National Amuser – Fast Reads

Water World Warning

Old films like ‘Water World’ are part of the government's early public warning system. Fiction is used to disguise the hard facts otherwise likely to cause fear and panic. Seen as entertainment, the viewer has to ‘read between the lines’ to see the truth of a big flood coming. Sea More Water

Glaciers and cold polar icecaps melt if the global heater is on full blast. Trusted experts say that water will flood the earth again like in the days of Noah and the Lost Ark. Select humans will live on calamity barges. Cruise ships today can be made over quickly for a wet nightmare.

"All the cruise ships we see these days are here for a whole different reason," says Barry Gibson, an activities director on a big ocean liner. "The ships are for a future emergency - to evacuate the rich elite," he warns.

A doomsday report (the "report") claims how survivors in the watery future will battle to control what little land and resources remain. A big wet future is a huge concern and now rainy seasons are often above average. Storms are worse than ever before.

"Not everyone will survive," says Helen Gaynor of Newark New Jersey. "First, the coastal lowlands will flood. And then the rest of the Earth’s plane," she adds.

The report says "The Day After Tomorrow" film helps explain how weather will take 10 years to reset back to normal. It will take a whole generation (40 years) in the buildup to the crisis and in the time it takes for the water to subside (go away).

"It is hard to believe. It is all nonsense and I could care less about some water," says Jeff Bell of drought-parched Nevada. Jeff is a lesser known conspiracy critic and skeptic of the doomsday report. ◆ Click to Close

Light Pollution Problems

Lots of money goes to pay for streetlights and yard lamps. It turns naturally dark, storytelling nights, into overexposed revelations of crass real estate projects, private schools, and empty shopping centers. See More - Pollution

It truly lights up the hell people mistakenly think this life represents. Ancient peoples, including our Native American families, worshiped the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. Even the three wise men in bible times in the Arabian territory, wisely followed the lights under dark night covers.

Astrologers know how to read the messages, and not everyone listens. The dark skies initiative wants to darken things up a bit. "It will put the heavenly lights on our minds again," says Reverend Polly Lumens, a dark sky activist. "People are missing the signs of heaven in front of their eyes," she adds.

The activists want folks to dim lights, set timers, and observe light discipline. They want city streetlights to go dark after one minute when no movement is detected. A goal is so people in the hearts of big cities can catch glimpses of the Milky Way Galaxy, or the dome over which covers the Earth say some. ● Click to Close

Humor.. like beauty
Requires cognition.

Alien Screams Shocker!

The prospect of alien abduction is not only the subject of science fiction books and magazines. A psychologist studies people who claim to be "abductees." Dr. Iverson at the Helsinki University (HELU) confirms it is a real problem. Read More - Alien Screams

"More people now complain about being kidnapped by aliens while asleep in bed," he says.

Iverson released an mp3 audio recording with the horrifying stories of patients who under hypnosis recall vivid and distressing encounters. The stories are told in Finnish and an English version should soon be available in time for holiday gift giving.

The screams are from memories caused by the un-Godly implants and painful probes that aliens must have put into the captive abductees. ▪ Click to Close

Eat Wild Mushrooms
Tromping in the Oregon woods, you may see some delectable berries. Hey! You can save on EBT transactions collecting insects, mushrooms, fungi, berries, and edible tree bark. Sumac berries are tasty. Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Ewell Gibbons pointed to the natural lifestyles we now enjoy. Naturalists say, “getting back to nature is easy.”

Creative Right Side Sleep
People claim to create more cool stuff when they sleep more on their right side.

"Oh, I sleep on my right side and it helps me get ideas to solve problems," claims Sally Rhodes, who did not want to reveal her occupation.
After doing some research, a connection exists about what folks know over how the right and left brains talk to each other. The left-brain is for facts and figures, and the right side is the wild imagination. "It is good to sleep on both sides for balance in life," experts warn. ●

About Baseball - Baseball became the National Game in 1885, although it was played to some extent as early as 1840. The first baseball club was known as the New York Knickerbockers, which was organized in 1845, and the first match game was played at Hoboken, NJ, in 1846.

The first rules governing baseball were made in New York City, in 1857. Of an older league, the first champion team was that of New York, in 1858, but it was not until 1868 that team salary began. The National League was formed in 1876, and the American League in 1881.

Don't Say Its
Don't say lay for lie; lay expresses action; lie expresses rest. Don't say them bonnets; say those bonnets. Don't say party for person. Don't say it looks beautifully, but say it looks beautiful. Don't say feller, winder, to-morrer, for fellow, window, tomorrow. Don't use slangy words; they are vulgar. Don't use profane words; they are sinful and foolish. Don't say it was her, when you mean it was she. ■

The Game of Chess - Chess is one of the oldest, and probably the most scientific, game known. Its origin is mysterious. It was mentioned in Oriental literature about 2000 BC. It was originally played in India, Persia, and Arabia, and subsequently was known in Spain and Western Europe. It is said that it was invented in order to teach the art of war.

About You Know What
When a child, after having given proofs of memory and intelligence, experiences daily more and more difficulty in retaining and understanding what is taught him, it is not only from unwillingness and idleness, as is commonly supposed, but from a disease eating out life itself, brought on by a self-abuse of the private organs.
Besides the slow and progressive derangement of his or her health, the diminished energy of application, the languid movement, the stooping gait, the desertion of social games, the solitary walk, late rising, livid and sunken eye, and many other symptoms, will fix the attention of every intelligent and competent guardian of youth that something is wrong. A better way to fill a youth’s attention and to direct their boundless energy is to take up sports or to tend to weeds in the garden. Please be mindful of garden snake serpents.

Hawaii Shipping - Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, is the capital and commercial center, and foreign steamships and sailing-craft are scarcely ever absent from its harbor. Regular shipping service connects this port with San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., and the principal ports of Asia. It is connected with the other islands by an inter-island transit system. The city has great schools, business organizations, hotels, and streets. ▰

Canada's Ontario - This province is a peninsula bordered by Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario.

Farming is the chief employment, and barley is an important product. Most of it is used in the manufacture of malt, and "Canada malt" is regarded as the best. Several of the trunk railways whose terminals are in the United States traverse this peninsula. Toronto, the capital and commercial center, is one of the most rapidly growing cities of North America. The region is known as upper Canada.

Clean Toilets & Dress
Don't let one day pass without a thorough cleansing of your person. Don't sit down to your evening meal before a complete toilet if you have company. Don't cleanse your nails, your nose or your ears in public. Don't use hair dye, hair oil or pomades. Don't wear evening dress in daytime. Don't wear jewelry of a gaudy character; genuine jewelry modestly worn is not out of place. ◆

Irish Leprechauns
Ireland in soil and climate resembles England. The country is moderately uneven and fertile. Potatoes are abundant, and form a big part of the diet for inhabitants. The Irish are brave, hospitable, and active, but enjoy very few advantages for education. It is very green and verdant and known for its leprechaun lore of little bearded mischief makers.

Improper Intentions - An infallible sign that a young man's intentions are improper, is his trying to excite your passions. If he loves you, he will never appeal to that feeling, because he respects you too much for that. A woman that allows a man to take advantage of her just to compel him to marry is lost and heartless in the last degree, and utterly destitute of moral principle as well as virtue. A woman's riches are virtues and that gone she has lost all. ▴

Avoid Awful Slang

Deliberately avoid using slang words! Some young people think that a little slang, to spice their remarks is piquant and saucy but, in a majority of cases they soon overstep the mark and fall into the deplorable habit of constantly and copiously mingling their speech with all manner of slang phrases, that one is forced to advocate total abstinence as the only safeguard.
The too common habit of exaggeration, on the part of so many people is also to be deplored, as a quiet unobtrusiveness manner of speech is always the better choice. Please always weigh your words and deeds with care and prudence. ▪

Properly Train Children
Training without proper judgment and knowledge is ill advised. Give your children a good example, and never tell a child to do something and then become indifferent as to whether they do it or not.

A child should never be told twice to do the same thing. Teach the child in childhood obedience and never vary from that rule. Do it kindly but firmly. Teach your children well. ▰

The Pine Family
The pine family includes the various species of pine, tamarack, spruce, hemlock, fir, juniper, larch, cypress, and cedar.

A few members of the family thrive in the warmer parts of the temperate zone, but for the greater part they flourish between the fortieth and sixtieth parallels. Most of the species found in low latitudes are mountain-trees and make up a big part of the American and Russian forests.

Know When to Stop

Turn to the birds and beasts, and what do you find? They never eat merely to please the palate. They never go on eating till their inside is full to overflowing. On the other hand, they eat only to appease their hunger, and even then only just as much as will appease their hunger.

They take the food provided by Nature, and do not cook their food. Can it be that man alone is created to worship the palate? Can it be that he alone is destined to be eternally suffering from disease? Those animals that live a natural life of freedom never once die of hunger. ▰

Puerto Rico - Formerly a Spanish colony, it is now a possession of the USA. The island is about the size of Connecticut. The industries are almost wholly agricultural, and nearly the whole surface is under cultivation. Sugar, coffee, and tobacco are grown for export, and these comprise the chief source of income. The coffee-crop is one of the most valuable products and gets a high price because of its better quality. ●

The Heart Rules in Life
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the result of the brain’s power, the latter of heart power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

Men of genius stand to society in the relation of its intellect as men of character of its conscience: and while the former are admired, the latter are followed. Follow your heart more closely. ●

About Brazil - Brazil is the largest of the countries of South America and is level and fertile, producing tobacco, sugar, indigo, coffee, and pepper. Diamonds are found here. In the interior, vast herds of wild cattle abound. They are hunted for their hides, which form one of the chief export articles of the country. ◆

Sensible Wedding Dress
Today the keynote of the wedding gown is simplicity. The days of elaborate gowns with trains so heavy with the weight of precious jewels that eight girls had to carry them, is over. The sensible American bride knows that simplicity is more becoming to the solemn dignity of the occasion than extremely elaborate dress. White is the most common color for first marriages.

Influence in Society - You will have no influence unless you are social. An unsocial person is as devoid of influence as an ice-peak is of verdure. It is through social contact and absolute social value alone that you can accomplish any great social good. It is through the invisible lines that you are able to attach to the minds with which you are brought into association alone that you can tow society, with its deeply freighted interests, to the great haven of your hope. ▴

A Sad Condition - It is constantly affirmed by prostitutes, that amongst married men are found their chief supporters. Evidence from such a quarter must be received with considerable caution. Nevertheless, we believe that there is much truth in this statement.

Here, again, we lay the ax to the root of the tree; married guys who dare affirm that there is a particle of physical necessity for this sin, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Whether these men are pastors, princes, peers, legislators, professional men, mechanics, or workmen, they are moral pests, a scandal to the social state, and a curse to the nation.

About Wool - The wool of commerce is mostly applied to the fleece of the common sheep. There is no hard and fast distinction between hair and wool, but generally wool fibers have rough edges and hair has a hard, smooth surface.

If a mass of loose wool is spread out and beaten, or pressed between rollers, the fibers interlock closely that a thick, strong cloth called felt is made without spinning or weaving.

How to Dress Men
A gentleman should never wear a high hat unless he has on a frock coat or a dress suit. A man's jewelry should be good and simple. Brass or false jewelry, like other forms of falsehood, is vulgar.
Wearing many cheap decorations is a serious fault.

If a man wears a ring it should be on the third finger of the left hand. This is the only piece of jewelry a man is allowed to wear that does not serve a purpose. ▰

Marriage-bed Resolutions

Most men of the educated classes enter the marriage-bed with the consciousness of leaving behind them a whole army of prostitutes or seduced women, in whose arms they cooled their passions and spent the vigor of their youth. But with such a past the married man does not at the same time leave behind him its influence on his inclinations.

The habit of having a feminine being at his disposal for each rising appetite, and the desire for change inordinately indulged for years, is generally felt again as soon as the honeymoon is over. Sadly, marriage will not make a morally corrupt man all at once a good man and a model husband. ■

Words of Wisdom
Say nothing unpleasant when it can be avoided. Avoid satire and sarcasm. Never repeat a word that was not intended for repetition. Cultivate the supreme wisdom, which consists less in saying what ought to be said than in not saying what ought not to be said.
Often cultivate "flashes of silence." It is the larger half of the conversation to listen well. Listen to others patiently, especially the poor. Hear with the ears. ▪

For the State's Sake
If the home exists primarily for the sake of the individual, it exists secondarily for the sake of the state. Therefore, any home into which are continually born the inefficient children of inefficient parents, not only is a discomfort in itself, but it also furnishes members for the armies of the unemployed, which are tinkering and hindering legislation and demanding by the brute force of numbers that the state shall support them.

Metals and Humans
The development of civilization is connected to mining and the manufacture of useful metals. The effects of metal can be understood when we study how and why folks used them.
Next to the discovery of fire, an appreciation of using metals has been big to develop the human intellect. When the ancients left caves to build shelters, cook food, and make clothes, they needed metal tools. ▴

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