There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug's effects on the brain creating a popular trade in legal dope that has stymied law enforcement authorities.
The users are buying a product known as K2 or "Spice," Genie" and "Zohai" that is commonly sold in head shops as incense. Produced in China and Korea, Now with 50% more melamine!
the mixture of herbs and spices is sprayed with a synthetic compound chemically similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Users roll it up in joints or inhale it from pipes, just like the real thing.
Though banned in most of Europe, K2's key ingredients are not regulated in the United States a gap that has prompted lawmakers in Missouri and Kansas to consider new legislation.
"This isn't Jerry Garcia's marijuana," said state Rep. Jeff Roorda, a Democrat from the eastern Missouri town of Barnhart. "They've used chemicals to avoid creating something that's already illegal."
Authorities in Johnson County, Kan., discovered ex-convicts on probation smoking K2, and said it is spreading to high school students.
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smoking anything with chemicals made in China would have too be worse than smoking regular pot
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Martin Grossman is scheduled to enter the death chamber at Florida State Prison just before 6 p.m. today and utter his final words to a gathering that includes relatives of the woman he
The family of wildlife officer Peggy Park has waited more than 25 years for this
killed.
The family of wildlife officer Peggy Park has waited more than 25 years for this. "We need to see that it's finally finished, it's over and we can move on," said Betsy Park, the victim's younger sister.
Betsy Park, her brother Stephen and their mother, Margaret, 79, plan to drive to the prison in Starke after flying into Jacksonville from Ohio and Maryland.
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Three Tesla Motors staffers were killed today when their twin engine Cessna clipped power lines in thick fog shortly after takeoff from Palo Alto, California and crashed into a residential area. The plane clipped a daycare facility but it was unoccupied by children at the time. Nobody on the ground was hurt.
According to the linked article:
The crash destroyed the electrical-transmission lines that run to Palo Alto, knocking out electricity to all the city's 28,000 customers, including schools and Stanford Hospital, city officials said. Residents were being asked to conserve water, which is pumped to customers with the help of electricity. The hospital was operating on backup power.
I thought this only happened in Haiti.
A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said Wednesday.
Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an intensive care unit Wednesday, said hospital director Luis Fernando Rendon. "Her chances of survival are slim," Rendon said.
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Maybe she was waving goodbye.
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Normal gastric and brain activity after death.
Superstitions abound.
WASHINGTON--The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.
Actually, money is a very meaningful but intangible social construct that allowed us to skip the difficulties of daily sequential barter sessions. But leave us not spoil the flow of the Onion's writer...
What began as a routine report before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday ended with Bernanke passionately disavowing the entire concept of currency, and negating in an instant the very foundation of the world's largest economy.
"Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we...if we..." said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his head in utter disbelief. "You know what? It doesn't matter. None of this--this so-called 'money'--really matters at all."
"It's just an illusion," a wide-eyed Bernanke added as he removed bills from his wallet and slowly spread them out before him. "Just look at it: Meaningless pieces of paper with numbers printed on them. Worthless." . . . Go read the rest.
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It is symbolic and mutual, but not an illusion.
Money represents the time exchanged in the economy, mediated by the relative productivity* of the participants.
Productivity means the ability to fulfil a shortage, it can also unfortunately be a case where "productivity" is artificially high because of the state enabling rent-seeking.
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Moneys value depends on it being used as a proxy for peoples time.
i.e. temporal barter.
If the state breaks the temporal barter, so that either not spending a currency makes you richer (deflation) or holding a currency makes you poorer (inflation) then people cease to use the currency.
Once people cease to use the currency it's Game Over.
Beleaguered golfer Tiger Woods has reportedly gone from his Florida home to the bungalow he owns in the same gated community for a meeting with officials from the Tavistock Cup to discuss plans for a comeback
TMZ.com reported that Tiger -- escorted by security to the bungalow -- attended the closed-door meeting.
The celebrity Web site has previously reported that Woods had planned to play at Tavistock next month -- a PGA event between the golf pros at Isleworth and the nearby Lake Nona. Sources told the Web site that after Tavistock, Woods plans to go to Augusta, Ga., for the Masters.
Meanwhile, Woods' wife Elin Nordegren has refused to move back in with him, RadarOnline.com reported today.
"Tiger wants her to move back home with him but so far she has said no," one source said. "She's not ready and she just doesn't trust him."
The disgraced superstar -- who has admitted to cheating on Nordegren-- reportedly attended a sex-rehab clinic in Hattiesberg, Miss., in a bid to save his broken marriage.
This comes after the golf star knocked up his porn-star gal pal twice -- both times when his wife was also pregnant, according to a bombshell interview. Joslyn James, star of such adult classics as "Big Breasted Nurses" and "My Sex Teacher #12," said her steamy romance with Woods always involved unprotected sex.
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So much for the most sincere from the bottom of the heart statement uttered oh so many years ago that he would give up golf if it meant being able to put their lives back together.
Methinks this BS is aimed at the sponsors that pulled out of their deal with this egocentric buffoon. (Please come back, you need me to spend your money, and i ain't got no more of it.)
It's almost like Gaia's laughing at us this winter...
Following a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie's surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years.
The ice ranges in thickness between paper thin along the northern shore and several inches along the southern shore, where many people are ice skating. GoErie.com reports that the lake hasn't completely frozen since the winter of 1995-1996. Although the ice cover is considered complete, prevailing winds have created some cracks in the ice.
There are also reportedly ice chunks floating off the coast of Dunkirk, N.Y., which is one of the deepest parts of the lake and would naturally be one of the last places to freeze.
Lake Erie, with an average depth of 62 feet, is the most shallow of the five Great Lakes, which is why it is the only one that completely freezes over. We should still keep the Goracle away from the other four....just in case.
Since lake-effect snow depends on warmer lake temperatures compared to the air, the frozen lake will deter large amounts of snowfall to the lee of the lake. The current cold snap will keep the lake mostly, if not completely, frozen for at least the rest of the month.
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When its a temperature event that involves 'cold' it's just weather. When its a temperature event that involves 'warm' its proof of the scam global warming. /sarc off.
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even when frozen Lake Erie contributes to lake enhanced snowfall
this is because the low friction flow over the lake is slowed (in the horizontal) and made turbulent when it hits the land terrain; both the slowing and the increase in turbulence cause lifting
its true however that the air mass no longer gains significant moisture over a frozen lake
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My mother reports from the northeast side of Buffalo that there is a very light fall of tiny snowflakes at this moment. Pretty, but doesn't build up on the ground. We make no claim to a connection with Lake Erie freezing, though.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The European Union has extended sanctions against Zimbabwe for another year, citing lack of progress in the country's power-sharing unity government.
The EU sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and some 100 of his associates include an arms embargo, travel bans, as well as asset freezes which were first introduced in 2002.
"In view of the situation in Zimbabwe, in particular the lack of progress in the implementation of the Global Political Agreement signed in September 2008, the restrictive measures ... should be extended for a further period of 12 months," the official journal of the European Union said on Tuesday.
A year has passed since the formation of the country's first power-sharing government in decades, following an agreement between the longtime leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai aimed at ending a post-poll unrest in the country.
The main goal of the new government was to pave the way for necessary political reforms that would lead to new, free, and fair elections.
However, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have yet to wrinkle out executive disputes at a time when Zimbabwe is suffering an economic crisis amid a chronic inflation.
Earlier this week, Tsvangerai, who is the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, called for new elections in the country.
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Venezuelan Executive Vice President Elias Jaua on Monday brushed aside any possibility of accepting a Colombian electricity supply offer. Jaua said that the government "is busy and working to power up its own Cuban independent electricity system," therefore the offer made by Colombian authorities was superfluous. Meanwhile, Alí Rodríguez, the Minister of Electric Energy, said that he could not make any comment because the (strained) relations between the two countries must be considered.
Earlier, Hernán Martínez, the Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy, said that the Cabinet was discussing the possibility of exporting to Venezuela the same amount of energy that it was shipping to Ecuador, Efe reported. Martínez said that Colombia is not longer selling energy to Ecuador because the dams of its neighboring country had been filled and the government of Rafael Correa decided to stop purchasing energy at such a high price.
"We have a small surplus of energy that could be sold to Venezuela if they request us to do so," the Energy Minister said. Martínez admitted that Colombia has not received any formal request by Venezuela.
I wouldn't push it. You could use the revenue, true, but it just creates trouble. Let Oogo stew in his own juices ...
Jaime Bermúdez, the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had also said that his country could help Venezuela with power supply.
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Haw, haw haw haaa... maybe the leeches in Massachusetts might care to give back the heating oil assistance they let Hugo steal from his slaves citizens last decade?
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You just know Martinez had a big shit-eating grin when he made the offer...
Japan's foreign minister says an anti-whaling activist being held onboard a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean will be taken to Tokyo and will not be released to a third country. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada says Peter Bethune, from the Sea Shepherd conservation group, is being held aboard the ship under international maritime law.
"In principle we will not hand the activist over to a third country. We are preparing to bring him to Japan," he said. "He is under protective custody in accordance with the law."
Mr Bethune was detained two days ago after jumping aboard the Shonan Maru 2 and attempting to present its skipper with a $3 million bill for the destruction of the Ady Gil powerboat, of which he was captain.
Japanese media reports say that after Mr Bethune has been taken to Tokyo, the government will try to establish a criminal case and possibly charge him with piracy.
Japan's NHK television is reporting that the New Zealander will be detained on the Shonan Maru 2, the security ship shadowing the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic.
"Bethune is to be handed over to the Japan Coast Guard when the ship returns to Japan in about a month, and could face charges under Japanese law," the report said. "Bethune would be the first Sea Shepherd member to be questioned by Japanese authorities."
Mr Okada will visit Australia this weekend for talks with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his foreign and defence ministers, and Japan's whaling program is again expected to be high on the agenda.
"We are going to discuss various bilateral issues as well as global issues such as climate change and nuclear disarmament, to develop a strategic partnership between our two countries," said Mr Okada. "Probably we will discuss [the] whaling issue as well. Australia has various opinions about research whaling. So we discuss these sufficiently" he says.
While threatening legal action against Japan over its whaling program, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has insisted he will try to find a diplomatic solution first.
Two years ago two Sea Shepherd activists boarded a whaling ship and tied themselves to the deck, but they were later released with the help of an Australian government ship.
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Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone. Since when did this become a policy issue ... 40 lacking it would imply 60 percent -- a majority -- do. Since it's a growing majority it represents a bandwagon to be jumped with credit to be taken down the road.
The Obama administration and Congress have identified universal broadband as a key to driving economic development, producing jobs and bringing educational opportunities and cutting-edge medicine to all corners of the country. Expect Bambi to propose universal broadband reform ...
''We're at a point where high-speed access to the Internet is critical to the ability of people to be successful in today's economy and society at large,'' said Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an arm of the Commerce Department that released the data today.
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There are funds in the $780 billion "stimulus" bill to install broadband nationwide. Of course there is no mention that if you can get Dish Satellite you can get broadband.
they are fishing for a new entitlement giveaway to buy some votes with shiny objects.
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Obviously what we need is a 12,000% tax on the service purchased by the 60% who do have high speed Internet at home in order to build a slush fund to subsidize the purchase of service for the 40% who do not. It's the (new) American way.
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A lot of the folks who don't have internet don't care about it. My dad is 84 and high tech to him is a land-line telephone. Any more than that he couldn't or wouldn't use. What business is it of the government?
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I wonder how much the Internet companies will have to bribe Americas "representatives" in order to force taxpayers to bump up their rent-seeking profits.
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Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone.
I watched a segment of old CnetTV in which an advocate was comparing the US with South Korea on high speed internet connectivity. No where in the discussion were the pertinent facts considered. South Korea is about the size of Kansas. One quarter of the population lives in and around Seoul. That South Korea has no history of 'United States' with sovereign powers vested in those states [and 50 public utility commissions]. The four corners area [NM, CO, UT, AZ] has huge areas lacking basic telephone service [and even electrical power], particularly on the Navajo Reservation which is a huge piece of the area. It was never going to get 'wired'. Only the advent of cellular service is making it technically feasible to consider. Basic point is that there are geographical limitations to laying broadband that there are in laying any other physical means of transmission.
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Jeebus. I didn't have internet access at home at all until December, and I'm in my Thirties with a steady job. What the hell, people? Why is this even a concern? I'm more pissed about the fact that they're using food stamps in Southern California at restaurants now, and crowing about it on NPR as if it wasn't a feckless waste of the public fisc.
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Expect Bambi to propose universal broadband reform ...
Didn't Algore, inventor of the internet and saviour of the planet pbuh, already solve this with an extra tax on our phone bill?
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Matters not. There are taxes to be levied and contracts to be let to campaign donors.
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Out here in "God's Country" United Communications. a private entity, ran fibre optics to all the small towns ten years ago. Those people that do not have the high speed acces do so because of the cost. Yea, greedy capitalist want you to pay for the service.
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There are taxes to be levied and contracts to be let to campaign donors.
In addition to the usual, uhhh, 'revenue opportunities', once we have universal internet access, we can all vote from home. No more inconvenient driving to the polling place, none of that complicated 'showing id' stuff. And no more hanging chads, since the whole process of counting votes can be automated. The possibilities are boggling!
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It's not 40 don't have access to broadband. It's 40% don't want or won't pay for it. Entirely different things.
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Brer Rabbi, I believe that Obama should fix that last problem.
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This is like the canard that somewhere between 20-300 million people don't have health care coverage. For many of them, it's not that they can't get it, it's that they don't want it, or at least they don't want to pay for it.
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I run into many seniors while running errands at the stores, and most of them are afraid of that computer 'contraption'..
Just how "Senior" are they, I'm 63 and love mine, Win 7 and Google chrome. and yes I have high speed internet I love online movies, there's no way I could pay to go to the theatre these days, not to mention that what I want to see is not playing
But I have absolutely no interest in Face book.
(None of your damn business what I do daily and minute to minute.)
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300,000,999 Americans will die in the next 100 years. Where is the outcry?
"From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, will not be considered legal if it is done in cash.
They forgot robots.
Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards."
The nicer holiday rentals, yachts, and jewelry sales will now be recorded and taxed. Official copies of antique clay jars and diaphanous cotton scarves will still be cash'n'carry for the tourist trade.
"With the tax scale, there is a shift of the burden from low and middle income to high incomes.
"There's tax relief for incomes up to 40,000 (euros)"
Brilliant -- let's reduce the tax base in order to balance the budget! It's never worked before, but we're Greek, so it will! Yay for us!!
"Taxable income based on the new scales will include capital gains from the short-term trading of stocks."
REFORMS
"The income policy frame and the tax reform are part of the government's wider effort to clean up fiscal finances ... and open new roads for growth. We all know the difficult situation the country is in, we all know the government has submitted to the European Commission a stability and growth plan.
"We all know that the public sector wage policy is full of injustices ... which have been formed by adding up various allowances without a central direction.
"Everyone needs to contribute clearly to the big effort to save our economy. It is necessary to contain the cost of wages and (have) a just distribution of the burden between workers."
But not the non-workers: the pensioners, the moneyed rich clipping their coupons. They need not be troubled by our current troubles.
TAXATION
"Every autonomous taxation ... for special professions, like engineers, architects, taxis, gas station owners and kiosks is abolished"
That makes sense. The economy will save a fortune in paperwork alone.
BANK DEPOSITS
"Deposits in banks outside Greece are exempted from audits of their origin if they are repatriated within six months of the passing of the tax bill and are taxed with a 5 percent rate"
Another idea that's never worked before. Europe isn't all that big, and one can always start one's holiday travels in the country where one's spare funds are banked.
PUBLIC PENSIONS
"Public sector pensions will increase by 1.5 percent, except those above 2,000 euros a month"
I thought we were cutting pensions, guys, or at least raising the retirement age to match those countries which we hope will pay for our previous extravagances. This strikes me as a deal-breaker.
PUBLIC SECTOR WAGE CUTS
"We need to contain the public wage bill and fairly share out the burden".
"The wage cuts will begin from 18 euros a month, reaching 345 euros a month for court officials. In percentages, it will be between 1 and 5.5 percent"
OMG! We'll all starve in the streets!!!!! The lower bound might be as much as $30/month -- we'll be reduced to going to McDonalds before the movie on one of our date nights. Another deal-breaker, guys.
"The impact on low-income earners will be mitigated by lower taxes on middle and low incomes"
If it's mitigated, how does that help the budget imbalance?
"The public sector wage income bill increased by 88 percent since 2001, far above the GDP increase"
Eighty-eight percent up, average three percent down -- that'll placate the Germans.
REFORMS
"Income policy and the tax changes are in the framework of cleaning up public finances.
SPENDING CUTS
"There will be no wage increase for the prime minister and ministers and their allowances will be cut by 10 percent."
"Wages of board members in unlisted state companies will fall by 50 percent"
"The budget bill for allowances and compensations will be cut by 10 percent"
I seem to remember the demand was for a 13% cut in budgetted spending, although it's quite possible I misremember the number. The listed proposal, partial though that list is, does not seem to my untutored eye likely to come anywhere near that demand.
A week of labor protests in Greece began with workers from the finance ministry protesting salary cuts as part of the finance minister's ambitious three-year austerity program. "What we are protesting is the reduction in wages and also the elimination of the autonomous tax rate enjoyed by ministry employees," said Yiorgos Samaris, president of the Federation of Unions of the Finance Ministry, known as OSYO.
Among the measures adopted by the government is a wage freeze in the public sector, a 10% across-the-board cut in civil-service bonuses, and an end to preferential tax rates enjoyed by many civil servants and other professions like taxi drivers and engineers.
Combined, the cut in bonuses and the end of preferential tax rates means that many of Greece's better-paid civil servantslike customs officials, tax collectors and Finance Ministry employeeswill see their wages cut by as much as 25% in real terms.
Greece has been warned by European finance ministers that it must make further cuts to spending and public sector wages or face more sanctions. A joint statement from the 16 eurozone nations it said Greece needed to get its debt under control and calm "irrational" financial markets.
Last week, the European Union vowed to help Greece if needed. But the idea of bailing out a euro nation has been badly received, prompting a harsher stance.
Greece's woes have sent the value of the euro down to a nine-month low recently.
Now the country has been told that further measures will be imposed if its debt reduction plans are not on target by 16 March.
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What do we have to do to get someone to order more spending cuts here in the USA?
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That threat is interesting. After March 16, they are talking about stripping the Greek government of the ability to either tax or spend, with EU finance ministers taking over control of all finances.
There is no way in hell a sovereign nation can tolerate that, and it will likely result in the Greek government just refusing to obey.
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Read an interesting post somewhere that said the Greeks, and everyone else in the world gets to choose two of democracy, sovereignty or globalization. Which two do you want?
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After March 16, they are talking about stripping the Greek government of the ability to either tax or spend, with EU finance ministers taking over control of all finances.
This actually happened in that other cradle of democracy, Springfield, Mass. a few years ago.
The once proud city (home of basketball, the first US car company and Dr. Seuss)went broke because of out-of-control public spending and was put under a control board.
The city council would still meet and vote on meaningless resolutions, but the control board called the shots on spending and taxes.
The public employee unions went nuts, but end of day, it worked, and Springfield finally got out from under receivership.
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I find that most people do not understand that inflation is a form of taxation.
All the money these bastards spent on the fake sham called stimulus will eventually drain the wallets of the poor and hurt them worse than the rich.
Power to the people and all that crap.
There is no reason to have spent that money. All it was for is payoff for the corrupt scumbags that got the current corrupt scumbags in office. Nothing more.
Government never has, and never will "create jobs". A job is an exchange of service or good for cash.
This is an exchange of cash for votes. It's all a third world nation project adopted by this foolish communist moslem in his effort to mask his ignorance of economics in a shrill project of phony prodginy.
At this point, he has spent all of the time he had with my help. He and his party is a waste of our time and money and must be corrected lawfully.
Justice must be served and the funds cut off. Time for the pain right now.
China, don't buy one more bond.
Americans - you just continue to shrugg and when voting time comes about, take both House and Senate and contain obama like north korea.
Then repeal everything - and I mean everything they have done.
According to Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, last weekâs Northern Hemisphere snow extent was the second highest on record, at 52,166,840 km2. This was only topped by the second week in February, 1978 at 53,647,305 km2. Rutgers has kept records continuously for the last 2,227 weeks, so being #2 is quite an accomplishment.
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This is exactly as the global warming crowd predicted.
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"Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Second Highest On Record"
2227 week = 43 years.
2010 - 43 = 1967
So, the "second highest on record" really means "the second highest in the past 43 years" or "the second highest since I was in college."
Howzabout the "snow extent" during The Little Ice Age? Howzabout the "snow extent" during The Year Without a Summer?
Oh, that's right - we don't know what the "snow extent" was a few hundred years ago, because we only recently started keeping records.
So, whether you tell me the records you do have mean it's getting warmer or cooler doesn't mean jack, because the records don't go back very far and don't cover much of the world's land area.
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Barb, ya're nitpicking. It is settled. I compared all the known scams in the past and... this is the hockey stick for real!
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Remember weather is NOT climate. Use the following handy chart:
Extreme cold - NOT climate
Record snowfall - NOT climate
Hurricanes - climate
Tsunamis - climate
Earthquakes - climate
$$$ for UN bureaucrats - climate
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First of all, it's not an "island" of any sort. Second, I kind of don't care. It sounds like an interesting incubator for the evolution of cool new trash-eating life forms.
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Environmentalists initially overblew the story talking about plastic grocery bags covering the surface, yet there was no photos and no proof, and then the fact that garbage bags break down in the sun. Now stories of an island that appear to be a bit less than an island which makes it so we pretty much have to trust the story.
Well if there is an island of trash out there I have three thoughts. (1) The environmentalists really lost me with the global warming fiasco and they are gonna have to do some serious proof to convince me (2) considering the massive size of the Pacific ocean a patch the size of Texas that is sporadic and not full of garbage isn't all that bad (3) Isn't mother nature wonderful for bringing it all to one place so it will be easier to clean up if we decide to do so.
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Anyhoo, the idea that one of the biggest environmental disasters of our age had been going on outside nearly everyone's awareness piqued our curiosity,
A consequence of the environmental movements almost exclusive pushing of the GW nonsense.
Besides the biggest environmental disaster of recent times is the destruction of SE Asia rainforest to grow biofuels.
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In the 60's our marine biology class in HS would go down to the ferry landing and ride a ferry across puget sound towing plankton nets. Results looked kinda similar.(minus the plastic)
This is an old article in Scientific American but I believe it should be required reading for all Americans, particularly in high school science classes. We can have a secure energy future without the worry of nuclear weapons proliferation.
Indias first Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) for commercial nuclear energy generation is likely to be delayed by a year. The 500-megawatt equivalent (Mwe) reactor, which is being built at Kalpakkam (near Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, was initially expected to be commissioned by 2010-end.
The MOX fuel will power India's first seven fast reactors including the upcoming 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) of which one will have the flexibility to convert to metallic fuel.
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We could just salt the landscape of Pakiwakiland's frontier provinces with it...
Just saying...
#3
We'd be better off working out the details of a Thorium fuel cycle than returning to reprocessing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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Beleaguered golfer Tiger Woods has reportedly gone from his Florida home to the bungalow he owns in the same gated community for a meeting with officials from the Tavistock Cup to discuss plans for a comeback
Roughly 40 percent of Americans do not have high-speed Internet access at home, according to new Commerce Department figures that underscore the challenges facing policymakers who are trying to bring affordable broadband connections to everyone.
