The RECESSION.

You say and laugh at “That’s what she said!” jokes.

You have a Facebook because that’s how you keep in touch with everyone.

Everyone has a cellphone.

LOL Sarah Palin (Future: WTF happened to that chick who ran for republican VP that time…didn’t she have that pregnant daughter that she lied about and stuff?…yeah I think so!)

You were there that week in June ’09 when celebrity deaths kept happening, coincidentally. RIP Michael Jackson, Farrah Faucet, and Billy Mays.

You were SO mad when Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore.

You remember when the gas was $1.50 a gallon, then when it was $4.00 a gallon, then when it was $1.50 again.

Before swine flu, there was something called mad cow disease and the avian flu back in the early ’00s. Because of that, you couldn’t eat beef or chicken for weeks.

You remember the VA Tech shootings and heightened school security.

SWINE FLU!!!!!

You might have heard Michael Jackson’s music from the past, but not once in your youth can you recall him performing. You can, however, list a few lawsuits involving this very famous man.

You were absolutely DEVASTATED when the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin died.

You sided with Rihanna in the Chris Brown/Rihanna scandal of ’09.

You saw Apple turn out hand held computers, know as iPhones and iTouches.

You’ve thought, “That’s what s/he said” after hearing iTouch.

You remember when McDonalds changed their slogan from “Put a smile on” to “bada-ba-ba-baa I’m lovin’ it”.

OBAMA!!!!

You saw more of celebrity reproductive parts than you ever wanted to.

Urban Dictionary is more useful to you than Oxford or Merriam-Webster.

You were either obsessed or disgusted with Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers.

“Don’t taze me bro!”

You miss All That, and the good morning TV.

Google, Facebook, and Wiki are verbs, and Google is in the dictionary as a verb!

You’ve seen Superbad more than once.

You know the obsession over Edward Cullen. You hear too many girls (and the occasional boy) drooling over him every day.

You also remember when the theme “vampires” did not imply the theme “glitter-sexy” in literature.

Everyone you know understands the basics of 1337.

You remember the “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Superbowl.

“Can you play guitar?” You ask.
“Oh my GOD! I LOVE Guitar Hero!!” Someone answers.

You’ve been in a lecture where 5 people are texting, 3 people are on computers or something on the internet, and most people are listening to an iPod.

People worry that their relationships will or will not become “Facebook official”.

You remember when some idiot took a shitty form of a boot, stuffed it with sheep wool, and somehow its acceptable to wear those with miniskirts in the middle of summer.

You regularly say “Ownd!” or “Fail!”

You wonder how a clothing store could possibly sell a shirt for $50 (Hollister/American Eagle/Abercrombie/Aeropostale) when all it does is advertise their store in big letters.

You’ve found your parents unable to figure out how to use your phone.

Amandamandamandamandamanda shoooooooooooooow

Britney Spears Shaved. Her head. However, one Google image search, and you can see all that she shaved.

It’s only official if it’s on Facebook.

Somehow hip-hop and pop merged together and you didn’t notice.

Supersize Me grossed you out, but you still managed to eat that double quarter-pounder the next weekend.

Today, I went on fmylife.com and saw that my latest upsetting life experience wasn’t on the website. FML.

Today I saw your mom walking down the street walking your dog. I thought a your mom joke but didn’t say it. MLIA. (MLIA got pretty good!)

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”-Kanye West

“Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos OF ALL TIME, OF ALL TIME!” -Kanye West (2009 VMAs)

And what else? add to it
i know. it’s a horrible decade =( i miss the 90′s <3

The presenter picked up the first ball and held it under Smarty’s nose. ‘ Newcastle’ said Smarty. ‘I can smell their Brown Ale.’ Correct replied the presenter.
The presenter gave Smarty the next ball, and he had a smell of that one too. ‘ Derby County’ he exclaimed. ‘I can smell the sheep.’

Finally the last ball was passed to Smarty. He had a good long sniff before saying ‘ that’s an easy one. It’ definitely Loverpool’. ‘ How did you know that one?’ asked the amazed presenter. Smarty replied ‘ I could hear it going down.’

This is a really bad message to send to young kids, or anyone, when subconsciously your going to pick up on the fact that he was ugly when brown and pretty when white.

ok so you have a duckling that is ‘ugly’ because it is ‘brown’. Everyone in the town disowns the duckling because of this and send him away. These words affect him obviously as he then believes because he is brown he’s ugly, But magically he turns ‘beautiful’ and ‘white’ and comes back and everyone loves him again. ‘Im not such an UGLY duckling with feathers all stuffy and BROWN’. No, cos he’s white and coincidently named ‘the best in town’ this makes me feel physically sick that people feed this story to children blindly without even thinking of the effects. It may seem over the top but why do you think there is so much black self hatred huh?…

Not to mention the fact that the odd one out is the ‘black’ sheep, black mail, black words, black magic, the list goes on, but you’ve got white lies, white magic, white means pure, decent, honorable, or dependable, morally pure; innocent, without malice; harmless. hmmm…

Black in the dictionary says, ‘dirty, gloomy, sullen or hostile, threatening, deliberatly harmful, inexcusable, without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked, illegal, dark, dusky; sooty, swarthy; dirty, dingy. sad, depressing. disastrous, calamitous.sinful, inhuman, fiendish, devilish, infernal, monstrous; atrocious, horrible; nefarious, treacherous, traitorous, villainous.

WOW i mean WOW its now wonder you have black people straightening their hair, bleaching up their skin, wearing green/blue contacts. watch this video, its the saddest thing i’ve seen in a while, and then tell me these subliminal messages are not getting into childrens minds, making them hate their own race~?!

thankyou for listening, please let me know what you think..
ok well forget the duckling story then, i cant believe sane human beings would watch that video and not see whats going on.

also very interesting to see its the WHITE people who say its nonsense and the BLACK people realise.Im white, was brought up by a racist family but i saw the truth and wasnt brainwashed by the media and other people.
anyway some people there is no talking to anyway, i just hope that i have opened some peoples eyes and black people realise how special they really are. Melanin, 9th ether, etc. afro hair grows up as it is pure energy, it grows towards the sun. Like a tree or a plant, it grows up and curls round anyway it can to get to the source of energy, just like branches and stems do.

peace and love

say no to NWO
also please wake up to DOUBLE SPEAK,,, for example, ignorance is NOT bliss, curiosity did NOT kill the cat, it made him intelligent.
the ignorance of people saying ‘lol’ when they see how messed up these kids are and the world is are just very uneducated

Fox/coyote- 22-250 remington model 700
Wolf- 270. wsm Tikka T3 Hunter
Deer- 270. wsm Tikka T3 Hunter
Caribou- 270. wsm Tikka T3 Hunter
Elk- 30-378 weatherby mag.
Moose- 30-378 weatherby mag.
Black bear- 30-378 weatherby mag.
Brown/Grizzly Bear-30-378 weatherby mag.
Big Horned Sheep- 270. wsm Tikka T3 Hunter

What are your favorite. You dont have to anwser all but please do.

We have searched the internet for an identical painting or print, and have not found anything besides similar sheep scenes. So I guess our question is whether this painting may indeed be an original and whether or not it would be worth anything to anyone.

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http://www.neuroland.com/sz/anticon/side_effects.htm

This was undoubtedly found in our water supplies because I’m sure so many Americans are taking anti-convulsants these days! (We need to end our addiction to anti-convulsants.)

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=4416882

Could this be why we’re such sheep these days who are always looking for something to help with our energy and brain function? Might this partially explain why ADD, hyperactivity, and chronic fatigue is so common these days?
Unlike other things, we consume so much water on a daily basis in all our drinks and foods. Even if we don’t drink the tap water at home, we all do when we go out to eat or drink!

And ppt (parts per trillion), may sound very small, but they have a cumulative effect–like anything else. Beneficial colloidal silver drops can even harm you over a short time (parts per million)–and you don’t consume liters of it day do you?
“At Harvard the rule is publish or perish. And I didn’t think that I would come up with anything that would be worth publishing,” she said. “I’m used to studying hard-core neurotoxic substances, drugs like anticonvulsants, radiation, where it can totally distort the brain. I never heard anything about fluoride, except TV commercials that it is good for your teeth.”

Anticonvulsants, fluoride, fluoride-based anti-depressants (like Prozac), etc.–are all known to “distort your brain.” Hmm. (And fluoride is does have toxic cumulative effects being that sodium fluoride it’s a by product (waste) that comes from aluminum production. Those with Alzheimer’s have excess aluminumin their brains.)

http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception2.htm

Spain’s overseas empire dates from the joint rule of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragón, whose marriage in 1469 began the process of uniting their separate Iberian kingdoms into one Spanish nation. It was during their reign as Isabella I and Ferdinand V that the newly united country began to build an empire. Spanish expansion overseas began for a number of reasons. The monarchs wanted to secure neighboring areas for defense against Muslim raids originating from North Africa, to protect Castile’s shipping activities and trade in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and to use the neighboring areas as ports for export of gold and enslaved Africans. They also supported exploration of distant areas primarily to spread Christianity and to increase Spain’s potential for trade with the Far East, thereby gaining wealth and international prestige.

The concern to increase Spanish trade centered on the desire to overcome the advantage Portuguese explorers and traders had gained by establishing similar bases on the African continent and islands off of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. Earlier in the 15th century Portuguese explorers had discovered and settled two of the small island groups, the Madeiras and the Azores. Between 1456 and 1460 Portugal occupied the Cape Verde Islands and soon established fortified trading posts in the Gulf of Guinea. In 1488 Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa and opened a sea route to the Far East.

Portugal’s growing international influence encouraged Spain to match its neighbor’s achievements. Although claimed by both Portugal and Spain, the Canary Islands came under Spanish control through a 1479 treaty. In the 1480s and 1490s, papal decrees assigned the Canaries to Spain. Despite fierce resistance from the indigenous Guanche people, by 1496 all seven islands had come under Castilian control.

Like the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic, the Canaries under Spain were essentially military enclaves and trading centers where paid laborers or sharecroppers worked for a few merchant proprietors. The Spanish introduced cows, pigs, horses, sheep, and Mediterranean plants to the Canaries. The islands proved valuable for their supplies of sugar and fish, as well as their proximity to the West African coast.

Columbus’s voyage occurred at an opportune time for Spain. In January 1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had conquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian peninsula, completing what is called the Christian reconquest of Spain from Moorish control. Still, Islam was advancing elsewhere and posed a threat to Europe. Spain’s rulers planned to extend Spain’s Christian crusades overseas. They readied an armed expedition to North Africa, declaring Muslim-held Jerusalem as the ultimate goal, but that army was ultimately diverted to war in Italy. They also sponsored Columbus, who proposed to reach India or Asia by a westward route and so give Spain an alternate route to Jerusalem. They also hoped his voyage would bring Spain international prestige and fabled riches.

Thus, Spain justified its imperial expansion on four grounds: to spread its religion; to reinforce national unity and identity by keeping alive a sense of national mission; to enhance Spain’s international power; and to compete with Portugal for trade, territory, and glory.

Columbus laid the foundation of the Spanish overseas empire by claiming for Spain the lands he explored in the Caribbean islands and establishing the first European colony there. At that time Europeans simply assumed that if representatives of Christian nations discovered previously unknown lands and peoples, they had the right and the responsibility to take charge of them. In 1493, to formalize their claims to the lands that Columbus discovered, Spain began diplomatic negotiations with Portugal and with the papacy, which served as a sort of international mediation agency. Because Spain and Portugal had similar desires to expand, the papacy helped reduce conflict between the two nations by establishing formal boundaries.

A series of papal decrees confirmed Spain’s claim to sovereignty in some of the lands that became known as America. The papacy based these decrees on what was considered to be the Spaniards’ responsibility to spread Christianity and Christian ways of life to the inhabitants of those newly discovered lands. In 1493 Pope Alexander VI formally approved the division of the unexplored world between the two countries. This was incorporated into the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) between Portugal and Spain. This treaty established the so-called Line of Demarcation, which set the boundaries between areas that would become Spanish territories and those that would be Portuguese. As it turned out, the treaty determined where Hispanic culture would gain a foothold and where Portuguese culture would take root.
On his first voyage, Columbus sighted Cuba and landed on Española (now Hispaniola), the island now occupied by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He returned to Spain with small quantities of gold, native plants and animals, and six men of the indigenous Taíno people. Columbus made three more voyages to the Americas between 1494 and 1502. At that time the area was called the Spanish Indies because Columbus continued to claim that he had reached India. For this reason, the inhabitants of the Caribbean area were all called Indians, despite their diverse cultures.
Many of the people who accompanied Columbus on his four voyages were veterans of the Spanish wars to take Granada from Muslim control. Others included peasant farmers, royal officials, a few priests and friars, some women, as well as a few Africans, most of whom were enslaved. On Columbus’s second voyage, he took 17 ships carrying about 1500 colonists, to establish a permanent settlement on Española. Most of those people were peasant farmers, but some early immigrants to the Caribbean neither farmed nor settled. Instead, they relied on plentiful Indian labor and sought to find gold and return home rich. These immigrants were soon in conflict with both the native peoples and Columbus. By late 1494 many colonists opposed Columbus’s policies, such as his handling of the native people’s hostilities. They even filed grievances to the Spanish monarchy against Columbus in his role as administrator of the new lands.
Spain’s royal government quickly imposed its own officials, first to collect taxes and then to administer the colony. Its goal was to assert royal control over both settlers and indigenous peoples. In Spain the government established a House of Trade to supervise colonial affairs and to oversee, license, and tax all trade and commerce. As the royal government asserted more authority over colonial activities, Columbus lost effective power, and was eventually replaced by other colonial governors.
During the early 1500s, Spaniards used the major Caribbean islands as a base for expeditions to the mainland of Venezuela and Central America. Men called conquistadors recruited, equipped, and led these expeditions, often with the financial backing of merchants. Most hoped to find great riches or legendary places, such as the Seven Cities of Cíbola, which were supposed to have streets and houses adorned with gold and jewels, and the fountain of youth, a spring whose waters were said to have the power to restore youth.
The conquistadors came from areas of Spain where fighting was a way of life. The wars against Muslims in Spain had lasted for centuries, and clashes between rival clans were common. These men were accustomed to achieving their goals of fame and fortune through military endeavor. By taking treasure, territory, and subjects for their country, they won recognition from the king. Many explorers also felt it was their moral responsibility to convert people to Christianity.

With the blessing—but not the financial support—of the Spanish government, these conquistadors made their way through Central and South America claiming territory for Spain. The conquistadors’ expeditions increased Spain’s territory, wealth, and power. In 1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa and his men crossed Central America and became the first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean. Six years later Hernán Cortés led an expedition into Mexico and in 1521 captured Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire. In the early 1530s Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire in Peru. Even so, native resistance to Spanish rule continued for years.

From Peru, expeditions pushed north into Ecuador and Colombia and south into Chile. Conquistadors founded Buenos Aires, in what is now Argentina, in 1536 and Asunción, in what is now Paraguay, in 1537. Francisco de Orellana first explored the Amazon Basin in 1541 and 1542, searching for legendary chief El Dorado and his kingdom, which was rumored to abound in gold and precious stones. Other explorers ventured to the borderlands of northern Mexico and the Guiana Highlands, where they generally established only isolated and often temporary outposts. In the 16th century the major permanent settlements were in central Mexico and the Andes Mountains. By the 1550s Spain controlled the areas that are now Mexico, most of the South American continent, Central America, Florida, and Cuba.

The European explorers of Central and South America encountered native civilizations far richer and more sophisticated than the Caribbean cultures—for example, the Maya and Aztec peoples in Mexico and the Incas in Peru. They came upon technology allowing relatively abundant crops and encountered forms of empire where city-states dominated smaller satellite communities. Their conquests brought dramatic changes to both the Americas and Spain. The conquistadors and colonizers introduced European culture and religion to the Americas, while Spain gained enormous wealth from the spoils of its conquests and from silver and gold mines in the newly conquered lands.

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The Hidden Treasure: Pearl of Great Price
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