Singing Mice

Via the Dave Ross show - scientists in Japan have developed mice that tweet like birds

Patterns of Behavior

If you dont agree with her you get boxed out.

"The governor said she'd had no contact with McGinn since he said in late October that he didn't think Seattle could trust Olympia or Gregoire when it came to the Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel replacement."

23,000 Teddy Bears

Hockey fans in Calgery, Alberta, Canada tossed 23 thousand teddy bears
on to the ice during a hockey game for charity. This mimics the old tradition of throwing hats, rats(Florida) or octopus(Detroit) on the ice when a goal is scored.

30 year old tech still in use

Here are 3 stories of technology that we developed over 30 years ago and havnt updated or surpassed.

Alvin

Voyager

Discovery

...are greatest days of this country are behind us?

The BP blowout you didnt hear about

Via Wiki leaks - BP's rig in Azerbaijan had a blowout similar to the one experienced in the Gulf of Mexico. And you didnt hear about it because they covered it up.

Lunar Eclipse Monday Night

The moon is going dark this monday night/tuesday morn. There wont be another totality for 3 years so if you misss this one you've got a long wait.

New money game for Banks

Shocking! The forclosure mess isnt even in the grave yet and the banks have a new game to play. This one depends on buying up tax debt the government is too lazy to pursue then tacking on and profiting from a bunch of fees when you finally track the person down. Its like bail bonding, but for the utility companies, and if the poor guy cant pay the courts give you the property.  

Thank god we elected Barak Obama, who promised to reform wall street.

35K Miles, 15 hotels, $418

This guy is stealing my idea of spending 2011 living in hotels for cheap. Except he's doing it by gaming the credit card system.

Geminid meteor shower this monday night

Check it out! 11pm Monday

Lawyer misconduct regularly ignored by States, ABA

Government lawyers regularly act unethically and no one is holding them accountable. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

Can we ever be free of Government?

So the American government is now using its authority squelch payments to WikiLeaks. Americans and foreign citizens alike are being prevented from supporting what is clearly a political organization. This brings up 2 questions.

1) The founding fathers wrote into the constitution a duty to revolt against ones government should it become a tyranny. Given the strengths of the federal government (which was not part of the original constitution) is that now impossible?

2) For the last year or two I have repeatedly heard "intelligence" experts on the radio talking about how the next war will be a cyberwar and we need to fund their departments or it will be the end of the world. Since the leaks from Wikileaks havnt been all that damaging or mindblowing..is it possible someone took a lesson from 911 and just let this leak happen?

Also, in Sweden, things are getting nasty

SpaceX set to launch today

If successful SpaceX will be the first non-government entity to launch a vehicle that returns from obit.

Sao Paulo went dark ?

Can you imagine what would happen if the entire metropolis of LA or NY lost power? Well apparently Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo lost its power, along with 18 of the 26 States of that nation. Thats a lot of people stuck in elevators...

Start of the Cyberwar?

All I know is that freedom ends when it makes public employees look bad.

Via the Palm Beach Post

"It's the start of the information war, it really looks like that," said Pascal Gloor, vice president of the Swiss Pirate Party, whose Swiss Web address, wikileaks.ch, has been serving as a mainstay for WikiLeaks traffic.
"There is a whole new generation, digital natives, born with the Internet, that understands the freedom of communication," he told The Associated Press. "It's not a left-right thing anymore. It's a generational thing between the politicians who don't understand that it's too late for them to regulate the Internet and the young who use technology every day."

Via Dave Ross

Meantime CBS's Mark Phillips says Wiki-leaker Julian Assange continues to hide in Britain -- consulting with his lawyer:
"With the threats against him, including assassination threats, he's not breaking cover."
You'd think he'd published a picture of Mohammed or something. He didn't do that. But he sure has published an unflattering portrait of America's friends, and the penalty seems to be similar.

Candlelight

I thought you weren't suppose to do anything "by the candlelight" heh. Cute song..bout time jews started "representing"

Aliens

As usual Dave Ross says it the best :

"Because I'm telling you, the real alien is going to be a life form where the penis sprouts from the forehead and they don't care who sees it.
And then what do we do?
Large segments of America can't even get used to gay people.
Can you imagine the level of political correctness that would require?
"Ah it's OK you can keep the hat on."

Joe is a douche

What do people see in this guy? He has become scarier than Bush when it comes to hawkish bills design to curtail liberty and strengthen the power of government.I spent 3 minutes with him and I needed a shower.