Video: National Geographic’s “In the Womb” Snippet

Footage and excerpts from National Geographic’s documentary, In the Womb, via Jill Stanek:

How can liberals possibly be party to murdering these babies, but show outrage when a cop killer in Georgia is put to death?

Video: The McGurk Effect/Amazing Illusion

Via Carpe Diem, this is pretty cool:

So does this explain Michelle Obama apparently saying "all that for a freaking flag?"

Raw Video: Giant Crocodile Caught in Philippines

Most impressive part? They caught it alive:

Should be one heck of an attraction.

Video: Huge Tarantula Freaks Out Weatherman

They look hairy and nasty, but tarantulas are pretty vanilla as far as spiders go. Want to see the nasty ones? Go to Australia, where they have something like 9 of the top 10 deadliest, including the bird eating spider that I got to see in action in '99. It was cool. And there is the Sydney Common spider that is also deadly and about the size of a paper plate. Glad I didn't see that one. But for those with a phobia of spiders, it doesn't really matter:

UPDATE: Speaking of Australia: Raw Video: Tiny Croc Makes Splash in Aussie Pool

 

Pic of the Day: Hurricane Irene approaches NC shore

If this isn't Cape Hatteras (I can't make out the lighthouse but it may there there nonetheless), it's certainly somewhere near there. My family and I were there just 2 short weeks ago. Via Doug Ross: 15 Photos of #HurricaneIrene Spotted on Twitter. Here's the one that caught my attention:

Video: Reporter Gives Update On Hurricane Irene Covered In Toxic Sea Foam

Via My Fox New York via drudge, it seems that Sôsuke fell out of love with Ponyo, and she ended up covering the heck out of the coast and this reporter:

Reporter Gives Update Covered In Sea Foam: MyFoxNY.com

So what exactly is that foam? From the accompanying article:

That "organic material" was most likely the effects of raw sewage pouring into the water during the storm.

"It doesn't taste great," he said.

He said it had a sandy consistency and added, "I can tell you first-hand, it doesn't smell great."

The foam is often a toxic mix of pollution and cyanobacteria.

Poor Ponyo...

Pic of the Day: The 2011 Earthquake + Hurricane

The earthquake in DC was almost as overblown as Hurricane Irene is. This poster could apply to Irene as much as it does to the Hurricane:

Via Carpe Diem

Video: Man Flashes Weather Channel Cameras During Hurricane Irene Coverage

Via Mediaite, it looks like many coastal residents aren't taking the evacuation orders seriously. Quite the opposite in fact:

Before the above, the only time 'penis' and 'weather' came together were graphically during forecasts:

Hurricane Irene,by the way, looks to be a dud. Headlines over at drudge:

• Scientist mocks: Phony 'Hurricane' Coming On Shore With 33 MPH Winds...


• Forecaster: 'Hype over Hurricane Irene overblown'...

UPDATE: Ron Paul: No Fed Response Needed for Hurricane Relief

Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) criticized FEMA and spoke longingly of the time 110 years ago when Texas recovered from a hurricane without federal assistance.

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Goes right back to a much earlier post of mine: Lessons from history: “Where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity?”

UPDATE #2: Via Instapundit:

BUSH ERA: FEMA IS HORRIBLE AND INCOMPETENT.
OBAMA ERA: How Dare Ron Paul Criticize FEMA?

World's oldest person marks 115th birthday

From Yahoo! News:

About 15 to 20 friends and relatives have gathered in Georgia to celebrate the birthday of Besse Cooper, who is listed as the world's oldest person.

Cooper turned 115 Friday.

Her daughter-in-law Edith Cooper said the group gathered at a Monroe nursing home, where Besse Cooper enjoyed two small slivers of her birthday cake and nodded with approval as musician Mike Cronic sang "Tennessee Waltz."

Cooper was born in Tennessee and moved to Georgia during World War I to find work as a teacher. She has 12 grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, Luther, died in 1963.

My reason for posting the above is that it is so in line with what the Bible states that God imposed regarding how long we have to live:

³ Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

And thousands of years later, with all our technology, there still seems to be an upper limit on lifespan almost exactly at that number. I find that pretty darned amazing.

Irony: MSNBC Brings On Incompetent Katrina Mayor Ray Nagin to Discuss Hurricane Preparedness

Ray Nagin was the incompetent Mayor of New Orleans who failed to have any plan whatsoever to evacuate the residents of the city including the famous parking lot full of school buses that sat idle while the waters came in. So now you know why Nagin is so qualified to be on MSNBC talking about hurricane preparedness:

Via NewsBusters. And from The Daily Caller:

No, this wasn’t meant to be a joke. Although many believe the 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina was a colossal failure at every level of government, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin appeared on MSNBC on Friday to offer preparedness advice for those in Hurricane Irene’s path.

...Nagin didn’t deny that he made some errors with Katrina in 2005. But he put much of the blame on New Orleanians themselves:

“Well, I would tell you this, Martin: It was a historic, catastrophic event … “[N]ow that I have had a chance to really go back and take a look, there are a number of things that I think that I could have done better. But in an evacuation situation where a catastrophic storm is approaching, the leader has one responsibility, but also the citizen has a responsibility to heed the warnings and act appropriately.”

So I suppose the citizens are to blame for leaving all those buses in the parking lot?

Idiocracy: NC Governor Declares Every Concealed Carry Permit in eastern NC Invalid Due to Hurricane Irene

I feel dumber for having had to even read this bit of utter and complete idiocy:

Thanks to a brain-dead state law foisted upon us by a Democratic state legislature (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7), every time the governor—in this instance, Democrat Beverly Perdue—declares a state of emergency, it is illegal from that moment onward to carry a concealed weapon until the state of emergency has been declared over.

14-288.7. Transporting dangerous weapon or substance during emergency; possessing off premises; exceptions. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person to transport or possess off his own premises any dangerous weapon or substance in any area:
(1) In which a declared state of emergency exists; or
(2) Within the immediate vicinity of which a riot is occurring.
(b) This section does not apply to persons exempted from the provisions of G.S. 14-269 with respect to any activities lawfully engaged in while carrying out their duties.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Um - isn't a time of emergency precisely the time you would likely need to be able to defend yourself the most? More:

We've dealt with this bit of Democrat-generated stupidity before.

Governor Purdue made this declaration while the state was at work, meaning everyone who has a carry permit and lives east of Interstate 95 who was away from home instantly became a criminal by proclamation.

If we look at Google Maps, that means that a carry permit holder in Wilson dining at the Cracker Barrel is perfectly legal, but the permit holder a block to the east filling up on gas at the Kangaroo Express is now a criminal.

Since when do state bureaucrats or politicians get to suspend fundamental constitutional rights for any reason? Irene by the way is weakening:

HT: Instapundit

UPDATE: An update from Confederate Yankees: "I'd forgotten we were stuck with this crap last year as well."

Good Grief: Liberals Blame Fracking For Earthquake

To be fair, it's just as plausible as global warming. Which is to say, it's not.

And via memeorandum: Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake? Let's see, the Earthquake hit a big chunk of the East Coast and was even felt as far away as here in Michigan. That would have been a frack of Battlestar Galactica magnitude!

UPDATE: Give fracking its credit - it gives hearing to the deaf: Man Regains Hearing After Earthquake

Man Regains Hearing After Earthquake: MyFoxDC.com

Cape Hatteras, NC, Evacuates Ahead Of Hurricane Irene

'Ridiculous' Winds From Hurricane Irene Bear Down on East Coast

Via The Detroit News: N.C. island begins evacuations as Category 3 Hurricane Irene approaches

Evacuations began on a tiny barrier island off North Carolina as Hurricane Irene strengthened to a major Category 3 storm over the Bahamas on Wednesday with the East Coast in its sights.

Irene's maximum sustained winds increased to near 115 mph with additional strengthening forecast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

The evacuation in North Carolina was a test of whether people in the crosshairs of the first major hurricane along the East Coast in years would heed orders to get out of the way.

The first ferry to leave Ocracoke Island arrived just before 5:30 a.m. in nearby Hatteras with around a dozen cars on board.

It won't be easy to get thousands of people off Ocracoke Island, which is accessible only by boat. The 16-mile-long barrier island is home to about 800 year-round residents and a tourist population that swells into the thousands when vacationers rent rooms and cottages. Tourists were told to evacuate Wednesday. Island residents were told to get out on Thursday.

So why is the evacuation of Cape Hatteras something I would blog about? I was there. On vacation. No more than 2 weeks ago!

UPDATE: Irene Prompts Hurricane Watch on N.C. Coast

 

Video: DC 5.9 Magnitude Quake Caught on Tape

Via BreitbartTV, a rare occurrence:

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the east coast of the United States. The quake was felt in Washington, where the Pentagon and US Capitol Building were evacuated, as well as in New York. There were no immediate reports of any major damage or injuries.

Related video: Heroic Earthquake Survivors

Young victims of the tragic East Coast earthquake -- who bear a remarkable resemblance to my three youngest children -- bear the emotional scars of their traumatic experience. Recorded Aug. 23, 2011, at Hagerstown, Maryland

Plus this: Traveler talks about earthquake in Baltimore

Earthquake Reaction: 'God Is Coming,' Says Resident of Alexandria, Va.

Earthquake hits east coast

W. Mich feels earthquake tremors

Raw Video: Quake Hits During Commercial

Best Reaction to East Coast Earthquake

Video of Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: Earth is not an ideal environment for the existence of life

Could have fooled me, pal! Why would he say such a thing? Because "99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct," he says. And as such "that is not the signature of a planet that is in love with life." Of course, the great flood had a thing or two to do with that 99% figure. Anyway:

So maybe those space aliens won't have to destroy us now for making the Earth inhospitable for life? Via Instapundit:

MARK WHITTINGTON: Alien First Contact Paper Tainted By Media Misreporting. “The aliens commit genocide because we burn too much carbon comes right out of the odious remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still.’ It is, however, unfortunate that this scenario, which is only one among many, is being played up. It plays into the meme, which has a certain grain of truth, that global warming hysterics are crazy. Now they are threatening us with alien invasion if we don’t change out evil, carbon burning ways.”