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Fabled monster caught on video – CNN.com EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland’s Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw.
And now Nessie’s back.
An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature [...]
So, I’m not of one mind on the current immigration reform bill in Congress. Some parts of it I like. Some parts of it I don’t. I particularly don’t like the slap on the wrist approach it takes to criminals. I also don’t like the idea that we are not rewarding those immigrants who have [...]
Are there two more counter-intuitive words in the English language? “Elective surgery?” What kind of idiot elects to have surgery?
Well, me apparently. So I had the typical male mid-life elective surgery done Tuesday and am now in the recovery process. Sigh… I hate everything about this. I hate going to any place where sick people [...]
I don’t know why I go to see movies like this. I really don’t. I really shouldn’t. Select horror movies, and in particular zombie movies, are an admitted guilty indulgence of mine. I’d say they were a guilty pleasure, but watching zombie movies is not really a pleasure-inducing experience [...]
I’m cruising along in my car, listening to the radio, when suddenly I hear a blaring siren, honking horns, screeching tires…
I know the end is near. Adrenalin surges, my heart rate elevates, I grip the wheel and brace for impact…
Until I realize all these sounds of impending doom are emanating solely from [...]
…or at least that how I felt at the conclusion of this marathon and, at times, difficult to endure film. And that seemed to be the general consensus of all those who attended the movie with me: wife, kids, father, sister, niece, boyfriends, fiances, etc. Ten of us left the theater with numb [...]
…by Vincent Bugliosi is now taking up ample shelf space in your local bookstore. This massive tome is Bugliosi’s attempt to debunk each and every conspiracy theory ever devised about the JFK assassination. In my case, he’s preaching to the choir. I have always believed, since I became cognizant of the controversy, [...]
So, this coming weekend my 18 year old son and I will be frolicking in the enchanting waters of Havasupai Falls…
From the rim of Havasupai Canyon the hike to the falls is approximately 10 miles through spectacular canyon vistas and the village of Supai. This is an incredibly popular destination for hikers and campers [...]
Comments today on Cindy Sheehan’s DailyKOS diary…
Daily Kos: “Good Riddance Attention Whore” I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed [...]
In most cases people who think swans think white. But every so often nature throws us a curve and produces something rare that takes us out of our routine thought.
 Similiarly, our life is a series of cycles constantly repeating the same motions and ideas. And in this context, life generally stays the same. But there [...]
Some of you may remember my post last year about David Sharp, who was left to die just a few yards off the main trail up to Mt. Everest, passed by at least 40 climbers, most of whom did nothing besides unclip their safety line to get it around his clip on the rope, [...]
The Washington Post is forced to report the following:
U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell 1.3% in 2006 – washingtonpost.com U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped slightly last year even as the economy grew, according to an initial estimate released yesterday by the Energy Information Administration.
The 1.3 percent drop in CO2 emissions marks the first time that U.S. pollution linked [...]
It’s really coming down out there.
Update: We got maybe 3 1/2 inches. Of course it melted and froze on all my car windows so I had to scrape them all off this morning.
So we saw Shrek the Third this weekend.
I was a huge fan of the original Shrek movie. It was bold, original, funny, edgy, and had brilliant comedic performances from Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz. I still get a huge chuckle out of the singing bird scene from that movie, where Fiona’s singing abrubtly [...]
Yes, I know the site has been, again, experiencing issues with the page being blank until you hit a refresh. I am stumped as to why this is happening. This happened once before and it cleared up just as mysteriously as it started. I’ve done some googling on the subject and other Wordpress blogs have [...]
That’s a heck of a title. How the heck to I tie those together?
One of my absolute favorite sites on the web is Eject! Eject! Eject!. In fact I think it is probably fair to say that his blog is more or less what I hoped this blog would be, but I haven’t pulled that [...]
Or, at least she has the opportunity to. I think she’ll go.
The “she” is the Cosmic Daughter. She has been offered a job in the Disney College Program, where college students are selected on a nationwide job search program to move to one of the theme parks and work there while attending college and living [...]
I’ve known this for years, having once lived very close to Arkansas and watching Bill Clinton’s tenure as Arkansas Governor.
As a Director, Clinton Moved Wal-Mart Board, but Only So Far – New York Times In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, had a problem. He was under growing pressure from shareholders — and his wife, [...]
CNN.com – World News
As I am typing this I have linked the CNN world news headlines page.
There are eleven stories on that page.
Nine of them deal with the actions of Islamic terrorist, or violence in Iraq tied to Islamic terrorists or “insurgents.”
The other two stories are minor stories, one about Liz Taylor owning a Nazi-stolen [...]
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