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When Jabba caught up with MLK.
Have a very sociable 2012…
This would also work for Tesco, M&S, John Lewis, Bluewater…
Via undercovernun:
ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO BEST BUY ON CHRISTMAS EVE
(Source: blahblahblasphemy)
Last week, Birmingham, Alabama got treated to a special cloudy day, thanks to some Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, shown above. When a layer of faster moving fluid shears a slower moving fluid, this instability can form and cause some spectacular mixing. In this case, the lower, slower fluid was cool and moist enough to contain clouds, enabling us to see the effect with the naked eye. The same mechanism is responsible for the shape of breaking ocean waves and can even be seen in the atmospheres of gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter. (submitted by David B)
I am Lightning Cat! Hear me ROAR!
Via Daily Dot | The best of The Frogman, with apologies to those of you cool kids who saw this ages ago…
"When “New Atheists” and their ilk assure us in all seriousness that believing in God is just like believing in the Easter Bunny, or that teaching religion is tantamount to child abuse, they remind me of the freshman philosophy student who once proudly declared to me his “discovery” that taking a girl out on a date was really no different from hiring a call girl, since what it’s “all about” is giving someone something in exchange for sex. In both cases, the analysis put forward is evidence not of profound philosophical understanding, but merely of being a shallow and sophomoric jackass."
— Edward Feser, The Last Superstition
"Rather than being some craven attempt to “whitewash” Uzbekistan’s reputation, as both the BIJ and the Independent alleged, this briefing document actually shows Bell Pottinger placing the exact same preconditions on working with Uzbekistan that a coalition of twenty human rights organizations demanded (pdf) the U.S. government use when re-engaging with the regime. If anything, Bell Pottinger is behaving responsibly by refusing to engage in PR activities until reforms take place.
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Bell Pottinger said up front, very explicitly, that they cannot and will not lie on behalf of Uzbekistan, that they can only help promote actual, real reforms on the part of the government. And now we learn that a PR agency actually treats its clients public images with the utmost seriousness and tries to promote them."
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Bell Pottinger said up front, very explicitly, that they cannot and will not lie on behalf of Uzbekistan, that they can only help promote actual, real reforms on the part of the government. And now we learn that a PR agency actually treats its clients public images with the utmost seriousness and tries to promote them."
— Registan: The Bell Pottinger Freakout
"The much-discussed Financial Transactions Tax issue already requires unanimity and therefore could never be imposed on the City of London without Britain’s agreement. What is more, as was pointed out in Brussels with some vehemence, when it comes to financial services there have hardly ever been any cases of Britain being outvoted in the adoption of such legislation."
— The moment, behind closed doors, that David Cameron lost his EU argument last night
