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Your Age by Chocolate....Amazing!!!!!!

Your Age by Chocolate....Amazing!!!!!!  Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway -but the Hershey Man will know!YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH This is pretty neat. It takes less than a minute .. Work this out as you read . Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun. 1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10) 2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold) 3. Add 5 4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator 5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ...     If you haven't, add 1758. 6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.     You should have a three digit number     The first digit of this was your original number     (I.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).     The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!) THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS. Chocolate Calculator.   now take a moment and visit the Jimbozone.com

Exploding whale

nano-blogging with flutter

Hoofstradmus Says...

Technology seen slashing battery recharge time, weight

March 11, 2009
World Science staff

En­gi­neers say they’ve found a way to move en­er­gy faster through a well-known bat­tery ma­te­ri­al, pos­sibly pav­ing the way for smaller, light­er bat­ter­ies that re­charge in sec­onds rath­er than hours.

En­gi­neers say they’ve found a way to move en­er­gy faster through a well-known bat­tery ma­te­ri­al, pos­sibly pav­ing the way for smaller, light­er bat­ter­ies that re­charge in sec­onds rath­er than hours. The ad­vance could also ben­efit car batteries, which usu­ally take hours to charge, ac­cord­ing to en­gi­neers. (Im­age cour­tesy GM)

The work, led by Ger­brand Ced­er of the Mas­sa­chu­setts In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, is de­tailed in the March 12 is­sue of the re­search jour­nal Na­ture. Be­cause the ma­te­ri­al in­volved is­n’t new—it’s just made in a new way—Ced­er says the tech­nol­o­gy could reach the mar­ket with­in three years.

Modern lith­i­um re­chargeable bat­ter­ies can pack plen­ty of charge in­to a small space, but are slow to take up and dis­charge that en­er­gy. This draw­back means that, for ex­am­ple, an elec­tric car bat­tery can move the au­to at a mod­er­ate high­way speed for a long time, but ac­cel­er­ation is slug­gish, Ced­er noted.

Sci­en­tists tra­di­tion­ally thought such pokey per­for­mance was due to slow move­ment of the par­t­i­cles that car­ry elec­tric charge across the bat­ter­y—charged atoms and elec­trons. But through a se­ries of com­put­er cal­cula­t­ions, Ced­er and col­leagues found that this was­n’t ex­actly the prob­lem, at least not for a well-known bat­tery ma­te­ri­al, lith­i­um iron phos­phate.

The real dif­fi­cul­ty, the group found, is that the charged atoms can only cross through the ma­te­ri­al through tun­nels ac­cessed from the sur­face. If the par­t­i­cle lies di­rectly at a tun­nel en­trance, it slips right in, but oth­er­wise it gets stuck.

Ced­er and By­oung­woo Kang, a grad­u­ate stu­dent, de­vised a so­lu­tion: a new sur­face struc­ture that lets the par­t­i­cles, called ions, move quickly around the out­side of the ma­te­ri­al. Like a belt­way around a city, this di­verts ions right in­to the tun­nels. The re­sult was a small bat­tery that could be fully charged or dis­charged in 10 to 20 sec­onds. By com­par­i­son, it takes six min­utes to fully charge or dis­charge a cell phone made from the un­pro­cessed ma­te­ri­al.

Ced­er said fur­ther tests showed the new ma­te­ri­al de­grades less than do oth­er bat­tery ma­te­ri­als when re­peat­edly charged and re­charged. This could al­low smaller bat­ter­ies, as less ma­te­ri­al is needed for the same re­sult. The ad­vance “may open up new tech­no­log­i­cal ap­plica­t­ions and in­duce lifestyle changes,” Ced­er and Kang wrote.

time and again...

Martha Mccalum on fox news asked Rep. Boner and then Areola Flesher why didn't all the Bumblicans get together and take all their little earmarks out of the Omnibus bill and make a statement to the publice and each time she got nothing but political babble...and come to think about it, what with all the attention John Mccainiac is trying to muster he is not screaming at the Bums as well...Michael Steele and Rush Limpbutt can argue about minutia and enui but I don't hear them chiding their contemporaries on the right side of the aisle for their Pork and Beans gluttony either...

 

If the Bums were genuinely outraged by the size of this bill they should unilaterally withdraw all their earmarks instead of leaving them in and then voting against the bill so that their CONstituencies think they are being fiscally responsible...all the while feeding at the traugh with the best of them...

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I'm going to pinch your face..

"Head Crusher vs. Face Pincher" by Kids in the Hall - watch more funny videos

10 things you should know about Obama's plan

The plan:

1. Makes a $634 billion down payment on fixing health care that will go a long way toward paying for a more efficient, more affordable health care system that covers every single American.¹
   
2. Reduces taxes for 95% of working Americans. And if your family makes less than $250,000, your taxes won't go up one dime.²
   
3. Invests more than $100 billion in clean energy technology, creating millions of green jobs that can never be outsourced.³
   
4. Brings our troops home from Iraq on a firm timetable, finally bringing the war to a close—and freeing up almost ten billion dollars a month for domestic priorities.⁴
   
5. Reverses growing income inequality. The plan lets the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire and focuses on strengthening the middle class.⁵
   
6. Closes multi-billion-dollar tax loopholes for big oil companies. ⁶
   
7. Increases grants to help families pay for college—the largest increase ever.⁷
   
8. Halves the deficit by 2013. President Obama inherited a legacy of huge deficits and an economy in shambles, but his plan brings the deficit under control as soon as the economy begins to recover.⁸
   
9. Dramatically increases funding for the SEC and the CFTC—the agencies that police Wall Street.⁹
   
10. Tells it straight. For years, budgets have used accounting tricks to hide the real costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts, and too many other programs. Obama's budget gets rid of the smokescreens and lays out what America's priorities are, what they cost, and how we're going to pay for them.¹⁰

Pretty amazing, right? Can you pass this on to your personal network too, to make sure everyone knows how far-reaching and progressive Obama's plan is?

Thanks!

P.S. Turns out there are way more than 10 amazing things in Obama's budget and we couldn't resist sharing just a few more.

1. Stops unnecessary government subsidies to big banks, health insurance companies and big agribusinesses.^11,12,13
   
2. Expands access to early childhood education and improves schools by investing in programs that make sure every child has a qualified, strong teacher.¹⁴
   
3. Negotiates for better prescription drug prices using Medicaid's tremendous bargaining power.¹⁵
   
4. Expands access to family planning for low-income women.¹⁶
   
5. Caps the pollution that causes global warming, and makes polluters pay to support clean energy innovation.¹⁷
   

Sources:

1. "Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-health.html

2. "Obama Expects Fight Over $3.55 Trillion Budget Plan," Bloomberg News, February 28, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiLyabbGqJBo&refer=home

3. "Energy Budget Is Sunlight After Eight Years of Darkness," Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/energy_sunshine.html

4. "The Economic Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan," The New York Times, March 1, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/weekinreview/01glanz.html

5. "Tax Cuts," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-tax.html

6. "Energy Budget Is Sunlight After Eight Years of Darkness," Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/energy_sunshine.html

7. "Student Loans," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-edu.html

8. "Obama unveils budget blueprint," CNN, February 26, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/budget/

9. "Obama budget would boost SEC, CFTC, FBI," Reuters, February 26, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE51P5RD20090226

10. "Obama's budget," Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-budget27-2009feb27,0,2535327.story

11. "Student Loans," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-edu.html

12. "Health Insurance Stocks Dive on Medicare Advantage Cuts," The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2009
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/26/health-insurance-stocks-dive-on-medicare-advantage-cuts/

13. "Agriculture," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-agri.html

14. "Investing Wisely in Our Children," Center for American Progress, February 26, 2009
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/02/education_budget.html

15. "Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-health.html

16. "Obama Offers Broad Plan to Revamp Health Care," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-health.html

17. "Setting 'Green' Goals," The New York Times, February 26, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/washington/27web-energy.html

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Majority Of World’s Spam Email Originates From Tiny Nation Of Koy4goff

Majority Of World’s Spam Email Originates From Tiny Nation Of Koy4goff

Britany is writing her memoirs for 14 million bucks...

it is tentatively titled "Spear Me th Details..."

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It is kinda interesting how now that we have a Dem admin the bumblicans have developed a fiscal concience about the bailout

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Things that make you go...

Hmmmm

Well this is it...

the first post of the new year...what will this year hold...change? or more of the same...we will see...

Happy New year....

 

My Wish forYou in 2009

 

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts.


May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.


May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!


May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires


and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy.


May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words . . . May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

IF YOU SEE A FAT MAN.

Who's jolly and cute,
Wearing a beard and a red flannel suit,
And if he is chuckling and laughing away,
While flying around in a
miniature sleigh,
With eight tiny reindeer to
pull him along, 
Then let's face it...
Your eggnog's too strong!
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!

Is global warming preventing an Ice Age?

Dec. 17, 2008
Courtesy Uni­ver­s­ity of Wis­con­sin-Mad­i­son
and World Science staff

Al­though hu­man-caused glob­al warm­ing is po­ten­tially lead­ing the world in­to ec­o­log­i­cal ca­tas­tro­phe, it may al­so be spar­ing us from one of the Earth's per­i­od­ic ice ages, some re­search­ers say.

The claim, even if cor­rect, by no means in­di­cate glob­al warm­ing is good: its fu­ture ef­fects are quite un­known, sci­en­tists say, whe­re­as ice ages, while cer­tainly un­pleas­ant, at least have prece­dents.

Al­though hu­man-caused glob­al warm­ing is po­ten­tially lead­ing the world in­to ec­o­log­i­cal ca­tas­tro­phe, it may al­so be spar­ing us from one of the Earth's per­i­od­ic ice ages, some re­search­ers say. (Im­age cour­tesy USGS)

But as a mat­ter of sci­en­tif­ic cu­ri­os­ity, it's worth not­ing that "in­creased gla­cia­tion... would probably be hap­pen­ing to­day" if hu­mans weren't he­re, said John Kutz­bach, a cli­mate mod­el­er at the Uni­ver­s­ity of Wis­con­sin-Mad­i­son.

The theory is reminiscent of another re­cent piece of re­search, sug­gest­ing a bout of glo­bal warm­ing may have kept Earth from to­tally freez­ing over hun­dreds of mil­lions of years ago. Only now, re­search­ers, say, some­thing similar could be hap­pening to­day.

The con­tro­ver­sial idea—first pro­posed by Uni­ver­s­ity of Vir­gin­ia cli­ma­tolo­g­ist Wil­liam F. Rud­di­man—is based on the con­ten­ti­on that hu­man-induced glob­al warm­ing started long be­fore it's gen­er­ally ac­cept­ed to have be­gun.

The com­mon wis­dom is that the ad­vent of the steam en­gine and the coal-fueled in­dus­t­ri­al age two cen­turies ago marked the be­gin­ning of hu­man in­flu­ence on glob­al cli­mate. But Kutz­bach and like­minded sci­en­tists con­tend it really started thou­sands of years ago with large-scale ag­ri­cul­ture in Asia and ex­ten­sive de­for­esta­tion in Eu­rope.

Al­though these pro­cesses would have been a much weaker in­flu­ence on cli­mate than in­dus­t­ri­al ac­ti­vity, their ef­fect be­comes im­por­tant be­cause of the long­er time per­i­od in­volved, said Ste­phen Vav­rus, a cli­ma­tolo­g­ist at the uni­ver­s­ity.

Both an­cient and mod­ern glob­al warm­ing would have had the same source: the re­lease in­to the atmosphere of so-called green­house gas­es that act like a blan­ket, trap­ping heat on Earth.

Green­house gas­es would have tak­en the form of meth­ane from ter­raced rice pad­dies in Asia and car­bon di­ox­ide from burn­ing forests in Eu­rope. The re­sult­ing warm­er atmosphere would have heat­ed the oceans, mak­ing them much less ef­fi­cient store­hous­es of car­bon di­ox­ide, re­in­forc­ing glob­al warm­ing, ac­cord­ing to Kutz­bach and Vav­rus.

The pa­ir pre­sented their re­search along with Gwe­naëlle Phi­lip­pon of the Sac­lay Cen­ter of Stud­ies in L'Orme des Me­ri­siers, France, at a meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Geo­phys­i­cal Un­ion in San Fran­cis­co Dec. 17.

"No one dis­putes the large rate of in­crease in green­house gas­es with the In­dus­t­ri­al Revoluti­on," Kutz­bach notes. "The large-scale burn­ing of coal for in­dustry has swamped eve­ry­thing else" in the rec­ord, he added.

But look­ing ear­li­er, us­ing cli­mat­ic ar­chives such as 850,000-year-old ice from Ant­arc­ti­ca, sci­en­tists are teas­ing out ev­i­dence of past green­house gas­es in the form of fos­sil air trapped in the ice, the group said. That an­cient air, the re­search­ers said, con­tains the sig­na­ture of in­creased lev­els of at­mos­pher­ic meth­ane and car­bon di­ox­ide be­gin­ning thou­sands of years be­fore the in­dus­t­ri­al age.

"Be­tween 5,000 and 8,000 years ago, both meth­ane and car­bon di­ox­ide started an up­ward trend," ex­plains Kutz­bach.

Ice ages, or gla­cial per­i­ods, have oc­curred at reg­u­lar 100,000-year in­ter­vals dur­ing the last milli­on years. Each per­i­od has been paced by reg­u­lar and pre­dict­a­ble changes in the or­bit of the Earth known as Mi­lankovitch cy­cles, a mech­an­ism thought to kick start gla­cial cy­cles, Kutzbach and col­leagues ex­plained.

"We're at a very fa­vor­a­ble state right now for in­creased glacia­tion," said Kutz­bach. "Na­ture is fa­vor­ing it at this time in or­bital cy­cles." Im­por­tant­ly, the new re­search un­der­scores the key role of green­house gas­es in in­flu­enc­ing Earth's cli­mate, he added. Whe­reas de­creas­ing green­house gas­es in the past helped in­i­ti­ate glacia­tions, the early ag­ri­cul­tur­al and re­cent in­dus­t­ri­al in­creases in green­house gas­es may be fore­stalling them, say Kutz­bach and Vav­rus.

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it is percieved, that because the earth's eccentric orbit increases the distance from the earth to the sun, it cools  creating the conditions that have caused glacial ice ages...this might cause some to look at the above research and say that man, in his infinite simple mindedness has spared himself from the frigid tomb, but that isn't what threatens us most...we may have averted cryogenic armagedden but that salvation only means that life will become increasingly obstacle oriented for the human species...where there is now scenic and bountiful surroundings might become barren  lunar landscapes with torrencial floods that do nothing to alleviate drought conditions...

 

coastal areas will be increasingly battered by ever larger and more horrendous tropical and hurrican forces storms that will, largley wipe out all life zones within miles of the coast...think katrina and ivan on a regular schedual, maybe worse...

 

forget about arguing and going to war over oil...the future will surely see man killing on unprecedented  scales over water...and food...as hurricain size tornados clear paths across the central U.S. destroying the breadbasket of America...

 

It is more important than ever to come to grips with the scenarios presented here and endeavor to develope resources that deliver us from dependence on foreign powers that don't have our best interests on their minds...

2008 Darwin Awards...

Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.

Here are the glorious top 10 winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15.

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, 'Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from.'

9. The Ann Arbour News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with your friends and family... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long-lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

*** Remember... They walk among us!!! ***

Re: Yahoo! News Story - Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither? - Yahoo! News

black is the absense of color, white is the sum of all colors...what lies between are the colors that cover the canvass of life and reflect into the eye the spectrum of being...who we are...

Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither? - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_re_us/obama_s_not_black