America Today

Ha!

Little boy scout in chief.

Remember when the media here vigorously promoted the notion that President Bush was despised around the world?

Looks like they might have been wrong about who it was that was despised.

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This was printed, apparently in a Russian newspaper.

Basically, Obama is dressed as the Russian version of a boy scout.  Putin tells him, "Be ready!"

Obama responds, "Strong, Uncle Volodya."

They don't respect us, and with a former KGB officer in charge, the propaganda will continue to be relentless and unanswered by our boy scout in chief.

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http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/

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two from Vivian Maier

VIDEO: AND NOW, THE CO-FOUNDER OF GREENPEACE EXPLAINS WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SHAM.

This is Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace. I especially like the point he makes about the term “climate deniers” because I find it offensive for the exact reason he cites.
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great colorization

New York circa 1905.

 "Bulldog on the beach, Coney Island.

cabin serenity

Gallery of the Louvre

Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33)
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), of Morse code fame, may be better known as an inventor, but he began his career as a painter, and his extraordinary six-by-nine-foot masterwork, Gallery of the Louvre
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Created between 1831 and 1833 in Paris and New York, Gallery of the Louvre reproduces famous works by van Dyck, Leonardo, Murillo, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Titian, among others, arranged in an imagined installation in the Salon Carré at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Morse depicted 38 paintings, two sculptures, and numerous figures in a single composition. The monumental canvas has been seen as a painted treatise on artistic practice, positioning Morse (the centrally placed instructor in the work) as a symbolic link between European art of the past and America’s cultural future. 

WTF