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Posted: Fri Apr 18th, 2008 06:32 pm |
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One of those strange experiences you can't explain.....Lucky woman
Florida Woman Survives Gunshot Right Between the Eyes
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
TAMPA, Fla. — Doctors say it's amazing that a 41-year-old Tampa-area woman survived after someone shot her right between the eyes while she was riding in her boyfriend's pickup truck.
Doctors think she was hit with a .44-caliber bullet that broke in two pieces, each traveling under her skin and exiting behind her ears last weekend. She was released from the hospital hours later with just stitches.
The woman says two cars started following their truck Saturday night and the occupants began yelling at them.
At a traffic light, someone in one of the cars stood up in the sunroof and started shooting back at the truck.
Part of the bullet that hit the woman exited her head, went through the back window of the truck and hit a Jeep driving behind it.
Police are still looking for the shooter.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 10:57 pm |
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| aahhhh.......... and then there is all of the remaining family they can tax to death.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15th, 2008 09:57 pm |
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Appropriate for today:
Tax his land, Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirts,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his chew, tax his smoke,
Teach him taxes are no joke.
Tax his car, tax his ass,
Tax the roads he must pass.
Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his booze, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his bills, tax his gas,
Tax his notes, tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know,
That after taxes there is no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more
Tax him until he’s good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
“Taxes drove me to my doom”
And when he’s gone, we won’t relax
We’ll still be after the inheritance tax!
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Posted: Thu Apr 10th, 2008 12:44 pm |
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Typical Marine humor.
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/3483
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 10:40 pm |
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 01:44 pm |
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I find this hilarious!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=163653&title=marines-in-berkeley
Cpl. Ben Lowe USMC
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Posted: Tue Mar 18th, 2008 07:07 pm |
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BIG DOG
http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stunning-its-spooky
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Posted: Tue Mar 18th, 2008 02:44 am |
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A LEAPARD KILLS A CROCODILE...........AMAZING
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What a joke. Demon possession. He must be possessed to believe in it. My mother used to take us to church just to have demons cast out of us....me and my 6 brothers....she said we had enough between us to form an army.
After the procedure, they always said we were cleansed of that evil demon.....so why did we have to keep going back? Sure glad we grew up and my mother discovered we weren't really little demons.
      
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 11:45 pm |
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February 2008By Richard E. Gallagher
Richard E. Gallagher, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice in Hawthorne, New York, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He is also on the faculties of the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Institute and a Roman Catholic seminary. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, magna cum laude in Classics, and trained in Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Gallagher is the only American psychiatrist to have been a consistent U.S. delegate to the International Association of Exorcists, and has addressed its plenary session.
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?print=1&did=0308-gallagher
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 02:02 am |
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Dolphin answers whales' SOS call
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Dolphin-answers-whales39-SOS-call.3872748.jp
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 06:24 pm |
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Attack of the Garden Gnome
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article902014.ece
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Posted: Fri Mar 7th, 2008 04:07 pm |
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THE ROAD OF DEATH!
http://blog.pkp.in/2007/11/in-bolivia-road-of-death.html
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Posted: Wed Mar 5th, 2008 12:24 am |
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interesting.
Maybe I should have been a criminal.....it's a lot cheaper.
I used to be uncomfortable with heights, but that went away real quickly
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 11:27 pm |
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gk wrote: I went to do one static line sport jump and the addiction began then.
They had a special on the other day about what makes and adrenalin junkie. Everyone produces a certain amount of serotonin, which gives a feeling of well being. Adrenalin junkies usually produce more when they prepare for something dangerous and exciting. They also inherently have about a third less of something called monoamine oxidases (MOA).
The other interesting side note was that this balance was also found in many criminals.
Given the Adrenalin, serotonin, and the lack of MOA produces a rush and feeling of excitement and euphoria. I use to laugh and joke about being an adrenalin junkie, but that is exactly what we are.
I always found it curious that people who try delayed static line or tandem jumping either become hooked, or say . . . "Once was enough", and that they never enjoyed anything about the experience. Hell, I enjoy being scared and overcoming it.
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 05:18 pm |
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I went to do one static line sport jump and the addiction began then.
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 02:34 pm |
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gk wrote: I question everything!
Did they land on the moon? I believe they did. Could they have faked the first one to beat the Russians.........maybe........some of the video is clearly controversial.
Yea......back in the old days when everyone was a belly flyer at terminal speed. life was slow at 110 -115 mph. Head down flying is a little faster at 140 or so mph. The canopies are real wings now days and you can cover a lot of ground horizontally instead of leaving it up to gravity.
BTW....the guy in orange is Eric Fradet............A multiple gold metal holder in freestyle, skyboard, four way and 8 way formation. Miltiple as in dozens. A real honor to jump with him for several weeks.
Don't like those round canopies at all. It's like a dope on a rope. No control
Your exposure.......Military or sport?
Both military and sport! Yours?
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 05:27 am |
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oprah doprah's head in Queen Creek
http://www.mapofstrange.com/
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 04:19 am |
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I question everything!
Did they land on the moon? I believe they did. Could they have faked the first one to beat the Russians.........maybe........some of the video is clearly controversial.
Yea......back in the old days when everyone was a belly flyer at terminal speed. life was slow at 110 -115 mph. Head down flying is a little faster at 140 or so mph. The canopies are real wings now days and you can cover a lot of ground horizontally instead of leaving it up to gravity.
BTW....the guy in orange is Eric Fradet............A multiple gold metal holder in freestyle, skyboard, four way and 8 way formation. Miltiple as in dozens. A real honor to jump with him for several weeks.
Don't like those round canopies at all. It's like a dope on a rope. No control
Your exposure.......Military or sport?
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Posted: Tue Mar 4th, 2008 03:06 am |
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gk wrote: Have we been lied to?.....................nah....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUGRngAhBI
Another aluminum hat consiracy buff!! Is that skydiver avatar just to impress the ladies or the aliens.?
I was skydiving when they had four gores of an old T-10 knocked out, and you wore a motorcyclist helmet and coveralls, and you could get into the sport for $500 and get a jump with a club for $10 a jump.
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Posted: Mon Mar 3rd, 2008 11:15 pm |
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Have we been lied to?.....................nah....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUGRngAhBI
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Posted: Mon Feb 4th, 2008 05:07 am |
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 06:11 pm |
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| http://www.flixxy.com/dubai-dynamic-architecture.htm
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Posted: Wed Jan 30th, 2008 01:28 am |
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| That would explain a lot of things huh?
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gk wrote: still think we evolved from apes? Maybe they evolved from humans, LOL!
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Posted: Tue Jan 29th, 2008 07:56 pm |
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I bet you could train one brought up in captivity to play those drums. One of my favorite programs is Orangatan Island. Loners in nature, but after growing up together in captivity, they have formed their own "society" with one another, and interact collectively now...organizing. I watched them stand in line, to partake of food. Share their food. Make observations of how each other behaves, and replicate that behavior. One took a fish from the water; experimented with it as his fellow tangers watched him, then bite into it and eat it. After that, the rest of the tangers proceeded to do the same thing the same way. Amazing. I want a baby one to hug.
And that chimp on tonite is going to be another amazing feat of our cousins.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29th, 2008 07:35 pm |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdgI0j1odkY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUnIvwyrfLg&feature=related
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Posted: Fri Jan 25th, 2008 05:40 pm |
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still think we evolved from apes?
I'm the chimpion! Ape trounces the best of the human world in memory competitionby FIONA MACRAE
When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced.
But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.
Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen.
And that's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.
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Photographic memory: Amyumu the chimpanzee trounced a British memory champion
Both chimp and man watched a computer screen on which five numbers flashed up at various positions before being obscured by white squares.
They then had to touch the squares in order of the numbers they concealed, from lowest to highest. When the numbers were shown for just a fifth of a second - the blink of an eye - Ayumu got it right almost 90 per cent of the time.
His human opponent scored a rather less impressive 33 per cent, Channel Five programme Extraordinary Animals will reveal.
Mr Pridmore, who spends his evenings memorising 400-digit numbers, ruefully acknowledged that he had met his match.
Ben Pridmore can memorise the order of a pack of cards in 30 seconds - but was beaten by a chimp
"I'd rather not be seen on TV doing worse than a chimpanzee in a memory-test," he said. "I'll never live it down!"
The TV tests follow scientific experiments which pitted Ayumu, along with several other young chimps, against a group of university students.
Ayumu was the clear champion, doing twice as well as the humans.
It is thought that young chimps are blessed with photographic memories, allowing them to remember patterns and sequences with amazing accuracy.
Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa, the Kyoto University researcher behind both sets of experiments, said: "People still believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in any domain of intelligence.
"That is the prejudice of the people.
"Chimpanzees can be clever in a specific task in comparison to humans."
• The Memory Chimp is on Tuesday, January 29, at 7.30pm on Five.
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Posted: Thu Jan 24th, 2008 07:48 pm |
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The return of the Watchers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEcHrsJuoQ&NR=1
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhk5m04vYtg&feature=related
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Posted: Thu Nov 29th, 2007 08:55 pm |
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Any ideas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iusq6j8cG1o
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Posted: Sun Nov 18th, 2007 03:20 am |
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Just when you think Skydiving just can't get any better..................
http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=4262
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Posted: Sun Nov 4th, 2007 11:46 pm |
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This is a really cool site. Has a section for kids too. Check out how the kids can view Comet Holmes.
http://www.earthsky.org
p.s. good site for teachers too. Has a section for them.
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Posted: Fri Oct 26th, 2007 07:42 pm |
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this link has some really cool developer stuff
http://www.ozones.com/
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Posted: Fri Oct 26th, 2007 07:28 pm |
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Now that is cool
JJ
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Posted: Fri Oct 26th, 2007 07:13 pm |
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one single stroke of a pen
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