FORMER President George H.W. Bush, father of the current president, was treated at a California hospital after becoming dizzy and dehydrated in the desert heat. "President Bush was playing golf in the 94 degree heat and became dizzy and dehydrated," Elizabeth Wholihan, a spokeswoman for Eisenhower Medical Centre in Rancho Mirage, said.
Southern California has been baking under a heat wave that threatens to shatter record temperatures. The White House said President George W. Bush was informed by his personal physician, Dr. Richard Tubb, about his father's condition Sunday before travelling to Guatemala City and spoke with him en route. "He was held overnight. He's fine and he's resuming his normal schedule today," White House spokesman Tony Snow said of the former president.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment. "Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
Wuss.
On Monday, the pair was at Canada's Ward Hunt Island, awaiting a plane to take them to Resolute, Canada, where they were to return to Minneapolis later this week. Bancroft, 51, became the first woman to cross the North Pole on a 1986 expedition. She and Arnesen, 53, of Oslo, Norway, were the first women to ski across Antarctica in 2001.
But the latest trek got off to a bad start. The day they set off from Ward Hunt Island, a plane landing near the women hit their gear, punching a hole in Bancroft's sled and damaging one of Arnesen's snowshoes. They repaired the snowshoe with binding from a ski, but Atwood said the patch job created pressure on Arnesen's left foot, which led to blisters that then turned into frostbite.
Then there was the cold _ quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said. "My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said. She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because the bottles froze.
You mean a hot water bottle doesn't stay hot all night at -58 degrees?
The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek across the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.
Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures. "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
"So don't trust those lying thermometers!"
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PSA:
Water is wet, fire burns and extreme cold gives you frostbite.
I guess Global Warming hasn't starting melting the snow up north much this year. "A Inconvenient Truth" I think.
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As pointed out over at Tim Blair's site, if unpredictability is a hallmark of gobular waning, then it's not a scientific theory, since prediction is required for science.
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this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.
Good lord, did they think the Artic turned into a chilly day in Colorado? Maybe they should try and get reimbursement from Al Gore?
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So quit teasing me: was the airplane damaged? I mean if it hit a sled and a snowshoe, surely there must have been something broken....("And quit calling me Shirley")
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Al Gore invented the internet. Did he invent global warming too? Must be all that hot air coming out of his big mouth. I kind of like global warming - makes it a lot easier to live in Minnesota.
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Here is a view of the fabled vacation spot of Ward Hunt Island, north of Ellismere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Next stop: 90 deg N (pick your longitude):
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There was a lady I knew (but won't say her name) that did a North Pole expedition about 18 years ago. She would not listen to those who knew (Twin Otter pilots at Resolute) about her late start (April). It is about 500 NM from Ward Hunt Island to the North Pole. Well, she had lots of problems, the greatest of which was that the ice was separating under her tent. Things started breaking up, so a Twin Otter came up and rescued her and her dog team before she was adrift. Now I see that she has a web site, lectures, sells books, the whole bit. The North Pole can be a Nut Magnet, if ya let it, heh.
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Remember the new script, guys, it's not just Global Warming that man causes, it's Global Climate Change! Stay with the program!
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Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures. "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
More important than using a scientific theory to predict anything is the notion that a valid theory is falsifiable (no not provable!). Falsifiability means that the theory can be subjected to a test against the data and that test has the possible outcome that it is shown to be false.
A theory that predicts global warming is responsible for both cooling and warming or additional unpredictability is little better than a religion. Religion also can't qualify for a theory since it makes predictions that clearly cannot be subject to a controlled test and falsifiable.
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The Toga will save us all = the Sun will surrender once the Sun sees how naked we are, no $$$ or property, and that we had forgotten how to operate modern or post-modern machines.
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OK, AP and SHip; you can have your Twin Otters, but for bush work there is only one aeroplane, the Dehavilland Beaver. And I am not talking about the re-engined turbine Beaver, but the Honest to Orville Radial motored aircraft.
(sorry-linkychallenged, rode the short bus to DOS Skool)
ZIMBABWE'S Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is said to be fighting for his life after he was injured in police custody following his arrest in Harare. Police detained Mr Tsvangirai, the leader of the Democratic Movement for Change (MDC) and dozens of other opposition figures while breaking up a prayer meeting organised in defiance of a ban on political rallies. One man died in the police action, and rights groups alleged Mr Tsvangirai and other politicians had been tortured. "President Tsvangirai is battling for his life at Borrowdale police station after he was brutally assaulted. He lost consciousness three times following the ... attack," said MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe.
She said the party wanted all detainees freed immediately and pledged that the struggle against Mr Mugabe would continue. A Tsvangirai lawyer said the High Court had ordered police to provide access to the head of the MDC and the other detainees. "A provisional order was issued that we have access to our clients, that they should be taken to hospital where necessary and that they should be taken to court by 12pm tomorrow (Harare time), failure of which they should be released," said Alec Muchadehama.
Under Zimbabwe's laws, police can detain suspects for up to 48 hours before taking them to court. Earlier, a Tsvangirai lawyer, Innocent Chagonda, visited the MDC leader and said he was in bad shape. "He was swollen very badly. He was bandaged on the head. You couldn't distinguish between the head and the face and he could not see properly."
Political tensions, which have been brewing over the soaring cost of living and Mr Mugabe's controversial rule, erupted when riot squads fought opposition youths in the capital for the second time in a month. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena accused Mr Tsvangirai and others of inciting violence. He said a police patrol killed one man after being attacked by a mob of "MDC thugs". Three police officers were badly injured when MDC supporters attacked a patrol using children as human shields, he said.
Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi told state television the Government was determined to uphold the law. "We are warning all those who assault police officers whether with stones or sticks or with their hands that they will be arrested regardless of their social status or body size,'' he said. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern about the detention, echoing international condemnation against the Zimbabwean Government over rights abuses.
More, from the London Times...
The leader of Zimbabwes main opposition party needed hospital treatment for severe head injuries after police beat him following his arrest at a prayer rally on Sunday, his party said. Morgan Tsvangirai required surgery to his wounds at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare early yesterday, said an official from his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The MDC leader was arrested in the impoverished township of Highfields where he had gone to attend a prayer rally. Dozens of opposition officials, rights activists and churchmen were also detained. Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, a party spokesman, said that Mr Tsvangirais wife, Susan, had been allowed to take her husband food yesterday after he was returned to police cells.
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"or body size". I never would of thought body size mattered when breaking the law. Or is this just there way of convinceing people to eat less, than it won't seem so bad they can't afford food.
In that part of the world, body size was status, ie,
the fatter* one was, the more one was eating, ergo the more cattle one owned. Who owned the most cattle? Why, the chief, of course. Guess it still applies. 21st century thinking at work.
* Cancelled my PC-ness a while back, but I do mean fatter in the nicest possible way, maybe I meant big, or just wide.
Smiling Guatemalan children warmly greeted President Bush with cries of "Hola!" and gave first lady Laura Bush lilies Monday as the president worked to burnish the U.S. image in Latin America. Guatemala's President Oscar Berger and his wife took the Bushes to nearby Santa Cruz Balanya, a town of about 10,000 mostly indigenous Guatemalans to stress the need for social justice and equality.
Bush visited the site of a U.S. military medical readiness and training exercise team, which bring military doctors from both nations to provide medical, dental, surgical and optometrical services for underserved rural areas. Afterward, the Bushes went to the town square, where they listened to a marimba band in front of a yellow church. There, they walked along the edge of a cheering crowd of about 500 people, shaking hands to greetings of "Hola!" The crowd also cheered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Frame-by-frame, the images of Bush's visit to Guatemala are depicting sharp contrasts, with the leader of the richest nation reaching out to the impoverished. Undeterred by protests that have dogged Bush at every stop on his five-nation Latin American trip, Bush is working to convince Guatemalans that the United States is a compassionate nation. It's the same message he delivered earlier at stops in Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. "It's very important for the people of South America and Central America to know that the United States cares deeply about the human condition, and that much of our aid is aimed at helping people realize their God-given potential," Bush said Sunday in Bogota, Colombia.
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Nothing to report here. Spike.
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Thousands of Chinese farmers and laid-off workers rioted in central China, attacking police and smashing squad cars, a local official said on Monday, the latest in a string of violent demonstrations. Nine police cars were burnt during the riot on Friday in the central province of Hunan in which 20,000 people clashed with about 1,000 police armed with guns and electric cattle prods, a local official told Reuters. They did it because they were not satisfied with some government behaviour, the official, surnamed Tan, said by telephone from the district of Lingling, which belongs to the Hunan city of Yongzhou. They were also unhappy about official corruption, Tan said without elaborating. The overseas human rights Web site Boxun (www.boxun.com) said the riot was sparked by dissatisfaction with rising public transport costs.
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Their first real economic recession is going to fall into that old Chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times' theme.
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Every now and then, the question needs to be raised, "Can China be governed?"
Not a typical question, it is really a problem of efficiency. "Could China evolve into two or three nations which could actually be managed as nations?"
Instead of a massive central government, decentralized authority with a confederation organization might present so many benefits to everyone that it comes about, the central government becoming more administrative, and less managerial.
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Only in China, where the police can stick it to their citizens with cattle prods.
I wonder what the police are using for ammo. During the Tianamen massacre, the soldiers used bullets that open up when it hits flesh.
This is the worst riot in China I have seen in a while. I wonder how it will be before Amnesty Int'l and Human Rights Watch complaints starts showing up on the MSM. Rantburg is the first site mentioning this story. Good job guys.
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A: Every now and then, the question needs to be raised, "Can China be governed?"
Not a typical question, it is really a problem of efficiency. "Could China evolve into two or three nations which could actually be managed as nations?"
Instead of a massive central government, decentralized authority with a confederation organization might present so many benefits to everyone that it comes about, the central government becoming more administrative, and less managerial.
China, unlike India, has been a unitary state for the majority of its existence. It's certainly more governable than India. The real question is whether individual Indians, and Chinese, would be better under if their respective countries devolved into new nations comprised of the ancient states that are now in the corrupt and inefficient embrace of the central government.
We should remind each other of at least three examples to watch for anytime we see an accusation.
1) Richard Jewell
2) Character assassination commited with a purpose by the left, MSM and the Clintonista attack machine.
3) Holding Historical figures to standards and values of another epoch. which I grant is not simple and fraught with sink traps but...
Holding Jefferson to measure up to and account for our 21th century values on slavery for instance.
Civilization, all it's history, laws and social values accumulate, we all stand on the shoulders of our forefathers and the evolving rules laid down before.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday formally endorsed his political rival, the center-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, for president. Today I am with Nicolas Sarkozy to defend the ideals of our political family and so that the choice for the French people is as clear as possible, Mr. de Villepin told Europe 1 radio a day after President Jacques Chirac announced that he would not seek a third term. He added, We have been together in government, we will be together in this battle.
The endorsement is important because Mr. de Villepin, who once had been considered a potential presidential contender, put party unity ahead of the personal and political differences he has had over the years with Mr. Sarkozy, who is the interior minister and the head of the governing party, the Union for a Popular Movement.
In the past, for example, Mr. de Villepin has criticized Mr. Sarkozys proposal to institute a modest limited affirmative action program for France, which Mr. de Villepin believes runs counter to the republican ideal that ignores race, religion and ethnicity. And although Mr. Sarkozy, like Mr. Chirac and Mr. de Villepin, opposed the war in Iraq, he has criticized the two men for the way they conducted diplomacy with the United States before the war, calling Frances attitude arrogant.
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Does de Vulpin (who is s man) help or hurt? Obviously, he's not popular here, but that's irrelevant. Is he popular in France. As PM, did the car-B-cues get tied to him?
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Jeez, still here? I was sure he had undergone a sex change operation and now dances at the Moulin Rouge under the name "Dominique".
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I nwas starting to like Sarkozy, but if deVermin is endorsing him . . . I gotta rethink this, mebbe.
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remember as much as we think all politics everywhere revolves around the US, it doesnt. De Villepins aggressive for policy was IN PART, at least, tied to French business interests. The same French business interests that want to sell whatever they can to Iraq, Iran, etc are also not too thrilled with Socialist calls for things like shorter work weeks, or Socialist opposition to cutting the French welfare state.
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One simply must smooth the artificial tan down the neck to below the collar line, or it looks fake!
On to more important things: the honourable prime minister must be very concerned about a Socialist win to throw in with his arch-rival for Chiraq's favour.
...and I will crush it's skull between my massive thighs!!!
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday described past Republican political malfeasance in New Hampshire as evidence of a "vast, right-wing conspiracy." Clinton's barbed comments revived a term she coined for the partisan plotting during her husband's presidential tenure and echoed remarks she made last weekend in New Hampshire, which holds the nation's first primary. Oh, ya mean when he was cheating on you and made you look like a friggin idiot? That time?
Her rhetorical red meat to a sympathetic audience of Democratic municipal officials comes as Clinton courts New Hampshire voters and squeezes donors for dollars ahead of a March 31 fundraising report deadline. She also continues to face criticism from the party's liberal base for her failure to repudiate her vote authorizing military force in Iraq. So it's a massive left wing conspiracy? I'm sooo confused...
Clinton asserted on Tuesday that the conspiracy is alive and well, and cited as proof the Election Day 2002 case of phone jamming in New Hampshire, a case in which two Republican operatives pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and a third was convicted."To the New Hampshire Democratic Party's credit, they sued and the trail led all the way to the Republican National Committee," Clinton said. "So if anybody tells you there is no vast, right-wing conspiracy, tell them that New Hampshire has proven it in court," she said. They're everywhere, I tells ya! Everywhere!
Former RNC operative James Tobin was convicted of telephone harassment and appealed his conviction. The investigation arose after Democratic organizers' phones were overwhelmed by annoying hang-up calls hindering their get-out-the-vote efforts. Hey, ya got Prince Albert in a can? Yes...I'll hold.
Clinton accused the GOP of a number of other anti-voter actions, including intimidating phone calls during the 2006 congressional elections. ...and the heartless bastards didn't even have a "Smokes and Malt Liquor" program for the Inebriate-American voter, which we pioneered out in Milwaukee.
New Hampshire Democratic Party chairwoman Kathy Sullivan said she absolutely agreed with the New York senator's description of the case. "People think we're paranoid when we talk about the vast, right-wing conspiracy, but there is a real connection of these groups the same names keep popping up," Sullivan said. "They are the most disgusting group of political thugs that I have ever seen." Johnson, we got an address on this Sullivan woman?
Yes, sir, Vice President Cheney!
Warm up the black helicoipters...
RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt responded that Democrats "might be disappointed to learn that almost a decade later, the senator's playbook consists of little more than a resurrection of Clinton-era talking points." Clinton made her charge of conspiracy in response to a question about her proposed bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday, and make it a crime to send misleading or fraudulent information to voters. Just what government workers need, another paid day off...
She also said the government should do more to end unusually long lines at certain polling places. And where might those be?
"It just so happens that many of those places where people are waiting for hours are places where people of color are voting or young people are voting. That is un-American, and we're going to end it," Clinton said. From now on...WHITEY waits!!!
In January 1998, as the investigation into her husband's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky probe engulfed the White House, Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show and dismissed the allegations as part of a broader effort to smear her husband with groundless investigations."The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast, right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president," the first lady said at the time. Yeah, if you ignore the fact that just about everything they said about him was true, you might be onto something.
As evidence of the affair eventually came to light, the comment was ridiculed. But many Democrats have since insisted that Clinton was correct, pointing to the well-documented efforts by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife to fund a network of anti-Clinton investigations. And they never got him, so it couldn't have been that great a conspiracy.
Clinton aides noted Tuesday that she also revisited the conspiracy comments back in 2003, when she said: "My only regret was using the word conspiracy, because there's absolutely nothing secret about it." It doesn't sleep, Hillary. It waits...
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she looks more anateurish, shrill, and phoney with every lash out. This should be fun. The Smartest Woman In America never counted on someone questioning her inEVITAbility
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er....that would be amateurish...freudian slip, perhaps
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Oohhhh, so a little phone jamming is worse than actual vandalism, shooting up Republican HQ's and actually breaking in and refusing to leave as you scream and yell to cause problems until the police come to remove you.
The only vast Right wing conspiracy is the one in her head.
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I never did get my "Vast Right-wing Conspiracy" hat or my Digital Brownshirt teeshirt. I'm a victim.
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and make it a crime to send misleading or fraudulent information to voters.
It's never going to happen, the Dems would never pass any laws that hurt their own efforts, not without a huge loophole that says it only applies to republicans, and NOT themselves.
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...and I will crush it's skull between my massive thighs!!!
And what was its skull doing THERE?
Please- I am not old enough to think about images like that!
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Iff true, all Hillary has done is remind America that the WOT/9-11 > WAR FOR KIND OF NATIONAL-GLOBAL SOCIALISM, amongst other premises.
ANN COULTER > SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN THE BARREL > Libby conviction has made it official - IT IS NOW ILLEGAL [ and prob IMMORAL UNETHICAL + IRRATIONAL, etc] TO BE A REPUBLICAN = RIGHTIST. Ala MOTHER CINDY, the GOP-RIGHT needs to be PURGED GULAGGED IFF NOT GENOCIDED FROM HISTORY AND REALITY.
THE Rev. Al Sharpton has launched a "big-time" effort to tear down Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as a candidate for president, The Post has learned. "He's saying that Obama never did anything for the community, never worked with anybody from the community, that nobody knows the people around him, that he's a candidate driven by white leadership," said a prominent black Democratic activist who knows Sharpton. "When it comes to Al's attacks on Obama, frankly, I don't know where to begin," said the activist, who supports Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The high-profile, self-promoting Sharpton ran for president in 2004, but had a dismal showing in the Democratic primaries. Sharpton has also been involved in a longtime and highly publicized rivalry for recognition as the nation's leading African-American political activist with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, also a former Democratic presidential hopeful.
Obama, a polished Harvard-educated lawyer, puts forth a drastically different image from the street-smart high-school grad Sharpton. "It's driving Al crazy that Obama is as impressive and popular as he is, and he's not happy about it," said another black Democratic activist. "Sharpton is just terrified of being overshadowed by someone of Obama's class and character."
Sharpton also has a personal ax to grind, a source close to him said. "Al had wanted to run again for president in 2008," the source said, "but now that Obama is a serious candidate in the race, that has become impossible." It wouldn't be Christian to hope Obama's carried off by Gypsies or run over by a bus. It wouldn't even be agnostic. So I won't. But I'm hoping Rev. Al somehow gets his wish, if only because what little sense of humor I have extends to the ridiculous.
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I knew it!
It's a conspiracy by the WHITE POWER STRUCTURE, and probably Cheney/Haliburton too!
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"Al had wanted to run again for president in 2008," the source said, "but now that Obama is a serious candidate in the race, that has become impossible."
Two words. Matching funds.
The "Reverend" will be there just for that 2 year party on the taxpayers.
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Rantburg professional reading recommended for both Rev Sharpton and the Senator. Favor us all by reading quickly and moving rapidly to the field phase as soon as possible please.
"The Art of Dueling"
The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd. 1971. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. First Thus. ISBN: 85546 158 6. Originally printed in 1836. 70pp. Author's name unknown. A practical guide to the art, etiquette and general institution of dueling "that will sufficiently educate the raw youth in the practice, to enable him to accept a challenge and take the field on equal terms with a skilled antagonist". Includes an appendix giving accounts of dueling and invitations to duel by the likes of the Duke of Wellington.
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said the activist, who supports Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Plain and simple, get an (IN famous) Black to slam Obama, and then Hillary can't be accused of "Racism", Problem is it only works if you don't get caught at it.
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Rep. Ron Paul of Texas formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday saying people want to hear his libertarian message of limited government and he's willing to deliver it. Paul also announced he will seek re-election to an 11th term in Congress under Texas state law that allows candidates to run for more than one federal office. Good idea. Don't quit your day job.
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Ron Paul, the barking moonbat*? He's still living? Who knew?
*"Behind the scenes many were quite aware that Israels influence on our foreign policy played a role. She had argued for years, along with the neo-conservatives, for an Iraqi regime change. This support was nicely coordinated with the Christian Zionists enthusiasm for the war." Speech before the House 9/8/05.
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Ron Paul is like that proverbial drunk at the end of the bar who says nine absolutely crazy things in a row, followed by a tenth which is absolutely brilliant.
It's too bad his ratio is way off. When he's on, he's on. Unfortunately its almost none of the time.
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All right, all right, we know you're just dying to find out what the voice that the moment found at the moment when the moment found its man in Hagel had to say this morning. We shall keep you in suspense no longer. Reuters reports:
"I'm here today to announce that my family and I will make a decision on my political future later this year," he said. "In making this announcement, I believe there will still be political options open to me at a later date." . . .
"I am leaving my options open," he said.
Hear that, Ahmadinejad? All options are on the table! Well, except maybe selling shoes. Hagel is manifestly unqualified to do that.
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Thanks, Chuck. So I guess it's okay for me to go back to what I was doing?
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Proof that he does get my email and heeds my advice. I advised hom that he had as much chance as being President as opening a pig farm in Mecca. I am not kidding I sent him MANY emails opining on what a wasted space he has become.
Data from satellites is showing that sea-level rises and polar ice-melting might be worse than earlier thought, a leading oceanographer said on Monday. Sea levels, rising at 1 millimetre a year before the industrial revolution, are now rising by 3 millimetres a year because of a combination of global warming, polar ice-melting and long natural cycles of sea level change. "All indications are that it's going to get faster," said Eric Lindstrom, head of oceanography at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), told Reuters on the sidelines of a global oceans conference in Hobart.
Rapid advances in science in the past five years on polar ice-sheet dynamics had yet to filter through into scientific models, Lindstrom said. He also pointed to huge splits in Antarctic ice shelves in 2002, then seen as once-in-100-year events that created icebergs bigger than some small countries. The mega icebergs were first thought not to affect global sea levels because the ice broke off from shelves already floating on the surface of the ocean. But the disintegration of ice shelves that had blocked the flow of ice from the Antarctic continent could allow sudden flows by glaciers into the ocean, raising sea-levels.
"What we're learning is that ice isn't slow. Things can happen fast," Lindstrom said. "If the (polar) ice sheets really get involved, then we're talking tens of metres of sea level that could really start to swamp low-lying countries," he said.
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Sea levels, rising at 1 millimetre a year before the industrial revolution
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The claimed rate is just slow enough that we'll all be dead before we notice that Florida is still above water. It's a beautiful scam that can be kept up indefinitely.
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To link to the movie 300, I don't recall anybody -scientists, other 'Perts, Radical Enviros or even non-Radical enviros - complaining during the 1960's-Present about how the sea levels around THERMOPYLAE were much Much M-U-C-H lower than now [See HISTORY CHANNEL scale computer depiction of battle + battlefield].
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"3 mm/yr is about a foot per century. The water outside my window goes up and down 10 feet twice a day. Such balderdash"
And if the rate of increase, which has gone up since the Ind Rev, holds at 3 MM per year, things shouldnt be too bad. But its the second derivate, not mentioned in the article, that matters.
2. Yeah, theres plenty of day to variability. So what? Tuscon Arizona has more rain on its rainiest day of the year, than say, Philadelphia has on its driest. Doesnt mean there isnt an important difference between Tuscon and Philly.
Would you pay as much for a house with a basement that leaked, say, 10 times a year, as one that leaked 1 time a year? Would a lawn that turned swampy 10 times a year be as good for you as one that did so 1 time a year?
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Does anyone here really believe that we have the technology to actually measure a 2mm change in sea level? The sea is in motion constantly and the waves are of varying heights and then there is the tide.
Until someone can prove that this level of precision is possible for a system as dynamic as the ocean I call bull!!
Not to mention the "knowledge" of a 1mm sea raise/year pre IR.
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There was nothing at your link which discussed the precision. Averaging something over that time span and saying it's 2mm a year is dicey at best.
Also, if you look at the graphic that goes back to the Ice Age we are running quite flat for changes and it is noted that the sea level is near a non-Ice Age low so there's not much change probable other than up.
There is nothing there that supports AGW.
PS I doubt that a 2mm difference is relevant to a pilot.
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AlanC. : We have the knowledge and the technology to measure a 3MM rise in sea-levels, before the Industrial revolution they did however have absolutely, definetly , no way Jose, Not a whelks chance in a supernova to measure any rise whatsoever in afore-mentioned sea-levels.
Complete bullshit.
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HT okay. But how many measurements are taken?
Reading the article to which LH linked there is a wide disparity in sea levels around the globe. "It varies globally in a range of ±2 m."
"For instance, mean sea level at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal stands 20 cm higher than at the Atlantic end."
Even assuming that we can measure 2mm is it significant in such a system? And, can those variations be moving around? Just too many variables and too little data. Has every measurement done increased?
This smells suspiciously like the heat island effect, or at least a great opportunity for data fudging.
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39mm equals one inch,
1 mm equals.0025641 inches (That's Two and one half THOUSANDTHS of an inch
3mm equals .0076923 or rounded Eight THOUSANDTHS of an inch
For comparison a human hair is between One and a half Thousandths and two THOUSANDTHS thick.
So the total rise claimed in is about 5 human hairs a year. (Gawd, everybody panic now.)
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RJ, Better ask for a refund on 5th grade math.
There's about 25mm/inch, though there are about 39 inches/m. So one mm is .04 inches and 3mm is about .12 inches. I don't recall ever learning the width of a hair. The whole metric thing is commie. It's from France.
Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun's activity is the common thread linking all these baking events. Others argue that such claims are misleading and create the false impression that rapid global warming, such as Earth is experiencing, is a natural phenomenon. While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, recently linked the attenuation of ice caps on Mars to fluctuations in the sun's output.
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data I've seen recently makes me think that most of the supposed warming is caused by urban heat islands with some effect from increased cloudiness and decreased levels of particles in the atmosphere.
In fact its something of a mystery where the small amount of warming increased CO2 levels should cause has gone to.
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"the false impression that rapid global warming, such as Earth is experiencing, is a natural phenomenon." -- I guess the rapid warming of the northern hemisphere that I've been noticing the last few weeks is another "false impression." The MSM takes us for fools.
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Others argue that such claims are misleading and create the false impression that rapid global warming, such as Earth is experiencing, is a natural phenomenon.
Umm, how exactly do you know that the impression is false unless you know what's true? Of course, if you're actually trying to FIND the truth, then you go where the evidence leads. If you're just trying to push an agenda, then the truth, and evidence, is your enemy.
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It was widely reported that January was the warmest month on record here, but less well reported that February was one of the coldest. This guy explained it best:
Whether we get a record cold or warm month depends largely on whether or not weather pattern shifts occur just right to match the calendar. We've certainly had a month of cold weather, and before that, more than a month of warm weather. But if the shifts between warm and cold occur in the middle of a calendar month rather than at the start of one, the month as a whole will be an average of the cold and warm periods and therefore end up more toward the middle.
So we've had an extreme yo-yo pattern of late. Really, it dates back to at least late spring, as we went from a cool May, to a hot summer, to a cool early fall, to a warm late fall and early winter interrupted by one week of extreme cold in early December. You often hear that normal is only an average of extremes. The last few months of weather seem to be proving the point.
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The earth warms and cools in a cycle. This cycle is very long. It's been going on since the earth existed. The cycle seems to average 200 to 500 years (as best we can tell because there were no weathermen and sattelites in AD 1000).
The supposition by all these clowns is that MAN causes global warming. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But to admit that would also be to admit that from a geological and earth chronology perspective, man is insignificant. Perhaps then they would also have to admit that they too are insignificant. Too much truth for their pea brains to fathom. Too painful. "Hey, we're important, dammit!"
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Does it take a 'white coat' these days to figure out that if the earth were several million more miles closer to the sun, the earth would be hotter, that if the earth were several million more miles further from the sun, the earth would be cooler?
Given that the sun is not a constant steady generator of energy, but a variable star, that such a condition would result in variable conditions on the planet?
That these fundamentals are questioned, implies a lot about 'leading scientists'.
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It will be the warm planting season at the appointed time. It will be the cool harvest season at the appointed time. We are Anabaptists. Do not mock us or invite us to enter into debate or gaze at stars.
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"It's been going on since the earth existed. The cycle seems to average 200 to 500 years (as best we can tell because there were no weathermen and sattelites in AD 1000). "
No, but there were tree rings, and core samples. And while theres been dispute about that data, increasingly theres consensus that even by the late 1990s it was warmer than at any point in the medieval warm period.
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Does anyone here really believe that we have the technology to actually measure a 2mm change in sea level? The sea is in motion constantly and the waves are of varying heights and then there is the tide.
Until someone can prove that this level of precision is possible for a system as dynamic as the ocean I call bull!!
Not to mention the "knowledge" of a 1mm sea raise/year pre IR.
#12
Sea levels have risen 60 meters in the past 20,000 years. That's a bit measurable and a bit longer than we've been industrialized. It even started before the last ice age ended.
For a lovely read about "The Hockey Stick" and attempts to kill the Medieval Warming period, go read this.
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"It's been going on since the earth existed. The cycle seems to average 200 to 500 years (as best we can tell because there were no weathermen and sattelites in AD 1000). "
No, but there were tree rings, and core samples. And while theres been dispute about that data, increasingly theres consensus that even by the late 1990s it was warmer than at any point in the medieval warm period.
Okay, but the temperatures are comparable between the late 1990s and the MWP, so what caused the MWP? Isn't it reasonable that there is a large cyclical component to global warming -- larger than the human contribution?
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I blame the Crusaders and their farting war horses.
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LH you got any link for that statement?
"No, but there were tree rings, and core samples. And while theres been dispute about that data, increasingly theres consensus that even by the late 1990s it was warmer than at any point in the medieval warm period."
I haven't seen anything like that anywhere before. Have they started replanting the vineyards in GB? Has agriculture returned to Greenland on the Viking scale? I know that some remains up there have recently emerged from under a glacier but proof that this is now warmer than then?
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The statements that Mars and Pluto are heating up are speculative. High def images of the martian ice cap (yes they have been shrinking) have been available for only about 20 years (10 Mars years) besides that the ice caps are only at the poles and we have no direct measurements elsewhere (btw the ice caps are frozen CO2 and vapor pressure as well as temperature may be a cause of the shrinking). The situation with respect to other planets is even iffier.
If you are a earth global warming skeptic you should be an even bigger martian warming skeptic
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"Okay, but the temperatures are comparable between the late 1990s and the MWP, so what caused the MWP? Isn't it reasonable that there is a large cyclical component to global warming -- larger than the human contribution? "
1. the temp in the late 90s was slightly higher than the peak of the MWP, and whats more its still rising. So weve got something in between the undulating wave of the GW deniers, and the hockey stick of the simplified GW theory. But its looking more like the hockey stick, but not one anyone in the NHL would use.
2. Is there a cyclical effect? Sure, there could be. I dont think anyones denied that. But there also is a human activity component, and theres no good reason to think a cyclical decline will offset continued and increasing human caused warming, and save us.
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"Have they started replanting the vineyards in GB? Has agriculture returned to Greenland on the Viking scale? I know that some remains up there have recently emerged from under a glacier but proof that this is now warmer than then?"
1. We're talking about average global temps. The avg temp in the parts of Greenland settled by Erik the Red are still lower than the MWP peak, AFAIK.
2. I doubt anyone will be planting many vineyards in England, even if temp hits the MWP peak, given the abundance of cheap, easily shipped, Italian and Portugese and Spanish and South American wine, etc. The economics arent the same today. Though I do recall reading a few years back about an English Chardonnay. I stick to Sonoma, thank you very much.
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Won't matter anyway, #19 LH, the way England's going.
Sharia doesn't allow wine....
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Um, if it's global warming how did Greenland opt out?
You can't say that it's warmer than in the MWP except for those parts that aren't.
Yes there is some minor warming going on. Cripes the last little ice age only ended ~150 years ago you should expect it to get warmer. There is no valid evidence that man has anything to do with it. Look at the graphs for the correlation of CO2 to temp. CO2 TRAILS the temp curve.
There are so many holes in AGW that it would make a nice screen door.
1) The data was fudged using proxies that may or may not have been valid
2) We know from ice cores that CO2 was MUCH higher in the past. If so, how did those positive reinforcement mechanisms, which are pure speculation, not keep the temp. going up?
3) There are about 20 major computer climate models, none of them agree and none of them can predict the past yet we're supposed to believe them as gospel.
#22
All historical temperature conjectures (not measurements since thermometers were invented in the early 1700's) are highly speculative. Especially when comparing fraction of degrees precision of medieval warming period to today's temp. Archaeological measurements have large inherent uncertainty. For example, do tree rings measure temp, rainfall, cloud cover, soil conditions or a combination of all of them. Even in the last century there is some confusion as urban spread had incorporated readings from previously rural weather stations, skewing later measurements to a higher temp bias.
That isn't to say that temperature rise is not taking place. Intuitively, when more radiation absorbers are added to the lower atmosphere, surface temps will rise. But no one has yet produced a quantitative model that accounts for stuff we are adding to the atmosphere, solar radiation, and come up with an answer that can predict next (or even last) year's mean temperature. Until then, we have no idea whether man made effects are minuscule in the grand scheme. It's now only a speculative religion and not one we should throw trillions of dollars toward an equally minuscule reward.
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Generally we have global warming beginning about March. It lasts until around November and then we have global cooling. Seems like a cyclic thingee as best I can figure--somehow related to the sun.
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Silentbrick - Thanks for the excellent link to a solid, calm, fact-filled refutation. Read carefully it demolishes the underpinnings of the entire Global Whatever scam. Those still clinging to Mann's (or any of the other shills, such as Ozzie whore Tim Flannery) half-assed room temperature IQ crap should be either ashamed - or shunned for being a willful tool of the biggest money scam / hoax (since it's "global" LOL) ever attempted.
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theres consensus that even by the late 1990s it was warmer than at any point in the medieval warm period
Where is your evidence? Every single study I have seen says the medieval warm period was warmer than today.
And BTW the existence of the medieval warm period kills the runaway global warming theory stone dead. Which is why the warming alarmists are so anxious to explain it away.
#26
These "we're all gonna die!" warming-istas better think a minute about the alternative to beinga little warm.
In the first place, it has been this warm within my lifetime, at least in the places I've lived (mostly Eastern U.S.).
More importantly, I remember a winter in the mid-late 1970's (February?) when a cold front came through the Eastern & Northeastern U.S. that I hope I never see again. I was living in North Carolina at the time, but was in Tidewater Virginia the Sunday it came through. Within a couple of days the James River was frozen from bank to bank (ocean-going cargo ships come up the James as far as Richmond, so you can imagine the havoc that caused), and it didn't get ABOVE 32F in Durham, NC, for a month.
I'll take a little warming (assuming it's even happening) over that crap.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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1979?????
then there was the 90+++ summer at 9 Am in Chicago w/the -50 w/wind chill in winter c. 1988.
Having just turned 84, Time magazine is coming out with a new look and editorial approach on Friday. They've come up with the unsinkable redesign...
In: A cleaner, simpler design, heavy on labels at the top of each page and the names of its columnists in World War II size type the better to brand with.
Out: The last remnants of Times signature syntax, parodied by the humorist Wolcott Gibbs with his phrase, Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Richard Stengel, Times new managing editor, said the inverted syntax would vanish from the Milestones section, where it still crops up in obituaries, as in: Died. Of pneumonia. I prefer the simpler: "Croaked. Lungs gave out."
Henry Luce may be rolling over in his grave over this, he said of Times co-founder. But it had outlasted its usefulness. True it possibly is. That Luce talked like Yoda no evidence exists.
Still, he said, Luce might like some of the changes, including the reintroduction of distinct sections. The iconic cover is still recognizably Time, with its posterlike presentation of a central image showcased inside a red border. But the familiar Time logo is a bit smaller, to make room for three or four teaser boxes across the top. The redesign is the latest step in a major retrenchment meant to uproot the magazine from the perception of it as a weekly report (meaning old news) to one that is more timeless, with the hope of staying relevant in a 24/7 news cycle with its Web site, time.com. If you only come out once a week then it's pretty logical to cover last week's news. It's easier to assemble and analyze than next week's news. There is a certain value to having the high spots presented in once place and perhaps made some sense of. A simple regurgitation, though, doesn't become interesting until a few years have gone by. The alternative would be for Time to do a reassessment of events that occurred twenty or thirty years ago, where the hindsight is starting to become clear. That would mean a smaller audience, however.
Since Mr. Stengels appointment last spring, Time has cut back its circulation to 3.25 million, from 4 million. The move eliminated copies that were going to places like doctors offices where they were not necessarily wanted, and it reduced the rates that advertisers had to pay. Doctors' offices are a perfectly legitimate place for Time. Why not put copies where people are sitting still for extended periods?
Time also switched its publication date to Friday from Monday, cut 50 people from its staff, shut its bureaus in Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles, and invested more in its Web site. Monday's a more logical publication day, since readership drops with the weekend. Why do your assembly when things are busiest? Cutting 50 people from staff is a false savings, unless they're pure deadwood. Staff is what produces a publication, so when you cut staff you're cutting your productivity. Without bureaus in major cities they'll depend on stringers for news. Welcome to the wonderful world of AP. Time's website is a piggishly slow loader that presents a pageful of liberal hackneys. I hope the website redesign is still in the future, because if not they didn't get their money's worth.
It further saved costs by contracting with more columnists, who, as established writers, are less expensive than full-time staff journalists. That means more opinion and less hard news, more comfy jobs for the established and fewer places for newcomers to shine. They're doing Walter Winchell, rather than Ernie Pyle.
The new design allows the magazine to highlight these columnists and shift its editorial approach from a single omniscient voice to multiple well-known voices (more like its rival Newsweek). Times columnists include Joe Klein, Michael Kinsley and William Kristol. Notice they're not mining the blogs for people who can write? Not even liberals who can write. If they're not doing hard news they'd be better off with Mickey Kaus than with Michael Kinsley. If I had a bunch of money and I was putting out a national news magazine, I'd try and recruit people like Jeff Goldstein, from Protein Wisdom, area experts like Dr. Zin from Regime Change Iran or Donald Sensing, who's sui generis, or our own Chuck Simmins, real reporters like Michael Yon and Bill Roggio, along with certifiably good established writers like Mark Steyn or Michelle Malkin or Lileks, if only to fill out the tedium of Joe Klein week after week. Those just popped in at the top of my mind. There are dozens of others, starting with Steven den Beste and going through Meryl Yourish, or Denny Wilson when he's on a roll. Not only would you end up with a magazine that was readable, you'd get one that was difficult to put down. And there are so many good writers to choose among you wouldn't even be running the same rehashes every week. Predictability is what kills publications.
Helping to streamline the look of the magazine is the elimination of most of its custom editions, sought by advertisers who wanted to reach narrow slices of readers based on geography and demographics. In some weeks, Time printed as many as 30,000 (yes, 30,000) different versions of the magazine, said Edward R. McCarrick, the publisher, adding that it was not worth the effort. "Y'know, Herb, I think we should eliminate rank stupidity from our operation!"
"Gosh, Bob! That's certainly a bold approach!"
Mr. Stengel said he sought inspiration for the redesign in back issues of Time that are bound and locked in a closet near his office on the 24th floor of the Time & Life Building in Midtown Manhattan. The original Time magazine divided the world into sections, he said. It was like a TV dinner, where you had your dessert course, your main course, your vegetable course. Kinda like Rantburg's layout, in fact.
He said he would replicate that experience, with the new magazine clearly demarcated into something like chapters, each beginning on a right-hand page and taking the reader through Briefing, Arts and Ideas. Kinda like Rantburg's layout, only dumb...
They will include yet more well-known writers who have what Mr. Stengel calls branded expertise in subjects like law and health. But not really good writers who'll make people want to part with the inflated prices that have been making their way to Time's cover.
Whether these changes can save the magazine remains to be seen. Or, as Mr. Gibbs wrote in 1936 in The New Yorker: Where it all will end, knows God!
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IOW, go YOUTUBE + BLOGNEWS, etc. in America + West, save the paper editions for the Third World.
WORLDNEWS + NEWSMAX > AL GORE > TV WILL SAVE DEMOCRACY [and vice verseys].
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Declined the circulation of the magazine, as elsewhere went the readers.
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03/13/2007 6:05 Comments ||
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Now, will somebody fix the problems with The New Yorker?
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I don't even bother reading it any more... and I get it for free, through a co-worker. I swap my un-opened Guardian Weekly issues (it's a gift subscription from an old friend) for his issues of Time... which I don't even bother to read either. (Actually, I kinda wonder if my friend even reads the Guardian. He takes off the plastic cover, anyway.)
It just all seems like old news... I've already read about what's been going on, over and over. Reading Time or Newsweek just seems totally pointless, these days.
#7
at least Denny's Saturday Bobbies would increase circulation - in parts
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er.....Boobies
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Their main problem? It's week old news. No matter what they do, that's not gonna change. I'm not gonna spend 3 bucks or whatever it is for their take on week old news.
#10
Time needs to change its news philosophy in the direction of what is working in the media.
First and foremost, their "discovery to print" time has to be reduced to the bare bones.
Time has the old, bad habit of "over editing", having each article reviewed by countless individuals as a collective effort, which squeezes all the life out of it. Journalism by super committee. 1 reporter with 50 editors, instead of the other way around.
Time has also lost so much market share that for the time being, they need to reintroduce themselves to their target demographic. That is, Time needs to get itself into as many high school classes in the country as it can--as a working document.
It sounds like an odd suggestion, wanting your material to be taken and re-used by thousands of high school kids every day. To have these kids pour over every inch of your magazine looking for information they can re-write and turn into class projects.
And this does not mean "writing down" to high school level, but getting them current events data they can use.
The important part is getting the magazine into their hands and getting them to read it. The results will be seen just five years later when they still want to keep up with the news.
This list of changes goes on and on. But in that Time's other alternative is oblivion, what choice do they have? Given their track record, they will choose to give up.
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News reporting continues to move to electronic distribution. Print reporting will continue to decline and print publications will continue to move to providing analysis and opinions.
The market willing to pay for opinion and analysis is not large enough to support all the publications currently in existence, and the number of publications is shrinking. In a rational market the number would be plummeting, but many magazines and newspapers are being kept alive by wealthy patrons willing to spend their wealth on influence.
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I don't know about other school kids, Anonymoose, but over the years when the trailing daughters have had current events or in-depth assignments, they've gone straight to Google and the internet. Shoot, they go to Dictionary.com to look up words, not the three paper dictionaries in the bookcase three feet to the left of the computer desk. I really don't think they'd be interested in a week-old Time magazine as a source, unless required by the teacher.
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Not to mention their extreme lefty slant on everything. I haven't bought a Time or Newsweek magazine in twenty years, never plan on buying either one again, and won't even read articles in Real Clear Politics that originate in Time or Newsweek. Their POV is lefty pablum for people with double-digit IQs or severe BDS.
When they both go out of business it will be a good day. It will be a better one when the NYT follows them.
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The move eliminated copies that were going to places like doctors offices where they were not necessarily wanted, and it reduced the rates that advertisers had to pay.
The only time I ever read it is when I'm stuck in a doctor's or dentist's office.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
MINNEAPOLIS -- A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment. "Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
ZIMBABWE'S Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is said to be fighting for his life after he was injured in police custody following his arrest in Harare. Police detained Mr Tsvangirai, the leader of the Democratic Movement for Change (MDC) and dozens of other opposition figures while breaking up a prayer meeting organised in defiance of a ban on political rallies. One man died in the police action, and rights groups alleged Mr Tsvangirai and other politicians had been tortured. "President Tsvangirai is battling for his life at Borrowdale police station after he was brutally assaulted. He lost consciousness three times following the ... attack," said MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday formally endorsed his political rival, the center-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, for president. Today I am with Nicolas Sarkozy to defend the ideals of our political family and so that the choice for the French people is as clear as possible, Mr. de Villepin told Europe 1 radio a day after President Jacques Chirac announced that he would not seek a third term. He added, We have been together in government, we will be together in this battle.
THE Rev. Al Sharpton has launched a "big-time" effort to tear down Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as a candidate for president, The Post has learned. "He's saying that Obama never did anything for the community, never worked with anybody from the community, that nobody knows the people around him, that he's a candidate driven by white leadership," said a prominent black Democratic activist who knows Sharpton. "When it comes to Al's attacks on Obama, frankly, I don't know where to begin," said the activist, who supports Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. 
Data from satellites is showing that sea-level rises and polar ice-melting might be worse than earlier thought, a leading oceanographer said on Monday. Sea levels, rising at 1 millimetre a year before the industrial revolution, are now rising by 3 millimetres a year because of a combination of global warming, polar ice-melting and long natural cycles of sea level change. "All indications are that it's going to get faster," said Eric Lindstrom, head of oceanography at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), told Reuters on the sidelines of a global oceans conference in Hobart.
Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun's activity is the common thread linking all these baking events. Others argue that such claims are misleading and create the false impression that rapid global warming, such as Earth is experiencing, is a natural phenomenon. While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species.
Still, he said, Luce might like some of the changes, including the reintroduction of distinct sections. The iconic cover is still recognizably Time, with its posterlike presentation of a central image showcased inside a red border. But the familiar Time logo is a bit smaller, to make room for three or four teaser boxes across the top. The redesign is the latest step in a major retrenchment meant to uproot the magazine from the perception of it as a weekly report (meaning old news) to one that is more timeless, with the hope of staying relevant in a 24/7 news cycle with its Web site, time.com.
