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Crows are presumed to be reasonably intelligent, and they often exhibit playful behavior. But do they like to go sledding on the snow? The accompanying video shows a crow in Russia sliding down a snowy roof while standing atop a jar lid--not once but twice--in an episode that has stormed the web, garnering 2 million views during the past week.

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From the video link: "The smartest Crow in the world! made the two Cats fight, so that it can enjoy the show." Video link

Editor's note: Martin Luther King III is president and chief executive officer of The King Center in Atlanta. Richard Trumka is president of the AFL-CIO. (CNN) -- It is one of the painful ironies of our time that in the same season Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory is finally honored with a memorial in our nation's capital, the state where he began to lead the civil rights movement is once more the center of an ugly conflict over racial injustice. The passage of Alabama's anti-immigrant legislation, HB 56, invokes inhumanity reminiscent of the Jim Crow South. And the police state...

Seasonal anti-interventionist, Sheryl Crow, has lost her antiwar T-shirts. Or she is making hypocrisy – not war. Curiously, the singer-songwriter supported Bill Clinton when he “dispatched the military overseas forty-four times during his eight years” – a modern record, according to historian Thomas Woods. Crow also traveled with Hillary and the comedian Sinbad to the Balkans. Bill Clinton’s anti-Serb campaigns were legendary. Yet, in 2003, Crow mysteriously advocated pacifism, pleading with Bush 43 to appease Saddam Hussein, because interventionism was evil. To make her point, she strutted around in her “War Is Not The Answer” T-shirt, at The American Music...

Democratic Congressional leadership remains silent about a Democratic congressman's claim that Tea Party members of Congress would "like to see [black Americans] hanging on a tree." The top-ranking Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives - Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. Dick Durbin, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., - have not responded to The Washington Examiner's requests for comment on this issue. They have not supported or contradicted, or even acknowledged, the accusation leveled by Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., that their Tea Party colleagues in Congress would like to see Carson murdered. Repeated efforts...

EVERETT, Wash.- Police in Washington state said a trio of crows are playing a real-life game of "Angry Birds" by dive-bombing officers outside a police station. The Everett Police Department said the crows, which live in a tree next to the north precinct office, have been dive-bombing officers for the past few days, The (Everett) Daily Herald reported Monday. Everett police Lt. Bob Johns said he recently "got zinged" by the birds. "They're like velociraptors," he said. Police said one officer attempted to ward off the crows using the siren in his patrol car and the birds responded by covering...

Pop-star and courageous anti-toilet-paper crusader Sheryl Crow apparently has a new political concern: Tea Partiers. The country crooner told CBS journalist Katie Couric that Tea Party members are uneducated, angry and potentially dangerous in an interview with Glamour magazine this June. After Crow complained in the interview that Americans have become too blasé about politics, and that nobody has taken to the streets to cause "a riot or a revolution," Couric correctly pointed to the Tea Party as an example of modern day activism.

They already boast the raspy tones of seasoned smokers. But actually getting to grips with a cigarette is another thing. No matter how much they huffed and puffed, these crows couldn't quite work out what to do. Britons Judie and Tony Ellis, on holiday in the Maldives, spotted one crow fly past with the packet before landing on a roof for a crafty cigarette break.'It seemed to be dishing them out to the others,' Judie said. 'They even had them in their beaks the right way.'. As Judie, 53, rushed to get her camera to record the scene two more...

Illogically high expectations about pinpoint accuracy and target discrimination in a fire-fight are the fantasy of armchair-academics and videogame players. Men on the ground know that war is sloppy and rough. Combat is not a noun or a place that you are “in,” but rather a verb, a thing that you “do” to other people. Principally, combat is imposing your will on the enemy by violence of action and the ugly truth is that the process kills all kinds of people: good ones, bad ones, and yes, even our own. When our expectations of success and precision are unrealistic it...

Revealed: The 'Tail' Of The Squirrel That Went Nuts At The Crows Eager To Eat Its Dead Friend 26th April 2010 [Pics in URL] Sometimes, your friends are worth fighting for - even in the crow-eat-squirrel animal world. Nowhere was this more apparent than when a feisty squirrel was caught on camera trying to scare off crows from feasting on his dead companion's carcass. The agitated looking creature waves his tail in warning as one crow hovers over the lifeless body laying in the road.

Once upon a time former Governor, Presidential candidate, and Chairman of the Democrat National Committee Howard Dean called the GOP the “White Party.” CNN commentator Lou Dobbs took Dean to task for his language. So was Dr. Dean, and those among the Left who share his understanding of history, accurate? Is the GOP the party of white people? Let’s test the good doctor’s diagnosis. Fifteen questions follow. The correct answers are provided at the end. No peeking! Question #1. During whose administration did the signature of an African-American first appear on U.S. currency? During that of a Republican or a...

WASHINGTON – While there may not be a lot of Texas country musicians playing cities like our Nation’s Capital (save for that Pat Green show I covered here in 2008), your roving Red Dirt Reporter happened to be in “the District” this week when he had a chance to talk to popular Maypearl, Texas native and singer-songwriter Bart Crow. Writing for The Norman Transcript, your Red Dirt Reporter wrote a piece titled "Bart Crow Band tunes 'promise of good things to come.'" I've liked this guy's work since "Wear My Ring" was released a few years ago on his debut...

Here's a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can't tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments that tell this story. First, how do crows tell us apart? Watch this video:

SPRING VALLEY LAKE • What possibly started as a fight over a crow led to a melee involving at least 50 people during Spring Valley Lake’s Family Festival, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Victor Valley station officials. Two groups of people were barbecuing along the east beach near Spring Valley Parkway and Country Club Drive on Saturday night when a member of the first group kicked a crow that was hopping around their area, said Stella Hodson, spokeswoman for the Victor Valley station. “Someone from the second group took exception to the abuse of the bird and confronted the...

In Lithuania, eating crow isn't an exercise in public humiliation, as the English idiom suggests. Here, crow is literally eaten, and says one connoisseur, "it increases sexual potency." Despite their intelligence and function as scavengers, crows are rarely popular birds. The large black birds with a noisy squawk have traditionally held the role of evil-doer or thief in fable and fairy-tales. In Lithuania, crow has been part of a traditional diet throughout the centuriesmostly eaten during times of hardship. The meal of crow remained widespread in Lithuania into the 20th Century but almost died out during Soviet occupation. Now it...

"In the past, people thought birds were stupid," laments the aptly named scientist Christopher Bird. But in fact, some of our feathered friends are far cleverer than we might think. And one group in particular - the corvids - has astonished scientists with extraordinary feats of memory, an ability to employ complex social reasoning and, perhaps most strikingly, a remarkable aptitude for crafting and using tools. Some corvids, such as rooks, live in large groups Mr Bird, who is based at the department of zoology at Cambridge University, says: "I would rate corvids as being as intelligent as primates in...

Democrats demand bank return bailout fundsFebruary 25, 2009 U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., has asked Northern Trust Corp. to return U.S. bailout funds equivalent to the bank's allegedly lavish entertainment expenses. In a letter to the bank, Frank, chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, said we insist that you immediately return to the federal government the equivalent of what Northern Trust frittered away on these lavish events. The letter, signed by Frank and 17 Democrats, referred in part to the bank's entertainment expenses connected with a PGA golf tournament that the company sponsors, the Chicago Tribune reported...

Backing up data is a pain in the neck. The only way to make people do it is to automate the process. Mozy does that. Many of us have suffered a data-destroying computer crash. But some stories are better than others. Josh Diulio, a marketing exec from Monroe, Mich., left his HP laptop sitting on a ledge on the balcony of his apartment building while he ran inside to get a drink. When he came back a crow was perched on the open laptop. The crow, startled by Diulio, leaped up and away, tipping the laptop just enough that it...

In the latest example of sheer looniness that has marked the current Democrat-controlled Congress, surely the worst if not the craziest Congress in all U.S. history, the House officially sought forgiveness from Native Americans and the victims of Jim Crow-ism. They did that in our name, laying upon our shoulders the sins of long-dead Americans and having us cringe at the feet of today’s casino-rich Native Americans, and our black brothers and sisters whose votes they lust after.

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...

US Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Barack Obama, (D-IL), talks to Carl Venne, chairman of the Crow tribe, at a campaign rally in Crow Agency, Montana May 19, 2008. Venne presented gifts to Obama for his children and wife. CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING IDENTITY OF SENATOR OBAMA'S CROW "PARENTS" US Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Barack Obama, (D-IL), arrives with Hartford and Mary Blackeagle, his new Crow "parents" who adopted him as a member of the Crow nation, for a campaign rally in Crow Agency, Montana May 19, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008...

ONE SHEET TO THE WIND Rosie doesn't want Earth to suffer. So, she is taking Sheryl Crow's offer. And, it is no small feat. But, she'll use just one sheet --of Brawny--the quicker picker-upper!

New York, Apr 30, 2007 / 11:23 am (CNA).- The St. Louis media seems to be running a campaign against the Catholic Church, following Archbishop Raymond Burke’s protest of abortion-activist Sheryl Crow’s performance at a Catholic hospital fundraiser. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV (CBS affiliate), in particular, have invited the public to voice its opinion over the archbishop’s decision.Catholic League president Bill Donohue says the “voyeuristic posture assumed by these two media outlets is not legitimate.According to Donohue, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch “is inviting non-Catholics to opine about an internal matter of the St. Louis Archdiocese, beckoning the bigots...

  "I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required" - Sheryl CrowThis cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  IowaPresidentialWatch.com

Language changes. This cannot be denied. Due to one person's brave words we have a new change to our lexicon. Sheryl Crow, the 'one square wonder' has single handedly wiped the way clear the future of our communication. For instance; when things are getting shakey at work you should state that if everyone doesn't work together the "Crow's really gonna hit the fan." When someone startles you, tell them you nearly "Crowed your pants." Suppose you are playing poker. Your friend fails to disguise his glee at the hand you dealt to him. While holding your chips closer than your...

Talk about serendipity ! George Tenet releases a new book on the same day Sheryl Crow urges us to use only ONE SQUARE of toilet paper ! Oh....and PLEASE don't squeeze the Charmin' !!

When it comes to Sheryl Crow's touring requirements, if it's Tuesday, this must be Bombay. Gin that is. The rock star's performance contract includes specific day-to-day instructions on what kind of booze Sheryl needs in her dressing room (TSG has never seen such attention to detail in any other concert rider we've posted). For each show, Crow requires 12 bottles of Grolsch beer, 6 bottles of "local" beer, and a bottle each of "good Australian Cabernet" and "good Merlot." As for the harder stuff, promoters are directed to purchase specific booze depending on what day of the week the concert...

Their college tour ended, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David describe their efforts to stop global warming as part of the "most important mission" of the times. That's the hope of Grammy-winning rocker Crow and David, who produced the Oscar-winning documentary movie "An Inconvenient Truth. Advertisement "It's great to go out and play music, and I love that, too. And it's also nice to make money. But this is not that," Crow said in an interview on Sunday in Washington. "This is a whole bunch of people dedicating their time, their lives, working for free, for a mission. And it is...

MIDI - JUST ONE LOOK We must do our part...it is up to each human being who's here It is all environmental Just one sheet...that is all you get, get, get...when you're wiping your fanny I'm not kidding Just one sheet...so wipe carefully-y-y...you may have to help granny She can't do it Just one sheet...though it sounds absurd, you must listen...stop global warming Save our planet Just one sheet...or we all will be in deep mouring If it's too late to save it...right down the crapper, there it goes We use too much paper...that's obvious...obvious And if all of...

A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers. The National Black Republican Association ads have been heard in Ohio, the Ohio Democratic Party said Thursday. Republican Party officials and the campaign for Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Blackwell, who is black, said they haven't heard of the ads and can't say whether they've aired in Ohio. Blackwell, the state's secretary of state, faces Democratic U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, who is white, in the November...

I have felt for sometime now that the main motivating force behind the "Bush lied, people died" crowd is the notion that "they did it to Clinton, so we'll do it to Bush." And while there were those on the right that went to extremes in their criticism of President Clinton, the general level of vitriol and hate that Liberals have sunk to in their seething rage against Bush specifically and Republicans in general is totally out of proportion with reality and precedent. This reminded me of this sketch from Mystery Science Theater 3000:Mike: And then the drunk guy says,...

NBC White House correspondent David Gregory ate a little crow Sunday on this "Meet The Press," apologizing for his arrogant behavior during White House press briefings dealing with the shooting of a hunting companion by Vice President Cheney. Reacting to the storm of criticism leveled by the public at the Washington press corps for complaining that they were not told immediately about the incident, leaving the job of reporting it to a small-town Texas newspaper, Gregory apologized for his boorish behavior. "I think I made a mistake,” he told host Tim Russert. "I think it was inappropriate for me to...

I wouldn't have even started this thread if it weren't for all the media attention being given to the "Tookie" execution tonight. So, in listening to various broadcast and radio shows on the topic, several times the topic of his "last meal" were discussed, and it got me to thinking -- what kind of food would I request if I were similarly situated? I know, it's a bit macarbe, but really, if YOU had one last meal, what would it be? I'll chime in later with my selection.

A restaurant in Østre Bolærne, an archipelago on the outer fringe of the Oslo Fjord, has decided on menu innovation to attract new diners. Manager Rolf Bjarne Sund is not sure if the new additions of crow and seagull to the menu will be a definite hit with visitors, but hopes they will give the rare items a try, newspaper Tønsberg Blad reports. "It has something to do with the feeling that this (crow) is not a clean bird," Sund admitted. "But it is incredibly good. It tastes like chicken with a hint of game. And it is safe to...

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong made two significant announcements Monday regarding his future. He and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged and are planning a spring wedding. And Armstrong confirmed that he is "thinking" about coming out of retirement and defending his Tour yellow jersey. Armstrong made these relevations during an interview with the American-Statesman. [. . .] Armstrong has only entertained the idea of riding the Tour next July for about the last two weeks. He first started mulling the idea after a French newspaper reported Aug. 22 that Armstrong tested positive six times for a banned...

CRAWFORD, Texas – Bothered by what she laments as mounting "distractions," Cindy Sheehan sought Monday to refocus her peace vigil near President Bush's ranch on her central anti-war message. Since she "came out here and sat down on a lawn chair" 10 days ago, Ms. Sheehan said, the situation has "got out of hand and just turned into a media circus." For instance, she cited calls for the president's impeachment as "another distraction off of our original cause." On Sunday, she faced reports that she was not paying her federal income taxes. "They killed my son in an illegal and...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Jamie Licko, Downtown District executive director, isn’t ready to give in to the swarms of defecating crows that have been dirtying Greene Square Park for years. It’s not good enough, Licko says, to just take another round of disgusting photos, write another angry story, have downtown officials scream at City Hall again for help. ‘‘It’s been a constant issue, and it should be something that’s fixable,’’ she said Tuesday. ‘‘I don’t think it’s something we can keep talking about and not doing anything about.’’ Licko said the crow-dropping problem in and near the downtown park has been...

Lance Armstrong says he will aim for a seventh victory this summer. . Armstrong has won the Tour for the last six years. His 2005 racing schedule "will include this summer's Tour de France, where he will go for a seventh straight victory," his team, Discovery Channel, said on Wednesday on its Web site. . "I am grateful for the opportunity that Discovery Communications has given the team and look forward to achieving my goal of a seventh Tour de France," it quoted the Texan as saying. . The announcement ended speculation about whether Armstrong would skip this year's Tour,...

Here are the 2004 Media Web awards Commentary: Media failed to rise to the occasion -- again By Jon Friedman, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 12:01 AM ET Dec. 10, 2004 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - After the furor over former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair marred the media industry in 2003, it seemed unlikely that my profession's image could look even worse this year. But never underestimate us. When the reporting sins of USA Today's Jack Kelley (GCI: news, chart, profile) surfaced several months ago, he had clearly topped Blair and another miscreant named Stephen Glass. The bean counters had their...

The three ambassadors who died violent deaths were Cleo Noel Jr.,killed in March 1973 when Palestinian terrorists struck an embassy in Sudan; Adolph Dubs, killed in 1973 when Afghan police stormed a hotel room where he was being held by terrorists; and Arnold Raphel, who died in 1988 when a plane crashed. Receiving waivers as longtime diplomats with military service were William Rivkin and Philip Crowe. Rivkin, who died in 1967, served as ambassador to Senegal, Gambia and Luxembourg and spent five years of in the Army during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Crowe, who...

In the September 20 issue of Time Magazine, author David Van Biema/Jackson writes very flippantly about a “Muslims Only” event held at Six Flags in New Jersey. He seems irritated that anyone would raise objections to religious segregation at a public amusement park. Before objections were raised, just how did the event’s organizers, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), plan to enforce Muslim-only entrance to Six Flags? By the way people dressed? By their skin color? Would entrants to the park have been forced to recite verses of the Koran? Were Jews wearing yarmulkes and Christians wearing crucifixes to...

I was wrong. When I'm wrong, I admit it. And I was wrong. Five months ago, I predicted John Kerry would win the presidential election. I really thought he would for several reasons: President Bush's record – especially on domestic issues – was weak. He didn't show any desire to curtail illegal immigration. He even proposed yet another amnesty program, an idea entirely unpopular with the American people at any time, but I thought politically lethal at a time when the country is facing dramatic terrorist attacks. He also increased spending on a host of programs for which there is...

Jack Johnson, Sheryl Crow and Crosby, Stills & Nash have registered for the Vote for Change Tour. The artists will join a growing lineup that already includes Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Jurassic 5, My Morning Jacket, Ben Harper and a host of other artists seeking to remove President Bush from office. Jack Johnson and Crosby, Stills & Nash join the touring trio of Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Keb' Mo' for the September 29 gig in Phoenix. Sheryl Crow will rock the stage in Jacksonville, Florida, on October 8,...

MOSCOW - It used to be said about a fraudster in Australia that he was too crooked to lie straight in bed. Until now, however crooked the Russian oligarchs – the handful of men who seized control of Russia’s oil and mineral wealth a decade ago – may have seemed, the lure of their money has overwhelmed the inhibitions of investors, bankers, non-executive directors, and managers from jumping into the same bed. Until now, they had reason to believe they could get in and out swiftly, and make a clean getaway. A class-action lawsuit, filed last week in a federal...

US Postal team rider Lance Armstrong of the United States wears the leader's yellow jersey as he receives a kiss from his girlfriend, U.S. singer Sheryl Crow, after the fourth stage of the Tour de France, a team time trial from Cambrai over 64,5 km to Arras, northern France, July 7, 2004. The US Postal team won the time trial in one hour, twelve minutes and 03.26 seconds. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

A University Of Texas At San Antonio associate professor who improperly used State computers for political and commercial purposes has apologized for his actions, sort of. Following an exposé, which appeared in the San Antonio Lightning on August 22nd, the official website of Neal Richard Wagner, assistant chair of UTSA Computer Sciences, was purged of dozens of pages because of political and commercial content. UTSA rules and regulations ban employees from using State facilitities and UTSA's name to further such ventures. While an individual may feel that identification with UTSA will add weight to his or her views on a...

<p>GOV. GRAY DAVIS deserves to be recalled. His performance has earned him record-low poll numbers because voters believe he is too arrogant, too nasty -- and that he would sell them out to any special interest that could help his career. Rather than shape up to fend off the recall, Davis has been acting as if his main goal is to prove to skeptical voters that they've been too kind to him.</p>

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