Semper Fi

By MATT MOORE
AP Business Writer

Oct 5, 2008, 6:50 PM EDT

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- "Germany became the latest country to move to allay fears about the financial meltdown, enhancing a rescue plan for Hypo Real Estate AG and guaranteeing private bank accounts as European governments scrambled on their own Sunday to save failing banks.( Read more... )

Written by Ian O'Neill

October 5th, 2008



"We keep sending missions to Mars with the key objective to search for past or present life. But what if a huge impact early in the Red Planet's history hindered any future possibility for life to thrive?( Read more... )

AP

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee plans to file a fundraising complaint against Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign Monday, alleging it has accepted donations that exceed federal limits as well as illegal contributions from foreigners.( Read more... )

(Slublog: Changing the World, One Rant at a Time)

I blogged this'n 'specially 'cause I like the name of the blog:

"The left and the press (but I repeat myself), seem okay with a pastor that calls for God to "damn America" (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4443788) but are collectively freaking out over the fact that a visiting pastor from Africa once prayed over Sarah Palin (http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/25/video-visiting-pastor-prays-over-palin-for-protection-from-witchcraft/) for protection from witchcraft. If I didn't know any better, I'd think there was some kind of double standard at play or something.( Read more... )

"Watch her graciously greet a visiting foreign ecclesiastical dignitary from Africa, and not go running off the state in an undiplomatic freak-out as he exhibits his strange foreign customs (http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/25/video-visiting-pastor-prays-over-palin-for-protection-from-witchcraft/).( Read more... )

Sept. 30, 2008
Courtesy University of Rochester Medical Center
and World Science staff

"Sci­en­tists are find­ing that par­t­i­cles that are barely there—ti­ny ob­jects known as na­no­par­t­i­cles that have found a home in elec­tron­ics, food con­tain­ers, sun­screens, and other ap­plica­t­ion­s—can breach our most per­son­al pro­tec­tive bar­ri­er: the skin.( Read more... )

McKinney: Bodies dumped in Louisiana bog, 'data was entered into a Pentagon computer'

Posted: October 02, 2008
6:31 pm Eastern

"The former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia who now is the Green Party's candidate for president has claimed the government killed 5,000 prison inmates during Hurricane Katrina, dumping their bodies in a Louisiana swamp, according to a Fox News report.( Read more... )

"Even as a secular citizen, I can understand Christians wanting to vote for Christians.( Read more... )

What follows here isn't real news, strictly speaking, but the reader may find it fun . . . depending upon how you look at things.

I just did a Tarot reading on the Democrats: What are they up to, how are they trying to accomplish their goals, and who is involved in that?

After I got an answer, I started to put the pack away, then decided it was relevant, and might have some additional interpretations. So I got the cards out again and laid them out. I'm sure I got all but one of them right, and in the right positions, but I'm not sure about the one for the Base of the Pillar (the present). For that one I chose the King of Coins, Reversed -- it felt right, somehow. No other card seemed to fit there.

Anyway, here's the layout, and my immediate interpretations:( Read more... )

"Just to end the week on a bang, here's a little trip in the wayback machine to the 1988 presidential campaign of Joe Biden( Read more... )

For once, I have to agree with wnd.com: These two cases blow chunks. Bureaucracies will be the death of all of us, I swear:( Read more... )

Democrat suing his own party says it's 'like they're in cahoots'

Posted: October 04, 2008
12:00 am Eastern

By Drew Zahn

"The man suing Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama's American citizenship is outraged that his own party – rather than just providing the birth certificate he seeks – would step in to silence him by filing a motion to dismiss his lawsuit.( Read more... )

Written by Ian O'Neill

October 3rd, 2008

"Apparently, on December 21st 2012, our planet will experience a powerful event.( Read more... )

I was reading the article linked below when Track 7 of Chiller, a CD containing numerous Halloween-appropriate sounds, classical music, TV themes, etc., began to play. It was Edvard Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt . . . You know, "Da-da-da-da-da-da-da / Da-da-da / Da-da-da . . ." Brrrrr!( Read more... )

Yeah, actually I am nostalgic for the time of the Cold War, when we knew exactly who our enemies were, and what direction missiles would be coming from. Today missiles, truck bombs, and you name it could be coming from anywhere, and an ally one day is an enemy, or at least indifferent to us, the next.( Read more... )