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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 June 30 Disappearing Clouds in Carina Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), N. Walborn (STScI) & R. Barbß (La Plata Obs.), NASA Explanation: This dense cloud of gas and dust is being deleted. Likely, within a few million years, the intense light from bright stars will have boiled it away completely. Stars not yet formed in the molecular cloud's interior will then stop growing. The cloud has broken off of part of the greater...

Here they go again, The Yanks in their armoured parade Chanting their ballads of joy As they gallop across the big world Praising America's God. The gutters are clogged with the dead The ones who couldn't join in The others refusing to sing The ones who are losing their voice The ones who've forgotten the tune. The riders have whips which cut. Your head rolls onto the sand Your head is a pool in the dirt Your head is a stain in the dust Your eyes have gone out and your nose Sniffs only the pong of the dead And...

Listening to Eric Roberts, the latest Hollyweird stooge to jump on the "Hate Bush" bandwagon, was hilarious! This guy is a total waste of breathing air! He is without a doubt a person with no great intelligence, but then you don't have to be smart to be a Hollyweird celebrity, you just to have a look looking corpse. He parroted every bogus conspiracy crap that has ever been put to the web, including "It's only for the oil!", the "Carlisle Group conspiracy!", and the "Saddam is not as evil as Bush!" loony-left ignorance. Mr. Roberts was unable to give a...

In 2001 the National Science Foundation surveyed 1,500 people nationwide and found that 77% believed that "increased carbon dioxide and other gases released into the atmosphere will, if unchecked, lead to global warming ..." Yet half of those polled believed that humans and dinosaurs co-existed on Earth, despite the scientific fact that the dinosaurs went extinct tens of millions of years before the earliest hominids appeared. Worse, only 22% of the respondents understood what a molecule - for example, carbon dioxide - is. As in the case of the belief by many that dinosaurs and early humans co-existed, public opinion...

The startling omission of Belgium from the list of countries against which the United States would be prepared to use nuclear weapons has worried and depressed many of the world's foremost military analysts, such as myself. It is almost unbelievable that the Belgians, with their sickly, mayonnaise-drenched cuisine and disturbing interest in paedophilia, are not considered an axis of evil all by themselves. Plus, all Belgians slouch, especially the Walloons. Believe me, I was there recently and I know what I'm talking about. The notion that they should be spared even the most minuscule of thermonuclear holocausts while the...

Saw the 9/11 show on CBS and I must say I was riveted. The camera views where amazing if a little raw, but what can you expect, given the circumstances. At least they showed no burning bodies, people plummeting to their deaths or body parts laying around. The camera gave us a first-person view of the tragedy from way inside the fire department and what they went through. What started out as a documentary about a rookie fireman turned into view of the worst hell on earth and the story of the two filmmaker brothers reuniting, each thinking the other...

Tyson and Lewis were just going at it at a news conference! What's the deal? Maybe Tyson don't really want to box!

<p>A World Trade Center disaster escapee, whose dust-caked body became an international symbol for the Sept. 11 terrorist tragedy, is still profoundly haunted by her experience.</p> <p>A photograph of the dusty figure of single mother Marcy Borders, a former temp in the Twin Towers who fled as the buildings imploded and crumbled, appeared in countless publications in the days following the hijacker attacks.</p>

<p>The Saudis evidently think it's time for us to find someplace else to keep our warplanes, the ones that protect them from being forced to put up billboards of Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Fine. Let's leave. If Saddam wants the place, let him have it. We can do that, not because we've figured out how to do without oil, not because we're going to drill in ANWR, not because we're dumping our low-mileage SUV's for high-mileage Yugos, but because we got the Taliban out of Afghanistan and so have some new best friends who are loaded with oil — the Russians.</p>

<p>ATLANTA — Legislators in Georgia want to draw the line on zero tolerance.</p> <p>"We're trying to put common sense into zero tolerance," says state Sen. Richard Marable, a Democrat.</p> <p>Charging that laws written to keep children from harm are instead harming children, Marable and a few colleagues have drafted legislation that would make ultra-strict laws on weapons in school more tolerable.</p>

Will Michigan fall too? Popular vote show BUSH ahead

ABC, CNN and CBS dumped FL, why doesn't FOX?

Did you check out the new website that is slamming GW bush? Click the link above to go to www.georgewbushspeaks.com and see it for yourself. It mainly consists of pages of half-normal sounding quotes that you, as a conservative, might expect to hear come from a republican presidential candidate or one of his followers. Each quote is followed by a venomous paragraph describing what he "really" means or what he "didn't" say. Here are a few of the juicier examples: "Sometimes economists are wrong." --George W. Bush sounds defensive as he tries to explain how his massive $2.1 trillion tax ...

Just though this looked like the old infamous Bigfoot photo from years back. Clinton looks like he was just caught sneaking a soda...

Sirs: When I heard that S&W had caved to the Clinton Whitehouse instead of standing firm on your rights as a law-abiding company, I was amazed and disgusted. I only hope this does not affect more legal gun companies to go your way. I had hoped someone who is in the gun business would have had more guts than that. Were you really feeling threatened by the non-existant gun suits? Did you really think that this lame-duck administration could have hurt your company in some way. What were you thinking? Anyway, count me as another person who will not buy ...

One of West Broad Elementary School's most beloved staff members has been given her walking papers. For the past two school years, Zoe, a golden retriever, has been a friend to most of the nearly 550 students who attend the Columbus school. The 4-year-old, professionally trained as a "therapy dog," belongs to Principal Jill Spanheimer. But Spanheimer was told that the dog must stay home this school year. Roger Coffman, executive director of principal leadership and development for Columbus Public Schools, sent a letter to Spanheimer that cited "possible allergic reactions," "liability issues" and "an uncomfortableness of some students and ...

- - Puzzle Pieces - - After a year of steady neglect by the mainstream U.S media, the National Security Agency's Echelon program is suddenly hot. One catalyst seems to be a new Web site by the American Civil Liberties Union which promises to monitor Echelon's worldwide electronic monitoring. Even more interesting was a long piece on Echelon in The Washington Post by James Bamford, recognized expert on the NSA. It was Bamford's 1982 book "The Puzzle Palace" which lifted the veil on NSA secrecy. Bamford had been largely silent on the Echelon issue, which seemed to send a message ...

More Than 500M Guns Said on Planet By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) - More than 500 million guns and other small arms are circulating around the world, widely used because they are lethal, inexpensive, easy to care for and easy to hide, a U.N. panel says. Assault rifles, machine guns, pistols and grenade-launchers are increasingly ``the weapon of choice'' in contemporary conflicts, The U.N. Department for Disarmament said in a report Tuesday. ``The excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfer of small arms and light weapons is closely related to the increased incidence of internal conflicts ...