|
|||
|
Login
This Month
Month Archive
|
Monday, December 15
A Second Mortgage Disaster On The Horizon?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 08:52 PM EST
When it comes to bailouts of American business, Barney Frank and the Congress may be just getting started. Nearly two trillion tax dollars have been shoveled into the hole that Wall Street dug and people wonder where the bottom is. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, it turns out the abyss is deeper than most people think because there is a second mortgage shock heading for the economy More>>>
Throw Another Log On The Fire...
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 06:29 PM EST
The earth resolutely refuses to get warmer: * Global thermometers stubbornly refused to rise after 1998, and have plummeted in the past two years by more than 0.5 degree C. The world is now colder than in 1940, when the Post-WWII Industrial Revolution started spewing lots of man-made CO 2 in the first place. * On October 29, the U.S. beat or tied 115 low-temperature records for the date. Alaska, which was unusually warm last year, recorded 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit that night--beating the previous low by 4 degrees F. * London had snow in October for the first time in more than 70 years. The 2007-08 temperature drop wasn't predicted by the global climate models, but it had been predicted by the sunspots since 2000. Both the absent sunspots and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation now predict a 25-30-year global cooling. More>>>
Popular Science: Top 100 Innovations of 2008
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 04:12 PM EST
For decades, we've fantasized about watching paper-thin TVs, soaring hundreds of feet with personal jetpacks, riding in cars that drive themselves, and re-growing organs. The 21st annual Best of What's New celebrates all of those dreams coming true. Now we've collected them all into one single slideshow. Launch it here to learn about these achievements and 96 other breakthroughs that, whether long awaited or completely unexpected, are equally amazing. (H/T: Steve) More>>>
Oligarchs turns down another appeal that claims Obama ineligible to be president
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 02:56 PM EST
The Supreme Court has turned down another challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president because of his citizenship. The appeal by Cort Wrotnowski of Greenwich, Conn., was denied Monday without comment. Wrotnowski argued that Obama was a British subject at birth and therefore cannot meet the requirement for becoming president. He wanted the high court to halt presidential electors from meeting to formally elect Obama as president. Echoing an appeal that was rejected by justices last week, Wrotnowski said that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American, his Kenyan father was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen." More>>>
Global Warming Nutters: "Cooling Trend Further Evidence How Fast Globe Is Warming"
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 02:33 PM EST
"The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. "We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way." Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming More>>>
Who Really Runs Washington And Why Americans Lose on Every Issue
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 01:30 AM EST
After decades of leftist efforts to convert America’s representative republic into a pure democracy, where 51% can take away the rights of the other 49% for the greater common good, we find our nation on the verge of political and economic collapse. It was the dream of men like Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, not Thomas Jefferson or John Adams, that one day the proletariat would control the nation’s productivity in the United States, replacing evil capitalism with secular socialism and individual rights with a greater good of communal interests. In 2008, the left gained full control of all three branches of the federal government and America may never again live in freedom. This column takes a look at how it happened and why average red-blooded Americans are no match for the collective power of the proletariat movement. More>>>
Was Palin's Church Fire-bombed?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Dec 2008 12:25 AM EST
Via Anchorage Daily News:Fire officials are investigating a suspicious blaze at one of the biggest churches in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The pastor is estimating damage at more than $1 million. No one was injured in the fire at the Wasilla Bible Church, which started late Friday. About a half dozen church members were in the building doing crafts when the fire began but were able to get out safely after the building’s fire alarm sounded, pastor Larry Kroon said. More>>> |
Search
Recent Entries
Recent Comments
Other Good Spots
|
|
|
|||
