Posts Made By: Dave Snope

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

Why isn't this already a scene in a modern slapstick comedy? Pallywood meets Blazing Saddles.

Heh, you could also do a similar hypothetical research paper that has similar economic findings on this price of various staple grains if it gets COLDER. Canada would be up a creek if it's precariously short winter wheat growing season was shortened by another 5-10 days by a modest drop in temperature.

And if masquerading advocate group's editorials as "science" isn't low enough, the plummeting journalistic standards of the LA Times reach a new low after running ads on the front page disguised as news stories:

http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2009/04/page-one-ad-encroachment-takes-another-bold-leap-in-los-angeles/

Dropping boats from a C130 in the middle of the night, the Seals parachuting in quietly, then sniping the bad guys with three clear headshots. Nice.

Three SIMULTANEOUS headshots. One through a window.

Thanks for posting that! It's been a hard week at work and I needed some comedic relief and this one is funny on many levels. Oh boy, more computer simulations, not one of which has yet worked when they plug in last century's historical data to see if they can correctly predict today's conditions. Looks like the Obamessiah has replaced the Goracle in this religion, an interesting development.

That's a LOT of times.

Food for thought: I'm in the middle of reading Alistair Horne's "The Savage War of Peace", a history of the French-Algerian war. It provides an important historical perspective on torture and how it affected both sides of the conflict (and many other aspects of insurgency conflicts that are relevant today). A point was made that the central concomitant of torture is the deprivation of all element of hope and that this is imparted in part through the cumulative effect of torture over a long period of time, often weeks or months. From that perspective, perhaps 266 times is proportional to the task at hand. I wouldn't know, but it sounds like a lot. The French used much more severe methods than waterboarding.

The French started torturing the muslim terrorists for expediency, for example, when they caught a man placing a bomb in a petrol plant, they tortured him in an attempt to find out where he placed a second bomb that would cause 100's of casualties. Reasons that could be morally justified for the greater good (perhaps). But the torture escalated and became institutionalized, perhaps 25,000 were tortured, and there was public outcry at home. This led to an erosion of popular support for the French, and an increase in recruitment for the insurgents, prolonged the war and ultimately led to the end of the French will to continue the fight to hold Algeria.

Well, there's a book recommendation for you, too.

Thanks for sharing that. 1755 is ancient for a magazine. Old magazines are a treasure and I hope you expand your collection. The more things change, the more things stay the same, as the old adage goes. I've got a few magazines from the 19th century and numerous antique books dating as far back as 1576. The magazines give a humanistic view that show that people have change little. The old books show that knowledge has.

P.S. I've done some work in your home town.

Good news: Stephen Hawking expected to recover from infection

The family of physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to recover fully from a chest infection that has left him hospitalized, Cambridge University said Tuesday.

Hawking "was being kept in observation" at Addenbrooke's hospital after being admitted Monday.

"He is comfortable and his family is looking forward to him making a full recovery," Cambridge said in a statement.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXTqqeOkfGj1m48YIY_JoiFK-q3wD97MRCP03

No, I'm pretty sure this disaster is Rachel Carson's. Algore can't claim this one as his own, Rachel had more writing talent in her little finger than Al has in his whole $100M AGW equity growth enterprise. She really was a master of seductively beautiful prose. Unprecedented, really.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=65DFB92F-F3C8-49B8-83E0-E8ADBD10D19B

That's nice policy debate, but is it warmer now, or 70 years ago, in rural areas that have little influence by urban heat island effects?

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