WTF Is It Now?!?

Crybaby Neonazi Repukes Whine That They Don't Have Enough Power:

In the first sign of a major breach between Hopalong Noodlehead and leading repugs in Congress, many lawmakers complain that the White House is not sufficiently energetic in helping them in the November elections. But Chokin' Chimpy's advisers contend, bitterly, that members of Congress have not appreciated his help and should be far more aggressive in defending the president (snort!).

Several advisers to the Smirking Sockpuppet expressed distress that repukes in Congress were not doing enough to defend the "president"'s efforts to expand his authority. Good gravy. That would be absolutely hysterical if it wasn't so damn scary...

from the NY Times





Canadians may have found lost city!

Getting to the bottom of the mystery of what could be a lost underwater city near Cuba is far more exciting for a Canadian-led expedition than bringing up emeralds from a galleon on the ocean floor.

This week, their discovery of what appears to be a sunken island with massive temple-like structures will receive an important boost from an expert.

Manuel Iturralde, one of Cuba's top geologists, plans to tell an international conference of geophysicists in Havana on Friday that there is no geological explanation for the megalithic stone formations found in about 700 metres of water some four kilometres off the western tip of Cuba.
Iturralde's conclusion represents a vote in favour of the Canadian-led deep-ocean exploration team that stumbled upon what looked like architecturally arranged stone formations while using sonar scans to comb the ocean floor for sunken galleons in the summer of 2000.

The megalithic formations -- called Mega for short -- occupy an area of about 20 square kilometres. Zelitsky suggests they might be the remains from a series of rooms connected by large corridors. She wonders whether they were part of a temple-like building used for astronomical purposes about 8,000 years ago.

Read the whole article at C News

Researchers Find the Bust of Nefertari - OK, just the head:

Archaeologists in Egypt's Nile Delta have unearthed a colossal bust which could belong to Queen Nefertari, the wife of legendary Pharaoh Ramses II, Egyptian antiquities officials said on Thursday. A German-Egyptian mission discovered the 12-foot high, 24,000-pound granite bust in the town of Zagazig, some 36 miles northeast of Cairo.

Archaeologists said the bust belonged to one of Ramses' daughters or wives, probably Nefertari. They said the find was especially interesting because artifacts of the queen are very rare in the Delta region.

Egyptologists believe the bust is part of a statue -- as yet undiscovered -- which could be around 66 feet high and would be the largest statue of the 19th dynasty ever found in the Delta.

More at ABC News.com









*Opening pic today: "Dare to be Different", yesterday: "Ponta de Piedate, Portugal", both from SuperStock.