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
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Dead 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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Thought of the Day – The Third Wave – Gail Dines
Just a handy reference slide for your perusal. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Gail Dines, Helpful Infographics
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Street Harassment – Shut Down the Dude in You
From the tumblr: But What Was She Wearing? Anon: “There is a difference between cat calling and complimenting someone. Some of these ladies have experienced true cat calling and some have merely been complimented and instead of saying thank you or flashing a brief smile, they chose to be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Do Something Useful Remembrance Day – Dirty Wars Documentary- Jeremy Scahill
You know what Remembrance Day should be for? 1. Remembering all those who have died in war. Precedence on the civilian deaths, because they die at far higher rate than any established military force. 2. Educate yourself as to what war is and how it is waged. 3. Take
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: People are the Weakest Link – Security Camera Madness.
Ask any IT professional about security and you can almost always prepare yourself for a story or three about people using strongly encrypted passwords such as ‘password’ or ‘admin’. Or if it is a particularly good day, helping people understand that encrypted functions exist… Here is story from CBC.ca about
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Inside a Safe House for Costa Rica’s Abused and Trafficked Girls
Human traffic disproportionately effects females. People try and fight the growing tide of human trafficking, here is one story of someone making a difference. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Costa Rica, Feminism, Human Trafficking
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Sarah Svendsen
Wow, just wow. Impressive keyboarding skills. 5 tiers of keys, your instrument is the damn hall… no pressure at all. And I still get timid while playing the piano..:/ Masterful work by Sara Svendsen. Enjoy! Filed under: Music Tagged: Johann Sebastion Bach, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, Toccata and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Isn’t Slamming Fox News Fun?
You’d think they would get tired being wrong and laughed at all the time, but, they get full marks for their tenacious grasp on Stupid streaked with partisan politics, of course. Filed under: Media Tagged: Debunking Fox News, Fox News, Media Fail
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: This Is Not A Rainbow – Minute Physics
Damn science, keeping me on my toes. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Rainbows, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Batman’s Lesser Known, yet still really cool, Enemies – Palindrome Man!
I think I’ve crossed a word-geek Rubicon of sorts by posting this. Oh well. 🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Batman, Humour
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada Versus ISIS – Don’t Buy The Imitation Soundwave Steven Harper!
Canada has sent CF-18’s to participate in the bombing of ISIS. I think this is a very bad idea and I need to tell you a story from my childhood to illustrate why. This whole sending planes overseas to bomb people reminds me of one Christmas I had the pleasure
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