The grilled cheese sandwich is up for sale again.eBay user Diana Duyser offered for sale a half of a cheese sandwich that appears to have the face of a woman on it. Bidding for the sandwich, which Duyser claims she has kept for ten years, reached $22,000.
Then Duyser got a note from eBay saying that they had taken the offer down on the grounds that it violates their rules to post offers that are jokes.
But Duyser wasn’t joking.
The sandwich is back up.
Can’t afford the sandwich?
The grilled cheese sandwich is up for sale again.eBay user Diana Duyser offered for sale a half of a cheese sandwich that appears to have the face of a woman on it. Bidding for the sandwich, which Duyser claims she has kept for ten years, reached $22,000.
Then Duyser got a note from eBay saying that they had taken the offer down on the grounds that it violates their rules to post offers that are jokes.
But Duyser wasn’t joking.
The sandwich is back up.
Can’t afford the sandwich?
CNN is reporting:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Harry Reid of
Nevada won election as leader of the shrunken Democratic minority on
Tuesday and said he stands ready to cooperate with Republicans or
confront them as he deems necessary.
With the exception of abortion rights and gun control, both of which he
opposes, Reid’s recent voting record on major issues puts him in the
mainstream of Senate Democrats [SOURCE].
Confirmation of Reid’s pro-life votes (and his stance on other issues) HERE.
This could make things interesting. It could be a sea change in party. If this isn’t a fluke and the Dems are really ready to let pro-lifers into leadership positions then the party might stop serving as the outer garment of the abortion industry.
Will be interesting to see what, if anything, happens on this front.
CNN is reporting:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Harry Reid of
Nevada won election as leader of the shrunken Democratic minority on
Tuesday and said he stands ready to cooperate with Republicans or
confront them as he deems necessary.With the exception of abortion rights and gun control, both of which he
opposes, Reid’s recent voting record on major issues puts him in the
mainstream of Senate Democrats [SOURCE].
Confirmation of Reid’s pro-life votes (and his stance on other issues) HERE.
This could make things interesting. It could be a sea change in party. If this isn’t a fluke and the Dems are really ready to let pro-lifers into leadership positions then the party might stop serving as the outer garment of the abortion industry.
Will be interesting to see what, if anything, happens on this front.
SDG here with some potentially stunning news.
Almost three months ago, I blogged on this site complaining that the Democrats needed to stop stonewalling pro-lifers in their own ranks.
Now it looks like they may actually be starting to do so.
According to this CNN.com story, the shrunken Democrat minority, having lost its leader Tom Daschle, has done something that would have seemed unthinkable only a few weeks ago: They’ve elected a pro-life Democrat to be their leader.
Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada replaces Daschle as the new minority leader. According to CNN.com,
With the exception of abortion rights and gun control, both of which he opposes, Reid’s recent voting record on major issues puts him in the mainstream of Senate Democrats.
Assuming Reid’s pro-life credentials hold up, this is incredible news — a sign, perhaps, that Democrats are beginning to realize that unless they start reaching out to pro-lifers they’re going to continue to be the party out of power.
This leaves me with one question for pro-lifers who voted for Kerry.
Suppose that there had been enough pro-lifers willing to regard abortion as negotiable and vote for Kerry over Bush to actually get Kerry elected. Had that happened, do you think there’s any way we could possibly hope to be seeing signs now of the Dems beginning to crack on abortion?
I want to order a utility belt from Sharper Image!
(But it has to let me put on my cool cowboy belt buckles.)
Christians are required at all times not to lie about the fact that they are Christians. Though they can mentally reserve their faith when the situation warrants, they cannot lie about it, and they are required not to deny Christ on pain of mortal sin.
Muslims, on the other hand, are allowed to lie about their faith.
There is even a technical name for this practice: Taqiyya.
As one might expect, there is considerable disagreement in the Muslim community about when one can do this. Wanna bet the terrorists are on the permissive side of the debate?
Christians are required at all times not to lie about the fact that they are Christians. Though they can mentally reserve their faith when the situation warrants, they cannot lie about it, and they are required not to deny Christ on pain of mortal sin.
Muslims, on the other hand, are allowed to lie about their faith.
There is even a technical name for this practice: Taqiyya.
As one might expect, there is considerable disagreement in the Muslim community about when one can do this. Wanna bet the terrorists are on the permissive side of the debate?
Fortunately, there is a surplus of spleen in CheeseEaterLand.
I’d order me a super-sized passel of freedom fries if they weren’t high-carb.
Yeah, and the Garden of Eden was located just outside Moscow, too. It must have made Adam and Eve very sorry to leave it.
Don’t hold your breath on this one, Ivan.
I see that the accuracy rate of Pravda hasn’t become sterling since the time it was a Communist propaganda paper.
Still, it’s probably more accurate than CBS.
Here’s the story:
Russian scientists create perpetual space motion machine |
11/15/2004 17:38 |
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The machine can be used to adjust the orbits of space stations The Russian research institute of space systems develops a perpetual motion machine, which could be used both on Earth and in space. "Specialists of the institute have been working on the so-called engine without reactive mass emissions," Valery Menshikov, the director of the institute said. The scientists have already created a test model of the unconventional engine, he added. "The model moves owing to a liquid or a solid body that moves inside the machine. The body moves on a certain trajectory, reminiscent to the one of tornado. As a result, we can probably witness an unknown phenomenon, when the body interacts with the fields, the nature of which has been studied insufficiently, the gravitation field, for example," Valery Menshikov said. "We have already registered the traction of up to 28g, but it can so far exist for several minutes only. It may seem that the index is really low. However, if this traction is used for 20 minutes with a 100-kg satellite, it will be able to lift its orbit for more than two kilometers," scientist of the research institute, Yuri Danshov said. The new engine will last for 15 years; it will be able to perform about 300,000 operations. The machine is powered with solar batteries. Specialists believe that it will be possible to achieve better results, if the machine is tested in space, or if it is dropped down in a deep shaft, where the fall creates the effect of weightlessness. "Traditional science compares the research in this field with attempts to develop a perpetual motion machine. However, largest Western companies are very serious about the problem, investing considerable funds in the work," the director of the Russian institute for space systems, Valery Menshikov said. Russian scientists believe that it will be possible to use the machine to control and correct the orbits of spacecrafts and space stations. This ecologically pure engine will probably be used with air and ground transport, Itar-Tass reports. |
