From CNN.COM: 
FBI: Medal of Honor fakers outnumber true heroes
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) — A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.
The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation’s highest military award, but an FBI agent […]

Do you support the troops?  Are you sure?   Where’s your yellow ribbon Bumper Sticker?
I got in a big debate with my girlfriend this morning about those ribbon bumper stickers people put on their cars and trucks that say “I Support the Troops”.
They’ve always bugged the shit out of me, because I believe what they are […]

 
From MSNBC.COM: 
Pa. vet clinic accused of faking dog’s death
Couple’s lawsuit claims clinic gave their German shepherd to another owner
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A couple who thought they were watching their epileptic dog being euthanized actually witnessed a simple sedation procedure concocted so the veterinary clinic could later give the canine to another owner, they claim in a […]

 
Don Corleone: “I’m a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell… or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I’m going to blame some […]

Could Jurassic Park become a Reality?
Scientists have apparenty been able to retrieve soft tissue and blood vessels inside of 68 million year old T.Rex Bones dug up in Montana.  It’s to early to tell if there is intact DNA, but finding soft tissue in rock-hard fossils that are millions of years old was previously considered […]

 
Yet Another Hypocritical Small Minded Lying Neo-Con getting Nabbed,  if its not Money or Sex… well its gotta be Drugs…
Limbaugh in 1995…
“….if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”
Ok Rush, well thats another strike for your […]

 From NewKerala.COM:
Soon, your iPod Nano could play 300,000 years of music without repetition
Washington: Scientists are working to create a ultra-dense storage systems for computers and electronics. If the system works, it would enable storage of density of more than 100,000 terabits per cubic centimetre i.e. a device the size of an iPod nano could hold […]

 
Every day it just gets weirder. 
It’s amazing what people will do when it dawns on them that their entire lifestyle, existence even, is dependent upon cheap available oil, and that the party may finally be coming to an end.
I wonder what people will say 100-200 years from now when they look back at these days, just […]

 
More too-little-too-late politicial postering by the clueless leadership in the White House.  Bush wants to have the personal authority to raise fuel-efficiency standards on cars.   WOW… Thankyou for saving the country moron.   As if thats going to change anything in the next 5 years.  I guess I can relax now knowing you’re on top of […]

 From CNN.COM:
Crabby crocodile chews up chainsaw
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) — A cantankerous crocodile chased a man removing a storm-felled tree from its pen before stealing his chainsaw, shattering a few teeth in the process.
The aptly named Brutus, a 4.5m (15-ft) saltwater crocodile kept as an attraction at the Corroboree Park Tavern in Australia’s Northern Territory, took […]

From YahooNews.COM:
Aiming for Guinness record, Georgian wrestler pulls 4.5 tons with left ear
TBILISI (AFP) - A young Georgian wrestler pulled two Ford minibuses tied to his ear and weighing 4.5 tons over a distance of 41 meters and 10 centimeters, in an attempt to make a new entry into the Guinness Book of World Records.
The […]

From YahooNews:
Parents sue school over same-sex fairy tale
By Jason Szep
BOSTON (Reuters) - Two families filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a Massachusetts town and its public school system after a teacher read a gay-themed fairy tale to children without notifying them first.
The suit against Lexington, about 12 miles west of Boston, seeks unspecified damages after […]

I’m a huge Thomas Dolby Fan, like I mentioned on Goofyblog a few weeks ago, I went to his concert in San Francisco, and it was a great show.
On Dolby’s Blog, he just released an interesting video clip (around 20 megs) showing how he puts together a song, he demonstrates mixing in the baseline, rhythm and […]

From SFGATE.COM:
Dead man found in tree house, Officials say body was there a year before discovery.
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Some 150 feet down a steep hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean, on a makeshift home woven into the lower branches of a cypress tree, a man somehow met his end.
His skeletal remains were found April […]