THE NEXT GREAT SPECIES

Gosh, there's so much negativity in the world. Can't people understand that everything is proceeding just as it should?

Belinda Haikes explains the matter in this uplifting guest entry of hers.


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NEVER DOUBT HUMAN PROGRESS.
We never run out of ideas!

Beyond Anything
"It is a terrible thing to order the use of something that (here he looked down at his desk, rather reflectively) that is so terribly destructive, destructive beyond anything we have ever had. You have got to understand that this isn't a military weapon. (I shall never forget this particular expression). It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses."

(Harry Truman, 33rd President, discussing the atomic bomb in July of 1948, as recalled by David Lilienthal, then Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.)

The Warrior Poet!
So often artists don't care about the world. But once in a great while, someone special arises that transfixes us with their art, their heart and their soaring vision.

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That someone is Kid Rock. Brilliant writer, singer, patriot, poet, his latest masterwork is for the American National Guard. It may quite possible be the most powerful work of art in all history.



Just watch the video. When he sings, "If you ain't gonna fight, get out of the way. Cause freedom ain't so free, when you breathe red, white and blue," it's impossible not to get chills.

Bibleman Fights The Protester

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Consider the plight of our earth. Isn't it clear? Our children need great Christian superheroes. That's where Bibleman comes in. He's a lean, mean religious fighting machine and his sacred team will defeat the Evil "Wacky Protester." Click here to see the exciting trailer!

Not only that, you can purchase action figures here. Thank God for Bibleman!

Most Strange and Pathetic
We are living in an age of science fiction, so strange, so awful, we can't help but gawk at the tragic lunacy. The most inept president in American history, creator of needless war, indifferent to the challenges of environmental disaster, poverty, and education, ridiculed within his nation and without, travels into outer space and lands on a tiny, strange planet where he is revered like a god.



His ecstatic delight in this manic adoration is by turns comic, frightening and pathetic. The spectacle in all its glory.

Creative Devices That Make Money. #92541.
What if someone made a pain machine, capable of inflicting unbearable torment from a half mile way? Why then, that someone would have an excellent moneymaker.

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See the Silent Guardian by our friends at Raytheon. An extremely useful device for dealing with unruly demonstrators and other problems. Brief video anyone?

Duke Ellington's Portrait of Mahalia Jackson.

Just because it's such a beautiful piece of music.

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Elevating the Human Condition
"I would call our diplomacy quiet and effective diplomacy — diplomacy all aimed at helping people, aimed at elevating the human condition, aimed at expressing the great compassion of the American people."

(President George W. Bush, Uruguay, March 11, 2007)

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PARIS BEGINS IT ALL
banksy, hilton, celebrity, fakery, guerilla art, profound vacancy, destroy
UPON TAKING THE PHOTOGRAPHS BACK OUT
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WE AS HUMANS
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THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE
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THAT WHICH OFFENDS
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LIBERTY OR DEATH
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CHILDREN'S GUIDE TO TERRORISM archie campbell,
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THE GLORY OF ART
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SEND IN THE CLOWNS
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AS IF WE COUNT
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THE MARVEL OF THE TASER
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THE FACE OF HUMANITY
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BEHOLD THE LIGHT
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THAT WHICH IS REPEATED
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WHOLE LOT SAFER
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WHEN RODNEY KING MADE A SPEECH brutal beating, riot, ignorance, eloquence, ridicule, we're all stuck
BURDEN OF IMAGES
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OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND hiding war images, civilian death, military coffin, surreal, shaming
THAT WHICH BLIGHTS THE CITY contamination, public work, illegal art, madman's ravings, abomination
WRITER AS HERO
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THAT WHICH ENTERTAINS
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THE MEASURE OF WOMEN
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THE WALLS OF THE WORLD
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VIVA VIVOLEUM!
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GO FUCK YOURSELF MR. CHENEY crucial message, Dr. Marble, decency, FCC, boobies, achievement
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THE COMPASSIONATE SOUL caring Americans, injustice, Mother Teresa, women, benefactor
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AS IF HUMAN
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OUR FRIEND IS DEAD
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW future glory, lightning from heaven, eternal trust, always with you
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THE DREAM DEPICTED Guernica decimation dream of flight aerial slaughter civilized incineration