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[tucker]

^^ JimZ, that was good…

He seems to be pretty honest and well balanced in his reporting. At least he’s not all gloom and doom like you hear from most of the reporters and journalists. The way it sounds he doesn’t spend all of his time in the green zone either.

[jimzinsocal]

Cool. The stuff is out there its just not where most folks look.
Thats my biggest fun...find something someone may not find right off.
Whenever Im cruising around..good to find stuff particular guys like.
Cool.

[jimzinsocal]

http://hillaryspot.nationalreview.co...zAwNjEyZDczZDU=


The last paragraph.


Reporting from Iraq

http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/002940.php


Swift program

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/co...schoenfeld/120

[jimzinsocal]

From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky Sunday night.
Associated Press
Last update: February 05, 2007 – 8:19 AM

MILWAUKEE — From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky last night.
No major meteor showers were expected in the northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department's Space Place. But he said it was possible that a minor shower may have been what prompted calls to authorities.
The National Weather Service's Sullivan office said reports were called in from Iowa, northern Illinois and on up to Green Bay.
Dozens of people throughout the St. Louis region and Illinois reported small objects that looked like bright lights or something burning, with flaming tails behind some of them, said Ken Tretter, with the Missouri State Highway Patrol in St. Louis.
In Wisconsin, a Waukesha County dispatch supervisor said two callers reported a sighting around 8:15 p.m.
The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department said it received calls from Oshkosh, Ripon, Appleton, Neenah, and Pulaski, among others.
A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the lights were from a meteor, said Maj. April Cunningham, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches for airborne threats to the United States and Canada. "We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and that's really all the information we have tonight," Cunningham said.

[jimzinsocal]

We Shall Have No Dancing...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ory?id=2848644

[Dutchcedar]

From the NY Times:

No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.

More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous...

...Then, too, there was the unfortunate homonym at the heart of a commercial from Prudential Financial, titled “What Can a Rock Do?”

The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, “Iraq.”

To be sure, sometimes “a rock” is just “a rock,” and someone who has watched the Super Bowl XIX years in a row only for the commercials may be inferring things that Madison Avenue never meant to imply.

A response:

Are you insane? You see the Iraq war in the Super Bowl commercials??? I think your article shows YOUR obsession with the war (no need to wonder how you feel about it). Do you see the war in crossword puzzles? Your morning cereal?

But let's dig deeper, shall we? I think the Bud Light commercial with the apes reflects the ongoing debate about evolution. Or maybe the one about the guy getting the ice cold Coke is a symbol of our need for coolness in this age of global warming. I'm onto something here, aren't I?

Frankly, I thought many of the ads were pretty lewd, reflecting our society's low standard of values.

Wait - let me guess: You just rolled your eyes and though, "Oh, he's one of THEM."

Right back at you.

[jimzinsocal]

Blood and guts. Just the way I like it...

http://newsbusters.org/node/10618


The nutcase in Iran will be revealing [again]...


Along with the claim of nuclear "rights," Ahmadinejad was set to tout a purported "herbal" cure for AIDS, the news agency Fars reported.
"The drug named 'IMOD' is completely effective and safe with no proven side effects," Iran's Minister of Health Kamran Bagheri Lankarani said.
The report could not be verified.

[jimzinsocal]

Chirac: Give the UN More Power in Environmental Areas [Iain Murray]


Jacques Chirac, who once called the Kyoto Treaty the first step to “authentic global governance” is moving further down that path. According to Agence France Presse, on Saturday he called

… for the United Nations to replace the U.N. Environment Programme with an agency that has more power to oversee environmental matters. Chirac said his plan has the backing of 46 nations.
Speaking at a "Citizens of the Earth" meeting in Paris a day after the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its 4th Assessment Report, Chirac said the United Nations should spin off UNEP into "a genuine international organization to which all countries belong along the lines of the World Health Organization."
He said the new agency would be charged with guaranteeing "a new human right — the right to a safe and protected environment."

A cynic might call this a right to poverty. I’d be inclined to agree with the cynic.
Luckily there are signs that the moral voice of the developing world is alongside the US in resisting this. Brazil, China and India are all opposed. This is another illustration of John O’Sullivan’s thesis that China and India will be allies against European transnationalists

[jimzinsocal]

From the NY Times:A response:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/04/super-bowl-xli/

[Fluff n Stuff]

This kind of stuff. This is the reason that I haven't decided than Man has caused Global Warming. The writer was the first Doctoral Climatologist in Canada fer cryin' out loud... if he thinks there needs to be some science behind the hysteria, perhaps we should look into it? I know Chirac makes Conservatives like me feel nauseous, and it's fair to assume that I will generally oppose his ideas out of reflex. I admit that wholeheartedly.

But before we commit our freedoms to a lockbox in the name of the Church of the Blessed Environment or some such, I say we determine that Chirac's proposed World Governmental Agency be proven to be beneficial.

And lets use more proof than we have for Man-caused Global Warming, 'kay?

[Orangutan]

This kind of stuff. This is the reason that I haven't decided than Man has caused Global Warming. The writer was the first Doctoral Climatologist in Canada fer cryin' out loud... if he thinks there needs to be some science behind the hysteria, perhaps we should look into it? I know Chirac makes Conservatives like me feel nauseous, and it's fair to assume that I will generally oppose his ideas out of reflex. I admit that wholeheartedly.

But before we commit our freedoms to a lockbox in the name of the Church of the Blessed Environment or some such, I say we determine that Chirac's proposed World Governmental Agency be proven to be beneficial.

And lets use more proof than we have for Man-caused Global Warming, 'kay?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball

[Fluff n Stuff]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tim_Ball

Yeah, that's the guy. Talk about "Speaking Truth to Power"...

Of course, it's not the popular truth, so he's demonized? I'd like to see more articles addressing the science, and not the man. If you know of any more, please pass them along!

[Dutchcedar]

^^^ Its interesting that he has to resort to filing lawsuits against other scientists to defend himself. The whole debate and the stifling of the opponents might turn out to be the most enlightening soap opera of our time, because whichever side is correct, there's a good chance we'll now in a few years or so... with everyone watching their thermometers.

[AMDScooter]

^^^ Its interesting that he has to resort to filing lawsuits against other scientists to defend himself. The whole debate and the stifling of the opponents might turn out to be the most enlightening soap opera of our time, because whichever side is correct, there's a good chance we'll now in a few years or so... with everyone watching their thermometers.

He should file in that Exxon sponsored dealy... use the 10k for his defense bills.

[Orangutan]

Yeah, that's the guy. Talk about "Speaking Truth to Power"...

Of course, it's not the popular truth, so he's demonized? I'd like to see more articles addressing the science, and not the man. If you know of any more, please pass them along!

^^^ Its interesting that he has to resort to filing lawsuits against other scientists to defend himself. The whole debate and the stifling of the opponents might turn out to be the most enlightening soap opera of our time, because whichever side is correct, there's a good chance we'll now in a few years or so... with everyone watching their thermometers.

I'm searching for his stuff right now. First thing I've found is this:

http://www.scienceblogs.com/deltoid/...all_sue_me.php

Whatever one may feel about Tim Ball's denial of climate change science, newspapers ought to report factual summaries of authors' credentials. You note that he "was the first Climatology PhD in Canada and worked as a Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years". Ball received a PhD in Geography in the UK in 1982, on a topic in historical climatology. Canada already had PhDs in climatology, and it is important to recognize them and their research...

So far I haven't found any articles by this guy, only that one book mentioned earlier.