Homes, Businesses, Labs--Not Safe:
"X Black" on the loose!

Nature News--In a brilliant bit of journalistic reporting I recently learned of a research lab in California that became the first to fall victim to the psychopathic escapades of "X Black", vandal and fiend. Protein crystals from the lab worth over $0.5 million were destroyed when, masquerading as one Silvya Oommachen, "X black" broke into the lab and removed 5,000 of said crystals from the freezer. The ruined samples were found with handwritten post-it notes signed by the elusive criminal explaining that her overloaded work schedule and it's ensuing "bad Karma" had been the cause of the attack.
Authorities are investigating the crime, but other than an extra two to three months of hard work to re-grow the crystals, nothing can be done to restore the samples to the lab. Very unfortunate.
So, I would warn you all, beware! You never know when the "X-black" will strike, or where!





For more information please go to www.nature.com.

Man on the Moon!
40 Years!

Whenever I think that men have walked on the moon--I am amazed! The Moon Landing is a great example of our potential as humankind and even as individuals. It shows that men are capable of accomplishing almost anything they put their minds too. I just finished reading Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and would recommend it!

Elderly Woman: Local gang vandalizes the Internet with newspaper full of rubbish

Neighborhood vigilantes and one particularly nosey elderly woman, who prefers to remain anonymous, have reported numerous recent sitings of preposterously false news articles, "disgracing the face of the last thing we can hold pure and sacred in this country, the Internet." The news articles are reportedly devised by a group of local hoodlums, caught up in a painfully sad display of delusions of grandeur combined with the inability to let go of their past.

Said Nosey, as the old bag prefers to be called, "I gathered the other neighborhood vigilantes for a meeting... you know, Batman was there... Green Lantern... The Tick came late, but he made it. Anyway, they were all there and we had tea and just the most lovely krumpets and..." She then rambled on for about half and hour before coming up with this little publishable jem, "Death to whitey!" It can be assumed with little doubt she was refering to the same local riffraff responsible for the digital grafitti.

Should these scoudrels choose to strike again, our team of in-house, fact-finding monkeys indicate that it is likely to occur at flyingbullnews.blogspot.com. Lock your doors and bar the windows. We are in for a storm.

The Presidential Oath Flubbed:

How does that go again Mr. Chief Justice Roberts?

As he promised, our newly elected President has come to the White House ready to make some changes, even to the constitutionally established Presidential Oath. Wait, what was that--"faithfully execute the office of President of the United States" or "execute the office of President of the United States faithfully"? Whoops!
I am sure that Obama had been memorizing and re-memorizing the oath and then when incorrectly administered to him by Chief Justice Roberts he of course paused recognizing the error. I mean what would you do? Smartly, after only a brief moment he repeated what was said to him. That was some very quick thinking and a good sign for things to come. We may have someone in the White House who can think on their feet.

Image from the BBC

This is the same bible used by Abraham Lincoln when he was sworn in as President of the United States--very cool!

"Who are those guys?"

--Robert Leroy Parker (in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)

Can anything for certain be said at all about the death of Robert Parker, aka Butch Cassidy? Could he really have been gunned down in some secluded, miniscule Bolivian town? Perhaps. Or, perhaps not. And so what can we say? Maybe it was all an elaborate scheme by Cassidy to fake his death and escape the law. After all, who can get a break when you're being hunted? The constant pressing and monotonousness of being pursued would lead anyone to ask, "Who are those guys?". And so for one lousy second of peace and quiet wouldn't you do the same? I would.