23 April, 2007

Sheryl Crow's touring requirements

When it comes to Sheryl Crow's touring requirements...when the gorebal warming warrior hits the road, her touring entourage (and equipment) travels in three tractor trailers, four buses, and six cars. Now that's a carbon footprint!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/scrow/scrow1.html

Sheryl Crow's Solutions to Gorebal Warming: Use 1 square of toilet paper only per visit

April 23, 2007

Americans may be using less toilet paper, if Sheryl Crow has her way.

The singer, who is crossing the country on a biodiesel bus with producer Laurie David, proposes limiting toilet paper use as one solution to gorebal warming, according to a Washington Post report.

"I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to gorebal warming," she wrote April 19 on the Biodiesel Bus blog, according to a report by the Washington Post. "Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating."

Her toilet paper manifesto would limit how many squares of toilet paper Americans use in a sitting.

"Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required," she wrote. (I don’t think I want to shake hands with her)

Crow also floated the idea of a removable "dining sleeve" that could replace the use of paper napkins. (what the heck is a dining sleeve??)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267783,00.html

Tell Al Gorebal-warming I will be buying my “toilet paper offset credits” so I can continue to wipe until I’m done.

Dow gains in 15 of last 16 sessions

Winning streak is among longest in index's history

— In its quest to scale 13,000, the streaking Dow Jones industrial average has posted gains in 15 of the last 16 sessions, a feat accomplished only three times and last achieved 15 years ago.

There has been only one longer winning stretch interrupted by a single down day: a 20 out of 21 bull run that ended on Aug. 2, 1927, Dow Jones Indexes says.

This comes less than eight weeks after stocks seemed on the verge of a meltdown. The Dow plunged 416 points Feb. 27 in response to an 8.8% stock decline in China that fanned fears of global financial contagion.

Janna Sampson, portfolio manager at OakBrook Investments, credits the ability of U.S. companies to top first-quarter profit forecasts as a prime reason for the rally. It suggests the economy, hobbled by a housing slump, is not in as bad of shape as people think....

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070423/1b_dowstreak23.art.htm

From a Marine ticked off at Senator Reid

http://patdollard.com/2007/04/23/marine-corporal-from-a-bunker-in-ramadi-i-got-a-message-for-that-douche-harry-reid/

'HIV chasing' a trend in gay community
April 21, 2007 - A Melbourne man who fantasised (sic) about contracting HIV before actually being infected by the virus has spoken of a gay subculture in which infection is seen as "desirable".

The 20-year-old man, who does not want to be named, told Fairfax newspapers both complacency about the virus and the wish to have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man he was in love with led him to become infected...

...The young professional is the first to speak out about "bug chasing", a behaviour in the gay community in which men seek to become infected with HIV.

The phenomenon was highlighted at the recent committal hearing for Melbourne man Michael Neal.

Mr Neal was accused of deliberately spreading the virus.

A HIV-positive man said in court that "bug chasing" was "a big thing out there" and that he had been pursued on the internet by a man wanting the bug...

...The HIV-positive man said some men going to group-sex parties with HIV-positive men might want to "join the club" and have unprotected sex more freely...
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/HIV-chasing-a-trend-in-gay-community/2007/04/21/1176697124607.html

Newsom pledges to make SF a sanctuary for illegal immigrants
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Mayor Gavin Newsom vowed Sunday to maintain San Francisco as a sanctuary for immigrants and do everything he can to discourage federal authorities from conducting immigration raids.

The mayor cannot stop federal authorities from making arrests, Newsom told about 300 mostly Latino members of St. Peter's Church and other religious groups supporting immigrants. But no San Francisco employee will help with immigration enforcement.

"I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it."

The Board of Supervisors first declared San Francisco a "sanctuary city" in 1989. The designation, which many U.S. cities across the country took on during the 1980s, has no legal meaning...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/22/BAGADPDGNF18.DTL

Ethanol is a waste of energy

Denver Post 23 apr 07

Despite mounting evidence that ethanol is about as useful as a flux capacitor, Gov. Bill Ritter is ensuring that Colorado will become dependent on this "alternative" energy.

No need for debate. No need to heed the market. No need to explore viability or consequences.

Executive orders will do the trick.

It seems elected officials need only insert dreamy words like "green" or "renewable" into a sentence and the electorate swoons.

A new study by Mark Jacobson, a Stanford University atmospheric scientist, will, hopefully, get us thinking, not only about the feasibility of ethanol but the health consequences.

"Ethanol is being promoted as a clean and renewable fuel that will reduce global warming and air pollution," wrote Jacobson, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. "But our results show that a high blend of ethanol poses an equal or greater risk to public health than gasoline, which already causes significant health damage"

more at http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_5728436

Tidal Turbines Help Light Up Manhattan

Technology Review (MIT) April 23, 2007

Turbines are being submerged in the East River to generate electricity from rapid tidal currents.

Working from barges and tugboats off New York City's Roosevelt Island, engineers are battling northeasters and this month's heavy spring tides to install the first major tidal-power project in the United States. The project involves a set of six submerged turbines that are designed to capture energy from the East River's tidal currents. The three-bladed turbines, which are five meters in diameter and resemble wind turbines, are made by Verdant Power of Arlington, VA.

Thanks to lessons learned by wind turbine designers, tidal power is already economically competitive, producing electricity at prices similar to wind power, according to feasibility studies by the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry R&D consortium. And it offers a big advantage over wind and other renewables: a precisely predictable source of energy. As a result, developers in the United States have laid claim to the best sites up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In the past four years the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC, has issued preliminary permits for tidal installations at 25 sites, and it is considering another 31 applications.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18567/

I'm sure the Greenies will be howling when they get wind of this that this will cause elevation of the water temperature, massive die-off of plankton, chopped up fish or some other nonsense.

How a British jihadi saw the light

"Many Muslims enjoyed a better lifestyle in non-Muslim Britain than they did in Muslim Saudi Arabia...Racism was an integral part of Saudi society. My students often used the word “nigger” to describe black people. Even dark-skinned Arabs were considered inferior to their lighter-skinned cousins. I was living in the world’s most avowedly Muslim country, yet I found it anything but. I was appalled by the imposition of Wahhabism in the public realm, something I had implicitly sought as an Islamist."

(good article describes the plight of moderate Muslims at the hand of other Muslims and not the westerners...)

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article1685726.ece

Student Government Asks Reporters to Leave by Monday
Blacksburg, VA - Sunday April 22, 200

You've seen the news coverage from Blacksburg, complete with prominent network anchors reporting from the scene.

And now, the student government at Virginia Tech is asking for all of that to end. It's calling on hundreds of reporters to leave campus by Monday morning, when students are supposed to return toclasses...
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0407/416648.html

The Wall Street Journal explains why the Virginia Tech killer wasn't committed.

Bedlam Revisited

Why the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed.

BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN

Monday, April 23, 2007

I was in graduate school, studying clinical psychology when they began shutting down the asylums. The place was California, the time was the early 1970s, and "they" were an unprecedented confederation of progressives, libertarians and fiscal conservatives...

He makes some good points, complete article at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009977

More Cant And Cowardice From NBC
Thursday, April 19, 2007

NBC ("Not Bothered by Conscience" one e-mailer opines) released this statement:

NBC News issued the following statement Thursday in regard to the materials it received from the gunman in the Virginia Tech shootings:
read at: http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/16395423-3975-48c6-9965-c0ce7e39187d

Are gun-free nations or "zones" safer?
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Gun-free nations are safer -- at least for folks like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Castro, Pol Pot and Saddam, all of whom disarmed their detractors before slaughtering them by the tens of millions.

History records the consequences of disarming people, both in terms of protection, in their person and property, from tyrannical governments and from criminals. Regarding the latter, "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

Thomas Jefferson understood that maxim. In his Commonplace Book, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On Crimes and Punishment: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

In 2002, at the Appalachian School of Law just up the road from Virginia Tech, a Nigerian student, who had flunked out, returned to campus, murdered three people and wounded three others. Fortunately, his killing spree was interrupted by two students who had retrieved handguns from their vehicles and held the murderer at gunpoint until police arrived.

In 1997, an assistant principal in Pearl, Mississippi, retrieved a handgun from his car and apprehended a murderer. A few days later, a copycat assault in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, ended after a nearby merchant wielding a shotgun forced the attacker to surrender. Off campus, it is estimated conservatively that gun owners use their weapons defensively more than 1.3 million times each year... Read rest of article at:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkMAlexander/2007/04/22/are_gun-free_nations_or_zones_safer

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MarkMAlexander/2007/04/22/are_gun-free_nations_or_zones_safer

Worker fired after posting picture of Jesus
4/21/2007

A call center employee says he has been dismissed from his job for posting an artist's rendition of the crucifixion during Easter week, even though other employees were allowed to post pictures and art as they chose in their cubicles.

Chris Romansky, a former employee of Barclays, told WND he was told there had been a complaint about the picture he put up to remind himself of Christ's sacrifice on the cross, a foundational belief in Christianity...

...Then during the Easter season, he said, "I hung a picture of the crucifixion, actually it was before Easter. It was of the crucifixion of Jesus and it showed the Resurrection and it said 'Happy Easter.'"

"I came in on the following Tuesday, and it was face down on my desk, so I put it back up," he said. Then a team manager came and told him there had been a complaint that it was "offensive" and he had to take it back down...

...The manager called him into her office. "She told me people were offended, and she told me anything with Jesus and God can't be up," Romansky told WND...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55313

Was Cho taught to hate?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/04/was_cho_taught_to_hate.html

This guy took some weird courses in college...
VATech gunman eBayer
[AMong oththings Seung-Hui Cho sold books titled] "Men, Women, and Chainsaws" by Carol J. Clover, a book that explores gender in the modern horror film; the publisher's note reads: "Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism?"

Others include "The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre," by H.P. Lovecraft; and "The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense" by Joyce Carol Oates — a book in which the publisher writes: "In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves."

Books by those three authors were taught in his Contemporary Horror class, meaning he could have been merely selling the used books at the end of the semester....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070421/ap_on_re_us/virginia_tech_shooting

Losing the War in Congress, Not in Iraq

Dr. Walid Phares

April 23, 2007

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/w_phares/04232007.htm

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http://www.freewill-predestination.com