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“Every climate scientist in the world has known beyond any doubt, for at least several years now, that late 20th century warming was driven almost entirely by the very high levels of solar activity between 1940 and 2000 (details below). They also know the corollary: that when solar activity drops into a down phase, the earth will get cold, possibly even precipitating the next ice age (due any century now).”

“If only the sun had stayed aboil for one more solar cycle, the religionists would have succeeded. When the inevitable cooling did come, it would still pull the curtain off of their global warming hoax, but by then it would be too late. Economic restrictions would already be fixed in place, under UN bodies that the religionists control.”

“Between 1940 and 2000, solar activity was at the highest levels seen in the geologic record. Given the known effect of solar wind on global temperature, that means that late 20th century warming was driven largely if not entirely by high levels of solar activity, and every climate scientist in the world knows it.”

IS McCAIN’S LOBBYIST BOINK-BUDDY HUCKABEE’s “MIRACLE?”

This is so much fun because Iseman wasn’t some starstruck intern, Iseman was making enough money to take Johnny Mac on clients’ corporate jets. And get her blue miniskirts dry cleaned.

This story was first revealed by Matt Drudge in December. If it had gained traction before the Republic Party primaries, would Johnny Mac be the presumed nominee?

“Political_Mama” –

I’d just asumed St. Mary’s Academy was a boys’ school. Okay, that’s wierd enough in its own ways, but not all that uncommon.

Many religious institutions refuse to move out of the dark ages…you see it everywhere, not just in the Catholic Church.

Anybody hear anything about the Peter Paul v Hillary Clinton case yesterday?

I think the missile shot was a good excuse (save the world from the fuel) to show someone what we could do.

And at the same time keep the electronics out of someone’s hands.

I think it was a shameless star wars stunt.

Oh and it was almost cancelled or put off due to waves.

At sea.

So much for missile defense ideas!

In any event , to consider the physics required to hit an SUV sized target approaching at over 17,000 MPH with a kinetic energy vehicle is mind boggling.
And I too think there was more to this than the toxicity of the fuel.

Do the pieces fall to earth or add to the junkyard in space?

How much of our money (that China loaned us) did this cost?

Sol,

I’m sure the DOD had this planned out from day one, but was waiting on the technology to do so.

It’s like setting the transatlantic record for flight speed.

Shooting down an object with a sea-based missile gives the DOD propaganda machine more mileage than a Volkswagen going down a greased hill with a stiff wind pushing it.

In reality, we’ve had decades to plan. The trajectory, while not 100% accurate, can be easily determined by the firing point and target. It wouldn’t be that hard, even with mobile ICBMs to figure out at least a decent avenue of approach for the inbound munitions.

The missile used last night was a heat seeker. So just getting it pointed in the right general direction should have the desired effect.

Can we have the link Linda? Is that new money spent or money that had already been spent – i.e. the missile cost $x but was purchased on …

The fuel tank might have survived re-entry if the satellite had fallen to Earth on its own. It could have dispersed harmful or even potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields. Hydrazine is similar to chlorine or ammonia in that it affects the lungs and breathing tissue.

But some analysts said the Pentagon had reasons other than safety for bringing down the satellite.

“The spy agency doesn’t want some part of the satellite to fall into the wrong hands,” Philip Coyle, a former assistant secretary of defense, told SPACE.com.

The Web site also reported that Coyle said the shootdown allowed the Pentagon to show off U.S. missile defense capabilities and to prove to China “we can shoot down a satellite in a test without creating a lot of debris like they did.”

The Chinese military destroyed an aging weather satellite last year.

James Jeffrey, deputy national security adviser, denied the allegation that the U.S. was flexing its military muscle. “This is all about trying to reduce the danger to human beings,” he said.

But Beijing appears to have doubts.

“China is continuing to closely follow the possible harm caused by the U.S. action to outer space security and relevant countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday.

“China further requests that the United States … promptly provide to the international community the necessary information … so that relevant countries can take precautions.”

In January 2007, China used a land-based missile to destroy a 2,200-pound satellite that was orbiting 528 miles above the Earth. The impact left more than 100,000 pieces of debris orbiting the planet, NASA estimated — 2,600 of them more than 4 inches across. The U.S. agency called the breakup of the Fengyun-C satellite the worst in history.

In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed an American satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80,000 feet. That move adds to evidence the U.S. acted Wednesday strictly to guard against the prospect of a potential disaster, Cartwright said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/02/21/satellite.shootdown/index.html

“Many religious institutions refuse to move out of the dark ages…you see it everywhere, not just in the Catholic Church.”

Yeah Mary. And even worse, they want to drag the rest of us back to the dark ages as well.

Seems like it’s working in Kansas.

Sol and lindainks55, thanks for the articles.

But you know what’s more dangerous than that following spy satellite.

It will be gaseous anomaly, nicked named H.Clinton, which come crashing back to earth in a fiery, explosive path when Obama wins the Democratic nomination. :D

Surprised they didn’t try using the laser technology that has met with some success in AF tests

Hud
Posted February 21, 2008 at 8:11 am | Permalink
I think the missile shot was a good excuse (save the world from the fuel) to show someone what we could do.

And at the same time keep the electronics out of someone’s hands.
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It was a clear message to China that we can do it too. Blow up ours, and we’ll get yours.

And it was a nice reminder to Russia as well.

I wonder if they even teach girls how to read.

Problem was not givin’ ‘em the right to vote, it was teachin’ ‘em to talk in the first place.

*ducks* Don’t really mean it. I agree with your post, PoliMom.
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But I still have suspicion it was shot to protect the technology

Sol, with all the interest in reading everyone’s e-mail and listening in on people’s 972 (they still have those?) phone conversations, I doubt we have any secret technology left.
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News from the statehouse today:

SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES OUT BILL ON SCHOOL FINANCE
The Senate Ways and Means Committee passed out SB 531, this morning, a bill sponsored by 33 Senators. The bill would add $59 to the base state aid per pupil in FY 2010, establishing a BSAPP rate of $4,492 for the 2009-2010 school year and beyond. The bill also would appropriate
$37.2 million from the State General Fund in general state aid in FY 2010; create the Keeping Education Promises Trust Fund with a requirement to transfer $37.2 million to the State General Fund in FY 2010 for school finance. Senator Derek Schmidt, R-Independence, submitted written testimony in support of the bill. Representatives of the Kansas Association of School Boards and the Kansas National Education Association testified on the bill, expressing support for additional funding, but expressing concern that the amount of the funding was not sufficient.
In 2006, SB 549 established a three-year school finance plan in response to a lawsuit filed by districts with a high percentage of at risk students. The three year plan increased funding for at risk, special ed and bilingual students, and runs through FY 2009. This bill essentially adds a fourth year, putting the entire amount into Base State Aid Per Pupil. The fiscal note indicates that, although funding of $37.2 million is appropriated for general state aid, no appropriations are made for other expenditures related to a base aid increase. There are no provisions for supplemental general state aid (estimated at $3.7 million), KPERS-School, or special education.

More news from the statehouse:

HOUSE DEBATES BILL ON DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP ORDINANCE IN LAWRENCE
A bill to repeal Lawrence’s domestic partnership registry is being debated this morning . . . now this afternoon . . . in the Kansas House.
HB 2299 is a measure proposed by state Rep. Lance Kinzer, R-Olathe.
The Lawrence City Commission established a domestic partnership registry last year at the request of gay and lesbian couples who said it could help them secure health insurance benefits for their partners.
The registry allows unmarried couples — both same-sex and heterosexual — to register their domestic partnerships at City Hall. Forbes magazine’s 200 largest privately owned firms offer domestic partner benefits to their employees. Since many large businesses provide benefits to their employees’ domestic partners, registries, like the one in Lawrence, provide a method for employees to prove their co-habitation relationship with their partner. No other Kansas municipality has such an ordinance.
Kinzer has said the registry violates a Kansas constitutional amendment that voters approved in 2005, recognizing marriage as only between one man and one woman. Attorney General Phill Kline, who supported the constitutional amendment on gay marriage, stated that “domestic partnerships” are legal under the Kansas Constitution, as amended by the voters in 2005. Shortly after passage of that amendment, then-Attorney General Phill Kline told the Associated Press: “The state constitution’s ban on same sex marriage and civil unions doesn’t prevent local or state government agencies from extending benefits to gay employees’ partners. It’s my belief that they could, and we would defend them in that choice.” A legal opinion by former Attorney General Paul Morrison also said the registry doesn’t violate the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Kinzer also argues that laws affecting couples and families should be uniform throughout the state.
During the 2007 legislative session, the House Federal & State Affairs committee approved Kinzer’s bill, but it never received a vote before the full House. When it was considered today, after a hour of debate, the vote was to send the bill to the Judiciary Committee for further consideration.

Yeah amway and I also noticed that yesterday, the Holcomb bills went to conference committee. Conincience? I think not.

The repukes like huelskamp and neufeld have only one strategy regarding Holcomb.

Scortched earth.

literally, and figuratively

One more item from our statehouse that blogging citizens may find of interest:

SENATE COMMITTEE DEBATES MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE
The Senate committee debated yesterday about increasing the state’s minimum wage. The bill would raise the wage from $2.65 to $6.55 per hour beginning this August and to $7.25 by August 2009, something the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Roger Reitz, R-Manhattan, said is long overdue. “I don’t understand quantum physics or calculus, and that doesn’t hold a candle to my lack of understanding of the resistance to passing this fair minimum wage in Kansas,” he said.
Both sides said they sought to help the lowest-paid workers.
Opponents questioned who would be affected by such a change and wondered if the proposal would actually hurt those at the bottom of the pay scale. Proponents pointed out that Kansas has the lowest wage in the country and is the only state below the federal level. They also argue that all of the surrounding states have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage.
The current state minimum wage was enacted in 1988, and since that time, 14 bills seeking to increase that number have been introduced and died. Heidi Zeller, coordinator of Kansas Action Network’s “Raise the Wage Campaign,” said not paying workers enough amounted to artificially low prices for the consumer. “(Workers) are not just underpaid, they are subsidizing employers, stockholders and customers who do not have to pay the realistic cost of producing goods and services,” she said.
Opponents of the bill asked who falls under the state law.
According to 2006 statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, 17,000 Kansas were paid under the federal minimum wage, but that was survey data and it isn’t clear whether wait staff, who work on tips, constituted the majority of that number. The state minimum wage applies only to those businesses that aren’t subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. That would include businesses with less than $500,000 in sales in a year and not engaging in interstate commerce, which includes credit card transactions. Opponents also questioned the economics of the proposal. Alan Cobb, executive director of Americans for Prosperity, said the increase in wages could mean cutting costs elsewhere in businesses. In the end, customers would see an increase in the prices they pay.
The committee hasn’t scheduled a time to debate and vote on the bill, but Reitz said he would ask for that “over and over and over.”
Senator Reitz is a medical doctor.

Hmmmm… isnt newsmax the favorite source of news for cons? I mean, after fux news?

“Remember folks – this isn’t the first time that McCain has been an adulterer
Advertisements [?]He has admitted that his philandering was responsible for the breakup of his first marriage.

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Media Ignore John McCain’s Offenses

But, just a couple years later, McCain, while pondering a future in politics, met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected Arizona family. While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 just a month after dumping his crippled wife and securing a divorce.

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http://www.newsmax.com/john_leboutillier/john_mccain/20…

I coulda sworn I heard someone say today “I did not have sex with that woman”….

I too second the motion that we should have a McCain “I did not have sex with that woman” Thread.

Also, editors, should any of you be reading this, thank you for running Krugman on the Op-Ed page.

Never thought I’d see that in my lifetime . . .

“And does anyone but me think the mistress looks weirdly like his wife? His second wife I mean. Ya know, the one he was shtupping before he divorced his first wife?”

BINGO! KsFrmGrl

That was my first thought too . . .

Hee hee hee captain. Why do you think they call us “gay”?

“…I still have suspicion it was shot to protect the technology from getting into the wrong hands.China and Russia think this was a show of force, even though China did the same thing last year.
What do y’all think?”

SolDevVB, who cares…it was a fantastic shot! Whether it saved us from the threat of Hydrazine or potentially saves us from our political enemies, and maybe someday enemies of war, it helped accomplish both.
Great technological feat.
China has NO room to bitch, they shot one down first and tried to get away with it.
Hydrazine is the oxidizer used in some liquid fuel rockets. The same was used in the Titan ballistic missiles stationed here at one time I believe. It is highly corrosive and will kill or scar the lung tissue upon contact.

It was a fantastic shot.

The navy should be happy, it showed the air force it can shoot down things, too.

When does my Army get a chance? Or the Marines? Maybe we could put the sniper schools on it. Give ‘em a chance to crawl around and wear their camo.

When does my Army get a chance? Or the Marines?

Going to have to lead them a bit more than livestock and civilians.

What movie WAS that?

I dunno JR. Maybe young blonds with really wide set eyes just have a thing for McCain?

I kinds feel sorry for ol’ Vicky. It is always the women who suffer in these deals, and many a competent woman has been smeared by someone saying she slept her way to the top.

Then again, I know lots of professional women who DO use their wiles to charm the easily charmed men. Hell, I’ve even had some take a run at batting their eyes with ME!

I’m just true to my sweetie. Unlike McCain…

Many celebrity couples have also publicly dealt with marital infidelity. These include Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton; public figures such as Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Gary Hart, Martin Luther King and David Beckham; Hollywood actors such as Jude Law, Eric Benet, Hugh Grant, Bill Cosby, Sophia Loren; and known Indian personalities such as Kamal Hassan, Kabir Bedi, Saif Ali Khan, Aamir Khan, and Boney Kapoor. Some of these couples managed to sail through the tragic storm of infidelity and some, sadly, succumbed to it.

At least Billy has good company. Shrub has…Polk?

There is such a thing as saying NO. I think people have forgotten how to do that.

KFG, I’m ashamed (ok, not really) to say none of the Indian names struck a chord with me.

Little quick to judge, are we? One unsubstantiated allegation about political favors, and people here have already found him guilty. Claims of mistress, infidelity are being thrown around as if they were confirmed ‘facts’.

Anyone bother with reality anymore? Or is that just too troublesome?

Taz,

They got nuthin.

IF there was some news story here, it would have been unburied years ago.

Anything Hillary or Obama did or didn’t do years ago is off limits.

Do we go back further in time for Republicans?

Here Hecky Hecky

Heckler’s post at top of thread at 6:13 AM — “Between 1940 and 2000, solar activity…” is supposed to be based on Usoskin’s 2003 paper.

But here is what Usoskin’s 2005 paper says (emphasis added)
http://www.mps.mpg.de/dokumente/publikationen/solanki/c153.pdf
“The last 30 years [of data] are not considered however. In this time the climate and solar data diverge strongly from each other.
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Note that the most recent warming, since around 1975, has not been considered in the above correlations. During these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming trend must have another source“

Seems like significant words get left out of a lot of quotes lately… Like out of Michelle Obama’s quote, that was so totally misquoted, that it wasnt even HER quote!! Geez!!

So Chas. what was her quote?

Roadside bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Baghdad 20 Feb 2008 05:34:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Feb 20 (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.

The vehicle was hit in the northwestern part of the capital late on Tuesday, the statement said. There were no further details.

Attacks have fallen across Iraq in recent months due to a crackdown on militants, U.S. commanders say, but 22 soldiers have been killed so far in February.

In total, 3,966 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2049174.htm

Meanwhile, war-lord Muqtadah Al Sadr is considering voiding his cease-fire . . .

Gravity is also a theory… last time I checked…

Global Warming is more of an informed hypothesis…

Hud
Posted February 21, 2008 at 1:32 pm | Permalink
So Chas. what was her quote?
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Look it up… http://www.cnn.com type “Michelle Obama” in the search window at the top of the page…

From there, click on Breitbart link for a video of the first and second speeches… In the second speech, she makes no statement of clarification… she basically repeats what she said previously…

I dont see what the right wingers have their panties all in a wad over anyway… Is she not entitled to her opinion… on HER life???

Gravity is also a theory…

I think you will find gravity is real. Now the how it occurs is a different story.

dang, vaughn, I thought you were a lawyer, what are you doing knowing what quantum theory is? What kinda self-respecting humanities studier are you?

*ducks*

OKAY OKAY…….about Johnny
The ‘trophy wife’ thingy is kinda creepy huh?
Johnny reminds me of Dr. Eeee-ville.
Ya, know…trophy wife, entourage, all he needs is a little dog to carry.

Tracy, I think the “sexual inuendo” on this McCain story is being blown WAY out of proportion… Even David Gergen, on CNN just said it’s a NON story!!

I wish somebody would do an investigative report on the low life, Drudge, who originally “leaked” the story on his infamous “report” — what a gossip monger!!

Drudge was the first to report on the Monica Lewinsky affair too.

Payback is such a b!tch.

Well, you know the Humanities/Science fight. Scientists are supposed to be well versed in the humanities, but humanities students are supposed to be bereft of any scientific knowledge.

Cant find your link here Vaughn… You still have it handy?? Please??

Chas, you are in luck. Here ’tis.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8b7675e4-36de-43f5-afdd-2a2cd2b96a24

‘Indeed, when TNR started reporting on the whereabouts of the story on February 4th, all parties seemed intent on denying its viability. “There’s absolutely no story there. And it’d be a mistake for you to write about a non-story that didn’t run,” McCain adviser Charlie Black told me last week. “Drudge shouldn’t have put that up. He didn’t know what the hell he was doing.”‘ {New Republic}
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Yep… looks like somebody needs to do a real good investigative story on Drudge… See my link to Drudge posted upthread… :-)

Close, but no cigar—

WASHINGTON — A helicopter carrying three senior U.S. senators made an emergency landing in Afghanistan because of a snowstorm, but the senators are OK, spokesmen for the senators said Thursday.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft, according to Jon Summers, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The lawmakers are on a trip this week that includes stops in India, Turkey and Pakistan.

Typical of the short sighted cons to advocate harm to US Senators — so very small minded, much like regular/taz/et al

Almost treasonous

uraidiot,
The reason I call folks like you DemLibs is not so much because you are Democrat, but because you seem so very ‘Dem/dim’, get it? Hope I don’t have to explain.
No one is “advocating harm” to anyone, not even to those numskulls.
If you think it so serious why don’t you report to the FBI, they’ll get a chuckle too.

Boxlock
Posted February 21, 2008 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
Obama thinks the National Anthem was written and to be sung like this, “O Che can you see…”, as in the Communist Che Guevara.
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Anti, I think your 21 ways to be a good DemLib is pretty much right on every count.

There is much more to life than blogging all night.
A good book and an electric blanket for one.
A warm wife breathing quietly under the covers right next to you. Flannel nightgown, hairclips, and beauty cream included.

And the quiet only interrupted by the sound of the furnace kicking in or maybe the hoot of an owl outside.

Family is all that really counts. Everything else washes away with time.

Five months after killing Laura Hope Smith, 22, during a botched abortion at 13 weeks gestation last September at Women Health Clinic abortion mill in Hyannis, MA, abortionist quack Rapin Osathanondh has permanently surrendered his medical license in the wake of a criminal investigation and disciplinary action by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. He will not practice “medicine” anywhere again.