March 12, 2007
Federal deficit down 25.5 percent from a year ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/monthly_budget
Cold February
...according to the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, the average temperature in the month of February fell almost 2 degrees. … When compared with the average over the 100-year period between 1901 and 2000. …we've just experienced the 34th coldest February in the last 113 years.
Germans Reject EU Proposal on Speed Limits to Curb Global Warming
The German government is eager to do something about global warming, but don't ask the German people to change the way they drive...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070311-113354-3570r.ht
Ants Test Nonviolence of Buddhist Monks
Mar 12
Buddhist monks, who are bound by faith to nonviolence, are grappling with how to rid a temple of a severe ant infestation without killing the insects.
Stinging red ants have plagued the
A temple disciple tried using a vacuum cleaner to gather up the ants before freeing them in a nearby forest, but the method failed to purge the insects, Lin said.
...The temple's chief monk, Boon Keng, was quoted by The Star newspaper as saying that the monks had to "respect other living things" in the temple...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-03-12_D8NQE3700&show_article=1&cat=odd&catnum=9
I wonder how they walk without stepping on mites and other tiny critters that you can't normally see? Also, can they stop their own blood anti-bodies from attacking and killing off germs and things that attack the human body internally…?
Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/09/wpolar09.xml
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South Florida is experiencing an influx of Jews who fear persecution in
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/37995.html
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Students facing charges of 'desecration of Allah'
Hamas, Hezbollah flags used in college Republicans protest
March 10, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54634
Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'
03/11/2007
Scientists who questioned mankind's impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen211.xml
Global Warming Represents an Ecochondria of the Pampered Rich... Not a Crisis
March 9, 2007
...In the 1970s, the fear was "global cooling." The Christian Science Monitor then declaimed, "Warning: Earth's climate is changing faster than even experts expect," while The New York Times announced, "A major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable." Sound familiar? Global warming represents the latest doom-laden "crisis," one demanding sacrifice to Gaia for our wicked fossil-fuel-driven ways...
...The impact on disease is dubious. Infectious diseases, like malaria, are not so much a matter of temperature as of poverty and public health. Malaria remains endemic in Siberia, and was once so in
...But does it matter if global warming is a "crisis" or not? Aren't we threatened by a serious temperature rise? Shouldn't we act anyway, because we are stewards of the environment?
Herein lies the moral danger behind global warming hysteria. Each day, 20,000 people in the world die of waterborne diseases. Half a billion people go hungry. A child is orphaned by AIDS every seven seconds. This does not have to happen. We allow it while fretting about "saving the planet." What is wrong with us that we downplay this human misery before our eyes and focus on events that will probably not happen even a hundred years hence? We know that the greatest cause of environmental degradation is poverty; on this, we can and must act....
...Climate change is a norm, not an exception. It is both an opportunity and a challenge. The real crises for 4 billion people in the world remain poverty, dirty water and the lack of a modern energy supply. By contrast, global warming represents an ecochondria of the pampered rich...
Philip Stott is an Emeritus Professor from the University of London,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2938762&page=1
“Rethinking Ethanol” or “Why Movie Popcorn will be $15 instead of $6” (my title)
3/11/2007
...You'd think that would be good news, but it actually worries a lot of people...
...the only economical way to make ethanol right now is with corn, which means the burgeoning industry is literally eating
...For all the environmental and economic troubles it causes, gasoline turns out to be a remarkably efficient automobile fuel. The energy required to pump crude out of the ground, refine it and transport it from oil well to gas tank is about 6 percent of the energy in the gasoline itself.
Ethanol is much less efficient, especially when it is made from corn. Just growing corn requires expending energy -- plowing, planting, fertilizing and harvesting all require machinery that burns fossil fuel. Modern agriculture relies on large amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, both of which are produced by methods that consume fossil fuels. Then there's the cost of transporting the corn to an ethanol plant, where the fermentation and distillation processes consume yet more energy. Finally, there's the cost of transporting the fuel to filling stations. And because ethanol is more corrosive than gasoline, it can't be pumped through relatively efficient pipelines, but must be transported by rail or tanker truck.
In the end, even the most generous analysts estimate that it takes the energy equivalent of three gallons of ethanol to make four gallons of the stuff. Some even argue that it takes more energy to produce ethanol from corn than you get out of it, but most agricultural economists think that's a stretch....
...If you make ethanol from corn, the environmental benefits are limited. When you consider the greenhouse gases that are released in the growing and refining process, corn-based ethanol is only slightly better with regard to global warming than gasoline. Growing corn also requires the use of pesticides and fertilizers that cause soil and water pollution...
...Making ethanol is so profitable, thanks to government subsidies and continued high oil prices, that plants are proliferating throughout the
But that depends on the Invisible Hand. Making ethanol is profitable when oil is costly and corn is cheap. And the 51 cent-a-gallon federal subsidy doesn't hurt. But oil prices are off from last year's peaks and corn has doubled in price over the past year, from about $2 to $4 a bushel, thanks mostly to demand from ethanol producers.
High corn prices are causing social unrest in
It's true that animals eat more than half of the corn produced in
It's also true that there's a difference between edible sweet corn and the feed corn that's used for ethanol production. But because farmers try to grow the most profitable crop they can, higher prices for feed corn tend to discourage the production of sweet corn. That decreases its supply, driving the price of sweet corn up, too...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070311/ethanol_q_a.html?.v=3
Interesting...
Jihadist Meltdown
BY NIBRAS KAZIMI March 12, 2007
http://www.nysun.com/article/50244
Has the Global Islamic Jihad Movement fractured?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/03/has_the_global_islamic_jihad_m.html
Julio Pino: Islam’s Most Effeminate Jihadist
By Mike S. Adams Monday, March 12, 2007
entertaining as always... read at:
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeSAdams/2007/03/12/julio_pino_islam%e2%80%99s_most_effeminate_jihadist
The 'Surge' Is Succeeding
March 11, 2007;
By Robert Kagan
...Some observers are reporting the shift. Iraqi bloggers Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, widely respected for their straight talk, say that "early signs are encouraging." The first impact of the "surge," they write, was psychological. Both friends and foes in
As the Fadhils report, "Commanders and lieutenants of various militant groups abandoned their positions in
...The number of security tips about insurgents that Iraqi civilians provide has jumped sharply. Stores and marketplaces are reopening in
Apparently some American journalists see the difference. NBC's Brian Williams recently reported a dramatic change in Ramadi since his previous visit. The city was safer; the airport more secure. The new American strategy of "getting out, decentralizing, going into the neighborhoods, grabbing a toehold, telling the enemy we're here, start talking to the locals -- that is having an obvious and palpable effect."
...Violence is down in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901839.html
Christian youth event sparks protests in
City officials in
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/christian_youth_event_sparks_p.php
'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' - A reason to carry firearms for self-defense
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/perspectives_sudden_jihad_synd.php
The great ADHD myth (Psychiatrist who identified ADD admits many may not be ill)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441304&in_page_id=1770
Czech Pres: Environmentalism is a religion
Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=551bfe58-882f-4889-ab76-5ce1e02dced
When it says Libby, Libby, Libby on the label, label, label...
* Whose Fall Guy? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2007/03/09/whose_fall_guy
* Meatgrinder politics http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/03/09/meatgrinder_politics
* Fitzgerald's Folly http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030801499.html
* Berger & Libby: A Tale of Two Crimes
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/berger_libby_a_tale_of_two_cri.html
* Perverse Libby trial was revealing
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/291111,CST-EDT-steyn11.article
* The Libby Verdict
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030602020.html
Big news about Newt Gingrich's admission that he was having an affair while at the same time that he, as speaker of the house, was leading the investigation of Bill Clinton. The way it's being portrayed is "Newt Gingrich was having an affair at the very same time he was investigating Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky."
The correct perspective of the story is: "Newt Gingrich was having an affair at the very same time he was investigating weather or not Bill Clinton had committed perjury and obstructed justice."
Obama pays 17-year-old parking tickets
3/8/2007
...Two weeks before the
...Obama paid
Obama also paid a $73 auto excise tax he owed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/us_nm/usa_obama_fines_dc
Yeah, we need someone who won’t obey the laws to enforce them…
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
posted by David Bennett | 12:53 PM
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