Measuring the quality of people's daily lives via surveys, the results of a study published in the June 30 issue of journal Science reveals that income plays a rather insignificant role in day-to-day happiness.

...so it must buy some happiness. Can money buy you some love? Yes, it can, but I'm not sure I'd call it love.. Palestiniam PM condemns Gaza raid:

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has denounced Israel's offensive in Gaza as an attempt to bring down the Hamas-led government.

Damn. And I had such faith in a Hamas led government. I thought this was finally it.

Supreme Court ties Americas Hands?

The Supreme Court has pulled the rug out from under President HitlerBurton W. McChimpstein in dramatic fashion with its verdict that he has no authority to try terror suspects in military tribunals.

Put me firmly in the 3 regarding this 5-3 decision. I know, I'm a facist. John Murtha missing a golden opprotunity to jump on this bandwagon:

U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family

BEIJI, Iraq - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq.

...or has he already weighed in on this one and I just missed it? Teen commandeers shuttle into Space, claims it for her own, lands in court. Ooh! Now's my big chance!

Armstrong, 42, touted a dubious Chinese software company, BluePoint, beginning in 1999, without disclosing that he accepted “below-market&rdquo ; shares in exchange for the glowing reports he posted on a site called Raging Bull, according to a 2003 civil suit that named him as a defendant. Floyd Schneider, a New Jersey mortgage broker and investigator of penny-stock scams, said he was a repeated target of Armstrong’s attacks because he criticized the finances and business models of firms Armstrong supported. “[Armstrong] was among the nastiest and ugliest stock touts from that era,” said Schneider. “The stocks he touted were dogs and rigged, so it makes sense that he had a deal with promoters.”

Hmmm...How many people lost money because of  Armstrong? I demand a frogmarch ala the wet dreams of Rove haters. Bush's approval rating soars. Radiohead singer is honest if nothing else. The amount of garbage created by worldwide Earth Day celebrations has to be staggering as well. It would be more environmentally friendly to cancel the holiday all together.

Saddam:  Toast? Mike Farrel and Ed Asner are missing a golden opprotunity here. Give Hussein a nickname like "Tookie" or Snugglebumps and his public image could change overnight. I hear he's written poetry in the slammer, that could soften his image, especially if the poems involve dafodils or sun kissed beaches.

They call me Beast of Baghdad.
They're hurtful and they're snide --
But that's because they've never seen
My sweet, poetic side.

Sure, I authorized some floggings,
And gassed to death some foes,
But I'm hoping now to show the world
The Saddam that no one knows.

This Saddam is filled with anguish
For all things mean and bad.
I weep for mankind's pain -- in fact,
My name begins with Sad.

You thought I'd hidden weapons
And I admit I did, in part:
My pen, it has a warhead
To warm the coldest heart.

Neither cell nor fetid rathole
Can still this plaintive wail.
I'll keep writing mush, I swear it
Till you get me outta jail.

Snugglebumps...

But surely Carter is merely part of what most people regard as a tiny cadre of "climate change skeptics" who disagree with the "vast majority of scientists" Gore cites?

No; Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field. 

Even among that fraction, many focus their studies on the impacts of climate change; biologists, for example, who study everything from insects to polar bears to poison ivy. "While many are highly skilled researchers, they generally do not have special knowledge about the causes of global climate change," explains former University of Winnipeg climatology professor Dr. Tim Ball. (This is key) "They usually can tell us only about the effects of changes in the local environment where they conduct their studies." 

Here is a small sample of the side of the debate we almost never hear:

Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"

Read on. I was watching a program on the Science Channel recently that catalogued all the drastic climate change the Earth has gone through in it's billions of years + history and it makes the debate over the "modest warming" we're experiencing now look stupid.

Murtha may have to take the stand:

A criminal defense attorney for a Marine under investigation in the Haditha killings says he will call a senior Democratic congressman as a trial witness, if his client is charged, to find out who told the lawmaker that U.S. troops are guilty of cold-blooded murder.   Mr. Puckett said such public comments from a congressman via senior Marines amount to "unlawful command influence." He said potential Marine jurors could be biased by the knowledge that their commandant, the Corps' top officer, thinks the Haditha Marines are guilty.

Experts: Climate Change leads to Soccer Hooliganism.



Lake Tahoe pollution caused by Industry? Big Bidness? Big Oil? Bush? Cheney? Halliburton? Corporations? Neo Cons? No, geese!

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Officials are looking to capture some of Lake Tahoe's biggest polluters: Canada geese. A sewage spill at the lake last summer "is nothing compared to what's happening with these geese," said Jack Spencer, a Department of Agriculture wildlife biologist.  A 10-pound Canada goose can produce four pounds of nitrate- and phosphate-rich feces every day it waddles across the beaches, lawns and golf courses of Tahoe.



Holy Shit!! 

Lieberman may go Independent. Boortz puts it thus:

It's pretty bad when one of the best politicians the Democratic party has winds up having to leave the party...just to stay in office.

I think that column he wrote a while back extolling the many positive developments in Iraq may have sealed his fate with the vein popping, anti- war, Bush Haters that comprise a significant percentage of the Democratic Party these days. I still can't believe he was on the same ticket with that thing in 2000.

Iraq Security Advisor: Al-Queda facing it's end.

Iraq's national security advisor says last week's killing of terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi signals "the beginning of the end" of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Worldeater Bush:  Sunglasses remark causes controversy. The President probably thought the reporter was merely shielding himself from the negative effects of republican environmental policies.  Jesse Jackson plans Million Man March to protest the Republic of Montenegro. 

"Good to see you," a beaming Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Bush shortly after his arrival at a palace used by the U.S. Embassy.Bush replied as they shook hands, "Thanks for having me."Bush was eager to show progress in Iraq and restore American confidence in his handling of the war.It was his second visit to Iraq and his first since November 2003.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent Bilderberger conference in Ottowa?Bob Redford: Just what the world needs, more actors as scientists. I wonder where his tinfoil hat was when it went off? Obviously not on his head. Michael Jackson shows us his Global Warming scars.

"However, these documents may not answer every valid question, and conclusions may change based on new documentation."

New England Clown seeks to rehabilitate his image:

Pennywise: "I can be a positive role model for children...really!" Rafting trip is in the works.

Quote of the Day- Michael Barone:

A substantial part of the Democratic Party, some of its politicians and many of its loudest supporters do not want America to succeed in Iraq. So vitriolic and all-consuming is their hatred for George W. Bush that they skip right over the worthy goals we have been, with some considerable success, seeking there -- a democratic government, with guaranteed liberties for all, a vibrant free economy, respect for women -- and call this a war for oil, or for Halliburton.

Al-Zarqawi and seven aides, including spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul Rahman, were killed Wednesday evening in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala, just east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, officials said.