By Restless
Professor Ben Mepham, of Nottingham University, said the impact of bio-engineering, creating [genetically-modified] and cloned animals, is huge.
Factory farming techniques, most commonly used with pigs and chicken, often involve keeping animals confined in cramped conditions.
For pigs, who are highly intelligent, these conditions can lead to stress and aggression.
However, GM scientists are actively investigating ways […]

A friend of mine sent me this, pretty funny, and it shows you how someday, somewhere…
The Kitties will rule the earth!

Jennifer and Jim kept getting huge water bills. They knew beyond a doubt that the bills weren’t representative of their actual usage, and no matter how they tried to conserve, the high bills […]

 
Pretty scary stuff when the Attorney General of the United States believes there is no right to habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution.
Yet another example of this administrations denial of reality. 
Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the Contitution: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases […]

By Restless
How bout another quiz? Who said the following—and when?
(1)“Not only that, it has put us in a position of appearing to the world as an arrogant nation. And here we are ten thousand miles away from home fighting for the so-called freedom of the [ ] people when we have not even put our […]

By Restless
El Presidente Decider announced an escalation along with a not-so- subtle declaration of his war intentions on Iran and Syria the other day. Whatever we do over there in the coming months (or years), we will lose, have lost already. To see why, go no further than to Netflix to rent Battle of Algiers […]

Sorry about the downtime Goofyblog fans.   I’m not really sure what happened,  after multiple emails with my host, they said the Blog DB locked up because of some table locking problem during some insert into the DB.
No idea how it happened,  I wasn’t inserting anything when it went down.    Anyways, they fixed it and now […]

Ok this is very cool, had to share. 
Apparently this guy created his own homemade Commodore 64 PDA/Laptop.
The Commodore Picodore 64!

By Restless
Maxim has put together 10 clips of the greatest moments in martial arts. My favorite has got to be “Crippled Masters,” they guy with no legs jumping onto the back of the guy with no arms so they can beat down the evil villian. Check it out here. [Note: the site may not be […]

 
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From YahooNews: 
Escaped chimp gets snack, cleans bathroom
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An escaped chimpanzee at the Little Rock Zoo raided a kitchen cupboard and did a little cleaning with a toilet brush before sedatives knocked her out on top of a refrigerator.
The 120-pound primate, Judy, escaped yesterday into a service […]

 
By Restless
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
-Ben Franklin
The war on drugs is a fucking disaster, except for the law enforcement and prison industries, who make a pretty penny off its wrongheaded persecution of small-timers when white-collar cocks grift billions in wars we don’t need using the bodies of those they would save from […]

 
From CNN.COM:
McCain hopes to mend fences with evangelical leader
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Sen. John McCain said Tuesday he hopes to patch things up with conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who recently said he wouldn’t support the Republican’s presidential bid under any circumstances.
In a radio interview with KCBI, a Dallas Christian station, Dobson argued that […]

Ok you Smarty Pants People.
What in the world is this?  (The dot with the blue circle around it).  muh ha ha

This is pretty typical of Faux “news”.
Has there ever been a more blatant case of a single network promoting a political agenda?
I still remember watching the invasion of Iraq in the Spring of 2003, watching Fox (God only knows why) and their imbeds speeding north towards Baghdad.
They were showing live video […]

 
By Restless
Feminist Press has just published 2 volumes of the on-line diary of a young Bagdad woman. The volumes, Bagdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq and Bagdad Buring II: More Girl Blog from Iraq, start in the Summer of 2003, almost 5 months after the American invasion. Riverbend’s books were reviewed in the New York […]