1.  Cheyenne Mountain Zoo 2.  snowboarding (seasonal) 3.  great fly fishing 4.  watch the young and exciting Colorado Rockies from the wildly enthusiastic Rockpile 5.  The Denver mint 6.  excellent 5-star quail and buffalo dishes at The Fort 7.  see the hotel where The Shining was “filmed” 8.  $1 Wednesday wing night at the Hooters, Colorado Blvd (ask for Tawni) 9.  If you can believe the dot heads, now’s the

From the Counterterrorism Blog’s Olivier Guitta: Back in October, the French press leaked that Islamists had acquired missiles to shoot down planes at French airports. This information was just confirmed. It is included in the file prepared by anti terror French judges regarding the Chechen terror networks. In fact, according to Jordanian/ Palestinian Islamist Abu Atiya (a close associate of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi) arrested in 2003, a terrorist group

Via Ray, interesting DHLS info, courtesy the Northeast Intelligence Agency (as always, take their reporting with a grain of salt; this report filed by Douglas J. Hagmann ): 15 January 2006: On Wednesday, 11 January 2006, environmental divers working for Merkel Associates of San Diego, hired to check on algae growth in the Huntington Beach Harbor discovered seven or perhaps eight commercial-grade explosive detonators that were “strategically placed” on the

From The Observer: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardline President of Iran, launched an angry tirade against the West yesterday, accusing it of a ‘dark ages’ mentality and threatening retaliation unless it recognised his country’s nuclear ambitions. In a blistering assault, Ahmadinejad repeated the Islamic regime’s position that it would press ahead with a nuclear programme despite threats by the European Union and United States to refer Iran to the UN Security

me: “Jesus.  Do you have any idea what time it is, man?  I thought you were supposed to help me sleep and whatnot?” Klonopin: “Dude, you are asleep.  Have been for hours.  And for the record? Calling your pillow ‘Elle MacPherson’ and screaming for her to ‘take it all, like a high-priced divorce attorney,’ while you hump the thing like a crazed Border Collie is not only not sexy— but

Via Allah at Link Mecca, a chilling foray into speculative history by Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.  From the Telegraph UK: Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East: With every passing year after the turn of the century,

When you have a chance to put points on the scoreboard, take the freakin’ points!  Take them, fold them neatly in a hankerchief, and stuff them into your pocket.  For later. Then—when and if you need them—there they are, tucked securely in your pocket!  And if you don’t need them, you can always give them to some muddy-shoed homeless dude who stumbles into the intersection at Cherry Creek and First