I saw this at Bad Astronomy and had to immediately ask a friend of mine at the Denver Museum of Natural History about it. She said it was made a year or two ago. But it’s new to me! [Read more…]
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I saw this at Bad Astronomy and had to immediately ask a friend of mine at the Denver Museum of Natural History about it. She said it was made a year or two ago. But it’s new to me! [Read more…]
Follow up to the earlier post about bullets being found at the WH. CNN reports the suspect in that event has been caught:
Lt. Brad Shields of the Pennsylvania State Police said a tip came in Wednesday morning that the man sought by federal authorities in the Washington shooting was at a Hampton Inn in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Jesus has popped up in some weird places over the years, on toast or in clouds, but appearing less than miraculously in a dog’s anal sphincter takes the cake. Click on the link below, if you dare: [Read more…]
Great topic brought up by Ed Brayton at Dispatches, who writes in part:
The entire span of a person’s existence on earth is not even a blip on the radar in the context of the physical and temporal existence of the universe. But just because our lives have no grand, universal meaning doesn’t mean they don’t have any meaning at all. You do not matter to the universe but you certainly matter to the people around you.
The Secret Service has released a report of two bullets found at the WH, although it’s unclear where they came from or even if that building was their intended target: [Read more…]
The Angry Black Lady makes a good point about claims of FBI and DHS collusion on evicting the Occupy encampments:
As far as I can tell, the source for this claim is an article in Examiner.com, which quotes an anonymous Department of Justice official who claims that the multi-city raid of Occupy camps “was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.”
I used to work for these guys. [Read more…]
We didn’t know we were living in a rising police state, where the political powers we pay and elect are bent like willow branches to the conmen and scumbags that bled our coffers dry and planned not to answer any questions about it. Until now: [Read more…]
Help, help, I’m being repressed! Or rather Bishop William Lori is being repressed. He thinks religion and religious freedom is under attack in America, meaning his silly beliefs: [Read more…]
Baffling structure in the Gobi desert found on Google Maps is one of two or more, click on image for more at the Telegraph including a side-show
Using Google maps enterprising researchers have found a network of strange grid lines on the Chinese side of the Gobi Desert. They include military vehicles and reflective substances arrayed around one of the patterns. The origin and purpose of these structures are baffling to most onlookers. But there may be a relatively mundane explanation: [Read more…]
Newt Gingrich is rising in the polls for GOP presidential nominee and he’s understandably thrilled, but not for the reason you might think.
(CBS News) — Gingrich was widely written off several months ago after an exodus of advisers from his campaign, but he has soldiered ahead on a shoestring budget compared with his rivals. A new CNN/ORC International poll shows him in a statistical tie with Romney, with 22 percent to the former Massachusetts governor’s 24 percent.