68 Days Until Inauguration

The Coleman-Franken Recount: See you in court sooner – and later (click here)
By Jay Weiner
Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
First, we had "Joe the Plumber." You know how ubiquitous he became. With the Al Franken-Norm Coleman recount saga entering a deeper stage of intrigue and high stakes, we now have another election icon.Call her "Jane the Voter."She is 84, lives in a nursing home near Bemidji and has suffered a stroke since registering to vote years ago. As Franken's recount lawyer Marc Elias put it today, she is "an honest hard-working" woman, "who did everything right … played by the rules," but her absentee ballot wasn't counted on Nov. 4....

Don't make a big deal out of nothing. The day started at about 8300 and ended at 8800 that is a difference of 500 points. The average brings it back to about 8500 where we have been for WEEKS !


8,835.25
+552.59
+6.67%


Refitting loan for auto bailout gains steam (click title to entry, thank you)
By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
November 13, 2008
Reluctance in the nation’s capital to back a $25-billion bailout of the auto industry is coalescing behind a strategy of insisting that retooling loans for that same amount – targeted to refit plants to make fuel-efficient cars of the future – be used instead....

This is an outrage. Every living Baleen whale is endangered and the US Navy can't manage to do better ? Ridiculous !!!

The truth is the Marine Mammal Protection Act needs to be bolstered to protect these MAMMALS. The Baleen whales at one time assisted in removing carbon dioxide from Earth's troposphere when Earth's oceans were teaming with them. They feed on plankton and algae. They are filter feeders that remove 'primary producers' from the oceans and convert microscopic 'carbon based' plants into whale biomass.

Why is that important? Because for every whale that exists on Earth, also exists a carbon based unit that converts gaseous CO2 into living carbon through the ingestion of primary ocean producers, such as algae.

If Earth's oceans were teaming again with Baleen whales, the CO2 content on Earth would be far less. When whales die, unlike a tree, the carbon does not leak back to the atmosphere is small proportion. When a whale dies, the carbon sinks to the bottom of a very deep ocean where it takes millenium to return the potential of being brought back to Earth's surface through carbon deposits called oil.

According to the US Navy, the ONLY place for a Blue Whale is in a museum.



...About the Blue Whale (click here)
The blue whale is the biggest animal ever to have lived on earth – bigger than any dinosaur.
It is longer than two 40-foot long school buses parked one behind the other.
A blue whale’s heart is the size of a car, and the arteries connected to the heart are large enough for a human baby to crawl through.
The blue whale is also the loudest animal. At 190 decibels, a blue whale’s call is louder than a jet (140 decibels), and much louder than a person can shout (70 decibels). A sound clip is available on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration web site.
Blue whales inhabit every ocean on the planet, and travel from frigid polar waters, where they feed, to warm tropical waters, where they give birth to their calves. In spite of their great size and range, we know very little about these gentle giants.
The blue whale is listed as an endangered species under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. It is also on the IUCN (The World Conservation Union) Red List of endangered species. There are estimated to be 4,500 blue whales left in the world, down from 350,000 before whaling activities began. ...



The International Whaling Commission needs to begin a process to stop 'dangerous' naval sonars by all countries.

The venues available would be The United Nations, The Hague, the WTO and possibly the G8. Recently Iceland lost its economy because of the lack of fiscal responsibility in the USA. The country has four whaling vessels. At one time, Iceland used those vessels to help feed their populous.

How is the International Whaling Commission (click here) ever suppose to see the recovery of the number of whales with all this hideous 'war machine superiority' tug of war. It's STUPID already.

Whales are going to be extinct because the USA can't get out of its own way !

The Whaling nations of the International Whaling Commission need to approach a global authority to stop this slaughter. It is NOT necessary. The ONLY enemy of any nation in the year 2008 are terrorist networks, NOT each other.


Humpback Whale in California Waters

...The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Navy in U.S. District Court after the Navy failed to file an environmental-impact statement for their sonar exercises under the national Environmental Protection Act. Earlier this year, a District Court judge ruled for the plaintiffs and prohibited the Navy from any further....