Saturday, July 25, 2009
Pot for Cal
From: News1News
Added: July 24, 2009
Description: CNN's Anderson Cooper Goes Shopping For "Medical Marijuana" - 07/24/09
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-U3ayNgnk
Lesson #2 provided by me (from the cannabis.com web site est. 1997):
CANNABIS
Cannabis was first believed to have been orginated from among the Himalayan Mountain region and refers to the genus of flowering plant. The plant has distinct serrated edges on its leaves. Use of cannabis as a drug date back as far as the Neolithic age, where evidence comes in the form of charred cannabis seeds were found in ritualized burial sites in present day Romania. In historical terms, the most famous users of cannabis were the ancient Hindus.
Hemp refers to varieties of the cannabis plant which are cultivated for non-drug use, and for industrial and other goods such as rope, clothes, fuel, etc. The Cannabis Plant produces chemicals called CANNABINOIDS which produce the "high" effect / mental + physical effects when utilized. The natural herbal cannabinoid (there are over 60 known herbal cannabinoids) occur naturally in the Cannabis plant - this can be viewed under a good microscope in the form of glistening viscous resin bulb-like structures called TRICHOMES.
The primary psychoactive component of the cannabis plant is Tetrahydrocannabinol - otherwise known as THC. Isolated by Raphael Mechoulam and Yechiel Gaoni in Rehovot, Israel in 1964.
When Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is cold in its pure form, it becomes a glassy solid, while when it is warmed, it becomes a really sticky viscous substance which leads to its various varieties.
[Peter's NOTE: Notice the "OH" in the diagram. Does it stand for "Ohio," huh? Tetrahydrocannabinol comes from Ohio, who knew?]
Friday, July 24, 2009
Dancing... Not Anderson!
July 24, 2009
The Shot: Dancing down the aisle
Posted: 10:03 AM ET
Dancing Down The Aisle | Wedding Entrance Dance video | Jill and Kevin Heinz Wedding
Billboards and a Bridge
Best Reality Ever!
The Best Reality TV Hosts EVER
Long before he was the really famous (if not slightly smarmy) news guy on CNN, Anderson Cooper was the host of "The Mole," one of the most underrated reality shows of all time. But when the series ended its second season, it looked buried forever and Anderson was once again just a TV journalist, making a move from ABC to CNN. Suddenly, "Celebrity Mole" geared up and Cooper had to make a choice. He chose the news. Ahmad Rashad just couldn't fill Cooper's shoes. Neither could Jon Kelley in a 2008 resurrection. "The Mole's" future is unclear, although we venture to guess it will never return. Anderson, on the other hand, is doing just fine.
 "American Idol" |  "Top Chef" |
 "Project Runaway" |  "Dancing With The Stars" |
 "America's Next Top Model" |  "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" |
 "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" |  "The Bachelor" |
 "The Amazing Race" |  "Survivor" |
 "The Mole" [Yeeaaahh!! 11 = Número Uno twice!!] |  "Fear Factor" |
 "Star Search" |  "Wild Kingdom" |
 "Candid Camera" |  "????? ????" |
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Free Sri Lankan Press
"Dear Mr Cooper I am a fan of your style of neutral, investigative reporting. The situation in Srilanka has deteriorated since January 09, with the government increasingly targetting civilians and journalists with absolute impunity. Please Mr. Cooper, we need you to investigate the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka. An atrocity almost of the proportions of Bosnia and Darfur is happening right now. Thanks "- Supporter from New Zealand
"Please help us draw atleast a little bit of the worlds attention to the horrible events that are happening in Sri Lanka!"
- Supporter from Netherlands
"Only few people like you have the opportunity to make a difference in this world against injustice. Please make a change..."
- Supporter from Canada
"Mr Coooper, please go to Sri Lanka see for yourself what is actually going on. Report the truth, see for yourself who is the guilty party is and report the truth. Don't trust anyone. Trust your eyes only and trust your ears, Take someone who can speak Tamil, Sinhalese and English equally well make sure that you record all the conversions you have with all your witness. Then get people from both sides here translate the recording that is the only way you can report the truth. Please, Please, Please help the Tamil People and repot the TRUTH. "
- Supporter from Canada
"Please help us!!!!"
- Supporter from Germany
"Journalists like you have the power to give voice to the oppressed and voiceless 300,000 caught in war in Sri Lanka! PLease exercise it! "
- Supporter from Sweden
"Please ensure freedom of press in Srilanka to bring out the truth. Thank you."
- Supporter from India
"Dear Anderson, The greatest service you could do as a journalist, is to publicize the happenings in Sri Lanka to the press and the journalists, so that pressure could be brought on the government to restore freedom of the press. Thank you."
- Supporter from United States
"I support this request."
- Supporter from United Kingdom
"This travesty needs to stop. Innocent civilians need a voice. Please bring our voice to the American government who have the ability to salvage what hope of a peaceful life our people have!"
- Supporter from United Kingdom
"please do something to bring out the news what is going on in srilanka..."
- Supporter from Canada
"I did not disclose my location as I am in Srilanka. Please use your good office to save Tamil people from this genocidal government. We are voice less and the whole world does not care about our people's limitless suffering! Yours Sincerely, A voice less Tamil." - Supporter from Sri Lanka "Please be the voice for us in Srilanka, thanks"
- Supporter from Sri Lanka
"Let the world know the truth what is happening in Sri Lanka."
- Supporter from Singapore
"Be the voiceof Sri Lankan jounalist"
- Supporter from Sri Lanka
From: FreeOurPressDOTcom
Added: February 25, 2009
Description: You can help bring back the "Free Press" in Sri Lanka. Visit www.freeourpress.com and sign our petition asking Anderson Cooper to be a influential voice for Sri Lankan journalists.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL5q6Lwoyjw
From: FreeOurPressDOTcom
Added: February 25, 2009
Description: We are all watching in shock as freedom loses its voice in Sri Lanka. We have one chance to bring it back. All we need is one mouse click from you.
JOIN US and sign the petition at www.freeourpress.com to help launch the improbable experiment to change the course of press freedom in Sri Lanka.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOx84LtjUY
Jon Stewart -- Yes!!
No, Anderson Cooper Is Not America's Most Trusted Newscaster
Sorry, kiddos, but Anderson Cooper is not considered America's most-trusted newscaster in the post-Cronkite era. (Nor is pundit Rachel Maddow.) Like all such superlatives, this honor is bestowed upon a middle-aged white guy. Of the "fake news" variety.With almost 10,000 votes, Time magazine's poll says it's Emmy-winning, young-person favorite Jon Stewart, whose television show airs on a network called Comedy Central (!) that has Cronkite's voice of authority. And he does it while making you laugh at anti-gay Republicans sometimes!
This means he beat out real newscasters like Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, and Katie Couric. (This also means Matt Lauer lost the race, too.)
And, of course, Anderson Cooper is among the losers. But how can you put your trust in a guy when he doesn't even trust you with his sexuality?
Elegant Dark Charcoal
From: PeterGay
Added: July 23, 2009
Description: Anderson Cooper always elegant in any situation, except when he's in the jungle, then it's his favorite dark gray T-shirt.
Music "A Thousand Miles Of Man" (sounds like Anderson) by the fabulous Musicshake.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSTH0dPGRsU
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Can't go, The View is on.
July 22, 2009
What would David Beckham’s abs do?
Posted: 01:48 PM ET
Jack GrayAC360° Producer/Writer
You can only take your health for granted for so long. Never one to have been a fanatic about blood pressure and cholesterol, I’ve lately become somewhat of a gym rat, unyielding in my devotion to physical fitness unless there’s a compelling reason to stay home…like it’s cloudy outside or I’m watching The View.
I’m not entirely sure what prompted this renewed interest in my overpriced club membership. Perhaps, selfishly, it has something to do with my recent beach vacation – a coconut rum-fueled derailment of self-esteem if there ever was one. Or maybe I’ve realized – amid all the talk about health care reform – that, although I’m one of the fortunate ones who currently have coverage, there are no guarantees in life.
I suppose it’s a byproduct of me trying to accept that if – at age 28 – I’m not as healthy as I could be…well, I have no one to blame but myself: I used to smoke and have been known to enjoy a drink or five. And I’ve tried, with varying degrees of success, to end my love affair with chicken fingers. Though, frankly, I’m not sure I want to live in a world without breaded poultry.
Regardless, following through with exercise isn’t easy. At least not for me. For me, going to the gym is like going to a wedding. I have to drag myself there and by the time I leave I’m sweaty and full of resentment. And thinking about cake.
At one point I was convinced the only way I would go to the gym was if I had a financial obligation beyond my monthly dues. So, I signed up with a personal trainer. (You’re welcome, American Express.) His name was Scott and he was a genuine ex-Abercrombie and Fitch model. Yeah, I hated him, too. Anyway, Scott got a kick out of making me run up and down the gym stairwell for an hour. He said it was for my own good but I think it was just an easy way to keep me busy while he admired his biceps. Three days a week, every week, for who knows how many months – up and down those stairs. Each morning I would show up hoping Scott had finally gotten a call from Susan Lucci requesting he give up his fitness career to play her frisky cabana boy, Pierre.
Now personal trainer-less, the burden of staying in fighting shape rests squarely on my shoulders. There is, in my view, no longer time to procrastinate. Life is short, the clock is ticking…pick whatever cliché you want. It may at times be painful and I may never have David Beckham’s abs…but hopefully it’ll buy me some more time on this earth.
Besides, the chicken fingers never loved me back.
Follow Jack Gray on Twitter @JackGrayCNN
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Bermuda Trunks
Wouldn’t it be great if this whole posting was about how we’d found Luke Wilson and his ethnic hottie BF on a nude beach?
It’s not…that would be more like an Anderson Cooper story.
It’s a warning sign. Any swimsuit with an adjustable band and cargo pockets are the first sign a guy is straight, single, and looking to expand…. horizontally.
Apparently that’s Luke Wilson’s brother next to him walking on the beach, but I think he’s adopted from or spending to much time in the sun because he looks Indian to me.
Dot not feather, Indian.
Source: www.laragmag.com
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Who's Next?
Whom Can We Trust Now?In a More Cynical -- and Hyperlinked -- Time, Americans Might Not Agree on a Singular Touchstone
By Philip Kennicott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Even in 1972, when the Oliver Quayle polling organization declared Walter Cronkite the most trusted public figure in America, the concept of trust was in decline -- shaken by social upheaval, assassinations, the war in Vietnam and the emerging scandal of Watergate. To have faith in a man who transcended mere reliability already seemed a quaint remnant of a passing age.The shared crucible of the Depression and World War II had helped create a public realm in which millions participated in the collective urgency of shared history. And postwar prosperity and technological progress brought forth a new medium that gathered in its flickering light a diverse and fractious people.
But by the time Cronkite was anointed the nation's avatar of trust, the world he embodied was splintering. It was plausible, in the 1960s, that the con man at the center of Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me if You Can" could talk his way onto Pan Am flights simply by wearing a purloined pilot's uniform. It was deeply disturbing, but not terribly surprising, to learn that under the guidance of a stern man in a lab coat, ordinary people would torture innocent victims in the infamous Milgram experiment carried out at Yale University. Cronkite was a white man in a tie, with a calm, reassuring voice, and he could have talked us into almost anything, if he wanted to. But his legacy is a paradox: We trusted him to teach us to trust less.
The nostalgia for Cronkite is nostalgia not for a lost golden age, but for a brief time when three large media corporations held a monopoly on the airwaves, when trust could be sorted out easily and quickly with the shorthand of race, class and education.
Today, when we talk about trust we really mean something like reliability, or efficiency. We "trust" institutions that are well run. We elect politicians we hope will be effective. We rely on large networks of carefully vetted micro-trust. The average American trusts one friend with the kids, another with secrets, one Web site for news, another for movie reviews. We sign codicils to our marriages, and we learn the mind of God from men we won't allow alone with our children.
But there is no aura of trust that public figures can put on like a bespoke suit. Trust has been shattered into a million little pieces, which was, perversely, the name of a dubious memoir endorsed by Oprah, unofficially the most trusted woman in America. Replacing it is a host of smaller and more precise ideas. Transparency. Authenticity. Accuracy. A different world, and not necessarily a worse one.
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