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http://climatesci.colorado.edu/2007/04/06/guest-weblog-by-professor-ben-herman-of-the-university-of-arizona
“Professor Herman’s guest weblog follows….
I [Dr. Ben Herman] am, myself, not a climate expert,…”
That’s very obvious, from all of the confusions Dr. Herman posted in that blog post.
But the deniers of human-caused global warming do NOT seem to care that Dr. Herman himself ADMITS that he is “not a climate expert”.
The very obvious questions is… WHY?
As he was being executed unjustly, Jesus the Christ said, “Forgive them….”
Seems like ever since, so-called followers of the Christ have spent most of their time condemning people.
Go figure.
Impeach Sebelius and restore Kansas too us, its people. Herbert West III, Publisher/Journalist/Opinionist.
aha, so the truth finally starts coming more apparent in the Haysville doctor case.
“According to the indictment, 56 of Schneider’s patients have died from accidental prescription drug overdoses in the last five years. However, the indictment alleges that only four deaths were directly caused by drugs Schneider’s clinic prescribed and that the drugs were a contributing factor in 11 other deaths”
Ok, so 4 is WAY different than 56. And contributing factor? Geez, we could talk about a bunch of stuff that was a ‘contributing factor of death’ in most patients. Like I said earlier, something is wrong with this case. I’m not convinced he is guilty as charged. 4 doesn’t seem like a high number to me at all…considering what doctors do.
Remember the Doc in st. francis convicted of first degree murder for killing a man who was already dead. Why? The maid found pills in his hotel room. The Haysville case could very well be nothing but public hysteria.
The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected, heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession.http://www.kansas.com/wireupdates/story/265971.html
Here comes the Bush Depression.
For years, Bush bristled privately at what he considered sky-is-falling alarmism by the liberal, elitist Hollywood crowd. The clatter over climate change, according to friends and advisers, seemed to him more like a political agenda than a rational response to known facts. But ever so gradually, they say, Bush’s views have evolved. He has found the science increasingly persuasive and believes more needs to be done, especially after a set of secret briefings last winter.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122803046.html?hpid=topnews
Uh-oh…Bush is wavering on GW. That’s sure going to make a lot of his supporters on this blog look pretty silly.
XXX,Not really: they will claim Liberals brainwashed Bush, as if he had a brain to wash in the first place:-)
A day after a federal court slip-up exposed intimate office e-mail exchanges with his executive secretary, Texas’ most powerful prosecutor, the district attorney of Harris County, issued a public apology Friday to his family and others.
The issue took on immediate political dimensions on Thursday when Mr. Rosenthal, a 61-year-old Republican who has announced he will run for a third term next year, attacked the disclosure of the messages as “bare-knuckle politics.”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/us/29texas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I wonder if he’ll have the grace to step down like Morrison did.
Good morning Walker. What a lazy week I’ve had, lol!
“Good morning Walker. What a lazy week I’ve had, lol!”
Posted by XXX
Good morning, and “Bite me!”
Posted by J M Walker:-)
For months, President Bush harangued Democrats in Congress for not moving quickly enough to support the troops and for bogging down military bills with unrelated issues.
And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush announced he will veto a sweeping military policy bill because of an obscure provision that could expose Iraq’s new government to billions of dollars in legal claims dating to Saddam Hussein’s rule.
The decision left the Bush administration scrambling to promise that it will work quickly with Congress to restore dozens of new military and veterans programs once Congress returns to work in January.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/29/MN37U6HFT.DTL
So much for the pResident supporting the troops.
It’s a doctor’s responsibility to know what other meds his patients are on so there won’t be contraindications for the ones he prescribes. It’s their respoonsibility to monitor their patients for potential narcotic abuse. Plus, many of his patients who were getting prescription pain killers tested negative for those drugs, indicating they were probably selling them instead. He has numerous lawsuits against him for malpractice, and 56 patients overdosing is way too many…4 patients dying from the drugs he prescribed is too many…there are so many red flags when it comes to this doctor’s practice, I’m surprised that he was allowed to stay in practice as long as he did. Hopefully things will change so that incompetent doctors will be put out of business.
I don’t know XXX, when I first read of the veto over opening Iraq’s assets to damages. It said that the funding for the occupation was a separate bill and there for he could veto the main bill with the rider about Iraq assets. And sign the other funding bill, which to me would not be a matter of rocket science to have thought he could do that. It would seem that they had that in mind when they set up the whole scene.
But then we the public are suppose to be very simply minded and not be able to see that!
Mary you would think so, but my mother was seeing a GP who specializes in the elderly and a neurologist for what seem to be Parkinson’s disease. Her condition kept getting worse and worse till she finally came to live with us. It seemed she was on quite a bit of medicine and my wife and I decided to list all her medicines and one day my wife took my mother to the General medicine Doctor. She asked the Doctor to review the list and he glanced at it and said it was OK.
Then at the end of the week I took mom to her neurologist and at the end of the exam. I asked him to review the list too. At first he seem to do it grudgingly, then suddenly he gasped and said “Oh my God!”.It turned out mom’s general had prescribed her a medicine that combined with another on the list caused Parkinson like symptoms. And to make matters worse the medicine that the neurologist had prescribed for mom’s Parkinson actually made it worse. He told me to stop mom immediately from taking the medicine the GP had her on. Her GP had been slow about sending her records and the Neurologist agreed from an exam that mom did have Parkinson. Since I guess there is not a good test for the early stages of the disease.The good news is that within two weeks the tremors stopped and she was able to think clearer.
When I confronted the GP he seem to not be too concerned and said it was a easy misunderstanding as mom is old and it is to be expected that she would be facing death. Yeah it was the last time she went to that Doctor.
After watching “The Kingdom” last night, I guess this is in the same vein. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071229/wl_nm/saudis_guantanamo_dc_1
Hey most of you are at least a little older than me.
Probably you remember the original Alvin and the Chipmunks. Me I saw the re runs.
Well I took my kid to the new Chipmunk movie. It was really pretty good.
I don’t know how they get the harmony they do with those chipmunk voices. But the new version of “Witch Doctor” rocks!
Prof. Francis Massen of the Physics Laboratory in Luxemburg and the leader of a meteorological station examined the UN IPCC’s Summary for Policymakers (SPM).
“The SPM conceals that the methane concentration in the atmosphere has been stable for seven years (and nobody knows exactly why); not one climatic model foresaw this,” Massen wrote in a February 2007 article entitled “IPCC 4AR SPM: Gloom and Doom.” (translated) Massen noted there is an “unrestrained contest among media, environmental groups and politicians” to paint as dire a picture as possible of future climate conditions following the UN summary. Massen called some of the climate reporting “absolute rubbish.” “It seems that in the climatic area a new faith fight has broken out, which has all characteristics of historical Religion,” he added.
Alvin used to be the big thing when I was a kid, believe they even played their songs on the radio.
” “The SPM conceals that the methane concentration in the atmosphere has been stable for seven years…” Massen wrote in a February 2007…”
Posted by: Hank | December 29, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Dear HANK,
You should compare Massen’s claim to the actual document.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htmSPM”[Methane] Growth rates have declined since the early 1990s, consistent with total emissions (sum of anthropogenic and natural sources) being nearly constant during this period. … {2.3, 7.4}”
Also, Chapter 2″Methane concentrations are not currently increasing in the atmosphere because growth rates decreased over the last two decades.”
Hank, is Massen’s claim accurate?
Dear Hank,
Is Massen’s claim accurate?
Writerdog, one of the biggest challenges in my work is trying to get doctors to communicate with each other…what you describe happens more than it should. Because doctors are all specialists nowdays, there are often “too many cooks in the kitchen”…I have some patients with 3 and 4 doctors, so it’s imperative that each one know what the others are doing.
“[Methane] Growth rates have declined since the early 1990s, consistent with total emissions (sum of anthropogenic and natural sources) being nearly constant during this period. … {2.3, 7.4}”
Also, Chapter 2″Methane concentrations are not currently increasing in the atmosphere because growth rates decreased over the last two decades.”
Hank, is Massen’s claim accurate?
Posted by: cosmos | December 29, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Cosmos always point the gloom and doom about methane.
I guess that’s why that cosmos puts out consistently the op ed pieces on how methane release is running amok in Russia and Canadia peat bogs.
Or was cosmos lying yet once again?
I am continually amused by the vast experience Ms. Clinton claims to have. Benazir Bhutto’s death brought claims of Hillary’s intimate friendship with Ms. Bhutto. I fail to see how as first lady, sponsoring state dinners with the head of state brings Hillary’s experience in international affairs to the forefront.
For some reason it is assumed and accepted by many that political positions are hereditary and therefore transfer between father and son, brothers, and husbands and wives. History of the kings and queens of Europe will reveal this is not a reliable method of selecting leadership. Relationships of leaders of WWI failed to prove family experience in international affairs worthy.
I mean, if Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president based upon her years as America’s first lady, the exact same is true of Laura Bush.
Unless, of course, Bill Clinton, will admit that the leadership exhibited during his tenure – was really his wifes.
Well I guess Gov Sebelius and the Kansas Corp Commission really are not concerned about GW. Westar Energy has announced that it will hold off indefinately on plans to pursue 200 megawatts of wind generated capacity.
Why? Because the KCC has decided to NOT allow Westar to recoup and recover up to $282 million in construction costs of it’s latest wind power projects.
Kansas we can’t have it both ways. We cannot disapprove new coal plant production and discourage business from pursuing renewable energy production. I guess we can, if we want to experience the brownouts of California and not be progressive toward GW reduction. We also have to stop the opposition to wind energy by the NIMBY lobby.
There is a price to be paid for upgrading to new energy sources. The price includes research, discovery, application, and land purchases.
We either pay the price in higher energy costs, or we will not move forward. Business exists to make money. Windmills will not be built for free.
Perhaps Palm Trees for Sale.
I’m dead set against Coal Plants as being our future in energy production. Coal plants create many “dead island” effects in and around it’s environmental sphere.
Brownouts of California? If Kansas ever gets as populated as California, I’m moving. :)
Palm Trees? You aren’t supporting the GW reduction craze are you?
I thought you intended to make a profit off the warming temperatures?
Now you spout GW?
Okay folks, less than 8 hours until count down is finished, then I’m out of here.
I will be keeping the Sabbath holy and won’t be participating on WE Blog.
Being as there is a desire for me to depart before 1 January 2008, I will be honoring that request.
So, you have less than eight hours to interact with me.
Not that any would, just saying…
:D
Dear Hank,
Is Massen’s claim accurate?
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2007/12/open-thread–26.html#comment-95151188
I am continually amused by the vast experience Ms. Clinton claims to have. Benazir Bhutto’s death brought claims of Hillary’s intimate friendship with Ms. Bhutto. I fail to see how as first lady, sponsoring state dinners with the head of state brings Hillary’s experience in international affairs to the forefront.
For some reason it is assumed and accepted by many that political positions are hereditary and therefore transfer between father and son, brothers, and husbands and wives. History of the kings and queens of Europe will reveal this is not a reliable method of selecting leadership. Relationships of leaders of WWI failed to prove family experience in international affairs worthy.
I mean, if Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president based upon her years as America’s first lady, the exact same is true of Laura Bush.
Unless, of course, Bill Clinton, will admit that the leadership exhibited during his tenure – was really his wifes.Posted by: American Way | December 29, 2007 at 03:01 PM
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AW, even the stupid Democrats recognize that Hillary Clinton has no experience. That’s not why they are going to vote for her.
The Democrats will vote for Senator Clinton because:
1. She’s a democrat. (They’d vote for the Devil if he was the Dem nominee. Some would say Hillary is close)
2. They think they are voting for Bill again.
3. Clinton promises more Socialist Free handouts then any candidate in the history of the USA, other then the founder of American Socialism – FDR.
God bless our Queen.
“Being as there is a desire for me to depart before 1 January 2008, I will be honoring that request.”
KHAN!!!! Say it isn’t so!
“The Democrats will vote for Senator Clinton because:”
1. She’s not a republican.
2. She’s a bitch, and republicans hate taking orders from a bitch.
3. Listening to the republicans whine like little girls for eight years will be music to my soul.
4. O, and last, but certainly not least: She will run the country a couple thousand times better than the current leader.
WELL SAID J M WALKER!
“Being as there is a desire for me to depart before 1 January 2008, I will be honoring that request.”
KHAN!!!! Say it isn’t so!
Posted by: fleettwood | December 29, 2007 at 05:30 PM
Fleetwood,
I bequeath my pet,the Ceti eel, to place in the helmets of the disobedient.
The disobedient will be under your control or suffer the pain of their own disobedience by disguising the truth and denying the inevitable.
KHAN :)
Kansas,
Last time you left, you never said you were coming back.
Again, do you mind if I take on your NIC, since you are leaving forever?
ThanksPat
Be my guest Pat Herron, but take it quickly, there be pirates about. :)
Thar ya be matey!
Take the bounty and spend it well!
The “Kansas” moniker is your to sail as ye see fit.
:)
Like the whole blog didn’t know Pat Herron was an incarnation of “kansas” anyway.
Change the sign on the desk, the name on the door, and the billboard in the yard if it makes you feel better though.
I grow tired and weary…
My time has come, I shall not last…
farewell friends and foe alike…
Kansas takes a hell of a long time to die.
Indeed.
Kansas,
As you sail forth from the shores of the Weblog, let me take a brief moment (very brief short one as both KU is playing and New England) and take stock in our blogsphere friend Kansas. You are a seasoned and well equipped warrior of the blog. Your metal has been tested and found worthy. Your body armor is complete and you are girded in the strength of any ten liberal bloggers hereonto pertaining. I am reminded of the greek wordArtios, which means complete. It is used only one time in the bible and is found in the new testament in the second book of Timothy, Chapter 3. It’s meaning is in the context of versus 16 through 17. “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
You are that “complete” man. Your ship is stocked full and is fully equipped and ready for not one, not two, but EVERY good work. As your ship makes ready to depart our shores, there are many here who have admired your stamina, wit, and sound council from afar. Now we are on the shoreline tonight. As you assemble your crew and makeyour sails ready, we are waiting your departure with profound saddness. But weknow you are well provisioned and ready to face any friend or foe across the seven seas.
We wish you, fair winds and following Seas.
Respectfully,
Pat Herron (aka: authorized KANSAS nic user)
Oh wow the guy is really round the bend.
What do you call this? Multiple personality disorder with megalomania as a complication?
Nothing like the first hand typed confessions of a deteriorating mind.
Get a room, guys!
I suspect it would be a room for one.
J R, be gone Satan! Unless you have a comment to post with merit, please refrain from typing myopic and thoughtless comments.
Please remember the challenge of Kansas and money on our IP address. You never took him up on it. You would have lost. I am not he (at least not yet).
Think about your grand entrance to the Weblog, when you announced you were here to save the world (sorta like underdog).
You haven’t even saved your own ass yet.
Get a room, guys!
Hello Triple X. We may hot bunk, but we aren’t the same.
Do you like wear a wig and a dress or something when ya play “Pat”?
With the writers strike, or even without it, this is better than TV!
J R, your compliment is also shallow. I haven’t even warmed up yet. With KU soundly ahead 68 to 34, all that remains on TV is the New England game. And that is turning out to be quite the game.Gotta go.
Nauseating. Ugh.
The housing market plunged deeper into despair last month, with sales of new homes plummeting to their lowest level in more than 12 years.
The slump worsened even more than most analysts expected, heightening fears that the country might be thrust into a recession.http://www.kansas.com/wireupdates/story/265971.html
Here comes the Bush Depression.
Posted by: XXX | December 29, 2007 at 08:52 AM
So, in 1995 under President Clinton the housing market was worse then today.
When the police can’t help, it’s best to carry your own semi-automatic weapon.
Praise be to this Domino Pizza delivery boy. He removed one robber from the surface population. He almost got a two-fer.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/29/preston.pizza.delivery.murder.kmov
Good thing the pizza driver was able to defend his life.
The cops can’t be everywhere all the time.
Max the news media was beside itself trying to decide what “side” to spin on this story. They interviewed the neighbors and family of the dead robber. Sniffles all the way around. The last call on the cell phone of the dead puke robber was to Domino’s. No doubt on the motive. Too bad they didn’t interview the poor kid trying to make a buck delivering pizza in bad neighborhoods.
Well without the download speed to see the video…
Killing someone over pizza?
So you are bitching about the poor computer XXX gave you for free? Or can’t you afford a decent connection.
Without it, you have not a clue what transpired. I pity you, but I have NO obligation to you or your fellow animals.
I did blame my internet connection and NOT the computer XXX supplied me with OR the one I bought there Patkansas.
And you see fellow human beings as animals.
Well, I see most animals as more elevated than you.
Pat, a side not on that shooting. The driver had a carry permit from another state.
However, Missouri recognized that state’s permit as valid in Missouri.
We a need a National Reciprocity law that will make a carry permit issued by one state, valid in all states.
It saved this pizza delivery drivers life.
Sad to sacrifice your life robbing a pizza delivery guy.
If you are going to steal money, then just vote Democrat and turn Socialist. Then you can get the Government to steal money for ya.
Or….
You could sell your soul and be Max.
You could make your living on the works of others who you hire or fire at will on your own whim.
And THAT privledge given you for your own propensity toward being a yes man toady.
I agree Max, provided the standard for CC is uniform nationwide. I would not expect MY state of Kansas, to honor a CC issued in a state that fails to check criminal history nor fails to ensure the pilgrim can lock and load safely and fire a few rounds down-range.
Not limiting anyones’ right here, but supporting my STATES rights.
And theft by Robin Hood is legal in the name of the poor. From each according to his ability and to each according to his need. Karl Marx Clinton said that, I believe.
Do you even remember dignity Max? Or are you such a scared little scurryabout that it got lost in your own compensation?
Why Max I believe JR is following you around trying to sniff your underwear!
Good point Pat. There would need to be a uniform standard competency test and training provided for a nationwide reciprocity concealed carry law to be effective.
As long as the competency test is reasonable, and does not require 10 out of 10 bullseyes at 25 yards in 10 seconds or less.
Pat, just throw him some scraps and he stops humpin your leg.
He’s used to beggin.
He is so stupid he thinks he can shame you into not being proud of your hard work and accomplishments.
Typical of someone who has never been successful at work or a career. He has never held a leadership or management position.
If he had, he would realize the many, many people those in management have helped excel in their personal careers and even home life!
He only remembers the one guy who you fired for cause. (Because that guy was him or his friend.)
There is so much to be proud of as a professional in your work. Hard work really does pay off.
Your family can appreciate and enjoy the comforts you have earned for them.
Jesus, I think I’m going to throw up..get over yourselves would ya? The rest of us don’t have the stomach for your arrogance.Pat, I really doubt that you’ve been so successful (defined in your terms) in your life. You really don’t have the right to look down your nose at anyone.