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Victory Fund:Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5th Annual Gay and Lesbian Leadership Awards Annual Oate-Shrum Event Thursday, October 25, 2005 VIP Reception 5:30 Awards Ceremony 6-7pm 101 Constitution, NW Washington, DC HONOREES United States Senator Tom Daschle Mayor Richard M. Daley...

Face to face at last with Captain Nemo's old foe

Attempts have been underway for some time to capture film of the legendary giant squid (star role in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). This has finally been accomplished.

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Scientists have taken the first photographs of the giant squid in its natural habitat, providing a remarkable glimpse of one of the most mysterious creatures on the planet.

The leviathan has long been a creature of legend. In 1753 the bishop of Bergen, in Norway, referred to one that was big enough to crush the largest man-of-war. It has been, and remains, inspirational to script writers and authors, most famously Jules Verne, who described how giant squid attacked Capt Nemo's submarine Nautilus.

Until now, our only glimpse has been when the creatures have been washed up or are hauled to the surface after becoming entangled in fishing gear. Adults have never been seen in their natural habitat and all the available information on them has been based on dead or dying animals.

A description of how the pictures of the squid were obtained is published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, by Dr Tsunemi Kubodera, of the National Science Museum in Tokyo, and Kyoichi Mori, of the Ogaswara Whale Watching Association. They used a digital camera and bait dangling at a depth of about 450 fathoms off the Ogasawara Islands in the north Pacific.

While it has nothing to do with the next SCOTUS appointment, or the next election cycle, it's still interesting.

HT to Powerline. This article by David Shoenbrod, from the Wall Street Journal suggests who was really responsible for the disaster in New Orleans.After Hurricane Betsy swamped New Orleans in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stroked its citizens (this nation grieves...

Let us suppose for a moment that the Chicken Hawk argument were valid. One might then want to ask what the soldiers themselves think. By most estimates, servicemen and women voted Bush by about 80%. The figure is probably much...

Battlestar Galactica, one of the few television series that I watch regularly, finished up with its summer finale tonight. Season two didn't pack quite the same punch as season one did, for the following two reasons: Too many Baltar -...

And those caissons go rolling along

The Chief posted a comment yesterday, with a negative response to Bush's proposal to federalize the responsibility for rapid if not first response in case of disasters.

It seems that my concerns about the further erosion of states' soveriegnty have been noticed elsewhere. This DC Times OpEd by Tony Blankley goes further in exploring this issue. Check it out.

John Thune is being nominated to chair the NRSC, which is a key Senate leadership position:Celeste Calvitto: Pollster says Thune should lead GOP committee Will Sen. John Thune be the next chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee? He ought...

Mike Rosen of the Rocky Mountain News has a great article on the anti-Columbus crowd in Colorado. The group has attempted to block an Italian-American parade celebrating Christopher Columbus and their heritage. However, this year Denver has a new law...

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