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After Nantucket house party, dog found dead in washing machine July 25, 2008 A Yorkshire Terrier was found dead in a washing machine Wednesday, the day after one of its owners hosted a party at a Nantucket home, police said.

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Understanding the origin and extinction of species is of paramount importance to our own existence and survival. Unfortunately, the vast majority of humans understand neither. About 90% of humankind professes to adhere to a religious philosophy that has absolutely no interest or concern in understanding the most fundamental ecological relationships that exist in nature. Human failure to respect this relationship has resulted in human failure in our own stewardship of our own planet.

Amy Winehouse's lungs are reportedly so damaged from her incessant smoking that the singer may die if she doesn't quit. But she still can't seem to stop. 'Wino' was recently seen smoking something hand-rolled – exactly what is impossible to tell from the photos.

Just think how much the environment would be helped if the Messiah just walked across the water!

As expected, after years of news release after news release extolling the virtues of this beer, THE FIRST BEER FOR WOMEN with a “…touch of Clover Honey,” is on life support, and probably has been for awhile. The two female owners of this Amazonian beer, however, are spinning this story in a different way. Beautiful Brews Inc. has decided to put the entire operation up on e-Bay because they have “…not been able to raise enough capital to take the Honey Amber Rose to the next level” with one of the owners suggesting that “This is an opportunity for established...

Peter Hong, a longtime Republican operative in Minnesota, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a charge of soliciting prostitution in St. Paul. Police spokesman Peter Panos said that the arrest came during the first day of a two-day sting operation during which "johns" and prostitutes responded to ads placed on the Internet and in print. Thirty-five people were arrested Wednesday and Thursday, Panos said today. He declined to say where the undercover operation was based. According to city and county records, Hong, 41, of Minneapolis, was arrested at about 3:40 p.m. on Wednesday and arrived at the Ramsey County jail just...

OZARK, Mo. -- A family wants answers about what happened to their son that left him hospitalized. Early Saturday morning, police found Mace Hutchinson, 16, underneath the Highway F overpass over U.S. 65. Mace ended up in intensive care at a hospital. His parents believe the actions of Ozark police officers contributed to his injuries and slowed doctors’ abilities to speed his recovery. “We called the police. My wife was afraid he was going to get ran over or hit,” said witness Doug Messersmith. Messersmith and his wife were the last known people to see 16-year-old boy walking, shortly before...

With both ...Obama and John McCain calling for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan, there have been a slew of articles arguing this will at best not work and, at worst, fuel the insurgency...Zbigniew Brzezinski,...prominent supporter of Barack Obama, ...risks repeating the defeat suffered by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan."... Our strategy is getting in deeper and deeper.” ...Canada’s Globe and Mail, ... ”We knew by 1985 that we could not win,” it quotes veteran Ruslan Aushev as saying. It then took Moscow four more years to extricate hundreds of thousands of troops... Gulf News, Patrick Seale says that...

That face-to-facer in Geneva’s really paying dividends, huh? This calls for more diplomacy. The [UN] investigation ran into trouble just months after being launched [last year]. Deadline after deadline was extended because of Iranian foot-dragging. The probe, originally meant to be completed late last year, spilled into the first months of 2008, and beyond… Officials say that among the evidence given to the IAEA are what seem to be Iranian draft plans to refit missiles with nuclear warheads; explosives tests that could be used to develop a nuclear detonator, and a drawing showing how to mold uranium metal into the...

Spitzer's M101 Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, K. Gordon (STScI) et al. Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse's large 19th century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsontown. Recorded at infrared wavelengths by the Spitzer Space telescope, this 21st century view shows starlight in blue hues while the galaxy's dust clouds are in red....

Terry McAuliffe is known for being loyal. As Hillary Clinton’s longtime friend and campaign manager, he battled on her behalf until the bitter end of her long quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. So the former Democratic Party chair made waves this week after he told a crowd of Virginia Democrats the politician he thinks Barack Obama should choose as his vice presidential running mate. It wasn’t Clinton –- a possible clue that the Senator from New York has been bumped from Obama’s list of potential VPs. If you needed a clue. Instead, according to the Falls Church News-Press, McAuliffe...

So far for Mr. Obama, who came to Europe once in the last four years, making a stop in London on his way to Russia, the response of many Europeans to his potential presidency has been gratifying — emotional, responsive, replete with the sense of hope he seeks to engender about a more flexible, less ideological America. On Thursday evening in a glittering Berlin, cheered by as many as 200,000 people, Mr. Obama delivered a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history. In contrast, just before he spoke, Mr. McCain, was sitting in Schmidt’s Sausage Haus und...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — An 11-year old boy is in Brazil's media spotlight after sinking his teeth into the neck of a dog that attacked him. Local newspapers reported on Thursday that Gabriel Almeida was playing in his uncle's backyard in the city of Belo Horizonte when a pit bull named Tita lunged at him and bit him in the left arm.

For years, cheap imported garlic has been cutting into the bottom line of Gilroy's signature crop. Now one entrepreneur has come to the Garlic Capital of the World to grow the key ingredient in tequila, agave. Grower Frank Leal has made an award-winning winery business in the hills above Hollister. Planting 10 acres of blue agaves, he has set his sights on being the first to bottle California's take on tequila. Our video report has more (Link)

Earnhardt's hometown removes his honor flags From Charlotte Observer, wire reports Friday, Jul. 25, 2008 KANNAPOLIS - The late Dale Earnhardt's hometown is taking down banners honoring the NASCAR great, at the request of a billionaire developer who is bringing a client to town Saturday. The Salisbury Post also reported on Friday that the developer's company doesn't want the "Dale Trail" banners going up again. According to e-mails obtained by the Salisbury newspaper, California billionaire David Murdock is coming to Kannapolis on Saturday with an important guest and wants to put the "best face on the city." Murdock's company, Castle...

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Three men looking to party with three females in a Calimesa motel instead found themselves ripped off by the trio after the victims removed their clothing, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. One of the victims ran from the Calimesa Boulevard motel room about 1:20 a.m. Thursday, prompting 911 calls about a nude man in the area, the agency said in a news release. Deputies could not find the man, but dispatchers later received a call reporting a robbery and assault with a deadly weapon that occurred in the 1200 block of Calimesa Boulevard. The men told deputies they...

The tragic story of Roman Polanski, his life, his suffering and his crimes, has been told and retold until it assumes the status of legend. After the loss of his parents in the Holocaust, after raising himself on the streets of Nazi-controlled Poland, after moving to America to acclaim as the director of "Chinatown," after the murder by the Manson family of his wife and unborn child ... what then? He was arrested and tried for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13- year-old girl, one of several charges including supplying her with drink and drugs. Then he fled the country...

I’ve tried to show the world that dogs are harmless creatures, just looking to make a positive mark on this world. Then some numbskull canine, thinking he’s above it all,comes along and ruins all my good work. Who’s the dog this time? Well it’s a German Shepherd named Ranger, and get this, he’s a police dog to boot. (OGDEN, Utah — A police dog that was left in a pickup with the engine running apparently knocked the vehicle into gear and ran down a woman who was walking to her mailbox.

Sen. Joe Lieberman praises pastor who said Holocaust was God's work One of John McCain's most prominent supporters on Tuesday praised an evangelical leader whom the Republican presidential candidate repudiated after a string of controversial remarks were made public. Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent who frequently campaigns with McCain, said pastor John Hagee's support for Israel outweighed the remarks that led McCain to reject his endorsement. Lieberman said he had been urged not to speak to Hagee's group, Christians United for Israel. Advertisement "The bond that I feel with Pastor Hagee and each and every one of you is...

Men (or women) who decide to get on bended knee: Be warned. You could find yourself on both knees, facing a judge instead of a justice of the peace. That’s what happened in Florida this week, when a woman was awarded $150,000 after suing her former fiancé for calling off their wedding. For RoseMary Shell, the jilted bride-to-be who left a high-paying job in Pensacola to live with her prospective partner in Gainesville, there was a “wow” in lieu of a vow.

Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, rubber-lipped frontman of the Rolling Stones, celebrates his 65th birthday Saturday but shows no signs of slowing down, despite officially becoming an old age pensioner. At an age when most British men are retiring from work and claiming state pensions, Jagger is dating a woman some 25 years his junior -- stylist L'Wren Scott -- counting his millions after the Stones' record-grossing "Bigger Bang" tour and branching out into film production. His behaviour may not be as hellraising as that of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, who last week entered rehab to receive treatment for alcohol abuse...

My heart was in my throat. Someone say McCain can’t give a good speech? Well, the live speech he just gave at the American GI Forum in Denver was something that really moved me, and I believe it would any true American. Especially the story of Benavidez, whom honestly I knew nothing about. I was watching on FOX News, cable. Prior to McCain describing us the story of Benavidez (and I’m sorry and ashamed, I am so ignorant of him that I do not even know if I am spelling his name correctly, and yet such an American hero should...

When I was a young woman married to a Delta Airline pilot - there was a great story that went around Coweta County, Georgia. A veterinarian told it to me. The story went: ‘”what are the two most dangerous things in rural Georgia?” The answer: an out-of-control loaded pulp wood truck careening down hill, and … a pilot in search of an investment. In the 70s, airline pilots with Delta or Eastern often lived in rural Coweta, Carroll or other Georgia boonies outside of Atlanta. Some pilots and airline personnel, at that time, made a good bit more money than...

Favre expected to submit letter of reinstatement to NFL by Friday By Adam Schefter | NFL Network During a telephone conversation Thursday with Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson, quarterback Brett Favre conveyed he is planning to return to the team and report to training camp this weekend. If he follows through on his plans, Favre is expected to fax a letter seeking reinstatement to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as early as Friday, before the Packers report to camp on Saturday. However, just because Favre is now planning to return to the Packers, that doesn't mean the saga is...

n any other day, Sobia Ahmed would opt to forgo many of the snacks on offer at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. To perform the Islamic prayers she recites five times a day, she likely would slip onto a secluded path at the amusement park or look for solace under a shady tree for a few furtive minutes. But this Saturday Ahmed and her family will eat and pray at their leisure in the park with hundreds of other Muslims from the Chicago area who plan to visit the sprawling entertainment center for a day catered especially to them....

Once upon a time in a land far away, a master woodcarver decided to move to a new village deep in a forest. He was convinced that in the forest he could find a good supply of the high-quality wood he needed. So he loaded his young family, all of his belongings and his tools into a cart pulled by his faithful donkey and set out for the village. Along the way, the wood carver met another man and his family who were moving to the new village in pursuit of a living. He was a tinsmith. Like the woodcarver,...

When it comes to Apple, it doesn't take much to set tongues a-wagging. A slim Steve Jobs at the Apple Developers Conference in San Francisco last month has led to endless speculation about the CEO's health and perhaps, according to analysts, may have caused a stock dip. Now, after a mention of a mysterious "future product transition" on an earnings conference call, bloggers, analysts and die-hard Apple fans are focused on dissecting exactly what new products the company may have been vaguely revealing. The comments came during a conference call this week involving Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer that discussed the...

It appears Elvis was always the King of Rock. A 1,800-year old Roman bust that looks strikingly like Elvis Presley is set to go on the auction block in London. The hunka hunka chiseled stone is a marble acroterion - a carved head from a sarcophagus corner - and will be part of a $2 million collection of more than 150 ancient works up for grabs Oct. 15. Australian art collector Graham Geddes, who owns the lot, even calls the carving "Elvis." The resemblance is so uncanny that one can almost see the country crooner's famous lip snarl and hear...

Young dogs today, they’re so lazy. It seems to me they only want to take the car when it’s time to go somewhere. That’s why I was pleased to see this video of a dalmation taking his bike for a spin. Sure he isn’t very good at it, requiring training wheels, but at least he’s getting his exercise.

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Resistance from the religious community to embrace evolution, he says, comes from a miscommunication between the language of science and the language of religion. "Debating whether God or evolution created the universe is like asking, 'Who said this sentence, me or my vocal chords?'" he said.

My husband FINALLY had a cartoon published! Conservative Punk Goes French! One of Conservative Punk's original cartoons was picked up by Currier International, a weekly magazine put out by Le Monde. It was featured in their Obama issue, as an accompaniment to an op-ed piece by Karl Rove. My husband, Craig Holloway along with Nick Rizzuto who is the producer of The Wilkow Majority which can be heard from 12-3pm EST Monday-Friday on Sirius Patriot 144, are the creators of GUTTER POLITIX.

Scientists in the UK who have examined hairs claimed to belong to a yeti in India say that an initial series of tests have proved inconclusive. Ape expert Ian Redmond says the hairs bear a "startling resemblance" to similar hairs collected by Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary. He told the BBC the Indian hairs are "potentially very exciting". After extensive microscope examinations, the hairs will now be sent to separate labs for DNA analysis.

A 50,000 to 100,000 barrel of oil equivalent a day pilot production scheme on Brazil's offshore Tupi field is planned to begin in 2011, the chief executive of BG Group PLC (BG.LN) Frank Chapman said Thursday. Speaking in a conference call he said an extended well test, with production in the range 10,000 to 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, will begin on Tupi later this year in advance of the pilot program. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=64639

When Black Racist Oblack was axed, if you knew then what you know now, would you vote in favor of the Surge he gave the worst answer since Harpy's Drivers License question. Rather than simply answer yes he may have been wrong in light of what happened, he refused to answer. On top of that he slaps on his CIC hat, who has now been on the ground in Iraq for 8 hours, to pretend he is the only expert in that Theater. As always, the same ones who were completely wrong before, are now the experts. Perhaps the worst...

It’s a common way for couples to reconcile. Animalistic, uninhibited and aggressive, many couples are enthralled by make-up sex. Some couples actually thrive on it. So why is anger such a powerful stimulant? And what are the rules of engagement for resolving conflict in this way? While fighting as a form of foreplay doesn’t make much sense, on second thought, it’s not such an inconceivable aphrodisiac. Physiologically speaking, anger and arousal have quite a bit in common in revving up the body. When angry or sexually aroused, a person’s body reacts in much the same way –- to the point...

Obama gets a German crowd together by free rock concert before and after the speech, and he is viewed by MSM as iconic in Europe. Obama apologized to Germany for USA world aggression - to all people, Germany????? He said he would repair US relations with Germany - as if it was the USA's fault? He said that he would tear down walls between our nation and the world. Those walls are called borders and sovereignty: 1) the right to make our own laws, 2) the right to commit and direct our own troops in the defense of that sovereignty,...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". GustatoryAdjective Of or pertaining to the sense of taste. gus·ta·to·ri·ly, adverb Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on...

PRAGUE IS WARNED BY REICH GENERAL Military Writer Sees Refusal of Britain and France to Give Direct Aid in War SOVIET HELD UNPREPARED Germany’s Annexation of Austria Described as Key to Weakness of the Czech Defenses By GUIDO ENDERIS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. BERLIN, July 24.-Balancing the chances of an armed clash over the Czech problem, Lieut. Gen. Horst von Metzch, well-known writer on military topics, declared in a recent article that both Britain and France are decidedly opposed to courting warlike entanglements on a large scale in view of the still obscure military situation in Spain and...

Well, I'm off to take my kids to the zoo today!!! I'll have to keep my eye on my kids And I hope they have safe containment for the animals... And I'll have to make sure my kids leave the animals alone

A guy is walking in a field and notices a 15' hole in the ground. He walks to the edge, looks in, but can't see the bottom. He looks around and sees a small rock, which he tosses into the hole. He cocks his head to the left and listens... Nothing. He looks around again, sees a small boulder, lifts it up and carries it to the edge of the hole and tosses it in. He tilts his head and listens... Nothing. He looks around a third times, spies a huge railroad tie nearby. He struggles to drag it to...

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of former Fort Bragg officer Ann E. Dunwoody to be the U.S. military’s first woman four-star general. The vote clears the way for Dunwoody, 55 and currently a lieutenant general, to be promoted and become commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command at Fort Belvoir, Va. She has been deputy commanding general since June 17. Dunwoody was on vacation Thursday and unavailable for comment, said Michelle McCaskill, an AMC spokeswoman. The date for her promotion is to be determined, she said. In her new job, Dunwoody will be in charge of 55,000 people in...

981 license tags scrapped after complaint BY NOEL E. OMAN Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/232187/ Nearly 1, 000 license plates have been pulled from a state revenue office after a vehicle owner complained the letters on the license plate suggested a racial epithet. Alice Kunce of North Little Rock said the sequence of letters on the plate she was issued at a local revenue office — NGR — struck her as offensive. “I can’t put that on my car,” Kunce said. “What kind of message would that send ?” Officials at the Arkansas Department of Finance and...

LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI Richard C. Hoagland just finished making an *ss out of himself. He thinks our astronauts may be the victims of mind control and erasing part of their memories during debriefings. Coming up -- space and UFOs.

Intego might have stumbled across an OS X specific virus being offered for auction that targets a previously unknown ZIP archive vulnerability.Mac antivirus maker, Intego, have published an interesting alert about a potential OS X virus that an enterprising individual is trying to sell through auction. With absolutely no technical information to go on, the antivirus maker is treating the announcement with caution. Based on the rate and type of vulnerabilities identified by projects like the Month of Apple Bugs it isn't too far fetched to expect that there are dozens or even hundreds of OS X specific viruses/malware creations...

A college student's new discovery of fossils collected in the East Antarctic suggests that the frozen polar cap was once a much balmier place. The well-preserved fossils of ostracods, a type of small crustaceans, came from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica's Transantarctic Mountains and date from about 14 million years ago. The fossils were a rare find, showing all of the ostracods' soft anatomy in 3-D. The fossils were discovered by Richard Thommasson during screening of the sediment in research team member Allan Ashworth's lab at North Dakota State University. Because ostracods couldn't survive in the current Antarctic climate,...

This site is a pretty good resource for compilations of polling data. There is also a mock election where votes are tallied on a per state basis. You can reach the mock election by clicking on the link in the middle of the page. Registration may be necessary to participate. Also note that the red/blue electoral college designations are reversed. As you will see, Obama has a pretty good lead, so we do have some work to do! Election Atlas

An attorney for the Mayor says the process server refused to leave the property when the mayor asked, so the process server was, "gently escorted off the porch by the Mayor."