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Saucer Smear, July 20th, 2004

When he died at the great age of 92 in 1923, Texas butcher Charles A. Dellschau left behind a secret and a mystery.

A veritable Scareship Age, in fact, 1892-1918. Later instances could be adduced (the Scandinavian ghost flyer of 1932-4, the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942, the Scandinavian and Greek ghost rockets of 1946) but clearly, activity peaked during the years of flight's infancy.

Focus On The Family's new tolerance campaign: "Kick a Christian"

"Unfortunately, I know from experience that when someone is committed to believing a conspiracy theory, no matter what evidence is presented against it, the result is simply to further confirm the original theory."

"A growing segment of the party poised to take control of Congress has bought into denial of the basic truths of Barack Obama’s life. What’s more, this astonishing level of willful ignorance has come about largely by design, and has been aided by a press afraid to call out the primary architects of the lies."

"He said, "who is to judge what is crazy and what is not." I pointed out that it's batshit crazy to publicly assert strange and malicious rumors which you know not to be true."

Ow! My Balls!

using category at the start of the permalink triggers verbose page rules, which adds 11 rewrite rules for every page on the site.

please tell me it's not really this much of a pain in the ass to add a date to custom post type permalinks.

ta-da!

The military after watching Terminator: "Hey, that looks like FUN!

¥3,990.00

"I've also been approached by Bollywood to play an evil womanising spy that goes to India and is destroyed by a handsome young Indian hero."
Lucky one-eyed bastard.

Honea said the U.S. has never experienced a traffic jam as big as the one now bedeviling northern China, but he noted that traffic in Los Angeles "is pretty bad. It's not a highway, it's a parking lot."

- Bob Honea, irector of the University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute, regarding a 10 day traffic jam in China.

Until local leaders are satisfied that the use of the popular social networking website won't leave the city open to legal challenges or violations of open meetings and public records laws, they've ended a pilot project that put Redondo Beach on Facebook

obvious

Less "exposed sekkrits" and more Fortune magazine contemplating the giddiness of New Yorkers.

WASHINGTON—Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text.

John Stewart joked about four degrees of separation from Fox News to terrorists. In reality, it's one degree — the second largest shareholder directly funds organizations that Fox News calls terrorists.