This morning the sun will come up,
Just like it did a few years ago,
Crisp sunlight becons the day forward into choas,
Memories still have not organized the thoughts and feelings of that September Morning,
I want to cry and scream,
I want to go back to bed and wake up again to find that it did not happen,
The growing uncertainty that the world has changed forever,
You have changed forever,
And quit possibly you do not like what you have changed into.
Retribution!
Hunt them down!
Do not let this happen again,
But it keeps happening,
Again and again,
Russia,
The Phillipines,
Iraq,
Thoughts of that day haunt me,
Like a ghost just out of my vision,
The sun will come up today,
On a world that is just askew,
Of what I knew it to be.

NEW INVENTION ALLOWS HUMANS TO LIVE FOREVER !

Burnt toast

The unusual titles of 10 national anthems:

Just One Night (Burkina Faso)

The Song of Rallying (Cameroon)

Where is My Home? (Czech Republic)

There is a Lovely Land (Denmark)

Let's Walk Down the Path of Our Great Happiness (Equitorial Guinea)

Your Flag is a Heavenly Light (Honduras)

Awaken, Romanian (Romania)

Pluck Your Koras, Hit Your Balafons (Senegal)

Ukraine Has Not Died Yet (Ukraine)

We We We (Vanuatu)

In the course of any normal person's life, miracles happen roughly once a month.




Miracle on Probability Street
The Law of Large Numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America.


Because I am often introduced
as a "professional skeptic," people feel compelled to
challenge me with stories about highly improbable events.
The implication is that if I cannot offer a satisfactory
natural explanation for that particular event, the general
principle of supernaturalism is preserved. A common story
is the one about having a dream or thought about the death
of a friend or relative and then receiving a phone call
five minutes later about the unexpected death of that very
person.
I cannot always explain such specific incidents, but a
principle of probability called the Law of Large Numbers
shows that an event with a low probability of occurrence
in a small number of trials has a high probability of
occurrence in a large number of trials. Events with
million-to-one odds happen 295 times a day in America.

By Michael Shermer

Those crazy French!
Lottery tickets to win smokes!

Beaches are giant blank spaces, washed clean every day, on to which all sorts of hopes are projected. But they do not transcend politics - in fact, they represent a third way between market and state

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John Kerry's book lampooning the Iwa Jima memorial.
Note the upside down flag which is a great insult to America.

Not Again!