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This is just absolutely fascinating:
They made three discoveries: hungry volunteers were less likely to donate to charity than those who were satiated; those primed to have a high desire for money, by having imagined winning a big lottery, went on to eat the most candy in a taste test; and people whose appetites had been piqued by sitting in a room with a delicious smell, gave less money in a game situation than those who played in a normal-smelling room (Psychological Science, vol 17, p 939). Briers reckons this indicates that our brain processes ideas about money using the same pathways evolved to think about food, so that in our minds the two are synonymous. If she is correct, it puts a whole new spin on the term “greedy bankers”.
Or more accurately, why folks love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Most everyone is familiar with the events of Holy Thursday. Christ offers the Last Supper, and Judas slinks away to play his part in the Passion. Eventually at Gethsemane, so tested and so worried is Jesus that He literally drops of blood appeared on His forehead (Luke 22:44).
It is after he is approached, and after he is brought before Caiaphas, that Christ is kept in a cell until he can be brought before Pontius Pilate the next morning.
St. Peter in Gallicantu is the name of the church built over the ruins of Caiaphas’ home. In a cell underneath this church is where Christ waited, more alone than at Gethsemane.
Above him, Peter was warming himself at a fire. Three times he would deny Christ, joining Judas in betrayal. When presented with his sin, it would be Peter who would “weep bitterly” (Luke 22:64) and it would be Judas who would ultimately kill himself.
It would appear as if Belle — one of our cats at palatial Kenney Manor — looks as if her stomach shrank three sizes today. Of course, that means there has been a furious cleaning of the garage to find out where those kittens might be.
As the grandmother cat, Radar has been prowling and cleaning… and poor Belle looks worn out. Still, dunno where these kittens are.
Last year, Radar gave birth to two cats: Belle and Spike, a calico male cat that was just the neatest little cat you’d ever want to see. Unfortunately, the poor guy broke his leg in a fight with something much larger than he was able to handle.
No vet would even see the poor guy for less than $600 consultation… so the Fluvanna SPCA graciously checked him in. They have a very neat website where you can view the adoptions… and the kids swear they’ve seen Spike. So that’ll work.
Depending on the size of this litter, this will naturally mean a spay-and-neuter program for the whole lot. Two cats is managable, the “Crazy Cat Man of Kent’s Store” isn’t exactly a title I want to hold.
Before we get into things, I want to give you the problem at RPV in microcosm.
A friend passes along this:
What’s the problem? RPV is prevented by its State Party Plan from materially benefiting one candidate over another in a nomination contest. From the RPV staff member (who offers their name as M.A.) involved:
Terry McAuliffe is an effing moron.
Given that charity starts at home, I wonder how long it will take before McAuliffe determines that DPVA needs a bit of housecleaning
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See… Huckabee has it all wrong. Voter intimidation is cool only if you employ them after the fact!
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Worth the three minutes of your time to watch.
Best snip:
“For example, for a small farm under the NAIS, every animal must be registered withing 48 hours of birth using an expensive identification system. Now let’s say that our small farmer doesn’t have a few extra hours every day to jump through government created hoops. Maybe he misses a deadline because he’s busy, you know, farming. He’s now subject to up to $500,000 in fines, 10 years in prison, and/or forfeiture.”
Welcome to America… land of the free, home of the brave.
So I cleared a patch of land out back behind my home. I sprinkled down a bunch of grass seed. The snow got to it, it rained, and before too long I have thousands of beautiful bright green and needle-thin blades of grass. Whilst I may get some stuff from the utah sod company to give it a boost, they look awesome. I got lucky with my grass; not everyone gets these bright green blades. Fighting with your grass can seem like a losing battle, especially when it’s patchy and brown, and that’s why some homeowners purchase wpc decking to create a more stylish garden.
Before too long I am going to have to fight the weeds. Those beautiful little green rootlings will have to combat crabgrass, ryegrass, clover, wood sorrel, dandelions, and just about everything else.
Thankfully the weather has co-operated with the watering, but as soon as the rainy season is over I’ll have to get the garden hose and tend to that patch of real estate. Next year, I’ll have to overseed and repeat the task.
Now some of my friends will look at their lawns and chuckle. “If it weren’t for crabgrass, I’d have no grass at all!” For most, the fight for saving the lawn is a losing battle. Crabgrass runs wild, the tall ryegrass consumes all sorts of water, dandelions leave huge patches, clover and wood sorrel conspire as well.
Eventually, the competition gets so bad and the neglect so damaging, the grassroots dry up
Now I’m no economist by far… and while I could be led to believe that propping up the value of property combined with aggressive inflation is the Obama Administration’s plan for recovery, this certainly confirms the effects:
Do not be fooled by the appearance of economic recovery created by the dollar’s fall! The onset of hyperinflation is often misinterpreted as economic recovery. If you haven’t already, I read about The Nightmare German Inflation. In offers grim preview of what awaits the UK and US. It also illustrates the imaginary wealth created by a currency collapse.
Hyperinflation is by far the most devastating economic disaster a country. While deflation, like the US experienced in the 1930, brings suffering, hyperinflation wipes out the middle class and destroys the very fabric of a nation’s society. In trying to “protect” America from deflation, the fed is steering the country towards a far worse fate.
Obviously, one of the two must occur. Either the inflated value of homes must come down to earth (thereby wiping out middle-class America’s single greatest asset), or the price of everything else must rise to become comparable with the over-inflated values of our homes.