For all you Parliament of Stars people..

Go check the website! Post something on the forums!

Parliament of Stars

and encourage other people to do the same. =D

The forums are kinda pointless if nobody uses them.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honore giving a press conference regarding the new hurricane (Rita, I think).

Honore: Not to my knowledge. Again, the current place, I just told you one time, is the convention center. Once we complete the plan with the mayor, and is approved by the governor, then we'll start that in the next 12-24 hours. And we understand that ( Read more... )

This is pretty dang good.

I'm posting it here pretty much in its entirety, entirely without permission.

THE POOR REALLY ARE DIFFERENT ( Read more... )

Hrrmm..

Shell thinks it may have come up with a feasible way to mine shale oil.

They don't need subsidies; the process should be commercially feasible with world oil prices at $30 a barrel. The energy balance is favorable; under a conservative life-cycle analysis, it should yield 3.5 units of energy for every 1 unit used in production. The ( Read more... )

Go read this.

Michael Yon

Seriously.

BamBamBamBam ( Read more... )

ok.. I can't seem to get my mind around this. So if anyone has an idea, would they mind explaining to me why a president of the US would not want to be open about their religious beliefs ( Read more... )

So.. you've always wanted a flamethrower, but those pesky regulators say you can't buy one?

That's ok! Make your own!


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I don't think I have ever linked to Michael Yon here.

So there ya go. One of the only reporter type people that is going on missions in Iraq outside of the journalist's hotel, and he puts all this stuff on his website.

It is really good.

From Slate

How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some imagined position of neutrality? Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush administration? The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological ( Read more... )