Friday, March 01, 2013

President Obama sez he can't do "Jedi mind-meld"

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I wonder if he can do a Sith neck-pinch. During his press conference earlier today about the "sequester" mess , President Barack...

FRESH PRINCE flipped turned upside down, gets public schools to lockdown!

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A 19-year old's voice-mail rendition of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song caused the entire public school system where he lived ...

United Nations has gone to the dogs...

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Dachshund UN , a "a miniature version of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights where the world's leaders are replaced by...

Dear Amazon: I don't care about gay marriage, just gimme my damn books

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I believe that homosexuality and bisexuality is just as wrong as heterosexual extramarital intercourse, rape and polygamy and for the same r...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Something that has not been witnessed since 1415

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Pope Benedict XVI , the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to depart the seat of Bishop of Rome voluntarily instead of dying in office, ...
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Man arrested for releasing red helium balloons for girlfriend

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Found a rather strange story about Anthony Brasfield , who was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol on a felony charge . His crime: rele...
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Eustace Conway: Independent mountaineer versus the government

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If there had been Watauga County bureaucrats running the country following the Revolutionary War, the United States would have never expan...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Behold the very strange and bizarre "Dimensions in Time" DOCTOR WHO special from 1993!

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During the first afternoon of Mysticon in Roanoke this past weekend, following the opening panel with Peter Davison there was a special trea...

This is Obama's Mariel Boatlift

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In 1981, Cuban president Fidel Castro released over a hundred thousand Cubans - many from jails and mental health facilities - who made thei...
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Middle-school students threatened by faculty over "offensive" t-shirts

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Genoa-Kingston Middle School student Michael McIntyre is a young supporter of the men and women serving in the armed forces.  So much so ...

DIABLO III on consoles WON'T require online?! What the...

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This past summer I wrote about being a newcomer to the Diablo computer games and how much now I wanted to play Diablo III .  The thing is,...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Getting SHERLOCK-ed

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I will admit: last month when my girlfriend started swooning and gushing over the BBC series Sherlock , telling me that "you have to w...

I just downloaded a functional .22 pistol

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In two months' time DEFCAD has garnered more than three thousand visits an hour and nearly a quarter-million downloads.  What makes u...
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When worlds collide? Comet C/2013 A1 may hit Mars next year

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2013 is promising (or threatening, depending on the stock one puts in omens) to be an incredible year for comets in our sky.  Depending on w...

The strange Cold War bar codes across America

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The "bar code" at Walker Field, Maryland Adjacent to the runway of a Navy airfield in Maryland is a paved rectangle.  And with...

THE WALKING DEAD: "I Ain't a Judas" brings an appreciable respite

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Did anyone else come away from this week's episode of AMC's The Walking Dead thinking that regardless of how little time we saw o...