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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-19/new-new-york-housing-bubble-par...
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http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/art.aspx?Id=6016
Monte Carlo in the evening
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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2MBBxU
Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire
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dopamine and base jumping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mlOiHutxlc
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19 May 2013
Sunday Afternoon Listening - These Are the Words I Would Say
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
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they want us all hooked on that abilify drug,
it is the new Andy Griffith experience.
Here's some nasty idea I had. If you find it interesting, maybe you can do something funny with it.
A + B = ???
Just for the flying fuck of it...and my mood in general.
Bridge of Sighs - Trower - Rockpalast 2005
Oh Yeah! Thanks D.
From one place to another, the music of the heart will always go.
Here is good ol Christopher and he has a way of speaking his truth that resonates with 90% of most of the nations. Just for kicks on this day, take a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlnabPWq_g
My name is dick guzinya
by your tonsils I will pin ya
I'll clog up your esophagus
like Mr. SnuffleUffugus!
Japan 'unveils' the new stimulus plan
http://www.reuters.com/video/2099/01/01/reuters-tv-video?videoId=242684162
Enjoy
jb
Denmark "negligible"?? - somanumbatch! - This means fargin war!
don't knock Denmark they won the euro song competition.
Any country that wins that has to be dumber than the Kardashians.
You know? The perversion of the ruling élite grazes stupidity.
I can't even descend to their barbarian, so basic logic of brutal force.
I'm so convinced they're such frustrated bastards. There isn't a drop of intelligence, humanity in their actions and decisions.
History takes time but there's no way they can prevail. It's just evolution or extinction. Both ways they loose anyway.
"So what exactly is being discussed? We will soon find out (or see the results) but I would imagine that anything and everything pertaining to the “end game” will be touched upon. Bank weakness and insolvency must be at the top of the list, QE’s lack of traction is also surely up there. Gold inventories (or lack of) must also surely have been discussed and I would certainly think that currency collapse was on the agenda. “Currency collapse,” replacement of same and “bank holiday” including “bail ins” were probably all discussed and pre planned."
http://blog.milesfranklin.com/a-fly-on-the-wall
As we saw the 1666 close of the S&P indicating something might be getting ready to happen we must all wonder, will it be another false flag event attack by the babylonian terrorists (banksters) say like maybe on 5-27-13???
Who gave you the Bilderberg 2013 dinner menu?
Lol...read as the drummer menu at first...
And yes...how about those gathers under the gold-foil umbrellas?
But off the wall and on a side dish, what do you think about this sir?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcuY65XQqfU
What is concerning is, it has been predicted that a impact could happen on the 23rd.
The real question to anyone is: if this was possibly true, what would you do?
Blessings to you Sir WB7.
Sort of on topic about terrorism and scope of government.
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/05/congress-must-figure-out-what-our-gov...
A common assumption in the debate about the appropriate legal regime for extra-AUMF threats is that the AUMF is cabined and cannot be extended to newly threatening Islamist terrorist threats. Yesterday’s SASC hearing exploded this assumption. The hearing made clear that the Obama administration’s long insistence that it is deeply legally restrained under the AUMF is misleading and at a minimum requires much more extensive scrutiny. It also made clear that the SASC’s oversight of the basic legal regime for DOD operations has not been (until yesterday) serious.
DOD officials insisted that they are satisfied with their AUMF authorities and don’t at this time need new ones. In the course of explaining why this is so, they articulated a very broad vision of the scope of the AUMF. As Senator King said: “[Y]ou’re saying we don’t need any change [in the AUMF] because of the way you read it we can do anything. . . . The way you read it there’s no limit.”
Consider some of the DOD positions articulated yesterday. When asked by Senator McCain whether “the 2001 AUMF be read to authorize lethal force against al Qaeda’s associated forces in additional countries where they are now present, such as Mali, Libya and Syria,” Acting DOD General Counsel Robert Taylor said: “On the domestic law side, yes sir.” When asked by Senator Graham whether the President has domestic authority to put boots on the ground in Yemen and Congo, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Sheehan answered that “under domestic authority he would have that authority” (Yemen) and “Yes sir he does” (Congo).
Then Senator Donnelly and the DOD officials had this exchange on the al-Nusra front, the powerful AQ-associated rebel group in Syria:
At the end of the first panel, Sheehan attempted to walk back some of his testimony when he stated:
Sheehan’s walk-back raises many questions, including: If the authority for U.S. military personnel to be in 70-80 countries “is not always the AUMF,” how many of those deployments are justified under the AUMF? (The phrase “not always” suggests a high number.) Moreover, Sheehan did not walk back Taylor’s claim about AUMF authorization for Syria, Mali, or Libya, and did not attempt to modify the exchange that implied serious DOD consideration of using force against al Nusra in Syria.
Yesterday’s hearing also reveals that the SASC – which, in anticipation of the supposed transfer of drone control from CIA to DOD has been playing up the robustness of its oversight – has no idea how DOD is interpreting the AUMF. Senator Levin asked whether DOD would provide a list of “associated forces” under the AUMF, implying that the Committee did not know which groups are covered. The Committee also seemed generally clueless and surprised about the legal standard that DOD applies in practice.
Yesterday’s hearing makes plain that the AUMF-war is much broader and much more easily expandable than I (and many on the SASC, it appears) had previously thought. The DOD testimony strongly suggested that DOD has a low legal threshold for identifying the all-important and benign-sounding “associated forces” under the AUMF. Fundamental questions about the scope of the war that Congress has authorized – the groups that constitute the enemy, the nations into which Congress has authorized force, and how determinations of such groups and nations are made – should not be the mystery to DOD’s main oversight committee that yesterday’s hearing made plain it is. It shouldn’t be a mystery to the American people either. But at a minimum, the SASC itself must get a full accounting from the administration about which groups are covered and into which nations DOD thinks Congress has authorized the President to use military force. Those lists should as a matter of law be reported regularly to Congress. They should also, I think, be made public. It should not be a surprise to the American people – and certainly not to DOD’s main oversight Committee – where and against whom Congress has authorized the President to use military force.
"Che Obama's Chicago." interesting motif if you dwell on it actually. i remember living there and all the "furniture people" who would come. ye olde "we built this town" complex. made to order for a great politician which the President absolutely is. but is he a winner? the difference between politics and Government is the difference between "owning that town" and actually running it. "cat herding" is just the beginning when it comes to DC. and when the term "powerful Senators" is used "it's because that's exactly what they are."
I don't know how it is now. But in the Daley era and period shortly following, the notion of an Alderman as someone who is supposed to know everyone in the neighborhood and what they are doing, I thought was unsettling. So was the Chicago notion of political patronage, which is a euphemism for cronyism.
Speaking of Political patronage, I found this to be very interesting: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/penny_pritzker_barack_obamas...
Much, much better than the original.
Was about to say the same.
Speaking of ants and parasites, perhaps us muppets suffer from sort of similar infection making us show up at work everyday for the benefit of the elites or parasites:
The first intermediate host, the terrestrial snail (Cochlicopa lubrica in the United States), consumes the feces, and becomes infected by the larval parasites. The larvae (or miracidium) drill through the wall of the gut and settle in its digestive tract, where they develop into a juvenile stage. The snail attempts to defend itself by walling the parasites off in cysts, which it then excretes and leaves behind in the grass or substrate.
The second intermediate host, an ant (Formica fusca in the United States[5]), uses the trail of snail slime as a source of moisture. The ant then swallows a cyst loaded with hundreds of juvenile lancet flukes. The parasites enter the gut and then drift through its body. Most of the cercariae encyst in the haemocoel of the ant and mature into metacercariae, but one moves to the sub-esophageal ganglion (a cluster of nerve cells underneath the esophagus). There, the fluke takes control of the ant's actions by manipulating these nerves.[6] As evening approaches and the air cools, the infected ant is drawn away from other members of the colony and upward to the top of a blade of grass. Once there, it clamps its mandibles onto the top of the blade and stays there until dawn. Afterward, it goes back to its normal activity at the ant colony. If the host ant were to be subjected to the heat of the direct sun, it would die along with the parasite. Night after night, the ant goes back to the top of a blade of grass until a grazing animal comes along and eats the blade, ingesting the ant along with it, thus putting lancet flukes back inside their host. They live out their adult lives inside the animal, reproducing so that the cycle begins again.[7][unreliable source?][8][unreliable source?][9] Infected ants may contain 100 metacercariae, and a high percentage of ants may be infected. Typical infections in cattle may be in the tens of thousands of adult worms.[10]
Good thing I only smoke the grass. --Chong
....then there is the rainforest fungus that makes ants a part of the fungus' lifecycle and the parasite that travels through cats and rodents, making the rodents easy prey for the cat.
I really wonder that there might be a simialr parasite passing from the elites into the muppet population forcing muppets to follow a course that benefits just the elites. O course there is an intermediate host, that being the governenment which gives the muppets a false sense that they actually have some control over their fate.
Even the Ecomist picked up on this:
There is tantalising evidence that a common parasite may affect human behaviourJun 3rd 2010 |From the print edition
IF AN alien bug invaded the brains of half the population, hijacked their neurochemistry, altered the way they acted and drove some of them crazy, then you might expect a few excitable headlines to appear in the press. Yet something disturbingly like this may actually be happening without the world noticing.
Toxoplasma gondii is not an alien; it is a relative of that down-to-earth pathogen Plasmodium, the beast that causes malaria. It is common: in some parts of the world as much as 60% of the population is infected with it. And it can harm fetuses and people with AIDS, because in each case their immune systems cannot cope with it. For other people, though, the symptoms are usually no worse than a mild dose of flu. Not much for them to worry about, then. Except that there is a growing body of evidence that some of those people have their behaviour permanently changed.
One reason to suspect this is that a country's level of Toxoplasma infection seems to be related to the level of neuroticism displayed by its population. Another is that those infected seem to have poor reaction times and are more likely to be involved in road accidents. A third is that they have short attention spans and little interest in seeking out novelty. A fourth, possibly the most worrying, is that those who suffer from schizophrenia are more likely than those who do not to have been exposed to Toxoplasma.
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Reprints Related topicsNor is any of this truly surprising. For, besides humans, Toxoplasma has two normal hosts: rodents and cats. And what it does to rodents is very odd indeed.
Fatal feline attraction
Joanne Webster of Imperial College, London, has been studying Toxoplasma for years. Like Plasmodium, which cycles between mosquitoes and man, Toxoplasma cycles between its rodent and feline hosts, living out different phases of its existence in each. In cats, it resides in the wall of the small intestine and passes out of the host in its faeces. These are then picked up by rats and mice (and also by other mammal species, including humans), where they form cysts in brain, liver and muscle tissue. Eventually, if the parasites are lucky, their rodent host is eaten by a cat and the whole cycle starts again.
Unlike Plasmodium, however, which can rely on the natural behaviour of mosquitoes to spread it around, Toxoplasma's rodent hosts have a strong aversion to helping it into its next home. Which is where, in Dr Webster's elegant phrase, fatal feline attraction comes in. Rats and mice infected with Toxoplasma start wandering around and drawing attention to themselves—in other words, behaving in ways that will bring them to the attention of cats. They are even, Dr Webster's work suggests, attracted to the smell of cats.
How these behavioural changes come about was, until recently, obscure. But in 2009 Glenn McConkey of the University of Leeds, in England, analysed Toxoplasma's DNA. When he compared the results with those of other species, he discovered that two of the bug's genes encode enzymes involved in the production of a molecule called dopamine. This molecule acts, in animals that have nervous systems, as a chemical messenger between nerve cells. It does not, however, have any known function in single-celled critters. Moreover, dopamine is particularly implicated in schizophrenia. Haloperidol, an antipsychotic drug, works by blocking dopamine receptors.
Intriguingly, Dr Webster has found that haloperidol serves to reverse fatal feline attraction in rats. This suggests the parasite is indeed interfering with the brain's dopamine system—and thus that it might be doing the same thing in people. Dr McConkey is now making a version of Toxoplasma with the dopamine genes excised, to see if rats infected with this modified bug are protected from the fatal attraction.
Culture club
The evidence that human toxoplasmosis does more than appears at first sight is, it must be said, quite scattered. But it is intriguing and probably worth following up.
The connection with schizophrenia was originally suggested in the 1950s, but only really took off in 2003, when it was revived by Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, near Washington, DC. In collaboration with Bob Yolken of Johns Hopkins University, Dr Fuller discovered that people who suffer from schizophrenia are almost three times more likely than the general population to have antibodies to Toxoplasma.
That does not, of course, prove Toxoplasma causes schizophrenia. As every science student is taught from the beginning, correlation is not causation. It could be that schizophrenics are more susceptible to the infection, or some third, as yet unidentified variable may be involved.
Another interesting correlation has, though, been discovered by Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague. Dr Flegr has studied several aspects of the Toxoplasma question. In one case he looked at the infection rate of people involved in road accidents. Both drivers and pedestrians who had been in accidents were almost three times more likely to be infected than comparable individuals who had not been. Similar results have been found in Turkey, by Kor Yereli of Celal Bayar University, in Manisa. And Dr Flegr has found other abnormalities in infected people. These included reduced reaction times and shorter attention spans—both of which might help to explain the accident statistics—and a reduction in “novelty-seeking”.
This latter is curious. The sort of behaviour shown by rodents is, if anything, an increase in novelty-seeking. But the point is that novelty-seeking is controlled by nerve cells that respond to dopamine. Humans are dead-end hosts as far as Toxoplasma is concerned, so the exact effect will not have been honed by natural selection and may therefore be different from the one in animals that are actually useful to the parasite.
All of these suggested effects are obviously bad for the individuals involved, but some researchers go further and propose that entire societies are being altered by Toxoplasma. In 2006 Kevin Lafferty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, published a paper noting a correlation between levels of neuroticism established by national surveys in various countries and the level of Toxoplasma infection recorded in pregnant women (a group who are tested routinely). The places he looked at ranged from phlegmatic Britain, with a neuroticism score of -0.8 and a Toxoplasma infection rate of 6.6%, to hot-blooded France, which scored 1.8 and had an infection rate of 45%. Cross-Channel prejudices, then, may have an unexpected origin.
To repeat, correlation is not causation, and a lot more work would need to be done to prove the point. But it is just possible that a parasite's desire to get eaten by a cat is shaping the cultures of the world.
Hmm, I wonder what the infectionn rate is with banksters. Where does one get a bottle of that stuff ;-)
...up in smoke....recall the steering wheel in his car?
Recall the fake swimming pool?
here's a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Ey3AucXFc&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Max Keiser about financial Terrorism
http://youtu.be/89XjraBce9E?t=41s
Dat Gumbo an dem crawfish
Not exactly thread hijacking (well maybe)
but up ZH and Banzais alley:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/02/employees-get-tattoo-of-company-logo-for-pay-raise/?iid=obnetwork
the url sez it all, but worth a read.
Reads like satire, but I'm very afraid it is for real. There really is such a company, so maybe it is for real.
http://www.rapidnyc.com/landlords/reasons
A sign of things to come?
Cue up Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford..."owe my soul to the company store"...lol.
Here's another good one.
Wealthy Manhattanite Moms Hire the Disabled to Cut in Line at Disney.
“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,” said one mom who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida, “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
Well, isn't that special.
http://wtkr.com/2013/05/14/rich-manhattan-moms-hiring-disabled-guides-to-skip-disney-world-lines/
I prefer dwarves because they're highly portable.
or Govt Mule - Mule
One of the modern day great rock blues tunes including some wicked harp by John Popper.
Wait until the masses start singing this in unison when all the promises made by the govt can't be fullfiled..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig7Jh3tAxcA
Say you try
But you just can't help your self
Wanna feel special
Man wanna make you feel like everybody else
Take away your freedom
Strip away your pride
Say you know you weren't born
With the blue blood son
So take your place in line
Where's my mule
Where's my forty acres
Where's my dream
Mr. Emancipator
Live this way
Might as well meet my maker
Where's my mule
Where's my mule
I say trust me
But you say it's too much bother
Yeah, the way the man try to beat you down
Make you wanna kill your brother
So go on and bust me
For what's in my mason jar
Yeah, I owes my soul
To the company store
How I'm doing so far
Where's my mule
Where's my forty acres
Where's my dream
Mr. Emancipator
Live this way
Might as well meet my maker
Where's my mule
Where's my mule
Where's my mule
Where's my forty acres
Where's my dream
Mr. Emancipator
Live this way
Might as well meet my maker
Where's my, my, my, my, my, my mule?
How much are their organs worth on the open market? Does Botox in the bloodstream reduce the value?
Maybe auction off the organs, then use their Gulfstream to ensure quick delivery! That's capitalism.
I thought they have some kind of reservation system now that works fine. I guess that's not good enough.
It would appear its never good enough for the elite.
While I admire the "Life gives you lemons, you make lemonade" aspect of someone genuinely handicapped devising a way to make a buck...allowing yourself to be used by snobs diminishing yourself to them, while reducing ones own ethics down to the lowest common denominator (by knowing the law and abusing it to your own advantage) and of course...cutting in front of kids & parents waiting for two hours, is a little over the top.
Handicap parking and the like is one of my pet peeves anyways...now you can get a mirror hanger for your car for simply being a fat ass slug. Of course the car is used by friends & family too knowing full well when they take it they get the front spot.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions & handicapped stickers ;-)
The real question is why does Disney allow this? But we all know the answer to that...
Well I don't think Disney cards people or asks what their affiliation is with each other.
Companion story...
"Disney allows each guest who needs a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance.”
Some more contemptable comments from the elite "Moms" raising their kids to be just like them...
“My daughter waited one minute to get on ‘It’s a Small World’ — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours,” crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP
And I ain't giving "Wheelchair Momma" a free pass to the head of the line either.
"Ryan Clement runs Dream Tours Florida with girlfriend Jacie Christiano, whom the rich Manhattan mom indicated was her family’s guide."
The IRS was too busy looking at Tea Partiers and overlooked Dream Tours ;-)
Next time I see a person in a moto scooter at Disney I'll fart in their direction.
lol...two of my best friends were at a Bucs game in Tampa and some cop was being an overly agressive dickhead to some people. One of them wears a colostomy bag, the other turned to him and...said bag him...so he walks up behind him, vented and walked away.
They said it was like a can of tear gas went off, cleared a 50ft radius ;-)
I used to ride the public bus to school and we would all crowd into the rear of the bus.
One time I got my hands on some imported Spanish stink bombs which were glass vials full of harmless put severely odiferous sulpher water. I brought one to school and the seniors on the bus made fun of it (bull shit frosh etc). So I said OK lets see. I cracked the thing on the floor and boy were they sorry. The bus driver had to pull the bus over and allow people to disembark. People were pushing the emergency windows open.
Now in today's environment this prank would be classified an act of international terrorism. But back then, it was funny as hell. Even the other passengers on the bus were in disgust but were laughing hysterically at the whole event. I guess no one could believe that a gag like that would work so effectively.
Another time I chucked one in a crowded toilet with similar effect.
Similarly, your friend committed an act of domestic terrorism.
"Now in today's environment this prank would be classified an act of international terrorism. But back then, it was funny as hell."
lol...too true.
I hope I never grow up ;-)
WB7, did you by chance grow up in Hawaii? If so, we might know each other based on this story.
how much publicity have they gotten out of the Make A Wish Foundation?
You need to put a big void over my house .... Married with children.
If I remember correctly, the UK PM Churchill exported English made French Letters to Russia sized 45 and marked as medium.
Ho hum
..I believe the term is "French envelopes"....as in, the 'letter' goes into the 'envelope'.......
Of course as we recently learned ther sre also Chinese envelopes, which tend toward failure at inopportune moments, as in that old American Indian joke in which the son is asking his father why Indians have such odd names and the dad explains names are given to children based on what the parents saw just after coupling...."Why do you ask so many questions, broken rubber?"
I believe they made monster condoms for the barrels of commando's sten guns.
Because of rubber rationing it had to be sanctioned by Churchill ,and he approved it
on the condition of being marked medium.
INFORMATION LIBERATION--
Nobody knows where they came from ... or even exactly what they are.
But, like the plot of a low-budget horror film, trillions of tiny 'crazy' ants are invading Texas.
They have a liking for computers, other electronics and most of the modern machinery that makes the world go round.
Not because they see them, or the associated wiring, as food. In a phenomenon baffling scientists, they simply seem to be attracted to the heat, magnetic fields or the hum and vibrations from machines.
But they then go on to destroy them by sheer weight of numbers, shorting out electrical circuits, clogging filters and pipes and bringing moving parts grinding to a halt.
Fire alarms have been set off by them, domestic gas meters have seized up and pumping stations at sewage works put out of action.
Even Nasa is worried as the unstoppable reddish-brown ants less than an eighth of an inch long head for the Houston space centre. The Russians were so concerned they telephoned to make sure that the orbiting International Space Station is safe.
The insects have been called 'crazy' because, unlike other ants which move purposefully in single file, they swarm in random directions.
Tom Rasberry, a pest exterminator, first came across a few hundred of the ants in 2002. There are now millions of colonies, spreading out at about half a mile a year.
I have a crazy aunt, but we pretend we are not related. I am probably known as the crazy nephew. : - P
and they can't be killed, not even with a chainsaw?
Ted Kaczynski had an ant farm? ;-)
Ted Nugent would know what to do