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Freddy Jackson
This intriguing photo, taken in 1919, was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard’s squadron, which had served in World War I aboard the HMS Daedalus. (Click the photo at [...]
I don’t care which party it is, this stuff needs to stop.
Twelve people have been charged with tricking voters in Orange County into registering as Republicans, prosecutors said Monday.
The defendants, ranging in age from 19 to 52, were accused of fraudulently registering 37 [...]
This guy…
Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage. Though it’s not official, the 26-year-old Eugene man believes he has broken the record for the heaviest such ball, eclipsing John Bain’s mark of 3,120 [...]
First they win the World Series, now this….
A surge in violence made St. Louis the most dangerous city in the country, leading a trend of violent crimes rising much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to an annual list.
Way to go St. Louis! I think another parade is in order. [...]
A case study…..
DENVER - Early Sunday morning a police officer woke up to find a man inside his southeast Denver home.
Investigators tell 9NEWS the intruder entered the home at around 4:15 a.m. The officer confronted the intruder and used a ‘less-than-lethal’ shotgun which fires a type of beanbag.
The officer then subdued the suspect who [...]
Another post from the pressbox, the “big game” edition.
2:06p…..I can always tell when it’s a big game because the food is always better. Barbeque and mashed potatos. Yummy!
2:09p…..Waiting for the National Anthem…and a squirrel’s on the field. I was hoping he’d score a touchdown, but the Bronco cheerleaders were at the goal [...]
The perfect domain name for this time of year.
The Internet domain name Hell.com is scheduled to be sold at a live auction Friday, with organizers expecting bids of more than $1 million
What content would you put there? Me? I’d put nothing because I got better uses for $1 million than blowing it on a domain [...]
What is Vincente Fox talking about?
Mexico’s president sharply criticized President Bush’s signing Thursday of a bill to build 700 miles of additional fencing on its southern border, calling the move an “embarrassment.”
The only embarrassment, President Fox, is that your country is so corrupt that your people can’t make a living in your country, so they [...]
Terrible…
It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they’re not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou. Obviously, you might say. But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural.
I lean towards the “ghosts exist” side, but I don’t have a [...]
Interesting…
A Danish court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Muslim organizations against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that touched off protests in the Islamic world.
Nice to see that someone is standing up to the “faux offended”.
