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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."

London: The saying love is blind really did turn out to be true for 16-year-old Jessica Anderson, for she’s getting set to exchange wedding vows with her 50-year-old boyfriend Clive Richards. Richards, a grey-haired father of two, left his third wife Julia for deputy head girl Anderson six months ago. Anderson, a schoolgirl, set up house with Richards, a teacher, and is waiting to become his fourth wife, in September next year, when she turns 18. More offbeat stories | Science updates “Despite common predictions we’re still together and very happy,” the Sun quoted him as saying. “I am frustrated...

MacDailyNews reader Chad reports having received an email from Yahoo! that the Yahoo! Music Store will be closing. Here it is verbatim: The Yahoo! Music Store Will Be Closing; Important Information About Backing Up Your Music Files Greetings, The Yahoo! Music Store, along with the ability to purchase and download single songs and albums, will no longer be available as of September 30, 2008. Songs and albums that were purchased through the Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store are protected by a digital rights management system that requires a valid license key before they can be played on your computer. After the...

Just curious what people think the best way to collect taxes is. I have my own opinions, but I'd like to know what you all think. Consumption vs. Income; Flat vs. Progressive (or even Regressive); Many small taxes or few large taxes? Weigh in.

How do you rate Gov. Ritter's job performance? Excellent Good Fair Poor Not Sure Don't Care

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) tells PEOPLE magazine in the issue out Friday that he and his wife, Michelle, do not give Christmas or birthday presents to their two young daughters. Obama tells the magazine’s Sandra Sobieraj Westfall in a seven-page cover story that he and his wife follow the unusual practice because they “want to teach some limits.” In the interview earlier this summer, Obama noted that they do spend “hundreds” of dollars on birthday slumber parties. The cover says: “THE OBAMAS AT HOME – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS! – From piano practice and pillow talk to who does the chores (not...

Who do you think would do a better job at building stronger international ties? McCain Obama

Every once in a while, a book not so much lands on your desk as lobs itself like a hand grenade, exploding preconceived wisdoms and shattering the bones of the status quo. Save The Males is such a book. It is the fiercest and most fearless defence of men, fatherhood and ultimately the family I have read in many years. American author Kathleen Parker's courageous thesis is that initially, through extreme feminism, then via its craven implementation into society, women have demonised men and trivialised their contribution, especially to family life.

It is time, says a U of T biologist, that we began 'to think of humans as part of the natural world' July 13, 2008 Murray Whyte Staff Reporter Consider the Jefferson salamander. About average-finger length, its grey skin mottled with black. Amphibious, spawning in Southern Ontario's quickly vanishing woodland vernal pools. Prognosis: Dying. Now, the urban raccoon. Plump and furry, not so adept at fishing as its rural cousins, perhaps, but expert at garbage-tipping. An adaptable squatter in buildings both abandoned and, as homeowners near High Park well know, occupied. Prognosis: Thriving. The tiny Jefferson, its numbers dwindling to...

When Storms Collide Credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon-Miller (Goddard Space Flight Center), N. Chanover (NMSU), G. Orton (JPL) Four posts before someone says, "Bush's fault." :) Explanation: These detailed Hubble Space Telescope close-ups feature Jupiter's ancient swirling storm system known as the Great Red Spot. They also follow the progress of two newer storm systems that have grown to take on a similar reddish hue: the smaller "Red Spot Jr." (bottom), and smaller still, a "baby red spot". Red Spot Jr. was seen to form in 2006, while the smaller spot was just identified earlier this year. For scale, the...

FORMER NASA astronaut and moonwalker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens do exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.' He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head. Chillingly, he...

Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist. He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources at NASA who had had contact with aliens described the beings as "little people who look strange to us." He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a "small gray" — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head. Mitchell...

(Intel is a sponsor of SVW)Intel announced plans for a new business group manufacturing system-on-a-chip (SOC) semiconductors. SOCs are souped-up microprocessors that are tuned for specific types of devices, such as mobile internet devices, smart phones, or medical devices.Intel's SOC chips combine a microprocessor with memory, graphics, and embedded software plus specialized chip and software functions.SOCs can shrink almost an entire board of chips into just one or two chips. This makes digital products more reliable and less expensive to make.Intel predicts that within a few years there will likely be billions of digital devices connected to the Internet. Most...

'I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.' 'People of Berlin -- people of the world -- this is our moment. This is our time.' It's almost like he's out there trying to enlist the world against us, his own "supposed" country. He is the only presidential candidate to ever do this, and the germans are doing 24 x 7 coverage. Something is wrong folks?...

GAINESVILLE - A Hall County jury has awarded a woman $150,000 after she sued her former fiance for calling off their wedding. RoseMary Shell said she left a high-paying job in Florida to be with her ex-fiance, Wayne Gibbs, and she said she has suffered emotionally since their breakup. "This has been the most difficult thing I've ever had to do and I think justice has been served," Shell said. Gibbs testified that he paid $30,000 of Shell's debt while they were engaged, then canceled the wedding after finding out she had even more debt. Juror Delitha Smith told Channel...

I've been collecting Obamisms for a couple of weeks now, thought I'd post them to share and hopefully to be added to. Barry Hussein Obamisms Obagasms Obeyme Obamination Barack O'Possum Saint of Hyde Park St. Barack Obamacons Fauxbama Messiah Obambi Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas NObama Barack, the pander bear O’barmy Ubingobangobongo Obamaciples Ego-bama “The One,” (Oprah) Black Whiteguilt Oblack Obamajugend Obama-Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong Obamacaca obammy Omabama Obamafuhrer Obamao Obamasama Barraaack al obama Unidentified Flying Muslim Obama Christ Lord Messiah Obama Hazbin Laden BARRYSTROIKA (BARRYSTROIKA Barack [let no infidel see behind these brackets] Obama's program of economic, political, and social restructuring which aims to end...

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The two friends followed Arthur through a series of twists and turns off Socrum Loop Road, until he decided to turn around in the parking lot of a vacant business. That's where Pribe first saw Arthur's face, with a cigar hanging out of his mouth and wearing a dingy hat, she said. They followed him back to U.S. 98 North, where he turned into the supply store. She parked away from the store and called 911 for a second time and waited for deputies to arrive, she said. "Before we knew it, there were lots of police cars all over...

Terrified workers at a mining compound in one of Russia's most isolated regions are refusing to go to work after a pack of giant bears attacked and ate two of their colleagues. At least 30 of the hungry animals have been seen prowling close to the mines in northern Kamchatka in search of food, where the mangled remains of the two workers, both guards, were found last week. The Kamchatka brown bear is one of the world's largest, with males growing to around 10 feet and weighing up to 1,540 pounds. They can also reach speeds of up to 30...

I'm writing this sitting in a Singapore Airlines double-decker Airbus A380 bound for the carrier's home city. We're at 35,320ft and I'm up in tech heaven. I have my Eee PC 900 open in front of me, its meagre battery being kept topped up from the power socket in the armrest to my right. My iPhone is sitting on the fold-out table next to the Eee – it's being charged from the USB port to the right of the large, crisp , decent-resolution seat-back LCD. There's a light under the screen that, when activated, provides illumination for my keyboard. If...

Fans of Doctor Who and Star Trek have been told to lay off autograph hunting at the stage door of the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford, where David Tennant and Patrick Stewart are thesping it up in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. The ban comes after fans apparently started turning up at the venue with "bags" of Who goodies, hoping to get Tennant's mark on their memorabilia. The RSC declared: "Due to the huge amount of interest in the RSC's current production of Hamlet, only Royal Shakespeare Company or production related memorabilia will be signed by members of the...

"It has long been believed that the main force of natural selection on protein-coding genes is the need to maintain a working protein," says Drummond, a Bauer Fellow in Harvard's FAS Center for Systems Biology. "Our work suggests that another force may be equally important: the need to avoid misfolded proteins resulting from errors in translation."

My brother recommended a simple solution for Barack Obama’s Muslim “image problem”. It can all be fixed with a simple apostrophe. http://obamaformessiah.com

Today's Morning Coffee comes from Army and sadly, isn't good news. ESPN.com ran a story Wednesday evening stating that former Army linebacker Caleb Campbell will not be allowed to play in the NFL. It was covered on the NFL side, but I wanted to make sure any Army fans, and fans of college football, saw the result of this ongoing story. Campbell was a seventh-round draft pick of the Detroit Lions in April and was told that if he was drafted he could serve the Army as a recruiter. But Army policy has changed, and Campbell has been called to...

was a headline waiting to happen: "FBI grabs Princess' Diaries." The FBI confiscated Anne Hathaway's intimate diaries during another raid on Raffaello Follieri’s $37,500-a-month Trump Tower apartment, according to the Daily News. Anne's former boyfriend is charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering. Anne has not been implicated or charged with any crime. She has cut off all contact with her ex and changed her numbers so he can’t reach her, a friend told the Daily News, but "he has been trying to call her all the time.” Maybe he should be charged with stalking as well.

I started doing genealogy research in the late 90's/early 00's. Only recently have I taken it back up and registered on Ancestry.com to see what new info has popped up. In the last day or so I came across a distant relative. They gave me access to their family tree and I noticed they have a little boy born last year. His last name is a combo of both parents. Just for example if one of the parent's name was Jones and one of the parent's name was Smith it would be Smones or Jomith. I have no information about...

Free Republic Homeschool Forum 2008-2009A spot for homeschoolers on Free Republic to share information Once again, we are reviving our Free Republic Homeschool Forum where homeschoolers can share tips and talk about curriculum for the upcoming year. Below is a list of educational books, curricula, and other resources recommended by homeschoolers on Free Republic. This list was compiled, updated, and reformatted using the suggestions many of you gave on our last thread. (If any corrections are needed, please advise.) Feel free to add more of your favorite books and products to the comments below. Which curriculum has worked well for...

If you’re not wearing the right type of bra, you could be damaging your breasts without even realizing it. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth in Hampshire, England found that wearing the wrong “support system” could lead to fragile ligaments in the breasts becoming irreparably stretched, the Daily Mail reported.

I did a search, and it's been 4 years since this quiz was posted. I though it would be fun to see where everybody scores! While the quiz certainly has its flaws (what in the world does that fact that I recognize that astrology is superstitious nonsense have to do with my politics?) it at least puts politics on an X-Y axis instead of a simple left-right line. What's more, my score does seem pretty dead on: Economic Left/Right +8.5, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -0.56. What are your numbers?

A footprint of 800 years old has been unearthed at one of Canada's top archaeological sites in the western Manitoba Province, scientists announced Tuesday. The footprint was discovered when archaeologists dug at the site located in the central area of provincial capital Winnipeg. The area has a rich history that includes aboriginal camping, the fur trade, the construction of the railway, waves of immigration and the Industrial Age. The place has been determined as the future site of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and archaeologists have been scraping away at the site for the basement of the building. Thousands...