Wondering if this will show up in Facebook, as I'm supposedly importing my own RSS feed. You are probably wondering what kind of a fool can't import his own RSS feed, or you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. Either way you are probably wondering about me in a less than flattering way, which I can deal with. Just wait 'til I get all of this stuff working together, and I can tap my shoe sending a Tweet to my Twitter account which will turn itself into a blog generating an RSS feed that appears on my Facebook page! Who'll be laughing then!

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AFP Story

There's not much else at the link above, and normally I avoid blogging about anything even remotely political, but this news caused a mini-aneurysm.

First is the absurdity of actually trying this man in a court. He should be dropped in a hole somewhere until he wants to talk about anything he might know that could save American lives.

Second - "alleged" bomber? The article actually states the following: "Abdulmutallab also confirmed he had taken medication to treat injuries." What injuries, do you ask? Those acquired by setting your underwear on fire, that's what injuries. But wait, he didn't do that did he? He's not guilty.

Finally, there's the whole courage-of-your-convictions thing. If you were willing to blow yourself up to kill a planeload of passengers, shouldn't you be willing to plead guilty and send a message to the whole world that you're a dedicated man? Isn't pleading not guilty at this point a little cowardly? I can understand that you're going to be a financial and emotional drain on the courts and American society, but that doesn't seem worthy of someone of the flaming undergarments ilk.

Just makes me nauseated. I can't wait for the trial, let alone the appeal. Hopefully the authorities are treating him with kid gloves and helping him get over his "injury."

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Well it's January 6th and I've already broken my (unwritten) resolution not to complain about the winter. Usually I last until early February, by which time I am spending three hours a day in front of my sun box trying to trick my brain into believing I'm not above the Arctic Circle*. I've heard from different, yet completely believable sources, that State College ranks up in the top five cloudiest cities in the universe, behind only Seattle, the Pacific Ocean**, the moon Titan and Venus. If you want to write in and elect your own city as cloudiest in the universe, please at least include a link or URL to an official National Weather Service observing station.

No doubt you're reading this and thinking to yourself, "A-ha! This massive cold outbreak is another sign that there is NO global warming." Before you trick yourself into believing crazy things like that, or Charlie Sheen's innocence, or the idea that your city could possibly be cloudier than State College, Pennsylvania - I have bad news: It turns out that Global Warming actually produces cold weather.

Scientists who refused to be interviewed by this blog (I'm sure there would be many if I asked) have suggested that Global Warming causes hot weather, really hot weather, cold weather, and really cold weather. The AP, gloating that they actually got scientists to answer their phone calls, has the story in this article: Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming.

Now, I'm not one to try and argue with a genuine scientist, because I'm a humble blogger with little scientific background or knowledge*** but it seems awfully convenient that Global Warming is supported by hot weather, cold weather, really hot weather, really cold weather, earthquakes, tornadoes, cloudy weather in State College, ancient fossil records, and Tiger Woods' fifth house on Titan.

I'm just sayin'.

*Pennsylvania is in the Arctic Circle just north of Saskatchewan.
**Okay, the Pacific Ocean technically isn't just one city.
***The humble author wants you to know that he DID get an A in Anatomy and Physiology in high school.

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Tetrapod named "Phil." Illustration by Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki

Scientists have discovered the footprints of an 8' long creature that date almost 20 million years earlier than the earliest known walking creature. The prints were found in southeastern Poland, a European country somewhere above Arkansas. The footprints were just dozens of feet away from the remains of a hot dog stand, causing scientists to speculate that the tetrapod (a backboned animal with four limbs) was hungry.

"The tetrapod tracks are proof that these early animals walked on land and were likely tempted out of the water by a tasty moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor*," said a paleontologist at Warsaw University.

The footprints indicate the tetrapod was a lizard-like creature, about 8.25 feet long, with stout legs, scales, green eyes, gout and a peg leg. Additional, researchers are fairly certain that his name was Phil.

National Geographic: Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found--Pushes Back Evolution

*Thank you Wikipedia!

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