Southwest captain, crew enjoy 'early Christmas present' with baby born on airplane
It wasn't exactly a Captain Sully Sullenberger moment, but a Southwest Airlines flight crew helped bring about the miracle of life Friday morning.
A woman on a flight between Chicago and Salt Lake City went into labor and quickly gave birth before the plane could make an emergency landing in Denver, airline officials said.
"Whoa," Captain Gary Jesperson said after the airplane finally made its way to Boise. "We were enjoying a beautiful day and the weather. Then (a flight attendant) said we have a woman going into labor. I'm going, 'OK, that changes things.' "
Flight attendant Lisa Hamm said the woman, who didn't appear to be that far along in her pregnancy, rang the bell about halfway into the flight and said she was in labor.
"That's the best emergency I've ever had," said 1st Officer Seth Koppenhaver.
When the plane landed in Denver, all the passengers waited for emergency workers to take the woman and baby off the plane. A paramedic led the way with the baby swaddled in the donated blankets.
The flight crew decided the baby's nickname -- Peanut.
"That's right, don't you think," Osborne said. "It was a great day; this goes to the top of the list."
Officials with The Medical Center of Aurora say both mother and baby are doing "fine."
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A 90-year-old Army veteran who won the Medal of Honor during World War II is battling his neighborhood association for what he says is his right to fly the American flag from a pole in his front yard. Col. Van T. Barfoot says he erected the 21-foot flagpole in September, raising the flag daily at sunrise and retiring it at sunset.
The Sussex Square homeowners' association told him recently that the free-standing pole violates the townhouse neighborhood's aesthetic guidelines and ordered him to remove it by 5 p.m. Friday or face a lawsuit.
"I don't have any qualms with their authority, but the thing about it is that I cannot get enough conversation out of them where we can try to work out a solution," Barfoot said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
A telephone message left for Alexandra D. Bowen, a lawyer representing the association, wasn't immediately returned on Wednesday.
Barfoot, who moved into his townhouse in June, won his medal for actions near Carano, Italy, in 1944 and is one of about 90 surviving Medal of Honor winners. He also won the Purple Heart and other decorations, and served in Korea and Vietnam before retiring from the service in 1974.
"I've flown the flag at my home as long as I can remember," said Barfoot, who lived in rural Amelia County before moving to suburban Richmond. "This is the first time in the last 36 years that I've been unable to put my flag up on the same pole, the same staff and take it down when it's time to come down."
Neighbors largely have expressed their support, but he realizes that ultimately it's up to the nine-member association board whether they will grant an exception to the rules.
"Emotional torture is what they've done to my father," said his daughter, Margaret Nicholls. "He has lost sleep, he worries about it constantly. He just doesn't understand. He thinks that if it's on his property they can't tell him what to do."
Col. Barfoot's Medal of Honor citation can be read here.
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Does Virginia have any law on the books that pre-empts this sort of nonsense? Even out here in WA we have one that forbids any sort of prohibition on display of the flag.
Unfortunately, the US Flag Code is silent on this
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Tell the HOA to get Fuc*ed! He's 90 and should tell them to sue him! In VA he'll be dead before it goes to court. The truth about HOA's is they really don't have that much power.
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If his neighbors support him, they should get together and vote out the HOA board.
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Hear about this way too often...
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The truth about HOA's is they really don't have that much power.
You would be surprised. A lot of them can levy fines and place liens. HOAs seem to attract little fascists.
Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights groups said in a report published yesterday. Picked right up on that, didn't they?
"The basic feature of human rights in Egypt today is the prevalence of a policy of exception in which those responsible for violations usually escape punishment amid a climate of impunity intentionally created and fostered for several decades," said the report by 16 Egyptian human rights groups.
"With this policy of impunity gradually becoming the norm, the prerogatives of the security apparatus have been expanded and Egypt has turned into a police state," the report said.
The rights groups, including the Hesham Mubarak Law Centre and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, have lashed out at the state for its "systematic" use of torture. "Egyptians enjoy no protection against torture -- a systematic, routine practice," they said. "Crimes of torture continue to be an everyday practice in police stations (as well as) prisons and even on public roads."
"In many documented cases, torture has resulted in death," despite the Egyptian government insisting they are isolated cases, the groups said. They report said that torture is not limited to political activists but is applied to society's most vulnerable.
"Everyone who falls in the grasp of the police, particularly the poor, is in imminent danger of torture and bodily harm inflicted through various means, including beatings, kicks, floggings, burning with cigarettes, sexual harm... electroshocks to the feet, head, sexual organs and breasts, and hanging from iron bars or the door of the cell," the report continued.
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When, post Brit rule, was Egypt not a "Police State"?
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Colony - foreigners rule
Police State - indigenous rule
I know its all so confusing. Like -
National Socia!ism and International Socia!ism. The effects at the bottom are the same. It's just the color of the man at the top that changes.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Guinea's junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has arrived in Rabat, Morocco to receive medical treatment for a gunshot wound.
Camara was wounded on Thursday in an assassination attempt by Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, who commands the presidential guard, Moroccan authorities said.
"No bullet penetrated the president's body. There was just a graze on the head," Communications Minister Idrissa Cherif said of the attack in Conakry late on Thursday.
Camara's flight for treatment in Morocco's main military hospital also has many people questioning his future, with many saying that he may not return to Guinea and take exile instead.
"If he leaves the country, that would be it for him," said a diplomat in Guinea.
The once faceless serviceman and the junta under his command took control of the West African country following the former dictator president Lansana Conte's death on December 22.
Camara had initially promised to quickly organize elections, in which he wouldn't contest, but then reversed course and began hinting that he planned to run for office, prompting a massive protest September 28.
The military opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators, who had gathered inside the capital's national stadium. Human rights groups say at least 157 people were killed, while the government put the death toll at just 57.
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TEGUCIGALPA -- After Honduras' congress voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night against restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, the fate of the deposed leader remained in question Thursday. U.S. State Department officials said Thursday they would continue to work with Honduras, but insisted they continue to recognize Zelaya as the sole legitimate president.
Confined to the Brazilian Embassy, Zelaya listened to the congressional proceedings via radio.
``The lawmakers at the service of the dominant classes ratified the coup d'etat in Honduras,'' Zelaya said in a statement to reporters after the vote. ``They have condemned Honduras to exist outside the rule of law.''
In a grueling, eight-hour session, Honduras' congress voted 111-14 to not restore Zelaya's presidential powers. The vote mirrored that of one taken in June supporting Zelaya's removal on charges of treason and abuse of power.
While Zelaya plans his next move, de facto President Roberto Micheletti issued a statement Thursday celebrating the vote as the ``final point'' to ending the five months of political turmoil.
``The world should listen to the collective voice of the Honduran people and not just the desperate shoutings of a man only concerned with his personal interests,'' Micheletti said.
Micheletti also called on the Organization of American States to normalize its relations with Honduras, after it suspended the impoverished nation following Zelaya's removal from power on June 28.
At a Thursday briefing with reporters, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela said that while ``disappointed'' by the vote, the United States would continue to work with Honduras.
``Important work remains to be conducted to promote national reconciliations, as the status quo remains unacceptable,'' Valenzuela said. Valenzuela said the next steps include the formation of a truth commission and a national unity government.
A truth commission sounds like a wonderous idea, except whose truth will it discover? The Hondurans already know the truth, and the OAS -- and Bambi -- don't want to hear it.
Whether a unity government can be convened remains an open question, as Zelaya said he does not plan to participate in a U.S.-backed pact that both he and Micheletti agreed to in October.
The new government takes office end of January. That's going to settle it once and for all.
The accord called for both camps to appoint members to a unity government and for congress to schedule a vote for Zelaya's reinstatement. But, when congress delayed the date of the vote until after last Sunday's presidential elections, Zelaya said the spirit of the agreement had been violated and he pulled his support.
Zelaya has disputed reports that he will seek asylum in Brazil or Nicaragua. His term is set to expire Jan. 27 -- the day that recently elected President Porfirio ``Pepe'' Lobo is sworn into office. Lobo has said he will include Zelaya in plans for ``national dialogues.'' Valenzuela said the United States was ``encouraged'' by Lobo's strong calls for reconciliation.
Sounds like Lobo was spitballing Mel. After January 27th Mel is just a private citizen.
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BRASILIA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The decision made by the Honduran Congress to reject the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya compelled Brazil to reconsider its stance of not recognizing the Nov. 29 elections.
On Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim both reiterated that the government's position is to deny the legitimacy of the Honduran electoral process and not recognize the elected president, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. However, they both immediately stated that they need time to evaluate the facts in Honduras and reposition their stance.
Local observers said the Brazilian foreign ministry's strategy is to wait for changes in Honduras' domestic politics to make its decision. They added that the Brazilian diplomats are waiting for further cues from the Organization of American States (OAS) and other countries in the region.
The Brazilian officials also said the government may reconsider its decision if the Honduran authorities show respect for democratic principles, which they called a process of "democratic baptism."
Respect for democratic principles: you mean, like having a clean, properly-contested, properly-counted election?
They said the Brazilian representatives won't make a hurried decision because the Brazilian government is likely to announce a possible change of position after analyzing the changing domestic situation and political developments in Honduras.
On Friday the OAS held an extraordinary meeting to establish an official position on the elections in Honduras and on the Congress' decision to reject Zelaya's return to power.
For Brazil's foreign authorities, the fulfillment of the agreement permitting the return of the ousted president would have been ideal.
According to international negotiators, it is also essential to discuss the issue of national reconciliation in Honduras, which would involve a kind of unity government to function as a transitional government.
They have reconciliation already in Honduras. All but Mel's most ardent supporters voted. Those who voted accept the results. Seems like they have national unity without Mel.
The Brazilian authorities have reaffirmed that the ousted president can remain at the embassy as long as necessary because he is a guest of Brazil.
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Mel gets kicked out the door once the new "Hoendooraz" Gov't is installed. He's a living artifact of a failed policy/decision, and even the Joooooz have tired of beaming thoughts to his pin-head. He's starting to smell, like week months-old fish
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Unfortunately, during the rescue operation a hook of the relief train's crane broke and a bogie fell down over people standing near the site of incident. Two men died on the spot.
[Geo News] Karakoram Express heading to Karachi from Lahore derailed here at Lundo Railway Station on Friday. Fortunately, the incident caused no casualties. A relief train was summoned which started removing the derailed bogies. Unfortunately, during the rescue operation a hook of the relief train's crane broke and a bogie fell down over people standing near the site of incident. Two men, Muhammad Hanif Rajput and Imran Ali, died on the spot while Rasool Bux Zardari, 30, Mashooq Ali, 10, Farooq, 8, and others sustained serious injuries and shifted to Taluka Hospital for treatment, where emergency was declared.
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Three people were injured when a gas canister exploded in potato chip factory east of Gaza city on Friday, medics said.
They have potato chip factories in Gaza?
Those poor, suffering people have only junk food as balm for their spirits. No wonder they are so irritable. They would have had fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the greenhouses the Israelis left behind, but something happened to them, for which all juices are daily triple damned, I'm sure.
Head of Ambulance and Emergency Services in Gaza Dr Muawiyah Hassanein said the men suffered light injuries, and noted all three were members of the Meshtaha family from Gaza city.
Ambulances rushed to take the men to hospital, while fire trucks were dispatched to douse the flames. Witnesses said the explosion was heard around the whole city, and flames engulfing the building were visible from blocks away. Locals said children thought the blast was an attack.
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Attack of the Killer Crisps!
I see a movie coming out of this. No money in it though. Video piracy version issued first in Gaza.
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Fake but accurate rides again! The same lame defense Dan Rather used in Memogate has been trotted out on ClimateGate by Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs.
Appearing on Morning Joe today, the author of Common Wealth [note play on words: your money is our money] alleged that the real victims in this scandal are . . . the number-fudging scientists. People are attempting to "Swiftboat" those poor CRU guys, sighed Sachs. For good measure, the good professor asserted that what the fudgesters did "is not a very big deal."
JOE SCARBOROUGH: This ClimateGate issue, where you've got scientists connected with Gore--I guess they're very important scientists in this field--that were apparently sending emails that made it look like they were playing with the numbers. Tell us: what's your take on that? Because you've got the right and the left fighting each other and the rest of us are in the crossfire.
JEFFREY SACHS: This is pretty serious. Not what happened, but how it's being responded to. Because this is really trying to Swiftboat science.
SCARBOROUGH: What happened is not important? These guys saying let's juice the numbers?
SACHS: What happened is not a very big deal, no. And what happened is a tiny piece of a huge, global, independent scientific enterprise which has found for decades that we have a very serious environmental crisis.
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ION NEWSMAX > SAMOA TSUNAMI WAVE WAS 46 FEET HIGH.
D *** NG IT, Pffft, I've seen bigger oer GUAM ala OLD DREAMS-VISIONS, + it hasn't even happened yet!
The first time Chesapeake Energy tried to buy mineral rights from Diana Whitmore, a 74-year-old retired real estate broker in southern New York, it offered her $125 for every acre of land plus a 12 percent royalty on whatever natural gas it extracts.
Nearly two years later, she's still holding out. Along with hundreds of other landowners, she has joined a coalition that is negotiating with nine oil and gas companies. The latest offers in the area are running as high as $5,500 an acre with 20 percent royalties.
"It's what's really going to turn this whole place around," said her son Daniel Fitzsimmons, who has since helped form the Binghamton Conklin Gas Lease Coalition.
This corner of the state is at the forefront of an old-fashioned land rush that has implications far beyond Conklin, N.Y. Oil and gas companies are vying to stake out territory where they can tap natural gas trapped in shale rock. Just a few years ago, the industry didn't have the technology to unlock these reserves. But thanks to advances in horizontal drilling and methods of fracturing rock with high-pressure blasts of water, sand and chemicals, vast gas reserves in the United States are suddenly within reach.
As a result, said BP chief executive Tony Hayward, "the picture has changed dramatically."
"The United States is sitting on over 100 years of gas supply at the current rates of consumption," he said. Because natural gas emits half the greenhouse gases of coal, he added, that "provides the United States with a unique opportunity to address concerns about energy security and climate change."
Recoverable U.S. gas reserves could now be bigger than the immense gas reserves of Russia, some experts say. The Marcellus shale formation, stretching across swaths of Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia, has enough gas to meet the entire nation's needs for at least 14 years, according to an estimate by two Pennsylvania State University experts. Just in Broome County, N.Y., where Fitzsimmons lives, shale gas development could create $15 billion in economic activity, according to consultants hired by the county.
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I've been following natural gas supply & demand for years, and I've been surprised by how quickly the situation turned around. Bravo to the explorers.
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DFMD,
Environmentalists ARE against it! And not entirely without reason. The techniques that make shale gas extraction potentially economic involve generating lots of fractures in the rock (on purpose): if not done correctly the fractures can cause leakage of gas or salty water from one rock layer to another. Depending where that other layer goes, one could end up damaging an aquifer providing drinking water to people. Most companies do their best to avoid such incidents, and government agencies have all sorts of regulations to prevent them. They shouldn't happen, and seldom happen, but they can and do sometimes happen. Of course the energy we use that is produced elsewhere is produced with FAR less environmental and safety concern, but that's not our problem (some countries use E&S regulations as nothing more than a means for legalizing bribery.)
I'll feel a lot less annoyed with our environmentalists when I see them WALKING to Starbucks to buy a cup of locally grown dandelion tea, etc. (I'll believe the alleged problems are serious when they start ACTING like it rather than just talking about it and making other people do all the acting.)
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Oh, and the jury is still out on whether these shale gas wells will produce enough to make money - and thus to justify long-term expanded drilling. The 'best' wells clearly do, but statistics are what matters, because the capital investments are huge, the product prices erratic, and the profit margins generally slim. The first month of production may look great, but the profitability depends on how production holds up the 6th month, and the 26th month (etc.)
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Another factor is the new REX natural gas pipeline from CO to OH, and perhaps farther. This was completed a few weeks ago, and is the first pipeline from the western gas fields to the east. Before that, gas was very cheap in the mountain west, hardly worth the effort to bring out of the ground, and comparatively expensive in the east. Now regional differences have flattened out.
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But, burning natural gas produces HEAT!!!! And CO2!!!!, so it contributes to global warming! It must be stopped. We must return to those halcyon days of yesteryear (about 10000 years ago) when the climate was perfect and the seas were lower, and there were very few people!
/sarcasm
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Gas discovered in shale in Wyoming, Cheney's state. Coincidence? I think not. His mere presence generates fossil fuels.
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[Straits Times] PHILIPPINE troops wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles on Friday stormed the homes of a powerful clan suspected of involvement in a massacre that left 57 people dead.
My goodness. It seems that Ampatuan scion touched a nerve -- they're so touchy about the rape and murder of the wives and daughters of the great families by mere henchmen over there. If only the policemen had confined their romantic attentions to the maids, as is proper.
The dramatic raids came after authorities found a huge cache of pistols, rifles and other weapons believed used in the killings that were buried just a few hundred metres (yards) from the Ampatuan family's compound of mansions.
'They are looking for guns, bullets, everything. The warrant covers everything,' regional military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Ponce told AFP shortly after troops poured into the compound on Friday morning.
More than 100 soldiers and dozens of police initially raided the home of Andal Ampatuan Jnr, a local mayor in the southern Philippines who has been charged with 25 counts of murder so far over last week's slaughter.
Homes belonging to other members of the Ampatuan clan, including the patriarch of the family who has been the governor of Maguindanao province since 2001, were entered in subsequent raids, authorities said.
The governor, Andal Ampatuan Snr, was not detained in the raid but it was the most dramatic phase in the apparent downfall of a man who until last week enjoyed the backing of President Gloria Arroyo's ruling coalition.
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Stolen files of 'Climate-gate' suggest some viewpoints on change are disregarded
It began with an anonymous Internet posting, and a link to a wonky set of e-mails and files. Stolen, apparently, by a whistle-blower from a research center in Britain, the files showed the leaders of climate-change science discussing flaws in their own data, and seemingly scheming to muzzle their critics.
Now it has mushroomed into what is being called "Climate-gate," a scandal that has done what many slide shows and public-service ads could not: focus public attention on the science of a warming planet. But not to worry, the science is so strong, it can take the hit.
Except now, much of that attention is focused on the science's flaws. Leaked just before international climate talks begin in Copenhagen - the culmination of years of work by scientists to raise alarms about greenhouse-gas emissions - the e-mails have cast those scientists in a political light and given new energy to others who think the issue of climate change is all overblown. Not all of the work is flawed, just the basis for much of it that came from CRU.
The e-mails don't say that: They don't provide proof that human-caused climate change is a lie or a swindle.
But they do raise hard questions. In an effort to control what the public hears, did prominent scientists who link climate change to human behavior try to squelch a back-and-forth that is central to the scientific method? Is the science of global warming messier than they have admitted?
These are the facts: After an increase in 1998, the world has been historically warm, but its average temperatures have not climbed steadily. Does that mean climate change has stopped? The "facts" include a chart that don't show any warm years in the 1930's.
"To me, it's unambiguous . . . humans are altering the climate system," said Roger Pielke Sr., a research scientist at the University of Colorado. "It's just that, it's much more than CO2." I don't doubt we are having an effect. I only doubt we can measure it or predict how much.
Pielke said his research shows that, in addition to carbon dioxide and other factors, Earth's warming is affected by how people alter the land. When a forest becomes a farm, or a farm becomes a suburb, that changes the amount of heat and moisture coming off the ground, he said.
But Pielke said he has seen some papers rejected and has felt so marginalized that he quit a U.S. panel summing up climate change a few years ago. One of the stolen e-mails seems to confirm the idea that he was being excluded: In 2005, Jones wrote to colleagues about some of Pielke's complaints, "Maybe you'll be able to ignore them?"
"These individuals, who are very sincere in their beliefs, have presumed that that gives them permission to exclude viewpoints that are different from their own," Pielke said. Wow. Where have we heard that before?
Many mainstream scientists say no: This is just a tic of nature, as cycles of currents in the Pacific Ocean and a decrease in heat coming off the sun have temporarily dampened warming. Some researchers, though, have said the models - and, by extension, the human researchers that built them - could be missing something about how the climate works. That point was made in one stolen e-mail, in which climate researcher Kevin Trenberth wrote it was a "travesty" that models could not explain why the Earth hadn't warmed more. "We're simply not tracking where the heat is going," said Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
The diversity of opinion on this topic, however, wasn't evident late last month, when a group of 26 climate researchers issued a report called "The Copenhagen Diagnosis," summarizing scientific advances since the last major U.N. climate report in 2007. "Has global warming recently slowed down or paused?" the report said. "No." Nothing to see here. Move along.
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are data from any humans ever "not" skewed to someones agenda. People are like that , in love with their own ideas.
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are data from any humans ever "not" skewed to someones agenda.
A good scientist sets up his experiments to remove or test his agenda, 746*. A good scientist wants to know if his hypothesis is true, because he doesn't want to become a sad example in the textbooks later as yet another gullible fool who wasn't intelligent enough to discern the cold underlying reality of the universe. It's very much a Darwinian competition for rank in the hierarchy, where rank is assumed to strongly -- not exactly true, as pattern recognition, also thought of as insight, is not a result of raw intelligence but a complement to it, knowledge versus wisdom, if you will. I rather imagine the snickers are getting louder in certain quarters, as the list of revelations gets longer. I mean, the poor dears actually believed what they were selling, not the contradictory accumulating data, contradictions strong enough to overcome the skews deliberately introduced into the data collection. The Watts Up With That bloggers have an entire paged devoted to documenting biased sensor placement, with photos.
*While not a scientist myself, although I did research for an amusing few years, I am the child and wife of scientists, and grew up in the milieu.
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These are the facts:
I smell BS... After an increase in 1998, the world has been historically warm, but
...and now I see it. Is this the history where there was no Medieval Warm Period? its average temperatures have not climbed steadily.
Which indicates nothing: 10 years is an instant in the eyes of gods or nature Does that mean climate change has stopped?
In other words, have I stopped beating my wife?
This is a small, sordid example of the kind of misleading, baiting, and obfuscation we are going to see from Big Media: I strongly recommend that anything they write be initially presumed false- including 'and' and 'the.'
For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs. How to explain this?
Perhaps it is that ABC, NBC and CBS have not yet heard of the story, despite two weeks of non-stop reporting on and discussion of ClimateGate in a whole host of media outlets.
Perhaps the broadcast networks only trust their fellow liberal press outlets, like the New York Times. Perhaps they don't realize the Times exhibited journalistic diligence on ClimateGate, with a front page story the day the story broke.
In the event that ABC News, NBC News and CBS News missed the news, the Media Research Center (MRC) is today rushing each of them a copy of the Times story, in the hopes that armed with this new information, they will finally report a story that has been roiling nearly everywhere else for a fortnight.
So as not to offend the networks' pro-global warming sensibilities, MRC President Brent Bozell is looking to have the stories delivered by bicycle messenger.
Bozell:
"Ignorance is no excuse under the law, but maybe we should stop criticizing and start showing compassion for NBC, ABC and CBS and their neglect of the huge ClimateGate story. We are more than happy to help rectify their knowledge deficit -- via a network-friendly source and in an as environmentally-friendly a way as possible.
"We think that once the networks read the story of ClimateGate in their vaunted New York Times, they'll feel compelled to report it themselves.
"We very much look forward to seeing the fruits of their labor."
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Missed, Hell! They've been part and parcel to the promotion of it and are now trying to ignore and cover up in hopes it will all go away.
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Thomas Jefferson once said, Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
The mainstream old media is actively destroying our nation with their deliberate mal-informing of the public. They have become an enemy of the Republic and do violence to it with their deliberate acts of commission and omissions. They are no less a danger to this Republic than Al Qaeda, and should be treated as such, including punitive actions and their eventual destruction and replacement with a successor that is truly open and supportive of liberty.
Time for everyone to go after them INDIVIDUALLY with (metaphorical) pitchforks and torches. Bring *personal* accountability to them in their homes and with their families -- for they just as surely threaten ours with their collusion to mislead and destroy the nation.
Get their home addresses, phone numbers, etc - then write them letter, and call them to let them know we are holding them responsible personally for their failures. Sign your real name and do it in large numbers.
Yes it has come to that. Not firearms nor violence, but sharp words directed personally at the individuals in the presence of their families should suffice. Let them know they are no longer anonymous nor kept apart from those of us upon whom they believe they can impose their agenda.
Accountability and responsibility. They go hand in hand, and its up to us to impose the former if we allow them the latter.
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All major 'entertainment' corporations should be subject to FTC standards of truth in advertising. If a major corporation misrepresents their product or lies about it, it should be subject to significant fines and restrictions. Now, the out for these types of corporations is a clear and up front declaration that their 'product' is for entertainment purposes only and should not be construed to be factual and without bias.
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Agree. Either they stop their behavior, or come out and admit its entertainment.
Put a disclaimer in front of the "newscasts" that there may be omissions of facts and dramatizations of events for the purposes of entertainment or political posturing.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs. How to explain this?
