From FoxSports.Com: 
Mangold’s sister following in his footsteps
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - When Jets center Nick Mangold started playing football in third grade, he developed his own little fan club.
Baby sister Holley idolized him. She got dragged to watch him practice and play in games. She used to play a little game with Nick at home, too. […]

 
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From MSNBC.COM:
Hot dogs may cause genetic mutations
DNA-mutating compounds could boost cancer risk
Everyone knows hot dogs aren’t exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one’s risk for cancer.
Scientists note there is an up to 240-fold variation in levels […]

From YahooNews: 
Bush says Israel defeated Hezbollah
WASHINGTON - President Bush, just hours after a cease-fire took hold Monday, said Hezbollah guerillas had suffered a sound defeat at the hands of Israel in their monthlong Mideast war.
 
“There’s going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon,” Bush said, referring to plans for the Lebanese government, backed […]

A little something special for all you millions of poor saps out there suffering the same fate the rest of us.

What a weekend, it was pretty much non-stop for me working on my Burning Man Tower project.  11 days until departure and still so much to do,  but the good news is the Tower works!   it’s solid as a rock and will look great on the playa.
It appears Peace may break out in the Middle […]

There’s an old Zen Proverb that states “From the withered tree, a flower blooms”
For those who have ever seen the TV Show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy“, you know that their business is to take withered trees and turn them into flowers.
Well, I’ve been finding out the hard way that part of my tree […]

From YahooNews: 
Bush reads Camus’s ‘The Stranger’ on ranch vacation
CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush quoted French existential writer Albert Camus to European leaders a year and a half ago, and now he’s read one of his most famous works: “The Stranger.”
White House spokesman Tony Snow said Friday that Bush, here on […]

 
From YahooNews: 
Unwed couple sues town over housing flap
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri couple who must get married, or move, in order to comply with a housing ordinance in Black Jack, Missouri, sued the town on Thursday, claiming rules prohibiting the unmarried couple and their children from living together are unconstitutional.
 
The petition, filed in […]

From SFGATE.COM: 
Greenland’s ice cap is melting at a frighteningly fast rate
The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from twin satellites that probe the effects of warming on the […]

From YahooNews:
Four thousand Barbie dolls up for auction
LONDON (Reuters) - Billed as the largest private collection of Barbie dolls, the lifelong passion of a Dutch mother will go under the hammer next month.
Up for sale are 4,000 dolls spanning the entire history of Barbie and her friends, family and fashions which stretches back to 1959.
“This […]

Complete Tool, and Dad on ALF, Joe Lieberman
Wow.. you can’t make this stuff up, I knew Lieberman was a selfish right-winger neo-con disguised as a Democrat, but check out these Gems…
“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the […]

From YahooNews: 
Goat crowned King of Ireland at ancient fair
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A goat named Louis was crowned King of Ireland on Thursday in one of the country’s oldest festivals.
Each year a wild male mountain goat is caught in the foothills of Carrauntoohill, Ireland’s highest mountain, and paraded through the country town of Killorglin as part […]

A Huge plot to bomb a dozen or so airliners flying from Europe to the USA was foiled.  Good job by Scotland Yard and the London Police!   I’ve always said that 9/11, and Domestic Terror attacks are a Police issue, an international Police issue, not something that’s solved by invading sovereign nations where 99.9% of […]

From MSNBC.COM:
Sugary drinks are piling on the pounds
A single can of soda a day can add up to 15 pounds a year, report says
MILWAUKEE - Americans have sipped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes.
An extra can of soda […]