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Wikipedia edits traced to CIA, Vatican
Wikipedia edits traced to CIA, Vatican AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - SAN FRANCISCO A hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican. Virgil Griffith's Wikiscanner points to CIA computers as the sources of nearly 300 edits to subjects including Iran's president, the Argentine navy and China's nuclear arsenal. A CIA computer was the source of...
Aug 20, 2007, 7:28 pm - Coin Toss

Google Directions (Funny)
This was just too funny NOT to share, really cool to know that Google has a hell of a sense of humor. --Go to Google.com --Click on Maps. --Click on get Directions. --From New York,New York --To Paris,France. -- And read line 23....
Apr 12, 2007, 10:59 am - SirMetro

Defending our borders - a different alternative
I've been thinking about the 700 mile fence thing, wondering whether it's a good idea, or a bad one. I finally decided it's a good one, but that it's not being implemented in, perhaps, the best way. My own state, for instance, New Mexico, has thrice had to defend the borders by force of arms. First, from invaders from the (then) Republic of Texas , 1841. Next from the invading forces of General Kearney, US Army . (Lo...
Sep 16, 2006, 8:02 pm - Rip Snorter

Pondering our vanished foe
Hi blogsters: A few weeks ago a hailstorm broke the wings off the chaos butterfly, which I thought mildly amusing. I was sitting out front whittling a newer, more elaborate butterfly from a chunk of root wood I had lying around, thinking about the old Slaviat Onion. I guess it was Rosseau's Co...
Sep 15, 2006, 10:47 pm - Rip Snorter

Products that took 100 years to get to the marketplace
The first fax process was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain, but fax machines went into service only in 1964. In 1888, Frank Sprague completed an electric railway, but electric locomotives were introduced only in 1895. Eugene Ely landed a plane on a boat in 1911, but aircraft carriers weren't perfected for another 20 years. The f...
Jul 28, 2006, 11:39 am - Tinker

D-Day: 17 stunning 1944 photos from show how hard Normandy invasion really was
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Jun 7, 2019, 8:26 pm - eddessaknight

"WAR IS A RACKET – by General Smedley Butler
Link to this came in email, thought it timely. ________ Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 June 21, 1940), nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and Old Gimlet Eye , was a Major General in the...
Jun 8, 2010, 10:49 am - konane

As Germany And France Come Apart, So Too Will The EU
EU is the framework they had planned for the US. I feel we can learn volumes by observing events there. As Germany And France Come Apart, So Too Will The EU So-called 'states' with: 1. no effective military forces 2. no control of their own borders 3. no control of their currency and ban...
Jan 16, 2019, 1:24 pm - konane

How About this French Unified Powerball or Unified Scratchoffs...
A POWERBALL PLAYED IN Canada-Portugal-The other African countries that speak French-Brazil-France UNIFIED POWERBALL... Well those are of: $1 the ticket but remember you can have of: $2, $3, 25 cents, 50 cents, $1.50 and $2.50 the ticket ones... And those are the Powerballs, imagine now the Unified Scratchoffs how much they will pay.......
Aug 10, 2011, 4:35 am - pumpi76

Something that is Blinding You in the Lotto (Pick6, Pick5 & Powerball)
You dont need to win the lotto EVERY SINGLE DAY, you dont need to win EVERY SINGLE JACKPOT...I bet this occur with 98.8% of lottery players...Each one of you are looking for systems that can win the lottery EVERY SINGLE DAY...You see if is Pick3 or Pick4 is fine but if is Pick6, Pick5, Powerball (Jackpot games, what i call lotto) then you DONT NEED to win EVERY SINGLE DRAWING... Look for systems that can win the lotto/JackpotGames once a year or once every 2 years or every 3 years,...
Mar 15, 2010, 5:57 pm - pumpi76