The first crash test evaluations of electric cars earn the plug-in vehicles high marks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Tested: the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf.
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Biosphere 2 was a failed experiment to see if humans might be able to create self-sustaining colonies in outer space. But scientists are still using the facility, only now the focus is figuring out how we’ll survive on our own warming planet. (April 26)
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Residents just outside St. Louis spent Monday combing through debris and trying to salvage personal belongings following a devastating tornado that also hit the city’s airport, causing millions of dollars worth of damage to the facility. (April 25)
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(Video Link) Garage genius Jörg Sprave, who invented the machete-firing crossbow, has made a multi-shot slingshot that repeats like a Gatling gun: The Slingshot Channel took the challenge to design a rubber powered version of Mr. Gatling’s great invention. And here it is: Eight 20 mm balls, on their way to the target in less than half Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Neatorama Discovery Date : 25/04/2011 19:23 Number of articles : 3
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New Hampshire police plan to search two vehicles in their investigation into a missing Maine woman whose young daughter was found in one of them. (April 25)
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Heavy rain continues to cause extensive flooding and mudslides in Colombia. Meanwhile in Brazil 12 people were killed and several others displaced over the weekend, after heavy rains caused mudslides in an area near the border with Argentina. (April 26)
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In an exclusive interview with Associated Press, real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested that President Barack Obama was a poor student who didn’t deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. (April 25)
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The US government is calling the publication of secret documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison “unfortunate.” Files, first published by Wikileaks on Sunday, have been released by several American and European newspapers. (April 25)
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Record oil profits are expected this week while drivers are having to pay record gas prices at the pump. AP’s Robert Ray has the story. (April 25)
Continue reading …LOGIC TOWNE: Pat Robertson Says Liberals Want To Kill Babies To Make Lesbians Equal
April 25, 2011 No Comment
Oooh, video of Pat Robertson speaking! Let’s all bask in the perpetual warming glow of his airtight logic: Ok, so here’s Pat Robertson’s actual, real argument: – Liberals want to kill babies. – Straight married women can have babies but lesbians cannot. – Therefore, by killing the babies of straight married women, liberals will make lesbians more equal. Air-TIGHT. I literally cannot find fault with… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : VH1′s Today In Music Discovery Date : 25/04/2011 20:39 Number of articles : 3
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