1. Bob Marley of course! ~One Love~ Bob Marley
2. Bobby McFerrin, makes me HaPpY at number 2! ~Don’t Worry Be Happy~ Bobby McFerrin
3. BoB Dylan is the shiz at NUMBER 3! ~Knockin On Heaven’s Door~ BoB Dylan
4. Bob Seger IS Number 4! He’s No Chuck Norris but he is one of the top 5 “BOBs” of ALL TIME! ~Turn the Page~ Bob Seger
5. Chuck Norris! No, HE’s NOT a “BoB” but… He’s Mother-Flippin Chuck Norris!
There ya have it! I hope you enjoyed!
Emery Myers
Beauty is everywhere and nowhere, depending if our eyes are closed to the world, or wide-open, focused on our Planet! Our eyes are evolving to see only LCD screens! Real HD is simply, observing nature with your own two specially evolved eye balls!
Most of us walk around, blind to the specks of brilliance, all over our little worlds. Fluorescent lighting and computer screens have desensitized our visual acuity! We take for granted, which evolution and survival gave us… The most beautiful organs, the windows to the human psyche, the perfect, stunning human eyes! We think our natural world will always be there…BUT…at present, climate change and deforestation of the South American Rain-forests threaten many species and have already eradicated many other species!
Just because we can’t see South America and the Amazon from here, doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible. Sarah Palin may be able to see Russia from her house, but we can’t see the destruction and damage we are causing, to the whole planet, with our wasteful, ignorant, antiquated ways of manufacturing practices and our disregard for what top scientists have proven! How many more species will become extinct before we do? Science offers hope, if we start embracing science instead of war and religion. Religion and war do not mix with science and human advancement. We have recorded evidence of history repeating itself. Its time we listened to science and the experienced people in these scientific fields or we are going to lose more butterflies! Maybe after we lose US!
Here in America, we continue to eradicate nature, such as the Hemp plant this beautiful butterfly is perched on. Industrial Hemp has been legalized recently by our Federal Government but it still remains taboo to many people here in the U.S.A., which is traditionally, behind most other countries, even some third-world-countries! We can’t take care of our own, how are we going to preserve nature at its finest and most delicate?
Natures very definition is “the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.” ~Websters Dictionary~.
To me, this definition infers that nature does NOT need us but we DO NEED NATURE! I mean, really how much science do we need to prove this titanium fact? Do human-beings really need to see the outcome of the current trauma? Humans are raping the planet! I don’t need an evolutionary biologist like Richard Dawkins to explain this simple concept…none of us do, except for the far right-wing republicans AKA the “tea-party”. This party does not believe in “climate change” or “global warming”. That’s going to make our next butterfly extinct!
“The report is based on a survey of Mexico‘s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve done in December 2013. The butterflies, which spend the winter hibernating in the reserve’s forest, occupied only 1.65 acres (0.6 hectare) in December 2013—a 44 percent drop from 2012, when theinsects covered 2.76 acres (1.12 hectares) of land. The survey was conducted by the WWF-Telcel Alliance and Mexico’s National Commission for Protected Areas.” ~National Geographic~
These magnificent creatures are slowly disappearing…some not so slow. Scientific data already is proving that Monarch Migration is down 44%! Scientists report climate change is the main change but all of the pesticides, deforestation and greenhouse gasses are also dooming the Monarchs to extinction. Can you imagine a life without the Monarchs? I can’t. I’m a simple country boy, Monarchs always comforted me and I could count on the friendly little sprites to bring me luck and good fortune every year. I have noticed fewer and fewer every year! I had more hummingbirds this year than Monarchs in my garden!
How can we let this priceless, beautiful, biological artwork become extinct? We wouldn’t let our Constitution be destroyed. We wouldn’t let our Declaration of Independence bed destroyed. Why are we letting an evolutionary, biological piece of art like this rare butterfly, become extinct? I think it has to do with a hue…a hue of Green! Evil always has a good foundation in money! That’s how humans will become extinct someday too at the present rate we are going. Humans are too greedy and ignorant to evolve at this trajectory. Humans are doomed at the current destructive rate they are traveling at!
Beauty is fleeting, we all know this. Natural Beauty like this can be preserved though, with a complete change in our habits and our consumption. Humans have all become “Consumers” in the civilized countries of the world. I say “civilized” but are we really? America itself, is a huge consumer of war and military people and equipment. It is what Eisenhower warned of “the military machine” that is the U.S. President Eisenhower was right again!
Money! Rich get Richer and the Poor, well you know… It’s the green, the greed, that are destroying our ecological balance! It is the usual politics and rich versus the poor.
This visual explosion of RED screams color! Eyeballs bulge and ears ring when processing this image! It is Bizarre and beautiful! Just like human-beings!
Angry yet graceful imagery. Slightly sensual but organic…natural and innocent in nature with a side of naughty! Butterfly Red!
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Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Nine Mile, Jamaica.
Stinging…that was the immediate response, then came a bit of shock…not the kind of shock you die from, but the kind that shatters your heart. Weird thing is…I kinda liked it. Is that wrong? I felt ashamed of myself as the adrenaline coursed through my veins. I felt I didn’t deserve it, but I wanted it again…shame, doubt or am I perverse? Maybe I am a victim? Who would I tell? Because I still kinda liked the sting…that reminded me I was fully aware and alive.
Twisted in agony I am. Depressed, alone, darkness. Cast, no really, cast in this immobile image. Once I walked amongst other human-beings. Now, am I, am I in Hell? I see nothing but blank stares, looking through me, or what used to be me. I scream, but everyone is deaf. They wander, in pain, looking for an exit. But there is none!
Hello, our name is Death…and we are here for your soul today. We already know you weren’t expecting us. Coupled together, we are. 2 human shells… spliced, stitched, plumbed and wired as a single unit, and today, my friend, is your day. Tears won’t stop it. Prayer won’t stop it. It’s too late slave. We own you now. Our home is your emptiness.
The strings sing my sadness in tones no human voice can reach. I am waiting for death. I wait, sadly and quietly, with seconds of nothingness amongst hours of sheer panic. I wonder to myself “is this life?” I never get an answer. I never hear a voice telling me what to do. I pray at times, but fall asleep before I get to the “amen” part. Prayer is like counting sheep backwards for me I guess.
The apparatus had a firm grip on my torso, squeezing ever so slightly. Slightly but consistently constantly. The girl across the way was already dead. Her bodily juices running down the machines mechanical, clawed hand and smacking the floor louder than machine-gun fire! Her body was slowly turning ash colored as her life blood ran down the industrial killing machine’s hand. No matter how hard the apparatus squeezed the life out of us, it was never enough for the entity that once protected us. Rich in the Billions and Politicians were exempt…under their health care plans!
Lost Gigs, floating in a cloud, around my dismantled mind. Untied, untangled and set free…gone forever. Now, I am considered insane. I am not Insane alone. I am CreAtivelY INSANE.
A picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes more. She was so sad, I could only compare it to the sadness of someone who has lost a partner in life. I didn’t know what to say…I stuttered and stammered. I asked her if she was okay finally, after I ate some mushrooms. I don’t remember what happened next. Now I am broken-hearted.
Until I found my own identity. I let the Morbid One rob me of who I was for so many years. Now I know. The Morbid One was part of me. I had to exorcise that piece of me that was defeating me! I won.
American. Freedom.Democratic.Founded. ON Slavery and death. Death of Americans already living here! The Rich have gotten richer, and more elite, if possible. The poor have moved into poverty-stricken and the middle class is poor! But…But…the Rich have gotten Richer! The margin is growing wider, too wide to be bridged anymore! Republicans scream socialism at the left while capitalism is at an all time HIGH! Wow! Why bother. Big Brother wants our eyes gouged out and mouth sewn shut. The girl above is THE perfect American according to recent people polls!
According to movies and maybe in the Bible, the dead will be judged before God at the End of Times. Man, it sucks if you have been dead for awhile…what kind of afterlife would it be if you were half-rotten? What if you were only a Femur? The rest was gone? You are screwed! Right? What if you were just a pelvis? That wouldn’t be much of an after-life, even if you were on a Gold Street!
Written By Emery Myers
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Nature is taken for granted on a gargantuan scale. “Pinning down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day on top of that. Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day—or some 50,000 species a year—as the forests fall.” ~Scientific American~
“According to researcher and writer Rhett Butler, who runs the critically acclaimed website, Mongabay.com, tropical rainforests are incredibly rich ecosystems that play a key role in the basic functioning of the planet. They help maintain the climate by regulating atmospheric gases and stabilizing rainfall, and provide many other important ecological functions.” ~Scientific American~
When the rain forests are gone, we will soon follow I fear. The beauty, mystery and protection the rainforests offer all of us, are disappearing at alarming rates as indicated by the prestigious group, Scientific American.
These photographs of nature, really can’t be reproduced on canvas. Once all of the biological organisms are gone, they are gone! Gone forever, Just as the image below illustrates, the Rainforests are becoming scenes from the apocalypse.
Nature has a purpose. Life! When we change eco-systems, we change the outcome for all living entities on this beautiful planet!
“Because carbon dioxide is so long-lived in the atmosphere, it could effectively lock Earth and future generations into warming not just for decades and centuries, but literally for thousands of years,” atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who chaired the report, said at a July 16 press briefing held to release it. She compared CO2 to cheesecake: “If I knew that every pound of cheesecake that I ate would give me a pound that could never be lost, I think I would eat a lot less cheesecake.” By David Biello
I think Mr. Biello sums it up rather clearly in the above paragraph taken from Scientific American. Although, he is a scientist, I don’t think it takes a scientist to have common sense about this issue. If you believe AT ALL in science, this shouldn’t be a “hard pill to swallow”.
Lose yourself in these beautiful pictures of nature. Imagine what it would be like to swim the warm waters in the beautiful, clear waters of nature!
Next, try to imagine yourself at a site of deforestation in the Amazon, smell the diesel fumes, step into the bulldozers tracks. Smell the burning of trees, animals, insects and plants…not a very attractive scene or image to have in your brain!
Any support can help. Even though this destruction is not in America like it is in Central America, we all share this world. It is one large organism.
Protect it. Enjoy it. Become an activist! Just getting information out to the people can help!
One last beautiful Nature Picture!
By Emery Myers
More information on activism: https://support.nature.org/site/Donation2?10420.donation=form1&df_id=10420&matchtype=b&creative=39112985558&device=c&network=g&src=sea.AWP.PR0.CP115.AD467.KW3119.MT1.BU190&gclid=CKe_tPSzs7wCFSUS7AodGwUADA
http://www.rainforestconservation.org/
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/adopt
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-global-warming-are-we-willing-to-take/
Two New Nationwide Polls Find That Majority Of Americans Believe Marijuana Should Be Legal
New York, NY: A majority of US adults believe that the consumption of marijuana ought to be legal, according to the results of two nationwide polls released last week.A poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found that fifty-five percent of American adults nationwide support legalizing marijuana. Nearly a quarter of the respondents said that while they do not personally agree with legalization, they would not actively seek to repeal laws approved by voters or state legislatures.The second poll, commissioned by CBS, found that fifty-one percent of respondents answered affirmatively to the question, “Should marijuana use be legal?” The percentage is the highest ever reported by the survey, which has been tracking public opinion on the issue since 1979 (when only 27 percent of adults endorsed legalization), and marks a six-point jump in support since the last time pollsters posed the question in April 2013.Forty-four percent of respondents in this poll opposed legalizing cannabis.Age, gender, and political affiliation influenced respondents’ opinions regarding legalization. According to the CBS survey data, a majority of all respondents under age 65 now support legalizing cannabis. Most men (57 percent), but not women (46 percent) back legalization. Most self-identified Democrats (59 percent) and Independents (54 percent), but not Republicans (35 percent) support making marijuana legal.Recently released nationwide surveys by Gallup and CNN also reported that a majority of Americans are now in favor of legalizing cannabis.When asked about their views on the therapeutic use of cannabis, 86 percent of respondents told CBS pollsters that physicians ought to be allowed to authorize marijuana use to their patients — an increase of 24 percent since 1997, when pollsters first began asking the question.Sixty-two percent of respondents also endorsed letting individual states rather than the federal government specify marijuana policies.The NBC/WSJ poll surveyed 800 adults from January 22-25 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.46 percentage points. Over 1,018 adults nationwide participated in the CBS survey, which possesses a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, or Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director, at (202) 483-5500
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“”The primary goal of any plant is to create and nurture seeds to be viable for future growth. Trichomes help prevent seed damage from insects, animals, light degradation and fungal disease. In the case of cannabis, trichomes also contain THC, the chemical compound that provides a psychedelic high to humans. THC stands for Tetrahydrocannabinol (C21H30O2). Near the end of the flowering cycle, THC begins to break down and turns into another chemical compound called Cannabinol, or CBN (C21H26O2), in a process known as oxidization. Higher levels of CBN tend to provide a more narcotic or “stoned” feeling, while THC delivers a more euphoric, upbeat “high”. Knowing this, you can examine the trichomes and the pistils of the plant, then choose when you harvest to get the psychoactive effects you desire.”” ~Exerpt from 420 Magazine.
“The Pistil, the female reproductive part of a flower. The pistil, centrally located, typically consists of a swollen base, the ovary, which contains the potential seeds, or ovules; a stalk, or style, arising from the ovary; and a pollen-receptive tip, the stigma, variously shaped and often sticky.” ~ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/461837/pistil
In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin-yang, which is often called “yin and yang”, is used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. … ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
Several more images to show…Hang in there with me and I’ll show you some more proof of Evolution!
Cannabinoids are produced on the flowers of the female plant in tiny, hair-like trichomes, which brings us to an interesting point…Humans have an endocannabinoid system, which receives cannabinoids into their cell receptor sites! Check this diagram out to see a diagram which explains the Human Endocannabinoid System!
So there ya have it… Proof Darwin had a good theory going on! The plant has evolved along with us! It is JUST a plant, but possibly the most important plant, ever discovered on this polluted planet!
This picture IS GARY BUSEY MIND FUDGE! You can’t deny…it is a mind-FUDGE!
Hope you had fun! Some scientific facts, hopefully a few smiles! Have a great Friday!
For More Information on Trichomes: http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/71982-what-trichomes-trichome-101-a.html
Bizarre, Odd, Beautiful and Ugly: Is a picture worth a thousand words?
This picture is so beautifully ackward…The confused expression on the child’s face…the blurred adults in the fore-ground and background… and the child’s hand, waving in a peaceful gesture of greetings…
Technology has made it possible for us to see beauty in ways we have never seen before. Would you think the Caffeine Crystals above would ever come from coffee?
Beauty hides everywhere…so does the BIZARRE.
Bizarre, disturbing, and intriguing. Those are the words that describe this piece to me. I want to know what the artist was feeling when they created this artwork. I want to know what the artist’s meaning was…I guess I will never know, kinda like missing the last, important part of a movie you are engrossed in.
This image caught me off-guard. It took my brain a moment or two, to listen to the information streaming from my optical nerves… Is it a man? Is it a woman? The tatoos…is the person tribal? What is the person doing? So many questions and no real answers…
Odd? I don’t think so. I feel empathy and understanding when I look at this piece of art-work. I enjoy and know what the artist is representing with this picture.
Dessert for your eyeballs! Looking at this artwork is like riding a roller coaster ride! The human brain is almost over-stimulated by the colliding colors!
Many questions arise in my head. What happened to this person? Where is this person? What is the person feeling as they are being photographed for their “abnormality”? I find this image wonderfully abnormal. Different and brave at the same time. I think this person is a living work of art! I see many people this way, the interesting ones anyways.
If only we could all accept each other’s differences and simply, coexist, the world would be a much better place. If we could accept each other for the beautiful, odd, bizarre pieces of art that we all are…If we could be free to just be…our colorful selves, without fear of judgement or persecution. Christians have been persecuted, but what about atheists today? Atheists hide in the dark, afraid or unable to voice their beliefs. Tolerance for all religions. Tolerance for all beliefs. CoExist!
This image is visually stunning. Do you find it offensive? Do you disagree with it because you are a different religion?
Enjoy your canvas…Create whatever you want, you can always find more canvas!
written by Emery Myers for http://www.cannablogna.com
Images courtesy of Google Images.
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Parties |
Democrats |
Republicans |
|---|---|---|
Philosophy |
Liberal |
Conservative |
Economic Ideas |
Favor minimum wages and progressive taxation i.e. higher tax rates for higher income brackets. |
Believe taxes shouldn’t be increased for anyone (including the wealthy) and that wages should be set by the free market. |
Stand on Military issues |
Decreased spending |
Increased spending |
Stand on gay marriage |
Support (some Democrats disagree) |
Oppose (some Republicans disagree) |
Stand on abortion |
Should not be made illegal; supportRoe v. Wade (some Democrats disagree) |
Should not be legal; oppose Roe v. Wade (some Republicans disagree) |
Stand on Death penalty |
While support for the death penalty is strong among Democrats, opponents of the death penalty are a substantial fraction of the Democratic base. |
A large majority of Republicans support the death penalty. |
Social and human ideas |
Based on community and social responsibility |
Based on individual rights and justice |
Traditionally strong in states |
California, Massachusetts |
Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas |
Symbol |
Donkey |
Elephant |
Color |
Blue |
Red |
Founded in |
1824 |
1854 |
Website |
http://www.democrats.org |
http://www.gop.com |
Senate Leader |
Harry Reid |
Mitch McConnell |
Chairperson |
Debbie Wasserman Schultz |
Reince Priebus |
Famous Presidents |
Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama |
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George Bush |
The Democratic Party traces its origins to the Anti federalist factions before America’s independence from British rule. These factions were organized into the Democrat – Republican party by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other influential opponents of the Federalists in 1792.
The Republican party is the younger of the two parties. Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.
Interesting fact on Thomas Jefferson: He was a deist, he believed there is a God, but this God is distant and does not interfere with His Creation. Jefferson is known for having removed from the Bible big portions he did not want to believe. He was left with a very slim book. Jefferson would probably be considered a genius in todays world. He was eccentric and definitely a free-thinker, which we all know many christians believe that “free thinkers” are the devil’s property and voice! Jefferson had a beautiful, scientific mind. He was an eccentric free thinker and a deist. One particularly interesting belief that Thomas Jefferson had was he DID espouse separation of church and state, which I think should still continue today, and so do our founding fathers! FREEDOM is just a word to our current politicians. We all know that freedom is a pipe dream as we drive to jobs we hate, pay bills we hate, pay taxes we hate, and die days after we retire!
Original article available at: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican
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