Another of the worlds mysteries ruined by pavement…. cd Mysterious Wis. Wonder Spot soon to go LAKE DELTON, Wis. – In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying. After more than half a century of wowing tourists (and…
Category: Politics
Pressure mounts on African Union to reject Sudanese chairmanship
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is one of the primary (if not THE primary) architects of the bloodbath in Darfur. Now he wants to lead the African Union, the body responsible for the undermanned peacekeeping force in Darfur. It is outrageous and it might actually happen. While the world begins to pay attention and hold ‘Concerts…
Imagine….
Imagine this…and it’s not too hard to do…. Terrorists or pissed off patriots or a couple of guys that just got their arms or legs blown off in Iraq kill the President and the Vice President….. Do you know who the President would be? It would be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi….pretty cool.
1st Saudi Woman Pilot!
Capt. Hanadi Zakariya Hindi can fly legally with her new commercial pilot’s license. She works for Prince al-Walid bin Talal, a Saudi billionaire who also paid for her training course in Jordan. HOWEVER – in accordance with Saudi Arabia law – she will need to be driven to the airport by a man. Dubai, Jan….
Libya to build statue of Saddam
Doh! It’s starting already… Libya has said it will build a statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, executed in Baghdad on Saturday. It would show him standing on the gallows with a Libyan resistance leader who fought Italian occupation, executed in 1931, Libya’s Jana news agency said. Libya declared three days of mourning after…
TSA: Permitted and Prohibited Items
Mink Hippie and I are getting ready to do some travelling. I was checking out the TSA regs before we go and was surprised to see that among the items prohibited are Snowglobes. Also prohibited is pudding in excess of 3 ozs. Sorry Bill Cosby. So in any event, I’ll probably get a chance to…
Merry Christmas…Nepal's Buddha Boy Returns
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A mysterious teenaged boy believed by some to be a reincarnation of Lord Buddha has reappeared in eastern Nepal after vanishing for nine months, a witness and a television channel said on Monday. Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by villagers in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village…
Pyongyang Chronicles
More from the country that knows how to PARTY. They have no use for Dick Clark though.Check it out their top 20 for the love of the beloved leader! B.E. Pyongyang20Chronicles
Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual
And once again the world has changed…it’s funny, in the classes I take now, i hear the theories I was taught in high school back in the 80’s debunked…everything I thought I learned was flawed in one way or another…now much of what I have been learning recently is going to be trashed and rethought….the…
Science a la Joe Camel – washingtonpost.com
I actually thought that the influence of corporations in the classroom was decreasing. Silly me. At hundreds of screenings this year of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie. The producers of…