"My God. They're made out of Meat..."

Meatloaf Wedding Cake
Neighbor annoyed by exorcisms.
Action Comics No.1 goes for 1.5 mil.
The Hieroglyphs of Iron Age Scotland
Giant Sea Bugs: Looks like Gigantic and Delicious Primeval Lobster Tail...
Gallery of Rube Goldberg Machines.

Massive Sun Storms due...
Electromagnetic Moral Compass Manipulation.

Downloading, Transhumanism, and the Future of the Meatsack

Japanese Rape-Torture Video Games: Not new at all, but now widely available.

dangerously nostalgic aural distortions

Easy To Be hard, Jennifer Warnes
The Hard Way Every Time, Jim Croce
My Old Ways, Dr Dog
Melody Day, Caribou
Wucan, Black Mountain
No One Does It Like You, the Department of Eagles
Fish Fight, King Khan and BBQ Show
I Can't Sleep At Night, The Deadly Snakes
Straight Shooter, Reigning Sound
Driving Nails in my Coffin, Ernest Tubb
Tear It Down, a young Old Crow and the Medicine Show
Too Much Time, John Vanderslice

true disbelievers

"A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them — or they'll march...
...It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition...
...Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful...
...The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely..."

The Philosophy of Charles Fort

Earlier this month it rained fish, over a period of weeks, in several parts of Australia. The fish fell from the sky in scattered areas as far from water as three hundred and seventy miles. There are many theories on this. Only so much swamp gas and weather balloons can really cover, though, and this fish raining phenomenon is hardly isolated or even all that rare, though it it remains thoroughly unexplained and ignored. There are even stranger things falling from the sky all the time. Sometimes just too strange for modern science to accept at all, at all.
Hell, it wasn't until the 1800's that educated scientists would acknowledge the existence of meteorites, rocks that fall from the sky. The argument was beautiful in it's simplicity: Their established theories of existence were built on a set of math that did not have room for rocks in it. The Heavens, they said, were perfect clockwork, Newtons Laws guiding every tick and balance, and this understanding of physics told them there simply were no free flying dust or chunks of anything out there. Therefore, no matter how many eye-witnesses saw steaks of light that flew to the earth and found strange smoking stones in craters, some of rather tremendous size, they must be mistaken. Either stupid, lying, or mad. No other way about it. It must have been lightning, or a hallucination, or a trick or some kind, or maybe the whole village planned the thing to get attention or what have you. The math said there were no rocks in space, so there were no rocks in space. It did not matter that no explanation held up to account for it, just the insistence that the obvious must be ignored.
Of course, being unburdened by the need to support such theories, the accounts of ancient humans are filled with references to "stones that fall from heaven." The earliest religious sites ever excavated often have as their alter a bit of meteoric metal. The center of the Muslim faith hangs on the one idol Muhammad allowed to remain as a physical symbol of Allah, the Black Stone in the Kaaba. India is literally littered with shrines and totems made of meteorites and described as such exhaustively. None of this phased our Brave Experts though. It all amounted to a hill of naive superstition, as easily ignored as, oh, say, the existence of germ born disease.


Soothing Shot to the Brain ends sensation of fear.
Mind-reading experiment uses brain scans to eavesdrop on thoughts.

Theories of Everything
Mapping Dark Matter

Island cult prays for return of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Awaited Messiah.

"Green Consumers" are assholes, more likely to steal and lie: A Fact.
Blood in the Streets: What real protest looks like.
The Biggest Dump in the World

Texas tweaks History Books
Why are America's Schoolchildren Failing by any standard (even before the interference of Texan revisionists)? Maybe because the administrators cannot read or write themselves...
I know! What we need is more Standardization Legislation!

Future Prisons and Perfect Surveillance
Skyscrapers Underwater

New Explorer satellite
Ghost Chili Grenades
Strange new form of life found 600 feet beneath ice.

Look Around You: The Human Brain, Maths.

Reclusive genius solves century old math problem.

"...Neighbors describe him as a scruffy loaner. “He has rather strange moral principles. He feels improper things very strongly,” says the director of a math institute Pereleman once worked. He says Perelman, currently unemployed, may feel his fellow mathematicians aren’t worthy to award him anything.
...When one reporter finally reached him by cellphone, he said only, “You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms.”

More Secret Clone Meat

It's getting to be old news now, but it bears repeating: The things you eat are not what you think they are. Carnivorous or Vegan, your rice and beans and fish and soy are warped well beyond the simple assurances that packaging provides...

"After four years of deliberation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that meat from cloned animals and their offspring is safe to eat.
But despite public unease and lingering scientific uncertainty, the FDA won’t require such meat to be labeled or tracked.
Food producers say they’re not about to put cloned meat on American dinner plates, as the procedure is too expensive and inefficient, and a third of U.S. adults say they won’t eat cloned meat regardless of its approval. Instead, farmers will purchase cloned animals to serve as breeding stock for their entire herds.
People tend to feel less repulsed at eating the offspring, so it’s clone descendants that we’ll eat — though we probably won’t know for sure. The FDA says clone-derived products don’t need to be labeled."
-Wired Science

This is the cut-and-paste answer that Monsanto gives, of course. And why would it differ? Legislation rarely even bothers to change the wording of the agendas handed to them by their milk-teat lobbyists, their only true constituency.
Of course it's even easier now with the new "Food Safety" Czar being a Monsanto inside man, lobbyist and executive.

"Some might ask what the harm would be in requiring the labeling of products. U.S. labeling laws are based on health and safety. Requiring labeling for ingredients that don’t pose a health issue would undermine both our labeling laws and consumer confidence. Ensuring that such labeling is accurate would also put a huge burden on regulatory agencies...The law allows for voluntary labeling so long as the information is accurate, truthful and avoids misleading consumers about the food...
Mandatory labeling of food containing GM ingredients might seem like a no-brainer. However, once you consider the facts, it becomes clear there is no sense in mandatory GMO labeling."
-Monsanto Website

This is in spite the fact that the differences between cloned and "natural" specimens are many and obvious.

For therapeutic purposes, cloned embryos only need to be sustained for a few days, until they’re old enough to be harvested for stem cells.
Carrying them to birth adds orders of magnitude more room for error: that’s why so few implanted cloned embryos are actually born, and why so many of those end up dying young. Dolly, for example, lasted just six years before dying from a progressive lung disease. Cloned pigs have a nasty habit of dropping dead from heart attacks. Cloned cows sometimes die shortly after birth – and those are the lucky ones. Here’s how the Washington Post’s Rick Weiss described the outtakes of livestock clones intended for our dinner tables:
Many are monstrously overweight — several times their normal size — and filled with fluids to the point of looking like they’re about to burst. Others are born with normal bodies but big, hideous, so-called ‘bull heads.’ Others look okay on the outside but have peculiar abnormalities of the heart, lungs or other organs — including livers that are mysteriously filled with fat — or defective thymus glands that blunt normal development of the animals’ immune systems.

Rob Riggle and The Natural Life Cycle of Steaks.

Exotic, Kinky, Full of Science

"...While the success of cloned meat ultimately depends on non-vegetarians, the final product is likely to be superior in quality to the ground meat which is currently on the market, according to Matheny, who is a vegetarian. “This is meat that has been pulled from the animal with a vacuum tube, and then whipped into a slurry which then has a binder, textures and seasoning added to it,” he explained."
-Taking a Moral Stand for Tasteless Abomination

And then there was the recent series of successful primate clonings, until now thought too complicated to yet perform, and the production of human-animal genetic "Chimera" embryo, like this cute little guy, a sheep with fifteen percent human DNA. Wonder what he tastes like? Wonder if it's familiar?

Blood Sausage Futures

-DavidCarson