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WLS has replaced C2C with something called Red Eye Radio.  I think it's a trucker's program that runs all night. 

I am a Coast Insider (yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever) but sometimes enjoyed listening live.  It sucks.   

Why is Homeland Security protecting copyrights?  This is so stupid.




http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/feds-seize-domain-names/

Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.

List of domains so far.

2009jerseys.com
51607.com
amoyhy.com
b2corder.com
bishoe.com
borntrade.com
borntrade.net
boxedtvseries.com
boxset4less.com
boxsetseries.com
burberryoutletshop.com
cartoon77.com
cheapscarfshop.com
coachoutletfactory.com
dajaz1.com
discountscarvesonsale.com
dvdcollectionsale.com
dvdcollects.com
dvdorderonline.com
dvdprostore.com
dvdscollection.com
dvdsetcollection.com
dvdsetsonline.com
dvdsuperdeal.com
eluxury-outlet.com
getdvdset.com
gofactoryoutlet.com
golfstaring.com
golfwholesale18.com
handbag9.com
handbagcom.com
handbagspop.com
icqshoes.com
ipodnanouk.com
jersey-china.com
jerseyclubhouse.com
jordansbox.com
lifetimereplicas.com
louis-vuitton-outlet-store.com
lv-outlets.com
lv-outlets.net
lv-outletstore.com
massnike.com
merrytimberland.com
mycollects.com
mydreamwatches.com
mygolfwholesale.com
newstylerolex.com
nfljerseysupply.com
nibdvd.com
odvdo.com
oebags.com
onsmash.com
overbestmall.com
rapgodfathers.com
realtimberland.com
rmx4u.com
scarfonlineshop.com
scarfviponsale.com
shawls-store.com
silkscarf-shop.com
silkscarfonsale.com
skyergolf.com
sohob2b.com
sohob2c.com
storeofeast.com
stuff-trade.com
sunglasses-mall.com
sunogolf.com
tbl-sports.com
throwbackguy.com
tiesonsale.com
timberlandlike.com
topabuy.com
torrent-finder.com
usaburberryscarf.com
usaoutlets.net

I just posted this sign on my front door:





If politics and religion are two taboo topics, why is it that people love to knock on my door and try to change my mind?


This is MY house, bitches!

So....I'm listening to the radio and they start talking about this story.  I don't know if it was mentioned on Coast last night because I haven't had a chance to listen today. 


I love it that the article says "when they arrive from outer space."


Take me to your leader!

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/United-Nations-Aliens-Unoosa-Mazlan-Othman-Stephen-Hawking,news-8128.html



UN Selecting Ambassador for Alien Contact
6:20 PM - September 27, 2010 - By [/b][/size]Kevin Parrish - Source : Tom's Guide US
The United Nations is gearing up for alien visitation by appointing a spokesperson.

Now here's a bit of news to would raise FBI agent Fox Mulder's "conspiracy" flags almost immediately: the UN is gearing up to elect an Earth ambassador that will with aliens when they arrive from outer space. If approved, the role will initially be filled by 58-year-old astrophysicist Mazlan Othman, the current head of the UN's  for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), and not the U.S. president as seen in many alien invasion movies.

"The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day human kind will receive signals from extraterrestrials," Othman said. "When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject. The UN is a ready-made mechanism for such coordination."

But when aliens do arrive, would Othman be the first contact, or the first meal? A recent documentary by Professor Stephen Hawking suggests that alien visitors would arrive like nomads in massive ships, their intent not on peace and galactic harmony, but to colonize and plunder the planet's resources after depleting their own back at home.

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet," he said. "It would be 'too risky' to attempt to make contact with alien races. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans."

But it may be too late. If the UN is considering the position for an Earth ambassador, an alien may well be on its way, possibly ticked off over the noise generated by humans shooting radio transmissions into space.

This article was in my local paper.  I got cold chills looking at the picture.  I'm not sure why it creeped me out so much, but something is very, very wrong here.   



Tomatoes appear to have strawberries inside
By ELYSE RUSSO â€" The (Galesburg) Register-Mail

A strawberry that appears to be inside of a tomato is seen at the Galesburg home of Dean Wilson. (AP Photo/The Register-Mail, Bill Gaither)

GALESBURG â€" Dean Wilson says he's no gardener. So when his wife, Beverly, cut into one of the tomatoes plucked from his attempt at a backyard garden, he was shocked at what he'd grown.

Inside the tomato was what looked to be a strawberry in shape, size and color. And all the tomatoes pulled from this one plant in the garden had the same "strawberry" inside.

"It tastes like a really good tomato," Wilson said, adding that the strawberry flavor isn't there, but there is a bite of sweetness to the fruit.

Whether you call it a "straw-mato" or a "tom-berry," an apparent strawberry that has grown inside of a tomato, is a phenomenon that has been reported elsewhere. For example, in September 2008, an English newspaper reported that a woman named Ester Walker of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, also found a straw-mato growing in her garden.

A friend of Wilson's, former farmer Jack Eden, said he helped Wilson plant his garden this year.

"I grew up on a farm as a kid, I've been a farmer, but I've never seen anything like this," Eden said.

The alleged straw-mato plant was purchased from Menards. The plant was labeled a Burpee Salsa Tomato plant, and the other tomato plants of the same variety that Wilson planted yielded ordinary tomatoes.

In Wilson's garden in the back of his Galesburg home, there is a strawberry plant about 50 inches away from the tomato plant that yielded the straw-matoes. The strawberry plant did not bear fruit this year, but that doesn't change what Wilson and Eden think happened.

"They were just matin' I guess," Eden said with a laugh.

One with an average gardening IQ would assume that the straw-mato is a result of 'matin' or cross-pollination: "The transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another," according to Merriam Webster.

But an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Knox College, Matthew Jones-Rhoades, says it would be very difficult for a tomato and a strawberry to cross-pollinate. While the tomato is a "true fruit," where only one flower gets pollinated, a strawberry is a "compound fruit," where many flowers need to be pollinated.

"It would be pretty hard to imagine," he said of the straw-mato actually coming about.

Jones-Rhoades says he's not a tomato expert, but he has a few theories about how Wilson's straw-mato came into existence.

"Maybe there's a variety of tomato that looks like this all the time," he said. Another theory is, perhaps, that the plant underwent a spontaneous mutation and now looks the way it does because of it.

"Plants do weird things when the weather gets hot," said Kari Houle, Knox County University of Illinois Extension horticulture unit educator. Wilson brought the straw-mato to the Extension office and the staff e-mailed photos of it to Extension Specialist Elizabeth Wahle in Edwardsville. Wahle concluded that the tomato was not a straw-mato but simply a variety called a "stuffing tomato."

"Most stuffing-type tomatoes look like they have a strawberry inside," Houle said, referencing Wahle's assessment. "Just a characteristic of certain cultivars."

Aside from the Extension office, Wilson also e-mailed photos of the straw-mato to Burpee, since the freaky fruit grew from a Burpee tomato plant, but they were not interested in a sample.

Undeterred, Wilson plans on replanting his straw-mato variety, but not being a gardener, he'll need some help.

"I have no idea how to replant it," he said.

Jones-Rhoades also thinks that Wilson should replant his straw-mato and see what sprouts next year.

"I'd be curious what would happen," he said.

I'm sorry if this isn't appropriate here.  This made me laugh and I wanted to share.


   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/christian-broadcasting-ne_n_338738.html?ref=fb&src=sp
      
Christian Broadcasting Network Warns Against 'Demonic' Halloween Candy

Huffington Post   
UPDATE: CBN has removed the blog. The original text is available here.
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Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network posted a blog by Kimberly Daniels recently that warns Christians to forgo celebrating Halloween because of its evilness. Daniels specifically calls out candy as a source of soul-molestation:

    "During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches."

Obviously, we shouldn't be buying Halloween candy, but what about getting it by trick-or-treating?

    "Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference."

Darn.

We wholeheartedly agree with Daniels and have put together a handy guide of outrageously demonic candy to stay away from this (and every) season.

I thought some of you might find this interesting.  Indianapolis Public Schools have blocked web access to most websites that offer any kind of alternative to Christianity and websites about the paranormal.  They also banned LGBT websites.

It's interesting to me that they would even attempt to do that.  It kind of becomes a question of where do you draw the line.  We certainly don't want the kiddies looking at porn or information about how to build bombs.  Are ghosts, gays or atheists a threat?  I guess it depends on where you're coming from.

I'm curious about you Coast listeners' reactions to this story........

http://www.atheistnexus.org/profiles/blogs/indianapolis-schools-ban-only


This gentleman makes some valid points..........

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/07/darn_i_knew_i_was_missing_some.php

Darn, I knew I was missing something
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: July 13, 2010 9:07 PM, by PZ Myers

chools often block access to parts of the internet, which is fine, if only to focus students' attention a little bit. It is not fine when they discriminate, like Indianapolis public schools, which block on religious views other than the Abrahamic religions. Their rules, though, mention something I did not know.

Sites that promote and provide information on religions such as Wicca, Witchcraft or Satanism. Occult Practices, atheistic views, voodoo rituals or other forms of mysticism, [...] the use of spells, incantations, curses, and magic powers. This category includes sites which discuss or deal with paranormal or unexplained events.

Now I know I have this reputation as a big fat atheist, but I have to confess to not knowing something here. Can anyone tell me what the atheist spells, incantations, curses, and magic powers are? Please give me recipes in the comments. They might be handy, but, well, no one ever taught them to me. I blame it on being brought up in a Christian family â€" they didn't know anything about atheist rituals or enchantments.

Oh, and if Indianapolis schools ban sites that talk about "paranormal or unexplained events", why aren't they blocking all of the Christian sites? Jesus was one paranormal dude with unexplained magic powers, you know.

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