In what some are calling an act of war, a report from Diggers Realm claims that the notorious Mexican drug syndicate, Los Zetas, has captured at least two American ranches near Laredo, Texas, and have entered into a standoff with local law enforcement and the Border Patrol. I can personally vouch that this info came [...]
Jul 242010
The globalists’ insane Communist test lab of North Korea has threatened nuclear war this weekend if provoked by a joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise. The BBC reports: “The army and people of the DPRK will start a retaliatory sacred war of their own style based on nuclear deterrent any time necessary in order to counter [...]
Over the last week, a multipronged attack on free speech has come to light. Leading the assault is Las Vegas-based copyright troll “Righthaven” led by Steve Gibson. On the fast track to becoming the most loathed person on the Internet, Gibson buys up copyrights to newspaper articles published in cyberspace and runs a Web crawler [...]
The astronomy photo of the day comes courtesy of NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric (SOHO) orbiting solar observatory. An enormous, fiery, winged shape can be seen as if emerging from the sun’s broiling surface to the upper right of the occlusion disk. For extra win, a trail of pixie dust follows it.
Jul 212010
It’s difficult to express the sheer absurdity of this story, but it perhaps helps explain why our country is falling so swiftly. Are we truly this pathetically stupid and our schools and police this tyrannical and amoral? A 15-year old boy ate chicken nuggets given to him by a friend. As a result, the police [...]
Should we view the following astonishing statistics as separation of “church and state” in the United States, or rather “government without representation”? The current makeup of the United States Supreme Court includes 6 Catholics and 2 Jews. If Kagan’s nomination goes through, there will be 6 Catholics and 3 Jews on the Supreme Court. The [...]
For many people, Apple Computer’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, exists on a higher plane than the one mere mortals occupy. It’s a peculiarity of our modern world that a gadget designer can find himself at the center of a personality cult. Certainly, Steve Jobs’ uncompromising direction has played a huge role in Apple’s success. However, out [...]
Jun 292010
According to Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, the United States and Israel will trigger a nuclear war before Friday that will cause the word’s richest countries to “suddenly disappear.” Writing in his regular op-ed column “Reflections,” the former Cuban President states that missiles will fly as soon American and Israeli naval forces attempt to inspect Iranian [...]
A sure sign that a company is on its way out is when it starts needlessly defeaturing its products to create artificial market segments rather than innovating new features to add value. Windows 7 Starter is a good example of this sad phenomena. Microsoft originally planned to impose a three application limit to Windows 7 [...]
Jun 242010
Mint Linux has one of the best main menus of any Linux distribution. Microsoft Vista and Windows 7 both have Start menus that appear to have been influenced by MintMenu, the package name for the Mint main menu. MintMenu itself is a fork of Slab, the SUSE main menu for Gnome. Mint is based upon [...]
A most beloved aunt passed away today. The daughter of Italian immigrants, she worked as a bookkeeper for 3 generations of owners at the local car dealership. She has two daughters, 3 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Anderson. This pray summarizes her beauty. Dear Lord, Let [...]
At least 16 people perished during extraordinary flash floods at the Albert Pike Recreational Area campgrounds about 25 miles from our home. Television station KTHV reported that the Little Missouri River rapidly rose from 3 feet to 23 feet from about 1AM to 5AM this morning. We frequently visit Albert Pike because it is beautiful, [...]
Dear Kathy, Thanks for putting up with my shenanigans for fifteen years and keeping your faith in me. And thank you for being such a wonderful mother to our five beautiful children. Happy 15th Anniversary, Sweetheart! I hope I’ve brought you at least a small fraction of the happiness that you have given me. I [...]
I was interviewed recently by EEMBC, the embedded computing industry’s foremost benchmarking consortium. You can read that interview here.
Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the royal family to flee the country. Read about it here.
Russian experts do not believe that North Korea was involved with the sinking of the South Korean warship, Cheonan, which sunk on March 26. The defense experts arrived in South Korea last week to analyze the wreckage.
Jun 072010
Remarkable. Read about her here.
Jun 072010
A 26-foot statue of Anubis, the half human, half jackal Egyptian god, is on display at the Denver airport. He is the god of death and embalming. The statue is to be on display through the summer. The Denver airport is known for it’s peculiar and disturbing art. This new installation will rival the blue [...]
Jun 032010
There are 350 millions shares of BP, of which around 40% are owned by financial institutions. Goldman Sachs sold 4.7 of it’s approximate 10.7 million shares on March 31st.
Political turmoil sees the resignation of prime ministers in Nepal, Germany and Japan. Nepalese prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was to step down on May 29, one day after parliament’s term expired. He will not step down immediately. German President Horst Koehler abruptly resigned May 30 allegedly under pressure from opposition parties to explain his [...]
May 312010
The number of bank failures rises to 78 so far this year as 3 banks in Florida, 1 in Nevada, and 1 in California shut down on Friday, May 28. The number of banks expected to fail this year is more than 140, the number of failed banks in 2009.
Israel kills 'at least ten' humanitarian activists and injures scores in attack on Gaza aid flotilla
May 312010
The Israel Navy opened fire on an unarmed, six-ship aid flotilla headed for Gaza. The flotilla is carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and supplies to the Gaza strip. Israel and Egypt have been enforcing a blockade of the seaside area for nearly three years, provoking widespread criticism for the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Various reports put the [...]
May 272010
There are a series of photos circulating email groups these days. They source from this excellent website on the illegal alien problem in Arizona. Ironically, this website looks to have not been updated for the past two years. Hmm, think the problem just “went away”. Heading north to Washington state we find: Illegal alien rapist [...]
France and Belgium governments already have bans in motion to restrict Muslim women’s attire. Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany have discussions in their own countries to follow suit. The burqa and the niqab are muslim coverings for women. from sdnn.com Women wearing niqabs. The moves in France and Belgium are estimated to affect 1900 women [...]
May 252010
The sun produced a magnetic filament that burst Monday, shooting a “billion-ton” coronal mass ejection (CME) racing towards our planet, according to a post on spaceweather.com. NOAA projects a 35% chance of geomagnetic activity on May 27th when the CME is expected to hammer Earth’s magnetic field. In the animated image below, the Solar and [...]
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