The is the birthday of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. It not a coincidence that the people now alive who hate/fear what these men accomplished tend to be in the same political party in the US. 😈

Yesterday was really annoying as my network was not playing well and M$ was patching all kinds things.

After a century there has been a direct observation of the last major element of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity – gravitational waves, a ripple in the space-time continuum. This is not the explanation for the existence of Donald Trump.

Badtux noted that Cliven Bundy got arrested at an Oregon airport. Meanwhile the last four holdouts at the Federal bird sanctuary have surrendered.

So far the Presidential primaries have consisted of caucuses in a conservative rural state and an open primary in a rural conservative state. Next will be caucuses in a different rural conservative state, followed by the first closed primary in a rural conservative state. All kinds of people have been dropping out before there is a contest in a state that actually reflects the demographics of the US.

The Yukon provided some snow for the teams to move over, although it wasn’t packed so it slowed things down. Mike Ellis runs a team of Siberian huskies that are always the best looking team on any course. Mike and Sue’s puppies win at dog shows as well as sleddog races.

Hank DeBruin (10) returned to Eagle and scratched with 9 puppies. He has been having problems since Central and was well behind the field, which was not normal for his team.

The Current Standings at 9:30PM CST (7:30PM PST):

Beyond Dawson
1 Brent Sass (9)
2 Allen Moore (4)
3 Hugh Neff (22)
4 Matt Hall (15)
5 Ed Hopkins (3)
6 Torsten Kohnert (12)
7 Tom Frode Johansen (19)^R
At Dawson
8 Yuka Honda (6)
9 Seth Barnes (17)^R
10 Mike Ellis (2)
11 Dave Dalton (8)
12 Laura Neese (1)^R
13 Andrew Pace (18)^R
14 Luc Tweddell (21)
15 Cody Strathe (14)
16 Paige Drobny (5)
17 Rob Cooke (20)
18 Tore Albrigtsen (11)^R
[Read more →]