Sloppy thinking gets worse over time
"We face an enemy that has an ideology,'' Mr. Bush continued. "They believe things. The best way to describe their ideology is to relate to you the fact that they think the opposite of the way we think."
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Cooling towers could be evolutionary hotspots for new respiratory diseases.
Many species of bacteria, including those that cause legionnaires' disease, are thought to have evolved in association with an amoebic host. Now it seems that the warm, wet conditions found in cooling towers at factories and oil refineries make them a perfect spot for amoebas and bacteria to thrive, increasing the chances of new strains of pathogenic bacteria emerging.
Sharon Berk of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville and her colleagues have found that amoebas in cooling towers are about 16 times as likely to host bacteria as those in ponds and lakes. "It's a problem that we have suspected, but now this confirms it," says Jeffrey Cirillo, a microbiologist at Texas A&M University in College Station.
Genetic tests identified several previously unknown strains of bacteria, including some that were similar to Legionella pneumophila, the cause of legionnaires' disease. Berk suggests that they might have been missed in the past because many of the bacteria could not be cultured outside of amoebas.
The cause of up to 50 per cent of pneumonia cases is unknown, and Berk says cooling towers might be one source of these pathogens, creating aerosols that help them to spread more widely. Cirillo says cooling towers should now be monitored for emerging pathogens.
Suzy, you just got to town, and we've been . . . we've been very interested in your developmentIf we have been patient until now, it does not mean we will be patient forever, but we are not obliged to reveal the limits of our patience,
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but it is.If you can watch this entire video, and still use an electronic voting machine, you deserve the government you get. If your state or district has decided to use electronic voting machines this November demand an absentee ballot today. Watch this video. Then join those of us who have decided that since paper was good enough for our constitution, it's good enough for our vote too.
published this photo earlierOn the bright side, there's no better time for saying goodbye to the world than just as the mainstream press is gearing up to inundate us with speculation regarding the death of JonBenet Ramsey, from broadcast locations in Boulder, Colorado. That we will be spared Greta Van Susteren's daily musings about what might or might not have happened, surely, must prove the existence of a loving and merciful God.
And so we prepare to meet Him with joy and gratitude. ®
The wisecrack at the TSA's expense actually strikes at the heart of a long-standing conundrum in the philosophy of language: how do we determine the intended domain of everyone and similar quantifiers? In the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, the question has been posed as a challenge to Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions. Russell's theory is not well-equipped to deal with incomplete descriptions where quantifier domains must be inferred from pragmatic context.
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
- Barbara Tuchman
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In the days before the hurricane, when other citizens of New Orleans were ordered to leave, city leaders were asked: "What about the prisoners in the jail?"
"The prisoners will stay where they belong," replied Marlin Gusman, the criminal sheriff in charge of the city jail.
But it was a gamble he would regret.
"It's a sad day for humanity when promising young men choose to turn household items into bombs rather than drugs."
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Nobody likes the idea of Peak Oil. Firstly, you have the politicians. Naturally, a politician will never say that there is such a thing as Peak Oil. It is suicide to give bad news, so a politician will never do that...Secondly you have the media. The media do not like Peak Oil. Why? There is no sponsorship for Peak Oil. The oil companies do not like Peak Oil because you should not say that your soup is cold; you should always say that it is very hot and very tasty, yes? So nobody wants to hear of this phenomenon of Peak Oil.
...there were times when the IRA would cross from the Irish Republic into northern Ireland to kill British soldiers. And they did murder and kill British soldiers. But we, the British, didn't hold the Irish government responsible. We didn't send the Royal Air Force to bomb Dublin power stations and Galway and Cork. We didn't send our tanks across the border to shell the hill villages of Cavan or Monaghan or Louth or Donegal. Blair wouldn't dream of doing that, because he believes he's a moral man, he's a civilized man. He wouldn't treat another nation like that.
Not my pet goatOh, and one other thing. Why did the Pentagon release the full NORAD recording from 9/11 to a film producer but not to anyone else? Shouldn't this have been publicly released long ago if it wasn't classified?
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but it most assuredly is.
Read up
A misnomer to say the least.
And I doubt you could blame an atheist.
you can leave your socks on.
More money cascading down the rat hole.
We're the phone company
Shock over Lebanon could turn Shiites against U.S.
as explained by the Pundit.
for those of you in the know, this is insanely good (+difficult)
for once
from one James Jones.
Follow the links
It's all around.
or is it delusional
or is it the Children of Light vs. Children of Darkness rhetoric?
Coming soon
Funny money, an American tradition.
Beating back the sea with a stick.
and mongering is obvious.
Ghost town
4, 5, 6, 8, 11, ???
that Gordian knot.
from the Cato Institute
obscurantism.
over a barrel
A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Myopia unbound
ssshhhhhh!!!
