Friday, October 6, 2006

this, that, the other

sometimes The Onion CAN make me laugh out loud.

The Selena stamp and the David Mann (famous motorcycle artist from Easyrider magazine) stamp. not available from your local post office though.

Bruce Potts,a professor of public speaking at the University of New Mexico, and his full face tribal tattoo.

The Hubble detects as many as 16 new planets.

Deliver Us From Evil, Amy Berg's unflinching documentary about a defrocked california priest convicted (and later deported back to his native Ireland) of several counts of child molestation won Best Documentary Film at the L.A. film festival.

Last week, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, joined forces with Republicans to vote 80 to 19 to begin construction of an expensive set of Berlin Wall-like barriers across this nation's southern border.

These are the good guys? Police in Russia have conducted raids against Georgian-owned markets, shops and restaurants and cracked down on illegal immigrants. Officials said at least 140 Georgians were deported by plane Friday. A spokesman for the Moscow city education department said police were asking schools for lists of students with Georgian names, whose parents might be in Russia illegally.

Archaeologists working in Mexico City have discovered an Aztec monolith - the most important ruins of the ancient civilization to be found in decades.

The military on MySpace - a link filled article definitely worth reading.

At least five apparently bogus voter registration forms were submitted to the Metro Nashville election commission by a worker with ties to the Republican National Committee, and up to 150 other registrations have been called into question, The Tennessean has learned.

Fuma los puros, toma ese cafecito riquito y ten mucho sexo, pero cuidado con el alcohol! Some Cuban centenarians say cigars, coffee and sex is the secret to living past 100. Cuba, with a population of 11.2 million, has about 3,000 people who have lived for more than a century.

2 comments:

Christina said...

military on myspace link doesn't work

sonja said...

try it now - should be all good.