Sunday, March 28, 2010

Respite into the Past

Verona, Italy, in 1984...



Thursday, March 25, 2010

Thank you, Mr. Culp...now rest

'I Spy' Actor Robert Culp Dies

Read more here.

Robert Culp, dead at 79

You Say It's Your Birthday?


Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Hey, Mayor Daley!

This is how they take care of it in Kenya!

Click to enlarge

Perhaps if the guns collected every year were MELTED DOWN...

...oh, never mind. Daley doesn't give a rat's bum anyway, because there's no money in it for him!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

No one knows for sure...

From Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What shapes the remarkable dust tapestry of the nearby Milky Way Galaxy?

No one knows for sure.

The intricate structures, shown above, were resolved in new detail recently in a wide region of the sky imaged in far infrared light by the European Space Agency's Planck satellite.

The above image is a digital fusion of three infrared colors: two taken at high resolution by Planck, while the other is an older image taken by the now defunct IRAS satellite.

At these colors, the sky is dominated by the faint glow of very cold gas within only 500 light years of Earth.

In the above image, red corresponds to temperatures as cold as 10 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero, while white corresponds to gas as warm at 40 Kelvins.

The pink band across the lower part of the image is warm gas confined to the plane of our Galaxy.

The bright regions typically hold dense molecular clouds that are slowly collapsing to form stars, whereas the dimmer regions are most usually diffuse interstellar gas and dust known as cirrus.

Why these regions have intricate filamentary shapes shared on both large and small scales remains a topic of research.

Future study of the origin and evolution of dust may help in the understanding the recent history of our Galaxy as well as how planetary systems such as our Solar System came to be born.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010

The Census and Daley the Anarchist

Shown here is the 2010 US Census form which you received in the mail this past week.

Note the bright red arrow pointing to the highlighted area. Click to enlarge.

"Do not count anyone living away either at college or in the Armed Forces"

Pretty straightforward, isn't it?

This is one of the long-standing rules of the census, and guess who is telling you to break that rule, that law?

Why, da Mare, Dopey Dick'em Daley, of course!

Daley wants Chicago college students who study out of town counted as city residents on Census

Mayor Richard M. Daley wants Chicagoans to count their out-of-town college student children on their household U.S. Census forms, even though a local Census official said those students should be counted at their colleges.

The difference of opinion between the two officials drew laughter from a crowd of seniors at the Abbot Park Senior Services Center on the South Side today, where officials were encouraging Chicagoans to fill out census forms.

In response to audience questions, Stanley D. Moore, regional director of the Chicago Regional Office for the U.S. Census Bureau, said the law requires that students be counted at their colleges.

“The law says that if they’re in school, we count them where they live on April 1, 2010,” Moore said.

But Daley said the students are coming home for spring break and should be counted here April 1, so Chicago can take advantage of the government money that results from more people being counted.

“If your son or daughter is living in your home five months a year almost or more than that, they’re home for Christmas, they’re home for Easter break. . . they’re home for June, July, August and September. . . it’s simple as that,” Daley told reporters after the event.

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Not only is he dopey, he's GREEDY! He is an elected 'servant of the people' telling the people to break the law!

It's time for him to resign--period!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Be a Clown, be a Clown...

If you are going to dress like a clown...

FCOTUS
(First Clown of the United States)

...at least do it PROPERLY, like this!