I’ve been doing a little bit of work on the blog today. I added a plugin called wordpress cache that is supposed to make the site load faster. I don’t know if it is temporary or not, but a side effect seems to be that sometimes the page comes up unavailable. If you refresh the…
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Movie Recommendation
I caught this last night at the dollar theatre. It was like Red Dawn and Rambo meet Fahrenheit 911 and MacGyver. I loved it. It was my kind of fun action flick.Check it out if you get the chance. Here’s a blurb from a review by the Village Voice. cd Wittily adapted by screenwriter Jonathan…
Obama Girl
from Barelypolitical.com
Worst Business Name Ever
Multi-penised, six-legged, two-anused piglet given silly name
A piglet in Croatia born with six legs and two penises has been nicknamed Octopig by his owner. The farmer, Ivica Seic from the village of Vrpolje, said Octopig also has two anuses. He said that the pig was growing so fast that they had decided to keep him as a pet, daily newspaper Vecernji…
Portrait of the Terrorist as an Idiot
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the part of the terrorists, our government and the press. Terrorism is a real…
Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
(Thanks Paul!) http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura…
Pi = 3.0 if you believe in the bible
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Worlds Largest Animal Migration
Scientists believe they have discovered the biggest migration of wild animals on Earth, with an aerial survey revealing vast herds of gazelle and antelope on the move in southern Sudan in a region which had been assumed to have been denuded of its wildlife by years of civil war. The Wildlife Conservation Society, together with…
Record foreclosure levels
In another sign that the housing market is taking a major tumble, Americans across the country are getting foreclosure notices at a record pace. New data released this afternoon indicates that one in every 656 homes in the United States went into foreclosure during May. Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac says more than 176,000 people got foreclosure…