] Keck's students are taking their observations a step
] farther by comparing them to the Warren Commission
] findings. The official report of the commission headed by
] Earl Warren, then chief justice of the U.S. Supreme
] Court, concluded in 1964 that only three shots were fired
] at Kennedy, all by Lee Harvey Oswald, from an upper floor
] of the Texas School Book Depository.

JFK lesson teaches science, math, history, conspiracy theory

Rattle wrote:
] ] Last February, Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant
] ] shut down after workers discovered that boric acid had
] ] eaten away at 70 pounds of steel, leaving a 6-by-5-inch
] ] hole in its reactor head. Only a thin, 3/8-inch strip of
] ] stainless steel lining protected the reactor from
] ] rupturing and causing what could have been the most
] ] devastating nuclear accident since Three Mile Island.
]
] This scares the hell out of me. I'm currently living about 2
] miles away from Oyster Creek Nuclear in Jersey. Its been
] operating now for about 15 years pass its design lifetime.
] There was a stink a few years ago when it was discovered that
] its dry well was rusting.
]
] They don't seem too on top of their shit. Every so often (at
] least three times now) they mess up the water mix in the
] stream that cools it down, the stream's temp rises to about
] 110F, and several hundred thousand dead fish magicly appear.
]
] Hope the sucker dosen't melt down on us. Well, at least they
] were nice enough to give us KI pills.. I don't count on those
] to do any good in the event of an accident.

I got my KI pills in the mail. I laughed at them, though.. I figure I've got bigger problems to worry about than my nuke plant melting down or getting bombed.. there's far more interesting terrorist targets around here... I've got the sub base, the rt 95 bridge that goes over the river to the sub base (bomb that bridge and no subs are going out to sea), my own place of employment (bomb that and no subs will get built for a while).. Pfizer (which tends to explode on its own every so often), Dow chemical, and a tank farm, all within five miles of me. I'm not too worried about Millstone melting down. They send us a magazine quarterly, telling us all how safe it is. Yet, on the back cover is the evacuation route we're supposed to take.

RE: Wired News: Nuke Plants Aging Disgracefully

flynn23 wrote:
] What I want to do when I have money.

Hey, $58,000 more and I'm there!!!!

RE: How To Spend $60K on Home Astronomy

] In Louisiana, where searchers have found hundreds of
] items from the shuttle, sheriff's deputies have checked
] out animal bones and burnt rocks. A suspected piece of
] shuttle debris was found to be a truck mudflap. In
] Shreveport, communications officer Tracy Dossett said an
] elderly woman ("Bless her heart") called 911 after
] finding egg yolk on her porch. Were there eggs on the
] Columbia? she asked.

In the search for shuttle debris: Alternators, mudflaps, rocks

] Farmer Donald Slater said: "After last year's devastation
] (of foot-and-mouth) we all needed cheering up and this
] might just do it."

I thought the cow poetry was cool but this is even cooler.

Woolly writing creates new poetry

Children's Books That Will Never Be Published:

"You Are Different and That's Bad"
"Dad's New Wife Timothy"
"Pop! Goes The Hamster....And Other Great Microwave Games"
"Testing Homemade Parachutes Using Household Pets"
"The Hardy Boys, the Barbie Twins, and the Vice Squad"
"Babar Meets the Taxidermist"
"Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence"
"The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables"
"Start a Real-Estate Empire With the Change From Your Mom's Purse"
"The Pop-up Book of Human Anatomy"
"Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will"
"The Care Bears Maul Some Campers and are Shot Dead"
"How to Become The Dominant Military Power In Your Elementary School"
"You Were an Accident"
"Strangers Have the Best Candy"
"The Little Sissy Who Snitched"
"Some Kittens Can Fly!"
"Getting More Chocolate on Your Face"
"Where Would You Like to Be Buried?"
"Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her"
"The Attention Deficit Disorder Association's Book of Wild Animals of
North Amer- Hey! Let's Go Ride Our Bikes!"
"All Dogs Go to Hell"
"The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking"
"Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia"
"What Is That Dog Doing to That Other Dog?"
"Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Become Friends"
"Controlling the Playground: Respect through Fear"
"Daddy Drinks Because You Cry"
"Bi-Curious George"

We all need a bit of humor in our lives

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] According to the prosecutors who put Laurencic on trial
] in 1939, a jail in Murcia in south-east Spain forced
] prisoners to view the infamously disturbing scene from
] Dali and Bunuel's film Un Chien Andalou, in which an
] eyeball is sliced open.

NO NO NO NO NO NO OH MY GOD NO NO NO NO NO

The Guardian | Surrealist art used as torture...

] An Alaska woman, shocked to receive part of her dead
] father's leg in the mail instead of the gourmet
] "LobsterGram" she was expecting, has filed suit against
] the Houston, Texas, firm that sent it, alleging mental
] anguish.

Woman sues lab over mailing of leg

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!