Category: Out Of This World

  • Reporting, I Guess

    I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…

  • TMI*

    <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_3244979">Its a stretch: Man, 50, pulls truck with penis</a><br />n<br />nA little too much penis worship here for me.<br />n<br />n<b>I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all. Michael W. Smith</b><br />n<br />n<br />n* TMI Too Much Information

  • Image

    I see Wyoming has a <a href="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/11/07/20051107_062200_flash3bm.htm">new image</a> going for itself.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal. <br />n<br />nNEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes…

  • Glutton For Punishment

    <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1207208&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">Arkansas Mother Gives Birth to 16th Child</a><br />n<br />nCan you say "Glutton for Punishment."<br />n<br />nI have no problem with people having this many kids if that's what trips their trigger, but I sure hope they are supporting them and the state isn't picking up the tab for them. That's what upsets me in…

  • Duh!

    I think I would file this under the no shit category.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1201849&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">World Helpless Against Assaults of Nature</a><br />n<br />nLike this is really something I didn't know?<br />n<br />n<b>Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling </b>

  • Quite a Meal

    A new definition for biting off more than you can chew.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1186609&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator</a><br />n<br />nWhile this seems very humorous it actually this also shows what a threat invasive species can be to an environment. People releasing their "pet" harms everybody.<br />n<br />n<b>When one tugs at a single thing…

  • A Bounty of Cats

    Now I like cats but <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050524/ap_on_fe_st/cat_infestation">this</a> is ridiculous. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>Margaret Sue Jamel made her initial appearance Monday in Waukesha County Circuit Court on charges that say 193 live and 65 dead cats were taken from the home Friday by Humane Animal Welfare Society personnel and the Dousman Fire Department.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWhy was she…

  • Interesting

    I don't know anything about the Fischer-Tropsch technology which produces <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/21/build/state/35-coal-oil.inc">oil from coal</a>, but it sounds too good to be true.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Schweitzer envisions a plant where the state-owned Otter Creek coal reserves are located in Powder River County. It would cost $2.5 billion to build a private project over two years with 5,000…

  • Protecting What’s Important

    Why does <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/19/build/local/85-dog.inc" target="_new">this women</a> want stricter cat rules? Are the kitty cats terrorizing her precious pooch she's holding maybe. <br />n<br />n<b>I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. A little bundle in a…

  • The Way Things Are

    I thought about talking about how upset I was that the consumers of Montana are <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/15/build/state/68-energy-plan.inc" target="_new">getting</a> <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/04/15/build/state/64-ethanol-bill.inc" target="_new">screwed</a> <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/04/14/build/state/66-meat-labels.inc" target="_new">over</a> but decided it just isn't worth it. I've said my piece many times and nobody cares but me. So onto what I can control, until the politicians of both stripes take…