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		<title>By: sheehanjihad</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138566</link>
		<dc:creator>sheehanjihad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All of the women in NOW, and the women victim&#039;s rights advocates need to look at the crime scene photos, picture themselves in that situation, and hopefully get it through their thick skulls that trying to label a psychopathic beheading first degree murder of another human being simply because she didnt like being a slave as nothing more than an &quot;honor killing&quot;....is giving muslims a tacit approval of the killing of females for not following the tenants of Islam.

This lunatic killed her because she wanted to be free from the oppressive ignorance called Islam.  He planned it, he thought about it, he showed more pre meditation than anyone on the planet....and the idiot jerk DA&#039;s office calls it second degree murder??  Oh, yeah, he&#039;s an effing muslim....we cant be pissing those people off now, can we?  

I wish that the crime scene photos could be put up on huge billboards across the country, with huge letters saying &quot;THIS IS ISLAM&quot; so everyone could see what appeasing these factually intolerant cult followers do because &quot;they can&quot;.

NOW is as false a woman&#039;s organization as Islam is a religion.  It is astounding that they can look at the headless corpse of a woman who only wanted a divorce from an overbearing fanatic, and call it anything but the most heinous of crimes....they are appalling in their tacit approval of honor killings...as is the DA&#039;s office.  

This should serve as a warning to anyone who deludes themselves into thinking England is the only country being consumed by the cancer of a religion that requires it&#039;s adherents to kill.
Once the camel&#039;s head is in the tent, well, just watch and see.  Effing PC fools.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All of the women in NOW, and the women victim&#8217;s rights advocates need to look at the crime scene photos, picture themselves in that situation, and hopefully get it through their thick skulls that trying to label a psychopathic beheading first degree murder of another human being simply because she didnt like being a slave as nothing more than an &#8220;honor killing&#8221;&#8230;.is giving muslims a tacit approval of the killing of females for not following the tenants of Islam.</p>
<p>This lunatic killed her because she wanted to be free from the oppressive ignorance called Islam.  He planned it, he thought about it, he showed more pre meditation than anyone on the planet&#8230;.and the idiot jerk DA&#8217;s office calls it second degree murder??  Oh, yeah, he&#8217;s an effing muslim&#8230;.we cant be pissing those people off now, can we?  </p>
<p>I wish that the crime scene photos could be put up on huge billboards across the country, with huge letters saying &#8220;THIS IS ISLAM&#8221; so everyone could see what appeasing these factually intolerant cult followers do because &#8220;they can&#8221;.</p>
<p>NOW is as false a woman&#8217;s organization as Islam is a religion.  It is astounding that they can look at the headless corpse of a woman who only wanted a divorce from an overbearing fanatic, and call it anything but the most heinous of crimes&#8230;.they are appalling in their tacit approval of honor killings&#8230;as is the DA&#8217;s office.  </p>
<p>This should serve as a warning to anyone who deludes themselves into thinking England is the only country being consumed by the cancer of a religion that requires it&#8217;s adherents to kill.<br />
Once the camel&#8217;s head is in the tent, well, just watch and see.  Effing PC fools.</p>
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		<title>By: Gila Monster</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138563</link>
		<dc:creator>Gila Monster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, great posts BillK and SJ.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, great posts BillK and SJ.</p>
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		<title>By: Gila Monster</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138496</link>
		<dc:creator>Gila Monster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re right BillK, the GW zealots really should collectively stick to the same numbers if they desire even a remote resemblance of credibility in their rantings.

Their claimed impending &quot;catastrophic&quot; sea level rises are so easily refuted, it&#039;s almost laughable.  A 23&quot; to nearly 60&quot; rise in sea level in San Francisco?  Well, here is the actual data for SFO from the NOAA division that monitors mean sea levels around the US;

http://tinyurl.com/cz7bmc

Oops!  The hundred year max trend for SFO only shows a rise of 0.66 feet, that would be 8 inches for the unwashed masses out there.  In addition, look closely at the graph.  Since the late 1990&#039;s the data reflects a current downward trend.  
Surely, that can&#039;t be right!  Those damn GW deniers are selectively cherry-picking data to support their &quot;man-made global warming doesn&#039;t exist&quot; position, they must be in cahoots with Rove, Cheney and Limbaugh.

Well OK, how about the station graph for Alameda CA, directly across the bay from SFO;

http://tinyurl.com/aku7b4

Damn!  That only shows a 0.27 foot rise (3.24 inches) in a hundred years and again, a recent downward trend.  Rats!

The other 14 CA sea level monitoring stations pretty much show the same trends with a maximum rise of 1.56 feet in North Spit CA to an actual &lt;b&gt;decline in sea level of 0.21 feet&lt;/b&gt; in Crescent City CA.  By the way, that NOAA site has info on stations all around the US and from other parts of the globe as well.

As many here have stated before, the followers&#039; of the Goracle have never let those pesky &quot;facts&quot; stand in the way of a good alarm-ism story about &quot;catastrophic&quot; global warming.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re right BillK, the GW zealots really should collectively stick to the same numbers if they desire even a remote resemblance of credibility in their rantings.</p>
<p>Their claimed impending &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; sea level rises are so easily refuted, it&#8217;s almost laughable.  A 23&#8243; to nearly 60&#8243; rise in sea level in San Francisco?  Well, here is the actual data for SFO from the NOAA division that monitors mean sea levels around the US;</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cz7bmc" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/cz7bmc</a></p>
<p>Oops!  The hundred year max trend for SFO only shows a rise of 0.66 feet, that would be 8 inches for the unwashed masses out there.  In addition, look closely at the graph.  Since the late 1990&#8217;s the data reflects a current downward trend.<br />
Surely, that can&#8217;t be right!  Those damn GW deniers are selectively cherry-picking data to support their &#8220;man-made global warming doesn&#8217;t exist&#8221; position, they must be in cahoots with Rove, Cheney and Limbaugh.</p>
<p>Well OK, how about the station graph for Alameda CA, directly across the bay from SFO;</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/aku7b4" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/aku7b4</a></p>
<p>Damn!  That only shows a 0.27 foot rise (3.24 inches) in a hundred years and again, a recent downward trend.  Rats!</p>
<p>The other 14 CA sea level monitoring stations pretty much show the same trends with a maximum rise of 1.56 feet in North Spit CA to an actual <b>decline in sea level of 0.21 feet</b> in Crescent City CA.  By the way, that NOAA site has info on stations all around the US and from other parts of the globe as well.</p>
<p>As many here have stated before, the followers&#8217; of the Goracle have never let those pesky &#8220;facts&#8221; stand in the way of a good alarm-ism story about &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; global warming.</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138494</link>
		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TV Bridges founder that decapitated his wife, plead not guilty to the measly 2nd degree murder charges against him. NOW calls it an honor killing, victims rights advocates call it domestic. Authorities say the horrific scene, in the ritual manner the husband took care in placing her body parts and head, showed honor killing. 
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494785,00.html
http://www.popeater.com/article/ny-man-accused-of-beheading-wife-pleads/346934 
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/02/bridges-tv-a-wifes-beheading-and-honor-murder.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TV Bridges founder that decapitated his wife, plead not guilty to the measly 2nd degree murder charges against him. NOW calls it an honor killing, victims rights advocates call it domestic. Authorities say the horrific scene, in the ritual manner the husband took care in placing her body parts and head, showed honor killing. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494785,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494785,00.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.popeater.com/article/ny-man-accused-of-beheading-wife-pleads/346934" rel="nofollow">http://www.popeater.com/articl.....ads/346934</a><br />
<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/02/bridges-tv-a-wifes-beheading-and-honor-murder.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.danielpipes.org/blo.....urder.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: proreason</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138478</link>
		<dc:creator>proreason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WSJ says American&#039;s family wealth dropped 18% or 11 trillion in 2008.

But note that wealth also dropped significantly from Oct to Dec 2007, and from Jan to now 2009, so the overall drop is probably 20-25%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123687371369308675.html

These number are close to what I&#039;ve been saying for months.  Who needs &quot;journalists&quot; anyway?

One other point, an 18% drop of 11 trillion says that total American family wealth at the end of 2007 was 61 trillion.  At peak, counting late 2007 the peak was probably 63 trillion.   (The remainder of the 100 trillion I talk about regularly is business wealth).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WSJ says American&#8217;s family wealth dropped 18% or 11 trillion in 2008.</p>
<p>But note that wealth also dropped significantly from Oct to Dec 2007, and from Jan to now 2009, so the overall drop is probably 20-25%.</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123687371369308675.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/.....08675.html</a></p>
<p>These number are close to what I&#8217;ve been saying for months.  Who needs &#8220;journalists&#8221; anyway?</p>
<p>One other point, an 18% drop of 11 trillion says that total American family wealth at the end of 2007 was 61 trillion.  At peak, counting late 2007 the peak was probably 63 trillion.   (The remainder of the 100 trillion I talk about regularly is business wealth).</p>
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		<title>By: BannedbytheTaliban</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138472</link>
		<dc:creator>BannedbytheTaliban</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Meanwhile in Raleigh NC an activist judge is denying a parent the right to educate her childern as she sees fit.

From WRAL:

&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;b&gt; Wake judge orders home schoolers into public classrooms &lt;/b&gt;

Raleigh, N.C. — A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children&#039;s parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills.

Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home schooling her children who are 10, 11 and 12 years old. &lt;b&gt;They have tested two years above their grade levels, she said.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;We have math, reading; we have grammar, science, music,” Venessa Mills said.

Her lessons also have a religious slant, &lt;b&gt;which the judge said was the root of the problem.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;My teaching is strictly out of the Bible, and it&#039;s very clear. It is very evident so I just choose to follow the Bible,” Venessa Mills said.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4727161/ &lt;/blockquote&gt;

So to sum things up, this judge is denying these students a better education in favor of a sub-standard public education because the parent has the aduacity to include religion.  Amazing, I mean, how else are these little kids going to grow up and vote democrat if we don&#039;t endoctrinate them at a young age.  And they need to learn to test at their grade level, how dare they excel!  Don&#039;t they know that makes the other kids look bad, racists white devils.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meanwhile in Raleigh NC an activist judge is denying a parent the right to educate her childern as she sees fit.</p>
<p>From WRAL:</p>
<blockquote><p> <b> Wake judge orders home schoolers into public classrooms </b></p>
<p>Raleigh, N.C. — A judge in Wake County said three Raleigh children need switch from home school to public school. Judge Ned Mangum is presiding over divorce proceeding of the children&#8217;s parents, Thomas and Venessa Mills.</p>
<p>Venessa Mills was in the fourth year of home schooling her children who are 10, 11 and 12 years old. <b>They have tested two years above their grade levels, she said.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;We have math, reading; we have grammar, science, music,” Venessa Mills said.</p>
<p>Her lessons also have a religious slant, <b>which the judge said was the root of the problem.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;My teaching is strictly out of the Bible, and it&#8217;s very clear. It is very evident so I just choose to follow the Bible,” Venessa Mills said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4727161/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4727161/</a> </p></blockquote>
<p>So to sum things up, this judge is denying these students a better education in favor of a sub-standard public education because the parent has the aduacity to include religion.  Amazing, I mean, how else are these little kids going to grow up and vote democrat if we don&#8217;t endoctrinate them at a young age.  And they need to learn to test at their grade level, how dare they excel!  Don&#8217;t they know that makes the other kids look bad, racists white devils.</p>
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		<title>By: 12 Gauge Rage</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138458</link>
		<dc:creator>12 Gauge Rage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My mistake. I meant to say if it weren&#039;t for low class he&#039;d have no class at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mistake. I meant to say if it weren&#8217;t for low class he&#8217;d have no class at all.</p>
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		<title>By: 12 Gauge Rage</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138456</link>
		<dc:creator>12 Gauge Rage</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did Obama choose the DVD&#039;s from the Wal-Mart $5.00 dump bin? If it weren&#039;t for low class he&#039;d have no class at all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did Obama choose the DVD&#8217;s from the Wal-Mart $5.00 dump bin? If it weren&#8217;t for low class he&#8217;d have no class at all.</p>
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		<title>By: wardmama4</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138455</link>
		<dc:creator>wardmama4</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know if it is just me or is this another of the creepy &#039;faux&#039; science going on now and more importantly, sort of like the plot to Minority Report?!? Either way, it seems to be just up The One&#039;s (tm) idological ally.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scientists a step closer to ‘reading minds’&lt;/b&gt;
Financial Times.com
By Clive Cookson, Science Editor

Published: March 12 2009 

A machine to read the mind came a step closer on Thursday, when scientists at University College London released the results of an experiment in which brain scans revealed the location of people moving around a virtual reality environment.

Demis Hassabis, co-author of the study, said it was “a small step towards the idea of mind reading, because just by looking at neural activity we were able to say what someone was thinking”.

http://tinyurl.com/d8b7bw</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if it is just me or is this another of the creepy &#8216;faux&#8217; science going on now and more importantly, sort of like the plot to Minority Report?!? Either way, it seems to be just up The One&#8217;s &#8482; idological ally.</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Scientists a step closer to ‘reading minds’</b><br />
Financial Times.com<br />
By Clive Cookson, Science Editor</p>
<p>Published: March 12 2009 </p>
<p>A machine to read the mind came a step closer on Thursday, when scientists at University College London released the results of an experiment in which brain scans revealed the location of people moving around a virtual reality environment.</p>
<p>Demis Hassabis, co-author of the study, said it was “a small step towards the idea of mind reading, because just by looking at neural activity we were able to say what someone was thinking”.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/d8b7bw" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/d8b7bw</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: wardmama4</title>
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		<dc:creator>wardmama4</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ever notice how The One&#039;s (tm) admission of using cocaine was/is put down to &#039;youthful&#039; indisgression and to be put into the &#039;past&#039; but oh say - former President Bush and his daughters to this day are alcoholics and of course Rush Limbaugh is an addict?

The hypocrisy is destroying our country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever notice how The One&#8217;s &#8482; admission of using cocaine was/is put down to &#8216;youthful&#8217; indisgression and to be put into the &#8216;past&#8217; but oh say &#8211; former President Bush and his daughters to this day are alcoholics and of course Rush Limbaugh is an addict?</p>
<p>The hypocrisy is destroying our country.</p>
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		<title>By: sheehanjihad</title>
		<link>http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138434</link>
		<dc:creator>sheehanjihad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since this entire hoo hah is &quot;irreversible&quot;,  yeah, sure...uh huh.....these dorks act like technology and demographics will remain static for 92 years, and somehow we will all remain helplessly stuck where we are and simply drown. 

 Look, if our coastal areas are going to be inundated by five feet of water, simple math will tell you where the &quot;new&quot; coastline will be.  Trot your butt out to where you predicted it will be in 90 years, buy up every last acre of property you can, and at the end of this century, you will be hailed as a visionary, and of course, be fabulously wealthy because you now own all the new prime real estate along both of the coasts.

  Oh, you can use the same fable to make anyone who lives there now move out...just scare them by fudging your numbers like they are doing now, and you will pick up fantastic tracts of land for a song. Even Altoad&#039;s grandchildren will be fumingly jealous....and try to get by on what&#039;s left of their inheritance that was made at the beginning of the century by the scam of the century....yeah!

  The main thing here is.....climate change cannot be &quot;reversed&quot;, &quot;adjusted&quot;, or anything. Period.  However, human beings can and will adapt as the changes occur. The current chicken little&#039;s mantra is for financial gain only, and they are depending on ignorance to foist their scam on the public.

  The nice part is, people are hurting in very real ways now due to the dismantling of our capitalist system by the socialist government, and they really could give a damn where the sea levels will be in 90 years.  They are up to their necks in the real flood of economic destruction wrought by our clueless administration, and the chirping twits of global warming are nothing more than a nuisance.

  Just look at what is happening....they are losing credibility, so they up the ante on predictions of doom.  That is the hallmark of snake oil sales....and people really dont give a damn anymore.  The scam is wearing thin...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since this entire hoo hah is &#8220;irreversible&#8221;,  yeah, sure&#8230;uh huh&#8230;..these dorks act like technology and demographics will remain static for 92 years, and somehow we will all remain helplessly stuck where we are and simply drown. </p>
<p> Look, if our coastal areas are going to be inundated by five feet of water, simple math will tell you where the &#8220;new&#8221; coastline will be.  Trot your butt out to where you predicted it will be in 90 years, buy up every last acre of property you can, and at the end of this century, you will be hailed as a visionary, and of course, be fabulously wealthy because you now own all the new prime real estate along both of the coasts.</p>
<p>  Oh, you can use the same fable to make anyone who lives there now move out&#8230;just scare them by fudging your numbers like they are doing now, and you will pick up fantastic tracts of land for a song. Even Altoad&#8217;s grandchildren will be fumingly jealous&#8230;.and try to get by on what&#8217;s left of their inheritance that was made at the beginning of the century by the scam of the century&#8230;.yeah!</p>
<p>  The main thing here is&#8230;..climate change cannot be &#8220;reversed&#8221;, &#8220;adjusted&#8221;, or anything. Period.  However, human beings can and will adapt as the changes occur. The current chicken little&#8217;s mantra is for financial gain only, and they are depending on ignorance to foist their scam on the public.</p>
<p>  The nice part is, people are hurting in very real ways now due to the dismantling of our capitalist system by the socialist government, and they really could give a damn where the sea levels will be in 90 years.  They are up to their necks in the real flood of economic destruction wrought by our clueless administration, and the chirping twits of global warming are nothing more than a nuisance.</p>
<p>  Just look at what is happening&#8230;.they are losing credibility, so they up the ante on predictions of doom.  That is the hallmark of snake oil sales&#8230;.and people really dont give a damn anymore.  The scam is wearing thin&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
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		<dc:creator>BillK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funny when the left accuses the GOP of using the tactics of fear, no?

From the AP:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scientists warn of &#039;irreversible&#039; climate shifts&lt;/b&gt;

By Jan M. Olsen

&lt;b&gt;Hundreds of leading scientists warned Thursday that global warming is accelerating beyond the worst predictions and threatening to trigger &quot;irreversible&quot; climate shifts on the planet.&lt;/b&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Saying there&#039;s no excuse for inaction, the nearly 2,000 climate researchers meeting in Copenhagen urged policy-makers to &quot;vigorously&quot; implement the economic and technological tools available to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.&lt;/b&gt;

Their stark message came at the end of a three-day conference aimed at updating the findings of a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change before U.N. talks in December on a new global climate treaty.

&lt;b&gt;&quot;The worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized,&quot; the scientists said in a statement. &quot;There is a significant risk that many of the trends will accelerate, leading to an increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climatic shifts.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;

The climate change panel predicted a sea level rise of &lt;b&gt;7 to 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by the end of the century&lt;/b&gt;, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee. But more recent research presented at the conference suggested that melting glaciers and ice sheets could help push the sea level up at least 20 inches (50 centimeters), and possibly as much as 39 inches (1 meter).

&quot;Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change with poor nations and communities particularly at risk,&quot; the statement said.

It noted that policy-makers already have a range of tools to mitigate global warming. &quot;But they must be vigorously and widely implemented to achieve the societal transformation required to de-carbonize economies,&quot; it said. …

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/10/international/i071600D34.DTL&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Of course if they get the carbon caps they want, these scientists won&#039;t be flying &lt;i&gt;en masse&lt;/i&gt; to Copenhagen any more, will they?

Why don&#039;t &lt;b&gt;they&lt;/b&gt; show us all how it&#039;s to be done and teleconference?

No, even enviro-whackos aren&#039;t willing to live under the terms they want to impose on &quot;the people.&quot;

But the most interesting thing here is the sea level rise.

&lt;b&gt;This&lt;/b&gt; group states:

&lt;blockquote&gt;The climate change panel predicted a sea level rise of &lt;b&gt;7 to 23 inches&lt;/b&gt; (18 to 59 centimeters) &lt;b&gt;by the end of the century&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

yet just &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138319&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;yesterday&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/A&gt; California researchers said:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Driven by global warming, the ocean is &lt;b&gt;expected to rise nearly 5 feet along California’s coastline by the end of the century&lt;/b&gt;, hitting San Francisco Bay the hardest of all, according to a state study released Wednesday.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

23&quot; to &quot;nearly&quot; 60&quot;?

Wouldn&#039;t you love to see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;error bars&lt;/A&gt; on &lt;b&gt;those&lt;/b&gt; graphs?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny when the left accuses the GOP of using the tactics of fear, no?</p>
<p>From the AP:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Scientists warn of &#8216;irreversible&#8217; climate shifts</b></p>
<p>By Jan M. Olsen</p>
<p><b>Hundreds of leading scientists warned Thursday that global warming is accelerating beyond the worst predictions and threatening to trigger &#8220;irreversible&#8221; climate shifts on the planet.</b></p>
<p><b>Saying there&#8217;s no excuse for inaction, the nearly 2,000 climate researchers meeting in Copenhagen urged policy-makers to &#8220;vigorously&#8221; implement the economic and technological tools available to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.</b></p>
<p>Their stark message came at the end of a three-day conference aimed at updating the findings of a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change before U.N. talks in December on a new global climate treaty.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;The worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized,&#8221; the scientists said in a statement. &#8220;There is a significant risk that many of the trends will accelerate, leading to an increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climatic shifts.&#8221;</b></p>
<p>The climate change panel predicted a sea level rise of <b>7 to 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by the end of the century</b>, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee. But more recent research presented at the conference suggested that melting glaciers and ice sheets could help push the sea level up at least 20 inches (50 centimeters), and possibly as much as 39 inches (1 meter).</p>
<p>&#8220;Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change with poor nations and communities particularly at risk,&#8221; the statement said.</p>
<p>It noted that policy-makers already have a range of tools to mitigate global warming. &#8220;But they must be vigorously and widely implemented to achieve the societal transformation required to de-carbonize economies,&#8221; it said. …</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/10/international/i071600D34.DTL" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....600D34.DTL</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Of course if they get the carbon caps they want, these scientists won&#8217;t be flying <i>en masse</i> to Copenhagen any more, will they?</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t <b>they</b> show us all how it&#8217;s to be done and teleconference?</p>
<p>No, even enviro-whackos aren&#8217;t willing to live under the terms they want to impose on &#8220;the people.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the most interesting thing here is the sea level rise.</p>
<p><b>This</b> group states:</p>
<blockquote><p>The climate change panel predicted a sea level rise of <b>7 to 23 inches</b> (18 to 59 centimeters) <b>by the end of the century</b></p></blockquote>
<p>yet just <a HREF="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/selected-news-for-week-mar-7-mar-13#comment-138319" rel="nofollow"><b>yesterday</b></a> California researchers said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Driven by global warming, the ocean is <b>expected to rise nearly 5 feet along California’s coastline by the end of the century</b>, hitting San Francisco Bay the hardest of all, according to a state study released Wednesday.</p></blockquote>
<p>23&#8243; to &#8220;nearly&#8221; 60&#8243;?</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you love to see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_bar" rel="nofollow">error bars</a> on <b>those</b> graphs?</p>
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		<title>By: BillK</title>
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		<dc:creator>BillK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From a recession from which &quot;we may never recover&quot; to things &quot;not being so bad&quot; now that he&#039;s rammed through his stimulus program?!?!

From an unquestioning AP:

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obama Takes on Role of Confidence-Builder in Chief&lt;/b&gt;

WASHINGTON -- &lt;b&gt;President Obama is embracing a mantle of confidence-builder in chief. Whether he is meeting with his own economic advisers or worried business leaders, his message is meant to be calm and reassuring -- even in the wake of more bad economic news.&lt;/b&gt;

Obama will have another opportunity to assert his optimism after he meets Friday with Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who now guides the president&#039;s economic recovery advisory board. Volcker was preparing to brief Obama and his economic team on how the $787 billion stimulus package is working.

Speaking to a gathering of the nation&#039;s CEOs on Thursday, &lt;b&gt;Obama defended his plans for pulling the economy out of a downward spiral, saying that his long-term view gives him reason to maintain optimism despite an uptick in unemployment and falling economic indicators.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;&lt;b&gt;I&#039;ve never bought into these Malthusian, woe, Chicken Little, the earth is falling. I tend to be pretty optimistic&lt;/b&gt;,&quot; said Obama, once a long-shot candidate for the White House. &quot;I wouldn&#039;t be here if I weren&#039;t pretty optimistic.&quot;

&lt;b&gt;The president boldly declared that the national crisis is &quot;not as bad as we think&quot;&lt;/b&gt; and that he has seen public opinion seesaw without logic.

&lt;b&gt;&quot;A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and &#039;Ooohh, we&#039;re down on the dumps,&quot;&#039; he said. &quot;And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment.&quot;

Obama disagreed with the choices.

&lt;b&gt;&quot;I don&#039;t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,&quot; he added. &quot;Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They&#039;re not as bad as we think they are now.&quot;&lt;/b&gt; …

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/12/obama-declares-economic-crisis-bad-think/&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Ah, our waffler-in-chief.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From a recession from which &#8220;we may never recover&#8221; to things &#8220;not being so bad&#8221; now that he&#8217;s rammed through his stimulus program?!?!</p>
<p>From an unquestioning AP:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Obama Takes on Role of Confidence-Builder in Chief</b></p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <b>President Obama is embracing a mantle of confidence-builder in chief. Whether he is meeting with his own economic advisers or worried business leaders, his message is meant to be calm and reassuring &#8212; even in the wake of more bad economic news.</b></p>
<p>Obama will have another opportunity to assert his optimism after he meets Friday with Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who now guides the president&#8217;s economic recovery advisory board. Volcker was preparing to brief Obama and his economic team on how the $787 billion stimulus package is working.</p>
<p>Speaking to a gathering of the nation&#8217;s CEOs on Thursday, <b>Obama defended his plans for pulling the economy out of a downward spiral, saying that his long-term view gives him reason to maintain optimism despite an uptick in unemployment and falling economic indicators.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;<b>I&#8217;ve never bought into these Malthusian, woe, Chicken Little, the earth is falling. I tend to be pretty optimistic</b>,&#8221; said Obama, once a long-shot candidate for the White House. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be here if I weren&#8217;t pretty optimistic.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>The president boldly declared that the national crisis is &#8220;not as bad as we think&#8221;</b> and that he has seen public opinion seesaw without logic.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and &#8216;Ooohh, we&#8217;re down on the dumps,&#8221;&#8216; he said. &#8220;And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama disagreed with the choices.</p>
<p></b><b>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They&#8217;re not as bad as we think they are now.&#8221;</b> …</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/12/obama-declares-economic-crisis-bad-think/" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....bad-think/</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Ah, our waffler-in-chief.</p>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>slipped. The above article is where Oklahoma is taking the funds from studying quitting cigerette smoking and voting instead to use the funds to study &quot;ADULT STEM CELL&quot; research, instead of tiny little stem cells from babys. cool huh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>slipped. The above article is where Oklahoma is taking the funds from studying quitting cigerette smoking and voting instead to use the funds to study &#8220;ADULT STEM CELL&#8221; research, instead of tiny little stem cells from babys. cool huh?</p>
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		<title>By: canary</title>
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		<dc:creator>canary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://newsok.com/oklahoma-legislature-adult-stem-cell-research-could-get-tobacco-funds/article/3352889</description>
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