Too true
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 19:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
“The Democrats have a habit of going for the capillaries.” — organizer at an antiwar planning meeting.
Archive for March 31st, 2007
Global warming is already causing major damage
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 18:51 - Category: Climate change ;
Climate change is already threatening vital infrastructure such as road and rail networks, water and energy systems and healthcare, and the damage will worsen, the world’s leading climate scientists [at IPCC] will warn [on Friday]
Check MetOffice.gov.uk, a UK government site aimed at helping businesses cope with, adapt to, and understand global. They are light years ahead of the US government on this. While Dubya and the others in the Flat Earth Society lie, evade, and distort facts, the British government is actively helping businesses deal with climate change, as are most governments on the planet.
Meankids and Kathy Sierra
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 09:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
So someone starts a site, MeanKids, to deliberately bash another blogger, Kathy Sierra, then is shocked, just shocked, when the bashing gets vicious. Spare me the bullshit. What happened is precisely what they encouraged to happen. Sierra ended up getting death threats and vile photoshopped images of her were posted. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
This is quite exactly like the small number of pro-war protestors on March 17 at the DC antiwar march and rally who spat on Iraq war veterans, insulted marchers carrying pictures of their children who’d been killed in combat, and screamed an unending stream of sexual insults at passing women. I’m sure Dubya must be proud of them as must be the assholes who started a site to deliberately attack a woman then sat back and let it spin out of control.
Pondscum all.
Bee population collapsing
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
The bee population in North American and Europe is crashing at an alarming rate. Bees pollinate plants, without them, there will be no crops. Causes for the population crash, which is up to 70% on the east coast of the US, appear to be the usual culprits; monoculture, pesticides, and GM crops.
This is genuinely scary stuff. Celsias has a series of in-depth articles that explain what’s happening.
Bees dying by the millions
Bee colony collapse disorder, where is it heading
European bees taking a nosedive
Predictably, governments are asleep at the wheel, and little research money is available. Can’t be having a little thing like a collapsing bee population interfere with agricultural companies making money.
Subprime mortgage collapse impact widespread
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 00:15 - Category: Credit crisis ;
Mortgage brokers New Century Financial and Ameriquest, both based in Orange County, California have cratered spectacularly and have laid off thousands of workers. But the pain goes way beyond just them. Multiple other businesses like car dealers and restaurants are reporting drastically less income, condo prices in the area are down 17% since June, and office vacancy rates will double this year.
“It’s a huge engine that has been shut off,” McDermott said. “I don’t know where the new influx of jobs are if you take the lending market out of the equation.”
So, lots of people who weren’t even involved in subslime mortgages are getting hurt by this latest example of the boom-bust cycle of capitalism.
California being warmed by urbanization
Bob Morris @ Mar 31st 2007 00:08 - Category: Climate change ;
This on top of global warming…
“Exhaust from the SUV is just piling on,” he said. “One is heating you from above, the other is heating you from below.”
Urbanized areas do not cool at night as well as land in its natural state,
This is no doubt happening in other urban areas too.
