house, which is on Washington Park's busiest street and next door to a convenience store, just a half mile from a freeway. But her captor chased her down each time and forced her back to the home at gunpoint, Clark said."

It seems to horrible to contemplate. we know that many women, many children, some men lead lives of quiet pain, assault, desperation and abuse.
(more click here and here)

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-any-given-day.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/rainn-rape-abuse-incest-national.html

The Beauty of Fractals.

As everyone knows by now, Fractals are typically self-similar patterns, where self-similar means they are "the same from near as from far"-- Fractals may be exactly the same at every scale, or as illustrated in Figure 1, they may be nearly the same at different scales. The definition of fractal goes beyond self-similarity per se to exclude trivial self-similarity and include the idea of a detailed pattern repeating itself.
As mathematical equations, fractals are usually nowhere differentiable, which means that they cannot be measured in traditional ways. An infinite fractal curve can be perceived of as winding through space differently from an ordinary line, still being a 1-dimensional line yet having a fractal dimension indicating it also resembles a surface.  A fractal is a mathematical set that has a fractal dimension that usually exceeds its topological dimension and may fall between the integers. (wiki)

Jack (John) OShea was my art teacher the year Fractals became envogue. we were very hip.

 Perspective and mysterious things HERE

Figure 1a. The Mandelbrot set illustrates self-similarity. As you zoom in on the image at finer and finer scales, the same pattern re-appears so that it is virtually impossible to know at which level you are looking.

Figure 1b. Mandelbrot zoomed 6x

Figure 1c. Mandelbrot zoomed 100x

Figure 1d. Even 2000 times magnification of the Mandelbrot set uncovers fine detail resembling the full set.

Oh, The Mathematics.  Sigh
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/knowing-pearson-genesis-according-to.html

On Pondering the twenty fields of study i loved but did not pursue. 

Math Beauty

The Helix moves:

 artist

When Politicians Talk Stupid about Rape, Heads Roll. When Rapists Rape --Not So Much...

It is hardly worth commenting on Todd Akin's strange statements. But it speaks to a bigger issue: Senator Brown, Mitt Romney and President Obama should have taken the opportunity to point out that a woman is raped every two minutes in the United States and three women die from domestic violence each day in this country...

As Wendy Murphy says,
"... Hoping to distance himself from the far right, Republican Senator Scott Brown spoke out against Akin's remarks.  Mitt Romney also criticized the guy, as did President Obama who declared at a press conference that, "Rape is rape” and that we shouldn’t be "parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about…" He's right.  We shouldn't.   But if he really believes that "rape is rape", why did he stay silent when Whoopi Goldberg announced on The View that it wasn't "rape rape" when Roman Polanski drugged and anally attacked a thirteen year-old child?  Why did he say nothing when his friend and ideological ally, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, described a convicted rapist as "thoughtful" after the guy violated an elderly woman for eight hours, tied a phone cord around her neck and left her for dead?  And why was Obama deafeningly silent about Kobe Bryant, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, etc.  Talk about qualifying and slicing!

 Before this mess gets spun into a referendum on the women's vote, it should be emphasized that politicians on both sides of the aisle have done nothing to stop the epidemic of violence against women.
 Instead of criticizing Todd Akin, Senator Brown, Mitt Romney and President Obama should have taken the opportunity to point out that a woman is raped every two minutes in the United States and three women die from domestic violence each day in this country.  Politicians who really give a damn should be demanding that we do more and should be campaigning on their plans to stop the violence..." From Patriot Ledger

Then there's THIS DEBACLE:  http://abcnews.go.com/US/kentucky-teen-sexually-assaulted-threatened-jail-time/story?id=17005633#.UDOi2anN-Gk   Regarding 17 Year old Savannah Dietrich.

Believing rape victims:
HERE and
 not believing HERE
 and
 the effects of rape HERE and HERE

False reports of rape? read this 

THE WISE WOMAN'S STONE

   A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.

The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her

bag to share her food.   The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman

to give it to him.  She did so without hesitation.

  The traveler left rejoicing in his good fortune.  He knew the stone was worth enough to

give him security for a lifetime.

 But,  a few days later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

"I've been thinking," he said.  "I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in

the hope that you can give me something even more precious.  Give me what you

have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."

 

 

Crucifixions and More--Free Speech awake much?

 Headlines to weep by.

/2012/08/arab-spring-run-amok-brotherhood-starts-crucifixions/
excerpt: "... The Arab Spring takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood has run amok, with reports from several different media agencies that the radical Muslims have begun crucifying opponents of newly installed President Mohammed Morsi. Middle East media confirm that during a recent rampage, Muslim Brotherhood operatives “crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.”"

EGREGIOUS Violation of Free Speech Daily:
Former Marine Raub Brandon was taken by FBI and
Secret Service last night (8/15/12) for his Facebook Posts espousing patriotism. Now being held in mental hospital...
youtube HERE


media and B. Obama?! http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mark-halperin-media-very-susceptible-doing-what-obama-campaign-wants_650208.html

 /USA/Justice/2010/0222/Supreme-Court-Does-part-of-Patriot-Act-violate-citizens-rights?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

http://www.datalounge.As a gay man I defend chick fil a

 

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-they-came-for-fred-phelps-first.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/did-justice-sam-alito-get-it-right-in.html

WILL YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Be a good dog...

heh.

Flowers Are Pretty.

A perfectly Politically Correct Post.

Life in the Yard: Cicada and Spider

A Seven-Year Cicada and a huge garden spider: Warning, the cat jumps the cicada and eats it!

Life in the Yard Compendium

 from bees to woodchucks click HERE

OK so if you are walking around and see this-- Weird! Cool!

Now, do you see the three inch garden spider in here?



a sankeskin left behind.



OK, after these posters i will put three videos- the first shows the new cicada walking about just after hatching; then the cat jumps it, then the cat swallows it in a Big Gulp. delicious? no way.

Wiki say:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicicada

cat eat cicadaVideo links:

part 1 here 30 seconds

part 2 here 10 seconds

part three here.