Sunday, December 31, 2006

Angelina & Cherubs Heaven, Wal-Mart HELL!!


The Ultimate New School Virgin Mother muses in Heaven, while Ultimate Old School HELL proceeds as usual below at Wal-Mart and similar establishments of human waste, suffering, exploitation and degradation.

Download the big version by clicking HERE.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

AT LAST, A HOLIDAY FOR ME TO CELEBRATE IN DECEMBER!

FESTIVUS FOR THE REST OF US!!

http://www.gofish.com/player.gfp?gfid=30-1062718

And, apparently, I'm not the ONLY ONE who loves to post DOG VIDEOS. There are other freaks just like me out there, so I'm not alone here. Being that I haven't had the time to write much in my "Blog", and instead I mostly post Videos these days, I guess you can call what I do "vlogging" too. It could be worse......

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/12/27/worst-vlogs-of-2006/

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, EAT UP NOW!! IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Gobble as much food as you can possibly stand for the Holidays NOW, and store in your pouches to tide you over the drab, dreer, gloomy, long, bleak, freezing Winter days ahead. Remember, you MUST do this. It will be a very long, difficult year before you'll ever have the opportunity to eat this much at one time again. You must consume enough to regurgitate and swallow over and over to meet your minimum nutritional needs throughout the entire year until this time next Winter. May God Bless.

BARE KNUCKLES SURVIVAL TACTICS: Holiday Tips

I hate aspects of this time of year. Not for its crass commercialism and forced frivolity, but because it's the season when the food police come out with their wagging fingers and annual tips on how to get through the holidays without gaining 10 pounds.

1. About those carrot sticks. Avoid them. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.

2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt scotch, it's rare. In fact, it's even rarer than single-malt scotch. You can't find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're going to turn into an eggnogaholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it. Have one for me. Have two. It's later then you think. It's Christmas!

3. If something comes with gravy, use it. That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on. Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the volcano. Repeat.

4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or whole milk. If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an automatic transmission.

5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your eating. The whole point of going to a Christmas party is to eat other peoples food for free. Lots of it. Hello? Remember college?

6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Years, You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do. This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.

7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa. Position yourself near them, and don't budge. Have as many as you can before becoming the center of attention. They're like a beautiful pair of shoes. You can't leave them behind. You're not going to see them again.

8. Same for pies. Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day ?

9. Did someone mention fruitcake? Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it at all cost. I mean have some standards, mate.

10. And one final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention. Reread tips. Start over. But hurry! Cookieless January is just around the corner.

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Rare white dolphin declared as extinct

How many more species will become extinct because of the careless thougtlessness and stupidity of the human species and so called "progress?"

AP

By CHARLES HUTZLER, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 13, 2:11 PM ET

BEIJING - A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.

The baiji would be the first large aquatic mammal driven to extinction since hunting and overfishing killed off the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.

For the baiji, the culprit was a degraded habitat — busy ship traffic, which confounds the sonar the dolphin uses to find food, and overfishing and pollution in the Yangtze waters of eastern China, the expedition said.

"The baiji is functionally extinct. We might have missed one or two animals but it won't survive in the wild," said August Pfluger, a Swiss economist turned naturalist who helped put together the expedition. "We are all incredibly sad."

The baiji dates back 20 million years. Chinese called it the "goddess of the Yangtze." For China, its disappearance symbolizes how unbridled economic growth is changing the country's environment irreparably, some environmentalists say.

"It's a tremendously sad day when any species goes extinct. It becomes more of a public tragedy to lose a large, charismatic species like the river dolphin," said Chris Williams, manager of river basin conservation for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington.

"The loss of a large animal like a river dolphin is often a harbinger for what's going on in the larger system as whole. It's not only the loss of a beautiful animal but an indication that the way its habitat is being managed, the way we're interacting with the natural environment of the river is deeply flawed ... if a species like this can't survive."

Randall Reeves, chairman of the Swiss-based World Conservation Union's Cetacean Specialist Group, who took part in the Yangtze mission, said expedition participants were surprised at how quickly the dolphins disappeared.

"Some of us didn't want to believe that this would really happen, especially so quickly," he said. "This particular species is the only living representative of a whole family of mammals. This is the end of a whole branch of evolution."

The damage to the baiji's habitat is also affecting the Yangtze finless porpoise, whose numbers have fallen to below 400, the expedition found.

"The situation of the finless porpoise is just like that of the baiji 20 years ago," the group said in a statement citing Wang Ding, a Chinese hydrobiologist and co-leader of the expedition. "Their numbers are declining at an alarming rate. If we do not act soon they will become a second baiji."

Pfluger said China's Agriculture Ministry, which approved the expedition, had hoped the baiji would be another panda, an animal brought back from the brink of extinction in a highly marketable effort that bolstered the country's image.

The expedition was the most professional and meticulous ever launched for the mammal, Pfluger said. The team of 30 scientists and crew from China, the United States and four other countries searched a 1,000-mile heavily trafficked stretch of the Yangtze, where the baiji once thrived.

The expedition's two boats, equipped with high-tech binoculars and underwater microphones, trailed each other an hour apart without radio contact so that a sighting by one vessel would not prejudice the other. When there was fog, he said, the boats waited for the mist to clear to make sure they took every opportunity to spot the mammal.

Around 400 baiji were believed to be living in the Yangtze in the early 1980s, when China was just launching the free-market reforms that have transformed its economy. The last full-fledged search, in 1997, yielded 13 confirmed sightings, and a fisherman claimed to have seen a baiji in 2004.

At least 20 to 25 baiji would now be needed to give the species a chance to survive, said Wang.

For Pfluger, the baiji's demise is a personal defeat. A member of the 1997 expedition, he recalls the excitement of seeing a baiji cavorting in the waters near Dongting Lake.

"It marked me," he said. He went on to set up the baiji.org Foundation to save the dolphin. In recent years, Pfluger said, scientists like the eminent zoologist George Schaller told him to stop his search, saying the baiji's "lost, forget it."

During the latest expedition, an online diary kept by team members traced a dispiriting situation, as day after day they failed to spot a single baiji.

Even in the expedition's final days, members believed they would find a specimen, trolling a "hotspot" below the industrial city of Wuhan where Baiji were previously sighted, Pfluger said.

"Hope dies last," he said.

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On the Net:

The baiji.org Foundation: http://www.baiji.org

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AP writers Lindsay Holmwood in New York and Frank Jordans in Geneva contributed to this report.


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Monday, December 11, 2006

WHAT A BEAUTY!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/goliveira/sets/72157594371134465/show/
No howling allowed from this one. I'll spare your ears for ONCE!

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Velvet Underground Rarity Sells on eBay For $155,401.00.

12/10/2006 2:06 AM, AP
Verena Dobnik
Forty years after it was made, The Velvet Underground's first recording has become a financial hit — in cyberspace. Bought for 75 cents four years ago at a Manhattan flea market, the rare recording of music that ended up on the influential New York band's first album, "The Velvet Underground & Nico," sold on eBay for a closing bid of $155,401.
http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/37881758
Just who were the VELVET UNDERGROUND?
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-268056-bio--The-Velvet-Underground

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Thursday, December 07, 2006

THE CHANGING WORKPLACE: Smashing the Clock

http://biz.yahoo.com/special/allbiz120606_article1.html
If only this would have been implemented earlier, I might have actually not viewed the workplace as Prison Sentence Pergutory Hell, as I have always thought of most jobs I've ever held. No matter how bad I might be in this life, I would never go to hell, since I've already paid my dues in the American retail workplace

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