If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

On the recent topic of micro-expressions…

“Specially trained security personnel” will be watching passengers for “micro-expressions” that will reveal treacherous agendas and insidious intentions at airports around the country. These agents, who may literally hold your fate in their hands have been given a lofty, Orwellian name: “Behavior Detection Officers.”

Airports are torture for the impatient (me) and are not conducive to mental stability, with existing security lines, switched gates and delays.

How does one discern which pissed-off, anxious fuck trying to find their way is a menace? I’m not in a good way at airports, nor does anyone else appear to be from the behavior I’ve witnessed.

It’s not even a precise science, subject to perception. This is just odd.

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The Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, Xingu is said to be intelligent and fond of salty biscuits.

“Other dogs snarl at Xingu, because they can sense he’s different. He’s the smallest dog there but he sees the other dogs off,” Colonel Blashford-Snell said.

“He’s very intelligent and with a wonderful sense of smell, as you might think.

They say he “[isn’t] a terribly handsome dog,” but I beg to differ, I think he’s a cutie! I bet he makes sniffy-sounds galore, at twice the power of your average dog! :D

I don’t know that I agree with ongoing breeding to perpetuate the double-nose, especially since the article mentions a majority of double-nosed puppies in one litter dying.

Breeding strikes me as an odd thing to inflict upon animals, especially having experienced it firsthand with my purebred cat. It’s unnatural, as in, this is not how it would transpire in nature, if they were left to their own devices.

While they have the desired traits specific to a breed, they also have increased odds for afflictions, sickness and mental disorders, also specific to that breed - all from the limited gene pool they’re drawing from.

It’s an odd form of genetic racism, inflicted upon animals by humans. I can see why it’s done, as characteristics and personalities vary wildly across breeds, but it’s still weird.

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Based on this article, the Earth would flourish if rid of humans. (Source)

It alludes to this site, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, whose tagline is, “May we live long and die out.”

Further solidifying the argument that environmental damage is manmade, Al Gore reveals that conflicting reports on global warming are typically funded by offending polluters.

Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the appearance of scientific debate on smoking’s harmful effects.

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It’s revolting how these self-righteous fucks inflict morals via legislation, but fancy themselves to be above the law.

Meanwhile, with their words they are fostering a society of hatred & discrimination, most notably against gay people in the name of preserving the “sanctity of marriage,” which should only be pissed upon in secret - have some couth, man!

Then, conveniently enough, with their religion they are forgiven for behaving like savages, so long as they repent with the Jeebus & their families.

“People can believe in two opposing things. Humans are ingenious in how they can make exceptions for themselves. ‘Practice what you preach’ is an old saw, but there are plenty of charismatic figures who are known to be mean and nasty in their home life,”

“These people make an exception for themselves. The very fact of their own misbehavior is the reason they preach to others,”

I’m fascinated by how ppl can perceive themselves, in thoughts & words, as a good person - or somehow qualified to advise others on how to properly live their lives - when their actions say otherwise.

“Often the people who speak loudest about something are trying to protect themselves from their own urges. They act out one way on the public stage, but inside they have this urge. They feel it’s wrong, and outwardly, they’re telling themselves it’s wrong. It’s as if they’re having a conversation with themselves,”

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On Howard Stern today, they had a guy on with concrete examples of songs that Led Zeppelin STOLE from other artists, not even crediting them (until taken to court). Makes me sincerely wish they had a deal with the devil instead. :|

It’s similar to realizing that Lichtenstein merely traced 50’s comics frames to create his paintings, which I’d previously loved.

On one hand, the original art had probably reached its maximum potential with the original artists. These other guys come along, polish it up & re-frame it in their context, make it more palatable - is that art?

In a secondhand way, perhaps, but to lie about it & call it your own, that makes you an asshole. :)

“The president supports and encourages stem cell research, including using embryonic lines, as long as it does not involve creating, harming or destroying embryos,” Fratto said. “That is an ethical line that should not be crossed.” (Source)

This statement is contradictory in itself and means that he does NOT support embryonic stem cell research, b/c if they are not to be created or destroyed, what is it that scientists are allowed to do?

For clarification:

“during an embryo’s first few days of existence it is a blastocyst - a mass of cells that has not differentiated, and could not develop into a human being unless implanted in a mother’s womb.” (Source)

This asshole is protecting CELLS?! Yet, as governor of Texas, he was able to rationalize over 150 executions on a legal technicality. He claimed that as governor, all he could do was grant them 30 days reprieve. (Source)

It gets me riled b/c this should be a non-issue, the funding for research that a majority of Americans seem to want. Meanwhile, $2.15 billion in federal grants for religious initiatives are perfectly acceptable to this little man. WTF?!