August 8, 2006
Lets say thanks
If you go to the web site at www.letssaythanks.com you can pick out a thank you card (lots to choose from) and the Xerox Corporation will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services. It is FREE and it only takes a second.
U.S. HAS ITS SECOND-HOTTEST JULY ON RECORD (although 70 year old record still stands) August 7, 2006 — The continental United States suffered through its second-hottest July on record because of a blistering heat wave from California to Washington, D.C. The hottest July on record occurred in 1936, and the third hottest was 1934…
… The average precipitation for July 2006 across the continental United States was 0.18 inch below the 20th century average, contributing to a January-July period that was 22nd driest on record…. The most extensive drought occurred in July 1934…http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2677.htm
Speeder Turns Around to Help Trooper
Aug 04 GREAT FALLS, Mont.-- A state Highway Patrol officer who crashed while trying to catch up to a speeding motorist got some aid from an unlikely source _ the man he was chasing.
The patrolman, Frank Nowakowski, was uninjured in the crash Wednesday.
...a vehicle sped by at more than 95 mph in the opposite lanes.
Nowakowski crossed the median and took off after the driver, reaching speeds of 120 mph in an effort to catch up. Nowakowski said he had just decided to end the pursuit for safety reasons when one of the rear tires of his cruiser blew out, sending his patrol car careering off the highway and through a barbed-wire fence.
...Moments later, the man he had been trying to stop, whom the patrol identified only as a Bozeman man, was at his side at the crash scene.
...the driver apparently was unaware that Nowakowski was trying to pull him over, but saw a large cloud of dust in his rearview mirror, knew there had been an accident and turned around to help.
The man, who later confessed to being late for an appointment, agreed to give officers a statement, and if nothing else, had the opportunity to apologize...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/04/D8J9V5OG0.html
Chicago Mayor Likely to Veto 'Living Wage' Law
August 08, 2006 - During his 17 years in office, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (Democrat) has yet to veto a bill passed by the city council, but that is likely to change over the next month because of an ordinance that would force the city's largest retailers -- including Wal-Mart -- to pay employees a "living wage" by 2010.
The measure requires retailers earning over $1 billion in annual sales and stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space to pay workers at least $10 an hour in wages plus $3 in benefits by mid-2010. It was passed by the council last month despite aggressive opposition from many companies and even Daley himself.
On the Monday before the council vote, Daley charged at a press conference that the proposal would drive jobs and desperately needed development from some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods and cause most retail giants to abandon the city.
"This is going to hurt the minority community," Daley said while flanked by black ministers. "For us to say, 'No, we don't want these stores,' ... that says, 'We don't want development.'"
Also, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., threatened to cancel plans to build as many as 20 new stores in the city over the next five years, while Target Corp. put plans to build three outlets "on hold" and said it might close its existing Chicago stores.
..."Businesses don't have to be in Chicago," he added. "If they don't feel welcome, they'll go someplace else," the mayor said, referring to the opening of a Wal-Mart store one block outside the city limits this past January. "They're going to get our customers anyway."
The stakes in the controversy became even higher last week, when Target Corp. announced it was pulling out of a 32-acre shopping mall in the city's 34th District…
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060808a.html
I had to have my fingerprints taken and an FBI background check when I got my government job, professors at state institutions should be no different...
Missouri pursuing criminal background checks for professors
Aug. 07, 2006 COLUMBIA, Mo. - Newly hired professors at the University of Missouri's four campuses may soon join the ranks of janitors, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and others who must undergo criminal background checks before joining the payroll.
The developing policy isn't a response to a particular case but instead a recognition that faculty members should be treated the same as other university employees, said Frank Schmidt, a biochemistry professor helping to develop the new standards.
...Schmidt acknowledged that the mere discussion of such a policy is likely to raise hackles about threats to academic freedom as well as personal privacy...
In 2004, the American Association of University Professors released a statement opposed to broad background checks, citing the "moral cost of adopting a general policy ... in order to identify the rare special case."
...The issue has come to the forefront more dramatically on other U.S. campuses.
At Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, a public relations professor who abruptly retired the day campus police searched his computers for evidence of child pornography is now a fugitive after fleeing his summer home in North Carolina.
In addition to 14 felony counts of sexual abuse of children connected to the computer files, Richard W. Gibbs, 65, also is charged with molesting a child in San Diego six years ago and with 10 counts of gross sexual imposition in Ohio for alleged molestation of a child while living there in the 1980s.
...Penn State University implemented background checks for new faculty in January 2004 after discovering that a respected professor was on parole for a 1965 triple murder in Texas...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/15219069.htm
A Bit of History for Global Warmers: Look at 1930
August 04, 2006- People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. That "honor" belongs to a summer 76 years ago...
"From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year."
Between July 19 and Aug. 9 of that year, heat records were set on nine days and they remain unbroken more than three-quarters of a century later. "That's hot," added Michaels, who also serves as professor of natural resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.
The summer of 1930 also marked the beginning of the longest drought of the 20th century. In 1934, dry regions stretched from New York and Pennsylvania across the Great Plains to California. A "dust bowl" covered about 50 million acres in the south-central plains during the winter of 1935-1936.
...Michaels noted that high temperatures are common in the middle of the summer...
"Climatologically, the last week in July is the warmest week of the year on average, and when the atmospheric flow patterns get into anomalously warm configurations during this time of the year, temperatures will skyrocket," he said.
..."Big cities are getting warmer -- with or without global warming -- because the bricks and the buildings and the pavement retain heat," Michaels added. For that reason, he prefers to compare temperatures in nearby rural areas. "There's been very little change" in those areas, "so we trust the record to be a reliable indicator of base climate."
...Michaels acknowledged that "global temperatures have been warming slightly for several decades" and noted that the surface of the world "is a little bit warmer than it was in the 1930s" even though "temperatures dropped between 1940 and 1975."
"Usually, the way the jet stream breaks out is very hot in the East and relatively cool in the West or vice versa," he said. "This time around, it looks more like the summers of the 1930s," but he dismissed the idea that the extreme temperatures of that time were caused by man-made "global warming" since "it wasn't around then."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060804c.html
Annan Mum on Hizballah's Wounding of UN Workers
August 07, 2006 -- A Hizballah-based mortar attack, which fell short of its target in Israel on Sunday and injured three Chinese members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has received scant media attention and no reaction from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.Late last month, after four U.N. peacekeepers were killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, Annan said he was "shocked and deeply distressed" at the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the outpost. ... The Chinese account added that the three UNIFIL soldiers were rushed to a hospital inside the headquarters and "their condition was stable." ...On Sunday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora condemned the Israeli bombing in the town of Hula where he reported that 40 civilians had been killed in "a deliberate massacre." Siniora called the victims "martyrs."Less than 24 hours later, Siniora revised the death toll to a single person. "The massacre in Hula, it turned out that there was one person killed," Siniora told reporters Monday. "They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people .... Thank God they have been saved."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?age=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200608/INT20060807e.html
News to Note! http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0729ntn.asp
Reutergate Is News Everywhere But in the (formerly) Mainstream Media
http://newsbusters.org/node/6797
Lebanese woman whose house was totally destroyed twice in 15 days by Israeli air strikes
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
Lebanese woman who Reuters photographed and reported as having lost two husbands in 17 days
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014919.php
Reuters publishes fake comments on fake deaths....
Reuters not only quoted the erroneous (and later withdrawn) comments of Lebanon’s PM Siniora lamenting the deaths of supposedly 40 people in a southern viallge. The death toll figure was later revised to one.
There’s no crime in the straight reporting of an erroneous statements of a public official. But Dinocrat asks:
How then did Reuters get the reactions from the residents of that village, Houla, who said they feared that up to 60 people had been killed, and identified them as children and shepherds? Did they get that information from their Hezbollah handlers and allies? You may believe any story from Reuters / Hezbollah at your peril. http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5777
Haifa, Karma and Qana
Professor Steven Plaut is an American born professor of economics at the University of Haifa who has not let the war disrupt his always informative e mails and blogs about life in Israel. He even managed to find some cheery news in the continuing barrage of Haifa.
For the atheists out there, I thought I would challenge you to explain this. Last night’s rocket attack on Haifa hit the Arab communist party building, from which the Stalinist Arabic newspaper of Israel used to be published. Really. Coincidence?
That was the good news. Now for a dose of reality. The rockets that hit Haifa last night were fired out of the center of Kana – that “innocent” Lebanese village attacked “for no reason” by Israeli jets a couple of weeks back. Where supposedly some Lebanese civilians were killed. Except, since the terrorists always wear civvies, every dead terrorist in this war is counted always as a “civilian”.
Gee, there’s never a Reuters photographer around when you need him.
Ethel C. Fenig 8 07 08http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5775
Institutional Failure at Reuters
August 7th, 2006
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5743
David Bennett <><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
If you go to the web site at www.letssaythanks.com you can pick out a thank you card (lots to choose from) and the Xerox Corporation will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is serving in Iraq . You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services. It is FREE and it only takes a second.
U.S. HAS ITS SECOND-HOTTEST JULY ON RECORD (although 70 year old record still stands) August 7, 2006 — The continental United States suffered through its second-hottest July on record because of a blistering heat wave from California to Washington, D.C. The hottest July on record occurred in 1936, and the third hottest was 1934…
… The average precipitation for July 2006 across the continental United States was 0.18 inch below the 20th century average, contributing to a January-July period that was 22nd driest on record…. The most extensive drought occurred in July 1934…http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2677.htm
Speeder Turns Around to Help Trooper
Aug 04 GREAT FALLS, Mont.-- A state Highway Patrol officer who crashed while trying to catch up to a speeding motorist got some aid from an unlikely source _ the man he was chasing.
The patrolman, Frank Nowakowski, was uninjured in the crash Wednesday.
...a vehicle sped by at more than 95 mph in the opposite lanes.
Nowakowski crossed the median and took off after the driver, reaching speeds of 120 mph in an effort to catch up. Nowakowski said he had just decided to end the pursuit for safety reasons when one of the rear tires of his cruiser blew out, sending his patrol car careering off the highway and through a barbed-wire fence.
...Moments later, the man he had been trying to stop, whom the patrol identified only as a Bozeman man, was at his side at the crash scene.
...the driver apparently was unaware that Nowakowski was trying to pull him over, but saw a large cloud of dust in his rearview mirror, knew there had been an accident and turned around to help.
The man, who later confessed to being late for an appointment, agreed to give officers a statement, and if nothing else, had the opportunity to apologize...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/04/D8J9V5OG0.html
Chicago Mayor Likely to Veto 'Living Wage' Law
August 08, 2006 - During his 17 years in office, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (Democrat) has yet to veto a bill passed by the city council, but that is likely to change over the next month because of an ordinance that would force the city's largest retailers -- including Wal-Mart -- to pay employees a "living wage" by 2010.
The measure requires retailers earning over $1 billion in annual sales and stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space to pay workers at least $10 an hour in wages plus $3 in benefits by mid-2010. It was passed by the council last month despite aggressive opposition from many companies and even Daley himself.
On the Monday before the council vote, Daley charged at a press conference that the proposal would drive jobs and desperately needed development from some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods and cause most retail giants to abandon the city.
"This is going to hurt the minority community," Daley said while flanked by black ministers. "For us to say, 'No, we don't want these stores,' ... that says, 'We don't want development.'"
Also, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., threatened to cancel plans to build as many as 20 new stores in the city over the next five years, while Target Corp. put plans to build three outlets "on hold" and said it might close its existing Chicago stores.
..."Businesses don't have to be in Chicago," he added. "If they don't feel welcome, they'll go someplace else," the mayor said, referring to the opening of a Wal-Mart store one block outside the city limits this past January. "They're going to get our customers anyway."
The stakes in the controversy became even higher last week, when Target Corp. announced it was pulling out of a 32-acre shopping mall in the city's 34th District…
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060808a.html
I had to have my fingerprints taken and an FBI background check when I got my government job, professors at state institutions should be no different...
Missouri pursuing criminal background checks for professors
Aug. 07, 2006 COLUMBIA, Mo. - Newly hired professors at the University of Missouri's four campuses may soon join the ranks of janitors, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and others who must undergo criminal background checks before joining the payroll.
The developing policy isn't a response to a particular case but instead a recognition that faculty members should be treated the same as other university employees, said Frank Schmidt, a biochemistry professor helping to develop the new standards.
...Schmidt acknowledged that the mere discussion of such a policy is likely to raise hackles about threats to academic freedom as well as personal privacy...
In 2004, the American Association of University Professors released a statement opposed to broad background checks, citing the "moral cost of adopting a general policy ... in order to identify the rare special case."
...The issue has come to the forefront more dramatically on other U.S. campuses.
At Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, a public relations professor who abruptly retired the day campus police searched his computers for evidence of child pornography is now a fugitive after fleeing his summer home in North Carolina.
In addition to 14 felony counts of sexual abuse of children connected to the computer files, Richard W. Gibbs, 65, also is charged with molesting a child in San Diego six years ago and with 10 counts of gross sexual imposition in Ohio for alleged molestation of a child while living there in the 1980s.
...Penn State University implemented background checks for new faculty in January 2004 after discovering that a respected professor was on parole for a 1965 triple murder in Texas...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/15219069.htm
A Bit of History for Global Warmers: Look at 1930
August 04, 2006- People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. That "honor" belongs to a summer 76 years ago...
"From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year."
Between July 19 and Aug. 9 of that year, heat records were set on nine days and they remain unbroken more than three-quarters of a century later. "That's hot," added Michaels, who also serves as professor of natural resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.
The summer of 1930 also marked the beginning of the longest drought of the 20th century. In 1934, dry regions stretched from New York and Pennsylvania across the Great Plains to California. A "dust bowl" covered about 50 million acres in the south-central plains during the winter of 1935-1936.
...Michaels noted that high temperatures are common in the middle of the summer...
"Climatologically, the last week in July is the warmest week of the year on average, and when the atmospheric flow patterns get into anomalously warm configurations during this time of the year, temperatures will skyrocket," he said.
..."Big cities are getting warmer -- with or without global warming -- because the bricks and the buildings and the pavement retain heat," Michaels added. For that reason, he prefers to compare temperatures in nearby rural areas. "There's been very little change" in those areas, "so we trust the record to be a reliable indicator of base climate."
...Michaels acknowledged that "global temperatures have been warming slightly for several decades" and noted that the surface of the world "is a little bit warmer than it was in the 1930s" even though "temperatures dropped between 1940 and 1975."
"Usually, the way the jet stream breaks out is very hot in the East and relatively cool in the West or vice versa," he said. "This time around, it looks more like the summers of the 1930s," but he dismissed the idea that the extreme temperatures of that time were caused by man-made "global warming" since "it wasn't around then."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060804c.html
Annan Mum on Hizballah's Wounding of UN Workers
August 07, 2006 -- A Hizballah-based mortar attack, which fell short of its target in Israel on Sunday and injured three Chinese members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has received scant media attention and no reaction from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.Late last month, after four U.N. peacekeepers were killed in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, Annan said he was "shocked and deeply distressed" at the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the outpost. ... The Chinese account added that the three UNIFIL soldiers were rushed to a hospital inside the headquarters and "their condition was stable." ...On Sunday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora condemned the Israeli bombing in the town of Hula where he reported that 40 civilians had been killed in "a deliberate massacre." Siniora called the victims "martyrs."Less than 24 hours later, Siniora revised the death toll to a single person. "The massacre in Hula, it turned out that there was one person killed," Siniora told reporters Monday. "They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of about 40 people .... Thank God they have been saved."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?age=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200608/INT20060807e.html
News to Note! http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0729ntn.asp
Reutergate Is News Everywhere But in the (formerly) Mainstream Media
http://newsbusters.org/node/6797
Lebanese woman whose house was totally destroyed twice in 15 days by Israeli air strikes
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
Lebanese woman who Reuters photographed and reported as having lost two husbands in 17 days
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014919.php
Reuters publishes fake comments on fake deaths....
Reuters not only quoted the erroneous (and later withdrawn) comments of Lebanon’s PM Siniora lamenting the deaths of supposedly 40 people in a southern viallge. The death toll figure was later revised to one.
There’s no crime in the straight reporting of an erroneous statements of a public official. But Dinocrat asks:
How then did Reuters get the reactions from the residents of that village, Houla, who said they feared that up to 60 people had been killed, and identified them as children and shepherds? Did they get that information from their Hezbollah handlers and allies? You may believe any story from Reuters / Hezbollah at your peril. http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5777
Haifa, Karma and Qana
Professor Steven Plaut is an American born professor of economics at the University of Haifa who has not let the war disrupt his always informative e mails and blogs about life in Israel. He even managed to find some cheery news in the continuing barrage of Haifa.
For the atheists out there, I thought I would challenge you to explain this. Last night’s rocket attack on Haifa hit the Arab communist party building, from which the Stalinist Arabic newspaper of Israel used to be published. Really. Coincidence?
That was the good news. Now for a dose of reality. The rockets that hit Haifa last night were fired out of the center of Kana – that “innocent” Lebanese village attacked “for no reason” by Israeli jets a couple of weeks back. Where supposedly some Lebanese civilians were killed. Except, since the terrorists always wear civvies, every dead terrorist in this war is counted always as a “civilian”.
Gee, there’s never a Reuters photographer around when you need him.
Ethel C. Fenig 8 07 08http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=5775
Institutional Failure at Reuters
August 7th, 2006
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5743
David Bennett <><
http://freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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