The new Lamborghini

Yahoo Finance has the Reuters story about the new Lamborghini Reventon. This is not a car for everyone, since the price tag is $1.4M. The Reventon debued at the Frankfurt international autoshow.

A hate crime

The rape and murder of Channon Christian and the murder of Christopher Newsom, both University of Tennessee students closely resembles a hate crime. In this case, black on white hate. The national media is ignoring the story, because of that aspect. WVLT has the story and photographs of the victims and killers.

In the last two days, my spam has tripled

Just in the last two days, the volume of spam that I receive through my Yahoo account has tripled. I half-wondered if "we are under attack", for the 9/11 anniversary.

Google seems to be censoring Miley Cyrus pics

Google, and perhaps other search engines, are trying to suppress the Miley Cyrus semi-racy pics. I have them at Former Naval Person, but I had to use Bloglines to find them. Back in June of 2006, when I was looking for the naked Heather Mills pics, I found them with Bloglines, before they showed up anywhere else.

Ann Althouse's picture of New York on September 11, 2007

Ann Althouse is living in Brooklyn for the next year. This morning, she photographed Manhatten, minus the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2007. Six years ago, I was sitting stopped in traffic on eastbound I694, on my way to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to work. I was listening to Bob Edwardsd on Minnesota Public Radio talking about an apparent accident in New York, where a twin-engined plane of unknown size had hit a World Trade Center tower. We followed events at work on a radio and on the Internet. When we learned of the second plane, we knew it was terrorism. Bob Edwards was eventually sacked for not being a strident-enough radical leftist.

The "Scott Thomas Beauchamp" story

I am subscriber to The New Republic, although I am not thrilled about their lurch to the left, after the latest staff changes. They seem to be operating in the same way as CBS News, under Dan Rather, where they are trying to promote a narrative with "fake, but accurate" stories. The stories told by "Scott Thomas" Beauchamp seem to fit that pattern. "Hot Air" does some follow up on the story, and Fred Foier, the current editor, doesn't want to talk.

The Princess and the Marine

The story about the "princess" from Bahrain has bubbled back to the surface, again. She had sneaked out of Bahrain in 1999, masquerading as a Marine. She married her Marine boy friend, who was demoted a who became a parking lot attendant. I guess that Meriam Al Khalifa thought she could do better, so she divorced Jason Johnson. "48 Hours" has the older part of the story on their website. "Mr. Wave Theory" has the links and a pic of them together.