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totally unsexy dont mind me. if you want the sexy ive been on a tear on my tumblr blog lately. lots of pictures and some movies not safe for work at all. my metaquestion what do you use to blog lots of my readers are blogging and yes ive been in the game a long time but because ive been in the game a long time i wonder if im missing out on fancy whizbang technologies and whizbang techniques for m...
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at 100 times the current world energy consumption rate i.e. if we start using 100 times as much electricity as the entire world uses now nuclear power would be good for at least 19800 years. now if only we could help people get over their fears regarding safety and waste. via instapundit.......
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what is it with democratic presidential candidates and hyperbole al gore inventing the internet and cleaning up love canal. john kerry reliving apocalypse now. hillarys nonexistent tuzla sniper fire. and now this from tonights debateinterviewconversationforumthingobama said the most gutwrenching decision of his life was to vote against the iraq war. mccain said it was when he declined an offe...
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first things first thanks to glenn reynolds local guy for drawing some nationwide attention to the situation. it helped me last time it might work this time too. second a clarification regarding the stolen gun check that gallatin pd is running. its not merely a nics database check but rather an atf trace which is handled in a much less rushed fashion through the atf national tracing center. they ...
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yikes. you know if someone cant condemn the human rights record of china you have to wonder what they can condemn. via instapundit.......
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in an entry about this story instapundit expresses an alltoocommon assumption free speech update you still cant write about muhammad. will other religious groups take the lesson that violence works because in a world of the spineless it does and at very low cost. thanks guys for establishing this incentive structure. miss kelly who kindly alerted me to this has a good post about it instapundits ...
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ill start acting as if its a crisis when the people who are telling me its a crisis start acting as if its a crisis. glenn reynolds via steve gill via dirty harrys place. heres the alternative point of view from nashville is talking yeah i didnt realize they were still online either the solar panels for al gores new boat biosolar one will be installed at hurricane marina tomorrow. its just a hun...
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andrew breitbarts latest washington times column on the new hollywood blacklist features several quotes from his fatherinlaw the great orson bean when the blacklist hit i saw actors walk across the street to avoid me. the doorman at 485 madison avenue former cbs headquarters turned his back as i walked by. but i never felt hated by the ringwing blacklisters. they just felt we were terribly wrong h...
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the dorwin award. youre probably familiar with the darwin awards handed out each year to the people who do humanity the service of removing themselves from the gene pool in creative ways. i think its time for a new one named after one of isaac asimovs characters in the brilliant foundation. lord dorwin comes to terminus representing the galactic empire. heres the story but then interposed sutt h...
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this video got censored as inappropriate for children by the youtube people. its not the first time weve seen underhanded stuff like that online. via professor reynolds.......
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thanks to discussionslinks at instapundit and jerry pournelles site i got interested in how much space would you need to replace the worlds crude oil consumption with algally produced oil. from this us doe graph we see that world crude demand is c. 82m bblday. which equates to some 30 billion bblyear 365.2582 29950.5. according to various places google search one barrel of oil makes 28 gallons u...
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while i have long been skeptical that socalled biofuels will be a viable alternative in the nearterm future for our energy needs ive always believed that with more research we could find ways to steadily make them more and more useful. one of the biggest objections ive long had is that it seems strange to be using food that could feed hungry people to make fuel instead. but if we can make biofuels...
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by stephen den beste here. i pretty much agree with all of it. most alternative energy is never going to be useful for anything other than specialty and niche applications. via instapundit.......
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your must see ecohypocrisy video of the day via americans for prosperity al was recently quoted in the new york times sure but for the sake of argument assume they got it right as saying thatthe survival of the united states of america as we know it is at risk mr. gore said in a speech to an energy conference here. the future of human civilization is at stake.as glenn reynolds likes to say ill ...
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like many other blogsawe here at biomedicine on displayahave a long list ofapotentially useful life science and healthmedical blog linksall those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base foraour web presence. it would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud like a tag cloud or a category cloud. so far i havent seen oneabut last night whenai was playingawi...
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the international herald tribune aka the road show edition of the new york times reports media stars will accompany obama overseassenator john mccains trip to iraq last spring was a lowkey affair with his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad the nbc news anchor brian williams reported on his arrival in baghdad from new york with just two sentences tacked onto the in other political n...
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the aclu is showing signs of splintering like the baptists and the episcopalians the nevada aclu has declared its support for an individuals right to bear arms apparently making it the first state affiliate in the nation to buck the national organizations position on the second amendment. link via instapundit......
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theres nothing better than being propelled into the weekend on a laugh and rep. john conyers from michigan is in a giving mood. conyers has a piece at the huffington post entitled karl rove the white house and the rule of law. the rule of law thats right a conyers is actually pointing the finger at somebody elses ethics. some members of congress have no shame. the only way this could be topped wou...
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heres the website via instapundit why shouldnt we drill our own resources and create the jobs that would go with it why should america not lead on the issue of dismantling opecs stranglehold on energy supplies and their effect upon world economies sure lets look for alternative fuels lets produce them and transition to them as much as possible but were years away from all that. a few months ag...
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and it aint public service. study after study shows that students who serve do better in school are more likely to go to college and more likely to maintain that service as adults. so when im president i will set a goal for all american middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. this means that by the t...
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researchers didier sornette and ryan woodard of eth zurich in switzerland and weixing zhou of the east china university of science and technology in shanghai china think so in their analysis the team gathered data on oil prices since 2005 in us dollars euros and other major currencies to confirm that the results are not a consequence of the weakening of the us dollar. they also examined worldwide...
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from bloomberg.com secretary of state condoleezza rice said shes proud of the u.s. decision to wage the iraq war and insisted that the world is not more dangerous than it was when george w. bush took office. were now beginning to see that perhaps its not so popular to be a suicide bomber. were beginning to see that perhaps people are questioning whether osama bin laden ought to really be the fa...
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so now the new york times frets as i have that once he got the nomination barack obama has been making uturns and right turns as he rejects public financing embraces the supreme courts gun decision criticizes the supreme court on the death penalty and flipflops on fisa. oh and i forgot as he endorses faithbased initiatives. here alone we see a helluva compilation of constitutional views on guns ...
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