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I have enjoyed these little quotes, Vitruvius. Thanks. Here's one back.

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
But passion is rottenness to the bones.
- Solomon

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson

Pride goeth before a fall?

Former Lehman Executives ‘Giggle’ at ‘Nonprofessionals’ Who Think Losing Billions of Dollars Is a Big Deal

”Only a few people are smart enough to understand *the truth* of the matter, which is that ultimately bankers are smarter and better than everyone else, always have been always will be.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/lehman_executives_nonchalant_a.html

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

Is that rhetorical?

Hope has two beautiful daughters.

Their names are anger and courage;

anger at the way things are,

and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.

Augustine of Hippo

As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

Vitruvius, now you got us all doing it.

"Never trust a government that doesn’t trust its own citizens with guns" --Thomas Jefferson

Not true, Ken, not quite all: Bernie provided a Reader Tip ;-)

Bernie at March 20, 2010 10:50 PM..

Yeah, Bernie's link is worth a check. [its a short read]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/lehman_executives_nonchalant_a.html

I tried to leave this comment, but it didn't work..

The PIGS, namely Portugal, Ireland & Italy, Greece and Spain who are running deficits far beyond the EU agreed three percent level were encouraged to use clever paper swapping to hide a big part of their deficits.

That clever idea was offered by the "smart' operators of these same leading American financial firms. Gold Lehman, Sachs.

Those smarts are likely to cause an EU financial crash. That should really help our exports eh?

So much for the 'wise guys' who are not content to wreck our economy but those offshore as well.

Check out this samba (1:23). Wow.

now at -21 . pride goes before fall

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Mission Accomplished -
Thank-you President GW Bush, a fine, decent man and a good President too - I am certain many Iraqi people, like many of us here, still say "God Bless President GW Bush", often.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/19/jeffrey-scott-shapiro-iraq-war-george-w-bush-saddam-hussein-anniversary/

Comments section is interesting.

Israel's New Enemy: America?
by Cal Thomas

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9370

related to my above post:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8

It is a song that seems to hail another era rather than just a few years ago.

Tasneem Ghaurim, who wears a niqab when she's in public, is quoted in the Globe and Mail as saying “I've had women in Montreal wait for me outside the bank so they can tell me how offended by are by the way I'm dressed.”

Tell me about it, girlfriend: when I was in Quebec, every time I left my bank wearing a balaclava the cops told me how offended they were - albeit, rather than entering into anything resembling a discussion they shouted commands, drilled their knees into my kidneys, and handcuffed me.

Don't even get me started about the time I went to a suburb and knocked on someone's door at 11 pm.

I'm sick of the intolerance. It reflects poorly on Canadian society.

What's wrong with us?

related to my above post:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8

It is a song that seems to hail another era rather than just a few years ago.

""I didn't come here to listen to some punk who ate a big breakfast."
-- Jack Webb

Right now, the world could use a good dose of Jack Webb.

"Filmmakers offer an inside look at NYC's 'rubber rooms'

Lights, cameras -- inaction!

Two documentary filmmakers have infiltrated New York City's infamous "rubber rooms" -- the eight disciplinary dens around the city where educators accused of wrongdoing while away months, or even years, at full pay -- to reveal teachers snoozing at their desks, holding jam sessions, playing board games, and breaking into fights.

These educators in limbo -- some still raking in six figures a year -- show up from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a "work" day that, in some cases, consists of holding book-club meetings and prayer sessions, repeatedly karate-kicking a file cabinet, or forming a musical duo complete with keyboards and vocals, according to the makers of "The Rubber Room," screening next month.

snip

Notable rubber-room residents:

Alan Rosenfeld: Typing teacher, IS 347, Queens

Salary: $100,049

Got a wrist-slap for lewd comments to teen girls, telling one, "You have a sexy body." In since 2001, he lazes away the days overseeing a $7.8 million real-estate portfolio and a law practice.

***

Radharaman Upadhyaya: Guidance counselor, Long Island City HS, Queens

Salary: $102,852

Served a three-day suspension after he was accused of fondling a learning-disabled student at his home. The witness was found not to be credible. He has been twiddling his thumbs in the rubber room since 2003.

***

Francisco Olivares: Math teacher, IS 61, Queens

Salary: $94,145

Allegedly impregnated and married a 16-year-old student he met when she was 13. He allegedly molested two 12-year-olds a decade later. In a rubber room since 2003.

***

David Pakter: Medical illustrator, HS for Art and Design

Salary: $100,049

Named "Teacher of the Year" by Mayor Rudy Giuliani. In 2006, he was charged with insubordination and sexual misconduct.

***

Deborah Mortley: Gym teacher, Life Academy HS for Film & Music, Brooklyn

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475893/posts

Al Gores "Millions of Degrees of heat in the Earth" breaks through near a glacier. the horror , the horror, though a few thousand would be closer.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100321/iceland_volcano_100321/20100321?hub=TopStoriesV2

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"Every month, the most notorious child killer in the country
gets $1,169.47 transferred to a trust account in his name."

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the picture shows the central prairies of BC. or maybe BC after the whole place comes down in an avalanche.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100321/BC_avalanche_100321/20100321/

Peterborough, England residents powerless to remove illegal immigrants from their gardens

"Though homeowners have appealed for help, the police and council say they cannot arrest the trespassers - who have no passports and are mostly from Eastern Europe - because they claim it is a civil, not a criminal matter."

AGW: Green child snatchers.
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"Kids get the green message"

"Getting kids to go green might be a cinch — if you get to them early in the game."

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/03/20/13302031.html
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Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Trust me to break more snowfall records.
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"Storm Could Make This Winter All-Time Snowiest in Dallas (Texas)."

"The snow that fell alone on Saturday set a few daily snowfall records. These records are listed below with the previous one in parenthesis.

--Kansas City, Mo.: 7.3 inches (2.8 inches from 1892)

--Wichita Falls, Texas: 1.6 inches (Trace from 1970)

--Dallas, Texas: 1.2 inches (0.4 of an inch from 1970)

Saturday's snow in Dallas brings the winter total to 17.0 inches. The winter of 1977-78 remains the city's all-time snowiest with 17.6 inches. After today's snow totals are measured in Dallas, this winter should likely break that record."

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26432/storm-could-make-this-winter-a.asp

Miles Amoore, Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs

TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan.

The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province...

AGW: Green child snatchers.
...-

"Kids get the green message"

"Getting kids to go green might be a cinch — if you get to them early in the game."

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/03/20/13302031.html
...-

Al Gore's Weather (AGW): Trust me to break more snowfall records.
...-

"Storm Could Make This Winter All-Time Snowiest in Dallas (Texas)."

"The snow that fell alone on Saturday set a few daily snowfall records. These records are listed below with the previous one in parenthesis.

--Kansas City, Mo.: 7.3 inches (2.8 inches from 1892)

--Wichita Falls, Texas: 1.6 inches (Trace from 1970)

--Dallas, Texas: 1.2 inches (0.4 of an inch from 1970)

Saturday's snow in Dallas brings the winter total to 17.0 inches. The winter of 1977-78 remains the city's all-time snowiest with 17.6 inches. After today's snow totals are measured in Dallas, this winter should likely break that record."

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/26432/storm-could-make-this-winter-a.asp

Calling all lawyers! Looking for the pro bono case of your career? Look no further...

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/03/21/13305371-qmi.html

BLEED HIM DRY!

Prepare for Earth Hour?
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TimesUK:

“That has to be on the table at the moment,” Dave McGarvie, senior lecturer at the Volcano Dynamics Group of the Open University, said. “And it is a much nastier piece of work.”

Icelanders agree. “This could trigger Katla, which is a vicious volcano that could cause both local and global damage,” Pall Einarsson, from the University of Iceland, said.

Tremors around Eyjafjallajokull were first recorded in early March, but precise prediction of volcanic eruption is difficult, even with the high-tech equipment available to Icelandic geologists.

Now that it has happened the only basis for prediction is history — and that does not look good.

“Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years,” Dr McGarvie told The Times, “in 920AD, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla.” The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear “in a few weeks or a few months”, he said.

Iceland is built on a volcanic rock on the Atlantic’s mid-oceanic ridge and it has grown used to eruptions. The southern village of Vik, close to the current eruption, has for centuries had an escape plan in which everybody runs up to the church, which is built on high ground. They know that if Katla erupts flooding will follow.

The island’s worst eruption in modern times was in 1783, when the Laki volcano blew its top. The lava shot to heights of 1.4 kilometres and more than 120 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide was released into the atmosphere.

A quarter of the island’s population died in the resulting famine and it transformed the world, creating Britain’s notorious “sand summer”, casting a toxic cloud over Prague, playing havoc with harvests in France — sometimes seen as a contributory factor in the French Revolution — and changing the climate so dramatically that New Jersey recorded its largest snowfall and Egypt one of its most enduring droughts.”

“Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7070239.ece

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/21/icelandic-fissure-eruptuon-triggers-worries/#comment-349520

Willy's O's standin Gore & the Lefts of Spring.
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"Clinton Returns to Washington, Needling Himself, Obama and the Press (Basically calls Gore crazy!)

Former President Bill Clinton made a return to Washington’s public life, speaking to the annual Gridiron Dinner as a stand-in for President Barack Obama and poking some fun at himself, his Oval Office successors and the press corps before getting in pitches for passage of health legislation and aid to Haiti.Elsewhere in his remarks, he noted he was speaking on the night before the start of spring, “otherwise known to Al Gore as proof of global warming.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476107/posts

Vitruvius at March 21, 2010 3:00 AM

Right you are! The Samba is hot and the music is too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulcXYjb4eBU

Spanish and SA rhythyms I find addictive and delicious.

Video of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3-D. Its about 4 minutes long and shows what the Hubble telescope sees when it looks at "nothing" If you want to feel awe, this may do it. The numbers boggle the mind. Way beyond my ken.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4bd_1269143336

Charles MacDonald at March 21, 2010 12:01 PM

MacDonald gives us some of the most worthy links. I try to check 'em all.

Thanks Charles.

http://tinyurl.com/ygztjny

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One of the commanders said: “The military is pressuring the Taliban in Pakistan. It is certainly harder to reach places that were once easy to get into. I think more of my fighters will travel to Iran for training this year.”

Karl Eikenberry, the American ambassador to Afghanistan, recently described signs of co-operation between Iran and the Taliban as disturbing. [/Quote]