#usdollar #money #euro #economy
The American dollar is in bad need of a makeover. Thanks to the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, we may now have some options.
Organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project is soliciting ideas for the dollar bill of the future. "Our great 'rival', the Euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign," the project notes on its website.
Source: Huffy Puffy Post
The worst publicity stunt of the year? Putting President Obama on a dollar bill is simply ridiculous
British graphic design firm Dowling Duncan has come up with a series of controversial ideas for the Dollar Redesign Project, an open competition run by New York designer Richard Smith (and not associated with the US government). According to their ambitious PR spiel: “we want to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy.”
The new garish multicolour notes conceived by the firm bear a striking stylistic resemblance to the Euro, and remove America’s Founding Fathers altogether. The company has proposed replacing George Washington with Barack Obama on the new dollar bill, and Benjamin Franklin with Franklin D. Roosevelt on the $100 dollar note.
For a start, Barack Obama has an approval rating in the US that is in freefall, and is swiftly becoming one the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. He isn’t doing much better across the Atlantic either, where his reputation has taken a significant hit over his relentless bashing of BP. Domestically, Obama’s stock has fallen so dramatically in recent months that even his own party increasingly views him as an electoral liability.
Linking the image of Obama to rebuilding financial confidence and reviving the US economy would be regarded as simply ludicrous by most Americans. After all, it is the Obama administration’s big government vision and reckless spending that is threatening economic growth, job creation and a recovery in the housing market, as well as saddling the United States with a staggering debt that threatens to end its status as the world’s only superpower.
And as for using the look and feel of the Euro as an inspiration for a redesigned dollar (as though we need a redesign anyway) – that’s just as foolhardy. The doomed European single currency is hardly the best role model for a hypothetical US dollar revamp as Greece goes up in flames while much of the rest of Europe looks nervously over its shoulders. The dollar will probably be around for centuries, while the Euro might not even survive the next decade.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
We don’t need a “spanky” garish monopoly money design. We don’t need to emulate the Euro. We don’t need to totally eliminate the founding fathers from our currency.
Our mainly Judeo–Christian founding fathers designed a government system that has made us one of the greatest countries in the world. We must not run from that fact. It is not a sin that our country is one of the greatest in the world.
If you want to make our money more colorful, I like the idea of making the main image on the back more photorealistic but leave the dignified greenback front alone including the founding fathers. I like the current redesign of the front of our money.
Of course, the socialistic Obama regime doesn’t think our country to be one of the greatest countries in the world.
#NOW #KFC #coeds #advertising #college
KFC wants folks to watch its backside.
Or, more precisely, the backsides of female college students it's recruiting to promote its hot new bunless Double Down sandwiches.
Women on college campuses are being paid $500 each to hand out coupons while wearing fitted sweatpants with "Double Down" in large letters across their rear ends.
The nation's largest women's group doesn't like it one bit. "It's so obnoxious to once again be using women's bodies to sell fundamentally unhealthy products," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. What's more, she says, KFC has forgotten something important: Women make more than half the decisions about what to eat for dinner.
But KFC marketing chief John Cywinski says it's an effective way to catch the attention of young men — KFC's key customers and the biggest fans of Double Down.
Source: USA Today
NAG’s Terry O'Neill is being disingenuous since women’s bodies are used to sell a ton of products including “green” products.
#renewable #green #globalwarming #CFLs #lightbulbs
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. "Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful.
Source: Washington Post
Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb.
Source: WorldNetDaily
UK experts have warned that CFL bulbs can trigger migraines, dizziness and loss of focus, as well as increased pain for those with lupus and can cause people with epilepsy to experience symptoms similar to the early stages of a fit.
CFL's operate at high frequency using an electronic switching ballast to chop up the 120 volts -- that's how they are able to use less energy when compared to an old-style incandescent bulb. A typical operating frequency for an electronic ballast would be in the region of 20kHz to 100kHz, a frequency range known to produce adverse effects on one's health.
Professor Magda Havas, one of the world's leading researchers on the biological effects of EMF, has written:
Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) produce radio wave frequencies. These frequencies radiate directly from the bulbs and [also] go on the electrical wiring in the home or school causing poor power quality or dirty electricity. The closer you sit to the bulb the greater your exposure. Because the high frequencies travel along the wire, you can be exposed in other rooms of your home as well as [in] the room that contains the CFL.
Source: Green Earth LED
Unlike incandescent bulbs, which generate light by running a current through a metal filament, CFLs have hundreds of electrical components. The more parts in a system, the greater the opportunities for of one of them to fail, says Conan O'Rourke, technical director at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In a bulb that burns out early, the electronic components may have been inferior in quality or poorly installed, or the bulbs might have been physically damaged in some way during transport from China, where most are manufactured.
The electrical components also complicate the end of life for the CFL. When dying a timely (or untimely) death, a CFL's components may not get the message that the bulb is no longer working, and it continues to let electricity flow through the plastic base to the nonworking bulb. This creates a puff of smoke and an acrid smell as well as a charred blackening that appears at the bulb's base. This pyrotechnic display may also be spurred by a dried-out electrolytic capacitor--the "weakest link" in a CFL, according to O'Rourke. Still, for a large number of situations, the CFL is the best, brightest, most efficient bulb for the job. You just have to know what that job is, what CFL to look for and a few handy tips to make the most of your bulb.
CFLs do not fare well when flicked on and off repeatedly, so they'll last much longer if turned on for several hours--instead of minutes--at a time. "The more continuous the use of a bulb, the longer it'll burn because the most damage to the components is done during starts," says Russ Leslie, associate director of the Lighting Research Center. Accordingly, CFLs are recommended for use in living rooms and bedrooms where the light will stay on for the evening, rather than in closets, where a quick burst of light is the norm. Choose incandescent bulbs in areas where lights are used for short amounts of time.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Is the lifecycle of CFLs “greener” than the lifecycle of the incandescent bulb?
Is the mining of the material for the hundreds of electrical components of CFLs “greener” than the mining of the material for the components of the incandescent bulb?
Is the transportation of the material for the hundreds of electrical components of CFLs “greener” than the transportation of the material for the components of the incandescent bulb?
Is the manufacture of the hundreds of electrical components and then the manufacture of the CFL bulbs with “greener” than the manufacture of incandescent bulb?
Isn’t the energy “cost” of the manufacture of each electrical components about the same as energy “cost” of the manufacture of the complete incandescent bulb?
For a broken bulb, is the Hazmat team for the disposal of a broken CFL bulb “greener” than the broom and dustpan for the disposal of a broken incandescent bulb?
Is the disposal of an unbroken CFL bulb “greener” than the disposal of an unbroken incandescent bulb?
And I have had many CFL bulbs last less than a year.
And I usually am not eco-friendly since I throw the mercury filled CFL bulb in the regular garbage. Is it “greener” doing that than driving a single CFL bulb to the proper disposal site?
Most CFL bulbs are coming from China. How green is that?
And 200 people lost their jobs and many of them most likely won’t get a full time job the rest of their lives.
Since the CFLs interfere with AM radio reception, is this a way for liberals to deal with talk radio?
Note: H. R. 6144 was just submitted and the way I read governmentese it repeals the ban on regular light bulbs.
To repeal certain amendments to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to lighting energy efficiency. This Act may be cited as the `Better Use of Light Bulbs Act'.
Or does it?
#renewable #green #globalwarming
Lars Piloe and his team of archaeologists race against the clock to collect ancient artifacts exposed from the rapidly melting ice in northern Europe's highest mountains.
Hunting sticks, bows and arrows, and a 3,400-year-old leather shoe are some of the discoveries thawing out in Norway's Jotunheimen mountains. In one area, the Juvfonna ice field, 600 artifacts have turned up simultaneously, making the job very difficult for Piloe and his team, as feathers, wool, and leather can turn to dust within days if not collected and stored in a freezer.
According to Reuters, most international climate experts agree that glaciers diminishing from the Andes to the Alps is a result of man-made global warming.
Source: Huffy Puffy Post
If the ancient artifacts are under the glacier, doesn’t that mean the area was warmer 3,400 years ago? And was that warming man-made? Doesn’t it prove the climate goes in natural cycles of warm and cold periods?
#muslim #groundzeromosque #missusa #bikini
Miss USA Rima Fakih, the first Muslim to wear the crown, has come out against putting the Cordoba Mosque in downtown New York, near ground zero.
The 24-year-old beauty queen from of Dearborn, Mich., reportedly told "Inside Edition" over the weekend that the planned mosque near Ground Zero is insensitive to 9/11 victims.
"We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion," said Fakih, who was born in Lebanon but lived in New York until after graduating from high school and enrolling at the University of Michigan.
While she agrees with President Obama on "the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion," she said she also thinks it "shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center."
Source: CBS News
Since the Imam and backers of the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Center are moderates and want to live in peace with the USA, they will be holding a beauty pageant (with a bikini contest) so next year’s Miss USA is also a Muslim.
And if Muslims “like” my photo above of Miss USA, I sure they are “thrilled” with the fake nude picture of Miss Fakih.
Click here to also see fake nudes of Hillary and Sarah Palin. I haven’t had the courage to enter Nancy Pelosi’s name.
Note PC users: click on fake nude web sites at your own risk of possible computer viruses.
I stumbled onto the picture site a couple weeks ago when I was looking for a picture for my blog. When I heard the Muslim Miss USA, I remembered the site.
#obama #muslim #islam #terrorists
A senior US Democrat has distanced himself from Barack Obama, the US president, over plans to build a mosque and Muslim cultural centre near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York.
The office of Harry Reid, the majority leader in the US senate, weighed in on the issue on Monday, saying the centre should be built elsewhere. "The first amendment (of the US constitution) protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that but thinks the mosque should be built someplace else," Reid's spokesman said.
The project's backers vowed on Monday to press ahead with their plans to build the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Centre, denying a report in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, that they were going to scrap the $100m project. Sharif El-Gamal, the owner of the building where the centre would be located, said the report that Cordoba House would be relocated further from Ground Zero, was false.
Haaretz had reported that leaders agreed to abandon the site to prevent an escalation of anti-Muslim sentiment.
The project, planned near what has become known as Ground Zero, has emerged as an emotional issue, with opponents saying the location of the centre is insensitive to the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the September 11 attacks. Some of the victims' relatives, however, are in favour.
Obama gave his support to the mosque during an annual White House dinner marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, weighing in on the controversy for the first time. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable," Obama added.
Obama has tried to reach out to the global Muslim community since taking office, and the more than 100 guests at Friday's dinner included ambassadors and officials from numerous Muslim nations, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
"Our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect towards those who are different from us, and that way of life, that quintessentially American creed, stands in stark contrast to the nihilism of those who attacked us on that September morning, and who continue to plot against us today," he said.
The Cordoba Initiative, the group behind the project, describes it as a Muslim-themed community centre with a view of making it a hub for interfaith interaction, as well as a place for Muslims to bridge some of their faith's own schisms.
Source: Al Jazeera
Córdoba, Spain was captured in 711 by a Muslim army: in 716 it became a provincial capital, depending from the Caliphate of Damascus; in Arabic it was known as (Qur?uba). In May 766, it was elected as capital of the independent Muslim emirate of al-Andalus, later a Caliphate itself. During the caliphate apogee (1000 AD), Córdoba had a population of roughly 400,000 inhabitants, though estimates range between 250,000 and 500,000. In the 10th-11th centuries Córdoba was one of the most advanced cities in the world, as well as a great cultural, political, financial and economic centre. The Great Mosque of Córdoba dates back to this time; under caliph Al-Hakam II Córdoba received what was then the largest library in the world, housing from 400,000 to 1,000,000 volumes
Source: wapedia
Many consider Cordoba (Qur?uba) to be the greatest example of Islamic society in all history. Some believe the Cordoba Initiative is the latest attempt to be the new greatest example of Islamic society in all history.
Regardless whether the Imam and backers of the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Centre are truly moderate Muslims that want to live in peace with Christians and Jews, many Muslims will use the Center as a symbol of the success of 9-11 and the true meaning of the Cordoba Initiative.
The picture shows the construction area of ground zero and the location of the mosque in red in the lower right of the picture.
And a prayer room in the Pentagon is NOT the same as a Mosque next to ground zero.
Update: Liberals and some Muslims are pointing to the time when Muslim Cordoba was a place where Muslims, Jews and Christians supposedly lived together in peace.
Do most Muslims believe that is what the Cordoba Initiative means or do they believe the Cordoba Initiative looks to the Almohad Dynasty for Cordoba and the Ground Zero Mosque?
The Almohads, who had taken control of the Almoravids' Maghribi and Andalusian territories by 1147, far surpassed the Almoravids in fundamentalist outlook, and they treated the dhimmis (non-Muslims) harshly. Faced with the choice of either death or conversion, most Jews and Christians emigrated.
And liberals are trying to get people to stop using the term “Ground Zero Mosque” and get people to use the term “NYC Muslim Cultural Center near where the World Trade Center towers collapsed”.
Finally, liberals say 9/11 was bad but they say we asked for 9/11 with our terrible pre-9/11 treatment of the Arab world.
Some Muslims don’t need an excuse for killing a non-Muslim.
A dhimmi is a non-Muslim subject of a state governed in accordance with sharia law. Dhimma provides rights of residence in return for taxes. Dhimmi have fewer legal and social rights than Muslims, but more rights than other non-Muslims. The largest school of Islamic legal thought now applies the term (Dhimmi) to all non-Muslims living in Islamic lands outside the sacred area surrounding Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Update 2: Someone did a google search on “What are the consequences to a Muslim if he attends Christian services ?”
In democracies like the US and Iraq, nothing happens (most of the times).
Last Christmas in Iraq, Sunni and Shia Imams attended a Christmas Mass to show support of their Christian brothers.
On the other hand in the US, it is not the government or non-Muslims that they have to worry about. Just ask Rifqa Bary. She fled to Florida to avoid an honor killing for becoming a Christian. In some Muslim countries, just possessing a Bible is a death sentence.
#green #renewable #globalwarming #climatechange
Climate change and spreading forests killed off the woolly mammoth and its big mammal cousins - not spear-wielding humans, a major new study has concluded.
The demise of the mammoth and other extinct "megafauna", such as the woolly rhino, giant deer and cave bear, is blamed on the loss of grassland across most of the northern hemisphere.
Findings of scientists from the University of Durham.are part of the most comprehensive study to date of northern hemisphere climate and vegetation during and after the height of the last Ice Age, 21,000 years ago.
The study concludes that a period of post-glacial global warming led to a massive loss of grassland over much of the Earth's surface.
As the prairies and steppes dwindled, spreading forests took their place. The changes made survival impossible for the big grazing herbivores and the predators that fed on them, it is claimed.
Source: UK Press
Post-glacial global warming was not man-made. Climate goes in cycles. There have been several periods where the average global temperature has been warmer than now.
Current global warming “science” is flawed and really is just an excuse to redistribute wealth.
#usdollar #money #euro #economy 
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