When To Care For, Abandon, or Eat Your Offspring

A new suggestion for Thanksgiving dinner?

clipped from americandigest.org Ah, what would we do without science to keep us on the moral path? “When to care for, abandon, or eat your offspring: the evolution of parental care and filial cannibalism,” ….highlights the potential importance of a range of factors in the evolution of filial cannibalism using a mathematical model of analysis. It is potentially affected by the ability to selectively consume lower quality offspring, preferences associated with mate choice, density-mediated survival, and population dynamics. Professor Michael Bonsall, a Royal Society Research Fellow and University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at Oxford University, said: ‘This sort of behaviour – cannibalising your offspring – is widespread amongst different animal groups. We show that there is not a single benefit to eating your offspring, and it depends on several factors and explanations.’ Unless, of course, you are stranded with a kindergarten class on a desert island in Colorado after global warming kicks in.

Progressive Thanksgiving Prayer: Blessing of the Taxes

Now, everybody knows that Thanksgiving observance does nothing more than perpetuate the Holocaust of the Native American. What positive meaning could be found in such a grotesquely shameful holiday? Well, my admirable laser-sharp mind of an economist with three PhDs immediately found a brilliant, socially significant answer.

clipped from www.thepeoplescube.com Bless my taxes, O God! Give me peace of mind as I rejoice in filling out forms and returning money to its rightful owner, the government. In service to you, my Lord, we will not rest until everyone is truly equal. Tax the rich. Sicken the healthy. Scar the beautiful. Destroy the “successful”. Drown the bankers. Blind the stock traders. Cripple the athletes and sever the hands of the musicians. Plant carnivorous bacteria in the brains of those who score high on racist “IQ” tests. Deliver wasting diseases to the strong. Starve and stone the executives and managers. Show no mercy to the blood-sucking merchants as they suffer merciless deaths in the searing flames of gargantuan infernos. Smash capitalism and deliver us, Dear One, to our deserved socialist paradise. May your blessing rest on my Form 1040, dear Lord, and may my taxes well serve you and my fellow citizens! Amen.

Beautiful pictures from Iceland

A gorgeous land

clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com clipped from stuckincustoms.com

God Bless Our Troops

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke

clipped from forum.myspace.com You stay up for 16 hours He stays up for days on end. You take a warm shower to help you wake up. He goes days or weeks without running water. You complain about how hot it is. He wears his heavy gear, not daring to take off his helmet to wipe his brow. You go out to lunch, and complain because the restaurant got your order wrong. He doesn’t get to eat today. You’re angry because your class ran 5 minutes over. He’s told he will be held over an extra 2 months. You hug and kiss your girlfriend, like you do everyday. He holds his letter close and smells his love’s perfume. You roll your eyes as a baby cries. He gets a letter with pictures of his new child, and wonders if they’ll ever meet. clipped from www.darth-cena.net You see only what the media wants you to see. He sees the broken bodies lying around him.