Unidentified Sea Creature Found After Typhoon

It was first seen by villagers on July 20, according to Mei who breeds fish nearby, and is nearly 12 meters long and weighs around 2 tons, according to district sea and fishery bureau staff.

The animal reportedly has a long thin head and a snout nearly one meter long.

Partly rotten, with its spine exposed, it has been impossible to identify, but has been described as having some hair, and orange stripes across a three to four-meter wide belly. The skull, which alone weighs over 100 kg, and coccyx of the creature have fallen from its body.

Mei said four young people took away a 100 kg piece of the corpse to study and many experts have come to inspect it, but all in vain.

From the degree of putrefaction, the animal may have been dead for a week and beached by Typhoon Haitang several days ago, said Hu from Beilun’s sea and fishery bureau.

He said its overall structure means it’s unlikely to be a fish, but the shape of its head is like a crocodile’s.

(Full story: China.org)

As "neato gee whiz" as it would be to have dragon type creatures still around I'm kind of glad that the serpents of so many legends are dead or supposedly only lived in the vivid imaginations of ancient peoples of all nations. I suppose I could put a little dragon head on the prow of my windsurfing to scare away the sea serpents like the vikings and other sailors did. But somehow I doubt that doing that actually worked.

Generally, the establishment argues that the recurrent event of big unidentifiable carcasses washing up on shore are generally basking sharks, adolescent whales or even sea lions. E.g. "...every ten years or so a carcass is claimed to be a 'dinosaur' but always turns out to be a basking shark or adolescent whale."

Of course, a lot of those do wash up, it's all debatable.

The tenth planet...

The tenth planet has been found...so only two [Edit: Oops, I guess it would be one more as they included the moon as a celestial body or planet.] more have to be found to match ancient texts, the zodiac, and twelve.

Odd, how the ancient texts might be right, as according to half-wits all ancient texts were written by those closer to Darwinists' supposed Ape-man.

Perhaps....


What is the evolution of Ape-man's writing, does civilization seem to burst on the scene or is there more of an evolutionary sequence in the use of symbols? How is it that the farther back one goes in history the more the ancients seemed to know? Despite the modern myths they knew that the earth wasn't flat, the sun is in the center, they wrote of the planets, their orbits, their number, that Neptune has water on it and so on. How could that be known?

Some things to think about:

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. [Perhaps many mythologies were written of such "gods," in all nations.]

Genesis 6:4

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. [...]

Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.

(Matthew 24)

Perspective, you see...just as you say the sun "rose" today or that you saw a shooting star it can appear that stars fall from the sky, perhaps because of some meteor showers preceding something else.

On another note, it seems that Congress outlawed the making of chimeras recently, an early attempt to stop a defilement typical to those with the urge to merge. This might get interesting.

Life in a matrix?

It seems that there is more to sight than meets the eye and more to the I than sight. What is real and what is an illusion?

Yes, I know I sound like a mystic beginning to surround whatever it is I'm going to say with the mists of mysticism, as even a fool will sometimes be thought wise if he makes a few riddles out of answers. But I'm not about to say anything other than that there are some mists in day to day "real life" that are mysterious indeed. After all, everything we see is veiled in our own misty perceptions, with our brains constantly blurring, filling in blind spots, painting and processing the electrical signals we send into it for us to see.

Try looking at this example to see what you think of how your brain works.

He's a pinball wizard

Blind Teen Amazes With Video-Game Skills:

...he easily dispatched foes who took him on recently at a Lincoln gaming center, the affable and smiling Mellen remained humble.

"I can't say that I'm a superpro," he said, working the controller like an extension of his body. "I can be beat."

Those bold enough to challenge him weren't so lucky. One by one, while playing "Soul Caliber 2," their video characters were decapitated, eviscerated and gutted without mercy by Mellen's on-screen alter ego.

"I'm getting bored," Mellen said in jest as he won game after game.

(Continue at Yahoo News)



The Who, Pinball Wizard

He stands like a statue
Becomes part of the machine
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
He plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball

Related posts:
(Man without legs runs faster than you or I run with legs, creates questions.)
(Not much to write today... )

[Edit: I saw this before Worldmagblog. Ha!]

The Pajamahadeen

In the election year of 2004, the new media turned up the heat. It put CBS right at the center of an even more significant controversy: Rathergate, the liberal media’s götterdämmerung. On September 8, CBS News anchor Dan Rather famously took to the air on 60 Minutes II trumpeting “newly obtained” Texas Air National Guard documents from the early 1970s, which purported to show that President George W. Bush had neglected his guard duties three decades ago. In a close election, the revelations hurt W.’s reelection hopes—or would have, had they been true.

Rather’s “scoop” began to unravel almost instantly, thanks to intrepid bloggers. CBS posted the documents on its website the night of the 60 Minutes II broadcast. “Buckhead,” a conservative lawyer writing in to the conservative FreeRepublic.com site, called the memos forgeries a few hours later, arguing that no machine from the early 1970s could have produced such fonts and spacing. From there, political blogs Power Line (named Time’s first annual blog of the year) and Little Green Footballs took over. On the morning of September 9, Power Line’s Scott Johnson posted a few paragraphs headed “The 61st Minute,” agreeing with Buckhead that the story seemed fishy, and trudged off to his day job as a lawyer. When he got to the office, dozens of reader e-mails were waiting for him, offering evidence as to why the guard documents had to be fake. By late morning, Power Line “had an arsenal of arguments attacking the memos—typographical, logical, procedural, historical,” as Time put it.

Later that afternoon, Little Green Footballs host Charles Johnson, a webpage designer by trade, used Microsoft Word default settings to create a seemingly exact replica of one of the memos. At this point, any one following the blogosphere sleuthing knew that CBS’s story was bogus. These sites had readerships of thousands. But when Drudge linked to Power Line—”60 Minutes Documents on Bush Might Be Fake” blared the headline—millions learned of the rising scandal.

CBS dug in, calling the bloggers “partisan political” operatives. Former CBS News exec and now CNN news head Jonathan Klein, appearing on FOX News, sniffed that the typical blogger was “a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing what he thinks,” nothing like CBS’s professional news operation, with its “multiple layers of checks and balances.” (Klein’s comment inspired Jim Geraghty of NRO’s campaign blog the KerrySpot to dub the agents of the blogos phere the “pajamahadeen.”) NBC anchor Tom Brokaw accused bloggers of waging a kind of "political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News."

But CBS couldn’t suppress the truth—not in 2004. A few years ago, noted InstaPundit’s law prof host Glenn Reynolds, “CBS would have flashed the documents on TV for a few seconds and no one would have seen them again. Even the people with doubts would have assumed that CBS had done its legwork.” Now the blogosphere—NRO, HughHewitt.com, BeldarBlog, RealClearPolitics, RatherBiased.com, and other sites that had picked up the story—kept fact-checking, reporting the analyses of experts on typography, National Guard practices, and other aspects of the controversy. Talk radio started to cover Rathergate “like a blanket,” says veteran radio host Mike Siegel. FOX News did too.

At last, the pressure grew so great that mainstream outlets ABC News and the Washington Post began reporting the story. The New York Times held out a bit longer—it so wanted to believe that the story would hurt Bush that it actually ran a headline proclaiming the memos “Fake but Accurate.” But even the Times, which had been embarrassed the year before by the blogosphere’s role in uncovering reporter Jayson Blair’s in-print fabrications, started to snoop around.

What emerged under this new-media and old-media spotlight wasn’t pretty. CBS, it turned out, had received the memos from notorious Texan Bush-hater Bill Burkett. The network’s own document experts refused to authenticate the memos, and Rather’s crew had ignored rel evant sources—and anything else that countered the story’s anti-Bush thrust. Worse still, CBS producer Mary Mapes had urged a campaign aide to Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry to contact Burkett about the story—the old media conspiring with the Democratic Party to bring down a Republican president. It was a paradigmatic case of liberal media bias—mendacity, even.

(South Park Conservatives
By Brian C. Anderson :xi-xii)

Jihad?

If it is the plight of the Palestinians that drives them, why, everytime it looks as if Israel and Palestine are making progress, does thesame ideology perpetrate an outrage that turns hope back into despair? If it is Afghanistan that motivates them, why blow up innocent Afghans on their way to their first-ever election? If it is Iraq that motivates them, why is the same ideology killing Iraqis by terror in defiance of an elected Iraqi government?

--British Prime Minister Tony Blair

In view of these...repeated acts of terror, the incitements against all things Western, Jewish and Christian in who knows how many mosques in Britain and the U.S., the teaching of seditious ideas in radical Islamic schools funded by our 'friends' the Saudis, and the refusal of most Muslim communities to assimilate and learn the language, history and practices of their host countries, why do Britain and the United States continue to allow such things to exist within their borders? Unless we are prepared to accept continued terrorist attacks as 'normal' because of some sick understanding of tolerance and pluralism, we had better do whatever is necessary to root out these radicals and to forbid any more from entering our countries.

--Cal Thomas

The fact that native-born Muslim Europeans are committing terror acts within their own countries shows that this Islamist malignancy long predates Iraq, long predates Afghanistan and long predates 9/11. What Europe had incubated is an enemy within, a threat that for decades Europe simply refused to face. Early news reports of the London bombings mentioned that police found no suspects among known Islamist cells in Britain. Come again? Why in God's name is a country letting known Islamist cells thrive, instead of just rolling them up? ... Decadence is defined not by a civilization's art or music but ultimately by its willingness to simply defend itself.

--Charles Krauthammer

Progressives voice views blinded by hatred:

[Republicans have] done a p***-poor job of defending us. They want to kill us. They want to kill me and my children if they can, but if they just kill me and not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that while they didn't protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won't have to pay any money on the money they inherit. That is bulls*** national defense, and we should say that.(Emphasis added)

--Paul Begala addressing young Democrats at the Campus Progress National Student Conference (The Federalist)

If he said that Muslims "want to kill us" I wonder what would happen on campus? The question of how the Democratic party came to be a National Party No More is bound up in the answer.