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And here, from another talentless Hollywood type:
Margaret Cho, a Christian. Riiiiiight.
The New York Times wants their headline on 11/05 to read “It’s Obama In ‘08″, but instead it will read “Obama Wins Only 8″ and they will be California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; All the MSM assistance in the world can’t, in the end, help their fatally flawed candidate.
She is a lesbian… what do you expect?
Thanks, Soldier, This makes up for the ongoing bad news about McAmnesty and his welcome-illegals policy. Just added this page to my “favorites.”
I live fairly close to a military base in VA, and we have lots of foreign wives coming in to the local Y every morning, spouting their support for Obama and dripping with condescension about how stupid Americans would have to be to vote Republican.
My, my, my, won’t it be interesting to see how the U.N. votes on stuff in the coming days? I think we’ll see a bit of an attitude adjustment from our European-appeasement contingent SOON. Most say Europe is already too far gone to be able to defend itself for any reason. Looks like D-Day has finally arrived for them.
I can’t wait for our folks to deploy ASAP.
lol! 35 years last month. But thanks!
ARNOLD – the lesser of two evils…the GOP now pays the piper…..
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold10-2008sep10,0,1584280.story
This was posted on a HA open thread a couple of days ago and on this thread a couple of hours ago. If you missed it check it out, its a great take.
I am trying to figure out why taxpayers are paying for the National Guard, police, etc. to risk their lives saving those who (in the face of a mandatory evacuation order) chose possible suicide as being preferable to evacuating areas of Texas pre-Ike.
Instead of clearing roads, righting downed phone and electric lines, etc. our civil servants are rushing in to care for the idiotic.
Seems to me that “if you stay, you will die” is pretty clear. Anyone that can’t understand that, is suicidal, and perhaps we’d be better off letting them stop being a burden to the rest of us.
Fenguri,
I too thought it was rather selfish to stay behind. You not only run the risk of harm coming to you and your family but now you’ve placed 1st responders in jeopardy as well. It’s not worth it the risk. I say this as a person who hasn’t had to deal with leaving my home behind in a natural disaster but I think if I were in that situation, I would do the right thing.
So I am watching my Niners get their butts handed to them in glorious big screen HD with surround sound, and I am wondering…
What the HELL is that loud, obnoxious post-Obama acceptance speech musical tone they keep using when the announcers replay something or discuss something? When did FOX Sports start doing that?
It has to be the single most annoying thing since John Madden explaining plays in the telestrater.
Did anyone see Neil Cavuto’s show on Friday? After the “if you don’t evacuate, you will face certain death” proclamation came out, they talked to a local Galveston bartender, who had about 200 people on the deck getting hammered. I’d love to know what happened to those morons.
Frankly, Texas is such a kick-a$$ state, I’d think they’d consider their duty done when it comes to ijits and that they should start in on the clean-up/rebuilding. They’re usually so no-nonsense. I’m more than a little surprised/confused that they haven’t made illegal immigration a state’s right issue and dealt with it themselves since the feds won’t.
sandyb # 200-
Great take!
It does look… “like D-Day has finally arrived for them.”
Eight more reasons to vote for Obama
BTW, NYT is considered the most prestigious and the best newspaper in America. It has so far won something like 90 Pulitzer Prizes. The International Herald Tribune (the best and the most popular American newspaper outside USA) is owned by NYT and Washington Post.
“The seditious role of the community organizer was developed by an extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound influence on the highest levels of the Democratic party. Alininsky was a ‘transformational Marxist’ in the mould of Antonio Gramski, who promoted the strategy of a ‘long march through the institutions’ by capturing the culture and turning it inside out as the most effective means of overturning western society”.
You want scary? Read the entire essay from which the foregoing was lifted. Were I more technically adept, I could provide a link to “Revolution You Can Believe In”, by Melanie Phillips, published in The Spectator on 9/9/08.
Maybe MM can help with the link?
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for those who stayed behind instead of evacuating. But remember, there is a certain segment of the population that is completely cut off from any news and from the outside world in general. It is hard to believe, but I know people like that. They don’t watch anything on tv except cable reality shows or MTV. They aren’t interested in what is going on, even in their own community. And these people have one vote, the same as those of us who are informed. Frustrating. I live in Minneapolis. We had that horrible collapse of our 35W bridge a while back and it was on all the news programs, national, etc. I imagine most of the readers of this blog knew about it. A lady at work hadn’t heard about it and didn’t know what we were talking about the next day. There are many like that. Uninformed and uninterested. So if there were orders to evacuate, some may not even have known there was a storm coming. Having said that, maybe these storms are a good way to thin the herd.
Just watch what happens next. The federal government will start paying people to evacuate anytime a hurricane threatens the coast. They will come out and say that people can’t afford to evacuate and start handing out coupons or some such nonsense for hotel rooms and gas. One more step to socialism.
HAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh. Great comedy routine you have there. The NYT is a liberal rag with zero credibility. Or, maybe I’m wrong and they are doing really well financially. No? Interesting.
Got my first NOBAMA flip-off today.
A young lady, so to speak, in the passenger seat of an SUV behind me, reached to the horn, honked it at me and flipped me off!
I think she may have been a bit excited about the NOBAMA sticker on my rear window. I just shook my head an moved on; she did nothing that I didn’t expect. I’m willing to bet she is one who is for Obama simply because of his – ahem – race.
This afternoon, our Daughter, Son-in-law and little two year old Brady Thomas came over to watch the Vikings blow a lead in the fourth quarter and lose the game. I couldn’t even get upset. I was too giddy with the news we got today. They are going to give us another grandchild!!! This will be our third. We are walking on air!
Can someone give me a quick lesson and tell me how I respond to a specific thread or comment here.
One of which was granted due to the NY Times blowing the whistle on the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping program. Anything to keep terrorists out of Gitmo and on the streets doing what they do best. Why am I not surprised that you would come here and praise the NY slimes; elevating them beyond the bird cage liner they’ve become?
Just got home from 4 days of National Guard duty. Preparing for an ORI in February. Jumping right back into the car to head off to the in-laws for a nephew’s b-day dinner. Hoping I’ll have time for a cigar this evening before getting ready for a full day in the courtroom tomorrow.
Congrats!
Is anyone else a bit concerned about CERN and the LHC and why the US is contributing money to this lab?
On another topic, I heard a distinctly dishonest Obama ad on the radio recently. This is the VA/MD/WV tristate area, essentially. It started out with someone introducing himself as the president of something that sounded like a gun rights group. He said that he, personally, was for the second amendment, then started talking about how he was supporting Obama for economic reasons. It never said Obama had any interest in the second amendment whatsoever, but listeners were clearly supposed to think that it had. So much for Obama’s campaign being honest about his views. His NRA ranking shows pretty clearly where he stands on guns, even if we forget his “bitter” comment.
NYT is about to junk bond status.
Oh, and earlier there was a comment that Cindy McCain had suggested going to welcome home events and deployment ceremonies for the troops. Are these open to the public? How could a person get more information? I would love to show my support for the troops in this way.
You know what, screw Europe. I hope the Russians invade and America does nothing. Time to take the trash out.
Good on you!!! Congratulations to you and your family.
Highlight, copy and paste the comment you wish to respond to in the comment box. Use the “quote” function to encapsulate the comment you are responding to; once at the beginning of the comment and at the end of it. Then go about typing your reply.
http://alwaysonwatch2.blogspot.com/2008/09/your-sunday-funny.html
great video on BHO
Thx…I think I got it.
Not if you mean am I worried about the fear mongering going on by some fringe elements of the scientific community and gleefully passed on by the media.
I’m pretty excited about the possibilities of new discoveries and I’ll be following developments with eager anticipation. And I was disappointed that the US passed up the opportunity to build one of our own.
Indeed!
Anything else you want to know about how this stuff works, just ask. We’re always glad to help.
Dianah111,
Either use the person’s name as a salutation or copy and paste their comment. You can highlight it with the quote tag above if you wish.
Thus,
Actually, they’ve already started doing that. The Gustav evacuees from New Orleans (at least some of them; guess which) got reimbursed for their hotel rooms by FEMA. There were supposedly some in Jackson, Ms raising hell because the state of Ms wouldn’t pay for their gas to go home.
“Typical edelschwarz troll”
that should be-”the quote tag above the comment box”
I am posting this everywhere in the hopes the roar will grow.
Barack Obama wants to be POTUS and he will not release his Medical Records.
What is he hiding?
Is anyone keeping a list of “gaffes” Sarah Palin has supposedly made since becoming a VP candidate? Like the “Bush Doctrine” setup, the Drive-By Media keep tossing out charges against Sarah and then speed away before the charges are proven false.
Remember the first major gaffe Sarah was accused of making when she commented on Fannie and Freddie in Colorado Springs?
They called this a gaffe because the companies “aren’t taxpayer funded but operate as private companies.” Their experts referred to Sarah’s comments as “somewhat nonsensical because up until yesterday there was sort of no public funding there.”
Well, now I know why their expert said “sort of no public funding there.” I just got through reading an article at MSMBC.com that contradicts these experts. It not only confirms what Michelle has been blogging about Fannie and Freddie, but it also confirms that Sarah Palin was 100% correct in her statement.
A budget office study estimated that taxpayer subsidies to these companies were worth $20 billion in 2004 alone. That’s a big “sort of”. $20 Billion per year may not be “expensive” to a liberal, but I think most people who actually pay taxes would think it is.
Here are two quotes from the article that confirm Sarah was right when she said Fannie and Freddie were “too big and too expensive”:
Does anyone know of any other supposed gaffes by Sarah Palin that have not yet been refuted?
Elizabetty,
I’m more concerned that he won’t let the state of Hawaii release his birth certificate without it passing through his campaign first.
So what is everybody’s opinion on how gas prices jumping like they did will play out in Congress this week.
How much longer will Pelosi be able to keep the Republicans from getting the American Energy Bill up for a vote?
I responded to a poster yesterday about the number of idiots (believe he/she called them “sorry butts”) that refuse to evacuate when asked during an emergency. Well, the old saying certainly applies here; ignorance can be fixed but stupid is forever. That said, they are our sorry butts and as dumb as they are the State of Texas will do their very best to get them to safety. Rather than give out vouchers for hotels/gas/expense money to nudge those same sorry butts into leaving – I say, send them a bill. Take the total of what it cost for those Blackhawk helicopters, divide it up and lien their property if you have to, but send the message. Placing the lives of all first responders to unneccessary risk is unforgiveable and should not be tolerated.
All my loved ones in Houston is now safely accounted for – albeit without power and trying to deal with refrigerators and freezers without power for 2 days. They’ll suck it up and clean it up – already the chain saws are going in areas safe to do so.
God bless Texas
I just do not trust McCain. He’s part of the problem in DC. If McCain gets too vocal on shamnesty (which he hasn’t lately) I may just pass on the top of the ticket. This is an ugly election cycle, the only bright spot is Gov. Palin. As it stands now, I will probably vote for Palin/McCain just for the future of the party. Like Michelle,I’m in the wait and see mode.
In the Gibson interview Palin said that Alaska is responsible for 20% of America’s domestic energy production (resources) or something to this effect. The libs say it’s a lie because they think she meant Megawatt production not raw material resource fuels used to make energy. I don’t know the numbers and I actually did look for the facts on this. I could only find Alaska is #2 in crude oil production (Texas is #1). If you factor in natural gas and coal I intuitively think she’s right.
The libs are doing their best to make it sound like a gaffe.
Hey-Thanks 30 pcs and Diana111
Are you talking about CERN near Geneva, on Swiss-French border? CERN stands for Centre Européen pour la recherche nucléaire (European Center for nuclear research) but the United States has an observatory status. Actually the US govt invested something like 500,000,000 € for the latest CERN project. I heard that CERN is the biggest American laboratory. I’m a medical student and not a physicist so I don’t know what exactly they are doing there. All I know is that there is a huge circular 30-kilometer tunnel beneath Meyrin (Switzerland) and Pays de Gex (France) used for experiments (particle accelerators). Actually I have visited CERN with my school in 1998 (I was something like 14). It looks like a huge computer lab with many many computers and lots of mainframes (sp?) and storage devices… Internet’s WWW / HTML were invented there. If you want to visit CERN, take bus “9″ (SEE PICTURE) from Gare Cornavin (Geneva main train station) or Bus “Y” if coming from France. Good luck!
They didn’t jump all that much here. Just eight cents at the nearby gas station. My mother-in-law who lives in VA said it jumped more than thirty cents down there. I think most people even with the reduction in price still want Congress to take action towards our energy independence. No amount of relief at the pump will be enough until we are drilling in ANWR or in the OCS.
The do-nothing Congress will work toward getting the second stimulus package passed. As for the energy bill, not so much. How long? How long have they kept it at bay thus far? Too long.
Oh you’re one of those pompous assh*les I used to throw into a wall all the time at college. I miss those days.
On September 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pm, backwoods conservative said:
Ooh, now I get to learn to use the quote function! Thanks from me, too, 30 pcs of silver!
The responses I’ve seen from the CERN staff to the “fearmongering” just haven’t been very effective rebuttals to the majority of the population. It seems like mostly they respond with arrogance and papers that are both badly written and above most people’s heads. They dismiss it as fearmongering and such, but aren’t very effective in explaining why it’s only fearmongering, or at rebutting any rebuttals to points that have been made. (I’m talking about rebutting assertions like “Hawking radiation doesn’t exist,” not assertions that somebody has, inevitably, come up with a way to associate 666 with the project, which aren’t worth responding to, in my opinion.) I would think being better at reassuring the public would be worthwhile for its own sake.
I would be curious to hear an explanation that goes into a bit more detail than “Trust us! All our theories are right! It’s not like humanity has ever been wrong before!” and fails to rely on me understanding words that I can’t look up in my Astronomy textbook that is less than ten years old. I’d be particularly curious to understand more about the reliance on the existence of Hawking radiation, the formation of mBHs, how the properties of mBHs are different than those of regular bhs, and why they’re not waiting to find out more about these via other methods.
I thought the US was in possession of a much less powerful one that has been in use since 2000?
No problem at all.
idle vice likes to kill babies. She comes here and brags about how efficiently they do it in Europe.
She’s the heir to der Fuhrer’s eugenics policies.
They want to discover antimatter so they can make weapons 10,000 times stronger than a nuclear weapon.
Now I know why edelweiss promotes abortions: to keep business movin’
How else can they afford a new Mercedes?
I’m telling you the medical profession is going to be horrible in 20 years if this keeps up!
I found the quote. She said Alaska produces “20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy” She was probably thinking of just oil and gas production because in her next sentence she refers to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
The reference the McCain camp gives to support her claim is the following:
She may have been a bit loose with her terms, but I don’t thing she was intentionally trying to deceive anyone. I wish I could say the same about Obama and Biden on some of their numerous misstatements.
Michael Yon is a longtime friend, Pat and I are Hollywood buddies, and I am THRILLED to be able to bring them together to discuss Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terrorism.
Michael Yon LIVE from Afghanistan will be Pat Dollard’s special guest tonight, Sunday Sept 14 at 2300ET on The JihadiKiller Hour on BlogTalk Radio.
Live chat will be available and we will take listener calls. You do not have to be registered with BTR to listen live or to call in.
Here’s the direct link to show. Starts at 2300EST. Please join us!
http://tinyurl.com/5efpkz
Pat Dollard’s website can be found at http://www.patdollard.com.
Michael Yon’s next dispatch ” Death In the Corn” will be published Monday
In the meantime please read about one of the largest and most important missions in Afghanistan ” Where Eagles Dare” http://www.michaelyon-online.com
It’s not something I lose any sleep over, NHawk. My thinking is that when it’s time for “the end of the world”, it’ll be God Who will be closing down the store. And I don’t expect CERN will find God in a Higgs boson particle, just more proof of a Design that they can’t quite figure out.
By the way, you learned good and fast on the quote highlighting! If you’ve visited a few forums, comment sections, etc. you know how you have to adjust to each one’s diff posting mechanisms.
I’m watching Bill Maher interview Paul Begala. Maher totally ripped Sarah Palin and the two of them together are filthy as 5 dollar whores.
Begala states the Clintons will campaign hard for Obama because Bill doesn’t want to see McCain undo his legacy. Lol…
Michael Yon is a longtime friend, Pat and I are Hollywood buddies, and I am THRILLED to be able to bring them together to discuss Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terrorism
Michael Yon LIVE from Afghanistan will be Pat Dollard’s special guest tonight, Sunday Sept 14 at 2300ET on The JihadiKiller Hour on BlogTalk Radio.
http://tinyurl.com/5efpkz
Live chat will be available and we will take listener calls. You do not have to be registered with BTR to listen live or to call in.
The JihadiKiller Hour – which now runs for two hours – is one of the most popular shows on Blog Talk Radio.
Pat Dollard’s website can be found at http://www.patdollard.com.
Michael Yon’s next dispatch “Death In the Corn” will be published Monday on http://www.michaelyon-online.com
You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
Michael Yon is a longtime friend, Pat and I are Hollywood buddies, and I am THRILLED to be able to bring them together to discuss Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terrorism.
Michael Yon LIVE from Afghanistan will be Pat Dollard’s special guest tonight, Sunday Sept 14 at 2300ET on The JihadiKiller Hour on BlogTalk Radio.
Live chat will be available and we will take listener calls. You do not have to be registered with BTR to listen live or to call in.
http://tinyurl.com/5efpkz
Michael Yon’s next dispatch ” Death In the Corn” will be published Monday morning.
In the meantime please read about one of the largest and most important missions in Afghanistan “ Where Eagles Dare”
NestingHawk, the biggest reason I don’t worry about the alleged danger is that it has been pointed out that collisions of the same energy have already been occurring in the upper atmosphere by highly energetic cosmic rays. If the Earth were going to be destroyed by collisions of that high of an energy level, it would have already happened. The problem with those collisions is they don’t happen in a place where we can thoroughly study them, hence the need for the LHC.
Understanding Hawking radiation requires a bit of background in quantum physics. It’s one of those things that’s hard to give a short answer to. It involves such quantum principles as the uncertainty principle and the formation of virtual particles.
Are you thinking of Fermilab?
The trend of particle accelerators is toward more powerful collisions. As the levels of energy we are able to explore increases, we are able to learn more about particle physics. The less powerful accelerators have taught us much. One of those things is that a predicted theoretical particle such as the Higgs boson is not to be found within that range.
I am by no means an expert on any of this. I’m just an amateur astronomer who has read extensively on the subjects of relativity and quantum physics. Knowledge of both is required for a deeper understanding of how the universe works. I might add that one of the best things that happened to astronomy was when astronomers and particle physicists began talking to each other.
That’s pretty clever.
Michael Yon’s next dispatch ” Death In the Corn” will be published Monday.
In the meantime please read “Where Eagles Dare” about one of the largest and most important missions in Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/6fo9wb
The existence of antimatter has already been confirmed by particle physics experiments. Antimatter particles can be created in the lab, but have a short lifespan for obvious reasons. No destruction has resulted it from because the energy released by a single positron or antiproton is insignificant. Creating massive amounts of antimatter would probably require too much energy to be worth the return, plus there would be huge technical difficulties in storing and transporting it.
30 Pieces of Silver and CantCureStupid…Thanks for your good wishes! Now…has anyone heard lately about what is happening with the Bill Ayers papers? In addition to Obama’s mysterious medical records, we also don’t know what Obama was up to during his college years. Why is that? Is there something to hide? I can’t believe he kept his nose clean all that time, considering the kinds of things we DO know about him!
I was being sarcastic.
Wow, that’s a step down from Paula Jones. Remember Carville’s infamous comment, “If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”
Why do those on the left always have to demean conservative women? The same thing happens to conservative blacks. Diversity is the last thing liberals really want.
It was pretty gross I turned it off after ten minutes.
I thought that might be the case, but I wasn’t sure.
In any case, this is getting into some pretty deep subject matter for what is normally a political forum. And people may be beginning to wonder how it is that someone with the word “backwoods” in his moniker is really such a geek.
Actually, folks should go see Michael’s website:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com
Great stuff. He has, far and away, the most time spent in Iraq as a journalist. Independent or otherwise.
He was the first to state that, barring something huge, we have won in Iraq. A great guy who tells it like it is.
Kevlaur
My comment on Michael Yon got lost…
Anyway, go see his blog:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com
The most time in Iraq of any journalist.
Not all of us are.
A happy Sunday to all here. Hope your day has been a good one. Enjoy time with the family and give hugs and kiss to each one near you. Never know when you can’t do it later.
L
Well, you know me better than most. And unless somebody asks, I won’t get into it. It’s obvious I haven’t spent all of my life in the wilderness.
Thanks for the info, edelweiss! I’m afraid I’m on the wrong continent and not big on traveling.
They’re planning to use that underground tunnel to bang particles together at extremely fast speeds. (Approaching the speed of light, I think.) They want to see what particles they end up with. I think they believe these conditions are an approximation of what the universe was like immediately after the Big Bang and want to see what they can find out about the origins of the universe from it. (It sounds like more than one person on this board knows more than me, so if they correct me, they’re right.)
Dianah111, welcome. I think that Pelosi will manage to delay and/or obstruct the Republican energy plan until after the election.
NightHawk–I’m disappointed that the US didn’t build its alternative to CERN. Okay, maybe as a taxpayer I’m not, but since we contributed so much to Europe’s CERN, we might have gotten some domestic return. Am I worried about what CERN’s collider will find or the allegations of the end of the world, no.
Well, with my cable out, I’ve had plent of pc time this weekend. Ravens had a bye week imposed on them by Ike. Took the wife dust shopping, er, I mean, antique shopping. She was thilled that I suggested eating out for dinner, plus she found something else to dust.
Hope all is well with my relatives in Houston, and of course all of my fellow poster’s families too.
I’ve really enjoyed reading all the great posts here and over at Hot Air. It pleases me to no end to have such smart and witty people to converse with.
Can’t say the same thing about the Huffpn or Kos kids.
ALL women should support conservative values.
Conservative values are what make us strong.
Conservative values are what make us safe.
Conservative values are what have allowed women like Palin to make the wonderful advances they have made.
If the liberals have their way, we will collapse as a world power…
If we collapse as a world power, then the men will once again have to become the strong warriors, and the women will go back to being the protected baby makers in the caves.
We need a strong powerful conservative government to keep the other countries at bay and allow us to be free.
Screw liberal appeasers like that taxing BLACK HOLE Obama.
PALIN\McAmnesty
What are you talking about? Conservatives are a bunch of stupid, ignorant, superstitious savages. Just ask any far left liberal. They’ll tell you.
This just in from Drudge!
“Lindsay Lohan Lashes Out at Sarah Palin.”
Let me get this straight if you will pardon the pun. A 21 year-old druggie, has-been who is mindlessly incoherent on her best days, doesn’t like Sarah Palin, an adult who has actually accomplished something with her life.
Why is this “news?” Why would anyone care what LiLo thinks about Sarah Palin?
Do Barack’s buddies like Babs, Sarandon, Madonna and now LiLo think this is actually helping Obamassiah? The more they rant the more popular Palin/McCain become.
Tis true that I have an unfair advantage. However, if people weren’t so stuck on stereotypes… I guess we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
If Charley Gibson were to ask you about the Clinton Doctrine, would you know what it is?
I assumed it was “”When Clinton lied, nobody died.” You know, the concept that it’s OK to lie to the American People or to lie under oath to protect your family if it’s about sex. (Perhaps left-wing bloggers who have called for an investigation into Sarah’s supposed adultery should be reminded of this.)
Wikipedia has another definition of the Clinton Doctrine:
I wasn’t aware of this doctrine. It’s good to know that Bill Clinton said we could go to war for oil, as long as oil is considered one of our “interests”.
I’d say that’s a purty good translation, NHawk. The particular big prize CERN is eyeing with this is finding what’s commonly called the “God Particle” (Higgs boson particle).
Here’s a news story that’s not too over-run with heavy scientific/particle physics jargon that may be of interest to some:
Dr Peter Higgs: God’s particle
A snippet:
“Officially it is known as the Higgs Boson though Higgs admits that Brout and Englert both deserve to be included in the nomenclature. In physics jargon, it is usually referred to as the “God particle”, much to the dismay of Higgs, who is a staunch atheist.
Ironically, given that CERN rejected the original paper, the Large Hadron Collider project may succeed in finally nailing it down. If so, Higgs, Brout and Englert are all more or less guaranteed the Nobel Prize. Higgs says he’s keeping a bottle of champagne handy, though it would take at least three years for the LHC data to offer proof, one way or another.
Although Higgs is highly respected in his field, not everyone believes the Higgs Boson exists. Superstar physicist Steven Hawking has reiterated several times that he doesn’t think the Higgs Boson exists and has taken a $100 bet to that effect. Higgs and Hawking had a recent public spat with Higgs saying, “I am very doubtful about Steven’s calculations. Frankly I don’t think they are good enough”.
-end of snippet-
He could be wrong, but I’d give Steve the benefit of the doubt on this one. It’s not for nothing they refered to him as a “superstar” in the article.
Wait, I am pretty sure the Clinton Doctrine is:
Always make sure there is no way to corroborate you accusers claim.
Or, more succinctly, “if there is no stain there is no claim.”
Sure, I could tell you, Papa – if you define the meaning of the word “is”.
True. I long for the day when the current objects of stereotypes can achieve something and nobody thinks it unusual enough to be worth mentioning.
Who cling to our guns….
Ha! Good stuff.
It is interesting to watch. I make it a point to either call or email my congressman or Pelosi every day. I think with the Republicans keeping the pressure on they will have to bring it to a vote soon. I want them drilling in my back yard!
My Steelers are up tonight. Go Steelers!
Sometimes I forget what a provincial, stupid, ignorant and superstitious , savage I am. It must come from living in 5 countries for more than 12 years and speaking only three or four languages.
Obviously, I don’t understand the world like Obamassiah who has the power to turn back the tides and heal the planet.
If I were McCain, I would have that quote featured prominently in every ad I ran this campaign.
I found the following article at Powerlineblog interesting.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021512.php
Steven Hawking is too brilliant and has accomplished too much for me to dismiss any of his ideas out of hand, but on some of his ideas I wonder if he has gotten too abstract in his thinking to be on the right track.
Here are a few of the charges Palin has not yet been able to refute.
The Real Sarah Palin
Few people realize that Sarah Palin:
• Personally carried plague infested rats to Europe and started the “Black Death” that killed over ½ of the population.
• Was at the helm when the Titanic struck the ice berg.
• Shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and ignited World War I.
• Was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s mistress.
• Served as an advisor to Reinhard Heydrich at the Wannsee Conference.
• Was Adolf Hilter’s first wife.
• Stole atomic secrets and passed them to the Soviets.
• Warned Castro about the invasion at the Bay of Pigs.
• Smuggled Soviet nuclear missiles into Cuba and started the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Shot John F. Kennedy.
• Was driving Teddy Kennedy’s car on the night of 18 July 1969.
• Served as a military advisor to Vo Nguyen Giap during the Tet Offensive.
• Caused the “meltdown” at Three Mile Island.
• Served as a personal assistant to Ollie North
• Helped Fawn Hall smuggle classified documents out of the White House.
• Planted a bomb on board the shuttle Challenger.
• Assisted with counting votes in Florida in 2000.
• Served as a personal assistant to Katherine Harris.
• Put Hillary Clinton’s Rose Law Firm billing records in her book room at the White House.
• Invited Vince Foster to Fort Marcy Park on the evening of 20 July 1993.
• Developed several species of plants that actually create carbon dioxide to speed global warming.
• Was the mistress of Saddam Hussein.
• Served as a military advisor to President Saakashvili in July 2008.
“And this is just the tip of the ice berg.” Ironically, Sarah Palin first uttered that phrase on the night of 14 April 1912.
I don’t worry about Sarah Palin gaffes, I prefer the Little Known Sarah Palin Facts.
I think I saw it at HotAir earlier today. Of course, I greatly enjoyed the irony of one airhead celebrity endorsing another airhead celebrity. Maybe she can shoot an advert for Obama during “free time” during one of her stays at rehab. I hope so, at least!
Did anyone actually read the Sarah Palin piece in US Weekly? I tried to stomach it, but could only take about half a page. Complete smear job. The cover was bad enough, but the article itself is just sickening.
Amazingly my Niners won 33-30 in overtime. Huzzah!