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TheMercenary 01-01-2010 09:40 AM

Weirdly interesting. There has been a long history of discussion of flipping of the magnetic poles and what the subsequent effect would be on the earth in general terms. This brings the subject back up for discussion...

North Magnetic Pole Moving Due to Core Flux

Richard A. Lovett in San Francisco
for National Geographic News

December 24, 2009
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Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...arth-core.html

Pie 01-01-2010 06:07 PM

Good. Palin can keep an eye on it. :rolleyes:

Crimson Ghost 01-02-2010 03:10 PM

Right from her front porch...

TheMercenary 01-03-2010 08:37 AM

Well you can actually see Russia from the US, just not her porch.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=6...89206&t=h&z=11

Undertoad 01-03-2010 12:59 PM

She never said that, it was Tina Fey.

classicman 01-03-2010 01:02 PM

The actual quote:




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
and the Tina fey quote - about 1:05 in...

skysidhe 01-07-2010 07:41 PM

Cell Phones Help Fight Alzheimer's
 
Jan. 6, 2010 -- Cell phone exposure may be helpful in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, a new study shows.
The study, involving mice, provides evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer's disease.
The study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.



The researchers conclude that the findings could mean electromagnetic field exposure might be an effective, noninvasive, and drug-free way to prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease in humans.

http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news...ght-alzheimers

xoxoxoBruce 01-09-2010 03:50 AM

That's because if you smash up your car, or walk out in front of one, you probably won't live long enough to get Alzheimer's.

skysidhe 01-10-2010 12:56 PM

Well it is weird that they were saying cell phone use could cause brain cancer and here they found out that the plaque from Alzheimer is destroyed by the radiation instead.

The article inspired funny scenarios about the cell phone but they were humorous funny and not morbid funny.



"It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer's symptoms," study researcher Gary Arendash, PhD, of the University of South Florida, says in a news release. "It was even more astonishing that the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones actually reversed memory impairment in old Alzheimer's mice."

Scriveyn 01-11-2010 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skysidhe (Post 625430)
Well it is weird that they were saying cell phone use could cause brain cancer and here they found out that the plaque from Alzheimer is destroyed by the radiation instead. ...

On the other hand it seems that Alzheimer's protects you from cancer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8425824.stm

Take your choice.

squirell nutkin 01-11-2010 12:16 PM

Doc: I've got bad news and really bad news: The bad news is that you've got cancer. The really bad news is you've also got Alzheimers.

Patient: Well, thank god I don't have cancer!

skysidhe 01-11-2010 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scriveyn (Post 625554)
On the other hand it seems that Alzheimer's protects you from cancer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8425824.stm

Take your choice.



Now that is weird news!

lol @ SN

Shawnee123 01-11-2010 06:52 PM

HAHAHAHA...

Sarah Palin gets deal as Fox commentator.

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Originally Posted by Palin
It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news

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Palin majored in journalism with an emphasis on broadcasting at the University of Idaho and worked part-time as a weekend sportscaster in 1988 for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, using her then-maiden name Heath. The station's sports director, John Carpenter, said the young broadcaster left after a few months because of the low pay.

Carpenter said he was sorry to see her go. She was a hard worker who enjoyed the entire process, not just being in front of the cameras, he said.

"She knew sports, she could talk sports, she looked OK on TV," Carpenter said. "She had the aptitude, no question."

classicman 01-11-2010 08:36 PM

seems very fitting. Sad, but fitting.

xoxoxoBruce 01-11-2010 09:29 PM

She'll be great at it, just because she believes what she says.

skysidhe 01-11-2010 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 625750)
seems very fitting. Sad, but fitting.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Shawnee123 01-12-2010 07:24 AM

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classicman 01-12-2010 12:39 PM

HAGGIS!!!!!!

Spexxvet 01-12-2010 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by classicman (Post 625750)
seems very fitting. Sad, but fitting.

Sadly fitting, yet fittingly sad. :sniff:

Shawnee123 01-12-2010 02:43 PM

If, by fittingly sad, you mean gross and ridiculous and freaking HYSTERICAL, then yes, yes it is fittingly sad.

Redux 01-12-2010 04:44 PM

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...the president and CEO of the Wine and Liquor Wholesalers of America, who announced Tuesday that Palin will keynote the group's annual convention and and expo in Las Vegas in early April...

....The convention includes a "Wine and Spirits Tasting Competition," which, according to the press release, "secured a spot on the agenda after drawing overwhelming response and favorable feedback during its debut" last year.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...litical+Ticker)
One can only hope the wine and spirits tasting competition immediately precedes Palin's insightful keynote address.

Shawnee123 01-15-2010 08:58 AM

Nelnet Subpoenas Ed. Dept. for Records that Could Show the Bush Administration’s Complicity in 9.5 Scandal

http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/..._bush_administ

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Higher Ed Watch has learned that the student loan company Nelnet recently had a subpoena issued to the U.S. Department of Education for documents it believes will definitively show that the agency's former leaders signed off on the company's plan to aggressively grow its 9.5 percent student loan holdings. Nelnet took this action shortly after a federal court judge ruled in favor of allowing a False Claims lawsuit filed by Jon Oberg, the former Education Department researcher who uncovered the 9.5 student loan scandal, to proceed against the company and five other lenders.


Quote:

Nelnet officials certainly believe that they were given the green light. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the company’s lawyers made clear that they intend to make the Department’s role in the case a central part of their defense.


“In the case of Nelnet, the evidence would include witnesses to meetings between the company and the Department regarding this issue. It would include witnesses to phone calls between the company and the Department. It would include witnesses to the settlement agreement entered into between the company and the Department. All of these witnesses would testify to matters that reflect the intent of Nelnet...”


At Higher Ed Watch, we are pleased by these developments, as we believe that this type of information should have seen the light of day years ago. After all, doesn’t the public have a right to know whether government officials were complicit in a scheme to fleece taxpayers? And doesn’t it have the right to see how the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program has been a magnet for fraud and abuse?


As we’ve said before, Jon Oberg should be congratulated for his tenacity in trying to get to the bottom of the scandal. It looks like his efforts are starting to yield results.


[Editor's Note: A spokesman for Nelnet declined to comment on the subpoena, except to say,"We believe the allegations of the lawsuit are entirely meritless and intend to vigorously defend the claims."]

classicman 01-17-2010 01:33 PM

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A judge Friday sent a Virginia man to prison for 15 years for sending a text message to a former Frederick woman he was previously convicted of assaulting.

In October 2005, Colin Akin Johnson stabbed Lakisha Frye seven times and almost cut off an ear, according to testimony in Frederick County Circuit Court.

In August 2006, Judge John H. Tisdale ordered Johnson to serve five years of a 20-year sentence in the Maryland Division of Correction for the first-degree assault conviction.

Released Jan. 29, 2009, after spending more than three years and three months behind bars, Johnson told Tisdale on Friday that his mistake "was allowing Lakisha back in my life ... I came out (of prison) and I was ready to go. I was trying to be the best dad I could be."

Johnson and Frye have a daughter together, and he also treated Frye's older daughter as his own, according to court testimony.

Tisdale recalled the heinousness of the 2005 crime during a 30-minute hearing Friday in which Johnson admitted sending the text message, which meant he had violated probation.

The judge refereed arguments between Assistant State's Attorney Teresa R. Bean and defense attorney Alan L. Winik. The two lawyers Friday were pushing for starkly different punishments for Johnson's offense.

Bean urged Tisdale to impose the previously suspended 15 years. Winik said a sanction was appropriate, but suggested the seven months Johnson has served since being arrested in June 2009 should be considered.

"Things should be kept in perspective," Winik said.

The text message Johnson, 32, sent Frye the day he was served with a protective order was not inflammatory, Winik said.

"Sorry about all this. Call me when you get a chance," he read from a document that stated the content of Johnson's text message.
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TheMercenary 01-17-2010 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 625835)
...

I love it. I guess if I was that close to a bear I would shoot the somofabitch too.:D

SamIam 01-17-2010 01:50 PM

Frankly, I don't think "Sorry about all this. Call me when you get a chance" would make much headway over stabbing someone 7 times. If he just wanted to make contact with his daughter, he should have gone through legal channels. Even at that, if I were that girl's mother, I wouldn't want him to come within a mile of my child. Who knows whether he's gotten himself a nice new knife. That was a horrific crime and Johnson was terminally stupid in his attempt to contact his victim. Yeah, the dude should go back to jail.

And yes, I have a personal issue with this. I was involved with a highly abusive man, and I finally called the police on him and he was given 90 days in the county jail and I was granted a restraining order against him. The fool tried to call me from jail to get me to drop the charges. Not bloodly likely after the things he had done. I hung up on him and reported him to the sheriff immediently. The judge gave him another 10 days for that little caper. :mad:

TheMercenary 01-17-2010 01:56 PM

Yea, we had to get a restraining order on one of my daughters boyfriends when she was 16. You should not mess around with psychos like that. Let the court deal with them. Sorry to hear you had to go through that Sam.

classicman 01-17-2010 04:04 PM

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Johnson said after his release from prison he and Frye re-established a relationship. He said he later told her he wanted only a friendship with her, that he wanted to focus on the children.

"She erupted. She cursed me," Johnson said.

That's when she leveled the allegations against him that led to the Virginia protective order.

He recalled the number of supporters who testified on Johnson's behalf at his 2006 sentencing. He recalled a hearing the next March when Frye asked him to release her attacker from prison early.

"These cases don't have much logic to them," Tisdale said.

"Lakisha Frye has obviously not protected herself very well," he said, referring to her decision to live about five minutes away from the residence Johnson shared with his mother.
I typically agree, but this part seemed to make me wonder about what happened.
WTH was she thinking?

toranokaze 01-17-2010 04:22 PM

This is wrong for a number of reasons, first this guy gets out after only three years, then gets another 15 for a text message. WTF there is a harsher punishments for texting that stabbing.

classicman 01-18-2010 12:30 PM

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Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.
The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

U.S. military rules specifically prohibit the proselytizing of any religion in Iraq or Afghanistan and were drawn up in order to prevent criticism that the U.S. was embarked on a religious "Crusade" in its war against al Qaeda and Iraqi insurgents.
One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."

Other references include citations from the books of Revelation, Matthew and John dealing with Jesus as "the light of the world." John 8:12, referred to on the gun sights as JN8:12, reads, "Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Blotter/..._100118_mn.jpg
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TheMercenary 01-19-2010 01:34 PM

I read that article yesterday. Pretty strange, but if you don't know it is there in the first place, I am not sure it makes a difference. But I bet it makes a difference to those Muslim troops who are using them in combat.

Elspode 01-19-2010 05:30 PM

A whole new spin on "praise God and pass the ammunition". Makes me want to get a gubmint sight contract and inscribe a pentagram somewhere. I mean, fair's fair, right?

squirell nutkin 01-19-2010 10:54 PM

How about a reference to...what was that thing in the bible about thou shalt not... what was it? Damn, it's on the tip of my tongue...

ZenGum 01-20-2010 06:29 AM

The Sepoy Revolt, which started the Indian Rebellion, was precipitated by issue that the cartridges for the rifles were greased in animal fat made from pigs and cows. The soldiers had to bite the cartridges to release the powder, and this would defile the Muslims and case the Hindus to break caste rules. Troubles followed because of - presumably accidental - stupidity.

Today, the rifles issued to Iraqi and Afghan soldiers have Bible citations slipped in. What could possibly go wrong?

skysidhe 01-20-2010 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode (Post 628287)
A whole new spin on "praise God and pass the ammunition". Makes me want to get a gubmint sight contract and inscribe a pentagram somewhere. I mean, fair's fair, right?

More fair if you were to fashion them as ninja weapon stars and hurl them at people.

TheMercenary 01-20-2010 09:31 AM

UK Olympian Suffers Major Wardrobe Malfunction on Bobsled Track

http://www.breitbart.tv/uk-olympian-...bobsled-track/

jinx 01-20-2010 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 628393)
How about a reference to...what was that thing in the bible about thou shalt not... what was it? Damn, it's on the tip of my tongue...

Bust a cap?

Scriveyn 01-20-2010 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 628393)
How about a reference to...what was that thing in the bible about thou shalt not... what was it? Damn, it's on the tip of my tongue...

"Kill not, abet not those who kill. - Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill."

(Ambrose Bierce)

squirell nutkin 01-20-2010 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jinx (Post 628473)
Bust a cap?

I know the thing you speak of exact!

IT was from this same book:

Big Daddy's Rap


Yo, Big Daddy upstairs,

You be chillin

So be yo hood

You be sayin' it, I be doin' it

In this here hood and yo's

Gimme some eats

And cut me some slack, Blood

So's I be doin' it to dem dat diss me

Don' be pushin' me into no jive

And keep dem crips away

'Cause you always be da man,

Straight up

Happy Monkey 01-20-2010 02:24 PM

A new basketball league is forming!

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Only players that are natural born United States citizens...
OK. Rah rah USA I suppose...
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... with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.
...whoops!

capnhowdy 01-20-2010 07:27 PM

voted.....you da man!

Happy Monkey 01-20-2010 08:00 PM

Thanks!

classicman 01-22-2010 12:45 PM

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Intelligent Design: As with all copulating species, female Muscovy ducks battle male Muscovy ducks over which controls fertilization. Patricia Brennan of Yale, writing in a recent Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, found that the female Muscovy avoids forced sex by having evolved a clockwise-spiraled corkscrew vagina that foils male intruders (but relaxing it for preferred mates, so that they don't get stuck in vaginal "cul-de-sacs"). Brennan's team worked with high-speed video and mock-up glass tubing of the respective organs. [LiveScience.com, 12-23-09]

Spexxvet 01-22-2010 12:54 PM

It has been reported that male Muscovy ducks have developed a counter clockwise-spiraled corkscrew vagina. All female Muscovy ducks have been warned! :D

Clodfobble 01-23-2010 10:05 AM

Back in 1988, a girl with no vagina got pregnant after first having oral sex, then getting stabbed in the stomach in a knife fight. Honest-to-god case study from the NIH. There are too many good parts to quote, you just have to read the whole thing.

xoxoxoBruce 01-23-2010 01:37 PM

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Mafeteng Districts Hospital, Lesotho
I wonder if she had been circumcised mutilated?

TheMercenary 02-03-2010 05:58 AM

Anyone need a new knife?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ms-organs.html

ZenGum 02-03-2010 06:55 AM

That's just the morgul knife used by the witch-king of Angmar. Elrond can deal with that.

Scriveyn 02-15-2010 06:29 AM

Quote:

From freethinker.co.uk

London transport chiefs apologise to passengers after driver stops to pray

A MUSLIM bus driver stunned passengers when he stopped his vehicle and began praying in the aisle this week –with the engine still running.

The driver, according to this report, parked without warning – then used a fluorescent jacket as an improvised prayer mat. He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.

The prayer session held up the bus for more than five minutes with no-one able to get on or off. ...[continued]

DanaC 02-15-2010 06:38 AM

*shakes head* dickhead. Unsurprisingly the original story is from the Daily Mail lol.

I was pleasantly surprised when reading the comments after the story (on the original Mail site) how little anti-Islamic vitriol there was. Usually their regular contributors are more fired up than that :P

classicman 02-15-2010 01:22 PM

Quote:

Perhaps an effective countermeasure would be to set up an emergency atheist hotline. Then, if a driver starts praying, a freethinking passenger could call the hotline and have a loud, one-sided chat about evolution.
Any takers?

ZenGum 02-16-2010 04:15 AM

On the bright side, at least you know he is sober.

Gravdigr 02-16-2010 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 444852)
Or perhaps a little education to prove the benefits of not having too many children and that having live spermatazoa in your ballbags has very little to do with being a man.

Wait, what?!:eek:

Pete Zicato 02-16-2010 08:59 AM

Maybe especially being Catholic, this AP headline seems more than a bit ironic:

Pope tells Irish bishops to be honest over scandal

You think the Pope should remind them not to steal as well?

Gravdigr 02-16-2010 12:14 PM

He should remind them to keep their hands off the alter boys.

Spexxvet 02-16-2010 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 635065)
He should remind them to keep their hands off the alter boys.

Not just their hands.:headshake

lumberjim 02-16-2010 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato (Post 634978)
Maybe especially being Catholic, this AP headline seems more than a bit ironic:

Pope tells Irish bishops to be honest over scandal

You think the Pope should remind them not to steal as well?

I've noticed a couple salesmen that use the verbal device, "to be honest with you" as a prelude to a true statement.

They should know that when you do that, it makes one wonder if everything else they've said was untrue.

Shawnee123 02-20-2010 10:30 AM

Hey, crazy lady who killed some cow orkers, I didn't mean you were really WACKO, just that you're kinda like, well, uh, wacko.

SamIam 02-20-2010 10:40 AM

She started young, too. She killed her brother with a shotgun when she was only 19. That incident was swept under the carpet. I guess she figured she'd get away with it again.

Shawnee123 02-20-2010 10:44 AM

Yeah, isn't that weird. AND she smacked some woman in the head over a booster seat, and was suspected in an attempted mail bombing...

Any one of those things by themselves gives me reason to think wacko. I hope I didn't hurt her feelings. :unsure:

TheMercenary 02-24-2010 05:09 PM

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Behold, the Blobfish...

http://www.latimes.com/ct-met-kass-0...7154335.column


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