At the Corversbos fields, many barn swallows, and buzzard sound.
At the entrance of Gooilust, a female blackbird eating mountain ash berries.
This video says about itself:
Seen at the Butterfly Garden at Waalre, the Netherlands: The Emperor Dragonfly. In this video you see a female depositing eggs and a young specimen which has just emerged.
Anax imperator, is a large and powerful species of European hawker dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae, averaging 78 mm (3 inches) in length.
Males have a sky blue abdomen marked with a diagnostic black dorsal stripe and an apple green thorax. Females have a green thorax and abdomen. The male is highly territorial, and difficult to approach. The species lives by larger ponds, gravel pits, and slow rivers.
Near a Gooilust pond, a male emperor dragonfly flying around between the bushes.
It’s probable that innumerable insect species have vanished before even being catalogued by entomologists. Fortunately, the beautiful emerald dragonfly Maathai’s Longleg Notogomphus maathaiae avoided this fate. Discovered only in 2000 in the forested mountains of Kenya, the dragonfly is named after Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai: here.
I mentioned here last week that it’s possible to have your local city council pull that toxin-spewing outfit off the local cable lineup in your town when the cable operator’s contract comes up for But there’s something else you can do in the meantime that could be far more effective in stopping the ringleaders of the Disloyal Opposition.
“I’m ready to boycott all of Fox News‘ sponsors,” one female Commenter on my blog last week here said, adding, “It sickens me to watch Fox News. Could you provide a list of Fox advertisers?”
Hey, we’re here to help. So, as Ko-Ko sang so humorously in Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic comic opera, The Mikado:
“I’ve got a little list.”
Here’s a Clip ‘n Save list of many of Fox‘s current clients taken from several day-parts this week. Not all Fox Noise advertisers are here, because, as the Commenter posted, it’s impossible to watch this cable hatefest for too long without kicking in one’s TV. Ironically, the ads are usually the least objectionable thing on the disreputable, extremist cable net.
You may wish to take note of the companies and products that follow when youre making buying decisions in the future, and/or send them a note or an e-mail reminding them that these are the same Fox “political terrorists” who are, as MSNBC’s Ed Schultz also recently put it so well, “planting intellectual car bombs to drive into health-care debates in town halls.”
Some of these advertisers may not realize — yes, it’s possible — just how disgraceful and mean-spirited Fox Noise’s programming is today, and how it could damage their carefully tended corporate image.
Here, then, a partial list of enablers of the Disloyal Opposition: .
CLIP ‘n SAVE. Print this out … Put it on your fridge!
AARP Medicare Supplemental Insurance Amway Global
“Anything Goes” CD
Audi Diesel BMW Baron & Budd P.C.
Benadryl
Binder & Binder
Broadview Security
Bush’s Baked Beans Capitalone.com
Celadrin (joint health)
Chef Michael’s Canine Creations Chevrolet
Citracal
Direct-TV
Dove Deep Moisturizer
Easy Water (water softener)
Expedia Fidelity Investments Ford Motor
FreeCreditReport.com Geico
Goldline International
Gotomeeting.com HSBC Life Insurance
HealthMart Pharmacy
Lear Capital (gold) LensCrafters
Liberty Medical
Lincoln (autos)
Loan Modification Help Line
NFL Sunday Ticket Nextel
NutriSystem
Pearle Vision
Quicken Loans
Re-Bath remodelers
Red Lobster
Scottrade
Slap Chop (kitchen device)
Smart Balance Travelocity
USPS Priority Mail Flat-Rate Box Verizon Wireless Vonage Walmart
ZeroWater (water tester)
Zyrtec
AP: List of Fox advertisers no longer airing commercials on Beck reaches 33: here.
Right-wing terror groups on the rise in the USA: here.
How far gone is Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)? He isn’t even willing to reject the “death panel” nonsense pushed by his former running mate: here.
Health Insurers sending thousands of employees to Town Hall Meetings as Teabaggers: here.
James Murdoch’s claim that his hostility to the BBC as a public-service broadcaster is based on concerns for journalistic excellence and consumer choice would make a cat laugh: here. And here.
Now Glenn Beck loves American Nazis: Promotes book by prominent Hitler advocate of the 1930s: here.
How the Fox-Comcast Machine Crushed a Journalist Who Spoke Out Against Bill O’Reilly: here.
Rabbis Protest Fox Host’s Use of Holocaust Imagery: here.
In 1992, Michael Franti from The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy warned that television was “the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation”. Almost two decades later, the addiction and the ignorance are accepted as the norm: here.
Phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography and the oldest damselflies in amber (Odonata: Zygoptera: Hemiphlebiidae): here.
In this season of swine flu, you’d be forgiven for staying home if you felt a bit under the weather. But what if you got in your car and drove to the next state? That’s essentially what male damselflies do when they’re not feeling well, according to a new study. The move may help these delicate-looking cousins of dragonflies find more sanitary surroundings and colonize new habitats: here.
