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Peter Jackson's hotly-anticipated movie The Hobbit is not out until 2012 - but that doesn't mean fans have to wait for a taste.For a Montana man has created a 1,000sq-ft Hobbit-themed guest house for those who love the J.R.R Tolkien books and characters like Bilbo Baggins.

Enjoy. I found this by reading down to the bottom of Greg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on ESPN.comClick on the source link then click play. Then push the blue square over to the left. Slowly drag to the right and let your mind take it all in. Try not to fall into a thought-induced catatonic state, especially if you are at work.

The Minneapolis couple behind the website birthornot.com have been revealed as internet fraudsters. Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, set up a website claiming they were torn about aborting or keeping their healthy baby boy and asked the public to vote online and help them decide. But the alternative weekly City Pages revealed Pete is a pro-life activist who posts his beliefs on the internet under the alias Zeeboid.

As President Obama sinks in the polls, Democrats and liberal pundits inevitably are searching for a scapegoat. The most likely victim appears to be gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden, who has become the focus of speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just might replace him on the 2012 Democratic ticket. Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, his state's first African-American governor, touched off the controversy. Writing at Politico.com last week, Mr. Wilder argued that Mr. Biden's tenure has been undistinguished and chock full of "too many YouTube moments." He charged that Mr. Biden "has continued to undermine what little confidence...

OK, this has been driving me crazy. There is a song that every time I hear it, I think it is an instrumental version of the Ghostbusters theme song. And no, it is not Huey Lewis. I think Rush sometimes uses it as bumper music.

I know we may never know who it was who so bravely hacked into the Hadley Climate Research Center, and although I am curious who did it, I hope for his own good that he is never found out. How many trillions of dollars and billions of lives did this hero save by thwarting the Climate change fascists? We may never know.

I log in every day to download the previous day's podcast. Today it isn't letting me log in, and when I go to the retrieve password site, it is acting like I don't even have a username. I have been doing this forever, and just saw my auto-renewal go through the other day.

NOTE: This is actually part of the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column written by Gregg Easterbrook...-------Can anyone explain why American taxpayers are being taxed, via the Cash for Clunkers program, to subsidize the destruction of low-mileage cars -- while simultaneously being taxed to support General Motors, which just released a 426-horsepower, 16-mpg Camaro to complement its 556-horsepower, 15-mpg Cadillac? Under the Cash for Clunkers mileage rules, both cars classify as clunkers!... New clunkers are rolling off the assembly line, subsidized by your taxes.Meanwhile, auto dealers who credited customers with $4,500 for clunker deals are discovering federal rebate checks have not yet...

My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm before the Motor Law. And on Sundays, I elude the "Eyes" and hop the turbine freight - to far outside the wire where my white-haired uncle waits. Jump to the ground as the turbo slows to cross the borderline. Run like the wind as excitement shivers up and down my spine. Down in his barn, my uncle preserved for me an old machine - for 50 odd years. To keep it as new has been his dearest dream. I strip away...

My purpose for posting this thread is not for sympathy or attention, it is for information. My cousin and his wife just learned that their baby has Spina Bifida. They are five months along, and are obviously in shock.I am very aware of the story of Baby Samuel, who was operated on In Utero and is doing just fine 3-4 years later from what I understand. My question is, how would someone go about finding a Doctor to attempt this procedure? I've learned the Dr's name in Baby Samuel's case. Are there others who do this? Is it realistic to...

I have a problem and I can't find any good answers online. I have a nice new LCD TV that I just got for our kitchen. Unfortunately, there is no cable jack in our kitchen and we have been told by our cable company that they can't put one in. I have an appointment with Best Buy's Geek Squad, who told me they can usually get one in even when the cable company can't. But I'm not certain they can do it. In the meantime I have this awesome HDTV but I get terrible reception as I am using old...

...ESPN Radio's popular morning show Mike & Mike In The Morning scored big Wednesday when it ran an on-the-air auction to raise money for cancer research. The big-ticket item: For a price, former Dolphins lineman Mike Golic and his obnoxious co-anchor, Mike Greenberg, would broadcast one morning this fall from someone's house. The winning bid was $57,100. Sold, an ESPN spokesman told The Palm Beach Post, to one Marta Maranda from the Jupiter area........

I am not really into the music scene of today, as I believe that everything that is touted as 'new' or 'the next big thing' always ends up being something somebody else already did. I have lately found myself digging back into music that really was innovative and ground-breaking. A lot of which was done before I was even around (I am 30). For example, Steely Dan, King Crimson, Yes, David Bowie... I have always been fascinated by Frank Zappa, as he is basically universally thought of as a musical genius, but just have never really dove into his musical...

I am asking here as I value Freepers' input. I have a 30-year Fixed at 6.25 that I want to re-finance. I can get 5.625 with no points today. I have my Father-in-Law telling me to wait as he believes rates are going to go even lower when the Fed meets next week. Do you think rates are likely to go down, up, or what? And why?

September 22, 2006 Remember the Muslim-Dominated Trucking School w/ HazMat Applicants? Printer Friendly By Debbie Schlussel Remember the Muslim-dominated trucking school run by Missouri's West Plains School District? We wrote about it back in February, when the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force raided one of the schools. Knight-Ridder Wire reports that, Wednesday, indictments against the Muslim operators of that school and others in Kansas City were handed down. Here's an excerpt of what we wrote about the school: Are potential Islamic terrorists trying to get commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) and hazardous materials hauling certificates? You bet, they are. In...

AN OUTDOORS-LOVING MOM WHOSE PASTOR HUSBAND SPEAKS TO GOD 100 TIMES A DAY SWAPS PLACES WITH AN OUTDOORS-HATING, COMPUTER- OBSESSED WIFE OF AN ATHEIST DISC JOCKEY, ON ABC'S "WIFE SWAP"This week in "Stonerock/Finley," a Pastor's wife who loves the great outdoors swaps places with an outdoors-hating, computer-obsessed mom whose husband is an atheist disc jockey, on ABC's "Wife Swap"-- the critically-acclaimed unscripted reality show that takes us into the intimate heart of the American family home to reveal the extraordinarily different ways families live their lives - MONDAY, JUNE 19 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD...

One day later, not much changed at the Memorial. Carl Pettersson had a one-shot lead, storm clouds gathered and players trudged off Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, knowing they would have to resume the third round at the crack of dawn.But yesterday was far from an ordinary day.Two players who had been disqualified Friday evening for leaving the course before play was suspended were allowed back into the tournament when officials decided they were given bad information.Jay Haas, the 52-year-old Senior PGA champion, played 33 holes because of the rain delays, tying a PGA Tour record by making his 590th...

First of all, this is not the same article that has been posted from Tech Central Station. It just has the same title.... I owe this title to writer Lee Harris. Last month Harris posed this headliner question in a piece he wrote for Tech Central Station's Web site, TCSDaily. Harris is right to ask; socialism's track record is abysmal.The milder forms of it have yielded economic stagnation where and whenever tried: England in the 1970s; France today. The more impatient strains--"socialism in a hurry," as Lenin reputedly called communism--did nothing but plunder economies and destroy lives. Their fine leaders...

Taking flightBurleson native Kelly Clarkson is taking off again, this time with the Blue Angels. American Idol's first sweetheart will fly with the Navy's flight demonstration team today at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth. She'll join Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops and CBS Channel 11's Babe Laufenberg in a preview performance of this weekend's air show.

This morning my local morning radio guys were cracking on Bill O'Reilly for being a bit paranoid regarding Olbermann. They played a clip where a guy called in to his radio show and merely mentioned Olbermann's show, and O'Reilly cut him off and set Fox Security on him. I don't watch The Factor, so I totally missed this. Anyone else catch it?