The Coming Changes IV

In the headlines:

'Hobbits' really are a new human species

"Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a genetically flawed version of modern humans. "

Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships

NO SHIT!

Large Hadron Collider ready to restart this weekend

The world's largest atom smasher – a giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but was broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing bird. – has been repaired and scientists hope to restart it this weekend.

(Poor bird did that on purpose, to save us from these lunatics!)

BOY IN AGONY AFTER H1N1 NASAL FLU MIST

Some parents wary of

'New Moon'

"As a parent I'm not just competing with the movie in the movie theater, I am competing with the millions of advertising dollars that has inundated every nook and cranny of my daughter's life," she said.

It isn't sexual innuendo or violence that has parents worried. It's the all-consuming obsession that the main character Bella, played by Kristen Stewart, has for Pattinson's vampire Edward Cullen. For parents who want to raise self-confident girls who first and foremost love themselves, it is hard for them to stomach 18-year-old Bella's all-encompassing and self-destructive passion for Edward.

In the second installment of the series, Edward leaves Bella because he believes she is better off without him in her life. Bella is heartbroken, but discovers that the supernatural Edward appears before her when she is doing something dangerous or harmful to herself. This leads Bella to attempt cliff diving and dangerous motorcycle stunts that endanger her life.

Feds drop manslaughter

charge against one

Blackwater guard

"Washington (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors in Washington announced Friday they will dismiss a manslaughter charge against one of the Blackwater contractors charged in a high-profile shooting incident in Baghdad, Iraq, two years ago....

...The September 2007 shooting left 17 Iraqi civilians dead."

Wanna know more about Blackwater?

And now, something to ponder:

Total Deaths for the Past Year in comparison

to the Swine Flu

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