Funny, I never saw snobbery as fashionable in the first place…..
(via WeaselZippers) MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta has been a favorite of many U.S. first ladies, including Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. But one name is still missing from his list: Michelle Obama.
De la Renta says he is not worried about not having Obama on his list of celebrity clients because for him what matters is dressing everyday women. (more…)
This is their first trip to the tournament (more…)
EGYPT – Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi warned Sunday of taking unspecified measures to “protect the nation” following violent clashes two days earlier between opposition demonstrators and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo.
“I am president of all Egyptians and I will not allow anyone to tamper with the nation,” President Mursi said in statement posted on Twitter, adding:
“If I am obliged to do what is necessary to protect this nation, I will do, and I fear I am about to do that.”
Some Holy Week thoughts as Christians consider the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
(Drawing from texts in Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23 and John 18)
1. After Pilate declared Jesus innocent, all subsequent acts were contrary to both the spirit and the letter of Roman Law. Since Pilate knew that, that should give us some insight into the power of the fear that drove him. Note the role that intimidation and domination play.
2. Jesus’ failure to respond to Pilate is not incidental. The Roman government had no authority over Him, and He would not contribute to any illusion that it did. He was not defiant–He was unresponsive. (more…)
Um, eh, anyone seen that vial of hemorrhagic fever we had over there before lunch? That pesky deadly biological virus stuff…. always so darned tricky to keep track of…..
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) – Officials say a vial containing a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever has gone missing from a research facility in Galveston, but say there’s no reason to believe there’s a threat to the public.
The University of Texas Medical Branch said Saturday that there was no breach in the security its Galveston National Laboratory and no indication of wrongdoing. Officials suspect the missing vial containing the Guanarito virus was destroyed during the lab’s cleaning process but the investigation continues.
The medical branch says the virus, native to Venezuela, is transmitted only through contact with Venezuelan rats. It is not believed to be able to survive in U.S. rodents or to be transmitted person-to-person. (more…)
The author of this Telegraph article erroneously calls President Obama’s Arafat speech a mistake and an untentional gaffe. No. This was not a mistake – the President delivered his speech exactly where he wanted to, with the exact optic he wanted to express.
(UK Telegraph) It is simply astonishing that the leader of the free world would agree to speak against a backdrop of a murderous terrorist with American and Israeli blood on his hands. What kind of message does this send to America’s enemies when the president of the United States gives a press conference standing in front of a banner celebrating one of the most brutal terrorists in history? It projects a clear signal that Washington is weak in the face of terrorism, and it is an insult to the memory of those who died at the hands of Arafat’s terror network.
While the Obama White House prides itself on having an extremely slick campaign operation, its ineptness and insensitivity in government, not least on the world stage, can be staggering. President Obama, for example, could not even pronounce the name of Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi on his recent visit to Rangoon, referring to her several times as Aung YAN Suu Kyi. He also famously called the Falkland Islands “the Maldives”, and succeeded in offending the whole of Poland when he referred to a ”Polish death camp” in World War Two. (more…)
As I’ve been working with MBOB material over the months, I’ve been trying to learn how to do digital management of Dad’s slides and am slowly getting there.
Today’s MBOB is my first venture into “here are some my own fer real photos”–except this first barn! This is not our barn. That’ll come down the road somewhere.
All of the photos shared today were taken by my father in the 1950s with his 35mm slide camera, using Kodachrome film. I am blown away by the stability of Kodachrome film and Kodachrome slides. These slides have just been in storage for fifty years. Two weeks ago I had them transferred to a CD so I could work with them.
It was quite a process back in the day. Of all the hundreds of slides he took in the just-over-ten-years between his acquisition of the camera and his death in 1962, I doubt there were more than three or four that turned out to be wasted shots. It was too expensive and too time-consuming to do wasted shots, so he just did the very best he could with regard to composition and getting all the settings right so each picture would be worth something in terms of a record of events. (more…)
I wonder if they’ll check for Ricin or Mercury….. Shades of Georgi Markov ? After all, it was only May 2012 when the last successful umbrella murder (pellet) took place [undisclosed victim]. And then there’s always Alexander Litvinenko ?
(REUTERS) Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch who helped broker Vladimir Putin’s rise to the Kremlin’s top job only to become his fierce enemy, has been found dead at his home in Britain in unclear circumstances. He was 67.
“His death is currently being treated as unexplained and a full inquiry is under way,” police said in a statement on Saturday that did not identify Berezovsky by name.
One of Putin’s fiercest critics, Berezovsky spoke openly of overthrowing the Russian leader and said he feared for his life though it was unclear how the mathematician-turned-tycoon had died. (more…)
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
Most articles discussing “Prepper Motivation” focus on simplistic words like ‘Apocalypse’, and ‘The End of Civilization’ when they highlight information. In general the media portray ‘those who prepare’ as some kind of goof or wing-nut; That is profoundly unfair.
Think of those people in Long Island after Hurricane Sandy, do you think their lives would have been better if they were prepared to be totally self-sufficent for a month or more.
The example of anarchy in New Orleans should still be fresh on the minds of those who would ridicule or diminish such prudence, yet they do it anyway.
Having had personal experience in dealing with the total fracturing of societal rules of governance, along with the collapse of civil and moral rules on self-controlling behavior, I can tell you it ain’t pretty…. and most people have no idea how bad it can get – QUICKLY.
(Daily Mail Article) Imagine if suddenly, and completely without warning, the world experienced a total blackout – no electricity, no mobile phones, no banks, no internet, no TV, no emergency services. Nothing.
Highways quickly become jammed with cars that have ground to a halt; an aeroplane falls from the sky; a satellite view of the planet shows it rapidly plunging into darkness.
As it becomes apparent that the lights are never coming back on, nations are plunged into chaos, mass riots break out in major cities and, without electricity, governments are toppled. Into the vacuum step ad-hoc militias, armed and ready to enforce their own rule of law. (more…)