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The Mindset List

This is the yearly list of things as they were when the current class of college freshmen were born… Links to additional years are HERE…Thanks Alf! Beloit College’s Mindset List® for the Class of 2011 Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, […]

Thursday August 23rd, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

This is For Crystal… See Him??

Bird of Peace

Tuesday August 14th, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »

8/14 is the one year anniversary of my brother’s death from a sudden heart attack at 41 years of age… I hope this will help someone.

Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death. By Jerry Adler Newsweek July 23, 2007 issue – Bill Bondar knows exactly where he died: on the sidewalk outside his house in a retirement community in southern New […]

Monday August 13th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

Double-nosed dog not to be sniffed at…

  Xingu is said to be intelligent and fond of salty biscuits Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell has had close encounters with vampire bats and angry bees, but his latest brush has been with a rather odd dog. He spotted a rare breed of Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, which has two noses, on a recent trip […]

Sunday August 12th, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »

All I Can Say Is… This Boy Wasn’t Raised Right.

Man arrested after attack on 4 grandmothers at beauty salon     WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (AP) — A 41-year-old man stormed a beauty salon and bludgeoned four grandmothers with a hammer, fracturing one’s skull, before making off with less than $90, police said. Thomas Leyshon III, of Mountain Top, was arrested after a daylong manhunt Friday. […]

Sunday August 12th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

I anticipate Georgie will try for a draft before he leaves. I hope his daughters are eligible.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday.     Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute is the president’s war adviser. Several retired generals turned down the post. “I […]

Saturday August 11th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

Another Reason to Demonize Smoking Weed… The Munchies can land you in Jail

Burglars Tracked By Trail Of Candy Wrappers (AP) PASADENA, Md. Doctors often warn of the health risks of eating junk food, but it seems the treats can be a problem for burglars, too. Four teenagers broke into a gas station early Wednesday and left a trail of candy bar wrappers along the road as they […]

Saturday August 11th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly | No Comments »

Did anybody ask the goat how it felt?

Accused Says He Was Just Milking Goat (AP) TACOMA, Wash. A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville’s Pioneer Farm Museum […]

Saturday August 11th, 2007 in Information, Just Plain Silly, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sorry About No Posts Yesterday… We Lost Another Dog to Snakebite.

Our woodpile was subjected to a search and destroy mission. The troops in Fallujah would have been proud of us. Due to privacy issues… The body count will be published at a later date.

Wednesday August 8th, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Something About This Just Bugs Me… I Like Salt & Vinegar Chips

Potato Chip Flavoring Boosts Longevity Of Concrete Science Daily  The ingredient that helps give “salt & vinegar” potato chips that tangy snap is the key to a new waterproof coating for protecting concrete from water damage, according to a study scheduled for the August 1 issue of ACS’ Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Awni Al-Otoom […]

Wednesday August 8th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

Baby DVDs, Videos May Hinder, Not Help, Infants’ Language Development

Science Daily  Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby.” Rather than helping babies, the over-use of such productions actually may slow down infants eight […]

Wednesday August 8th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

How We as Humans Went From Poverty To Affluence… And It’s Consequences.

For thousands of years, most people on earth lived in abject poverty, first as hunters and gatherers, then as peasants or laborers. But with the Industrial Revolution, some societies traded this ancient poverty for amazing affluence. Historians and economists have long struggled to understand how this transition occurred and why it took place only in […]

Wednesday August 8th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

I wasn’t going to put anything negative up today…But…

White House High-Security Locks Broken: Bumped and Picked at DefCon A group of researchers has cracked the security features in what are supposed to be the world’s most secure locks — locks that are used at the White House, the Pentagon, embassies and other critical locations.They presented their complete findings for the first time at […]

Sunday August 5th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

PostSecret

PostSecret

Sunday August 5th, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »

I usually don’t agree with Charles… But he’s got it right here!

  Krauthammer Columns RSS Feed Politics Headlines Opinion Index Lit Up For Liftoff? By Charles Krauthammer Friday, August 3, 2007; Page A15 Someone’s gotta do it. No one’s gonna do it. So I’ll do it. Your honor, I rise in defense of drunken astronauts. You’ve all heard the reports, delivered in scandalized tones on the […]

Saturday August 4th, 2007 in Essays, Information, Rants | No Comments »

Hmmmm….

Here are the first three verses of Genesis: 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there […]

Wednesday August 1st, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

No posts for Tuesday… Will Post on Wednesday…Hopefully.

Serious Flooding … Monsoon! The Desert doesn’t take too well to heavy rainfall… This was about 1.5 inches over a couple of hours.

Tuesday July 31st, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dust Storms Over Phoenix… Looks Worse Than It Is.

Unless you happen to be rolling along I -10 at 75 mph.

Saturday July 28th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

Just a little fact…

Honolulu is the world’s most remote major city. It’s 2,300 miles from any settlement of more than 50,000 people.

Saturday July 28th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

Learn all you can about Tesla… Edison had nothing on him. Free Electricity!

Tesla’s Tower of Power Written by Alan Bellows on July 10th, 2007 at 2:27 pm Wardenclyffe Tower In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure. Over a period of several years the men had managed to assemble the framework and wiring […]

Friday July 27th, 2007 in Information | No Comments »

This may be good… I Google every day.

When you make a search on Google, your ip address, the time, and what you searched for is stored in their database forever and this information can be used in a court of law against you. Google will willingly allow authorities to consult their database, they already did as you can see in the video […]

Friday July 27th, 2007 in Information | Comments Off

Overly muscled people and animals

Monstrous Myostatin Misfortunes – A Collection of Myostatin Deficiency Pictures

Thursday July 26th, 2007 in Information, Uncategorized | No Comments »