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Friday, January 21, 2011
Cold Kansas Snows in Winter (Addendum)
(Snows is a verb.) The very air itself was white with the infused powder as several inches of glittery whitewash moved in. The first pics are untouched. Then, well you know...
please click on pic to enjoy largeness
Kansas Snow Skyline untouched
Cold Kansas
Mouse Haven
please click on pic to enjoy largeness
Anything is Possible
Well I 've been taking some photos of this treeline for a couple more seasons now.
i thought i might add add spring and summer stills and vids here tomorrow.
in the meantime:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Compare White House Treatment of Dalai Lama and the Chinese President
China, currently being feted by the white house, does not want President Obama to be nice to the Dalai Lama. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35480038/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/
excerpt: BEIJING — China said President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama "seriously harms U.S.-China relations," but the way the two countries have handled the White House chat indicates instead that both would rather avoid a major crisis. Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai summoned U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman on Friday to protest Thursday's meeting...
"The behavior of the U.S. side seriously interferes in China's internal politics, seriously hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people and seriously harms U.S.-China relations," a Foreign Ministry statement said, quoting spokesman Ma Zhaoxu...
excerpt 2: "For its part, the White House gave the Dalai Lama relatively low-profile treatment, holding the meeting in the Map Room, a less prominent venue than the Oval Office.There was no welcome fanfare, and Obama made no public comments. The White House banned journalists and distributed a single photo of the two leaders... Obama declined to see the Dalai Lama during his Washington stay in October because it would have come before the president's China visit in November."
I must compare the way the Dali Lama was rushed out the back door of the white house past some trash (seriously, can you IMAGINE the current Chinese delegation being photographed here!?) and the pomp and lavish, or slavish sumptuousness currently being displayed for Hu.
Pics and Video here
400 dollar bottles of wine
Lavish or ridiculous?
no peace prize for Chinese Man
By The Trashy Way --
OK the wine was only 399 dollars
excerpt: BEIJING — China said President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama "seriously harms U.S.-China relations," but the way the two countries have handled the White House chat indicates instead that both would rather avoid a major crisis. Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai summoned U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman on Friday to protest Thursday's meeting...
"The behavior of the U.S. side seriously interferes in China's internal politics, seriously hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people and seriously harms U.S.-China relations," a Foreign Ministry statement said, quoting spokesman Ma Zhaoxu...
Human Rights < Money
excerpt 2: "For its part, the White House gave the Dalai Lama relatively low-profile treatment, holding the meeting in the Map Room, a less prominent venue than the Oval Office.There was no welcome fanfare, and Obama made no public comments. The White House banned journalists and distributed a single photo of the two leaders... Obama declined to see the Dalai Lama during his Washington stay in October because it would have come before the president's China visit in November."
I must compare the way the Dali Lama was rushed out the back door of the white house past some trash (seriously, can you IMAGINE the current Chinese delegation being photographed here!?) and the pomp and lavish, or slavish sumptuousness currently being displayed for Hu.
Really?!
400 dollar bottles of wine
Lavish or ridiculous?
no peace prize for Chinese Man
By The Trashy Way --
OK the wine was only 399 dollars
Aung San Suu Kyi, Dr. Martin Luther King, and other Global Consciences
Some individuals tap the conscience of eveyone on the globe who is listening.
Aung San Suu Kyi
"More than 5,000 men lined up prior to the March 28, 1968 march-led by Martin Luther King
during the sanitation workers' strike." (Copyright Ernest C. Withers Trust.) Thank you to Politics, Theory & Photography Blogspot for posting some of the above pics.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, at 65. Photographs © Platon (2010).
His last University speech before his assassination.
The Film has surfaced and will be shown
during K-State's Commemoration activities January 2011.
"More than 5,000 men lined up prior to the March 28, 1968 march-led by Martin Luther King
during the sanitation workers' strike." (Copyright Ernest C. Withers Trust.) Thank you to Politics, Theory & Photography Blogspot for posting some of the above pics.
More to Come here...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Stunning Male and Female Cardinals and Meadow Larks in Kansas before the Big SnowStorm
(OK I'm easily stunned by wildlife) I love the birds. If I would quit feeding them i could afford --what, more food for me? a little volkswagon beetle in every color...? Here is the elusive Female Cardinal: Please click on the pic to ENLARGE
Goofy little Meadowlark:
Her mate:
They are the Brad and Angelina of the yard.
summer 2011 cardinal here.
More birds all over the blog, including HERE
and cardinals HERE
Tonight, after the long steady snow, 14 cardinals (7 pairs) were in the yard when i got home at dusk.
Be Nice to Each Other (cyberbullies on facebook)
"Because no one liked her" was the awful reason one bully gave for treating a girl in an obscene way*: First they created a fake account on facebook, then photoshopped a high school girl's face onto obscene pornographic images. Why are our children acting like this? I think you know.
today show story and video
"ESTERO, Florida — Two teenage girls have been charged under Florida's law against cyberbullying after authorities say they created a Facebook account in a classmate's name and posted a faked nude photograph of her. The Naples Daily News reports that the 16- and 15-year-old high school students were charged Wednesday after a lengthy investigation into two Facebook accounts created in April. They each face a felony charge of aggravated stalking under a 2008 law passed after a student suicide blamed on bullying...
Authorities say the victim was ridiculed by classmates after the pages became active.
The teens have been ordered to serve 21 days of home confinement and will be arraigned on the charges Feb. 8.
* for example, nina mandell writes, "Another picture on the fake Facebook page showed the victim's head with her mouth opened next to an adult male's erect penis, according to the police report, with another lewd comment.Police became involved after a sheriff assigned to the school was notified of the incident. After speaking with numerous students, he called the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force in April.
Two weeks later, the sheriff received information that another Facebook account was created of the victim, with similar art.
While the girls claimed it was all just in good fun, the victim didn't quite see it that way.
"The victim was subjected to numerous incidents of teasing and ridicule for an ongoing period of time as a result of the fictitious Facebook account," investigators wrote in the report.
Even while facing charges, the alleged bullies seemed to have no regrets.
When asked by her mother, in front of police, what would possess her to do such a thing, Wynn reportedly replied, "Because nobody liked her."
Sadness.
Tech Your Children Well
today show story and video
"ESTERO, Florida — Two teenage girls have been charged under Florida's law against cyberbullying after authorities say they created a Facebook account in a classmate's name and posted a faked nude photograph of her. The Naples Daily News reports that the 16- and 15-year-old high school students were charged Wednesday after a lengthy investigation into two Facebook accounts created in April. They each face a felony charge of aggravated stalking under a 2008 law passed after a student suicide blamed on bullying...
Authorities say the victim was ridiculed by classmates after the pages became active.
The teens have been ordered to serve 21 days of home confinement and will be arraigned on the charges Feb. 8.
Bullies.
* for example, nina mandell writes, "Another picture on the fake Facebook page showed the victim's head with her mouth opened next to an adult male's erect penis, according to the police report, with another lewd comment.Police became involved after a sheriff assigned to the school was notified of the incident. After speaking with numerous students, he called the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force in April.
Two weeks later, the sheriff received information that another Facebook account was created of the victim, with similar art.
While the girls claimed it was all just in good fun, the victim didn't quite see it that way.
"The victim was subjected to numerous incidents of teasing and ridicule for an ongoing period of time as a result of the fictitious Facebook account," investigators wrote in the report.
Even while facing charges, the alleged bullies seemed to have no regrets.
When asked by her mother, in front of police, what would possess her to do such a thing, Wynn reportedly replied, "Because nobody liked her."
Sadness.
Tech Your Children Well
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Stoning Jared Lee Loughner
We hate the violence he did; let's stone him!There was a little boy
named Jared Lee Loughner. He was born 22 years ago.
When he was a baby he needed to be fed, washed, soothed; he needed his diaper changed. He was weighed and measured, shots were received, he was praised, scolded, taught to sing, color, share, take a nap.
Jared Lee Loughner started life as a baby, just like each and every person who has lived or ever will live on the planet.
People undoubtedly said, "What a cute baby!"
By first grade he could tie his shoes and dress himself.
By third grade he probably knew how to get his parents' attention, his teachers' attention, his friends attention, in whatever way he could.
By his senior year in high school he, like any other American kid, had watched over 100,000 murders on TV.
He had seen hundreds of thousands of beer commercials.
He had seen half a million scenes of happy beautiful people having fun, in the know, accepting each other.
How many murders had he committed virtually in video games?
How many times did he use drugs to medicate his pain?
How many times did he feel the close connectedness of friendship and being part of the group? Now everyone in media wants to see the last picture he took of himself, holding his gun, wearing a red thong.
How many times has the media celebrated women in red thongs, their power in their nakedness,
their clout between the legs in symbols of sexuality?
How many times
does every little girl see
naked women getting all the good attention?
How many times
do little boys see the one
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| What you want is to see Jared Loughner in a red thong, Right Voyeur? |
The Media need to SHUT UP
about who created Jared Loughner
because it is they
who almost surely have the biggest piece of that Blame Pie.
who almost surely have the biggest piece of that Blame Pie.A big pie with a lot of pieces.
I am so sad for his life, his family, his pain.
My heart aches, I am so sad for his victims and
the spiral of huge pain that is now but beginning.
In washington dc, as a counselor, i lived with 45 people who suffered from schizophenia. Wonderful people who taught me a lot. (hi David) They had come from various places: the street, halfway houses, St. Elizabeth's hospital.
The life of someone who is paranoid is a HORRIBLE suffering.
Where there is no compassion let there be no judgement.
(The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley)
If we stone him we do not have to blame ourselves
for not being compassionate to the ill, the lonely, the freaked out around us.
Fu'Cryin' Out Loud!
(The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley)
If we stone him we do not have to blame ourselves
for not being compassionate to the ill, the lonely, the freaked out around us.
If the MEDIA BLAME anyone, it is to cover their
own hypocritcal, hyper-violent, superficial,
disgusting red-thonged rear ends.
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| How much is the media scrambling, offering, for a picture of Jared Lee Loughner in the red thong? Hypocrites! |
megan fox in a red thong pam anderson in a red thong Scarlett Johansson in a red thong
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-of-jared-lee-loughner.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mental-health-and-moral-issues-raised.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-sins-everyone-pick.html
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Jared Lee Loughner Sins; Everyone Pick Up a Rock
The nation is casting a lot of stones because of and toward Jared Loughner. Outrage, hyperbole, rash charges and hysteria have been both reported and exhibited by the media. Loughner has been called monster, sicko, mentally ill, evil, soulless, poorly raised, neglected, let down, demonically possessed.
The last few days of reading headlines could be summarized, perhaps, with this one:
I'm pondering exactly why this one hit home. Anger Abides.
There are three major theories or categories of blame for Loughner.
One: Psychological Disorder
If Jared Lee Loughner is suffering from a mental illness, should we be treating him rather than screaming at him?
That is, some who have seen his face say he is "crazy."
Those assessing his legal defense will say he was "insane" (a legal term).
Psychologists who would plumb his mind will find he is suffering from a mental disorder;
some trying to see his soul say he is "possessed."
In this case-- a homo sapiens creature with an illness-- shouldn't our national conversation be about our mental health system? How might we be better neighbors, good Samaritans to those in need? Getting angry at a sick person seems weird.
Two: Moral Failing; Evil, Mortal Sin
If Jared Loughner is guilty of a moral offense against humanity and Divinity,
why are we astonished and gnashing our teeth? President Obama (in his speech at the Memorial in Tucson) reminded us that there is evil in the world and that we will never be able to eradicate it. If you react to this with the true horror of Jared Loughner's sin, why are you not in a frenzy over the sins of others every day?
There are thousands of murders* every year to pick from, some involving torture and grotesque sexual violence--some too sad to hear...
perhaps too gruesome even for Hollywood--
So,
with a Virginia Tech every four days** --are you walking around angry at everybody's sins?
[BTW, Does the media pick and choose a story and tell us how to emote every 48 hours?]
What purpose, Anger, at the sins of certain folks? GET ANGRY and Throw some stones! ?
unless- are you angry at those who have given the example of how to commit violent sins?
are you angry at systems or environmental elements that are teaching, cleverly, our children how to commit sin with Impunity? But whaddaya gonna do about it? *
A third category-
-if one does not believe
such faithy stuff:
sin, goodness as divine, life everlasting,
absolute good or evil; eternal truths, the preservation of you and your personality for eternity (really?)
but rather choose a
soulless but
Mathematically Elegant Evolution of DNA survival--
one might choose
to Stone someone
at least
to eliminate bad genes in the pool. (should be required, Actually, along with all actions that Get Rid of the Horrible Things. Quit putting energy and resources into those who are taking more than they give to the collective. Doy. Sentimental much?)
This third way
may allow for anger-- toward Loughner,
as he has not played by the rules. He might not have "chosen" to be mentally disturbed, but he "should" have gotten help- instead he acted out violence for some reason; this needs to Stop. or be stopped.
anger toward others:
rationally, logically find out the reasons, search the environment, find why our pseudo quasi utopia is being marred by this guy or his parents or those who influenced him. Get angry at whoever or whatever is behind all this [temporary] pain.
This third way, where Molecules are king---
soon we are all dead (molecules dispersed) and nothing remains, no pain, no memory.
Really, this moment, we're just gelatinous masses of noisy eaters bouncing around the planet, ingesting, uniting, yeilding, laughing, building, hitting, killing. Get over it. Values are relative. Hitler was simply making provisions for his dna. Don't be mad at him, or Jared, they are just blipping into existence for a minute; then they are gone. Happy eternity.
We Reap What We Sow
**Bob Herbert says that "The overwhelming majority of the people who claim to be so outraged by last weekend’s shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others — six of them fatally — will take absolutely no steps, none whatsoever, to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. And similar tragedies are coming as surely as the sun makes its daily appearance over the eastern horizon because this is an American ritual: the mowing down of the innocents. On Saturday, the victims happened to be a respected congresswoman, a 9-year-old girl, a federal judge and a number of others gathered at the kind of civic event that is supposed to define a successful democracy. But there are endless horror stories. In April 2007, 32 students and faculty members at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute were shot to death and 17 others were wounded by a student armed with a pair of semiautomatic weapons...“As far as young people are concerned, we lose the equivalent of the massacre at Virginia Tech about every four days.”
*Murder:
9110 committed in USA in 1960
15,241committed in USA in 2009
From wikipedia
"An estimated 520,000 people were murdered in 2000 around the globe.
Two-fifths of them were young people between the ages of 10 and 29 who were killed by other young people.[34] Because murder is the least likely crime to go unreported, statistics of murder are seen as a bellwether of overall crime rates.[35]
Murder rates vary greatly among countries and societies around the world. In the Western world, murder rates in most countries have declined significantly during the 20th century and are now between 1-4 cases per 100,000 people per year. Murder rates in Japan, Ireland and Iceland are among the lowest in the world, around 0.5; the rate of the United States is among the highest of developed countries, around 5.5 in 2004,[36] with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000.[37]
666,160 people have been killed in the United States between 1960 and 1996.[38]
Within the Western world, nearly 90% of all murders are committed by males, with males also being the victims of 74.6% of murders (according the United States Department of Justice). There is a sharp peak in the age distribution of murderers between the ages of 17 and 30. People become less likely to commit a murder as they age. Incidents of children and adolescents committing murders are also rare."
this subject's previous posts here and here and here
politics here
The Burial of Federal Judge John Roll
What are You sowing?
The last few days of reading headlines could be summarized, perhaps, with this one: Jared Loughner Commits Sin;
Nation Throws Stones
Nation Throws Stones
I'm pondering exactly why this one hit home. Anger Abides.
There are three major theories or categories of blame for Loughner.
One: Psychological Disorder
If Jared Lee Loughner is suffering from a mental illness, should we be treating him rather than screaming at him?
That is, some who have seen his face say he is "crazy."
Those assessing his legal defense will say he was "insane" (a legal term).
Psychologists who would plumb his mind will find he is suffering from a mental disorder;
some trying to see his soul say he is "possessed."
In this case-- a homo sapiens creature with an illness-- shouldn't our national conversation be about our mental health system? How might we be better neighbors, good Samaritans to those in need? Getting angry at a sick person seems weird.
Two: Moral Failing; Evil, Mortal Sin
If Jared Loughner is guilty of a moral offense against humanity and Divinity,
why are we astonished and gnashing our teeth? President Obama (in his speech at the Memorial in Tucson) reminded us that there is evil in the world and that we will never be able to eradicate it. If you react to this with the true horror of Jared Loughner's sin, why are you not in a frenzy over the sins of others every day?
There are thousands of murders* every year to pick from, some involving torture and grotesque sexual violence--some too sad to hear...
perhaps too gruesome even for Hollywood--
So,
with a Virginia Tech every four days** --are you walking around angry at everybody's sins?
[BTW, Does the media pick and choose a story and tell us how to emote every 48 hours?]
What purpose, Anger, at the sins of certain folks? GET ANGRY and Throw some stones! ?
unless- are you angry at those who have given the example of how to commit violent sins?
are you angry at systems or environmental elements that are teaching, cleverly, our children how to commit sin with Impunity? But whaddaya gonna do about it? *
A third category-
-if one does not believe
such faithy stuff:
sin, goodness as divine, life everlasting,
absolute good or evil; eternal truths, the preservation of you and your personality for eternity (really?)
but rather choose a
soulless but
Mathematically Elegant Evolution of DNA survival--
one might choose
to Stone someone
at least
to eliminate bad genes in the pool. (should be required, Actually, along with all actions that Get Rid of the Horrible Things. Quit putting energy and resources into those who are taking more than they give to the collective. Doy. Sentimental much?)
This third way
may allow for anger-- toward Loughner,
as he has not played by the rules. He might not have "chosen" to be mentally disturbed, but he "should" have gotten help- instead he acted out violence for some reason; this needs to Stop. or be stopped.
anger toward others:
rationally, logically find out the reasons, search the environment, find why our pseudo quasi utopia is being marred by this guy or his parents or those who influenced him. Get angry at whoever or whatever is behind all this [temporary] pain.
This third way, where Molecules are king---
soon we are all dead (molecules dispersed) and nothing remains, no pain, no memory.
Really, this moment, we're just gelatinous masses of noisy eaters bouncing around the planet, ingesting, uniting, yeilding, laughing, building, hitting, killing. Get over it. Values are relative. Hitler was simply making provisions for his dna. Don't be mad at him, or Jared, they are just blipping into existence for a minute; then they are gone. Happy eternity.
**Bob Herbert says that "The overwhelming majority of the people who claim to be so outraged by last weekend’s shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others — six of them fatally — will take absolutely no steps, none whatsoever, to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. And similar tragedies are coming as surely as the sun makes its daily appearance over the eastern horizon because this is an American ritual: the mowing down of the innocents. On Saturday, the victims happened to be a respected congresswoman, a 9-year-old girl, a federal judge and a number of others gathered at the kind of civic event that is supposed to define a successful democracy. But there are endless horror stories. In April 2007, 32 students and faculty members at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute were shot to death and 17 others were wounded by a student armed with a pair of semiautomatic weapons...“As far as young people are concerned, we lose the equivalent of the massacre at Virginia Tech about every four days.”
*Murder:
9110 committed in USA in 1960
15,241committed in USA in 2009
From wikipedia
"An estimated 520,000 people were murdered in 2000 around the globe.
Two-fifths of them were young people between the ages of 10 and 29 who were killed by other young people.[34] Because murder is the least likely crime to go unreported, statistics of murder are seen as a bellwether of overall crime rates.[35]
Murder rates vary greatly among countries and societies around the world. In the Western world, murder rates in most countries have declined significantly during the 20th century and are now between 1-4 cases per 100,000 people per year. Murder rates in Japan, Ireland and Iceland are among the lowest in the world, around 0.5; the rate of the United States is among the highest of developed countries, around 5.5 in 2004,[36] with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000.[37]
666,160 people have been killed in the United States between 1960 and 1996.[38]
Within the Western world, nearly 90% of all murders are committed by males, with males also being the victims of 74.6% of murders (according the United States Department of Justice). There is a sharp peak in the age distribution of murderers between the ages of 17 and 30. People become less likely to commit a murder as they age. Incidents of children and adolescents committing murders are also rare."
this subject's previous posts here and here and here
politics here
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| Daniel Hernandez, Intern for Congresswoman Giffords |
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| Victims of Tucson Arizona shootings 2011 |
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| what's in your pocket? |
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