Showing posts with label pix of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pix of the day. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo of the day: Ringtone mind control


November 20, 2009

Mogadishu, Somalia. As usual there are a group of “devout muslims” aka terrorists wearing sandals and holding guns – one with the picnic tablecloth hiding his face – standing guard after they’ve taken over by force.

And they started right in on the mind control.

A woman passes by Shabab militia patrolling Bakara Market in Mogadishu
SACDIYO SHEEQ, a resident of Kismayu in southern Somalia, on a rule imposed by the hard-line Islamist group after it seized control of the port city.

Al-Shabaab wants our ringtones to be only a Muslim cleric reading the Hadith or Koranic verse.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Pix of the day: What goes on at home?


July 29, 2009

This is simply disturbing. Not the hand gesture – the face that accompanies it.

wrong

Source

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Limerick stump: Virgin Mary apparition

July 11, 2009

An apparition of the Virgin Mary in a freshly-hewn willow stump outside Holy Mary Parish Church in Rathkeale, Limerick, Ireland.

An unidentified person places an item at the stump in St Patricks Roman Catholic Church, Limerick, Ireland, Thursday, July, 9, 2009. Thousands of Irish Catholics are flocking to a church to pray at a tree stump _ a recently cut-down willow that many say bears the shape of the Virgin Mary. The phenomenon at St. Mary's parish church in the village of Rathkeale in County Limerick harkens back to decades past when Catholic devotion and pilgrimages were a dominant feature of rural life in Ireland. (AP Photo)

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The tree stump at  Saint Marys church, Rathkeale, Co Limerick

Belfast Telegraph

This is the best view. Supposed to be the Virgin Mary holding an infant.

Here’s a pix of an apparition of the Virgin Mary on a griddle in Calexico, California.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Pix of the day: “Obama sure likes refried beans”

June 2, 2009

Source: NBC 5’s MARCUS RILEY.

Obama just loves refried beans.

Sign in front of RICHARD TISCH’s Will County Loan Company in Lockport, which is clearly in reference to barry’s appointing of Judge Sotomayor. But it’s not a special occasion. He’s put up other signs, which he refers to as “political satire”. When Bill Clinton was in office it was:

Hillary’s Health Plan: Free Condoms for Wild Bill

June 2008:

My choice for President? Dr. Condoleeza Rice

October 2008, when Sen McCain raised the issue of border security with Mexico:

John McCain just loves refried beans.

What do his customers think?

People read the signs, but they never forget the ones they don’t like. It’s not against the Mexican people. It’s only if you choose to read it that way.

Perhaps someone should clue him in that Sotomayor’s parents are from the Spanish-speaking area of Puerto Rico – not Mexico.

TISCH, obviously not a barryfan, has no problem pointing out that barry is once again pandering to a demographic – this time the Hispanic vote. That barry is trying to “buy the Mexican vote” because “she’s not the best qualified person to do the job.”

Racially motivated?

Some people, for instance the sign that’s up there today, like to put a racial issue there. That’s not what it’s intended to do. I’m simply saying that Barack Obama is probably the smartest politician to hold the office, but he made a decision based on politics and not what’s best for the country.

Chicago-based folks clearly see that barry’s MO consists of one thing and one thing only: political expedience.

He is always looking forward – in this case, reelection – when he hasn’t even started to govern. And it’s because he doesn’t know how – just like he didn’t know how to legislate and never would have made it to the US Senate without Emil Jones sending legislation his way.

How many swing states has he been to? As the polls shift, so does barry’s position. What hasn’t he changed his mind on? Abortion? And if Judge Sotomayor is a real Catholic, as in pro-life?

She is just as good as him at hiding her personal beliefs. After all the years she has spent on the bench nobody knows her views. He was actually going for a twofer – a bog box and a little box: women and Hispanics. But if it turns out she is pro-life, which I would bet she is, it’s going to be the last strike for the Hillary people. And it would be just rewards for NARAL’s gassy-eyed Ms Keenan.

The only group barry hasn’t bothered to pander – and has actively dissed – is the LBGT community because there is no pay off. They aren’t about to vote Republican – so by not pandering he’s trying to capture some of the Bible belt.

Tisch is right. barry’s true political genious has nothing to do with all that lofty not based in reality messiah complex ramblings about Change! and team of rivals and shifting the oceans I will never lie to you because I am The One we’ve been waiting for telepromptering. It has to do with how he gets away with saying it and not doing it. I still can’t figure out if folks – including the barrymedia – don’t care or if they are really that ignorant.

Don’t look at barry’s words – they mean absolutely nothing. Just like his ridiculous fairy tale on Iraq that folks bought at face value when his actions did not in anyway follow his politically expedient “speech”. When it came to action – when he finally had to act and set a timetable – it wasn’t at all like he promised (and won the nomination on). He ended up basically following Bush’s timetable. And it’s the same as FISA, military tribunals, release of torture photographs and will be with Guantanamo Bay.

If you really want to know what barry will do – look at the polls and figure out what would reap the biggest political reward and then put your money down. If you need proof – look back on his “refining of policy positions” throughout the primaries, before the convention, the general election, the transition and since he has become president and compare his words and actions. It’s all right there.

What is it going, folks?

Overturning Roe v Wade?

Friday, May 15, 2009

Brenden Foster: "Live life to the fullest"

Having a tough day?

Brenden Foster, an 11 y/o boy with terminal leukemia and two weeks to live, had two final wishes: to help feed the homeless and to save the bees by spread wildflower seeds. He asked that the sandwiches be half ham and cheese and half peanut butter and jelly in case someone was allergic to peanuts. A retired pilot asked his pilot and flight attendant friends to sprinkle wildflower seeds around the world on Brenden's behalf. Several days before he died got out of bed, off the oxygen, and went to buy a video game. The Seattle Seahawks' players paid for his funeral.

I compiled quotes I found in other videos. This video is from November 7, 2008. The interviewer Elisa Jaffe (KOMO 4 TV) Bothell, Washington. He died November 21, 2008.


CNN video via TheSexyPatriot

BRENDEN, after seeing a homeless camp:

I was getting back from one of my clinic appointments and I saw this big thing in the middle full of homeless people. And then I thought, I should just get them something. They're probably starving, so, give them a chance. Food and water.

Tis the season to give.

That the country, even the world responded:

I think that is great. You think that's great?

JAFFE: What are the best things about life?

Just having one.

About death:

I should be gone in a week or so.

It happens. It's natural.

I had a great time.

And until it's time--my time comes, I'm going to keep having a great time.

His one question for God about his death:

Why at so young an age? I could have done more.

But if it has to be now, it has to be now.

JAFFE: What's your message to the children, sweetheart?

Live life to the fullest.

JAFFE: What gets you sad?

[Tears flowing quietly] When someone gives up.

Grandmother, Patricia McMorrow:

He has had the joy of seeing all the beautiful response to his last wish. It gives him great peace. He knows that his life has meaning.

He doesn't have much time....24, 48 hours. Course we never know. That's up to God.

He's ready. He's told us that the angels have come three times and he's ready to go with them.

Mother, Wendy Foster:

He's always thought about the better of others - wanting to help. He's never complained about having to got through this. Never.

He's left a legacy and he's only eleven. He's done more than most people ever even dream of doing just by making a wish.

I have been so blessed to have this child - a mother couldn't ask for a better son.

It's devastating. But I find great peace in knowing we've had our time together and that we sill see each other again.

Every night after he was diagnosed he and his mother thought of three good things that happened during the day and they had to laugh.

A chuckle will do. But a fake laugh is not a laugh.

He died in his mother's arms, amazed a young boy could make such a difference. His last wish? To become an angel and accomplish more in heaven than he did on earth. His final message:

Follow your dreams.

Don't let anything stop you.


Brenden "B-man" Foster
October 4, 1997 – November 21, 2008

Pix of the day: Cock-a-doodle-doo

May 15, 2009

Bad Day

(Andrew Milligan, PA Wire/AP Photo)

Friday, May 8, 2009

Photo of the day: “The Afghan Girl”

May 7, 2009

Sharbat Gula born ca. 1972 in Afghanistan of Pashtun ethnicity.

Afgan Girl

The Afghan Girl (STEVE MCCURRY)

This is an amazing photograph for many reasons. Beyond the beauty of her eyes is what she is saying with them. To me, they reflect the intensely empty stare of war – in her case almost radioactive.

In the early 1980’s her Afghan village was bombed by the Soviets, killing both her of her parents forcing her, her siblings and her grandmother to flee to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan. It took two weeks of walking through the mountains in the winter cold to get there. She was photographed there by photojournalist Steve McCurry and this picture was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. He did not know her name and she was referred to simply as the “Afghan Girl”. She was approximately 13 y/o.

She married Rahmat Gul sometime in the late 1980s and returned to Afghanistan in 1992. She gave birth to four daughters: Robina, Zahida, and Alia – the fourth died in infancy.

It was the first time her picture was ever taken and she was unaware of how iconic her image had become when she was eventually located in 2002 in a remote Pashtun region of Afghanistan. There she was photographed for the second time in her life (age 30) by the same Steve McCurry. A documentary based on her “Search for the Afghan Girl” was aired in March 2002 and she was featured on the cover of the April 2002 of National Geographic.

National Geographic started a charitable foundation in her honor called the Afghan Girls Fund, with the goal of educating Afghan girls and women. In 2008, it was broadened to include boys and the name changed to the Afghan’s Children’s fund. Why the need to broaden it to boys who are allowed to be schooled anyway?

Her second photograph at age 30 is the more important of the two, I think, since it physically embodies the ravages of war and reflects the depression of oppression. She looks bent and broken, filled with an untranslatable weary bitterness and hint of shame not of her making – the pain in her eyes as intense as the green in her first photo. It appears as if she barely had the physical energy to lift her head to look into the camera. And when she did she said: How could you?

Who is she speaking for? To? About?

What did she think when she saw her two photos side by side? What did she see in her eyes and face?

How much is she aware of what goes on beyond her daily life?

I don’t know what went on in the interim and haven’t seen the documentary [click the link above and you can watch it or free] or read the second NG issue. All I know is she didn’t want to bothered anymore and hoped her daughters would get the education she was not allowed to finish.

To me, both are equally beautiful and disturbing.

1984 Sharbat Gula, 13 (STEVE MCCURRY)

2002 Sharbat Gula, 30 (STEVE MCCURRY)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Pix of the day: CH-CH-CH-CHia barry

May 1, 2009

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CH-CH-CH-CHia Pet Obama

Chia Obama Handmade Decorative Planter

Amazon

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Pix of the day: Griddle apparition of the Virgin Mary

May 5, 2009

I’ve heard of the Virgin Mary’s image being seen on windows, walls, toast and even potato chips. But in the border town of Calexico folks are flocking to Las Palmas restaurant to view an apparition of the Virgin Mary on a griddle. It appeared while the cook was using it - but it has since been removed from the stove and placed in a separate room for viewing purposes. Over 100 people have visited and probably many more are on their way.

Virgin Mary

LA Times

It looks as if a plastic statue of the Virgin was laid on top and melted.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

visually intriguing pix

April 26

Just a few visually intriguing pix.

Visitors walk inside the 1,000ft-long exhibition train Expedition Zukunft (Expedition Future) in Berlin's main railway station.

Visitors walk inside the 300-metre long exhibition train ?Expedition Zukunft? (expedition future) in Berlin's main railway station

(FARIZIO BENSCH/Reuters)

A Chinese woman and her child walk along a street during a sandstorm in Lanzhou, Gansu province.

A Chinese woman and her child walk along a street during a sandstorm in Lanzhou, north China's Gansu province

(AFP/Getty Images)

A fluorescent hula-hoop gives bright accompaniment to a festival-goer's dance during a performance by the British band The Cure at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California.

A festival goer dances using a fluorescent hula hoop during the performance of British band The Cure at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California

(MARIO ANZUONI/Reuters)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Pix of the day: Which do you prefer?

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(ANDREW REDINGTON/Getty Images)

Henrik Stenson confers with caddie and fellow Swede, Fanny Sunesson on the first hole during the first round of the Masters.

Henrik Stenson, Doral, naked

(Daily Telegraph)

Stenson and Sunesson on the 3rd hole at the World Golf Championships at Doral. He hooked his drive and it landed on the bank of a creek. He had no rain gear so he stripped to his boxer briefs. His thought: I’d have mud all over my clothes for the rest of the round….it’s time for some full frontal nudity on the front nine.

Nice story in the UK Times (4-12) about Fanny Sunnesson and Steve Williams - Tiger Woods' caddy. They're close friends. Worth a read.

More Stenson brief photos

Janet Squire, the PGA's only other female caddie - well she's technically a European tour caddie, as she carries the bag of the number one player on the European tour bag, Jeev Singh. He is the first Indian golfer to qualify for the Masters. Although they didn't make the cut, she got some good exposure because they played with Tiger Woods the first two days. Though her exposure was not of the same sort as Stenson's...

Caddie Janet Squire carries bag for Singh at the Masters

Saturday, April 18, 2009

pix of the day: barry the kindergartner

April 18, 2009

I've been doing a little Spring cleaning in the drafts and found a lot of things that never got posted and I'm not sure why. So much of the stuff will seem a tad dated.

I have no idea where this came from.

http://obamasneighborhood.com/images/noelanikindergarten.jpg

1966-67 Kindergarten Class

Love the cateye spectacles.

What did he use to register?

Friday, April 10, 2009

Pix of the day: barry, day 80

April 10, 2009

Looks like barry isn't getting enough adoration.

The struggling U.S. economy may be starting to turn the corner, President Obama said Friday.

CNN/Getty

If this is how he looks after 80 days - what's he going to look like after a year?

January 26, 2007

Running for the presidency is a profound decision - a decision no one should make on the basis of media hype or personal ambition alone - and so before I committed myself and my family to this race, I wanted to be sure that this was right for us and, more importantly, right for the country.

The vintage rail car in which Obama rode dates to 1939.


Enjoying the adoration during another presidential re-creation.

Anyone know how much the Inauguration cost taxpayers? factcheck actually believes that barry's cost the same as Bush's. Tells you a lot about their "factchecking". How much did this train ride cost with security all along the way? And how much was the train itself?


Monday, April 6, 2009

Pix of the day: Wayward nails

April 6, 2009

Now how is this possible without him knowing? This man had been using a nail gun and went to the dentist because he thought he had a toothache.

News.com.au

Nail gun accidentally fired into the skull of a construction worker

News.com.au

Rusty nail embedded in the eye - unknown if it was an accident. Nice earrings.

News.com.au

Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker. This cannot have been an accident. Sure has had a lot of dental work.

News.com.au

Friday, April 3, 2009

Pix of the day: Don't run with scissors...

April 3, 2009

...or use them as a toothpick.

China: 27 y/o Kong Lin, was in need of a toothpick. When one was not readily available, he opted for a 4" pair of scissors. Unfortunately, his friend told a joke and Lin swallowed them. Doctors removed them surgically and he is said to be doing well.

Sharp ... X-ray shows scissors inside himLucky escape ... Kong Lin

CEN/ Europics

Source: The Sun

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

barry has agreed to release his birth certificate…

April Fools Day!

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Those words will ever be printed for real.

Here are some unbelievable pictures of the Northern Lights. Links at the bottom are the most spectacular photos and are protected by copyright so they have to be viewed at Flickr. Well worth a few minutes. The last view resemble nothing else.

16 Band Aurora by Image Editor.

Picture taken at Tältlägret, near Abisko, Kiruna Kommun, Lappland, Norrbotten, Sweden

Photo by GERRIT (Copyright CC-attribution/share alike)

The image is part of a SciTechLab.com blog post on the Northern Lights.

20 Corona Aurora by Image Editor.

Corona Aurora
Credit: NASA/J CURTIS of U Alaska/ACRC
Northern Lights by Image Editor.

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska
Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman JOSHUA STRANG
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake here January 18, 2005. The lights are the result of solar particles colliding with gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Early Eskimos and Indians believed different legends about the Northern Lights, such as they were the souls of animals dancing in the sky or the souls of fallen enemies trying to rise again.
Northern Lights by Image Editor.

Fish-eye lens view of the Northern Lights taken mid July 2004.

Credit: PHILIPPE MOUSSETTE at Observatoire Mont Cosmos, Quebec, Canada

Lights along the northern horizon give an orange cast to the low clouds while alluring green and purple hues of the aurora borealis or northern lights glow powered by energetic particles at the edge of space.The Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major is on the left and on the right is Queen Cassiopeia in the constellation Cassiopeia. Between them in the middle, is the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor. The end of the Little Dipper’s handle is Polaris, known as the North Star.

http://akjournalist.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/aurora-borealis.jpg?w=578&h=335

Cool igloo - Northern Yukon, Canada
Hicker Photo.com

These photos are in a league of their own:
Totally wild electric green (Finland)
Thick green beam (Prelude Lake, Northwest Territories)
Royal blue sky with teal swirls at (Thingvellir, Iceland)
Spectacular colors: rose stripe of sunset, royal blue sky with stars and green streaks through the moonlit trees
Almost indescribable alien landscape: molten greenish-gold metal with blackish starry sky mirrored on the water (Þingvellir, Iceland)
Luminescent green broad arcs reflecting on the water - looks almost perfectly symmetrical with a strip of dark green/black land in the middle - like he folded it over. (Lapland)
Absolutely amazing neon green completely fills the sky (Lapland)
Violet rays purple sky

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Pix of the day: Aurora Australis - Southern Lights
Pix of the day: Eye of God