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"Everything is very tentative at this point," Tolleson said. "We're still pretty early on in the game, but tentatively it's scheduled to go to leading in fall of 2013 or maybe early 2014. It depends on a lot of activity."
An additional option, expansion of the existing route through downtown Dover, was ruled out following the initial public meeting.
Dover Mayor Pat Johnson said he would rather not see the bypass happen. He was in favor of expanding the original route, but realized the complications involved.
"In my opinion, I can see how it could hurt our downtown, but it's a Catch-22," Johnson said. "I'd prefer for them to expand on the existing highway, but it's hard to expand without losing downtown business. It would affect their parking and their availability. ... I don't see how they could open it up without destroying some property. I wouldn't want them to tear anything down, so I guess I'd rather have the bypass than that. We have a lot of history in downtown Dover — especially on the east side of the street."
Tollleson agreed the widening of the existing Sate Highway 7 route would be an expensive alternative.
"It's not a good feasible approach," Tolleson said. "The cost would be outrageous for that. They're all going to be expensive, but that one went by the wayside after our first meeting. ... A lot of times, you believe if you stay on the existing route and just widen it, it's got to be cheaper," Tolleson said. "In this case it was far from cheaper. Everything is developed there so the land is more expensive. You couldn't just buy 10 feet off of the gas station there. They would lose their whole lot. It's not just fuel stations, it's everybody in there."
Based on traffic study information he read, Johnson said the bypass didn't seem necessary. He said the study indicated only 1/3 of the traffic through Dover continue on Highway 7, with the remainder traveling down State Highway 164 or State Highway 27.
"There are certain times of day when there's an issue," Johnson said. "School time is rough in both the morning and afternoon, but I don't think it's so severe we need a bypass."
Tolleson said the traffic study confirmed a bypass would benefit the traffic flow.
Johnson said the bypass could result in Highway 7 travelers not even knowing the town existed.
"We would lose a lot," Johnson said. "In the summertime when people are headed south, they've been through all of those curvy roads and they see our town and think, 'We've made it back to civilization.' So they stop at the market or the gas stations. With the bypass there, they may not even know anything is there, and no one has figures on that."
The remaining route-options are identified as yellow, red and orange, with east and west variations for the red and orange routes. Both variations of the red route begin further north than the orange and yellow options, both of which would begin just south of Baker's Creek bridge. Tolleson said the variations of the red and orange routes were created based on public input from the initial public meeting. He said the orange west variation would be the longest path and likely the most expensive, while the red east variation would be the shortest.
Tolleson said results of the voting would not be available until after the completion of an environmental impact study, which he estimates to be complete in about six months.
"I have no idea how it turned out, but I heard a lot of people saying, 'Red. Red. Red.' I don't know how many people really voted for the red. I don't have that information yet," Tolleson said.
Tolleson said the public input will contribute heavily to the route chosen, but ultimately the decision is based upon the findings of the environmental impact study.
"We could wind up hitting an old graveyard or burial ground or endangered species or something," he said. "If that's found — If there's an environmental impact, that weighs heavily on the choice. After that it would be based on public participation. Sometimes it seems like it doesn't matter when everybody wants this one, but if we go through two cemeteries and a Native American burial ground, we're probably not going to go that way."
Tolleson does not anticipate another public meeting on the bypass to be scheduled.
"Sometimes they schedule a third one, but usually when they start narrowing down routes that's usually the last one," he said.


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This photo is a composite of three photos stitched together in Photoshop showing the crater rim and interior of Ngorogoro. The famous crater is a conservation area and has some of the highest densities of lions in the world, along with many other animals including black rhinos. Rains had fallen for a few weeks allowing the crater to become a bit more lush and green, and with some clouds on the horizon, I thought the shot gave a sense of the crater's immense expanse.
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dta (87505) 2014-01-24 5:53
Hello Robert ,
What an amazing landscape ! The cratere seems to be so immense . Especially beautiful after the rainfalls -greenery- , and with this splendid sky .
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Hello Robert, very nice image here. You are very fortunate to be there and to see all this beautiful panorama. Lovely green.
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Hi Robert, what a beautiful view.
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By Chris Mooney • Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 05:44
They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there's a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments section. They have a seemingly insatiable desire to debate, sometimes quite aggressively.
They're the conservative white men (CWM) of climate change denial, and we've all gotten to know them in one way or another. But we haven't had population-level statistics on them until recently, courtesy of a new paper in Global Environmental Change (apparently not online yet, but live in the blogosphere as of late last week) by sociologists Aaron McCright and Riley Dunlap. It's entitled "Cool Dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States." Among other data, McCright and Dunlap show the following:
— 14% of the general public doesn't worry about climate change at all, but among CWMs the percentage jumps to 39%.
— 32% of adults deny there is a scientific consensus on climate change, but 59% of CWMs deny what the overwhelming majority of the world's scientists have said.
— 3 adults in 10 don't believe recent global temperature increases are primarily caused by human activity. Twice that many – 6 CWMs out of every ten – feel that way.
What's more, and in line with a number of post I've written in the past, McCright and Dunlap also find among these CWMs a phenomenon I sometimes like to call "smart idiocy." Even as they deny mainstream climate science, conservative white males are also more likely than average U.S. adults to think they understand the science they deny—that they're right, the scientists are wrong, and they can prove it. Indeed, they're just dying to debate you and refute you.
The authors bring up two possible explanations for the broad CWM phenomenon, both based on literature in the social sciences. The first is "identity-protective cognition" theory (or what I would call motivated reasoning). The second is "system justification" theory, which is just what it sounds like: the study of why people, often implicitly and subconsciously, are motivated to ratify and reaffirm the status quo—why their default position is against, rather than for, progressive change.
Motivated reasoning suggests that men who have "hierarchical" values—resisting reforms to increase economic or social equality, believing that some people should be running things and some should be taking orders, or that it's perfectly okay and normal that some will succeed and some will fail—will be more inclined defend a social system that's structured in this way. Such a tendency has been used in the past to explain the "white male effect": White men tend to downplay all manner of risks, especially environmental ones, but also risks posed by things like the vast proliferation of guns in America. This, presumably, is both because they're less harmed by such risks overall (the burden often falls more on the disadvantaged), but also because they have trouble personally conceiving of the reality of these risks (they don't see the current state of things as being very bad or objectionable).
But why do men downplay climate risks in particular? Here's where "system justification" theory comes in: If climate change is real and human caused, it potentially threatens the whole economic order and those who have built it and benefited from it. It is the most inconvenient of truths. So the idea is that the men who benefit from the fossil-fuel based energy system will rationalize and defend that system from challenge—and the science of climate change is, in some ways, the ultimate challenge. (More on this here.)
This, by the way, may help to explain why conservatives so often liken the promotion of mainstream climate science, and advocacy for greenhouse gas emission controls, to a secret agenda to advance global socialism or communism. It isn't—we're so far from a left wing revolution in this country that the whole idea is laughable—but you can see how this wild claim might make more sense to them than it does to you and me.
There's also a strong element of groupthink here, write McCright and Dunlap. Conservative white male elites like Rush Limbaugh disseminate the climate denial message, and then their followers come to associate with it and build identities around it:
To the extent that conservative white males in the general public view their brethren within the elite sectors as an ingroup, then we expect that the former also will tend to reject the global warming claims of the scientific community, the environmental movement, and environmental policy-makers. In short, they will espouse climate change denial to defend the information disseminated within their in-group and to protect their cultural identity as conservative white males.
Honestly, while we're cranking out all these theories, I am surprised the authors didn't bring up what may be the most biologically grounded of them: "social dominance orientation," or SDO. This refers to a particular personality type—usually male and right wing—who wants to dominate others, who sees the world as a harsh place (metaphorically, a "jungle") where it's either eat or be eaten, and who tends to really believe in a Machiavellian way of things. Fundamentally, this identity is all about testosterone firing and being an alpha male. SDOs are fine with inequality and in favor of hierarchy because frankly, they think some people (e.g., them) are just better than others, and therefore destined to get ahead.
What are we to make of all of these theories?
Certainly they're more than just hand-waving: They're all based on actual survey measurements of various tendencies within the population. So there is clearly some truth to all of them.
They're also overlapping, rather than mutually exclusive. My sense is that they're all taking a nibble at something real; some, like "social dominance" theory, may describe certain individuals but not others. But if there's a central theme uniting them all, it's the idea that some people, perhaps especially conservative men, will be more comfortable with, and more inclined to rationalize, hierarchy.
Now, do I think conservative white men consciously wake up in the morning and say to themselves, "I'm going to go on blogs and attack climate science today so I can screw over the little guy?" Certainly not.
Rather, I simply think they experience modern climate science and climate advocacy as an affront, an attack on them and what they believe. They were brought up in a certain way, they believe certain things, and they have no reason to think of themselves as bad people—and indeed, mostly they're not bad people. They give to charity. They go to church. They provide for a family. And so on.
But then they perceive all these attacks on their values coming from outsiders—hippie environmentalists and ivory tower climate scientists. If you didn't do anything wrong, and you consider yourself as reasonable and intelligent–but people are attacking you and your values—you maybe get kind of outraged and worked up.
From there, the attacks on climate science and climate scientists may begin—and the affirmation of the in-group by attacking the out-group. Needless to say, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, and various climate denial blogs serve to fan the flames.
None of these men, then, are probably consciously aware that they're engaged in anything like "system justification" or the "rationalization of hierarchy." However, they perceive the status quo differently, they're more comfortable with hierarchy and may not even notice it–and these then may become their default.
Oh: And they're maybe a little too defensive.
anonymous replied on Permalink
identity politics
Nothing surprising here, except that you seem to underrate the degree to which the CWM consider there to be no difference between who they are and what they believe. Thence the term I like, which has been around for a while, 'identity politics'. Limbaugh was fairly explicit about this in his 1993 book. To disagree with him is, among other things, to reject God.
The idea, however, is a good 100 years old – Upton Sinclair's observation that it's hard to get a man to believe something if his job depends on not believing it.
You, like many, I think miss something about the hierarchy issue. You (all) have the part about comfort with being in a hierarchy ok. Classical liberalism is not so fond of that kind of thing. But the missing part is that they also view themselves as being higher in the hierarchy than they are. 'Joe the Plumber' figured he was just one break away from owning a sizeable plumbing company. Realistically, he was doing pretty well just to be holding the position he had. Anyhow, the number of people who object to hierarchy drops markedly if they think they're at or near the top of it, or will be soon.
Climate Changer replied on Permalink
Interesting theory and this set of arguement can also be successfully used to explain why CWM's do not agree with other groups on a whole myriad of issues.
Perhaps the best way to convert this group would be to provide some adequate evidence to support global warming theory and a little measurable warming within the climate would help too.
Until then, without the support of CWM's expect this theory to be shelved as they comprise a very large segment of North America.
anonymous replied on Permalink
What's evidence?
What would you call evidence that there had been climate warming?
Aeolus replied on Permalink
Conservative moral values
Anyone who has ever watched the great ted talk by Jonathan Haidt on the moral values of liberals and conservatives will recognize two of the fundamental conservative values reinforcing each other here. One is tribalism, with its rejection of outsiders. The other is the respect for established authority.
I recommend that everyone take 17 minutes and watch this talk. It will inform your conversations and allow you to thinh in terms of values, especially if you are a liberal and are not attuned to conservative moral values.
anonymous replied on Permalink
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Sideshow Bill replied on Permalink
Check the sources
Referring to Spencer, a noted climate denier, in an op-ed written by the Heartland institute, again, noted climate deniers and distorters of scientific data, doesn't really score points in an argument with anyone who has been following the debate and understands the data. I'll wait until more climate guys have had a chance to look at the data. (They are sharing the data right?)
RCase replied on Permalink
In other words...
In other words, you'll just wait for the herd mentality to tell you what to think, right?
You automatically reject Spencer, just because he's been skeptical of the "conventional climate wisdom". HE's A DENIER !!! No, he's an academic climate scientist who does not necessarily agree with many of the assertions/conclusions of the herd. That should be viewed as a normal part of science. But NO!! Anyone who disagrees with us is against us and A DENIER !! You really should ask yourself why this social dynamic is happening, and whether it is healthy for anyone.
I would be greatly disappointed if Spencer did not share the data. I'm certain he will. Are you similarly concerned at all that Mann, Schmidt, et. al. (note that I don't use any labeling or implicitly disparaging terms here) have not been so forthcoming with their datasets?
Sideshow Bill replied on Permalink
Actually, RCase,It's more
Actually, RCase,It's more than a heard mentality. He's been shown to be wilfully ignorant with a persecution complex. The best takedown with links to other great rebuttals is here: http://bbickmore.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/roy-spencers-great-blunder-part-1/. It's not calling him a denier, it's that he has a proven track record of being wrong. (I'm a Phd chemist, I understand how peer review works, you try to publish crap, you get hammered. If you want to make extraordinary claims, you'd better have extraordinary evidence to be able to back that up. He doesn't) The problem is, he is a part of the normal part of science, he's just wrong. It's not a global conspiracy, it's just that his science doesn't stand up.
As for following the .1% that claims AGW is a hoax, by analogy, would you follow the same group of people that claim smoking isn't harmful (You actually are, btw see Frederick Seitz) or look at the preponderance of epidemiology that shows it's harmful. How about evolution? Again, a preponderance of evidence in multiple fields, but you still have idiots running around making claims without the evidence to back it up.
EEB replied on Permalink
Barry Who?!
Please explain WHY I should accept the opinion of this Bickmore cat.
RCase replied on Permalink
Sideshow Bill, Thanks for the
Sideshow Bill, Thanks for the thoughtful response. I too have degrees in Chemistry (but only BS/MS, not a PhD). So I do have a decent appreciation of how peer review works. But I believe it works much differently in a less politically-charged area of study where infinitely less funding is also at stake.
There's a big difference between those who believe AGW is a hoax and those who are skeptical of AGW. I'm skeptical not because I don't understand the science. I'm skeptical because this doesn't look like normal scientific process and peer review should. When there's little openness to the data and no open dialog regarding findings/models/assumptions, it starts to look less like science and more like a circlejerk to me. Which makes me even more skeptical than I was in the first place. And I'm certain I'm not alone.
As one forward-thinking CEO once commented, "In God I trust. All others bring data."
And to marginalize those who are skeptical as being only 1 in 1000 (scientists?, climate scientists?, ordinary people?), I think you're hugely underestimating the "consensus" that exists.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Mann, Schmidt et. al. have
Mann, Schmidt et. al. have been *completely forthcoming* with their data.
*All* of Mann's tree-ring/paleoclimate data are available on line and can be found with a simple Google search. Ditto for *all* of the temperature data and code that NASA/GISS uses/produces. Similarly, *all* of the source code for all of the major climate models is free for the downloading.
And now the CRU has, at the risk of infringing on IP/copyright laws, released *all* of the raw temperature data in its possession. The *only* data it did not release was Poland's, because Poland explicitly forbade the release of its data. Nations that did not respond to the CRU's permission requests had their data released anyway.
The problem isn't that scientists haven't been forthcoming enough; the problem is that most of the deniers who have been demanding the data are too lazy and/or incompetent to do anything with it. And I'd be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that you fall into the lazy/incompetent category.
cwon15 replied on Permalink
Mann et. al.
This is nonsense;
There is plenty of data suppression and obfuscation.
EEB replied on Permalink
The Minister of Propaganda Strikes
"Mann, Schmidt et. al. have been *completely forthcoming* with their data."
I have no doubt there are numerous members in your Kingdom Hall of Gaia Witnesses that would actually believe that crap. Still, I suspect you will need to repeat that one a LOT!
Susan Anderson replied on Permalink
How startlingly unoriginal!
How startlingly unoriginal! "Kingdom Hall of Gaia" forsooth! Suggest you visit any respectable science site or science blog and find out how these people work. They are literate and intelligent, but a bit tired of answering the same old baloney decade after decade after decade. You have opinions but not facts to back them up, so you degrade the conversation with a few generic attacks. For shame!
People have made an effort to provide real information, but it appears you don't want to know about that. I guarantee a good few Christians would not care to be associated with Limbaugh's brand of hate, which doesn't exactly come from the Gospels or Jesus himself. Rushbo isn't an attractive role model with his do as I say not as I do mentality which allows him to laugh all the way to the bank, and I seem to remember Jesus had a good few things to say about eyes of needles, giving away one's worldly goods, and defiling temples that don't fit the peculiar version that indicates wealth is a sign of god's favor and inviolable.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Proving the blogs point I see...
You do realize that you're just confirming the point of the article right? The article wasn't about climate change per se but about the d-bags that happily and actively spew mis-information and complete gibberish on the subject just so they can feel good about themselves… Kinda like you're doing here.
RCase replied on Permalink
Actually not. ..
Since I'm nowhere close to being a C-W-M (2 of 3 being wrong). But thanks for lowering the discourse to name calling.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Proving the blogs point I see...
You do realize that you're just confirming the point of the article right? The article wasn't about climate change per se but about the d-bags that happily and actively spew mis-information and complete gibberish on the subject just so they can feel good about themselves… Kinda like you're doing here.
david ropeik replied on Permalink
we ALL do this
Thanks for posting my blog on this last week. May I note that the "identity protection" theories Riley and Dunlap cite are relevant not just to CWMs. The underlying worldviews of how we want society to operate drive selective perception of the facts by all of us. It's the same phenomenon that fuels leftist denialism re:GM food or nuclear power, for example. We believe, or deny, so our views agree with OUR group, so OUR group will be stronger and the group will accept us as a member in good standing. This is important for the survival of an animal that has evolved to be social and rely on the group for health and safety. And this is true of all of us, not just CWMs. Your post, and 'Cool Dudes', feeds the polarization around climate change, by singling out one group (which does happen to be the group the most clearly refuses to accept the overwhelming evidence on climate change) for doing what we all do on various issues. David
anonymous replied on Permalink
Um so who are deniers
Um so who are deniers supposed to be anyway in your estimation, should they be LWMs? or CBFs? I dont get the point of this piece.
George Kapotto replied on Permalink
Another thought
While I was reading this post, I was reminded of Rick Moranis' role as the father in 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.' He is presented as a lovably eccentric inventor who has a way with gadgets and Rube Goldberg devices. Everybody is amused by Rick and we can see that Rick is better a gadgets than we are -at least in the movies. This is okay because in the real world we understand how things really work.
If we look at them, environmental solutions are often presented as a confusing hodge-podge of partial solutions. We would get energy from wind, solar, wave, etc. Waste is reduced, reused or recycled. We compost. We bike. We walk. We take the bus. It is okay to mine resources here but not there because of an endangered species. We grow trees to shade our houses. We set the dishwasher to run over night. We buy CFLs for this lighting requirement and LEDs for that one. And so it goes.
In the the stereotypical CWM lifestyle, you get up, take your lunch out of the fridge and go to work. You put widgets together all day or supervise or manage widget assemblers. You come home to dinner on the table and a shot of JD. On weekends, you have a barbecue with beer. You are the king of the castle and master of your destiny.
This lifestyle is simple and easy to wrap your head around. Rube Goldberg is restricted to the movies and no one is pushing you out of your widget comfort zone.
I would suggest that when your are that CWM king of your castle, climate change is not just an affront. I would suggest that there is concern and uncertainty about needing to learn new tricks. Oh yeah, your widgets are poorly designed, built in an old inefficient factory, generate toxic wastes and are cluttering the landfills. What if people decide that they shouldn't be using widgets at all?
And, most importantly, there is fear that someone else is better at all these new ideas than you are.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Apart from being essentially
Apart from being essentially racist and sexist article, I am having a hard time figuring out the point of this thing.
(BTW, I am not a CWM, but almost everything else in this article pertains to me)
RickJames replied on Permalink
Racism and sexism is
Racism and sexism is perfectly allowable as long as it comes from the left. It's well established and should never surprise anyone.
Hank122 replied on Permalink
I'm afraid it's much simpler
I'm afraid it's much simpler than that. Chris Mooney, being an expert (paid) PR person for this blog, has made it clear by attaching the picture to the article that if you are skeptical of CAGW then you are basically the same as Rush Limbaugh. The ultimate slap in the face for rational, thinking people (skeptics). H
Jim Groom replied on Permalink
I'm afraid it's much simpler.
Really Hank122? You are overthinking in this case.
rum replied on Permalink
i bet you never listen to him or if you do its never for more than a talking point. try him. you will like him. really, give it two weeks and se what you think. i have heard everything thrown at him but except for the gigantic ego, the rest is bs.
Smith1492 replied on Permalink
Racial, sexual and cultural discrimination in one article, Nice!
We all know that the concervative, white male is the new whipping boy of all radical activist movements. But to write it so equivically is rather disappointing.
The writer and website owner should be reminded that written discrimination based on race, sex and culture is illegal in Canada.
trimtab replied on Permalink
Exploration of human behaviour is not equal to racism et al.
Dear Smith1492,
Please note that, IMO, no "act" of discrimination has been perpetrated by the OP's article. IANAL, but he content of this article is protected speech, in the US and in Canada. The only Canadian law that may curtail free speech is applicable only in the case of incitation toward violence against an individual or a group. This is not the case.
How were any individuals or groups actually harmed or threatened by the OP's article?
Robert Murphy replied on Permalink
Is there any information on
Is there any information on what CWW think? I missed where they compared conservative women and conservative men. I would be surprised if the women were less accepting of AGW, but is the difference that big? This article did not say. Going by the info given, it is not possible to conclude whether the key variable is being male or being conservative.
William replied on Permalink
Global warming as a threat to the economic order?
Hi Chris,
Excellent piece, though not terribly surprising. This might well also explain some of the conservative backlash in blue-collar and farm towns out in the midwest. The left of the 30s and 40s was much more accommodating of the dominant social hierarchy while attacking the economic hierarchy. Now the two are largely conflated.
However, I was struck by one line in your piece: "If climate change is real and human caused, it potentially threatens the whole economic order and those who have built it and benefited from it."
I find this really strange in light of your pro-growth pro-tech light green environmental stance. I thought you held the mainstream left belief that we just need to tweak the current economic order a bit more towards environmental sensitivity and social justice to make it work, but the fundamentals are sound. You think we just need to more efficiently use our existing resources and transition to clean energy to make it all work.
I am not trying to set up a straw-man, just trying to express what I think you believe based on your past statements. How does this statement about a "threat to the whole economic order" fit in? What sort of new economic order would we face should we truly come to grips with the intertwined and massive problems of environmental damage, social injustice, and resource depletion?
I think investigating these questions seriously leads one to some pretty scary places in short order…
Hank122 replied on Permalink
Sorry, but this is just another long winded attempt to label and pigeonhole skeptics. It's either about 'why' people don't buy in to the hype or it's "How to better communicate Climate Change".
It's as if the CAGW faithful are thinking "It can't possibly be that there are problems with our theory because the 'science is settled', right? So it must be that there's something wrong with these guys!"
I'm afraid you'll have to look deeper than "Cool dudes". H
Applegate replied on Permalink
Has more to do with brains.
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain." - Winston Churchill
LarryE replied on Permalink
Finishing what should have been the quote
"And if you're not a strong leftist at sixty, you haven't been paying attention."
RickJames replied on Permalink
I could write up a theory
I could write up a theory about how the climate blogs are mostly written by 35 year old white males desperately fretting over the increasing irrelevancy of their chosen cause but that would just be silly wouldn't it?
Cedric Katesby replied on Permalink
"I could write up a theory
"I could write up a theory about how…"
You'd have a harder time addressing the substance of the article.
Fat, old, white Americans people are the backbone of climate denialism.
There's hardly a single talking head from the climate denier side that doesn't fit the description.
The rest of the world, along with all the scientific communities, has moved on.
Climate denialism can offer nothing new any more that the creationists can offer anything new.
RickJames replied on Permalink
That's because fat old white
That's because fat old white Americans are just about the only ones egaged in the climate discussion at all. They have the time. Nobody else cares.
howdy doobie replied on Permalink
So skin pigment is key to
So skin pigment is key to global warming denial? Chris maybe you should urge white people to tan more. I have many Italian aquaintances who are that are already darker than you and turn black when they spend time in the Sun. I'm sure there is no other paramater that you should focus on other than skin pigment. Hazzah! Well done! Nice of you to demonstrate the myopic mindset of the modern academic seeking affirmation to preconceived notions.
Lavandula replied on Permalink
This article helps explain
This article helps explain some of the hostility I've encountered as a newly minted environmental lawyer. I'm used to people who are less than thrilled to see me and my clients, but this feels different, as though every zoning battle is a clash of civilizations and a fight to the death far beyond the actual stakes of the case. Which I suppose it is, if you are a CWM (or F) who believes that environmentalism is a threat to your culture, your tribe, your way of life. So what then? Presenting scientific evidence or legal argument doesn't work–the fact that the science or law supports my side means automatically that it is corrupt and not to be trusted. (A number of the comments above demonstrate exactly what I'm talking about). I've tried to ask myself how I would feel if science supported as factual something that struck at the core of my values–for example, if most scientists agreed that women were stupider than men. How would I react? Wouldn't I attack the science and suggest that it isn't settled? Wouldn't I attack the scientists as self-interested? Wouldn't I look for alternate explanations and oppose political "solutions"? What evidence would I require before I believed it? Unfortunately, this exercise leaves me staring into the post-modern abyss …
Nick44 replied on Permalink
While I generally agree with you, most scientists are convinced with experiments and results that line up with a prior.
This is mostly just rhetoric that is written in a voice that clearly believes itself to be objective. The problem is that all studies show that even the most well-meaning of us have biases. They are just different in all of us. We must be even-handed in this, even if that is a simple statement that those in the scientific and reality-based community are biased towards an idea of equality. It is a value after all and there is nothing scientifically objective about it.
bill replied on Permalink
boy, you are way off the mark! i am one of your so called cwm's and you could not be further from the truth. i hold none of the additudes you claim men like me have and i am not in denial. i read science as opposed to reading hype and am convinced that mankind as a whole has very little impact on climate. some for sure but so small that it doesn't matter. for example, co2 makes up just 0385% of our atmosphere and we contribute a mere 3% of that. ooh, scary! also, you can't seriously believe that a byproduct of our own respiration is polluting the planet! co2 is GOOD for us and for plant growth! it means a greener planet. and a greener planet is a better fed planet. now i'm all for cleaning up our act to clean this place up but reducing co2 is a BAD idea. GIVE ME MY CO2!
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
You *don't* read any science
You *don't* read any science – if you did, you wouldn't be committing the sort of middle-school blunders that you just made in your post.
for example, co2 makes up just 0385% of our atmosphere and we contribute a mere 3% of that…
Nobody with a clue about the science would parrot such an inane talking-point.
rum replied on Permalink
so what are the values? from the wonderful, let me revise the agw stuff to make it look better, wikipedia:Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom. It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure and exists in Earth's atmosphere in this state, as a trace gas at a concentration of 0.039% by volume. then from skepticak science, your god, has this from jeff id:Human CO2 is a tiny % of CO2 emissions
"The oceans contain 37,400 billion tons (GT) of suspended carbon, land biomass has 2000-3000 GT. The atmosphere contains 720 billion tons of CO2 and humans contribute only 6 GT. The oceans, land and atmosphere exchange CO2 continuously so the additional load by humans is incredibly small. A small shift in the balance between oceans and air would cause a much more severe rise than anything we could produce." (Jeff Id)
but now i wont say what your god says about what id says!
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
"Earth's atmosphere in this
"Earth's atmosphere in this state, as a trace gas at a concentration of 0.039% by volume"
That's like saying,
"Your honor, the alcohol in my bloodstream was just a tiny trace at a concentration of 0.08% when I ran over that little old lady. There is no way that such a tiny concentration of alcohol could have impaired my ability to drive safely".
And as for JeffId, apparently he doesn't understand the difference between "gross" and "net". As smart as he may be in some ways, it is incredible how stupid he can be in others.
JVill replied on Permalink
DUI vs CO2
Your argument makes no sense. The DUI alcohol threshold of 0.8% eight/tenths of a percent expressed in parts per million is 8000, whereas the atmospheric CO2 is 390ppm. More pertinently, the baseline of blood alcohol is zero, while CO2 has always been a part of the atmosphere, historically in much higher concentrations than now, (2000 ppm or more) while plants and animals thrived, as it is essential to life. Ergo the skepticism that the rise from 280 ppm over the last century, part of which is human-generated, is any major problem. Yes, I'm male and white, but can you tell me why I'm wrong? And skip the "consensus of scientists" claptrap; there are far too many peer-reviewed scientific articles disputing the alarmist view.
Sideshow Bill replied on Permalink
It's about balance
If CO2 is so good for life, I suggest you put a bag over your head. It'll help you grow. The concentration in the bag doesn't have to change much at all to have a very drastic effect. It's about amounts, and small changes have big effects.
As for warming, the more greenhouse gases (IR absorbers) that you have, the more heat you dump into the atmosphere. The gases absorb incoming IR radiation by being excited to a higher vibrational state, and then release that energy via collisions with other molecules. Repeat this act over and over, heating non-IR absorbing gasses as well. (In effect the greenhouse gases are catalysts for warming) Simple enough for you?
rum replied on Permalink
hopefully you jest in the comparison b/t the paper bag and co2 in the atmosphere and you are 'just' suggesting someone that doesnt buy the hype should harm himself like others have fron the agw camp have done on numerous occaisions. as for your second attempt at explaining just wondering what has happened to all this heat in the last 15 years? maybe roy spencer is correct. as a side note, spencer's newest paper was peer reviewed. it just doesnt mean that much anymore though, does it?
JVill replied on Permalink
Simple is as simple says
You are incapable of drawing a proper analogy. I'm well aware of the mechanism of greenhouse gases, but the catalyst effect, or positive feedbacks, are exaggerated by climate models which make unsupported assumptions, such as that clouds which may be increased by GRG's always cause more warming by insulation. In fact, climate scientists readily admit that the net effect of cloud cover, both insulation of heat and reflection of the sun's rays back to space, is uncertain. That is one reason why the computer models concocted 20 or more years ago were ludicrously wrong about the temperature trend. Google "James Hansen failed global warming predictions," and see where he predicted temperatures would be, and declared there was only a 1% chance they would be where they actually are now. He also declared in 1988 that the West End Highway in Manhattan would be submerged by 2008 because of all the terrible warming. What is "settled" is that the science is quite "unsettled" as to the magnitude, causes, effects and relative costs/benefits of imposing the massive and onerous measures demanded by AGW alarmists.
JVill replied on Permalink
Simple is as simple says
You are incapable of drawing a proper analogy. I'm well aware of the mechanism of greenhouse gases, but the catalyst effect, or positive feedbacks, are exaggerated by climate models which make unsupported assumptions, such as that clouds which may be increased by GRG's always cause more warming by insulation. In fact, climate scientists readily admit that the net effect of cloud cover, both insulation of heat and reflection of the sun's rays back to space, is uncertain. That is one reason why the computer models concocted 20 or more years ago were ludicrously wrong about the temperature trend. Google "James Hansen failed global warming predictions," and see where he predicted temperatures would be, and declared there was only a 1% chance they would be where they actually are now. He also declared in 1988 that the West End Highway in Manhattan would be submerged by 2008 because of all the terrible warming. What is "settled" is that the science is quite "unsettled" as to the magnitude, causes, effects and relative costs/benefits of imposing the massive and onerous measures demanded by AGW alarmists.
pyeatte replied on Permalink
Climate Science is Science?
Climate science has become a left-wing political movement, not real science. Note that the "climate scientists" are "grant puppies" and they must conform to the wishes of the politicos who control the grant money. The politicos demand AGW conclusions for their money so that is what they get. Climate Gate showed directly the corruption of politics and science and basically saved us from cap-n-trade hell. Until we see actual evidence or models that work concerning AGW, don't expect support from us. We realize the climate always changes - look at the historical record. We just don't believe human activity has any significant effect on that change - it is 99% natural processes.
caerbannog888 replied on Permalink
Can't help but notice how the
Can't help but notice how the CWM's have "piled on" to this thread while completely ignoring the "CRU released all of its data" thread below.
C'mon, you CWM's – Will those of you (and I know some of you are here) who have been hollering for the CRU scientists to be fired/whatever (for failing to release their data quickly enough now "roll up your sleeves" and actually *do* something with the data you've been screaming for?
I know that tinfoil-hat conspiracy-mongering is a lot less work than writing code and analyzing data, but it sure would be nice if even *one* of you guys would at least make a token effort to analyze some of the data that the CRU folks have made available to you.
Doug Proctor replied on Permalink
Who are the Conspiracy Mongers?
The "conspiracy" amongst the skeptics about socialist programming is about the FUNCTIONAL, not intellectual socialism of the eco-green movement. It is not about reducing CO2 emissions, it is not about cutting back on home-based coal-fired power stations. The conspiracy is about setting up ultra-national institutions to both police and coerce through punitive actions those nations who behaviour outside of the Pan-National acceptable behaviour. This is beyond the Federal governments seizing all powers necessary from the State/Province/Municipality to mandate what, up to now, is not a federal arena.
This is, note, not to say that, in times of crisis, such things arent required. Of course they are, just as The Patriot Act was considered necessary even though it clearly violates all sorts of personal freedoms the American voter enjoyed until 9/11. As the Real Men mutter, "A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do." The question is whether is is one of those times of crisis. You say yea, I say nay.
As for the CRU data: there has been a lot of work done already, some by CRU staff themselves, that says that things arent necessarily as you are told they are. Have you checked out the CRU temperature graph side-by-side with NOAA/Hansens? Funny how Hansen says that "his", warmer data, is "superior" to CRUs data (because they have computer modelled Arctic data). I thought we were on the same planet, so that the temp concerns of one source would be the temp concerns of all others. And then compare NOAA/Hansens data against the satellite data of UAH: funny how NASAs satellite data is not the same as NASAs NOAA/Hansen data.
The point here is (yes, all the data trends are similar) that the amount of warming, where the warming is and how special is is relative to other times depends on your choice of data massager (not provider: all the data is essentially the same). If there is uncertainty in how to measure, adjust and categorize such a fundamental aspect of "climate change", what else is there that is similarly uncertain certainty?
90 percent certainty in one aspect might be acceptable if only one aspect is important. But if 3 aspects lean on each other with a similar set of uncertainty, you are now down to 73 percent certainty. And we know that the state of the world climate has more than 3 components of which we are less than 90 percent certain. So how sure are we? We are sure to the level of 1.4 additional centigrade degree by the year 2100 to 5 degrees. 1.4 to 5.0. For sea level? 1 foot by 2100 …. or 16 feet.
You couldnt get a plug nickel from an investor with such a possible risk scenario, but you are willing to open up your neighbours wallet and the offices of a coercive world government of environmental protection.
The skeptics have been reanalyzing climate data for themselves for years, and we dont like what we see. Perhaps you could do the same and then report back. Look for all the "clear signs". Look for the language of "may, might, could, possibly" where you think they have been using "will, does, definitely".
Do YOUR homework. Weve done ours.


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A tale from the November Pogrom
In June 1987, AJR Information published a letter from David Fisher, who, with Anthony Read, was writing a book on the 'Crystal Night' pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. In line with the growing trend among historians to supplement archival material and written documents with eye-witness testimony, Read and Fisher wished to include first-hand accounts of the events of that night in their book. Fisher's letter requested AJR members who 'have stories to tell which have never found a wider audience than their immediate family circle' to contact him. The book appeared, first under the title Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror, then as Kristallnacht: The Unleashing of the Holocaust (1990), and has since disappeared from view.
Fisher's letter elicited at least one response, from Mrs C. K. Rosenstiel, née Meumann, of Putney, London SW15, a Jewish refugee from Berlin, who had a very unusual story to tell. I am indebted to her son, Mr Colin Rosenstiel of Cambridge, for sending me her reply and other documents that provided the inspiration for this article. Mrs Rosenstiel's letter recounted the remarkable story of the offer by a high-ranking German army officer to help his Jewish neighbours escape arrest during the pogrom:
In the afternoon of 9th November 1938 our neighbour, the wife of Colonel, later General Hans Oster, called to offer the shelter of their home to my father who was a lawyer aged 58. The news of the arrest of Jewish men had spread to both our families. The Osters and our family lived on the same floor of a Berlin apartment block. There were two staircases, one for tradesmen. Mrs Oster proposed that if the Gestapo called at the front door, my father could easily slip across to their flat by the back door.
In the event, the Meumanns decided that the plan represented too great a risk to the Osters and opted instead to send their young daughter to seek refuge for her father elsewhere. What none of the family then knew was that Oster was deeply involved in the clandestine activities of a group of senior military figures opposed to Hitler. Oster, who became deputy to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service, was to continue these activities until 1943, when men close to him were found to have arranged the escape of 14 Jews, disguised as Abwehr agents, to Switzerland; this led to his dismissal. Arrested in the wake of the 'Bomb Plot', the failed attempt on Hitler's life of 20 July 1944, Oster was tried by a Nazi court, sentenced to death, and hanged with Canaris and the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenbürg concentration camp on 9 April 1945. The conspirators against Hitler were forced to strip naked before being taken to the gallows.
Mrs Rosenstiel concluded her letter to Fisher by taking the story of her family and the Osters up to 1987:
I am still in touch with his surviving daughter and am planning to attend the family celebration of the 100th anniversary of Hans Oster's birth in Hamburg in August. Needless to say the Germans have never adequately recognized Oster's heroic efforts to save them from Hitler.
As the photo of the memorial plaque that was erected to Oster in 1990 on the site of his erstwhile residence in Berlin, at Bayerische Straße 9, shows, his role in the resistance to Hitler has now received the recognition that Mrs Rosenstiel found lacking in 1987. Her son, a long-serving city councillor in Cambridge, carried on the family connection to the Osters. He recalls meeting Oster's son Achim, a former playmate of his mother, and more recently had contact with Oster's granddaughter when she lived in Heidelberg, Cambridge's twin city. It was in part thanks to Colin Rosenstiel's father that the plaque to Oster's memory was installed in 1990 and its inauguration was the last occasion on which his parents visited Berlin.
The military resistance to Hitler has received decidedly mixed judgments from historians in recent decades, partly because in the predominantly conservative atmosphere of West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s it had been depicted as a group of right-minded (in both senses of the word) Germans who chose the road of honour in opposing Hitler and paid the ultimate price for doing so. During the Cold War, the military resistance was given pride of place in West Germany over the Communist and working-class resistance to Hitler, which was felt to be too close in its values and loyalties to the regime in East Germany. Modern historians now largely agree that the military resistance was politically a very mixed bag. As Gordon A. Craig demonstrated in The Politics of the Prussian Army 1640-1945 (1955), senior officers in the Wehrmacht, the German army, were notorious for their antipathy to parliamentary, democratic forms of government, for their aggressive militarism, and for their disregard for civil rights and freedoms.
Army officers had sworn a ceremonial oath of loyalty to Hitler in August 1934 and had been more than content when he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the provisions of which had severely limited the size of the German armed forces, and proceeded to rearm at full speed. Nor were they critical of Hitler's policies towards his domestic opponents: they raised no objection when he crushed the Communist Party and the trade unions and destroyed the parliamentary democracy of the Weimar Republic. They were also thoroughly supportive of his initial aims at expansion; for the military, the Versailles settlement of Germany's eastern borders was a standing grievance and its rectification meant, for them, the reincorporation into Germany of territories awarded after 1918 to Poland and other Eastern European states. Their principal objection to Hitler before 1939 was that his policies risked precipitating a war with Britain and France before Germany was fully prepared and, after 1942-43, that he was leading Germany into the abyss of defeat.
Most of them, as conservative nationalists, opposed Hitler not from a standpoint of moral or political principle but because they saw that he was losing the war. That lack of a coherent moral and political alternative to the barbarity of Nazism was a crucial weakness in the right-wing resistance to Hitler. It contributed to the failure of the conspirators once they finally acted, on 20 July 1944, when the bomb planted by Colonel Graf Stauffenberg at Hitler's military headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, failed to kill him, leading to the rapid suppression of the attempted coup d'état and the arrest, execution or suicide of most of those involved. The hub of the right-wing resistance to Hitler consisted of senior military officers, many of whom, such as former Chief of General Staff General Ludwig Beck, were hesitant about committing themselves to outright opposition to the Nazi regime in time of war. The resistance also had adherents in the Foreign Office, among them State Secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker, another whose commitment was less than full-hearted. The resistance won to its cause some civilian politicians, including Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, a former mayor of Leipzig who would have served as chancellor in a post-Hitler government, and Wilhelm Leuschner and Julius Leber from the banned Social Democratic Party.
There was, however, no doubt about Hans Oster's principled stand against Hitler. As his offer to help a Jewish family on the night of 9-10 November 1938 showed, he was one of the few officers to retain his moral values; these were to override his sense of military and patriotic duty to Germany even after the outbreak of war. Oster did not hesitate to pass information to the Dutch government about Hitler's plans to invade the Netherlands in 1940 – information that would have cost the lives of tens of thousands of German soldiers if the Dutch had heeded the warnings and taken the appropriate military precautions. 'Second to none in his detestation of the regime,' in Professor Ian Kershaw's words, Oster's role in the resistance dated back to 1938, when he was at the centre of a group of conspirators opposed to Hitler's plans for an attack on Czechoslovakia; on that occasion, Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich cut the ground from under them.
But the Abwehr continued to provide Oster with the ideal cover for his clandestine activities, its intelligence work allowing him to set up contact with other opponents of the Nazis like Henning von Tresckow, who organised attempts on Hitler's life from his position as a senior staff officer with Army Group Centre on the eastern front, or General Friedrich Olbricht, who held a key strategic position in Berlin. Fabian von Schlabrendorff, who as Tresckow's adjutant had smuggled a bomb onto a plane carrying Hitler from Army Group Centre back to Germany in March 1943 and who only escaped execution in February 1945 when the 'People's Court' before which he was being tried took a direct hit from an American bomb, described Oster as 'a man such as God meant men to be, lucid and serene in mind, imperturbable in danger'.
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William Lane Craig is a theologian whom I have encountered before because of his advocacy of what is known as 'divine command theory' that asserts that "things are morally good or bad, or morally obligatory, permissible, or prohibited, solely because of God's will or commands", and results in him justifying the most horrendous atrocities, both biblical and contemporary.
Craig's other project is to try to logically argue for the existence of god without actually providing any evidence. These attempts to argue for the existence of any entity on purely logical grounds and without any empirical support other than the brute fact of the universe's existence seem to me to be a futile exercise on the face of it. However theologians have a long history of trying to do so and Craig spends a lot his energy trying to provide scientific and mathematical support for the so-called Kalam cosmological argument.
This argument depends crucially on the idea that the universe had a beginning in time and essentially has the following logical structure:
(1) Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
(2) The universe has a beginning of its existence.
(3) The universe has a cause of its existence.
(4) If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God.
(5) God exists.
The catch is that if you want to challenge Craig on his own terms, then you have to wade through a lot of stuff, since he will throw a lot of scientific and mathematical terminology at you.
Fortunately one of this blog's readers CounterApologist has taken the time and trouble to do all that work for us. He has a series of four posts titled Countering the Kalam where he carefully refutes the argument, and also has created a short five-minute video below that gives a summary of his refutation.
Taken together, you should have all the information you need to deal with this argument if one of Craig's acolytes should spring it on you.


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This guy's banter plus the weird ambient music make the video really creepy. And WTF is the thing with the spoon?! Miley's poor acting does a terrible job of disguising her obvious distaste for the situation. The bright light shining in her eyes is strange too.
au moins elle assure et jolie
Her real name is Ashlyn Rae, have fun searching her videos, I frequently cum to her, she does heaps of vids.
Miley Cyrus is a dog compared to this incredible girl. Easily one of the best looking women I have ever seen.
you people keep commenting on the size of his dick, he is the one getting head, how about you?
her teeth, hmmmm bite me babe
amazing face and eyes...
I have a colleague who looks like this girl in the video. I would die if I could fuck this colleague, but realistically, watching this video is the best I can do
the most beautiful girl on earth
ashlyn rae
ladies and gentlemen meet ashlyn rae
that guy sounds like dj mo twister
lol, this guy has a small cock, not even 6 inches
Who is this?
La fille est incroyablement sexy ! FROM FRANCE
che figa
'i've never had a facial' yeah right...............
Lol - Compared to mine that is not a hugh facial
I love her too, She is 1 of the most beautiful women ever!
Some wise person once said, size matters idd but mostly for men... seems quiet true. Ps: What a nice girl
Sounds like my sister?
nice- messy, but still didn't miss a drop. I think Clint would agree.
Why the hell does he cum on her face and then use a spoon to feed it to her..... surely it is just better to cum in her mouth.
i feel it's terrible
Damn she needs to get the hell out of this thing and become a ball girl for the S.D. Padres or something sheeeez xD
Wow! Pretty as me!
wat her whole name
is anyone going to use that spoon again?
hahahahaha "HUGE" load, my ASS! im only 18 and shoot at least 6 steaming lines of jizz, this guy with his 4 inch dick is like dribble dribble
this is so hot! http://youporn.com/watch/384037/miley-gets-face-fucked-cum-filled-mouth and this one...
If you're focusing on the guy's dick, you're doing it wrong.
i want 2 fuck him
holy fuck she is hot. She could get me to do anything if I could fuck her.
awsome !!! should take her hard and invite some friends to join us, fill all of her holes and to fuck her brains out all day long and cover her with our cum ... can't wait .. she has those eyes that are begging for a good fuck and blowjob
... yet another stunner on Amateur Allure. That Thomas guy is one lucky motherfucker. He must pay them well for their co-operation. I wish I had the money. I'd pay her loads to swallow my loads!!!!!
dude u do some of the best work on here but u gotta shut up
Her name is Ashlyn Rae
Shes So beautiful i cant believe my eyes!....shes too beautiful to be in porn lol she deserves better :)
The best part of a facial is licking the girls face clean!
gives good head and is hot but fucks like shit
i love her
Wtf! lol holy shit that dude's dick is tiny..
@ but i still got off, Her eyes look that way from the ring light he's using. It's a circular continuous light, or flash that's most often used in fashion/portraiture. They are a little more affordable these days so you see them being used a lot more often.
Her hair is better down.
Loved to have seen them strip off. Beautiful girl
i like trains
the chick in this vid should give me her email ill pay her if need be shes so hot dang id fuck her
Fuck this girl look like she is forced, poor stupid thing, I hope that dude was capable to pay her billion for such a horrible job
miley cyrus!
Damn, that girl has got a perfect face. Beautiful, man, just beautiful.
If only his dick was long enough to make her gag a little. What a pretty girl
reblo26 Milley,i have the same in my throusers
Ashlyn rae i wanna fuck you so bad!
he must have a fuckin big ass truck
Even i have a long cock than that.. FUCK u
she got a shiny white and very circle butt,,and i love that :3
So hot.. She looks a bit like me
ow your pushi is sow big i like than i fuck u same the ow shet...
lol she said she never took a facial before and then she said what she likes about it it's when it's nice and warm on her face.. fail. Not that it wasn't an obvious lie but still fail
Loved that!!! Don't miss a drop of nut goo.
pause the video in the begining, when the Miley is smiling for the camera. wtf = her eyes.
Doesn't look remotely like Miley!!! Waste of time!!!
ashlyn rae
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:59 PM
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Mother and child injured in Menlo Park shooting
Original post made on Jan 27, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, January 26, 2013, 11:59 PM
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a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jan 28, 2013 at 11:03 am
Yet another Gang Banger, Drug Dealing shooting. According to the FBI 85% of all homicides are related to these hideous activities.
Law abiding citizens ARE NOT TO BLAME, Obama! Do something constructive!
a resident of South of Midtown
on Jan 28, 2013 at 11:05 am
or at lest stop hjarassing bike riders and stop cars that may have guns.V
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jan 28, 2013 at 2:57 pm
..and people claim there are no bad neighborhoods in Menlo Park!
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Jan 28, 2013 at 5:21 pm
Set up cameras. Get video of cars driving in/out and through EPA. Guaranteed, you'd catch somebody or someone. Get serious about solving the problem.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Jan 28, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Come on people another shooting involving little kids. Honestly its just really sad how this violence continues. It breaks my heart to read another story like this one.
If anyone from EPA is reading my comment we need to stop this non sense. Together we can make a difference. Organizing neighbor watch groups. You watch my back I watch yours. We have this going on on our street and it works. It doesnt cost money just time to care about your neighbor and the activity going on. It only takes a minute to recognize a suspicious vehicle or person on your street. We have to take action in our hands. And of course we need the support from our police dept. to reinforce the action needed.
In my opinion replacing the whole force would bring change. Our current officers dont show that they care or sympathize with anything when you call for help... so like any other job they can be replaced in a heart beat along with the Chief.
Dear Mayor hear our demands!! We need a huge change in our police dept since yesterday!! If not the violence will continue. Bring in mindsets that are new & fresh...police officers who dont bully our residents.
Stand up and let your voice be heard! Join me in taking time to write to our mayor demanding change NOW before your child and/or loved one story is posted here as a victim of yet another shooting.
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The Savannah-Chatham Public School Board met Wednesday. It was the first regular meeting of 2011 and the first for the newly elected District 1 Representative Julie Wade. These first of the year meetings are typically dull. After their swearing in, the board elects officers and committee members and sets its annual meeting schedule. New board members don't generally say much until they are acclimated. But Wade, a local attorney, did her fair share of talking and helped keep the conversation as lively as possible.
Here's what happened:
Pistol Packing Employees
A new Georgia law, Georgia Code 16-11-135, known as Georgia's Common Sense Lawful Carry Act, allows gun owners to store guns in cars parked on school property. Any licensed gun owner can now store guns in privately owned vehicles parked on school property, as long as the weapon is locked in an enclosed compartment. That means school employees, contract service providers, parents and even community visitors can bring their weapons with them when they drive up to schools. Wednesday district officials discussed changes to their strict zero tolerance weapons policy to accommodate the new state law. Although their policy had to be watered down, they still won't allow students, even those that are licensed adults, to store guns in their cars. The new district policy is available online at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/files/8CTS5C6FA95C/$file/GAMB%20Possession%20of%20Weapons%20by%20Employees%201%2012%2011.pdf
State of the Schools
Superintendent Thomas Lockamy delivered his annual State of the System Address. Unlike his more inspirational straight from the heart speeches of the past, Lockamy read prepared notes and presented graphics and charts. The normally chatty board members had little to say. However new school board member Julie Wade pointed out that it didn't appear as if the district would meet its academic benchmarks for 2012 based on the information presented. Lockamy's presentation is available online at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/files/8D2Q2F669979/$file/STATE%20OF%20SCHOOLS_JAN2011.pdf
Tough time for charter schools
Officials announced that plans for two local charter schools have been snubbed by the state. Organizers of Imagine Port Wentworth and the West Chatham Preparatory Academy had their charter petitions rejected by local officials last year. They appealed to a state committee, which recommended that both petitions be denied. The imagine Port Wentworth group withdrew its petition as a result.
Montessori Charter debt
District officials have decided to install fencing and playground equipment at Coastal Empire Montessori Charter School. They will even help align the school's curriculum with the new state standards. But the School Board voted not to forgive a $100,000 debt. Charter officials owe the board because they did not reduce their staffing after an enrollment lull last year and they ended up exceeding their per pupil allotment from the state. Although some board members were glad to assist the school in its efforts to better serve students. Some board members expressed their displeasure with the attitude and business practices of Charter Founding Board Member David Lerch. The vote passed 7 to 2.
New Principals Hired
Savannah Arts Academy and Groves High School will have new principals in February. Ellis of DeKalb County Schools was hired at a $94,985 salary to take over at Groves High as it begins the restructuring process. He replaces Linda Olson, who was moved to a central office position. That school was listed by the state as one of the poorest performing in Georgia. Gifford Lockley hired as new Savannah Arts Academy principal at a salary of $112,430. Lockley comes from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and replaces Interim Principal Heather Handy.
Testy about textbooks
Central office administrators announced that the new Social studies textbooks being considered for adoption are on display to the public. But the offered no information about the cost. The issue drew a firestorm of questions from board members about the amount of money being spent on books. As Board President Joe Buck drilled the staff, Floyd Adams interrupted.
"There's no point in arguing. We have to have books so let's buy them and move on," he said.
"I'm not arguing, "argued Buck. "I'm simply asking a question about costs."
Buck asked that staff report the costs of each individual book they plan to buy. In the meantime, the middle and high school instructional materials being considered for adoption will be displayed at all middle and high schools during the week of January 24-28. Elementary instructional materials will be at the Media Center at Jacob G. Smith during the same week.
Woodville-Tompkins expansion
Executive Director of High Schools Aretha Rhone-Bush discussed details about the new full-time high school program opening up for about 100 9th grade applicants at Woodville-Tompkins next year. She also explained the innovative new Twilight School the district will offer at the site for any student in the district who needs help with a difficult course or who wants to take extra classes. The complete report is available online at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/files/8D3JJT4D411B/$file/Woodville%20Tompkins%20Technical%20and%20Career%20Institute%20Presentation%201-6-2011.pdf
Student of the Month
Raven Dean a 7th grade student at Isle of Hope was selected as the Superintendent's Student of the Month. Raven has a 96 grade point average, won the 2010 Georgia National Fair Bear Writing Contest, founded a campus extracurricular group called Kids with Pizzazz and participates in National Junior Beta Club, her school band and safety patrol.
Pricey Progress
In December Superintendent Thomas Lockamy reorganized the Department of Academic Affairs after the district's two top academic officials left for other jobs. Although some duties were merged, the plan also calls for creating a third executive director position and two additional program manager jobs. The creation of the new positions requires the board to use $37,132 in staffing reserve funds. The board unanimously approved the budget transfer.
IB Blues
Jason Buelterman, International Baccalaureate Program director at Johnson High presented test results from the 2009-2010 school year. They weren't good. Principal Freddie Gilyard said the rigorous program admits students who simply want to be exposed to IB rigor because it will help them on the college level. That has caused program enrollment and test scores to dip. Buelterman's report is available online at http://www.boarddocs.com/ga/sccs/Board.nsf/files/8D2QAM685494/$file/DAS%20IB%20Diploma%202010%20Presentation-v10.pdf
Roof Repair
Last year the board agreed to use $1 million to renovate a new home for Hodge Elementary School using funds set aside to repair the roof at the central offices. Now the roof, masonry and windows at the central offices are leaking and officials had to move $1.95 million from contingency funds to fund that repair.


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The annual study takes a broad look at market and tech trends in embedded systems design. A total of 2,258 engineers responded to the latest survey, conducted online Jan. 18 to Feb. 21, giving a 2% confidence level for most questions.
Most respondents (55%) were from North America, with 22% in Europe and 14% in Asia. They came from a wide range of sectors including industrial (33%), consumer electronics (24%), communications (22%), automotive (18%), and medical (18%), among many others.
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By Charles K. Trainor
Nationwide more than half a trillion dollars will be spent on K-12 education systems within the next school year. About $100 billion of that will be provided by the recently enacted federal stimulus package, with local taxpayers and state treasuries funding the balance.
The late Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois is believed to have said: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Five hundred billion dollars is, indeed, real money.
Stimulus funds are providing welcome relief to districts suffering from reduced state aid and lower-than-expected tax receipts. Of course, the money is being used to save teaching positions, extracurricular activities, and sports teams as well as additional programs and projects that were placed on hold because of budgetary constraints.
In anticipation of massive spending, school suppliers and service providers are working to get a piece of the action. Architects, construction companies, food service providers, bus companies, artificial turf installers, and others are ready to help districts spend when the money arrives.
Naturally, districts and parents want to preserve a high-quality education while keeping taxes affordable. While the stimulus monies will support both goals, taxpayer groups around the country have expressed concern about the current lack of financial oversight. People want to be assured that the influx of new dollars will be spent wisely.
Most vendors are reliable and honest, but some likely will take advantage of the lax controls over new spending. Boards are familiar with the extensive process of evaluation, often referred to as vetting, that occurs prior to hiring new administrators. The same process can be adapted to contracting with district vendors.
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King Hall Model Room Receives Make-Over
June 25, 2012
Angela Upson, the Soft Lines Manager at the nearby Granite Run Mall Sears, arrived on Friday afternoon with an instant dorm décor in a big box. She had come at the invitation of Rosalyn Henderson of the University College office to help perk up the model dorm room in King Hall.
The plain beige room quickly came to life with it's his-and-her sides brightened with complimentary tones of red and blue. New comforters, pillows and sheets made the beds cozy and inviting, and small bedside rugs brightened the space. Coordinating towel sets carried the theme forward.
A thoughtful addition was the hanging closet organizing shelf system and divided travel hamper to help keep the room tidy. Final touches included curtains, a wall sculpture and a circular montage of antique license plates which was actually a clock. Angela estimated the whole décor would cost about $150 retail. "You can always get good buys at Sears."
The room will be the first stop when prospective students come for a campus tour.


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The man in charge of HMP Hatfield accepts too many prisoners are escaping, according to Don Valley MP Caroline Flint.
Ms Flint and ward councillor Pat Knight met Chris Dyer, Governor of HMP/YOI Hatfield, this week to discuss the recent spate of escapes after six inmates fled the open prison in as many weeks.
In a two hour meeting, they expressed residents' concerns about safety and discussed what action the prison was taking.
The meeting took place on the day Darrell Burbeary, aged 43, who was serving a sentence for burglary, was recaptured by police after absconding in June.
He was found hiding in a shed in Skye Edge, Sheffield.
Ms Flint said: "It was clear the Governor took the residents' concerns very seriously and was looking at every action he and his staff could take to reduce absconding.
"He recognised that the numbers absconding were too high.
"The numbers choosing to walk away, despite facing a heavier sentence when they are caught, is not acceptable.
"We were reassured today that all inmates are risked assessed while at Hatfield, and those whose risk of flight increases, for example, because of problems at home, are returned to a closed prison.
"Where prisoners are being recommended as safe to transfer from a secure prison to an open establishment like Hatfield, it is vital that only suitable prisoners are accepted.
"I want HMP/YOI Hatfield to have all the information and time they require to make the necessary checks on each new arrival."
Coun Knight added: "We were very keen to impress upon the governor how worrying it is for the community to have inmates escaping.
"Many of the staff and prison officers live locally, so they hear those concerns from their neighbours and friends."
Ms Flint recognised open prisons are different from closed, secure prisons and inmates are often serving the final months of their sentences and many are being prepared for life after prison, and work in the community every day.
She said: "We don't want that to end. Over half of these prisoners will go into work after leaving prison and 98 per cent will go into settled accommodation."


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Halloween has come and gone, but the pictures of celebrities in their amazing costumes last a lifetime. Here are the 10 costumes you might've missed from yesterday's festivities:
Leave it to Miley Cyrus to come up with new ways to shock and surprise us. The Bangerz singer channeled rapper Lil Kim and her infamous (and NSFW) 1999 VMAs awards outfit.
Meanwhile, somebody had to dress up as Miley, so Kelly Ripa took it upon herself to wear a bear-themed onesie, while Live co-host Michael Strahan did his best Robin Thicke impression–striped suit and all. (Ripa wasn't the only one dressed as Miley though, check out Jenny McCarthy's get-up.)
Beyonce, Heidi Klum, Sandra Bullock and more after the jump!
Nope, that's not Pamela Anderson reprising her famous role as a Baywatch babe. It's Matt Lauer (!) dressed as the blonde bombshell for the Today Show's beloved Halloween costume reveal.
Same show, different costume theme. For the Kathie Lee and Hoda fourth hour Halloween bonanza, the co-hosts pulled from the Stone Age to play Wilma and Betty Rubble.
Perhaps Beyonce pulled inspiration from her hit "Halo"? (Blue Ivy was her co-angel!)
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? The Honey Boo Boo clan got their sunglasses and long brunette wigs in check to play the Kardashian family. Mama June took on the role of Mama
Jenner Kardashian of course.
Quel Scandal! Joshua Malina, of the ABC drama, dressed as his Scandal counterpart, Kerry Washington for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Snaps for even rocking the Prada purse.
Neil Patrick Harris and daughter Harper played bride and groom yesterday–bride of Frankenstein and the monster himself, that is.
An amazing body, sparkly smile and youthful face–Project Runway host Heidi Klum never seems to age, but for Halloween night, she showed us what she'd look like as an old, old woman. Today she can go back to being a gorgeous supermodel.
And clocking in as the most amazing trick-or-treating duo of all time, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy make the rounds with Bullock's son Louis while going incognito in these fisherman get-ups. Not pictured, McCarthy's husband Ben Falcone, who joined the fun as a jailbird.
BONUS: Ellen DeGeneres donned a blonde wig and a whole lot of leather to pay tribute to hip-hop star (and frequent Ellen guest) Nicki Minaj.
Which celebrity costume is your favorite?
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There really is no science to peacocking:
Peacocks are territorial and aggressive and will strike at anything you throw at them. My favorite lure for peacocks is the good ol' rattle-trap. live bait is way to easy and provides ZERO challenge.
Went out Sunday afternoon with Juanito and we got into some great action. caught 15-20 fish between us in a couple of hours.
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Tight lines
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text: Windows 7 64-bit - For what its worth, I learned today that after installing ZA free w/Antivirus, I could no longer connect with Cisco AnyConnect to my workplace. I contacted our support and they said that the VPN login checks a list on the server for recognized antivirus software. In our case, MS Security Essentials, McAfee, AVG and Norton are on the list. So, a word to the wise, if your company uses a VPN, before you get a wild hair and decide to change antivirus programs at home to something other than MSE, or what is used at work, you should probably check with your employer's security group to see what is configured as acceptable. My employer has a rather short list compared to the array of av choices available. Maybe the various AV vendors need to converse with Cisco to see that they are put on the list. Just a thought.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Vinny LeCavalier might get chills from the coolest game on earth, but he says riding in the Indy Racing Experience two-seater may be scarier.
LeCavalier, the captain of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and grand marshal of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, took a hot lap with racing legend Mario Andretti before the race on the 1.8-mile, 14-turn circuit.
"I've driven some cars before, but that's definitely a different ballgame," said LeCavalier, who also traded a Lightning jersey for one of Alex Tagliani's racing suits. "I couldn't believe how fast it was, especially since I wasn't driving and I didn't know where we were going. It was a great experience."
Lecavalier said racing is "way scarier than anything the NHL," but something he enjoys.
"It's just another world," he said. "It was great experience and a lot of fun. Mario Andretti is driving you. How great is that. I took some videos and I took some pictures. It was just very exciting."


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Derozan = Jason Richardson
What do others think about this?! I think its a fairly accurate assesment of where Derozan is headed or where you can say he is pretty much almost there.
I think its a fair assesment and great achievement of Derozan future in the NBA and asking/hoping for a Vince Carter or Kobe like status is asking for alot.
Ed Davis = Joackim Noah
It looks like it wouldn't be too difficult with Davis adding more muscles and understanding of the game that he can average double double in this league. He won't be an effective scorer like Noah but his rebounding and defence will make up for it.
Bargnani = Mehmat Okur in his prime.
Enough said.
Now if you have Jason Richardson, Joackim Noah and Mehmet Okur together you are not going to win many games. The Raptors need to draft well and hope that if they get their hands on Irving that he would in fact be the next Chris Paul or hope the Barnes would turn into Deng. Then we can finally start winning games.


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