We all know that some of the best art is controversial, but these murals might be crossing the line. Or are they?

- Denver International Airport (DIA):

Those of us biding our layover time at DIA will miss the most controversial murals to ever grace the walls of a baggage claim.
Some of the murals have now been painted over, but they did include a city on fire, dead children and women in coffins, a military-type guy stabbing a dove and other disturbing stuff. Some conspiracy theorists say the murals were commissioned by the Masonic society to show what will happen to the population and the environment when the world allegedly ends in 2012.
(For a full view, click on the image )

One man has written more than 20 books explaining how the world is controlled by reptile-like aliens, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II and… Kris Kristofferson? Yep. According to him, the murals how the reptilians when they finally take over the world. Furthermore, the tunnels underneath the airport house human slaves, even children, who are controlled by the reptilians. According to the artist, Leo Tanguma, it’s really just a mural that “depict man-made environmental destruction and genocide along with humanity coming together to heal nature and live in peace.”

- Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort:

Rumors about the dark side of Disney are certainly not lacking, so it’s not surprising to find one that says the company purposely had an artist paint a Nazi into a mural at one of their swankiest hotels.

In the book Sabotage in the American Workplace, an anonymous man claims that his company was hired to paint a scene at the Grand Floridian that depicted something similar to the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The artist wanted to make a statement that while the rich folks were enjoying their parties and cocktails, sinister things were happening in the rest of the world. The thing is, the figure the man claims is a Nazi doesn’t have any really distinguishing Nazi characteristics, so all we can really do is take him at his word. You can decide for yourself.

- San Francisco’s Mission district:

This mural in San Fran has caused a huge rift among many citizens in the Mission district. The mural shows Palestinians breaking through the Israeli wall, with a large crack in the wall shaped like the country of Israel. The organization that received a grant to paint the mural, HOMEY (Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth) said the mural was intended to show the two sides uniting. In order to make the mural more neutral, the agreed to reshape the crack in the wall so it doesn’t represent Israel, add an olive tree to symbolize peace and remove a headscarf from a woman’s face.

- Twelve Labors of Hercules:

When muralist Michael Spafford created “Twelve Labors of Hercules” for Washington’s House of Representatives chambers in 1981, he didn’t know he would cause such a divide. The murals were up for barely a year before they were covered with plywood after complains that the paintings were offensive.

The murals show some of the feats Hercules accomplished, including one where he kills the Amazon queen Hippolyta. One Representative felt the depiction was a glorification of rape.
The murals are now on display at Centralia College in Centralia, Washington, much to the chagrin of Michael Spafford, who says the mural would only look right in the space he created it for.

- Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future/Man Controller of the Universe:

It seems like a crime to destroy a mural painted by one of Mexico’s most famous artists, Diego Rivera, but Nelson A. Rockefeller didn’t really have a problem with it. He commissioned Rivera to paint a mural on the RCA center in 1933 and requested that it be about “new frontiers” and that it would be an image that would make people stop and think.

Rivera created Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future, a scene that juxtaposed workers and capitalism and industry. Some of the people portrayed included Charlie Chaplin, Edsel Ford, Vladimir Lenin and Jean Harlow. The Rockefellers hated the representation of Lenin. Rivera refused to change it (although he did offer to balance it by adding Abraham Lincoln to represent an American leader) so the mural was covered up entirely until it Rockefeller had it chiseled away.
In response, Rivera painted a pretty exact replica of Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future in Mexico City, but titled this one Man Controller of the Universe. I would say that Rivera got the last laugh.

I hope you enjoy this post, have a very nice day
xxx
KK

On that " Subscribers " thingy i have this message since some time ago:
- " Error
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Then they say i must go to activate it on the " content ", problem is and i must be to much dumb i don't see nothing where i can activate this new feature of subscribers!
Anyone may help me please? I would apreciate it SO much
Thank you very much for your attention
Hugsxxx
Kiki

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Kiki

This is really funny...AAWWW What a funny doggies hahahaaaaaaa Please, enjoy and have good laughs


Ciao, HUGS2U

KK

I'm back once again,please, please pardon me, forgive me but wasn't my fault or lack of time or whatever, i'd never go away you know that, this is MY blog, the UNIQUE i have and i have here very GOOD friendships too...since 4 years ago some eh?!!! Awesome , and some even more true ones than the ones i know around me here in Portugal.
Plus i learned and i continue to learn so much with all you, and the laughs and talks we have that i ADORE so much ...sometimes i read ours comments, lots of them just because the nonsenses we write there HAHAHAHA It's Fun and yes I LOVE YOU ALL my dear friends.

So, that Friday, day 1 of February, the Kiki Day= KK Day, was a MESS! And it let me angry when i was replying to my dear Gary/Prydwen and some others dears friends including lovely BCUK my laptop stoped worked just because i broke that thingy who enters on the laptop, that belongs to a cable of something..i dunno nothing of computers just know i broke it
It meant TWO weeks reparing, sorting out what's going on w/it!!! AH MERDE How i was mad with the net guys, still am, but now is OK ...but mad w/Filipe bcz he has a powerful computer, a new one since Xmas time but he doesn't let me touch on it ..between us when he goes out i'l go try use it, and it has a great sound Hmmmm, I just need to know his PW to enter on it..piece of cake, i'l do a blackmale with him Hahahahaaaaaaaaa i'l not offer him games for PC if he doen'st let me use it ,just, few times

Well, during this time, since day 1/Feb. till yesterday, i went with that great boyfriend of mine sailing on his yacht till TROIA, an island nearby a town called Setubal,near Lisboa too, on Sado river/Atlantic sea, lots of dolphins by our yacht, oh was so lovely!!!!... He noticed i was needing it, get out of here, put myself in first place or i would enter in depression with life's problems or others people's problems who always knock my door and i suffer lots about it when i care so much about people..and some indeed don't deserve i have that care and attention towards them, while others yes, but i can't go down bcz others yes my life goes on, now i entered on my 30s and yes i intend to live it to the FULLEST!This trip till Troia and sailing was so good for me and my mind, I'm going soon again and i'l take more fotos as he was the one who took the camera cz i forgot mine smarty me eh? But you can Google it and you'l see how nice it is, as the weather was great at the time. Not this week though, we are having huge storms since last Monday tehn calm down but today it's rainning again

Oh and meanwhile yes even a throat inflamation i got ths last week with 39d.of fever!!!! Ok now, recovering of it but ready for fun always

I do hope you are all fine my lovely friends and dear visitors and yes during today and tomorrow i'l try visit you all, then along the week i'l try be updated with your posts before these last ones, so i know what you have been up to
- For a full view click on the image and have fun

Ciao, and have a very nice day,
Hugs2you ALL,
Kiki

I ASSURE YOU THIS IS JUST AMAZING! And, as, i'm going out soon, but i won't be late i let here these two last posts so you have fun, as the others too, of course
- "The Egyptian lamp "
A strange thing, which can be found in an underground cavern below the Hathor-temple in Dendera, Egypt. A few pictures of bulb-like devices, into which two small arms reach before its thick, rounded end. These arms are supported by a column which looks much like a modern high voltage insulator. At the thin end however runs something like a cable into the glass bulb. From this striking out and almost reaching the arms on the other side a snake can be seen, hanging in the air. The whole arrangement has a striking resemblance to an electric lamp.

- " The Baghdad battery "
The clay jar and others like it are part of the holdings of the National Museum of Iraq and have been attributed to the Parthian Empire — an ancient Asian culture that ruled most of the Middle East from 247 B.C. to A.D. 228. The jar itself has been dated to sometime around 200 B.C. It was first described in 1938 by German archaeologist Wilhelm Konig, and to this day, it is uncertain whether Konig dug it up himself or found it archived in the museum. So how is it that a 2,000-year-old clay jar can be called a battery? Those who’ve examined it closely say that there’s little else that it can be. The nondescript earthen jar is only 5½ inches high by 3 inches across. The opening was sealed with an asphalt plug, which held in place a copper sheet, rolled into a tube. This tube was capped at the bottom with a copper disc held in place by more asphalt. A narrow iron rod was stuck through the upper asphalt plug and hung down into the center of the copper tube — not touching any part of it. Fill the jar with an acidic liquid, such as vinegar or fermented grape juice, and you have yourself a battery capable of generating a small current. The acidic liquid permits a flow of electrons from the copper tube to the iron rod — an electric flow — when the two metal terminals are connected.
This is known as an electrochemical reaction, and it’s not any different from how the batteries in your Walkman work. Experiments with models of the Baghdad Battery have generated between 1.5 and 2 volts. Not a lot of power. So what would batteries have been used for 2,000 years ago? It’s well known that the Greeks and Romans used certain species of electric fish in the treatment of pain — they’d literally go stand on a live electric eel until their gout-pained feet went numb. Perhaps the battery was used as a ready source of less slimy analgesic electricity. Other theories hold that several batteries could have been linked together to generate a higher voltage for the use in electroplating gold to a silver surface. More experiments with several Baghdad-type batteries have shown this to be possible. The little jar in Baghdad suggests that Volta didn't invent the battery, but reinvented it.

- Assyrian Seal
Modern impression of a cylinder seal of the early first millennium B.C. in Babylonia and Assyria were carved in the linear, drilled, cut, and modeled styles. The modeled style illustrated here derives from earlier Middle Assyrian seal carving and from the modeled sculpture in the palace of Sargon II (r. 721–705 B.C.), king of Assyria at Khorsabad. This style was used predominantly on seals showing scenes of contest and worship.On this cylinder seal a statue of the goddess Ishtar stands on a platform within a canopied enclosure. Ishtar is identified by crossed quivers, a starred crown, and stars encircling her body. Two winged genies protect the enclosure, while a kneeling figure worships.This is the official explanation but it don't look like a canopied enclosure the goddess Ishtar surrounds !

- " The coffin of Henettawy "
The outer Coffin of Henettawy : dated about 1040–991 B.C.E., Dynasty 21, Third Intermediate period, Egyptian Thebes, Plastered and painted wood; L. 79 7/8 in. (203 cm)
You can see at the left picture close to the guardians images like modern lamps ! Do you know what are those ?

PS:As usual, you can click on the image to enlarge it
Hope you enjoy this post, i did

xxx
KK

1. " THINK CALM ":
" Have calm thoughts,
  Picture calm scenes,
 Recall calm sounds."

" Why Jokes:
1- Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

2- Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

3- Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?

4- Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

5- Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we
are already there?

6- Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?

7- Why is it call "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

8- Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?

9- Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?

10- Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?

11- If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?

12- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

13- Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?

14- Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

15- Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Have fun my dears
xxx
KK

...unfortunatly already lost someone who loves dearly, or even more then themselves, :

This poem is written in a small gold piece of art ( a heart ), of a necklace, that my mother offered to me after my sister passed away, some few years ago...she asked at the jewellery to this poem be written on the small heart i use on that necklace. 
I think it's lovely and means a lot to me, because yes as the poem says i would do it!
Love2you all
KK

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive
when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive
nevertheless?
A: It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

KK