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Your Tax Dollars At Work

A University of Illinois perfesser has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation in order to pursue a cure for cancer means of altering the sexes of papaya plants.  No, this isn't a put-on; your money is really going to fund this critically important endeavor.  Apparently, the recession hasn't significantly impacted the halls of academia (or is that macademia?).  Either way, it's nuts.

U. of I. plant biology professor Ray Ming secured a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to change the papayas' sex to grow only plants that produce hermaphrodite offspring.

Still Using 8-bit Computers?

The Atlantis space shuttle needs to launch soon, in order to avoid a number of issues.  Of particular interest, however:  NASA would avoid flying during the New Year's holiday because the shuttle's computers are not designed to handle the year-end rollover.

Are they still using the 8-bit OSI Challenger models from 1978?  Do these rocket scientists have no coders?  Why are we paying billions of dollars to shoot people and payloads into space with such crappy equipment?  I'm sorry, but if NASA can't invest in some reasonable system upgrades and some decent coding, they need to be shut down.

It's The End Of The World

Well, probably not.  Certainly, AlGore had better hope not, because if the world ends in 2012, he's got no way of cashing in on his carbon offset credit scam.

Heil!

The skull fragment with the bullet hole, long believed to have been that of the Dear Leader, has been analyzed - and the fragment is definitely not that of Dear Adoph.  It was once part of a woman between the age of 20 to 40.  It might well have been part of Eva Braun, Hitler's consort, who was 33 at the time of her murder - though even that is unclear.

What is clear is that what we thought we knew was demonstrably wrong.

Man-Made Global Warming Kills Fish

Oh, wait.  Let's shake the Magic 8-Ball and see what comes up next.  While we wait for the members of the Religion to gather and shake, we have some actual science and results to peruse:

“We have more fish over the falls already than we typically see for the whole year,” said Chris Kern, assistant fisheries manager for ODFW’s Ocean Salmon and Columbia River Program.

This is terrible news.  Those salmon should all be dead, cooking in the overheated waters that your lifestyle brought about.  Why just today, BO and his teleprompter were sermonizing about how terrible the "problem" of "climate change" is, and urging global action to "solve the problem".

Now, BO promised you all that he wasn't going to increase taxes on you poor folk that make less than $250,000 a year.  And he's not going to do that.  Your income taxes will not go up by so much as "one dime".  BO said that.  And he'll keep the faith with you, baby.

On the other hand, he never promised that your "fees" wouldn't increase.  You get to pay more for everything - none of it tax-deductible - but your income taxes won't increase by so much as one dime.  You pay more for bacon, eggs, broccoli, cheese.  You pay more for the vehicle you drive in order to get to work.  Your costs add up to around $2000 a year, on average.

Oh, your income tax hasn't increased by so much as a dime.  Your actual income has decreased by $2000, but you still get taxed as though you had that $2000 to toss around.  Anybody still know how to do math?

Well the landslide will bring it down

And a landslide on the Columbia River caused a small tsunami.  Power to the water!

Religion Collides With Science

Again.  AlGore acolytes are already lining up to explain that ice ages have nothing to do with man-made climate change.  They're so pathetic.  Their religion just isn't catching on. 

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University said they have found the reason for the Earth’s ice ages.

They said ice ages are linked to shifts in solar radiation caused by changes in the earth’s rotation and axis and not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures.

You can see how they hate when this happens.

Forget "Peak Oil". We're Running Out Of Helium.

As has been the case for the past forty years, another "energy economist" has stepped forward with the dire warning that oil production will peak within the next ten years.  Well of course it will, since environmeddlists and politicians won't let us drill anywhere!  At some point, their predictions are bound to pan out - much as predictions of famine will prove true if they take it into their heads to refuse to allow farmers to plant.

However, now comes news that we may already have peaked in terms of our supply of a critical element: helium.

High-Pitched Screeching May Save You

Yeah, you immediately thought of your wife or girlfriend, now didn't ya?

"The groundbreaking finding here is that you can make lesions deep in the brain--through the intact skull and skin..."

That's a groundbreaking finding?

40 Years Ago, Americans Walked On The Moon

Many celebrate, although Russia, not so much.  And although plans are afoot to return to the moon, possibly to establish a base in support of further manned deep-space exploration, it may not be necessary.  Some Americans are already way out there.

Far-left "comedienne" and one-time Airhead America radio host Janeane Garofalo has been tritzing about the U.K., braying that "there is almost no liberal news outlet in America".  This might lead you to conclude that MSNBC and other networks here are somehow right-wing.  "[T]he media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing."