Carol McCain and her unfaithful husband

Heartbreaking.

Mother Nature’s Son

White speck on Martian horizon

h/t

4,000

Nico Pitney | Huffington Post

Aurora Borealis

Cadence, and cascade

Irony is dead.

(clic pic)

optional:

• further reading

Earth is heaven

One world.

Right now.

Peace (a theme)

Earth

(h/t)

Stardust

Don’t turn away

Down by the sea

Top search of the day

Hey, look!

(image from Chandra)

Big Oil, incorporated

In this case, the reality is considerably worse than the satire.

(h/t Monkeyfister)

Go tell it on the mountain

Fractal landscape

Click image to zoom out.

Nothing to see here. Please disregard this picture and move along.

Burlington Free Press (hat-tip Pygalgia):

A cooling tower structure at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that partially collapsed Tuesday underwent a full inspection as recently as this spring and was found to be in good condition, a company spokesman said Thursday.

“It was determined acceptable for continued operation,” said Rob Williams, spokesman for plant owner Entergy Nuclear.

Williams said the collapse, which occurred Tuesday afternoon and left a gaping hole in the side of the structure, caused Entergy to reduce power output by 50 percent until repairs are carried out.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said the tower collapse does not pose a safety threat.

You’ve got to be kidding me. They seem more concerned about the fact that someone took a picture.

Which one looks like the cleverly disguised cop?

Click to find out which one really is.

Update: Watch the video to see what’s going on here:

Update 2: The Gazetteer has more. Apparently the police are still lying about this incident.

Hungarians are dirty ghoulies who wash in peanut oil?

There is no call for that kind of hate speech on the internets.

SilentPatriot @ Crooks and Liars has video.

What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light

All is full of life

Hat-tip Monkeyfister.

Recommended listening:

• All is full of love,
• Halcyon and on and on

No real than you are

Reuters has video.

Chickenings writes:

Seems like it is an actual thing:
http://www.egoleonard.com/

And just on the off-chance your Dutch isn’t quite fluent just yet, here’s a bit of what it says…

“My name is Ego Leonard and I greet you from the virtual world. A world which for me stands for luck, solidarity, everything green and blooming, and without rules and restrictions. Recently, my world has been flooded with luck-seekers and those who want power. Many new meetings in my virtual world have left me very curious as to your surroundings. I am here because I thought of your world and wanted to discover and understand it. Show me all of those beautiful things which your world has to offer. Be my friend, and tell me tales, take me on your travels to beautiful landscapes, show me your words and gestures.”

Hat-tip Doug Stych, who is now proud to be called a liberal though I don’t think he’s a parasite.

That’s all folks.

How many more have to die?

An unnecessary war, an unhelpful war, an unwinnable war

ABC News:

“I am the mother of the driver of the Bradley you see upside down and burning,” she wrote. “He was 19 years old and could see the futility of Iraq invasion and occupation.”

Another relative of a fallen soldier wrote, “For one moment, we captured the sense of fear, hate, anxiety, stress, depression that befell our beloved one. We miss him. I am so angry, because after all of this — the sacrifice — Bush and his supporters have not moved forward on this.”

There’s video too.

Hat-tip Ellroon @ Rants from the Rookery.

What are you smoking?

Hat-tip Monkeyfister.

Recommended viewing:

• Judge the tree by the fruit thereof

Recovering alcoholic or off the wagon?

Holden Caulfield and Spocko comment on this:

U.S. President George W. Bush (C) is joined by President of the Washington Nationals’ Stan Kasten (L) and Nationals’ General Manager Jim Bowden as they watch the Washington Nationals’ baseball team play in Washington, July 5, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

Hat-tip Ellroon.

Because women don’t smoke pot, part 2

[Megan] Fox admits to trying various drugs but didn’t like her experiences under the influence. She tells Maxim magazine, “I’ve done drugs, and that’s how I know I don’t like them.

“I wanted to try several things and make an informed decision, but I didn’t enjoy anything other than marijuana. I don’t even think of it as a drug–it should be legalized.

“Cocaine is back with a vengeance–everyone in every club is doing drugs. Celebrities aren’t trying to hide it, except when people have camera phones.

“I know about five people who aren’t on drugs today, and I’m one of them.”

[emphasis added]

Related post:

• Because women and space aliens don’t smoke pot

Show the girl some respect.

Click the pic.

Category entry: Stupid (noun)

Nicely inconspicuous, this one is.

Hat-tip Bradley @ Incertus, who has this update:

Curtis Allgier, a convicted burglar and white supremacist, briefly escaped from custody today by stealing a corrections officer’s gun and murdering him. This is not the first time Allgier has been a fugitive– he keeps running from authorities and trying to blend in with the general population.

Washington, DC (National Mall)

Click image to see many more.

See also:

• San Jose, CA (City Hall)

Sufficient grounds for impeachment:

• 16 words

How I found Eris…

Planet X, if you count Pluto. And she has a moon.

Hat-tip Doug Stych, who has a number of interesting stories to report, as he often does.

“I am Paris Hilton,”

says Jon Swift.

Poor thing, she’s had a tough life.

Seriously.

Het Meest onnodige Gebruik van het Woord “Belgium” in een Ernstige Campagne

Dank Xsociate (en Babelfish).

Surrender, monkey

Got nanners?

Hat-tip ¡El Gato Negro!

The United States of America

Recommended viewing:

• Witness, receive and transmit
• Ron Paul for the Republican nomination
• One, two, seven

South Jersey fire after F-16 training incident

Hat-tip Nicole Belle.

Can you see the whole lion?

Click to enlarge, and back up a few paces if it helps.

Related posts:

• Am I the only one who sees a lion on the left?
• Medicine man

Happy birthday Melissa

So I have no photoshop skills. Go visit Shakesville and say hello.

Wallflower

Did two or more persons conspire to start a war based upon knowing deception?

Hat-tip Len Hart.

Found, or not found?

My wife found it, not me.

Ségolène Royal for president (of France)

I don’t have a vote in France. But if I did, I would vote for Ségolène Royal.

Too cute

Hat-tip Sobchak Security, by way of Skippy.

Recommended viewing:

• Wednesday catblogging

Is that a bustle in your hedgerow?

The arboreal articulture of Axel Erlandson.

Hat-tip ggwfung.

Recommended listening:

• To Bedlam and part way back
• As the Leonids fertilize the earth…

Alberto Gonzales, going with the “just following orders” defense?

Cernig writes,

A manager as awful as Gonzales admits himself to be should be fired if he won’t resign – his only possible plus point being that this managerial awfullness appears to be exactly what Rove was counting on.

STRANGE WOMAN: It is a most elusive fish!
STRANGE MAN: And it went wherever I did go.
STRANGE WOMAN: Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
STRANGE MAN: A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.
STRANGE WOMAN: Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
STRANGE MAN: That went wherever I did go.
MAN IN AUDIENCE: Look up his trunk!
MAN IN AUDIENCE: Yeah, it’s hidden in his trousers!

Well isn’t that special?

Related posts:

• Nothing improper?
• I’m reassured, are you?
• — There you go. —

Haven’t we seen this one before?

Related post:

• American rounds, made in America?

Yeah, it’s still early days… Soon everyone will say it.

Hat-tip Cookie Jill.

Recommended viewing:

• Let’s impeach the president.
• — O Sinnerman! —