The really important news of the day

aside from the fact that the economy is going bust, the Middle East is ready to implode, the Republicans farce in Iowa is really meaningless, and Obama's golf game is off, you might want to read about the really really important news stories of the day:

From NASA Space News Blog:

Kirtland’s warblers are an endangered species of lightweight little birds with bright yellow-bellies that summer in North America and winter in the Bahamas. But be it their winter or their summer home, a new study using data from NASA-built Landsat satellites shows that these warblers like to live in young forests and often forests that have been on fire...After an intensive recovery program that focused both on combating invasive cowbirds and managing controlled forest burns, and thus creating warbler-friendly jack pine habitat, the Kirtland’s warbler made an impressive comeback.

yes, let's have three cheers for forest fires?
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what, no MILF?
via Dustbury.

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