So all these jokers have 'the truth' to deal with rather than poorly prepared court cases and outrageous claims because they have a PhD behind their over rated and over used name. One of the most ludicrous statement I have heard by the nay sayers to Al Gore's mission, was made by Dr. Gray, a supposed expert on Climate Change. In his report to the US Senate he stated the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Sheet can be correlated to a solar flair.
Hello?
A solar flare?
Larsen B Ice Sheet didn't collapse because of a solar flare. It's the most stupid statement I ever heard in my life. While there ???? maybe ???? a 'real time' correlation, the Larsen B Ice Sheet did not succumb to a huge solar flair. If that were the case the entire planet Earth would be burned to a crisp. Larsen B is well documented in it's degradation over time and there was no surprise when the collapse happened. Gray and those like him are simply involved with money of one form or another and won't accept pier review that negates their claims. Darn shame really.
Al Gore's claims are solid. One 'truth' that has recently been recorded on this blog is the fact New Zealand is profoundly concerned regarding it's national security due to influx of Pacific Islanders facing sea level rise. We already know it is occuring and the statement in the UK court room that sea level rise would take millenium is simply stupid rhetoric while the evidence to the melting of every ice formation on Earth is occurring at an unpredicted and alarming rate !
The Chicago Tribune
No peace of mind with prize
Experts welcome Nobel, press for action on climate
By Laurie Goering Tribune foreign correspondent
9:50 AM CDT, October 13, 2007
NEW DELHI — Over the last year, views on climate change seem to have transformed faster than the weather itself.
In almost impossibly rapid fashion, a once widely disputed theory has become nearly a mainstream worry. There are waiting lists to buy hybrid cars.
In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the prize committee gave much of the credit for that shift to this year's winners: the scientists of the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who laid out the scientific basis for concern in a series of reports this year, and former Vice President Al Gore, who popularized the concerns in his award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."
But Friday's decision by the Oslo-based Nobel committee also suggests climate change is poised to become an even more crucial issue: a matter of war and peace.
As the scientific reports released this year suggest, climate change has the potential to displace millions as major coastal cities flood, reduce food production and supplies of drinking water in some of the world's poorest nations, and lead to surges in refugees and conflicts over dwindling resources.
"Climate change has the potential to disrupt stability and peace all over the world," said Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the UN climate panel. The prize "elevates this particular problem to a level where it is telling the rest of the world we have to ensure we tackle climate change or it could disrupt peace in several parts of the globe."
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Giuliani: 'Should have known' about chief's problems
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik greet supporters during the 2002 Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Giuliani's recommendation of Kerik for secretary of homeland security backfired. Giuliani now maintains Kerik, facing possible bribery and obstruction of justice charges, was an excellent commissioner. Newsday photo.
by Tom Brune
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Rudy Giuliani on Friday offered his strongest defense yet of Bernard Kerik, his former close associate and top New York City cop now targeted in a federal criminal probe, calling him an "excellent police commissioner" and praising him for being courageous on Sept. 11, 2001.
Kerik is facing possible bribery and obstruction of justice charges as soon as next month. Giuliani rejected the idea those charges would harm his campaign and said on balance Kerik had done a good job.
Responding to questions at a news conference, Giuliani applied the same test to Kerik -- whose problems he apologized for not catching earlier -- that he applies to his own difficult family life: Do a public official's personal troubles affect his performance on the job?
"I mean the reality is, if we just look at Bernard Kerik's service as police commissioner, he was an excellent police commissioner," Giuliani said at a campaign stop in this key early primary state.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/giuliani_should_have_known_abo.html
Thompson: 'Was never really willing to pay price'
by Andrew Malcolm
When a candidate shows a maniacal drive to become president, spanning too many years of boring Lincoln or Jefferson Day dinners, demeaning pleas for money from rich people, darkened motels in distant cities, long nights of conspiratorial strategy meetings over stained boxes of cold pizza and lonely airplane flights across this vast land, plus compiling many millions of dollars, the American media tends to question such drive.
On the other hand, when a candidate shows a curious indifference, thinks longer than others about launching a campaign, moves and talks slowly and doesn't act like they've just finished their sixth cup of coffee in an hour, the American media tends to question such drive. Or lack of it.
The Los Angeles Times' Joe Mathews has come upon an old quote from a 2003 interview in the Nashville Bar Journal about running for the presidency. "I was never really willing to pay the price that I knew had to be paid," said the newly-retired politician. "I would really have to strain hard to come up with something I wanted to say ten times a day for the next year of my life when I knew that talking about the really important stuff would not get me anywhere. You have to have a great desire to be President, and I never had the desire to do that."
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/thompson_was_never_really_will.html
Ex-General: 'No End in Sight' in Iraq
By STEVEN KOMAROW Associated Press Writer
3:59 PM CDT, October 13, 2007
ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. mission in Iraq is a "nightmare with no end in sight" because of political misjudgments after the fall of Saddam Hussein that continue today, a former chief of U.S.-led forces said Friday.
Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded coalition troops for a year beginning June 2003, cast a wide net of blame for both political and military shortcomings in Iraq that helped open the way for the insurgency -- such as disbanding the Saddam-era military and failing to cement ties with tribal leaders and quickly establish civilian government after Saddam was toppled.
He called current strategies -- including the deployment of 30,000 additional forces earlier this year -- a "desperate attempt" to make up for years of misguided policies in Iraq.
"There is no question that America is living a nightmare with no end in sight," Sanchez told a group of journalists covering military affairs.
Sanchez avoided singling out at any specific official. But he did criticize the State Department, the National Security Council, Congress and the senior military leadership during what appeared to be a broad indictment of White House policies and a lack of leadership to oppose them.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-sanchez-iraq,0,2409144.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
5 Trucks Burn in Calif. Freeway Tunnel
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ Associated Press Writer
3:54 PM CDT, October 13, 2007
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A 15-truck pile-up on a rain-slicked Southern California freeway left 10 people injured and at least one missing, sent flames shooting out of a tunnel and blocked a key link between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Fire Inspector Jason Hurd said the accident -- the wreckage stretching a half mile -- began when two trucks collided late Friday and started a chain reaction in Interstate 5's southbound truck-only tunnels.
At one point flames shot out of the tunnel and 100 feet into the night sky, said Los Angeles County firefighter Scott Clark, one of some 300 firefighters battling the blaze at its height.
"It looked like a bomb went off," said Clark, who battled the flames throughout the night.
The charred skeletons of at least a half-dozen big rigs peeked out of the tunnel's south end. At least one truck was carrying produce, and a smoldering load of cabbages lay scattered across the pavement.
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2 killed, 9 hurt when school bus hits SUV near Lake Geneva
The Associated Press
6:19 AM CDT, October 13, 2007
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. - Two Chicago-area residents were killed Friday night when their sport-utility vehicle was struck by a school bus just north of this southern Wisconsin city.
The bus, carrying 26 faculty and students from Lake Geneva's Badger High School soccer team, broadsided a 2000 Chevrolet Blazer around 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to Walworth County Sheriff David Graves. Nine students suffered minor injuries in the accident.
The Blazer was heading east on Krueger Road and failed to stop at a stop sign at Wisconsin Highway 120, Graves said. The bus hit the Blazer, sending the SUV into a tree about 500 feet away.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-lake_geneva_bus_crash_14oct14,0,26797.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
Former Duke Lacrosse Coach Sues School
By AARON BEARD Associated Press Writer
9:48 AM CDT, October 13, 2007
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The former Duke University men's lacrosse coach who resigned last year amid allegations that three of his players raped a stripper has sued the university.
Mike Pressler's lawsuit apparently stems from a financial settlement the school reached earlier this year with him, although school officials did not give details Friday. The players were later cleared of the charges.
The Herald-Sun of Durham reported Friday on its Web site that his lawsuit alleges the university broke the terms of the confidential settlement when university senior vice president John Burness made disparaging comments about him.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/sns-ap-duke-lacrosse,0,3728834.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
Bodyless feet found in street
Tribune staff report
6:22 AM CDT, October 13, 2007
Two human feet severed above the ankles were found Friday night in a south suburban Matteson intersection, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The feet, found about 9:30 p.m. at Keystone Avenue and Vollmer Road, had been recently cut, and appeared to be those of a white male, according to the medical examiner's office.
A shoe was found near the feet, though no clothing was found on them.
No other body parts were found, and no further information was available about the victim.
Cook County sheriff's police are investigating.
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County eyes $4 phone tax
Consumer, business groups oppose idea
By Jon Van Tribune staff reporter
October 13, 2007
A $4 monthly tax on every telephone line in Cook County, including mobile phone lines, is one proposal under consideration as county government struggles to close its budget gap.
County commissioners are looking at a variety of proposals to balance the budget, and opposition is stirring from consumer and business interests over the idea of a telephone tax, which was quietly raised in recent weeks.
No hearings have been held on the proposed new tax. Until now it has been "flying under the radar," said David Kolata, executive director of the Citizens Utility Board. "We understand this proposal is on the front burner and is very serious. It gives new meaning to the term 'pay phone.'"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_phonetaxoct13,0,6081251.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
McCain: Romney not 'the only real Republican'
by Mark Silva
Now is the time when the front-runners learn what it means to be front-runners.
With Sen. Hillary Clinton leading the pack of Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Barack Obama has turned his sights on her -- challenging her for her stance on the war.
With former Mayor Rudy Giuliani leading the pack of Republican candidates in national polling, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has turned his sights on him -- challenging Giuliani for his fiscal stewardship of New York City and his commitment to conservative principles such as attainment of the line-item veto for the president.
And with Romney leading his party's polling in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is taking aim today at Romney -- challenging Romney's self-claimed credentials as the most Republican of his party's pack.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/mccain_romney_not_the_only_rea.html
Vatican Bars Cleric Who Spoke of Gay Sex
By FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press Writer
2:22 PM CDT, October 13, 2007
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said Saturday it has suspended a monsignor from a senior post at the Holy See after an Italian TV program using a hidden camera recorded him making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful.
The Vatican did not identify the monsignor by name. But Monsignor Tommaso Stenico confirmed in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that he had been suspended from his post at the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy, an office which aims to ensure proper conduct by priests.
"Don't condemn me," Stenico said, adding that the program "was done fraudulently" because it used a hidden camera.
In the program on private Italian network La7, a man identified as a priest is heard saying that he "didn't feel he was sinning" by having sex with gay men.
Rome daily La Repubblica reported Saturday that Vatican officials recognized the monsignor's office in the background of the program, which aired Oct. 1.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-vatican-gay-monsignor,0,7423345.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
Bush pushes free trade, Democrats a veto override
by Mark Silva
Now comes the test.
Forget all the arguments about the "federalization'' of health care, or children versus the president of the United States. Can Congress override the president's veto of an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program? The veto override attempt is set for Thursday.
The Democrats have the votes in the Senate to override Bush, they believe. The House is another question -- perhaps 15 Republican votes short of an override. Those Republicans and more have been pummelled with ads and phone calls to constituents in their home districts over the past few weeks, and now the question is, will the president's veto hold?
But today, the president and Democratic leaders of Congress are talking past one another.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/bush_pushes_free_trade_democra.html
Food inspectors overwhelmed by workload
By Stephen J. Hedges Washington Bureau
9:24 AM CDT, October 13, 2007
WASHINGTON — As alarm bells sounded for the second-largest hamburger recall in history, the nation's top food safety officials were in Miami setting the "course for the next 100 years of food safety."
The fact that so many U.S. Department of Agriculture executives were in Florida studying the future when New Jersey-based Topps Meat Co. was scrambling, very much in the present, to recall 21.7 million pounds of hamburger patties — a full year's production run—has rankled some USDA inspectors and food safety advocates, who see it as a symbol of the department's attitude toward food safety enforcement.
Several USDA inspectors said in interviews that their workloads are doubling or tripling as they take on the duties of inspectors who have left the department, not to be replaced. The force has been reduced dramatically in recent years as vacancies are left unfilled.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-meat_bdoct14,1,7931300.story?ctrack=8&cset=true
Wearing virtue on our lapels
Kathleen Parker
October 10, 2007
WASHINGTON
The much ado about Barack Obama's decision not to wear an American flag lapel pin was, well, symbolic.
To follow the debate that followed the headline that followed the non-story about a dated decision is to witness where acute partisanship has led us. From the hue and cry on the right, you'd have thought Obama had flushed a Bible down the toilet.
What Obama did might have escaped anyone's notice but for what he said when a reporter in Iowa recently asked him about the pin. In the Age of Public Virtue, it is apparently essential that citizens flaunt their patriotism; crucial if they're running for public office.
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