>>How much was he awarded?

BONG HITS FOR JESUS!!!!!

RE: Whose Bong Would Jesus Hit?

'Gross oversimplification'

"Our results suggest that the popular journalistic image of rich latte-drinking Democrats and poor NASCAR Republicans is a gross oversimplification," Park says. "Income varies far more within states than average income does between states, and it is these with-in-state variances that explain national voting patterns."

The bottom line, the study suggests, is that little has changed in terms of income's general influence on individual voting patterns: in every presidential election since 1952, the richer a voter is, the more likely that voter is to vote Republican, regardless of ethnicity, sex, education or age.

What's changing, the researchers argue, is how differences in income are playing out at the county and state levels. A key finding is that relative income is a much stronger predictor of voting preferences in poor states than it is in rich states.

"We find that income matters more in 'red' America than in 'blue' America," the researchers explain. "In poor states, rich people are much more likely than poor people to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, but in rich states (such as Connecticut), income has a very low correlation with vote preference."

In Connecticut, one of the nation's richer states, researchers found little difference between the voting patterns of the state's richest and poorest residents. In Mississippi, the nation's poorest state, they found dramatic income-related differences, with rich voters twice as likely as poor to vote Republican.

The study also documents changing income-related voting patterns in counties across the nation. Rich counties, a longtime bastion of Republican support, are generally shifting toward the Democrats. And while Republicans maintain an edge among rich counties in poor southern states, they're doing so with slimmer margins.

These regional differences may be especially important, the researchers suggest, in understanding why the national news media is especially vulnerable to the misperception of the typical Democrat as a rich liberal living in a wealthy urban metro area.

Study debunks journalistic image of rich 'Latte' Democrats, poor 'NASCAR' Republicans

OH man - those people need help. Really.

Boston PD: Putting the 'error' in Terror

Some amazing pictures here. Neat technique.

"HDR is short for High Dynamic Range. It is a software technique of taking either one image or a series of images, combining them, and adjusting the contrast ratios to do things that are virtually impossible with a single aperture and shutter speed."

HDR Photography Tutorial

George Noory and Alex Jones were trying to get a Nichols interview.

I'd love to see a lie detector test done.
Interestingly, the guy Nichols has said was involved from the FBI was the same guy responsible for the killings at Ruby Ridge.
In light of this, I don't quite know how to take the statement that he was involved.
I do think that it was THE Oklahoma bombings that stopped the big patriot/militia movement in the US.
I don't think these two guys acted totally alone.

Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help

You just gotta read this story. This is amazing stuff - this is ...potentially...revolutionary.

I cannot wait for the Discovery Channel special on this.
No doubt - even if it is absolutely positively authentic - if it could be proven beyond the shadow of a DOUBT - people still would not believe this one. People will resist this as surely as they do evolution.

Tomb of Jesus and Mary Magdaline

The Department of Homeland Security is paying Rutgers $3 million to oversee development of computing methods that could monitor suspicious social networks and opinions found in news stories, Web blogs and other Web information to identify indicators of potential terrorist activity.

The software and algorithms could rapidly detect social networks among groups by identifying who is talking to whom on public blogs and message boards, researchers said. Computers could ideally pick out entities trying to conceal themselves under different aliases.

Researcher Nick Belkin is one of the PIs; check out his presentation on the "Prospects for information 'selection'" for the Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office.

Also: GSA on SIS:

The Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office (UCAO) is developing a secure information sharing architecture, called HatWizard, to support intelligence information dissemination within the cryptologic community.

Also: Trust Architecture for Future Intelligence Processing, alternately titled "A Trust Framework for the DoD Network-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Environment".

Government research to track online networking

Federal prosecutors and the FBI have significantly overstated the number of terrorism-related investigations and prosecutions they pursue, according to a highly critical report released Tuesday by a Justice Department watchdog.

The study by Inspector General Glenn Fine concluded that the overstatements occurred in large part because authorities count offenses such as document and marriage fraud and immigration violations as terrorism-related even when there was no discernible tie to terror.

Your "War on Terror" inaction.

Report: Feds overstate terrorism cases | Chicago Tribune

Got me too - I just saw the CNN part and after news today that a popular pediatrics magazine advised doctors to 'monitor homeschool students for socialization' (the studies out show that homeschool students are BETTER socialized than their public school peers, so that had to be based on the author's uninformed opinion only)

...I just got SO pissed off after just seeing that, and then this - and I can say yeah, I *HIT* the mouse. What timing. I was about to go ballistic.

Satire: Experts call for restrictions on childhood imagination - CNN.com

All was fine as long as he was a pentecostal chaplain, but, thinking he could change his religion as easily as most chaplains change their denomination, this very qualified guy found himself booted right out of Iraq.

"When Larsen came along last spring, Sacred Well's leaders thought they finally had someone the military could not possibly reject: a physically fit 6-foot-4 clergyman originally ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who holds a master's degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Moreover, Larsen had spent 10 years as an officer in the National Guard, finished near the top of his class in chaplain's training and was already serving as a chaplain in Iraq."

The Army insists there was no discrimination involved.

Yeah, right.

General Richardson says that there aren't enough wiccans IN the military to support a full time Wiccan chaplain, but though there are over 4,000 wiccans serving with now - no - chaplain, there are "22 rabbis for 4,038 Jews, 11 imams for 3,386 Muslims, six teachers for 636 Christian Scientists."

Wiccan Chaplain booted from the military