Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
From the Guardian...
Australia will ban incandescent light bulbs to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, its government announced today.
A complete and total ban...
Malcolm Turnbull, the environment minister, said replacing the country's incandescent bulbs could prevent up to 4m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions entering the atmosphere every year by 2015.
Banning the ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
I have been thinking about this over and over, and as I sit in my hotel room looking up at Caesar's Palace, up $300... with my iPod blaring some old school Bad Religion on my headphones... listening to Graffin's lyrics... about hopeless Unitarian Atheist triumph...
Last Choruses from "I Want To ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
"Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life," said Bush, comparing the current, idiotic "War on Terror" to the American Revolutionary War, and comparing himself to George Washington, according to an AP piece today.
Standing at Mount Vernon, the Commander in ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
It's even something easily solved.
Heh!
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
There have only been 43 people admitted into this club since the United States became a nation. So far, every member of the club has been male. This most exclusive club is, of course, the American Presidency.
As today is President's Day (an American holiday that morphed from separate celebrations ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Benford has a proposal that possesses the advantages of being both one of the simplest planet-cooling technologies so far suggested and being initially testable in a local context. He suggests suspension of tiny, harmless particles (sized at one-third of a micron) at about 80,000 feet up in the stratosphere. These ...
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Nevermind. I totally misread and misunderstood the Times article upon which this rant had been based. My bad. My apologies to the Times and to anyone who read my rant.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
but what's the question? This:
"So why not straightforwardly strip the money out of the appropriations bill -- an action Congress is clearly empowered to take -- rather than try to micromanage the Army in a way that may be unconstitutional?"
Some more choice bits:
Mr. Murtha has a different idea. He would ...
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
It's not just Monty Python, either.
If you like sports, thank a Brit.
Thanks Paul and Ann.
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