Lex Loeb
Lex Loeb writes about the curious because he is curious. I own a sort of curiosity shop these are my curiosity thoughts.
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Rent a Goat Herd for Urban Weed Eating Comes to Portland OregonA Rented Goat Heard in Portland Oregon Clears the land of almost all vegetation in central urban Portland Oregon.
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"Neon" Geometric AnimationsGeometric animations of what looks like neon light rods.
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Listening to Occupy Portland: Portland Police to Lose Jobs , Be Replaced by OccupiersPortland Police Will Be Fired So Occupiers can replace them.? The City of Portland is not only sympathetic with occupy Portland they are in bed with the movement.
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Rethinking Ice Age Geo PhysicsPolar Ice over one continent causes sea levels to fall. Polar Ice over 2 continents causes sea level to fall even more. Tracking sea level in geological history may offer clues to what really caused the last ice age. -
What Really Happens when You Visit a Super Massive Black HoleTheoretical physics has become the mathematics equivalent of comic book illustration--full of colorful schematic visual imagination and not much different than ancient Egyptian story telling hieroglyphics with bas relief narrative carvings and paintings. -
Acme Pepper Spray Develops a Designer Line of Pepper Sprays for Every OccasionA visit to ultimate store that carries a designer line of pepper spays is a great place for your holiday shopping needs. Acme Pepper Spay , Ltd of Portland, Oregon recently unveiled their full line of designer sprays,
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The Tyranny of Mathematics in Theoretical PhysicsNew theoretical physics is a gigantic international mental experiment challenging the validity of reality. In a great supercollider of mental capacity reality is thought to be a vast holographic projection transmitted from underlying mathematics . -
The SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission , Has to Know Which US Senators and Representatives Use Their Exemption for Insider TradingWorse than regulators just being in bed with the likes of Bernie Madoff, We are now finding out that Congressional Figures Elected to fight Greed and Economic disparity are raking it in with special powers to do what is illegal for the rest of us to do. -
A Brief Glossary of Contemporary American Political Debate Terms and EuphemismHere is a brief and to the point glossary for understanding debate terms and euphemisms in contemporary American Politics. In politics popular sound bites and buzz words require careful translation.
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Great Mass Media Intellectual Frauds and ScamsPolitical Propaganda now has a new euphemism called "Journalism". OK, It's not really new it is just more secular now in the sense that it wants to be universally consumed as factual information on a global scale. -
Greenhouse Global Warming Out of the BottleThe Original Greenhouse gas experiments were only an analogy for what could happen in the atmosphere. -
Revealing How Our Congressmen and Senators Get Rich QuickIf you want to get rich quick breaking laws that only apply to mortals you need to go to congress as a senator or a representative. This is good reason for the Occupy Wall Street People to re-think where they should be protesting.
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Occupy Portland Midnight Photography Raid Gets FlashedMidnight photo shoot of Occupy Portland camp in Chapman park gets photographer flashed more than once with flash photography.
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Seven Billion People Are Not EnoughWorld Population of humans is estimated to be 7 billion people as of November 2011. The New Media is making quite the fuss about this . What is missing is a more positive attitude because 7 billion people is really an amazing success story. -
George Soros to Erect 50,000 Square Foot Tent to Live in at Occupy Wall Street?Finally the truth comes out? Politicians, Wall Street critics and economic game changers are pitching tents in occupation public parks joining ex convicts, hippies and entitlement redistribution seekers. -
Tiny Worms Devouring a ChestnutNot sure exactly what these creatures are. Probably centipedes and not worms. The chestnut is about the size of a thumb tip. Lie down on the ground and they may start eating you unless they are strict vegetarians?
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Triangle AnimationsTriangle theme animations --geometries of the triangle in motion
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Just Because Someone Works for the Government Does Not Mean that They Own the Government?What would happen if the US Military just happened to decide that since they work for the government that they own the government? We might call that a military coup. Would Americans tolerate a military take over that would suspend elections? -
The Dark Side of the Organic Food--The Three P'sThe Three P's of The Organic Farm Food Fraud are over priced, over priced and over priced. Organic food has become nothing but a marketing scam called selling the sizzle and not the steak. Organic Farming has Hidden Costs. -
The New New Deal for AmericaAsk not what you can do for your country. Ask your country what you can do for yourself. FDR's New Deal has been tested. We now know where it has taken the country. It is time for A New New Deal and one that can serve as the Tea Party Manifesto. -
Goldman Sachs Rules the World, All Financial Assets Are Going to Zero and Evil Space Monkeys Arrive in 2012Fear & Panic Incorporated Not Recently money losing Goldman Sachs rules the world. Prophets can't be wrong! Just like the Maya themselves long gone Every thing has to go Kaput in 2012. -
VoidologyVoidology is the study of empty space and it's properties. What is space? Do you really think you know for sure? -
Can You Tell Which of These Photographs is a Fake Mountain?Fake Mountains In Oregon are a dime a dozen. Can You tell which of these photos is a photo of a fake mountain? -
Saint Johns Bridge Walk Slide ShowsGetting excercise running or walking across the St Johns Bridge in Portland Oregon with it's gothic motifs and views of Portland downtown in the distance crossing the Willamette River -
What is Space? How Can We Possibly Measure Something that is Not There?How can we measure empty space or have a sense that outer space is a natural vacuum? Why do we have have concepts like space time where Einstein suggest that mater and energy can deform and warp space and time? -
Crystal Springs Garden ImpressionsA quick Slide show of crystal springs garden features in Portland Oregon -
End of Summer 2011 in Columbia River GorgeEnd Of Summer 2011 in The Columbia River Gorge --Multnomah Falls, Horse tail falls and St Peter's dome. -
Greek Default on Debt Solution: No More Credit and More Time to PayThe great Greek default scenarios are being used to spook financial markets. Yes Greece borrowed far too much money. They investing in little that will ever produce an adequate return to pay it back. No one ever should have lent money to Greece.
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Online Happy Birthday Hyper-Animation Birthday CardsSend one of these animations to someone on their birthday.... -
All Seeing Eye Animationscurious animated designs -
Obesity is a Mental Disorder?According to the old line Freudian Theory of Talk Therapists Obesity Can Be As Much A Matter of Mental Illness As A Genetic Predisposition.
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"In the Long Run We Will All Be Dead". After the Long Run We Will Have Hell to PayGovernments around the world fell in love with Keynes excuse for spending public money to create prosperity. Government always had a slight conflict of interest with benefits with one ruined economy after the next. -
Child Bamboo DestroyersIf you bother to plant bamboo on your property around your home beware it is at risk. Something attracts children to bamboo so they can destroy it and the parents never would consider compensating you for the destruction of your property. -
The Federal Reserve is Not "The Only Game in Town" to Stimulate the EconomyWashington DC's Ever More Complex Tax Code Have Done More To Tie The American Economy In Knots. Coupled with A Myriad of Regulations and Regulatory Agencies It Is Becoming A Kiss For The Economy.
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Want to Buy or Sell Gold and Get Better Prices? Try EbayNow that the gold is king you may want to sell without incurring unreasonable expenses when using a broker dealer. A quick Search on Ebay shows that there may now be a truely open market to trade. -
Camo AnimationStudy of animating camouflage -
Welfare Fraud is Out of Control in America. Dead People Are Not the Only One's Getting Monthly Government Checks!The system is not broken it is just a system which has to be designed to facilitate the impossible which is making available welfare for each according to his need. Computers run the system because otherwise it would be impossible. -
Daisy Chains and Animated Daisy ChainsDaisy Daisy
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Line Animation Illusionsanimated line animations
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Directly Photographing the Real Life Illusions of Quantum MechanicsPhotos that demonstrate some of the real life illusions of quantum mechanics. Are particles as solids just an energetic illusion? Is reality just one big illusion? It is in these initial experimental photographs. -
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Mt Hood and the Near by High Cascade Peaks of Oregon Viewed from the High Desert EastClose up photos of Mount Hood in July 2011 and some of the nearby snow covered peaks as viewed from the rain shadow eastern side of the Cascade range. -
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Rock and Flaming AnimationsNew Animations by Lex -
An Important Message from the AliensSeven and one half is a magic number because it is divisible by all other magic numbers. Don't be fooled by prime numbers. All numbers and figures lie. Twin minds have seven mothers. The Artifact is it's own construct. It all seems to rhyme. -
Grandpa is in the Freezer and He Has Direct Deposit for His Social Security Checks. Great America's Welfare and Entitlement ScamsNo where in the world is fraud more prevalent and lucrative than it is in America's beloved entitlement and welfare assistance programs. Everyone loves Americans social spending programs especially crook and cheats . -
How to Tell If the World Came to an End and You Missed ItEvery minute of every day someone is publishing some piece on the Internet about the world coming to an end in the very near future. It never seems to happen but maybe it did and you missed it? -
Wealth is the Product of Freedom , Economic Freedom, Almost Every Country with Great Popular Wealth is Populated by Economically Free PeopleWhat Milton really meant with the title of his book "Freedom To Choose" is that Free people only have create and sustain wealth precisely because they are free. Societies that lack economic freedom tend to on average have more limited popular wealth. -
In Oregon Gourmets Are Called "Foodies" Because of Their Remarkable Bad TasteSomeone in the local news media either created the word "Foodies" or adopted it, It is used to describe what used to be called Gourmets . The word "Foodie" is grotesque but that maybe because local gourmet food is slop? -
Tendency to Have Catastrophic Colossal Lahar Events During the Ice Age Meltdown of the Pleistocene is One More Reason for Mega Fauna Mass ExtinctionA Lahar is a catastrophic flood and landslide that emanates on the slopes of snow covered mountains and glaciers that can quickly scour away everything in their pathway including giant multi ton rocks.
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Toward an Alternative Theory on the Cause of the Great Mega Fauna Extinction of the Pleistocene EraHumans are often assigned the blame for the great mega fauna extinction of the Pleistocene. The theory of over hunting because of human technological efficiency in making tools ignores human population decline at the same time in history. -
Aerial Photographs of Mount Hood In OregonSome Photos of Mount Hood from above -
Engineering Vast Quantities of Fresh Water to North and Central ChinaChina's increasing fresh water needs can be met while producing income and electric power for both Russia and Mongolia. Water can act as it's own hybrid hydroelectric power source and as a kinetic battery with proper engineering. -
Congressman Wiener Did Nothing Wrong: It is About Time Big Government Exposes Itself for What it Is!Andrew Breitbart Is correct Wiener's Indiscretions are not a privacy issue but the public's right to know what our government is doing, Our government is made up of elected officials as the ultimate power players. -
If Elections Were Held Today Would You Vote for Barack Obama or for George Washington?With The Aid of NASA's New Time Distortion Machine at the NASA Time Lab, George Washington is intercepted at the time of his inauguration as first President of the United States of America and brought to the present time to run for president .
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Countries with the Most Economic and Political Freedom Tend to Have the Highest Cost Labor. Do You Know Why?Sometimes we tend to think that lower population figures or population density per square mile has something to do with labor costs. Freedom of economic and political choice are the real cause. -
Photos from The Peculiarium Museum In Portland Oregon"Freaky but true" -
Over The Rainbow In Portland OregonA rainbow appears over the city. -
Beware of the Public Views of Successful Commodities SpeculatorsThere is good reason that successful commodities speculators are so often concerned with gloom and doom and permanent social, political and economic transformations of no return: They make the most money leveraging the longest of odds. -
Willamette Falls In Oregon CityA horseshoe Shaped falls in the Willamette river in Oregon City. A large river with a large cascading water fall over basalt rock
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Scenes From The Oregon CoastRandom Photographs Of The Oregon Coast from Tillamook to Oregon City -
Pennywise and Pound Foolish in the LooAre There really any alternatives to the high cost of going to the bathroom? Did you know that four little squares of rolled toilet papter can cost you as much as two cents? -
Building Facades in Downtown Portlanda few building facades in downtown Portland oregon -
Countries with Open Markets for Free Trade Do Better Than Countries with Markets Closed to Free TradeThe argument goes that the United States is subjected to unfair trade practices and lack of access to markets overseas and therefore it should not have open access to free trade here for countries with those unfair trade practices. It's wrong!
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The Great Mississippi River Floods of 2011: How Environmentalists Sabotaged River Flood Control Management that Could Have Mitigated DamageRiver flood control management planning has been intentionally mismanaged by government authorities over many years with the goals being "environmental" instead of human oriented. The great Mississippi basin floods of 2011 are a case in point.
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Scenes From North Mississippi District In Portland OregonNorth Mississippi has taken the aesthetic of rebuilding and making due from the building materials recycling center on the street called the Rebuilding Center. North Mississippi has become Portland's newest trendy shopping districts. -
Portland Skyline At DawnThe Portland Oregon skyline at dawn -
On the Direct Road to Serfdom in AmericaAmericans are easily seduced by the old world charm of tight government control and planning of ancient monarchs forgetting that in our own land use chaos we have liberties that were never shared with by monarchs.,
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Nuking FukushimaHiroshima and Nagasaki Became Viable Reconstructed Cities Not Too Many Years After being Nuclear bombed. Chernobyl is not expected to be livable again or to be renewed as an urban area for hundreds of years from now. Could Nukes be the solution? -
Danger for Companies Advertising on Sites like GoogleGoogle style Internet Advertising Is Proving To Be A Very Powerful Improvement Over Old Fashioned Print Ads But Companies , Including Major Companies Should Be Aware That Online Data Farming Could Put Them At Risk.
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Oregon Retirement HomeAfter Paying All the extra taxes after moving to retire in Oregon here is the quality home retirees can actually afford. Retirees moving to Oregon are subject to high income taxes, high property taxes.
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Mountain And Territoriall Views From The End Of Skyline Blvd Outside of Portland Oregon and Above North PlainsMountain and Territorial Views near the end of Skyline Blvd above North Plains Oregon and outside of Portalnd -
Wonderful Derelict House In Burlington On Saint Helens Highway between Portland and Scapose.This house may have once had building permit problems from the county? Not sure if it is occupied or not. Very curious looking structure just off the St Helens Highway in Burlington Oregon -
Views of Portland From Rocky Point MountainFew people in Portland have been up rocky point Road to View Portland in this kind of high elevation context. Rock Point Road may lead to one of the highest elevations in the visinity of Porltand. -
Mason Bees Establish Themselves In A Found Object SculptureMason bees find refuge in a piece of found art scultpure. I actually purchased mason bees before I realized that I could attract them from the wild with a sculpture that they like. -
Springtime Scenes From The Columbia River GorgeScenes of Springtime in the Columbia River Gorge. -
Dog Knows How to Open Different Kinds of DoorsZeus is a great dane who knows how to open various kinds of doors sometimes even locked and dead bolted doors. Here is a video showing him open two different doors .
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Demagoguing the US Dollar to Increase US Labor WagesThere are pretty much two types of politicians in Washington, those who bash the Chinese on unfair currency manipulation and those who believe that debasing the value of the dollar with inflation or market turmoil. -
Tribal Indian Fishing Platforms At Cascade Locks Thunder IslandIndian Salmon Fishing Platforms at Cascade Locks on the locks and Thunder Island. These are wire suspended platforms for their treaty fishing rights. -
Precision Stone Work At The Old Locks In Cascade Locks OregonStone work including precision cut granite at the old locks at Cascade Locks Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge. Today these granite structures would be made of reinforced concrete. -
Scenes From Downtown Portland OregonPhotographs of Downtown Portland Oregon -
DC is a Place for Gamblers, but Even Casinos Take Offense at What Goes on ThereStudents taking civics classes are taught a bunch of nonsense about how Government works in Washington , DC. Most come to believe Washington, D.C. is above board, stable, reliable, when in fact the place is for mad glitter eyed casino gamblers. -
How a National Green Alternative Energy Policy Can Destroy Your Social Security Benefits as it Corrupts the Efficiency of the MarketPeople tend to think in little boxes. They have a box where they put energy and they connect to that about saving the environment and then they put the box where they think about the economy and wealth in a disconnected
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Errors in John Stossel's Expose' On Free Loading and Free LoadersJohn Stossel is attempting to expose the American television viewing public to Conservative Libertarian thought on his Fox News Television Show which is a good thing but he does have a few things wrong.
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Nuclear Crisis in Japan Just a Huge Spike of Media Hype Overshadowing More Important Earthquake Story Issues?Certainly the nuclear plant break down after the March subduction zone quake in Japan did create a crisis but is the media attention on the nuclear accident concentrating too much emphasis on just one aspect of this devastating earth quake?
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Investor Learning from Annual Reports: the Case of Genuine Parts CorporationGenuine Parts Corporation keeps a record and they prominently display it in their annual report. Investors can Learn a number of things by having a look.
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Failure of Earth Quake Preparedness in JapanAll it took was an unexpected super mega-quake to undermine much of Japan's Earthquake preparedness. A lot of discussion on the subject fortifies the myth of success. There were some successes but then there was also total system failure.
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The Average American Has Insufficient Money Saved for RetirementWhat you have less than 1.5 million dollars in your retirement accounts and savings for your retirement? If you were hoping to get $75,000 or more before taxes per year after you retire you are going to need a lot more in savings. -
Monuments Of Washington Park In Portland OregonSculptural and other objects in Washington Park in Portland Oregon and Sacajawea Sculpture -
What Rhymes With Charlie Sheen? And now it Gleams ,,,Who cares what rhymes with Charlie Sheen? The Bumper Sticker of Sheen Poetry. -
The Scientific Fraud of Substituting the Term "Climate Change" for "Global Warming"Climategate came and went. Even before the scientific fraud of fabricating climate evidence was exposed by a good samaritan by the release of semi -private emails, there was a conscious effort to substitute one scientific model for another.
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Utility Websites You Should Know About for Everyday LifeIncreasingly you spend your life on your computer.Here are some websites worth considering you might not be aware of.
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Protect Your Self Against a Catastrophic Spike in the Price of Gasoline If Saudi Arabia Falls into Civil War or RevolutionThe house of Saud in Saudi Arabia is now at risk. The coming chaos even if the state does not fail means higher gasoline prices. You can protect yourself by buying gasoline in advance online with sites like http://www.mygallons.com
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Why Public Employees Unions Cannot Be Allowed to ExistRonald Reagan was a union man himself. He favored unions in the private sector but he realized that public employee unions were a danger to our democratic republic and worked to stop them. We need to listen to Reagan.
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If You Believe the Nonsense About the United States Government Going Bankrupt You Have to Believe that a Flying Elephant Can't SwimThe actual probability of the US Government going bankrupt causing total economic collapse of the nation is zero or less. If the Government did go bankrupt the question is who does the government default to? -
How to Create Your Very Own Customized Daily NewspaperSick of paying for newspaper delivery every morning? Sick of having to waste time with finding in all that printed newsprint something you want to read? Create Your Own customized newspaper on line with My Yahoo. Stop wasting paper!
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Crystal Spring Portland OregonA Wall and pool built around an active spring in the crystal springs park in Portland Oregon.... also "ducks on a pond" -
Trolls, Dragons, Pixies, and Concrete Cats and DogsFor love of cheap concrete garden statuary..... -
Beware of the Anti-China Rhetoric of Donald Trump with His Emphasis on the Threats of 25% Tariffs on Imported Goods!Guess who pays a 25% tariff on Chinese Goods if Donald Trump Has his way and imposes them on all imported Chinese Goods? You will.
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A New Age of Hyper-Deflation Due to Excesses of Computer Power?Deflation is thought to be caused by a number of factors including excess production, collapse of demand from society is not spending, a withdrawn money supply due to banking liquidation, excessive productivity. Now can we add computing power ?
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Hillsboro Sports StadiumThe sports stadium of Hillsboro , Oregon -
William Temple HouseWilliam Temple House in NW Portland Oregon -
The United States Desperately Needs to Change the Way We Give Away Foreign AidIslamic Charity is undermining the value of US Foreign Aid in many regions of the world. The US has invested more money in foreign aid than any other country or charity and much of the time all we have to show for it is resentment.
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Craigslist Crazy : Online New World Pet Shop- From-Dog Flipping to Dog Park Trading / Pet SharingJust when you thought that Craigslist pet rehoming pets was tame you find out just how wild it has become. -
Columbia Gorge Cliff Lands Near The DallesMore cliff lands photos of the columbia river gorge -
Real Cowboy Country Up From The Dalles Oregon Toward DufurRural Scenery up from the Dalles Oregon toward Dufur and Mt Hood. -
Old one room school house.old one room school house. -
Above Portland HeightsPortland Oregon Scenery At High Elevation -
Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
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End of the World Armageddon Concert Party December 21, 2012It simply is not true that scammers are taking advantage of people helping them to prepare for the end of the world in 2012. No one will need money or any worldly possessions after that so start giving it all away now to beat the rush.
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Debunking the Myth of Chem Trails or Exposing the Real Conspiracy?Chem trails are one of the popular conspiracy theories that lingers in society like an ancient mythology. The theory should have been debunked , completely refuted or if an actual conspiracy exposed and corrected years ago but it persists -
Council Crest Park Postcards Portland, OregonPostcards from Council Crest Park Portland Oregon . This park is at one of the highest elevations in the city of Portland with surrounding territorial views including the large volcanoes on the horizon and the coast range.
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Becoming a Self Sufficient Pioneer in AntarcticaRussia could completely reform it's entire economy to compete with the USA with an American Style homesteading act offering free acreage to pioneers out in Siberia. Truly free land is up for grabs in Antarctica if you have the guts and the seed money.
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Lower Horse Tail Falls At Near Flood StageHeavy water volume in lower Horse Tail Falls after big rain storm in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon -
Seasonal Falls In Columbia River Gorge After Heavy RainThere are Thousands of Water Falls in The Gorge that don't exist until after periods of heavy rain. -
Multnomah Falls With Heavy Water Volume After Winter Storm The Lodge.Multnomah Falls When The Creek That Feeds It is Near Flood Stage. -
Now You Can Climb a Mountain Online on Google EarthGoogle Earth now allows you to climb mountains some that would be nearly impossible to climb in real life. Google Earth also allows you to fly at or above ground level and explore a modeled three dimensional view of the topographic maps. -
How PBS, the Public Broadcasting System , Caused Jared Lee Loughner to Go on His Shooting SpreeWe Went Down To Skid Row In Portland To Talk to Actual Paranoid Schizophrenics To Ask Them What Caused Jared Lee Loughner To Go On His Shooting Spree. Here Is The Inside Information You Need To Be Aware Of To Protect Your Self And Your Family!
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing the US DollarThe US dollar is about as good as a paper currency can be. The dollar has never been intended to be an investment not even when it was fundimentally backed by gold or silver. In the age of the internet and ubiquitous computer money is all new.
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Beware of the New World Currency George Soros Passionately Says He Wants to Replace the US Dollar With!There is plenty of evidence that the United States is not broke , that it's debts and deficits are not unsustainable and that the US Dollar is more stable than a lot of other paper currencies. Soros is the one calling for wholesale devaluation.
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Lessons from Google FinanceWant to see something amazing about "growth stocks"? Some are and some really are not. Google Finance offers a view that few people ever get to see when it comes to comparing stock charts instantly. Yahoo Finance also can do this to some degree.
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Electric Car Manufacturing Companies Are Out to Lunch Expecting Car Owners to Have to Recharge with a Plug in Every 100 MilesElectric car manufacturers make me think of all of those rechargeable power tools that end up getting thrown away because the batteries lose the ability to recharge after prolonged use.
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Switch to Ebay Free Local Classified Advertising and Dump Craigslist for Less Hassle and Better ResultsCraigslist advertising has become a big waste of time with the self serving censorship of trolls who flag and remove anything and everything that might 'offend' them and it never makes sense since the most offensive stuff survives on craigslist.
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Fresh Snow Dust In The MountainsNature decorating With Snow in December in the Columbia River Gorge. -
Cosmic Flower Animationscosmic flower animation/ illusions
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Portland Mountain Worship PhotosMountains like these cannot be ignored on the horizon -
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be?Borrowers and lenders , debtors and creditors are partners in their transaction. They both own opposite ends of the same stick. China's Ownership of US debt just like Japan's before it is a mutually beneficial partnership.
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Metro Primate Services is Not the Best Choice for Your Christmas Tree Monkey in PortlandChristmas tree monkeys have advanced beyond the original fad to become an annual tradition. People should avoid with Metropolitan Services Primates and find a company that pays more attention to details.
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Forget The Christmas Tree Go For Portland's Holiday MartiniThe Holiday Martini is lit up every year on the hillside above downtown Portland to the South West. You will note that it also has a no drinking element that that goes on after the bars close. -
Snow Dusted Mountains In Columbia River GorgeA Light Early Snow Fall Dusting of Mountains In The Columbia River Gorge, Oregon -
Landmark Bucher Barn In Dodson , The Columbia River Gorge, Starting to Collapse.The landmark Bucher Barn in Dodson Oregon in the gorge is being caused to or allowed to collapse. This is an early photo of the first phase of that collapse where part have been blow off by the weather. -
More Then Half of All Cat Owners May Be Infected with Toxoplasmosis a Cat ParasiteCat spread a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis to human hosts who come into contact with them. More than half of all cat owners maybe infected. There appear to be both benefits and detriments involved to the human hosts.
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Lessons Learned From Reverend Jim Jones And His People's Temple Cult.Reverend Jim Jones was a hybrid character with multiple dimensions. He was both psychopath and a convincing spiritual leader. Many of his charismatic charms are common in political leaders in many societies. Jones his secrets of expediency.
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Why You Should Refuse The Full Body Scan At The Airport.If The TSA full body scanners were a medical technology they would still be in one of the many phases of FDA medical device testing procedures. Long term effects expressed as statistical analysis of large populations makes you a Guinea pig.
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Forced AltruismNo other words describe the promises and failures of socialism and Marxism more than "forced altruism". Ayn Rand does not make it so clear in doing it with just two words. Forced altruism is an oxymoron because altruism can't be the product of coercion. -
Puppy Dog Born With Two Separate FacesDuplicity is a one month old Harlequin Great Dane puppy born with two separate faces split down the middle with black on one side and white on the other. -
TSA to Unveil New High Tech Invasive Deep Body Cavity Scanners to Complement Successful Body Scanning ProgramPros and cons of the Homeland Security plans to purchase new high tech Invasive Body Scanners for the airline security : An interview with Janet M. Napolitano and Minksy Pasha the Las Vegas Prostitute Arrested in pointless airport pat down. -
Visions of NW PortlandOrdinary Visions. What a place really looks like. The northwest section of Portland also known as "uptown"... -
The World Capitalist ManifestoThere is no need to defend capitalism because there really is no viable alternative. Market behavior and mechanisms developed independently in isolated civilizations the world over without any need for a manifesto. -
Mushrooms At The Farmers Market In Portland , OregonHere are some of the wild and cultivated varieties of mushrooms found at Portland area farmers market in autumn including chanterelle. Not all are shown including the lobster mushrooms. Truffles are also not shown nor varieties shipped off to Asia. -
Hill side houses built on very tall stilts.These houses built on SW Montgomery Drive in Portland Oregon are built on very tall stilts that are flashed over so you cannot see them. This makes them homes with views. -
The Re-Death of DiscoYes some things can die more than twice. -
Red and Black Animation Illusionsoptical animation illusions by Lex -
Water Droplets In Art and AnimationsWater Droplets Art and Animations. These kinds of water droplets are used in advertising for products like Coka Cola for making the product look more sensual and "refreshing" than just being dry. Here they are by themselves. -
Crystal Ball Animationscurious animations that might come from starring into a crystal ball for an inanimate for a long time. -
Advanced Communism QuizThe Advanced Communism Quiz is your chance to test your knowledge about things in modern economic and political life are attributable to The Legacy Of Karl Marx and His invention of Communist Ideology.
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Test Your Knowledge in the Communist Manifesto QuizHere is a multiple choice test based on Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto first published in 1848 in German. The test is not designed to tell if you are a communist but to let you see the influence Karl Marx may have had on you without you even knowing it. -
How Naturalist Wildlife Management Has a Catastrophic Effect on WildlifeThe naturalists believe that everything has it's proper place in nature and that nature has to be left alone by man to foster the best conditions for wildlife and to preserve species. -
The US Federal Reserve May Have a Golden Secret: it May Be Panic Buying Gold to Fill or Replace 'Lost' Strategic Gold ReservesWhy is Ben Bernake, Chief of The Federal Reserve Suddenly Looking For A 600 Plus Billion Dollar Slush Fund? Could It Be That He Is Secretly Re-Establishing A Viable Reserve? Is it Folly? -
A Simple Way to Calculate the Affordiblity of the Cost to Purchase AnythingWhat is affordiblity and how do you calculate it? The trick with larger big ticket items is to figure out the cost on the basis of some time metric to facilitate comparisons with factors like income stream and substitute uses of money.
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Measuring Industrial Production and Productivity in Computer Age Economy of Geometric ProgressionsLots of politicians and media pundits are crying out that America is no longer productive, has no competitive exports and needs to return to hard labor intensive industry to compete with low labor cost countries like China. They are completely wrong. -
Coffee Time Portland OregonCoffee Time Cafe on NW 21st Street is Open late. Used to be open 24 hours. Hosts Portland's Chess Cafe. -
In the Future You May Be Voting on Facebook Instead of Going to the PollsEverywhere you look from giant corporations and their brand name products to Government officials and candidates for office they are advertising their facebook sites. It may only be a mater of time you will vote on Facebook. -
Racketeering 101: How Oregon Voters Are Convinced by Politicians to Allow Themselves to Be Fleeced as TaxpayersRacketeering is perfectly legal in Oregon. The voters may not be stupid but they are confused when they are convinced to vote against their own interests. It is too easy to get voters to yes to being fleeced. -
Postcards From Forest Park In Portland, OregonMarginal Forest Lands Left to The City of Portland Created On of the Largest Urban Parks in America. -
Scientists Prove that the Universe is Just a Vast Projected Hologram Composed of PixelsThe ACME Physics Lab At A Portland Community College Discovers That Reality is Not What it Seems To Be And It Definitely IS All An Illusion. -
Alarming Trend in Portland Oregon as Thirty Somethings Check Themselves into Retirement Homes and Assisted Living FacilitiesThey Partied to Hard, Did too many drugs, lived too fast and are checking into retirement homes and assisted living facilities at age 35. Almost all suffered a mental break down of one sort or another. Most are on unemployment or social security. -
Goats as the New Urban Pets in Portland , OregonFirst came the urban chicken revival and now the goats are back living in the city as pets, lawn mowers and livestock. Goats are even seen right downtown grazing vacant lots. Goats and lambs are also a specialty item on several restaurants in town. -
People with Cars Should Boycott Downtown PortlandThe City Of Portland has quickly lost most of it's raison d'etre (reason to exist) Some people say that the public sector should be run like a business not as a business. What is public about anything that is left after their absurd planning process? -
Chicken Little DinnerI met Chicken Little at a global climate change conference and had dinner with him. He had quite a chip on his shoulder ever since a chunk of sky fell down on him.
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Vote for Me I Will Be Your Big Brother, Savior and Beneficial DictatorMy Name is Lexicon The Magnificent and I am running for president. As your beneficent dictator your vote for me will be the last decision you will ever have to make. I will take take care of you better than you can take care of yourself. -
Some Thoughts on Prices, Competitive Economies,Social Values, Markets, Free Trade and Free ChoiceJust some thought to counter knee jerk social and political passions for solutions that may do more harm than good.
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Eternal Automatic PhilosophyEverything you already think you know is all you ever will know. philosophy? For love of wisdom.
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Is There Really a Super Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy?It does indeed look as if there is a black hole at the center of our galaxy. And yes at the center of probably every galaxy. Proof is being proclaimed but it might be wrong. -
National Public Radio Needs to Be De-fundedNational Public Radio proves it's need to be de-funded. The firing of Juan Williams for voicing an opinion deemed to be not politically correct proves NPR is a biased partisan news service that is inappropriate for a country with the first amendment. -
How to Know If Your Favorite Politician is Really Taking Care of YouA vast majority of American voters actually believe that politicians are there to take care of them. There is a handy way to find out how well you are being taken care of.
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At Home In The Tree Frog HouseA Tree Frog making a home for itself in a bird house high on a pole. -
Preparing for the End of the World on April 3rd. 2012The Mayan calandar, Nostradamas and Al Gore have correctly predicted the coming end of the world on April Third, 2010. There is not a lot of time left here is what you should consider doing to get ready. -
The Real Secret Life of MoneyMoney has a secret life and it might not be what you think it is. Money in a bank almost never sits around locked in a vault.
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The Truth About the Estate Death TaxAndrew Carnegie the great industrialist and philantrophist argued in favor of an estate tax believing that estates should be left the public benefit. Carnegie had no children and no heirs.
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New Born Puppies A Few Hours Old.Second Litter of Great Dane Pups -
Mountain Sides And Cliff Faces In The Columbia River GorgeAlways fascinated by the topography of the mountain sides and cliff face in the Columbia Rover Gorge -
A Man Goes to His Doctor for an Annual Physical and a Horse is Brought into the Examining RoomIs This A Joke Or Is Obama Care A Joke? -
Help Needed Finding A Bra For Our Pregnant DogExtra extra Large Pregnant Dog Needs A special Bra With Nine Cups. Don't know where to find one. -
When The Neighbors Bury The Mother In-Law Head First in Ground In The Front Yard.Some think it is art others think it is a warning to mother in laws. The question is is the second lady buried upside down in the front yard? An Aunt in-law or A Jehovah's witness who came to the door at the wrong time? -
We Are Running Out of Energy--The Big Lie Gets BiggerLies about running out of energy and an inescapable future without sufficient energy resources have long been propagated in news reports. Most all of the dire predictions fail as theory.
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Nancy Pelosi Reveals How the New Obama Economic Order Will Work!Government economists have unraveled the great economic mystery of all time. How to turn $1 into $1.79 instantly. You might wonder why people bother making investments that yield a mere 5 percent interest or less? -
Water Animation IllusionArtificial Water
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Seasonal Columbia River Beach In Columbia River GorgeSeasonal Columbia River Beach in Columbia River Gorge
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Bee-Ware of Unseen Underground Yellow Jacket NestsIf you have ever landed on top of an underground nest of yellow jackets you will probably regret it. There are usually no warning signs until you find yourself being stung repeatedly. -
Boulder CleavageBoulder sheared in two pieces by Ice in the Columbia River on the Oregon Side of the River -
Blue Merl Harlequin Great DaneWhat a Blue Merl Looks like. -
Mystical Home In The GorgeScenes from The Columbia River Gorge When the lighting is just right for taking pictures. -
Robert Reich's Economic Aftershock and the Political Science of InequalityRobert Reich's book "aftershock" attempts to blame the recent market collapse and enduring slow economy on inequality of wealth in America. His scientific Method of proposing this causation is flawed.
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The Good Will As-Is Super Store in Milwaukie, Oregon is More Than Just a Place to ShopThe Bins, as locals call it, is where Goodwill Industries unloads stuff that has not sold at their retail locations and where they sell as-is used merchandise. -
Garden Yard In NW PortlandAlong the rail road tracks in the pearl district... -
IllusionsIllusions....
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Feel like Being Philanthropic and Want an Effective Alternative to Giving to Institutional Non Profit Organizations?There are surprising philanthropic and charitable alternatives to wasting your money on big name non-profit organizations. Benefits accrue to yourself as you help others increasing your own wealth. Forget any guilt you have and don't let anyone shame you. -
Thunder CloudsCumulus Cloud Formations on the rise. -
Cloud PornographyClouds for people with too much imagination. -
Aerial PhotographyPictures taken from high elevations-flying -
President Obama and the American Dream MachineThe US Government spent over 500 Billion dollars building a time machine that President Obama refuses to deploy having shifted funding to the American Dream Machine Program Research And Development. -
Getting the Jump on the New Green Economy with a $400 Light Bulb and $4000 High Speed Rail Line TripI got a catalog in the mail offering $400 super long lasting LED light bulbs with a series of charts and graphs displaying the long term energy savings that somehow were supposed to justify the $400 price.
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Rules for Being a ProgressivePortland Oregon has become a giant basket case full of progressives. After San Francisco over filled with to the brims with progressives the exodus started coming to Portland. It is all important to understand how the progressivism Pecking Order works. -
Finally An Example Of Honest Campaign Advertising!Government passed all sorts of truth in advertising laws and requires all kinds of mandatory disclosures except when it comes to Election Campaign Advertising. What if that changed?
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Dino Skin and Marble Geometrics AnimationsSome curious images. -
Scenes From Washington ParkA camera eye for whats going on in Washington Park
