Wild Turkey and Coke On A Monday Morning*

I had to go to Harrison this morning and saw this Coke truck sitting on the side of the road. When I got close to it I could see
what was wrong and turned around to go make sure the driver was OK; he was fine. I told him he should get a medal for keeping the truck in the road and not having a major accident. You’ll see why in the pictures.

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.. a little Wild Turkey with Coke this morning.

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* [got this from a friend living in Kansas]

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"My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government
results from too much government."

[Thomas Jefferson]

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President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law:
Sadly the American Constitution and Civil Rights in America died on December 31., 2011, when President Obama signed into law the "Defense Authorization Bill [NDAA]" - allowing the military to prosecute, arrest, interrogate, detain and hold anyone on charges of suspected terrorism without legal rights granted by the Consttution. It has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.

citation:
"Congress and the president also have a role to play in cleaning up the mess they have created because no American citizen or anyone else should live in fear of this or any future president misusing the NDAA’s detention authority." [ACLU]

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There's that change we were promised...going from bad to worse! [comment]

Text from an email I recently received from a friend:

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" .. I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around, and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation .. I quickly .. jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars. Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening .. the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic:
There is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device ..
They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom, and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code .. (so that) it can be instantly stolen.
.. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them .. "

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In today's mail I received some pictures and text on a demonstration recently held in London - need I say that I was utterly shocked?

[The following is a citation from the mail mentioned]
" .. Pictures from London -- this is beyond scary .... Makes you wonder doesn't it .... View the pictures below and decide how you really feel about the future of the Western World. Why would anyone think that we should be at war with nice, peaceful Muslims? These pictures tell it all!
Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over! These pictures are not shown on TV or in Newspapers. Would it be against 'their' human rights?
These pictures are of Muslims marching through the STREETS OF LONDON during their recent 'Religion of Peace Demonstration.'

Can you imagine having a Christian demonstration against Islam in an Islamic country? .. "

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*edit* It seems necessary to emphasise that this text deals with Muslim people [Jihadists], but the same applies to any kind of christian/religious teaching [Crusaders] which poses a threat to independent, rational thinking and action - as described in the following citation:

" .. Denounce all Jihadists and Crusaders for what they are: Psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions and terrible sexual repressions .. "
[Christopher Hitchens]

["click!" auf das jeweilige Bild vergrößert ....]

" .. Dec. 8 & 9

Much has been written about the impending end of the world on December 21, 2012. It has been asserted that on that date, the Maya calendar ends. It is further asserted that in 2012, the planets align, an unseen rogue planet will closely approach the Earth, the Earth's pole will shift and the sun's pathway through the Milky Way will contribute to our woes. None of this is true but an extraordinary number of people are concerned nevertheless. The preoccupation with the "end of days" concept is as old as history itself and even in our civilized society, it is seriously discussed and has received a good deal of unjustified media and public attention. We'll try to separate myth from reality .. "

[cited from "NASA; Jet Propulsion Laboratories; CalTech."]

Another attempt to straighten out one of those odd stories that circle the world in virtually no time .... and reach the "believers"! Nobody asked me, but nevertheless I drop my two cents:
It will not help.
They don't want to know the truth.

It's that time of year for us to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't use it, you lose it!
Below is a very private way to gauge how your memory compares to the last test. Some may think it is too easy but the ones with memory problems may have difficulty.
Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.



1. What do you put in a toaster?













Answer: 'bread.' If you said 'toast' give up now and do something else..
Try not to hurt yourself.
If you said, bread, go to Question 2.





2. Say 'silk' five times. Now spell 'silk.' What do cows drink?














Answer: Cows drink water. If you said 'milk,' don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
However, if you said 'water', proceed to question 3.







3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?











Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks,' why are you still reading these??? If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.


4. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales ...
In London , 17 people get on the bus.
In Reading , 6 people get off the bus and 9 people get on.
In Swindon , 2 people get off and 4 get on.
In Cardiff , 11 people get off and 16 people get on.
In Swansea , 3 people get off and 5 people get on.
In Carmathen, 6 people get off and 3 get on.
You then arrive at Milford Haven ..






Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus driver?










Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your own age?
It was YOU driving the bus!!


PS:
95% of people fail most of the questions!!

" .. Critics say German authorities have played down the existence of rightwing extremism, concentrating instead on the threats posed by leftwing terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists. Whether they deliberately turned a blind eye or genuinely did not have a handle on the violence being wrought by neo-Nazis is open to interpretation .. "

[source of quote]

Additional reading (German!):
Opalkatze

The [New Age] Esoterics have misunderstood Einstein when he said:

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"I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

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He meant the goal-oriented, unbiased imagination of scientists, so if he's quoted just with the highlighted part of his sentences above - he's misquoted!

Esoterics, however, procure & use "evidence" - mostly quoted out of context - to adorn their fancyful (abstruse) theories with a touch of science.


Go get the truth & scientific evidence @

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"..Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly:
1) No gods worth having exist;
2) no life after death exists;
3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists;
4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and
5) human free will is nonexistent.."

William B. Provine [Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University], “, “Evolution: Free will and punishment and meaning in life”; cited from his 1998 Darwin Day Keynote Address.


Yesssss!
That about sums up the basic truth about Life, Earth und the Universe. People fear the necessity of being responsible for themselves, they tend to look for some 'greater being' to relieve them from just that. No wonder they eagerly swallow what is preached in most Religions:
Leave it to GOD, he'll take care of you - the catch, however, being that furtheron this individual is seperated from thinking for itself. Their life will be reigned by others, whom they - no questions to be asked - have to pay for this 'translation service' ....

Poor souls, unable to stand on their own feet, to think for themselves and cope with what life asks of them.

Strange things happen around the world - and we wouldn't be aware of any of this if there was no internet .... ok, you might say, "who cares?", but isn't it interesting to know that evolution is still at work?

[source; Pictures of the anomaly at the source.]

It is long known that pregnancy among teenage girls in America is unsurpassed on the globe .... yet the so-called 'CHRISTIAN fundamentalists' try to keep sex education out of schools and preachers of all kinds condemn any move to change this.

However, just recently the causes of teenage pregnancy were collected and accumulated in the following chart⁽*⁾:

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^(*) [pls find the high resolution at the source ....]

*edit*
"The Onion" resembles the well known "Postillon" ....

Watch & listen carefully - especially close to the end of the video ....
 
Who is "Josh Ritter"?

[Queen & Harry S. Truman; 1951]

[Queen & B. Obama; 2011]

 
"QE" gives new meaning to the phrase "Long Live the Queen!" ....

but almost everything else:

AMPHIBIOUS CARAVAN

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The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50.000 light years across.

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The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.


[Source of pictures; Source: Hubblesite.org]
These photos are from 2007. But considering that the closest pictured object is 3.000 light years away, it hardly matters ....