Details at Wonkette probably NSF: Indiana Perv Busted for Heading Young Republicans – Wonkette The Clark County, Indiana GOP Chair was recently elected Young Republican National Federation Chair and so it was only a matter of time before the Sheriff began investigating him for “alleged deviate conduct.â€
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Tornado sirens activated as funnels sweep NW suburbs — chicagotribune.com The muggiest air of 2007, which first reached the area Sunday, exploded Wednesday for a fifth consecutive day into downpour and funnel-cloud producing t-storms. Doppler radar velocity measurements identified tornadic rotation around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in northern Kane County. A flurry of funnel reports ensued from Maple Park to Schaumburg, prompting the activation of tornado sirens. It’s been awfully, awfully wet, humid, hot, and stormy for days, and yesterday was highlighted with a little trip to the basement for us at work. I started hearing people talking about the…
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mullentown » Blog Archive » Hard as Coal Did you all see this guy this morning during his rant outside the Crandall Canyon coal mine disaster?The screaming bald guy would be Robert Murray, president and CEO of Murray Energy Corp., of Cleveland, Ohio. I didn’t get to see him on live TV today, but did listen on the car radio to 90 percent of his news conference in Huntington, Utah. My first thoughts were to cut the guy some slack because he is in shock, is sleep-deprived and deeply worried about the fates of the six coal miners trapped some…
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Via: Flickr Title: Help desk By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Aug ’07, 7.51pm CDT PST
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Via: Flickr Title: 08-08-07_1457.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Aug ’07, 2.59pm CDT PST
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Tovia Smith’s piece on “Competitive Birthing” UGH (tags: breeders Childfreedom litters)
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Salt Lake Tribune – Obama speaks to a crowd of hundreds A small honk-and-wave welcome for presidential candidate Barak Obama turned into a major rally Sunday as more than 500 supporters clogged the entrance of Utah Olympic Park at Kimball Junction to hear him speak. The Illinois senator addressed the crowd for about 20 minutes on his way to a private fundraiser at the Park City home of supporter John Cumming. “Somehow, this grew a little bit,” he said of the throngs of people gathered to see him. When a supporter in the crowd yelled, “We love you Obama,” he…
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Dateline NBC undercover reporter outed A LOT OF MAKEUP can make you prettier, but it won’t make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon. According to sources at the show, she was there to do a piece called Hackers for Hire, with the goal of showing the criminal hacker underground and possibly outing an undercover fed. As Michelle was said to have said, “People in Kansas would be very interested in what is going on at Defcon”. She was busted hours before she walked in the door, the first slide…
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Barrington Fencing Club – Illinois Sport Fencing Sword Foil Epee Saber recreation bout lunge parry riposte Where and When? The BFC meets on Tues. (7:00-8:30 PM), in the Community Room of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Barrington, IL. St. Michael’s is located at 647 Dundee Avenue – on the Northeast corner of Hillside Avenue and Dundee Avenue. (Note – Dundee Ave. runs North and South between Rte 59 and Lake-Cook Road – it is NOT the same as Dundee Rd. which runs East-West and is also known as Rte 68.) I’ve always, always always been interested in learning how to fence.
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Salt Lake Tribune – Jewish conference faces tough questions PARK CITY – The overarching questions and concerns they’d be grappling with were not new, but when about 40 leading Jewish thinkers, writers, academics, rabbis and professionals arrived in Utah last weekend, they were definitely in for something different. For one, gawkers in the Salt Lake City International Airport reportedly approached a group of them and asked, wide-eyed, “Are you Jews?” And then there was that time on Monday when an outdoor-adventure company, under the guise of a “team-building” exercise, asked them to build teepees. Yes, teepees. News media weren’t allowed…