Here is a baby duck feeding a Swim Team (it's not my Swim Team, it's someone else's). I was hoping the Team would eat the duck, but it's not what koi do.
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These days, mock outrage is used by every side of every dispute. It's fair enough to criticize something your opponent said while secretly thanking your lucky stars that he said it. The [...]
Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.
"Europe has [...]
Every time they scratched their asses, they earned; there was so much money around for contractors, officials literally used $100,000 wads of cash as toys. "Yes -- $100 bills in plastic wrap," Frank Willis, a former CPA official, acknowledged [...]
Mother Teresa, who was put on the fast track to sainthood by the Pope after her death five years ago, was tormented by a crisis of belief for 50 years, her writings reveal.
..."In [...]
Arrest warrants have been issued for two officials at a Christian boot camp accused of dragging a 15-year-old girl behind a van after she fell behind the group during a [...]
State lawmakers shot down a request for extra financial help for low-income students who will attend South Carolina's public colleges and universities next year.
Meanwhile, they approved $2.5 million to help low-income students attend Bob Jones University, a private school in Greenville. [...]
The [...]
A worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds a Testudo Kleinmanni hatchling, an endangered species also known as an Egyptian tortoise, in Rome May 22, 2007. The offspring is the hatchling of several Egyptian tortoises that were rescued from a smuggler's suitcase in 2005 at Naples airport, [...] 
Try to imagine the next big court case to get ID out of [...]
A two-month old Amur baby tiger sits by his mother at Tama Zoo in Tokyo October 23, 2004. The Amur tiger, the world's biggest wild cat, has pounced back from the brink of extinction to hit its highest population level for at least 100 years, [...]
Baby Jumping.The village of Castrillo de Murcia (Burgos) held its traditional Baby-Jumping Festival at the weekend as part of its Corpus Christi celebrations.Since the 17th century, on the Sunday of Corpus Christi, "El Colacho," a personification of diabolical evil, has been [...]
Thumbelina, a five year old dwarf miniature horse, slides underneath the pasture fencing at Goose Creek Farms in St. Louis, MO on Fri. October 3, 2006. At 17.5 inches, she is the smallest living horse in the world, and holds the record for the smallest horse [...]
A man accused of drunk-driving and crashing his truck into a lamp post told police a unicorn had been at the wheel when it careered off the road, local media [...]
Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits [...]
For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president’s handling of the [...]
A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to the House Republicans' campaign committee over three years.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari pleaded not guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to charges [...]
Pastor Mac Hammond's congregation at Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park reacted strongly Sunday to his appearance in the wake of a watchdog's group complaint to [...]
Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine, a 20-year veteran of Air Mauritania, realised during his conversations with the 31-year-old hijacker, who was seeking asylum in France, that his assailant did not speak French and that, on the moment of landing, he would be only person not wearing a seatbelt.
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As I reported previously, evangelicals, led by Bishop Boniface Adoyo, Chairman of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, are trying to suppress a fossil display in Kenya’s National Museum. (And they’re apparently getting aid from unnamed Western groups.) The planned exhibit contains numerous hominid fossils found in [...] Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change [...]
A chicken truck was northbound on Pleasantburg just past Mauldin Road when a southbound pickup turned in front of it and was hit, Greenville police Sgt. Bob Gamble said.
The semi's cab caught fire and was "fully involved," [...]
A public treasurer in the Michigan county of Alcona stands accused of embezzling tax payers out of more than $1.2m, at least part of which was used to cover costs he incurred falling for a Nigerian banking fraud. [...]
County officials first suspected something was [...]
Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, has a new movie out entitled, "Friends of God". That's not what I'm going to discuss. This article in Raw Story talks about the movie along with the jaw-droppingly hilarious statement by Ted Haggard that evangelicals have a [...]
The East African Standard has a new (well, a week and a half old, but new to me) article concerning the attempts by evangelicals to suppress the hominid fossils currently on display in Kenya’s National Museum. You may remember when this ruckus first began several months ago. [...]
Before his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind compared his situation to that of the lion and the mouse in Aesop's Fables.
"I feel like the mouse," Hovind told U.S. District Judge [...]
Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud.
After a lengthy sentencing hearing that last 5 1/2 hours, U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ordered Hovind also:
-- Pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
-- [...]
Brazilian mega-church leaders Sonia Moraes Hernandes and Estevam Hernades-Filho spent the last two decades building one of Brazil's largest evangelical empires.
They're now spending their time at a federal detention center in Miami.
The couple was arrested at Miami International Airport last week on [...]
The Shot has received word from a very reliable source close to the situation that Team Giuliani has hired The Palladian Group, of Spartanburg, to handle political advising and fundraising in [...]
Democrats have picked Denver for the 2008 convention, officials said Thursday.Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean made the announcement in Washington."I congratulate Governor Ritter, Mayor Hickenlooper, Senator Salzar and the members of the Denver Host Committee for assembling an outstanding bid that demonstrates the [...]
George Archibald, who describes himself “as the first reporter hired at the Washington Times outside the founding group” and author [...]
Gunsalus distinguishes between traditional, assertive bullies, who throw their [...]
Teri Smith TYLER, Plaintiff,
v.
James CARTER,
William Clinton,
Ross Perot,
American Cyanamid,
IronMountain Security Corporation,
Defense Intelligence Agency,
IBM,
David Rockerfeller,
Rockerfeller Fund,
BCCI,
NASA, Defendants. [...]
Plaintiff Teri Smith Tyler, appearing pro se, filed a [...]
In August, a congregation's 35-year old pastor insisted one could literally walk on water, if only one had enough faith. Big and bold [...]
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