If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

Carter offered his harshest assessment for the White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.

“The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion. Those things in my opinion are quite disturbing,” Carter said. “As a traditional Baptist, I’ve always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one.”

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The Bush administration’s response? To call Carter irrelevant. (Source)

This statement, from the jackass-in-chief’s ranch, is what’s irrelevant. How about an explanation, some answers, instead of a deflection?

I hardly think Carter’s irrelevant, when he is nobly combatting malaria and river blindness in Ethiopia. He’s contributing to the planet more than he destroys, which can’t be said for everyone. (Source)

I’ve got global warming on the brain, have just endured a semester-long exercise in discomfort that was a Speech class, where I spoke on this. Here are some things I found striking, from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth:

• Over 650,000 years, the Earth has endured 7 ice ages and subsequent warming periods - the temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have NEVER been this high. What we are experiencing is NOT cyclical.
• Liken it to ice cubes melting in a glass of water. 1 cube melting is insignificant, but if several melt, your cup runneth over. With accelerated melting of glaciers, you’d better hope you’re not terribly attached to coastal cities or lower-lying areas!
• American cars are so piss-poor on emission standards that we cannot sell them to other countries because they have HIGHER STANDARDS than the US does
• A White House memo leaked reveals their strategy on Global Warming, and it is, “to reposition global warming as a theory, instead of a fact.” Well played, gentlemen! ;p

Rant on the vegetational & pestilence effects to follow. Also, were our “representatives” truly interested in our best interests, they could do so much by means of regulation.

In turn, the developments required could jump-start the economy - creating the means, advancing, enhancing, improving… Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be as personally lucrative to them or their corporate bedmates.

Wow, the “critics” are really relishing taking a dump on this film. Can’t you just say, “I don’t get it,” if you truly don’t? Admit ignorance. Not that it’s profound, but the issue is that they’re taking it seriously.

For MSNBC & Rotten Tomatoes to Poop On.

However, Digging the images from the Premiere :D

I plan on seeing it this weekend. For anyone that’s pondering it, GRINDHOUSE kicks ass something fierce! Rose McGowan has seriously redeemed herself as a ferocious ass-kicking chicky, a leading lady - a true femme fatale.

Violent, lurid, pulpy goodness. Again, you can’t take all art so seriously! Time permitting (and I just laaaughed), I would like to do some artwork based on some of the intense imagery of these films.

As you sit through the chicks yapping about girly shit in DEATHPROOF, I assure you, there IS a payoff. It’s worth sitting through to get the backstory and see what ensues. ;)

PLANET TERROR… It takes a lot to make me cringe, since I’ve worked at a pathology lab, but this… *gags* I adore Robert Rodriguez. :)

Sorry, moose, you’re fucked because the Jebus says you have no soul! :B Fuck that, profusely.

Anyhow, as always, thoroughly entertained with the patronizing art featured on religious propaganda. For example, these people can’t wait to die, yippie!

(Click for another fine sampling of god-shmooking artwork)

As if there was ever any doubt, Procter & Gamble has won $19.25M in a suit against Amway distributors who had defamed them with this rumor. For Amway, to cast aspersions is shocking to me, with THEIR secretive and cult-like meetings. They actually have to misrepresent these gatherings as a party of sorts, in order to lure unsuspecting victims into long-ass sales spiels for their MLM pipe dreams. Loons!

Personally, I never noticed this logo when it was in use, but I like it. As a logo, I probably would have simplified the lines, less swoopties and curliques because it repros like crap at smaller sizes. Also not feeling the unicorn look to the points.

I have such a crescent man-in-the-moon fetish, my only tattoo is along these lines, though in desperate need of retouching and repair.

For the topmost example, one has to reverse (horizontally flip) the image to perceive the 6’s in the hair. The 2nd one’s a real stretch, difficult to even form 6’s from. Then there are the negative connotations with the number 13, the count of stars.

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Far too frail, Spain has disallowed use of lithe mannequins in stores because it “contributes to eating disorders.”

Personally, I don’t get it. Clothes, fashions, etc. look BETTER on physically appealing specimens - it helps move product. If an enormous ass is devouring the seat of some pants ‘tween its massive cheeks, it’s less flattering to the clothing, thereby potentially affecting sales. I’m being extreme though, their mandate limits it to Size 6 and up, which isn’t big at all. I just get riled when people imply that the media is responsible for girls’ feelings of self-loathing.

What I dig about this article, is that “designers will standardize women’s apparel so a given size will fit the same way no matter who sells it.” YES! Do this. I hate shopping, and if sizes were universal across designers it would make life so much easier!!! Do it to shoes too, then I can order everything online and never set foot in a store again.

Futuristic Badassedness:

To get a better idea of the shapes of Spanish women’s bodies, the government is employing some heavy technology. Using laser-fitted booths that can take 130 measurements of a body in 30 seconds, the Health Ministry is fanning out across the country to assess the sizes of Spanish women.

I demand an uprising, we require this in America, too - the standardization of sizes, that is, NOT the banning of mannequins!

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