“For the first time in many years, northern winter is beginning with a total lunar eclipse. On Dec. 21, 2010, the date of the northern winter solstice, the full Moon will pass through Earth’s shadow, turning the lunar orb a delightful shade of coppery-red.
“Sky watchers in North America are favored with an overhead view as the eclipse unfolds on Tuesday morning between 02:41 am and 03:53 am EST.”
Obviously, only the very earliest bird will catch this eclipse.
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They’re finally putting more windows in the International Space Station.
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Tagged International Space Station, ISS, NASA
Praise where praise is overdue.
“DEAR LEADER KIM JONG IL ANNOUNCES BRAVE TRUTHSEEKERS TO RECEIVE MEDALS FROM DEMOKRATIK PEOPRE’S REPUBRIK OF KOREA –
(Pyongyang) Rooters News Agency
The Dear Leader announced today that Wikireaks founder Jurian Assange and US Army Private First Crass Bradrey Manning are to receive the highest recognition that a non-citizen can receive, The Order Of Friendship – First Crass™”
Read it all, comrade. That’s an order.
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Tagged dear leader, kim jong il, Peoples Cube, Wikileaks
A growing, nay, a burgeoning concern among such as the Not-So-Sharptons.
“The dominance of white lights is clearly a hidden and coded [and, let’s not forget, conservative Republican] display of racism and white, heterosexual dominance. I am ashamed [at] this near universal display of racism. I call for a ban of white holiday lights, and for a return to the proper, diverse multicolored lights of the recent past!”
Smash the power and get with the program, comrade.
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Moderate to severe drought has the Austin area in its grip once again, with just three quarters of an inch of rain since Oct. 1. Relax, it’s not AGW. Drought is our normal condition.
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Duck and cover (if you aren’t sitting in Ground Zero) was always good advice, when I was a schoolkid back in the Dark Ages of the 1950s, despite the mockery of it ever since by Lefty writers and journalists.
But it is odd that Obamalot is promulgating it now.
“What they’re telling you is that you’re going to get nuked, there’s nothing they can do about it, they have no intention of trying to do anything substantive about it, and the best thing for you to do is to learn to be a contortionist — it’s hard to bend over far enough to kiss your ass goodbye.”
Well, even Bush II only said Iran could not have nukes. He never said what, if anything, substantive could be done to stop them.
So far, only Stuxnet has, thanks, in all probability, to the Mossad and Israel’s covert version of its high-tech industry. One German expert estimates for at least two years.
“…Iran’s best move would be to throw out all of the computers that have been infected by the worm, which he said was the most ‘advanced and aggressive malware in history.’ But, he said, even once all of the computers were thrown out, Iran would have to ensure that computers used by outside contractors were also clean of Stuxnet.”
Shalom, guys. Keep it up.
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