Dude.. chill. It's a holiday weekend.
IP: "Freely"
Sunday, September 6, 2009, 12:36 AM CST
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by Ian Punnett
Happy International Bacon Day! At least according to the National Pork Board, Sept. 5 marks the second annual Bacon Day. I’m pretty sure Congress hasn’t voted on the creation of a national holiday for bacon but it’s just a matter or time considering Congress’ love of pork.
I happen to believe that bacon makes everything better. I love bacon. Some people have asked me what is it like to have such a large national audience on the weekend and be a little bit famous and I say, “It’s like having part of you made into bacon.”
Well, it makes sense to me.
A Washington University in St. Louis researcher is a little more famous today:

Sept. 4, 2009 -- Chimpanzees in the Congo have developed specialized "tool kits" to forage for army ants, reveals new research published Sept. 3 in the American Journal of Primatology. This not only provides the first direct evidence of multiple tool use in this context, but suggests that chimpanzees have developed a sustainable way of harvesting food.
A team from the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project, recovered 1,060 tools and collected 25 video recordings of chimpanzees using them to forage for army ants.

That’s even more amazing--the chimps were using video cameras record themselves!
Do you know what kind of tools that the chimpanzees were using to open up the army ant hills?
Monkey wrenches!
FoxNews is reporting about a cool new tool: A speed bump that generates electricity.
New Energy Technologies has developed a prototype device it’s now testing at a Burger King in Hillside, New Jersey.
The “Motion Power Energy Harvester” is designed to capture kinetic energy from vehicles that would otherwise be lost when drivers hit the brakes to pick up their Whoppers.
It looks like a flattened speed bump with long pedals across the top that press down when tires roll over them. That force turns gears inside, generating 2000 watts of electricity instantaneously, according to the engineers who designed it.
The trick is collecting that energy and distributing it in a cost-effective way.
Engineer Jerry Lynch says, “If this is multiplied by ten times the length and we have 100,000 or 150,000 cars a year the device will pay back in less than two years,” Lynch estimates.
Great--now the drive-thru lanes are going to be a mile and half long. No, I’m kidding, that’s awesome. Does this mean that if I’m helping Burger King pay its electric bill then when I’m driving through to get the latest “Simpsons” character toys that they’ll have more than Marge and Dr. Hibbard?
They never have the ones I like when I get there!
Most of my cartoon watching friends have abandoned “The Simpsons” for “Family Guy” but I remain loyal, even if it’s not as good as it used to be. “Family Guy” is funny but it’s not exactly a high-water mark for civilization.
And it turns out that civilization is just a little younger than we thought it was:
Modern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published.
The new analysis revealed modern humans separated from Neanderthals around 300-400,000 years ago rather than previous estimates of 500-600,000 years.
The research suggested that modern humans migrated out of Africa between 55-60,000 years ago rather than the previous dates of 70-80,000 years. (Physorg.com)
And, researchers can now reveal, the departure happened on a Thursday.
They’d have a one-in-seven chance of being right!
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a new technology for use in underwater acoustics. The new technology uses flashes of laser light to remotely create underwater sound. The new acoustic source has the potential to expand and improve both Naval and commercial underwater acoustic applications, including undersea communications, navigation, and acoustic imaging. (Physorg.com)
Just one more step in the march of science to ruin completely the lives dolphins and whales.
A UK grandfather revealed today that a massive stroke miraculously cured his ailing sight.
Malcolm Darby, 70, had worn glasses since the age of two due to measles.
"It wasn't until about four or five days later in hospital when a nurse walked past me with a newspaper under her arm and I could read the heading. I could never have done that before," he said.
"I didn't think anything about it because I was still suffering from the stroke.
"But after I got home I realised I could watch my television without my glasses.”
But recovering his sight was not the only strange effect of his life-changing stroke - the 70-year-old has lost his ability to speak French.
He added: "I'm on the mend now, so every cloud has a silver lining, especially with getting my sight back.
"But before the stroke I used to be able to speak French, and now I just can't get a word of it out."
Isn’t the brain just amazing? The same stroke in the same brain but in one part, sight is restored while another part of the brain is French fried.
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"Love the Lord your God with all your heart" and "Love your neighbor as yourself" which includes, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."
Why have you never said once either of those laws, which Jesus said were the two greatest, on Coast to Coast A.M.? Why instead do you keep vilifying Christians who are clearly kind to all?
Clearly "Anatomy of Evil" should have included an analysis of your damaged brain.
So much for "Do not judge" Mr. Do Not Judge.
Here is what the Lord you supposedly love says, Ian:
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness." - 2 Peter 3:9-13
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all." - Luke 17:26-29
"Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
"mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them." - 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Oh what an extremist Jesus was! Aren't we Christians just oh so dangerous you hypocrite?
Why have you never said once either of those laws, which Jesus said were the two greatest, on Coast to Coast A.M.? Why instead do you keep vilifying Christians who are clearly kind to all?
Clearly "Anatomy of Evil" should have included an analysis of your damaged brain.
So much for "Do not judge" Mr. Do Not Judge.
Here is what the Lord you supposedly love says, Ian:
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
"First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness." - 2 Peter 3:9-13
"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all." - Luke 17:26-29
"Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
"mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them." - 2 Timothy 3:1-5
Oh what an extremist Jesus was! Aren't we Christians just oh so dangerous you hypocrite?
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Underwater sound by laser? Spring out as if grabbing water in a breast stroke fasion to William Orbit, ~ like Hello Waveforms. Have a bolly with a colorful salt water fin afterwards. lol. |
Good show tonight so far!
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