If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

The picture shown is an ancestor of jellyfish, which I’ve always thought were beautiful. I love how they’re blacklight-reactive. This isn’t even the wildest of the bunch, you gotta see the slideshow!

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The ancient coelacanth fish was thought to have died out with the dinosaurs, a 4-foot, 110-pound fish… yet one was found ALIVE in Indonesia.

WTF do they do? They don’t release it, but keep it to ensure death. It lived 17 hours after being caught, instead of the 2 marine biologists would anticipate, further adding to how fucking amazing this very fish was.

Why would you snuff a rare creature? Surely more can be learned while it’s alive. It will eventually die, then you can study it more in depth.

However, in this case, I get the impression that it was more of a novelty, caught by a regular fisherman.

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Carter offered his harshest assessment for the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.

“The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion. Those things in my opinion are quite disturbing,” Carter said. “As a traditional Baptist, I’ve always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one.”

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The Bush administration’s response? To call Carter irrelevant. (Source)

This statement, from the jackass-in-chief’s ranch, is what’s irrelevant. How about an explanation, some answers, instead of a deflection?

I hardly think Carter’s irrelevant, when he is nobly combatting malaria and river blindness in Ethiopia. He’s contributing to the planet more than he destroys, which can’t be said for everyone. (Source)

I’ve got global warming on the brain, have just endured a semester-long exercise in discomfort that was a Speech class, where I spoke on this. Here are some things I found striking, from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth:

• Over 650,000 years, the Earth has endured 7 ice ages and subsequent warming periods - the temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have NEVER been this high. What we are experiencing is NOT cyclical.
• Liken it to ice cubes melting in a glass of water. 1 cube melting is insignificant, but if several melt, your cup runneth over. With accelerated melting of glaciers, you’d better hope you’re not terribly attached to coastal cities or lower-lying areas!
• American cars are so piss-poor on emission standards that we cannot sell them to other countries because they have HIGHER STANDARDS than the US does
• A White House memo leaked reveals their strategy on Global Warming, and it is, “to reposition global warming as a theory, instead of a fact.” Well played, gentlemen! ;p

Rant on the vegetational & pestilence effects to follow. Also, were our “representatives” truly interested in our best interests, they could do so much by means of regulation.

In turn, the developments required could jump-start the economy - creating the means, advancing, enhancing, improving… Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be as personally lucrative to them or their corporate bedmates.

Wow, the “critics” are really relishing taking a dump on this film. Can’t you just say, “I don’t get it,” if you truly don’t? Admit ignorance. Not that it’s profound, but the issue is that they’re taking it seriously.

For MSNBC & Rotten Tomatoes to Poop On.

However, Digging the images from the Premiere :D

I plan on seeing it this weekend. For anyone that’s pondering it, GRINDHOUSE kicks ass something fierce! Rose McGowan has seriously redeemed herself as a ferocious ass-kicking chicky, a leading lady - a true femme fatale.

Violent, lurid, pulpy goodness. Again, you can’t take all art so seriously! Time permitting (and I just laaaughed), I would like to do some artwork based on some of the intense imagery of these films.

As you sit through the chicks yapping about girly shit in DEATHPROOF, I assure you, there IS a payoff. It’s worth sitting through to get the backstory and see what ensues. ;)

PLANET TERROR… It takes a lot to make me cringe, since I’ve worked at a pathology lab, but this… *gags* I adore Robert Rodriguez. :)

Sorry, moose, you’re fucked because the Jebus says you have no soul! :B Fuck that, profusely.

Anyhow, as always, thoroughly entertained with the patronizing art featured on religious propaganda. For example, these people can’t wait to die, yippie!

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