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Oh no! Not again!

They claim it’s very unusal…an isolated incident…but can we be so sure?

Barb Dougherty, a 30-year Postal Service employee, said she was attacked and bitten Monday by a squirrel while delivering mail in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.

“It was a freak thing. It was traumatic,” Dougherty told The Derrick newspaper. “I saw […]

Pete’s Pond

My latest vice is checking Pete’s Pond, a live wildlife cam in Botswana, throughout the day to see if I can spot any wildlife.

“That doesn’t sound so bad.” you say. But it is. You see, I can’t look away. I can’t drag myself away from the computer because there’s […]

NK Says Increased U.S. Pressure Considered an Act of War

Oh for goodness’ sake! I guess this means diplomacy is out. Talk about itching for a fight!

If the U.S. keeps pestering us and increases pressure, we will regard it as a declaration of war and will take a series of physical corresponding measures,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by […]

NK wants congratulations?

I’ll grant that the resolutions probably are useless, but we did ask nicely and quite some time ago I believe they agreed not to pursue this course of action.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council should congratulate North Korea for its nuclear test instead of passing “useless” resolutions or statements, North Korea’s U.N. […]

Shoot Me First

From ABC News:

The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to “Shoot me first,” in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates.

I don’t know whether her action made a difference in the fate of her classmates, but this […]

[air quote] Lasers! [air quote]

Hey everyone. Sorry we haven’t posted in such a long time. Mr. Ex has been busy at work & I’ve been busy homeschooling.

I thought this was an interesting article:

China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by “blinding” their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.

Explosives found in Bradford, TN (Gibson County)

From the Jackson Sun:

“Very devastating” is how Bradford Police Chief Ollie Bond described the amount of damage that could have been done by explosive materials found behind a building on Old U.S. 45 East Thursday morning. Bond said police were still searching for the owner of the material Thursday afternoon.read more | digg story

I have no way […]

Not-so-persistent vegetative state

Just WOW! A doctor prescribed a sleeping pill to alleviate spasms in a young accident victim who had been in a Persistent Vegetative State for five years. Shortly after taking the medicine, the patient began talking to his mother. The effects appear to be temporary, but was a merciful blessing to these […]

9/11 Children’s Book

I’d like to share a book that we discovered about a year after 9/11/01 called Fireboat. It’s the true story of an old fireboat commissioned in 1931. It saw the construction of the George Washington Bridge and Empire State Building. By 2001 it was very old and was destined for the scrapyard. But on 9/11 […]

Five Years Later

Mr. Ex gave his account of 9/11/01 last year. Here’s mine:

We overslept so I didn’t follow the usual routine of turning on the radio and listening over breakfast. Mr. Ex called me from the car on the way to work about the first plane. My first thought was “That must have been […]