Here we go, again. It's a resilient religion. When one god is brought down another is raised up... How long until this particular computer model is inspected and found wanting? Or will that effort be preempted by the observation that the oceans have been more acidic in the past, at times when coral reefs did just fine...
Per elsewhere, between 1751 and 1994 surface ocean pH is estimated to have decreased from approximately 8.25 to 8.14 with the arctic acidification greater and the tropical acidification less so
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They have been trying everything since the 70s to convince us that CO2 is evil and we need to stop using fossil fuels to keep whatever disaster they predict from happening.
I am almost to the point that if someone whines about "greenhouse" gasses and the damage man has done with them I will punch the dumb fuck in the face.
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"PEAK TREES/WOOD/FORESTS" + "PEAK TUNA"
versus
THE MIGHTY "SLUSHY" = NEW ICE AGE/MINI-ICE AGE???
"Icy, but not Frozen", as James Bond 007 would paraph.
I say "slushy", in part, in remembrance of childhood dreams/visions where I seemingly dipped my hand + arm into what I preceived as "used to be" the former tropical Pacific.
* WORLD NEWS > [Gizmodo] THIN WE'RE HEADED FOR A NEW ICE AGE? YOU'RE WRONG.
The alleged coming "Mini-Ice Age" may prove to be a SUN-DRIVEN GLOBAL HEAT WAVE/PERIOD THATS JUST NOT AS HOT AS IT SHOULD BE, thanks to minor cooling = icy conditions.
Yet another third-party affirmation of the "Great/Mighty Slushy".
* SAME > FOUR HUGE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS [ancient]ARE TO BLAME FOR "LITTLE ICE AGE".
As per MADONNA + GUAM TAOTAMONAS, once again Virgina we learn why the "2012" Movie's scene of an Apocalyptic/Cataclysmic Tidal Wave crashing oer the Himalayas + bell-ringing, brave devout Tibetan/Buddhist Monk should had been VOLCANOES [East Asia REGION-WIDE ERUPTIONS = VOLCANISM].
D *** NG IT, YOU DID IT TO US AGAIN, DIDN'T YOU, PICARD/JEAN LUC - THE MONK WASN'T EVEN WEARING GLASSES, + EVEN MADONNA SAYS "NO NIPPLES" FOR THE SUPERBOWL!
Remember all those columns Monbiot write about the courage of our troops fighting house-to-house in Fallujah? Me Neither. Remember all his columns denouncing cowardly terrorists who blew up girls' schools?
The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the hands of Zeus, the thunderbolt was both an instrument of justice and a weapon of jealousy and revenge. Monbiot's lucky that the gods don't strike him down for terrible writing. This reads like a lazy high school essay.
Those now dispensing judgment from on high are not gods, though they must feel like it. The people striking mortals down with drones are doubtless as capable as anyone else of self-deception, denial and cognitive illusions. More so, perhaps, as the eminent fictions of the Bush years and the growing delusions of the current president suggest. So, who's most evillest: W or BO? Clarify, please.
Barack Obama began last week's state of the union address by claiming that the troops who had fought the Iraq war had "made the United States safer and more respected around the world". Like Bush, like the gods, he has begun to create the world he wants to inhabit. So Bush is like a Greek god and BO's a wannabe?
These power-damaged people have been granted the chance to fulfil one of humankind's abiding fantasies: to vaporise their enemies, as if with a curse or a prayer, effortlessly and from a safe distance. Pistols at dawn, says Monbiot.
That these powers are already being abused is suggested by the mendacity of those who are deploying them. The CIA, which is running the undeclared and unacknowledged drone war in Pakistan, insists that there have been no recent civilian casualties. So does Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan. It is a blatant whitewash. Of course if we really wanted to vaporize our enemies from afar, all we need is one Ohio skipper with a bad attitude.
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Cowardly, or smart?
Is it cowardly to blow terrorists into chum when the said terrorists would attack unarmed civilians?
Which party is the more cowardly?
Either way, I suspect Monboit is a cowardly fuck himself and a SEAL challenging him to a fistfight would cause the yellow bastard to soil himself and run like hell.
Instead imagine a large drone aircraft that could deploy perhaps 20 individual guided bomblets, one at a time, perhaps with simple FM guidance, each bomblet designed as a small air burst, shrapnel munition.
Each one having about 4 times the amount of composition B of an M67 frag grenade (6.5oz), with a fragmentation exterior, it would pack a sizable punch to individuals in the open.
In a place like Afghanistan, where medical care is hard to get...
Is this how teh smaht people justify their continued support of Obama and disagreement with his drone policy? Mental diarrhea with corn bit? A D+ in junior high, at best.
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If you look in the comments he believes (his words) that the people being attacked should be able to vote on if drones should be permitted to attack them?
What deranged world is he living in? One where citizens of the Axis voted to allow the allies to bomb them? This would include the cowardly night attacks by the British Landcasters that were cowardly painted black so they wouldn't be hit as much.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
02/01/2012 15:16 Comments ||
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That's because it's not a war, George---it's deworming.
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Moonbat Prime.
Unfortunately for all involved, he is paid to write.
Strangly, the Greeks did have what would be sort of fair where both sides would line up with their best on the left and worst on the right, and pound each other until one side's best defeated the other side's worst, and would take the field. That changed at Delium, Boatia vs Athens; Athens was pounding Boatia and Pagondas sent a couple groups of Boatian cavalry around a hill, Athens thought an entire new army was approaching and quit the field with victory in their grasp. Sure there were a number of Athenians talking about unfair tactics and lack of manhood...but from the loser's camp.
Also, the Greeks produced Taktike Theoria, outlining the basics of how to control the battlefield and use technology and training to defeat the enemy.
They may chalk a storm up to the gods, or treachory, but I also have the feeling that when it got down to killing the enemy they knew person, training, and advantage were quite important.
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Well, they have their cowardly IED's and they care not who gets killed. We merely mounted a firecracker on a model airplane. We do care to try to keep innocents out of the way.
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After clicking on 'Moose's link, i finally made the connection: Bambi is really Wliy E. in the flesh. Think about it; every 'genius' thing he has touched blows up on him. Only difference is, his Acme bombs also splatter us.
Makes me almost wish for an anvil and an airplane.....
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Had the US wanted a different outcome, it would have used a little extra effort at the very start to set up a new form of government, with an American administrator, MacArthur constitution, and trained every available orphan child with a secular upbringing in boarding schools, to be the next generation of leaders, with no tribal affiliations.
This would have affirmed the superior nature of the western world, and made Afghanistan permanently separate and apart from Pakistan, once we had closed the border between the two.
Putting Karzai in charge was as stupid as if we had put one of Saddam's Sunni lieutenants in charge of Iraq.
Afghanistan would have been far easier to fix because unlike Iraq, it had nothing. No government, no assets, few people left, miniscule wages, and no law only chaos. A 'tabula rasa', a blank slate, we could have rebuilt in any way we chose.
Instead, we tried to recreate their cluster-f*** of a failed semi-government tribal system that is even inferior to a royal government. A castle built of dog crap with a president who has no power beyond its stinky gates.
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Once again, TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > {Pak Tribune] PAKISTAN'S RUSH FOR MORE [nuclear] BOMBS - WHY?
Political Jihad = Election, Govt-sharing-happy Radical Islam should no doubt be happy iff Pakistan expands its nuclear arsenal for any reason.
Also, IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US INTEL: INDIA PREPARING FOR LIMITED CONFLICT WID CHINA.
Pragmatically, any new SINO-INDIAN WAR will prolly be end outcome of antecendent AFGHAN-PAK or INDO-PAK WAR; or in altern a US-IRAN WAR as Iran has said it has no qualms using the sovereign territories of its neighbors as staging areas for asymmetric anti-US attacks, + wid or widout the consent of their neighbors' Govts.
IOW, THE SCENARIO EXISTS THAT A US-IRAN WAR MAY GO NUKULAAR WIDOUT IRAN PER SE NECESSAR HAVING TO HAVE ANY NUKES.
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Once again, TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > {Pak Tribune] PAKISTAN'S RUSH FOR MORE [nuclear] BOMBS - WHY?
Political Jihad = Election, Govt-sharing-happy Radical Islam should no doubt be happy iff Pakistan expands its nuclear arsenal for any reason.
Also, IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US INTEL: INDIA PREPARING FOR LIMITED CONFLICT WID CHINA.
Pragmatically, any new SINO-INDIAN WAR will prolly be end outcome of antecendent AFGHAN-PAK or INDO-PAK WAR; or in altern a US-IRAN WAR as Iran has said it has no qualms using the sovereign territories of its neighbors as staging areas for asymmetric anti-US attacks, + wid or widout the consent of their neighbors' Govts.
IOW, THE SCENARIO EXISTS THAT A US-IRAN WAR MAY GO NUKULAAR WIDOUT IRAN PER SE NECESSAR HAVING TO HAVE ANY NUKES.
The first part of a long, thoroughly researched and well-written analysis by Wajahat S. Khan for The Friday Times, which weekly gives us the charming "Nuggets From the Urdu Press".
Intro: At Peace with War?
If countries were books, then airports would be their covers. Till the tarmac, Kabul's airport compares in size and dreariness levels with Quetta's. But once inside the terminal, elements of the decade-long war machine begin to glint and grind. The premise of Afghanistan's long conflict and the promise of a lingering peace reveal themselves simultaneously. At war with itself and others, Afghanistan greets its visitors not as an uncomplicated country.
Total and immediate evacuation at the minute the clock strikes 2014 is not an option... '2014 is a goal, not a deadline'
Unclear is whether the Afghans are perfectly comfortable with perpetual bellicosity or seething under occupation. One sees the hoarding for a hotel that promises blast-resistant windows and doors - always a good sign of adaptable hospitality, or hospitable adaptability. Also lurking is the prodigal son, a returned-from-Dubai immigrant lugging two flat-screen TVs, trimmed by his snazzy sunglasses and white imitation-snakeskin shoes. Most of the other passengers on the Safi Air flight are NGO types, but there are a few soldier/spy variants, though in civvies but still sporting their West Point and Annapolis rings. The police guards are randomly placed, shabbily uniformed and ill tempered. The transport C-130 spin-offs on the tarmac have their own coterie of better looking and fear inspiring protectors: armed contractors with blond manes, desert tans tans and angry tattoos that match their weaponry. The immigration officer is not amused by my Pak passport, but he's not interested to investigate much. Outside, kids are exchanging dollars and dinars out of hand-carried display cases. Some US Army, in battle fatigues but not wearing armour, are hanging by a Humvee smoking as they wait for a pick up, probably a buddy from their unit. I'm trying to capture everything, suppressing the panic of my lost luggage that a Safi staffer, in fractured Urdu, has promised will be on the next flight, when I make first contact
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"Like other progressive presidents fond of military metaphors, he [B. O.] rejects the patience of politics required by the Constitution he has sworn to uphold."
I thought that George hit the nail on the head.
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