Frosted Window Panes

...and it's not even Christmas!

A fire in an abandoned warehouse in Chicago netted interesting results.

Before:

After:

http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/25/one_more_look_at_the_abandoned_ware.php#photo-14

911 Conspiracy Theory Nonsense

Recently on the Bellarmine Report Blog there is a bit of a conspiracy theory posting regarding the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.  The following video is posted there:

Now, let's look at some OTHER views of the second plane hitting the WTC...

And here's a collection of many different views of the second plane hitting the WTC.  It's ludicrous to think that the government got to all these different people, news crews and private citizens!

As for the "nose through" conspiracy theory, one of at least two explanations are quite tenable.
1) The nose entered between floors and made it through before exploding out the other side.
2) The sheer force of the "nose cone" hitting projected through with debris in relatively the same shape.

There's just WAY too many shots of the second plane hitting!  There weren't too many of the first plane hitting, but by the time the second plane hit - news crews and dozens of others with home video cameras were trained on the Twin Towers.  It's pure craziness to think this was all a conspiracy concocted by the US government.

Murder v IE

http://gizmodo.com/5977989/internet-explorer-vs-murder-rate-will-be-your-favorite-chart-today

12-12-12

Well today is the last day in 88 years that we'll have the month-day-year all the same!   Most of us will not be around to see 01-01-01 (2101), so enjoy a moment today to reflect on the day, say about 12 minutes after noon...  that would be 12:12 12-12-12.

Military Ballot Box

2012 Mayan Calendar

Passivity Lost This Election

As it turns out the biggest loser in this election was President Obama!  He received nearly 10 million fewer votes in 2012 than he did in 2008!   That being said, Governor Romney received nearly 3 million fewer votes than McCain did in 2008.  The startling fact is that if Romney had all of McCain's votes - he would have won, at least in the popular vote (maybe not in electoral votes, they're still trying to figure that part out).  Romney COULD have won this - IF the Republicans who supported McCain had supported Romney the same way.  It was ultimately those who stayed home who passively decided this election.  Sad, but true.