Daily Archives: October 13, 2007

Quickly! To The Dirigible!

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

The BBC has a report up fro one of their reporters raving about a ride he took in a "zeppelin". (It is not clear whether the reporter was on a blimp or one of the new airships that do bear … Continue reading →

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The Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem titled Mandalay, the title of the post is from that poem. Unfortunately, the news out of Mandalay is even more bleak than Kipling's lament. A reporter for the Sunday Times of London managed to get … Continue reading →

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Cooked Conker Crackdown

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Devotees will be relieved to know that there is a crackdown on cooked conkers at this year's World Conker Championship, held annually in Northants by the Ashton Conker Club. For non-devotees, the conker is what is known in the US … Continue reading →

Posted in Weird Stuff, World news | 2 Comments

Smoke On The Gorilla

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

You will never, ever hear Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water in the same way. Never.   The Daily Mail has even more. Lord help us. Tweet

Posted in Animals, Music, Video | 4 Comments

Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings…..

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Kathrine Mangu-Ward, writing at Reason Magazine, notes a new campaign by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash and Harvey Wasserman to denounce "50 years of catastrophic failure" in the nuclear power industry. I must have missed the first radioactive dead … Continue reading →

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At Least Two Dead In Tunnel Crash

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Firefighters have recovered two bodies so far after a fiery crash in a California highway tunnel. This is one ugly accident. SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – A crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup … Continue reading →

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Hunters Feeding The Hungry

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

There has been a sharp increase in donations of deer, wild hog and squirrel meat to soup kitchens across the country. Campaigns like Hunters for the Hungry are increasingly being supported by state conservation departments and greater numbers of hunters are … Continue reading →

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NASCAR Fever! Catch It!

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Unless you are a staffer for the US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. Those folks were advised to get immunized against a number of diseases before traveling to NASCAR events in Talladega, Alabama, and Concord, North Carolina. The list of … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Politics | 2 Comments

“You Tell The Truth, And That’s It.”

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

The words of William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the surviving members of E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment, immortalized as "Easy Company" in Band of Brothers, both the Stephen Ambrose book and the miniseries of the same name. Guarnere, along … Continue reading →

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It’s Not All Praise For Gore In The Media

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Several op-eds out today that take shots at both Al Gore and at the Nobel Prize committee that selected the Goreacle for the Peace Prize. First a really snarky one from the New York Post by Andrea Peyser: October 13, … Continue reading →

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Counterproductive Effort

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

Even the Boston Globe thinks the "Armenian genocide" bill now before the House of Representatives is a really bad idea. They say so in an editorial today. THE HISTORICAL evidence shows that the 1915-1917 massacres of Armenians in eastern Turkey … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, World news | 2 Comments

Mayor Toilet Builds A House

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

When a guy who earned the nickname "Mayor Toilet" for his tireless work to improve public restrooms in his city decides to build a new house what else would it be but a giant toilet? Sim Jae-Duck was the Mayor … Continue reading →

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How Important Is New Media?

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Gaius

There has been a lot of discussion about the rising importance of new media in political campaigning. Many of the loudest proponents of it are, understandably, part of that new media. Some of the more grandiose claims come from a … Continue reading →

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