Hedwig Pöllöläinen
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March 26, 2007
Amazing! They finally noticed that Bush is an arrogant bully!
In the April edition of Esquire magazine, GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska described Bush as someone who doesn't believe he's accountable to anyone. "He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before…
March 26, 2007
Female Eris militaris.
Image: Bev Wigney.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there…
March 26, 2007
A male Superb Bird of Paradise, Lophorina superba (seen from front)
performing a courtship display for a female (brown) in Papua New Guinea,
from "Jungles," in the "Planet Earth" series.
Image: Fred Olivier/Discovery Channel and BBC.
Birds in Science
Red-breasted nuthatches, Sitta canadensis,…
March 25, 2007
John McKay, one of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that White House officials had questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a key meeting in Washington last September, three months before his dismissal.
John…
March 25, 2007
Spring Azure butterfly, Celastrina ladon.
The photographer writes; I've attached a picture of a spring azure I took several years ago. I'm particularly taken with the patterning on its antenna stalks. :) It's sitting on a red osier dogwood leaf.
Photographer: RBH (of Pandasthumb and Infidels…
March 25, 2007
This quote comes to me from a pal who saw it on TV (there are days when I wish I had a TV, and today is one of those days, because this quote is priceless) ...
Diane Sawyer: "Why not let Karl Rove go up there and show he has nothing to hide? Testify, under oath, and with a transcript? Let everyone…
March 25, 2007
More senators are openly expressing their concern regarding Alberto Gonzales' lack of integrity and his fitness to serve as this nation's Attorney General. The clock is ticking until the fine day when we finally shed this scumbag Attorney General ...
"We have to have an attorney general who is…
March 24, 2007
White-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, white morph.
The photographer writes; I like little brown birds. Seemingly frail, they shrug off drought and blizzard and remain resolute to greet the spring with their songs. While others flash extravagant colors and plumes, the LBBs simply…
March 24, 2007
The purple milkweed butterfly winters on the south end of Taiwan and flies over 600 meters of open roadways to reach its breeding ground in the north. Unfortunately, many of the 11,500 butterflies that attempt the journey each hour do not reach their breeding grounds because turbulence generated by…
March 24, 2007
Wow, things are just getting more unbelievable all the time. Now, I find out that the Department of Justice threatened the eight sacked US Attorneys with "retaliation";
A Justice Department official threatened to take the "gloves off" and "retaliate" against the eight United States attorneys who…
March 24, 2007
Now Alberto Gonzales, AKA "Gonzo", is blaming the attorneys themselves in an effort to extricate himself from a mess of his own making;
"So far as I knew, my chief of staff was involved in the process of determining who were the weak performers," said Mr. Gonzales. "Where were the districts around…
March 23, 2007
This just out: Alberto Gonzales has finally been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I wonder how long it will take before he does the honorable thing and resigns?
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting [italics mine], according…
March 23, 2007
Physicians from around the world urged Elsevier Group PLC., the publisher of The Lancet medical journal and other scientific and medical journals, to cut its links to weapons sales, calling on the editors to find another publisher if Reed Elsevier refused to stop hosting arms fairs.
"The Lancet…
March 23, 2007
Chipping sparrow, Spizella passerina
The photographer writes; I like little brown birds. Seemingly frail, they shrug off drought and blizzard and remain resolute to greet the spring with their songs. While others flash extravagant colors and plumes, the LBBs simply endure. Here is the picture…
March 23, 2007
Bush's head may be hard, but his brains are complete mush.
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tags: Bush, politics, humor
March 23, 2007
A fossil hunter recently discovered the biggest whale fossil ever found in Italy. It was found in the vineyards of Castello Banfi, one of the country's finest vineyards located in the northern grape-growing area of Tuscany. The five million-year-old fossil skeleton is 10 meters (33 feet) in length…
March 23, 2007
Tall, handsome and charming, Richard Meinertzhagen is sometimes known as the English spy who didn't kill Hitler when he met him while carrying a loaded gun in his pocket. Three biographies have been written about Meinertzhagen, who was reputed to be a British war hero, spy, and famous ornithologist…
March 23, 2007
I dunno about you, but this streaming video is just a wee bit scary to me. By the way, can anyone understand what the older woman was saying and what language it is?
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tags: cult, religion, George W Bush
March 22, 2007
A delivery truck loaded down with Cadbury chocolate eggs worth an estimated £70,000 ($137,326) was stolen in Staffordshire, UK. The thieves tricked the driver, who had stopped near Lichfield en route from the Birmingham factory to Yorkshire, by telling him his van was losing its load. When the…
March 22, 2007
The 45th edition of I and the Bird is now available. This blog carnival is devoted to wild birds and birding and also includes lots of great photographs!
March 22, 2007
tags: Long-whiskered Owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi, birds, birding, ornithology
Long-whiskered Owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi.
The strange and extremely rare Long-whiskered Owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi, has been seen in the wild for the first time on a private conservation area in Northern Peru by researchers…
March 22, 2007
Robins and Berries.
The artist writes; I just finished a painting for my own blog that I thought you might have interest in using for your own. I'm a full time artist and social activist working on using a blog as my platform for display.
Artist: Ashley Cecil
As long as you send images to me (…
March 22, 2007
As you all know, I love the Harry Potter books, so it should not surprise you to learn that I was most pleased to find out that the final Harry Potter book will be printed on recycled paper products. Recently, Scholastic Inc. said that it had agreed with the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation…
March 22, 2007
A new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in a burrow in Montana
and has been given the scientific name Oryctodromeus cubicularis,
meaning "digging runner of the lair". The adult length is about 2 meters.
The juvenile is in grey.
Fossils from a family of the first known burrowing…
March 22, 2007
Generally, I don't think much of Donald Trump but in this case, I agree with him wholeheartedly (streaming video below the fold).
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tags: streaming video, Donald Trump, Iraq War
March 22, 2007
There are approximately 700 million people in the world who experience water scarcity. This number will probably increase to more than 3 billion by 2025. Because the world's lakes and rivers are shared between the world's nations, an integrated cross-border management of this vital resource is…
March 21, 2007
These past few days, I've been quite ill, such that I was unable to venture out today to the library where I use the free wifi (wifi is inconsistent in my apartment).
Anyway, this whole episode of illness began two days ago when a dark cloud of despair settled down over me. I felt physically okay…
March 21, 2007
California mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata. June 2006, Southeast Skamania County, WA. This snake is from a small, disjunct population living on the Washington side of the Columbia River gorge near the river. The nearest conspecifics live in Southwest Oregon. This individual was caught,…
March 20, 2007
Red-breasted nuthatches appear to have learned the language of black-capped chickadees. Nuthatches interpret the type of chickadee alarm and can identify what sort of predator poses a threat.
Chickadee calls carry a great deal of meaning to other members of the species but to the human ear,…