The John McCain-for-president website has posted a column from David Broder of the Washington Post praising the senator. This Republican candidate's campaign seems to think that people will be impressed that a Post columnist has found something nice to say about the Arizona Senator. I am not impressed. I know something about the paper, which we call the Compost. It is very liberal and pro-Democrat.
You see, 'maverick' means sticking it to your own side, putting your finger in the eye of your guys, while you get to go on TV and sound important. The reason you get asked to go on TV, well that is because you are sticking it to your side. So now the 'maverick voters' are saying, to hell with you John McCain -- You forgot one thing, the media can't elect you. Ha, the last laugh is ours.
Si Amigo, I si what I si, and I know what I si, and you the McCain amigo in the sombrero is no conservative, si. You sir, look more like 'McGovern' everyday, si?
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hedge Funds Pressure N.Y. Times Co.
The top two executives of the New York Times Co. met Friday with a hedge fund group that wants to kick out four of the media company's directors, according to financial filings. A partnership between Firebrand Partners and Harbinger Capital Partners maintains that the Times Co. is underperforming and needs a new digital strategy. The partnership began buying Times Co. stock in December and now holds nearly 10 percent.
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Poor old Grey Lady, the fruits of being a DNC shill instead of an unbiased news source, are coming home to roost.
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Poor old Grey Lady, the fruits of being a DNC shill instead of an unbiased news source, are coming home to roost.
For Clinton, Bid Hinges on Texas and Ohio
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors and superdelegates that the nomination is not slipping away from her, aides said on Monday.
They also said that they had not been especially soothed, and that they believed she might be on a losing streak that could jeopardize her competitiveness in those states.
“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.” Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view.
Several Clinton superdelegates, whose votes could help decide the nomination, said Monday that they were wavering in the face of Mr. Obama’s momentum after victories in Washington State, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine last weekend.
Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately “go with the flow,” in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.
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They also said that they had not been especially soothed, and that they believed she might be on a losing streak that could jeopardize her competitiveness in those states.
“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.” Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view.
Several Clinton superdelegates, whose votes could help decide the nomination, said Monday that they were wavering in the face of Mr. Obama’s momentum after victories in Washington State, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine last weekend.
Some said that they, like the hundreds of uncommitted superdelegates still at stake, might ultimately “go with the flow,” in the words of one, and support the candidate who appears to show the most strength in the primaries to come.
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Secret Money Floods Campaigns
Big Count of Small Gifts Is Opaque to the Public
February 12, 2008A torrent of secret money is flooding into the leading presidential campaigns, with more than $118 million, or one-quarter of the total raised in this cycle, banked without disclosure of who gave the funds or where the donations originated.
The money is coming from hundreds of thousands of donations of $200 or less, which have been widely praised for democratizing the system for funding White House bids. However, the surge in low-dollar gifts has come at the cost of transparency, since federal law only requires campaigns to itemize donations when a donor gives more than $200.
February 12, 2008A torrent of secret money is flooding into the leading presidential campaigns, with more than $118 million, or one-quarter of the total raised in this cycle, banked without disclosure of who gave the funds or where the donations originated.
The money is coming from hundreds of thousands of donations of $200 or less, which have been widely praised for democratizing the system for funding White House bids. However, the surge in low-dollar gifts has come at the cost of transparency, since federal law only requires campaigns to itemize donations when a donor gives more than $200.
Corn Ethanol
You know what it is, the stuff you are paying billions to subsidize so that you can have two CO2 modules for where you used to only have one. The stuff that gets you about 70% the mileage per gallon as gasoline. The crap that rusts your fuel system, storage tanks and pipelines. The crap in the old days that they once used for gasoline before they found gasoline.
Barbara Boxer loves the stuff --- Oh that useless stuff. Yeah She's useless as well, I think botox got to her brain.
Hey, even that liberal rag the NYTimes says using ethanol produces twice the CO2 per mile as does gasoline. Yep, twice, that is 2 times for those that can't do math. So why is it so great? Funny you asked, because look at all the smiling know nothing politicians tell you how great it is.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Bering Starit In Winter
The Bering Strait is approximately 58 miles wide, with a water depth of 100–165 ft. During the last ice age, which ended about 11,000 years ago, the Bering Strait was dry land and served as a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. You may recall that since the last ice age ended, sea level has risen about 400 feet, completely flooding the Bering Strait and submerging the "land bridge".
Today the Bering Strait looks like this ...
This image of Alaska and the Bering Strait was captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite on February 5, 2008. This wintery scene shows the ground covered with snow, and the water full of ice - a contrast to this image of the region in summer.
The Bering Strait is the narrow passage between Russia (left) and the US state of Alaska (right). Just south of the straight is St. Lawrence Island. St. Lawrence Island might be one of the last surviving and above-water pieces of the famous Bering land bridge. East of St. Lawrence Island is the Norton Sound. South of the Sound is the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, which is where the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers empty into the Bering Sea.
If We Had Some Global Warming
C'mon, everybody...for the sake of the planet, sing along with Daryl and Elmer ...
Friday, February 8, 2008
Kerosene Lamps
I have highlighted the point that agricultural fires worldwide account for enormous amounts of pollution and CO2 dumped into the atmosphere. None of this can be good for mankind. Bur does anyone want to talk about lighting? Yes lighting, what we Americans take for granted, don't give any thought to, it's just there, or it least before the global warming alarmist it was, in the future not so clear.
But what about the rest of the world? In Africa alone there are 1.7 BILLION, yes BILLION with a B, people that live their daily lives with kerosene lights. Burning kerosene for light, emitting 200 million tons of greenhouse gases per year, equivalent to the emissions from 30 million cars. And this is just what the CO2 output is, not the other pollutants.
The poorest people in the world are paying the most for the worst quality light, causing the maximum pollution, and no one seems to even care. Developing clean and affordable light is more than an energy and environmental issue, it's about helping people achieve a small sliver of modern life, light on demand.
The reason the people are kept down and 'light-less' is because we would have to allow them to build power plants and distribution lines, and you know what that would do to the greenies and the other alarmists. Bonzo-ville over night. So these greenies are perfectly comfortable making life miserable for poor people in Africa and other parts of the world, not meaning to talk about the DDT ban and pest infected miserable lives these poor people are forced to live -- Nope, these people are held up, in all their misery, as examples of how we should all live.
There may be at least a minimum help for some light in the third world, LED lamps and new battery technology. No where near the needs that could be met with real power plants, real electricity technology, but that would allow them to develop a modern society with modern accoutrements. Nope can't have that, so say the people who care about the poor. If I see one more of these commercials for idiots with a Hollywood mega star walking around with a poor kid in tow pleading for food, I think I will puke. Why not build them a power plant and wire their country instead of sending endless bags of food which does nothing but reward those who send more bags of food, and so on ...
So technology may solve the problem, LEDs, solar panels and new Lithium rechargeable batteries may be the solution they hope for, but may not be able to afford. It's interesting that these solutions are considered 'emergency measures' when looked at for solutions in America. It should be this way in the third world, but for now it is the best that can be hoped for.
Politicians say that they can change the heavens, if they have enough tax money, and that is the key. Global warming is a big problem for the developed world. But then why if government can change the heavens, why can't they enforce the laws of the country, enforce the border, do the simple stuff first, then turn attention to changing the heavens.
But what about the rest of the world? In Africa alone there are 1.7 BILLION, yes BILLION with a B, people that live their daily lives with kerosene lights. Burning kerosene for light, emitting 200 million tons of greenhouse gases per year, equivalent to the emissions from 30 million cars. And this is just what the CO2 output is, not the other pollutants.
The poorest people in the world are paying the most for the worst quality light, causing the maximum pollution, and no one seems to even care. Developing clean and affordable light is more than an energy and environmental issue, it's about helping people achieve a small sliver of modern life, light on demand.
The reason the people are kept down and 'light-less' is because we would have to allow them to build power plants and distribution lines, and you know what that would do to the greenies and the other alarmists. Bonzo-ville over night. So these greenies are perfectly comfortable making life miserable for poor people in Africa and other parts of the world, not meaning to talk about the DDT ban and pest infected miserable lives these poor people are forced to live -- Nope, these people are held up, in all their misery, as examples of how we should all live.
There may be at least a minimum help for some light in the third world, LED lamps and new battery technology. No where near the needs that could be met with real power plants, real electricity technology, but that would allow them to develop a modern society with modern accoutrements. Nope can't have that, so say the people who care about the poor. If I see one more of these commercials for idiots with a Hollywood mega star walking around with a poor kid in tow pleading for food, I think I will puke. Why not build them a power plant and wire their country instead of sending endless bags of food which does nothing but reward those who send more bags of food, and so on ...
So technology may solve the problem, LEDs, solar panels and new Lithium rechargeable batteries may be the solution they hope for, but may not be able to afford. It's interesting that these solutions are considered 'emergency measures' when looked at for solutions in America. It should be this way in the third world, but for now it is the best that can be hoped for.
Politicians say that they can change the heavens, if they have enough tax money, and that is the key. Global warming is a big problem for the developed world. But then why if government can change the heavens, why can't they enforce the laws of the country, enforce the border, do the simple stuff first, then turn attention to changing the heavens.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Bush Administration Budget Includes $20M to FCC for DTV Education
Digital TV is coming, even the Federal Government feels the need to spend your tax dollars and get in the act.
The old days of get an antenna, get some wire, get a free tuner, connect wires to tuner and TV is just too tough for our modern grade school literate society -- I would guess. Good thing having babies doesn't require education ... Just free medical care.
The Federal Communications Commission will get another $20 million in 2008 for DTV education if the Bush administration has its way. That would be a big increase from its current DTV-education appropriation, which is $2.5 million for FY 2008, according to the an FCC source.Most people, who can read English, will likely find out all they need to know from stores and the media, but spending more tax dollars seems like such a good thing to do for government. And of course, the Democrats say $20 million isn't enough and we should spend $20 gazillion, because well, you know, education is a good thing.
In submitting its budget, the administration included the FCC's request for that money to help it get viewers ready for full-power TV stations' Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital broadcasting. The FCC asked for a total of $338.9 million for fiscal-year 2009, which begins in September 2008.
The commission said it will use the money for "producing and distributing consumer-oriented educational materials; using news media to spread information through media tours and public-service announcements; attending and presenting at events and conferences representing a wide array of consumers; leveraging the Internet to disseminate information; coordinating with state, local, and tribal entities; and distribution of direct mailings to targeted groups."
The old days of get an antenna, get some wire, get a free tuner, connect wires to tuner and TV is just too tough for our modern grade school literate society -- I would guess. Good thing having babies doesn't require education ... Just free medical care.
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