The Joy of Trump
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Testing a football helmet
There’s not much information about this 1912 photo.
Including the most important detail: did it work?
67. The Beast of Buchenwald
Ilse Koch was married to a concentration camp officer and committed
atrocities at the Buchenwald concentration camp. She was accused of
taking skin souvenirs from those who were killed in concentration camps
from prisoners who had interesting tattoos. She committed suicide in a
women’s prison in 1960.
Posing with the dead
It was quite common – especially in the Victorian era – for family members to pose with deceased family members.
Simone Segouin was an 18 year old French Rsistance fighter during
World War II. She had come from Chartres to help liberate Paris on
August 19, 1944.
Many animals were used during WWI on both fronts of the war. Since
horses and mules were vulnerable to poison gases, they were often
equipped with gas masks over their muzzles to protect them from inhaling
phosgene.
This famous image of an abandoned boy after the German bombing of London in 1945 was shot by Toni Frissell. The child sits alone in rubble outside of where his house used to be. The boy did later in fact survive the war.
Posing with the dead
Simone Segouin
Simone Segouin was an 18 year old French Rsistance fighter during
World War II. She had come from Chartres to help liberate Paris on
August 19, 1944.German Soldiers And Mule In Gas Masks
Many animals were used during WWI on both fronts of the war. Since
horses and mules were vulnerable to poison gases, they were often
equipped with gas masks over their muzzles to protect them from inhaling
phosgene.Louis Armstrong, cultural ambassador, plays trumpet for his wife in Giza
During the Cold War, the American government sent “cultural ambassadors” to Third World countries that they worried might fall under Communist influence. They were meant to be exemplars of the cultural freedoms enjoyed in America. Armstrong was one such ambassador, and was sent to Egypt in 1961.
Soviet soldier feeds a polar bear
This real photo, taken in 1950 shows a Soviet patrolman handing a can of condensed milk to a polar bear sow while a playful cub embraces his leg. Soldiers stationed in the Chukchi Peninsula took pity on the many bears they shared the landscape with, who became emaciated during an especially cold winter. Condensed milk was plentiful, and the soldiers offered them as gifts to the hungry (and extremely dangerous) animals.
Abandoned Boy Following German Bombing Of London
This famous image of an abandoned boy after the German bombing of London in 1945 was shot by Toni Frissell. The child sits alone in rubble outside of where his house used to be. The boy did later in fact survive the war.
Circus hippo pulling a cart
Hippos were all the rage in the circus world. They were routinely featured as the focal point in acts back in the early 1900s.
Soldier sharing a banana with a goat during WWII
During hectic times, people tend to bond with unlikely beings. Here, this soldier is trying to feed a starving animal after a recent battle took place.
Ad for anti-malaria drug in Papua New Guinea
Atabrine knows how to get straight to the point of a sales pitch. It is sort of like seeing an anti-smoking ad today.
Sun tan vending machines
Well, it looks simpler than going to a tanning booth. My only concern involves which areas of the body other people tried to tan.
Betty White at home with her dog
Taken during the 1950s, this is a young Betty White teaching her dog a
new trick. Amazingly, she has the same youthful energy to this day.
White, not the dog.
Source: Daily Sanctuary
Source: Daily Sanctuary
Young girl jumps off Empire State Building
In a way, this suicide is beautiful. This woman sadly took her own life, but her beauty in death is undeniable.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Blast destroys front of building in Belgian town
Paranoia strikes deep
Sunset Strip Teen Riots November '66
https://youtu.be/D9ialZHUFVc?list=RDD...
There's something happening here
what it is ain't exactly clear
there's a man with a gun over there
telling me i got to beware
i think it's time we stop, children,
what's that sound everybody look what's going down
nobody's right if everybody's wrong
young people speaking their minds
getting so much resistance from behind
i think it's time we stop, hey,
what's that sound
every body look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singing songs and carrying signs
mostly say, hooray for our side
it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
you step out of line, the man come and take you away
we better stop, hey, what's that sound
everybody look what's going downstop, hey,
what's thatsound
everybody look what's going down
stop, now,
what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
stop,
children, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
https://youtu.be/D9ialZHUFVc?list=RDD...
There's something happening here
what it is ain't exactly clear
there's a man with a gun over there
telling me i got to beware
i think it's time we stop, children,
what's that sound everybody look what's going down
nobody's right if everybody's wrong
young people speaking their minds
getting so much resistance from behind
i think it's time we stop, hey,
what's that sound
every body look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
a thousand people in the street
singing songs and carrying signs
mostly say, hooray for our side
it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
into your life it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
you step out of line, the man come and take you away
we better stop, hey, what's that sound
everybody look what's going downstop, hey,
what's thatsound
everybody look what's going down
stop, now,
what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
stop,
children, what's that sound
everybody look what's going down
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Around the Web
Richard Dawkins
Yes, American Xtian fanatics bomb abortion clinics. But it's ILLEGAL. There are theocracies where persecution of women & gays is THE LAW.
USA TODAY
On today's #frontpage: #SupremeCourt won't hear #GunControl challenge; #Venezuela opposition nears supermajority
Mashable @mashable
British rescuers are using fridges as life boats to move people from flooded homes
http://on.mash.to/1RBW2ZN pic.twitter.com/JmjcBY0ULJ
How palm oil cultivation in Borneo is threatening the ecosystem everywhere: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/12/01/how-palm-oil-cultivation-in-borneo-is-threatening-the-ecosystem-everywhere/ … h/t @Greenpeace
Irina Tikhomirova @IrinaGreenVoice
WSJ Canada @WSJcanada
WSJ Canada's @RitaTrichur on CBC's @metromorning now discussing Weight Watchers’ plan to win back customers http://on.wsj.com/1HPc1BK
"Don't call it a diet"
Salon.com @Salon 7m7 minutes ago
The Supreme Court has just handed Wayne LaPierre and the NRA a major defea
http://slnm.us/dUNDyPq
We're partnering with Global Lighting Challenge to install 10 billion LED lights
http://ow.ly/VAvHs #GLC #COP21
Philips Lighting, Philips and Philips Lighting US
Pollution-hit Delhi to ban drivers on alternate days
Indian capital devises controversial measures in bid to to tackle world’s worst air quality
A Delhi rickshaw cyclist sleeps next to an advertisement promoting more environmentally friendly transport in the Indian capital. Photograph: Prakash Singh/Getty http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/delhi-car-ban-licence-pollution-smog?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
Baby elephant has very close encounter with a hungry crocodile http://trib.al/jA6DCd9
Colum McCann's Letter to a Young Writer: http://thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2015/11/colum-mccanns-letter-to-young-writer.html?m=1 …
#ReflectionCanyon is one of the unique wonders in the #Southwest. Located in a remote… https://plus.google.com/+Muz4now/posts/AVa8zKESVLE …
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Quotes
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
- E. M. Forster
“I’d come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.”
- David Mixner
“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
- Jo Walton
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
- George Santayana
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.”
- Herman Hesse
“Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
― George Santayana
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.”
- Herman Hesse
"Do not let your free will, the most valuable thing you possess, be taken away." - Helmuth Hubener
"Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman."
- Joan Jett
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
- Edward Abbey
"Truth is so obscured nowadays, and lies so well established, that unless we love the truth we shall never recognize it." - Blaise Pascal
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
- Martin Luther King
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
- Thucydides
“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
- Carroll Bryant
“Humour is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of suprises.”
- Erma Bombeck
“Plans are invitation to disappointment.”
- Derek Landy
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
- Alfred Adler
"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible."
- Noam Chomsky
"The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience."
— Victor Gollancz
“It is the consumers of the rich nations of the temperate northern regions of the world who are primarily responsible for the ongoing loss of natural wealth in the tropics."
- Jonathan Loh
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” - Confucius
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”
- John Lennon
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing” - Lao Tzu
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” - Socrates
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
- Native American Proverb
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
- Marshall McLuhan
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
- E. B. White
"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
- Mike Tyson
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall
"Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others."
- Coretta Scott King
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
- William Blake
"Life is trying things to see if they work."
- Ray Bradbury
"Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The health of soil, plant, animal, and humans is one and indivisible.”
- Lady Eve Balfour
“The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.”
- Masanobu Fukuoka
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
- Rachel Carson
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." - George Sand
"I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to, and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."
- Brittany Renée
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did."
- Mark Twain
"In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners."
- Michael Bakunin
"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."
—Oscar Wilde
"Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."
- Bob Black
“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
- Richelle Mead
“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
- Anaïs Nin
"Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit others to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever." - Audre Lorde
"Do our individual actions make a difference? They give us the force to keep going."
- Martha Uvalle
"We no longer live life. We consume it."
― Vicki Robin
"A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!... Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all."
~ Herman Hesse
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Buddha
"I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."
― Judith Minty
"There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss."
- Anthony de Mello
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
“Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.”
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.” - Eduardo Hughes Galeano
“In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.”
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano
"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."
- Swedish Proverb
“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.”
- Qwatsinas
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. -- Garrison Keillor
"Doing the right thing has power."
- Laura Linney
"A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!" - Kevin Heath
"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do."
- Emanuel Swedenborg
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” – Edwin Way Teale
quotes
“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
– Hans Hofmann
"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."
― Barbara Kingsolver
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."
- Richard M. DeVos
"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
- Cervantes
"Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
- Ambrose Bierce
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates
“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"So, I have just one wish for you - the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain your integrity, and where you do not feel forced by your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom." - Richard Feynman
"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, but to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, but to be without desires is more pleasurable still."
- Nagarjuna
"Fear is the first natural enemy that must be overcome on the path to knowledge."
"No matter how frightening learning is, it is more terrible to think of a person without knowledge."
"Seek and see the marvels all around you."
- all from The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell
"Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple." - Pete Seeger
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” - Paulo Coelho
"Researchers estimate that 20% - 30% of Americans have voluntarily reduced their incomes and their consumption because of new personal priorities, and are happy with the change."
"Those who participate in voluntary simplicity question how modern society defines 'the good life' and advocate for less materialistic lifestyles."
"Voluntary simplicity involves limiting material consumption and seeking satisfaction through the noncommercial and non-material aspects of life."
- all from Complicated Simplicity, Sandlin/Walther, 2009
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
― John Powell
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
― Noam Chomsky
“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming, the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
― Aldous Huxley
"Come, behold this world, how it resembles an ornamented chariot, in which fools flounder, but for the wise there is no attachment to it." - Dhammapada
"If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." - Confucius
"Everything in life is speaking, is audible, is communicating, in spite of its apparent silence." - Hazrat Inayat Khan
“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” - Vicki Robin
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?” - Chuck Palahniuk
"Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth."
- Eckhart Tolle
"You can't consume much if you sit still and read books." - Aldous Huxley
“Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.” – E.F. Schumacher
“For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.” - Andrew Bacevich
"We're not running out of fossil fuels. We're running out of environment." -- Paul Ehrlich
"We may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living." -- David R. Brower
"We don’t know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy." -- Wendell Berry
"Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache." ~ Philip Wylie
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ~ George Santayana
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” - Leonardo da Vinci
"We are like islands in the sea - separate on the surface, but connected in the deep." - William James
"The required success criteria for the twenty-first century are social cohesion, a respect for all of nature and the maintenance of the integrity of fundamental ecological systems." - Robert Theobald
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” - Lao Tzu
"I thought of that while riding my bike." -Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity
"When I go biking I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart." - Diane Ackerman
“The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctance, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”
- Wendell Berry
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do” - Charles Dudley
"One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us." - Black Elk
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is victory over self." - Aristotle
"What does it take? It takes for us to tell ourselves the truth. It takes for us to tell ourselves the truth. That's what it takes. Not to lie to ourselves." - John Trudell
"Earth has limited resources, and we can't run a linear manufacturing process forever. The best way to be efficient is to reuse what we already have." - Self-Repair Manifesto
“A city is successful not when it’s rich but when its people are happy.” — Enrique Pealosa, Mayor, Bogotá, Colombia
“In recent years, psychologists studying measures of life satisfaction have largely confirmed the old adage that money can’t buy happiness—at least not for people who are already affluent.” - World Watch Institute
"In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world." - Andrew Weil
"Less is a possibility." - Douglas Coupland
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." - Confucius
“By shifting our mind-set we can actually recognize the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant.”
- P. Lipman
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