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* So, when is the snapshot on the ice going to turn into a slapshot hockey goal?
** It is a good day when the OSU Beavers defeat the USC Trojans on the football field.
*** It may be a good day when members of the do nothing congress want to get out of town and go back home where their friends, families and supporters can message their easily bruised egos and polish their images by pretending to listen to the voters.
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: Get a bike now and ride it every day.
:: Remember that with the arrival of Fall, the Arctic Ocean is now officially back in the deep freeze.
::: The UN is back in session but the Security Council has yet to ban carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
:::: The US Congress is about to end its session and hit the campaign trail.
::::: Meanwhile all is well in Rochester, NY were a local group of birds watchers toured Eastman-Duran Park and judged it fit for habitation by native flora and migrating foul. No passports required.
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He apparently listens as well as he thinks. Another thought, he may be a candidate for a major post in the new administration.
Meanwhile, he and NYC are facing a 12% reduction in tax receipts over the next fiscal year.
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Daughter Tiffany lives in Kona coffee, Captain Cook area on the western side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Her view perch from the historic Greenwell Family Farm is nearly 1,500 feet above the shoreline of the blue Pacific Ocean.
Within hiking distance are the Captain Cook Memorial and great surfing at Kealakekua Bay, Kona Coffee plantations, the Amy Greenwell Bishop Ethnobotanical Native Plant gardens, and the local Kona Historical Society site.
The hippy refugee and breakfast site, the Manago Hotel, is just around the corner. The ocean side City of Refuge National Park is a short distance down Naapoopo Rd
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:: Senior are also uneasy about the national tickets. They are general resolved to accept change and a historic first: either an African-American or a woman will be be part of the new team elected to national office.
::: Global Climate change has fallen of the public concern worry bead chain.
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::: We are informed by Dot Earth, nytimes blogger, Andrew Revkin that as of this fall “theoretically, the Northwest Passage in now open to shipping.” To the best of our knowledge, no commercial shipper has taken the risk to vessel, cargo, or crew at risk to test the “Revkin Theory” in fact. Having recently visited the submarine base, Submarine Force Museum and the docked Nautilus in New London Connecticut, one thought comes easily to mind: What nuclear submarines have done, what reporters and some scientist theorize can be done, if far from what prudent engineers, investors, and businessmen are willing to chance on the high seas.
While the summer ice melt numbers make good quotes, the amount of Arctic sea ice that remains is many fold larger and formidable to sobering to open minds. Remember, as we learned in the fifth grade, for every numerator, there is a denominator. And beware of the numerator quoter who attempts to make it a free standing argument. Resently, data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) indicates that Arctic summer sea ice melt season is over and that 6 million square kilometers was the summer average inventory. 12 million square kilometers was the number at the state of summer That is 16% over the average in 2007. Is there a trend here? Stay tuned if you have the time. The current trend has been underway since the end of the last Ice Age.
BTW the average thickness of a single modern era winter Arctic sea water freeze is about 3 feet, according to the experts.
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-- The Ducks can spread the field, keep the same defensive 11 in the game run, the ball, and pass to any eligible receiver.
--- Demographics is just one Demons that frightens the sober, sane, and rational Friedman. He is right about one demographic parameter: Islamic extremists and Palestinian nationalists are growing thorns in the garden of committed Zionists. Their growth rates are like weeds that threaten the future status of a democratic Jewish Israel.
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- As many as 20% of Hillary Clinton spring primary voters are leaning to the McCain ticket in the fall.
- Extreme weather, like hurricanes, is always newsworthy and is used to come without a political conventional wisdom label.
- Lehman Bros, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac and People’s Bank of China play in the same league and have the same needs. Quick cash and credit equivalents.
* It seems there are two big glitches in the T. Boone Picken’s plan to put wind generated electrical power onto the national grid: distance and capacity. Electrical power is best used immediately close to the site of generation. The electrical grid is not designed for high volume, long distance transmission. Natural gas lines are.
The post conventional wisdom of the professional national press and pollsters continues unchanged. The powerful B & B attorney partnership charisma machine continues to be fueled by mega bucks. The mass of volunteers, like families with kids with special needs working for the other side, are given no reckoning. Further, Alaska is far from the Boston, NYC, Washington, D.C. axis of power. Talk about a change challenge to the continuing cultural divide between the east and the West!
** So, Google is now on the the desktop with a browser and it works well with Vista. Fast is good. Google apps will continue to flow from the Lab to the rest of us.
*** It appears that the widely reported melting of the Polar Arctic Ice Cap is not quite the sure evidence of global warming a once advertised by the advocates of the theory. New interpretation of satellite images say “OOPs, not so fast.
It seems that shallow water pooled on top of the floating ice pack has been misinterpreted a open sea water. In addition the prospect of using the long fabled NorthWest Passage that shortens the freighter run from Rotterdam to Yokahama by 5,000 mile is still a bit of a pipe dream. Shifting summer ice continues to a formidable Arctic hazard for most surface ships. So, the Arctic Polar Ice Cap is almost a floating island just as we begin a long winter of refreezing as the Polar bears continue to thrive.
Meanwhile, the Siberian version of the Northwest Passage appears to have a significant choke point for summer time open water freighter traffic.
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Today, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Andrew Revkin are at their dypeptic drumbeat worst as they continue their respective personal rants formed by their pessimistic views of the state of the world. Tom is increasingly bitter about the state of the environment and the prospects for peace, Maureen continues to mischaracterize and denigrate the national political change agents with her wicked literary prose, and Andrew continues to slog on in his blog about the sad state of research and policy in the emerging science of global weather and climate studies.
What is to be done? Some have suggested a boycott of the various messages from the “Anger Liberals” of the old Left. There are good reasons that the circulation and the readership of the nytimes is falling like a rock. The popularity of the press is low and sinking because of it writers and pundits. The nytime’s own David Brooks has said it best: on the PBS News Hour coverage of the RNC from St. Paul , Brooks opined “ The public does not like or trust us.”
Unfazed and without reflection , Brooks’ partisan commentary colleague, 71 year old, Mark Shields previously upstaged by David Gergen and Paul Gigot, continued to prattle on about the obligation of professional press people like himself to vett the background and suitability of the children public service folks Sarah Palin to stand proudly in the public kleg lights.
I am reminded of the time some Santa Rosa public high school civic teachers( one was a former small time journalist) picketed and harassed the chairwoman of the local School Board at the beginning of a new school year. Their labor issue and the public’s right/obligation to know trumped a single citizen’s right to privacy and sanctity of her home. When was the last time you felt good about having your home picketed by noisy advocates ?
Meanwhile, tonight Sarah Palin, the 44 Y/O PTA mom and soon to be grandmother from Wasilla, Alaska, will Stand and Deliver on state in St. Paul, Minnesota. Levi Johnston is also said to be a standup kind of person. For 38 minutes on stage Palin accepted the nomination of her Party, defined herself to the nation, chided the live mic, trip wire prone national media, defended her “little state”, exposed the lack of executive experience of the other candidate team, skewered those who pretend to objectively perform live “dissections” of new faces on the national political scene.
In prime time, Palin ran the table set up a series of bright, forceful, articulate, and funny warmup speakers and left folks like the embarrassing Mark Shields of PBS to slowly twist, turn and trip on his own misanalysis.
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