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Rarely a chic look but that's just a personal opinion bought bubbling to the surface by a .friend's snap here Matching rucksacks as well.
I grant you it may be an educational trip group issue thang in this case - just the first building block in a possible future theme here....:~}
The ASPCA's Animal Poison Control Center says that grapes and raisins are treats best kept away from dogs:
At the current time, we know that grapes and raisins appear to cause renal failure in dogs who’ve ingested large amounts. However, we have not determined with certainty the toxic component, or the exact mechanism that causes renal failure. It is also not clear if only certain dogs are affected, or if long-term ingestions can lead to the same effects that a large one-time ingestion can. Because there are still many unknowns regarding the toxic potential of grapes and raisins, it is advisable not to give grapes or raisins to dogs in any amount.
Also seen on Snopes (Thanks JUDY STARR)
See the "how to Avoid Fraud" video
live.pirillo.com/ - Chris got a spam voicemail and it brought up the subject of scams and how to avoid them in the chat room.Never send someone money unless you are the one that initiated the transaction, and even then make sure you double and triple check everything.If you're involved in some kind of transaction and it doesn't feel right to you, then avoid it.If you don't understand a lot about the Internet and how things work online, ask someone who does.Remember, scams try to play on your emotions - both good and bad - and try to force you into the scam. Try to step away from the emotion of the situation and think about it logically.LooksTooGoodToBeTrue is run by the FBI and has a lot of helpful tips and suggestions for the various types of fraud out there.Every day, American consumers receive offers that just sound too good to be true. In the past, these offers came through the mail or by telephone. Now the con artists and swindlers have found a new avenue to pitch
their frauds the Internet. The on-line scams know no national borders or boundaries; they respect no investigative jurisdictions. But, as with all scammers, they have one objective to separate you from your money!The Snopes Fraud Squad as a page detailing some of the common (and uncommon) scams you may run across.The schemes of those intent upon separating you from your money are many and varied. In this section you will find descriptions of actual con games you need to be wary of falling victim to.Do you have any tips or websites you visit to help you determine if something is a scam?Want to embed Avoiding Scams video in your blog? Use this code:http://
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IF YOUR CHILD WAS MISSING WOULDN'T YOU PRAY THAT EVERYONE PASSED THIS EMAIL ON!!!!! DO THE RIGHT THING AND LOOK AND FORWARD!? Missing Girl from North Dakota !!!!!!!!!!
You never know where this email could end up and I'm not going to stop passing this one around if it means a little girl can be found!!!
Please spread this picture far and wide.... You just never know.
BEFORE YOU SKIP THIS, LOOK AT THE CHILD. DO IT AGAIN. NOW SEND IT TO ALL IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IT TAKE S 10 SECONDS. PEOPLE ARE MISSING HER AND SHE WANTS TO BE HOME. DO SOMETHING GOOD.
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blackbirds baked in a pie. . .
I wonder if children are still learning this
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
Vote HERE
WHEN IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE??? WELL, OLE SKEPTICAL ME I GOT
SUSPICIOUS. IT SURE MADE FOR A GREAT STORY!
I WAS THINKING OF GOING INTO THE BUSINESS! WOW WOULD THEY BE A GREAT
SELLER!
www.snopes.com/photos/arts/marzipan.asp
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hcarlson wrote:
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!
These might be made of cake frosting but who could
take a bite?
You might appreciate these. Truly amazing and they
are made of frosting!
THIS WOMAN IS DEFINITELY TALENTED.....
Marzipan Babies
Thought you'd be as fascinated with these as I.
These are made with marzipan....really unbelievable!
While some of the faces may look "crafted" rather
than "real", every detail is amazing, and the rest looks VERY real. Be
blessed and enjoy the talent given one person by God.
Definition of Marzipan
Almond paste: a sweet paste made of ground almonds
and sugar, often with egg whites or yolks, used as a layer in cakes or
molded into ornamental shapes
Please folks, don't adopt pet baby alligators if you are not prepared to take care of them. Don't flush them down the toilet so they end up in the sewers and eventually crawl back into my sink. Thanks.
Also, have them spayed or neutered.
www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/gator.asp
For FGR, Urban Legends, 365days
So this legend turns out to be true, a guy felt something get in his eye and rubbed it like you normally would but it just kept getting more and more irritated until he finally went to a Doctor, who immediately wanted to do surgery, thinking that the man had a tumor or cyst, in the the course of surgery they discovered a 1/2 inch long worm, seems the initial irritant was a worm egg and it hatched in his eye, grossss You can check out the actual urban legend
here but be ready for some seriously nasty pics.
For FGR - Urban Legends.
Everyone knows about the diet (ew) coke and mentos fountains... well supposedly some kids ate some mentos and coke and died from it. Of course, that's false. It's the same as the pop rocks and coke myth. Believe it or not, the stomach is one *tough* organ. :)
This was also busted by Jamie and Adam in the Mythbusters. :D
"Don't try this at home... EVAR!" ;)
I need to take a shower, I'm all sticky.
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From the company which is said to have invented the red-clad Santa Claus, and so many other things which we take as traditional Christmas style.
I found the way to control climate change. Could someone please tell Al Gore and David Suzuki. Hmmm... I could make some money on this... then I could live in a big fancy energy consuming house like they do!
For: 365 Days
Flickr Group Roulette's group for today:
Thanks to ~evelet~'s
It was reported on the news in Australia a few years ago that the US had banned Vegemite. It cause an uproar in Australia when it was reported.
But it was all lies!!
There is an email circulating about Kurt Warner which paints a very nice picture of him but is actually not as inspiring as his true story. Please take a moment to read the real story here... www.snopes.com/glurge/warner.asp This photo is a desktop that is available free on the Arizona Cardinals website. You are looking at a very fine man.
While I love Dick Van Dyke (and no, his real name is NOT "Richard Van Lesbian" - go check Snopes.com if you don't believe me) I don't want his hair. I do, however, love Mary's hair in this picture.
Another horror/ Halloween photo. I'm sure you can all guess the Urban Legend this photo is based on.
In other news, it shows up my new hair very nicely :)
'Winston Churchill'
Not actually a Churchill quote:
quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/
www.snopes.com/fact-check/fascists-called-anti-fascists-q...
winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/fascists-anti-fascists/
Like my photos? Buy me a coffee!
www.snopes.com/politics/obama/airplane.asp
This afternoon while driving on the eastern boundary road of Oakland County Airport, I happened to drive under the landing jet of Barack Obama. I was driving northbound on Airport Road of all places, and was startled to see this huge aircraft flying across the road directly above me. My first thought was, holy smokes that is one huge jet. I am not used to seeing such large aircraft landing at the Oakland County Airport. I managed to keep my van on the road, and caught a glimpse of the "Change We Can Believe In" campaign slogan, and the signature markings of his campaign plane. This was totally unexpected, and brought the presidential campaign right before my eyes. Mr. Obama had campaign stops in Flint and Farmington Hills. That is quite a few miles between stops, so I best get off the road to avoid getting caught in the traffic jams. I am very glad I avoided northbound I-75 while out in my travels in northern Oakland county.
My use of the link above does not endorse the viewpoint of the originator of the information. It is used strictly for informational purposes.
This is circulating in an email that goes on about how mighty and powerful America is ... it's a f&%$ing movie prop for the movie "Stealth"! What are people thinking? Has it come to this? Do we have to lie about how cool we are to pump up people's pride and patriotism?
They could not even get the carrier's name right ... this part of the movie was filmed on the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego.
www.snopes.com is there for a reason ... use it :)
Here's some text from the email:
Great pictures...Boeing does it again...
The plane in these pictures is still officially the 'Air Vehicle Number 1', a prototype, on board the USS George Washington CVN-73 for catapult fit checks. Not exactly still Top Secret but certainly not yet made public.
It will be known as the F/A-37. Although specs are classified, it is believed to be Mach 3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range) super-cruise stealth lighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4,000nm range. Awesome!
Check out the Navy test pilot in the cockpit of the F/A-37...LT Kara Wade.
...to HELL with the freaking oil companies!
The Phillips family in Oklahoma (Phillips Petroleum Co.) Gave an entire huge ranch in New Mexico, complete with buildings and barns, to the Boy Scouts of America some years ago (Philmont Scout Reservation). Then they gave the Boy Scouts the Philtower Building in Tulsa, so they could have income to maintain it as an educational and recreational center for boys. Here's a word from one of the Phillips boys: (I wrote the paragraph above and it is fairly accurate. It seems no one can find a "Bill" Phillips and the information in the letter has been published earlier without the authorship of any of the Phillips family.) Here is what Snopes has to say:
www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/bigoil.asp
BIG OIL
Bill Phillips spent nearly 50 years in the US oil and gas industry; most of his career was with the Phillips Petroleum Company. Bill is a descendant of Frank Phillips. Frank Phillips, along with his brother Lee Eldas (L.E.) Phillips, Sr., founded the original Phillips Petroleum Company in 1917 in Bartlesville, OK. Do you remember Phillips 66 gas stations? Phillips Petroleum Company merged with Conoco, Inc. in 2002 to form the current ConocoPhillips oil company.
So, when Bill talks about oil and gas issues, I tend to listen - very closely. I think that you will find Bill's thoughts and facts very revealing, very compelling and very difficult to argue with.
As you prepare to cast your crucial ballots this Fall, please think long and hard about the far-reaching, cumulative effects of the US political philosophies, policies and legislation th at have contributed to the current and future US oil supply situation.
May 28, 2008
"Big Oil"
Did you know that the United States does NOT have any big oil companies. It's true: the largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil, is only the 14th largest in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil companies--all owned by foreign governments or government-sponsored monopolies--that dominate the world's oil supply.
This graph below tells the story; you can barely see the American oil companies as minor players on the right side of the chart in gray. The chart was presented to the House committee last week by Chevron.
With 94% of the world's oil supply locked up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the United States , the relatively puny American oil companies do not have access to enough crude oil to significantly affect the market and help bring prices down. Thus, ExxonMobil, a "small" oil company, buys 90% of the crude oil that it refines for the U.S. market from the big players, i.e, mostly-hostile foreign governments. The price at the U.S. pump is rising because the price the big oil companies charge ExxonMobil and the other small American companies for crude oil is going up as the value of the American dollar goes down. They will eventually bleed this country into printing even more money and we will go into runway inflation once again as we did under the Carter Democratic reign.
This is obviously a tough situation for the American consumer. The irony is that it doesn't have to be that way. The United States --unlike, say, France --actually has vast petroleum reserves. It would be possible for American oil companies to develop those reserves, play a far bigger role in international markets, and deliver gas at the pump to American consumers at a much lower price, while creating many thousands of jobs for Americans. This would be infinitely preferable to shipping endless billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia , Russia and Venezuela to be used in propping up their economies.
So, why doesn't it happen? Because the Democrat Party--aided, sadly, by a handful of Republicans--deliberately keeps gas prices high and our domestic oil companies small by putting most of our reserves off limits to development. China is now drilling in the Caribbean, off Cuba but our own companies are barred by law from developing large oil fields off the coasts of Florida and California . Enormous oil-shale deposits in the Rocky Mountain states could go a long way toward supplying American consumers' needs, but the Democratic Congress won't allow those resources to be developed. ANWR contains vast petroleum reserves, but we don't know how vast, because Congress, not wanting the American people to know how badly its policies are hurting our economy, has made it illegal to explore and map those reserves, let alone develop them.
In short, all Americans are paying a terrible price for the Democratic Party's perverse energy policies. I own some small interests in tiny, 4 barrel-per-day oil wells in Wyoming . & n bsp;We have 14 agencies that have iron-hand jurisdiction over us. If we drop any oil on the ground when the refinery truck comes to pick up oil from our holding tanks, we are fined. Yet down the road the state will spray thousands of gallons of used oil on a dirt road to control dirt. When it rains, that oil runs into rivers and creeks. Yet a cup of oil on the ground at our wellhead is a $50,000 EPA fine plus additional fines from state regulating agencies. They treat oil as if it were plutonium that has the potential to leak into the environment. We are fined if our dirt burms are not high enough around a holding tank, yet the truck that picks up our oil runs down the road at 60 mph with no burm around it. People wonder why there is no more exploration in this country. It's because of the regulators; people who have lived their whole lives doing nothing but imposing fines on small operators like us for doing mostly nothing.
So, America enjoy your $4.00 per gallon gasoline. Your dollar is now worth 0.62 Euro-Cents. The lack of American production of GNP, the massive trade deficit (as labor markets have moved overseas to fight insanely high union imposed labor costs in America ) and the run away printing of money (backed by nothing of value here in America ) has caused the dollar to become more worthless on the international market. And that's where our oil comes from. It's paid for with dollars that become more worthless everyday. If we had just kept par with the Euro we'd be paying $62 dollars per barrel for oil (42 gallons) or about $1.50 instead of $2.50 a gallon for crude oil.
What the US government also does not tell you is that it is the leaseholder and royalty recipient of most oil production and receives 25% of the gross oil sales before we pay for electricity to lift the oil, propane to keep the oil-water separators from freezing in the winters. We pay a pumper to visit each well everyday plus we have equipment failures all the time. We pay for that out of our 75% of gross sales. The government does not share in any expenses to run any production well. So, if the Big Oil Companies are making record profits, then so is the federal government from it's 25% tax on every molecule of oil sold to a refinery in this country. Why isn't the government on the stand for "Record" profits? What you don't see is this 25% of the sales price of crude oil being siphoned away by the government. That money plus the road taxes, state taxes, etc. amounts to over $1 per gallon of gasoline you are buying while the governments only admit to about 50 cents per gallon.
To all you Democrats, when you go vote for your candidate, just keep in mind that their liberal spending habits will further decrease the value of the American dollar on the world market and your gasoline costs will hike even higher. As they introduce more give-away programs, raise taxes on everyone to pay people not to produce or work, your dollar will continue to dwindle on the world market and you will be paying $10.00 per gallon at the next election. Cheap hydrocarbon fuel is all over. Enjoy! Enjoy the fruits of your decision to elect these folks when you are there in that voting booth and you stab your pin through a Democrat's name.
William "Bill" Phillips
When you enter the USA, federal government can snope all inside your laptop’s digital contents. See www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/...
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Energy firms have offered Chris Moreno $750,000 to drill for natural gas on his land on Caddo Lake, La., as well as 25% of whatever the wells yield, which could bring him an additional $900,000 a year. But the bids keep getting bigger, so he’s waiting. Learn more at
www.latimes.com/news/la-na-gas1-2008aug01,0,863097.story?...
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Exxon's second-quarter profit breaks its own record. The oil giant brings in $11.68 billion, the largest profit for a U.S. company, and still fails to meet analysts' expectations. Critics say Exxon and others aren't doing enough to reduce gas prices. Learn more at www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon1-2008aug01,0,849528....
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I daily receive interesting e-mail like below from infoenglish@zenit.org
VATICAN CITY, JULY 31, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI will be praying this August that all may be more aware of the gift of creation.
The Apostleship of Prayer announced the general intention chosen by the Pope, "That the human family may know how to respect God's design for the world and thus become ever more aware of the great gift of God which Creation represents for us."
The Holy Father also chooses a missionary intention for each month. In August he will pray, "That the answer of the entire people of God to the common vocation to sanctity and mission may be promoted and fostered, with careful discernment of the charisms and a constant commitment to spiritual and cultural formation."
Rumors of candy tampering had been around since at least the 1960s, but it was when I was a kid that it became impossible to give out anything but expensive store-bought candy. No popcorn balls, no caramel apples... I'm still pissed. I now hand out homemade rice krispy treats, in ziploc bags affixed with my name and address. Fight the power!
(Chocolate, butterscotch, and green & purple plain.)
Sustainable design & building would be a good start to helping save our world's resources... Go LEED...
An interesting story about 2 houses:
House #1 A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average f or an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern 'snow belt' area. It's in the South.
House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater f rom showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
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HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.
An 'inconvenient truth'.
P.S. The first man received a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts related to so-called 'global warming' and thinks he is a 'leader'.
The second man is broadly reviled by so-called 'liberals' as being dumb and not a good leader.
I believe the story of two houses proves that both men have been wrongly judged.
www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp confirms the accuracy.