Archive for July, 2006

Scientists And Sulfur Don’t Mix

Posted by Q Ball on July 28th, 2006

In a recent article on global warming some scientists think we should dispense excess sulfur into the atmosphere to halt global warming. Sometimes the stupidity of scientists, no matter what field, astounds me. I wonder how will we come by the sulfer: extracting it from the earth using fossil fuel machines or producing it in [...]

SWAT Being Overused

Posted by Q Ball on July 19th, 2006

From: NewsMax.com According to a new study by the Cato Institute’s Radley Balko SWAT teams are increasingly being used to take down small time drug offenders. These take downs are resulting in incidents of violence that don’t need to take place. Cato is one of my favorite organizations, because they truly stand for all things [...]

Canada sets sights on dismantling gun registry

Posted by 3wire on July 12th, 2006

From: The Seattle Times By Maggie Farley Los Angeles Times TORONTO — Police began kicking down doors before dawn on a chilly May morning while gang members in Toronto’s Jamestown neighborhood still slept. By lunchtime, officers had made 106 arrests, collected 33 guns and announced they had broken an international gun ring run by the [...]

This story is nearly a year old now but bears revisiting. From: News Busters ———– To ABC’s Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin Posted by Brent Baker on September 16, 2005 – 00:50. ABC News producers probably didn’t hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome’s parking lot [...]

Why can’t we be friends?

Posted by Maverick on July 10th, 2006

Blu-ray/HD-DVD Consolidation Ricoh Technologies announced over the weekend that it has developed a device that will allow all forms of disc media to be written and read by one device. Hopefully this will lead to consumer and manufacturer choice with a seemless integration of the two high definition disc formats.

Unpleasant Realties

Posted by 3wire on July 2nd, 2006

Quote from: State of Fear by Michael Crichton “He felt as if he had been physically moved—as if someone had picked him up and shifted him ten feet to one side. He was no longer standing in the same place. But he had also been changed internally. He felt a kind of solid impassivity he [...]

Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies

Posted by 3wire on July 1st, 2006

From:The Australian News ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to free Corporal Gilad Shalit. It came as Israeli [...]