For quite some time now, I have been using Bloglines to read blogs through RSS feeds, and I can really recommend this way of keeping track of your favourite blogs.
The downside is that I forget to update my navigator bars on the left side of this screen with the blogs I actually read regularly. So now I've done some updates, and will have to do more soon.
A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey's tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government, said Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock_The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii.
The goal: to enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure some 45 feet high, 75 feet wide and up to 450 feet long that was exposed in part by last summer's heat wave in Europe.
Hardly the first expedition to search for the elusive ark, desperate to prove one of the more imaginative tales of the Bible to be actually correct, this group is searching for a specific fantasy:
In 1957, Turkish air force pilots spotted a boat-shaped formation in Agri province. The government did not pursue the sighting, however. The entire area, including Mount Ararat, was off limits to foreigners because of Soviet complaints that explorers were U.S. spies.
It's always crucial to identify exactly which version of the pipedream you are hunting for.
Infamously, in 1993 Sun International Pictures created a "documentary" about searches for Noah's ark in collaboration with creationists, a fraud that amusingly fell for a hoax you'd expect a three year old to see through.
It would be an understatement to say that scientific evidence is not positive to the idea that there ever was a global flood on this planet. Not a local one requiring an ark either, for that matter.
They [the diplomats] rather choose to interprete the information about Rove and Blix in Bob Woodward's new book to mean that Swedish jokes are also being told in the White House.
- We just have to hope that the rest of what Woodward writes is better founded in fact, one diplomat, who asked not to be named, told VG.
Another underscores that Rove is a good friend of Sweden's former prime minister Carl Bildt and that Rove has worked as an advisor for the conservative Swedish party Moderaterna.
It didn't sound quite right that Rove let something that happened in 1814 influence his relationship to important international diplomats in 2004.
Note that I still haven't seen exactly what Woodward wrote, just a vague paraphrase.
Vodkapundit reminds us that there are wingnuts on both sides, and offers these quite descriptive labels for the four different positions in the war on terror, from left to right:
"It's all about OIILLLL."
"Terror War OK, Iraq War bad."
"Never surrender."
"Nuke'em all, and don't let even God sort'em out."
Let's ignore the flanks, and it should be possible to talk.
