Category: Out Of This World
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The Issue
I'm sure everybody has heard about the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIRGINIA_TECH_SHOOTING?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">tragedy at Virginia Tech</a>. Right away on the Internet I read stuff about how this tragedy was caused by the ability of Americans to own guns and then read articles about how this tragedy was caused by people not being able to freely carry guns. Let's keep…
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I Don’t Understand Yet Again
There is a new idea being bantered around in Montana that quite a few people think is a good idea. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/10/news/state/29-train.txt" >A southern passenger train route through the state</a>. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THIS IS A GOOD IDEA! It sounds like an extremely stupid idea if you ask me.<br />n<br />nFirst off, they compare…
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Support
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/03/news/state/90-legiconfirm.txt">This just shows</a> how <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> and the state's Democrats do not support the largest segment of the agricultural industry in Montana, cattle production. I guess the goal is to drive all cattle producers out of Montana if the weather doesn't do it first. For the record I am not a member…
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Prognostications
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/ROBERTSON_PREDICTION?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Pat Robertson predicts 'mass killing'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.<br />n<br />n"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said…
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The Biggest Engineering Project in History
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003460386_btview04.html" >Why Vista might be the last of its kind</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Imagine this. One of the world's most powerful monopolies puts 10,000 people to work for five years to create one new product. And nobody is really sure if anyone wants it. How's that for a gamble?<br />n<br />nThat's what we have with Windows…
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Incredible
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003454424_computer30.html" >Mysterious old Greek gadget turns out to be early computer</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>After a century of study, scientists have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,100-year-old device known as the "Antikythera mechanism," showing it to be a complex and uncannily accurate astronomical computer.<br />n<br />nThe mechanism, recovered in more than 80 highly corroded fragments…
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Strange
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_on_re_us/text_message_crash" >Teen kills woman during suicide attempt</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A lovesick 16-year-old girl crashed her car into an oncoming vehicle in a suicide attempt, counting down the moments before impact in text messages sent to the female classmate who spurned her, authorities say. The girl survived; a woman in the other car was killed.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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Immaculate Conception?
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_nm/vietnam_pregnancy_dc" >Death-row prisoner gets pregnant in solitary</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>death-row inmate held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for almost a year is pregnant and is seeking a pardon to give birth, a newspaper reported on Thursday.<br />n<br />nhe Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper quoted a police doctor as saying tests in September confirmed that convicted heroin…
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Stupid Idea
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/17/news/wyoming/50-brand.txt" >Brand inspections for horses debated</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A proposal to make brand inspections optional for horses is being criticized by some horse owners – and by some brand inspectors, as well.<br />n<br />nThe Wyoming Legislative Brand Inspection Task Force voted last week to recommend that brand inspections be made optional for horses.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMaking…
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People Are Stupid
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/30/news/state/55-infant.txt" title="Billings Gazette">Dead infant reported; search finds nothing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A contracted sanitation worker was doing standard cleanup Friday and spotted what may have been a child. The worker was concerned but bagged the trash anyway, thinking it could have been a doll, Pryor said. Law enforcement was notified once the worker's supervisors learned of…