"Everybody off the continents! There's an iceberg coming!"
The threat of sea access being blocked to US and New Zealand bases in Antarctica may have receded after the world's largest iceberg broke free from the McMurdo Sound sea bed last month. Iceberg B-15A, which is equivalent in size to Luxembourg, has started moving again into deeper water after becoming stuck in relatively shallow seas in January. The previous position of the iceberg had caused a build up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, threatening access by US icebreaking ships to New Zealand's Scott Base and the nearby US McMurdo Sound base.
Antarctica New Zealand chief executive Lou Sanson says staff are watching the situation with interest but, after past experiences, are making no predictions about the massive iceberg's likely course. "We know very little about what makes this thing tick. Every time someone has made a prediction about it, they've been proved wrong," Mr Sanson said. He adds the renewed drift of the iceberg has loosened the build-up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound. That will hopefully allow access to the bases by icebreakers in the next summer season, starting late this year.
Before the grounding, the iceberg had been on a course for what scientists called "the collision of the century" with a huge floating glacier - the 70-kilometre-long and 20-kilometre-wide Drygalski Ice Tongue - which juts into McMurdo Sound. The iceberg, 120 kilometres long, with an area exceeding 2,500 square kilometres, is so large that scientists have been worried about its effects on sea life and penguin colonies in the region. "This thing is so big it creates its own weather. It's the largest moving thing on Earth," Mr Sanson said.
The European Space Agency (ESA), which monitors the iceberg by satellite, said last month that after the iceberg floated free of the seabed, it drifted to within only a few kilometres of the Drygalski Ice Tongue. Mark Drinkwater of ESA's ice/oceans unit said the likelihood of a collision depended on tides and currents and whether the shallowness of the seabed prevented the iceberg swinging around far enough to hit the ice tongue. B-15A is the largest remaining section of the even larger B-15 iceberg, which broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. The B-15 iceberg had an area equivalent to Jamaica.
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No one ever reports what is the 'baseline' for the world environment. The world has never been nor will be static. Its been warmer in human history than now. Its been much colder. All without modern man-made industrial activity. Pre-human geological records show the same variations in environment. I'm still looking for all those automobiles and industrial plants that pre-historic man employed to end the last major ice age 20,000 years ago.
So what is the standard, the baseline?
If there isn't one, how can you determine what is good or bad change or just something different?
Ok, a big asteriod is bad, but that is extraterrestial.
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check out Michael Chrichton's State of Fear - teh loonies and grant-givers and academia whores need a constant state of CATASTROPHE! looming, and due to human activities. They're willing to shave numbers, fabricate models and lie through their teeth for the almighty eco-dollar. Almost make tobacco execs look honest
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And it all works on the simple preposition that people are always unhappy with the weather, no matter if it is rain or shine, hot, warm, cool, or cold.
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Anyone here ever read The Screwtape Letters? The demon Screwtape was talking about such things in one of his letters to Wormwood, about making people never happy now, but giving them visions of an imminent heaven or hell on Earth, and making sure that unjustifiable measures are seen as essential to bringing about the heaven or averting the hell.
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It's unfortunate that so much bogus science is mixed in with the very important work of protecting the environment. The bottom line is, whether or not we accept the theory of Global warming, we need to keep toxic emissions out of the air and water, control exotics, and prevent soil erosion and deforestation.
The single biggest obstacle to the latter is the governments (or lack of them) in the countries that hold the rain forests. Charles Taylor sold zillions of dollars worth of Liberian hardwoods to the Japanese for gun money. Brazil'a rainforest destruction has less to do with Western consumption than stupid land use policies.
Someone recently posted an article about a man whose work in scientific farming methods prevented massive famines in the last century. Engineers Without Borders and other organizations are distributing cheap, low-tech items such as solar cookers to reduce the need for charcoal.
Where do I look to find what other progress we're making? How do we get the good news out? Good news apparently doesn't sell enough toothpaste on the MSM.
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mom: Political environmentalists see the ecology as a means to a political end. They don't really give two hoots about science, practicality, economy, or effect, as long as they get power. For them, "enviornmentalism" means getting others to agree on their terminology and politics. If they accomplish this control then the "environment" will be just fine, from their point of view. Practical environmentalists are a different kettle of fish. They does things like seek out and repair the most critical and influential parts of the ecology. For example, a team of about 1 dozen scuba divers radically improved the coastal environment of the west coast of the US by hand-seeding kelp beds for a few dollars. The kelp beds caused an explosion in life up and down the coast. The "arable ocean" is the most critical part of the ocean, so the impact was enormous. And these men needed no government help, financing, or other encouragement. But they will never have political power.
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A recent article in Scientific American said humans started global climate change 8,000 years ago, and may have headed off an ice age! How's that for a baseline?
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Jonah Goldberg had an article in Friday's NRO about there being more forested land in North America today than at any time since the landing of the first colonists. Research shows there's a strong link between environmentally unsafe practices and poverty. There's also a strong link between poor government and poverty. Watch Chavez destroy Venezuela over the next few years, and see how true that is.
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Whitey did it
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"I'm still looking for all those automobiles and industrial plants that pre-historic man employed to end the last major ice age 20,000 years ago"
Prehistoric man drove in foot powered cars and employed dinosaurs and wise cracking birds for mechanical purposes.
An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale has shaken the central South Island of New Zealand but there are no immediate reports of damage.
The Geological and Nuclear Sciences Department says the quake at 2:07pm (local time) was located 20 kilometres south-west of Twizel at a depth of 12 kilometres.
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A CUNNING plan is afoot to revive one of television's greatest cads. Edmund Blackadder, played by Rowan Atkinson, went "over the top" to almost certain death in the fourth series of the comedy 16 years ago.
Now, according to senior BBC sources, Blackadder is set to survive the first world war and appear in a new story with a strong anti-war message. The character may make his comeback as early as this autumn.
Senior executives at the corporation — including Jana Bennett, director of television, and Jane Lush, head of entertainment commissioning — are said to have discussed the idea at a meeting last month.
A source said: "Executives have been told to focus on making high-quality comedy. There have been rumours of a return, but this is the first time it has been discussed at high level."
Tony Robinson, the television presenter and Labour politician who played Baldrick, Blackadder's foul-smelling skivvy, said that he had heard rumours of a return "bubbling up". He said that he would gladly take part and believes Atkinson is also more enthusiastic than in the past to revive the series.
"I would be happy to do it and I have heard Rowan would be too," said Robinson. "It would be lovely, like a reunion of mates. But it's not really down to me."
In the planned story, Captain Edmund Blackadder shows his talent for saving his own skin.
In the final episode of the fourth series Blackadder Goes Forth, watched by 14m viewers when it was first shown in 1989, he and his army comrades were presumed to have died after following orders to "climb out of the trenches and walk very slowly towards the enemy".
The story is expected to continue the anti-war theme of Blackadder Goes Forth, with executives hoping that it will help to educate younger generations about the first world war as well as being entertaining.
Plans for the return have been boosted by the appointment of Peter Fincham, who is thought to be keen to revive the series, as BBC1 controller. Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, also recently called on his staff to focus on producing good comedy.
There may be obstacles to a remake because of the commitments of the cast and writers. Atkinson is being lined up for other roles this year, including Mr Toad in a television adaptation of A A Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, a play based on stories by Kenneth Grahame, and also for a sequel to the spy comedy Johnny English.
Robinson, who presents Time Team, the Channel 4 archeology programme, said: "There would need to be some pretty heavy negotiations with Channel 4 to get me in time for autumn."
Richard Curtis, who wrote all four series, has been in demand since writing hit films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill. Ben Elton, his co-writer, has been busy as a playwright and novelist.
Curtis said he had not yet been approached about the plans, adding: "It sounds like a bit of a nice dream to me.
"We used to say that we would bring it back when we were old men and cross with the world and I would never say never again."
If the programme is made, the anti-war theme will chime with the moral messages that Curtis is now putting into his writing. He has included references to world poverty in his sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. And The Girl in the Cafe, his new film for BBC1, is a love story set at a G8 conference. Enough with the PC "anti-war theme". It will either be funny or it won't.
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...Oh, BRAVO!!!! I had heard rumors some years ago of a fifth Blackadder series with Atkinson as an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain (imagine THAT...would have been one of the funniest things in TV history) but had to settle for his Blackadder Christmas Special and a transcript of his appearance at a command performance in 2000:
At the beginning of the last century just 200 years ago, Britain kept the peace in a quarter of the entire globe. The sun they say never set on the British Empire. Now what have we got? The Channel Islands... The Germans have bought Rolls Royce... All the newsreaders are Welsh, although that may not be relevant. And most foreigners think that the Union Jack is based on an old dress design for one of the Spice Girls....For 500 years from Agincourt to the Battle of Waterloo, Britain went from strength to strength and gained the greatest empire the world has ever known. The minute we start getting chummy with the garlic chewers, within three short decades we're buggered. Hello obvious connection alert!
For more, read here: http://www.blackadderhall.com/specials/army_years.shtml
IIRC, Mr. Atkinson is a fairly conservative sort, so it may not be as completely anti-war as it sounds. Best wishes to everyone in the project and looking forward to it.
Mike
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Your Majesty -- the verdict of the jury.
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KING
So, what does it say? Er, ?Guilty?, or ?Not Guilty??
Spain's socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has been forced to defend a decision to sell arms worth â¬1.3bn (£900m) to the left-wing Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, in a deal condemned by the opposition as "a monstrous error". In Spain's biggest arms deal for many years, its arms factories will supply 10 C-295 transport planes, four coastal patrol corvettes and four smaller coastguard patrol boats to Mr Chavez's army. Mr Zapatero said the vehicles would be used to monitor coastlines, combat terrorism and drug traffickers, and mount rescue operations during natural disasters. The deal was announced by the Spanish Prime Minister during a visit to Venezuela yesterday when he also met fellow left-wing leaders from Colombia and Brazil. Spain's opposition leader, Mariano Rajoy, whose conservative Popular Party criticised the deal, said: "This is something the Spanish government should never have done. It has provoked criticism throughout the Venezuelan opposition. I think what Zapatero has done is absolutely irresponsible." But Mr Zapatero insisted the equipment was solely for peaceful use. "None of this equipment has any offensive capability whatsoever," he said. In a veiled response to reservations expressed by the United States at recent Venezuelan arms purchases, he added that nobody should feel offended or have any objection to the proposed collaboration between Spain and Venezuela "that will benefit the people"...
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Vichy France sold its best airplanes to Romania and other Axis-allied countries, doing what it could to undermine its former allies.
Vichy Spain is doing the best it can to undermine its former allies.
Ecuador's former president returned home Saturday after spending eight years in exile in Panama, telling thousands that he plans to lead a "revolution of the poor" modeled after President Hugo Chavez' Venezuela.
Abdala Bucaram's return came two days after he was cleared of criminal action by Ecuador's high court. The ruling by Supreme Court President Guillermo Castro was criticized by political rivals as a rigged decision to annul corruption charges against the populist former president. "I come to Ecuador to copy Chavez's style with a great Bolivarian revolution," Bucaram said, referring to the leftist Venezuelan president's movement, which is loosely based on the writings of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. Rest at link.
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I'd be careful, the poor are likely to be overwhelmed by The Destitute Revolution carried out by them sans pants folks.
A SUICIDAL Iranian asylum seeker said today he was treated like an animal at the Baxter detention centre and was not seen by a psychiatrist for four years.
Lawyers for the man and another Iranian detainee have taken court action claiming the Federal Government failed its duty of care towards the men, and requesting they be sent to a psychiatric hospital in Adelaide.
Both men, who cannot be named, are being held at the Baxter facility in South Australia's remote north.
One of the men, identified as S, told the Federal Court in Adelaide today he had been held in Australian detention centres for four-and-a-half years, the past two years at Baxter.
Despite a series of self-harm and protest incidents, S said he was not consulted by a psychiatrist until January this year.
He said he had twice been placed in Baxter's management unit, an isolation facility.
"I thought I was an animal, just like an animal they lock me up," S told the court, through an interpreter.
S detailed several incidents of self-harm, in which he used a razor blade to repeatedly slash his arms, legs and chest.
The man was among three Baxter detainees last December who climbed onto a rooftop and remained there for days.
S said he spent 10 consecutive nights on the rooftop while "extremely distraught" but when he climbed down, he was still not seen by a psychiatrist.
The man said he was frightened of being held in some areas of Baxter, and claimed one of his friends in detention had also separately spent time protesting on a rooftop and was told by a Baxter psychologist "he should jump".
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The hearing was told last week by Adelaide psychiatrist Jon Jureidini that Baxter "is a place that drives people mad".
Immigration department lawyers have said various medical opinions about the men's mental health did not mean the Government had failed in its duty of care to the men.
The hearing was continuing.
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FLAMBOYANT entrepreneur Richard Branson wants to bring his "Virgin Galactic" spaceships to Australia and says he has already had approaches from several state governments.
Sir Richard's Virgin Group has entered into a deal with US space aviation pioneer Burt Rutan and software mogul Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, to develop affordable space tourism.
Mr Rutan's SpaceShipOne last October won the $US10million ($12.96million) Ansari X-Prize, which was set up in 1996 to encourage civilian space flight, when it carried a man into suborbital space twice within two weeks.
It also set an altitude record of 377,591 feet (115,090m).
A final design for Virgin's flagship spacecraft, the VSS Enterprise, is expected to be signed off on this year.
A US base is expected to be training 3000 astronauts for the $US190,000 sub-orbital flights in as little as three years.
Sir Richard said in Sydney that the plan was to build sufficient spaceships to allow the establishment of separate bases around the world.
"Having said that, we would have to get an export licence from the American Government on it.
We're 90per cent sure that will be possible but, because it's space, they would certainly need certain protections," he said.
"Subject to that, I think Australia would be a place where it would be wonderful to set up a space station and offer space travel from.
"We've had a number of states approach us."
The British entrepreneur said the space flights would be a great spectacle and attract wealthy individuals.
In time, he hoped to bring down the price of space travel to make it more affordable.
But he was reluctant to put a figure on the reduced price.
"I'm not getting drawn on that, otherwise no one's going to pay the initial price, but it will come down after 10 years or so," he said.
Sir Richard also indicated Virgin Blue would move soon on its long-awaited frequent-flyer program, saying the scheme would be part of a renewed assault on Qantas now that Patrick Corp's takeover bid had expired.
Asked how Patrick's 62 per cent stake would affect the airline, Sir Richard said he believed it would be "business as usual" and that it had not affected his relationship with Patrick chief executive Chris Corrigan.
The Virgin boss and his son are in Australia to film cameo appearances as astronauts in the new Superman movie, which features a Virgin Galactic spaceship.
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Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono are today expected to give the go ahead for negotiations on a security treaty between the two countries.
Dr Yudhoyono arrived in Canberra last night.
The Indonesian President was greeted by Mr Howard and Governor-General Michael Jeffery.
After a 21-gun salute and an inspection of Australia's Federation Guard, Dr Yudhoyono was honoured with a state dinner at Government House.
The Prime Minister and the Indonesian President are expected to agree to begin formal talks on a bilateral security treaty when they meet this morning at Parliament House.
They are also likely to discuss Australia's $1 billion tsunami aid package for Indonesia, as well as any further assistance Australia can provide to survivors of last week's earthquake.
They may also discuss the idea of a free trade agreement between the two countries.
Dr Yudhoyono will visit the Australian War Memorial this afternoon, before travelling to Sydney for talks with political and business leaders.
Later today, he will travel to Sydney for meetings with political and business leaders.
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THE voice of the ship's captain wavered as he delivered the news the crew of HMAS Kanimbla had dreaded for almost an hour. "It's been confirmed that members of our family have died," Commander George Maguire told the dinner mess over the loudspeaker shortly after 8pm yesterday. Two hundred brave men and women bowed their heads in pain, and reached out to each other. Tears that had half dried on faces turned to anguised streams and their leader offered the news that the ship was now under steam towards the scene of the crash. "We will go and collect our friends," he said.
Yesterday had dawned as one of hope for both the devastated people of Nias and the Australian defence personnel who were dispatched to help them. Kanimbla, which had been turned around at Singapore just days before its crew were to meet up with family at home, was the first ship carrying aid to arrive in the shattered area. They were exhausted and disappointed to not see their families, but the satisfaction of doing a hard job well meant many were smiling despite a hard day treating dozens of serious injuries and unloading supplies. Everybody felt great because it was going so well. They had done this before and it was going really smoothly this time. There was a lot of optimism and they were expecting to treat more people. All of a sudden everything changed.
The Sea King called Shark Zero Two crashed as it landed in a remote area of Nias. In such a tight unit it didn't take long before everyone knew there was a problem. Shortly afterwards a second aircraft saw smoke and visited the crash site. They saw the wreck was completely burnt out. The only good news was that two men were alive. They have been brought back to the ship to be operated on. But it was little solace. The reality of a mission gone so wrong was barely able to be comprehended. All the remaining staff could do was to hold onto each other and cry.
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It took just minutes for the Vatican to alert the world's media of Pope John Paul's death -- using text messages and email so the 2,000-year-old Church could meet the new demands of real-time news. Just a quarter of an hour after the Pope was pronounced dead Saturday at 9:37 p.m., the Vatican sent journalists an SMS message alerting them to a pending statement. Television networks across the globe were already on standby a minute later when the email communique was beamed to a sea of state-of-the-art handheld computers, purchased by journalists at the suggestion of the Vatican. "The Holy father died this evening at 21:37 in his private apartment," it said, in a simple Word document.
TV spectators across the globe learned of the Pope's death even before the thousands of faithful gathered in prayer below the Pope's window in St. Peter's Square. During John Paul's life and after his death, the Vatican was at pains to accommodate the mass media, which closely followed the 84-year-old Pope's decline and spells in hospital. Medical bulletins this year gave brief snapshots of the Pontiff's condition, growing increasingly pessimistic as they prepared the world for the worst.
It was a marked break from the secrecy surrounding previous pontificates, even as recently as the 1960s. The Vatican, for example, kept Pope John XXIII's inoperable stomach cancer secret until just a few days before he died in June 1963. The Pope himself wrote in a February letter that the Church should not be shy of using the media, including the Internet, to spread its message, saying the "mass media can and must promote justice and solidarity."
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2. You can have simple document, but it won't be Word
3. You can have simple word, but then it won't be a document
The head of the UN watchdog agency on Friday accused UN staff of mounting a smear campaign against him as he faced a renewed probe of allegations he traded jobs for personal favours. Dileep Nair, head of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, whose contract expires on April 23, launched a counter-attack after being told he was subject to a second review on improper job promotions and "sexual contact." Nair and his attorney released documents from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and others that showed he was cleared of the allegations in November stemming from an employees union, the UN Staff Council. His argument with the United Nations follows a drumbeat of recent glum news for the world body, with both managers and staff more emboldened to go public following probes into the scandal-tainted oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
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Zimbabwe's most important friend, neighbouring South Africa, has praised parliamentary elections as free and fair
There's a unicorn in your garden? As the moral of the story goes, "Never count your boobies until they are hatched."
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Eric, what I was trying to say that these two situations have the same likelihood to transpire (free and fair election in Zim-Bob-we and unicorn in my backyard) and both have a distinct character of fairy tales.
A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in the town of Ravar in southeastern province of Kerman on Sunday left 24 injured, a local official reported. Ravar Governor Mahmoud Vafaei told IRNA 22 of the wounded have sustained light injuries but the other two have picked up serious injuries and were admitted to a hospital in the capital city Kerman. The earthquake jolted the city's suburbs, 155 km north of Kerman, at 02:54 hours local time (2224 GMT Saturday). It was primarily reported that the tremor caused no damages or casualties.
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Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop of his denomination, has angered traditionalist Anglicans by suggesting that Jesus Christ might have been homosexual.
"And she may have been black, too!"
Robinson, who left his wife — and mother of his two daughters — to cohabit with his male lover, Mark, made his inflammatory remarks during an address titled, "Homosexuality and the Body of Christ: Is There a New Way?" at Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham, Massachusetts. The bishop was asked by a congregant how Christians could both accept homosexuality and the Bible's emphasis on redemption for sins. "Interestingly enough, in this day of traditional family values," answered Robinson, "this man that we follow was single, as far as we know, traveled with a bunch of men, had a disciple who was known as 'the one whom Jesus loved' and said my family is not my mother and father, my family is those who do the will of God. None of us likes those harsh words. That's who Jesus is, that's who he was at heart, in his earthly life. Those who would posit the nuclear family as the be all and end all of God's creation probably don't find that much in the gospels to support it."
"Those without a degree in theology might, of course, but not those of us who're experts!"
"Rubbish," responds David Virtue who operates VirtueOnline, a website that bills itself as "the voice for global orthodox Anglicanism."
When you run a site called VirtueOnline you're not allowed to use stronger language...
"It is appalling deconstructionism from the liberal lobby which will spin even the remotest thing to turn it into a hint that Biblical figures are gay," says Virtue. "It is so utterly preposterous to imply that Jesus' relationship with John was homo-erotic, but twisting the truth is the only way these people can get scriptural justification for their lifestyles. Can you imagine Calvin, Luther or Erasmus saying something like this? It is a wonder that thunder and lightning bolts don't strike Bishop Robinson down."
That'd be too much to ask for. Pillars of salt are way too few and far between these days...
Canon Chris Sugden, spokesman for the traditionalist organization, Anglican Mainstream, also disputes Robinson's use of scripture and the implications he draws from them. "He's really selective in what he's addressing," says Sugden. "He makes no mention of Jesus' teaching on marriage, for instance. And he does not acknowledge that nowhere in the text or in ancient literature is there any suggestion of any form of sexual impropriety among Jesus or the disciples. Jesus broke the cultural traditions of the time and has women mixing with men in public and having them teaching. Those of us who put scripture as a priority are called on to obey the scripture even when that is in conflict with our culture. Bishop Robinson is saying that the culture has moved in his direction and that it's all becoming accepted, so he's looking for ways to interpret scripture to support that instead of realizing that scripture asks us to do the unpopular thing and stand against the prevailing culture."
Welcome to the tripolar world: Good, Evil, and Theology...
Robinson's 2003 consecration created a schism in the Anglican church between liberals and traditionalists, causing some to suggest he should be "struck down by thunder and lightning bolts."
Yeah, you said that earlier. Or he could have been eaten by bears or carried off by Assyrians...
In some cases, traditional congregations have sought to shift their affiliation with the worldwide Anglican communion from liberal American bishops to bishops in Africa where a conservative understanding of Biblical morality still dominates. Robinson, however remains undaunted by the criticism, saying he has reconciled his homosexuality and his faith. "God's light and God's life ooze over me like warm butter," he declares. "God is my nipple clamps and tennis ball in my mouth."
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Pleased to meet you, Bishop Robinson. Have you met Professor Churchill? He'll explain to you what happens next.
Mike
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Bishop Robinson has not gone nearly far enough in his radical interpretation of scripture. Jesus might have also been, by Robinson's perverted reasoning, a flaming pedophile. After all when Jesus said, " Let the little children come unto me." we all know what Jesus really meant, huh? ( Snark, snigger, giggle. ) But Robinson is an old fuddy fuddy. He's not ready to raise that pedophile assertion. Yet.
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Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor figs from thistles, are they? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit; but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits. -(Matthew 7:15-20)
TAMPA · Terri Schiavo's body was cremated Saturday as the battles between her husband and parents continued, but plans for her burial in Pennsylvania have not yet been determined, her husband's attorney said.
George Felos said the cremation was carried out according to a court order issued on Tuesday giving Michael Schiavo the right to make decisions on his wife's burial. Bob and Mary Schindler had wanted to bury their daughter in Pinellas County so they could visit her grave.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died Thursday after the removal of the feeding tube that had kept her alive since 1990 in what some court-appointed doctors determined was a persistent vegetative state. Lets not mention all the doctors who contest this diagnosis shall we?
Her parents had fought in court to keep her alive, saying she was severely disabled but not without hope.
Michael Schiavo is now required to tell his wife's parents of any memorial services he plans for Terri Schiavo and where her ashes are interred. The Schiavo family has said her ashes will be buried in a family plot in a Pennsylvania cemetery.
Michael Schiavo has not spoken publicly since his wife's death, but Felos said Saturday: "He's holding up. It's very difficult for him." He's having a hard time recovering from the Victory Dance and he keeps singing 'Hi! Ho! The b-tch is dead!'. He just can't seem to control himself!
The Schindlers plan to have their own memorial service for their daughter at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Gulfport.
The dispute over her burial weighed heavy on the Schindlers, but their attorneys said Saturday that it wasn't the only setback the couple suffered after their daughter's death.
The Schindlers had sought to have independent medical experts observe her autopsy at the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office, but the office refused the request, family attorneys David Gibbs III and Barbara Weller said. No! No! We don't want outsiders watching -- they might SEE something!
The autopsy was completed Friday and results are not expected for several weeks. It was ordered by the county's chief medical examiner before Terri Schiavo's body was cremated. The Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office did not return a telephone call for comment Saturday.
A neuropathologist was also to conduct an exam. Looks like a pile of ashes to me!
The Schindlers, though, do not think their daughter had an eating disorder and have accused Michael Schiavo of abusing his wife, a charge which he vehemently denies. Gibbs said the Schindlers wanted to select an outside neuropathologist and forensic expert to observe the autopsy.
Over the years, the couple has sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition and what caused it, but often turned up empty-handed. On the other hand they also turned up evidence (a bone scan) of abuse. The husband has steadfast refused any tests (MRI, PET) which might show any other evidence.
Abuse complaints to state social workers were ruled unfounded -- although one current investigation remains open -- and the Pinellas state attorney's office did not turn up evidence of abuse in one brief probe of the case.
he sure didn't waste any time hiding the evidence did he?
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Michael Schiavo, the Lawyuh, the Judge, The hospice administrator, et al, have been controlling the situation so far, so they control the outcome. Like I said before, this is a civil rights case, and the DoJ should swoop down and seize the records of the last 15 years. That stuff will be the next thing to go into the shredder or up the chimney. If the judge and the court system gets away with this possible case of murder, it will do it again and again, with nobody being safe, not even Michael Schiavo.
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Heâs having a hard time recovering from the Victory Dance and he keeps singing âHi! Ho! The b-tch is dead!â. He just canât seem to control himself!
'Fool : You got that confused....Hi ho - That's "Snow White", "husband" was singing "Ding Dong the b---h is dead", (Wizard of Oz)
Thus Michael, the flying monkey, thinks he has been released from some sort of spell...
We saw Terri S. as a "Snow White"-like character,
but he viewed her as "the Witch".
United Nations troops killed up to 38 militia fighters during a raid by hundreds of peacekeepers backed by helicopter gunships in the Ituri district of eastern Congo, a UN military source has said. "It was serious fighting and 38 militiamen were killed," the source told Reuters. The clash came a day after a UN deadline expired for voluntary disarmament by militias, who have killed hundreds of civilians in the mineral-rich region. Earlier, the UN mission said South African, Bangladeshi and Pakistani peacekeepers exchanged fire with armed men as they searched two militia camps 40 km southwest of Bunia, capital of Ituri.
No word on the UN casualties, if any. I'm assuming they're not very high...
The United Nations now has 16,700 soldiers in Congo, making it the largest peacekeeping mission in the world. It has been criticised in the past for failing to rein in the brutal militias, who have carried out attacks on civilians, kidnapping, decapitating and torturing their victims. But after nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed in February - the worst single loss suffered by the peacekeeping mission since it began in 1999 - the UN force stepped up military operations against armed gangs.
... demonstrating once again that hard boyz with guns aren't a match for even poorly trained soldiers.
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Frightened soliders from the sty
Kofis buds who run and sigh,
Accountants who mean just what they say,
this time it's the blue barrets.
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I don't think, the UN had an established mandate, to the hanus killing of innocent terrs. Amnesia Intl., ACLU, and CBSMSNBCCNNABCNBC needs to be all over this dire situation, to make sure the UN troops didn't commit war crimes.
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The threat of sea access being blocked to US and New Zealand bases in Antarctica may have receded after the world's largest iceberg broke free from the McMurdo Sound sea bed last month. Iceberg B-15A, which is equivalent in size to Luxembourg, has started moving again into deeper water after becoming stuck in relatively shallow seas in January. The previous position of the iceberg had caused a build up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound, threatening access by US icebreaking ships to New Zealand's Scott Base and the nearby US McMurdo Sound base. 
Spain's socialist Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has been forced to defend a decision to sell arms worth â¬1.3bn (£900m) to the left-wing Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, in a deal condemned by the opposition as "a monstrous error". In Spain's biggest arms deal for many years, its arms factories will supply 10 C-295 transport planes, four coastal patrol corvettes and four smaller coastguard patrol boats to Mr Chavez's army. Mr Zapatero said the vehicles would be used to monitor coastlines, combat terrorism and drug traffickers, and mount rescue operations during natural disasters. The deal was announced by the Spanish Prime Minister during a visit to Venezuela yesterday when he also met fellow left-wing leaders from Colombia and Brazil. Spain's opposition leader, Mariano Rajoy, whose conservative Popular Party criticised the deal, said: "This is something the Spanish government should never have done. It has provoked criticism throughout the Venezuelan opposition. I think what Zapatero has done is absolutely irresponsible." But Mr Zapatero insisted the equipment was solely for peaceful use. "None of this equipment has any offensive capability whatsoever," he said. In a veiled response to reservations expressed by the United States at recent Venezuelan arms purchases, he added that nobody should feel offended or have any objection to the proposed collaboration between Spain and Venezuela "that will benefit the people"...
Ecuador's former president returned home Saturday after spending eight years in exile in Panama, telling thousands that he plans to lead a "revolution of the poor" modeled after President Hugo Chavez' Venezuela.
The head of the UN watchdog agency on Friday accused UN staff of mounting a smear campaign against him as he faced a renewed probe of allegations he traded jobs for personal favours. 
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop of his denomination, has angered traditionalist Anglicans by suggesting that Jesus Christ might have been homosexual. 
United Nations troops killed up to 38 militia fighters during a raid by hundreds of peacekeepers backed by helicopter gunships in the Ituri district of eastern Congo, a UN military source has said. "It was serious fighting and 38 militiamen were killed," the source told Reuters. The clash came a day after a UN deadline expired for voluntary disarmament by militias, who have killed hundreds of civilians in the mineral-rich region. Earlier, the UN mission said South African, Bangladeshi and Pakistani peacekeepers exchanged fire with armed men as they searched two militia camps 40 km southwest of Bunia, capital of Ituri. 
