Bill Clinton is accustomed to being treated kindly by the media. Especially “Clinton friendly” media such as CNN, the network that has patronized him for the last 15 years.
Link here to a Field & Stream magazine article that shows how to pack a survival kit into an Altoids tin. 
I never dreamed an Altoids mint tin could have such an interesting and useful second life.
Awesome picture of lightning strikes and a rainbow. Photo taken near Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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The University of Utah's Traffic Lab found that drivers who use cell phones behind the wheel impede the flow of traffic and extend commute times.
Prior studies have equated the risk of driving while talking on a cell phone with driving while drunk. Some 50 countries have banned use of hand-held phones while driving.
The study showed tha when drivers were distracted by a phone conversation, they made fewer lane changes, drove slower and took longer to get where they are going. It made no difference if they used a hands-free phone.
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The battery charges in just a few hours sunlight and can power the car for three hours.
OLD VERSION:
The ant worked hard in the steamy summer heat building his house and storing food and supplies for winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and plays around all summer.
The next winter the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter and he dies out in the cold.
MODERN VERSION:
The ant worked hard in the steamy summer heat building his house and storing food and supplies for winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and plays around all summer.
The next winter the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are starving out in the cold.
Reporters from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC show up and take pictures of the starving, shivering grasshopper and show a video of the ant in his comfortable home with food on the table.
America is stunned by the contrast.
How can it be that in a country of such wealth this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer like this?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everyone cries when they sing: It’s Not Easy Being Green.
Jesse Jackson organizes a demonstration in front of the ant’s house. The news networks film the group singing: We Shall Overcome.
John Kerry and Ted Kennedy appear in a joint interview on Larry King Live. They discuss why the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper.
Congress calls for an immediate tax hike on all ants.
The EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act which is made retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs.
The ant has no money left to pay his retroactive taxes. The government confiscates his home.
Hillary arranges for her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant.
The case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends with the grasshopper eating the last of the food in his house (which just happens to be the ant’s old house) as the house crumbles around him because he hasn’t maintained the building.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident.
The house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
A 47-year-old Oregon man took his lawn chair up to 13,000 feet and almost landed in Idaho.
Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists.
In October, the Washington Post Staff Writer Juliet Eilperin conceded the obvious, writing that climate skeptics "appear to be expanding rather than shrinking." Many scientists from around the world have dubbed 2007 as the year man-made global warming fears “bites the dust.”
This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007.
This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.
It must be noted, however, that as long as the liberal media continues to worship at the feet of Al Gore, this may not become common knowledge until the earth begins to swing back into a cooling cycle as it did in the 1970’s as reported in Newsweek here.
Link here and here.
The ark is being built of American cedar and Norwegian pine rather than gopher wood.
LinkMr Huibers plans to charge people to tour the boat and said a drink (soft drink we presume) and religious pamphlet will be included in the admission pricthe project to break-even financially.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be just under 1m euros (£0.7m; US$1.2m) and was funded with bank loans.
It’s a mystery where it spent most of tha last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. “It’s surprising that it never got thrown away. How someone found it, I don’t know.”
The hallmark of this camera was its easy loading system. Film was incased in a cartridge that could be popped in and out of the camera without fear of exposing the film to light.
CompUSA, owned by the Mexican based firm Grupo Carso SA, has 103 stores in 68 markets.
In recent years, CompUSA has struggled against other big-box retailers such as Best Buy and Internet-based companies such as CDW.
CompUSA was founded in 1984 and rose to national prominence under the guidance of Nathan Morton.
As chairman and CEO, Morton led CompUSA from two stores and $60 million in sales as SoftWarehouse to its standing as a multibillion-dollar national retailer in less than five years.
Houston has already begun testing. The photo shows a Houston Police Department drone flying over the city.
There is a mobile phone college class available in Japan.Japanese already use cell phones to shop, read novels, exchange e-mail, search for restaurants and take video clips. Now, they can take a university course.
Cyber University, the nation's only university to offer all classes only on the Internet, began offering a class on mobile phones Wednesday on the mysteries of the pyramids.
Now we are in a warming cycle just as our planet has done many times before. It’s just that this time Al Gore has found a way to make money with ‘carbon credits’ and become famous at the same time by scaring the bejabbers out of us.With the clamor over global warming, it has become a magnet for an army of environmentalists and climatologists who have given Churchill an air of impending doom.
The Arctic ice-cap is shrinking fast, is their message, and as it disappears, so too will the polar bears.
Today, the polar bear population may hover healthily around 25,000 (they live in Russia, Alaska, Greenland, Norway and Canada).
Yet, we are repeatedly warned, if the planet continues to overheat at the present rate, within four decades our biggest carnivore will be extinct, starved to death as its natural hunting grounds disappear.
"Come up and see them while you still can," is the gist of their depressing refrain.
The photo below is that now-famous photograph of polar bears appearing to be stranded on an Arctic ice-flow, melting faster than ice-cream on a muggy day.
For a while, this picture became a powerful symbol of the perils of global warming - until it was revealed to have been taken three years ago and during the height of summer!
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Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp?
Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.One memory test included three 5-year-old chimps who'd been taught the order of Arabic numerals 1 through 9, and a dozen human volunteers.
They saw nine numbers displayed on a computer screen. When they touched the first number, the other eight turned into white squares. The test was to touch all these squares in the order of the numbers that used to be there.
Results showed that the chimps, while no more accurate than the people, could do this faster.
Subcriptions have surpassed the 3.3 billion mark, a staggering achievement for any electronics product.
Growth is so fast, cell phones are already ingrained with otherwise impoverished countries such as China and India, with some tentative steps being made into Africa
National economies have in some cases benefited greatly: much of Finland's financial health is dependent on Nokia, and among South Korea's corporate giants are Samsung and LG.
After spending six months and $282,000 on a new slogan, Scottish tourism officials have come up with ... "Welcome to Scotland".
Stunning indeed!
Seems to us they could have saved a lot of time and money by consulting with a Wal-Mart greeter.
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Democrat Hillary Clinton would lose to all major Republican White House candidates, according to a hypothetical election matchup poll Monday, reversing her months of dominance over potential 2008 challengers.
The Zogby International poll was the latest sign that withering attacks on the former first lady were chipping away at her opinion poll leads just 38 days before the Iowa caucuses, the first party nominating contests.
In the new survey, Clinton trailed Senator John McCain 42 percent to 38 percent, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani by 43 percent to 40 percent and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by 43 percent to 40 percent.
Everyone knew it would happen. It seemed almost anticlimactic.Bill Callahan (upper picture) was fired as Nebraska's coach Saturday, his four-year stay marked by the most embarrassing losses at a football program once among the mightiest in the nation.
Interim athletic director and Nebraska great Tom Osborne (lower picture) announced the dismissal one day after the Cornhuskers ended the season at 5-7 following a 65-51 loss at Colorado. They squandered an 11-point halftime lead by allowing 34 consecutive points.It will cost the university more than $3.1 million to buy out Callahan's contract, which was to run through the 2011 season.
The contract was signed in September before a series of the most lopsided losses in decades and the firing of athletic director Steve Pederson, who hired Callahan.
The meeting between Callahan and Osborne only lasted for five minutes.
That’s all it took - five minutes for Osborne to send Callahan and his assistants packing after dragging the once proud and mighty Husker football program down to a 45-year low.
Osborne’s next task will be to find a new head football coach.
LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini and Buffalo coach Turner Gill are the names mentioned most often to fill one of college football's glamour jobs.
Pelini was defensive coordiantor and Gill was quarterbacks coach at Nebraska. They both left when Callahan arrived.
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This hourglass shaped clock displays minutes on the top and hours at the bottom, with an attractive second rotating timer displayed on the upper surface. This attractive and unusual looking clock would look great in the kitchen.
Yes, it would work in the kitchen nicely. Guests would think it was an egg timer.
Should make a good conversation piece. You could have guests try to guess what it is, and then have them guess how read the time displayed by the clock.
Link here.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against the maker of CROCS footwear (product sample shown in photo). Specifically, defendants issued materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose:
(i) that CROCS was experiencing significant distribution problems in Europe as it had moved distribution facilities and was experiencing distribution problems in Japan with a third-party distributor, causing the Company to lose tens of millions of dollars in sales.
(ii) that the Company's sales were being negatively impacted by seasonal conditions as consumers reduced purchases of the Company's products in cold weather climates.
(iii) that the Company's inventory levels were building far beyond historic levels as sales began to slow and the Company's sales began to be impacted by seasonality.
(iv) based on the foregoing, Defendants lacked a reasonable basis for their positive statements about the Company, its earnings and prospects.
Further, back in June Crocs (NASADQ: CROX) insiders were dumping their stocks which fell from $74.75 per share to $47.74 per share during the third quarter of 2007.
Executives and board members of the company are accused of selling a total of $58 million in stock in the third quarter.
Link here and here.
Police are looking for a man they say robbed a Genesee County convenience store near Flint, Michigan wearing a wrestling mask like one seen in the Jack Black comedy "Nacho Libre."Police say a clerk thinks the same man was in the store about 10 minutes before the robbery, wearing different clothes.
In the movie, Black's character wears a red and aqua wrestling suit. He plays a cook in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as a masked wrestler.
In two years, tourists will likely be traveling to Alcatraz on green energy.
Australia's Solar Sailor has come up with a way to make large solar panels that can also act like sails.Put one or more of the sails on a boat and the boat gets converted into a hybrid. The boat still has a diesel engine, but it mostly gets around on wind or sun power.
A tour boat in Sydney Harbor has an array of eight small solar sails.
The San Francisco boat (pictured) will likely be able to go several knots on wind power alone.
The sail on the San Francisco boat will approximately be 15 meters high. The boat will only have one sail. The Sydney boat has eight shorter sales that can be sailed in unison or individually. Computer studies, however, convinced Dane that the best design involves only one or two sails.
It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender.
One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away.
It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades.
Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.
All are churned up together by powerful currents, which cause the water to form bubbles.
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