A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.
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Ah hah! Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming...
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 08:34 PM EDT
A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. More>>>
Starbucks: A Study in Liberal Failure
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 08:28 PM EDT
This is what happens when you aggressively piss off half your customers. Starbucks has announced it's closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States. Tell me how you can have an unprofitable store, when you sell an addictive, highly-fashionable product for 10 times what it costs you to make (obscene profits anyone)? You can run it like a liberal, over-compensating employees for a job any old chump (or chimp) could do. You could alienate your customers by advocating and sponsoring wacky fringe causes. More>>>
Ground Zero debacle demands return of Twin Towers
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 08:26 PM EDT
In olden days, Americans needed just 13 and a half months to erect the Empire State Building, four and a half years to build Hoover Dam, and six years, four months to install the Transcontinental Railroad. And yet this Independence Day, six years, nine months, and three weeks have elapsed since September 11, and Ground Zero remains an 80-foot-deep international embarrassment for the United States. More>>>
Is Britain Doomed? Are we in the twilight of Anglo-Saxon Civilization?
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 07:50 PM EDT
Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims. Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance. Sad. Two different legal systems within one country is not going to work; what happens when Muslim men are routinely allowed to beat them women for failing to submit? Insane. More>>>
Mainstream Media Ignores Major Progress In Iraq
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 06:58 PM EDT
You may have thought it was big news Tuesday when the administration reported to Congress that Iraq has made satisfactory progress on 15 of 18 political benchmarks set by the U.S...war critics have repeatedly cited the lack of political progress in arguing against the troop surge. But the Media Research Center says there was not a word about the report on the "CBS Evening News," "NBC Nightly News" or ABC's "World News Tonight." More>>>
Air Force Demonstrates 'Ghost Imaging'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 06:09 PM EDT
Air Force funded researchers say they've made a breakthrough in a process called "ghost imaging" that could someday enable satellites to take pictures through clouds. More>>>
Popular Mechanics: Chevy Fuel Cell Car Better Than Prius
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:24 PM EDT
For his second dispatch in an exclusive test-drive diary, PM’s Citizen Fuel Cell feels some serious giddyup from his new hydrogren-powered electric motor. Comparing GM's prototype Chevy Equinox with his parents' Prius and a temporarily parked Jeep Grand Cherokee, his only complaint from initial driving impressions is some noisy idling (with downloadable audio). More>>>
Primary Obama: "Will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq." General Election Obama:"Well, not so fast..."
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 05:16 PM EDT
Heading into the holiday weekend, Obama and his advisers repudiated that pledge, saying he is reevaluating his plan and will incorporate advice from commanders on the ground when he visits Iraq later this month. A top Obama adviser said he is not “wedded” to a specific timeline, and Obama said Thursday he plans to “refine” his plan. More>>>
Obama, Like Dodd and Conrad, Got Cheap Home Loan
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 03:27 PM EDT
Presidential nominee Barack Obama joins the list of several other high-profile Democratic Party members who received highly favorable home loans. Obama, D-Ill., reportedly purchased a $1.65 million mansion in Chicago through a “super, super jumbo” loan he received from Northern Trust Bank in Illinois, the Washington Post reports. More>>>
Because Advertising, like the Main Stream Media, Lies to You
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 03:25 PM EDT
Google throws users to wolves as Viacom gets OK to access info about every visitor
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 02:22 PM EDT
Ever check out YouTube? Have a user name and password for it? Then Viacom's going to find out all about what you like to watch. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the online video-sharing Web site, owned by Google, has to turn over all its user logs to Viacom, the mega-corporation that owns MTV, Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central and VH1, among others. More>>>
NRO: The GOOD Satanists
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 11:08 AM EDT
Maybe there is something to it. It may, in fact, go some way towards explaining the workings of the Democratic Party. Check out this story... more »
Casual sex left me feeling worthless: How a one-night stand left one woman emotionally destroyed
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:41 AM EDT
FTA: At the party where they'd met, the prospect of a no-strings, one-night stand with a handsome young man had felt sexy, slightly dangerous, liberating and a salve to the ego following the end of a four-year relationship. After all, in this day and age, if men can do it, why can't women? Only when Aisling woke up, she didn't feel liberated. As her conquest departed with barely a backward glance, she felt used and cheated, even though she'd been under no illusion that it might lead to anything more. Men and women are hardwired differently and after 40 years of 'sexual liberation' its nice to see some people starting to realize that fact. More>>>
Global Warming? Charlotte temperature hits 123-year low
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:29 AM EDT
This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region -- cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century.
The temperature at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 56 at about 5:30 a.m., breaking the July 2 record of 58, set in 1885. The normal low for this time of year is 70. More>>>
MUTANT: Monster crab with claws the size of a man's hand captured off the British coast
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:27 AM EDT
It lurked in the wreck of an old battleship 160ft below the surface – a true monster of the deep. Diver Paul Worsley could hardly believe the size of the giant crab he found in Lyme Bay, off the Dorset coast. Careful to avoid its fearsome claws, he managed to get it into a bag and raise it to the surface. More>>>
McCain denies roughing up Sandinista
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:23 AM EDT
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, shakes hands with sea port workers in Cartagena, Colombia, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. John McCain denied a Republican colleague's claim that he roughed up an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on a diplomatic mission in 1987, saying the allegation was "simply not true." Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., told a Mississippi newspaper that he saw McCain, during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., grab an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lift him out of his chair. More>>>
Get Psyched For The Most Drug-Taking, Sex-Having Harry Potter Yet
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:09 AM EDT
Daniel Radcliffe has got to be sick of playing Harry Potter already because he's starting to talk all kinds of crazy talk about the upcoming 6th installment (feels more like the 100th) of the series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, to make it sound more exciting. In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Radcliffe went so far as to say, "There's a fair amount of sexual energy and drug parallels. We have a couple of Trainspotting moments." Sounds like they're working very hard at ruining old Harry. Well, so much for family entertainment. More>>>
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Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 10:01 AM EDT
Voyager Spacecraft Reveals Solar System Edge
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 02:59 AM EDT
Artist's rendering depicts the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere - a magnetic 'bubble' around the Solar System that is created by the solar wind. Scientists observed the magnetic bubble is not spherical, but pressed inward in the southern hemisphere. More>>>
How deep does Satanism run in the Democrat Party?
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 01:18 AM EDT
Another Democrat chief arrested in Satanic Torture case The North Carolina case of an alleged satanic torture involving a Democratic Party official and her husband has now expanded to include a third suspect, an even higher-ranking Democrat. more »
WSJ: Barack Obama is campaigning for Bush's Third Term???
by
Riley Jones
on Thu 03 Jul 2008 01:09 AM EDT
We're beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of "George Bush's third term." Maybe he's worried that someone will notice that he's the candidate who's running for it. Most Presidential candidates adapt their message after they win their party nomination, but Mr. Obama isn't merely "running to the center." He's fleeing from many of his primary positions so markedly and so rapidly that he's embracing a sizable chunk of President Bush's policy. Who would have thought that a Democrat would rehabilitate the much-maligned Bush agenda? More>>> |
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