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"And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus"   Philippians 4:19  (NKJV)

The following was written by Frederick W. Kagan for The Daily Standard. It is his account of his participation in a hearing before the House Budget Committee on the situation in Iraq:

Grinders - Professional
HH panic is ThruTheFreakinRoof today
^^outed...panicking §
^ Fat choking off appraiser Mike's brain §
Never Mind ALT-A.
^^ Never take advice from this hobo §
That's great advice §
you're back!
Headlights & Lights
Since when did using a sockpuppet
Thats why the bailout will cost closer to $2T
Why you calling other people liars
^^ Said Warren Muppet :) §
Congress is already
Got a link? You make up some strange shit. §
Keegs needs a link to find the bathroom! :) §
Heat Exchangers
They're turning out to be foreingers §

This is the Atomic Testing Site in Nevada. Atoms for Peace dug these holes.

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Meteor Crater is another example of what a large collision with reality looks like.

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A quarterback has, on average, just three and half seconds to throw the ball before getting sacked. In those crazy moments, he needs to scan the perimeter, locate teammates and threats, choose the target with the best probability of success, and throw.

As Jonah Lehrer from the Frontal Cortex pointed out, that is why NFL managers rely on the Wonderlic test, a 50-question, 12-minute test that measures IQ through logic and math problems. The assumption is simple: those quarterbacks who are better at algebra will make better decisions.

But,

At least some things are looking up:

These are strange days. Information runs around the world so fast, one can be at the center of the action and still learn details of what is really going on from the other side of an ocean. In fact, CERN appears a bit up-tight about the latest events in sector 34 of the LHC tunnel. People ask me questions in the comments thread of posts here, but I have less information to provide than others; and I am happy it is so, since my blog is targeted as a possible source of leaks, and I decided I want this to be a place where people get educated about science, and not about scientific rows. And if I play fair, maybe I am allowed to survive here, and maybe one day I will stop being threatened every other day, in the name of protecting internal information of the experiments I am part of.

By Calvin Palmer

The car goes into the shop for supposedly some minor repair and the mechanic tells you it will be ready in three hours.  They always say they will give you a call when it is ready but never do and you end up ringing them.
 
Then comes the awful news.  "We've hit a snag," says the voice at the other end of the line.  A complicated explanation involving valve seats, piston rings, timing chains or some such mechanical component ensues.  It is then followed by, "It's going to take a couple of days" and the caveat, "if we can get the parts straight away."
 
A similar kind of scenario has emerged from CERN concerning the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland.

Earlier last week, the $9 billion atom smasher suffered a problem with a power transformer that controlled the refrigeration.

I decided to make an animated GIF of the latest cycle 24 sunspot, dubbed number 1002, which was literally a "flash in the pan".

Credit: SOHO/MDI Click here for full sized animation

One thing that has been common so far with all cycle 24 sunspots this year is that they have been small and very short lived. This one lived just slightly more than a whole day, a mere blip in solar time, where some sunspots will survive for a whole solar rotation (27 days) or more.

A friend linked me to a blog tonight about Islamophobia. I'm not going to name the blog as I will not give in to his game, let his stats go up and gain more visitors.

He is an idiot. Yes, you know who you are.

Listen to me you sorry you little man, have you ever picked up a qu'ran?

Yet you preach that Christianity is the way forward............. have you ever looked at the contradictions in the Old Testament? I believe there are 101 predicitions that I can remember, I'm sure there are many more.

Crawl back into your cave little one. For that is where you shall end up. In a dark, scary place.