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This nugget from the Examiner via Drudge:

John McCain is going to be doing more of these themed tours of America, and one of them is going to be on energy and global climate change.

Wonderful. Perhaps McCain is planning to hire Al Gore as a campaign consultant. Personally, I’d prefer Coach Edmo.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2

The Myanmar junta won’t let the world help its people. Unbelievable.

The UN says it is extremely disappointed at the slow progress made in securing access to victims of last weekend’s cyclone in Burma.

Humanitarian chief John Holmes told reporters that Burma’s response was “nothing like as much as is needed”.

In addition to about 23,000 people who died in the storm and tidal surge, 1.5 million are at risk, he said.

Aguante el Apache!

I blame global warming.

Chile volcano blasts ash 20 miles high, forcing evacuations

The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.

A thick column of ash climbed into the stratosphere and blew eastward for hundreds of miles (kilometers) over Patagonia to the Atlantic Ocean, closing schools and a regional airport. Chilean and Argentine citizens were advised to wear masks to avoid breathing the dangerous fallout.

Vuelve la negrada camionera moyana al espectáculo político argentino.

Pablo Moyano dijo que “los trabajadores no volverán a ser rehenes de un paro insólito e injusto que sólo procura desabastecer al pueblo argentino”. De Angeli corta el paso de carga internacional en Gualeguaychú.

El secretario adjunto del Sindicato de Choferes de Camiones, Pablo Moyano, ratificó esta tarde que “pasarán todas las unidades vehiculares que circulen por las rutas argentinas o no pasará nadie”, en relación con la decisión de los ruralistas de retomar el lock out patronal.

El dirigente explicó que “los choferes abandonarán sus unidades cruzadas en las rutas, se retirarán a sus hogares y regresarán cuando se levante el lock out patronal”.

You never realize how much you love a web service until it’s down.

Pandora went down for me this evening.

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Al Gore has seized upon news of the Myanmar cyclone, claiming that this destructive storm was a consequence of global warming.

“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

photo credit: Concentrated Passion

Otra vez, Boca ganó a River.

No muy sorprendente, pero se disfruta igual.

I can’t wait until this moves into facial recognition and they just plant cameras everywhere.

I hereby nominate Jeremiah Wright and Mike Huckabee for the presidential dream ticket of the Know Nothing party. They can run the country as co-vice-presidents. Wright recently said he was open to serving in that office; Huckabee has been posturing for the spot since January.

Here’s Huckabee last month, defending Wright’s comments as “out of context” and excusing him for being “caught up in the emotion of an extemporaneous sermon”:

Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say ‘Well, I didn’t mean to say it quite like that.’” [source: Politico]

I wonder what Pastor Huckabee thinks about Reverend Wrights recent rants while speaking before the NAACP, PBS, and the National Press Club.

Mitt Romney’s sparkling performance at the 64th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner is no fluke.

Apparently, he also stole the show at a similarly humor-themed St. Patrick’s Day event in Boston a few years ago. The St. Patrick’s Day tradition includes the “craic” breakfast, where politicians and celebrities crack jokes about each other in a rapid-fire fashion. It is a huge media event in Boston and other cities with large Irish populations. At the breakfast, everybody has a good time and it is all in good fun. According to one of my professors, a former Massachusetts resident, Romney was very quick on his feet at this event, while John Kerry’s jokes fell flat (I believe him on both counts; one of Kerry’s past attempts at humor is the now-infamous stuck in iraq comment).

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

The following story personifies the scripture:

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Heh.