Artists 24 September 2010
Posted by marisacat in Divertissements, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Great bowerbirds are known for their dramatic and elaborate constructions with decorative objects such as pebbles, bones, and shells to attract a mate.
But researchers have discovered a new dimension to these showy structures: males of this species build staged scenes that make themselves look larger or smaller than they actually are.
Scientists believe great bowerbirds are the first known non-human animals that create scenes with altered visual perspectives for viewing by other individuals [Michael & Patricia Fogden/Corbis]
Looks to me as tho the great bowerbird has devised a triumphal bower for himself and his mate.
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Pic: A supporter of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dresses as the devil to taunt a visiting American diplomat
Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace
Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?
He should have paid more attention to Obama’s pandering to AIPAC.
Obama invokes ‘state secrets’ claim to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi
That’s the same bullshit defence used to quash Maher Arar’s suit against Rumsfeld. But hey, the Democrats are just so morally superior to war-criminal scum like the Bushco crew, right?
Obama Administration: Confused over whether birth control is healthcare
and such a pity that because Obby loves to spread his legs for fundies, so must we.
Are these people fucking morons? (rhetorical question…)
…the predictable, Colbert effect on the local Cali noooooooz
those lazy unemployed in Cali, sooooooo need to sign up and work in the fields ….
living an illegal ten to the sustainable living studio apartment in order to pay that $1,000 plus rent ………..
I’m sure there’s a facebook page now ….and paypal is quite busy with a tee-shirt …VC facebook “angel”/paypal founder – Peter Theil/Singularity/Fortune 400, jacks off as we tell our fellow frogs, in the warm womb of the boiling pot:
or was that Thiel, …. whatevah, same ghastly creep, no matter how it is spelled ……
and yeah he’s desperately jackin off with Ellison et al, …so very hard to get it up when you appear to own earth and you are getting rather BORED ….
and of course, as usual, no mention of those legally (with VISA) imported immigrants from despotic nations with despotic demeanors who brutally oversaw all the nimble fingered wimmens doing the Sperry Rand, et al, assembly work, in Sly Con Valley …(while the frat boyo promising techies slept during their watch over whether those wimmens might lose an arm in that malfunctioning equipment ….)
It never ceases to amaze me, …that despite the population of Chinese Americans in Silicon Valley, …….. MegaCorps[e] Publicly Traded [“DEFENSE”] Companies …are absolutely loaded with Chinese on Visas …….versus “Chinese Americans” …………………..
if there was any sense at all to maintaining a nation the whole H1B and the various “import cheap workers” scams would have gone by the wayside long ago. They have always been misrepresented inside the USA as a way of importing highly skilled people for very specific jobs. Yeah right
But no.
You know so many people got all whupset over the sputtering “bomb” in Times Square a few mnths ago. But I paid attention to his work history and Why The Fuck (not that I care, LOL) he was ever here.
Came in on one of those work visas, he was an ACCOUNTING CLERK for Elizabeth Arden at one of their “back offices” in CT. And of course stayed long enough to become a citizen, import a wiffe from the home country and so on…
Like we have not had out of work account dept people all over the country… years ago as well as now?
Big scam. IMO we pay off the countries we like or want to do biz with, in part, with the work visa scam. Often the handling of them inside the countries, foisting off some of their people to elsewhere (in thsi case the USA), is rife with corruption…
And so on.
…yes, …and speaking of FINANCE and ACCOUNTING,…I would still love to know what actually happened to Ciara Durkin in Afghanistan.
… and, … how quickly forgotten (Dearest Senators), …….La Vena Johnson
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(I really don’t care for Jimmy Whales (or however his name is spelled) ..but Teeny Weeny Jimmy, will be MY TOOL HERE) ……
no kidding?
well you know how it goes… our men of honor serve honorably and heroically.
Don’t besmirch it.
The daughter of Dr John Johnson, a service veteran
I am not saying her father had choices, and more and more in America don’t have much choice at all… but I sure do wonder if some of the “strong military men” of eralier eras, like Bacevich, get a clue what they participated in. Esp now a child of theirs died in service. Velma, murdered. Unless someone wants to call those wounds self inflicted….
I am so fucking tired of the mil, the vaunted service class, the herding of poorer and poorer peopl to the mil, the higher and higher pay for the officer class and the retired officer class (goes up every time the congress votes themselves a raise) the propaganda of the damned DREAM Act … and so on.
BTW, the Tillman WIDOW spent the recent 9/11 doing something or other with Snob.
Might have been Veterans Day that the widda spent with Snob. I lose track of the jingoistic holidays.
so very sad, I went back to a copy of a prior post I made here (looks like I may have posted it on 07/31/08, …..give or take a day, …given time zones and all?), which mentioned LaVena, ……to share her reality. …Unfortunately, the TruthOut “link” (Is There an Army Cover-Up of …. Murder of Women Soldiers?) to the article, which so painfully revealed her reality, has been obsolesced, …I “clicked” the “URL address,” and it “rerouted” to the main “Truth Out” page …. How quickly the “NET” Forgets?
never forget your cursive ……….
DemFromCT, Greg Dworkin also known as Bug Eye’d Bitch (I call his photo that) is spinning as fast as he can.
Oops I think he fell off the earth. Still spinning tho….. The Dems are so frantic and so public about it.
what if Bug Eye’d Bitch just shuts up.
… 
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I mean Politico’s Arena section…
People Mag..glad I can still drink (originally spelled it “frink” whatevah …now I thoroughly understand the alchohol thang despite being “good” all those years) ……….I will say, with the minimal pride I have left, …I’ve never been the cause of an automobile accident or hit and run pedestrian death/wound (just to preempt all the fockers lyin in wait to condemn me …I likely am more careful about whom I negligently hurt, than they ever have been, ever will….and I hold my drink rather well ……….)
Trying to find something I CAN drink.. which, not to be too borrring, I have mentioned before. Lst month (the month before actually) I rodered Bailey’s Irish cream… which went down OK, being basically a candy or dessert. This month I ordered a bottle of Dubonnet Red. Which is chilling as I type.
We shall see…
..do (carefully) try a nipper of Ouzo on ice, or speckled on ice cream (vanilla or chocolate would be my mundane preferance) …
alas, …then quickly offset the melancholy truths bit with a tad of Bcomplex preferably not in pill form …..
sigh ………
What if the Dems had guts and morals? What if they actually meant what they said? What if they didn’t have their noses up Wall St’s ass?
This what if game is fun.
I agree!!!!!!!!!! (really really do)
poor bug eye was so into open prens close prens snicker…..
Here is a cute tidbit I stumbled across…
Link to Silicon Valley Watch – which links back to the original SF Chron report…
AND I bet a fly on the wall at those “advisory boards” to the CIA, DOD and DoS would hear such fascist shit, much of it hare-brained and dumb as rocks too, that the little fly would fly away…
Well bred Carly needs protection … I am sooo reminded of the unspoken, yet creepily flaunted, nonetheless, press speak (Murky & Cronk) of her eminence re HP, that, …well yeah, she’s totally absent of any work experience …BUT HER DADDY …………..( her daddy what? ….had a secret? …..owned something desired? …what did her daddy have special among millions who have busted their ass, ao many times fruitlessly, not to hurt anyone, yet to take care of folks they loved, …yet their kids could never dream of running such a company, absent experience, despite their “brilliance” ….)
not that any of those kids at the end of the day wanted to run HP, …though I’m sure many of those kids are wondering why it is they live in fear of what ugliness the next day will bring, despite absence of “criminal offence.”
well she is not getting any campaign cash from HP… and not much from Silicon Valley… at least from what I read. She finally has an ad up, but it is not playing aorund here….
She is hard core anti abortion, which plays badly in California. Aside from everthing els…
NTIM.
Babs is useless and aided and abetted Ob in selling out women, reproductive health care coverage under the Ins Co Sell Out Bill and so on.
…not much from Silicon Valley… ….
unfortunately, I wouldn’t bet on that one, I don’t believe that there’s a CFO at a publically traded “Green,” “Tech” firm in Sly Con Valley that isn’t a “Republican,” if there are, they are a totally insignificant minority.
Well bred Carly needs protection
i’ve never heard Carly had any pedigree…?
unfortunately, I didn’t save the hardcopy; but, I specifically remember reading about her dad (generally, not in the slightest amount of detail) in the same, or neighboring, paragraph, about her lack of experience in terms of being hired as the CEO of HP.
here is a selection, her father was Joseph Sneed, law professor – Republican – 9th circuit for 35 years – and (off handedly I would say) hsi name flaoted to Nixon for the SC.
Google link to links
well …you know me, …..I hate Google/AI CMU/Singularity/NASA/Moffet/23Xme, …so I won’t be “Googling” it in order to ‘verify’ my own valid suppositions;. ….but, yeah I get it about her DADDY, I got it years ago, when I read into the ‘hardcopy’ inference.
;0), ;0(
well I remain not too impressed. Sorry.
well …you know me, …..I hate Google/AI CMU/Singularity/NASA/Moffet/23Xme, …so I won’t be “Googling” it in order to ‘verify’ my own valid suppositions;.
I m curious.. why do you post links at all? or even USE the internet? You think you have to “google” to be tracked?
If your dislike, decline to use is so very……… intense, why bother.
well I remain not too impressed. Sorry.
I’m not sure what your meaning is, I think I’m on the same page with you regarding Carley and Babs
As regards to my Google dislike, I’ve gotten along perfectly fine on the internet, without using any of their services, not clear why that should preclude me from using the internet, especially since one is now pretty much forced to “welcome” it into their lives, whether they like it or not.
As to why I post anti inhumane technology posts on the internet …well, why wouldn’t I, especially since I’m being forced to buy into the fact that soon, I will have to post all sorts of previously private data on the internet?
just to clarify ….I posted the Carley Sneed Fiorina comment, prior to my above (I think) comment in response to your Google/Internet question.
ha ….ha, ha, ha,
“Carley Sneed Fiorina”
perfect fuckin fit……
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ………..(there’s certainly a PBS “Special” which captures the bleak, yet vigorous and lively laughter surrounding that high bred, ANGLO/ITALO “PHILE,” HOMELAND TITLE)
Seig HEil!
(ha, ha, hahahahahahahahahah)
just to clarify ….I posted the Carley Sneed Fiorina comment, prior to my above (I think) comment which was a response to your Google/Internet useage question.
Speech! (snooze) Letter! (shredder)
Obby and Sebelius are all whupset over the insurers cutting off children.
Very very whupset. Sibelius is ANGRY! They sent a l e t t e r
This suffering cow of an administration even used the word HOPE in the ltter.
Most useless president…. no debate on that. Well other than to the neocon / liberal base standing behind him. He does crank it out for them.
evidence of whupset state:
Read more: Link
Beyond pathetic.
KGO had on Theda Scokpol last night to hype the bill. Also pathetic. What an overbearing bitch, is the only word that comes to mind. Considering how much she is online (all the time it seems) I doubt she does much teaching at Harvard. (not that tenured professors necessarily do teach… let’s get real)
The Shows…………………
— NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and DCCC Chairman Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.); education roundtable with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Emergency Financial Manager for the Detroit Public Schools Robert Bobb and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten
— ABC’s “This Week”: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.); Queen Rania of Jordan; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former Bush political strategist Matthew Dowd and the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein
— CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio of Florida; Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck of Colorado; Tea Party Express Chief Strategist Sal Russo
— “Fox News Sunday”: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.); House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.); roundtable with Fox News’ Brit Hume, NPR’s Mara Liasson, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and NPR’s Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week” segment with RGA Executive Director Nick Ayers
— CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.); Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.)
— C-SPAN: “Newsmakers”: (10am ET / 6pm ET Sunday): Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), questioned by POLITICO’s Carrie Budoff Brown and the National Journal’s Terence Samuel … “The Communicators” (6:30pm ET Saturday): Direct Marketing Association Executive Vice President Linda Woolley and Center for Digital Democracy Found and Executive Director Jeff Chester, questioned by National Journal’s Juliana Gruenwald … “Q&A” (8pm ET & 11pm ET Sunday): Author Isabel Wilkerson (“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”)
— Univision’s “Al Punto”: Congressional candidate Francisco “Quico” Canseco (R-Texas) and Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas); Congressional candidate Assemblyman Van Tran (R-Calif.); author and former FARC hostage Ingrid Bettancourt; roundtable with Time’s Tim Padgett and “La Raza” Chicago Managing Editor Rubén Keoseyan
Donald Duck, God and king get votes in Swedish polls
Screw the Disney characters and G*D crap. I’d definitely vote for the couch potato party.
I think I will go with Mary Magdalene again….
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Nasty little game being played in one of the orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Streets that are declared “frauenrein”, free of women. In order to preserve their modesty.
Frauenrein… have to love it.
Of course on the tree lined streets it’s
shade’nfrauenrein.
And …
The awful thing is takes no imagination to know that loons and creeps in America are watching this sort of thing. And waiting. Planning.
It disgusts me the way that “believers” will almost ALWAYS side with the abuser on not their victims.
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Tells Eddie Long Supporters “I am a Victim of a Pedophile”
I’ll move this comment forward, Madman…
I read the transcript to Eddie Long’s “It wasn”t me, I did not do it, no nonononononon… “sermon” today. Pretty lousy… as a 4th comes forward.
And lordy, saints preserve us, Jesse J Jr was sleepin’ with a white woman. A BLONDE, no less.
What’s next?
Nooooooo
Link
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