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GLOBAL WARMING:

Russia, Canada and Japan reject Kyoto. Good for those people.

"May snow depths are deeper than anything we have seen in the last 45 years"


Warmer temperatures prompt tree growth, leading to more CO2 being sequestered in trees. I'm sure this is true for all plants. CO2 is plant food. The more there is in the atmosphere, the more plants grow, and therefore the more CO2 they both store and break down into oxygen. It's another negative feedback mechanism.


"Study finds local temperature influences belief in global warming" Duh. This stuff is cracking me up. If most people don't see a change in temperature, year after year, then the globe isn't warming.

POLICE STATE:

A bunch of people arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial. All of these cops should be arrested for abrogation of rights under color of law and kidnapping. From a previous court case on dancing at the memorial:

"The federal lawyers wrote ““The Memorial is akin to a temple or a shrine (both in terms of its purpose and its physical characteristics), not a place of public expression.” They wrote “The Memorial is, has long been, and is intended to be a place of calm, tranquillity, and reverence—a place where visitors can go to celebrate and honor Jefferson and enjoy and contemplate the Memorial itself without the distraction of public demonstrations and other expressive activities.”"

It's nice to see government admit it considers itself a religion. It loves to play God.

WAR:

NATO air strike kills two women and twelve children.

"My house was bombarded in the middle of the night and my children were killed. The Taliban were far away from my home, why was my house bombed?"

More innocents killed. More Muslims who want to kill us in retaliation.

POLITICS:

Retired three term senator hired by Goldman Sachs so he can personally make more money in his new role within the ruling class. The ruling class isn't homogeneous, it's made up of individuals and it has factions, but you can't tell where the government ends and the corporations begin.

LOCAL:

Officers involved in pursuit that killed a sheriff's deputy had been previously reprimanded for pursuits.

"Lacon and Keene chased after the driver would not pull over. The chase, which at times exceeded more then 100 mph through Franklin, Springboro, Clearcreek, Wayne and Turtlecreek townships, ended tragically as Dulle was struck and killed after being hit by the Cadillac on U.S. 42 near Lebanon,"

That's a lot of people to endanger. What's worse...

"Whiteman said from preliminary indications, the pursuit was within the department’s guidelines. Cpt. Ross Coulton said the internal investigation of the chase is still ongoing and should be completed in the next couple of weeks."

Don't you love it when government agencies investigate themselves or even each other? As if the outcome is no pre-ordained? You would think it would be against guidelines to endanger so many people because it greatly increases the odds of injuring or killing somebody, but no. Police departments laugh at the motto "to protect and serve." Being a cop is about aggression - government aggression against the people and the personal aggression that encourages and rewards - and it often kills.

MISC:

It cracks me up when people are surprised to find out that the way our ancestors did things for hundreds of thousands of years is superior to the way modern people do them.

"“This information is a wake-up call,” says Susan Newman, a social psychologist, author, and parenting expert. “It may get mothers and fathers who are on a treadmill to stop and pay really close attention to their children and think, ‘Hey, putting my child on my lap or cuddling him is more important than looking at my BlackBerry or answering my email.’"

Shocker.