Or they died as man trapped and ate them.

If you want free-range farm eggs, find an egg farmer and buy from the source. Otherwise, you’re trusting advertising.

Hannity is a kook. But ya gotta keep your eye on the kooks.

But the question is can you teach about a culture or country where religion plays a major play in that society without also teaching about that religion?

LOL side note: Hannity fired a shot to start off what has become the annual “Christmas is under assault”. There was a different tact, this time it is to block Santa Claus! A principal of a elementary school cancel a field trip to view “miracle of forty second street”. Because the movie focuses too much on Santa Claus and some parents complained.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/16981

Oh..wait..they are extinct. They died during a NON man made end of an ice age. Very common climatic changes that have been occurring for millions of years.

Of course, since the darling Al Gore has made a movie about it, it is now a political issue, and all the blame for this supposed man made global warming is 100% fault of Republicans.

It’s your problem.

Squander 100 million dollars?

It’s the BANK’s problem.

But never fear–the idiots who make the decisions never forget to make the decision to pay themselves an obscene salary . . .

Do some research. Global warming is happening faster than scientists expected. The consequences (rising sea levels, loss of drinking water, etc) are future realities, not “doomsday claims”.

Deltoid has a PDF version of the new AR4 report with better quality graphics than the IPCC’s PDF.

‘IPCC AR4 Synthesis report released’http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/11/ipcc_ar4_synthesis_report_rele.php

Also, the IPCC’s new report does not include the most recent data re climate changes and economic trends. Read the “Update” at above link.

Yeah? So what? They earned it.

Creative pay packages for top officials of subprime mortgage company

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

Sunday, November 18, 2007
NEW YORK: Things aren’t going very swimmingly for investors in NovaStar Financial, a subprime mortgage originator in Kansas City, Missouri. Its stock plummeted last week on news that the company lost $64.05 a share in the third quarter, that it had canceled its preferred stock dividend and that it was no longer able to reap the tax advantages of a real estate investment trust.

The stock ended the week at $1.72, down from $40 in June.

Equally troubled are many holders of NovaStar mortgages. As of Sept. 30, some 6 percent of the company’s loans held in its own portfolio were at least 30 days delinquent. And 5 percent were in foreclosure.

Happily, though, there is one NovaStar constituency that is doing just fine – the top executives and co-founders. Over the years, they have pocketed millions in compensation, based largely upon loans that probably should never have been made.

. . . .

Then there was the NovaStar branch office system that was too busy generating loans to bother applying for the pesky licenses that some states required. Tiresome regulators – didn’t they know that NovaStar’s entrepreneurs had a company to run?

Alas, the NovaStar party ended this year, for its shareholders, anyhow. Its executives are somewhat better off.

Consider last year’s pay for NovaStar’s creators, Scott Hartman, the chief executive, and W. Lance Anderson, the president. Both earned $1.7 million in salary, bonus, stock grants and other compensation in 2006. This followed $1.6 million that each earned in 2005 and $1.7 million each took home in 2004.

Wait, there’s more. Check out what awaits Hartman and Anderson in their deferred-compensation accounts. As of the 2007 proxy, Hartman’s deferred compensation totaled $9.9 million, while Anderson’s came in at $5.8 million.

And the numbers grow. In 2006 alone, Hartman’s deferred-compensation account generated $1.4 million – more than he earned in salary and bonus combined. Anderson’s account earned $711,386 last year. Sweet.

But NovaStar, known for creativity in its lending practices, also came up with a novel element of executive pay: cash dividends were accrued and paid to top executives on their stock option grants.

Got that? Even though the executives did not yet own the underlying shares, they received cash dividends on them.

There are many studies of the tree loss due to Katrina. Here is what one claims.

Chambers, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane, have determined that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees are enough to cancel out a year’s worth of new tree biomass (trunks, branches and foliage) growth in other parts of the country.

Note: There is a vast difference between “all the trees in the world” and “all the trees in the country.”

It was roughly what the trees in the U.S. absorb in one year — but that’s still a lot of CO2 from only one storm event.

‘Forests Damaged By Hurricane Katrina Become Major Carbon Dioxide Source’http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071115164458.htm
“The scientists then calculated total carbon losses to be equivalent to 60-100 percent of the net annual carbon sink in U.S. forest trees.”

January and FebruaryAverage temperature -29°F / -34°C.

Summertime Temperatures average -1.5°C / 29°F

* Rose for 60 years, to 1940.* Fell for 25 years, to 1965.* Rose for 40 years, to the present.* Were higher in the 30’s and 40’s than they are today.

The Arctic was warmer in the 1930s than it is today, and somehow, mysteriously and magically, neither the polar bears nor the Inuit became extinct. Nor did we go over any mythical “tipping point”.

Ummm Max, ol’ buddy, the way the dollar is losing ground, we dont need anybody to weaken our economy!! We’re heading for a recession all on our own power!!

Posted by: Hank Price | November 18, 2007 at 06:02 AM

Poor Hank Price is wrong about climate science AND public opinion.