Below we find two paintings, in the spirit of the season, and who knows what they might inspire. Both are entitled ‘Madonna of the Carnation’, and both are similar - co-linear - yet different enough in their own respect so that we see that there is individuality among the artists. Quite great work… how could it ever be done without divine inspiration?

By Bernardo Liuini

By Leonardo DaVinci

Goethe, by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. - Thomas Paine

Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this [world], isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to [the government]. [It] promised you order, [it] promised you peace, and all [it] demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. - V

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of Liberty quits the horizon. - Thomas Paine

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. - D.H. Lawrence

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. - Robert Frost

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. - Charles Kingsley

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin

The condition upon which God hath given Liberty to man is eternal vigilance. - John Philpot Curran

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. - Nietzsche

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural Liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. - George Washington

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. - Kahlil Gibran

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. -Thomas Paine

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those with conscience and those without. Now you know how to determine who is who. Which kind are you? - Anonymous

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Here she tries to hire a demolation company to demolish her school - they give to much homework:

Download audio file (little-becky-00beckydemolitioncall.mp3)

Here she calls American-Irish comedian Des Bishop:

Download audio file (little-becky-03DesBishop.mp3)

And here she wants to hire a crane to get her lazy dad off the couch:

Download audio file (little-becky-10CraneHire.mp3)

There’s more at the 98FM Web site…

“This is a serious long-term war,” the man [Gingrich] at the podium cried, “and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country.”

Some in the audience must have thought they were hearing an arsonist give the keynote address at a convention of firefighters.

This was the annual Loeb First Amendment Dinner in Manchester, N.H. — a public cherishing of freedom of speech — in the state with the two-fisted motto “Live Free Or Die.”

And the arsonist at the microphone, the former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was insisting that we must attach an “on-off button” to free speech.

Watch Keith Olbermann speak his mind to Newt Gingrich, or Read the transcript, “Free speech and the delusion of grandeur,” if you can’t watch the video below:

Note: Bug reports and suggestions should now be posted as comments to this post.

DOWNLOAD “A BLACKLIST FILTER” V0.9.0

Note that the next version will be v0.9.7. So far nearly 100 hours have been spent writing new code to bring Blacklist Filter from v0.8.0 to v0.9.7 !!! This is a tremendous effort and doesn’t include the hundreds of hours spent developing the original plugin!

We would greatly appreciate any donation you can send to help fund continued development of some truly exciting new features. Please donate via PayPal using the Donate button below! Donors can also receive early releases of future versions of this and other plugins!

Latest version: Blacklist Filter v0.9.0 (released Dec 2006)

Feature Summary

• Filters all IP addresses listed in each message header
• Filters all URLs listed in each message body
• Decodes all encoded URLs
• Checks all IP addresses and URLs against third-party blacklist service databases
• Filters out all email with blacklisted IP addresses or URL domain names or spoofed addresses
• Caches DNS blacklist queries to enhance performance
• Automatically tunes its performance based on statisitical tracking
• Automatically disables blacklist servers when they cease to exist or when they become unreachable
• Shows which blacklist services work better than others based on the spam you receive
• Provides user-defineable domain name whitelists and blacklists that use pattern matching in URLs to act as exceptions that override third-party blacklist service databases
• Filters out all email that contain domains that match user-defined blacklist exception patterns
• Passes through all email that contain domains that match user-defined whitelist exception patterns
• Allows the user to specific a list of complete or partial IP addresses that will not be checked against blacklists when parsing email headers. This features allows you to bypass blacklist checking for mail servers that might inadvertantly become listed in a blacklist database.
• Allows the user to define the spam probability percentage value returned by the plugin.
• Allows the user to determine whether a potential spam message is moved to the Recycle Bin or the Training Area.
• Comes with complete documentation in the help file

Version history:

• v0.9.0:
  - fixed bug where some email headers caused false positive detection of spoofed addresses;
  - fixed a problem where certain chars in email headers might cause inaccurate detection;
  - fixed bugs in the “Test Server” option that tests blacklist servers for operability;
  - added user-requested feature that allows specific IP addresses to be excluded from blacklist checks
  - added user-requested feature to allow caching of DNS blacklist queries for faster performance
• 0.8.0 - fixed a minor problem where IP addresses prefixed by an @ sign in mail headers were not parsed properly; fixed a broken link in the Help/About section
• 0.7.9 - added user-requested feature to select whether potential spam is sent to the Recycle Bin or Training Area
• 0.7.8 - adjusted URL parsing and log file viewer
• 0.7.7 - initial public release

If you’d like to donate to help support plugin development then your support will be greatly appreciated!

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.

Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height.

Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.

Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.

Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.

Look at that low playing! Fine, then.

Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it’ll do.

Save yourself, serve yourself.

World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right.

You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o’clock - TV hour. Don’t get caught in foreign towers.

Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.

Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.

Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.

Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.

Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.

Renegade steer clear!

A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies.

Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide.

Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.

Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!

You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. can’t I have some time alone?
It’s the end of the world as we know it can’t I have some time alone? and I feel fine…fine…

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it. can’t I have some time alone?
It’s the end of the world as we know it can’t I have some time alone? and I feel fine…fine…

So, how do YOU feel? Fine?

Me? NOT.