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Who are these folks issuing Obama a prize on credit to steer America along their preferred course?What indeed?
What, more specifically, might they be expecting of Obama?
"I think we're all a little bit disappointed that we didn't see anything," David Morrison, director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, told New Scientist.
They're expecting about 1200 (twelve hunnert?) traditional hot rods, customs, and motorcycles to show up in Morris, Illinois tomorrow for the annual Hunnert Car Pileup.
...your least favorite President won a Nobel PEACE Prize today. Could you possibly post that to VOKL just as it is, without an obscure link to an hour read about righty something or other that you didn't write?And away we go. Let's get something straight right off the top. Obama "won" nothing. Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. That is a far cry from actually, you know, earning it.
Virtually everybody - Right, Left and Media - agrees that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama is somewhere between premature and ridiculous. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has beclowned itself again.Beclowned itself. You think they would have learned with Arafat, Le Duc Tho, Carter and Gore already.
Obama was being honored for the hope of what he might accomplish as opposed to what he has actually achieved.And back to reality again:
Months after Americans learned to dismiss Mr. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign slogans as the bromides they were, Scandinavians apparently are still drinking his Kool-aid.So let the record show.
The Muslim Canadian Congress called on the federal government to prohibit the two garments in order to prevent women from covering their faces in public -- a practice the group said has no place in a society that supports gender equality. "To cover your face is to conceal your identity," congress spokeswoman Farzana Hassan said.France has also proposed banning the burqa. More here and here.
There is nothing in any of the primary Islamic religious texts, including the Qur'an, that requires women to cover their faces, she said -- not even in the controversial, ultra-conservative tenets of Sharia law. Considering the fact that women are in fact forbidden from wearing burqas in the grand mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, it hardly makes sense that the practice should be permitted in Canada, she said.
NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing (LCROSS) satellite will crash near the Moon's south pole early tomorrow morning.
Some of you know her also as a variant of eastern Karma, or the folk notion of ‘what comes around, goes around’, or the now common “ain’t payback a bitch”? We all agree on the symptoms: overweening success and surfeit (koris) lead to hubris (gratuitous arrogance), which in turn promotes destructive behavior (atê), that at last calls you to the attention of divine Nemesis—who ensures your ruin.Read it all and give some time to the comments too.
New research by the National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) validated 13 years of discoveries that point to a key role for cosmic rays in climate change. "The effect of the solar explosions on the Earth's cloudiness is huge," Henrik Svensmark comments. "A loss of clouds of 4 or 5 per cent may not sound very much, but it briefly increases the sunlight reaching the oceans by about 2 watt per square meter, and that's equivalent to all the global warming during the 20th Century."How ironic is it that the Iranians publish this stuff but not the Americans? Or Canadians for that matter. It just does not fit the warmist narrative.
The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history. The silence surrounding this publication was deafening.
Bay Roberts, Bonavista, Carbonear, Channel-Port-aux Basques, Corner Brook, Deer Lake, Gander, Harbor Grace, St. Johns, Stephenville.Google does not say if the camera cars have already been in these towns or will visit them soon. But I did see a Street View car in traffic on Portugal Cove Road out alongside of Windsor Lake near St. John's on August 31.
Try this. Navigate over to Google. In the search field, type the following phrase: “Google Chuck Norris.” But instead of hitting the search key, try the button that reads, “I’m feeling lucky.” Google will tell you that no standard web results were found. It will also tell you, in bright red font, why Google won’t search for Chuck Norris.
The Calgary Herald's editorialists don't seem to think much of their readers, based on their decision to inflict the following on them:
“Some Canadians feared [Mr. Harper] might become a real Nowhere Man [after] last week's no-confidence vote [but] Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff changed his tune and decided that We Can Work It Out.” Okay, that's enough. Oh no, there's more:“It's not as though Canadians want to hear Harper at the piano Eight Days a Week, but his performance did cap off a Hard Day's Night.” Arrrrgh, somebody make it stop!
Not Evil Just Wrong is far too politically incorrect to be feted in Hollywood, or welcomed by political elites. This is the last movie that those squabbling down the road to Copenhagen want anybody seeing or thinking about. That’s why it needs maximum exposure on October 18.And get this:
Messrs McAleer and McElhinney meanwhile have received death threats, been described as “stinking, selfish, sociopathic fascists,” and received wishes that their children be born handicapped. That’s what you get for asking “difficult questions.”
It achieved neither. According to Hudson Institute economist Irwin Stelzer, at best "the reduction in gasoline consumption will cut our oil consumption by 0.2 percent per year, or less than a single day's gasoline use." Burton Abrams and George Parsons of the University of Delaware added up the total benefits from reduced gas consumption, environmental improvements and the benefit to car buyers and companies, minus the overall cost of cash for clunkers, and found a net cost of roughly $2,000 per vehicle. Rather than stimulating the economy, the program made the nation as a whole $1.4 billion poorer.
The people who really belong in the junk yard are the wizards in Washington who peddled this economic malarkey.
This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of scientists who discovered the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide without any limits, making them effectively immortal.
It may be nature’s greatest double-edged sword. Coax cells into producing telomerase, and they will survive indefinitely, but they will also become cancerous.
“We live in a world where we have to have a balance. We can’t just say everybody can go everyplace and do anything they want.”But modern surveillance systems put far more people under suspicion while doing practically nothing to fight crime. New York would seem to have not noticed the almost complete ineffectiveness of surveillance cameras in London. Only one crime was solved for each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year.
Looking at this graph how can we believe temperature is driven by CO2? We can't.
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