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“In the quest to find an earthquake predictor, elephants, horses, wolves, snakes and fish have all been variously put forward.” (see Breitbart.com ) However the validity behind efforts to show that animal behavior can be used to predict earthquakes has been questionable — perhaps until now. Now it appears that toads, male common toads (Bufo bufo) to [...]

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Check out this video of Winston, an 80 lb. bulldog, attacking a 3,000 lb. patrol car — and winning. While the bulldog’s efforts resulted in destruction (of the police car), having the same tenacity is essential in our relationship with God. Another Winston, Winston Churchill, the great Prime Minister of the UK, is famous for [...]

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Before Thursday the Northern Iowa University’s mens basketball team hadn’t won a game in the NCAA tournament since 1990. Their starting center, the first 7 footer to ever play for Northern Iowa, averaged a mere 3.6 points and 2.1 rebounds his freshman year. His sophomore year he missed games because of a bulging disc in [...]

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Went fishing yesterday, not as I usually do, on a lake, for largemouth bass. This time I’m on vacation with my family in Puerto Vallarta which is right on the ocean.  So we hired a local boat from a company called Monkey Business and our Captain, Tori, did what he always does — he took us to [...]

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According to David Bentley’s article in the Coventry Telegraph, James Cameron may re-release Avatar in late summer or fall of 2010. He has more than forty minutes of unseen footage that didn’t make the cut recently seen in theatres. Cameron says that ten or twelve minutes of unseen film could easily be added to the existing [...]

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Jim Sikes was driving his Prius on I-8 in Southern California when he felt the accelerator “do something funny.” Next thing you know his 2008 blue Prius’ accelerator is stuck. He called 911 on his cell phone. A California Highway Patrol Officer had to pull up next to him, yes, at 90 miles per hour, [...]

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More than 200 Christians, many, women and children, were killed in Nigeria Sunday, according to Mission Network News. Accounts from neighbors of the dead say that Muslim herdsmen came out of the hills, shot pistols to draw people out of their homes, and then killed with machetes and bows and arrows. Some of the bodies [...]

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The U.S. Navy and more recently the main stream media are all abuzz about the (former) female Captain of the US Navy Ticonderoga Class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens. In January the Navy Times reported that she was relieved of command for “cruelty and maltreatment” of her crew. (see previous post Female Naval Captain Relieved [...]

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Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress at the Academy Awards tonight for her role in The Blind Side. Bullock plays the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Christian conservative white woman who adopts a destitute young black man and helps him to succeed academically and athletically. The movie is based on the true [...]

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Dick Cheney recently had a heart attack according to a Huffington Post article from February 23, 2010. His fifth since age 37! The heart attack was characterized as a mild one, yet having already experienced four others, the cumulative amount of heart muscle death is troubling. He had surgery at George Washington University Hospital on [...]

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