Another reason to live in fear:
The once noble moose is now a sinister
polluter according to environmentalists.
The Carbon Fartprint of a belching moose is the equivalent of a 13,000 mile (kilometer, sorry) car journey:
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting. Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year. Bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas.
Really folks, isn't this whole debate getting a little stupid? Gingerbread houses collapsing, cow farts moose burps, termite digestive musings, woodpecker dung, the trapped air in Hitler's bunker, the trapped air in Archie Bunker, the passive outgassings of condiments, condominiums, condoms, I guess the only solution is to slaughter the entire moose population of the Planet Earth, as I think the United States has far more moose than Norway and gosh, we haven't even factored in what effect Kudu shit is having on our climate...we need to have another concert and force Mother Nature to take the Carbon Neutral Pledge.
The "Cut and Run" crowd is beginning to wake up and smell the coffee Part II:
Democratic leaders in Congress had planned to use August recess to raise the heat on Republicans to break with President Bush on the Iraq war. Instead, Democrats have been forced to recalibrate their own message in the face of recent positive signs on the security front, increasingly focusing their criticisms on what those military gains have not achieved: reconciliation among Iraq's diverse political factions.
But shouldn't we embrace the liberal axiom, Celebrate Diversity? Isn't diversity good?
And now the Democrats, along with wavering Republicans, will face an advertising blitz from Bush supporters determined to remain on offense. A new pressure group, Freedom's Watch, will unveil a month-long, $15 million television, radio and grass-roots campaign today designed to shore up support for Bush's policies before the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, lays out a White House assessment of the war's progress. The first installment of Petraeus's testimony is scheduled to be delivered before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a fact both the administration and congressional Democrats say is simply a scheduling coincidence.
Pit Bulls should not be tortured, electrocuted, starved or subjected to any of the dizzying panoply of sadistic techniques that fall under the "Vick Method" they should just be killed quickly, cleanly and humanely:
GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Two pit bull terriers broke into a house through a pet door Tuesday and attacked a woman in her bed, mauling her badly, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. The woman was able to grab a gun and try to shoot the dogs, then break away from the attack and lock herself in her car, where she called 911, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. The woman, who was not immediately identified, was taken to a hospital in Tacoma, where she was listed in serious condition. Officers planned to talk to the dogs' owner. The pit bulls also killed a neighbor's Jack Russell terrier, which entered the house during the attack, Troyer said. "The thought is that the Jack Russell heard noise in the neighbor's house, came in and was attacked by the dogs," Troyer said. Firefighters responded first, locking the dogs in the house, treating the woman and calling for an ambulance. Officers "had to pepper spray and fight the dogs until they were detained. We almost had to shoot them on site," Troyer said. The dogs were taken to a Humane Society and will probably be destroyed, he said. It was not immediately known why the dogs entered the house, whether the woman had dogs of her own or what set off the attack.
The Lightning Round:
The Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen water boards Michael Chrichton in secret ceremony! Karl Rove still quitting! Global Warming's Wrath! Bin Laden now turning up on t-shirts ala Che! Mrs. Obama pounds Hillary. The latest U.S. Military atrocities in Iraq. Boortz: How long since a hurricane has hit the United States? Well ... almost two years now! That sure leaves a lot of pissed-off global warming cultists crying in their lattes.
It's official: Republicans are stupid, Democrats read more books than Republicans:
Book Chief: Conservatives Want Slogans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why—and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation. "The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: 'No, don't raise my taxes, no new taxes,'" Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. "It's pretty hard to write a book saying, 'No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes' on every page."
Yes, Patty dear, it's republicans who are embracing such slogans as: Bush Lied, Thousands Died, No Blood for Oil, Another One Percent for Peace, Impeach Bush, It's the Economy Stupid, Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they're open, (Translation: They only function when they're Liberal), Hate is not a family value, Give Peace a Chance, Impeach Cheney, Question Authority (unless they're in power of course), 51% is not a mandate, Go Green, Cheney-Satan '08, Support our Troops Bring Them Home, Arms are for Hugging, Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican, Don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Offsets and a plethora of others, it appears the Carvilles of the world have built a generation of sloganeers as well. Or are all of these novels? |
