The quake was too small to generate a tsunami, said Stuart Weinstein, assistant director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Al Gore's riveting documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" has focused public attention on the looming disaster of global warming and the associated flooding of coastal communities, extreme weather and destruction of habitat.

Most of us blame automotive and industrial emissions. But animal agriculture is a major culprit as well. It emits carbon dioxide from the burning of forests to create pastures and from combustion of fossil fuels to operate farm machinery, trucks, refrigeration equipment, factory farms and slaughterhouses. Methane is emitted from the digestive tracts of cattle and nitrous oxide from animal-waste cesspools.

Sol, or Mr. Sun to most people, is off the hook as it's radiance never increases or decreases over time influencing the climate. Cow farts, yeah that's it. Well then, it's time to kill every cow,buffalo and any other bovine related biological construct in order to save the planet. Sharpen your cutlery...

Eight explosions ripped through the trains, one after another, beginning around 6:30 p.m.

There was no claim of responsibility.

Muslim militant groups have been fighting Indian troops for years in Kashmir, a Himalayan territory claimed by both India and Pakistan. The train explosions in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, came hours after grenade attacks killed eight people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Those attacks resembled earlier strikes by Islamic terrorists.

The choice comes after several years of attacks from critics who saw the contract as a symbol of politically connected corporations profiteering on the war.

Who will we blame all of the World's problems on now? Michael Moore's shares in Halliburton will plummet. Murkier and murkier... Bubba opines:

The Republican strategy is weak, he said.

Proving a stopped clock is right twice a day. Let's see....what can I blame on Global Warming today? Here's something guaranteed to knot the undergarments of  environmentalists:

In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, at least one child has died and many more will have suffered needlessly from a disease that is entirely preventable and curable.

Malaria is responsible for the death of approximately one million African children every year and as many as three million people worldwide. Malaria is not only a human tragedy; it is an economic one as well.

In 2000, Sachs and Gallup estimated that in malarial countries the disease reduces per capita economic growth by 1.3% per year.
This equates to approximately $12 billion in forgone income.

Therefore, controlling malaria will not only reduce human suffering, but it will also allow people to work and sustain themselves and their families, which will help to alleviate human misery and poverty.

As has been widely reported and commented upon, one of the best ways to control malaria and reduce the burden is to stop the deadly anopheles mosquitoes from biting humans. One of the most effective ways of doing that is to spray tiny quantities of the insecticide environmentalists love to hate, dichloro-diphenyl-trichlo roethane (DDT), on the inside walls of houses in a process known as indoor residual spraying (IRS). DDT lasts for up to a year and primarily repels mosquitoes so that they won't even enter a sprayed house.

However, should they enter, it will kill the cunning beasts and protect the residents.

Despite its remarkable life-saving properties, DDT has a bad name, which it gets mostly from Rachel Carson's 1962 blockbuster book Silent Spring. Her writing raised the dark suspicion that DDT was upsetting the balance of nature. She was entirely dismissive of the fact that the chemical had saved millions of lives and continued to do so. Nor did she make it clear how judiciously and selectively the public-health community deployed DDT.

Carson's criticism was based almost entirely upon the fact that in agriculture, DDT was being sprayed indiscriminately. One of DDT's biggest assets, its inability to be broken down quickly, created the suspicion that it adversely affected the environment. It was for this reason that it was named as one of the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and included in a list of organic substances known as the dirty dozen. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies DDT as a possible carcinogen.

The World Health Organisation advocates the controlled use of DDT for public health and notes "the improvement in health resulting from malaria campaigns using DDT has broken the vicious circle of poverty and disease resulting in ample economic benefits" such as increased productivity of workers, lower rates of morbidity and the use of previously unoccupied areas that were ravaged by the parasite.

The World Health Organization has concluded that people are more productive and able to contribute to a burgeoning economy when they aren't dead. Rachel Carson's legacy lives on...

WASHINGTON -- Federal agents conducting a criminal investigation of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson were entitled to raid his congressional office, a federal judge ruled Monday, and prosecutors can immediately begin reviewing seized material, including the computer hard drives seized from the congressman and his staff.

The May 20-21 search, the first ever of a congressional office, was carried out as part of a nearly 16-month political corruption probe that has targeted the eight-term New Orleans Democrat. It had been challenged by attorneys for Jefferson and by House leaders of both parties who argued that the search was unnecessary to advance the investigation and that it violated the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches and the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution.

Ooh. This is a switch. Midway through the second paragraph they actually mention his party affliliation.

Bush actually threatens to veto something:

 President Bush likely will cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said Monday.

On Tuesday, White House officials are expected to announce that the tax receipts will be about $250 billion above last year's levels and that the deficit will be about $100 billion less than what they projected six months ago. The rising tide in tax payments has been building for months, but the increased scale is surprising even seasoned budget analysts and making it easier for both the administration and Congress to finesse the big run-up in spending over the past year.

Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted in February, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year.

Boortz opines thusly:

There was news over the weekend that the federal deficit (that is, the difference between what the government spends and what it collects, for those of you in government schools) is going to be smaller this year.  In fact, $100 billion less than previously forecast.  And the reason?  Why it's increased tax revenues, of course.  In fact, tax revenues are coming in twice as fast as predicted.

So where is all this money coming from?  Higher than usual tax receipts from corporations...and an increase in revenues from individual taxes on stock and bonuses.  The federal government is swimming in cash.  You may be wondering what prompted such an increase.  Surely the federal government must have raised taxes. Nope.

Actually, it was the other way around.  These increased revenues can be directly attributed to the Bush tax cuts of 2003, particularly the cut in taxes on stock dividends.  It's simple: give people more of their own money back and they'll put it to work, creating additional revenues.  Over the years, in case after case, cutting taxes has increased tax dollars flowing into the treasury.  This is blasphemy to the left....they want to collect more of your money to pay for all of their vote-buying schemes.

Now..if simply cutting these taxes causes all of this economic activity, imagine what eliminating the income tax altogether would do?  That would be the beauty of the Fair Tax. Remove all income taxes.  Unleash the economy.  When that happens, the federal government will have so much money it won't know what to do with it. And that would truly be a first.

...and of course plugs his pet project the Fair Tax (a consumption tax in place of income tax) in the process. Which I support. Imagine going to bed every night with your taxes paid in full. No more quarterly check to the Vast Black Hole that is the gubbomint.

The Halliburton Orbital Death Laser strikes again: Building collapses on Upper East Side New York, no one killed. Nice try Mr. Vice President.

Tenison building on the Champs Elysees, you know the place where the French planted trees so the Nazis could march in the shade:

First there was hope and expectation, then there was undiluted joy, a reality check, exasperation, despair and finally deflation- that was the Champs Elysees during the World Cup final.

Now deflated soccer fans may enjoy the same shade the Nazi's enjoyed all those years ago. I tried to care about the World Cup and failed....



Something tells me Michael Moore's next epic cut and paste propaganda flick won't be as big a hit as Fahrenfat 9/11 was:

Michael Moore broke his "Sicko" silence on Friday, writing to an email list of his supporters that his follow-up docu to "Fahrenheit 9/11" is about three-quarters done and on target for a 2007 release by the Weinstein Co.

'Frankly, Larry, I think the problem here is that we are watching the failure of five years' worth of American diplomacy," Albright said Wednesday night. "I'm very worried about it, and I hope very much that we do have a review of our North Korean policy."

This is nothing new for Albright. Two weeks ago, she blamed North Korea's recent misbehavior and nuclear program on Bush's decision to go into Iraq — a patently absurd contention.

But Albright's latest comment represents an outrageous distortion of reality and history. For it was the administration of President Clinton — and his secretary of state, Albright that was in fact responsible for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons, and its continued defiance of international law. Albright's latest comment represents an outrageous distortion of reality and history. For it was the administration of President Clinton — and his secretary of state, Albright — that was in fact responsible for North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons, and its continued defiance of international law.

Indeed, a pattern of appeasement and blindness to the growing threats around us by the Clinton administration led us directly to where we are today. So, in light of Albright's comments, this would be a good time for a little review.

• 1993: North Korea threatens to leave the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. After conducting U.N. inspections there for a year and a half, former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Hans Blix warns he can't provide "any meaningful assurances" North Korea isn't making nuclear weapons.

• 1994: Under the "Agreed Framework" negotiated by the Clinton administration with help of ex-President Carter, North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons. In exchange, it gets billions in aid, including food, oil and modern nuclear reactors.

By 2000, according to a congressional report, North Korea would become the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid" in Asia. North Korea immediately starts cheating on the deal, acquiring nuclear know-how and material from Pakistan and China.

• 1998: A U.S. government report finds at least 1 million North Koreans have died of starvation as aid is used to kick-start the nuclear weapons program.

• 1998: Clinton's military chief of staff tells Congress North Korea has no active ballistic missile program. A week later, North Korea shoots a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan and toward Alaska.

• 1999: Clinton eases sanctions against North Korea. U.S. signs a $5 billion deal to build two nuclear reactors. North Korea diverts aid to speed WMD program. Mass starvation reportedly continues.

• 2000: Despite continued breaches of the "agreed framework," Albright travels to Pyongyang, where she cheerfully clinks glasses with Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il. Media hail the meeting as a diplomatic masterstroke by Clinton.

• 2002: New York Times headline: "North Korea Says It Has A Program On Nuclear Arms."

Madame Albright is correct in stating that North Korea's current saber rattling is the result of 5 years of failed diplomacy, she just got the years mixed up as Investors Business Daily put it:

It's just that the five failed years lasted from 1994 to 1999.

There's something to be said about a woman who can leg press 400 pounds...