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Bald man paints head rather than wear wig A man who started losing his hair in his early twenties has started having his bald scalp painted rather than shave his head or wear a wig.
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March 14, 2010
Bald man paints head rather than wear wig
Bald man paints head rather than wear wig A man who started losing his hair in his early twenties has started having his bald scalp painted rather than shave his head or wear a wig.
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In Mexico, 13 killed in Acapulco area, 11 others elsewhere
In Mexico, 13 killed in Acapulco area, 11 others elsewhere in Guerrero
Five police officers are slain and the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men are found in Acapulco just as foreign tourists are arriving for spring break.
A local police car is seen with two bullet holes in Acapulco. (Pedro Pardo, AFP/Getty Images / March13, 2010)
Reporting from Mexico City
At least 13 people were killed Saturday, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors have begun arriving for spring break.
Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said.
The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m.
Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years.
The government is especially sensitive to reports of drug-war violence in tourist destinations such as Acapulco and Cancun. But no region is immune. Guerrero state is one of Mexico's most violent: Its position on the Pacific coast makes it a prime transit route for smuggling narcotics to the U.S. and coveted turf for warring cartels.
In June, as Acapulco was putting its hopes on a recovering tourist industry, 18 gunmen and soldiers were killed in battles one weekend in one of the city's seaside neighborhoods.
News channels have been showing video of young U.S., Canadian and European tourists already frolicking on the beaches of Acapulco, as if to say "maybe this year" and convey a sense of normality. And this weekend is a holiday; thousands of Mexican tourists were headed to Acapulco to take advantage of a three-day weekend marking the birthday of 19th century President Benito Juarez.
Heriberto Salinas Altes, head of public security for Guerrero, said authorities were expecting an increase in violence because of newly exploded power struggles among drug gangs.
"We wish to say that security for visitors [to Acapulco] as well as for people who live here is guaranteed," Salinas told La Jornada newspaper.
More than 18,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon deployed the army to battle cartels in December 2006.
from Attuworld.com by Yaikz!
Snow White with her new midgets
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He kissed till his lips got sore... and then some more...
...still looking for a better life.
...beauty becomes the beast.
There is no magic in this war...
The little mermaid: eat up now she's still fresh 
Photography by Steve Neaves
from Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration. by phogph
Creative and pretty photography by Steve Neaves, superb talented fashion photographer.
Photography by Steve Neaves
Friday Cephalopod: Behold the shadow of your doooooom!
via Planet Atheism by Pharyngula on 3/12/10
Enteroctopus dofleini
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Mexico Invading USA?? Choppers Flying In.
from Dvorak Uncensored by John C Dvorak
Mexican Military Copter over US Neighborhood
The Zapata County sheriff Thursday was questioning why a Mexican military helicopter was hovering over homes on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
It was one of the more jarring incidents of the fourth week of border tensions sparked by drug killings, and rumors of such killings, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he’d reviewed photos of the chopper flown by armed personnel Tuesday over a residential area known as Falcon Heights-Falcon Village near the binational Falcon Lake, just south of the Starr-Zapata county line. He said the helicopter appeared to have the insignia of the Mexican navy.
“It’s always been said that the Mexican military does in fact … that there have been incursions,” Gonzalez said. “But this is not New Mexico or Arizona. Here we’ve got a river; there’s a boundary line. And then of course having Falcon Lake, Falcon Dam, it’s a lot wider. It’s not just a trickle of a river, it’s an actual dam. You know where the boundary’s at.”
Spotted! Edward Norton Plays the 'Celebrity' Card to Blow Off a Bill [Stalker]
via Gawker by Maureen O'Connor on 3/13/10
Nurse fired for sex with husbands of cancer victims
via Attuworld.com by Attu on 3/12/10
Nurses are expected to be the gentle gatekeeper at a hospital, often providing a contrast to overly busy and sometimes uncaring doctors. So this English nurse allegedly having sex with the husbands of recently deceased cancer patients seems like a natural, albeit completely horrible, extension of a nurse’s duties.
Shamed Macmillan nurse Sara Dale cared for cancer-stricken wives – then bedded their husbands after they died. The attractive divorcee, 39, has been fired by hospital bosses over allegations she had three such romances.
Why do Federal Clergymen Get Paid More Than Private Ones?
via Planet Atheism by Hemant Mehta on 3/13/10
Despite what we hear about the lavish lifestyles of some famous pastors, most church leaders live on relatively little cash. The health benefits aren’t that great, either.
A recent article in USA Today points out salary differences between certain federal jobs that had “a private-sector equivalent.”
I’m really curious why clergy working for the government get paid so much more than in the private section.
Any ideas?
(Thanks to NN for the link!)
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Photography By Stefan Gesell
from Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration. by phogph
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Creative glamour and erotic photography by Stefan Gesell, talented photographer from Munich, Germany
Photography By Stefan Gesell
Does rational thinking prevent appreciating art and emotions?
from Planet Atheism by jaskaw
It is surprising how often in discussions going on in the all the different discussion forums one meets the idea that those who embrace mysticism and supernatural ideas do have a superior understanding of the art and love and the rationally thinking people can't understand and appreciate these things properly.
Richard Dawkins has reminded that a rational person does not for example feel a magnificent scenery as a religious experience, as a religious person can well do, but he or she can for example well feel a great sameness with the whole of universe. Both of these people can have a quite similar experience of elevation, but they just interpret it differently.
There is no reason why a person choosing a rational approach to world would because of this choice become less endowed in the field of emotions, empathy or feelings in general.
A rationally thinking person does have a quite similar need and capacity for love, closeness and forgiveness than any other person and there is no real reason why this should be otherwise.
In fact a person can very easily end up striving for a loving, giving and sharing life, when one realizes that the prizes are not distributed after death, but these things must be reached for in the only real life we have and they are only available from other human beings around us.
Being polite and friendly, taking care of others or forgiveness and love as such do not originate from religions in any sense.
They are universal attributes of human life, even if religions have done incredible amount of work to give an impression that these things would not exist without them, and that the natural kindness of humans would somehow originate from religions.
Appreciation for others, love and forgiveness do not in fact need religions to become a major forces in human life. On the contrary religions often form a barrier into accepting the human worth of people differentiating from oneself.
When one accepts the fact that he or she has just this life on earth he or she can concentrate into making it the best possible one for himself, his or her near and dear ones and the whole of mankind.
Even death is then necessarily not a tragedy anymore, but a necessary and even vital point in the course of rich and full life.
A person can accept the inevitability of death with a new kind of clear mind, when he does not hang on promises of a afterlife he or she will never know if they will be fulfilled or not.
A rational person also accepts the need for social in rules in all societies in a rational way. He or she tries to live by them because he or she knows that it is in his or her best interest that they follow the commonly accepted rules of the society, as society would become quite inhospitable place without common rules of engagement.
A rational person does not do this because he is afraid of divine retribution, but because he or she knows that it simply is the best and most rational thing to do.
A rational person realizes soon that love is preferable to hatred, forgiving is preferable to carrying a grudge, being honest is preferable to lying and in general not hurting others is preferable to hurting them from the standpoint of the individual also.
A rational person does not need be made to believe that these things are somehow divinely illuminated to humans; all he or she needs is to think over rationally in what of society he or she wants to live.
A person just needs to ask him- or herself; do I want to live in a world full of hatred and deception, or in a world guided by respect and admiration for truth?
A rational person soon realizes that he or she needs for his or her own part try to make world a better place to live.
Even if every rationally thinking person can well come to these conclusions also by him- or herself just by analyzing the life and society around him or her rationally, there is however a wealth of great humanistic and secular thinkers, philosophers and writers who have during the last two and a half millennium thought out these things before.
One can speed up and ease the forming of a rationally loving and caring world view by reading what they have said and thought.
For example people like Anaxagoras, Epicurus, Hippocrates, Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Robert Owen, William Hazlitt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Richard Feynman, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Steven Weinberg, George Orwell and Jared Diamond have already thought out rationally why good and rewarding life requires you to live in a way that you don't hurt other people with your actions and why you don't need divine inspiration in any way to do it.
All these fine philosopher, thinkers and writers are represented also in The Little Book of Humanity -blog athttp://thelittlebook.blogs.fi that tries to present at least some of their best ideas on how to live rationally, but also wisely and justly.
Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting
from Design You Trust. World's Most Famous Social Inspiration. by mymodernmet
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Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade - she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be part of a painting!
More pics at My Modern Metropolis.
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