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CBS 11, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, just ran a story about another Democrat Brownshirt attack. It seems that they have now resorted to going after toilets. A man in North Dallas has one of those displays in his front yard. The one that has a sign that reads..."Flush the Johns" with two toilets underneath. According to the report, someone stopped by and stuck the toilets with some blunt object and broke them into several pieces. The report also showed video footage that the man got of someone stopping by to hack the sign. A car slows up...and then you...

PASADENA, Calif. — Mars Rover officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Thursday that "a serious anomaly" occurred onboard the robot Spirit Wednesday stopping the transmission of direct data for almost 24 hours. Peter Theisinger, Mars Exploration Rover project manager, began Thursday's press conference by telling reporters that they had not received contact from Spirit, either through relays from the Mars Global Surveyor or the Mars Odyssey spacecraft now orbiting the red planet.

HIV Infection/AIDS BMJ 2002;325:1380 ( 14 December ) HIV infection rate among South African children found to be 5.6% A new study on HIV infection and AIDS in South Africa has shown that children aged 2 to 14 years have an infection rate of 5.6% leading to worries that South Africa's other epidemicchild abuseis linked to the spread of HIV. The Nelson Mandela/HSRC [Human Sciences Research Council] study of HIV and AIDS released last week draws for the first time on a representative sample of the local population including all ages and population groups, instead of the previous sample, which comprised pregnant women reporting to...

Vostok: The Lake of ShadowsCover Story FATE Magazine 2002-06-01 00:00:00 by Scott Corrales “Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left.” —H. P. Lovecraft, “At the Mountains of Madness” The inspiration for this article began in the summer of 1996, when a series of email messages began to appear suggesting the possibility that “someone” or “something” was surreptitiously removing all recent maps of Antarctica. The notion was so outrageous that even die-hard conspiracy theorists found themselves having to clarify the...

Local report just heard on the top of the hour update.Anomaly: 1. Deviation from the normal or common form or rule. (syn anomalousness)2. A person who is unusual (syn. unusual person) Source-Word Net 1.6 1997 Princeton University