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November 29, 2014
On the Voltino Road
Photograph by Fulvio Morelli, National Geographic Your Shot
“The Voltino is a place near Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy,” writes Your Shot member Fulvio Morelli. “The road to get there crosses cultivated fields and then coasts along the River Ombrone. It’s the place I usually go to shoot a naturalistic photo, usually of birds or dragonflies or bugs.
“When I arrived there were a lot of clouds and no wind, and the light was soft—the sun was behind the clouds. My first thought when I saw the scene was, This is a beautiful black-and-white landscape."
The long dark shadows of plutocracy
Full Show: The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
November 28, 2014
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to realize that all across America millions of people of ordinary means can’t afford decent housing.
As wealthy investors and buyers drive up real estate values, the middle class is being squeezed further and the working poor are being shoved deeper into squalor — in places as disparate as Silicon Valley and New York City.
This week Bill points to the changing skyline of Manhattan as the physical embodiment of how money and power impact the lives and neighborhoods of every day people. Soaring towers being built at the south end of Central Park, climbing higher than ever with apartments selling from $30 million to $90 million, are beginning to block the light on the park below. Many of the apartments are being sold at those sky high prices to the international super rich, many of whom will only live in Manhattan part-time – if at all — and often pay little or no city income or property taxes, thanks to the political clout of real estate developers.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-long-dark-shadows-plutocracy/?utm_source=General+Interest&utm_campaign=7dd8e1aaee-Midweek_0903149_3_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4ebbe6839f-7dd8e1aaee-168372325
What Is This Old Tool?
Can you name this strange old tool?
Do you know what it is?
Tobacco Smoke Enemas (1750s – 1810s)
The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims.
A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum.
The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration.
Doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase “blowing smoke up your ass.”
Amazingly, it is still in constant use in Washington D.C. , by the best senators and representatives money can buy. 
Photo of the Day
November 28, 2014
Monkeying Around
Photograph by Francisco Mignorance, National Geographic
In Morocco’s Middle Atlas mountains, a Barbary macaque pauses for a snack after a bout of playing with other young members of the troop. Macaques eat anything: seeds, grass, young leaves, berries, even mealworms and reptiles.
Children in Church
A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service, his cousin asked him, "How many women can a man marry?"
"Sixteen," the boy responded.
His cousin was amazed that he had an answer so quickly. "How do you know that?"
"Easy," the little boy said.
"All you have to do is add it up, like the pastor said, 4 better, 4 worse, 4 richer, 4 poorer."
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After a church service on Sunday morning, a young boy suddenly announced to his mother, "Mom, I've decided to become a minister when I grow up."
"That's okay with us, but what made you decide that?"
"Well," said the little boy, "I have to go to church on Sunday anyway, and I figure it will be more fun to stand up and yell, than to sit and listen."
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A 6-year-old was overheard reciting the Lord's Prayer at a church service,
"And forgive us our trash passes, as we forgive those who passed trash against us."
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A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon. "How do you know what to say?" he asked.
"Why, God tells me."
"Oh, then why do you keep crossing things out?"
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A little girl became restless as the preacher's sermon dragged on and on.
Finally, she leaned over to her mother and whispered, "Mommy, if we give him the money
now, will he let us go?"
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Ms. Terri asked her Sunday school class to draw pictures of their favorite Bible stories.
She was puzzled by Kyle's picture, which showed four people on an airplane. She asked him which story it was meant to represent.
"The Flight to Egypt ," was his reply.
Pointing at each figure, Ms. Terri said,
"That must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus. But who's the fourth person?"
"Oh, that's Pontius - the pilot!"
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The Sunday School Teacher asks,
"Now, Johnny, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"
"No ma'am," little Johnny replies, I don't have to. My mom is a good cook."
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This is the best one.
A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story.
From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch
his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again.
Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you just a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed,
"God's getting better at it, isn't he?"
November 27 Birthdays
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To Our Own CaliforniaPeggy!
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Photo of the Day
November 27, 2014
The Children’s Place
Photograph by Masami Murooka, National Geographic Your Shot
Looking like playfully scattered confetti, children sled a snowy hill in Shizukuishi, Japan. Your Shot member Masami Murooka calls it an “extraordinary playground,” which emerged at the side of a large festival’s parking lot. “Anyone trying to photograph only the festival would never notice this place,” Murooka writes.
Vintage Photos II
Astronaut Neil Armstrong floats in his space suit in a pool of water in 1967.
An informal group portrait of Amish children in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1937.
The sailing ship Terra Nova is framed by an ice grotto in Antarctica, 1911.
Visitors stare in awe at the stained glass windows of Sainte Chapelle in Paris, May 1968.
Portrait of two Mexican Chihuahuas, April 1944.
A German shepherd is accepted for sentry duty by the Coast Guard, January 1941.
People on steep slope overlook western headland of Martha’s Vineyard, August 1950.
A boy sells lemonade from his front yard stand on Main Street in Aspen, Colorado, 1973.
President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Humphrey watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, July 1969.
A motorboat carries tourists to fishing grounds off Tahiti, July 1962.
A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Virginia.
Alan Shepard waits to become the first American in space, Cape Canaveral, 1961.
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