Listen up, Monster-in-the-Closet!
Pay attention, Thing-Under-the-Bed!
And you, shadow-men, vampires and demons,
All you scary things, dead and undead.
You'll only get this one warning -
You no longer rule the night.
The Watchman's making his rounds now,
And you'd best just stay out of sight.

The transcript of the tape indicates that bin Laden refers to statements from U.S. soldiers in Iraq, taken from a BBC interview that aired in an exclusive report on ABC News in July. You might might have seen two soldiers with the 2nd Infantry division, Corporal Joshua Lake and Specialist Michael Vassell, speaking candidly about their experiences in Iraq–-apparently bin Laden was watching ABC because right after that he also complained that "Desperate Housewives" was never the same after the first season.

No sign of Steve Fossett yet. AP reports--

Searchers looking for Steve Fossett have come across six uncharted plane crashes, but none of the wrecks sheds light on what may have happened to the multimillionaire adventurer.

In regard to that, I got this letter:

I realize that Ed Dames states that Mr. Fossett is dead, however, I have dowsed (1926 hours Central Time Zone, September 8, 2007) for Steve's location and state of health and my pendulum indicates that Mr. Fossett did not make a forced landing and that he is alive and uninjured. His general location is within 150 miles outside the search area to the southeast.

When I asked if Steve was alive, I got a good, strong, immediate response to the affirmative.

Sorry Ed... I gotta go with what I know.

Also, this doesn't necessarily mean that he will be found alive. The Air Force is searching for something, just not Steve Fossett. Fossett may be expended to promulgate the cover.

ABC News is reporting:

The Department of Homeland Security has eveloped a new office to use spy satellites to secure U.S. borders and protect the country from natural disasters.

Department of Homeland Security officials testified Thursday before the House Homeland Security Committee about the program and faced extensive criticism about the privacy and civil liberty concerns of the new office, called the National Applications Office.

The purpose of the National Applications Office is to provide the Department of Homeland Security and civil, state and local emergency planners with imagery and data from satellites run by the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Committee members expressed concern about abuse of the satellite imagery, charging that Homeland Security had not informed the oversight committee about the program.

"What's most disturbing is learning about it from The Wall Street Journal," said Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

On Wednesday, September 5, 2007, members of the National Research Council’s Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee released a study that suggests five space missions as part of NASA’s "Beyond Einstein" program. One of them is the Joint Dark Energy Mission.

The Dark Energy Mission would study a mysterious force, called dark energy, that is hypothetically thought to be accelerating the expansion of the universe.

NASA and the Department of Energy initially asked the NRC to access projects in five physics/astronomy areas but after a year of research and study the NRC group decided that dark energy had the greatest potential to produce the most scientific information.

"Dark energy," or as it’s known in my house as, "coffee."

Last week’s first hour guest, Jim Marrs was in the news this week.

According to transcripts of the technical debriefing following the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins told of an encounter with a large cylindrical UFO even before reaching the Moon," U.S. investigative journalist and researcher Jim Marrs documents Mr. Aldrin further officially presented his encounters with apparent Extraterrestrials on CNN's Larry King Show.

Jim Marrs further presents that Mr. Aldrin said, "The first unusual thing that we saw I guess was one day out or pretty close to the Moon. It had a sizable dimension to it". Aldrin said the Apollo crew at first thought the object was the Saturn 4 booster rocket (S-IVB); but, he added, "We called the ground and were told the S-IVB was 6,000 miles away."

Mr. Aldrin described the UFO as a cylinder, while Armstrong said it was "really two rings" Two connected rings". Collins also said it appeared to be a hollow, tumbling cylinder. He added, "It was a hollow cylinder. But then you could change the focus on the sextant and it would be replaced by this open-book shape. It was really weird."

Even more strange was the experience of Mr. Aldrin and Mr. Armstrong, after they reached the Moon. I’ll refer you to www.coasttocoastam.com for that.

Finally:

Mice containing a mutated human gene implicated in autism exhibit the poor social skills but increased intelligence akin to the title character’s traits in the movie "Rain Man," researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

"It’s an attempt to replicate, as best we can, a complicated disease that has as a symptom an inability to use language effectively," said Dr. Thomas Südhof, chairman of neuroscience and senior author of the study, which appears online in Science Express and will be published later in Science.

In the  latest study, the researchers introduced a mutated human form of the neuroligin-3 molecule into mice. They then tested the animals’ social interactions by exposing them to an unknown mouse in a cage. The genetically engineered mice spent less time near the strange mouse than their normal littermates and the modified preferred to spend time with inanimate objects just like Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" and kept complaining that it was "going to miss Wapner . . . definitely going to miss Wapner."