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Over the years I’ve read copiously on the subject of origins. I’ve noticed the media pronouncements on the subject of new fossils and evolutionary theory form a startlingly repetitive pattern. To save the over-worked and increasingly bankrupt news media I’ve undertaken to serve them with a generic news story that can be copy-and-pasted with few modifications and reused as frequently as desired. New Fossil Discovery Is Transition Form, Provides Proof of Evolution! University of ________ Scientists say they’ve found a “missing link” in the early evolution of ______ - the skeleton of a ______ that was evolving away from ______...

ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2009) — During the summers of 2006 and 2007, an international team of researchers from China and the United States excavated a treasure trove of dinosaur skeletons from Early Cretaceous rocks in the southern part of the Gobi Desert near the ancient Silk Road city of Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, China. Two of their discoveries represent new species of theropod dinosaurs. The new species are described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The papers will appear in print later this year in a special volume entitled "Recent advances in Chinese palaeontology."

reasury Secretary Timothy Geithner faces a slew of questions about his plans to shore up banks while a watchdog agency warns that Obama administration initiatives could increasingly expose taxpayers to losses. Geithner is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the government's $700 billion financial rescue program. Meanwhile, the rescue program's special inspector general concluded in a 250-page quarterly report to Congress that a private-public partnership designed to rid financial institutions of their "toxic assets" is tilted in favor of private investors and creates "potential unfairness to the taxpayer." Still, Inspector General Neil Barofksy, using blunt language,...

Celebration of Earth Day 2009 USDA Theme: The Green Generation All USDA employees are invited to attend a presentation of the Award-winning documentary film, " An Inconvenient Truth. " This film depicts the consequences of global warming and climate change on our planet. Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: Back of South Building Cafeteria Sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Office of Diversity and Outreach, Office of Outreach

April 20, 2009 The President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, You don't speak for me. When you go to Europe and say that Americans are "arrogant, dismissive and derisive" of our allies, you don't speak for me. When you pander to foreign leaders, presuming to speak on behalf of all Americans, apologizing for the actions of President Bush, you don't speak for me. When you desperately try to surrender to the French and the Germans, the Russians and the Saudis, and even our great friends in the U.K., just for the...

The prestigious job of U.S. ambassador to China is open — but several high-profile Washington insiders have reportedly already turned down the post. John Podesta, the Center for American Progress president who headed Barack Obama’s transition team, and former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel have both rejected offers to represent the U.S. in Beijing, sources told Foreign Policy magazine’s The Cable Web site. “Some people think ambassador jobs are beneath them,” one source said. “Others think the process to get confirmed is too big a pain. Some people don’t want to move to China.” Clark T. Randt left the post in...

Perhaps they just don’t want to think through the details. Then again - - maybe some of them don’t have the capacity to think through the details. I’m referring to the apparent plethora of partisan, passionate, “see-no-evil” Obama minions, who become outraged should any of the rest of us ask questions about the forty-fourth President. I continually encounter the minions both as callers on talk radio, and as mailers responding to my various editorial columns. Whereas last year during the election cycle when I would dare to ask questions of the dear leader Obama, the minions’ first line of attack...

Fox News Reporting that Isreali planes are preparing strikes on Iran...on now... Supported here... http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7014833501

He quaffs beer not wine, eats snail porridge for Christmas lunch and has always loathed small talk. Prince Philip is nothing if not his own man. But is this the secret of his success? ..... There has been plenty of opposition along the way. But today, it is the Duke who has the last laugh as he breaks a 191-year-old royal record to become the longest-serving royal consort in history. It is a hell of a milestone. But do not for one minute expect to hear anyone mention the 'R' word. The Duke of Edinburgh does not 'do' retirement any...

The Treasury's car czar, Steve Rattner, has been dragged into the New York State retirement fund kickback scandal that led to several arrests earlier this week. Rattner's private equity firm, Quadrangle, paid a finder's fee to one of the defendants in the kickback scheme for a $100 million investment the state retirement fund made in one of Quadrangle's funds. More troublingly, one of Quadrangle's affiliate companies also paid $88,000 to acquire the DVD distribution rights for a movie produced by the New York State official who made the investment decision and his brothers. Quadrangle made this DVD payment during the...

Having spoken to some SEAL pals here in Virginia Beach yesterday and asking why this thing dragged out for 4 days, I got the following: 1. BHO wouldn't authorize the DEVGRU/NSWC SEAL teams to the scene for 36 hours going against OSC (on scene commander) recommendation. 2. Once they arrived, BHO imposed restrictions on their ROE that they couldn't do anything unless the hostage's life was in "imminent" danger 3. The first time the hostage jumped, the SEALS had the raggies all sighted in, but could not fire due to ROE restriction 4. When the navy RIB came under fire...

I was "accidentally" watching CBS's The Early Show this morning. They were having a segment on Obama going to Mexico today and the issues he was going to address with the Mexican government. An unseen male narrator was talking as video images of the Mexican drug wars were being shown. The narrator then proceeded to explain how one of the major problems in the carnage and drug wars was the "influx of machine guns and hand grenades from the United States." As most of us on this forum know, it is extremely hard to get a machine gun and impossible...

PRINCETON, N.J., April 14 (UPI) -- Just less than half of U.S. residents asked say the amount of federal income taxes they pay is "about right," a Gallup Poll indicated. Forty-eight percent of respondents said they paid their fair share of taxes, while 46 percent of those asked said they paid too much, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said, noting it was one of the most positive assessments measured since 1956. Typically, a majority of Americans say taxes are too high and very few say taxes are too low, Gallup said. Since 1956, there has been only one other time...

<p>Print ShareThisFLINT, Mich. — Authorities in Michigan say a man fathered 14 children with different women and owes more than $530,000 in unpaid child support.</p> <p>The Flint Journal reports 42-year-old Thomas Frazier was jailed Thursday. Court records say he owes six years of support payments.</p>

Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society, in "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream": In his determination to get Congress and America moving again, Johnson demanded support for the Great Society and confidence in the capacity of government to improve all the conditions of society as matters of faith. . . . The intensity of his own belief strengthened his formidable persuasive powers. . . . In so expansive an era, filled with such benevolent intentions, the boundaries between fact and fiction, between the present and the future, no longer held. . . . And so...

Scientists have shown scratching helps relieve an itch as it blocks activity in some spinal cord nerve cells that transmit the sensation to the brain. However, the effect only seems to occur during itchiness itself - scratching at other times makes no difference. While it is widely-known scratching relieves an itch, the physiological mechanisms for how this works are little understood. The University of Minnesota study appears in Nature Neuroscience.

President Barack Obama has taken steps to encourage Americans to buy more U.S.-made cars — but administration officials show a clear preference for vehicles from foreign-owned firms. Obama said the government will guarantee warranties on any GM or Chrysler vehicles, and the IRS is notifying consumers who purchased cars after Feb. 16 that they can deduct the cost of any sales and excise taxes. Yet Politico.com took a look at the vehicles on West Executive Drive, where White House staffers park, and found only five American cars out of 23 vehicles there. As for several members of Obama’s presidential task...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was intended to provide handicap ramps and other "reasonable accommodations" for the disabled. Over time, however, government vastly expanded the ADA's scope. Through legislation, regulation and litigation, the act classified almost every accommodation as reasonable, created enormous unnecessary expenses for business and perversely made employers reluctant to hire the handicapped. The purpose of the Clean Air Act of 1963 was to reduce smog. But through amendments, bureaucratic activism and creative judicial interpretations, the government has contorted the act beyond recognition, to the point where it can declare a naturally occurring, life-sustaining compound —...

Texas Ordinance of Secession AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State of Texas and the other States united under the Compact styled "the Constitution of the United States of America." WHEREAS, The Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these States, in giving protection either to the persons of our people upon an exposed frontier, or to the property of our citizens, and WHEREAS, the action of the Irresponsible States of the Union are violative of the compact between the States and the guarantees of the Constitution; and, WHEREAS, The...

MORE FROM MAXINE By Neal Boortz @ March 13, 2009 8:49 AM Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBacks (0)  By now I am sure that you've heard about the Wall Street Journal report on Maxine Waters. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682571772404053.html Maxine Waters is arguably one of the most brain-dead politicians in Washington today. Do you remember her recent attempt to grill bank CEOs? Yeah, it is hard to watch, ain't it? It is pretty well-known that Maxine Waters has close ties with OneUnited Bank, which happens to be a minority-owned institution (at least that is the politically correct way to say it)....