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Monday, March 30, 2009

Core of the Sun on Earth?

From BBC-Science:

Artist's impression of laser fusion  (Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Department of Energy)
The US completes construction of a huge physics experiment that aims to recreate the blistering conditions at the Sun's core.

Liars and Fools

Liars and Fools for today are:

Armey (r-Texas ret'd): For the first time we have a President that scares me
Good - afraid all your ill gotten and other sundry items are going to disappear, huh?

Touting her currency conspiracy, Bachmann (lunatic-Minnesota) insists: 'This is not Michele Bachmann being a kook'
Yes, this IS Michelle Bachmann being a kook - a whacked out, raving lunatic type kook.

Bachmann (lunatic-Minnesota) calls for "an orderly revolution"
What is 'orderly' in the mind of a stark raving mad lunatic anyway?

Issa (r-California) introduces legislation that would prohibit First Lady from doing any substantive work
Blow it out your ear Issa.

McConnell (r-Kentucky) complains that Obama isn't being bipartisan enough
Come again? Who, isn't being bipartisan enough?

McConnell (r-Kentucky) says Obama is turning America into France
This from someone who's mother is his sister (he is from Kentucky after all)!

Paulson, the shrub's Treasury Secretary, laments not getting more 'kudos' for saving the economy
Saving what economy there bucko?

Shimkus (r-Illinois) says capping CO2 emissions will take away too much 'plant food from the atmosphere'
I see someone failed basic eight grade science class!

repugican Chair Steele says he's "done" reaching out to Obama
It's not called 'reaching out' when you keep your hands behind your back, lame-brain.

Los Angeles Times' Klavan claims he's "never heard" Dimbulb "utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word"
Klavan is deaf, then.

CNBC's Cramer gets it massively wrong, again
Are we surprised by this?

Wall Street Journal's Fund claims Obama administration wants "to micromanage the car industry towards the social engineering goals that they want"
Using all the buzz-words and still not getting through.

Kristol doesn't think he owes anyone an apology for hyping WMD lies on Iraq
How about several million Iraqis, then.

MSNBC's Matthews calls "very correct" McPain's flie that "firing" of Wagoner was "unprecedented in the history of this country"
With so many lies from McPain, this one isn't even unprecedented, much less the firing of Wagoner.

Bozell's Newsbusters plays the Jeff Gannon card; Falls flat nose first into the ground
After all the bloody noses you'd think they'd have learned, but no ...

Bozell of Media Research Center offers revisionist lies on Tomlinson and NPR
Need a bit of research there, buddy.

Coulter still smearing Soros as Nazi collaborator
So says the NAZI.

Dimbulb calls Obama "an extremist tyrannical president"
Wrong - we ousted the tyrant in the last election.

Dimbulb: IF GM and Obama fail, America is saved
He can't help it, it's a mental condition.

Dimbulb repeats the lie that Obama "voted for infanticide"
Habitual lying is a mental disorder that is brought about by syphilis you know.

Farrah's nutball Western Journalism Center springs back into action
Can't wait to see what these wing-nut freaks come up with - I need a good laugh.

'Moonwalking' mice

The cause of a rare debilitating condition called cerebellar ataxia has eluded scientists, but mice that move backwards when they try to go forwards may provide the answer.

Ice on Mars

Formed sometime between January and September 2008, this fresh crater has dredged up barely buried water ice and splashed it onto the Martian surface. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded this colour close-up image on 1 November 2008. The scene is about 30 metres across. (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Several small space rocks that hit Mars in 2008 blasted away topsoil to reveal a layer of water ice lying just below the planet's surface.

Subsurface ice on Mars exposed by recent impacts

Rare animals on your PC

A Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus), in the Andes, Ecuador (Image: Peter Oxford / Nature Picture Library / Rex)

Fans of wildlife documentaries could soon catch up with the latest rare animal sightings from their computers.

Rare animals to feature on Google Earth

Banana Boat Song (aka Day-O)


Harry Belefonte

Find your home's costly water leaks

Find your home's costly water leaks

Get the clues and tips you need to find and fix what's draining your wallet.

Find your home's costly water leaks

Also of interest: Is your tap water safe?

Ryan Moats and his wife speak out

The tape of the incident between an officer and Ryan Moats, who was rushing to see his dying mother-in-law, sparked controversy nationwide.

NFL player, wife speak out on cop encounter

Just another day in California

Just another day in California as a moderate earthquake strikes.

Cause of mysterious boom and flash in sky found

Cause of mysterious boom and flash in sky found

Officials have identified the source of the loud boom and streak of light in the sky that rattled Virginia residents.

Cause of mysterious boom and flash in sky found

Some witnesses' descriptions.

How 10 Classic Toys Were Invented

Did you know that Play-Doh was first sold as a wallpaper cleaner.
How’s that for weird?
You rolled it on the walls to remove coal dust.

Many classic toys were invented under unusual circumstances.

Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop


Popeye the Sailor's debut in a 1933 Betty Boop Cartoon.

Self Explanatory

Self Explanatory

Speaking of Anniversaries

Today is the 151st anniversary of the pencil eraser.

Today in 1858, one H. L. Lipman was granted a patent for attaching a piece of rubber to the end of a pencil.
Turns out to have been a pretty good idea - but not that good.
Later the courts didn't think it was all that outstanding of an idea.

From Smithsonian:
Unfortunately for Lipman, the patent would later be revoked, when the U.S. Supreme Court rules in 1875 that a pencil with an eraser is just a pencil with an eraser and not a new invention.

The Meaning of Life

What is the meaning of life?

All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate.

Jerks are still jerks

Nothing ever changes ...

From TreeHugger:

An absolutely fascinating seven minute film of the streets of Barcelona in 1908, taken with a camera mounted on the front of a streetcar. The streets are dominated by bicyclists and pedestrians, many of whom appear to be in a non-stop game of chicken with the trolley. It is lovely to see a world without cars where streets are for people; not so lovely to see that riding habits haven't generally improved.

Article continues: Cyclists and Pedestrians Were Jerks In 1908 Too

A Fleet of UFOs in formation has been photographed ...

... On Google Street View.

A fleet of UFOs in formation has been photographed - on Google.

The nine silver spheres hover above a row of shops, including a Coral bookies, on the internet giant's new Street View service.

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"I'm Smooth" - em, yeah, right

A retired police chief says he was robbed by "probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania."

It happened Friday morning at police officers' convention near Harrisburg, where 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio were gathered.

John Comparetto says as he came out of a stall in the men's room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money.

Comparetto gave up his money and cell phone. But when the man fled, Comparetto and some colleagues chased him. They arrested 19-year-old Jerome Marquis Blanchett of Harrisburg as he was trying to leave in a taxi.

When a reporter asked Blanchett for comment as he was led out of court, he said, "I'm smooth."

*****

Somehow the word, 'smooth' just doesn't come to mind.

Wii Fit death

A 25 year old man collapsed and died moments after playing Nintendo Wii Fit games.

Driver begs cops to shoot him

A police chase that exceeded speeds of more than 130 mph ended when the driver crashed and begged officers to shoot him.

Full Story

Sleeping man gets locked inside I Don't Care Bar

A patron at the I Don't Care Bar & Grill evidently didn't care about leaving until it was way past closing time and the door was locked.

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Our Readers

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Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Seoul, Seoul T'ukpyolsi, Korea
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Kiev, Kyyiv, Ukraine
Windhoek, Windhoek, Namibia
Quezon City, Quezon City, Philippines
Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland
Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Copenhagen, Staden Kobenhaven, Denmark

as well as Germany and the United States

Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

You can't control another person's behavior, but you can show them how to behave!

That I can do.