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Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.


Monday, June 15, 2009

Odd and Ends

There are many odds and ends around this world ... here are some of them:

- A hidden spot in the Smoky Mountains where you can find fireflies that blink in unison

-A 70-year-old house made entirely out of paper

- A giant hole in the middle of the Turkmenistan desert that's been burning for four decades

- A Czech church built of bones

- The world's largest Tesla coil

- A museum filled with the genitals of every known mammal in Iceland

- Enormous concrete sound mirrors once used to detect aircraft off the English coast

- The self-built cathedral of an eccentric Spanish ex-monk

- A museum of Victorian hair art in Independence, Missouri

- An underwater sculpture garden off the coast of Grenada

- Galileo's amputated middle finger

- An island in the Canaries where people communicate by whistling

- The corpse of a 14th-century Japanese monk who mummified himself while he was still alive

And the list goes on and on and on ...

Image Problem?

From the "You have got to be kidding" Department:

White Supremacists are worried about their movement's image.

I guess knuckle dragging, low-brow, mouth breathing troglodytes is Ok, but they draw the line at hate-filled murderers!

Swill O'Really is an odd creature

Swill O'Really is an odd creature indeed.

He's OK with gay penguins, says "who cares? ... If they're happy, they're happy. That's my philosophy..." but he's repulsed by the notion of gay humans, and he emphatically maintains that they're perverts who deserve to have their human rights denied.

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Hate Jailed

About time ...

Internet hatemonger Hal Turner has surrendered to police in Connecticut, where he's charged with inciting violence by telling listeners to "take up arms" against elected officials.

Alternate Versus Actual Reality

Or in other words the wingnut world versus the Real World ...

The folks over at Think Progress had this to say about the fantasy world of the wingnuts:
The impressive accomplishment of Fox News is its creation of "an alternate reality" for right-wing viewers, says arch-right columnist Charles Krauthammer. Where Americans used to understand certain basic facts while disagreeing about policy, Fox News has ripped apart the underpinning of facts, so that now right-wingers can dispute the facts behind every issue, and any presentation of evidence is derided as leftist propaganda, which of course makes any reasonable discussion of policy impossible.
It's somewhere between sorry and sad to see Krauthammer describe so clearly what Fox News has done to America, but describe it not as a problem but as something he appreciates and admires. I'm not sure that America faces any problem that's bigger, and I'm increasingly convinced that we're sunk as a nation so long as liars and loons are allowed to dominate the political discourse.

Spot on analysis. "Alternate Reality" is correct - they have no concept of Actual Reality.

Wing Nuttery

BofA hijinks

Bank of America is paying the lawyers' fees for former Countrywide Financial CEO and accused insider trader Angelo R. Mozilo.
Do you think BofA would do the same thing if, say, a teller was charged with pilfering from the cash drawer?

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Liars and Fools

Liars and Fools for the day include:

McConnell (retard-Kentucky) says he 'really enjoyed' actor Jon Voight's speech claiming Obama might allow 'a new Holocaust'
One must remember Voight's 'break' came when he was a male prostitute in an X-Rated film and Mitch isn't called the 'bitch' for nothing you know.

Obama is leading US to socialism, says Palin
Still clueless as ever I see.

Smith (repressed-New Jersey) says Obama administration is all about killing unborn children and wounding their mothers."
You would think LaLa Land is running low on fruitcakes ... but no!

Murdoch says Obama's policies are "dangerous"
To you and your ilk maybe, but to the rest of the world they aren't.

Gingrich says Obama is anti-Christian
Any sane person is, so what?

Fox's Brick compares car dealership closures to Nazis; warns "Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you"
A Nazi blowing smoke and using mirrors.

Faux Radio airs interview with Christian preacher praying for Obama's death
And this is out of line for Faux News, how? Ok, so we know why - thing is they don't.

Sinclair's Hyman now pushing Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories
Beating a dead horse - you've heard the expression ... now you see it in action.

Dimbulb says "Obama is destroying the United States economy
Nope, that was done over the last eight years before he took office.

Dimbulb pushes birther theory on the same day a birther-believer opens fire at Holocaust Museum
Coincidence - Hardly. The whack-job was most likely listening to Lush's horseshit right before he opened fire.

NewsMax links Obama to Holocaust Museum shooting; "Obama breeds climate of hate against Jews"
This one has me in stitches, doubling over with laughter. Wing nuts breed hate against everything and then try the old smoke and mirrors routine to attempt to fool and otherwise con people into believing they are all things warm and cuddly.

Disney's Savage claims his "very life may be in danger because of this McCarthy-like witch hunt"
Wrong, your life may be in danger because of the hate you spread or and by the way McCarthy was one of your own - a paranoid little prick.

Disney's Savage says Obama is "attacking Israel, attacking Jews and breeding a climate of hate against Jews"
This one has me in stitches, doubling over with laughter. Wing nuts breed hate against everything ... hey, wait a minute, I just said that ...

Washington Times's Gaffney: "There is mounting evidence" that Obama is Muslim
Yep, sure is ... and the man in the moon isn't too happy when the cow 'deposits' every time she jumps over him either.

Chinese burglar Xiong's only tools were his teeth

Damn, his dentist must be proud!

A burglar bit his way through steel bars in a series of crimes.

Detectives in Nanjimen region, Chongqing, were puzzled by continuous reports of break-ins through caged windows.

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Teens steal skull from grave, put it in bleach

Two Florida teens were arrested and charged with the desecration of a grave site after they removed the skull from inside a wooden casket and put it in a bucket of bleach.

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Musicians attacked at wedding

More evidence showing that they need to be eradicated from the Earth ...

Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday.

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Ancient mass grave found on Olympics site

An ancient burial pit containing 45 severed skulls, that could be a mass war grave dating back to Roman times, has been found under a road being built for the 2012 British Olympics.

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Barclays bank worker paid double by accident is told she can hold onto the money

And you wonder why you feel a pain in your arse when you go to the bank ...

A bank worker paid double her salary by mistake for almost three years has won a legal battle to keep her bigger pay packet.

Not Their Day

Polish woman wakes up in morgue

The emergency medical services became aware of the error when someone saw her body bag in the morgue moving, police said.

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Car wash trip ends badly for South Dakota man

A trip to a car wash brought unintended consequences for a 20-year-old South Dakota man.

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Flying

The Beatles (from the film Magical Mystery Tour)

Puppy Survives Being Flushed Down Toilet

The ten-week-old cocker spaniel was trapped in a waste pipe after little Daniel Blair decided he "needed a wash".

Election fraud protests turn violent in Iran

Election fraud protests turn violent in Iran

More than 100,000 opponents of Ahmadinejad defy a ban and in a massive protest over alleged disputed results.

Election fraud protests

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Curious clues about the economy's health

Curious clues about the economy's health

These off beat barometers of the economy can give guidance — or just a good laugh.

Curious clues about the economy's health

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Teen outsmarts her doctors with self-diagnosis

Teen outsmarts her doctors with self-diagnosis

Jessica Terry, 18, thought her doctors were wrong about her illness — and proved it in science class.

Teen outsmarts her doctors

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Credit card defaults rise to record levels

Credit card defaults rise to record levels

One bank saw particularly steep default rates, as the record figures indicate that consumers remain under severe stress.

Credit card defaults

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And I Quote

Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature.

~ Chris Bowyer

Glacier

Glacier's growth puzzles scientists

Despite shedding icebergs the size of apartment buildings, this glacier in Argentina isn't diminishing like others around the world.

Glacier's growth puzzles scientists

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Nude Mona Lisa-Like Painting Found

Via the Huffington Post:
Nude Mona Lisa

Could Leonardo have painted a version of the iconic Mona Lisa in the nude?

As comical as that might sound, a painting that recently surfaced and is on exhibition at the Museo Ideale in Vinci, the painter's birthplace, suggests this might just be the case.

A full sized photo of the painting.

One Headlight

The Wallflowers

And I Quote

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

~ Robert Browning

Tiny village's residents may hold key to longevity

Unusually old villagers have brought worldwide attention to a small valley in China.

The key to longevity

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'Resurrection bug'

An ultra-small bacterium brought back to life after being recovered from the Greenland ice sheet could resemble extraterrestrial life, say researchers.

Environmental News

Climate change seems to be causing glaciers to retreat in Gansu province, bringing floods now, and – if predictions are right – chronic water shortages in the future.

Silk Road threatened by melting glaciers


Storms in Taiwan may be able to trigger benign, "slow" earthquakes that relieve stress without juddering.

Typhoons take the pressure off earthquake zones

Science News

From BBC-Science:

Researchers have demonstrated a new method to measure the charge of individual atoms on a variety of materials.

Astronomers believe they have spotted an object six times Jupiter's mass orbiting a star in the Andromeda galaxy.

Where hate is ...

The folks over at Sensible Erection had this to say about the wing nut terrorists:
Krugman wrote that "right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment" and went on to state that "the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. ... have gone out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the last time a Democrat held the White House." Media Matters for America documented numerous examples of such rhetoric "Emerging Culture of Paranoia."
Silence the hate!

Click the link below to see a map showing the locations of the wing-nut terrorist hate groups in the United States.

A Poll

The Question: Wealthy or Great Looking - Which do you prefer?

The poll so far -

Great Looking 43%
Wealthy 30%
Do Not Care 26%

Well, at least a quarter of the those responding are genuine and quite likely one or the other or both. While the rest are shallow wannabes that more than likely are neither, nor will ever be.

Cities most likely to rebound from recession

Cities most likely to rebound from recession

These areas are poised to bounce back from the economic downturn, but other cities, especially in California, face a long road to recovery.

Cities most likely to rebound from recession

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Jobs that pay $30 an hour

Jobs that pay $30 an hour

These positions can make more than $62,000 a year and don't have anything to do with the health care or legal professions.

Jobs that pay $30 an hour

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Unusual Celebrations and Holidays

Today is Nature Photography Day.

Iran supreme leader orders vote fraud probe

Iran supreme leader orders vote fraud probe

In a stunning turnaround, Iran's supreme leader orders an investigation into charges of election fraud.

Iran supreme leader orders vote fraud probe

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Our Readers

Some of our readers today have been in:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Delhi, Delhi, India
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Munich, Bayern, Germany
Worcester, England, United Kingdom
Durbin, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

as well as Italy, Brazil, and the United States

Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

Talk may sometimes be cheap, but right now the way you're communicating is totally on target, making you a valuable addition to any team.
If there's a presentation to be given at work, you're the right person for the job; if you've been putting off making a phone call to a relative, now's the time.
And any sticky relationship situation is no match for your ability to call it like you see it, and sound amazing while doing so.

This is true.