Hen that thinks it’s a dog adopts litter of puppies
You’d be forgiven for thinking that chickens and dogs were not natural bed fellows.
But a one-year-old hen that thinks it’s a dog has adopted a litter of puppies much to the bemusement of their canine mother.
Mabel has taken to keeping the small dogs warm by snuggling up to them while their mother, Nettle, sits out in the yard at a farm in Shrewsbury.
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Boeing 747 Survives a Simulated Underwear Bomb Blast
The BBC did a test on an old decomissioned 747, putting a dummy with the same type and amount of explosives found on the underwear bomber. As you can see in the above video, the flexibility of the outside of the frame allowed it to absorb the blast. If the bomb had gone off, the plane would have still been able to fly and land.
Of course, the damage inside the plane still would have been horrific. But it’s nice to know that the trusty 747 can stand up to such abuse.
The pressurized cabin was also addressed:
Some readers have questioned the validity of the experiment given that the plane was tested on the ground. The programme-makers gave this response:
At the time of the attempted detonation, Flight 253 was descending rapidly and its altitude has been estimated to be around 10,000ft.
At that height the difference in pressure inside and outside the plane would not have been great enough significantly to affect the explosion.
So the explosion team ruled that the decommissioned plane’s lack of doors was not a factor in the test.
With this quantity of explosive, the peak pressure and impulse are over quickly and decay rapidly over distance. The doors were sufficiently far away that the overpressure would have dissipated before it reached them.
Bag of Randomness
- I can’t remember the last time CBS, NBC, or ABC aired a mini-series.
- I saw Ashely Banfield was on Extra as a correspondent last night. When she left our local Fox affiliate for NBC her career skyrocketed with her coverage of 9/11, but I guess her career is now on the downward slide.
- I finished Game Change last night. Even though I enjoyed all of the book, the chapters towards the end that deal with the selection and vetting of the VP candidates and the financial crises (with Bush White House meetings included) were the most intriguing.
- Oh yeah, and all the debate prep stuff was quite fascinating as well.
- For anyone interested in the new Tron movie, here’s the new trailer. It looks entertaining, but I’m still surprised that Hollywood has no new or original ideas as of late. But hey, Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde are in it, so it can’t be bad.
- Speaking of extensions of movies from the 80’s, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has an interesting premise, but Shia LaBeouf has a track record of ruining a good franchise. e.g. Indiana Jones
- Craziest lead sentence ever: Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch. Article (Deliberately stolen from Barry’s blog)
- Color by Numbers Toilet Paper
- The gay version of Taylor Swift’s You Belong to Me video – YouTube
Sharing a Eulogy
One of my friends, better yet, one of my mentors, recently lost his mother and eulogized her earlier this week. Here’s part of it, I found it quite touching, and think we all can benefit from reading it.
I always wonder what people will think of me when I’m gone, I hope it can be as nice as this.
A very wise woman by the name of [name removed] helped me to put my mom’s passing into perspective. She said that while we all die, remember that there are two types of deaths; the first is a death filled with tears because someone left this world much too young without ever realizing their potential, like my brother Jean. The second is the passing of someone who lived a long, rich and rewarding life. We may miss them, but they had a chance to live al long life. She also said to remember, we’d all be together before you know it.
Mom raised her family, helped raise her grandchildren and watched them grow into the two fine young men they are today. She and dad were married nearly sixty years, not many people are lucky enough to have that! And best of all, they had a long and active retirement doing whatever they pleased whenever they pleased!
Life may not be the party we expected it to be, but we owe it to ourselves to dance like crazy while we’re here, and boy did mom and dad dance together in this life, and always tried to include the rest of us in the fun!
Three things I’ll always remember about my mama; first, her eyes always lit up when she saw me, from the time I was a little boy, to the present, she was always happy to see me!
Second, she never started an argument that I can recall, that doesn’t mean she didn’t argue she just never started one. She was always more than willing to end an argument though, one way or another; of course she got rid of the strap when we got older!
Finally, mom was always ready to forgive. We sometimes give our folks problems, teenagers seem to know it all, but no matter what, mom always forgave me. One thing in this world I never doubted, mom’s unconditional love and forgiveness, dad’s too! They both did their absolute best for all of us.
That Glenn Beck sure can say some crazy stuff
I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ’social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes.
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Sarah Palin: God wrote on his hand too
At an Ohio Right to Life fundraiser Friday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin once again defended the notes she wrote on her hand during last month’s Tea Party Convention. She said she didn’t have a good answer to media criticism at the time, but now she has one: God did it too.
A supporter sent her the biblical passage Isaiah 49:16: “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”
“If what was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us,” Palin said. “In that passage he says, I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you. And I’m like okay, I’m in good company.”
Bag of Randomness
- I saw that tulip bulbs were only a dollar at Wal-Mart, so I bought a red one and a white one, both unbloomed. Since they are WifeGeeding’s favorite flowers, I told her to take them to school and have the class guess which one is going to turn red and which one will turn white.
- I’m so close to finishing Game Change. It’s definitely one of the best books I’ve ever read, but then again it appeals to me and probably not you. There’s just something about discovering the behind the scenes stuff and understanding the whole process of coming to historical decisions that affect the nation and the world that just fascinates me.
- I was part of a major (at least to me) conflict resolution yesterday. It was a big moment for me as I was able to be poise but direct, and even tried to extend some grace.
- We’ll be attending our first baby class this weekend.
- The grass in my lawn isn’t green, but the weeds sure are.
- My beard is now gone, I’m back with a goatee.
- Dallas is one of the cities accused of shortening yellow lights – Article
- No surprise – Top home-school texts dismiss evolution for creationism
- Most Blacks/African-Americans report praying every night (71%); more than four times the reported frequency of Asians (18%), twice the rate of Whites (32%) and 1.5 times the rate of Hispanics (45%). Article
- A film about faith
- And you thought texting and driving was dangerous – Article
- Christian television show makes fun of Star Trek – YouTube
The Handsome Men’s Club
It starts a little slow, but with all the surprise appearances, it’s pretty funny. There’s something for every lady. PG13ish.
Captured Ghosts for Sale
Captured ghosts from our house
Captured by an exorsist from a spiritualist church
one spirit we believe is a man by the name of Les Graham, managed to track down a photo. He died in the house in the 1920’s.
Exorsist believes this spirit likes to make himself known and spook people. but he is not a very strong spirit.
The other spirit came from when me and my partner stupidly did an Oujia Board. We believe it is a little girl who likes to move things and turn things on and off. Exorsist says she is VERY strong and if left will get stronger.
We have had no activity since they were bottled on July 15th 2009 . So i believe they are in the bottles.
They are bottled with holy water as aparantly the water dulls the spirits energy, sort of puts them to sleep.
To revive the spirit, i have been told that you pour into a little dish and let it evaporate into your house.
I just want to get rid of them as they scare me. But someone might like these to play with.
‘Sovereign Citizens’ Claim Immunity From Ind., Federal Law
Fed up and fired up, an increasing number of Indiana residents who have lost confidence in the government are going to extreme measures to claim they are “sovereign citizens.”
By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them as diplomats, 6News’ Rafael Sanchez reported.
Indiana authorities call such proclamations both illegitimate and illegal. About 10 people every month ask the state to put a seal on a document so that they can claim freedom from taxes.
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