Reformed Chicks Blabbing

Nice to see someone protecting our future food supply in case there’s a disaster: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened February 26 on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties of major African and Asian…

But is it credible? 🙂

Is he really a “natural-born citizen?” (via)

So, I watched as much of the show as I could stand and that wasn’t much. I was vaguely interested in it from the blogging and the Internet aspects but I guess I’m too old to be interested in the lives of twenty somethings who are so self-absorbed and narcissistic. The debut of NBC’s new…

Shocking that he was influenced by a conservative.

Um…if he plans to work with the Republicans in a bi-partisan way to bring about “change,” then why hasn’t he done so already? Why should we trust that he’ll be able to do it when he hasn’t given us any evidence that he can? (via)

The big news in the new Pew study? That religion is fluid in the USA — 44% have changed denominations or faith: More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion – or no religion at all. If change in affiliation from one…

What is amazing about this poll is that it’s weighted in the Democrats’ favor and McCain still comes out ahead. I thought Obama was the presumptive president and all we were doing was wasting time waiting for November where he will be crowned elected president? As he emerges from a sometimes- bitter primary campaign, presumptive…

From the Corner: I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut. He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At…

Well, yeah. As anyone who has watched the “Terminator” movies and TV program know, we run the risk of giving over too much control to the robots. Never take your hand from their off switch 🙂 Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day…

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