Unique places That You May Never Have Seen Before! Beautiful!!

 

 

 

 Unique places

Somewhere in Vietnam ... canal river through a paddyfield

Beautiful New Zealand..

Enchanted River is found in Philippines. It is called "enchanted" because no one has ever reached its bottom. Many people, including scuba divers have tried reaching for the bottom but have failed, hence the legend of its bottomless pit. Moreover, locals share that NOBODY has been successful in catching the fish in this river, whether by hand or by spear. They say its bluish color is a result of its depth and the water clarity changes throughout the day. At around 12:00 pm, the water becomes clearer and even more majestic.

 

Under the clear blue water of Lake Huron in Ontario

A stone path across a lake in Poland

Ausangate mountain, Andes, Peru. Want to go on a trek?

The water spirals of Elakala Waterfalls ~ Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia

Zhangjiaje Stone Forest in Hunan, China. It is the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie "Avatar."

Poland has a forest full of bent pine trees (Crooked Forest)

The Astonishing Annual Red Crab Migration
Each year millions of bright red land crabs leave their burrow homes on Australia's Christmas Island and start a long, laborious trek toward the sea. They descend cliffs, climb banks and maneuver around obstacles to reach the shoreline and lay their eggs, eventually returning to the island's central plateau with their offspring in tow. The synchronized migration resembles a crimson-colored river undulating across the island and can last up to 18 days. The event typically takes place in November or December (the crabs will only move when it's raining) and coincides with the turning of high tide and the arrival of the waning moon.

   

The Inhabited Volcanic Island of Aogashima, Japan.

 

Guelta d'Archei Oasis, Sahara Desert

The Victoria water lily is native to the Amazon river

 

Gudvangen, Norway

The Tibetan Bridge in Claviere, Piedmont, Italy.

 

Awesome Lighted Cherry Blossom Lake (Sakura, Japan) - Beautiful

Prskalo Waterfall, Serbia

Perspective, The Redwoods, California ( The Redwood Forest)

 

Zachariasbryggen - Bergen, Norway

Cave Hotel in Cederberg Mountains, South Africa.

Vanishing Underwater Roller Coaster in Japan!

Off the Amalfi Coast, Florence in Italy

A Bougainvilla Patio Garden

Gorgeous reflection

 

Voringfossen is the 83rd highest waterfall in Norway on the basis of total fall.

 

 

 

 

Brazil develops 'superfoods' to combat hidden hunger | Global development | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jul/18/brazil-superfoods-hunger

Obamacare...Talking Points.......Deny, Deny, Deny!

July 20, 2013 Thanks to Obamacare, Your Tax Dollars Could Sponsor Bourbon Festivals How Does the Administration Handle Obamacare? Deny. Deny. Deny. Even Unions Are Turning on Obamacare Serious New Questions on Obama Labor Nominee When Harry Reid Doesn't Get His Way, He Makes Threats POLICY PICTURE Share on Facebook | Retweet    The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, D.C. 20002 | (800) 546-2843

 

The $100 MILLION Obama Family Vacation

 

View online at: http://patriotpost.us/alexander/18752 ALEXANDER'S COLUMN Living Rich and Famous, Obama Style If Not for Double Standards... The $100 MILLION Family Vacation By Mark Alexander · June 20, 2013       "We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape...? --James Madison (1788) Obama One For all the class warfare rhetoric spewed by Barack Hussein Obama and hisNeoCom cadres, he and his co-conspirator, Michelle LaVaughn, live like royalty. Their let-'em-eat-cake lifestyle is even more contemptible, however, when one considers that it comes at the expense of those whom they purport to represent. For all the references to "fat cats," it turns out the fattest cats of all now occupy the White House, and much like their record accumulation of national debt, their unmitigated arrogance and bloated hypocrisy exceeds all that of previous executive administrations combined. Perhaps there are no better cases in point than the Obamas' exotic resort vacations and golf junkets whilst the rest of the nation exercises austerity measures necessitated by the regime'sfailed economic policies. This week, Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha hitched a ride on Air Force One to the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland. Then MO requisitioned Air Force Two so that she and her entourage could spend two days touring Dublin and the surrounding area. Once there, MO, her 11- and 14-year-old kids, and 30 members of her retinue set up shop in the lavish 5-star Shelbourne Hotel, where she booked the $3,300-per-night Princess Grace Suite. By day, they hobnobbed with glitterati, lunching over Dalkey Lobster and Crab Salad or Road Rack of Wicklow Spring Lamb with such notables as U2 singer Bono. By night they were treated to royal boxes at theater performances such as "Riverdance," where Michelle told an adoring crowd, "It is good to be home." Conde Nast, leftist travel magazine of the rich and famous, devoted a special section under "Bigwig Vacations," to Michelle's travel plans, noting, "It looks like she has taken a leaf or two from our 'Iconic Irish Itinerary.'" The Huffington Post Style pages opined under the heading, "Michelle Obama's Ireland Trip Wardrobe Is Making Us Jealous," then gushed about her "awesome printed Lela Rose vest, an on-trend Burberry trench coat and a covetable utility jacket." Isn't that special. Post Your Opinion Michelle's two-day $5.2 million side trip, however, was a mere slum tour compared to the Obamas' next taxpayer funded junket -- a "heritage tour" of three nations in southern Africa the week of June 26 to July 3, with an estimated cost between $80 and $100 million. Beyond the five-star accommodations, this Africa tour will put an enormous burden on the Air Force. In addition to the already-huge operational cost of Air Force One, USAF cargo planes will airlift 14 limousines and 42 support vehicles, including three trucks with sheets of ballistic glass for the royal family's hotel windows. Helicopters will be ferried in along with the largest Secret Service team and support network ever. The entire trip with be under 24-hour cover of Air Force fighter jets, and a large Navy presence will be maintained off the east coast of Africa in case of any security or medical emergencies. Calculating the total cost of the Africa trip is difficult, because so many expenses are classified, but the $100 million estimate came from the Washington Post. When the Post questioned the added cost of one excursion, an exotic Tanzanian safari, the White House canceled it. Seems that would have just been over the top... According to Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy adviser for strategic communications, "The infrastructure that accompanies the president's travels is beyond our control." (Yes, that's the same Ben Rhodes who's "credited" with the White House Benghazi rewrites, and the same Ben Rhodes whose brother David is the president of CBS News.) However, canceling exorbitantly expensive vacations is completely within Obama's control. For the record, presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also made trips to Africa at enormous cost to taxpayers and military budgets, but not at the same time they were blaming what Obama calls "the Republican Sequester" for across-the-board cuts to government agencies, with the deepest cuts of all hitting our nation's military budgets. (Ironically, national defense is one of the few federal expenses that is actually authorized by theRule of Law enshrined in our Constitution.) Post Your Opinion Also for the record, neither Clinton nor Bush devoted reams of classist rhetoric condemning corporate depreciation of private aircraft all while commuting in the world's most expensive taxpayer-funded exec jet. On a political junket a few months ago, Obama said, "What we don't want to do is give somebody who's buying a corporate jet an extra tax break that ordinary people can't get because they don't need it. ... They don't need an extra tax break, especially at a time when we're trying to reduce the deficit. Something's got to give." Barack's "Heritage Tour" Outfit Only an archetypal case study of Narcissistic Personality Disorder would commute on Air Force One to Kansas for a socialist stump speech, at a cost to taxpayers of $181,757 per flight-hour, not including the enormous cost of support personnel, facilities, and additional support aircraft, and lecture laid-off aircraft workers about why private-sector companies shouldn't receive the same write-off for an aircraft that they do for other business equipment. Need I also mention the enormous cost to states and local government treasuries, and the significant inconvenience to other air travelers and local commuters every time Obama comes to town for a fundraiser? Writing about the opulence of this administration in "Presidential Perks Gone Royal," author Robert Keith Gray notes that $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds was spent on the Obamas last year, including "the biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever" and Air Force One "running with the frequency of a scheduled air line." Not only does Obama have the audacity to chastise corporate use of aircraft, but among the high profile sequester cuts Obama demanded was the cancelation of traditional flyovers at the Air Force and Naval Academy graduations two weeks ago. So here's the question nobody has asked Obama spokesman Jay Carney: How does Obama justify the cancelation of flyovers to honor the commitment and sacrifice of our next generation of young military officers taking their oaths "to support and defend" our Constitution with their blood and lives, while their commander in chief is using Air Force One to ferry him and his adoring entourage around the nation to political fundraisers, and around the world on vacation junkets, at colossal expense to the defense budget and American taxpayers? USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh said this week that Obama's sequester has grounded 33 squadrons, and many pilots are losing their proficiency. "If we were ordered to go do" a no-fly zone over Syria, "we'd go do it," but we would be "accepting the risk of those people not being as current. For me, that's a risk we don't want to be accepting." Perhaps we should sequester the use of Air Force exec jets, including Air Force One, and also sequester $100 million royal family vacations. Perhaps these savings could offset the $70 million in IRS bonuses to be paid this year -- to administrators who have benignly supported the harassment of Obama's "Enemies List." The Africa heritage tour funds alone would be sufficient to reopen public White House tours for the next 25 years. Indeed, if it weren't for double standards, BO and MO wouldn't have any. If there's one defining characteristic of Leftist protagonists that is universally true, it is their consummate hypocrisy. Pro Deo et Constitutione — Libertas aut Mors Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis Mark Alexander Publisher, The Patriot Post

Get Out of Jail Free

 

Monopoly - I Did not know this!

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the 
Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their 
escape...

 

Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing notonly where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter.

 

Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

 

Someone in MI-5 (similar to America's OSS ) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noisewhatsoever.

 

At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology ofprinting on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.

 

By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game,Monopoly.  As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.

 

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of 
Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playingpiece.

 

As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add: 
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass.
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together.
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

 

British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 
'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.

 

Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their 
flight by the rigged Monopoly sets. Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.

 

The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony.

 

It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card!

 

I realize some of you are (probably) too young to have any personal connection to WWII (Dec. '41 toAug. '45), but this is still interesting.

 

1947......

1947

This clears up a huge question---1947
 
  Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, A little more than 64
  years ago, numerous witnesses claim that
  an Unidentified Flying Object, (UFO), with five aliens aboard, crashed
  onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell ,New Mexico .
  This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered-up by
  the U.S. Air Force, as well as other federal agencies and organizations.
 
  However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April, year 1948,
  nine months after the historic day, the following people were born:
  Barrack Obama Sr.
  Albert A. Gore, Jr.
  Hillary Rodham
  William J. Clinton
  John F. Kerry
  Howard Dean
  Nancy Pelosi
  Dianne Feinstein
  Charles E. Schumer
  Barbara Boxer
  Joe Biden
 
  This is the consequence of aliens breeding with sheep and jack-asses.
 
  I truly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you.
  It certainly did for me.
 
  And now you can stop wondering why they support the bill to help all
  illegal aliens.

ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE

 

 

ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE 
Please Read all the way to the bottom: 

If you will take the time to read these. I promise

You'll come away with an enlightened perspective.

The subjects covered affect us all on a daily basis:

They're written by Andy Rooney, a man who had

The gift of saying so much with so few words.

Enjoy....... 

I've learned....That the best classroom in the world

Is at the feet of an elderly person. 
I've learned....That when you're in love, it shows. 
I've learned....That just one person saying to me,

'You've made my day!' makes my day. 
I've learned....That having a child fall asleep in

Your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in

The world. 
I've learned....That being kind is more important

Than being right. 
I've learned....That you should never say no to a

Gift from a child. 
I've learned....That I can always pray for someone

When I don't have the strength to help him in some

Other way. 
I've learned....That no matter how serious your

Life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend

To act goofy with. 
I've learned....That sometimes all a person needs

Is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. 
I've learned....That simple walks with my father

Around the block on summer nights when I was

A child did wonders for me as an adult. 
I've learned....That life is like a roll of toilet paper.

The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. 
I've learned....That we should be glad God doesn't

Give us everything we ask for. 
I've learned....That money doesn't buy class. 
I've learned....That it's those small daily happenings

That make life so spectacular. 
I've learned...That under everyone's hard shell is

Someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. 
I've learned.... That to ignore the facts does not

Change the facts. 
I've learned....That when you plan to get even with

Someone, you are only letting that person continue

To hurt you. 
I've learned....That love, not time, heals all wounds. 
I've learned....That the easiest way for me to grow as

A person is to surround myself with people smarter

Than I am. 
I've learned....That everyone you meet deserves to be

Greeted with a smile. 
I've learned....That no one is perfect until you fall in

Love with them. 
I've learned...That life is tough, but I'm tougher. 
I've learned....That opportunities are never lost;

Someone will take the ones you miss. 
I've learned....That when you harbor bitterness,

Happiness will dock elsewhere. 
I've learned....That I wish I could have told my Mom

That I love her one more time before she passed away. 
I've learned....That one should keep his words both soft

And tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them. 
I've learned....That a smile is an inexpensive way to

Improve your looks. 
I've learned....That when your newly born grandchild

Holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked

For life. 
I've learned....That everyone wants to live on top of the

Mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while

You're climbing it. 
I've learned....That the less time I have to work with, the

More things I get done. 

To all of you....Make sure you read all the way down to

The last sentence. 

It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how

much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a

FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person

who sent it to you. If it comes back to you, then you'll

know you have a circle of friends. HAPPY FRIENDSHIP

WEEK TO YOU!!! YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM

HONORED! Now send this to every friend you have! And

to your family. This was sent to me by a friend.