A Slate.com article blames US “libertarian” policies for the current failing market, arguing for more intervention and stating that the current crisis proves libertarians are wrong. This Reason.com article is offered as a rebuttal.
Iraq Inches Closer to Security Pact With U.S.
The draft also includes provisions on another knotty issue — whether American soldiers would have immunity from Iraqi law. Senior Iraqi officials said the draft language would give Americans immunity from Iraqi law when they were on military operations but would not apply if they were off duty….
Many Iraqi members of Parliament say that the proposed immunity provisions, which the United States supports, are too broad, and that they want American troops to be subject to Iraqi law for all their actions. The Americans say that their troops must have immunity when on military missions….
“The heart of the matter is the jurisdiction over the searching of all cargos that are shipped to Iraq or from Iraq,” said Ali Adeeb, a close ally of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. “There is the possibility that the cargo contains weapons that may hurt Iraq, although the American side committed that no weapons of mass destruction would be sent to Iraq.”….
Adding to the volatility, attacks against Christians have increased in the past two weeks and nearly 1,900 Christian families have fled their homes in fear, said Abdul Qadir al-Obaidi, the Iraqi minister of defense.
Palin is the mom in Bobby’s World?
A few weeks ago, the truth was revealed that artificial inflation of certain stocks would eventually hurt the market….and the conspiracy to hide this on Wikipedia.
Bloomberg gets the rule changes to stay in power, voters aren’t happy.
Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof
Gap narrows between rich and poor, but the UK is still bad. And, oddly enough, if you look at the Gini coefficient scores, the US is worse.
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Bobby’s World! I misses it, yes I does!
Regarding the global cooling trend article, I would like to submit some additional evidence to any doubters (if there be any left). The Alaskan glaciers are expanding for the first time in 250 years.
http://www.dailytech.com/Alaskan+Glaciers+Grow+for+First+Time+in+250+years/article13215.htm
About the al Qaeda/McCain thing: Now I am quite positive Obama is slated to win. And this comes on the heels of the dismissal of the lawsuit challenging Obama’s eligibility for president. Remember that this same tactic was used against Kerry in 2004, although that time they used a fake recording of bin Laden to endorse him. At the time, polls reflected that it didn’t make much of an impact on public opinion. I don’t know whether that was true or not, but it certainly cannot help.
But all that aside, I found the following quote from the article quite interesting (not that I completely buy into it):
“New polls yesterday continued to show the uphill struggle faced by Mr McCain, and that Mrs Palin is now a greater liability to the Republican ticket than President Bush.
The widely respected NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll gave Mr Obama a 10-point lead, 52 to 42. It showed that Mrs Palin’s unfavourable ratings had risen 10 points in three weeks, up to 47 per cent — with just 38 per cent holding a positive view of her — and that 55 per cent do not believe she is qualified. The greatest concern voters now have about Mr McCain, according to the survey, was his choice of running mate.”
Of course there’s doubt left! The main reason why the temperature drops of the last 4 years were being ignored was that we thought we understood the sun flare cycles, and were expecting them to start increasing again. They haven’t, which is likely causing the drop. It may well be that CO2 is keeping us warmer, and in fact that could be a good thing. We just don’t understand enough about the involved cycles to know. I’ve never claimed that Al Gore was wrong, and won’t now. What I will say is that he is guessing, and that right or wrong about the impact of CO2 emissions that still doesn’t tell us whether we should expend huge expense to stop them. If we are overdue for an ice age (which many scientists have suggested in the last century), CO2 emissions might be the only way to avoid billions of people dying from starvation. Again, we just don’t know enough about these cycles to do anything more than make (hopefully) educated guesses.