The question is, of course, did the "BoobQuake" - Purdue senior Jennifer McCreight's mass experiment to prove that"immodest women" (to quote cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi) do not cause earthquakes - actually in fact cause the ground to shake in Taiwan?
Maybe the world really is hanging on by a bra strap. The same day that women showed off their cleavage to disprove an Islamic cleric's claim that such displays cause seismic activity, there was, in fact, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan.
"Maybe I shouldn't wear a low-cut shirt ever again," said Annie Marter, 33, in Manhattan. "I feel really bad."
Are America's teeming hordes of beautiful bountiful-bosomed babes actually a weapon of mass destruction? Nah:
In fact, there were more quakes worldwide with greater than a 5.0 magnitude Saturday and Sunday than yesterday.
And as Miss McCreight herself points out:
We're not just trying to see if any earthquakes occurred, since dozens happen every day. What we want to see if we actually increased earthquakes in either number or severity.
...and she puts together a nice little presentation, with charts and graphs, proving....nothing, really.
But that's OK. This girl gets it:
New York women said they supported the protest against the cleric's statements.
"It's a way of oppressing women and blaming them for the world's problems, when really it's just plate tectonics," said Lisa Goins, 24, an NYU graduate student.
"It's a way of oppressing women and blaming them for the world's problems, when really it's just plate tectonics," said Lisa Goins, 24, an NYU graduate student.
Lisa's right, of course. Bravo to all the women who stood up to the hate and raging misogyny that underlies radical Islam.
Now how about making this an annual event? Or semi-annual? Or bi-monthly....?
Hey Jersey Nut,
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Hope you think we're worthy of yours.
On another note, can I enlist your help in getting the Conservative R in NJ6's name out there? If you don't know her: http://www.annalittleforcongress.com/
Conservative Party endorsed her yesterday: http://www.examiner.com/x-35622-Monmouth-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d26-Conservative-Party-NJ-endorses-Mayor-Anna-Little-for-Congress-in-NJ6
Thanks a lot man.
THIS MOMENTOUS DAY!
ReplyDeleteNot one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s syndrome child.
Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example.
Each smallest act of kindness – even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile – reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined – those dead, those living, those generations yet to come – that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength – the very survival – of the human tapestry.
Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in THIS MOMENTOUS DAY! – Rev. H.R. White
Excerpt from Dean Koontz’s book, “From the Corner of His Eye”.
It embodies the idea of how the smallest of acts can have such a profound effect on each of our lives.