From Nasa:
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
March 27, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates […]

By Restless
WASHINGTON– An alliance of prominent national conservatives today announced the formation of the American Freedom Agenda (AFA).
The AFA’s mission is to reign in abuses of executive power … that have the greatest likelihood of adversely affecting personal liberties without appropriate checks and balances: the judicial and criminal justice system; national security; and the proper […]

Wow…
A Republican from Nebraska pointing out that our President thinks he’s King? is it possible?
Here is Olbermann’s take …

It’s refreshing to see there are still some Republicans out there with intelligence and integrity. They are rare… Hagel… Spector… but they exist.

 
From YahooNews:

Group finds toad the size of a small dog
DARWIN, Australia - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a “monster” toad the size of a small dog.
With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch […]

By Restless

A new study published last week in the Lancet proposes that drugs should be classified by the amount of harm that they do … The new [way of] ranking [by harm] places alcohol and tobacco [as] … more harmful than cannabis, and substantially more dangerous than the Class A drugs LSD, 4-methylthioamphetamine and ecstasy.
“Unlike […]

 
From YahooNews:
Neighbors react to alleged slay-grilling
HOUSTON - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment.
What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old […]

By Restless
Congress has appropriated nearly $1 billion to build the largest embassy in the world. A significant portion of that money is for security infrastructure. This future “fortress” is housed in Saddam Hussein’s former palace — providing more bad symbolism to the Iraqis.
The embassy complex is on 104 acres, with 21 buildings and facilities. It […]

 
From Yahoo.COM: 
No sex please, we’re daddy’s little girls
WASHINGTON (AFP) - It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.
But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She’s daddy’s little girl, there to take a […]

From Shorpy…
By Restless

Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas. March 1943.

Bleach room boys, Pacific Mills. Lawrence, Massachusetts. December 1910.

    
   (Senator Chuck Hagel)   (Coke Head Occupying White House)
From MSNBC.COM: 
GOP’s Hagel calls Bush impeachment an option
Republican senator blasts president’s go-it-alone stance on Iraq policy
…
“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what […]

By Restless
Did you hear the news? The Shafer Commission released their report on drug policy and dropped this bombshell:
[T]he criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession [of marijuana] even in the effort to discourage use. It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior, which we believe is not appropriate. The […]

 
                 The Clue                             The Answer
Well… maybe this one will be easier than the last one.  I can’t believe none of you nerds out there knew it was Darth Vaders face grill. 
Now that I’m making these more difficult, perhaps I over-estimated everyone’s ability to figure these things out.  I would say use magic, but […]

From MSNBC.COM:
House approves 2008 deadline for war pullout
Bush calls it ‘political theater’ and vows to veto bill
WASHINGTON - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, but the president reiterated his vow to veto the bill, saying the House had “abdicated its responsibility.”
Bush appeared […]

 
As many of you may know, I’m a huge train nerd.  I love the real ones, and the model ones,  thus the Online Train and Railroad Museum that Aaron and I created which can be found here.
I stumbled upon this today,  the worlds largest model train set up in a warehouse in Germany (Why is […]