The CBC Signature Series is hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo. The E♭ (E-flat) minor scale consists of the pitches E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C♭, and D♭. In the harmonic minor, the D♭ is raised to D♮. Its key signature consists of six flats (see below: Scales and keys). Its relative
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Dead Wild Roses: Happy 4th of July – Oh btw America, Welfare *Promotes* Independence.
“When we see the expansion of the dependency class in America and you add this to the 79 other means tested programs that we have in the United States, each time you add another brick to that wall, it’s a barrier to people that might go out and succeed. ”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – The North Pole?
Shifty little bugger when all is said and done. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Minute Physics, North Pole, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What the Media is…
This excerpt is from an article on Counterpunch titled “Treason”. It is on the rhetorical side and my eyes did roll when I saw that the author’s upcoming book to be released was called ‘Zen Economics’. But I liked this paragraph enough in his essay to share it with
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canada Day – We still have so far to go.
Canada needs to bring all of her peoples into the light. Respect and remember the past and try to fix the wrongs of our brief history since we now have the capacity to do so. Filed under: Canada Tagged: Canada, Canada Day
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Should Christian Women Wear a Bikini?
Have you ever started listening to video and almost immediately start to cringe? This, gentle readers, is precisely one of those happenings. Contained within are the soft headed feckless meanderings of some christian ministry that is ostensibly meant to “help” women by employing all (ok, many) of the viscous patriarchal
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pork Bullets. Or, Watch the Xenophobia run WILD!
My cynical atheist soul just went a few shades darker because of this. “The advertising pitch says it all: “Put some Ham in MoHAMed.” Jihawg Ammunition, based in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, has recently begun selling bullets laced with a pork coating, promising “patriot” gun owners that the bullets “will strike
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Muscial Interlude featuring the CBC Signature Series – A flat major- The Good Woman
The CBC Signature Series hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo forges on with A-flat major. A little bit more on A-flat major from Wikipedia: The A-flat major scale consists of the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats (see below: Scales and keys). Its
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Temperature – Do we really feel it?
Of course not silly, and here is why… 🙂 Notice that unlike religious ‘truths’ we can test this stuff out empirically and thus can ascertain whether it add or subtracts to our understanding of the world around us. Filed under: Science Tagged: Minute Physics, Science, Temperature
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Smacking Down Conspiracy Theory Codswallop
You know those people who use their mouths but not their brains, this video is for them. The gullible fall for conspiracy theories with alarming regularity and will attempt to suck you into their own vortex of stupidity. Potholer54 has the antidote to their claims – basic research and fact
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Science and Beer? – On Biodiversity
One of the few times that adding beer to the equation will make things better – an analogy between competition and diversity in the forest, and the supermarket. And no, you may not have a Dude Beer. : ) Filed under: Humour, Science Tagged: Beer, Biology, Diversity,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Age of Unreason – On Junk Thought
I’ve almost finished Susan Jacoby’s book titled the Age of American Unreason. There are a few passages that wanted to make me stand up and cheer and qualified themselves as sharing material on the blog. Of course, I can never find them when I want to do the actual
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Christian Martyr Loophole
If religion of was actually a ideology that was set up to respect and preserve life instead of increasing misery and pain we’d see over the course of history much more use of this particular “loophole”. Many thanks to Discern4 for producing the video. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Christian, Martyr,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Manufacturing Food Addictions – How Lovely.
I’m not much for the whole hippy-dippy holistically “natural” nonsense that some people buy into, but the composition of processed foods does make one wonder what the goals of the food producers are. A healthy society? A society based on consuming as much as possible? Some combination of the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – E minor: The Handsome Rogue
Paolo Pietropaolo brings back the Signature Series for the Summer. Today’s selection gives us insight into the dramatic key of E minor. Enjoy. Filed under: Music Tagged: E Minor, The CBC Signature Series, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: America a Christian Nation? – Not if you value factual evidence.
Serious sounding title eh? 🙂 Let’s look at a slightly more irreverent analysis by one of my favourite ytubers, Betty Bowers. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Betty Bowers, Christianity, Humour, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Malespeak with Radical Feminist Translations
Reblogged from sisterhoodispowerful: Guest post by: Elaine Charkowski Mary Daly in her book Quintessence wrote, “Naming the agent is required for an adequate analysis of atrocities.” As linguist Julia Penelope has shown in her book Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues, “Agent deletion is a dangerous and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Big Brother and You – Lawrence Lessig on Privacy Rights.
Some relevant background given the recent publicity of how much our governments pry into our personal lives. Whatever your take on recent revelations about government spying on our phone calls and Internet activity, there’s no denying that Big Brother is bigger and less brotherly than we thought. What’s the resulting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Toxic Beauty Industry – International Vogue
Nothing you shouldn’t already know. Killing Us Softly 4, with Ed. D Jean Kilbourne Pop-culture is another avenue through which white/Western imperialism and misogynistic standards are spread. This is how the thin, able-bodied white woman ideal was created and WoC and “third-world”/Global South women and girls were devalued, denigrated and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Not My Law! – Sanctimonious Christiains and Their Codswallop.
Awww! Isn’t religion cute all snuggled into the framework of society! Let’s play a game! The game is called “I’m right because GOD SAYS SO” – and festoon it into a train wreck of an blog post. This mangled piece of sputum drips of religiously condoned contempt for human beings
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