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This is a pic i took of Mars with a 6 mega pixel Kodak digital camera in my back yard. Its not a telescope view but it goes ta show how close Mars actualy is this year to Earth. I have a friend who has a nice telescope and we can see the ice caps and crators on Mars like looking at the moon, but have no way to hook a camera up to it.

In today's media, anti-male sexism is the rule far more than anti-female sexism. Whether it's calling men "idiots," creating smart mom/stupid dad TV shows, publishing books with titles like "Are Men Necessary," our culture is full of what some scholars are calling the "WAW effect," short for Women are Wonderful. These days, it's tough to catch a break if you're an unapologetic male. What's interesting about the situation is that it's not really that removed from the way things used to be in Western society in which men were the preferred sex. In a fascinating address provocatively titled "Is There...

Network aims to offer more Big Ten programming than ever before CHICAGO – The much-anticipated launch of the Big Ten Network is here, with the network going on the air at 8 p.m. ET with a special edition of Big Ten Tonight. "We're tremendously excited to make television history with the launch of the Big Ten Network on Thursday night," Network President Mark Silverman said. "Fans will enjoy more Big Ten programming than ever before. I think fans will look back years from now and wonder how they ever followed their teams without the Big Ten Network." The network's launch...

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Troy Vaughn Gardner says women call him on the phone — a lot — and ask him for sex. He doesn’t know why. He also says he’s occasionally delusional and hears voices. Sometimes he has to devise “experiments” so he can tell if what he’s hearing is real. Since 1994, the state has allowed Gardner to offer mental health counseling. He is one of the state’s 18,000 “registered” counselors, although it is now investigating him in light of his guilty plea to offering women money to have sex with him. In a long and sometimes rambling telephone interview, Gardner readily...

No gym for home, work out floor with 30, but is it for 20 like 30 lb when you no lift it to be for men, for 30 lbs instead? or half is 10 for 20 pounds?

This ridicules interview with Feinstein and Lott is exactly why Democratic talk radio will get no where. People know when representatives are lying and obfuscating issues. Diane Feinstein’s prefab talk to filter everything into a Democratic talking point during this Wallace interview is aggravating, off-point, and arrogant. She thinks the masses do not understand the issues or read the bills. She’s wrong! That’s where arrogance can lead to demise. Diane Feinstein is a perfect example. Here she talks so high and mighty about the law and Dick Cheney. I wonder how she can talk about the law when she has...

"After reading an excellent paper about the biases that have crept in to temperature measurements world wide titled: Unresolved Issues with the Assessment of Multi-Decadal Global Land-Surface Temperature Trends I decided to contact the main researcher."

It is tempting to assert that adult Californians are, generally speaking, morons. Granted, that assertion, if it were to be made in this space, would come from an adult Californian who clearly has more than a casual relationship with moronity. But geez, people, you're not even trying. At least it looks that way from ... the latest survey by the folks over at the Public Policy Institute of California. The survey probed into Californians' knowledge of, and feelings about, state fiscal and governmental/political issues. What it found was a thick, hard layer of huh?: • Only three in 10 could...

CARSON CITY, Nev., May 8 (UPI) -- The Nevada Senate has scored a first: the reading of a Sanskrit blessing by a Hindu chaplain to open its session. Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at the Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada and a resident of Reno, wore saffron-colored clothing and traditional sandalpaste marks on his forehead as he prayed before Nevada's senators Monday. Translated into English, one of the ancient Hindu prayers read by Zed said: "May we be protected together. May we be nourished together. May we work together with great vigor. May our study be enlightening. May no...

By Linda Deutsch ASSOCIATED PRESS 4:23 p.m. April 20, 2007 LOS ANGELES – Jurors chosen for Phil Spector's murder trial are an eclectic mix, including a network TV producer who had been assigned to cover the case, a vice president of a movie company and its music division and an assistant to a Los Angeles deputy mayor.According to written jury questionnaires released Friday, the panel of nine men and three women also includes an electrician at a TV studio, an auto mechanic, a bank employee and an environmental health specialist for Los Angeles County. There are several college graduates including...

State Police are preparing to release a report that will say the trooper who was driving Gov. Jon Corzine during a serious accident Thursday was speeding at the time, two sources who have been briefed on the report's contents told The Star-Ledger today. They declined to be identified because the report - which could be released as early as this afternoon - has not been made public by the State Police. State Trooper Robert Rasinski was driving the Chevrolet Suburban transporting the governor on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township on Thursday night. He swerved to avoid another car...

SAN ANTONIO -- Seguin police said they arrested a man who they accuse of stealing hundreds of dollars worth of fish and seafood from a Catholic church. Police said Patrick Vaughn, 38, stole $800 worth of cod, catfish, and shrimp from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church last week. Police said Vaughn tried to sell the fish on the streets. Church members planned to use the fish for a fish fry last Friday. Vaughn was was charged with burglary of a building and is being held on a $50,000 bond.

I was wondering why the majority (~79%) of republicans didn't vote for supporting the Senate amendment 285 to S.4? I skimmed the text of S.Amdt. 285 but didn't find any egregious flaws. Can somebody help me understand this? Thank you,

'Listen more' is world's message to US A BBC international opinion poll suggests there is widespread disquiet about the United States' role in Iraq and its other foreign policy priorities. The BBC's Jonathan Marcus analyses the results. The Bush administration's toppling of Saddam Hussein has had several profound and unintended consequences. One has been the way in which the destruction of both the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, and of Iraq's military machine, have opened the way for the rise of Iran as a major regional player. Another crucial but less tangible problem - as this opinion poll commissioned by the...

CHICAGO - The man accused of plotting to carry out a holiday grenade attack on shoppers at a Rockford mall was a Muslim convert whose growing interest in radical views worried his mother, according to a published report. "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong," Marie Dunn told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. "I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people. ... I don't know who he's running with." Dunn said she wasn't surprised when her 22-year-old son, Derrick Shareef, converted seven years ago, because his father was a member of the Nation of...

You will probably want to know One or Two things about your Folk Hero: - He is a Well-Known anti-Conservative - He has Promoted Drugs in many songs, including his Hit "Everybody Must Get Stoned" (!!!) - He Is no a Christian of birth. No, he is not! And alot of you would say, well, This Is Okay. I do too. But! he Perverted the Christian Faith for several Years. - He has participated in Celebrating Unusual Lifestyles. - He has had Children out of Wedlock. - There are many songs which Celebrate the Flaunting or Ridiculing of Authority. -...

What exactly did United States Senator-elect Jim Webb mean when he wrote in The Wall Street Journal that "the most important--and unfortunately the least debated--issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century." Certainly we can agree with him when he asserts that "In the age of globalization and outsourcing, and with a vast underground labor pool from illegal immigration, the average American worker is seeing a different life and a troubling future... . Manufacturing jobs are disappearing." And, of course, the average corporate...

Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report. A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students? performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%. The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest. ... The students? various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born?s team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes....

QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government. The Tennessee Republican said he had learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated by military means. "You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be...