Archive for September 3rd, 2009

Maybe We Should Have Just Stayed More Focused On Afghanistan in the First Place…

3rd September 2009 by admin 5 Comments

…You know, back in the earlier part of the decade,  when military experts like former presidential candidate John McCain (who ran on the platform of being an unquestionable military expert, at least according to his campaign and the national media “watchdogs”) were calling Afghanistan a “remarkable success” and saying “we don’t read about anymore, because it’s succeeded,” and “the [...]

Well, at Least He Conceded Something to Reality

3rd September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Randy Kriehl, Tulsa World Staff Writer:
[Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe] “said Barack Obama is disarming the military, is destroying everything good about America and is determined to turn foreign terrorists loose on U.S. soil.”  One is subjective, the other two are patently false. 
Why Democrats don’t turn such disingenuous, inflammatory,  incendiary, and destructive statements such as this, by [...]

Nation’s Third Largest Utility Leaves Clean Coal Alliance Due to Lack of Support for Climate Change Legislation

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

Duke Energy may be walking a fine line.  But it says something when a company that relies heavily upon coal in order to create electric power, decides the white washing “clean coal coalition” to which it previously belonged, does not sufficiently support climate change.

An Ocean More Acidic

3rd September 2009 by admin 29 Comments

Some of the excess net carbon, in the form of Carbon Dioxide, assimilated into the atmosphere as a result of certain activities like deforestation, fossil fuel burning, and various agricultural practices (including the increasingly relevant prevalence of bovine exhalation and burping — google it) is being absorbed into the ocean:
CO2 + H2O <>H2CO3<>
HCO3- + H(+) <>CO3(2-) + [...]

An Insightful Question from CNBC’s Anchor

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

The question asked to 44 year old New York Congressional Representative Anthony Weiner, by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, was this:
“If Medicare is so great, why are you not on it?”
Yeah, really Anthony.