In a 60 minutes interview, prima donna Algore shares his opinion of people who dare to question man made global warming…
(CBS) Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man – among them, Vice President Dick Cheney – are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat.
From the NY Times …
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, holding detailed discussions with senior aides, ordering damaging information about Mr. Bruno released, and calling an aide at home repeatedly to check on the progress, according to several people with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Ya think! What a surprise.
The governor has previously said he was not personally involved in the effort, suggesting only that he was vaguely aware that his aides had responded to a reporter’s inquiry about Mr. Bruno’s travels on state aircraft.
I’m sure if there was a way out, he would vaguely remember spending thousands on a prostitute too. Read the whole thing if you need more convincing of what a jerk Eliot Spitzer is.
Enough of “You’re special” according to Jean Twenge of San Diego State University.
‘We need to stop endlessly repeating ‘You’re special’ and having children repeat that back,’ said the study’s lead author, Professor Jean Twenge of San Diego State University. ‘Kids are self-centered enough already.’
and….
The study asserts that narcissists ‘are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors.’
ouch. Read more here.
a synonym for underperforming.
Instead of calling these schools “underperforming,” the Board of Education is considering labeling them as “Commonwealth priority,” to avoid poisoning teacher and student morale.
Read what Joanne Jacobs has to say.
The investigation is focusing on a contract worker related to the Obama campaign. Glenn Reynolds concludes…
I suspect this is a case of idle curiosity and coincidental connections — but had the coincidental connection been with the McCain campaign, people would be making a big deal out of it.
No kidding!
No says Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs.
Wowza, in the good old United States, any think tank with whose name included the phrase “Public Affaris” would never admit that the earth isn’t warming. In fact, according to Jennifer, depending on the reference point, the earth is cooling.
She replied: “No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.”
Jennifer is then asked if its it possible that the actual climate is more robust than the model. She replies…
Marohasy: “That’s right … These findings actually aren’t being disputed by the meteorological community. They’re having trouble digesting the findings, they’re acknowledging the findings, they’re acknowledging that the data from NASA’s Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they’re about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide.”
Oh my goodness, this can’t possibly be true can it? Catastrophe is off the agenda? Just think, as stated in the article…
The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months.
Also, I don’t expect this to reach the global consciousness of Boulder…. ever. It will still be a fact, plain as day, even if the data for the next decade continues to support Ms. Marohasy
“So, do we really think the world is on fire?” Branson, the British magnate and adventurer, asked several guests, as a manservant scurried off to fetch him another glass of pinot grigio.
What he wanted to know was whether his high-powered visitors, among them Larry Page of Google, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, thought global warming threatened the planet.
and of course…
Branson does – and so did most of his guests.
Some of them, like Page, carbon-consciously jet-pooled in from Silicon Valley, where the financiers who bankrolled the Web boom of the 1990s have started chasing the new “New New Thing”: green power.
I sure hope they can understand this… (see above)
Michael Clark and Matthew Musnicki, both 18, were dangling from a rope tied to an interstate bridge and trying to spray paint their mates’ names on the concrete when they were stopped in the act.
and then….
“It was two guys spray painting names of girls they liked,” Myers told FOX News on Thursday. “When [one] saw me, he had this look like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m busted.'”
said the Sheriff deputy.
Next time I bet they find a more constructive outlet to display their love?
critical balance to the ecosystem, at least that’s what letter writer Virginia Mir believes. Here are some choice excerpts from her letter to the editor in the Boulder Daily Camera…
The burrowing of prairie dogs decreases soil compaction, increases water intake, aerates the soil and promotes soil formation. Prairie dogs are natural fertilizers that increase the protein content and digestibility of rangeland grasses. In areas with prairie dogs, there is higher diversity and concentration of birds and mammals.
From what I can see, there aren’t any rangeland grasses left where PD’s are grazing. This may be due to overpopulation, but unless PD lovers are willing to do population control, it will happen every time. I’ll post a picture of the damage PD’s do once springtime really hits and everything isn’t so brown.
Prairie dogs are major food sources for predators including: snakes, ferrets, badgers, coyotes, ravens, eagles, owls, bobcats, weasels and hawks. Prairie dog burrows serve as homes for owls, cottontail rabbits, rattlesnakes and other animals.
Obviously there aren’t enough preditors. Doesn’t it seem like she’s working from a list of “talking points”? I wonder if she has any PD’s in her yard, or if she just wants them to use all the available open space?
pretty much means no global warming.
I agree with Instapundit, it’s Bush’s fault.
Liberals, this is an NPR story!
Chart courtesy of TC2000 for mutual funds. I’m not sure if you can still find information on their mutual fund service anymore.
According to Bill Donahue of the Proactive Fund Investor newsletter, Zero Day is the day when the total return (capital gains plus reinvested dividends) of the S&P 500 are zero for the decade. This metric apparently turned negative on March 10th. As you will see from reading this article, he doesn’t believe > Zero Day will happen in the near future.
Glenn Reynolds nails it:
Or he could just be a jerk.
I know next to nothing about horseback riding, but this obviously takes a lot of skill. Combine this with the story of her father’s recent passing and it is touching indeed.
Stolen directly from Instapundit.
I think Obama’s pastor is the beginning of the end of his campaign. No one goes to a Church for that long unless they believe and look forward to the message eminating from the pulpit.
Read the Instapundit post here.
A Boulder salon owner has been ticketed for dyeing her miniature poodle pink — and the woman said she plans to fight back.
Cici is a “breast-cancer awareness dog” that’s been showing off her pink coat for three years at Zing Salon, 1100 Spruce St., said Joy Douglas, who owns both the salon and the poodle.
“Cici is being stripped of her civic duty,” Douglas said. “And I don’t plan to take it sitting down.”
Read the whole thing… or not.
My Mom “turned me on” to Vitamin D. Since then I have seen a number of favorable araticles from the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American and this latest article in the Canadian Newspaper(?) Globe Life.
In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave.
The young epidemiologists were watching a presentation on death rates from cancer county by county across the United States. As they sat in a lecture hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore looking at the colour-coded cancer maps, they noticed a striking pattern, with the map for colon cancer the most pronounced.
Counties with high death rates were red; those with low rates were blue. Oddly, the nation was almost neatly divided in half, red in the north and blue in the south. Why, they wondered, was the risk of dying from cancer greater in bucolic Maine than in highly polluted Southern California?
The two had arrived at Johns Hopkins a few days earlier, having driven their Mustang from their hometown of San Diego. Frank was about to begin graduate studies and Cedric his first job as a professor. It was July, and the trip through the sunny South gave them an idea as they studied the cancer maps: Exposure to sunshine varies dramatically depending on the latitude. What if that’s what was behind the varying cancer rates?
The best I can tell, there’s no downside and quite a bit of potential upside to taking large doses of Vitamin D. Read the whole article.
Coming soon to Boulder, keep your cats inside. This is what “Boulder people” do when they have too much time on their hands. I want to know what’s next.
Experts say cats kill hundreds of millions of birds and billions of rabbits, squirrels and other small mammals every year.
That has obvious ecological consequences, driving down the population of those animals, including some endangered bird species.
Where I live there obviously exists a severe shortage of outdoor cats. Probably has something to do with the Mountain Lions? Perhaps I can “rent a cat”, or cats, to reduce the local rabbit population.
