Neocrit (noun): a neocon hypocrite, particularly one who makes a living selling it to the rubes.
– Matthew (Chironboy) at The Church of Mothra.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
New Definition
New term for the neocon hypocrites we all know so well ...
Neocrit (noun): a neocon hypocrite, particularly one who makes a living selling it to the rubes.
I like it.
Neocrit (noun): a neocon hypocrite, particularly one who makes a living selling it to the rubes.
I like it.
And I Quote
Obama is being criticized for trying to solve too many problems at the same time.
If Bush were still president. We wouldn't even be having this conversation.
If Bush were still president. We wouldn't even be having this conversation.
~ Jimmy Fallon
Right you are.
Seeing as how the shrub never tried to solve anything in his entire life, much less the problems he caused.
Deadly spider in the grocery store
A Brazilian Wandering spider, the most venomous spider in the world, was scurrying around a Whole Foods Market in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
An employee caught the spider in the produce section and the store called the University of Tulsa.
From News On 6:
An employee caught the spider in the produce section and the store called the University of Tulsa.
From News On 6:
"Within minutes you will have breathing problems, you'll start to lose control of your muscles, you'll start to drool and within 20 to 25 minutes you'll probably collapse on the floor and die of asphyxiation," said Terry Childs (director of the university's animal facilities)...
Apparently the spider, also known as a banana spider, hitched a ride on some bunches of bananas all the way from Honduras. It turns out it is the kind of thing that happens all the time, but this particular spider is more threatening than most.
"This particular one happens to be one of the most aggressive ones I've actually come across. This thing will actually jump at you," said Terry Childs.
People who use barrels to catch rain from their roofs breaking law
From the "I'll be damned if it's theirs" Department:
Nicholas Riccardi of the The LA Times has a story about "rainwater harvesters" in Colorado who are not allowed to collect rainwater that falls in their own yard, because the water rights belong to farmers, ranchers, developers and water agencies.
Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law.Holstrom's violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride. The barrels catch rain and snowmelt, which Holstrom uses to irrigate the small vegetable garden she and her husband maintain.
But according to the state of Colorado, the rain that falls on Holstrom's property is not hers to keep. It should be allowed to fall to the ground and flow unimpeded into surrounding creeks and streams, the law states, to become the property of farmers, ranchers, developers and water agencies that have bought the rights to those waterways.
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"If you try to collect rainwater, well, that water really belongs to someone else," said Doug Kemper, executive director of the Colorado Water Congress. "We get into a very detailed accounting on every little drop."
People who use barrels to catch rain from their roofs breaking law, says State of Colorado
If it falls on my property it's mine, period!
If it falls on my property it's mine, period!
Across the Universe
Fiona Apple singing The Beatles song 'Across the Universe' (written by John Lennon) from the soundtrack for the movie 'Pleasantville'.
Repugican MADness
If you've ever harbored any doubt that repugicans are not a heartless, soulless pack of dastardly vicious perverted bastards, then there is no need to harbor it any longer.
Here is a report dated March 17, 2009 from Progress Report that wipes any doubts from anyone's mind that they may have secretly (or not so secretly) held regarding repugicans:
While having those responsible for the world economic collapse held accountable, suggesting suicide if way outside the lines. It is just grandstanding and all part of the dog and pony show that is the repugicans. It is also not 'like the Japanese do' - having those responsible commit ritual suicide - as one Japanese blogger points out ... when someone in Japan feels that they can not live with the 'shame' of whatever it was they failed at then they commit suicide. This same blogger further points out that the AIG executives are and have been behaving shamelessly therefore their commiting suicide would not be the same (and since they are shameless, they would be too chickenshit to do it anyway).
Here is a report dated March 17, 2009 from Progress Report that wipes any doubts from anyone's mind that they may have secretly (or not so secretly) held regarding repugicans:
RADICAL RIGHT -- CONSERVATIVES SUGGEST DEATH FOR AIG EXECS SET TO RECEIVE BONUSES: Politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle have expressed outrage at the recent news that bailed-out insurance giant AIG will be paying $165 million in bonuses to same executives that "brought the company to the brink of collapse." President Obama and members of Congress are trying to figure out a way to revoke the bonuses, while others have called for top executives to be fired. While conservatives have joined in the mass discontent with AIG, some are taking their anger a bit too far. Yesterday on a local Iowa radio show, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) suggested that AIG executives consider committing suicide.
While having those responsible for the world economic collapse held accountable, suggesting suicide if way outside the lines. It is just grandstanding and all part of the dog and pony show that is the repugicans. It is also not 'like the Japanese do' - having those responsible commit ritual suicide - as one Japanese blogger points out ... when someone in Japan feels that they can not live with the 'shame' of whatever it was they failed at then they commit suicide. This same blogger further points out that the AIG executives are and have been behaving shamelessly therefore their commiting suicide would not be the same (and since they are shameless, they would be too chickenshit to do it anyway).
Mild obesity takes years off your life
Being slightly overweight, which is now extremely common, reduces life expectancy by two to four years.
Mild obesity takes years off your life
Tachyons and all that jazz
Star Trek has given us many of what are today common devices and items ... from communication devices to who knows what all. But this may not be one of them ... 'Tachyon beams'.
Relativity does not rule out a realm of particles that can only travel faster than light, but a new study suggests they may be fundamentally impossible.
Faster-than-light 'tachyons' might be impossible after all
Life and Death beneath the waves
This is a great gallery of photographs.
See stunning images of a caring octopus mum, the eyes of a conch, a slaughtered shark, and more.
Life and death beneath the waves
Europe plays catch-up
The EU has much to learn from Barack Obama's scientific "dream team", says John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser.
Europe plays catch-up to Obama's science drive
Some schools may be breeding grounds for teen killers
A review of school shootings in the US indicates that some schools are more likely to cultivate killers than others.
Suspect in quadruple murder dead in Utah
The man wanted for the quadruple homicide in Catawba County, North Carolina is dead and investigators believe drugs may have been a possible motive for the killings.
Lisa Saephan and her three children, 20-year-old Melanie, 18-year-old Pauline and 3-year-old Cody were killed in their home last Thursday.
Read the rest here.
Incest father pleads guilty to charges
In a stunning turn of events, an Austrian on trial for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty Wednesday to all charges against him — including homicide. The move came after his daughter appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom.
Read the rest here.
Octopus fossil found
It's hard enough to find fossils of hard things like dinosaur bones. Now scientists have found evidence of 95 million-year-old octopuses, among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils, complete with ink and suckers.
The body of an octopus is composed almost entirely of muscle and skin. When an octopus dies, it quickly decays and liquefies into a slimy blob. After just a few days there will be nothing left at all. And that assumes that the fresh carcass is not consumed almost immediately by scavengers.
The result is that preservation of an octopus as a fossil is about as unlikely as finding a fossil sneeze, and none of the 200 to 300 species of octopus known today had ever been found in fossilized form, said Dirk Fuchs of the Freie University Berlin.Read the rest at LiveScience.
Bat Hung On For a Ride Into Space
A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch.
NASA hoped the bat would fly away before the spacecraft's Sunday evening liftoff, but photos from the launch now show the bat holding on for dear life throughout the fiery ride.
There is life out there
Discovery of New Microorganisms in the Stratosphere
Three new species of bacteria, which are not found on Earth and which are highly resistant to ultra-violet radiation, have been discovered in the upper stratosphere by Indian scientists.
One of the new species has been named as Janibacter hoylei, after the Distinguished Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, the second as Bacillus isronensis recognizing the contribution of ISRO in the balloon experiments which led to its discovery and the third as Bacillus aryabhata after India’s celebrated ancient astronomer Aryabhata and also the first satellite of ISRO.
Real Science
This is real science:
Teens send balloon into space, get aerial photos of Earth
Teen scientists at IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia sent a latex balloon 20 miles into the sky, to the edge of space, and took stunning photos of the Earth with it, using a cheap digital camera:
Building the electronic sensor components from scratch, Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort managed to send their heavy duty £43 latex balloon to the edge of space and take readings of its ascent.Created by the four students under the guidance of teacher Jordi Fanals Oriol, the budding scientists, all aged 18-19, followed the progress of their balloon using high tech sensors communicating with Google Earth.
Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said: "We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible."
Kid walks to soccer practice and neighbors call the cops
From the "This is getting ridiculous now" Department:
From the Free Range Kids blog, the story of Lori from a small town in Mississippi, who sent her 10-year-old on foot to soccer practice, only to have him picked up by the cops, who reported "hundreds" of 911 calls by neighborhood snoops who were horrified at the thought of a 10-year-old walking a third of a mile to a local school.
The cops told her she could be charged with child endangerment!
After she complained to the cops, the local police chief called her to apologize and to reassure her that she lived in a safe neighborhood.
Protecting our kids is what we should do and all should help protect them, but stories like this remind me of how we are making our children into walking mental illnesses when they weren't before at a horrifying pace.
When did the obsessive mental illness on the part of 'adults' en masse to inflict such onto our children arise?
From the Free Range Kids blog, the story of Lori from a small town in Mississippi, who sent her 10-year-old on foot to soccer practice, only to have him picked up by the cops, who reported "hundreds" of 911 calls by neighborhood snoops who were horrified at the thought of a 10-year-old walking a third of a mile to a local school.
The cops told her she could be charged with child endangerment!
After she complained to the cops, the local police chief called her to apologize and to reassure her that she lived in a safe neighborhood.
My 10-year-old son wanted the chance to walk from our house to soccer practice behind an elementary school about 1/3 mile from our house.
He had walked in our neighborhood a number of times with the family and we have driven the route to practice who knows how many times. It was broad daylight - 5:00 pm.
I had to be at the field myself 15 minutes after practice started, so I gave him my cell phone and told him I would be there to check that he made it and sent him off. He got 3 blocks and a police car intercepted him.
The police came to my house — after I had left — and spoke with my younger children (who were home with Grandma).
They then found me at the soccer field and proceeded to tell me how I could be charged with child endangerment.
They said they had gotten “hundreds” of calls to 911 about him walking.
Now, I know bad things can happen and I wasn’t flippant about letting him go and not checking up, but come on.
I live in a small town in Mississippi.
To be perfectly honest, I’m much more concerned about letting him attend a birthday party sleepover next Friday, but I’m guessing the police wouldn’t be at my house if I chose to let him go (which I probably won’t).
Protecting our kids is what we should do and all should help protect them, but stories like this remind me of how we are making our children into walking mental illnesses when they weren't before at a horrifying pace.
When did the obsessive mental illness on the part of 'adults' en masse to inflict such onto our children arise?
Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online
An archive of US Army medical photos and illustrations is being made available free under a Creative Commons Attribution license on Flickr by the National Museum of Health and Medicine:
This previously unreported archive at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., contains 500,000 scans of unique images so far, with another 225,000 set to be digitized this year.
Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist, is working to make tens of thousands of those images, which have been buried in the museum's archive, available on Flickr. Working after hours, his team has posted a curated selection of almost 800 photos on the service already, without the express permission of the Army.
"You pay taxes. These are your pictures," Rhode said. "You should be able to see them."
Our Readers
Some of our readers today have been in:
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gieben, Hessen, Germany
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, England, United kingdom
Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
as well as Greece, Egypt, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, Colombia, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gieben, Hessen, Germany
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, England, United kingdom
Paris, Ile-De-France, France
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
as well as Greece, Egypt, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey, Colombia, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka
Daily Horoscope
Today's horoscope says:
You are going to be impressing others left and right today, your genuine charm is going to shine through.
Cool!
You are going to be impressing others left and right today, your genuine charm is going to shine through.
Cool!
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