Being A Natural Born Pack Rat… I Thought I’d Give This A Look See.

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This’ll Ruin Your Fishing Trip.

B1 Bomber

Art?!?

head sculpture

From http://deputy-dog.com/2007/10/05/9-artists-who-will-blow-your-mind/ 

Today’s Insults

I hear that when your mother first saw you, she decided to leave you on the front steps of a police station while she turned herself in. – unknown

I believe in respect for the dead; in fact, I could only respect you if you WERE dead. – anonymous

I hear that when your mother first saw you, she decided to leave you on the front steps of a police station while she turned herself in. – unknown

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Because of This… Food Is More Expensive… And Now They Don’t Want To Use The Stuff. The Oilmen That Run Our Government Are Very, Very Smart.

Now There’s An Ethanol Glut?! I Thought We Couldn’t Make Enough?!

Wasn’t the main argument against ethanol “we can’t make enough to replace gas”? So if that is true, how can we have a glut of the stuff?

In 2006 when ethanol was selling on the spot market for $4 a gallon, it was too expensive. Now that it is $1.50 a gallon (almost a full dollar cheaper than gas), it isn’t “economically viable for producers”. Are we just going to change the argument to fit the situation at any given moment? (READ MORE)

Oh Mama!… $400K Sweetheart Contract? What About The $50 Billion to Halliburton In Iraq?

The FBI is examining the ties between Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson’s department as a construction manager in New Orleans, three federal law enforcement officials said Thursday.

Jackson’s friend got the job after the HUD secretary asked a staff member to pass along his name to the Housing Authority of New Orleans, a spokesman for Jackson said in a statement.

At the time, the housing authority was in desperate need of a construction manager because there was a severe shortage of reputable local contractors after Hurricane Katrina, the spokesman for Jackson said. (READ MORE)

“Astronomers Find Gigantic Hole in the Universe”

Scientists have been on a mission to understand the physical properties of dark matter and “dark energy”. Today’s discovery offers more insight for astrophysicists who are studying the Universe’s greatest energy form.

dark hole

University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.” While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.

“Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size,” said Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota astronomy professor. Rudnick, along with grad student Shea Brown and associate professor Liliya Williams, also of the University of Minnesota, reported their findings in a paper accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal.

“What we’ve found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe,” Williams said.

“We already knew there was something different about this spot in the sky,” Rudnick said. The region had been dubbed the “WMAP Cold Spot,” because it stood out in a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe (WMAP) satellite, launched by NASA in 2001. The CMB, faint radio waves that are the remnant radiation from the Big Bang, is the earliest “baby picture” available of the Universe. Irregularities in the CMB show structures that existed only a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang.

“Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the slightly lower temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6-10 billion light-years from Earth,” Rudnick said.

Excerpted from University of Minnesota news release