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  5. Re: Photoshop.
    I was raised in a small Saskatchewan rural community. As far back as the 1940`s, a local photographer took pictures of weddings, grads, etc.
    He was the classic stereotype with the twin reflex camera and a homemade lighting system.
    He always touched up the B+W photos before selling them. Photoshopping pics and drawings goes back centuries.
    That`s why in some pics–Jean Chrétien appears to be speaking from both sides of his mouth, and the Cyclops have one eye in the middle of their forehead.

  7. Only in California.
    Not our problem anymore:
    http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Albany-will-pay-homeless-to-leave-Bulb-5424816.php

    Albany will pay 28 homeless people $3,000 each to leave the Bulb, a former landfill along San Francisco Bay that’s slated for parkland, according to a settlement released Wednesday.

    The agreement, between the city and a homeless advocacy group, calls for Bulb residents to leave the property by Friday, along with their pets and belongings, and stay away at least a year.

    They’re your problem now:

    Neumann said many of the Bulb’s residents, some of whom have lived there for more than 15 years, will relocate to Berkeley or Richmond.

    I don’t know how you can be called “homeless” when you have lived in a landfill for decades and have pets. That’s not homeless, that’s a lifestyle choice.

  8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjv2YIelg_4
    This reminds me of a story my Dad used to tell. When he first was in the Crown land lease office in Regina, in the 50’s, there were two people working there. The head man and an assistant.
    Thirty years later there were whole floors of people in the same department. Plus satellite agencies in every town of consequence.
    There’s no more land in Saskatchewan than there was in the 50’s.

  10. http://vimeo.com/8520897
    An interview with Wayne Hage, who experienced the same persecution as Cliven Bundy. Hage won in the courts, but it broke him. Hage backs up what Bundy says, the BLM have no right to charge grazing fees.
    The law, in the western states, is clear. Whoever owns the water rights on open land, owns the right to use the grazing the water can service.
    The bit about the ‘wild’ horses and burros is interesting as well. Being as there is no such thing as a ‘wild’ horse.

  17. L’affaire Ukraine upgraded to “Ukraine crisis”.
    …-
    “Ukraine crisis: ‘International monitors seized’ in Sloviansk
    BBC News – ‎10 minutes ago‎
    Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have seized a bus carrying international military observers, Ukraine’s interior ministry says.”
    …-
    ““One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).”
    ― Otto von Bismarck”

  19. Leftist Walkom/TORedStar brew/gulp down a cup of Sober, Second Thought.
    “In that sense, Friday’s top court decision is less important than it might seem.”
    Leftists wake up to the following fact: PM Harper has snookered them again.
    …-
    “Court decision is less important than it might seem: Walkom”
    “Behind all of this is the dramatic shift in economic power to the West, a shift that cannot but be reflected in the way national politics is carried out.
    Alberta is booming. So is one-time basket case Saskatchewan. Regardless of how the Senate is composed, no federal government of any political stripe can afford to ignore these provinces.
    In that sense, Friday’s top court decision is less important than it might seem.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/04/25/court_decision_is_less_important_than_it_might_seem_walkom.html

  21. O’narcissist’s Voyage Into Its Abyss.
    …-
    “Ukraine: Another Foreign Policy Failure by Obama
    by Larry Huss Wednesday, March 5. 2014
    It is difficult to determine which is more tragic: Justin Bieber trying to act like a “hardass” to prove he is grown up, or President Barack Obama trying to act resolute to prove he is a world leader on the international stage.”
    http://oregoncatalyst.com/26676-ukraine-foreign-policy-failure-obama.html
    …-
    “Descent into darkness
    A deal in Geneva fails on the ground
    Apr 26th 2014”
    “FOR a brief moment it seemed that eastern Ukraine’s slide into conflict might be halted.”
    http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21601313-deal-geneva-fails-ground-descent-darkness

  22. O’s Abyss:
    “And now … “THE Pentagon says Russian warplanes have violated Ukraine’s airspace several times in 24 hours, in the latest sign of a mounting confrontation between Moscow and Kiev”
    http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-seeking-third-world-war/story-fnh81p7g-1226896436027
    It’s like a bad, surreal dream. What’s worst about it is that the administration is not only lying to the public, they are lying to themselves.”
    Belmont Club.

  23. O’narcissist’s Arab Spring Pause, er Hiatus.
    Not to be confused with AGW Spring, er Pause, er Hiatus.
    Another O’narcissist foreign policy F.A.I.L.
    …-
    “Obama hits pause on peace talks with Middle East authorities”
    “U.S. President Barack Obama pulled back from the Middle East peace process Friday saying that maybe it was time for “a pause” in the troubled U.S.-assisted negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/obama-hits-pause-on-peace-talks-with-middle-east-authorities/article18237796/

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