DIS'N'DAT

A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden. He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was. He had a lump in his throat as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature. Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground. He went over to her to see what work of God had captured her attention. He noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.
'Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?' she asked.
'They're mating,' her father replied.
'What do you call the spider on top?' she asked.
'That's a Daddy Longlegs,' her father answered.
'So, the other one is a Mommy Longlegs?' the little girl asked.
As his heart soared with the joy of such a cute and innocent question he replied, 'No dear. Both of them are Daddy Longlegs.' The little girl, looking a little puzzled, thought for a moment, then took her foot and stomped them flat, saying, 'Well, we're not having any of that brokeback mountain shit in our garden.'

Brings a tear to your eye...doesn't it?

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There is an old saying:
If you let the camel stick its nose in the tent, the rest of it will soon follow.
France is going to learn this the hard way.

Another LLDE candidate has emerged.

Talk about being as quiet as a church mouse.



"Let's all be careful out there!"

NEWS ODDITIES

A lighthouse is a pretty big object to lose. Car keys, glasses, remote controls, cell phones I can understand. But a lighthouse?

You are a thief. A young, agile thief. So trying to commit a robbery against a 71 year old geezer and his wheelchair bound buddy should be easy pickin's. Right? WRONG!

I thought prison was for punishment and rehabilitation. Somehow the way things work in Brazil must be a wee bit different.

Back in April I reported about astronomers finding the smallest extra-solar planet at 5X the mass of the Earth. Now they have found one that is only 3X the Earth's mass. MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is about 3,000 light-years from us and it's mother star is very dim. It orbits at a distance where liquid water would be viable on the surface.

NASA's Inspector General has released a report stating that political appointees in the agency's press office had manipulated and/or withheld data about global warming. Most notably between 2004 and 2006. Apparently the pressure was from the West Wing.

This is an interesting secret study about the movement of people. And you know that NSA/DHS is probably already tracking all of us anyway. Remember that when secrets are revealed, it only shows just the tip of the iceberg.

On this day, in 1939, the first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels.


"Let's all be careful out there!"

DAILY CHUCKLE

"Let's all be careful out there!"

WE NOW HAVE 2 ...

PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT

After 5 arduous months of "in your face" campaigns, Obama has claimed victory. He will be facing off against McCain in November after each party sanctions their candidate in this summers political conventions.

I don't know about you but this years runup was exhausting. What it has done, for the Democrats, is show that the true personality of each candidate became clear while under pressure. And Hillary failed the pressure test. She still hasn't conceded the contest as of this posting, but Obama has the delegate count to win on the first ballot. To me, Hillary became the archetypical nagging wife who just has to get the last word in during an argument. Regardless of the veracity of her stance. She failed to show the leadership qualities that a candidate possess. Obama showed diplomacy, and then eloquent hard-ass attitude as the situation required in response to various situational events during the slugfest.

I would like to offer an opinion that if Obama should choose Clinton as his VP running mate, that he gag her and keep her in an undisclosed, secret and secured location. For his own protection. If you haven't had you fill, though. Here are about 12,000 more news articles on the campaign.


The Japanese science laboratory module, Kibo, was successfully attached to the ISS yesterday. This is a major achievement.


The House Committee looking into whether Cheney was behind the "outing" of CIA operative, Valerie Plame, is inching ever closer to finding culpability. This is a major criminal offense and ol' "dead-eye" Dick could go to prison for his actions. I don't think they are in a rush, since Dubya would still have time to grant him a Presidential Pardon before noon on January 20th, 2009.

Visa-free travel between favored nations, such as UK & Japan, to the USA are getting a bit more complicated.

The toxicology reports are in regarding that fatal mauling by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo last Christmas Day. The victim was drunk and stoned. I think the city should counter-sue his parents for failure to maintain control of a minor, resulting in his death. Sorry, Mom & Dad, but by law you are responsible for your kids actions 24/7 until they turn 18. His death is your fault. Plain and simple.

Starbucks is offering free "Wi-Fi", for only $5. Their definition of FREE is sure different than mine.

You might want to shop around for chicken. Tyson has destroyed 15k birds for having a mild form of "bird flu".

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Thank you for visiting. Hope to see you again real soon.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

LITERALLY


Our good friend, DB of Dogbait's Babble, has posted pictures he's taken on various hiking trips to the Himalayas. Some were eerie. This one is down right frightening.

Well, "Slick Willie" may be up to his old tricks again. At least this time his taste in women seems to have improved. Hillary's standing in the community would jump 1,000% if she filed for divorce.

For decades, astromers thought our galaxy, the Milky Way, was composed of 4 arms. New results from infrared imaging has established that it only has 2 arms. A lot of text books are going to have to be rewritten.





Later this week, NASA will launch GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Array Space Telescope) and it is going to look at our universe in the highest radiation spectrum yet. And while it is expected to record events heretofore only speculated, what it finds that we haven't even guessed at will be more amazing.










The Federal Government has taken another step to shove the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Storage Facility down the throat of Nevada. The half-life of the waste will be over 10,000 years. Longer than man has been civilized.



It has always been believed that the original Polynesian settlers of New Zealand, now called Maori, arrived around 300 CE. New archaeological evidence now indicates their arrival wasn't until circa 1300 CE. Which just may rewrite all of the history of Polynesian migrations.









"Let's all be careful out there!"

EYES ON OUR WORLD

"Let's all be careful out there!"

DAILY CHUCKLE

"Let's all be careful out there!"

I WONDER IF THEY'LL...

HAVE A "FIRE SALE"?

The Universal Studios theme park has reopened after this weekends fire. I wonder if they'll develop a new ride out of these events?

Do you know who the big winner was over this primary campaign season? Television!
To the tune of $200 million in ad revenue.

The US Supreme Court gave US Attorneys General a lesson on money laundering yesterday. In two very close decisions, criteria was established to clarify vague wording in written statutes.

Winnebago, the motor home manufacturer, is laying off personnel and slowing production. Economy and the price of fuel is the reason.

Did you know that smoking marijuana may be harmful to your brain? Gee, I didn't know that.

Did you have a bunk bed as a kid? I did. Being the oldest, I had the top bunk, of course. I was lucky, I was never injured. And yes I would jump off it. Don't all kids? Turns out that a recent 6-year study shows that bunk beds may be hazardous to your health. Especially if you are in the 18-21 year old bracket. A lot of college dorms use bunk beds and they don't mix well with heavy alcohol consumption.

Katrina struck and when FEMA finally got around to it, many of the disenfranchised were housed in travel trailers. After health issues were raised FEMA discovered the trailers were insulated with a material that produces formaldehyde gases. FEMA stated that they would remove these trailers from their inventory. Now with the start of the new hurricane season, FEMA has backed off from that decision and plans to use the same trailers again, as need arises.

Do you feel that Bill's participation in Hillary's campaign was detrimental to her? A writer for Vanity Fair magazine has put forth this assertion and "Slick Willie" is pissed.

R.I.P Bo Diddley

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Have a great day, everybody. Thank you for taking the time to stop in for a visit. I appreciate it.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN & BOYS

IS THE COST OF THEIR TOYS

The "gee-whiz" gadget chain, Sharper Image, has been sold at auction for $49 million, after approval of a bankruptcy court. The new owners plan to close the 86 remaining retail outlets, 98 others closed earlier. The name branding will remain in business in direct commerce, e-commerce, catalog sales, etc.

Sharper Image was one of those places where a grownup could wander through with the same wide-eyed wonder as a kid in a Disney store. I never bought anything there because the prices were beyond my budget. No matter how far I stretched it. But I enjoyed touching all the "James Bond" stuff and treating myself to a sample of items of creature comfort that you couldn't find anywhere else. Yet another sign of the economy going south.

One of the founding fathers of 'Rock'n'Roll', Bo Diddley, has died at 79 years.

It seems like the blink of an eye since she was in Paper Moon with her daddy and later in Bad News Bears. Now Tatum O'Neal is 44 years old and getting busted for buying crack off a homeless street vendor.

My Stat-Counter tracker acted weird all weekend. Now it seems to be okay. Here is the reason it went off-line:

Due to an explosion in The Planet Datacenter at the weekend, service on this partition was interrupted. Depsite our best efforts 24 to 30 hours of stats
spread across Sunday GMT and some of Monday morning have been lost. We sincerely apologise for this. More information is available in the Service Status section of the forum.

I guess an explosion is an acceptable excuse.

Less than 2 months ago, a deputy leader of al Qaeda called for Muslims to do damage to Danish interests in retaliation of Danish newspapers dissing the Prophet Muhammad with the publication of those cartoons a few years ago. The car bomb at Denmark's Embassy in Pakistan was obviously a first response.


Looks like the Feds are going to be owning a chain of strip clubs in the Seattle area. They used to own and operate the infamous Mustang Ranch 20+ years ago.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NEWS

Would everyone please pause for a moment and wish Superman a Happy 70th Birthday. Thats right, in 1938 the very first issue of Action Comics appeared and starred the world's favorite super-hero in his very first appearance.

This many years into the internet and you would think that people would learn how to protect their site from hackers. Especially high profile sites.

If these scam artists promote their activities as strictly being for entertainment purposes only, I have no problem. If they take people's money with the purported purpose of actually finds ghosts, they need to be ridden out of town on a rail. Covered in tar'n'feathers like their snake oil salesmen ancestors.

The TEN worst jobs in science

If Cheech & Chong ever make one final film, this could be the pot plot line.

Everybody knows that thongs do not cover very much. Either in their intended function or when used as a disguise in a robbery. Possible LLDE candidates.

"Let's all be careful out there!"

DAILY CHUCKLE

"Let's all be careful out there!"