tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22489991542770945522024-03-13T14:03:23.396-07:00GridIronyGridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-6088436624566456012010-09-25T08:54:00.000-07:002010-09-25T09:11:23.403-07:00Jeans and a Wife Beater<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/wifebeater-wonder.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/wifebeater-wonder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Fellas will not have much trouble shopping and they are usually beyond content with a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wife%20beater">wife beater</a> and some regular jeans.<br /><br />For women, we’re talking about a whole different story in relation to shopping. Just turn on your Entertainment Tonight and you'll see female celebrities in all sorts of outfits. Then check out the men’s section and you will find that guys have way less to choose from. Maybe it is because men do not care for fancy belts and such, but it might be hard for women to pick the right style or fit for them without following the proper guidelines.<br /><br />Finding clothing that fits perfectly can be a real challenge for women of all ages. Usually, things such as belts or shoes will work with any body type. You just pick the proper size and buy, you'll find nothing else to it. Now the hard part comes when you are searching for a <a href="http://www.zappos.com/jeans">nice pair of jeans</a>. Men and women come in all different shapes and sizes. There are a lot of options you can decide on in terms of jeans: relaxed fit, casual fit, baggy, and a lot of other types. Obviously, not all types of jeans look great on everyone and not all types of jeans will fit a certain body type.<br /><br />On guys, loose fit and baggy just works better, but baggy does not look good as far as most girls are concerned. So which styles do look good on which body types?<br /><br />This guide will help you make a proper decision in regards to figuring out what type of jeans will look best with your figure. It might just make it easier on you and help you get from the clothing store faster. Your boyfriend or husband will definitely be happy provided you can get outside the store quicker, and one thing is certain even where you are concerned: while shopping can be fun, there comes a period when too much is too much.<br /><br />A particular physical stature we can cover is for anyone without a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttocks">booty</a>. The kind of jeans you ought to be looking for is ones with straight legs. You will be searching for what they call tapered or even skinny jeans as, this will look best with what you have.<br /><br />These skinny styles won't give you that deflated balloon appearance you despise. As pointed out above, not all styles work with certain body types. Unless you have plenty of rear end, you will not look best in a baggy style of jeans. Even jeans if we do extra room can leave big gaps when standing and will wrinkle up: not that appealing of a style.<br /><br />The next frame which will be covered is the petite/small or skinny frame. You, like the people with no butt, will look best in a straight leg or skinny jeans style. You should try to avoid the styles which taper in the bottom. Some Levi straight leg jeans would look just fine on you. Finding a couple of jeans for you should not be hard at all. The hardest part would probably be picking out a color or brand name. Each brand name can have interesting styles with add-ons to their jeans. So be sure and investigate several name brands after you know for the best pair of jeans to wear.<br /><br />Some of you may have short waists and there are naturally plenty of excellent options for you as well. Remember: jean manufacturers make jeans for people of all sizes, creeds, and shapes. If you look carefully enough, you will discover the style you need. However, the style of jeans you need is the low wasted style, the same as the one which works great for tall people. You will need to avoid jeans which are high, so as not to make the torso look shorter. Your goal is to make the torso look longer, so low rise jeans are just the thing you need. Something else which can help wants jeans which have their pockets placed lower: try to stick with a jeans rise of 7.5 inches or lower.<br /><br />As obnoxious as it sounds, shopping is often stressful and discovering <a href="http://www.jeansauctions.com/">the right pair of jeans</a> can be even harder. As you can see, this guide may help you find the best looking and fitting jeans while not having to try on a number of clothes without being aware of the biggest suggestions. You may still find a couple of jeans that may better suit you. The jeans industry is not regulated, so it is best that you still try types of jeans on if possible.GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-24155023437115768802010-07-20T13:48:00.001-07:002010-07-20T13:48:56.755-07:00A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East<div > </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:730C49FC-9081-4CA2-9A89-FA3B4CCE4C92:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/730C49FC-9081-4CA2-9A89-FA3B4CCE4C92/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/968592fd-750b-46f0-9e7b-66f6183f418d/730C49FC-9081-4CA2-9A89-FA3B4CCE4C92/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html"><H2>A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/EFB5FCBF-8712-43CB-833C-CD399624499E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html">Israel and the Arab states near the Persian Gulf recognize a common threat: the regime in Tehran</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html">asked whether the UAE would support a possible Israeli air strike against the regime in Tehran, Ambassador Otaiba said: "A military attack on Iran by whomever would be a disaster, but Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a bigger disaster</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html">Notwithstanding the shocking nature of his remarks, Otaiba was merely expressing, in a public forum, "the standard position of many Arab countries</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html"><P>The fact that some Western politicians are unfamiliar with this position has to do with their own ignorance, and with the diplomatic skill with which the smaller Gulf states, in particular, have managed to hide their opposition to their powerful neighbor until now.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,706445,00.html">Saudi Arabia had recently "conducted tests to stand down its air defenses to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran's nuclear facilities</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/730C49FC-9081-4CA2-9A89-FA3B4CCE4C92/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-16395877090503533812010-07-16T15:42:00.001-07:002010-07-16T15:42:04.395-07:00Soon Google Will No Longer Sell The HTC Nexus One<div > Apparently, the very last shipments of the popular phone that has somewhat led the way in the Android phone game will go the way of the do do bird as Google makes way for the next generation of Google Android phones and mobile devices. So does this mean we will see a Google HTC Nexus Two? Perhaps...<br/><br/>The good thing is that all costomer service and support will still be offered and available to to all current Nexus One heads. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:11015AE2-DDF6-4824-9192-E6EA26D4C17C:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/11015AE2-DDF6-4824-9192-E6EA26D4C17C/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/7262be15-3381-4ff0-a99e-740684a56ef7/11015AE2-DDF6-4824-9192-E6EA26D4C17C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/" href="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/" style="font-size: 11px;">androidelectronics.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/">Google pulls in final shipment of Nexus One’s from HTC</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/">Are you still debating getting yourself a Nexus One? If so, you may want to make up your mind pretty quick. Google has announced that it has taken in it’s final shipment of Nexus One’s from HTC, and there’s no turning back to please indecisive consumers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/">They have also mentioned that they will be closing their web store, http://google.com/phone . According to Google’s Nexus One blog: Earlier this year, we announced that we will be closing the Nexus One web store .</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/07/google-pulls-in-final-shipment-of-nexus-one%e2%80%99s-from-htc/">Customer support will still be available for current Nexus One customers. Good to know support will still be available, but it will only be a matter of time until that goes as well. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/11015AE2-DDF6-4824-9192-E6EA26D4C17C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-19371333240830797882010-07-14T15:10:00.001-07:002010-07-14T15:10:36.102-07:00Loneliness?<div > Does everyone get lonely sometimes </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:5705B30C-5306-4E1F-A40F-797EFE39F689:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5705B30C-5306-4E1F-A40F-797EFE39F689/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/fc139ed3-f07b-4082-a92c-fa50fad47cb6/5705B30C-5306-4E1F-A40F-797EFE39F689/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/" href="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mentalhealth.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/"><P>One of our main aims is to help people enjoy good mental health. We want to raise awareness of the importance of spending time with others because research shows that social contact is good for our mental and physical well-being.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/"><P>In life, it is not uncommon to feel lonely at one time or another. But when experienced for a long time, loneliness can be detrimental to our well-being. <br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/"><P>By raising awareness of loneliness we hope to tackle the stigma that surrounds it, and help individuals who are feeling lonely to connect with others. <br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/"><P>For some, this may be a case of picking up the telephone to arrange to see a friend, volunteering for a local charity to meet some new people, or joining a local sports club.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5705B30C-5306-4E1F-A40F-797EFE39F689/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/" href="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mentalhealth.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/"><H1 id="skiplinks">What is loneliness?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/"><H5>What happens when we feel lonely?</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/"><H5>Are more people experiencing loneliness?</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/loneliness-and-mental-health/what-is-loneliness/"><H5>What can I do if I feel lonely?</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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Apparently you don't need to pay tuition on credits that you earn from taking these tests. So you can basically test out of certain classes freshman and sophomore level classes that you would need to take anyway. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:6996162A-BAB8-417B-BEFA-43D86C9A1AD1:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6996162A-BAB8-417B-BEFA-43D86C9A1AD1/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/6821f5de-39be-44dd-a6c0-2d5b23491ad6/6996162A-BAB8-417B-BEFA-43D86C9A1AD1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP"><H1><br /><DIV><br /><A href="http://www.examiner.com/sponsor/"><IMG border="0" src="http://image.examiner.com/img/icon/sponsorbutton.gif" /></A><br /></DIV><br />Earning credits through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP)<br /></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP">In today’s fast-paced and competitive world a college degree is essential to finding a career, yet also extremely costly in many cases. An increasingly popular program among students and intellectuals looking to gain an advantage in obtaining a college degree is CLEP.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP"><STRONG>General Information on CLEP<br /></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP">The <A target="_blank" href="http://www.clepstudyguides.net/what-is-the-clep-test/">CLEP test</A> offers a large variety of courses (34 in total), ranging in subjects such as: business, literature, foreign language, history/social sciences, science, and mathematics. More impressively, the college credits offered by the CLEP are accepted at nearly 3,000 colleges and universities nationwide.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP"><P><br /><STRONG>Who is the CLEP for?<br /></STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-44986-SF-Community-Colleges-Examiner~y2010m6d25-Earning-credits-through-the-College-Level-Examination-Program-CLEP">Other groups include home-schooled students, working adult students with hectic agendas, international students (looking to earn credit from the Foreign Language section of the CLEP), and military service members and veterans. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6996162A-BAB8-417B-BEFA-43D86C9A1AD1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-72930065750109210782010-03-19T18:01:00.001-07:002010-03-19T18:01:14.726-07:00Meet The Texas Taliban<div > Wow these guys are a little angry at somebody, don't you think? </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:800F1D67-8EF8-4507-904A-D827AADCB957:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/800F1D67-8EF8-4507-904A-D827AADCB957/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/ffc33e1f-60c1-41d6-8f04-c4e8206dc474/800F1D67-8EF8-4507-904A-D827AADCB957/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php" href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.salem-news.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php">The group thinkprogress.org reports that a Texas town has assumed a position similar to the group Hezbollah, whose name equates to "Army of God". Their motto is "spritual warfare" against all who don't believe in their Christianity.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.salem-news.com/img/C45EFE2E-6D36-4EE1-8141-66F3642E69D3" alt="Repent Amarillo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php"><P class="story">The evangelical Christian hate group "Repent Amarillo" is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php"><P class="story">Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, "spring break events," and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a "Warfare Map" of its enemies in town.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march082010/texas-taliban.php">But grassroots opposition to Repent is also building. A group called "Angel Action" has mobilized against Repent, and blogs and Amarillo-based Facebook groups are springing up to protest Repent's hate.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/800F1D67-8EF8-4507-904A-D827AADCB957/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-17295237662441004022010-03-03T10:37:00.001-08:002010-03-03T10:37:50.407-08:00Ahmadinedjad Expects War Before Summer<div > Hope everyone understands the blowback and what this means if it happens. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:22B090A8-6FD4-4078-AC12-6586A6F8B91D:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/22B090A8-6FD4-4078-AC12-6586A6F8B91D/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/99c511e5-707e-4958-9ba4-828dbbcc3339/22B090A8-6FD4-4078-AC12-6586A6F8B91D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006" href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thenational.ae</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006">The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper <i>Al Quds al Arabi.</i></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006">“The timing of the meeting, the way it was undertaken and the ensuing press conference that was held at its conclusion, all point to a strategic coalition being reinforced. This is the build-up of a new front that will spearhead the confrontation with the US-Israeli alliance</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006">The Iranian president said he expects war to break out somewhere between spring and summer of this year. Meanwhile, the Hizbollah chief vowed to strike the Israeli capital, its airports and power stations if Israel dared to attack Beirut’s critical infrastructure.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/22B090A8-6FD4-4078-AC12-6586A6F8B91D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-22532671740961945962010-02-10T08:14:00.001-08:002010-02-10T08:14:28.774-08:00Hi.Im - A New Web 2.0 With Promise<div > You essentially create a profile page for your name that connects all of your profiles at other Web 2.0 properties such as <a href="http://www.facebook.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="http://digg.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Digg</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flickr</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> among others. Very cool indeed. I wonder if their plan isn't to become another <a href="http://claimid.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claimID</a>? </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:774AC328-EFF6-48F2-8D38-3EDF6C24A906:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/774AC328-EFF6-48F2-8D38-3EDF6C24A906/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/9b0afa73-eeba-46e1-9e37-f74dfbbe6f30/774AC328-EFF6-48F2-8D38-3EDF6C24A906/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hi.im/" href="http://hi.im/" style="font-size: 11px;">hi.im</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hi.im/"><DIV id="header" aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://hi.im/"><SPAN aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Hi, Im</SPAN></A> </DIV><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://hi.im/sign_up">Create your Hi, I'm page</A></STRONG> or <STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://hi.im/sign_in">Login</A></STRONG> </P></DIV><DIV id="benefits" aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><H1 aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Hi, I'm is like your nametag on the internet.</H1><H2 aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Featuring your latest content from your favorite networks, your Hi, I'm page tells everyone who you are and what you're about all on one page.</H2><UL aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" compact="false"><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0"><A aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" href="http://hi.im/sign_up">Create your Hi, I'm page</A></LI></UL></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hi.im/"><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0"><DIV id="left" aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><IMG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="http://hi.im/images/misc/guess_who.gif" width="237" height="127" /></DIV><H3 aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Why Hi, I'm?</H3><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Chances are you've got a bunch of profiles all over the internet--Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed...Plus you might have a blog or a YouTube channel and some pictures on Flickr. Put all those sites together, and that's YOU on the internet.</P><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">With Hi, I'm you can share all of your latest content from all of your networks on one page.</P><UL id="feature_points" aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" compact="false"><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0">Add your content from your favorite networks.</LI><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0">Your Hi, I'm page updates whenever you post on any of your networks.</LI><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0">Highlight links, tweets, videos or posts that are most important to you.</LI><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0"><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0">Share your page at http://hi.im/yournam</LI><LI aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" value="0"></LI>e</LI></UL><BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" /></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hi.im/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/hi.im/img/CE188F1B-BE6F-4CA0-93CC-3CFB2D210D3F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hi.im/"><H3 aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Who's on Hi, I'm?</H3></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/774AC328-EFF6-48F2-8D38-3EDF6C24A906/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-30218328631338067552010-02-10T07:41:00.001-08:002010-02-10T07:41:07.778-08:00A Quick and Dirty Primer for Cuts of Beef<div > I am really getting hungry reading this article and writing these comments. I would really like some beef. Any cut will do. Bye now. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:148042A3-EEA2-4D3E-A651-B90B246CE02A:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/148042A3-EEA2-4D3E-A651-B90B246CE02A/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/f530a4f9-e5d4-4f06-9bc8-078257244f72/148042A3-EEA2-4D3E-A651-B90B246CE02A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/" href="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.luxist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><H1 class="posttitle">A Guide to Meat Cuts</H1><br /><P class="byline"><br />by <STRONG><A href="http://www.luxist.com/bloggers/andrea-hangst/">Andrea Hangst</A></STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.luxist.com/img/FE543A15-6EBF-415A-9F04-B710F76FE48C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/">When it comes to grilling a steak, many home cooks often think that they can quickly run to the grocery store, pick any cut or steak they see, and just slap it on a hot grill and - voila! - a good dinner. However, many of us who have tried this have inevitably run afoul of the Great Beef Gods, with cinder-dry steaks or tough hunks of gray meat. Here is a very simple list of great cuts of beef for grilling, and the best ways to prepare them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Steaks for One or Two</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Filet Mignon:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG><br />New York Strip</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Porterhouse:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Rib Eye</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG><br />Larger Cuts<br /></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Brisket</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Skirt Steak</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Tenderloin Roast: </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Tri-Tip: </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><STRONG>Handy Tips:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.luxist.com/2010/02/09/a-guide-to-meat-cuts/"><DIV><br />Always rest any beef on the counter prior to grilling - if the meat is at room temperature, the cooking will be more even. Also, dry off the meat with paper towels prior to putting it on the grill, to assist with searing. A meat thermometer (especially a digital model) will help with any confusion regarding doneness.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/148042A3-EEA2-4D3E-A651-B90B246CE02A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-2185310581425800562010-01-31T13:23:00.001-08:002010-01-31T13:30:45.814-08:00Review of FreeTaxUSA.com<div> I love this tax service. 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Free Tax USA will then send a sealed e-file to the Internal Revenue Service. You will receive a confirmation email soon afterwards. Once that happens you are finished.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; border-spacing: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> </td><td style="border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; width: 107px;" align="right" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/177CF033-2B1C-42ED-85DF-2F572E0975A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" alt="blog it" style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" border="0" height="17" width="107" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table>GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-5644953166848383602010-01-12T11:56:00.001-08:002010-01-12T11:56:38.282-08:00In interview, ousted governor Blagojevich claims he's 'blacker' than Obama<div > Some people just don't know when to shut up ..and Blagojevich is one of them.<br/><br/>Stay classy liberals.<br/><br/>Do you ever wonder if the reason so many liberals think everyone who opposes Obama must be a racist is because they are, in fact, a racist who never sees anything about people other than their race?<br/><br/>The twice-elected Democrat was impeached and removed from office last year after federal prosecutors arrested him on corruption charges that included trying to sell Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. He has pleaded not guilty.<br/><br/>Blagojevich is appearing on the reality TV show "Celebrity Apprentice" with Donald Trump this spring and his trial is expected to start later this year. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:870C798B-784E-48C6-A4FA-88B3E4741ABB:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/870C798B-784E-48C6-A4FA-88B3E4741ABB/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/e25d7550-f12e-4eb9-9ddc-1ef78d12ce6c/870C798B-784E-48C6-A4FA-88B3E4741ABB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama" href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama" style="font-size: 11px;">ca.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><H1><br />In interview, ousted governor Blagojevich claims he's 'blacker' than Obama <br /></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><P><br />CHICAGO - Ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies.<br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ca.news.yahoo.com/img/AAC80CB4-6823-4F7B-8AB3-5864266BC05F" alt="Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/M. Spencer Green, file)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><P><br />Blagojevich, referring to the president as "this guy," says Obama, a fellow Democrat from Illinois, was elected based simply on hope.<br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><P><br />"What the (expletive)? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter," Blagojevich told the magazine for a story in its February issue, which hits newsstands Jan. 19.<br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><P><br />"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived," said Blagojevich, who is white. "I saw it all growing up."<br /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100111/world/us_blagojevich_obama"><P><br />The White House refused to comment.<br /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/870C798B-784E-48C6-A4FA-88B3E4741ABB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-55006043840680179952010-01-12T11:45:00.001-08:002010-01-12T11:45:54.982-08:00Google Steals Name From Sony Ericsson<div > The new bully in the technology world is flexing its muscle </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:05F7D9B7-8055-4D86-B9F2-F4388BEBC99F:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/05F7D9B7-8055-4D86-B9F2-F4388BEBC99F/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/418d8d0b-1ce5-4f63-8678-0da5daf7b49a/05F7D9B7-8055-4D86-B9F2-F4388BEBC99F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/01/xperia-nexus-sony-ericsson-changes-name/" href="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/01/xperia-nexus-sony-ericsson-changes-name/" style="font-size: 11px;">androidelectronics.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://androidelectronics.com/2010/01/xperia-nexus-sony-ericsson-changes-name/">These days if you say “Nexus” the only thing you’re bound to think of is Google’s Nexus One Android Phone by HTC – ESPECIALLY if you’re the tech-loving type. But less than 2 months ago the name Nexus meant something very different to the Android world. That’s because Sony Ericsson announced Nexus , their custom build and UI for Android that was made up of 2 components: Timescape and MediaScape. HTC Sense, MOTO BLUR, Sony Ericsson Nexus… that name had taken its place in Android history. And then Google erased it.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/05F7D9B7-8055-4D86-B9F2-F4388BEBC99F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-56013964665172988442009-12-30T10:19:00.001-08:002009-12-30T10:19:53.849-08:00Hacked STOP Signs (Photos)<div > Includes old classics like: Stop Eating, Can't Stop Dancing, Stop It's Hammertime, Stop 3 Way - Whoa Whoa Wait A Minute, Stop Collaborate and Listen, Stop Driving, Don't Stop Believin, STart, Stop Right There Pilgrim, Stop In The Naaaame of Love, Stop And Smell The Roses, Stop. Freeze. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:FD41A56F-A6EB-49CE-A9CA-1619FE888C6B:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FD41A56F-A6EB-49CE-A9CA-1619FE888C6B/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/09eeee7b-1e76-4c3c-b33d-67f7ca27f04b/FD41A56F-A6EB-49CE-A9CA-1619FE888C6B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/" href="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.urlesque.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/"><br /><DIV align="center"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/2155672028/"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Voldemort" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-voldemort-584js122209.jpg" /></CENTER></A></DIV><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/54406887"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-eating-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Eating" /></CENTER></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/"><DIV align="center"><DIV align="left"><A target="_blank" href="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/may/01/news/chi-not-funny_01may01"></A></DIV><br /><BR clear="all" /><br /><A target="_blank" href="http://pointingandgiggling.blogspot.com/2008/11/stop-sign-graffiti.html"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-dancin584js122209.jpg" /></CENTER></A><br /><A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianbrarian/1468226722/in/photostream/"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-billions-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Billion Dollar Fine" /></CENTER></A></DIV><A name="cont"></A><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/54408373/" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-hammertime-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Start Hammertime" /></CENTER></A></DIV><br /><DIV align="center"><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Three" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-wait-328js122209.jpg" /><br /><A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/midgetbusdriver/3662945409/"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Collaborate and Listen" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-collaborate-584js122209.jpg" /></CENTER></A></DIV><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/poetas/2958959666/" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-driving-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Driving" /></CENTER></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/"><br /><DIV align="center"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/2423932267"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Journey" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-believin-584js122209.jpg" /></CENTER></A><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/3159343310" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-start-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Start" /></CENTER></A></DIV><br /></DIV><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://www.planestupid.com/blogs/2008/05/22/government-tells-government-stop-building-runways" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-pilgrim-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Pilgrim" /></CENTER></A></DIV><br /><A href="http://www.skwcbikelaw.com/?p=324" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-name-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Name Of Love" /></CENTER></A><br /><A href="http://johnandcisco.townhall.com/blog/g/2f578d0c-c1d9-4502-b091-9e035834b136" target="_blank"><CENTER><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-roses-584js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Roses" /></CENTER></A><br /><DIV align="center"><A href="http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-really-got-to-stop-you-know.html" target="_blank"><IMG vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/12/stop-signs-freeze-328js122209.jpg" alt="Hacked Altered Stop Signs Freeze" /></A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/">While it may be illegal to deface traffic signals for a variety of reasons (violent car crashes), these stop signs feature a clever line or cliché that includes the word stop. They may not be <A href="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/09/10/the-worlds-coolest-bus-stops/">the world's coolest bus stops</A>, but they might make you think twice before rolling through an intersection.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/12/28/hacked-stop-signs-photos/"><DIV align="left">It's hard to stop at every stop sign you see, especially if the sign's behind a bush or <A href="http://www.urlesque.com/2009/10/20/man-almost-killed-by-bus-video/">tall people crossing the street. </A>Officials in Oak Lawn, IL tried to change things by modifying the city's stop signs to be a little more eye-catching. In the fall of 2007 they added one-liners like, "Stop means that you aren't moving." to their signage, but the Illinois Department of Transportation pointed out the changes breached safety standards and requested their removal. <A target="_blank" href="http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/may/01/news/chi-not-funny_01may01">The signs were removed in April 2008.</A></DIV><br /></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FD41A56F-A6EB-49CE-A9CA-1619FE888C6B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-85097862867419235372009-12-29T16:14:00.001-08:002009-12-29T16:14:12.231-08:00My response to McAfee about Clipmarks<div > As most of you now know, McAfee has recently been advising people to use Clipmarks with 'extreme caution'. <br/><br/>I wanted to share my response here. More positive reviews from our users would help tremendously. <br/><br/>To post a review, you need to first registrater here <a href="http://bit.ly/7moCYE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/7moCYE</a>. I am very sorry to ask this of you. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:E18747A5-9960-42A6-B887-A5D45BAEA9CB:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E18747A5-9960-42A6-B887-A5D45BAEA9CB/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/2894fcf7-f056-42aa-b391-b4d5f44a460c/E18747A5-9960-42A6-B887-A5D45BAEA9CB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/clipmarks.com/msgpage/showthread.php?p=2959081" href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/clipmarks.com/msgpage/showthread.php?p=2959081" style="font-size: 11px;">www.siteadvisor.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/clipmarks.com/msgpage/showthread.php?p=2959081"><P class="note"><DIV>Dear McAfee,<br /></DIV><br /><BR /><DIV><br />I'm Eric Goldstein, a member of the Clipmarks team. What i can say as a matter of fact is that some of the negative reviews below are complete lies. We have never served a pop-up ad... never! So anyone claiming they received pop-ups is lying. And the people who are saying there is malware on Clipmarks are referring to a tiny handful of clips posted by spammers that we immediately removed. We vigilantly monitor Clipmarks for suspicious, spammy posts by users and do our best to remove the posts and users immediately. <br /></DIV><br /><br />To have Clipmarks on this list is very harmful to our business . I can only hope that someone at McAfee will look into this asap and remove us from this "Extreme Caution" list.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E18747A5-9960-42A6-B887-A5D45BAEA9CB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-71040908354660116872009-12-17T12:10:00.001-08:002009-12-17T12:10:18.432-08:00Should Tax-Payers Fund Your (Mis)Adventures?<div > As the economy sours, public rescue costs leave a bitter taste in tax-payers mouth </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:6728968C-93EE-4A5B-80F2-A902A7160CD8:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6728968C-93EE-4A5B-80F2-A902A7160CD8/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/d79123cb-c3fd-4017-9f77-3f0153cf6448/6728968C-93EE-4A5B-80F2-A902A7160CD8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002" href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newsweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002"><H1 id="headline">A Mountain of Bills</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002"><P>Who should have to pay to rescue stranded climbers?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newsweek.com/img/9225A7F0-1D0A-4E49-A8DB-27CFAEEB17E2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002"><DIV class="photoCredit"><br /> <SPAN>Don Ryan<br /></SPAN><br /> <SPAN> / </SPAN><br /> <SPAN>AP<br /></SPAN><br /> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002">What's the cost of a life—or really, what's the cost of saving one? When climbers, hikers, skiers, and rafters get caught in tight situations and need to be found and rescued, the answer can be a large number of taxpayer dollars.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002">The Mount Hood search—which included recovery of a third climber who was found dead—has involved sheriff's deputies, a military helicopter, and staff from Portland Mountain Rescue, a local volunteer organization. Maureen McLaughlin, a public information officer at Alaska's Denali National Park, says a large search operation like the Mount Hood one could involve dozens of people, from rangers on the ground to pilots and spotters who scan high-resolution photographs pixel by pixel for clues.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsweek.com/id/227009?GT1=43002">public anger over costs has led several states to implement charges, often when officials determine that the rescuees have acted negligently.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6728968C-93EE-4A5B-80F2-A902A7160CD8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-42320750264162662172009-12-14T10:01:00.001-08:002009-12-14T10:01:38.819-08:00Dance If You Love Breasts and Pink Gloves<div > You can help Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR by watching the video. Once this reaches 1,000,000 views they will be eligible for a large donation (including free mammograms for the community) from Medline, the manufacturer of the gloves. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:2C83D4BD-A2EE-46DD-AF0B-1393496E5C6A:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/2C83D4BD-A2EE-46DD-AF0B-1393496E5C6A/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/21ddcce1-f7be-4b2e-baa0-6b4c87b8882a/2C83D4BD-A2EE-46DD-AF0B-1393496E5C6A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw" style="font-size: 11px;">www.youtube.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw"><H1><xul:toolbarbutton image="http://www.downloadhelper.net/favicon.ico" type="menu-button"><xul:menupopup position="end_before"><xul:menuitem label="Download" tooltiptext="Download file and eventually apply conversion rules"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Quick Download" tooltiptext="Download file and eventually apply conversion rules without prompting for the target file/directory"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Download & Convert" tooltiptext="Prompt for conversion parameters, download file and apply conversion"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Tweet this video" tooltiptext="Send a tweet about the video"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Copy URL" tooltiptext="Copy the media URL to the clipboard"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Add to black list" tooltiptext="Add the domain hosting the media to the black list so next hits from there will be ignored"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Send to mobile phone" tooltiptext="Send media to your mobile phone through MP3tunes services"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Send to locker" tooltiptext="Send media to your MP3tunes private locker so it can be accessed from anywhere"></xul:menuitem></xul:menupopup></xul:toolbarbutton>Pink Glove Dance</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OEdVfyt-mLw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw"><DIV id="watch-ratings-views"><br /> <DIV id="watch-rating-div"><br /><DIV id="ratingWrapper"><DIV class="floatL"><DIV class="floatL" id="ratingStars"><br /><BUTTON title="5.0" class="master-sprite ratingL ratingL-5.0"></BUTTON></DIV><DIV id="ratingMessage"><DIV id="defaultRatingMessage" class=""><SPAN class="smallText">10,716 ratings</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="hid" id="hoverMessage"><A href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?uilel=3&service=youtube&passive=true&continue=http:%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fsignin?action_handle_signin=true%26nomobiletemp=1%26hl=en_US%26next=%2Fwatch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw&hl=en_US<mpl=sso">Sign in</A> to rate</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><br /></DIV><br /><DIV id="watch-views-div"><br /> <SPAN id="watch-views"><SPAN id="watch-view-count">5,040,929</SPAN> views</SPAN><br /></DIV><br /><DIV class="clear"></DIV><br /> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw"><SPAN class="description">Our employees put together this video to generate breast cancer awareness throughout our hospital system. We had a ton of fun putting this together and hope it inspires others to join in the cause </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C83D4BD-A2EE-46DD-AF0B-1393496E5C6A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-20462090257469759992009-12-13T11:30:00.001-08:002009-12-13T11:30:18.645-08:00In The Year 2021<div > </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:7164A4D4-A83D-4AAA-BA9A-04719EE5B1A9:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7164A4D4-A83D-4AAA-BA9A-04719EE5B1A9/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/e455c5b1-12f9-4596-a546-81c92e010965/7164A4D4-A83D-4AAA-BA9A-04719EE5B1A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.whatthechrist.com/?p=16417" href="http://www.whatthechrist.com/?p=16417" style="font-size: 11px;">www.whatthechrist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whatthechrist.com/?p=16417"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.whatthechrist.com/img/9D7C0528-75CC-4B8F-BD67-1A053A8ACDF9" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7164A4D4-A83D-4AAA-BA9A-04719EE5B1A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-44335322906157399732009-12-11T13:38:00.001-08:002009-12-11T13:38:05.702-08:0050 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings<div > "Watercolor paintings are considered as a unique way to creatively represent dreams, illusions, emotions, and bright feelings using water-soluble pigments. This medium of art is still very popular nowadays, and therefore we have prepared a list of some really impressive watercolor artworks that will surely inspire you." </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:7610AAB6-E2CF-45EC-B367-C606290496DC:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7610AAB6-E2CF-45EC-B367-C606290496DC/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/2fd4412e-0fe2-4284-93e2-46b50e58a1c5/7610AAB6-E2CF-45EC-B367-C606290496DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/09/50-beautiful-watercolor-paintings/" href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/09/50-beautiful-watercolor-paintings/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smashingmagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/09/50-beautiful-watercolor-paintings/"><H3>Beautiful Watercolor Paintings</H3><P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpb72/2810273749/">artist101</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpb72/2810273749/"><IMG width="500" height="373" alt="Mask-watercolor in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mask-watercolor.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/mask-watercolor.jpg" /></A></P><P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorus_maver/3191886687/">BILBOV.(Lorus Maver)</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorus_maver/3191886687/"><IMG width="500" height="381" alt="Sign-watercolor in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sign-watercolor.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sign-watercolor.jpg" /></A></P><P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfredng/3648861718/">alfred ng</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfredng/3648861718/"><IMG width="500" height="375" alt="Spr-watercolor in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/spr-watercolor.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/spr-watercolor.jpg" /></A></P><P><A href="http://twistedexit.deviantart.com/art/gas-station-diner-120315069">twistedEXIT</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://twistedexit.deviantart.com/art/gas-station-diner-120315069"><IMG width="500" height="319" alt="Gas-watercolor in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gas-watercolor.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/cdn_smash/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/gas-watercolor.jpg" /></A></P><P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pike77/3330070117/">artist101</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pike77/3330070117/"><IMG width="500" height="363" alt="Pic-watercolor in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" 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Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/watercolorpainting_66.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/watercolorpainting_66.jpg" /></A></P><P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8470940@N05/4106113233/in/pool-35471917@N00">Tigre Final</A></P><P class="showcase"><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8470940@N05/4106113233/in/pool-35471917@N00"><IMG width="500" height="450" alt="Watercolorpainting 70 in 50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings" src="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/watercolorpainting_70.jpg" original="http://media.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/watercolorpainting_70.jpg" /></A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7610AAB6-E2CF-45EC-B367-C606290496DC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-3717181561449765292009-12-11T07:21:00.001-08:002009-12-11T07:21:59.977-08:00The Other Great Wall<div > This one's in Israel. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:4809D701-8664-4EDC-ABFB-9F60209C0556:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4809D701-8664-4EDC-ABFB-9F60209C0556/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/27570847-4f3e-4cad-b5ea-3d0204f35156/4809D701-8664-4EDC-ABFB-9F60209C0556/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.veteranstoday.com/article9697.html" href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/article9697.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.veteranstoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.veteranstoday.com/article9697.html"><B><A href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=3"><FONT class="storycat">Opinion</FONT></A>: Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, The Great Wall of Israel</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.veteranstoday.com/article9697.html"><P>The Israeli wall, endlessly under construction, is far longer, approximately twice as high, no less militarized, and no less a dystopian wonder of prison architecture. It is also a thief. As it meanders, it steals land. It is, as the Berlin Wall once was, a stain on the human landscape. But no American president, including Barack Obama, is likely to make a Reaganesque journey to the Middle East, denounce the wall, and call for its dismantlement. It plays little part in the news in this country when the Israeli-Palestinian situation is raised. It’s hard to imagine us celebrating its fall. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.veteranstoday.com/article9697.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.veteranstoday.com/img/DC5DCA5A-07A1-47E3-BF95-9B93A485C1F2" alt="israeliwall_150" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4809D701-8664-4EDC-ABFB-9F60209C0556/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175175/tomgram%3A__ellen_cantarow%2C_the_great_wall_of_israel/" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175175/tomgram%3A__ellen_cantarow%2C_the_great_wall_of_israel/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.tomdispatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175175/tomgram%3A__ellen_cantarow%2C_the_great_wall_of_israel/"><STRONG>Living by the Gate From Hell</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175175/tomgram%3A__ellen_cantarow%2C_the_great_wall_of_israel/"><P>Much is heard of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the story of the determined, long-term nonviolent resistance of many Palestinian villagers to the loss of their lands, striking as it may be, is seldom told. Here’s my report from just one village on the West Bank.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4809D701-8664-4EDC-ABFB-9F60209C0556/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-26234971923713236522009-12-08T16:49:00.001-08:002009-12-08T16:49:23.140-08:00California doping our youths<div > Well maybe it's dope that certain children with proven disorders need. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:07BCD860-291A-4735-BF9C-4B9E762F818C:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/07BCD860-291A-4735-BF9C-4B9E762F818C/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/0c065780-e1fd-461c-935a-122e694f042f/07BCD860-291A-4735-BF9C-4B9E762F818C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtontimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared">California doping our youths</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared">I was horrified to read recently that it is increasingly common in California to treat children diagnosed with Attention- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with marijuana. California voters passed a law allowing doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients, including those under the age of 18. The law allows doctors to recommend marijuana "for any ... illness for which marijuana provides relief." Under that broad umbrella, doctors are pushing pot to treat all kinds of maladies, including ADHD.<br /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared"><DIV class="ppy-stage"><DIV class="ppy-tools ppy-left"><DIV class="ppy-enlarge"></DIV></DIV><DIV class="ppy-count"><EM class="ppy-cur">1 </EM>of<EM class="ppy-total"> 1</EM></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/williams-california-doping-our-youths/?feat=article_top10_shared"><P><br />Truly, this is horrifying. ADHD is described as a neurological disorder that prevents children from focusing on a specific task. In essence, people with ADHD have difficulty with self-regulation and self-motivation, owing to problems with distractibility, organization and prioritization.<br /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/07BCD860-291A-4735-BF9C-4B9E762F818C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-10653225988625695162009-12-08T00:24:00.001-08:002009-12-08T00:24:55.928-08:00R&B Babies Auto-Tuned<div > Ouch, Charlie Bit My Finger </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:A52EDA71-2D33-4286-ACB5-460DCF914721:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A52EDA71-2D33-4286-ACB5-460DCF914721/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/17ac37cb-e8a6-4bc1-9661-7f94f66f204f/A52EDA71-2D33-4286-ACB5-460DCF914721/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thechive.com/category/video/" href="http://thechive.com/category/video/" style="font-size: 11px;">thechive.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechive.com/category/video/"><H1><A title="**NEW** Charlie Bit My Finger, Auto-Tuned music video (1 video) - Click Here to Read the Rest of This Entry" href="http://thechive.com/2009/12/03/new-charlie-bit-my-finger-auto-tuned-music-video-1-video/">**NEW** Charlie Bit My Finger, Auto-Tuned music video (1 video)</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thechive.com/category/video/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.viddler.com/player/663654e" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A52EDA71-2D33-4286-ACB5-460DCF914721/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-58425628200067234292009-12-07T10:44:00.001-08:002009-12-07T10:44:09.071-08:00Beautiful Macro Photography by Brian Valentine<div > </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:27AFAAA3-CDCF-42EF-A67F-9D1B03F89D09:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/27AFAAA3-CDCF-42EF-A67F-9D1B03F89D09/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/7b16d9ba-1213-43f0-ac03-b909e6ba2941/27AFAAA3-CDCF-42EF-A67F-9D1B03F89D09/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine" href="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine" style="font-size: 11px;">abduzeedo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine">Beautiful Macro Photography by Brian Valentine</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><H3>Brian Valentine started taking macro shots as a hobby and today his passion takes him everyday on a trip to his own yard with his camera to discover more about the little things the world has to offer. The macro shots taken by him are absolutely beautiful and very interesting as you get to see all the small details of everything that goes in front of his lens.</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><P><br />For more from Brian make sure to <STRONG><A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv" target="_blank">visit his flickr</A></STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/5D252003-D2C6-4CA8-9ABA-667AB14154BB" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/3D811133-13C9-4101-BC5D-9033725E3D72" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/959B2AD9-1A4E-40EC-85D9-1BE17DEAAFF2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/08AE8802-D311-422C-B8A6-85759B1C12A0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-macro-photography-brian-valentine"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/abduzeedo.com/img/96F5DD50-61FA-4474-B552-A4ED41BCC325" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/27AFAAA3-CDCF-42EF-A67F-9D1B03F89D09/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-22787463945908187522009-12-06T20:30:00.001-08:002009-12-06T20:30:27.939-08:00SEALs Could Face Full Year in Prison Over Terrorist's Fat Lip<div > Hearing is DECEMBER 7th:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.supportTHESEALS.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.supportTHESEALS.com</a> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/12/seals_could_fac.html"><P>Heroic SEALs Matthew McCabe, Jonathon Keefe, and Julio Huertas could face <A href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/58016">a full year in prison</A> for catching Ahmed Hashim Abed, the terrorist behind the gruesome Fallujah massacre of four Americans delivering food, because Abed acquired or managed to give himself a fat lip of the kind kids get playing touch football.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/12/seals_could_fac.html"><P>Just as moonbattery is trickling down from Washington to cripple our economy, and oozing out of Hollyweird to rot our culture, it has infected the military's top brass and is making it impossible to fight a war effectively.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/12/seals_could_fac.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MisF5xY5534&hl=en_US&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/12/seals_could_fac.html"><H3>SEALs Could Face Full Year in Prison Over Terrorist's Fat Lip</H3></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DDA9AC3-74AA-4B6E-B549-93A6CD4E6E50/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248999154277094552.post-90525326096828607052009-12-06T14:41:00.001-08:002009-12-06T14:41:59.952-08:00The American Civil War of 2010<div > It's scary to think about. Do you guys think that civil war could be an inevitable occurrence in 2010. This guy reads a blog post from some blog I haven't been able to identify because the search engine results are so flooded with this story. </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><tr><td valign="top"><!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:4236268C-DE4E-4B43-97B7-5C7FAFB1BEBA:1 CLIPMARKS.COM --><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4236268C-DE4E-4B43-97B7-5C7FAFB1BEBA/" title="go to this clipmark"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_icon/8ed96153-8d80-48f4-bb86-61243eefc82d/4236268C-DE4E-4B43-97B7-5C7FAFB1BEBA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvJXUU9OY0&feature=player_embedded" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvJXUU9OY0&feature=player_embedded" style="font-size: 11px;">www.youtube.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvJXUU9OY0&feature=player_embedded"><H1><xul:toolbarbutton image="http://www.downloadhelper.net/favicon.ico" type="menu-button"><xul:menupopup position="end_before"><xul:menuitem label="Download" tooltiptext="Download file and eventually apply conversion rules"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Quick Download" tooltiptext="Download file and eventually apply conversion rules without prompting for the target file/directory"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Download & Convert" tooltiptext="Prompt for conversion parameters, download file and apply conversion"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Tweet this video" tooltiptext="Send a tweet about the video"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Copy URL" tooltiptext="Copy the media URL to the clipboard"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Add to black list" tooltiptext="Add the domain hosting the media to the black list so next hits from there will be ignored"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Send to mobile phone" tooltiptext="Send media to your mobile phone through MP3tunes services"></xul:menuitem><xul:menuitem label="Send to locker" tooltiptext="Send media to your MP3tunes private locker so it can be accessed from anywhere"></xul:menuitem></xul:menupopup></xul:toolbarbutton>Obama preparing for Civil War in 2010</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvJXUU9OY0&feature=player_embedded"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MXvJXUU9OY0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvJXUU9OY0&feature=player_embedded"><SPAN><DIV>Obama will declare CIVIL WAR before end of Winter</DIV><BR /><DIV>Obama is Preparing for CIVIL WAR in 2010</DIV><BR /><DIV><A dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2346/" target="_blank" href="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2346/">http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/i...</A></DIV><BR /><DIV>Military Hardware Movements into California</DIV><BR /><DIV><A dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2347/" target="_blank" href="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2347/">http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/i...</A></DIV><BR /><DIV>Obama - Meet His Zionist Controllers</DIV><BR /><DIV><A dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" title="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2309/" target="_blank" href="http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/id_2309/">http://www.planetnetopia.com/videos/i...</A></DIV><BR /><DIV>Obama Preparing for CIVIL WAR in 2010!??</DIV><BR /><A dir="ltr" rel="nofollow" title="http://redeemedhippiesplace.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/obama-preparing-for-civil-war-in-2010/" target="_blank" href="http://redeemedhippiesplace.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/obama-preparing-for-civil-war-in-2010/">http://redeemedhippiesplace.wordpress...</A> </SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4236268C-DE4E-4B43-97B7-5C7FAFB1BEBA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> GridIronyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12822617062253194855noreply@blogger.com0