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Gartenideen Fur Kleine Garten
4 years ago
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Abortion Debate - Daily Show Style
I usually don't enjoy watching debates, especially on such contraversial issues as abortion, but this interview really captured my attention.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Um... Wow.
Oh my gosh. Did you see his face?
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Threat Down - Bears VS Robots!!!!!
I love the Colbert Report and this is my all time favorite Threat Down!
*sorry about any innapropriate language that didn't get beeped out.
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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*sorry about any innapropriate language that didn't get beeped out.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Welcome to Holland
This story is one that I read a long time ago and haven't found since then. I finally found it again and while the vast majority of the people who read this probably won't be able to relate, I hope it helps you to start seeing this topic in a new light. (I DID NOT WRITE THIS. I don't know who did.)
*Welcome to Holland
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this:
When you are going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum, The Michelangelo David, the Gondola's in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland".
"Holland?" you say. "What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy".
But there has been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around, and begin to notice that Holland has windmills. Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life you will always say, "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned".
And the pain of that will never, ever go away, because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this:
When you are going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum, The Michelangelo David, the Gondola's in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland".
"Holland?" you say. "What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy".
But there has been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around, and begin to notice that Holland has windmills. Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life you will always say, "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned".
And the pain of that will never, ever go away, because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.
I may not be the parent of a child with a disability, but I am the sister of one and personally, I think Holland is a great place to be.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Savants
Savants are the mixtures of the extremes. Usually, they are severely disabled, while also being incredably talented in a specific area, and other times, they blend in well with us. I think it's absolutely amazing and unreal.
Daniel Tammet, is a mathmatics savant. The second person is Stephen Wiltshire, also known as the Living Camera.
These are only two of several savants in the world, even though there number is relatively small.
Daniel Tammet, is a mathmatics savant. The second person is Stephen Wiltshire, also known as the Living Camera.
These are only two of several savants in the world, even though there number is relatively small.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Farm Ponds
In Pennsylvania, farm ponds are a very common thing. But many people feel that their ponds have too many plants. This video shows how the different amounts of vegitation will be useful for different uses of the ponds.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Coqui Frog Abuse
This is a continuation of my last post.
In Hawaii, the rare coqui frog, that can only survive in tropical rainforest climates, is being killed cruely in mass numbers. You think it's not a problem? Wrong.
"AS OF January, 2008, the coqui frogs are still under attack in Hawaii. Millions of dollars have been spent to spray the jungles with acid and caustic lime (calcium hydroxide) in order to burn the frogs to death. Some spraying has taken place using helicopters to poison the tree tops. Beautiful tropical plants have been cut down and sprayed with herbicide to eliminate coqui hiding places. Trees have been cut down, and bulldozers have cleared land, all to attack the coqui.
In Response, we at HawaiianCoqui.org have started a Coqui Sanctuary and Nature Preserve.
It takes 45 minutes to kill coquis with acid or calcium hydroxide, a painful and inhumane practice that also burns lizards, spiders, insects, birds, cats and dogs, plants, and anything else unfortunate enough to be in the spray's path. Uncountable numbers of animals suffer sub-lethal burns that cause weeks of pain. This barbaric practice is not only cruel; it is also ineffective, and has spread the frogs. The only other methods of killing coquis, promoted by the government, are to hand-capture the frogs and put them in hot water, to cook them to death, or to put them in the freezer, to freeze them to death. No humane method of frog control is offered; and humane laws do not apply to the coquis in Hawaii, since the government in 2006 passed a law specifically defining the coqui as a "pest"; and, by Hawaii law, pests are not protected from cruelty! (This is the first time in the history of the world that a tree frog has been labeled a "pest".)
Why has the coqui been labeled a "criminal" in Hawaii, and subjected to such tortures as being boiled or frozen or sprayed with acid? It's not because the frogs are an environmental problem. Even a "scientific study" has shown that they are not a threat to Hawaii's ecosystems. Click here for excerpts from an article that appeared in The Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, August 28, 2005.
NO, THE REASON for the Frog War is not because the frogs are an environmental problem. It's because of their chirping at night, which some people don't like! " - HawaiianCoqui.com
Click on this link to see a video of the coqui frog: http://bigislandvideonews.com/puna/20081115coqui.htm
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