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let's hope we don't have to wait 2 years to give him the boot
the search problem has been around for quite a while... but I suppose it might explain the newer problem with ignore. I only have a very few on ignore, but it really makes a big difference given TOS is not enforced on some boards (as you can see from today's example). I'll be glad when it's fixed again.
it used to work properly.
it's pretty obvious that iHub's quality is slipping. Something else that use to work well doesn't work well at all anymore and it's by design... that's how you search past posts
and unfortunately the ignore feature isn't working as well as it used to...
No... I am opposed to corruption and greed especially when it's at the expense of other people's lives, health and well being.
I'm not going to get into a discussion on this board about tabacco or the oil companies and their lack of scruples.
I've made my point about this guys agenda which is obviously BIASED (bought and paid for) towards corporate interests that benefit from discrediting global warming.
ok give me a break... his donations come from corporations like Phillip Morris and ExxonMobil...
Phillip Morris... makers of death sticks
ExxonMobil... robber barrons
excellent quote
too bad more in this admin don't feel the same
if he helps corporations fight "corporate social responsibility", he is pure slime IMO
did you read what he does? who pays him? who he supports?
SPECIAL INTEREST ANNIVERSARY - BUSH STYLE
One year ago this month, President Bush signed the Republican energy bill, giving $8 billion in tax breaks to energy companies. Since then, the American people continue to struggle just to fill up their gas tanks (Yikes! gas prices are up 65% since Bush's second inauguration.) One year after passing the Republican energy plan, America is no closer to becoming energy independent. Adding insult to injury, now we hear about British Petroleum's (BP) closure of a key Alaskan oilfield due to infrastructure problems. Seems Republican oversight of our critical resources is severely lacking. Once again, Republicans in Washington are favoring their special interest friends over the American consumer. It's a kick to the gut just as millions of American families are hoping to take a summer's vacation before the kids return to school.
Energy companies, which have given generously to the Bush White House and rubber stamp Republican Congress, have raked in record profits. In fact, this year, three of the largest oil companies reported nearly $30 billion in income, and their CEOs made millions. And don't forget that the oil industry helped write the Republican energy bill. The White House still refuses to reveal who was part of the Bush-Cheney Energy Task Force - doesn't that say it all?
Who is standing up for the American consumer? Democrats have a plan to make America energy independent by 2020 that includes investment in alternative fuels and energy conservation.
Record Prices...
Since Bush's 2nd Inauguration, Gas Prices Have Risen $1.20, a 65 % Increase. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the price of regular, unleaded, gasoline has risen by $1.20, or 65%, since Bush's 2nd inauguration. On January 17, 2005, just before Bush's second inauguration, the average price of gasoline was $1.84 a gallon. As of August 7, 2006, the average price of gasoline is $3.04 per gallon. And Since Bush's 1st Inauguration, Gas Prices Have Doubled. [Energy Information Administration, www.eia.doe.gov]
...And Record Profits
ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips Reported Net Income of $27 Billion for First Half of 2006. ExxonMobil reported net income of $18.76 billion for the first half of 2006, with second quarter earnings of $10.36 billion. ConocoPhillips reported second-quarter net income of $5.186 billion, bringing its net income for the first six months to $8.48 billion. ChevronTexaco reported second quarter net income of $4.35 billion, bringing its six month total to $8.35 billion. [ConocoPhillips Press Release, 7/26/06; ExxonMobil Press Release, 7/27/06; Chevron Texaco Press Release, 7/28/06]
...And Record CEO Salaries
ConocoPhillips CEO Received Nearly $31 Million in Bonuses and Stock Options. ChevronTexaco CEO Received Nearly $9 Million in Bonuses and Stock Options. ExxonMobil CEO Received Nearly $4 Million in Bonuses and Stock Options. [Forbes, accessed 8/8/06]
...And Bush Is in the Oil Companies' Pockets
Energy Bill Rewards Bush Fundraisers. According to the Washington Post, the 2004 Republican energy bill, nearly identical to the current one, provided billions of dollars in benefits to companies run by at least 22 executives and their spouses who were either "Pioneers" or "Rangers," as well as to the clients of at least 15 lobbyists and their spouses who have achieved similar status as fundraisers. The energy bill provides industry tax breaks worth $23.5 billion over 10 years aimed at increasing domestic oil and gas production, and $5.4 billion in subsidies and loan guarantees. [Washington Post, 11/24/05]
<< from email from democrats.org >>
The GOP's Real Record Of Failure To Keep America Safe
9/11 Commission Gave Bush Administration An "F" On Improving Airline Passenger Pre-screening.
9/11 Commission Gave Bush Administration A "C" On Improving Airline Screening Checkpoints To Detect Explosives.
Republicans Voted Against $1.1 Billion for Aviation Security and $720 Million for Airport Security.
Bush Administration and Republican Congress Underfunded Border Security Called For By 9/11 Act
<< from email democrats.org >>
excellent point :)
he's pure slime...
check out his other site...
http://www.csrwatch.com/Sub/Resources/about.htm
his own site confirms some of the info
Mr. Milloy is a frequent advocate for free enterprise/free market principles and policies in conjunction with the Free Enterprise Education Institute. FEEI is supported by individuals, foundations and businesses, including ExxonMobil.
Mr. Milloy is president of Steven J. Milloy, Inc., which provides news and consulting services on environment- and health-related public policy issues to food, beverage, and other consumer product businesses and organizations.
http://www.junkscience.com/Junkman.html
AND... notice how difficult it is to find this page from the home page... it's either a VERY POORLY designed website or deliberately deceptive
Many people are now questioning the competence of Rumsfeld. That is also a legitimate question.
how many retired generals came out a couple of months ago calling for his resignation? very significant.
I think the good news is that the majority of people are onto that name calling game and it's not going to be as effective in this next election
Rove's childish games are starting to back fire... finally.
lol... can't I build my wings before I leap???
Pundit Payola...
how do you find these guys???
Steven Milloy is currently a columnist for Fox News. He is also a paid advocate for Phillip Morris[1], and ExxonMobil[2]. From the 1990s until the end of 2005, he was an adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Milloy runs the website Junkscience.com, which is dedicated to debunking what he alleges to be false claims regarding global warming, DDT, environmental radicalism and ozone depletion among other topics.[3] His other website, CSRWatch.com, is focused around attacking the corporate social responsibility movement. He is also head of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, a mutual fund he runs with tobacco executive Tom Borelli, who is listed as the secretary of the Advancement of Sound Science Center, a nonprofit Milloy operates from his home in Potomac, Maryland .
In January 2006, Paul D. Thacker reported in The New Republic that Milloy has received thousands of dollars in payments from the Phillip Morris company since the early nineties, and that NGOs controlled by Milloy have received large payments from ExxonMobil. A spokesperson for Fox News stated, "Fox News was unaware of Milloy's connection with Philip Morris. Any affiliation he had should have been disclosed." The payments are seen as another example of "pundit payola."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy
read Black Box Voting by Bev Harris
and if iHub wasn't so messed up you could search my old posts for Black Box Voting or Bev Harris and find that info...
as far as I know nothing has changed with electronic voting machines... the GOP still controls them... there are still not paper backups or recounts on demand... therefore, it doesn't matter who the majority of people vote for... what matters is who is doing the counting
Ignore Filter not working correctly?
I've noticed recently that someone I have on ignore shows up when I use my favorite board list to click to the next unread post for a board.
re "utter fraud"
count on it... pun intended
"Because it worked so well the first time"
"Ridding the world of laughter, one pint at a time"
???
you got a reaction similar to that when they are challenged to list Bush's successes...
"This finding just has to cause despair among those of us who hope for an informed public able to draw reasonable conclusions based on evidence,"
sure does
I didn't know there was a prohibitionist party.
And, although I agree with the idea behind it, I firmly believe that our government shouldn't make these products illegal only because it will make them even more desireable especially to young people.
What I do support is ending subsidies for these industries, opening them up to legal liability and not supporting candidates who accept their contributions.
The US is reponsible for the lions share... we can make a difference if we put our minds to it.
We have to be an example... clean up our own house before we can even say anything about what others are doing.
if you had spent a moment to follow the "TAKE ACTION" link, you would have seen a bunch of things like this...
Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)
CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds! You can purchase CFLs online from the Energy Federation.
Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer
Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has more tips for saving energy on heating and cooling.
Clean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner
Cleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
etc
same goes for me as well :)
that's pretty pessimistic. have to keep looking for solutions and working on the problem. and all each of us can do is our small part.
At this site there are things we can do at home to help...
http://climatecrisis.org/
there are a few things that do have some sentimental value and I have a feeling I'll be keeping those in my garage for the next year until they come back :) sigh... my garage seems to be the never ending storage space for the family lol
because you pay for Times Select pieces... so you need to pay to read the whole thing... it's not a freebee
Time for Plan B
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: August 4, 2006
Times Select piece... an excerpt:
It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq. We are baby-sitting a civil war.
....
But the administration now has to admit what anyone — including myself — who believed in the importance of getting Iraq right has to admit: Whether for Bush reasons or Arab reasons, it is not happening, and we can’t throw more good lives after good lives.
...
The longer we maintain a unilateral failing strategy in Iraq, the harder it will be to build such a coalition, and the stronger the enemies of freedom will become.
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/08/04/opinion/04friedman.html?th&emc=th
[edit] I want to add, I don't agree with his Plan B strategy... it's a waste of time and more importantly, a waste of lives.
thanks for the info! I thought it would be pricey, but that's even worse than I suspected.
looks like we have a consensus on the best way to go :)
sounds like that's the best way to go :)
Yes, it's some furniture and boxes. I have checked out several truck rental places and they all seem priced about the same. I thought of calling a bigger mover, and may try that but have a feeling it will be pricey as well.
I even considered using my SUV and towing a trailer but the cost of gas makes that ridiculous as well especially because then I'd have to go round trip (3000 miles) and it would take alot of time out of my schedule.
I think at this point, I'm recommending they sell their stuff here and buy new/used when they get there.
Scientists Predict Extinctions from Global Warming
Global warming has extended the destructive reach of humankind. Plants and animals far from human habitation are now threatened by the climate change resulting from the carbon we release into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels. In fact, according to a new study, global warming may surpass other by-products of human activity, such as deforestation, in driving species into extinction.
Forester Jay Malcolm of the University of Toronto and his international team of conservation professionals looked at the changes to vegetation types, or biomes, in 25 so-called hot spots--unique ecosystems with a wide range of endemic species. The researchers modeled what would happen to the plants in these areas if the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide doubled in the next 100 years.
Under a number of scenarios--ranging from broadly defined biomes in which species were able to spread away from impacted areas to highly sensitive biomes whose species could not move at all--anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of plant and animal species were lost. "Climate change is rapidly becoming the most serious threat to the planet's biodiversity," Malcolm says. "This study provides even stronger scientific evidence that global warming will result in catastrophic species loss across the planet."
Areas most at risk, according to this study, include the tropical Andes, southwest Australia, California and South Africa, primarily because these areas present the least opportunity for species to migrate away from the problem. For example, South African animals are blocked by the ocean from moving farther south in response to a different climate.
Describing their work in the current issue of Conservation Biology the scientists note that the findings back similar results from other studies. And limited research into more widespread biomes showed comparable extinction rates. "The hot spots studied in this paper are essentially refugee camps for many of our planet's most unique plant and animal species," adds co-author Lee Hannah of Conservation International. "If those areas are no longer habitable due to global warming then we will quite literally be destroying the last sanctuaries many of these species have left." --David Biello
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000080CA-1C3D-143C-9C3D83414B7F0000
Taller mountains a result of global warming
Earth's crust, flexed inward from heavy glaciers, moves out when ice melts
By Ker Than
LiveScience staff writer
Updated: 7:48 p.m. PT Aug 4, 2006
The mountains in Europe are growing taller and global warming is partly responsible, scientists say.
Heavy glaciers cause the Earth's crust to flex inward slightly. When glaciers disappear, the crust springs back and the overlaying mountains are thrust skyward, albeit slowly.
The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.
The finding is detailed in the July Issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
The conclusion is based on a new computer model that assumes that over time scales of a few years to thousands of years, the surface of the Earth behaves like a very thick fluid.
"Imagine honey or molasses, only a billion, billion times more viscous," said study leader Valentino Barletta of the University of Milan in Italy. If a heavy object is placed on the surface of such a fluid, it sinks until a balance is reached between the forces of gravity pulling it down and the buoyancy keeping it afloat.
"When you remove the weight, the viscous fluid takes some time to refill the depression that's left behind," Barletta told LiveScience.
This is, scientists day, precisely what's occurring in the Alps. As the glaciers melt and the mountains are freed of their heavy burdens, the surface of the Earth springs back very slowly. This effect is well studied and it occurs in North America, too.
The region where the most uplift is occurring is in the French Alps near Mount Blanc, the tallest mountain in Western Europe. The mountains in this region are growing at a rate of about .035 inches per year. In 50 years, they will be about 1.8 inches taller than today. The average maximum growth for the rest of the Alps is a more modest .013 inches per year.
Glacier shrinkage accounts for half of the observed increase, while other geological factors, such as active shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates, drainage and erosion, are responsible for the rest, the researchers say.
Glaciers have been shrinking almost continuously since 1850, but the process has sped up in recent decades because of global warming, Barletta said.
Other studies found that from 1850 to the 1970s, glaciers in the European Alps shrunk by 35 percent. In only the past 30 years, however, the rate of melting has accelerated to the point that the 5,150 glaciers now cover only 50 percent of the area they once did.
Some scientists estimate that if summer air temperatures warm by 5 degrees Fahrenheit (3 Celsius) by the end of the century, 80 percent of the Alps' glacial covering will be gone by 2100; if temperatures increase by 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 Celsius), the Alps will be almost completely ice-free by century's end.
Elsewhere, scientists have found that melting permafrost has caused portions of mountains to crumble and is making the ground sink right out from under buildings and railroads.
Whether the glaciers disappear or not, the Alps will continue to rise, pushed upwards by other geological forces until complete relaxation is reached, something that could take hundreds or thousands of years, Barletta said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14191961/
yeap, and why not stick our heads in a hornets nest while we're at it too! yippee!
let's get Bush out of office asap