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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Fish In Toxic Waters Grow Bigger Ears

Listen up!

Carbon dioxide being absorbed by the oceans is having a puzzling effect on fish - their ears get bigger.

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All You Need Is Love

The Beatles (live on the BBC in 1967)

Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.

There's nothing you can do
that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but
you can learn how to play
the game.
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you
can learn how to be you in
time.
It's easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.

Love is all you need.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't
where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love (All together, now!)
All you need is love. (Everybody!)
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need (love
is all you need).

Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
yesterday
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

How to Relieve Depression Naturally

The first thing you will want to do is to take a trip to the local health food store or natural foods market.

How to Relieve Depression Naturally

Stoned wallabies make crop circles

Apparently, Tasmanian wallabies are getting high in fields of poppy grown for medicinal purposes.
"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," (Tasmania attorney general) Lara Giddings told the hearing (on poppy crop security).

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash

The ACLU is suing the Transportation Security Administration for illegally searching and detaining Steve Bierfeldt, a US citizen who was detained and searched all the while being cursed at and threatened by TSA agents for carrying $4700 in cash (which is legal, by the way and doesn't require disclosure in advance) at an airport in April.

The TSA agents surely would have gotten away with violating the Bierfeldt's Constitutional rights had Bierfeldt not recorded the half-hour interrogation on his cell phone.

"I do not believe I should give up my constitutional rights each time I choose to travel by plane. I was doing nothing illegal or suspicious, yet I was treated like a potential criminal and harassed for no reason," said Bierfeldt. "Most Americans would be surprised to learn that TSA considers simply carrying cash to be a basis for detention and questioning. I hope the court makes clear that my detention by TSA agents was unconstitutional and stops TSA from engaging in these unlawful searches and arrests. I do not want another innocent American to have to endure what I went through."

"Mr. Bierfeldt's experience represents a troubling pattern of TSA attempting to transform its valid but limited search authority into a license to invade people's privacy in a manner that would never be accepted outside the airport context," said Larry Schwartztol, a staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. "Just as the Constitution prevents the police on the street from conducting freewheeling searches in the hopes of uncovering wrongdoing, it protects travelers from the kind of treatment Mr. Bierfeldt suffered."

TSA officials have the authority to conduct safety-related searches for weapons and explosives. According to the ACLU's lawsuit, TSA agents are using heightened security measures after 9/11 as an excuse to exceed their search authority and engage in unlawful searches that violate the privacy rights of passengers. The lawsuit also charges that unconstitutional searches and detention by TSA agents have become the norm.

Liars and Fools

They Distort, We Deride...

The tools at Faux News do it again. you know things are going really badly for the repugicans these days when even their own noise machinists can't come up with any new ideas...
Jim Yeager posted this over on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and thought Carolina Naturally readers would appreciate it as well.

Science News

From BBC-Science
Flutes dating back to the time modern humans began colonizing Europe suggest music may have been influential in our evolution.

Other Science News:

Clerics join Iran's anti-government protests

In a blatant act of defiance, a group of Mullahs took to the streets of Tehran, to protest election results that returned incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

In Iran, Mullahs rule supreme. They are the country's conservative clerics; the guardians of the Islamic revolution and its ideologies. They're loyal only to god and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranian doctor: Neda was shot by government forces

A doctor who claims he tried to save Iranian martyr Neda Soltan says she was shot by a pro-government milita gunman.

Mom, after 13 beers, can't recover custody of kids

A mother who drank 13 beers before a psychological evaluation failed to recover custody of her three young children despite claiming she wasn't drunk because she "can drink like a fish."

The woman wanted to get the children back from her husband's stepmother.

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Exorcism left dead boy on a cross

A French Guiana court has jailed four church members for up to 12 years for the exorcism of an epileptic teenager who was found dead attached to a cross.

Full Story

Monkey urinates on Zambian president

A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda during a press conference outside his office in the capital Lusaka.

That makes Three

Farrah Fawcett and Micheal Jackson are dead.

Farrah succumbed to the anal cancer she has battled for the past three years. She will be missed.
Micheal apparently had a heart-attack and died.

Ed McMahon's passing earlier this week along with these deaths fulfills the 'Three' Rule which states that these things always happen in threes.

Billy Bob's Daughter Charged with First Degree Murder

The long estranged daughter of Billy Bob Thornton has been charged with first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter of a one-year-old girl who died under her care.

Back in October, Amanda Brumfield told cops the child died after falling from her playpen -- but detectives had a hard time believing her story because it wasn't consistent with the little girl's injuries.

An autopsy determined the child suffered a fractured skull and a subdural hematoma due to blunt trauma.

When the story initially broke, Thornton's publicist said that the two haven't spoken for "quite some time."

Do your sunglasses give enough protection?

Do your sunglasses give enough protection?

Use these tips to evaluate if your shades are protecting your eyes properly.

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Iranian president slams Obama for comments

Another silly little man suffering from delusions of adequacy ...

Iranian president slams Obama for comments

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sharp words for Barack Obama and wants him to apologize as election turmoil continues in Iran.

Iranian president slams Obama for comments

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Character traits that boost careers

Character traits that boost careers

Job experts point to three surprising virtues that can get you ahead in the workplace.

Character traits that boost careers

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'Mini-foods' trend targets budgets, waistlines

'Mini-foods' trend targets budgets, waistlines

Restaurants are enticing consumers with smaller portions for a guilt-free experience.

'Mini-foods' trend

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Teen strip search ruled illegal

In a surprise - the Supremes made a correct ruling.

Teen strip search ruled illegal
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The Supreme Court holds that school officials violated Savana Redding's rights with an intrusive search.

Teen strip search ruled illegal

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Puppy killed to make a belt!

There should be a hide removal here all right!

*****

A 23-year-old woman who got a friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier was charged with skinning the puppy to make a belt out of its hide.

Krystal Lynn Lewis and Austin Michael Mullins, 26, were being held Friday in the Muskogee County jail on $25,000 bail each. They were charged with one felony count of cruelty to animals.

A Muskogee County judge ordered a mental competency hearing for Lewis.

Lewis wanted the puppy, named Poplin, killed because it was a gift from a female ex-lover with whom she doesn't get along, said Muskogee County sheriff's deputy George Roberson.

Roberson said Mullins shot the terrier 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol. Lewis skinned the animal at her apartment and nailed the hide to a board.

*****
1000 lashes with a cat-o-nine tails for every bullet wouldn't even begin to cover this!

Poplin deserves nothing less!

Huge Pre-Stonehenge Complex Found via "Crop Circles"

From National Geographic:

Given away by strange, crop circle-like formations seen from the air, a huge prehistoric ceremonial complex discovered in southern England has taken archaeologists by surprise.

A thousand years older than nearby Stonehenge, the site includes the remains of wooden temples and two massive, 6,000-year-old tombs that are among "Britain's first architecture," according to archaeologist Helen Wickstead, leader of the Damerham Archaeology Project.

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Our Readers

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Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Prague, Hlavni Mesto Praha, Czech Republic
London, England, United Kingdom
Tehran, Esfahan, Iran
Turin, Piemonte, Italy
Bargteheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Barquismeto, Lara, Venezuela
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

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Daily Horoscope

Today's horoscope says:

You've been thinking over how to handle this attraction you're feeling for a certain someone, and you've come up with a plan.
You don't take laying your feelings on the line lightly, so when you do manage to mention how you feel to them, you'll absolutely insist that all conditions are right.
That way, things can't help but turn out well.
Now that you have that plan, shouldn't you be on the phone, arranging for the most important element?
The other person?

Wow, deep.