- Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor work. Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all like how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work.
Noonan: It’s over.
Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: Don’t you think the Palin pick was insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too (inaudible)
Noonan: I saw Kay this morning.
Murphy: They’re all bummed out. I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
Todd: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and (inaudible) the picture.
Yeah, but what’s the narrative?
Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.
Murphy: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical.
And as you call it gimmicky.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Peggy Noonan & Mike Murphy - You've been YouTubed!
Hear what the repugicans really think of Palin:
Palin speaks
Just heard Palin speak for her time at the gathering and it it not go well.
She sounded nervous as a whore on the front row in church and the sermon was about fornication.
Her attempts at folksy and at humor failed miserably and her overall timing and cadence was off throughout the entire session.
Her negative tone and litany of lies made the entire thing a farce.
On the whole the whole evening was a classic lesson on negativity and hate with all the caterwauling from every drone mouthing the dogmatic line.
Enough is enough ... that is what America is saying.
But as usual amerikkka doesn't listen.
They just don't get it.
She sounded nervous as a whore on the front row in church and the sermon was about fornication.
Her attempts at folksy and at humor failed miserably and her overall timing and cadence was off throughout the entire session.
Her negative tone and litany of lies made the entire thing a farce.
On the whole the whole evening was a classic lesson on negativity and hate with all the caterwauling from every drone mouthing the dogmatic line.
Enough is enough ... that is what America is saying.
But as usual amerikkka doesn't listen.
They just don't get it.
Security guards beat man in soccer arena, then get beat up by players, fans
Security guards break in their nightsticks on a banner-waving soccer fan running across the arena, prompting players and fans to storm the field and beat up the guards.
Serves them right!
Canada looses 19 square miles
A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.
Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
"The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared.
We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf.
It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Mueller.
Mueller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles - or 60 percent - and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.
Mueller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.
This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer.
And earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.
"These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate that the environmental conditions that have kept these ice shelves in balance for thousands of years are no longer present," said Mueller.
During the last century, when ice shelves would break off, thick sea ice would eventually reform in their place.
"But today, warmer temperatures and a changing climate means there's no hope for regrowth. A scary scenario," said Mueller.
The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.
"The Markham Ice Shelf had half the biomass for the entire Canadian Arctic Ice Shelf ecosystem as a habitat for cold, tolerant microbial life; algae that sit on top of the ice shelf and photosynthesis like plants would.
Now that it's disappeared, we're looking at ecosystems on the verge of extinction,' said Mueller.
Along with decimating ecosystems, drifting ice shelves and warmer temperatures that will cause further melting ice pose a hazard to populated shipping routes in the Arctic region
"Reduced sea ice conditions and unusually high air temperatures have facilitated the ice shelf losses this summer," said Luke Copland, director of the Laboratory for Cryospheric Research at the University of Ottawa.
"And extensive new cracks across remaining parts of the largest remaining ice shelf, the Ward Hunt, mean that it will continue to disintegrate in the coming years."
Formed by accumulating snow and freezing meltwater, ice shelves are large platforms of thick, ancient sea ice that float on the ocean's surface but are connected to land.
Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
"The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared.
We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf.
It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Mueller.
Mueller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles - or 60 percent - and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.
Mueller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.
This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer.
And earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.
"These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate that the environmental conditions that have kept these ice shelves in balance for thousands of years are no longer present," said Mueller.
During the last century, when ice shelves would break off, thick sea ice would eventually reform in their place.
"But today, warmer temperatures and a changing climate means there's no hope for regrowth. A scary scenario," said Mueller.
The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.
"The Markham Ice Shelf had half the biomass for the entire Canadian Arctic Ice Shelf ecosystem as a habitat for cold, tolerant microbial life; algae that sit on top of the ice shelf and photosynthesis like plants would.
Now that it's disappeared, we're looking at ecosystems on the verge of extinction,' said Mueller.
Along with decimating ecosystems, drifting ice shelves and warmer temperatures that will cause further melting ice pose a hazard to populated shipping routes in the Arctic region
"Reduced sea ice conditions and unusually high air temperatures have facilitated the ice shelf losses this summer," said Luke Copland, director of the Laboratory for Cryospheric Research at the University of Ottawa.
"And extensive new cracks across remaining parts of the largest remaining ice shelf, the Ward Hunt, mean that it will continue to disintegrate in the coming years."
Formed by accumulating snow and freezing meltwater, ice shelves are large platforms of thick, ancient sea ice that float on the ocean's surface but are connected to land.
The Idiots speak ...
The idiots in Minneapolis speak and thereby reprove the adage -
In Fred Thompson's speech last night he said that the Democrats are afraid of Palin
One Democrat responded with this ... "Are we afraid, let me respond this way. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA."
Oh, the pain from the belly-laughs - afraid of Palin ... about as much as, well I don't know as much as ... what's as much as nothing?
Tis better thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!
In Fred Thompson's speech last night he said that the Democrats are afraid of Palin
One Democrat responded with this ... "Are we afraid, let me respond this way. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA."
Oh, the pain from the belly-laughs - afraid of Palin ... about as much as, well I don't know as much as ... what's as much as nothing?
And I Quote
The House Republican brand is so bad right now that if it were a dog food, they'd take it off the shelf.
~ Representative Thomas M. Davis III (r-VA)
~ Representative Thomas M. Davis III (r-VA)
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
Excerpt:
Earlier this year, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin used her line-item veto to slash funding
for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.
A would-be banner of books
Question: Do we want this type to be Vice President of these United States?
Answer: No!
Answer: No!
Time Magazine says that when Sarah Palin took office as mayor, she approached the town librarian and asked how to go about banning books from the town library:
[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
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Israeli archaeologists uncover parts of ancient wall
Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered new sections of Jerusalem's ancient walls, continuing a project started more than a century ago.
Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority said that he located two wall segments just south of the Old City.
The project continues work begun in the 1890s by American archaeologist Frederick Bliss and his British assistant, Archibald Dickie.
The two tunneled along the length of the ancient wall and marked its route.
The modern diggers found beer bottles, a lamp and a shoe that Bliss and Dickie's team left behind.
They also found part of a wall built by the Hasmonean dynasty 2,100 years ago, and another section built by Byzantine rulers five centuries later.
The find will help scholars accurately outline the borders of historical Jerusalem.
It is always interesting at an archaeological dig - you never know what you will find.
Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority said that he located two wall segments just south of the Old City.
The project continues work begun in the 1890s by American archaeologist Frederick Bliss and his British assistant, Archibald Dickie.
The two tunneled along the length of the ancient wall and marked its route.
The modern diggers found beer bottles, a lamp and a shoe that Bliss and Dickie's team left behind.
They also found part of a wall built by the Hasmonean dynasty 2,100 years ago, and another section built by Byzantine rulers five centuries later.
The find will help scholars accurately outline the borders of historical Jerusalem.
It is always interesting at an archaeological dig - you never know what you will find.
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