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movies to see only if you are desperate for air conditioning (like I was):
A Prairie Home Companion (a few laugable moments, but a waste of wonderful acting talent)
You, Me and Dupree (yuk)
My Super-Ex Girlfriend (barely ok)
Monster House
very enjoyable movie with a few surprises :) Probably my most recent favorite after Lady in the Water
Global warming puts 12 US parks at risk: report
By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global warming puts 12 of the most famous U.S. national parks at risk, environmentalists said on Tuesday, conjuring up visions of Glacier National Park without glaciers and Yellowstone Park without grizzly bears.
All 12 parks are located in the American West, where temperatures have risen twice as fast as in the rest of the United States over the last 50 years, said Theo Spencer of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"Rising temperatures, drought, wildfires and diminished snowfalls endanger wildlife and threaten hiking, fishing and other recreational activities" in the parks, Spencer said in a telephone news conference. "Imagine Glacier Park without glaciers or Yellowstone without any grizzly bears."
Most climate scientists believe Earth's surface temperature has risen over the last century or more, spurred by human activities that produce greenhouse gases, which trap heat like the glass walls of a greenhouse. Some skeptics doubt that people affect global climate change and say temperature fluctuations have occurred throughout history.
The report released by the council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization stressed the connection between global warming and environmental damage at the parks, including the loss of specific wildlife, and called on the U.S. government to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly in 10 years.
The report blamed global warming for threatening grizzly bears, an iconic species in Yellowstone Park.
BEETLES AND BEARS
The bears feed on whitebark pine seeds, but global warming has encouraged beetles to infest whitebark trees that grow at high altitudes where grizzlies feed; cold weather would normally kill the beetles but this has not occurred in recent years, said Janet Barwick of the council's Wild Bears Project.
This in turn forces the bears to move to lower altitudes to look for food to fatten up for the winter, making them more likely to move into areas where there are people and that leads to an increase in grizzly mortality, Barwick said.
Glaciers and ice caves have melted in North Cascades and Mt. Rainier parks, and mountaintops in Western parks could be snow-free in summer within decades, said Stephen Saunders of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. He said all glaciers in Glacier National Park could be gone within 25 years.
The report said the parks at greatest risk are:
- Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico;
- Death Valley National Park, California;
- Glacier National Park, Montana;
- Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah and Arizona;
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California;
- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming;
- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado;
- Mount Rainier National Park, Washington state;
- North Cascades National Park, Washington state;
- Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado;
- Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho;
- Yosemite National Park, California.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060725/us_nm/environment_parks_dc
The Lady in the Water...
think this one is oscar material... liked the story, acting was good... special effects were poor
...thereby overriding the consciences of its individual members and removing any intellectual and moral limits on what will be justified in defense of their movement.
from one of their own... the one who testified re Watergate... a GOP conservative who remembers the integrity and ideals of a true conservative
funny how the "red" states are the ones getting the money from the feds while the "blue" states are mostly the ones giving...
what billboard in CA? do you live in CA?
thanks for the tip...
it's a little cooler today, but not much
it's been record breaking temps here in the bay area too... just umbearable. In the over ten years I've lived here I haven't had central air... didn't need it except a few days a year... it is now just too hot to do anything... I'm melting!
I've been seeing up to 115 degrees on the themometer built into my car... my home office is 90 degrees right now with a window air conditioner going full blast all the time
thanks for posting them!
very strong volume... looks like it's holding...
lol... thats what I was saying to a friend yesterday... feels like Las Vegas
that's right... just as I don't agree with the government giving money to faith based charities as well
are you having a heat wave up north?
it's soo unbearable here... high today at 111
sounds about right.
Inflation Crossroads
Published: July 22, 2006
The stock market went a little manic last week. On Wednesday, prices surged, buoyed by investors’ belief that rising inflation would not (necessarily) compel the Federal Reserve to continue in its two-year-old campaign to raise interest rates. On Thursday and Friday, prices dropped, as those same investors apparently changed their minds. But there’s no such ambiguity when it comes to the impact of inflation on consumers, especially middle- and low-income people. It hurts.
The Labor Department reported this week that consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in June. That was half the pace of May, but the slowdown may be short-lived, since the decrease last month was due largely to lower energy prices, which have since risen. And even with June’s relatively tame cost-of-living figure, inflation over the past year came in at 4.3 percent. Because middle- and low-income Americans spend a larger share of their incomes on essentials that tend to rise the most — like gasoline, food, rent and utilities — economists generally assume that inflation is more painful for them than for more affluent Americans.
The pain of higher prices is intensified by stagnating wages. Despite the recent uptick in wage growth, once inflation is taken into account, hourly wages for most American workers fell 0.6 percent from June 2005 to June 2006. Only by working more hours have families been able to keep this year’s pay on a par with last year’s. But running faster may be an increasingly futile strategy. The new Labor Department figures show that inflation has also been accelerating in the last three months. If price increases were to maintain that recent pace, the annual inflation rate would climb to 5.1 percent.
Wall Street is hoping for a pause in interest rate increases, because that would presumably spur economic activity, which would be good for stocks. And investors aren’t the only ones who stand to gain. A pause would also help workers because faster growth could further tighten a labor market that has just recently shown signs of tightening, leading — finally — to some real gains in wages.
There’s a knee-jerk reaction that says a rate-increase pause in the face of growing wages is a recipe for still more inflation. That’s an overly narrow view. Throughout the current economic recovery, now nearly five years old, wages have never been the source of inflationary pressure. Moreover, wage gains do not automatically lead to higher prices. Higher wages could be absorbed by higher productivity or by a narrowing of the stupendous profit margins that corporations have enjoyed for years.
Whether Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, will see fit to pause is an open question. What is known is that most working Americans have been stuck for years in an economy that has brought higher prices and stagnating wages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/opinion/22sat2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
thanks for posting those articles. do you have links to the source?
guess looks aren't everything :)
All but the "elite" were better off under Clinton? You must have slept through the 8 years of his presidency.....remember NAFTA? Remember the stock market run?
yes, the elite did well under Clinton too... it was more balanced and exactly my point! Thanks for pointing that out!
you are as disconnected to their issues as Bush is
that's complete bs
Tax money shouldn't be used to support religious organizations
Tell me what president's policies have been beneficial since Johnson?
all but the elite were much better off under Clinton.
The Hispannic/Latinos are quickly becoming the majority here in CA and I have no problem with that at all... do you? In fact I think it's a good thing. I don't like making generalizations but I find they are very family oriented and community oriented.
They will demand attention (i.e. money) be earmarked for them.
what does that mean?
In this country it has always been the case that if someone wants a better life, it requires individual effort.
you continue to ignore the role and value of community
good points... I didn't think of the tax resentment but I can see how that would fit in
another good reason to impeach
why are you so hung up on Cosby's speech?
IMO Bush should take seriously the issues of the audience he is addressing. There's a reason this is the first time since he took office in 2000 that's he's addressed the NAACP... because his policies are largely detrimental to minorities.
I've read that the real reason the GOP supports vouchers is so that they can channel money into christian schools... wonder how true that is.
The people I knew who had significant amounts of exposure to radiation are dead. One guy I knew was in the south pacific in the navy after WWII and was near where they were doing nuclear tests. He died of leukemia. Seems to me it's more like the chicken hawks in control...
what if it also effected children back then to a lesser degree that doesn't show up until later in life? could it be one of the causes of the obesity epidemic?
On one hand you are deriding Bush for vetoing the Stem Cell funding, on the other you are deriding him for not vetoing Congress spending
makes perfect sense to me. it's not about hatred... it's about priorities.
here ya go... check out the bolded parts especially the part about voting rights act
THEY DON'T CALL IT THE "WHITE" HOUSE FOR NOTHING
Bush at the NAACP Convention
July 21, 2006
By Greg Palast
God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP today. The winner was 'faith' -- which got seven mentions, though if you count "The Creator" as God, well, then the Lord tied it.
Coming in right behind God and Faith, other big mentions in the First Home Boy's rap included: The Voting Rights Act, his family's "commitment to civil rights," the "death tax," rebuilding New Orleans and "public school choice" and "soft bigotry."
As the philosopher Aretha Franklin once said, "Who's zoomin' who?"
Let's take it one point at a time.
Death and Taxes -- Inheritance taxes apply only to those who leave assets exceeding
$2 million. Mr. Bush realized how crucial this issue was to the NAACP. He said, "The [current] 'death tax' will prevent future African American entrepreneurs from being able to pass their assets from one generation to the next."
His heart went out to the families of Gulf Coast flood victims who discovered that they could collect only the first two million bucks of their inheritance tax-free. Apparently, Mr. Bush heard that, among the 2,000 folk drowned in New Orleans, there were several millionaires. Luckily, the rumor proved false.
School Choice -- Our Voucher Salesman-in-Chief offered the Black folk a truly exciting deal:
"When we find schools that are not teaching and will not change, our parents should have a different option…. charter schools and public school choice and opportunity scholarships to be able to enable parents to move their child out of a school that‘s not teaching."
What he meant in this statement that was nearly in English ("to be able to enable"?) was that his No Child Left Behind Act gives all parents the right to move their kids to better schools.
Indeed, the Behind Act does require school systems to offer that choice. In New York, for example, a third of a million students qualify under the law to escape poorly performing schools -- but only 8,000 could do so. Mr. Bush forgot to include the moneyhis parents never asked for a handout to move him to Phillips Andover Academy. to pay for the moves. But hey, his parents never asked for a handout to move him to Phillips Andover Academy.
Voting Rights Act -- This was a big applause line. Bush gloated about his convincing the White Sheets Caucus of the Republican Party to go along with the renewal the Voting Rights Act. But he forgot to mention the fine print. The Southern GOP only went along for renewing the law on the understanding that the law would never be enforced.
Think I'm kidding? Check this: in July 2004, the US Civil Rights Commission voted to open a civil and criminal investigation of his brother's Administration in Florida for knowingly renewing a racially-biased scrub of voter rolls. In April 2004, Governor Jeb Bush, of the "family committed to civil rights," personally ordered this new purge of "felons" from voter rolls, despite promising never to repeat the infamous scrub of 2000. The new purge violated a settlement he signed with the, uh, NAACP.
It also violated the Voting Rights Act. The Civil Rights Commission turned the case over to the US Justice Department which, two years on, has yet to begin the investigation. That's not to say President Bush did nothing. He swiftly replaced every member of the Commission who voted to investigate his brother.
Ownership Society -- Our President was really excited recounting how he spoke to actual Black people in Mississippi, asking how many of them had 401(k) investment plans. Strangely, he didn't ask them if they had health insurance. Since Mr. Bush took office, the number of African-American adults without it has grown to 7.3 million. That's a kind of death tax, too, Mr. President.
Our President completed the White-washing of his record by railing against, "the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you have low expectations," he said, "you're going to get lousy results."
Well, the NAACP never expected much from this President, and the results have proved his point.
www.GregPalast.com.
<< from an email >>
LOL
I hope that's true!
good one :) I think prohibiting a book would make it wildly popular as well lol
scary stuff
is it possible that anyone having thyroid problems that was around in 1967 might have been caused by that fallout?
lol :)
my point is that you went sooooo far off from the topic
funny... I don't see anything in that article about the estate tax
guess it's more than Bush that has a stunning disconnect lol
smart move on his part