In light of the racial animus raised in the Covington & Burling dispute, we submit this photo to show how other species have learned to overcome such issues.
Other species have shown similar hope when every species can join regardless of the color of their fur or skin.
Dogs and cats are some of the best people I know.
LOL!
Throw a steak between them and they would rip each other to shreds – just like people.
Can we get off this “animals are so wonderful” left wing garbage?
PS:
Dogs are colorblind because of their dichromatic color vision – they don’t see or understand color.
lakeside,
We’ll stop loving animals when you stop endorsing fascists, spamming troll. How about staying remotely on topic, half-wit.
Giving human attributes to animals is known as Anthropomorphism.
Buddha, you don’t love animals – you worship them.
That is stupid, ignorant, and blind.
lakeside:
“The Basilica houses a cloak that belonged to a 16th-century Indian, on which an image of the Virgin Mary miraculously appeared. In the intervening years, no scientific explanation of the image has been forthcoming.”
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Well you’re almost right. From wiki:
“In 2002, art restoration expert José Sol Rosales said he examined the icon with a stereomicroscope and that he identified calcium sulfate, pine soot, white, blue, and green “tierras” (soil), reds made from carmine and other pigments, as well as gold. Rosales said he found the work consistent with 16th century materials and methods.[19]
Guadalupe of Extremadura
Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico, commissioned a 1999 study to test the tilma’s age. Leoncio Garza-Valdés, a pediatrician and microbiologist who had previously worked with the Shroud of Turin, claimed, upon inspection of photographs of the image, to have found three distinct layers in the painting, at least one of which had initials painted on it. He also stated that the original painting showed striking similarities to the original Lady of Guadalupe found in Extremadura Spain, with the second painting showing another Virgin with indigenous features. However he could cite no other independent observer who sees the same features.[20] Garza-Valdés also claimed that the fabric on which the icon is painted is made of conventional hemp and linen, not agave fibers as is believed.[19] Gilberto Aguirre, a colleague of Garza-Valdés who took part in the 1999 study, examined the same photographs and stated that, while agreeing the painting had been extensively tampered with, he disagreed with Garza-Valdes’ conclusions and claims the conditions for conducting the study were inadequate.”[21][footnotes omitted]
So you see Ms. Clinton’s question based on an assumption of human creation was much more reasonable than your starry-eyed criticism premised on your own misguided religiosity. Who indeed did paint the Aztec-based Madonna and duped an entire nation eager to be duped?
lakeside:
“Buddha, you don’t love animals – you worship them.”
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I actually prefer animal worship. They’re warm, fuzzy, mostly friendly–and have the added benefit of being real!
Oh, and lakeside your understanding of canine diachromism is almost as good as your understanding of politics, religion, and Buddha. According to veterinarian Michale Richards, dogs do indeed see color as best we understand. Unlike our trichromism, dogs see certain hues of yellow and blue. The green to red spectrum is blocked due to the lack of receptor cones in the retina. Dogs have rod cells which allow them hues of grey as well. So dogs do see some color, and in fact, likely “see” more about the world than you apparently do.
Oh, and lakeside your understanding of canine diachromism is almost as good as your understanding of politics, religion, and Buddha. According to veterinarian Michale Richards, dogs do indeed see color as best we understand. Unlike our trichromism, dogs see certain hues of yellow and blue. The green to red spectrum is blocked due to the lack of receptor cones in the retina. Dogs have rod cells which allow them hues of gray as well. So dogs do see some color, and in fact, likely “see” more about the world than you apparently do.
Oops darn double post. I guess I really, really meant it!
Stupid, ignorant and blind.
The very definition of fascism and Neocon supporters.
Are you using that old Rovian tactic of trying to paint he opposition with the paint you wear, lakeside?
Sure sounds like it.
Even if dogs were colorblind, they would still be able to see black and white. Which is the primary point of this article.
Second, lakeside, how can you know what a dog understands about color? You rail against the ‘silly’ positions others make about dogs then you go and take up an even sillier one by implying you know how another species understands color. Even between humans understanding color perception is a tricky subject. How does one explain ‘blue’ to someone who has always been blind?
Though to your credit, I doubt a dog could follow the rational trail of thought that leads from Canine Racial Harmony to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe then to the U.S. Economy. I’ll have to leave it to greater minds to decide if this is an indication that your thought processes are greater than or not as great as those of a canine.
The names of the two dogs are Stein and Way.
Maybe lakeside is right and we should stop the diversion to our animal love-in and get back to the full time, non-stop, relentless pursuit of fixxing the deep financial, economic, political, international repute and spiritual damage done by his GOP handlers. But we can’r do it with humor or teleprompters or appearances on late night TV, ’cause….well, I don’t know why except that that’s all the head of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, Billo-the-Clown and Hannity can focus on.
Lakeside,
Since we are digging out of 8 inches of wet snow here in Northern Illinois, I am in a foul mood. Of course, reading your nonsense just added to that foul mood. I have a great idea. Take your neocon garbage and lies to a site where they might actually believe the crap that you and your fellow Von Troll family members are spewing on a daily basis.
Mespo,
I have a a Wheaties flake that is the spitting image of the Virgin Mary that I know must be real. Should I send it to the Vatican for testing or just build my own grotto for public display of this Woodstock miracle?
rafflaw:
“Should I send it to the Vatican for testing or just build my own grotto for public display of this Woodstock miracle?”
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I have a potato chip that looks like Richard’s Nixon’s profile. I bet if I sent it to the RNC they would build it a church and worship it! I have always thought that the neo-cons were a transplanted cargo cult.
WTF? Just how withered does a persons soul/mind/life have to be for them to visit a blog before 7:30am and post some buzz-kill bs over the “Awwww” of the day?
But lakeside, all is right with the world after the imbecilic, religious anthropomorphist G.W. Bush stated:
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”
We human *being* are lucky that fish do not have access to *nuclurer* weaponry.
lottakatz:
“WTF? Just how withered does a persons soul/mind/life have to be for them to visit a blog before 7:30am and post some buzz-kill bs over the “Awwww” of the day?”
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Well, Buddha is inscrutable, but as for lakeside, I suspect he/she is located somewhere east of Cape Cod in a dingy with a satellite hook up. “Why there?” you ask– it’s easier to rail against the tides from there.
The Fish/Bush War Reconciliation *speach*:
LOL mespo, NICE carom shot there. Remind me to never play pool against you.
FFLEO, thanks, great clip. I’ll put a shortcut to that gem on my desktop and when our new Prez does something to upset me I’ll watch the clip. It’ll lower my blood pressure and make me thankful anew for presidential term limits.
FFLEO,
That’s just a gem of a clip. I can rest easier now knowing the GOP is doing something about fish attacks. But what about attacks WITH fish? How come no one from either party has addressed this problem? Sure they call it a “dance”, but this is plainly battery.
lakeside,
Glad to see your off topic spam has been scrubbed, Neocon. Don’t you just hate it when you go to all that trouble copying and pasting propaganda to only have it deleted? So sad. In so many ways.
BIL, You’re correct sir it is battery, I say, it is battery- to the fish. I presume sir, I presume that is what you refer to. Battery to the smaller ones in any event, the small fry as it were. I must say the larger creature does credit, I say credit, to fish everywhere.
I have never seen that clip sir and I’m appalled, appalled I say, that it makes me laugh. Laugh out loud sir. Over such a serious matter as battery. You sir, are a bad influence on me. You take me back sir, back to
my favorite Python: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX61PUZ3xkI The Crimson Permanent Assurance playing out in real time in the streets of London this very day.
JT, this ‘thing’ is bigger than all of us…
http://abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=2911566
According to Drew Johnson, president of the Tennessee Center for Global Warming Research, global warming activist and former Vice President Al Gore left his lights for the hyped Earth Hour.
“I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour,” Johnson wrote and reprinted on the Washington Examiner’s blog on March 29. “I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.”
“In China, the spinternet is being built by the 50 cent party, a loose online squad of tech-savvy operators loyal to the government who are paid to troll the Internet, find dissenting views and leave anonymous comments to steer all discussions in more harmonious directions. The 50 cents in the name stands for their meager pay rates.” (from Common Dreams.org)
Spinternet–it’s not just for China anymore! We have our very own govt. trolls. It’s so special.
FFLEO,
That was so funny. Wasn’t that from his speech on christianity?
LEN
“There are at least a half dozen of us here! RISE and let us take this country!”
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Now let’s survey the odds: Our little group of 6 or so rational thinkers versus the Ivy League (or their wannabes), upper crust, white, middle-aged neo-con horde, armed with their christian soldiers in the military and their skinhead comrades in the Pacific northwest. Coupled that with their bubble headed, bleach-blonde propagandists at Faux News, and I’d say that’s a fair intellectual fight.