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News Briefs 29-07-2008

By Jameskeon

Myth and reality….

  • Myth as metaphor.
  • The top ten myths in FBI history.
  • Health facts you only thought you knew.
  • Will Cassini turn saturn into a second sun.
  • UFOs, the unacceptable reality.
  • Bizarre frog tunes ears to specific frequencies.
  • Mirrors dont lie, or do they?
  • Unexpected key with flowering plants’ diversity.
  • NASA is out of line with global warming.
  • More mystery space machines.
  • Electrons that behave like light.
  • New Age ideas and mass murder go hand in hand.
  • Branson unveils space tourism jet.
  • The timbuktu manuscripts.
  • Flint hints at 200000 year old inhabitants of ireland.
  • Do economists need brains?
  • Out of space or out of mind?

Thanks Greg

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15 Comments

    1. LOL
      [Comment taken from the oriinal article:]

      [quote]I’m sorry I’m so late getting into the conversation… I was busy putting all my severed heads into my 100% natural cotton grocery bags that say “save the earth, kill more people.”
      What a load of back wash that article was.

      Raven, Highlands Ranch, USA[/quote]

      This really cracked me up. Beware of those homeopathic, vegan hippies: they are potential Hitlers! 😉

      The only point in which I agree with this so-called author is that ANY ideology —religion, philosophy, you name it—can be distorted and manipulated to serve the megalomanistic purposes of a few idiots.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

      1. The author of the steaming pile
        A friend emailed me the low-down on the author of this Times op/ed:

        “The idiot that wrote the piece normally writes a music critic column for the very right-wing Daily Telegraph, where gays and Moslems are automatically evil by not being Christain enough and global warming science is regularly talked down. Oh…and for the Catholic Herald. Now if he wants to say that pedophilia and Catholicism go hand in hand too…”

        He writes for the Catholic Herald too? He probably tried to work something about the evils of Harry Potter into this op/ed, but couldn’t resolve the little problem of it being Voldy and his minions who were doing the mass murdering, rather than Harry and friends.

  3. NASA is out of line…? Nope.
    Trying to be heard over the media marketing feeding frenzy countering the “accepted fact” of CO2 rise = global warming is not easy.

    Question: At a time where economies are under treat just how much can you spend on all the new “green” things?

    Answer: Not as much if you don’t scare the hell out of everyone first! (LOL)

    We were so concerned about mercury in batteries we banned all batteries using mercury… done! (Warm feeling inside)

    Well the new “green” Compact fluorescent lamps to replace the incandescent lamps (from hell) contain mercury (!!) …but wait, oh yeah, we will dispose of them “properly”…just like we did with the batteries containing mercury. (LOL)

    Funny how people just pick and choose their conspiracy theories – nope, no conspiracy if I just so happen to agree with the notion.

    Dangerous Warming Unlikely, MIT Climatologist Says
    Global warming debate is more politics than science, according to climate expert
    Written By: Dr. Richard Lindzen
    Published In: Environment & Climate News
    Publication Date: November 1, 2004
    Publisher: The Heartland Institute

    http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=15893

    And another reference to Dr Lindzen
    http://tinyurl.com/3axrok

    Cheers

    (We are all so dumb!)

    1. no conspiracy?
      >>…nope, no conspiracy if I just so happen to agree with the notion.

      That’s quite apparent. The Heartland Institute has received $676,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

      >>…the new “green” Compact fluorescent lamps to replace the incandescent lamps (from hell) contain mercury (!!) …but wait, oh yeah, we will dispose of them “properly”…just like we did with the batteries containing mercury.

      At the very least, the packaging for CFLs should come with a warning that they require special disposal due to the mercury content, and should also include a toll-free phone number to find out where to dispose of them locally. Better yet, CFLs should come with pre-paid packaging to send them back to the manufacturer when they burn out, to ensure that the mercury is recycled properly.

      1. repeating
        Ok, I am getting tired of this too, but …

        I keep looking for the source code of the simulation programs that show that the CO2 content is the major reason for global warming. And more importantly, that reducing the increased CO2 content will fix things.

        That computer simulation is the only evidence that reducing the CO2 out put will help.

        But we are not allowed to see this evidence.

        Or are we? If it is available, someone tell me where it is.

        I am looking for direct evidence, and so far I am not allowed to see it. The basic stuff. I can understand the programs if I am allowed to read them.

        But I am not allowed.

        This stinks.
        —-
        The large print giveth,
        The small print taketh away.

      2. It’s on both sides and we are the chumps…
        Hmmm so…how much does everyone make from selling us all things “green”…add a few more zeros to the $676.5K…a lot more. Punchline: A lot of the stuff is not even green.

        …the packaging for CFLs should come with a warning that they require special disposal due to the mercury content…

        At the very least…(!?)

        Why didn’t that work with batteries?

        Because people follow the path of least resistance that’s why.

        Yep a few years from now we will be changing our CFLs (from hell) to “green” LED lamps.

        Then later we will be told that the semiconductor manufacture of LED lamps is one of the most polluting industries known using toluene, cadmium, arsenic, benzene, and trichloroethylene to name just a few as well as the lead components and interconnects.(so thank god the’re made in China…huh?) We will have come about full circle and be urged to buy green incandescent light bulbs…

        Isn’t big business marketing fun? … and arent we dumb?)

        Cheers

        1. lights
          I was being a good boy, and I replaced all my incandescent lights with the new-fangled neon twisty things. One light at a time, when the old ones burned out.

          I did that because I am lazy – the ond ones burned out every few weeks, perhaps because the earth shakes here. On account of heavy trucks going by, supporting international trade to the tune of $100 million a day. So you get these vibrations, and the little filaments break.

          The green people tell me that I will save money over the next 6 years or so. I won’t, because (a) won’t live here for 5 or 6 years, and (b) the price of electricity is not stable.

          I have a reasonably nice car, that gets reasonably nice fuel consumption. What I do to save the world is this – I don’t drive very much. My 300 horsepower gasoline car is more environmentally friendly when parked, compared to an electric car that is driven 50 kilometers every day. Zero emissions from my parked car. It is more environmentally friendly than taking the bus. I walk. Empty buses are among the worst polluters.

          Ok, so I am ranting. Perhaps people can forgive me, or perhaps not.

          But while am at it, consider the CO2 production. This could well lead to a tax on breathing. And because methane is a much more significant contributor towards warming, there should be an extra tax on eating beans.

          I remember a silly cartoon, the one with the diminutive king. He was asked what the optimal population size should be – he said about 4 foot 3.

          Oh well sorry folks. Just ranting. Forgive me if you can.

          —-
          The large print giveth,
          The small print taketh away.

          1. Polución Pedorra!
            [quote]But while am at it, consider the CO2 production. This could well lead to a tax on breathing. And because methane is a much more significant contributor towards warming, there should be an extra tax on eating beans.[/quote]

            Now you know why Mexico refused to sign any agreement during the recent G8 summit! LOL :0)

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          2. You are not supposed to question anything….
            “The green people tell me that I will save money over the next 6 years or so”

            …in replacing satan’s bulb with CFLs.

            That’s the hook if the “green” idea needed help. But it is also incorrect IF you do the other “green” thing and turn off the lights when you leave the room. The life of CFLs like all fluorescent lamps (except neon) are greatly affected by on/off cycles – the more on/off cycles the shorter the life…by a significant amount!! Here is a experiment for you all to do… get a Xmas light flasher and connect a CFL and Lucifer’s Lamp to it and let it run… WOW, what happened to the “zillion” hours the CFL is supposed to have? (Remember don’t just toss it into the bin…)

            Further on the correct” disposal of CFLs, China has no program what so ever for that…and they are EVERYWHERE! Soon we can see the temperature by looking at the mercury rising and falling in the ground. Hmmm…maybe if we just tell the Chinese to dispose of them correctly… 😉

            You are correct if you just don’t drive you’re 300hp car it will save the environment – but who will? What about the Chinese? They are buying cars like they are on sale…

            Ah, the greenhouse effect computer sims… A little tweak here and there…and don’t forget the solar sunspot cycle and…OOPS new Ice Age! Damn clouds!

            What ever happened to the Ozone layer – the Ozone hole? Did we just forget about that or is it filed under “Mission Accomplished”? Did you know that Ozone is a green house gas? So…why is the ice in Antarctic melting…? Ok, its not that easy but I couldn’t help myself with all the BS that is in the air around about global warming.

            Cheers

          3. And they’ll be sorry
            [quote]What about the Chinese? They are buying cars like they are on sale…[/quote]

            And they’ll be sorry for it. If anything, they are about to lose a lot of face in front of the whole world next week. It’s 9 days to the Olympic’s opening ceremony and the pollution levels in Beijing are still too high. Unless they get their whole population to blow the air—or jump at the same time to tilt the axis of the Earth—I don’t believe they’ll be able to solve that little PR problem on time.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          4. Not really…no PR problem from their point of view
            The average Chinese guy on the street thinks the west is being completely unreasonable with the complaints of air pollution. They think “what’s the fuss? Will it kill you for a couple of days? Pollution is normal for cities…” et al

            Chinese really think that this is all a concerted western propaganda campaign and they are correct and nothing is bad.

            Here is something interesting…

            The 1936 Berlin Olympics:

            Hitler desired to clean up Berlin, the German Ministry of Interior authorised the chief of Berlin Police to arrest all Romani people (gypsies) and keep them in a special camp

            The 2008 Beijing Olympics:

            All Chinese beggars, socially unfortunate people and handicapped people are banned from Beijing and other tourist attractions before and after the Olympics. Only hand picked Chinese citizens “of good character” are allowed to be seen cheering in any “public” Olympic event in China – torch relay et al.

            WTF…?!

            There is so much more just like that!

            You may not have heard this yet but Chinese bottled water has been rejected by the IOC as it has been found to have been processed with chemicals know to be carcinogenic. Well its cheaper to make it that way for one…

            Cheers

          5. Dehydrated water
            [quote=tihz_ho]You may not have heard this yet but Chinese bottled water has been rejected by the IOC as it has been found to have been processed with chemicals know to be carcinogenic. Well its cheaper to make it that way for one…[/quote]

            And here I was thinking dipping your bottle in the river was the cheapest way…
            ;P

            Kind regards,
            Greg
            ——————————————-
            You monkeys only think you’re running things

          6. Maybe for Chinese but not for me… 😉
            In Suqian, where I must go a few times a month, I walk pass a canal that receives untreated chemical factory discharge – and it stinks too. I often see people fishing in this canal only after a heavy rain which moves some small fish come from a polluted river into the canal. They have to be quick as I am told as the fish quickly die in the canal.

            Google Earth

            33°56’9.29″N

            118°15’51.79″E

            When I say the fish are not safe to eat they are surprised and say they are only in the water a short time and I should not believe everything I am told in the west. (!)

            Cheers

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