America's Divison of Labor: Congress & Wall Street

Atheism Explained

It's either in the beginning....GOD
or
it's in the beginning..............NOTHING

Belief Systems

Historical Repetition

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

-George Santayana

 

Rules of the Welfare State

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2011 Pictures of the Year

National Geography has published the finalist for the 2011 pictures of the year.  Below is a sneak peak:  Catch the full list here: Pictures National Geo

Also, commentary from theblaze.com

In a mud pool at the sea salt mines near Bourgas, Bulgaria locals gather. He applies the mud from the pool and then stands upright until it is dry only to take a dip in the nearby sea. Afterwards he gets a relaxing swim in the 30cm of water in the salt mine (80-90% pure salt). Photo and caption by Antoni Georgiev/National Geographic Photo Contest

An unexpected side-effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiders webs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before, but they also reported that there were fewer mosquitoes than they would have expected, given the amount of standing water that was left. Not being bitten by mosquitoes was one small blessing for people that had lost everything in the floods. Photo and caption by Russell Watkins/National Geographic Photo Contest

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5 Minute time lapse across America.

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Corptocracy USA

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America the Beautiful

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Not a bad quote, esp the final line. Yes, I agree all religions are basically the same.


The poet Steve Turner describes brilliantly what many think when it comes to religion: “Jesus was a good man just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves. We believe he was a good teacher of morals but we believe that his good morals are really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one we read was. They all believe in love and goodness, they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”

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Environmentaligion At its Finest

Market Armageddon

Just a slight miscalculation by the brains at Google.

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Peaceful Bliss: Artic Timelapse Video

"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them, sweeping them all away." Luke 17:26-28

Unrelated to the above quote, here is a peaceful reminder of what creation looks like outside of the busy life many of us are consumed with:

The Arctic Light from TSO Photography on Vimeo.

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