Sometimes you just have to look at the good bits in a situation. Yes this is a commercial for a life insurance company. Yes it free promotion for them. Yes, if you subtract the commercial bit at the end, this is how life should go. Filed under: Culture Tagged: Capitalism
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Dead Wild Roses: “No” Is A Complete Sentence
Funny how many dudes fail to get that. ““No” is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you. Declining to hear “no” is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it. With
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Generational Curses?
Wow. Just highlighting doctrinal christian stupidity. I don’t have the words for this one. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christain Fail, Discern4, DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Generational Curses, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Traditional Woo – Endangering Children in Canada
Just like using Vitamin C to treat cancer… “It’s a case that has Canadians and the legal community buzzing. Earlier this month Ontario Judge Gethin Edward ruled in favour of a First Nations girl and her family, who stopped chemotherapy to treat her acute lymphoblastic leukemia, choosing traditional medicine instead. The judge rejected
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Ants Marching/Ode to Joy
Leave it to the Piano Guys to concoct something as neat as this. Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Piano Guys, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: As Much As I Like Snow…
I think so much at once kinda sucks. 20cm and still accumulating… The view from my front window. Filed under: personal Tagged: Break it down! Its shovel time!, Edmonton, Snow, Too Much Snow
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chemtrails – World of Batshit
I fully approve of Cool Hard Logic’s video. Confirmation bias, ignorance and a blissful distaste for fact are all on display here by our Chem-Trail friends. Enjoy. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Chem Trails, Conspiracy, Loons, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sexism Hurts Men Too – Laci Green
Signal boosting as even this basic message seems beyond so many people. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Dude Education 101, Feminism, Sexism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – Bell Hooks – Lifestyle Feminism
“Lifestyle feminism ushered in the notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics was being slowly removed from feminism. And the assumption prevailed that no matter what a woman’s politics, be she conservative or liberal, she too could fit feminism into
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Premier Jim Prentice – Forgetting Simple Truths
Funny Juxtaposition of our Fossil Fuel Premier in front of a Nature themed backdrop. I love Alberta! Where else can you see bought politicians spew unvarnished truth about who is important in Alberta and who isn’t. I skip ahead of myself though, allow me to backtrack a bit. Reading this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Demons of Sickness – Or, Watch the Religious Say Highly Ironic Things Whilst Pushing Their Mumbojumbo
Discern4 has been quiet as of late, but in this comeback video he illustrates how he still has God-bothering chops of the very first order. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Bilking The Blinkered, Faith Healing, Religion, The One True Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude – The Art of Fugue
This disk has not left rotation in my CD player for week month long stretches. One hour and twenty minutes of bliss. Enjoy. Filed under: Music Tagged: Back, Baroque, The Art Of Fugue, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trumpeting the Nordic Model – How Socialism Wins the Day
Damn, Ólafur Grímsson, President of Iceland, is getting cocky. For good reason of course. Keeping the people that run your country and businesses educated and healthy = productivity and innovation. Shocked I am. Positively aghast. 🙂 Filed under: Education, International Affairs, Politics Tagged: Neo-Liberal Troll Bait., Nordic Countries,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Media Lens – Media Lessons – Russel Brand
The writers over at Media Lens have really outdone themselves. This will be in the next edition of the textbooks about media analysis and what happens once you go against the status quo. Russel Brand has made the mistake of categorizing and identifying what is wrong with our economic systems
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oooo..Context.
Us humans seem to have trouble keeping the big picture in focus while we faff about feeling important about ourselves. Mother Nature just doesn’t have time for us or our problems. It is nice to be reminded of that periodically. Filed under: Education Tagged: Context, Humanity, Mother Nature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: You Can’t Say That in English! – Untranslatable Words.
I’m a big fan of the German word – whenever I pick up tools, verschlimmbessern is often the result. :> [Source] Filed under: Education Tagged: Ethnosphere, Helpful Infographics, Language, Things You Can’t Say In English
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Not Coffee You Dirty Sodomites!
Get out the duct tape! You’ll need it to keep your jaw from hitting the floor over how amazingly absurd this fine christian preacher is. Because people are protesting outside of his church they must be Sodomites and by extension the coffee that they are serving must be infused with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caterday Photo – Vishnu Depressed with the thought of Snow
Oh Vishnu, it isn’t that bad. Yes, hooman, it is that bad, now fetch me my mousie! Filed under: Cute Tagged: caterday, Long Cat, Vishnu
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky Spoke at the UN in October – I Didn’t Hear About it Either.
Ah, the joy of the free press down in the US. Let’s catch up with Noam as takes us through some possible solutions to the Palestine/Israel conflict. Filed under: Education, International Affairs, Media Tagged: Israel, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, UN
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