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Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you'll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week's lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader!
Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along with the rules on how to vote).
Today's list is the Greatest Aquaman Stories Ever Told!
Sorry for the delay! The Grand Comic Book Database was down, so it was quite a difficult task getting all the covers together!
10. Brightest Day #0-24
In this series, Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi deal with Aquaman getting his life back into order upon his resurrection, as well as getting involved with the search for a mysterious new Aqualad.
9. Aquaman Special #1 "The Legend of Aquaman"
After the previous Aquaman revamp, Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming had the task of revamping the character once again, this time with a brand new origin! This one-shot detailed the completely new take on Aquaman's past (including his outfit now being a prison uniform!). The art by Giffen, Curt Swan and Eric Shanower (layouts, pencils and inks, respectively) was stunning.
8. Justice League of America Annual #2
Gerry Conway had Aquaman pull off one of the more badass superhero moves of the mid-1980s. Sick of what he felt was a group of Justice Leaguers not willing to devote their full time to the League, Aquaman disbands the Justice League and reforms it with only those heroes willing to work full-time for the team. A shocking move for the Sea King (shortlived, true, and the result was JLDetroit, but in this Annual he was awesome).
7. Atlantis Chronicles #1-7
Peter David and Esteban Maroto gave us a thrilling tour through the history of Atlantis with this epic maxi-series that ended with the birth of Aquaman.
6. Aquaman #1-2, 0
Peter David finally got the chance to tell the ongoing adventures of Aquaman and right off the bat he made sure everyone knew that things were going to be a lot different in this series, as Aquaman loses one of his hands!! This Aquaman was noted for his rough attitude, but the result was an engaging, spirited adventure series (with great supporting characters, as this opening arc showed by featuring Aqualad heavily and re-introducing the awesomeness that is Dolphin).
5. Aquaman #1-4
The late, great Neal Pozner and Craig Hamilton spun this beautiful looking series that gave Aquaman his first solo series in years. In it, Hamilton debuted a brand-new costume for Aquaman. While it was a short-lived change for Aquaman, it was popular enough that a similar costume was later given to Aqualad when he became Tempest.
4. Aquaman: Time and Tide #1-4
With Atlantis Chronicles telling the story of Atlantis up until Aquaman's birth, Peter David then picked up the tale from there with this new take on Aquaman's early years. This set up a great many plots in Peter David's upcoming Aquaman ongoing series. The art was by Kirk Jarvinen and Brad Vancata.
3. Aquaman #15-20 "American Tidal"
In this striking storyline, half the city of San Diego is sunken underwater with hundreds of thousands of its residents mysteriously mutated into being unable to breathe above water. Aquaman investigates (and also meets a new member of his supporting cast, a young woman destined to be the new Aquagirl) and eventually sets up shop in "Sub Diego" as his new homebase. Just like Batman patrols Gotham City, so, too, does Aquaman patrol Sub Diego! It was written by Will Pfeifer and drawn by Patrick Gleason and Christian Alamy.
2. Aquaman #40-47 "The Search for Mera"
Steve Skeates and Jim Aparo began their acclaimed run on Aquaman with an epic storyline featuring Aquaman searching for his kidnapped wife while the supporting cast back home (Aqualad, Aquagirl and Vulko) are dealing with the machinations of an evil politician to use Aquaman's absence to take over Atlantis! Skeates juggled the various sub-plots of these issues well and Aparo, well, Aparo is Aparo. He is great.
1. Adventure Comics #451-455, Aquaman #57-63
Likely the most famous Aquaman storyline of all-time, David Michelinie and Jim Aparo told the story of how the evil Black Manta killed Aquaman and Mera's son and the effect that such an act (which was particularly shocking in the context of when it came – when few major characters died, and especially not BABIES, for crying out loud!) had on Aquaman, his wife and his life undersea. It was powerful enough that it soon launched Aquaman into his own ongoing series.
Okay, that's the list! Agree? Disagree? Let me know!
Still love re-reading that Neal Pozner and Craig Hamilton series. Great list of Aquaman stories!
Surprised to see #8 here.
It's a very mediocre book, while there are far more compelling stories with Arthur like Emperor Aquaman, Brave and the Bold #32 and the Triton story in PAD's book.
Overall expected choices, though many better stories were left out.
Great list! I would have liked to see the Rick Veitch run on there, and definitely more of Peter David's work with the character (not only more of his stories, but also higher up on the list!). But I think this is a strong collection of Aquaman tales!
was hoping at least some of Peter Davids run made the list. that plus the death of aqua baby which showed that black manta is aquamans version of the joker. and also a little creepy for its time. though surprised the formation of jla detroit made the list.
This was a lot of fun!!!
Only a few points of contention:
#9 The Legend of Aquaman was somewhat abysmal (both art and writing), especially since it almost immediately negated the brilliant work done by Pozner/Hamilton in the Thierna Na Oge mini-series (#5).
I also listed Blackest Night ( for its establishing of Mera as an individual character & force to be reckoned with and for its epic conclusion with Aquaman leading the 12 returned from the dead), Justice by Alex Ross for its BAMF portrayal of the Sea King, and the Waterbearer storyline that Launched Aquaman Vol 6. for its majestic, original take on Aquaman and for its beautifully rendered art.
I get not liking The Legend of Aquaman for negating the earlier stuff, but boy, Giffen/Swan/Shanower did some purty artwork!
How many more twitter followers will you need to start another one of these months? I'll miss this when it's over, and I need more lists of comics to catch up on!
Well, it was 3,000 to get it the first time, so I guess 6,000.
Great work, Brian!!!
Care to let us in on any "honorable mentions" of Aquaman stories that almost made the list?
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I don't have the tallies handy, but I believe the rest of the top fifteen were (in no particular order)a couple of Skeates/Aparo stories from the end of their run ("California is sinking!" and "The Creature That Devoured Detroit"), DeMatteis/Giordano's short run, Johns/Reis' new series and hmmm….I'm trying to think what closed out the Top 15…I think maybe the conclusion of Jurgens' run.
I would have thought there would be more Peter David on the list. I certainly voted for his stuff a bunch, particularly the genesis crossover issue with the para-demon (best done in one aquaman story ever, and certainly the best of story of that crossover.)
Does #1 rank so highly because it's so iconic and important and shocking a milestone in Aquaman's continuity, or is it because it's actually the best written book of the bunch? Because even though I haven't read it, I have a lot of trouble imagining David Michilinie outwriting a lot of the other writers on this list.
I don't know much about Chuck Patton, but based on that cover up there he drew an incredible "Big 7″ Justice League. Did he get a chance to draw much of the "big gun" JLA before having to do the Detroit League?
A little surprised to see the American Tidal storyline so high. I really liked it (it got me reading Aquaman again for the firs time in about a decade) but I always got the impression that it wasn't very well-regarded by fandom in general.
It's too bad we couldn't vote for the Aquaman episodes of The Brave and the Bold cartoon. That will always be my favorite interpretation of Aquaman.
I'm surprised at how high high American Tidal made it. I expected Time & Tide a bit higher, but I suppose the trades been out of print for a while.
I'm a little disappointed at the "safeness" of this list. It seems like it was voted on more by people that haven't read a lot of Aquaman. All of the selected stories seem more like things that are easily recallable (the one where his son dies, the one where he loses his hand, the one where he's resurrected, the one where his origin was redone, the other one where his origin was redone, etc.), as opposed to stories that are necessarily "good." Which isn't to say the things here are bad, it just feels more like this is a list of the ten most famous or notable Aquaman stories than the ten BEST Aquaman stories.
For example, it seems weird to me that the first 14 issues of Aquaman/Atlantis that Peter David wrote are all here, but nothing from the next 45 (which are arguably better, even if less noteworthy). I agree with a previous commenter that Aquaman #37–the Genesis crossover with a Parademon gaining a conscience–is the high point of Peter David's run on the character.
It's also disappointing to see nothing here by Rick Veitch or even Kurt Busiek.
@ Third Man:
I think you are right in the stories you've being identified as great Aquaman stories, however you do realize that the Top 10 was a popularity poll, so it of course includes the most popular and well-known stories to the comic-reading masses (as opposed to obscure gems like the ones you identified).
I personally loved the Waterbearer story-line and wish it made the list but am not surprised Kurt Busiek's run did not because regardless of the strength of his writing, the Sword of Atlantis was never accepted as valid by most hardcore Aquaman fans.
Mera is so badass, she can even make tears drip down her face while she's under water!
T: You were expecting, perhaps, Peter Benchley as the top writer?
Well played, Thok. Well played.
Thanks abunch for answering my request Brian. Glad to see Death of a Prince is #1 because I just ordered it the other day.
While I did enjoy Will Pfeifer's brief run, it should not be as high as it is. It seems so random. Peter David's run for me was amazing and IMHO should be higher on the list.
@ Third Man,
I think this is actually the benefit of these polls and it is where the CSGB format actually works best. The voting results are a good, safe starting point for readers who may be uninitiated to a character or creator. The comments section provides a great format for individuals to expand upon the results and provide some hidden gems and underappreciated favorites as recommendation for the casual reader who may have read the popular stuff and are now looking for more.
This is why I have been posting my top ten lists on the threads for those which I voted for – not because of some inflated sense of individual self-importance, but because there might be someone out there who is reading that page, has read most of the top ten, and might be looking for another recommendation or two. It is precisely how I stumbled upon CSBG a couple years ago, and why I immediately saw it as a wonderful resource – because of the format, not in spite of it.
And I still see it in that way. I may have read every damn Silver Surfer story ever published and get excited to vote on that poll, but at the same time, I know next to nothing about Aquaman, so here I am, excited to see where I should start… and then, where to go from there.
I really enjoyed the Aquaman Special by Curt Swan, and was surprised the 5 issue limited series also by Curt Swan didn't make an appearance on the list. The 6 books all together are really excellent.
It's a shame the short-lived 13 issue series that came out prior to the Peter David limited series didn't make an appearance. Although it had its faults I really enjoyed the series, and Kevin Maguire's covers were excellent!
Peter David's Time and Tide limited series is IMO extremely overrated and lazy borrowing a lot of ideas from the Tarzan mythos. I also really disliked David's "I'm not really Aquaman, I'm Wolverine" approach to the character and the whole "hook" crap so I was really pleased to not see it on the list.
Finally, Aparo is a god. Of course he should be at number 1. But Curt Swan should be at number 2.
I think the reason that Peter Davids run isnt represented more is 2-fold. First the stories were either shorter self contained and second there are no collections of them other than Time & Tide. I love the Atlantis open to tourists and especially the Parademon Genesis story. I collected the series from about 11 until Erik Larsen took over and ruined everything (and I really really like Larsen), and those are the stories that really stick out. Once again I cannot recommend that Parademon story enough, Genesis was awful, but that story was awesome.
I'm disappointed with this list. I agree with third Man in that most of these stories are more about reboots and shake-ups than being the better Aquaman stories. I never liked PAD's take on Aquaman. But I think that that version was such a different take on the character I wasn't used to.
While I liked the Justice League Annual 2, it was more about reorganizing the team. I voted for the following 4 part story which had the group in action. This was the first time I read a story in which Aquaman fought outside the water efficently. Also it was the first time he used his telepathy on a person.
Another one of my picks that I thought should have made the list was Identity Crisis. The one with Dr. Light. No, not that one, the one in Justice League America 122. An older book but one I'd recommend if anyone's interested. It's a self contained issue.
Add me to the group that thinks this list is more the better known stuff, not the better stuff.
I think the #1 slot is remembered for shock value, despite some rather pedestrian writing. And the Giffen/Fleming story was just gratuitous retconning, though with nice art.
I also wouldn't count Atlantis Chronicles as an Aquaman story, but it's pretty good. Maroto FTW!
My top 4 were *all* Skeates/Aparo stories. Dick Giordano edited some wild stuff back then!
Did the one where he fought the giant rabbit get votes?
The best stuff from PAD is not even there
Agreed. Very generic, safe and mediocre list.
Aquaman fighting Gods and Death (PAD's run) > Aquaman nearly doing nothing and treated with no respect UNLESS he is underwater (Justice League annual and most of his classic stories)
Have to say one of the worst lists of TG_SET so far (IMO of course).
Of course DC policy of not reprinting ANYTHING from the PAD run didn't help.
Well said, ookerdookers
Having just reread the Michelinie run a few years back, I'll say it deserves its spot. I would have favored some of Veitch's run too, though.
While I wouldn't necessarily nominate them as best (though I enjoy them more than PAD's time, which didn't work for me), I do think the 60s Aquaman run is noteworthy for giving Mera a role as equal partner in crime fighting. She comes off a lot better than many of Hero's Girlfriend/Wives of the era.
Great List, except I really didn't like the Legend of Aquaman Special.
The whole prison uniform thing was a cool idea, but it made everyone in the prison look like Aquaman cosplayers and came off kinda awkwardly, plus the story wasn't that great from what I remember but it was ages ago that I read a copy.
Anyway, its cool to see American Tidal up there, thats what got me into Aquaman in the first place…
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It wasn't long ago that an argument could be made that the ACC was the weakest of the six BCS conferences.
Yes, behind even the Big East.
But with the addition of Miami and Virginia Tech in 2004 and Boston College this season, the ACC can take its rightful place in any discussion regarding the best conference in college football.
Not convinced?
Although Miami was the conference's highest-ranked team at No. 9, six of the ACC's 12 members finished the regular season in the Associated Press Top 25.
That was more than the SEC (5), Big Ten (5), Pac-10 (3), Big 12 (2) and Big East (2).
The conference's muscle was also evident in the postseason bowl pairings. Eight ACC teams earned bowl bids.
But that kind of balance also had its drawbacks. League members took turns knocking each other off. Florida State beat Miami and Virginia Tech, but lost to Clemson, North Carolina State and Virginia. Virginia Tech beat every conference foe but Miami in the regular season. The Hurricanes beat the No. 3 Hokies, but lost to unranked Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech lost to Virginia which beat Florida State which
Get the picture?
The back-and-forth didn't end until the inaugural conference championship game In Jacksonville. The Seminoles, who lost three ACC games for the first time since joining the league in 1992, entered the game a two touchdown-underdog to Virginia Tech and appeared to be a program in decline. The question wasn't so much whether the Hokies would win but by how much.
But instead of claiming its second consecutive ACC title, Virginia Tech was manhandled by FSU. Only a late surge by the Hokies kept the final score of
27-22 from truly reflecting the Seminoles' dominant effort.
"We just had to show up all our critics," said FSU receiver Willie Reid, who was named the game's MVP. "We're back to normal. We're back to Florida State football."
The conference title was the 12th for FSU, proving the road to the ACC championship still runs through Tallahassee.
Most Valuable Player
Wake Forest tailback Chris Barclay
Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick seemed a cinch to be named the conference's top player after the Hokies began the year by winning eight consecutive games. But a late-season slump caused Vick's stock to drop and Barclay's to rise.
Barclay didn't suffer any slumps -- this season or any other season in his brilliant career. He became only the sixth runner in ACC history to rush for 1,000 yards in three consecutive seasons, gaining 1,217 yards in 2005 despite playing only 10 games. Barclay went over 100 yards in six of those games, topping 200 yards twice. He finishes as the ACC's fifth-leading career rusher with 4,032 yards.
Behind Barclay, the Demon Deacons led the conference in rushing and were competitive in all of their games except a 31-3 loss to Nebraska in the second week of the season. In Wake's three games against ranked opponents -- Boston College, Florida State and Miami -- Barclay ran for a combined
321 yards and three touchdowns.
Barclay is one of 32 players in the history of college football to rush for 4,000 yards and score 40 touchdowns. Eight of those players won the Heisman Trophy.
Coach of the Year
Clemson's Tommy Bowden
Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second straight season, but that was before his Hokies were dismantled by Florida State in the conference title game.
As it turned out, Bowden did the best job of any coach in the league. He did not allow his team to collapse after it lost three consecutive games in heartbreaking fashion in the first half of the season.
Instead, the Tigers bounced back to win five of their final six games, including back-to-back wins over Florida State and South Carolina. Overall, Clemson won three games against ranked teams, only the fourth time in school history that has happened during a single year.
Clemson's season could have been much better, of course. The Tigers had as much bad luck as anyone, losing consecutive games in overtime to Miami and Boston College and falling short in two other games against Wake Forest and Georgia Tech by a combined five points.
But, if not for Bowden's steady hand, the season could have been much worse.
Newcomer of the Year
Clemson tailback James Davis
There were plenty of solid freshmen to choose from in the ACC, including Florida State's pass-and-catch combo of quarterback Drew Weatherford and Greg Carr, NC State tailback Andre Brown, Miami safety Kenny Phillips, Clemson receiver Aaron Kelly and Wake Forest's duo of defensive back Alphonso Smith and kicker Sam Swank.
But the best of the bunch was Davis, a 5-foot-11, 210-pound native of Atlanta who burst onto the scene in his first collegiate game by rushing for 101 yards on 19 carries in a 25-24 victory against Texas A&M.
Davis finished with 729 yards, the fifth-highest total in the ACC this season and the second-best total ever by a Clemson freshman. That number could have been much higher if not for a fractured left wrist suffered against NC State -- after he ran for 143 yards on 12 carries in the first half -- that forced Davis to miss the Temple game and limited him to two carries against Georgia Tech. He played in the Tigers' final four games with a cast protecting the injury.
Davis led Clemson in rushing five times, with the Tigers posting a 5-0 record in those games. In the regular-season finale against rival South Carolina, Davis accumulated 145 yards and scored the only touchdown in Clemson's 13-9 victory.
With Davis and senior-to-be Reggie Merriweather back next season, Clemson's rushing attack figures to be among the best in the country.
Biggest surprise
Georgia Tech
Going into their Emerald Bowl matchup with Utah, the Yellow Jackets haven't won any more games than they did in coach Chan Gailey's first three seasons.
But for the first time under Gailey, Georgia Tech won a pair of games against top-20 opponents. The Jackets beat No. 16 Auburn and No. 3 Miami and, most impressively, won both games on the road. The win over the Hurricanes was arguably the biggest upset of the college football season.
A victory over Utah would almost guarantee Georgia Tech finishing in the Top 25 for the first time under Gailey.
Biggest disappointment
Virginia Tech
It might be a little harsh to label a team with a 10-2 record and a No. 12 national ranking as the conference's biggest flop, but that's how it felt after Virginia Tech sleepwalked through much of its 27-22 loss to Florida State in the conference title game.
The Hokies were unable to take advantage of a second chance afforded them after a 27-7 loss to Miami in Blacksburg. That defeat spoiled Virginia Tech's spotless record and appeared destined to cost Frank Beamer's crew the Coastal Division championship and a spot in the title game.
But the Hokies' hopes were re-energized when Georgia Tech upset Miami.
Virginia Tech clinched the division title by winning its last two regular-season games, against Virginia and North Carolina, before falling to the Seminoles.
As it turned out, the Hokies beat only two teams that were ranked in the Top 25 when they played Virginia Tech. The Hokies will finish the season Jan. 2 against Louisville in the Gator Bowl. Not bad, but not exactly what was expected in early November when Va. Tech was 8-0 and ranked behind only USC and Texas.
All-ACC Team
QB -- Marcus Vick, Virginia Tech
RB -- Chris Barclay, Wake Forest
RB -- Lance Ball, Maryland
WR -- Calvin Johnson, Georgia Tech
WR -- Chansi Stuckey, Clemson
OL -- Eric Winston, Miami
OL -- D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Virginia
OL -- Kyle Ralph, North Carolina
OL -- Jason Murphy, Virginia Tech
OL -- Jeremy Trueblood, Boston College
TE -- Vernon Davis, Maryland
DL -- Mathias Kiwanuka, Boston College
DL -- Darryl Tapp, Virginia Tech
DL -- Mario Williams, North Carolina State
DL -- Brodrick Bunkley, Florida State
LB -- Kai Parham, Virginia
LB -- D'Qwell Jackson, Maryland
LB -- A.J. Nicholson, Florida State
DB -- Kelly Jennings, Miami
DB -- Brandon Meriweather, Miami
DB -- Jimmy Williams, Virginia Tech
DB -- Tye Hill, Clemson
Special teams
K -- Connor Hughes, Virginia
P -- Ryan Plackemeier, Wake Forest
RS -- Brandon Tate, North Carolina
Jorge Milian covers the ACC for The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post.

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According to the Office of the Secretary of the University, "One of the most prestigious honors any university can bestow is an honorary degree." An honorary degree, which is awarded "honoris causa, that is, for the sake of honor," is to acknowledge and reward "an individual's exceptional achievement or distinction in a field or activity consonant with the mission of the university."
This year, the Rutgers Board of Trustees unanimously approved a nomination to present Condoleezza Rice with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University, according to Rutgers spokesperson Greg Trevor. Rice was also invited to give the keynote speech at the 248th commencement speech on May 18, 2014.
Notable Doctor of Laws recipients from the last decade include Governor James McGreevey (2005), Senator Elizabeth Warren (2011), former Rutgers president Richard McCormick (2012), and former NJ Supreme Court Justice Virginia Long (2013).
The decision to honor Rice has sparked outrage and protest from Rutgers students and faculty alike. According to the Star Ledger, The Rutgers University New Brunswick Faculty Council has issued a statement calling on the University to retract Rice's invitation and award. A similar online petition drafted by Lawrence Ladutke and titled "Do not honor Condoleezza Rice with a 'Doctor of Laws' degree!" has also been circulating through social media.
Opposition to the Board of Trustee's decision stems from Rice's tenure as former president George W. Bush's National Security Advisor (2000-2005) and Secretary of State (2005-2008). As a high-ranking member of Bush's staff, Rice and the rest of the Bush Administration can legally be held accountable for violations of international law committed by their subordinates according to a concept known as "command responsibility."
Command responsibility was most famously invoked during the Nuremberg Trial in the wake of the Second World War. The principle was used by Allied forces after World War II to convict Nazi leaders for the aggregated crimes of the Nazi Party. By knowingly participating in, consenting to, or failing to prevent the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed under their command, the leaders of the Nazi Party were deemed liable for those crimes under international law.
The concept of command responsibility is officially codified as an aspect of international law in Article 86(2) of the Additional Protocol of 1977 to the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, which states:
The fact that a breach of the Conventions or of this Protocol was committed by a subordinate does not absolve his superiors from penal or disciplinary responsibility, as the case may be, if they knew, or had information which should have enabled them to conclude in the circumstances at the time, that he was committing or was going to commit such a breach and if they did not take all feasible measures within their power to prevent or repress the breach.
Note: This is not the only instance or variation of command responsibility, as outlined here. It simply represents one of the clearest illustration of the concept. For more information on command responsibility and superior liability, see In Re Yamashita No. 61, Misc. Supreme Court of the United States 327 US 1; 66 S. Ct. 340; 90 L. Ed. 499; 1946 U.S. LEXIS 3090; see also Article 7(3) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Statute or the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Judgement in Cˇelebic´i Case, Case No. IT-96-21-A, 20 February 2001, at 226.
Therefore, in order for Rice and other officials in the Bush Administration to be liable for war crimes — waging a war of aggression against Iraq, condoning the use of torture and other "enhanced interrogation tactics," etc. — we would need evidence that they knew or should have known that such crimes were taking place and failed to prevent them.
In fact, several examples of such evidence can be found in the bipartisan report released in 2004 by the House Committee on Governmental Oversight and Reform titled, Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq.
The report is described as "a comprehensive examination of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice."
The report draws from a database containing all of the public appearances and statements made by the five officials leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Here is a summary of the reports findings:
Number and nature of the statements:
The five Bush Administration officials "made misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 125 public appearances."
Together, "the report and an accompanying database identify 237 specific misleading statements by the five officials."
Of those 237 statements, the majority of them were misleading "because they expressed certainty where none existed or failed to acknowledge the doubts of intelligence officials."
Finally, "Ten of the statements were simply false."
Timing of the statements:
The misleading and false statements about Iraq "began at least a year before the commencement of hostilities in Iraq. . . But 76 misleading statements were made by the five Administration officials after the start of the war to justify the decision to go to war."
Although the other four Bush officials (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, and Powell) each made more public appearances and misleading statements than Rice, she "had the highest number of statements — 8 — that were false," which included "several categorical assumptions that no one in the White House knew of the intelligence community's doubts about the President's assertion that Iraq sought to import uranium from Africa."
When it was finally revealed to the public that the administration's claims about Iraq importing uranium were false, Rice lied once again. She attempted to convince the press that she believed the reports to be true on July 11, 2003 when she said, "Now, if there were doubts about the underlying intelligence . . . those doubts were not communicated to the President, to the Vice President, or to me."
According to the 2004 report, however, "This statement is false because, as Rice's deputy Stephen Hadley subsequently acknowledged, the CIA sent Rice and Mr. Hadley memos in October 2002 warning against the use of this claim." Moreover, "Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet also 'argued personally' to Rice's deputy national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, 'that the allegation should not be used' by the President."
Rice made similar statements and claims about shipments of aluminum tubes going into Iraq for the development of centrifuge enrichment programs; statements about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda; and statements "overstating Iraq's biological and chemical weapons capabilities."
Finally, all of these statements were used explicitly to justify the invasion of Iraq to the American public and the international community. The war itself was initiated without Chapter VII approval from the UN Security Council, as required by Articles 2(4) and 2(7) of the UN Charter. Furthermore, the United States was not acting in self-defense when it invaded Iraq, which is the only justification for the use of force (absent Chapter VII approval) according to Article 51 of the Charter.
It is also important to remember that, in addition to her role in promoting the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Rice also personally approved the use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" against Abu Zubaydah and other detainees held at places like Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Air Base. Such techniques have since been classified as torture by several international human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, along with Juan E. Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment.
So, just to recap:
The invasion and occupation of Iraq was predicated and justified on the basis of at least 237 false and misleading statements made by five of the highest ranking and most influential government officials, including the President of the United States himself.
Of those 237 statements, Rice personally "made 29 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq in 16 separate public statements or appearances." Of those, "17 concerned Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons; 6 overstated Iraq's chemical or biological weapons capacity; and 6 misrepresented Iraq's links to al Qaeda." She also made at least 8 other statements that were shown to be completely false.
Those statements were proven to be false or misleading in a bipartisan congressional report by the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, based on statements from intelligence officials and reputable international organizations like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Rice's statements, along with those made by other Bush Administration officials, were used explicitly to justify going to war with Iraq which, according to the Iraq War Logs released by Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks, resulted in the death of over 100,000 people. In addition, millions more were displaced, injured, or otherwise adversely affected by the conflict.
Rice "personally conveyed the Bush administration's approval for waterboarding of Zubaydah to George Tenet, then CIA Director, in July 2002." This technique was then "used 266 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, two senior al-Qaeda prisoners," according to an article in The Telegraph describing the memos released by the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2009.
University guidelines clearly state that a prospective nominee "must evidence distinguished service and performance in his or her accomplishments that support the ideals of Rutgers and serve as an example to our students, our alumni, and society" in order to be nominated. The nominee must also "evidence in his or her life a commitment of service to humankind."
This suggests that the Board of Trustees feels that Rice has demonstrated "distinguished service to [her] state or to [her] nation, to learning or to humankind," and possesses the "intellectual gifts and moral qualities that entitle the recipient to rank with persons of culture and high principle."
This information perhaps makes it easier to understand why several students, organizations, and faculty members are protesting the decision by the Rutgers Board of Trustees to award Rice with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and keynote address.


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The organ in the village church was bought from the organ maker Harmannus in Groningen in 1457. The villagers had it transported across the frozen Dollart and paid with a couple of fat cows.
Since then, the instrument has hardly been changed. Most of the work is original, and still fully functional. This makes the Rysum instrument one of the oldest organs in Lower Saxony, other sources say in the whole of Northern Europe. No matter what, the instrument is unique. For concerts and presentations, experts from all over the world come to Rysum.
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Greece's third biggest lender, Piraeus Bank, said on Tuesday that it had signed an agreement to acquire all of the Greek deposits, loans and branches owned by the subsidiaries of three Cypriot banks.
A Piraeus statement said that the Greek units of the Bank of Cyprus, the Cyprus Popular Bank (CPB or Laiki) and the Hellenic Bank were acquired for 524 million euros ($675 million) in cash.
According to the statement, the Cypriot bank branches which have remained closed for more than a week are set to open on Wednesday.
"All the operations will be run in the normal course of business," the statement added.
"Customer deposits with the Greek branches of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank (CPB) and Hellenic Bank are not subject to any bank levy or haircut that has been agreed in Cyprus," the statement emphasised.
According to the Greek press, Piraeus is now set to become the country's second biggest bank.
Piraeus said that after the completion of the transaction, the Piraeus Bank Group will have consolidated total assets of 95 billion euros, 1,660 branches and 24.000 employees.
The announcement came amid turmoil on the Athens stock exchange, where the Athex index had plunged 4.78 percent, with a sub-index of banks receding by 3.15 percent.
Greece's top three lenders as well as the state-owned postal bank had expressed interest in buying the Cypriot bank branches, and on Friday, the national Hellenic Financial Stability Fund said that the Piraeus Bank bid had been approved.


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The color of the solid crude product after grinding with NaOH is dark brown.
The first step in calculating the yield and mass for the formation of the product 2-(3,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)indan-1-one is to determine the moles of each of the reactants.
Multiplying the amount of 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde used in the experiment (0.25 g) with its molecular weight (166.17 g/mole) we end up with 0.0015 moles 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde.
Doing the same for 0.20 g of 1-indanone, molecular weight 132.16 g/mole also results in 0.0015 moles of 1-indanone.
According to the chemical equation it takes 1 molecule of 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde and 1 molecule of 1-indone to form 1 molecule of the product 2-(3,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)indan-1-one. Both reagents have the same number of moles therefore either one can be considered as the limiting reagent.
The theoretical mass of the crude product is calculated by multiplying the moles of the limiting reactant with the molecular weight of the final product, 2-(3,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)indan-1-one.
The percent yield of the crude product will be the actual amount obtained over the theoretical mass multiplied by 100. If 0.40 g of 2-(3,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)indan-1-one is obtained after vacuum filtration, then the percent yield would be:
Hence, the percent of theoretical yield of the crude product is 95%.


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Chrysler's Marchionne Says He Regrets Loans Comment
Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne says a remark he made yesterday in reference to interest rates being charged on loans provided by the U.S. and Canadian governments was "inappropriate."
"I regret the remark," Marchionne said in a statement posted on Chrysler's website. "As the only parties willing to underwrite the risk associated with Chrysler's recovery plan, the two governments levied interest rates that, although appropriate at the time, are above current market conditions."
Chrysler is paying "shyster rates" to government lenders of last resort because banks reduced credit during the recession in 2008 and 2009, Marchionne said. He made the remark yesterday during an interview at the J.D. Power & Associates International Automotive Roundtable in San Francisco.
The automaker, operated by Fiat SpA, is preparing for an initial public offering in the second half of this year. The timing will depend on market conditions, Chrysler's financial results and its ability to refinance the government loans, Marchionne said.
"Because of these changed market conditions as well as the improvements in our performance and outlook, made possible through the support of the U.S. and Canadian governments, Chrysler intends to repay these loans in full at the earliest opportunity," Marchionne said in today's statement.
The closely held automaker based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, earlier this week posted a $652 million loss for 2010.
Fiat boosted its ownership in Chrysler to 25 percent in January after Chrysler met one of three performance milestones. Marchionne has said he wants to meet the other two goals to increase Turin-based Fiat's stake by an additional 10 percentage points this year.


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Ranieri pleased with gritty win
Monaco coach Claudio Ranieri hailed his team's fighting qualities after they edged Saints-Etienne 2-1 on Saturday.
The Ligue 1 leaders needed an 87th-winner from Lucas Ocampos to secure the points at the Stade Louis II.
Romain Hamouma had equalised for the visitors on 49 minutes, cancelling out Yannick Ferreira Carrasco's first-half opener.
Ranieri was delighted with the win and particularly pleased his team managed to adapt to a tactical change late on.
"Sometimes we get the result, sometimes we don't but tonight we managed to get a hard-fought win," he said.
"I was very pleased that the team scored at in the final moments of the game and that goal could prove good for us.
"I made a late change to take off a defensive midfielder for a striker and the team understood the change and what I wanted from them in the final moments.
"That was very pleasing and good to see."
Saint-Etienne are winless in their past four league matches but troubled Monaco on the counter-attack.
Ranieri paid tribute to Christophe Galtier's men but said he was unhappy with the way his team started the second half.
"It was a good game and I have to give credit to Saint-Etienne who played very well," he said.
"It was a good test for us tonight because they were playing quickly in counter-attack and we had to deal with that pace.
"I think that during the first part of the second half we were not good, but we recovered well in the end to win it.
"I have seen my team playing well and keeping the ball which is great.
"I have seen my squad focused on doing a good job and that is a great sight. Saint-Etienne is a good team so to win is a good result for us."


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The Government of India has implemented a remarkable new policy-level change for open source software (OSS) deployment. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has asked that open source software-based applications be included in Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for all new... Read more
By guest author Kelsey Foster Scandals, mismanagement, and back-room deals; the City of New Orleans has long endured a legacy of opaque policies and decision-making processes closed to its citizens. A historic disconnect caused by the city's lack of available information has led to generations of... Read more
Creative Commons (CC) actively works to support foundations, governments, IGOs, and other funders who create, adopt and implement open policies. We believe publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources. To support these and other emerging open policy efforts, CC is about to launch,... Read more
This is the second post in a short series in effort to recognize and celebrate the close of the 2013 Code for America Incubator. This new program was created to support Code for America Fellows as they work towards building startup companies to scale and sustain their Fellowship projects. The Code... Read more
On May 22, eighteen senior officials from the Singapore Government gathered at the FutureGov lunch briefing Open Source, Open Government—to discuss how open source technology can drive openness and innovation in the public sector. The senior IT decision makers attending the event were from agencies... Read more
Meet Kris Trujillo, Senior Software Architect at Accela. I met Trujillo at last year's CityCamp Colorado and was curious about how Accela is advancing the open government movement with their software. I was impressed to learn about some of their solutions aimed at government agencies and how those... Read more
Rock the Vote needed a way to manage the fast growth of the data handled by its Web-based voter registration application. The organization turned to GlusterFS replicated volumes to allow for filesystem size upgrades on its virtualized hosting infrastructure without incurring downtime.
As we turn the calendar to the new year, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on what we've done here at Civic Commons over the past year, what we've learned, and where we're planning on heading next. It's been a busy year for us. While the Civic Commons initiative began, slowly, as an informal... Read more
The PA Times, published by the American Society of Public Administration, issued a special edition called "From Bureaucratic to Cool: A Call for Public Service." My article on "Crowdsourced Ideas Make Participating in Government Cool Again" describes how government agencies on all levels are... Read more
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I work in a double screen environment where I write code on one screen and preview the results in the other (containing Firefox, Chrome etc.).
It would be great if I could somehow make the browser window refresh without manually switching to the browser. So while I write code, I would like to push, for example, Ctrl+Alt+R and the browser window would refresh without any extra effort on my side.
Is there any software that could help me to set up such custom hotkey?


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QUINCY, Mass. (May 9, 2014) Massachusetts State Trooper John Carnell was working a paid detail Thursday in Quincy, Mass., when he saw a vehicle enter the carpool lane on Interstate 93 north with a suspicious-looking passenger.
Carnell pulled the vehicle over and discovered that the driver had propped up a jacket with a mannequin head on top in the passenger seat.
The fake head even had a little mustache drawn on.
Vehicles using the lane must have at least two occupants, but dummies don't count.
The driver, whose name was not released, was issued a citation for operating on an excluded way.


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Hello. My question is somewhat important toward the Ubuntu. My question is, " How do you install CoffeeCups "Visual Site Designer program". I went throught PlayOnLinux method, but it has a complication error in the beginning and after all the installion, it still does not work. Is there a certain method of installion method for this certain program. If's possible can you please describe the method please.
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We also spoke to Re-Animator scream queen Barbara Crampton!
Horror journo Jessie Robbins weekly column picks a flick from her library to watch on a Saturday night
The duo debut on the big screen August 5
Featuring Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson and Courtney B. Vance
The remake of the classic film debuts August 12
Plus, will we ever see a spin-off series?
All three shows will premiere in October
The Marvel movie debuts in theaters November 4, 2016
Get to know who's who in the bad guy ensemble before the film hits the big screen August 5
Happy 69th birthday to the Hollywood star and former California Governor
"I wanna get the people who loved it as much as me"
"I happened at one point to have taken mushrooms, and I was doing a little thinking about my character"
The first film will be called Infinity War with the second now officially untitled
Tyler Hoechlin has been spotted on the show's Vancouver set
The man behind The Grey, Narc and Smokin' Aces will take on the video game adaptation
The hit series returns to the El Rey Network Tuesday, September 6
Vin Diesel reprises his iconic role as an extreme athlete-turned-superspy
Jose Padilha is directing the true story of the 1976 terrorist hijacking
Dexter's Yvonne Strahovski will headline the film
The series takes its episode title from Gang Starr songs


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De Blasio, Roker Are Buddies Now, at Least on TV
And online.
This morning's tabloid-predicted "face-off" between Al Roker and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who dropped by the Today show to cut a ribbon opening Rockefeller Plaza, was hardly the conflict those pugilistic papers had hoped, after the two traded barbs on Twitter earlier this month. While their sideways embrace may have been a bit forced when Matt Lauer asked de Blasio if they had met, the pair proceeded to officially put aside their differences over the mayor's decision to keep schools open during a snowstorm.
"We had a little chat about school closings and snow and we both want the best for our school kids and our city," Roker said, while de Blasio noted there was "a little snow in the forecast," giving the weather man a Department of Sanitation hat and inviting the him to come help with the cleanup. "My dad was a bus driver and he drove a snow-clearing bus," Roker said. "New York's strongest!" Then, to prove not just to the television audience but the internet as well, they took a selfie.
Selfie! cc @alroker. pic.twitter.com/jZURqYOmNy— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) February 24, 2014
They may not be planning Thanksgiving at each other's houses, but this was hardly the "Twitter gloves coming off," much to every single city reporter's disappointment.
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Team Fortress 2 video pays tribute to Skyrim trailer
Because nothing shouts happy Thursday like a Team Fortress 2-Skyrim mashup, but here we are. It's after the break, via the Bethesda blog.
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Jetpack is an excellent free plugin which all new WordPress users should consider installing.
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I am trying to decide what hurts the most,
surpressing myself or dancing with the ghost
of my former happiness. Too many nights spent
wondering where this road is leading,
finding myself doing nothing but speeding down
the curves of my youth. The rear view mirror is clouded
with mistakes and regret, then I look forward and
see you step into the road, blocking my passion
and hindering my soul from its true path.
Still I'm wondering what hurts the most,
lying to my heart or following this road
with a numb sense of hope. I have tried to let
go of our many differences, demanding myself to
pretend that I can change you, but alas! I accept
that I can not. I have forgot to be true to myself
and let the belt of conformity fall to the ground.
I have forgotten how to be easy and real, how
to fully feel how I feel, how to discern scarps
from the rest of the meal of life.
I can not indulge this make believe game
that you and I are truly the same, when it has
been proven time and again that I am who I am
and that you are him. What you consider to be a sin
I embrace and swallow with gin because
I see no fault, but you see disaster and I guess this
is the cost of being true to ones self. I have decided that
dancing with my ghost is what can truly hurts the most.
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Killing who I am is a painful process that I can endure no longer.
You know I hope for the best
difficult realizations can be a beautiful thing. hope you're all right.


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Inhofe: Fiorina ˜is supporting my push to gut the Clean Air Act, agrees climate change is a ˜hoax
ThinkProgress spoke to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) about Senate GOP nominee Carly Fiorina. I repost the amazing story and video below.
Today on Capitol Hill, Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group founded and funded by David Koch of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries, hosted an event to urge the passage of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) resolution to gut the Clean Air Act's power to regulate carbon emissions. Several Republican Senators came to the AFP event to encourage support for the resolution, which was drafted by lobbyists from the coal and oil industry.
After the event, ThinkProgress spoke to one of the speakers, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), about his support for Carly Fiorina (R-CA), the U.S. Senate candidate to emerge from the primary last night. Inhofe gave Fiorina an early endorsement, and his nephew, Fred Davis, created the infamous "demon sheep" ads for Fiorina's campaign.
Inhofe, who has been described as Washington's "the last flat-earther" for his strident denial of climate change, said Fiorina "is supporting what I am supporting." He elaborated that Fiorina both supports eviscerating the EPA's ability to enforce the Clean Air Act, and that she is supportive of his beliefs "in terms of the whole global warming hoax." He then added that he is "very proud of her":
TP: I was wondering if Carly actually supports this effort to change the regulatory power of the Clean Air Act that you're talking about today?
INHOFE: No, Carly's already taken a stand on this.
TP: Oh, so she's supporting this?
INHOFE: She is supporting what I am supporting. In fact Carly made a statement yesterday that was the strongest statement I've heard yet in terms of the whole global warming hoax. So I was very proud of her.
Watch it:
Not long ago, Fiorina believed in climate change and supported efforts to deal with carbon pollution. On Fox News last year, Fiorina praised Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) for crafting bipartisan clean energy legislation to achieve "energy independence" and "addressing climate change as equally important goals." Fiorina also campaigned for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 because he promised to "create a cap-and-trade system that will encourage the development of alternative energy sources."
Fiorina has quickly dismissed her once-held climate change beliefs to satisfy the far right, science-denying wing of the conservative movement. She initially flipped, telling reporters that people need the "courage" to question climate change science. Then, she ran an ad mocking Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) belief in climate change, with the narrator claiming that the world's catastrophic changes in temperature are simply due to the "weather." But now with Inhofe claiming Fiorina agrees fully with his belief that climate change is a "hoax" and that Congress must radically weaken the Clean Air Act, the metamorphosis of Fiorina into full right-wing sycophant is complete.
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As a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Inhofe Blocks Second Dem Attempt To Raise Oil Company Liability (VIDEO)
Inhofe to Boxer: 'Get a life'
Inhofe, along with friend Charles Sublett and his Deputy Press Secretary Kathryn Junk
"I told her 'I won. You lost. Get a life,'" Inhofe said.
Sam Stein at the Huffington Post reports that President Obama has come out in support of lifting the $75 million liability cap for oil spillers.
Congress had hoped to raise the liability cap to $10 billion, but Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blocked the measure single-handedly. Now, Stein reports, the White House has backed new legislation to make oil companies liable for unlimited amounts for the economic damage caused by oil spills.
Years ago, thinking that it was media spin that a elected National
leader would say nationally and do more than just say "clean up your
act", I started to hear more and more about how the State of California
was starting to deal with the knowledge that there are better ways
to deal with the needs of the special interests, as well as, the needs
of the general electorate.
And different ways have progressed, and the need for better ways have
become more well known.
Keep doing, the State of California is a better example of leadership
by being inclusive of people who want a change for the better, if
for no other reason than the hope that there is another inhabitable
planet out there in some distant universe just isn't inclusive in scope
or practicality.
Saving California and The U.S. Senate
The first focus of the news media (to make sure we get the straight scoop on the beliefs of Senate candidates), of Democrats, and of Fiorina's direct opponents (e.g., Boxer), regarding the upcoming elections, should be on Fiorina's views on climate change, oil, and the energy problem more broadly.
In California, how does Fiorina expect to get elected, or expect to even be viewed as sane, if she denies the reality of climate change or speaks ambiguities and confusions about it?
But, the danger (as often happens) is that the media and others let people get away with ambiguous and unclear statements about their views, speaking "mush" or saying one thing to one group and then another thing to another group.
So, it falls upon the news media (especially in California, but also nationally), the Democratic party, Senator Boxer and her team, climate change and environmental groups, and so forth to ask Fiorina clear questions, to insist on getting clear answers, to persist in doing so, and then to make sure the public understands it if Fiorina feels that climate change is not real or "should be questioned" still at this point.
Let's understand Fiorina's view clearly … with crystal clarity. If Californians vote for someone who denies climate change, well then, I don't know what there is to hope for any more.
Has Inhofe succeded in delaying action long enough to ensure our doom? Will we do anything before an Elmo (or PETM) event is inevitable?
The veneer of our civilization is so very thin, I doubt that it will withstand even the milder consequences that are already in train. Unlike those who would climb the Dark Mountain I find no joy in this.
Life without state; Utopia or nasty short and brutish (Thomas Hobbes)? We may well find out. A short read of Joseph Tainter is not at all reassuring.
I really don't understand why Fiorina thinks aligning herself with the likes of Inhofe and denying global warming will help her win an election on California. It's California! I think the GOP did us a favor by nominating Fiorina rather than Tom Campbell to oppose Boxer. I think Boxer will win the re-election quite handily as a result. Especially if she focuses on Fiorina's global warming denial and her pro-life stance. Not to mention the fact that she ran HP into the ground.
Carly Fiorina on Real Time:
"The risks of doing nothing if global warming exists, are far greater than the risks of doing something. So let's do something. … Because I happen to agree that global warming is clearly happening. … We might reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We might ignite a cycle of innovation."
Carly Fiorina is a disgrace and an embarrassment to all businesswomen. She single-handedly wrecked Lucent (the old Bell Labs.). She nearly did the same to Hewlett-Packard. Her Democratic opponent in the election needs to hammer on her business failures.
I am completely against Fiorina and I agree that the campaign should emphasize her incompetence as a CEO, but I don't think the quote from Inhofe implies that she said global warming is a hoax. Inhofe said:
"She is supporting what I am supporting. In fact Carly made a statement yesterday that was the strongest statement I've heard yet in terms of the whole global warming hoax."
That is a bit like my saying "Joe Romm made a strong statement about the global warming plague." In that statement, I am calling global warming a plague, but the statement does not necessarily mean that Joe Romm used the word "plague."
So, I would say that Inhofe's statement means that Fiorina is supporting the wrong policies on global warming ("She is supporting what I am supporting"), but it doesn't mean that she called global warming a hoax.
Oklahoma farmers on climate change – Nothing to see here.
Those who make a living off the land and depend on predictable weather patterns do not see a problem in Oklahoma. So no problem exists and global warming must be a hoax. The farmers are deathly afraid a carbon tax, or cap-n-trade, will increase their cost of doing business. Besides the farmers, Inhofe must protect Oklahoma oil and gas interests and denial is the easiest path to take. Since the Oklahoma agricultural industry is not worried about global warming and the future of their industry why should Inhofe support a bill that regulates CO2? If he can deny EPA the right to regulate CO2 and block any bill that regulates CO2, he will succeed.
Here is what was reported in an Oklahoma Farm Report interview with Inhofe from 5/10/10:
"Senator Inhofe continues to predict that no climate change legislation with any sort of "cap and trade" plan will pass the Senate here in 2010. He also believes that the Environmental Protection Agency will not have a chance to regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions, as he believes the premise of their endangerment finding of last year was based on faulty science that has been debunked since that time- and that legal challenges against the finding by the EPA are being filed by many states and numerous groups, including the American Farm Bureau and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association."
As for California and Fiorina…there is nothing special about the voters in California. California has a tea party. That mad woman, Orly Taitz, ran for California Secretary of State and was able to get about 26% of the conservative vote. California voters can be just as ignorant as anyone else.
Hoax is still the most popular anti-science attack on global warming.
And in the meantime, in real life: NASA: May was warmest ever globally both for land+sea (+0.63C http://bit.ly/GISlandoc), and for land only (+0.83C http://bit.ly/GISland)
All-time highs for the Jan-May period as well: Jan-May 2010 was warmest ever globally both for land+sea (+0.72C http://bit.ly/GISlandoc), and for land only (+0.90C http://bit.ly/GISland)
Watch That!
I suggest that people watch the youtube clip of Fiorina and Bill Mahr that apeescape provided in Comment 7.
That's a great clip.
Please make sure (someone, or karma, or God, or Climate Progress) that the Democrats and B. Boxer and so forth are aware of that clip.
Sustainable2050, please be careful not to overstate the facts and keep in mind that "ever" is a long time. "In the instrument record" is all the GISS data justifies, which is more than enough to cause concern.
From the linked GISS data:
May 2010 is *tied* at +.63C with May 1998 for the warmest May anomaly in the combined land-surface instrument record, while March-April-May 2010 is by far the warmest such period at +.73C. The next closest was 2002 at +.65C.
In the land met station only data set May 2010 shows the warmest May anomaly at +.83C, while March-April-May 2010 is at +.90 — almost a full degree above the baseline average!
Meanwhile, NSIDC, IARC-JAXA, and UBremen all show 2010 Arctic ice extent to be decreasing faster than in any year in the satellite record (since 1979), including 2007. (I check it daily.)
It's early yet, but 2010 is already shredding the denialsphere meme of global cooling, not that it will cause the willfully ignorant to stop using it.
Someone should edit that youtube clip provided in comment 7 so it just includes Maher's question and Fiorina's response, and they should retitle the clip "Fiorina Flip-Flops on Global Warming."
It is tedious to wait for all the humor to go by before Fiorina speaks, and most people interested in Fiorina will not find it with its current title. We need a clip that focuses just on this statement by Fiorina.
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The peanut butter and chocolate candy bar has designated 2013 as its 90-ish birthday. While there's a trademark document that dates back to 1928, officials believe the candy bar was first promoted in 1923. The Curtiss Candy Company, which was based in Chicago, made Butterfinger and also the Baby Ruth candy bar. They're both now made by Nestle.
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AZARIA: (as Chief Wiggum) Even the fire doesn't want them.
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