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My wife was the closest pregnant civilian to TMI in Middletown PA when the event started she has a unique perspective on TMI, nuclear emergencies, Japan, and near melt downs. Yet at this time she still does not see nuclear power as a bad thing!

1960s songbird Joan Baez had a treehouse built -- without walls -- 20 feet high in an oak tree behind her Woodside home because she wanted to sleep with birds. The folksinging legend, who once performed the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" before a half-million people at Woodstock, fell from that treehouse Wednesday as she climbed down from the platform.

Threat to Baird not serious, FBI says The FBI said Tuesday it has closed its investigation of an alleged death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird after concluding that the message left on Baird's Washington, D.C., office phone in August did not constitute a serious threat. "The information I received from our agents was that upon investigation, our special agents did not feel that the caller posed any threat and did not intend to conduct any act of terrorism," said Lindsay Godwin, spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. "The investigation is now closed."

A British family said a crow they adopted as a pet has begun taking on the characteristics of their five dogs, even going so far as to attack the mailman. The Notaro-Livingstones of Huntsworth, England, said they adopted Jack the crow about 10 months ago when they discovered him outside of his nest and unable to lift his own head, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. The family said that as Jack recovered, he began mimicking the family's other pets -- a pack of five dogs. They said Jack steals dog treats from the other pets and will often jump onto the...

Charlize Theron's Cuba By Humberto Fontova FrontPageMagazine.com | February 22, 2007 A Hollywood A-lister (Charlize Theron) recently traveled to Cuba and returned without the paeans to its Stalinist regime that habitually issue from her colleagues after such visits. Pigs worldwide started sprouting wings. During her Cuban visit Ms Theron helped produce a documentary (East of Havana) on Cuban hip-hop artists that cast the Castro regime in a negative light. Pigs worldwide started flapping and taxiing down the runway. Last week on ABC's Good Morning America, Charlize Theron said : "I think the (Cuban) younger generation is starting to say, 'You...

The insult of 'bird-brain' is generally applied to scatty people who cannot hold much in their heads. But it seems this may be doing an injustice to our feathered friends. Scientists have discovered that the common pigeon actually has an astonishingly good long-term memory. In tests they found a single bird can memorise 1,200 pictures. The team said that, despite clear physical differences between birds and other animals, there are important similarities in the way their memories work. They therefore concluded that the processes that drive the way we store and retrieve memories appear to be largely the same throughout...

GROUP: New Video Exposes Behind-the-Scenes Story of Gore’s Own Energy Use Wed May 24 2006 17:59:00 ET As former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary on global warming fears debuts today, a new video from the Competitive Enterprise Institute tracks Gore’s own “carbon footprint.” CEI’s 70-second video points out that Gore himself is a big user of the hydrocarbon fuels that produce carbon dioxide when combusted. Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” asks, "Are you willing to change the way you live?" The Gore documentary and new book of the same name go on to suggest ways that people can reduce their...

OTTAWA (AFP) - The tiny Rufous hummingbird is able to recall where and when it last dined on the sweet nectar of flowers, according to new research, proving bird brains are smarter than first thought. The study found the bird, with a brain no bigger than a grain of rice and which feeds on hundreds of flowers each day, could pinpoint the location of flowers it had visited and when the bit of nectar in each would be replenished. Such episodic memory was previously thought to be exclusive to humans. "This shows that animals have better memories than we thought...

hillary in aviaryHILLARY'S INCOMPETENCE by Mia T, 11.13.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) Clinton Administration Veteran:"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life." My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried...

Hillary in Aviary ("It's the bluebird--I know that" birdbrain + fraud)     by Mia T, November 2000, sometime before "the first Tuesday after the first Monday" "Bird of paradise" would have been a brilliant wrong answer for the New-York-state-bird question; in one fell swoop it would have flattered the necessary constituency, rendered hillary's cheating marginally believable and suggested a quick, secure, creative mind. But the obsessively perfectionistic dodo wasn't able to fake even one wrong answer in the Letterman phony "pop quiz," a nostalgic electuary of "Twenty-One" fraud and (Groucho) Marxist left-wing crow. Instead, this documented incompetent with...

Few people today realize or remember, but a single man, Lyndon Baines Johnson, “LBJ”, is primarily responsible for both starting and ending “The Space Race”. In 1957 and 1958, Johnson, then Senate Majority Leader and leader of the Democratic political opposition to Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, created such a controversy over the USSR’s launch of Sputnik that Eisenhower was forced into a public space race he didn’t want. That race led to the amazing accomplishments of the next ten years, including the first human landings on the Moon. Almost a decade later, Johnson was forced to virtually shut down the...

Prince Harry’s Nazi outfit would not have been tolerated in the Army and he would have been punished for his actions, a former British commander said today. Colonel Bob Stewart said he would have given the 20-year-old prince, who will join the forces later this year, two weeks’ worth of extra duties for being pictured dressed up in a fascist uniform, complete with swastika armband. The army hero, who led British UN troops in Bosnia, branded the antics “bad taste”, saying they had caused offence to many people. Harry is set to attend the prestigious Sandhurst military academy for officer...

The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi is believed to be one of the most advanced users of human language...

Parrot's oratory stuns scientists By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi...

Turkey Attacks Movies at Vid Store Wed Apr 17, 8:11 AM ET BATAVIA, N.Y. - A turkey recently decided to take a turn as a critic, attacking movies in a video store — and taking particular aim at hunting videos. Nancy Arena arrived at her video store 30 miles east of Buffalo last week to find the front window smashed and feathers and movie cases scattered everywhere. She called police, and when the officer arrived at the store, he flushed a young tom turkey out of the science fiction section. An animal control officer eventually took the 12-pound bird away....