Articles from June 2008



Garden Hose Rainbow

Sometimes you get to boring spots on calls during the workday, like when the tendentious melancholy bore drones on for a half hour about what process should be like in their perfect utopian septillion sigma Deming-certified non-existential chairman’s award universe. At times like those I do things like make rainbows with the hose in my [...]

TTP Taliban Re-Declares War on Pakistan

The Civil war in Pakistan has heated up again with assaults on proto-Taliban agents of Mangal Bagh in the Khyber pass (Taliban groups in Pakistan change names as the occasion or the goal allows, and they sub-contract with each other. In this case they are furthering tribal goals of Mangal Bagh and theirs as well. [...]

2008 President’s Dinner Address

Test

Obviously a test of something…

The Aussie Sleeps Tonight

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In the curtain
The paisley curtain
The Aussie sleeps tonight

Civil War in Pakistan: Taliban Khyber Offensive Continues

The civil war in Pakistan has heated up, with the brutal Taliban Warlord, Baitullah Mehsud in the lead.Baitullah established his leadership in the Waziristans by a steady campaign of brief offensives, assasinations of opposition leaders, and intermittent peaces with the Musharraf government forces the past three years when pressed.
Initially he was applauded as a possible [...]

Amish Save Children Through Genetic Science

This video is counter point to the previous post on faith healing. Here you see people of a deeply conservative faith willing to use science because they value life first.
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Undersea Volcanoes Thinned Arctic Ice Cap

Whether you think they thinned it a little, or thinned it a lot it is undeniable that the the massive undersea volcanoes deep under the Ice Cap had some effect. The story itself is just coming out here and here, since it was just published in Nature although the data was collected last year.
AJ [...]

Today’s McCain Ad is About Energy

Don’t Tell Me Words Don’t Matter

Gore Lied People Died!

It’s an inconvenient truth that across the world valuable cropland is being converted from growing food to growing biofuel. The croplands are being converted with government subsidies, and we are about to learn a very harsh lesson.
In Egypt we have breadlines, in Pakistan and India soaring flour prices, and in the rest of the subcontinent [...]

Zombietime Videotapes WCW Communists Giving Nazi Salute During National Anthem

Zombie has a new report on the Berkeley Recruiting office protests, here’s a videotape of World Can’t Wait communists giving the Nazi Salute while the counterprotestors played the National Anthem.

Morning Storm

This morning we awoke to a brief rainstorm whose clouds quickly fled before the rising sun. I caught a few escaping with the camera.

Artists Have Rights; Did Coldplay Copy Their New Hit? [updated]

The product of your creativity belongs to you, and you are by law entitled to profit therefrom. In a cut ‘n paste world where sampling and remixing are the norm those lines become blurred. This however looks egregiously wrong to me if it’s true: [see update below, the Youtube vid could be a scam. - [...]

Murder Through Faith

Kasie’s Always Happy After Her Morning Run

Kasie’s always happy after her morning run, and she’s grown quite a bit in six months. As always click on the thumbnails to see the larger version.

Who is WE? WE is Anti-Nuclear Activists and Energy Stasists

Who is WE? WE is Anti-Nuclear Activists and Energy Stasists
In the series of articles titled “Gore Lied, Peopled Died” and others on global warming here I outlined and demonstrated how Kyoto and other global warming initiatives create energy and food poverty worldwide which leads to starvation, high infant mortality, poor sanitation, increased prevalence of disease, hunger, and limited futures for [...]

More Impact to Food Supplies

The Wall Street Journal outlines how the weather this spring is likely to impact food inflation here:

The heavy rains and flooding will have national, and even global, consequences through rising food prices. The rains have further delayed planting for this year’s corn crop, with perhaps as many as three million acres lost for the year. Some farmers [...]

Karzai Threatens Attacks if Pakistan Doesn’t Clean Up Act

President Karzai of Afghanistan threatened to attack if Pakistan does not clean up there act in regards to cross border terrorism and not just tolerance of Jihadis, but in some quarters outright support.

Storm at Noon

I napped through this storm, only rising as the thunder faded and it receded. Now it’s sunny and bright outside. It was a perfect time to take a nap.