After finding the the threat: "State police, Clovis police and the Curry County Sheriff's Department arrived at the school shortly after 8:30 a.m. They searched the premises and determined there was no immediate danger." ... Long term, though, there will be intestinal gas to deal with. Intestinal gas, as we all know, can be a WMD.

A furniture dealer from Knoxville, Tennessee, decided that he wanted to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris, France to see what he could find. After arriving in Paris (this being his first trip to the French capitol), he met with some manufacturers and finally selected a line that he thought would sell well back home inTennessee.

To celebrate the new acquisition, he decided to visit a small bistro and have a glass of wine. As he sat enjoying his wine, he noticed that the small place was quite crowded, and that the one other chair at his table was the only vacant seat in the house.

Before long, a very beautiful young Parisian woman came to his table, asked him something in French (which he did not understand), and motioned toward the chair.

He invited her to sit down. He tried to speak to her in English, but she did not speak his language so, after a couple of minutes of trying to communicate with her, he took a napkin and drew a picture of a wine glass and showed it her. She nodded, and he ordered a glass of wine for her.

After sitting together at the table for a while, he took another napkin, and drew a picture of a plate with food on it, and she nodded.

They left the bistro and found a quiet cafe that featured a small group playing romantic music. They ordered dinner, after which he took another napkin and drew a picture of a couple dancing. She nodded, and they got up to dance. They danced until the cafe closed and the band was packing up.

Back at their table, the young lady took a napkin and drew a picture of a four-poster bed.

To this day, he has no idea how she figured out he was in the furniture business."

It must be really boring to be a cop in Kiwi Land. There has to be very little crime if you can spend this much time at work surfing porn sites.

This is just strange, but there is an odd logic to it.

The interesting part about this article is the reference to influences on the Antarctic glaciers that are NOT global warming.

Given everything I have read, I would not worry too much about global warming.

The references to changing ocean currents, on the other hand, is something to be concerned about. It's kind of like the movie "The Day After Tomorrow". The basic science in that movie is sound. The timeframe is pure fiction, but the underlying science on how Ice Ages occur is sound.

At the start of an Ice Age, there are two noticeable signs: 1) ocean currents, the Gulf Stream in particular, shift, and 2) the polar ice caps actually shrink.

The book that I have read on this is called "How a Change of Climate Made Us Human". The title is a bit misleading. It really is about how the theories on how and when Ice Ages occur have changed in the last 150 years. According to the current accepted theories, what we are seeing is what could be the beginning of the next Ice Age.

Nothing to worry about, though, if it is happening then we have several thousand years before the next one will start.

Glad to hear they plan on stopping this once the babies start teething. That could get ugly.

Isn't it interesting that the man who signed the Patriot Act into law now says that he doesn't write emails to his two daughters because anything he would say is "private" and nobody else's business?

In case you didn't know, the Patriot Act allowed (before courts struck down those provisions) federal law agencies to access your email with out a search warrant or any of the other things that normally are required to get into your personal business.

Fox News Channel's web site has a column that highlights political correctness run amuck. This is the latest edition.

Read and be apalled at the stupidity.

This is really cool. Especially, the picture of the Washington Monument at the top of the story.

Interesting.

The Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus owns controlling interest in, among other things, a copper mine on the island. They have had financial difficulties with it. So, they are selling it off.

This same mine was, at one time, owned by the government of the Roman empire. They leased it to King Herod, and he kept half of the profits.

I find it ironic that now a Christian church is selling off a mine that once was owned by the man who tried to kill a baby Jesus.

Talk about left handed compliments!

A team of biologists have dicovered several new species of slime-mold beetles. So called because they eat slime, mold and other forms of fungus.

They named one species for President Bush, and another for Vice President Cheney.

An interesting Opposing view editorial from the New York post.

It appears that one of Osama bin Laden's neices has lived in America almost all of her life. Has citizenship here, and considers New York City home more than anywhere else in the world.

You think you had problems resolving problems living down any embarassment your family caused you! This girl has problems.

Keep in mind that this link and the previous one about the Pope are from the Onion. A news parody site.

So, you can't take it with you, after all.