Chatroom Arguments

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The View Does a Decent Ron Paul Interview; Whilst CNN Airheads are Still Trapped in 2008

Rising awareness of a Fed induced monetary crisis and the stupidity of America fighting wars on 4 fronts (Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan) may have induced certain news organizations to take Texas Congressman Ron Paul more seriously this year than they have in the past. Kudos to the women of "The View", not exactly wild eyed right wing libertarians, for their quality fact-based interview of Paul on April 25.

Contrast this with News Whore Carol Costello talking about Ron Paul in a 3 minute segment -- http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/04/26/exp.nr.talkbackronpaul.cnn.html -- largely devoted to the 2008 media tactic of treating the Paul campaign as an oddity or political freak show. This embarrassing clip shows Costello and another CNN News C**t snickering about Ron Paul in the same fashion Anderson Cooper made his TeaBagger (ball sucking) comments when covering the first Tea Parties in April 2009. What could one expect from a "news" woman who has numerous YouTube videos dedicated to her legs?

The body language in the Costello clip is bizarre. She looks like she just tooted a line or she stayed up all night and took a handfull of amphetamines, the muscles in her neck are tight and drawn, and halfway through the clip she's rubbing her knuckle on her nostril as though attempting to dislodge a bougar.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Quote of the Month

(5:14 PM) Trustworthy2012: first Glen beck get fired then mopnglow gets a pink slip

Friday, April 15, 2011

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Apple Accesibility Products

Thanks a lot to transitjunkie for the following:

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/

Thursday, December 30, 2010

ToeChopper Truck in the December Snow Storm (LaGuardia Airport)

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Federal pay ahead of private industry

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds . . . Read the Article

Friday, December 17, 2010

Veterans Benefit Resource

Many thanks to Tidal Pool for the following:

Yule Like Solstice

Many thanks to mac_talla for this contribution:

YULE LIKE SOLSTICE

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle light.
In summer, quite the other way.
I have to go to bed by day.

-Robert Louis Stevenson-

Solstice- either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The winter solstice (also referred to as Midwinter and Yule) occurs on 21 December.

An utterly astounding array of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures -- tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories -- so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. Newgrange, is a beautiful megalithic site in Ireland. This huge circular stone structure is estimated to be 5,000 years old, older by centuries than Stonehenge, older than the Egyptian pyramids. It was built to receive a shaft of sunlight deep into its central chamber at dawn on winter solstice. Maeshowe, on the Orkney Islands north of Scotland, shares a similar trait. Hundreds of other megalithic structures throughout Europe are oriented to the solstices and the equinoxes. The blossoming field of archaeo-astronomy studies such sacred sites in the Americas, Asia, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Recent research into the medieval Great Zimbabwe in sub-Saharan Africa (also known as the "African Stonehenge") indicates a similar purpose. In North America, one of the most famous such sites is the Sun Dagger of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, built a thousand years ago.

Many medieval Catholic churches were also built as solar observatories. The church, once again reinforcing the close ties between religious celebration and seasonal passages, needed astronomy to predict the date of Easter. And so observatories were built into cathedrals and churches throughout Europe. Typically, a small hole in the roof admitted a beam of sunlight, which would trace a path along the floor. The path, called the meridian line, was often marked by inlays and zodiacal motifs. The position at noon throughout the year, including the extremes of the solstices, was also carefully marked.

Neolithic peoples were the first farmers. Their lives were intimately tied to the seasons and the cycle of harvest. In modern times, when so few of us are involved in the production of our own food, we have lost that awareness of just how dependent we truly are on the abundance of mother earth. Midwinter day gives the least period of light followed by the greatest period of darkness. For those who watched the heavens in ancient times, it must have seemed as if the sun was standing still or diminishing entirely. Indeed, the word-solstice-means standing sun.. Many, many cultures the world over perform solstice ceremonies. At their root: an ancient fear that the failing light would never return unless humans intervened with anxious vigil or antic celebration. Virtually every culture has its own special celebration to encourage the light on this day, but a common theme of solstice celebrations, everywhere, is the burning of fires to rekindle the dwindling sun. Throughout northern Europe where winters are severe, the solstice fires were lit indoors.

The rebirth of the sun. The birth of the Son.

Christmas was transplanted onto winter solstice some 1,600 years ago, centuries before the English language emerged from its Germanic roots. Is that why we came to express these two ideas in words that sound so similar? The yule log in your fireplace and the coloured lights on your Christmas tree are your solstice fires. They come to you in a direct line from your neolithic ancestors attempting to rekindle the sun.

Stand in the sunlight at mid-day on 21 December, and face your shadow. This is the longest it can be all year. Consider the deeds of your life, the extent at which the shadow of your own influence has fallen on the earth. Upon whom has it fallen? How have you affected the world in which you live?

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For the first time ever, the 2007 Winter Solstice illumination of the passage and chamber at Newgrange was streamed live on the internet. The video is about about an hour long and well worth the time.

http://www.newgrange.com/webcast.htm

For those with shorter attention spans or more pressing issues, a far shorter video on New Grange and the solstice can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0MCWL3wcis&feature=related

And finally, for those who wish to know the precise time their shadow is longest:

http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2011.shtml

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Informative Wall Street Journal Article on Assange/Freedom of Press

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703814404576001921148451638.html

ToeChopper First Amendment Expression

Sunday, December 5, 2010

State By State Welfare Assistance: From NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/25/us/20090126-welfare-table.html

Funny Video About the TSA

Thanks Andrea 2-U:

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Food Safety Bill Passes with Amendment for Smaller Farmers

Thanks to leesah_1.

Excerpt: "Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is a farmer, added an amendment approved by the Senate that would exempt small farmers and those who sell directly to consumers at markets and farm stands."

. . . Read the FULL ARTICLE

BBC - Doctors 'deny elderly treatments

"Researchers writing in the Quality and Safety in Health Care journal said it demonstrated doctors in the NHS were guilty of ageism", according to a BBC report . . .

. . . Read the FULL ARTICLE

Child Abuse Cases Rise in Australia

"An Aboriginal child was 7½ times as likely to be abused than a non-indigenous child and more than nine times as likely to be placed in care . . ."

Read FULL ARTICLE from WAToday.com

The Population of Palestine Prior to 1948

http://www.mideastweb.org/palpop.htm

Monday, November 29, 2010

Quantitative Easing Explained

Thanks to MosesKnows for bringing this video to the attention of the room:

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Interview: Tidal Pool Knighted

WHEN
US EST: 9 pm, Dec 2
GMT: 1 am, Dec 3
SYDNEY: 2 pm, Dec 3

TOPIC
In October 2010, TidalPool, a regular chatter in 2 Way Street, traveled to Europe to be knighted. Tidal pool will talk about his experiences.

INTERVIEWER
MopNGlow

INTERVIEWEE
TidalPool

DETAIL

Tidal's family motto is "helfen, wehren, heisen", meaning "help, defend, heal". He is now a member of the Teutonic Knights of the Hospital of St marys in Jerusalem, founded in the 1000's and early 1100's. His family has been part of it since the 1300's.

Materials
tbd

Links
tbd

Audio
http://www.archive.org/details/MopnglowShow12-02-2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

The rainbase / toechopper interview

Many thanks to Lazerlupine for recording the following:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheOutOfTheRainShow.SpecialGuest.Toechopper11222010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Echoes Of 1930s In Health Care Debate

Thanks to bellarosa_2 for bringing this article to our attention:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112345150