Kittens or Severed Head

This bag by Yael Mer, reminded me of a people watching game I invented. It's kinda like the license plate game but better.

While sitting in the park, you spot some random person carrying a bag or box and try to guess whether they're carrying a bag of kittens or a severed head. (Remember, homicidal maniacs look like everyone else)

Strange game, I know.. but one day, after I'd been playing it for about a year, I saw my sister walking with some guy in the city. She was pretty upset. I called to her a few times but she didn't notice me until the guy pointed me out. She'd started a new job selling exterminating services to office buildings. She was on a field visit that day and the guy was a "technician". She pointed to the plastic grocery bag he was carrying. He had emptied the traps from some building and it was filled with dead rats. He was taking it back to his truck to dispose of them. So maybe not so strange a game. Try it next time you're in the park with a buncha people.

Old bird learns new tricks

Administration stops treating fallen soldiers as cargo

"In an about-face by the U.S. government four years into the war in Iraq, America's fallen troops are being brought back to their families aboard charter jets instead of in the cargo holds of ordinary commercial flights, and the caskets are being met by honor guards in white gloves instead of baggage handlers with forklifts."

"That change -- which took effect quietly in January and applies to members of the U.S. military killed in Afghanistan, too -- came after a campaign waged by a father who was aghast to learn that his son's body was going to be unloaded like so much luggage.

John Holley said an airline executive told him that was the "most expeditious" way to get the body home.

"I said, `That's not going to happen with my son. That's not how my son is coming home,'" said Holley, an Army veteran from San Diego whose son, Spc. Matthew Holley, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2005. "If it was `expeditious' to deliver them in garbage trucks, would you do that?"

Way to honor the troops George.
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Pentagon Report Declassified: Feith Lied | Cheney Still Delusional

Pentagon report debunks prewar Iraq-Al Qaeda connection
Declassified document cites lack of 'evidence of a long-term relationship,' although No. 3 Defense staffer (Feith) called contact 'mature and symbiotic.'

"A declassified report by the Pentagon's acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble provides new insight into the circumstances behind former Pentagon official Douglas Feith's pre-Iraq war assessment of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection - an assessment that was contrary to US intelligence agency findings, and helped bolster the Bush administration's case for the Iraq war."
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Cheney Sticks to His Delusions
"Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

But Vice President Cheney yesterday, in an interview with right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, continued to stick to his delusional guns."
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Time Traveler

Fox News eats itself: Geraldo VS O'Reilly

Be sure to watch the end.

Otters holding hands

Two sea otters float around, napping, holding hands.
They drift apart and do it again. Your teeth will hurt.

Relax..... play BoomShine

A colorful, relaxing game by K2xL with beautiful music by Tim Halbert. Dots appear and explode causing a chain reaction.

Simply click the mouse to trigger an explosion; any dots that come into contact with the resulting circle will also explode.
It creates a new song every time you play
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Honesty

Imagine a world where everyone said exactly what they were thinking...

5 other episodes here

George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house

The Big Brother nightmare of George Orwell's 1984 has become a reality - in the shadow of the author's former London home.

It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here.


On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
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