The Port Authority takes in more cash, so they feel good about themselves, and the lefty travelers buy carbon "offsets" and they feel good about themselves. It's a mutual masturbation society win-win for both sides!
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will soon become the country's first toll agency to offer car and plane travelers a way to shell out even more of their money for no service offset carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
Later this year, travelers in and around the country's largest city will be able to offset gases emitted by their car and plane trips by voluntarily paying fees through a Web site operated on behalf of the Port Authority, the agency said on Monday.
The Port Authority operates the airports, sea ports, toll bridges and tunnels in the New York/New Jersey area.
Travel offsets allow Lefties and other idiots people who feel guilty about their contribution to global warming to feel so good about themselves - and so superior, just like Obamalamadingdong negate their impact by paying a fee for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit. In voluntary U.S. emissions markets, offsets go for anywhere from $4 to about $20 for a metric tonne.
More blather at the link....
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Actually, this could be interesting. Let's see how many people put their green money where their loud mouths are.
Prediction: This takes in about 65 bucks.
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A "metric tonne" sure sounds like a lot of carbon. Unless, of course, you consider that is 10**3 kilograms (1000 kilograms). The total mass of the atmosphere is estimated at 5*10**18 kilograms. (That is 5 followed by 18 zeros). So one metric tonne is less than 10**-15 of that. (That is 1 divided by 1 followed by 15 zeros.) So these morons are supposed to pay $4-$20 for emitting 0.00000000000001% or so of the total mass of the atmosphere. (And CO2 is 0.038% of the atmosphere already. Water vapor is approximately 1% - or about 30 times as much as CO2. And dihydrogen monoxide vapor is a potent greenhouse gas.)
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"So these morons are supposed to pay"
Got it in one, Rambler! :-D
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AFAIC, I'm interpreting this as a PRO-OWG, PRE-GREAT LAKES/NORTHEAST FREE TRADE ZONE(S) peemptive move by the State Govts and Ports Authorities of same, to include the rise of any MEGA- OR HYPERLOPOLISISISISISISIS....@SHIRE SUPERCITIES [Worcestershire Steak Sauce humor].
So-called CARBON CREDITS are likely NOT going tyo disappear anytime soon as WOT > WAR FOR OWG includ MACKINDER'S WORLD ISLAND > WAR BWTN NEW WORLD VERSUS OLD WORLD = AMERICA(S) VERSUS EURASIA > TRANSLOCAL TRANSREGIONAL TRANSCONTINENTAL, ETC. WAR FOR DOMINANCE/CONTROL OF OWG-NWO ECONOMY, again among other premises or thingys.
I also like to belabel as WAR FOR-AGAINST ROMUS [ROME, USA] = WAR FOR CORSICANT/CORSICUS [Napoleon's CORSICA-PARIS, USA], LONDON, USA, TOKUGAWA GLOBAL SHOGUNATE, STARFLEET FEDERATION, etc..................@???
NO - CAPRICA, COBOL [Battlestar Galactica]??? Unless the MSM is lying, something had better go GLOBAL AND BEYOND BECUZ DEM SEXY SLINKY CYCLON ROBO BABES ARE SUPPOS TO GO PREGGERS/PREGNANT THIS TV SEASON.
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Presuming, of course, that the desired/future OWG-NWO can TERRESTRIALLY survive its BIRTH PANGS 2015-2020 + related VARIOUS EXTRATERRESTRIAL PANGS [SUN = Global Warming, Space Rocks, etc.].
GREATEST/ULTIMATE THREAT TO OWG-NWO > HUMAN BEINGS THEMSELVES, as always.
* THE PRE-DETERMINED INTEGRATED COINCIDENCE, CONJUNCTION, CASUALITY, + COORDINATED PARALLELISM OF SECULAR SCIENTIFIC RANDOMNESS + UN/NON-PLANNED ANTI-INTEGRATION METAPHYSICAL QUANTUMNESS.
Most Americans don't like to lose warswhich makes sense, since we have so little practice with it. Of course, a lot depends on how you define just what a war is. There are shooting warsthe kind that test our mettle and our patriotism and our resourcefulness and our courageand those are the kind at which some of us we excel. But other struggles test those qualities too. What else was the Great Depression or the space race or the construction of the railroads or the eradication of polio but a massive, often frightening challenge that we decided as a culture we ought to rise up and face? If we indulge in a bit of chest-thumping and flag-waving when the job is done, well, we earned it.
We are now faced with a similarly momentous challenge: global warming. The steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing. Indeed, if we're fighting at alland by most accounts, we're notwe're fighting on the wrong side. The U.S. produces nearly a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases each year and has stubbornly made it clear that it doesn't intend to do a whole lot about it. Although 174 nations ratified the admittedly flawed Kyoto accords to reduce carbon levels, the U.S. walked away from them. While even developing China has boosted its mileage standards to 35�m.p.g., the U.S. remains the land of the Hummer. Oh, there are vague promises of manufacturing fuel from switchgrass or powering cars with hydrogensomeday. But for a country that rightly cites patriotism as one of its core values, we're taking a pass on what might be the most patriotic struggle of all. It's hard to imagine a bigger fight than one for the survival of the country's coasts and farms, the health of its people and the stability of its economyand for those of the world at large as well. It's a Quagmire, redeploy to Mars.
The rub is, if the vast majority of people increasingly agree that climate change is a global emergency, there's far less consensus on how to fix it. Industry offers its plans, which too often would fix little. Environmentalists offer theirs, which too often amount to naive wish lists that could cripple America's growth. But let's assume that those interested parties and others will always be at the table and will alwayssensiblydemand that their voices be heard and that their needs be addressed. What would an aggressive, ambitious, effective plan look likeone that would leave us both environmentally safe and economically sound? The previous paragraph was about global warming, this one is about climate change, I'm getting confused.
Forget precedents like the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, or the Apollo program that put men on the moonsingle-focus programs both, however hard they were to pull off. Think instead of the overnight conversion of the World War II-era industrial sector into a vast machine capable of churning out 60,000 tanks and 300,000 planes, an effort that not only didn't bankrupt the nation but instead made it rich and powerful beyond its imagining andoh, yeswon the war in the process. Win the war, buy Global Warming Bonds today at the theater entrance.
Halting climate change will be far harder than even that. One of the more conservative plans for addressing the problem, by Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala of Princeton University, calls for a reduction of 25 billion tons of carbon emissions over the next 50 yearsthe equivalent of erasing nearly four years of global emissions at today's rates. And yet by devising a coherent strategy that mixes short-term solutions with farsighted goals, combines government activism with private-sector enterprise and blends pragmatism with ambition, the U.S. can, without major damage to the economy, help halt the worst effects of climate change and ensure the survival of our way of life for future generations. Money will get us part of the way there, but what's needed most is will. "I'm not saying the challenge isn't almost overwhelming," says Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund and co-author of the new book Earth: The Sequel. "But this is America, and America has risen to these challenges before." That's another climate change paragraph, what happen to global warming, did we win?
No one yet has a comprehensive plan for how we could do so again, but everyone agrees on what the biggest parts of the plan would be. Here's our blueprint for how America can fightand winthe war on global warming. Ah, that's better global warming is back.
First, Price the Sky
The most important part of a blueprint to contain climate change is to put a charge on carbon emissions. As long as the sky is free, renewable energy will never beat fossil fuels. But put a price on carbon, and suddenly the alternatives look a lot better. The most feasible way to do this is through a cap-and-trade system that sets ceilings for carbon output and lets companies that come in under the limit sell credits to those that don't, allowing them to keep pollutinga little. The effect is that overall carbon levels fall, and there is even money to be made by being greener than the next guy. That drives investment and research dollars into renewable energy and efficiency. "Cap and trade changes everything," says Krupp. Now we're back to climate change, make up your mind.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was an early attempt at such a system, with the aim of having developed nations reduce their carbon emissions an average of 5% below 1990 levels by 2012. The accords were meant to drive cuts in greenhouse gases and promote investment in clean tech in developing nations through carbon trading. What probably doomed Kyoto was the absence of some key players. Large developing nations like China, India and Indonesia were excused from the treaty, since limiting their emissions was seen as likely to limit their burgeoning economies. The U.S., whose participation was necessary if the treaty was going to succeed, cited this perceived favoritism when it abandoned Kyoto altogether in 2001.
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Had to put my jacket on and go outside after reading this. Gotta plan - gonna go buy a kite, put my flag on it, and go fly it and claim 5 micrometers of atmosphere encircling the globe and then when air has a monetary amount charge a toll for all particles which pass through. Be warned, since the sun does not have a bank account as of yet it will only be a matter of time before the sun will declare war on my offspring and invade the earth.
What you all could do to delay that invasion is uncork the ear canals of gw proponants which will decrease the atmospheric pressure of the earth significantly, reducing the temperature needed in order to boil water - saving energy when you heretics make your makkk and cheese. bwahahaha!
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Dramatic reductions in U.S. emissions won't bring the intended environmental benefits if emissions by other countries increase at the same time. The problem is, if we don't clean up our own mess because developing giants don't have to, what's the incentive for them to clean up theirs? "If we don't act, China and India will simply hide behind America's skirts of inactions and take no steps of their own," says Senator John Warner of Virginia.
Or, of course, they could say "fuck you, suckers" and continue on their merry way...
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No, Raj. You've just gotta capture it and use it for "green fuel." Or in the alternative, you could wait until just before the cap-n-trade system is implemented. Then, light away, show yourself as a "polluter" then promise to do it no more, and sell of your "credits" and become an instant millionaire like AlBore!
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Time to invest in Fart-Food capital of the world, Mexico!
"As Steven F. Howard, a co-author of the Index and a PRI senior fellow, is pleased to note, The U.S. remains the worlds environmental leader and will likely be so in the future. For example, between 1997 and 2004, the last year in which comparative data are available, emissions from Kyoto Protocol participants increased 21.1 percent.
"The U.S. refused to sign this United Nations inspired idiocy, but its emissions increased only 6.6 percent during the same time period, considerably less than the participants."
A CHINESE ship carrying weapons for the Zimbabwean government has fled South African waters before a sequestration order could be placed on its cargo.
Germany's Central Bank sought the cargo of the An Yue Jiang as compensation for non-repayment of a £30 million loan made in 2000 to shore up the collapsing state-owned Zimbabwe Iron & Steel Corp, the Johannesburg-based Sunday Times reported yesterday.
The An Yue Jiang is carrying 77 tonnes of weapons for Robert Mugabe's security forces. The confiscation documents could not be served because the An Yue Jiang, lying ten miles off the Indian Ocean port of Durban since 14 April, lifted anchor and fled into international waters on Friday night as a sheriff approached with a separate high court order for the weapons to be impounded. The separate order was granted to local human rights lawyers who argued that arms for Zimbabwe should not be transported through South Africa.
The ship was last reported to be heading for Angola, whose president, Eduardo dos Santos, is close to Mr Mugabe.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned.
At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to publish results from a disputed election that the opposition claims to have won, administration officials said Monday.
U.S. intelligence agencies are tracking the vessel, the An Yue Jiang, and American diplomats have been instructed to press authorities in at least four nations -- South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola -- not to allow it to dock, the officials told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss delicate diplomatic talks.
The ship, which is laden with large amounts of weapons and ammunition, has been turned away from South Africa and Mozambique, and is now believed to be headed for Angola, possibly with a refueling stop in Namibia. The freighter left South Africa after a judge on Friday barred the arms from transiting South Africa and it was not immediately clear if U.S. lobbying had influenced authorities in Mozambique who stopped it from docking during the weekend.
Two officials said Washington's effort to block the ship from unloading its cargo was now concentrated on Namibia and Angola and that both countries were being told that allowing the An Yue Jiang to dock could harm their relations with the United States.
There are fears that the arms, which include mortar rounds and ammunition, could be used by Mugabe's regime to expand a clampdown on opposition supporters. The government has refused to publish the results of presidential elections held three weeks ago, and there are reports of increasing violence against the opposition.
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I don't see a prbolem here, just sink the ship.
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Hell, the Germans are printing the money for Bob, they just need to hold a half-dozen 10 mill notes back, and they can even come out with a profit.
Otherwise, just sink the damn thing.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has urged the United Nations and African Union to intervene in the crisis over his country's elections. He told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he felt African efforts to obtain the release of results had made "no progress", a UN statement says.
Mr Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, believes he defeated President Robert Mugabe in the polls. Video has emerged of MDC supporters being beaten up since the vote. Human rights groups say they have found camps where people are being tortured for having voted "the wrong way". The government denies such allegations.
A recount in 23 out of 210 parliamentary seats which had been due to end on Monday was delayed for an unknown period. The MDC has rejected the recount as illegal and insists it beat Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party outright in the 29 March parliamentary and presidential polls.
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HMMMMM, former US Mil Officers write on TOPIX that the US = USDOD doesn't have the manpower or logistics-supplies to invade andor occupy IRAN, nor ditto to send mil reinforcements to SOKOR iff the NOKORS attacked over the DMZ today???
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has urged the United Nations and African Union to intervene in the crisis over his country's elections.
The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned.
At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to publish results from a disputed election that the opposition claims to have won, administration officials said Monday.
U.S. intelligence agencies are tracking the vessel, the An Yue Jiang, and American diplomats have been instructed to press authorities in at least four nations South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Angola not to allow it to dock, the officials told The Associated Press. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss delicate diplomatic talks.
The ship, which is laden with large amounts of weapons and ammunition, already has been turned away from South Africa and Mozambique, and is now believed to be headed for Angola, possibly with a refueling stop in Namibia. The freighter left South Africa after a judge on Friday barred the arms from transiting South Africa and it was not immediately clear if U.S. lobbying had influenced authorities in Mozambique who stopped it from docking over the weekend.
Two officials said Washington's effort to block the ship from unloading its cargo was now concentrated on Namibia and Angola and that both countries were being told that allowing the An Yue Jiang to dock could harm their relations with the United States.
Wonder if we could have a Los Angeles class sub haul it down at sea and -- you know -- serve a warrant or something?
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Nice ship ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
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Its a ships graveyard along the coast from Nambia through Angola. National Geographic and others have done shows on it. Something about lots of storms, freak currents and rocks. Another ship wrecked would not be unusual there.
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Its a ships graveyard along the coast from Nambia through Angola. National Geographic and others have done shows on it. Something about lots of storms, freak currents and rocks. Another ship wrecked would not be unusual there.
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China: Ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe may head home
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A shipment of weapons to Zimbabwe may be returned to China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, after the troubled southern African nation's neighbors prevented the cargo from being unloaded.
A South African group persuaded a judge to bar the weapons from transiting through the country to landlocked Zimbabwe, and the An Yue Jiang then sailed away from South Africa. Private groups and government officials in Mozambique, Angola and Namibia also objected to the weapons, though Namibia said the ship could refuel there if necessary.
"As far as I know, the carrier is now considering carrying back the cargo," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said. Although Jiang offered no details, the move appeared to indicate a backdown in the face of refusals by Zimbabwe's neighbors to allow the weapons to be offloaded and shipped through their territories.
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's system of male "guardianship" or wide-ranging control over women lies at the heart of rights abuse in the conservative Islamic state, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
But a government spokesman said Saudi Arabia was disappointed the report had failed to highlight efforts to improve women's status and confused tradition with state policy. "We agree with some points and we are working on that as a commission for the government, but we don't agree with the generalisation," said Zoheir al-Harithi, spokesman for Saudi's Human Rights Commission.
"Have they gone away yet? Cheez, what a bunch of pests!"
Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative countries in the world. Tradition and the Islamic clerical establishment restrict women's movement, preventing them from driving cars. Saudi women must usually obtain permission from a "guardian" -- father, husband, or son -- to work, travel, study, marry, or get access to healthcare, HRW said in the study, "Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia".
"The Saudi government sacrifices basic human rights to maintain male control over women," Farida Deif, Human Rights Watch women's rights researcher for the Middle East, said in a statement sent to Reuters. "Saudi women won't make any progress until the government ends the abuses that stem from these misguided policies."
Since King Abdullah came to power in 2005, the government has said it supports a reform agenda but that it cannot enforce changes if significant sections of society continue to resist.
After all, it's not as if Saoodi-Arabia is an absolute monarchy in which the king can tell his subjects what to do ...
Clerics of the state-sanctioned brand of Sunni Islam, a strict form often termed Wahhabism, see the "muhrim", or guardian of women's honour, as central to the system of their social and moral control in the country.
It's good to be king ...
The rules -- the subject of heated national debate -- are enforced by the judiciary and a morals police body, both of which are run by Wahhabi clerics.
Can't have religious control without having the zealots in charge ...
The government has allowed Human Rights Watch unprecedented access over the past two years, and more women have been able to enter the workforce. This year new regulations allowed women to stay in hotels without a guardian.
All minor stuff. The ruling turbans will never allow women to decide the most important and personal matters for themselves, because that would allow women to think for themselves. Not even the men are allowed to do that in Saoodi-controlled Arabia.
"The authorities essentially treat adult women like legal minors who are not entitled to authority over their lives and well-being," the HRW report says, citing a list of complaints based on interviews with about 100 women.
It says women cannot open bank accounts for children, enrol them in school, obtain school files, or travel with their children without written permission from the child's father. Women are also prevented from accessing government agencies that have not established female sections unless they have a male representative, and the need to establish separate office space discourages firms from hiring women, it said.
"We know some customs and traditions prevent women having their complete rights, but you cannot say they are 'legal minors'," said the Saudi HRC's Harithi. "They are doctors, teach in universities, are elected to the chambers of commerce."
"Would someone get rid of those UN busybodies for me? And have a Filipino bring me my lunch."
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HRW - the ones who bitch and whined about Iraq, where the US 'encourage' greater freedoms and liberties for females [whom AQ are even less forgiving than Sauds]. What ever. Another 'LOOK AT ME' 'I AM IMPORTANT' moment.
MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter to make a cake, she found the shelves bare.
"I went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter at those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run out of butter. I couldn't believe it this is the first time in my life I've wanted to try baking cakes and I can't get any butter," said the frustrated cook.
Japan's acute butter shortage, which has confounded bakeries, restaurants and now families across the country, is the latest unforeseen result of the global agricultural commodities crisis.
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No, not rich countries suffering - rich urbanites suffering. I like it...
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Japan, especially, should begin very large scale aquafarming as soon as possible. It's pretty low tech and has been shown to work, and with high margins.
To start with, they anchor a ring of pontoons with two layered, descending nets. The inner net keeps the hatchery bred fish in. The outer net keeps predators out. The ocean current aerates and cleans the water.
It's been found that the fish actually gain slightly more weight than the fish food you feed them, as they also get some food coming with the current.
Importantly, they put the aquafarms away from the coasts, to reduce coastal pollution. The two biggest problems faced by aquafarms are storms and piracy.
Done on the very large scale, such aquafarms could provide a lot more fish to Japan than they currently harvest. It is far less expensive than destructive drift netting, as well, so would take a lot of pressure off of wild fish reserves.
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First, as a matter of policy Japan debases its currency to help its export industries. The consequences of cheap yen is now hitting home.
Second, Japan's working age population has peaked and is in decline. Moving human resources into farming, of any kind, will require diverting them from other industries (including care for the aging).
Japan should allow the yen to appreciate and focus on higher value goods and services that can allow it to maximize the value of its well educated workforce. Then it can out bid poorer countries for food in world markets.
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Goats like mountains, according to my battered copy of Heidi. They provide milk, meat, and certain long-haired breeds make wonderful yarn. Yes, goatherd and herd dogs would be required, but surely there are some Japanese who would prefer the charm of the bucolic life to that of running a computerized manufacturing plant all by themselves?
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The University of the Virgin Islands has pioneered aquafarms that use the fish droppings to fertilize the crops, teaching women from impoverished areas how to be self-sufficient and have their own small businesses. Japan should be able to master the process. Also, what does Pelosi have to say about hanging up American exports? It would seem fair trade could ease this crisis, as Japan has been a great ally, and the global need should encourage legitimate crops instead of poppies and marijuana.
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The thing that astounds me in all of these rice and dough shortage stories is just how nationalized commodity purchasing has gotten in countries which I had foolishly thought had embraced the free market. I could see how the Philippines might do their purchasing through a single national office, but the Japanese? That's positively archaic! First World nations shouldn't *run out* of staple foods - pay through the nose for them, yes. But a First World country shouldn't be a unitary purchaser, with a *SET BUDGET* for purchases. That strongly suggests that the Japanese national budget has a line item somewhere for food purchases, offset elsewhere in the budget by income from sales of the foodstocks to domestic industry. That's jaw-droppingingly *ASININE*!
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Perhaps the Japanese will consider spending just $10 million of 2007's $75 Billion trade surplus to buy every Japanese family a stick of butter? That, or the Japanese can make their own butter and the US can make our own cars.
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The Japanese like the French have a very militant farm community when it come to importing food. They have always protected the farmers by government control of imports. Thus the Japanese politicians protect there personal O-shiris.
For you folks from Rio Linda, o-shiri is Japanese for ass.
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I can respect that, just as I can respect even more Americans not being used as the world's trade patsy. I can also respect a people who decide not to ship high paying jobs overseas so that high school graduates have better prospects than a fast food job, selling drugs on the street corner or stripping at a titty bar.
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I was reading yesterday, how the Chinese government is trying to limit food price inflation by promoting pork production. As always when China does something it's big numbers. All those pigs gotta eat something and the something is imported soyabeans and grain.
BTW, one of the oddities of Japan is you find people working rice paddies in the middle of big cities like Tokyo. The American equivalent would corn fields in the Bronx.
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I also read suggestions that the Chinese government can no longer afford its food and energy subsidies, but is afraid to reduce them because of fear of social unrest.
And re the pigs, I recall in the old Soviet Union they used to feed bread to pigs, because bread was cheaper than grain. I don't think it's that bad in China, yet.
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Aquaculture is fine, but let's see you milk a fish.
No milk, no butter.
Maybe they could milk whales, they're mammals.
How about Margarine? (Vegatable oil)
My brain reels at the snark possibilities here.
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Can I fantasize a World where industrialized countries no longer willing to free 3rd World tribal assemblies (especially Muzzies) masquerading as countries from the demeaning cares of making a living?
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My Grandfather fed bread to his pigs, got waste and unsold loaves from the day-old bread store, paid around 3 cents a loaf by the pickup truck full, they would break the wrappers in half to be sure it wasn't used as human food. Pigs loved it.
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Phil: The last time I was in Japan there was no such thing as a vacant lot, only rice paddies. After the harvest they would start the construction.
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The situation has been compounded by a surge in demand for bio-fuels such as ethanol, made from maize, encouraging farmers around the world to divert their efforts away from wheat and barley and into maize, further driving up prices.
Maize? I remember the old commercials with the native american saying corn, my people call it Maize. I'm wondering when the term Maize took over in common usage.
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The CODE OF BUSHIDO = SAMURAI CODE can be broadly ascribed as resources-poor ancient Japan's RULES-ETHICS FOR ORGANIZED FOOD WARFARE, or in the altern FOOD-RICE WARFARE BASED NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TRADE, + PLANNING. Goes to the many ways mankind prevails in harsh natural environments around the world.
ASIA > BUTTER IS TO COOKING, WHAT RICE IS TO EATING OR CULTURAL CUISINE, iff my Korean sister-in-law and Asian former classmates are any measure. Copious use of BUTTER is #1, copious use of vari COOKING OILS #2. HELL OR MICHELLE OBAMA HATH NO FURY LIKE A KOREAN HOUSEWIFE THAT CAN'T FIND ANY BUTTER FOR COOKING.
A prominent Dutch critic of Islam will publish a children's book intended to involve young people in the debate over multiculturalism. A spokeswoman for Ayaan Hirsi Ali says "Adan & Eva" will be released in Dutch May 29 and later translated into other European languages. Spokeswoman Ingrid Pouw said Monday the book is about a fictional 12-year-old Muslim boy who encounters difficulties after befriending a Jewish girl.
I heard this on the radio this morning; I do not check on his website. Ever.
I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.
So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?
I haven't spoken publicly 'til now as to who I would vote for, primarily for two reasons: 1) Who cares? but I'll ramble on, anyway; and 2) I (and most people I know) don't give a rat's ass whose name is on the ballot in November, as long as there's a picture of JFK and FDR riding a donkey at the top of the ballot, and the word "Democratic" next to the candidate's name which is how we got nancy Pelosi and Jimmy Carter.
Seriously, I know so many people who don't care if the name under the Big "D" is Dancer, Prancer, Clinton or Blitzen. It can be Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Barry Obama or the Dalai Lama.
Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin! There is much more Moore at his website.
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I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple.
OT, short rant : The (self-acknowledged) orthodox commie side of bloated mike is well-known by anybody who simply bothers to look at it honestly, but one recurring aspect of his worldview is less explicit, but can be seen in his movies as well, it's the "whites as cancer" dogma.
Simply put, mike sees whitey as THE problem, and he usually explain that as a response to an irrational racist fear (see "bowling for columbine", in which this is the main thesis).
Fat mike moore is a "stupid white man", BUT a racist, self-hating, narcisstical one (it feels good to be part of the right, morally-superior crowd by hating whitey), and in that, he embodies a large part of the progressive movement.
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There's a Clinton - Farrakhan connection as well. Fast Eddie marched with Screwey Louie in the Million Man March so Eddie, Clinton's PA Campaign Chair, links Her Thighness to Farrakhan. Funny how politics works.
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The dhimocrats really need another candidate. These two are so weak and pathetic that as long as McCain doesn't make any major mistakes, he should take the white house in a landslide.
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anonymous5089, the personal noun is narcissist, the psychological term is narcissism. The adjective is narcissistic. The variation you used, narcissitical, is an archaic alternative, analogous to using poetical or poetic instead of poetic and fantastic. The more elaborate forms most recently used by the kind of writer who wrote children's stories at the turn of the last century about the fairies living at the bottom of the garden. I thought you'd want to know, my dear. ;-)
#11
Ya know, Mikeyis getting concerned that he Just. Doesn't. Matter. Anymore.
Given how the fringe on the left has become the center there, its hard for Mikey to get noticed for his usual shtick: being "radical". Daily Kos and the loonies there have completely overshadowed him.
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Threnger, yes I did. Hell, man, it's the primary. There's always November. And Hillary couldn't out-campaign McCain if he named Fred Phelps as his vice-presidential candidate.
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Btw, I have no clue on how to write narcissisme nor narcissique in english, so sorry for any weird spelling.
Close enough, we get it.
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"Mikey Moore Endorses B.O."
They misspelled "Has."
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Tony Snow, long time Fox News host and former editorial page editor for The Washington Times, is now a political commentator for CNN, according to Jon Klein, the network's president. He begins now as in today offering the conservative take on things.
Mr. Snow has a sterling record: He was the convivial press secretary for President Bush from April 2006 to September 2007 and spent a decade in front of Fox News cameras. "In the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy," Mr. Klein said. "He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise."
The suave and civil Mr. Snow is ready to roll, calling this "the most exciting and unpredictable political year in memory. "The big challenge in 2008 is to develop deep, creative and aggressive analysis of both political parties, their candidates and campaigns," Mr. Snow continued. "I'm eager to get started, since this race is sure to shape American politics for years to come."
Apparently his health is holding up. Good to see.
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Its official - CNN has discovered the Internet thanx to SNOW + "LIPSTICK/ROUGE"-GATE [FOX versus CNN versus MSNBC Babe Wars].
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Jeebus, only Joe could link CNN, Tony Snow and Battlestar Galactica!
On a serious note, I wonder if CNN's "gotten religion" on their conservative side (of ratings). First, they added Glenn Beck and now Tony Snow.
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I wonder if CNN's "gotten religion"
Capitalism is not a religion. Someone figured out that socialism only survives off the fat of capitalism, even in news biz. CNN is going for a mixed economy to survive.
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I know that P2k, thus the reason I put it in quotes.
*snicker*
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Unfortunately today's news shows Tony going back into the hospital. Here's hoping he gets well:
Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow has canceled a series of speaking engagements at Eastern Washington University because of illness.
Snow was supposed to make a series of appearances Tuesday at EWU. However, he was taken to the hospital to be treated for exhaustion, in consultation with his doctor, according to a source at the University.
The source said he checked into the hospital at 9:30 a.m.
Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer several years ago, and he left his position as press secretary for President Bush in September to deal with the disease. He has said the cancer is in remission
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DON'T DO IT BARACK!! For all those Obama haters out there, waiting to pounce on the bandwagon or 'kick the Obama football', you have nothing to lose. These people weren't going to vote for you anyway, so the fodder stays theirs! Wait till June 4th for the next debate with Hillary, then let's see what network would be interested.
#3
The silliness of all of this seems almost overwhelming. You have an anchor pretending to be a serious journalist who wants to finally get her big debate of two candidates who by all reasonable standards are not fit to run for the office of president of the United States.
And everyone acts as if this is all very serious and normal. Why? Because the huge megaphone of the media tells us so. And therefore it must be true.
Hillary Clinton is a compulsive liar who insisted she is qualified to manage foreign affairs because she underwent sniper fire. Barak Obama sits in the pews of a church that wants to take us back to the days of racial hatred and claims he was too ignorant to hear his preacher asking God to damn America and oppress the whites. I could go on about what a joke both of these candidates are, but I won't.
What amazes me is that we are asked to read about all of this as if there is something serious or profound in this absolute absurdity.
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Actually, swksvolFF, I would prefer that you did not. Abbreviating his name as B.O. suits me fine, but someone would surely shorten your version to BOB, and then I would be offended.
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After a ham sammich with some strong irish mustard and greek seasoning, does seem a bit childish and undeserving of a presidential candidate, but if I have to watch him do layups for Bryant Gumble one more time Imma gonna get sick.
Its just every time the heat gets turned up he disappears for a couple of weeks like his trip to the caribbean. Hillarity punked him and if he can't get back in there and stand up for himself he has no business being President.
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while i should feel bad about Katie coming in last, i think the only worthwhile thing she has ever done was take America on a guided tour of a colonoscopy and how it helps with Cancer detection/prevention.
A U.S. Army mechanical engineer has been arrested on charges that he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate.
The arrest of Ben-ami Kadish is being detailed Tuesday by the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and FBI officials. A criminal complaint says the activities occurred from 1979 through 1985. Kadish worked at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center in Dover, N.J.
The complaint says Kadish took home classified documents several times, and the Israeli government worker photographed them in Kadish's basement. The documents included information about nuclear weapons, a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet, and the U.S. Patriot missile air defense system.
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The Israelis were the first recipients of the F-15 in 1975, and the Israeli nukes supposedly date from that time-period. The Patriot was obviously from a later date.
But really, do we prosecute British or Japanese "spies" for this sort of thing?
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Er, first export recipients, I should say.
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Mitch, I don't know. Maybe we just haven't caught them yet. If the material is not supposed to be available to foreign governments, and we catch them accessing it, yes, we should prosecute.
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Mitch: we'd damned well better. Espionage is just that. If we want our friends to have our stuff, we'll share.
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WASHINGTON (Rooters) - U.S. authorities arrested an American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving military secrets involving nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said.
The US army doubled its use of "moral waivers" for enlisted soldiers last year to cope with the demands of the Iraq war, allowing sex offenders, people convicted of making terrorist threats, and child abusers into the military, new records released yesterday showed.
Another in a long series of reports that the Army is recruiting the misfits and goons of the world.
The army gave out 511 moral waivers to soldiers with felony convictions last year. Criminals got 249 army waivers in 2006, a sign that the demand for US forces in Iraq has forced a sharp increase in the number of criminals allowed on the battlefield.
Please look at those numbers: 511, up from 249. That's on a base of 80,635 total Army recruits in 2006. Do the math: from about 0.26% of recruits in 2006 to about 0.63% in 2007. That's under 1%. Now I'm guessing here, but I'm going to bet that each of those 511 recruits had to be pretty damned convincing to get a waiver.
The felons accepted into the army and marines included 87 soldiers convicted of assault or maiming, 130 convicted of non-cannabis-related drug offences, seven convicted of making terrorist threats, and two convicted of indecent behaviour with a child. Waivers were also granted to 500 burglars and thieves, 19 arsonists and nine sex offenders.
Used to be, a generation or two back, such young men were gently encouraged to the military by a stern district court judge, who made clear that it was the military or prison. The judge (likely a veteran himself in that by-gone era) knew that the military had a knack for rescuing young men headed down the wrong road. Now I'm not saying that it's the job of the military to save young men, but we know that it does so even today, and does so very well. Given that, why would it be wrong for the Army to take on 511 troubled young men and say to them, "allright, son, let's see if we can make a man out of you"?
The new data were released by the oversight committee of the House of Representatives. Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the oversight panel, said that while "providing opportunities to individuals who have served their sentences and rehabilitated themselves" is important, the waivers are a sign that the US military is stretched too thin.
Henry doesn't miss a chance to whack the military, does he. As if 511 men makes the difference in stretching the Army.
The number of moral waivers in the military, mostly for misdemeanours such as speeding fines, reached 34,476 in 2006, or nearly 20% of all enlisted soldiers, according to the Palm Centre at the University of California.
Why don't we implement this idea with politicans: a speeding ticket disqualifies them from office. Let's see how many 'moral waivers' we'd have to issue then ...
More than one felony conviction disqualifies recruits from the army or marines, but the navy and air force can admit those with multiple offences.
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"Please look at those numbers: 511, up from 249. That's on a base of 80,635 total Army recruits in 2006. Do the math: from about 0.26% of recruits in 2006 to about 0.63% in 2007."
Do the math indeed. This sort of trick - making it seem like twice the whole (in this case, of the army) is affected when in fact it is a change which is a fraction of a percent and insignificant in terms of scientific validity- is standard fodder for the left when dealing with propaganda like this.
I can remember seeing CSPAN 2 about ten years ago and watching Ted Kennedy blathering on the floor of the Senate with an easle set up with a bar graph chart on it. The first bar looked to be about half the size of the second. Komrade Ted was going on and on about some huge increase, and I was interested until I realized that the first bar represented 1025 and the second 1050, and the bottom 99%+ of each bar was not on the poster. In other words, an insignficant increase. However, to the type who are his supporters, the bulk of whom are not capable of understanding statistics and would rely solely on the visual difference in a poorly done bar graph which did not show the actual statistical relationship, the difference would seem huge, affirming their precious narrative and reality be damned.
It is precisely this sort of trick which is used to support the agitprop of the left, and which leftists eat right up.
People like the author of this drivel should have taken a few math and stat courses, maybe they wouldn't have ended up being leftists.
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Hmmm, 0.63% - wonder how that compares to Congress, academia, or journalism?
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Waxman said that while "providing opportunities to individuals who have served their sentences and rehabilitated themselves"
Does there not exist the possibility that Henry is right, and that some folks really do want to leave the past behind them and move on to a better life? What better way than in the service of your country?
Mrs. Bobby spent 10 years working in adult probabtion (supervising me on the side) and observed the 10-20% of people on probation were really sorry, did all the chores, cleaned up their act, and never came back. Leaving the 80-90% who did as little as possible to get off the hook and kept coming back to the same judge who warned them, "You're really gonna get it next time. I'm putting a red dot on your file, so I'll remember to revoke you next time." About the time we moved out east, the judge was up to the triple red-dot club. (Three 'last chances'.)
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Have you taken the Tufte course on information display yet, No Mo?
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Good place for rehabilitation. I had a roommate that was caught running a chop shop and the judge said he would either go to prison for 10 years, or he could join the military for 4. He chose the military and really cleaned up his act and became a good soldier and civilian.
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DMFD: It seems that at one time, I read somewhere that over 100 Congress-critters were involved in Civil or Criminal cases against them. IOW, fully about 20%+ of Congress has either committed a crime/civil boo-boo, or had been *accused* of doing that "no-no." Not sure if that stat was right, but I'd be willing to bet they were *worse* crimes (statistically) than our troops (e.g. DUI, Bribery, Extortion, "political favors", even murder).
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I had to obtain a waiver before I could join the Air Force way back in 1980. I remember signing a waiver form and the recruiter took care of the legal end of it. IMHO this is much ado about nothing.
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the waivers are a sign that the US military is stretched too thin.
Whotta surprise another agenda-driven non-article from the journalists at al-Guardian. And who better to provide the unsubstantiated projections other then the master of clap-trap himself Rep. Henry Waxman. Absent from this narrative is that the US military has never had a quota for the number of recruits that can be accepted via the Moral Waiver. Also absent is that all branches of the US military have had, and will continue to have, strict policies regarding recruits that have a criminal civilian record. And once enlisted, those that have felonies are subject to a higher degree of scrutiny. For instance, all braches of the military either highly restrict or prohibit Security Clearances for all those enlisted with felony records.
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Well, since the suicidal looser meme did not work, now its back to Wellingtons "scum of the earth" meme.
These leftist, treasonous loosers never give up. The just dance the anti-American ghost dance that much harder until it all comes out the way they think they want.
Never mind us (sane people), God help the leftists if they actualy get what they are asking for.
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Number of crimes moved from lesser to felony status in the last 10 years?
How many are DUIs now classified as felonies in most states for second or even first offenses?
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The son of the Protagonist in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaugherhouse Five" went straight after joining the miliary, so it's not as if this pinhead is ignorant of the "military service as penitence and redemption". He just chose to ignore it, and so is truly morally culpable.
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This is a good opportunity to again point out how, if the US had an offshore mercenary army, it could recruit the best and the brightest non-US citizens from around the world as light infantry.
In turn, we could pay them to pull guard duty in places like Bosnia, so our soldiers would be freed up to go to Iraq.
Mercenaries cost a lot less, and make good caulk for the cracks. Our soldiers are worth too much to have them doing stupid jobs when they could be working.
And nobody in their right mind is going to mess with a Gurkha, Sikh, or Samoan, no matter who they are working for.
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while I agree that the number is not large, and this isnt really that big an issue in and of itself, lets not pretend its NOT a sign of stretching - how many waivers like this for either felonies or serious misdemeanors were being given out in 2000? And note its mainly the army and USMC, not the Navy or USAF. Is the army an intrinsically better place to reform ex-cons than the Navy? Or are the Armys recruiting goals more aggressive than the Navys, at a time when the army is less attractive to recruits than the Navy?
ISTR reading that discharges related to homosexuality under "dont ask, dont tell" have declined also. Now as a good liberal, thats fine with me, but Id be surprised if it was entirely due to a change of heart about the rights of gays on the part of the military.
The AF and Navy are downsizing, the same time the Army and Marines have finally been authorized by Congress to increase their size, by 50,000. Or does that not enter into your consciousness? When you have more than you need, you don't need to invest in more advertising/recruitment.
And as most have avoided the question previously posted, yes, there are more 'felonies' today which were lesser offenses just a few years ago. These media types don't spend a whole lot of time identify all those felonies that are included in the waivers. I suspect there are indeed some DUIs in the bunch. They also don't correlate the felonies to other classifications like ethnic background. Wouldn't that be interesting.
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Now as a good liberal, thats fine with me, but Id be surprised if it was entirely due to a change of heart about the rights of gays on the part of the military.
It's the law. One the military didn't make, but Congress did. You'd like the military to ignore the laws of Congress? Remember that.
Oh, it goes, Section 8, United States Constitution -> Title 10 USC -> UCMJ -> Article 125 Sodomy and Article 78 Accessory After the Act [if you know you must report and act on it].
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#6 Have you taken the Tufte course on information display yet, No Mo?
He's the "data-ink ratio" guy, right, Eric?
No, but I am intrigued.
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now its back to Wellingtons "scum of the earth" meme.
Ummm, sometimes "The scum of the Earth" is exactly what you want for a given job.
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He's the "data-ink ratio" guy, right, Eric?
He's also the guy who loves to bash the military and this administration openly, in his seminars. When he started it in one I attended I walked out, demanded and got a refund.
India, the world's second-biggest grower of rice and wheat, may harvest record crops after adequate rainfall and sunshine boosted yields, helping the government tame inflation that's near a three-year high.
Food grain production in the year to June will rise 4.6 percent to 227.3 million metric tons, Agriculture Secretary P.K. Mishra told a news conference in New Delhi today. Wheat output may climb to 76.8 million tons, more than the 74.8 million tons estimated in February and up from 75.8 million tons last year.
A bigger harvest of wheat and rice is crucial to efforts by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to cool inflation before general elections within a year. The prospect of lower prices may deter the government from extending a ban on wheat futures to other commodities as early as this week.
``This is certainly good for the government, which is struggling to control inflation,'' said Kishore Narne, head of research at Anand Rathi Commodities Ltd. ``Record production will also ease pressure on the government to ban futures trading in some commodities.''
India may consider barring trading in some commodities by the end of this week, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told parliament on April 16, after lawmakers said trading had contributed to rising prices of staples such as edible oils. Higher food prices helped stoke inflation to 7.14 percent in the week ended April 5, more than two percentage points above the central bank's target.
The government last year halted trading in wheat and lentils, and has since banned exports of edible oils and rice to curb inflation in Asia's third-biggest economy. India's central bank ordered banks on April 17 to set aside more money to cool lending, adding to government efforts to rein in inflation that has more than doubled in the past four months amid soaring commodity and food prices.
Rice output in the year to June may rise to a record 95.7 million tons, from 94.1 million tons estimated on Feb. 7, Mishra said. That's 2.5 percent more than the 93.6 million tons produced a year earlier.
The total rainfall and distribution was congenial last year, Mishra said. Temperatures in winter were favorable for various crops, particularly wheat, he said.
Countries worldwide are seeking to boost rice yields to raise output, increase food security and bring down prices. Almost half the world's population depends on the grain as a staple food, with China and India being the top two producers and consumers.
Rough rice futures prices have more than doubled on the Chicago Board of Trade in the past year, threatening food security across Asia. Leading exporters of the cereal such as China, Vietnam and Egypt are curbing supplies. India has banned exports of rice and set a minimum export price of $1,200 per ton for shipment of aromatic basmati rice to boost local supplies.
Rice futures in Chicago rose as much as 2.1 percent to $24.185 per 100 pounds in after-hours electronic trading and traded at $23.95 as of midday in London. It touched a record $24.67 on April 18.
Wheat and corn have also touched records this year, fanning inflation and sparking warnings from the UN and International Monetary Fund that the jump may trigger starvation and unrest.
Wheat for July delivery was down 1.5 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $8.58 a bushel, after losing 2.9 percent yesterday. Wheat reached a record $13.495 Feb. 27 and is still up 74 percent from a year earlier.
India's corn output may reach a record 18.54 million tons, 23 percent more than last year, the farm ministry's Mishra said.
Output of oilseeds such as soybean and peanut may rise to 28.21 million tons, up 16 percent, from 24.3 million tons a year earlier, he said.
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"Now, China, about that new railroad you were gonna remove..."
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Maybe you can sell it to those shmucks in California who seem to be running out.
The PML-N has decided to quit all federal ministries if the deadlock with the PPP over the restoration of the sacked judges persists, Geo News reported on Monday night. According to the channel, the decision came after PML-N chief Nawaz Sharifs meeting with the leaders of his party on Monday night. However, the PML-N decided to continue its support for the PPP even after resigning from the federal cabinet.
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NEANDERTHALS have spoken out for the first time in 30,000 years, with the help of scientists who have simulated their voices using fossil evidence and a computer synthesiser.
Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal tracts to work out how they would have sounded, NewScientist.com reports.
The conclusion is that Neanderthals spoke, but sounded rather different to modern humans. Specifically, the ancient humans' lacked the "quantal vowel" sounds that underlie modern speech and which provide cues that help speakers understand one another.
By modelling the sounds that a Neanderthal larynx would have made, McCarthy's team engineered the sound of a Neanderthal saying "allah U akbar" "e". In contrast to a modern human "e", the Neanderthal version lacks a quantal hallmark, which helps a listener distinguish the word "beat" from "bit," for instance.
Mr McCarthy, who based his reconstructions on 50,000-year-old fossils from France, aims eventually to simulate an entire Neanderthal sentence.
Neanderthals were a dead-end offshoot of the human line who inhabited Europe and parts of west and central Asia. Researchers believe they survived in Europe until the arrival of modern humans about 30,000 years ago. They were then eaten.
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They were the cold climate form, we're the hot climate form. Once we discovered clothing and portable fire, their adaptation was no longer necessary.
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The ole science versus religion crap again! You can't believe in evolution and the Neanderthals of 10,000 to 30,000+BC or creation and Adam and Eve of 4620 BC! The Bible says that God gave Adam the "living language" of heaven; Hebrew, and that he was intelligent, articulate, perfect; with a photographic memory (much needed in his recall of naming all the animals on Earth, brought to him by the Lord). I'll catalog this story in the same 'X' file with the Arizona 'Lights' our Government is perpetrating on it's citizens; in the effort to gain advantage over our Intercontinental neighbors! Then I'll dump the trash.
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HISTORY CHANNEL > Ancient GLOBAL WARMING may had killed off both the DINOS + the later MEGA-MAMMALS, which in turn helped the SMALL/MINOR MAMMALS - e.g. APES AND EARLY HOMINIDS-HUMANSm ESPEC LATTER - TO SURVIVE AND DEV BETTER SURVIAL STRATEGIES AGZ COMPETITORS??? IRONY, WARMING > may also be responsible in future [present?]for destroying Mankind and bringing in his post-Human successor natural Specias???
I could be wrong but methinks this show was trying hard NOT to say SPACE ALIENS [ e.g. GREYS] ARE OUR RELATIVES FROM THE FAR FUTURE???
NEW YORK (Rooters) - New York Times Co Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr told shareholders on Tuesday the company is not for sale, disputing media reports. "This company is not for sale," he said, calling recent media reports suggesting otherwise "ill informed."
Can't find a buyer, huh? That sux.
Speculation over a sale has dogged the company over the years, most recently resurrected as its share price falling close to 20 percent in the past 12 months.
Newsweek magazine also recently reported that close advisers of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have urged the founder of the Bloomberg LLC financial news and data service to consider a bid for the paper to safeguard its Editorial Integrity. "I am not going to go into the newspaper business," Bloomberg said at a press conference on Monday, addressing press reports.
The Times's sliding stock price and steady decline in quality ad revenue has sparked anger among its outside investors, some of whom have publicly blasted its executives for poor performance. New York Times, publisher of the namesake paper and owner of the Boston Globe and About.com, is holding its annual shareholders meeting at its New York headquarters on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Monday followed up on its ruling last week upholding the commonly used lethal injection method of execution and rejected appeals by 11 death row inmates in seven states.
The ruling cleared the way for a resumption of executions that had been halted for nearly seven months while the justices considered a constitutional challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in the executions.
The ruling means more than a dozen death row inmates likely will get early execution dates. Officials in the leading death penalty states, like Texas, Virginia and Florida, said they planned to schedule executions that previously had been on hold.
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it just seems to me that a firing squad was far more effective and humane.
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.
Streisand was one of the celebrity guests set to appear at a Jerusalem convention hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres beginning May 13.
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's system of male "guardianship" or wide-ranging control over women lies at the heart of rights abuse in the conservative Islamic state, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter to make a cake, she found the shelves bare.
A prominent Dutch critic of Islam will publish a children's book intended to involve young people in the debate over multiculturalism. A spokeswoman for Ayaan Hirsi Ali says "Adan & Eva" will be released in Dutch May 29 and later translated into other European languages. Spokeswoman Ingrid Pouw said Monday the book is about a fictional 12-year-old Muslim boy who encounters difficulties after befriending a Jewish girl.
So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama? 
Tony Snow, long time Fox News host and former editorial page editor for The Washington Times, is now a political commentator for CNN, according to Jon Klein, the network's president. He begins now as in today offering the conservative take on things.
WASHINGTON (Rooters) - U.S. authorities arrested an American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving military secrets involving nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said.
The PML-N has decided to quit all federal ministries if the deadlock with the PPP over the restoration of the sacked judges persists, Geo News reported on Monday night. According to the channel, the decision came after PML-N chief Nawaz Sharifs meeting with the leaders of his party on Monday night. However, the PML-N decided to continue its support for the PPP even after resigning from the federal cabinet.
NEANDERTHALS have spoken out for the first time in 30,000 years, with the help of scientists who have simulated their voices using fossil evidence and a computer synthesiser.
NEW YORK (Rooters) - New York Times Co Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr told shareholders on Tuesday the company is not for sale, disputing media reports. "This company is not for sale," he said, calling recent media reports suggesting otherwise "ill informed."
The Supreme Court on Monday followed up on its ruling last week upholding the commonly used lethal injection method of execution and rejected appeals by 11 death row inmates in seven states.
