Archive for November, 2006
steve writes:
[the global warming] debate is over in the scientific community. Period.
as a non-scientist, i’ll defer to someone else to respond to steve. i have chosen a professor of atmospheric science from MIT. the following is reprinted without permission from the wall street journal. i have bolded key portions. […]
Otro blog acerca de Argentina
Algo huele mal en Argentina.
Bueh…está escrito desde España, pero es muy nuevo y parece que será una lectura interesante para los que leemos Argepundit, Sine Metu, y los demás blogs orientados a la política argentina.
Kamau Kambon’s Kumbaya
I don’t even know how to introduce this. Just watch.
With a forecast low of -31C today, Calgary could break the -27C record set on this day in 1896.
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[one meteorologist] said the normal daytime high at this time of year is 0C, with a low of -11C. “The last time it was really this cold in November was about 10 years ago,” he said. […]
david kuo: homosexuality is no worse than gossip
so suggests the former bush administration official, who has combined his stunning lack of perception when it comes to religion with authoring a book on religion.
time magazine quotes kuo:
For many evangelical leaders, anything related to homosexuality is this special, dark sin. But that’s not what the Bible says,” says […]
christmas wreath peace sign banned
[the homeowner] said she put up the wreath to honor the biblical call for peace and goodwill toward men.
nice try, hippy. wreaths and other christmas stuff already symbolize the biblical call for peace and good will toward men without being formed into an overtly political symbol.
defending his decision to ban […]
“i botched the joke” revisited
earlier this month, john kerry told a bunch of community college students that the only option left for those who underperform in school is a tour of duty in iraq.
“Of course I’m sorry about a botched joke. You think I love botched jokes?” Kerry said during an appearance on Don Imus’ nationally syndicated […]
Al Gore: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people…”
“…what? You thought I was talking about global warming?”
The N Word
Reason #4,193 to never use the N word if you are white:
You will be forced to “dialogue” with Jesse Jackson.
Mild Hurricane Season, Global Warming to Blame
This year has given us the mildest hurricane season since 1997.
With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.
Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those […]
guitar tablature is copyright infringement?
recently, while looking for some help with a few songs i’m trying to learn to play on the guitar, i discovered something very sad. it appears the NMPA and the MPA have threatened two of my favorite tablature site, guitartabs.cc and olga.net (and probably others) claiming their guitar tablature archives infringe on numerous copyrights […]
A Palestinian grandmother, 64, blew herself up in a suicide attack aimed at Israeli troops in Palestine yesterday.
Three Israeli soldiers sustained injuries in the incident targeting Israeli troops near Jabalya area in North Gaza. Hamas claimed responsibility.
In a video released by Hamas, the woman read out a statement saying that she wanted to dedicate her […]
hawaii earthquakes explained
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 4.5 struck off the northwest coast of the Big Island on Thursday in the same area where two stronger temblors struck last month.
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The U.S. Geological Survey estimated its magnitude at 5.0; the Tsunami Warning Center estimated it at 4.5.
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Magnitude 6.7 and 6.0 earthquakes shook […]
whites-only scholarship at boston university
The application itself offers an explanation: “We believe that racial preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry confronting America today.”
[the] group is offering the [$250] scholarship to point out “how ridiculous it is to have any sort of racially based scholarship.”
At BU, for example, students who are at least one-quarter […]
dave barry’s thanksgiving articles
thanksgiving would not be thanksgiving without them. recommended:
his 1995 article
or, my personal favorite,
his 2004 article
