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Clarisse is a snake, found in the Fossil Butte region of Wyoming, perfectly fossilized in limestone and the only one of her kind known to be in existence. Palentologist Hussan Zaher found her, and he brought her to Houston in hopes of learning more about her. He brought his precious find to The Methodist Hospital and subjected her to a detailed CT (computerized tomography) scan in hopes of finding where Clarisse fits along the timeline of evolution. [You need Flash installed to watch this video] ...CT scan technician Pam Mager conducted the scan on a 64-slice scanner that is capable...

The Chase for the Cup is officially on from Loudon, New Hampshire. Join us in New Hampshire as we see who has the right stuff to win it all. No Nationwide this week-end but Trucks will be running on SPEED.

Here's the link: http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-hunting-kansas

Check this cool video of a dog catching a shark and swmming to shore with it.Here is a link to the video; Dog Catches Shark & Brings it to Shore

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday tried to find the upside to a possible Democratic landslide in November. Talking to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, he wondered if major Republican gains could be "a blessing in disguise for President Obama." (Snip) At one point during the interview, O'Reilly derided the President's plan to let tax cuts for upper income groups expire as "class warfare." He pressed the ABC host, "Would you agree with that?" The ABC journalist unsurprisingly quipped, "Not necessarily."

MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin businessman who spent millions on a largely self-financed campaign has breezed into a November matchup with incumbent Sen. Russ Feingold. Ron Johnson crushed small-business owner Dave Westlake in Tuesday's Republican primary. Johnson had the state party's backing. Much of his campaign this summer was spent positioning himself against Feingold, the Democrat looking for his fourth term. The pair already have traded a number of TV attack ads. Johnson is the president of Pacur (PAK'-er), an Oshkosh-based plastics company. He has vowed to repeal health care reform and cut government spending. Feingold has touted his record of...

As Sir Isaac Newton himself replied in response to similar questions, "hypotheses non fingo." Which roughly translates as "I don't have a clue." That such a simple question, about so common a phenomenon, has defied a direct answer for centuries might explain why the physics world has been atwitter lately over a novel attempt to resolve the riddle. A flurry of recent papers have examined this new idea, which mixes principles from string theory and black hole physics with basic old-fashioned thermodynamics. If this notion is right, gravity turns out to be a special sort of entropy, a result of...

Conservatives are winning across the board

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted Tuesday that House Democrats would retain their majority in Congress. On her way in to meet with Democrats just returning to Capitol Hill after a six-week summer break, Pelosi told reporters she was confident in her party's chances of prevailing in November's congressional elections. "I am not yielding one grain of sand. I want to have the same big, strong majority that we have," said Pelosi, D-California.

On television, on radio, in books, and in a widely viewed speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year, Glenn Beck has pronounced "progressivism" as the "disease" that afflicts America. His progressive opponents, meanwhile, seem obsessed with attacking him for this obsession—the Center for American Progress has even launched a series of papers to "set the record straight." This battle reveals a deeper dispute about American history. Mr. Beck and others—such as Jonah Goldberg in his 2008 book, "Liberal Fascism"—tie today's progressives (the new word for liberals) to the progressive movement at the turn of the 20th century....

Did anyone catch Rove on Hannity? This was the most disgraceful performance I have ever seen. Rove was exposed as a beltway elite RINO. He absolutely trashed Christine. And she had already won. Totally uncalled for. Hannity was stunned. Nothing but sour grapes.

Did anybody else catch that SOB Rove's vicious, vile assault on O'Donnell just now? The Dems are going to be able to pull about 10 TV ads out of that repugnant assault by that repulsive little tub of caca.

Looks like Perry has won over Malone! Connaughton over Jain!

Talk about sour grapes! Karl Rove just regurgitated on Hannity all the RINO talking points against Christine O'Donnell and basically says he thinks this is no longer a seat the GOP can win. She's got "character flaws," didn't explain to the voters the discrepency in her college degree, Castle was the other "conservative" choice for voters...It's all over for Karl, his fellow RINO lost to an actual Big "C" Conservative.

Albaugh said the health-care law passed earlier this year will add to the company's costs over the next several years. He added that the law "in 2018 could subject Boeing to a substantial tax on health-care plans exceeding a certain threshold." This is a reference to the so-called "Cadillac Health Plan" excise tax, a provision in the law that was intended to bring down overall heath-care costs by discouraging high-cost plans, and to help fund the health-care overhaul by raising money from the more well-off.

..."In 2005, Milwaukee had to jettison about 120,000 names from their lists – 120,000 names that had been on the list in 2004. Including a heck of lot of those same day registrations from November. Ya think 120,000 people all moved away in a coupla months’ time? No, a heck of a lot of those were our kind of voters. Ya know, Paully, our favorites: the fictional kind.” “How do they do it, Pockets? Is it brazen, or do they have some kind of technique?” Pockets munched on a pretzel and shrugged his shoulders. “From what I hear, they use...

On paper Israel has a social assistance program which rivals the best in the western world. On the ground it's the same as Bangladesh. There's nothing here. Judge for yourself. And this is coming from a Zionist.

For decades mystery clouded the fate of the adventurer Georgy Brusilov -- captain of the first Russian crew to seek the elusive Arctic trade route from Asia to the West -- inspiring a generation of books and films. But the famed voyagers' remains and a journal -- dated to May 1913 from aboard their vessel, the Saint Anna -- were found this summer on the icy shores of Franz Josef Land, Europe's northernmost land mass... Midway into its epic journey along the Siberian coast, after navigating the perilous Vilkitsky Strait into the Kara Sea, the expedition ran aground on thick...

The Berwick ChroniclesBerwick Pretends to Change Spots on RationingObama resubmitted his pick to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs to the Senate on Monday, two months after bypassing the body with a recess appointment- Donald BerwickBerwick-Linked Advocacy Group Spearheaded ‘Torture’ Campaign against American Officials- Obama has appointed Donald Berwick, a board member of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), to head Medicare. While participating in an EU-funded project on “documenting” torture charges, PHR took aim at America.Democrats Refuse to Hold Medicare Rationing Czar Hearing; Won't discuss BerwickBerwick battle escalates: GOP introduces resolution calling recess appointment ‘abuse of power’Obama, without fanfare, submitted...

We entrust Google with our most private communications because we assume the company takes every precaution to safeguard our data. It doesn't. A Google engineer spied on four underage teens for months before the company was notified of the abuses. David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users' accounts, violating the privacy of at least four minors during his employment, we've learned. Barksdale met the kids through a technology group in the Seattle area while working as a Site Reliability Engineer...