The instantaneous effects on a human when exposed to near-vacuum conditions
(BBC) James May steps into the US Air Force’s deadly vacuum chamber with only his spacesuit to keep him alive.
Author: Papa Giorgio
Prager, Santorum, Palin, Thune – All Endorse Carly Fiorina
Dennis Prager Interviews Carly Fiorina – Part I
Dennis Prager Interviews Carly Fiorina – Part II
Thune Backs Fiorina In California Primary
California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) continues to rack up endorsements from establishment Republicans.
On Friday she rolled out the endorsement of Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). The first-term senator, who gained fame when he defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) in 2004, is a darling of the conservative movement….
Rick Santorum on Greta Van Susteren
More Dennis Prager on why he endorsed Fiorina
Flotilla Fauxtography
The Fauxtography involved in past Islamic ruminations and perpetrated or continued by AP and Reuters and other main new and media organizations is almost legion. But here we are again with another example of it with the Turkish flotilla of “peace” that again makes my head wag. This is with thanks to HotAir and The Lid. At the Lid you will find some history to this aspect neatly in one post. My “legion” example are a few posts on the subject at my old blog. Here are simple the photos with the cropped photo afterward:
Fighting Castro in LA with Andy Garcia & Perez Hilton
Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon takes you to the anti-Castro, anti-tyranny protests in Echo Park, Los Angeles.
Saving A Child’s Life… One at a Time
I was happy to hear this one… chalk one up for the commons sense.
COURT ORDERS JEHOVAH’S WITNESS BOY BE GIVEN BLOOD TRANSFUSION
A hospital has won the right to give a child potentially life-saving blood transfusions despite the religious objections of the boy and his family.
In a South Australian legal first, the Supreme Court this afternoon gave the Women’s and Children’s Hospital the right to give a 10-year-old boy – a member of the Jehovah’s Witness faith – transfusions as part of his cancer treatment.
The decision, in line with similar rulings from around the world, paves the way for hospitals to take action in future debates with religious parents.
The boy is suffering from an aggressive form of cancer that doctors fear will spread throughout his entire body if not treated with an intense 39-week regime of chemotherapy and surgery.
The speed of that process will not allow his blood cells time to regenerate, meaning he will require transfusions so that the chemotherapy can continue unabated.
In a statement read to the court, the boy said transfusions carried spiritual consequences.
“The doctors have told me I might die and I don’t want to – but I don’t want blood,” he said.
“The blood will change me… when you take blood, you are taking someone else’s life…
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Helen Thomas’ Apple Is Poisoned with Anti-Semitism
Wicked Witch (sorry for the French version… Walt Disney pulls the English):
John Stossel On DDT – Liberal Apocalypse Delayed Again
John Stosell and Richard Tren detail how the DDT ban, a great victory for environmentalism, has led to a multitude of deaths throughout the world.
Buddhist Religious Art (Creation of a Sand Mandala)
Recent News Stories Put To Artistic Prose (Immigration, Oil, Sovereignty)
(These are old stories I decided to keep in my “repairing” old posts)
This rash politicization of education is being met with resistance, but here’s what supporters of the proposed curriculum had to say:
According to its press release, “The Los Angeles Board of Education also requested that Superintendent Ramon Cortines ensure that civics and history classes discuss the recent laws with students in the context of the American values of unity, diversity and equal protection for all people.”
“America must stand for tolerance, inclusiveness and equality,” said Board President Monica García, according to the release. “In our civics classes and in our hallways, we must give life to these values by teaching our students to value themselves; to respect others; and to demand fairness and justice for all who live within our borders. Any law which violates civil rights is un-American.”
Very telling that “rule of law” was not one of the “American values” mentioned.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was quoted in Politico hammering the administration for pulling away from Israel.
From Politico:
“We have to ask if the Obama administration remains committed to the state of Israel and the right of Israel to exist and defend herself. The Obama administration, through its word and its actions, has been sending the world mixed signals at best.”
She continued:
“It appears that from the time the Obama administration came into office they have been stepping away from Israel…”
(Michele Bachmann strong words for Obama over lack of support for Israel)
The Dutch government is condemning Israel’s defensive action against the Hamas/Al Qaeda terrorist vessel that entered its waters. However, one Dutch politician is standing against the tide.
From the Dutch News, June 1:
MPs from across the political spectrum, even those traditionally supportive of Israel, have said they were shocked by Israel’s actions.
However, PVV MP Geert Wilders said it is ‘cheap’ to attack Israel. ‘I am certainly not going to make a cheap attack on Israel by howling in the woods with the rest of the wolves,’ he told tv show Nova.
Israel was fully justified in entering the ships to see if they were also carrying weapons, he said.
(In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders stands virtually alone in defense of Israel flotilla attacks)
President Barack Obama Wednesday sought to break the political siege imposed by the US oil disaster, lacerating Republicans for gutting corporate regulation and exploding deficits.
The GOP immediately blasted back, accusing the president of trying to distract attention from the ongoing catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
“Good speeches can’t improve failing policies,” said House Republic Whip Eric Cantor. “America needs more than speeches and words — we need action to begin to erase our deficits and free our children from our debt.”….
(GOP Blasts Obama for Attack Speech as Spill Worsens in Gulf)
Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000 feet and more), in part because environmentalists have succeeded in rendering the Pacific and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-limits to oil production. (President Obama’s tentative, selective opening of some Atlantic and offshore Alaska sites is now dead.) And of course, in the safest of all places, on land, we’ve had a 30-year ban on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
So we go deep, ultra deep — to such a technological frontier that no precedent exists for the April 20 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico.
There will always be catastrophic oil spills. You make them as rare as humanly possible, but where would you rather have one: in the Gulf of Mexico, upon which thousands depend for their livelihood, or in the Arctic, where there are practically no people? All spills seriously damage wildlife. That’s a given. But why have we pushed the drilling from the barren to the populated, from the remote wilderness to a center of fishing, shipping, tourism and recreation?
Not that the environmentalists are the only ones to blame. Not by far. But it is odd that they’ve escaped any mention at all.
The other culprits are pretty obvious. It starts with BP, which seems not only to have had an amazing string of perfect-storm engineering lapses but no contingencies to deal with a catastrophic system failure.
However, the railing against BP for its performance since the accident is harder to understand. I attribute no virtue to BP, just self-interest. What possible interest can it have to do anything but cap the well as quickly as possible? Every day that oil is spilled means millions more in losses, cleanup and restitution….
….Well, when you anoint yourself King Canute, you mustn’t be surprised when your subjects expect you to command the tides.
More Proof That The Earth’s Climate Has Always Changed And Always Will Change
Cage Fighter Kills Buddy In Belief He Was Possessed
I heard this on the way home from dropping my son and nephew off at school on KROQ (The Kevin & Bean Show). I had to add it to the “crime” section:
A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today.
Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell’s tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.
They claim they found the 26-year-old standing naked over his friend’s body with parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room in Klamath, California.
Wyatt allegedly told police he had drunk a cup of tea spiked with hallucinogenic mushrooms and became convinced Powell was possessed.
According to an autopsy Powell, 21, bled to death after his heart was ripped out.
The coroner said Powell had been alive when the organ was ripped out after his chest had been sliced open with a knife.
Wyatt told the police he thrown the heart into a fire along with other organs that he had removed from the body, it was claimed.
He allegedly told investigators he cooked the body parts because he was fearful Powell was still alive and he ‘needed to stop the Devil’….
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Here are a few of his fights:
Melanie Phillips vs. Israel Bashers
The odious hypocrisy of … Israel-bashers, by Melanie Phillips:
1) There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The markets are full. There are fancy restaurants. An Olympic-size swimming pool was recently opened there. What hardship there is has resulted from the actions taken by the tyrannical Hamas regime which rules Gaza, which recently burned down an UNRWA summer camp for children, for example, and blew up one of Gaza’s restaurants.
2) It is astonishing to call upon Israel to lift its ‘blockade’ of Gaza, since every week Israel allows into Gaza tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid. Cameron and Clegg should be asked specifically why they have not called upon Egypt to lift its blockade of Gaza, which had been imposed more rigidly than Israel’s restrictions — until yesterday, when Egypt temporarily opened its border to fend off attacks from the Arab world during the current hysteria.
3) The only reason for Israel’s ‘blockade’ is to prevent weapons and missiles from being transported into Gaza. Lifting the ‘blockade’ would therefore allow those weapons through. Cameron and Clegg are therefore recommending that Israel take action which would jeopardise its security and lead directly to the deaths of many more Israelis.
4) It is therefore beyond nauseating to hear Clegg intone piously that this would be in Israel’s interests, which he claimed to have at heart. Let us hear no more from Cameron or Clegg about how of course they support Israel’s right to defend itself. That is precisely what they are attempting to remove. In the last two days, the new British government has shown itself hostile to Israel – and thus giving encouragement and strength to the enemies not just of Israel but of Britain itself and the free world. Cameron and Clegg should now be held publicly to account for this most alarming and despicable betrayal of Britain’s moral duty and the national interest.
This is with thanks to HotAir: