Most people want to be taken seriously at work. So wouldn't you love Erin Andrewsto interview Danica Patrick at this weekend's Indianapolis 500? Oh, to see the thought bubbles above their heads.

Andrews: "Why am I talking to a bikini model?"

Patrick: "Does this bimbo know a fan belt from a garter belt?"

The average American male wouldn't care what the women said as long as they flashed a little cleavage and a lot of leg. That's a problem, though it's one Patrick and Andrews have willingly brought on themselves.

They've broken Rule No. 1 for being taken seriously: Don't writhe on a bed or a car hood as millions of people ogle along. It's okay if you're auditioning for a Snoop Dogg video, but you won't see Helio Castroneves or Robin Roberts doing it.

The realization hit me like a ton of sequins this week as two great sporting events converged. Andrews finished third in "Dancing with the Stars," while Patrick bellyached about her car heading into Sunday's Indy 500.

The crowd booed when they heard the Brickyard's resident hottie pop off. It seems Patrick's striptease act is finally wearing a little thin. There's been way too much tease.

You can't blame Patrick for capitalizing on her looks. If companies wanted to pay me $7 million a year to titillate consumers, I'd be happily writhe on a car that's been sitting all day in the Florida sun.

But somewhere along the way you have to add some substance to the style. After five years on the Indy circuit, Patrick has one more win than Stevie Wonder. She's 1 for 137, a batting average of .0073.   Read More PLUS VIDEO>>>>>>>>>>

U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, kneel as Father Carl Subler, a chaplain and captain, celebrates mass in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. (AP photo)

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137 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan since the first of the year, making the first five months of 2010 the deadliest January-through-May period of any year of the almost nine-year-long war. More>>>>>

The 137 casualties so far this year more than double the 59 that occurred last year from January through May. Thus far, 2009 has been the deadliest year of the war, but the high current casualty count for this year, and the heavy fighting anticipated in Kandahar this summer, put 2010 on track to be even deadlier.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ In late January in Irwindale, Calif., Sergio Pena, a 16-year-old of Hispanic descent, won the pole for the Toyota All-Star Showdown, one of the biggest short-track races on the West Coast, and raced Sprint Cup star Joey Logano to the checkered flag before finishing second.

The Rise of an armed Japan: Have we ever learned from history?

A Pentagon advisor and national defense expert says the recent revelation that North Korea was responsible for the sinking of a South Korean warship has compelled Japan to rethink its national security policy.

Tensions over North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship are serious enough to have prompted Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to break a campaign promise. He had pledged to close the U.S. Marine base in Okinawa, but he now says he has decided to keep Marine Corps Air Station located on the strategically important island, which is close to Taiwan and the Chinese mainland and not far from the Korean peninsula.

The island hosts more than half the 47,000 American troops in Japan under a mutual security pact.  Read More>>>>>>>

One in five people in the United States visit an emergency room every year, and most of them have health insurance of some kind, according to a U.S. government survey released on Wednesday.

Officials are cautionary but say drilling fluid has blocked oil and gas temporarily. Engineers plan to begin pumping in cement and then will seal the well.

A image taken from a BP live video feed shows activity during the "top kill" procedure, which is being used to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. (Reuters / May 27, 2010) CLICK LINK TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY----->

Nationalist activist and parliamentary aide Itamar Ben-Gvir is continuing “Operation Rahm Emanuel,” in which he probes the behavior of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is in Israel for his son's Bar Mitzva. On Wednesday, Ben-Gvir charged that the hall in which the Emanuel family plans to celebrate the Bar Mitzva is not licensed to host such events.... Read More>>>>>>>

By Joe Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

He's the most-listened-to personality in the history of U.S. radio, but Rush Limbaugh feared for his life recently and said he knows he faces destruction at some point, to the delight of some of the American public.

In an e-mail sent to Zev Chafets, author of the new book "Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One," Limbaugh admitted, "I know I am a target and I know I will be destroyed eventually. I fear that all I have accomplished and all the wealth I have accumulated will be taken from me, to the cheers of the crowd. I know I am hated and despised by the American Left."

The message was sent the day after President Obama laughed at comedian Wanda Sykes' joke about Limbaugh's death during last year's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

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In a diatribe against Limbaugh, Sykes said: "Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' – I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?"

The dinner was broadcast nationally on C-SPAN, and a clip has been posted on YouTube, with Sykes' remarks about Limbaugh beginning at the two-minute mark:

Obama can clearly be seen laughing as Sykes delivers her line about Limbaugh's kidneys failing.

"He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs," she continued.

In "An Army of One," Chafets notes that while Obama laughed at the kidney-failure joke, he stopped grinning when she started talking about waterboarding.

"He saw the humor in hooking Rush up to a broken dialysis machine, but waterboarding was nothing to joke about," writes Chafets.

"Atypically, Limbaugh didn't say a word on the air about Sykes' routine, or the fact that the president of the United States had smiled broadly, in front of the entire country, about the prospect of his death. He was disconcerted, though, and he was right to be. He was in first place on the enemies list of the president of the United States."

Limbaugh is also in favor of homosexual civil unions, according to Chafets.

"He regards homosexuality as, most probably, biologically determined, and while he opposes gay marriage as culturally subversive, he has no problem with gay civil unions – which is the stance of President Obama and Hillary Clinton," the author explains.

When it comes to his thoughts about broadcasting colleague Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, Limbaugh likened him to the buffoonish TV anchor portrayed by actor Ted Knight on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show."

"He's Ted Baxter. Sorry, but somebody's got to say it," Limbaugh noted. "I never mention others on the air, and I don't engage in contrived rivalry crap. That's bad business; it encourages people not to hear the station you are on."

Limbaugh does make an exception for CNN's Larry King, whom Chafets says Rush truly doesn't like.

"He never had nice things to say about me, from 1988 to the present," Limbaugh explained. "He was working midnights [on the radio] when I started and demanded that his syndicator move him to afternoon drive when my success was obvious. He bombed and quit radio for CNN exclusively."

On his radio program today, Limbaugh got provocative against the Obama adminstration when he agreed with one of his callers that Obama was deliberately doing little to resolve the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to further his leftist agenda against drilling and capitalism in general.

"Everything is political. They want the disaster," Limbaugh emphasized.

"I know this is a tough thing for some of you to believe and hear because we don't think of presidents this way, but we got one now and an entire administration that do think this way – that everything that happens must be seen through the prism of 'Is it a political opportunity or is it a political liability?'

"If you doubt this, it's been six weeks. We now have Democrat commentators all suggesting that we know President Obama cares, but he's gonna have to do something to show it. He's gonna have to use a little emotion out there. The cool, calm Obama is not what we want."

"These are not things that you can fake," Limbaugh continued. "[If] you care about something, you care about it. If it really angers you, you get angry about it. When you're a leader and things like this happen and you think people are being lackadaisical in fixing it, then you step in and you see to it that everybody heels, too. There hasn't been any of that. There's been the usual political posturing. ...

"We don't have a leader. Obama's not a leader. He's an exploiter. He creates problems. He exacerbates them for the express purpose of taking advantage of them, pure and simple, folks."

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In a new biography on sale Tuesday, Rush Limbaugh calls fellow conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly a “Ted Baxter” — after the fictional character on the “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” who was portrayed as a vain, shallow, buffoonish TV newsman.

“Sorry but somebody’s gotta say it,” Limbaugh is quoted as saying in Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One by Zev Chafets. At press time, O’Reilly had yet to respond to the comment. Read More>>>>>>>>>

Caused by the 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

Although I am a conservative Christian (Reformed Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches or supports the traditional view of hell with its doctrine of eternal torment or suffering.

The Bible does teach eternal punishment, but that eternal punishment ultimately is not eternal suffering.

How many countless millions of Europeans live in a rosy-coloured world they call democracy, fooling themselves as they get up each morning that they live in a democratic society, convinced that their elected authorities control each and every facet of their lives and that ultimately, it’s the people who decide at election time. Such a scenario could not be further from the truth.

Once upon a time, there was a wonderful promise called the European Economic Community where peoples would have a liberalised trading policy, freedom of movement, living together smiling, with each country keeping its own culture as its citizens voted happily to construct the Common Project. Even the French and the Germans would live side by side in peace. Then one day we woke up and found that the dream had turned into a nightmare.

The wicked witch of Maastricht, the Demonic Dragon of Nice and the Wilful Wizard of Lisbon joined forces and together, created the monster we see today: The European Union, Destroyer of Democracy. Let us see how undemocratic the system has become.

A country’s economy controls its internal policies, such as providing healthcare, funding the education system, the emergency services and ultimately dictating what that anonymous and unknown department, spatial planning, gets up to.

In theory, spatial planning is, or should be, at the heart of internal policy-making. It is the department that decides whether a hospital is to be built, and where, and what services it will provide, the department that decides where clusters of industry should be established. Its strings are pulled by the Ministry of Finance/Economy which manages fiscal revenue and other incomes to provide financing for public services. Fair enough.

Now, those who live in this rosy-coloured perfect world called an EU Democracy will believe that their elected authorities control this policy from beginning to end and therefore manage to satisfy their promises made during election manifestos.

Wrong!

For the countries inside the Eurozone, such a notion could not be further from the truth, for its member states have to make tremendous efforts to keep within the eu-2020 convergence demands made on their economies, while being part of the Euro means that any autonomy they once had in managing the value of their currency to offset macro-economic panoramas has been sold down the river. And who asked the people of the Eurozone if they wanted the Euro? So how democratic is that?

More evidence of the farce of "evolution

By Babu G. Ranganathan

Generations have been taught to believe that Neanderthal Man was a half-stooped ape-man barely able to walk. This initial reconstruction of the Neanderthals was based on evolutionary bias and occurred before complete and better preserved bones of the Neanderthals were discovered showing that they were completely erect and completely human in every way. By the time many scientists (though not all) came to be convinced that the Neanderthals were completely human, not half-ape or becoming human, the factual damage in the popular media was done and the Neanderthals became forever synonymous with low intelligent, brutish, knuckle-walking ape- men.

"The great pathologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) claimed that the Neandertal specimen he examined had rickets and arthritis, which may have caused some of the unique Neandertal features, but his opinion was overlooked. It took 44 years for the highly misleading nature of the reconstructions to be revealed, indicative of the shared bias of the evolutionary community.

Even after the Neandertal reconstruction at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was shown to be false and highly misleading, it took another 20 years for this renowned institution to correct its display!" (Source).

"Despite the PBS series on evolution, the status of Neandertal Man has been improving among evolutionists during the past 10 years. The series’ failure to mention any of the recent discoveries appears to be typical of its whole propagandistic thrust. The discovery of a human hyoid bone (related to the larynx or voice box) prompted many evolutionists to state that Neandertal Man had speech and language ability equivalent to modern man. 

Trinkaus and Shipman say:

‘Although no one had explicitly predicted what a Neandertal hyoid would look like, few were really surprised when it turned out to be a slightly enlarged version of a human hyoid and nothing like an ape hyoid ... . Many anthropologists came to believe that Neandertals could have spoken any modern human language, whatever their accent may have been.’ (Source).

Regarding the fossil record, millions continue to be taught in schools and through textbooks all over the world that the fossil record furnishes scientific proof of evolution. But, where are there fossils of half-evolved dinosaurs or other creatures?

Those of you complaining about the Edwards/Keselowski drama, cheer up -- at least we're talking about on-track action. Could be worse; remember that this time last year, we were about to descend into discussion of meth use and urine tests, courtesy of one Jeremy Mayfield .

Alas, the story's not done yet, and won't be for some time. Quick version: Mayfield failed a drug test in May, was suspended, protested, was reinstated, failed another drug test, and was suspended again. Court cases and accusations of everything from home meth labs to murder followed; you can see

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part RacinToday series on the earliest days of stock car racing.)

If the initial stock car racing epidemic had a specific carrier in the 1930s, it was the prototypical promoter. This was the type who usually wore a suit jacket and a fedora to signify success at the risky task of selling tickets in rented facilities and recognizing the latest thing – from wing walking to air races, quarter midget racing for smaller Indy-type cars and motorcycle racing.

When stock car racing first came along, in the eyes of many promoters it was just another cheap thrill show for a gullible public. Some promoters saw bigger things in it such as Bill France, who studiously avoided suit jackets and eventually began to wear a cap instead of a fedora after taking over promotion of races on the Beach & Road Course in Daytona in 1938

 By Michael Burkert 

Returning to Europe after three and a half-year’s absence has been a most eye opening experience!  Things have changed in old Europe and most people in the United States and Canada have no idea what those changes are!  Our partisan news media has been so focused on advancing the current Administration’s agenda that they’ve turned a blind eye at what’s going on just across the Atlantic.

If you browse the Internet, it’s most difficult to find any information on pope Benedict XVI other than articles of adulation and approval.  The news media is either afraid to report what the pope is up to, don’t understand the significance of his activities, or they don’t care.

I wrote in 2005, “Joseph Ratzinger, also known as pope Benedict XVI may not live long enough to be the “pope of popes,” but he may well set the stage for the one who will ascend to that status.  Continue to keep your eyes on Europe.  The last chapter of European history is being written now.”

Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.

The Internet giant said it would stop collecting Wi-Fi data from its StreetView vans, which workers drive to capture street images and to locate Wi-Fi networks. The company said it would dispose of the data it had accidentally collected.

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Facebook is to simplify its privacy controls after controversy over its handling of personal information. The number of Facebook users considering deleting their accounts appeared to rise after censure from European data protection officials and critical press coverage prompted several prominent technology commentators to remove their data from the site.  MORE>>>>>>>

One of the biggest questions about American history is how the world's most powerful military could "lose" a war. In Vietnam, the U.S. Army had everything it needed, except freedom from others meddling in wartime decisions. The incongruousness of Bob McNamara directing the war, from basically an academic perch, is surely one of the most surreal happenings in all our history. So it is that author Phillip Jennings has done us all a great service by tackling this complex subject and using Regnery's juggernaut series to do it. "The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Vietnam War" is simply fantastic. It answers a whole range of questions, and puts to rest some old myths.

And Jennings knows whereof he speaks. A Vietnam vet, he served with the Marines – and as a helicopter pilot to boot. In fact, his colorful career includes a stint as a pilot for Air America.

One of my very favorite sections of the book involves Jennings' data that shows Vietnam vets "are better off – financially, psychologically and educationally – than their peers who didn't serve." This puts the lie to the assertion that guys who served in Vietnam are zombie sociopaths who drive taxis and talk to themselves standing in front of a mirror.

I've known scores of mentally and emotionally robust, successful vets from that miserable war, and Jennings' deserves special applause for addressing this offensive slight.  MORE>>>>>>>>>>