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I actually “LOLed” when I read this earlier today. The Department of Energy is testing the potential of blasting a special glass into space to curb the effects of global warming.

The particles, consisting of a very fine and special form of glass - “porous-walled glass microspheres” - would be able to absorb a certain amount of carbon dioxide, and would reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

I thought it was interesting to see people using flip phones, which look interestingly like Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Treck”. These days, we also have something we can “set to stun” and shoot at a bad guy to incapacitate him. But to spend millions of dollars trying to recreate weather conditions in 1980 Port Charles is a little much for me.

Laura attempted to find Scotty, who had run off to Mexico, in order so that she could get a divorce and marry Luke. However Luke remained hostile towards Laura, even as Laura made several maneuvers to remain in Luke’s life. Laura decided that she had to show Luke that she had matured and thus moved out of her parents’ home and into an apartment, which just happened to be conveniently located in the same building as Luke’s apartment. Since Luke lived on a floor above Laura, he was forced to walk past her apartment everyday. This ensured that the two kept bumping into each other.

Luke eventually went to work for Edward Quartermaine and his niece Alexandria Quartermaine, who were in search of the Ice Princess, the world’s largest uncut diamond that had been spray-painted black and mounted on a base to be displayed as a statue. Luke promised the Quartermaines that he would get the statue before their rivals, the Cassadines could.

Eventually, Luke and Laura reconciled and decided to get married. Around the same time, World Security Bureau (WSB) agent Robert Scorpio had arrived in town and warned Luke that the Ice Princess mystery was far more serious than previously thought. Hidden inside the base of the statue was a formula that could create a substance called carbonic snow. The Cassadines planned on using carbonic snow in their sinister plot to take over the entire world. It was revealed that Alexandria was in league with the Cassadines and after the Ice Princess had made its way into the hands of several Port Charles citizens, Alexandria and the Cassadine brothers (Victor and Tony) finally got their hands on it and prepared to take it to Mikkos Cassadine, the eldest Cassadine brother (portrayed by sci-fi actor John Colicos).

Alexandria, Victor and Tony invited several guests on an ocean cruise aboard the Titan (Later the Haunted Star). As the Titan left Port Charles, Luke and Robert sneaked on board and were surprised when they found that Laura had also stowed away. Eventually, they arrived at Mikkos’ island in the Atlantic. Luke and Laura found the island a rather passionate setting and made several attempts to make love, only to be interrupted by Robert. Laura soon fell sick with a fever, and when Robert attempted to make Luke leave her behind, he refused and let Robert know that Laura was more important to him than their mission. Eventually Laura recovered and the three set about finding a way to stop the Cassadines.

Meanwhile, Mikkos unleashed his ultimate plan: he planned to hold the world to ransom. If world leaders did not accept his demands for total world domination, he would use his carbonic snow in his weather machine in order to send the Earth into a new ice age. In order to show that he was capable of doing this, he selected Port Charles as a test subject and soon the city was plunged into a blizzard — even though it was still summer. As temperatures in Port Charles continued to plummet, Mikkos managed to capture Luke, Laura and Robert. When his brother Tony and Alexandria Quartermaine expressed doubts about the plan, Mikkos had them killed.

Eventually Luke, Laura, Robert and B-movie actress Tiffany Hill managed to defeat Mikkos, and Luke was able to figure out the password in order to turn off Mikkos’ machine. In the course of the struggle, Mikkos was killed. Luke, Laura and Robert were thus hailed as heroes by the citizens of Port Charles.

Someone should tell the DOE that carbonic snow is the answer.

I found this daily number interesting.

 Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (86%) are “tired of having a country;” frequently cited reasons include a lack of significant results from the democratic process (36%), dissatisfaction with customer service (28%), and exhaustion (22%), as reported by The Onion. “I don’t want to get bogged down in the country anymore,” Wilmington, DE accountant Karie Ashworth said. “I’m not up in arms or anything, I’m just saying it’d be a lot easier for everyone if we just gave it up.” Of those who were against maintaining an American nation, 77% said they believe that having a country is “counter to the best interests of Americans.” Another 12% said “the time and effort citizens spend on the country could be better spent elsewhere,” and 8% said they just didn’t care. Roughly 3% said we ceased to have a country years ago, and explained that they had been stockpiling weapons to protect their independent compounds.

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If she thinks her landing into Bosnia was corkscrew, wait until she sees her landing between now and November.

I can understand where she is coming from though. I mean, all of us old battle axes tell war stories - commonly known as fairy tales.

Since Hillary has not only not served in the Military, but holds it in deep disdain, she does not realize that war stories - commonly known as fairy tales - are stories you tell over a couple of beers. They are not stories you use to hold an auditorium full of gullible voters spell-bound to your awesomeness, as she did last December. You also do not relate your vast international crisis management experience at 3 AM on the afore-mentioned war story - also known as a fairy tale.

She said she saved Kosovar refugees by persuading Macedonia to reopen its border. And in a direct jab back at Obama, she recalled visiting Bosnia on a plane that made a tight corkscrew landing to avoid potential attacks. “Somebody said there might be sniper fire,” she said, adding tartly, “I don’t remember anyone offering me tea on the tarmac.”

What is most laughable about Hillary’s entire claim of the danger she was exposed to - repeatedly, according to her - is it probably all evolved out of a practical joke by an enterprising military person.

“Welcome Mrs. Clinton, I am Chief Master Sergeant Thompson. We’re on approach now. Please fasten your seatbelt tightly because we are going to have to maneuver evasively as we land to reduce our risk of being shot down. Also, Mrs. Clinton, there is a possibility we could come under sniper fire, so if you hear anyone yell ‘Bravo! Bravo!’ immediately take cover. Do you have any questions for me?”

Sinbad remembers the trip being a lot different.

Now, Senator Clinton says she “misspoke” and it was a “minor blip” - hog wash. She has been telling this story to voters for months. And last week she said,

During a speech last Monday on Iraq, she said of the Bosnia trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

But her book tells a different story.

“Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find,” Clinton wrote.

Her campaign has reduced this to a single event - something that happened last week, but let me remind you of that December Iowa talk to her voters. I guess it depends on what your definition of “one time” is.

Tired of the day-to-day grind of attacking Israelis, a Hamas “holy mission” was carried out today in Gaza with satisfying effects, according to a Hamas spokesman.

Two members of the violent terrorist organization were killed in a self-inflicted detonation, according to Palestinian medical personnel on the scene.

I believe they are only attempting to level the playing field, said Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian Health Ministry official, who confirmed the deaths.

The source close to the Hamas leadership indicated that the self-detonation of explosives is a strategic move to bring the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators closer to a resolution on a possible peace initiative.

See, we also kill ourselves! We’re not so bad as everyone says. This terrorist thing is a gross mis-perception.

The Hamas source did express some frustration however regarding the kinds of holy warriors being run through the training camps these days.

We only get mentally disabled recruits these days. I miss the days when we could depend on having recruits who did not prematurely detonate their explosives, not - of course - that this is what happened in this instance. It is only that these new holy warriors tend to become martyrs more quickly than in the old days, or they become prisoners of the Zionist Entity because they are too stupid to understand how to hate our enemy! Not that we hate the Zionist Entity - that’s just a figure of speech. You know, like Jeremiah Wright does.

Due to Hamas security procedures, it is not clear whether the detonations were of Qassam rockets, explosive vests, or the manipulation of Chinese and Russian artillery shells for IEDs. But witnesses in the area did say it was a much smaller boom than they have seen on attacks shown on Israeli TV.

Old Goat wonders why we are so bent on re-electing Bill Clinton.

I keep hearing Hilliary say she has experience and Barrack Obama does not. I think she slept in the White House, she was married to the President, she meddled in the Travel Office staffing, she removed all the GWB keys from the computer keyboard before her husband left office, but I don’t recall her having ANY official status when it came to running the country. Especially at 3:00 am.

The (probably horribly insensitive) question that keeps coming to my mind is, if Hillary knew so much about what was going on in the White House while Bill was president, how come she didn’t know he was getting honked by an aide in the oval office? Or was that at 4AM?

I kept wondering why we call these political battles, races. I mean, it isn’t about speed. But then Barak Obama confused me.

COLUMBUS, Miss. – In a fiery speech, Obama pushed back hard against charges by Hillary Clinton and her campaign that he is not suited to be Commander-In-Chief, and expressed disbelief at the Clintons’ suggestions that he be vice president.

“Now first of all, with all due respect, with all due respect,” Obama began, “I have won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I have won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton. I have more delegates than Senator Clinton. So I don’t know how somebody who is in second place, is offering the vice presidency to the person who is in first place.

“I mean, I am just wondering, because if I was in second place I could understand it. But I am in first place right now. So that’s point number one.”

He went on to point out how Clinton could consider him as his VP when she and the campaign have been saying that he is not ready to be Commander-In-Chief.

“But there’s a second point,” he said. “This is an interesting point. I want you guys to follow me on this. President Bill Clinton, back in 1992 when he was being asked about his selection for Vice President, he said that the only criteria, the most important criteria for a Vice President, is that that person is ready, if I fell out, in the first week, that he or she will be ready to be the Commander-In-Chief.

So, it is called a race still - but maybe it should be called a marathon. You win this primary race by your endurance to Hillary’s crap. Maybe?

Iranian President Ahmedinejad, speaking at a National Right to Life dinner yesterday, denounced the “theory that human life actually exists”. The Iranian president, known for his denials of the Jewish holocaust in Nazi Germany and that terrorism existed in the Middle East prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as his recent statements that there is no homosexuality in Iran, has earned himself a rare place in the Darwin Awards Hall of Fame.

In the prestigious St. Regis Hotel Potomac Ballroom, President Ahmedinejad - to jeers from the NRTL audience -  was quoted as saying, “I cannot imagine why you would claim a right to something, which we in Iran know does not exist. Perhaps you have such things in the United States - with your George Bush - but in Iran there is no such thing as life.”

National Right to Life President, Wanda Franz, could not be reached for comment. However, a staffer at the NRTL Headquarters related that President Ahmadinejad did not actually attend their dinner, but the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories dinner, which was coincidentally being held in the Mount Vernon Ballroom of the same Washington, DC hotel.

After this statement, a unnamed official close to the Iranian president was quoted as saying that the Mount Vernon Ballroom does not actually exist, so President Ahmadinejad could not possibly have spoken there.

Yeah - it’s like that.

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