Archive for the 'Real News' category
And Yet Another Reason…
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:43 pmThe Funniest Truth Ad Ever.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 12:13 amTom Cruise is the Jesus of Scientology - WWTCD
Friday, January 26, 2007 6:25 pm
It’s official - Tom Cruise is divine. In a week in which we hardly need reminding that religion is the answer, not the problem, there is excellent news for imbeciles, or “Scientologists” as the sect’s leaders euphemistically insist on referring to its followers. Specifically, Tom Cruise is the new Jesus. Right backatcha, Richard Dawkins!
If you believe reports, the deeply sane Mission Impossible star has been told by church bigwigs that he is the “chosen one”, and destined to spread the word of Scientology around the world. Cynics are instructed to put aside the image of Terry Jones squawking, “He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very disturbed man!” and just acknowledge how much more resonant the whole water-into-wine thing would have been if Jesus had been able to do cool bar tricks like Tom’s character in Cocktail. Or, perhaps, like Tom’s commanding officer in Top Gun, you believe Jesus’s ego was writing cheques his body couldn’t cash, and that the whole Messiah myth will be reinvigorated by an entertainment personality with a better understanding of the need for an “up” ending.
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Wisconsin Web Site Kicks Sand in Faces of GIs in Iraq
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:25 am
An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.
What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company’s Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, “If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.”
Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.
In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent:
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2006 Darwin Award Winners for Dead Dumbasses
Friday, January 19, 2007 9:17 pm
9. In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
8. A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who “totally zoned when he ran,” accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
7. Buxton, NC: A man died on a when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug caved in on him. -goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the , on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
6. Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle s hop he was burglarizing onto the floor. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth - to keep his hands free - rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
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The New 2009 Mustang Spy Shots
Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:59 pm
Ford has begun testing prototypes for its 2009 Mustang, which appears to be destined for a serious mid-cycle makeover. We spotted this prototype in heavy traffic for all of ten seconds, and managed a drive-by photo-blitz as the ‘Stang passed by. With only mere seconds to take in the design as the stop light turned green, the first word that came to mind was “Giugiaro.” It seems that that first impression may have been justified, after analyzing the photos once the dust (and traffic) cleared.
Putting these spy shots up next to pix of the Giugiaro Mustang concept that originally debuted at the LA Auto Show, we see some definite similarities between the front-clips of these two cars.
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The Year is 1907…
Sunday, January 14, 2007 1:11 pm
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1907.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes! In actuality…a 100 years is a VERY SHORT PERIOD of history…
Here are some statistics for the Year 1907 :
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The average life expectancy was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower !
The average wage 1907 in was 22 cents per hour.
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Few Clues to High IQs
Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:52 pm
Kids with high IQs have a distinct pattern of brain development, according to a 20-year study of more than 300 young minds published in the March 30 issue of the journal Nature.
And for the next big brain study, scientists will get these smart kids to figure out what this Nature study really means.
Like all brain and intelligence studies, this one is loaded with implications. If smart brains are biologically different from dumb brains, does that mean that genetics and therefore race determine intelligence?
Yes and no. That is, yes to the former to some degree (if you can define intelligence), and no to the latter. Regardless, dim-witted eugenicists will use the study to advance their cause of breeding super-intelligent humans.
The study, led by Dr. Philip Shaw of the National Institutes of Mental Health, found surprisingly that the brains of smarter kids developed more slowly than the brains of children with average to lower intelligence, based on standard IQ tests.
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