No specific theme today, just random stories that are of interest.
In this Reuters story, they prove that their political agenda knows no bounds. Seriously folks, why is it that people can't understand the word illegal even when they type it into their own articles? The calls that those who oppose illegal immigration are 'Xenophobic" is so old and useless and unfounded that it would be considered a joke, except that alot of clueless people believe it.
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Houston has more than crime to worry about now. Houston, one of the highest violent crime cities in the US (and oddly enough pretty anti-gun) now has a new threat: Ants.
The little bitty bugs came over on a cargo ship and just have been on a rampage, taking over. They don't know where they came from, some suggest the Caribbean.
Apparently they aren't as organized as other ants and have the nickname "crazy ants" as they quickly wander around.
There is a benefit though. These ants apparently go gung ho on fire ants. (Fire ants, of course, are nasty little critters). Unfortunately, when there aren't fire ants to eat, they go after plants and ladybugs as well.
Now, here's the odd part..... They like electrical equipment and have been attacking pumps at sewage stations, and even caused problems with gas meters and fire alarms.
Over the Counter ant killers don't seem to work and they've been spotted at the Johnson Space Center.
Like a Scifi movie, when you find a pesticide that kills them, the survivors use the dead ants as a bridge to cross into safety.
Even Orkin is stumped.
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In news that isn't news, Obama takes issue with President Bush's foreign policy speech.
Ranking up there with startling discoveries like "Water is Wet," we find out that Socialistically liberal Democrat Barack H. Obama has a problem with President Bush's remarks on terrorism.
Here's the remark:
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," the President said to the country's legislative body, "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Apparently Barack H. Obama, the political candidate endorsed by Hamas, believes otherwise.
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9 year old girl's twin found inside her stomach
Now this is just friggen creepy. a 9 year old girl went to the hospital in central Greece because her stomach hurt. 9 year old girl.
Doctors found out that a growth they removed was actually a 2 inch long embryo. Apparently in the womb, she absorbed her twin.
No real comment on it. Just one of the most unusual things I've read in a while.
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As to that last one... I saw something similar a few years ago where they found a twin inside sixteen years later (link below). It's pretty rare, but definitely weird when it does happen.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4624307.stm
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~Fallon~
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't- A. France
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I feel bad for the kid. The whole family really.
To find out in the course of a day that you had a twin and lost a twin.
Fox News actually said that the chances of one twin "consuming" (for lack of better words (????) ) is 1 in 500,000, which actually seems like strangely high stakes for something as bizarre as this. Weird regardless.
Yeah, the article I linked to said the same thing... though the odds of one twin consuming another and still having a remnant left like in the case I linked to and the other.... those might be MUCH less common than one twin fully consuming the other and leaving no trace.
Oh - I didn't get that part. I still think, regardless of the twin consuming or not consuming, it's interesting.