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Life on Mars? and Upset in Mexico 2007-08-24 06:25:00 From Drudge (developing, no link yet): Martian soil may contain lifeThu Aug 23 2007 11:30:10 ETThe soil on Mars may contain microbial life!Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin.That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen.Developing.... This (imo) would be a big deal, the first actual signs of life outside the Earth (even if it would be 'non-substantial' lifeforms).Mexican lawmakers think that the US should be friendlier to illegals:MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States Read more:Upset
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK! 2007-08-28 18:35:00 Earlier this month, my wife and I went to visit my brother and his wife at their apartment in New Jersey. We got to spend 3 full days with them and visiting New York City. This is the first time that I had been to either place. New York City has been in the top 2 places in the U.S. that I wanted to visit in my life. So needless to say, I was excited to visit the Big Apple. It was awesome.While we were there it just so happened (wink, wink) that the subscribers to Conservative radio host and CNN Headline TV host Glenn Beck's website were having a National Insider Convention. Basically it is a gathering of Glenn's fans just to meet each other and spend time together. There are several of these Insider Conventions held across the country. About 2 years ago several Insiders wanted to have a national meeting. Glenn was invited to attend. Long story short, New York City was the only place that Glenn's schedule allowed him to attend. The first National Insider Convention was held last year
Birthday 2007-08-28 11:35:00 From MVRWC a story about a 21st birthday that no one would want to have.I can remember exactly what I was doing and where I was at on my 21st. It was a very nice, happy evening (playing and watching great pool players) and at the stroke of midnight (my 'actual' birthday) the lady behind the bar symbolically carded me (she knew why we were there) and after assessing I was 21, she lined up 21 shots of Jack on the bar and told me 'on the house'.Yes I got plastered. Sadly Gilad might not even be alive on his birthday. Goto the MVRWC site and read the whole thing please.Filed: birthday, war, Gilad Shalit, Israel, hostage, Blogpower, LordNazh, BlogPower, LordNazh Read more:Birthday
'Neighborhood' Watch 2007-08-27 12:38:00 TexasFred needs your help in watching for one sick individual:Blogs track man who calls self a pedophile - News - MSNBC.comAugust 27th, 2007 Ruling forces him to flee California, he says By ROBERT McCLURE P-I REPORTER After a self-proclaimed pedophile was hounded out of Southern California over the weekend, bloggers sent up a nationwide call Sunday for help tracking his movements. Jack McClellan, previously from the Snohomish County town of Arlington, in recent months had been living out of his car in Southern California. A judge there on Friday permanently barred him from going within 30 feet of places where children gather. “I have to leave the state, really. I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” Jack McClellan told television station KABC for a report that aired Sunday. “It’s nightmarish.”Click through to read all of it (and his links to other posts about it). This is one way we ALL can help to keep children safe. Read more:Neighborhood
Happy Labor Day 2007-09-03 23:59:00 Labor DayLabor Day is observed annually in honor of working people on the first Monday in September in all the states and territories, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The day was originally conceived in 1882 by Peter J. McGuire, the radical founder and indefatigable warrior of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of New York. On 8 May, McGuire proposed to the New York City Central Labor Union that the first Monday in September, because it fell midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day, be set aside annually as a "labor day." His effort bore fruit on Tuesday, 5 September 1882, when workers in New York City held a large parade and a festival sponsored by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor. In 1884, the New Yorkers held a parade on the first Monday of September and designated that day as the annual Labor Day. The agitation in New York City was soon followed by labor unions in other states, which staged vigorous campaigns in their state legisla Read more:Happy
Pro-Choice Equality 2007-09-03 00:35:00 This is for the pro-choice (abortion) people: [note: I am divorced with a child, I support my child willingly and would no matter what the law stated because I feel it is right to do so and I want to do so.]Since the concept of pro-choice is the basic fact that the female should have the choice of having a child or not, shouldn't this construct be given to the male in the equation also?Consider, you and your partner become pregnant unexpectedly (wrong time, not trying, etc.). Both of you are pro-choice and both feel that it wouldn't be a good idea to have the child. The husband/boyfriend argues that this wouldn't be good because of [insert good reason here] and you feel roughly the same. After thinking about it, you feel that reason [insert better reason here] would overcome his (and your concerns) and decide (as is your right) to have the child even though he doesn't want to.A period of time later, you split up (in no relation to said pregnancy). Here's the question: should Read more:Choice
, Equality
What to believe 2007-09-02 02:29:00 Two paths to get to here from there:BeliefScienceBeginningG-dNothingEarthCreated by G-dBig bang, going against the laws of conservation and energy, matter was created from nothingLifeCreated by G-dMatter that was created from nothing somehow forms into life (single-cells)Human LifeCreated by G-dEvolution from single cell through the animal tree eventually to human (relies on scientific 'proof' missing key 'proof' of actual evolving into a human from another animal)Any wonder why we believe
rs scoff at evolution? (yes this is a very simplistic argument, sue me)
Difference 2007-09-01 22:46:00 Power Outages Accompany Sweltering Temperatures'Four Days Straight' Of Record Consumption Leads To BlackoutsLOS ANGELES -- Scattered power outages linked to near-record heat and record-setting demand have blacked out various neighborhoods across the city Saturday.As of mid-afternoon, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power estimated that 5,700 customers, both businesses and residences, were without air conditioners or refrigerators at some point during the afternoon, in temperatures above 90 degrees.Neighborhoods that were affected by the scattered problems included Mount Olympus, Silver Lake, Koreatown, Highland Park, Cypress Park, Eagle Rock and Atwater Village. {emp. mine-LN}Four days of above 90 and they have blackouts. We went 7 days above 100 with none. The energy production in the west is abyssmal at best and criminal at worst.In the Tennessee Valley region we had 5 (I think) straight days with over 33,000 Megawatts of output (high point output) without any problems (u
UPSET 2007-09-01 14:44:00 #5 Michigan (Big Ten) vs D1-AA (FCS) Appalachian State...App State 34Michigan 32BooyaFiled: Big Ten, upset, BlogPower, LordNazh
Sen. Craig Resigns 2007-09-01 14:13:00 Top story on Yahoo is about Sen. Craig
(R-Idaho) resigning after the sex 'sting' in the airport bathroom: GOP Sen. Craig resigns over sex stingBy JOHN MILLER and MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writers 16 minutes agoBOISE, Idaho - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig resigned Saturday over a men's room sex sting, bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans worried about a scandal dimming their election prospects."I apologize for what I have caused. I am deeply sorry," Craig said, his wife Suzanne at his side.Craig's resignation completed a stunning downfall that began Monday with the disclosure that he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge following his arrest during a sex sting in a Minneapolis airport men's room.Although leading members of his own party had called for him to step down, Craig steadfastly resisted resigning for days, contending he had done nothing wrong and that his only mistake was pleading guilty Aug. 1 to a misdemeanor charge.(link)I've read all kind of 'tolerant' people heapi
Victory Caucus 2007-09-01 00:12:00 Stand by the American Mission in IraqIraq is now the central front in the War on Terrorism - not because Americans want it to be but because America's enemies have said so and made it so. Al-Qaeda and Iranian-backed militias are determined to drive the United States out of Iraq. Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups would then use that country as a safe haven from which they can mount attacks on the U.S., its interests and allies. We recognize that the U.S. involvement in Iraq has divided Americans and that our leaders have made mistakes. We also recognize the cost of this war, not only in financial terms but, more importantly, in the loss of more than 3,000 of our bravest men and women. The issue, however, is not how or why U.S. forces became engaged in Iraq but, rather, what is happening there now and what would happen if we were to leave too soon. (link)Click through to read the rest and sign the petition.Trackback weekend over at StoptheACLU. Read more:Victory
Prayers Needed 2007-08-31 19:39:00 Via Misha comes this sad tale:My cousins... Oh, dear G-d Three of my cousins died today - Mom and two beautiful, lovely girls... Oh, G-d, oh, G-d... What do I say...?! Dear G-D IN HEAVEN... WHY? Oh Father, receive their souls, I pray... Let them enter into Your presence! Be with their father and comfort him. Uphold him in Your arms and give him Your strength and Your peace... Oh... G-D>>>! News here and here.(retracted the o in each G-d for personal reasons)Go over to Cathouse Chat and say a prayer for this hurting family.
Changes 2007-08-31 15:26:00 Been a lot of changing going on today. I've changed basically everything :)All the old comments are now gone, I can get them via Haloscan, but they will not appear on this site (if you need to know something from a comment, email me and I'll look it up).Walk around, kick the furniture, whatever and let me know what you think._____New BeginningFiled: New look, blog changes, Blogpower, LordNazh
GCC Consensus 2007-08-30 19:13:00 Remember the 'consensus' on man-made global warming? The study that found the consensus used search terms from papers published between '93 and '03. Since it was old, the study has been redone (using the same methodology):CHANGING VIEWPOINTS Michael Asher August 29, 2007 11:07 AM In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate change. Examining peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database from 1993 to 2003, she found a majority supported the "consensus view," defined as humans were having at least some effect on global climate change. Oreskes' work has been repeatedly cited, but as some of its data is now nearly 15 years old, its conclusions are becoming somewhat dated.Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research. Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all papers published from 2004 to February 2007. The results have been submitted to the journal Energy and
Prayers needed 2007-09-26 01:14:00 Last night (Tuesday) my Mom had a heart attack. She is in ICU and doing good atm.*update* she moved into a private room last night, looks real well and should be home Friday
Truthers and Homosexuals 2007-09-24 16:16:00 Ahmadinejad was at Columbia U. earlier (I'm not even going into the why) and was brought to task (slightly) on some subjects.NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like "a petty and cruel dictator."Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying the "insults" and "unfriendly treatment." Columbia President Lee Bollinger and audience members took him to task over Iran's human-rights record and foreign policy, as well as Ahmadinejad's statements denying the Holocaust and calling for the disappearance of Israel."Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator," Bollinger said, to loud applause.He said Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust might fool the illiterate and ignorant."When you come to a place like this
2007-09-23 16:02:00 Gracchi has tagged me with the 'First Political Memory' meme...My first real political memory was the Presidential race of 1980 when Jimmy Carter was running against Ronald Reagen and Iran was holding Americans hostage.I didn't really grasp what was going on, but I vividly remember the talk around the community of having to goto war to get the hostages back if Carter won the Presidency again.I'm not going to tag anyone else :)
SEC Roundup 2007-09-23 15:40:00 Tennessee got off it's rocker and put away Arkansas State; LSU played championship type football and beat South Carolina; Florida escaped with a win against a game Ole Miss squad; Auburn looked destined to go down and roared back to crush New Mexico State.Kentucky was outplayed for 3 quarters, luckily they play 4. The fourth was all Ky all the time as they beat Arkansas. Georgia gave up a 10 point lead to Alabama only to win it on their first play of OT. Mississippi State cruised over lowly Gardner-Webb.I'll give EMB the chance to crow about Kentucky if he wants :) And sorry to say, I don't know who Thai's favorite team is ;(tag: Tennessee, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina, Arkansas, Blogpower, LordNazh
Bloody Mary 2007-09-20 05:44:00 First she kills her husband, then she skates on it, now she wants the kids...HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun asked a judge on Wednesday to grant her custody of her three children, saying she needs to help them heal from the loss of their father.Mary Winkler told a Carroll County judge that she hasn't been able to visit, speak with or write her daughters since she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April."We can begin healing together and let G-d guide us," she said.The children have been living with their paternal grandparents in Huntingdon, a small town in West Tennessee, since Winkler killed their father, Church of Christ preacher Matthew Winkler, in March 2006 in Selmer.The grandparents, Dan and Diane Winkler, are seeking to terminate their former daughter-in-law's parental rights and adopt the girls.Winkler argued she should at least be allowed some visitation rights immediately while the custody issue is considered.Winkler sa
2007-09-18 06:20:00 Actually heard on police videos… These 16 police comments were taken off actual police car videos around the country: #16 “You know, stop lights don’t come any redder than the one you just went through.” #15 “Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch after you wear them a while.” #14 “If you take your hands off the car, I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.” #13 “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.” #12 “Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Because that’s the speed of the bullet that’ll be chasing you.” #11 “You don’t know how fast you were going? I guess that means I can write anything I want to on the ticket, huh?”Heh, go over to TexasFred's and read the rest (along with all his other posts).tag: humor, TexasFred, Blogpower, LordNazh
University of Kentucky Football 2007-09-15 22:26:00 For the first time since 1977 UK has beaten a top 10 team. Earlier tonight, the Wildcats pulled an upset win on instate rivals, the University
of Louisville. Thanks to a touchdown pass from Woodson to Johnson with only 28 seconds remaining. Kentucky
's defense then stopped a last second drive by Louisville to end the game with a final score of 40-34.Also, Andre Woodson broke the SEC record for most passes without an interception with 257 and counting.This is the first time in years that I thought UK had a chance at beating Louisville going into the game. Then after seeing a few minutes of the 1st quarter, it looked like UK was really psyched up and out for the kill.I am looking forward to Tennessee. :) Read more:Football
Auburn Football 2007-09-15 11:56:00 Mid-game update:I stated early that the only way Auburn
avoids upset #2 is to NOT.LET.COX.THROW.Shortly after, interception returned for TD Miss. State up 10-0....now, interception again and Miss. St is driving.To all the Auburn fans out there, what's it going to take for Cox to sit on the bench?And Go Vols! Rough game today in the Swamp >< Filed: Auburn, Mississippi State, SEC, football, BlogPower, LordNazh Read more:Football
Yahoo Widgets 2007-09-15 09:35:00 Found this when I got an email from Sitemeter about a new (desktop) widget to keep track of visits. The widgets have a sidebar and can be viewable 'stand-alone': Save time. Waste time. Have fun! Get Yahoo
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That's gotta hurt 2007-09-13 15:25:00 Portland had the #1 pick in the NBA last year. Instead of taking the best college player to come out (Kevin Durant) they went with the big man (Greg Oden) because big men are a 'must' in the NBA.Oden lost for season By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports September 13, 2007 Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft, will miss the 2007-08 season after undergoing microfracture surgery Thursday, two league sources told Yahoo! Sports. Oden, a 7-footer from Ohio State, was found to have torn cartilage during exploratory surgery on his right knee and was operated on by team doctor Don Roberts in Vancouver, Wash. Most microfracture surgeries require eight months to a year for recovery. "Greg had an arthroscopy and a microfracture surgery today," Roberts said in a Blazers statement. "He was found to have articular cartilage damage in his right knee. Th
GCC (again) 2007-09-12 20:59:00 Via MVRWC:WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming
Joke 2007-09-12 20:12:00 From Theo Spark (h/t Shelly at his place):A father asked his 10-year old son if he knew about the birds and the bees."I don't want to know," the child said, bursting into tears. "Promise me you won't tell me."Confused, the father asked what was wrong.The boy sobbed, "When I was six, I got the 'There's no Easter Bunny' speech.At seven, I got the 'There's no Tooth Fairy' speech. When I was eight, you hit me with the 'There's no Santa' speech.If you're going to tell me that grown-ups don't really get laid, I'll have nothing left to live for." [link]
Post 2007-09-12 16:33:00 OK, 1 more day (night) of work and then I'll get back to normal :)Thanks for all the visits yesterday and the comments (whether I agreed or not with them) and I hope that maybe Thai or EMB will throw something in here for you guys.
9-11 2007-09-11 00:00:00 The NY city skyline pre-9/11:A tribute to a time now dead; when Democrats were anti-Republican, but pro-American. A time when national security was something thrown into a debate simply to highlight a weakness, not something that would make or break a race for office.A time when my only concerns in life were to my wife and upcoming child (daughter was born in Dec. '01). When muslims were only thought of in passing by most, and not at all by some. A time when the country was still reeling over the difficulties of Floridians in picking a Presidential candidate and the Supreme Court decision that it lead to.A time when the world was somewhere else and rarely intruded upon the lives of the simple folk of this great land. A time of naive innocence.All this changed in one brief, yet agonizingly long, morning in September of 2001. On that day, 19 murderers, enemies of the U.S. and all it holds dear, successfully launched an attack on the very heart of the American Dream. On that day, a
Iraq Report 2007-09-10 18:23:00 General Petraeus gave his assessment of Iraq
today (confirmed by Senate 81-0 to lead the forces in Iraq) amid much scorn from Democrats. Truthfully, the Dems in Congress (and elsewhere) were the ones that wanted the September report so bad, they were short of votes to cut out of Iraq and felt the surge would do no good and only help them to get more converts to their side.Lo and behold, the surge worked well enough that even the MSM decided to print some on it. Varoius Democratic leaders went to Iraq and reported on progress and no more votes to run were given. Of course, that was before the report.In the weeks and days leading up to the report, Democrats and their 'base' have steadily been downplaying the report by calling Petraeus a 'bush-mouthpiece' and saying his report is lies and 'cooked' for the Whitehouse (yes he was confirmed 81-0, had to have been a few D's in that vote) before they even laid eyes on the report. With the news on the MSM and from the Democrats that took
Dallas beats NY 2007-09-10 00:07:00 IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Wade Phillips threw a soft uppercut and smiled widely. He did it early, when his first gamble as coach of the Dallas
Cowboys worked out -- then again in the closing minutes, following a touchdown that also made him let out a big sigh of relief.Marion Barber got things rolling with an 18-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-1, Terrell Owens added two highlight-reel touchdown catches and Tony Romo made up for an interception with a 51-yard touchdown pass to Sam Hurd for a 45-35 victory over the injury-depleted New York Giants on Sunday night.Romo threw for a career-high 345 yards and four touchdowns, plus ran for another, helping the Cowboys match the most points they ever scored in four years under Bill Parcells."It was good to see we were able to put up so many points and keep attacking," Romo said.However, Phillips' supposedly improved defense gave up 438 yards and lots of big plays, turning a potential blowout into a nail-biter."How about my offense, huh?" Phillips
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