Duff McKagan & Wife : Strips Down For Anti-Fur PETA Ad

A hard rocker and his  beautiful wife stripping down for a photo  isn't exactly a rare occurrence  , but  it's still uncommon when the musician  and model  in question are doing it for charity.

Bassist  Duff McKagan , of  'Guns  N' Roses and Violet Revolver fame , recently disrobed  alongside his wife , Susan Holmes McKagan as part of  'PETRA's  "Ink ,  Not  Mink" anti-fur campaign . The stars of E!'s 'Married to Rock' joined fellow musicians Dave Navarro , Tommy Lee and Linkin Park's  Chester  Bennington in the tattoo-heavy series .

"I think we should know better than that," Susan told PETA . "Whether  you're a photographer , a designer , celebrity  or a stylist ,I think everyone should share responsibility in bringing more awareness that's , by , [fur's] not necessary , it's out of fashion , it's completely immoral to the animals.

Just wondering : The faux furs today are plenty warm and looks like real fur and are soft. No animal needs to be killed these days just for sport .O.K   some of  my family is hunters , but they don't believe in the cruel act of beating a seal over the head  or killing a calibu  and skinning it alive .

I say don't cause pain or be cruel , please don't kill the animals just for the sake of killing.

There are people all over the world  that depends on hunting animals for their livelihood and existence .....but to kill for fun and profit is just so wrong .

What You Don't Know About the Big Bang

Topic:
What You Don't Know About the Big Bang:
Heidi Hammel: We think we know quite a bit about how the universe may have formed from the Big Bang, from nothing to something and then a period of inflation that then started everything moving outward from wherever it was.
 One of the most revolutionary things that’s happened in astronomy in just the last few years, though, has been a study of things that are going on in the distant, distant past. We look kind of back in time with our telescopes, and when we look at the most distant galaxies, which are pretty big ( That’s why we can see them). We look at the supernovae in these galaxies because supernovae are exploding stars that are really bright so we can see them far away. We found something unanticipated.

 What we found was that those distant, distant objects were actually accelerating away from us, not just moving away from us, but moving faster and faster the further we looked, which is nuts. I mean, it’s like if you took a ball and threw it in the air, instead of like coming back down again, the ball would move away and keep going up faster and faster and faster, which just doesn’t really seem to fit our world view at all.

 And so at first everyone said, oh, there’s just something wrong. Whoever did these observations just made a mistake. Blah, blah, blah. But then other teams independently verified that, yeah, this really seems to be happening to our best understanding of what we can see. And so we’re now working in this regime where we think that the universe is filled with something that we call dark energy. And the dark energy is kind of like, almost like an anti-gravity force that is pushing things away from one another with an increasing acceleration. And it’s a real mind bender. It just doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. It doesn’t work on the physical scale of sitting in a room and thing go around here.
 But on the very, very largest scales, and probably on the very, very smallest scales, there’s this force that appears to be there, but we don’t quite understand it. And so a lot of our future mission work and ground base work is trying to think of ways that we can study this elusive dark energy. How can we really characterize it and fit it into our understanding of physics as we know it in the universe? It’s a very perplexing thing. And it’s going to keep astronomers and astrophysicists very busy for a decade or more.

Bacon Cheese Log & Baklava



                                    Bacon Cheese Log

Prep Time : 15 minutes , plus freezing time   Serves : 12

8 -10 slices bacon

2 (8 oz) reduced -fat cream cheese

1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles or 1 cup cheese

4   Tbs  green onions ,  chopped

2 cloves garlic , minced

In a skillet , cook bacon until it is crisp . Once bacon has cooled , crumble . In a medium bowl , combine cream cheese  , blue cheese , green onions and garlic . Place cream cheese mixture onto wax paper  . Roll cream cheese  to make a log and then roll log into bacon crumbles . Place wax paper and log into freezer  for one hour or until firm.

                     Baklava

Prep  Time : 45 minutes  ,  cook time : 30 minutes  : serves 14

1 (1 pound) box frozen phylio sheets

1/2  cup butter , melted

2 cups walnuts or blanched  almonds , finely chopped

1/2 cup powered sugar

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4 cup sugar  ( or substitute equal)

3/4 cup honey

1 cup water

1 Tbs  lemon juice

Thaw phylio  pastry and separate sheets according to package directions . Keep pastry not being used covered with clean, damp dish towel  to keep it from drying out . Place half of pastry sheets on a greased 15x10x1 baking pan , one by one , brushing each sheet quickly  and all over with the melted butter .  Combine nuts , powered sugar  and cinnamon ; sprinkle over butter pastry . Place remaining sheets on top , brushing each with melted butter . Cut baklava pastry into 2-inch diamonds . Baked at 350*F  until brown and crisp , about 30 to 35 minutes . In a  sauce pan , combine sugar , honey , water and lemon juice ; bring to a boil .  Boil baklava syrup for about 20 minutes , stirring occasionally , until thick . Cool and pour over baklava.

It's the season to be jolly ...  PIC and I will  bring you some Holiday treats that quick and easy . We also wants to share some of our  holiday dinner recipes  ,meats , vegetables , etc ; stay tune there are a lot more to come.

Ho Ho Ho

Pres. Predicts Approval of Tax Bill

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said he expects disgruntled Democrats to make changes to the sweeping tax-cut deal he reached with Republican leaders, a pact he predicted will win congressional approval.
Democrats have objected to the deal on grounds it is too generous to the rich, especially its provisions cutting estate taxes for the wealthiest Americans. House Democrats voted in a closed-door meeting Thursday not to allow the package to reach the floor for a vote without changes.

Asked about those objections, Obama said there will be talks between House and Senate leaders about the package's final details. "Keep in mind, we didn't actually write a bill," he said of his agreement with Republican leaders. "We put forward a framework. I'm confident that the framework is going to look like the one that we put forward." The deal was hammered out as Republicans prepare to take a majority in the House of Representatives starting in January. Obama's Democrats lost control of the House and saw their Senate majority weakened in November elections.

Throughout his campaign for the White House and the first two years of his presidency, Obama had vowed he would not allow the tax reductions to continue for the wealthy, defined as households earning more than $250,000 a year, when the cuts expire at the end of this month. However, the president has said he had no choice except to agree to an extension of the tax cuts, which date back to Republican President George W. Bush's administration. Tax cuts for middle-class and lower-earning Americans are also set to expire at the end of the year, and Republicans are refusing to back the tax cuts if the wealthy are excluded.

The uprising among fellow Democrats so soon after the party suffered a major defeat in last month's elections only compounds Obama's increasing political fragility with the approach of the 2012 presidential campaign.
In an interview with National Public Radio released Friday, Obama said that despite a rebellion by many Democrats against his tax deal, it will pass because "nobody — Democrat or Republican — wants to see people's paychecks smaller on Jan. 1 because Congress didn't act." The pact would extend cuts in income tax rates for all earners that would otherwise expire next month, renew long-term jobless benefits and trim payroll taxes for one year.

The measure appears headed for Senate approval after negotiators added a few relatively modest sweeteners to promote ethanol and other forms of alternative energy. It was unclear whether House Democrats would be able to demand changes that go much further. Tax provisions designed to increase production of hybrid automobiles, biodiesel fuel, energy-efficient homes, coal and energy-efficient household appliances would be extended through the end of 2011. The measure also includes tax breaks for commuters who use mass transit. The program saves commuters about $1,000 a year.

There is no precise timetable for passage in the Senate, but a procedural vote was set for Monday afternoon that appears likely to demonstrate overwhelming support for the legislation. Supporters say it would help accelerate a sluggish recovery from recession.  At the insistence of Republicans, the measure includes a more generous estate tax provision. That infuriated Democrats already unhappy with Obama for agreeing to extend tax cuts at incomes of more than $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples.

In all, the package would cost about $855 billion, according to a preliminary congressional estimate.
Geez Louise! That ain't chump change. Oh well, at this point what difference does another $855 billion make??

Weird But True : On A Lighter Side

Bus To Hell ....You missed it by thaaat  much.

Do you think that's where they take the  old lawyers when they run out of steam, well it's just across the street.

Oh yes , size do matter ...[giggles]

Careful there grandson , grandma just may have all the dildos she needs.

This last one , I'm wondering can you tell what I'm thinking...

                   

Be glad you are not traveling behind that bus ... boy do it smell...Hahaha

Discovery of Diamond Exoplanet

  Wasp 12b is superheated by its parent star

A US-British team of astronomers has discovered the first planet with ultra-high concentrations of carbon.

The researchers say their discovery supports the idea there may be carbon-rich, rocky planets whose terrains are made up of diamonds or graphite. "You might see land masses and mountains made up of diamonds," the lead researcher Dr Nikku Madhusudhan said. "On such rocky planets sand could be rare and diamonds would be plentiful”

The work has been described as an astonishing astronomical tour de force. They have detected the thermal radiation (heat) from a planet 1,200 light years away using Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope.  From this information they have calculated the composition of its atmosphere, according to Dr Marek Kukula of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. "It is absolutely astonishing that these scientists are able to start to tease out the details of what planets around other stars are made of," he said. "The planet is thousands of times fainter than the star it orbits. So the scientists have to perform an amazing feat of precision measurement to extract anything at all. The fact that they are able to tell us something about the composition of this particular planet is quite literally out of this world."

To date astronomers have discovered more than 500 planets around other stars. These distant worlds are known as exoplanets. It is only recently that instruments and analysis methods have become powerful enough to discern their composition.  This new planet, Wasp 12b, is the first to have more carbon than oxygen. It is a so-called gas giant, like Jupiter, and is mostly made from hydrogen gas.  But the planet's core could be composed of some form of diamond, graphite and other carbon compounds, possibly in liquid form.

This discovery suggests there may well be many Earth-sized planets in our galaxy that are ultra-rich in carbon. But these worlds would be unlike our planet: "Theoretical studies suggest that they could be dominated by diamond and graphite rocks," according to Dr Madhusudhan. "That would mean that in the mountains, a large fraction of the rock mass could instead be made of diamonds and lots of land masses rich in diamonds, much more than we see on Earth." These planets would be lacking in water So, if temperatures were sufficiently high, liquid on their surface would consist of carbon-rich compounds, such as tar, he says.

So how common are these diamond planets? The short answer is that astronomers simply don't know. But the fact that they've discovered one means that they'll now start to try and find an answer. Dr Madhusudhan believes that they could be common. "It's my strong belief that a fair fraction of the exoplanets we have discovered could be carbon-rich and it's a very interesting thought that on such rocky planets, sand could be a rare commodity and diamonds would be plentiful. The more important question is how such planets could form."

An immediate question is why Wasp 12b is so much higher in carbon than the planets we know about. The prevalent theory is that plenty of water ice was available when the planets in our Solar System formed. That could not have been the case for Wasp 12b. This is not an exo planet we can physically explore but it is rich in information we can use when we discover a diamond exoplanet  we can land on and it can teach us more about how the universe was formed. Another step toward ultimate understanding.