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I don’t know if this will have any actual impact on anything, but at least the news should be heard. The Democrat leadership in the house has blocked a vote on important energy legislation, and has gone home for a five-week vacation. Many of the Republicans are still in the capitol, protesting the move. Get the word out!

Don’t Go: http://dontgo.us/

Petition: http://dontgo.us/?p=9

Regret the Error has posted what must be the best (or worst) typo of 2008. Personally, I suspect Gollum has started working for this particular newspaper.

Wildlife photographer Hal Brindley has caught on camera the first known case of a leopard attacking and killing a crocodile. The pictures are unbelievable.

Via mollywood on Twitter.

If you’re a gadget geek and you’re worried about your gadgets getting stolen, you might turn to a new gadget to keep them safe. Kwikset has an impressive new lock that can be re-keyed in place, in just a few seconds, using the current key and a “learn tool” that comes with the lock. Just the gadget you need if someone is after your other gadgets.

"SmartKey" Lock

Via Crave.

This headline probably isn’t of much interest to most people, but since most of my work is for Anheuser-Busch I’m posting it anyway. My blog, my rules. =D

Anheuser-Busch Agrees to InBev Sale

Whether this merger/buyout will have much impact on the “common worker” beyond the name change remains to be seen.

This is the post that I was trying to get up on the 4th. Now I’m back to a normal internet connection and life is peachy.

It is now approaching a quarter of a millennium since our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, which is a long time in human years, but not so long in celestial ones. In the year 1006 A.D. a supernova was observed on earth, the remnants of which are shown in detail in this photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, featured as NASA’s picture of the day. At the time it was the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon, and is estimated that the resulting shock wave has traveled at up to 20 million miles an hour over the last 1000 years.

Via LGF

I’ve been camping with my aunt and uncle’s church since Friday. It’s beautiful here in Mammoth Lakes (and they have a nice library where I can set up my laptop). Yesterday some friends and I went on a 18 mile hike to Thousand Island Lake and back. We looped around and came back on part of the John Muir Trail past Emerald, Ruby, Garnet and Shadow lakes. We got some spectacular views of Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, and the surrounding area.

Thousand Island Lake and Banner Peak

This trip has been incredible in so many ways. God has been teaching me more than I ever expected to learn here, and being in such an awesome setting makes it all the more exciting.

I’ve been working on a special 4th of July post, but I’m having some technical difficulties with part of it. So for now, happy Independence Day. May those of us blessed to live here never forget the sacrifices made to establish and protect it, or the God who has allowed us to live such a free and prosperous life.

The Washington Times has reported that the U.S. has permission to use Predator drones against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, if he is found there. According to their sources, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf made an agreement to that effect early in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, despite denying requests to allow additional CIA agents ground access to the country.