A Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday.
Kentucky State Police said Bill Sparkman died at the same location where his body was found Sept. 12 near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Kentucky.
A man who discovered the body in the Daniel Boone National Forest said the 51-year-old was bound with duct tape, gagged and had an identification badge taped to his neck.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Markos Moulitsas to apologize to Glenn Beck in 5 .. 4 .. 3 ..
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/25/2009 0:37 Comments ||
Top||
On a crisp fall day in a cemetery in Queens, a Marine Corps honor guard blew taps over the country's oldest female Marine.
Sgt. Miriam Cohen did not die jumping on a hand grenade, or storming the beaches of Normandy or battling the Japanese on Iwo Jima.
Most appropriately, she died on Veteran's Day, one day after the 234th birthday of the United States Marines Corps. Cohen lived nearly half as long: She would have been 102 on Dec. 13.
When World War II threatened civilization, this beautiful, gutsy Brooklyn gal answered the call of a bugle, just like the one that played over her coffin Tuesday.
"Miriam was born in Sheepshead Bay and graduated from Smith College, where she was the only Jew in the school," says her younger sister Marine Roberta Eaton, 86, of the Women's Marines Association of New York.
"On Feb. 13, 1943, Miriam graduated in the first class of WWII women Marines. At 35, she was one of the oldest women to ever join the Marines."
Cohen did six weeks of basic training at Hunter College, (where Lehman College stands today) honing her secretarial skills to fulfill the Marine Women's motto: "To Free a Man to Fight."
"Unlike the WACS and WAVES, Marine women have no acronym," Eaton says. "We were Marines. Period. Marines for life. Miriam told me she was stationed at USMC headquarters in Washington during WWII. She had special clearance to handle sensitive documents."
In those days, Marine women did not live on base with the men. They got "subs and quarters" allowance to live in boarding houses. Pay was less than $50 a month.
Miriam also served in the Korean War, traveling with generals to Virginia and San Francisco.
"Miriam never owned anything besides a dog and a cat," Eaton says. "Always rented apartments. Never drove. Always took the subway. Never married. Had no children. She had a brother who died many years ago."
After retiring from the IRS, where she worked after 10 years of military service, Miriam Cohen refused to collect Social Security.
"I told her she was nuts," Eaton says. "Miriam said, 'My government needs the money more than I do.' I'm telling ya, she was a real character. I'd call her avant-garde, an independent thinker in the tradition of Amelia Earhart ... and Susan B. Anthony."
Cohen volunteered at Brooklyn's VA Hospital, where she pushed wounded G.I.s in wheelchairs into her 90s. Every Saturday she went to New York Foundling Hospital to read stories to the city's forgotten children.
Unless the Women's Marine Association had a meeting.
"Her sister Marines were like family to her," Eaton says. "She was also a helluva sketch artist and a member of the Art Student's League. She adored museums and Broadway shows and if you went out with her she'd have a glass of wine and always insist on buying you dinner.
"She was incredibly generous. She also enjoyed a beer with a hot dog at a barbecue. Miriam must have had a few bucks, but she never talked about money. She followed the beat of her own drum: She'd eat chicken for breakfast and scrambled eggs for dinner, and pickled herring on a holiday.
"If I had to sum up Miriam Cohen in a single word, I'd say she was a pisser. "
Cohen was so impulsive that when her Brooklyn landlord gave her grief, a friend told her Tucson was a nice place to live, so she just packed up, at 93, and moved.
"When I visited her I asked how the hell a Brooklyn girl could live in 3,000-degree desert heat," Eaton says. "She said, 'I like it.'"
Four years ago Cohen finally moved into a private nursing home, still insisting on taking a long Marine march each day.
"It was no coincidence that stubborn old Miriam chose Veteran's Day to salute the world goodbye," says Eaton, who stood graveside in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale as a USMC bugler played taps over the flag-draped coffin of our oldest lady Marine, who heard a similar bugle call her to duty 66 years ago.
#6
God bless, indeed. RIP. I bet she was a challenge in all the best ways
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/25/2009 21:12 Comments ||
Top||
#7
She sounds like she was a delight, to those who met her standards. And no doubt a holy terror to those who didn't... until they did. This nation is blessed by those who choose to serve.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A paralyzed Brazilian man has wakened up after 23 years of wrongly being diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
Rom Houben, now 46, was trapped in his own world, suffering from a condition known as locked-in syndrome, said Steven Laureys of the University of Liege.
Locked-in Syndrome is a neurological condition in which the patient is aware of his/her environment but has minimal reflexive movements often limited to eye blinks.
In Houben's case, however, the diagnosis was more difficult as he was partly paralyzed following a fatal car crash in 1983, unable to show a motor response.
Using modern brain scanning technology, neurologist found that Houben's cerebral cortex, which was assumed to be in deep coma, had a near-normal function.
"I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me -- it was my second birth," Houbens told the German magazine Der Spiegel, communicating via a special keyboard.
He added that he has been fully conscious and aware of everything around him the entire time but unable to response during the past 23 years.
"Differentiating the vegetative from the minimally conscious state is often one of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians involved in the care of patients with disorders of consciousness," said Laureys.
Laureys argued that new imaging technology will help physicians identify more individuals like Houbens, who have been misdiagnosed to be in a vegetative state.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Belgian. Brazilian. It's all infidel.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 0:30 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Determining the presence or absence of consciousness has always been fraught with error. Imaging technology has changed a lot in 23 years. Perhaps some day science will be able to detect consciousness outside of/independent of a human body.
Honduran police detained two Nicaraguans and two Hondurans along with several rifles, and interim President Roberto Micheletti claimed the weapons were part of a plot to attack him during Sunday's presidential election.
The suspects, weapons, communications equipment and gun sights were found during a raid on a house in the city of El Progreso, north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, authorities said Tuesday.
"Today, police informed me that there was going to be an attack against me in the city of Progreso when I went to vote," Micheletti said at a news conference. Micheletti is from Progreso. With Ortega pulling off the same trick where Zelaya failed.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 09:49 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under:
[Iran Press TV Latest] Police have busted five cocaine labs in an Indian village in Bolivia and arrested two people, while one officer was shot.
Some Indians managed to escape arrest as others held the police at bay with dynamite blasts, but two Indians were arrested, Maj. Alex Alfaro said on Tuesday.
One officer was killed and another was injured with a bullet-wound in the leg in the encounter that took place in the remote Indian village of Qaqachaca.
The incident took place on October 19, but it was only made public on Tuesday, November 24, Alfaro explained.
The police confiscated two Mauser rifles and destroyed coca leaves and chemicals used to process cocaine, he added.
Many around the world see the coca leaf -- the raw ingredient of cocaine -- as a source of misery, but it also has industrial uses in the cosmetics and food industries.
In addition, it is chewed by the locals, used in traditional medicines and coca tea, and plays a role in the religious ceremonies of some indigenous people of the Andean region.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
In addition, it is chewed by the locals
Snorted too, it seems.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 0:32 Comments ||
Top||
Two men have been executed in China for selling hundreds of tonnes of contaminated milk that killed six babies and made 300,000 ill. Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping were put to death after their appeals were turned down.
Zhang, a cattle farmer, had been convicted of producing and selling more than 770 tonnes of protein powder laced with the industrial chemical melamine between July 2007 and August 2008. The chemical was mixed into milk to give the appearance of a higher protein content in tests.
Geng was found guilty of selling milk tainted by the powder to dairy brokers as well as to the now-defunct Sanlu Group, a state-run dairy company that was at the heart of the fraud. A court statement said that Zhang was executed for the crime of endangering public safety. Geng was found guilty of producing and selling toxic food.
However, much of the public fury at one of the worst food scandals in China was focused on the woman who was the general manager of Sanlu, and who was widely seen as being mainly responsible for the extent of the tragedy. Tian Wenhua pleaded guilty to lesser charges of producing substandard goods and was sentenced to life in prison. Her appeal has been rejected. Many parents said at the time that they were disappointed that she would not face execution.
The scandal that erupted in September last year highlighted the shoddy safety standards of food in China and the readiness of the authorities to hush up problems that could have cast a shadow over the Beijing Olympics in August. Officials have never admitted a cover-up to avoid any tarnishing of Chinas image during last years Games but many parents of ill babies suspect that there was one.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
There's a quality assurance program in which executive decisions can't hide behind lawyers and a facade of corporate rather than individual liability.
Global investors are parking their money in China, whose economy is recovering at the fastest rate in the world, and global investment funds are rushing to profit from foreign exchange deals if the yuan appreciates against the U.S. dollar. A significant amount of the money coming into China is believed to be speculative or "hot money," which is fanning a bubble in the Chinese real estate and stock markets.
There are calls within China to allow the yuan to appreciate to stem the influx of hot money, but the government is finding it difficult to act swiftly since a stronger yuan would hurt exports.
Reversing a decline trend since the start of the year, Chinese property prices began to rise in June and grew 3.4 percent year-on-year last month to a 14-month high. The boomtown of Shenzhen in Guangdong Province saw real estate prices soar 14 percent compared to last year. In Shanghai, prices rose almost 4 percent and in Beijing nearly 3 percent.
Chinas Economic Information Daily recently warned that property prices in Beijing and Shanghai rival those of Tokyo even though average wages are just 1/10 of those in the Japanese capital. The newspaper pointed out that the increase is the equivalent of 10 years' worth in normal times.
The main reason is thought to be speculative capital from around the world. According to the Xinhua news agency, China's foreign currency reserves stood at US$2.273 trillion as of the end of the third quarter this year, up 20 percent from the same period in 2008. They rose $141 billion from July to September alone. The China International Capital Corporation estimates that $50 billion in speculative capital flowed into China in the third quarter.
They are drawn by an economy that continues to expand at the breakneck rate of 7-8 percent despite the global economic crisis. And a massive trade surplus coupled with swelling foreign currency reserves is fanning expectations that the yuan will at long last be allowed to appreciate again, raising hopes of bumper profits. Financial authorities estimate that this hot money is being repackaged to look as if it was Chinese in origin and is being invested in the real estate and stock markets.
The Chinese government is starting to try and stem the inflow of hot money because speculative investors are hoarding yuan and putting pressure on Chinese forex authorities to allow it to appreciate.
Beijing is criticizing the U.S., which is the source of much of the hot money, saying the Fed's low-interest policy is sending investors to China in search of higher returns. But some feel the Chinese government cannot hold out forever and the yuan will have to rise. There are even recommendations to allow the yuan to strengthen drastically over a short period to stem the influx of hot money.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Financial authorities estimate that this hot money is being repackaged to look as if it was Chinese in origin and is being invested in the real estate and stock markets.
Yyyyyyeah about that, they might have trouble getting it out of China. And that's just the government, the "trusted" people that own their stocks and real estate for them...well I hope you own an army of underworld thugs otherwise you ain't gonna collect.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
11/25/2009 18:57 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I think they mean pictures of Putin
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/25/2009 20:32 Comments ||
Top||
#3
So I guess Obama won't be reprising the Brandenburg Gate speech in Warsaw.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 21:15 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Redneck Jim, never too late, but a bit misguided. The symbols are just... symbols. Ban commies and institute a dip test (a commie drowns--innocent, a commie does not drown--guilty and subject to a capital punishment). An alternative would be tar and feathers, and launching from the roof of a tall building. A commie flies and lands unharmed--innocent; a commie splats--guilty.
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet.
When you read some of those files -- including 1079 emails and 72 documents -- you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be "the greatest in modern science". These alleged emails -- supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory -- suggest:
Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:
"In an odd way this is cheering news."
But perhaps the most damaging revelations -- the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph's MPs' expenses scandal -- are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause. Heh heh. We're always right about this sort of nonsense, since us troglodytes of the right have noses that are better attuned to scams and nonsense than are the sophisticated denizens of the left. Probably comes from having to fight off the televangelists.
You'd think this would be the end of the whole matter, that it'd disappear like a bubble burst, never to be discussed again by those who were taken in. It ain't gonna happen that way: there's going to be denial, there will be calls for the heads and probably the testicles of the people who broke in and made off the the emails, and there's gonna be a whole lot of pretending nothing happened -- just continue on with proposals to tax the entire world to cope with climate change, whether it be Global Warming or Nuclear Winter or Silent Spring or whatever's going to happen in the Fall.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
No it is not the end for the AGW hypothesis.
For one thing, El Nino is strengthening in the Pacific and for the next few months global temps will probably be a bit higher than the long term (15 year) average.
For another thing, even without the CRU 'data', there is no doubt that CO2 absorbs energy in the visible spectrum (as do other gases, e.g., water vapor) and no doubt that greater absorption of energy leads to a higher temperature in the atmosphere as a whole. The details for how all this works out (e.g., whether and how much lower troposphere heating occurs as a result)in time and space are open (or should be) to investigation, debate, etc.
Posted by: lord garth ||
11/25/2009 10:13 Comments ||
Top||
#2
there is no doubt that CO2 absorbs energy in the visible spectrum
Actually, CO2 is transparent in the visible spectrum. Oxygen is the greatest contributor in the visible spectrum. It absorbs the longer visible spectra, so the sky is blue. CO2's absorption peaks are at 2.6, 4.3, and 14-16 microns. Not coincidentally, those are at near 100% peaks for the total atmospheric spectra. That's why doubling CO2 does not double heat absorption. The CO2 absorption peaks are already saturated can add little more. The 1.8um peak being the exception and is the greatest warming contribution w/ rising CO2.
I think a greater effect comes from particulate pollution of the atmosphere and albedo changes to the surface from civilization (roads, roofs, esp carbon black based components like soot) that are strong broadband absorbers from the ultraviolet to the long infrared.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 11:01 Comments ||
Top||
#3
They now sprinkle Concrete dust over the black asphalt, It was found that the sun's heat, combined with the weight of passing traffic would "Sqwoosh" the asphalt and make two "Troughs" where the tires pass, very dangerous, the idea is the asphalt doesn't get so hot, the side effect is less global warming , so its a two-fer.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
11/25/2009 13:12 Comments ||
Top||
#4
I'm starting to think the Sun and the Oceans maybe have a large effect on stuff, altho I haven't ruled out the Tree Jinn Occilation quiet yet.
Posted by: Perry Stanford White ||
11/25/2009 14:54 Comments ||
Top||
#5
thanks ed
my head was thinking 'longer than visible' while my hand was typing
I'm bad like that
Posted by: lord garth ||
11/25/2009 19:16 Comments ||
Top||
#6
#3 - that's nonsense - inadequate pavement structural section for the loaded condition (i.e.: buses and trucks) plus poor compaction is the issue. Don't even try me on this...
Posted by: Frank G ||
11/25/2009 20:35 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Don't even try me on this...
Did they use this crap to cover up shoddy worksmanship and ban studded tires where you live, too?
A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.
Perpetrated mostly by the advocates of said warming, or hasn't the good professor noticed the savaging of the climate skeptics in the media? Not to mention how they've been handled in the scientific literature. Or is it okay to ruin someone's professional career if they're a climate skeptic?
Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, said the hackers' intentions may have been to influence discussions in an upcoming global climate change summit in Denmark.
Or just to reveal the truth ...
"It comes down to politics at sort of all levels, and some of it's nasty and some of it is trying to destroy the message or even kill the messenger so to speak," Trenberth said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Suppose for a moment that there was a right wing think tank involved in the science of denying climate change.
Now suppose that scientists and administrators within that think tank were fudging the data and 'adjusting' their models so as to back their claims.
And suppose that they had been working to sabotage the careers of those who disagreed with them.
And suppose they were working with celebrities, politicians and other low-lifes to perpetrate a fraud on the public.
Got that? Now suppose a brave hacker had released the e-mails and documents that demonstrated all this.
The question (and remember, death is not an option): how do you think the MSM would handle that revelation? The answer says a lot about the debate today.
The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, said hackers last week stole about a decade's worth of data from a computer server at the university's Climatic Research Unit, a leading global research center on climate change.
About 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents have been posted on Web sites and seized on by climate change skeptics, who claim correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming, and evidence that some have manipulated evidence.
"The messengers in this case are the scientists who are putting forward a basis for this, the basis for the climate change based on, and founded upon the facts, the measurements and the observations and our best interpretation of those," Trenberth said.
Trenberth said he's identified 102 e-mails stolen from a British university's computer server. Hackers distributed only documents that could help attempts by skeptics to undermine the scientific consensus on man-made climate change.
Many of the exchanges were between him and Phil Jones, the British research center's director. The two men worked on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, which articulated the scientific community's consensus on global warming in 2001 and 2007.
"What you see in those e-mails are exchanges among a whole bunch of scientists on issues," Trenberth said. "What you will find is that there is a tremendous amount of integrity, vigorous discussion about issues and exactly how to handle issues... So it's far from a whole bunch of scientists agreeing and colluding to do things. They're actually arguing, vigorously, about the science."
Trenberth, a well-respected atmospheric scientist, said it did not appear that all the documents stolen from the university had been distributed on the Internet by the hackers.
At least 65 world leaders will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December as representatives of 191 nations seek agreement on a new global treaty on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under:
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
11/25/2009 1:32 Comments ||
Top||
#2
What these folks did is SOP in academia around any major dogma. However, the issue went far beyond academia. Thus, they found that big frogs should stay in their own small pond and not venture into the ocean.
#3
It's projection - projecting one's unacceptable thoughts onto The Other. They know they're doing it for politics, and the fact that someone would want to expose the truth simply because it is the truth does not enter their minds. Global warming is all about politics, the science is not even really needed except as a sort of footnote to the political discussions.
#11
The question (and remember, death is not an option): how do you think the MSM would handle that revelation? The answer says a lot about the debate today.
First response, you're Lying
Second response, Knew it all the time, BUT
Third response Ignore the truth as long as possible
Fourth response begin again with "One".
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
11/25/2009 12:40 Comments ||
Top||
#12
The following is the introduction to a message sent out by the University of East Anglia yesterday on the campus portal. This was sent to me by a PhD student there that is a friend.
Note that the University is parroting the lies.
Climatic Research Unit update - November 24, 3.30pm
The University of East Anglia has released statements from Prof Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Prof Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, and from CRU.
Statement from Professor Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research
The publication of a selection of the emails and data stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led to some questioning of the climate science research published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and interpretation. CRUs peer-reviewed publications are consistent with, and have contributed to, the overwhelming scientific consensus that the climate is being strongly influenced by human activity. The interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice mean that the strongly-increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere do not produce a uniform year-on-year increase in global temperature. On time-scales of 5-10 years, however, there is a broad scientific consensus that the Earth will continue to warm, with attendant changes in the climate, for the foreseeable future. It is important, for all countries, that this warming is slowed down, through substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the most dangerous impacts of climate change. Respected international research groups, using other data sets, have come to the same conclusion.
#13
> There is nothing in the stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of global warming and related climate change are not of the highest-quality of scientific investigation and interpretation.
#16
So, we have one and a half sentences regarding the information release with no attempt to excuse its astonishing content. The other 85% is typical AGW propaganda. What are these people thinking about? Careers are going down in total disgrace, but it's business as usual with them.
In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming "skeptics" had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to manufacture a "hockey stick" graph showing a dramatic-but illusory-runaway warming trend in the late 20th century.
But now newer and much broader evidence has emerged that looks like it will break that scandal wide open. Pundits have already named it "Climategate."
A hacker-or possibly a disillusioned insider-has gathered thousands of e-mails and data from the CRU and made them available on the Web. Officials at the CRU have verified the breach of their system and acknowledged that the e-mails appear to be genuine.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Hack scientists: no more reputable or trustworthy than used-car salesmen.
#3
How is Michael Mann different from Ward Churchill? And how soon will pressure be brought on Penn State to revoke his tenure and throw him off campus? And before you say no way, remember a trunk will be the next governor.
#5
I've been published in GRL. Its review process is simpler than the higher end journals (JGR) and articles - 'letters' - shorter, for a faster cycle time and more timely publication of cutting edge research. Or at least that was the idea originally.
[Straits Times] PROSECUTORS urged judges at Cambodia's war crimes court on Tuesday to hand a lengthy jail term to the former prison chief of the Khmer Rouge regime for his role in the 'Killing Fields' atrocities.
Duch - whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav - has apologised repeatedly and admitted responsibility for his actions under the blood-soaked communist movement, which killed up to two million people in the 1970s.
But prosecutors giving their final arguments to the UN-backed tribunal after a nine-month trial said Duch 'was the personification of ruthless efficiency' and the 'perfect candidate' to run the regime's principal torture centre.
'It does not matter that others may not admit their guilt or fail to cooperate with authorities,' prosecutor Chea Leang told the court. 'It is simply inconceivable that anything other than a lengthy sentence of imprisonment should be imposed on him.'
She said Duch held a unique, central role in the Khmer Rouge security apparatus and called on judges to reject defence suggestions he was a scapegoat for a regime which had a network of some 200 prisons across Cambodia.
The former maths teacher, 67, faces a maximum life sentence as the tribunal does not have the power to impose the death penalty. A verdict is expected in March next year.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#2
Usual lying crap MSM poll frontloaded with extra Quislingcrats. Follow the links back to the WaPo's actual data and you'll see the Clay-Footed Messiah with a 61% favorable / 39% unfavorable rating.
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) ||
11/25/2009 16:36 Comments ||
Top||
#3
I answered a "Poll" they wanted to know how much I "Loved" Mr goodbar candy, as the questions progressed and they found ididn't like theur candy, suddenly the "Poll" shut off, unfinished and incomplete, so o course it wasn't counted.
Moral, Don't believe what Polls tell you, make up your own mind.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
11/25/2009 18:56 Comments ||
Top||
#4
The old National Lampoon put polls into perspective.
98% of Americans do not want another Hiroshima.
96% of Americans do not want another Nagasaki.
92% of Americans want their children to marry Smurfs.
#5
So even though the temperature record says temps peaked in 1998 and have been dropping for the last 10 years, people are still susceptible to propaganda. Even though the 1930's were even hotter, leftist media propaganda takes it's toll.
What the ABC/WapO poll does not say is whether folks think humans cause it. But Rasmussen delves further (Nov 13): The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 47% of voters blame global warming on planetary trends, while 37% of voters take the opposite view and blame human activity. Just 5% point to some other reason.
Voters continue to believe the president holds the opposite view. Fifty percent (50%) say President Obama blames global warming on human activity, while only 20% think he blames planetary trends. But another 21% are not sure what the president believes.
So 1/3 of folks believe in MMGW but half of folks believe President Obama is even dumber than they are. Even the ABC/WaPo poll notices the rising skepticism.
Posted by: ed ||
11/25/2009 21:11 Comments ||
Top||
#6
What do you expect? How much has the MSM covered Climategate?
#7
well, i live in a pretty conservative area of the country, and the local schools have been playing Al-Gore's movie 2x a year in science class to all kids starting in 6th grade. projects protraying the effects of AGW are required. my son was not allowed to enter a paper on the real science. the first and primary requirement of the assignment was that AGW is real and accepted as gospel fact. no alternative was allowed in the classroom. papers/projects that did not work from the premise of CO2 is destroying the planet were not accepted.
Posted by: abu do you love ||
11/25/2009 23:32 Comments ||
Top||
Although he continues to ride a bike or bus to work, line-dry family clothing and use a push lawn mower, University of Utah professor Tim Garrett believes humans can't really affect climate change. Instead, he says the Earth's course will run along a "predetermined trajectory."
He doesn't see the major cause of global warming being stabilized any other way than if the increasing flow of carbon-dioxide emissions ultimately collapses the world's economy or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day. Nuclear plants, which produce one gigawatt of continuous power, would be necessary to compensate for the increasing growth in energy consumption around the world, said Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at the U. Apparently, he still believes CO2 is the source of all the warming, but also that it is hopeless to conserve?
Although it "feels good to conserve energy," he said, "there shouldn't be any pretense that it will make a difference."
These views, both radical and controversial, will be published this week in Climate Change, an online academic journal edited by renowned Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider. Other research journals declined to publish Garrett's research.
"I end up with a global economic growth model different than they have," he said. Garrett treats civilization as a "heat engine" that "consumes energy and does 'work' in the form of economic production, which then spurs it to consume more energy," he said. Makes sense.
"Economists think you need population and standard of living to estimate productivity," Garrett said. "In my model, all you need to know is how fast energy consumption is rising."
It's like a child who "grows by consuming food, and when the child grows, it is able to consume more food, which enables it to grow more," he said, adding that when the food supply runs short, the child will stop growing and eventually die. Or live out a full and productive life.
"If society invests sufficient resources into alternative and new, non-carbon energy supplies, then perhaps it can continue growing without increasing global warming," he said, adding that it would be "too bad" if civilization pursued avenues for climate change that ultimately backfired. "Ultimately, it's not clear that policy decisions have the capacity to change the future course of civilization." I hope this makes it all the way to Copenhagen.
Posted by: Bobby ||
11/25/2009 11:01 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Actually, his attitude reminds me of a 5-year drought in California back in the 80's. Individuals were doing their best to cut down on water usage ( the "don't flush the toilet" thing was a bit tacky) even though they new it was a drop in the bucket compared to the water being used by agriculture in the state. I think the idea was cut down where you can and save the expenditures for where it's really needed.
(sorry about the drop/buckeyt pun - unintentional )
I've got my own opinions about Major Hasan, and they're not complimentary. He wore the same uniform I used to wear. He was an officer in the same Army I used to be in. He lifted his hand and swore to uphold the same Constitution. And he betrayed all of those things: the uniform, the Army and the Constitution.
Worse, this piece of meat was an officer. Now, I'll be the first to attest that it's not always easy being an officer. You have to adhere to standards even when you'd rather take a nap or get drunk. Officers have to provide the example for the men they lead, which means they've got to be true blue incorruptible. They provide the reference for both their enlisted personnel and for their NCOs. An officer might sometimes be just as stupid as anyone else, but he can never be venal, can never betray his men.
That's precisely what Major Hasan did. First he divorced himself from the national culture and from the organization. Then he betrayed the troops. If there's a God, and God dispenses justice, Major Hasan will burn in hell for that, in a fire made all the hotter by his venality.
BILL CATHCART: There are no words to ease the agony, outrage, and senseless loss caused by the vicious rampage of that American-born Army officer, whose devout Muslim beliefs degenerated from religious faith to politically based Islamic fanaticism. Leaving in its wake thirteen Fort Hood patriots dead, and many others wounded, the President was quick to caution about jumping to conclusions. Which is interesting, since he himself jumped to an erroneous one with that outstanding police officer. Tell you what, when Swedes begin mass murdering Americans, we'll wait. But given this taxpayer-educated ingrate's alleged repeated utterances and actions, the conclusion is clear: This demonic act was almost certainly a premeditated, treasonous act of terrorism - personal or otherwise - against his own nation and military, both of which he betrayed in pursuit of his radicalized views. And who's ultimately to blame?
We are. We've become so ridiculous with our political correctness. So afraid of offending, despite the truth. So overly tolerant and self-effacing, pandering and apologizing to be liked. Putting up with absurd challenges to our Constitution, laws, traditions and freedoms, that we've become a nation of enablers for those with evil intent. Case in point, failing to challenge or stop the open proselytizing, and statements against America's military mission by this officer, repeatedly uttered and witnessed. The Army should have booted him long ago, but can't be faulted; as we've all now become driven by fear to eggshell sensitivity. Devout Muslim beliefs can't be challenged. Yet the devoted Jewish and Christian faithful remain a continuing target of offensive actions, insults, mockery and marginalization.
I agree with all of the above except the culpability. In the end, no matter how easy it might or might not be, it is the responsibility of each of us not to commit murder and mayhem. Almost all of us manage that, all of the time. Major Hasan chose to commit M&M instead, so he and those who helped him are ultimately to blame, and no one else. The rest of us are guilty of not being quite wary enough, no more.
In more ways than all of this, we've reached the height of absurdity in America. It's past time to knock off the elitism, and level the tolerance playing field. We must, however, pause to note, with heartfelt thanks, the efforts of the Muslim faithful who unseen, help maintain the security of our great nation - both in the community, and through their courageous FBI work as interpreters, informants, and terror-cell infiltrators; working at great risk to prevent similar barbaric acts. That said, with Veterans Day upon us, amidst the pain of Fort Hood - regardless of origin, race or religion - this challenge to those in this magnificent nation who refuse to accept, adopt, and respect our traditions, laws and freedoms: Either gain English proficiency, fully assimilate, contribute positively, and be ever thankful for the incredible blessing it is to be here; or get the heck out.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/25/2009 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I agree with all of the above except the culpability. In the end, no matter how easy it might or might not be, it is the responsibility of each of us not to commit murder and mayhem.
I think you might be reading this a little off kilter. I don't believe that Cathcart is saying that we are responsible for the murders, but rather, that we are responsible for creating an environment (acute PCitis) in which the attack could flourish.
Ultimately it is always the individuals responsibility. However, society can enable the behavior or actively try and constrain it before the fact.
#2
When I hear "we" I take his point to mean the collective culture, which is enabled by the willingness of good men and women to remain silent in the face of PC stupidity, or insanity.
There are several so to speak unpleasant truths which if uttered will cause swift and certain punishment-- in the workplace, in polite opinion circles, in the political arena-- in America today. One is the reality of a specifically islamist form of violent extremism. Another is the utter debacle that is our Mexican immigration policy. Another is the capture of our regulatory apparatus and executive branch by crony bonkers such as Goldman Sachs. And finally there's the train wreck represented by underfunded pensions and out of control entitlements.
All of these are destroying this country's ability to offer any kind of a secure economic future to anyone below the top income quintile (and many of those folks, too).
But discussing these honestly-- and calling out Tweedledum and Tweedledee on their respective failures to honestly address their own corruption and cowardice-- is taboo. Thus do great nations swiftly decline.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" written on his chest killed himself and staged his death to look like a murder, authorities said Tuesday.
On a crisp fall day in a cemetery in Queens, a Marine Corps honor guard blew taps over the country's oldest female Marine.
"If I had to sum up Miriam Cohen in a single word, I'd say she was a pisser. " 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Police have busted five cocaine labs in an Indian village in Bolivia and arrested two people, while one officer was shot. 
If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. 
One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:
A leading climate change scientist said hackers breaking into a university's computer server and then posting documents online show the nasty politics of global warming.
In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming "skeptics" had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to manufacture a "hockey stick" graph showing a dramatic-but illusory-runaway warming trend in the late 20th century.
