The Israeli gossip site Debka, which usually relays the gossip of the intelligence community (and has had a lot of false alarms) is now reporting that Alqaeda is planning a “dirty bomb” type attack on a major city, perhaps New York. DEBKAfile’s Giora Shamis told Ynet earlier that the Americans had much to fear. The [...]

continue reading.....

The most beautiful woman in the world. Queen of Egypt, powerful consort of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who tried unsuccessfully to instroduce monotheism to Egypt,  and one of the most powerful women in her times, Nefertiti. Reigning with her husband, she gave birth to six daughters, and her history disappeared 14 years into his reign, presumably [...]

continue reading.....

After a 90 minute delay caused by the breakdown of a Diebold voting machine (go figure), results of the Iowa straw poll were announced. As expected, Mitt Romney dominated the competition, with Mike Huckabee finishing second, and Sam Brownback coming in third

continue reading.....

In the near future, the world’s elite will be taking their vacations in space. The first hotel in space is set to open in 2012, and reservations will be taken as early as next year. The hotel, named “Galactic Suite,” will come with a price tag that only about 40,000 people on earth can afford [...]

continue reading.....

In Baltimore, Maryland, the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a research hospital has developed a special kind of treadmill to help retrain stroke survivors and other victims of brain injuries to learn to walk normally again. The treadmill contains a split belt. One side can move one foot backward and the other moves forward and can move [...]

continue reading.....

It seems that steroids have now become a problem for Japan as well as the United States in the sports world. A California native playing baseball in Japan has been suspended and fined after failing a drug test to check for steroid use. The substance that showed up in the test turned out to be [...]

continue reading.....

Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher from California delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s radio address this week. Rep. Tauscher is also the chairman of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee. Last week, the House passed her bill that intends to stop the Pentagon from sending soldiers to Iraq without adequate rest or training. “Last week [...]

continue reading.....

Before his speech at the Iowa straw poll today, Ron Paul was greeted with a loud and enthusiastic ovation by his supporters. Dr. Paul talked about his presidential campaign being based on freedom, prosperity, and peace.

continue reading.....

President Bush used his radio address this week to give the American people another one of his feel good updates on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

continue reading.....

By John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com A 90 year old war veteran, Alfred Donovan, created a gripe website focused on Shell which, in an extraordinary alliance with the so-called “Kremlin attack dog” Oleg Mitvol, has cost the oil giant billions of dollars and as a by-product, changed the course of history This article tells the story [...]

continue reading.....

We don’t always pay attention to the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on August 15. In allot of cases people are getting ready to start or finish their summer vacations, preparing to return to college, or grade school and trying to squeeze in the last bit of summer before returning to the usual work [...]

continue reading.....

David Lynch has never been a conventional film maker, and Inland Empire is a fine example. Instead of using the regular equipment associated with movie making he opts for a consumer grade Sony PD-150 digital cam. This gives a very gritty feel to the movie, and one that we are not used to. Inland Empire [...]

continue reading.....

From The Gathering Storm Blog Up Pompeii records another of a long line of capitulation to Islam by the British government. A new government study is being condemned by the Christian ministry the Barnabas Fund because its proposals would move closer to imposing Islam in the United Kingdom as “a religion of state.” Among the [...]

continue reading.....

The release date for this one has not been set. Staring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman this looks like a great thriller. The official synopsis reads: A terrifying suspense thriller about a couple in a remote suburban house who are targeted by three dangerous masked strangers. The resulting clashes force the couple to go well [...]

continue reading.....

Despite the enormous popularity of the first two Rush Hour movies, China has decided to ban the third film from the country. The film allegedly has created controversy over a scene that links an organized crime family with the Triad gang, angering Chinese authorities. However, the decision to ban the movie is officially said to [...]

continue reading.....

On Thursday morning, a thunderstorm hit in the northeast causing minor flooding. Two more storms followed that afternoon and in the evening hours, turning the region into a disaster area. Houses, trees, power lines, road signs, and other structures were torn apart and flooded from the disaster. Luckily, no one was killed though there were [...]

continue reading.....

A recent issue of Environmental Science and Technology features research done on office printers of all kinds has shown that they may be emitting high levels of ultra fine toner particles which can pose health risks to those in long term exposure to them. This risk was determined to be in 30-40% of the 62 [...]

continue reading.....

[IMHO the religious right is far from being Christian.  Unhappily they have been trying to coopt American Protestantism since the days that Billy Graham started his politics-oriented version of feel good religion.  One of my teachers, the noted theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, was appalled by Graham and the dangerous trend that he was initiating in Protestantism: [...]

continue reading.....

[One of the richest contributions to our educations after WW2 was that of our veterans who had the opportunity to study under the G.I. Bill.  Bush manifestly can only think as a spoiled rich kid who never had to worry about such things as getting an education while supporting himself.  Ed Kent] …………………….. School Aid [...]

continue reading.....

The L.A. Times has morphed Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama’s over-the-top campaign rhetoric that he would attack Pakistan into “suggestions by U.S. politicians that American forces unilaterally strike” that country. But, no where did the story mention Obama, nor that no Administration officials are advocating such a move. How is it that Obama’s absurd gaffe [...]

continue reading.....

After correction, 1998 no longer hottest on record. Okay, read this carefully: Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or “jump” in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000. These graphs were created by NASA’s Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot [...]

continue reading.....

Still mad as f*ing hell about all the f*ing commercialism Berlin’s Loveparade f*ing brought down upon their now f*ed-up scene, and despite the f*ing fact that the f*ing Loveparade died and went to f*ing Ruhrpott (the industrial Ruhrgebiet, a modern German synonym for hell) years ago, Berlin’s f*ing anti-parade par excellence (or at least that’s [...]

continue reading.....

Iso, DAA and duh… When last we left our intrepid grandmother, she was watching NBC nightly news via MIRO (aka democracy player). So what is next? Well, one reason that I was able to load Ubuntu when my hard drive destroyed windows was that I had finally learned to burn an ISO disk, and had [...]

continue reading.....