Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posts a message to the American people on his blog.
Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the daily lives of our peoples, coupled with the many wars and calamities caused by [...]
A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
Israel recognizes same-sex marriageswn performed abroad. But even heterosexual Israelis are still often forced to marry abroad by Orthodox rabbis. Israel has partialy recognized same sex civil unions since 1994.wp The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, and South Africa are the only other nations to legalize same sex marriage; however, most European nations [...]
Poop-Freeze™ is a specially formulated aerosol freeze spray that, upon contact, forms a frosty film on dog poop (or cat poop) to harden the surface for easy pick-up.
This is not your father’s fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing of the past. Goodbye thermonuclear fusion; hello inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IEC), an old idea that’s been made new. While the international community debates the [...]
Jamiel Terry, the gay son of charismatic anti-gay activist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, wrote an article for Out magazine about growing up in a fundamentalist household. Randall Terry responded to his son’s article. Interviews with Randall and Jamiel about the exchange.
via mefi
Concession Email From Rae Hart Anderson
Sen. Satveer Chaudhary, a practicing Hindu, was re-elected in District 50 last week. Rather than call, his Christian opponent Rae Hart Anderson offered him an email concession that he said read more like a sermon. The following is the text of that email message.
Congratulations on winning the District 50 senate [...]
this via the San Franicso Daily:
A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual yesterday to jinx President Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia.
Ki Gendeng Pumungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice [...]
Remember the big “Bird Flu” scare last year and the only drug to treat it was from a company that Rumsfeld had a stake in? Turns out there’s a little problem….
FDA: Tamiflu patients need monitoring
WASHINGTON - More than 100 recent cases of delirium, hallucinations and other unusual psychiatric behavior in Japanese patients treated with Tamiflu [...]
According to a new New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11
Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May [...]
An HBO documentary about electronic voting machines is on Google Video. Worth a watch.
Some interesting bits:
According to Cliff Arnebeck, an elections attorney present during the conference call, John Kerry told Jesse Jackson on election night 2004, after he had already conceded, that in New Mexico, votes that were counted with optical scan readers, regardless [...]
The Harris Poll found that 42 percent of American adults are not “absolutely certain” there is a God. Only 34 percent responded that way three years ago when asked the same question. Online surveys may reveal more accurate numbers than telephone surveys.
There is no consensus on God’s gender, form or degree of control over events [...]