We were just discussing the croc-headed Ammit on The Secret Sun, no? Well, it turns out that a baby croc showed up on an Egypt Air flight, though no one onboard claimed responsibility for the little fella:A baby crocodile caused panic on a flight from Abu Dhabi to Cairo when it escaped from a passenger's luggage, Egyptian airport officials say. Passengers screamed as the crocodile, measuring about 30cm (1ft), made its way down the cabin before eventually being captured by crew members. - BBC.
Resolution Proclaiming Hawaii Obama's Birthplace Passes House Unanimously - In no short order, H.R. 593 (17) has become what one Democratic operative described as the "counter-birther" bill.
Salon has here in its (virtual) hand a list of 17 names of members of Congress who have either expressed support for, or refused to oppose, the idea that America has a foreign president problem. You'd be surprised how hard it is to get a member of Congress to say that Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen with the right to be president.
Rep: Bill Posey, R-Fla.: Though rumors of then-candidate Barack Obama's ineligibility for office incubated in right-wing fever swamps during the campaign, they found their first congressional ally in the actual swamps of Florida. Posey, a first-term representative from the "Space Coast" of Florida, is the sponsor of a bill that would require presidential candidates to submit their birth certificates.
"However, given three opportunities to agree on behalf of Bono Mack that the president was born in the United States and is qualified to command the armed forces, the spokeswoman refused to comment..."
Counting the Facebook friends, that's 17 Republican elected officials who either seem doubtful that Obama is a legal head of state..."
Immigrants should be eligible for the presidency
"Birthers" say Obama isn't "natural born" and can't be president. Let's make their whole delusional argument moot
A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.
Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.
He told the TED Global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.
Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said. - BBC
What in the bloody buggery? Edina boils in a jealous rage as Patsy is hailed as a goddess in Nepal for her activism on behalf of the Gurkhas, who've helped the Brits win a war or two:
To the delight of the crowd, some of whom had queued for hours to catch a glimpse of the star, Ms Lumley issued the traditional Gurkha war cry to her waiting fans. One sign read: "Ayo goddess Joanna," or "Here comes goddess Joanna".Lumley was also a Bond girl and a Hammer hottie.
She told the noisy crowd: "My friends of Nepal, I am your family coming to Nepal for the first time. I want to thank you so much. "I want to say in the time-honoured cry, 'Ayo Gurkhali!'"
Ms Lumley, whose late father was an officer in the Gurkha regiment, said a great injustice had been righted when the Government finally relented in May and said all Gurkha veterans with four years' service would be allowed to move to the UK.
