Ron H. sent a cool article about a super caldera underneath Europe. The article is here: Supervolcano Threatens Life in Europe
Here’s a video about one of the biggest caldera’s we know about on the planet — the one under Yellowstone. I watched this about a year ago, and I thought it was well done.
Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo.
Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. Music is Claude Debussy Nocturnes: Sirènes.
It always amazes me how absolutely stupid businesses and marketers are. You’d think they’d get a clue…but they don’t. Well, here it is spelled out: It’s MY telephone. I pay for it. You don’t. That means that it’s MY tool, MY communication device, to use when I wish. It is NOT your ticket to my ear. If and when YOU start paying the bill, maybe then you have a right to use it…but I won’t be listening. Same with my email, and the same with my life. Go suck something toxic. Oh, and, just so you know, the more messages you leave, the more spam you send, the more junk mail and packages you leave in my real mailbox and at my front door, the more you receive bad marks and bad press, and, psst, everybody knows word of mouth advertising, bad or good, is the very best advertising money CAN’T buy. *snicker* Ah…Facebook folks? You might take a page from this for yourself. Don’t think your solicitations go unnoticed. They don’t. They get you LOADS of bad press.
I’m certainly more in favor of pregnancy prevention than abortion, but I’m totally against having a woman carry a fetus to term who, A) doesn’t want it, and/or B) can’t afford it. I think abortion for those who desire it NEEDS to be an option in an enlightened society. We don’t need to go back to “back alley” abortions, something that killed my grandmother when her husband, my grandfather, threatened to leave her if she got pregnant again. Of course, she got pregnant again because good ol’ granddad couldn’t keep it in his pants and blamed HER for getting pregnant because of his lust.
Anti-abortion folks hold their misguided sense of saving babies for JEEESUS or whatever god-head they claim as sacrosanct savior. Yet, they same folks decry payments to welfare moms.
Anti-abortion folks need to “put it back in their pants,” “it” being their religious-based insistence that we all, every last one of us, need to follow their sense of moral code and ethics. No we don’t. You’re extremists, fanatics, and completely irrational, proven by your dissonant positions which holds that, while abortion shouldn’t happen at all, regardless of circumstance, that supporting the resulting unwanted child is not your financial and social problem.