News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.

If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.

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"There once was a woman who drove me to drink. I never had the decency to thank her."

-W.C. Fields

One of our favorite stories (and photos)! There is a strictly enforced dress code in St. Peter's Basilica - no knees, no shoulders, no shorts, appropriate dress only. Barbara and I attended mass in St. Peters and while in line to receive communion, Barbara was approached by an usher who indicated to her that she needed to do a better job at keeping her shoulders covered. :)

In any event, this is a shot of Barbara having a "wardrobe malfunction" and exposing her shoulder in the basilica

Thirty-ninth president, 1977–1981

When Americans elected Jimmy Carter in 1976, they were voting for a positive change in executive leadership. Burdened by escalating costs of living and tired of recent scandal-ridden politics, they saw Carter as a fresh new face who would make, in his words, government “as good as the American people.” A born-again Christian, Carter touted his human decency to heal the divisions of post-Vietnam American society while also promising to fix the economy. Stemming high inflation, however, proved to be harder than he had predicted. He also could not do much to ease the ongoing energy crisis instigated by the cartel of oil producing nations. In 1978, Carter successfully brokered a landmark peace accord between Egypt and Israel, but the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, spurred by the U.S. support of the unpopular Shah of Iran, rippled the last year of his administration. He lost a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In this portrait by Robert Templeton, Carter is shown standing in the oval office, as it was during his tenure. The donkey statuette on his desk was a gift from the Democratic National Committee.

Artist: Robert Clark Templeton

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I drove 50+ miles this morning - partly due to the weather. Southampton & The New Forest was veiled in a murky cloud while Dorset promised sunshine. So off to Alner's Gorse for the Brown Hairstreak - just the one male, but at least he had the decency to open his wings for me.

I didn't get the hat trick though - no White Letters to be seen, but plenty of Purple Hairstreaks and a wealth of other butterflies to please the senses. And so far no sign of horsefly bites!

Edit; Nope - have one irritating bite!!!

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The Finnish Chairmanship Team at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi.

Finland hosts the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting on 7 May in Rovaniemi. Minister-level representatives from the eight Arctic States will convene to review and approve work completed under the two-year Finnish Chairmanship to improve sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic.

Ministry for Foreign Affairs provides photo material for media representatives, participants and organisers of the meeting. Please feel free to use the photos, considering the following restrictions: Not for commercial purposes nor reselling. When publishing the pictures, the name of the photographer and organization shall be mentioned as the source. No picture manipulation is permitted. The holder of the picture rights and/or the organisation shall at all times retain the copyright to the picture. When publishing the pictures, the publisher shall ensure the legality of the context where the pictures are used, obtain the permissions and consents required for their publication, and observe the generally established practices and decency. The publisher shall ensure that publication of the pictures does not insult anyone’s privacy or dignity.

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Slightly romanticised, along with everything else to do with Ernesto, one can't help but suspect.

"I want my children to grow up to be like Che, we should all want our children to grow up like him" Something like that came gushing out of Castro's brain and onto his tongue and thereby onto paper not so long ago. Without having a clue as to why, my intuition tells me it's because the country's in such a disastrously awful state it needs another revolution (there are signs 'viva revolucion' absolutely everywhere; 'without r4evolution there is only death' uplifting stuff like that so maybe it's not so far out of the question) and Castro has been trying to remind people of what a noble wonderful revolution it was and how it's not his fault it's all turned to crap.

I saw four young Che's visiting the museum when I was there. It certainly seems to be a bit of a pilgrimage for Cubans. Shame it's so badly out of touch with contemporary museums all over the rest of the world.

This place is like the tiny town museum in Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, where, until they were recently removed for the sake of decency (shame actually), the most fascinating thing on display were deformed foetuses preserved in formaldehyde.

This museum has nothing so interesting except remnants of a failed philosophical doctrine.

May 12th, 2008

I've never really been afraid to show my breasts, even in public...I actually feel kind of out of place here in North America where showing your breasts is considered a taboo and women (especially "real" women) must always keep them covered up for fear of a moral riot. Now that I work in Public Health, I appreciate their natural use (breastfeeding) even more, and find the whole idea of keeping them hidden in the name of "decency", or because of our arrested development as a society, quite foolish. So no, I did not blur out my nipple and I am not ashamed of having my less-than-perfect breasts here on this website.

"The image of a Syrian child's lifeless body washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach this week brought the world to its knees. His name was Aylan Kurdi, and he was just three years old.

We need to do better."

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Located at the Liberties crossroad junction of Kevin Street, New Street South, Dean Street and Patrick Street. At one time the area was known as “Four Corners of Hell” as there was a pub on all four corners of the crossroads.

This caught me by surprise especially as I should have been aware that these facilities existed having gone to school in Leeson Street and college in Kevin Street. There are two separate entities - a small park and an underground public toilet. More than a year ago the City Council announced that the building would be brought back into use as a cafe “as soon as practical”.

When I first noticed the structure it a few years ago I thought that it was an old monument or memorial but upon seeing the entrance I realised that it was an underground public toilet block.

In the 1950s and 1960s there were about seventy public toilets in Dublin but all of them have been closed.

The underground public toilet block at the junction of Kevin Street and New Street was one of a number that were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in response to an increasing demand for public facilities in the city. Underground facilities such as this were partially hidden from general view in order to satisfy Victorian perceptions of decency. It retains many of its historic features including railings, gates and decorative ventilation shaft.

Even on a Monday in September, Chatsworth can be pretty busy so getting half decent shots "sans-peeps" was not easy. It was also pretty gloomy so these three shots are all taken at ISO 2400 f4.5 and shutter speeds of about 1/8sec or so. They were then pushed, bent and generally knocked about way beyond the bounds of common decency!

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Great blossom trees in the front yard of this picturesque church. They didn't have the decency to stand still in the wind though, so the HDR is somewhat head-ache inducing unfortunately. Liked the sky though!

Actually I was tempted to give this a caption hinting at what the young man watering the grass was apparently doing... but decency forbids LOL! From our hotel balcony.

“The folklore of the American 1929 crash—the popular picture—is that of millionaires, jobbers, brokers, company presidents and ex-rich investors throwing themselves from the windows of the stock exchange. Now they have built that building so that that is impossible. Those deaths represented a tiny handful of people, but many more people died as a result of the 1929 crash. In the years of depression that followed 1929 and the massive unemployment that occurred in Germany, in Britain and throughout the world, many people in ordinary families committed suicide. Many people died prematurely because of inadequate diet. Many people died prematurely because of diseases that could have been cured if they had had the money to seek treatment at that time. Many infants died in the first weeks and months of life because they lived in the appalling slums that existed in the cities of the world at that time. Therefore, nobody on the Labour Benches and no Socialist makes the prediction of the coming recession with pleasure.

“In recent weeks the Conservative party, officially through the Prime Minister, has said that Socialism is dead. It has been claimed that Socialism is an outmoded philosophy and that its support among the people of Britain will soon die. However, with the pressure of the stock exchange collapse, part of the Socialist ideals has been accepted by the Conservative Government. It may be argued that the stock exchange is of no relevance to the real economy and that is true. More than 90 per cent of the transactions that take place on the world stock exchanges have absolutely nothing to do with commerce and industry. They are concerned with gambling and speculation in shares, futures and currencies. They have nothing to do with the creation of wealth on a world scale. Wealth is created by the labour of working people in productive industries.

“It is on the basis of the wealth created in the productive sectors of the economy—as the Tory amendment partly recognises—that we can pay for the civilising parts of our life: health, education, sport, culture, the arts and all the things that make life richer and more noble. The belief that that is the role of the stock exchange shows that it is not Socialism that is old fashioned, but capitalism, which has gone back to the same old process of the inter-war years.

“There have been two old-style recessions since 1975, with two weak booms in between them. We now stand on the eve of an even more devastating recession in the world economy. As we have already seen with the BP farce, much of the gloss has been taken off so-called people's capitalism. Socialism stands for collective decisions and ownership of wealth, and the direction of industrial production to the needs of people and not to a handful of stock exchange speculators who benefit the most. Such Socialism is needed. It is a system of society which will become more attractive.

“We are moving into an era of people's Socialism, not people's capitalism. It is necessary, and although we have perhaps not said it very well in recent years, what we are trying to do is to build a plateau—not for the underwriters of the BP claim, but for millions of ordinary people. I refer to a plateau of decency and reasonable living standards, on which people can develop their personal talents, personalities and more satisfactory lives.

“Today is 5 November. On this day throughout the world millions of women will spend four hours collecting water and fuel—an economic activity that is not recorded anywhere in world statistics. How ironic that people are forced to that back-breaking labour in a world of yuppies, sunrise industries, space travel and enormous technological development. What sort of system are Conservative hon. Members defending when, in times of recession, only 70 per cent. or less of human productive resources are in use and, in boom times, it is only 80 per cent.? 19 October marked the end of people's capitalism and the beginning of a popular people's Socialism.”

I am proud to have known Pat and his mate Keith Narey, it is people like this who help to make a new future, by shafting the dominant ideology. Unfortunately they were born too soon

a passage from a book i know, copy-edited for decency purposes

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This year's show brought students from both Lloydminster & Vermilion campuses together to show off their style, budgeting and presentation skills. Students had a $33.33 budget each to go out into the community and purchase an outfit and appropriate accessories for a Business Awards Banquet.

They were expected to practice their budgeting skills as they shopped for their outfits. Contestants had to show a good taste in fashion and decency. Finally, contestants were tested on their presentation and interpersonal skills as they walked up and down the runway and answered questions from our ‘celebrity’ judges.

The main idea here is to challenge the notion that students have to spend a lot of money to look good for work. Most students struggle with money and this show is a fun way of capturing budgeting, fashion and presentation skills.

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Been posting this every year since 2015, back when you could still screenshot streaming services, back before Frasier became “hip” and “internet ironic”, and before this “meme” was shared all over the internet.

I’ll likely still post this every year, but it’s even more prevalent this year, since “our” team is in the Super Bowl. Our city/state is absolutely mad. Stores were as crowded as Black Friday, Pop up Jersey shops at every gas station corner, people wearing their cult uniforms, calling out of work, schools opening late on Monday, sending out notices to wear green or Eagles clothing, resulting in parents having to go out to buy it, or having their child feel singled out, people making signs and banners for their yard, putting green holiday lights around their house, chanting like drunken lunatics, setting off fireworks etc. The city even has to grease sign and light posts, to prevent people from climbing them to “celebrate” or riot…read that last line again…we have to go to such ridiculous measurements just to prevent people from being animals. Utterly disgusting behavior.

I’m a very passionate person in general, and can debate art and entertainment till I’m blue in the face…but there’s absolutely NOTHING I can think of in this world that isn’t religion or politics or human decency, to make me yell and throw things at a TV screen like a child, start fights with people who like a different movie than I do, or for wearing a t-shirt of a band I dislike or hate.

Sports turn adults into immature, hateful tantrum throwing infants. But because it’s “manly” and games are treated like literal combat, that childish behavior is not only accepted and excused…even considered macho. But all I see is a big immature baby.

I’ve only watched about 10 minutes of a football in my life, and that was 10 minutes too much.

Anyway, this is my yearly reminder of how much I hate it. Have fun, and “go, “birds!!!” (Is that really that much easier to say than “Eagles”? ‍♂️

I've had the longest day.

pretty much the longest week. being a student full time & working as much as you can is tough business.

i've been thinking a lot about this quote lately.

not about the blind part, but the part where it's insinuating we choose who we hate and who we don't. I wish it was so easy to just "turn off" hatred.

not asking for "world peace", just some decency

listen to this. you won't regret it.

part of your world peace

Someone pushed. Or bumped. That person did not have the common decency to pick the bikes up again. To do so would be admission of wrong-doing, and the resultant loss of face would be unthinkable for many. Its an odd country, I sometimes think to myself.

Tallinn's Old Town was, in fact, two different towns: the Lower Town â free center of Hanseatic trade â and the Toompea hill, or Upper Town â the place of concentration of feudal power and the influence of distant governments, which Estonians had to obey. The interests of these two parts were different and sometimes mutually exclusive, but they had to coexist somehow even without having any warm feelings towards each other. And if in light of day it was possible to observe decency basically, nighttime awakened the eternal desire to plunder in the nobles of Toompea, or the Upper Town. So, the lower town of merchants and craftsmen had to fence itself off with a stone wall and a powerful gate â and not only from the "outer" lands, but also from its upper neighbor, and every night, just in case, the gate was locked.

This is why on the left side of Pikk jalg (Long Leg street) there is a tower with a small oak gate leading to the street Ljuhike jalg (Short Leg street). This door clearly shows who was afraid of whom: the heads of forged rivets, which made it harder to destruct the door, are turned towards the Upper Town, while the deadbolt is on the Lower Town side.

The tower was built in 1456 and is reputed to be one of the most haunted buildings in Old Town. The wooden door is original from the 17th century.

Tallinn, Estonia, 2018

Say yes to pasties!

Parks Highway just south of Cantwell, Alaska.

Alaska has some divisions called "boroughs" which function similarly to counties in the lower 48. The rest of Alaska is divided into "census areas" which are just that, areas to count population.

The "matanuska" name is an Indian adaptation of a Russian word used to describe both the Indians of and the route to the Copper River. "Susitna" comes from the Indian word for "sandy river" and originally had an "h" in the spelling, which has been dropped for common decency.

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There are rules about making things beautiful... you have to want to do the maintanence with devoted regularity. Bless you Ronnie for being a beacon of pride and decency and doing the right thing. I thought the light did justice to your beautiful car at the break of a new day. This is a lovely face.

What is there to say? Trump's election as President of the United States is a triumph of stupidity over reason, ignorance or knowledge, lies over facts, decency over base passion, fear over peace, and bigotry over tolerance. The people who voted for this excuse for a man are beyond contempt. This is my response.

Red paint representing blood, spattered on a segment of the American flag, with pieces of real dollar bills embedded into the stars. Although the painting is unframed, all 4 edges of the canvas have been painted allowing the painting to be displayed as is. 24.5cm x 20cm x 1.5cm (approx.) Acrylic on unframed canvas. Available from www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CactusCounty

News.com.au ran a story about Banksy today. News.com.au didn't even have the decency to check all the artwork was actually by Banksy, let alone credit the photos to their respective photographers.

If this is your photo, you should write to News.com.au and complain.

"Mr Big-Belly awaiting his change"

They should have their guitars confiscated by the Music Police of Taste and Decency. Especially when their songs are interspersed by anti-Islamic rantings.

Seems like they just let go of any outward sense of respect and decency, except the fancy cars. Wouldn't living in an apartment be better?

The fact that I had to take these pictures pisses me off beyond belief. We were walking to the car to run some errands and do some wedding registry stuff (Yay!)

However when we were walking by the swimming pool area we saw these two chairs situated as a step-stool for people to get over the fence and either into or out of the pool area. In the past we have also seen the gate jimmied in such a way that it won’t latch. There are children that live/play in our complex. The last thing that needs to happen is one of these children to get into the pool area and have some sort of accident. It bothers me that people just don’t have common sense or enough respect to follow the posted rules or the law of common sense to latch the gate and not place items close to the fence line.

What is our world coming to?

When did people lose self respect and common decency?

We have mentioned it to the office. We were glad to know that we we’re the only ones to say something. Only time will what will happen with these people.

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NS SD70ACe #1106 leads a westbound intermodal train through La Porte, only 60 miles out of Chicago. This happened to be one of our best trains on this line, meaning the Chicago Line would ridiculously decent all day long.

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White-throated Sparrow at the boy scout sparrow patch this afternoon. Congrats to Lamont McLachlan for finding it. Thanks to Jeff Kozma for sharing the announcement of Lamont's find. I went over and sat on a log round off to the side of the blind and watched loads of sparrows. After Homo sapien, the greatest biomass of any animal species was certainly House Sparrows, and the din from them was quite loud, making it tough to hear the chips of other species. Listening to chips helps me spot the less common species. Not here today. At one point there were more than 60 House Sparrows feeding together within 15' of me. Even as flighty and easily spooked as House Sparrows are, I didn't scare them off by sitting in plain view. Eventually this White-throated Sparrow sneaked into view through the pile of sticks.

A flush is a good thing in poker or a toilet, but not in birding. When a local problem lister, Denny, showed up and flushed the birds, I left.

It's a real shame he doesn't have the decency to stay away.

Please always consider the sensitivity of birds, nearby humans, and the environment.

Don't lie to try to cover up your mistakes & misdeeds.

Please read, PRACTICE, and promote the ABA Code of Birding Ethics.

Whistle blower

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Woman having her swimsuit measured for length violations on a Washington DC beach in the 1920s (silver print), 1922. (Photo by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

JOURNEY OF THE JEDI #13 OF 25

Imbalance in The Force

When Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side, his inherent instincts for decency and mercy became completely submerged. With grim finality, he sought out his fellow Jedi and slaughtered them without a second thought. These dramatic actions created a keenly-felt imbalance in the Force, a sense of elemental disruption that could only be quelled by Anakin's eventual redemption. Luke Skywalker provided the emotional impetus for that years later, restoring galactic balance once again.