Buried Planet

More evidence that the election of Barack Obama has not led us into a golden age of post-racism:

Walmart: Black Barbie Sold Cheaper Than White Barbie

So this blatant racism might possibly be occuring at other stores?

The article continues:

The Democrats are pushing, threatening that they will go the route of reconciliation, which is a Senate procedure on budget items that requires only 51 votes - since the prior-passed budget would have already passed the 60 vote hurdle.

In case you had not yet heard, Greece is slipping deeper into insolvency, and the socialist / unionists of the country are going on strike. It's all just so, so sad. The cradle of Western Civilization, laid low by unionized workers.

So scientists need a new prefix for numbers in the 10^27 range.  They've got "mega", "terra", etc... now we're looking at "hella" as a potential addition to the official SI list.

More here:

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7352204/Hella-number-scientists-call-for-new-word-for-1000000000000000000000000000.html

All I know is they need to decide quickly... economists and Obama will need it to describe the deficit shortly.

Thanks to a FOIA release thesmokinggun.com has the report on who the FBI believed was behind the 2001 anthrax bombings. The suspect: one Dr. Ivins, who it turns out was a cross-dresser, was infatuated with sororities (ok, what red-blooded man isn't, but read the report) and was terrified of Dick Cheney.

TSG reports that Ivins claimed in a 2008 e-mail:

"Dick Cheney scares me. The Patriot Act is so unconstitutional it's not even funny. I'm voting for Obama!!"

This installment of the Mystery of the Week series [they are infrequent enough, perhaps "of the week" is a bad label...] looks into two brothers, Clark and Blair Woodcock, who lived in and around Bedford, Blair and Huntingdon counties in the mid-nineteenth century, and who both died as a result of action in the American Civil War. Blair died in May 1864, near the Po River in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Clark died at Saylor's Creek, Virginia in April 1865.

In Director Martin Scorcese's latest film, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is sent with his brand new partner to a remote island for the criminally insane. A murderess has disappeared from her cell and is presumed either dead, or hiding somewhere on the island. Is the asylum's staff behind her disappearance? Is there a plot afoot to experiment upon the inmates?

A few weeks back President Obama (aka The Worst President in American History) proposed that Democrats and Republicans sit down and discuss how best to solve America's healthcare 'crisis'.

From the linked NYT article:

Televised? Will it be televised in the same way the ObamaCare bill was televised, as Obama promised on at least eight ocassions during his 2008 campaign? That kind of televised event? For those who haven't been paying attention, Obama broke that promise. The bills put together by Congressional Democrats were drafted behind closed doors, with no cameras, no CNN coverage, and -- natch, no Republicans.

Here's a disturbing video taken in a Seattle bus terminal. In the video two teenage girls fight while two 'security' guards stand nearby, completely unperturbed. There's something really, really wrong with these guards.

Despite the Jets being knocked out of the SuperBowl this year, I did watch the game. Having absolutely nothing at stake in the game, my family split along predictable lines. My mother sided with the Colts because one of the commentators is the father of the Colt's quarterback.

As an agent of chaos, I tend to side with the underdog -- the Saints. Who, incidentally, won the game. (Chaos 1, World 0)

The game was great, but some commercials jumped out at me. The two best appear after the jump.