Category Archives: News

Nailed That One

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Gaius

The guy arrested outside a Dearborn mosque with fireworks fired his court-appointed lawyer in court: The California man accused of plotting to blow up a Detroit-area mosque rejected his court-appointed counsel Friday, upset that the attorney is a Shiite Muslim … Continue reading →

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Threat To Mosque – Maybe Not What It Seems

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gaius

This just popped at Memeorandum – I had seen it a short time before over at Fox News. Basically, a 63-year old California man was apprehended outside a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan mosque with “explosives” – actually identified as “Class … Continue reading →

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You’re Gonna Need A Piano Tuna

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Gaius

The saga of the Miami Piano (Sand)Bar continues. We have a copycat and a piano hijack of sorts: A day after a baby grand piano was removed from a sandbar in Miami, authorities discovered that another prankster set up a … Continue reading →

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Piano Mystery Solved

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Gaius

It wasn’t a music video, it was “art”: Jorge Pino of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told CNN that for his agency “it would be highly unlikely that we would cite this young man for anything.” The agency … Continue reading →

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Dugway Update

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Gaius

The lockdown at Dugway Proving Grounds was initiated when a small quantity of VX nerve agent was discovered to be missing. The VX has been recovered. A news release from the base on Thursday said, “during a routine inventory of … Continue reading →

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This Isn’t Good

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Gaius

Dugway Proving Grounds is locked down due to a “serious concern”. Dugway is the facility where biological and chemical weapon defense systems are tested. Tweet

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Time To Listen To Your Doctor, America

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Gaius

Sometimes, you have to – if you want to have any quality of life: To counter this election-year ruse, my colleagues and I at Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Our patients have always … Continue reading →

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All The Booze That’s Fit to Fry

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Gaius

Deep fried beer. No, really. Patent pending. Tweet

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Tragedy In Connecticut

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Gaius

There has been a horrific explosion at a new power plant under construction in Connecticut: MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Early reports were that a natural gas leak could have caused a devastating explosion Sunday morning that killed two and injured as … Continue reading →

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Safe

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Gaius

The missing six-year old boy who was reported to have taken off in a home-built helium balloon in Colorado has been found. He’s safe and sound at the house the balloon was launched from – he never went up in … Continue reading →

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Dig Deep

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Gaius

AllahPundit: It’s legit. Her pops sent out a blast e-mail about it a little while ago and I’m told the link’s posted on his Facebook page, so fire away. Not that she’ll need the money: The lawsuit’s weak, the jury … Continue reading →

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Crying Wolf?

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Gaius

Has the manufactured hysteria over H1N1 influenza backfired? Quite possibly. Instead of the 8,000 immunizations the Salt Lake City health department expected to give out at a planned vaccination drive they actually administered a paltry 300. The Salt Lake Valley … Continue reading →

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Norman Borlaug: 1914-2009, RIP

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Gaius

He did more good for mankind than all of the politicians in the world. In the late 1960s, most experts were speaking of imminent global famines in which billions would perish. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” biologist Paul … Continue reading →

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Real People, Real Problem

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Gaius

This is a major problem for Obama. 10,000 people showed up at the Tea Party Express rally in New Lenox/Joliet. These are just average folks, not mobs hired and brought in by bus. Breaking news from New Lenox/Joliet… the sheriff’s … Continue reading →

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Crossing The Line

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Gaius

Interesting. It appears Nebraska is recognizing concealed carry permits from other states: That’s the word from the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, which was required by a new state law to determine which states have comparable concealed handgun permit laws to … Continue reading →

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