Tuesday, November 17, 2009

More than 14,700 Americans disclosed secret offshore bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law barring intoxicated people from having guns.

Taser is an acronym, named for a fictional weapon: Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

THE PLYMOUTH THANKSGIVING STORY

Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) was a Patuxet Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival.

Bob Dylan's "Must Be Santa"

Men are six times more likely to die of a broken heart than women.

Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (1971)

JETHRO TULL frontman Ian Anderson is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited

Ian Andersons reason for not playing Woodstock,,"Because I don’t like hippies, and I’m usually rather put off by naked ladies unless the time is right."

Hunters in Missouri shot 86,111 deer in the two days of the opening deer season weekend.

Two Deer Hunters Shot in Platte County

Valerie Plame Wilson cannot publicize details of her work as a CIA operative, even though a government official already outed her

Sunday, November 15, 2009

A live puppet rendition of The Point by Harry Nilsson.

The Health Care Bill 3962 Go to Jail Misinformation

US domestic oil production by barrel and the songs from Rolling Stone magazine's Greatest 500 Songs of All Time feature onto the same timeline

Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation

(from the comments)--- "and historically been accounted for as a tradition Alexander the Great brought with him at the time it was common for the elite rich Greek males to have sex with boys - unbelievable but true.

So the tradition is deep and strong in Afghanistan, and nothing we can do 1 2 3 is going to stop it save for capital punishment for anyone convicted doing that."

How we got to Zero: General Eikenberry's Hail Mary

Janet's Whizbang Chicken Plucker In Action!

Sarah Palin pardons a Thanksgiving turkey as others die around her.

Egypt, 1920

Police Robot Negotiator Ends Standoff With Armed Man in AVON, Colorado

Clash of the Titans Teaser Trailer

US Proposes Expansion of Financial Spying

Home Builders Get a Gift From the Obama Administration

Indian defence scientists are planning to put one of the world's hottest chilli powders into hand grenades.

Snakes mating ritual

Piranha-bite test

The Unspoken Christian Problem in the United States

Christianity is one of the most violent religions

Blackwater: The Christian Right's Private Army

Obama Promise To End The War, 2007 - "You Can Take That To The Bank"

Take it to the Bank

Fire and Sound

Fun with Fire
Sound is a Bubble, Not a Wave

Sound and Color

Instead of a last meal, Tennessee convict Philip Workman requested that pizza be distributed to the homeless in Nashville.

(Prison officials denied his request, but local groups passed out pizza in his honor.)

On June 9, 2009, singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith memorialized Workman's case in the song "Not Innocent Enough," to which John Prine contributed the coda in voiceover, "My name is Philip Workman. I was not innocent enough."

Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue

Lab-Grown Meat: The Answer to Animal Cruelty and Environmental Ruin From Feedlots?

Monday, November 02, 2009

Elites Launch "Global Impact Investing Network"

You're On The CIA Payroll Too?

'Reader's Digest' (5 of 10)

In the 1940s and 50s, the CIA planted content in Reader’s Digest--an incredibly successful magazine that had taken a strongly anti-communist stance since the publication of its first issue. Subsequently, the CIA influenced the magazine’s numerous pro-Vietnam War editorials.

The organizers of the Denver Gorilla Run say the 1,061 people ran 3.5 miles dressed as gorillas

Robert Plant - In Concert 1983 King Biscuit Flower Hour

Blast from the Past--Cheney's FBI interview featured 72 instances in which he said he could not recall

Cheney Could Not Recall Key Events About His Role in the Valerie Plame Leak

Monkey tool usage Hammer and Anvil

Toxic waste trickles toward New Mexico's water sources-- "it might not always be safe to live here." -Santa Clara Gov. Walter Dasheno

A Life in Hashistan

Turns out that was this guy-- John "Chris" Turner was pouring 7.62 down range during the 2 hour gunbattle, saving the lives of the UN workers cowering in the cubby...

"I am armed. I carry an AK-47 and I kept firing it to keep the attackers away from the group I was guarding," he said, describing how he shot from the entrance of the laundry room. The group later jumped over a back wall to take refuge in a house behind the guest house.

Science has a way to re-grow body parts, turning what was once science fiction into fact.

Remember what the earmouse said