Monday evening: And so the week begins . . .

1. Welcome to crazy_willo and edelweiss68. Talk about a couple of folks who are just gonna fit in right here!

2. The gorgeous weather continues, and today was extra-shiny because I left for work thinking I needed to stay through for a 6 p.m. event, and when I got to work, I found out it was next week. Yay! Came home, spent time with alethea_eastrid, then napped.

3. I want to make sure everyone has seen the An Tir's link for Skippy's List. At points, it reads like Liam's List.

 and wonder with me whether Skippy's name is Liam.

334. Squire Skippy is not allowed to sing The Masturbation Song in front of the royalty of two kingdoms and a principality.

335. Even if His Majesty threatened him with being a pell unless he sang.

336. Even if it's the only song he knows.

337. Even if the Kings join in.

338. Especially if the Kings join in.

339. Squire Skippy shall not add a "beer tax" to the gate fee for all arriving after dark. Or before dark.

4. OK, so *this* is interesting:

Researchers extracted the dateline from about 72,000 wire-service news stories from 1994 to 1998 and modified a standard map of the Lower 48 US states to show the size of the states in proportion to the frequency of their appearance in those datelines (below). Some notable results:

From Strange Maps at WordPress.



5. The following, which came via classics_cat, may be the best thing I have ever read on the Internet:
(And I was worried about the people who thought Barack Obama was Muslim)

Nuclear Fueled Explosion Reported In US Midwest

Reports from 3rd Army Headquarters of the Russian Space Command, located in Solnechnogorsk (Moscow oblast), are reporting today that a ‘nuclear fueled’ explosion has occurred in the United States region of Illinois after the downing of an American B-52 Bomber by, presumed, other elements of the US Air Force operating in that region.

So powerful was the explosion reported from this downed American Nuclear Bomber that Western propaganda media sources are reporting the effects of a 5.2 to 5.4 magnitude earthquake in that region, but to which the most accurate description of a nuclear type blast was reported by the Bloomberg News Service and who stated in their article: "You could hear a roaring sound and the whole motel shook, waking up the guests,'' Vibha Ambelal, manager of the Super 8 Motel in Mount Carmel, Illinois, near the epicenter, said in a telephone interview."

These reports further state that this was the second attempt by a US B-52 Nuclear Bomber to penetrate the North American Command Air Defenses surrounding the dissident United States Scott Air Force Base, located in Illinois, from which these aircraft seeking to bomb Iranian atomic facilities are based.

On Tuesday, April 15^th, American citizens to the Indiana region immediately east of Illinois reported numerous ‘booms’ and ‘flashes’ in their night skies which some attributed to fireball meteorites crashing into the atmosphere, but which the United States Air Force reported was caused by F-16 jet fighters ‘sonic booms’ and their use of ‘military flares’.

These reports, however, state that this April 15^th incident turned back the first abortive attempt by dissident American Forces to secret their plundered nuclear weapons out of that country for their intended use against Iran.

The ‘trigger’ to these latest desperate attempts to embroil the World in Total War arose from the US Defense Secretaries ordering of a full accounting of all American Nuclear Weapons on March 28^th after the discovery of that an unspecified number of them were ‘missing’.


More from the well-known Sorcha Faal here.