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Monthly Archives: July 2009
BGR Blog Carnival will grow on you!
Berry Go Round, the blog carnival about plants, is up an running here at quiche moraine
World’s second fastest computer
(The fastest computer is the same thing but running a better operating system.)
Hat tip: Joe, copied from here.
Overheard at airport:
“Here,” dad to girl, “Get your ID out and have it with your ticket.”
“Excuse me, sir,” said the TSA officer, pointing to the young female, “She does not need to have her ID out, she’s a minor.”
Dad: “How do you know she’s a minor if you don’t look at her ID?”
…. (silence as everyone waits for answer)….
Dad again: “Kind of a hole in the system, isn’t it?”
TSA Officer, voice lowered … “There are a LOT of holes in the system, sir.” … walks away.
Young girl, “Good one, dad. Now tell her our name is LADEN and see what happens!”
Answers in Genesis has a Department of Public Safety????
Yes! And one of the top staff of that department just sent PZ Myers and the Secular Student Alliance a letter warning them to behave on their upcoming trip to the Creation Museum.
I hope every single one of those overtly homosexual visiting heathens is armed. With a Flip. I have one I can loan you if you are a local, just let me know.
Armbands will not be tolerated!!!!
Who gets the first flu shots?
It is decided. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has met, ruminated, voted, and now decrees that pregnant women, health care workers, and children over six months old will be vaccinated first. The reason we even need to worry about this is that there will not be nearly enough flu vaccine to go around in the event of a real surge in the novel swine flu.
Florida Cop Nabbed for Dishonesty
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The Transformation of Sarah Palin
Hey man. I confess that did not groove to it, that I did not feel the beat and sense the vibes. But now I do. Hidden. Hidden deep in her sorry salty subtle soul all this time and I did not sense the vibes.
Because I could not do the transformation like William.
Before (watch between 1 minute and 1 minute and 45 seconds):
After:
Update on GatesGate: Cop lied, screwed 911 caller.
At this point, I don’t think I’d have a beer with this cop. Also, I have to agree that Obama stuck his foot in it on this one. He may have been right, wrong, whatever, but when this sort of thing happens it is best to stand back and not get directly involved in this sort of thing until the dust settles.
I already told you about this, but I thought you’d like to see the updated MSNBC piece on it, which starts out like this:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The woman whose 911 call led to the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. spoke publicly for the first time about the case Wednesday, contradicting the arresting police officer on a key point and saying she was unfairly labeled a racist.
A police report said the caller described the possible burglars as “two black males with backpacks” — leading some commentators to vilify the caller as racist since it turned out Gates was entering his own home.
And the video. Have a hankie ready:
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The Water Cone (makes water)
And you can totally step on it and it’s OK. Read all about it here.
A Skeptics View of Mooney and Kirshebaum
Or, more accurately, of their book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future … will be found here, in Stephanie Zvan’s latest post at Quiche Moraine.
Blog Carnival Four Stone Hearth #72
.. the Anthropology Blog Carnival, is at A Hot Cup of Joe
Slaughter a Cow Every 28 Days: How the Bible Ruined Western Society
In which I explain how Abrahamic religious tradition, ingrained in Western society since before its very history began, explains some of the special ways in which we can be so dumb.
Continue reading Slaughter a Cow Every 28 Days: How the Bible Ruined Western Society
MS + Yahoo = We are Doomed
My own personal experience with Yahoo is a tale of woe.
Cambridge Cop has some ‘splainin’ to do…
According to the following, the person who made the 911 call did not mention race until asked, and even then did not mention “two black males with backpacks.” The two black guys with backpacks seem to have been added in to the police report authored by Police Seargant James Crowley. Specifically, he states that the 911 caller observed these two men. That is not even slightly surprising to me. There is nothing close to a guarantee that police reports will be accurate, and race is often used as a factor when discussing crime. It is most sensible, it would seem, to investigate black men doing things. After all, they … do things. (Profiling anyone?)
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