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1: Outside Asylum, I might not be much help there any more (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-11-05, 09:16:33 (198.103.161.1)
I'm way past single-issue crises. Peak Oil has come and gone, it's not worth debating any more. However, the combined effects of oil decline, the draining of the global capital pool and the tipping po .......
2: Outside Asylum, I've been off getting an attitude adjustment (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-11-05, 07:39:38 (198.103.161.1)
I've accepted that this cycle of civilization, with its dualistic, rationalist technological program is pretty much over, and that nothing can be done to extend it significantly -- at least nothing th .......
3: Outside Asylum, Congratulations, America (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-11-05, 05:14:27 (198.103.161.1)
What a wonderful, inspired, inspiring thing you have done! As I was reading the post-election commentary this morning I was struck by the thought that this election had a sense of inevitability about .......
4: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Aleph J vs Jaton Operetta (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-08-19, 10:55:00 (99.245.245.214)
The Jaton uses two LM3886 per channel, for 70 watts into 8 ohms, 140 into 4. That gives it a fair bit more kick than the Aleph J. If Jaton would give this little sweetheart the marketing it deserves, .......
5: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Its micro detail is just fine. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-08-19, 08:21:02 (198.103.161.1)
I have no problem with spatial cues, depth information or harmonic resolution. A Larrivee guitar sounds obviously different from a Martin, for instance. The Operetta has better dynamics and sounds mor .......
6: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Jaton Operetta (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-08-19, 06:58:21 (198.103.161.1)
I recently put a Jaton Operetta into my system, replacing both a Pass Labs Aleph J and an Audion PX-25. The rest of the system stayed the same (Audio Note digital front end, Tom Evans Vibe/Pulse pream .......
7: Outside Asylum, Yep, seems consistent. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-03-03, 07:21:28 (198.103.161.1)
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8: Outside Asylum, Hmm, mine is about the same as it was last time I took this test (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-03-03, 07:14:35 (198.103.161.1)
What a surprise. .......
9: Outside Asylum, Leopard/spots; old dog/new tricks (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-02-12, 12:44:40 (198.103.161.1)
I'm a terrible creature of habit. As is everyone here, it would appear. .......
10: Outside Asylum, Oooh yeah, 5 billion barrels! Puts me in mind of that feller Jack down in the GOM (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-02-12, 12:43:26 (198.103.161.1)
Some commentary on Tupi: ***************************** Jack was a media stunt that mistaken an assessment of an entire layer corresponding to the Lower Tertiary with a single field. Fireworks came and .......
11: Outside Asylum, It's more like "Hello Ecological Devastation, Hello Energy Shortages, Hello Economic Collapse" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-02-12, 10:56:47 (198.103.161.1)
You are definitely right about the looming trauma of Peak Oil. In addition, the ecological ruin we have visited on our planet is about to bite us all in the collective arse, with or without anthropoge .......
12: Outside Asylum, A description of what it feels like from someone who tried it on himself (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2008-01-10, 06:46:11 (198.103.161.1)
Next up is saran wrap. The idea is that you wrap saran wrap around the mouth in several layers, and poke a hole in the mouth area, and then waterboard away. I didn't reall see how this was an improve .......
13: Outside Asylum, God Rest Ye, Unitarians (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-12-24, 13:17:39 (99.246.135.223)
Gods rest ye, Unitarians, let nothing you dismay; Remember there's no evidence there was a Christmas Day; When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say, O, Tidings of reason .......
14: Outside Asylum, You have a right to disobey an illegal order, right? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-11-19, 09:46:31 (198.103.161.1)
Does being ordered to fight in an illegal war that hadn't started when you enlisted count as an illegal order? There is a strong body of opinion that says that international wars of aggression are ill .......
15: Outside Asylum, Surprised? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-10-25, 16:33:09 (99.246.135.223)
I'm not... .......
16: Outside Asylum, Resilience theory says it could hardly be otherwise. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-24, 12:53:47 (198.103.161.1)
In any complex adaptive system efficiency and resilience tend to be inversely related. That is, the more efficient a system becomes (especially as redundancy is taken out) the more resilience it loses .......
17: Outside Asylum, "Total destructive power" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-17, 08:05:05 (198.103.161.1)
"Total destructive power" would involve becoming collateral damage in a Blackwater shoot-em-up in downtown Baghdad. Or maybe being a passenger on an airliner landing at Phuket. This guy gets to find h .......
18: Outside Asylum, I saw this happen at a conference a couple years ago (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-17, 07:27:09 (198.103.161.1)
One of the presenters was a well-known Canadian pot activist, who came with a big Tupperware box of BC Bud and an endless supply of papers. The end-of-opening-day party was open bar, and three hundred .......
19: Outside Asylum, MIHOP, then and now. nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-11, 06:07:15 (198.103.161.1)
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20: Outside Asylum, RE: what is actually going on up there? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-03, 20:52:57 (74.105.129.248)
Nothing. It's a Photoshop exercise with this image: .......
21: Outside Asylum, An interesting pic frfom the White House. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-03, 17:39:14 (74.105.129.248)
Hey, a guy can dream can't he? .......
22: Outside Asylum, I was married for the first time at sundown on the summer solstice of 1970 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-09-02, 17:13:55 (74.105.129.248)
The ceremony took place on an Islamic prayer rug under a weeping willow on the front lawn of my parents' farm home. The bride wore a white lace mini-dress and white vinyl knee-high boots. I wore purpl .......
23: Outside Asylum, Gonzales Does Not Remember Resigning (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-08-27, 07:02:03 (198.103.161.1)
Washington, Aug. 27 (crAP) -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, five minutes after having submitted his resignation to President George W. Bush, was asked by a passer-by whether the rumor was .......
24: Outside Asylum, Atheist doctors more likely to care for the poor than religious ones (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-31, 13:22:09 (198.103.161.1)
Just stirring the pot. Atheist doctors are likely to practice medicine among the underprivileged than religious physicians, even though most religions call on the faithful to serve the poor, according .......
25: Outside Asylum, Apparently there is zero evidence of enemy fire in that incident. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-27, 10:55:03 (198.103.161.1)
Tillman could have got it from any number of sources. He was very opposed to the war in Iraq, to the extent he called it "totally fucking illegal" to his buddies. He was scheduled to meet with Chomsky .......
26: Digital Drive, Audio Note DAC & transport * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-25, 18:30:13 (74.105.129.248)
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27: Outside Asylum, Your stanards for toughness seem lower than the might be. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-14, 09:56:37 (74.105.129.248)
For tough commentary on Bush and his failures, give me Keith Olbermann any day: I accuse you, Mr. Bush, of lying this country into war. I accuse you of fabricating in the minds of your own people, a .......
28: Outside Asylum, Only if you agree to eat it in Gitmo * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-04, 21:46:47 (74.105.129.248)
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29: Outside Asylum, So on this July 4, if someone offered you a choice between Freedom and a hamburger, which would you pick? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-07-04, 15:01:07 (74.105.129.248)
Why should they be grateful to be forced into a position you wouldn't choose for yourself? .......
30: Planar Speaker Asylum, RE: Anyone try any new amps with their ESL57s lately? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-27, 06:13:56 (74.105.129.248)
I'm using a Tom Evans Linear A. I'm stunned into silence - what an amazing combination. .......
31: Outside Asylum, One, of course. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-18, 09:11:33 (198.103.161.1)
Murder is broadly defined as the unlawful killing of another person. A fetus isn't generally considered a person under the law until it is fully detached from the mother. Was that supposed to be a tri .......
32: Outside Asylum, Crop-based ethanol is the most horrifying mistake so far in the mitigation charade. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-15, 11:26:49 (198.103.161.1)
We are filling First World fuel tanks by draining the bloated bellies of Third World babies. I am revolted. .......
33: Outside Asylum, I'm not going to cut him much slack for this (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 13:52:10 (198.103.161.1)
His objection to Gitmo was utilitarian rather than moral, the implication being if it hadn't blackened America's reputation in the international community it would have been OK. That is repugnant and .......
34: Outside Asylum, We're not talking here about a global dataset (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 08:46:12 (198.103.161.1)
We're talking about the short-term effect of a short-lived political decision by OPEC on the economy of the USA. Even at that, it supports my "pessimistic conclusions" to some extent by validating the .......
35: Outside Asylum, Actually, that period makes a lousy test for models (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 07:06:08 (198.103.161.1)
It was short and global circumstances were unusual. That means it was a noisy period. Models need to be tested against statistically significant, relatively noise-free datasets or you risk drawing err .......
36: Outside Asylum, He doesn't seem smart enough to be an agent provocateur (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 06:25:14 (198.103.161.1)
I've seen such people on the net, and their arguments are much craftier and more subtle than Dan's. He isn't really interested in undermining us terrsymps, he just likes to yell. .......
37: Outside Asylum, For Jim Pearce - USA Energy and GDP 1973 to 1979 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 06:16:32 (198.103.161.1)
Year..Energy(mtoe)..delta..GDP (billions)...delta 1973....1788.0....................$17,365.60 1974....1739.1.....-2.73%...$17,278.00.....-0.50% 1975....1691.6.....-2.73%...$17,244.90.....-0.19% 1976 .......
38: Outside Asylum, Not according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-13, 04:01:09 (74.105.129.248)
Their workbook gives the following numbers for primary energy consumption in the USA (converted to millions of tonnes of oil equivalent): 1973: 1788.0 1974: 1739.1 1975: 1691.6 1976: 1781.7 1977: 1823 .......
39: Outside Asylum, Oil Depletion and Economic Instability (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-12, 11:53:49 (198.103.161.1)
A common assumption by the Peak Oil crowd is that a decline in the world's oil supply will lead to economic instability, possibly on a global scale. Unfortunately, those who put forward this argument .......
40: Outside Asylum, Is bald a hair colour? (aka Who the hell cares?) nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-12, 07:32:51 (198.103.161.1)
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41: Outside Asylum, Iran = Shia ... Taliban = Sunni (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-07, 10:51:04 (198.103.161.1)
It's much more likely that Saudi aid to the Taliban is being spun into Iranian aid in order to support the drive to war. .......
42: Outside Asylum, Anaheim deserved the win (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-07, 06:14:10 (198.103.161.1)
They played extremely well, Ottawa played extremely poorly. An own goal? What's with that? .......
43: Outside Asylum, They may not be enough. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 12:26:07 (198.103.161.1)
I've written a lengthy think piece on population reduction (link below). In it I argue that if the oil goes away as fast as I think it might, the population may need to be reduced to one or two billio .......
44: Outside Asylum, Culture shock won't kill you, food shortages will. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 11:36:28 (198.103.161.1)
There's a big debate going on in the Peak Oil community about what the optimal location is to survive and thrive in a post-peak world. Some say rural, for access to food. Some say rural villages, with .......
45: Outside Asylum, Oh no, Maitoba's a lovely place. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 09:44:30 (198.103.161.1)
We're just not using it right now. For the record, my family on my dad's side are Manitoba Ukrainians, which gives me the right to poke fun. Hmmm - I wonder if that means my mother's family were nativ .......
46: Outside Asylum, One ray of hope is Kerala in India. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 09:41:04 (198.103.161.1)
The state of Kerala is the size of Vancouver Island, and has a population of 30 million. Half the population is engaged in agriculture. Despite an average income of $550/yr, Kerala boasts: a 91% liter .......
47: Outside Asylum, A few billion global citizens may be SOL. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 09:22:27 (198.103.161.1)
I don't worry too much about America. There is so much discretionary consumption in your economy that adjustments, though painful, will at least be possible. Other places in the world may not be so lu .......
48: Outside Asylum, Don't bogart that joint, Jim! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 09:16:39 (198.103.161.1)
Look over there - a flying pig! .......
49: Outside Asylum, Jevons Paradox (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 09:01:01 (198.103.161.1)
A reduction in demand through conservation or efficiency acts exactly the same as an increase in supply. This effectively lowers the price of the good, and the lower price will stimulate demand elsewh .......
50: Outside Asylum, I don't think refining capacity is the choke point. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 08:47:11 (198.103.161.1)
I think it's being portrayed as one to disguise deeper problems with global oil supply. .......
51: Outside Asylum, Manitoba??? You're welcome to keep it. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 08:45:38 (198.103.161.1)
Nobody lives there except native hookers and Ukrainians... .......
52: Outside Asylum, Nuclear power will not lower the price of gasoline (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 08:44:02 (198.103.161.1)
Our civilization gets its energy in two forms - combustion heat and electricity. Peak Oil theory says that the proportion of combustion heat we can get from oil and natural gas will shortly start to d .......
53: Outside Asylum, The USA can already refine more oil than it can produce (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 08:02:47 (198.103.161.1)
So not even the "energy security" argument works in favour of more indigenous refining capacity. If you're importing the crude oil, you might as well import the gasoline - the two commodities are abou .......
54: Outside Asylum, 30% of the world's oil exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-06, 06:37:00 (198.103.161.1)
And the Strait is next on this cyclone's target list. One of the things the oil wonks are wondering is how fast the storm-induced gap in tanker shipments will be able to be made up, given the tightnes .......
55: Outside Asylum, It wouldn't alter my behaviour towards my fellow man in the slightest (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-05, 13:47:34 (74.105.129.248)
I already try to do the best I can, and live mindfully into the bargain. Furthermore, any god or goddess worth the infinity they're imprinted upon wouldn't give two shits if I worshiped them or not. : .......
56: Outside Asylum, Yes it does. "Sin" doesn't, though. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-05, 11:45:20 (198.103.161.1)
I define evil as the lack of empathy that gives a person the ability to do consistent, unnecessary harm to others, especially when they understand that their actions are harmful. To me it's not a reli .......
57: Outside Asylum, OK, I'll take issue with Huxley's comment (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-05, 11:26:41 (198.103.161.1)
Julian Huxley defined morals from a purely biological point of view when he said that "Whatever contributes to the progress and development of the individual, or of the species, is good. Whatever har .......
58: Outside Asylum, Yes, it is. Thanks for bringing it up top. nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-05, 07:49:53 (198.103.161.1)
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59: Outside Asylum, Excellent insights! Thanks. nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-05, 07:48:53 (198.103.161.1)
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60: Outside Asylum, I'm in the third of four generations of atheists in my family: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-04, 16:34:11 (74.105.129.248)
My maternal grandparents, both my parents, my two sisters and myself, my brother-in-law, both my nieces and now all three of my girlfriend's daughters. All of us "strong atheists". I've never known a .......
61: Outside Asylum, Not you, L. D. - you're completely beyond the pale... nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-04, 16:18:46 (74.105.129.248)
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62: Outside Asylum, The one that runs everything, all the time, everywhere, but still finds the time (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-04, 12:05:45 (198.103.161.1)
to take a deep abiding interest in knowing exactly what you do with your wee-wee, and to whom... Any human being with interests like that would be in jail by now. .......
63: Outside Asylum, And it's still wrong in those countries. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 15:34:59 (74.105.129.248)
As are FGM and honour killings. I think the loosening of abortion laws was a good thing, yes. I don't see it as "giving unborn children a death sentence", but that may be because I don't share your re .......
64: Outside Asylum, Hey, what could be more manly than two men sharing their manhood? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 15:10:26 (74.105.129.248)
You gotta kick back a bit, dude. Relax. Go take some pictures of a bodybuilding competition - the rock-hard abs should be right up your alley (so to speak) :-) .......
65: Outside Asylum, The law simply follows where the people lead. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:49:51 (74.105.129.248)
Slavery is always wrong because it is not consensual. The fact that the laws supported it simply shows that the law tends to favour the needs of the powerful, in this case those who felt they needed t .......
66: Outside Asylum, Please be precise (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:42:36 (74.105.129.248)
The correct phrasing is "Because I think it's disgusting and repulsive." Disgusting and repulsive, are, after all, personal emotional responses, not objective descriptions. .......
67: Outside Asylum, RE: Please explain why you've interjected the arbitrary "non-consentual" stipulation... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:35:17 (74.105.129.248)
Because acts that are intrusive require consent. What's the big dial with that? .......
68: Outside Asylum, Permissible by whom? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:33:52 (74.105.129.248)
It's certainly permissible by North American law. It looks to me like you're heading towards my third category. I see no reason whatsoever not to "permit" it. .......
69: Outside Asylum, Why? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:32:10 (74.105.129.248)
Why would my acceptance of different forms of human behaviour guarantee my participation in them? That seems an odd point of view. Besides, if you were asleep, it would be a non-consensual act which I .......
70: Outside Asylum, What do you mean by "OK"? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:27:39 (74.105.129.248)
If you mean expectable due to our common animal nature, the answer is yes. If you mean "not harmful to the species at the frequency observed,"\ the answer is also yes. If you mean "nonthreatening to t .......
71: Outside Asylum, RE: Ahh! The free thinker! So then are pedophilia, beastiality and golden showers..., (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:22:16 (74.105.129.248)
Pedophilia and bestiality are non-consensual, so they're off the table along with all other non-consensual sex acts. I have no problem with golden showers, or even less common practices, between conse .......
72: Outside Asylum, They are? Odd, very few of the men I know are uncomfortable either with idea or the individuals (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 14:10:59 (74.105.129.248)
Maybe I hang out with a more sexually secure class of men? Seriously, most of my friends consider a person's sexuality to be a) not a big deal and b) none of their business. IMO an individual's sexual .......
73: Outside Asylum, I heard that interview as well. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-06-02, 07:08:01 (74.105.129.248)
H talked about how he "hoped, prayed and expected" that Bush would bomb Irean before leaving office. He's an original PNACer, with all that implies about the belligerence and self-righteousness of his .......
74: Outside Asylum, That's wild! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-05, 08:50:28 (74.105.129.248)
How does someone who knew those people end up in the political/philosophical place you're in? It seems like a very long journey. .......
75: Outside Asylum, Malthus mainly failed to foresee oil. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 14:59:46 (74.105.129.248)
You can hardly blame him for that. Oil was a bit of a Deus Ex Machina, but that machina is now just about worn out. .......
76: Outside Asylum, Your faith in humanity is touching, Jim. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 14:07:49 (74.105.129.248)
Good luck. .......
77: Outside Asylum, Liebig's Law of the Minimum (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 14:05:38 (74.105.129.248)
The problem is that even a successful conversion to some magical alternative energy won't save the day because we've fucked up so much more than just our energy resources. Liebig's Law of the Minimum .......
78: Outside Asylum, I'd agree with those assessments (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 14:01:16 (74.105.129.248)
Except I think the starvation and political unrest will set in much earlier than 50% - they will start to hit the marginal nations at 10% as they get bid out of the oil market, and wil be well into th .......
79: Outside Asylum, My biggest worry is the "nasty, environment killing stuff" we deply will be coal (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 13:57:56 (74.105.129.248)
I'm a whole lot more worried about coal power and famine than I am about nuclear war. Nuclear war is penny-ante compared to this stuff. Seriously - the negative environmental effects of the blasts the .......
80: Outside Asylum, Of course. Malthus wasn't wrong, just early to the party. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 13:47:52 (74.105.129.248)
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81: Outside Asylum, I just had a lengthy article published on The Oil Drum (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-04, 10:13:28 (198.103.161.1)
The article that ties together ecological concepts with the implications of Peak Oil and the effect on population. The article describes how the Earth's human carrying capacity has been drastically in .......
82: Outside Asylum, And when the comics and reality say the same thing? nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-02, 10:20:21 (198.103.161.1)
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83: Outside Asylum, How come a cartoonist got it right and the political advisors blew it so bad? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-02, 05:33:20 (198.103.161.1)
Surge and veto, baby, surge and veto! .......
84: Outside Asylum, Iraq Generals to President: You've Failed Us (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-02, 05:09:49 (198.103.161.1)
Washington, DC Today, two retired Generals who led troops in Iraq expressed outrage at the President's veto of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health, and Iraq Accountability Act. The President .......
85: Outside Asylum, This is just part of a coming global trend of oil nationalization (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-05-01, 09:39:05 (198.103.161.1)
As world oil supplies tighten and global consumption keeps rising, many oil producing countries will be (or already are) nationalizing their supplies to some extent. They want more control over the ev .......
86: Outside Asylum, Gasoline demand is quite price inelastic (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-23, 10:42:50 (198.103.161.1)
People react to two things in that situation: price shocks (which this isn't) and high costs as a proportion of their overall net income (which this also isn't). Gasoline costs in the USA right now ar .......
87: Cable Asylum, Another vote for JPS Labs Aluminata (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-20, 13:25:54 (74.105.129.248)
Deep-down satisfying. Never heard a power cord do this. Mortgage your marriage. .......
88: Outside Asylum, Oh, it's no trouble - really! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 15:15:57 (74.105.129.248)
I'm looking forward to it - it's a mail-in ballot, I don't even have to cross the border. I'll vote there but I sure as hell won't travel there, not until the Congress and the pResidency are all safel .......
89: Outside Asylum, Dual citizen am I. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 12:25:46 (198.103.161.1)
In Boston born, Canadian parents of. Registered before to vote in America never have I. She needs all the help she can get now, and I really like that Edwards fella. It turns out that since I have my .......
90: Outside Asylum, That's very interesting, Jim. It brings some objective clarity to the discussion. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 10:59:45 (198.103.161.1)
As usual, the attitudes of those in Canada above that dividing line will depend on social factors, like whether they think society is an interdependent organism or a collection of independent individu .......
91: Outside Asylum, Our health care isn't "free", it's "universal" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 09:35:00 (198.103.161.1)
Nobody up here claims it's free. That's a straw man erected south of the border. I'd expect that some of the difference they noted from 1961 to now is due to that health care system. Universal medicar .......
92: Outside Asylum, Nick's been cutting my hair for over 20 years. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 08:05:16 (198.103.161.1)
The current rate is $15. I give a $5 tip each time and a Christmas bonus. These days he seems to finish up faster than he used to. Can't figure that out. Edwards has a lot more hair than me, he's a lo .......
93: Outside Asylum, Here are some interesting observations about coalition deaths in Iraq (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-18, 07:59:54 (198.103.161.1)
According to icasualties.org : - Every month of the last eight has seen coalition casualties average over 2.5 per day. - In the previous 41 months, only 14 months had more than 2.5 deaths per day. - P .......
94: Outside Asylum, As in, on loan to the USA from China? You need to borrow murderers? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-17, 07:35:57 (198.103.161.1)
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95: Outside Asylum, So O'Reilly was right after all! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-16, 20:16:25 (74.105.129.248)
It's not a drunk driving problem, it's an immigrant problem. It's not a wife abuse problem, it's an immigrant problem. It's not a mass murder problem, it's an immigrant problem. .......
96: Outside Asylum, Trauma like that changes you forever (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-16, 19:14:42 (74.105.129.248)
It causes physical changes in organ development as the child grows, and you end up with an adult who is twisted in many ways. Twisted enough to swear eternal vengeance. A whole generation of them. ::: .......
97: Outside Asylum, Re: "I would imagine if Bush had a time machine he definately wouldn't have attacked" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-16, 19:11:12 (74.105.129.248)
You really think so? When I look at him on TV I see a man who did exactly what he intended. If he were to get his time machine second chance he's just do the same thing with more force. I think the ma .......
98: Outside Asylum, Suffer the little children... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-16, 18:41:44 (74.105.129.248)
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99: Outside Asylum, 70% of Blacksburg Children Suffering Trauma: Forced to Pass Dead Bodies On Way to School (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-16, 18:26:02 (74.105.129.248)
In other Iraq news, a new study from Iraq’s health ministry has found close to seventy percent of Baghdad school children are showing symptoms of trauma-related stress. The symptoms include stutterin .......
100: Outside Asylum, That corpulent, underpowered, poorly engineered, poorly assembled autobahn-cruiser? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 09:09:45 (198.103.161.1)
"Real men"? Given your affection for that Teutonic poseur, I now know more about how you judge your manliness. I had the good sense (and manly self-confidence) to get rid of mine. .......
101: Outside Asylum, That's what youy get for driving a POS 540. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 08:36:50 (198.103.161.1)
God I was relieved to be able to fob mine off on some unsuspecting yuppie schmuck. .......
102: Outside Asylum, The RNC may want to cooperate (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 08:32:42 (198.103.161.1)
But I think the WH could put significant roadblocks in the way of such cooperation. I think we're going to see some major leaks and personal cooperation in the days and weeks ahead, however. ::: TOPIC .......
103: Outside Asylum, Are there current WH communications about the US Attorneys on those servers too? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 08:30:57 (198.103.161.1)
You're just being silly. .......
104: Outside Asylum, Should Congress impound the RNC servers? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 08:23:13 (198.103.161.1)
Given everything that's going on: Millions of missing WH emails; Rove apparently having deleted emails after Fizgerald ordered him not to; the WH effectively claiming executive privilege over these ex .......
105: Outside Asylum, Wolfie gets hissed, booed and heckled by World Bank staffers (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-13, 07:09:39 (198.103.161.1)
Wolfowitz attempted to address about 200 staffers gathered in the bank's central atrium but left after some began hissing, booing, and chanting "Resign. . . . Resign." He had approached the gathering .......
106: Outside Asylum, Kurt Vonnegut Funny .......JohnEH not.......n/t (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-12, 18:10:33 (74.105.129.248)
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107: Outside Asylum, Five MILLION missing emails? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-12, 17:19:31 (74.105.129.248)
Snicker. I think the dam has just cracked. And Karl apparently kept deleting his emails after Fitzgerald told him not to. Letters are flying, subpoenas are locked and loaded. We may yet get to see Kar .......
108: Outside Asylum, Nope, the real deal. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-10, 07:16:31 (74.105.129.248)
The link is to the thread where I found the image. A poster near the bottom of the thread reveals he was one of the perps and tells the story of putting it up. .......
109: Outside Asylum, Freeway blogging at its finest, in Chicago. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-09, 21:30:39 (74.105.129.248)
Bwahahahahaha. The sheeple awake! .......
110: Outside Asylum, I agree that Hillary is a consummate politician, but the comparison to Cheney is an insult to Broomhilda. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-08, 15:10:13 (74.105.129.248)
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111: Outside Asylum, I've always wanted to see (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-05, 12:59:32 (198.103.161.1)
Annie Sprinkle's cervix. .......
112: Outside Asylum, Oh really? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-05, 12:43:13 (198.103.161.1)
Conservatives and media figures continue to claim, without evidence, that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered an incorrect message from Israel to Syria during her meeting with Syrian President Bash .......
113: Outside Asylum, There's a lot of speculation that he slipped into early dementia before anyone noticed. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-04, 19:48:05 (74.105.129.248)
But he's still an evil excuse for a human being. .......
114: Outside Asylum, Pelosi goes to the ME, 15 people are released. McCain goes to the ME and 21 people die. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-04, 19:26:33 (74.105.129.248)
The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John .......
115: Outside Asylum, A couple of explanations (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 16:26:06 (74.105.129.248)
For any sentient, empathic being anyone's suffering is unacceptable, since due to empathy we feel some degree of their suffering ourselves. Because that experience is unpleasant we identify the inflic .......
116: Outside Asylum, 2, 4, 6, 8, time to transubstantiate! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 15:55:49 (74.105.129.248)
Gives new meaning to the phrase, "My dad always seemed like a god to me." .......
117: Outside Asylum, Russian news has been reporting April 6 for a week now. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 15:50:03 (74.105.129.248)
Supposedly the air attack, code named "Operation Bite", is to begin at 4:00 a.m. local and last for 12 hours. .......
118: Outside Asylum, The classic Problem Of Evil is purely a religious one (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 09:58:35 (198.103.161.1)
The problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. Evil is still a problem for athei .......
119: Outside Asylum, Why would you care? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 09:26:47 (198.103.161.1)
The only requirement to consider yourself an atheist is that you don't believe in any supernatural gods. All else is personal preference. Feelings of transcendence don't require any such belief, as th .......
120: Outside Asylum, I much prefer Dawkins to Harris (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 08:44:05 (198.103.161.1)
I've never been a big fan of Sam Harris, ever since I heard him speak a couple of years ago. He takes very simplistic, ethnocentric positions on religion and atheism. IMO he is as guilty of erecting s .......
121: Outside Asylum, Religion as Protection Racket (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 08:23:30 (198.103.161.1)
"Well, well, well, dat's a nice afterlife youse got dere. Sure would be a shame if sumptin' was to ... happen to it. T'ings can burn, ya know. But hey, it's your choice. Have a nice day!" .......
122: Outside Asylum, Shrug. It's your hell, YOU burn in it. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-03, 08:19:50 (198.103.161.1)
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123: Outside Asylum, Aha. So this is what triggered the Iranian hostage crisis. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 19:41:55 (74.105.129.248)
A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official visit to northern Iraq was the starting pistol for a crisis that 10 weeks later led to Iranians seizing 15 Bri .......
124: Outside Asylum, I've used Leicas for 30 years (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 11:32:43 (198.103.161.1)
I have yet to produce a single photo with the "wholeness" of the shot of the boy on crutches coming through the broken wall in Seville in 1933. Not one. .......
125: Outside Asylum, Artists and paint brushes (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 10:20:16 (198.103.161.1)
Having had the misfortune of being married to an artist, and therefore heavily involved in an artistic community for some years, I can assure you they spent time discussing the merits of different bru .......
126: Outside Asylum, Absolutely! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 09:13:38 (198.103.161.1)
When I realized the quality of images I could get with a D200 and good zooms I promptly sold my Leica RF gear and never looked back. The Nikkor 17-55/2.8 DX is an astonishing lens. As an old available .......
127: Outside Asylum, Yes. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 08:37:50 (198.103.161.1)
Not always of course - some Nikkors are better than others, and some Summicrons are worse than others. And of course much more of the picture quality depends on other attributes than raw lens quality .......
128: Outside Asylum, No question, Summicrons are exceptional (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 07:53:45 (198.103.161.1)
Though my favourite lens of all time was the 35/1.4 Summilux-ASPH. The question is, does the quality of Summicrons or Summiluxes offset their inherently limited imaging capabilities? To the photograph .......
129: Outside Asylum, There are two things a Leica brings to the table. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-04-02, 07:30:32 (198.103.161.1)
The first is is the combination of small size and low shutter lag. Most of the DSLRs that have equivalently low shutter lag are quite bulky pro and semi-pro models, though that's getting better now. T .......
130: Outside Asylum, Nice pics of Mrs. Pelosi and the charmer-in-chief (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-29, 04:06:44 (74.105.129.248)
"Mr. President, you are MY bitch now." .......
131: Outside Asylum, Bush is in a box n this one (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-28, 15:27:41 (74.105.129.248)
The people (remember them?) want both a withdrawal timetable AND troop funding. By vetoing, Bush denies them both those wishes, and ends up looking petty, partisan and obstructive to the will of the p .......
132: Outside Asylum, Even GPS coordinates wouldn't work (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-28, 14:09:52 (74.105.129.248)
If the location of the boundary isn't agreed by either party you could have coordinates accurate to the millimeter and it wouldn't solve the problem. .......
133: Outside Asylum, The Brits may have made up that map. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-28, 13:24:17 (198.103.161.1)
Gee, who would have ever expected this? ******************************* Brits in the Gulf and a doctored British Map ? Former British Ambassador Craig Murray is now challenging the legitimacy of the m .......
134: Outside Asylum, Some animal rights activist seems to have found the Monkey's Paw (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-27, 16:24:32 (74.105.129.248)
Activist: "I want there to be no seal hunt this year!" Baby Seal: "Glub, glub, glub..." .......
135: Outside Asylum, "Beltway Bob" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-27, 08:58:43 (198.103.161.1)
He's just not quite as funny as the original, though just as transparent. Come to think of it, with a few rounds of chemo he'll be literally as well as figuratively transparent. .......
136: Outside Asylum, Funny you should mention that this morning (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-26, 04:31:04 (74.105.129.248)
I just posted a research article that examines how this war was "about oil". I've never been happy with the standard explanations, but this one knits up a lot of loose threads. The usual suspects will .......
137: Outside Asylum, Re: VK's right (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-24, 09:45:12 (74.105.129.248)
I agree. I went through a set of tires every second summer on my 540. After a set of stock Dunlops, a set of Michelin Pilot Sports and a set of Bridgestone Pole Positions, I'm quite happy to be using .......
138: Outside Asylum, Bush's various roles in the "Political Theater" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 23:01:04 (74.105.129.248)
The man deserves a Tony (Snow, that is)... And his greatest role of all time: .......
139: Outside Asylum, Hmm. Maybe there's a "smoking" gun... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 22:30:34 (74.105.129.248)
As if President Bush and Alberto Gonzales didn't have enough trouble dealing with the continuing attorney firings controversy, a whole new front has opened up in the emerging battle between Congress .......
140: Outside Asylum, The rest of us out here would much rather not be projected upon, thanks. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 21:45:24 (74.105.129.248)
Try leaving other sovereign nations to their own devices for a change. .......
141: Outside Asylum, I seem to remember a certain aircraft carrier... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 21:36:04 (74.105.129.248)
Break a leg, George! .......
142: Outside Asylum, Toasted a nice golden brown (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 21:07:41 (74.105.129.248)
Lying to congress Alberto? Not a wise move. Please leave your career at the door on your way out. .......
143: Outside Asylum, Actually, I think he can. Have you seen the pics from his appearances over the last week? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 12:51:37 (198.103.161.1)
He looks like he's been spending some time in the company of Jack and Jim. Pasty complexion, saggy skin, blinking like he was the umpire who had sand thrown in his eyes... He is well aware of what's h .......
144: Outside Asylum, Could, but won't. Know why? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 12:42:42 (198.103.161.1)
It may be pork, but people have stopped buying the bull. Americans want the war stopped. And The People are the boss right? In the end, they're the REAL decider. .......
145: Outside Asylum, Investigation lead to impeachments. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 12:24:03 (198.103.161.1)
For me, the most important thing is getting the cabal out of office. That can be done even if they don't stop the war. .......
146: Outside Asylum, I followed both Watergate and Iran-Contra very closely, but I've never seen anything like this. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 12:17:47 (198.103.161.1)
The administration managed to keep the stopper in the bottle long enough to let the pressure really build up. What I don't understand is why they thought they could keep it from eventually exploding i .......
147: Outside Asylum, Torture: "the potential for an even bigger congressional showdown with the White House" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 11:57:48 (198.103.161.1)
March 22, 2007 - After years of largely ignoring the issue, two Senate committees have launched major inquiries into the handling of terrorist suspects captured after the September 11 attacks, congre .......
148: Outside Asylum, The whole bleeding world has been waiting for Bush to get his ass kicked. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 11:46:06 (198.103.161.1)
You can't fault us for paying attention as it starts to happen. .......
149: Outside Asylum, I don't think Cheney should have told him to fuck off that day in the Senate chamber (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 11:26:36 (198.103.161.1)
It looks like it got Leahy's dander up. From what I read, he and Conyers are going to delay issuing subpoenas while they interview a whole lot of little fish. That should start the cloak of secrecy fr .......
150: Outside Asylum, Where the hell did this version of the MSM come from? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 11:12:46 (198.103.161.1)
It's like they've awoken from a looooong slumber, looked around and said, "What the fuck has been going on while we were sleeping?" Better late than never, I guess. My National Security Letter Gag Or .......
151: Outside Asylum, "Beltway Bob" aka Snowjob Tony lets a little bit of truth slip out by accident (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 07:12:47 (198.103.161.1)
From yesterday's presser: Q Why haven't you moved on the transcript issue, though, then? This morning you were saying off-camera that you don't need an oath because if someone says something that's no .......
152: Outside Asylum, Actually, this has happened before, and was resolved quickly. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 06:08:56 (198.103.161.1)
I'd have been a lot more worried if it involved American forces. given that it's the Brits, this is likely just to be an Iranian objection to being boarded. No war this time, unfortunately. ::: TOPIC: .......
153: Outside Asylum, Wasn't the last stop on this road somewhere in the Gulf of Tonkin? * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-23, 06:05:26 (198.103.161.1)
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154: Outside Asylum, RW - add my best wishes to the pile too. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-22, 04:02:08 (74.105.129.248)
I hope her recovery is speedy and uncomplicated. .......
155: Outside Asylum, The End Of The World As We Know It (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 18:56:02 (74.105.129.248)
I can tell you don't hang out with doomsday cults muich :-) .......
156: Outside Asylum, I don't know about you, Victor (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 14:33:11 (74.105.129.248)
You get down on me when I'm all depressed over TEOTWAWKI, and you get down on me when I'm all ecstatic about the return of truth and justice to the greatest nation on the face of the planet. Sometimes .......
157: Outside Asylum, Old Snowjob nearly blew his cortex in a presser this aft (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 12:04:43 (198.103.161.1)
Snow made a statement that "The President has NO recollection of" being involved in the decisions. Several questions later, Ed Henry asked how the President can claim Executive Privilege if he wasn't .......
158: Outside Asylum, Re: What if gravity ends tomorrow? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 08:46:47 (198.103.161.1)
And you have an aversion to thinking outside the box of your culture and experience. The Chinese central bank governor said, "We do not intend to go further and accumulate reserves." Either they're go .......
159: Outside Asylum, Here's a serious question (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 08:25:07 (198.103.161.1)
What if China doesn't see things that way? I know it seems second nature for Westerners raised under the invisible hand to see international relations in terms of our accepted rules of economics. Unde .......
160: Outside Asylum, The House Judiciary committee just voted on subpoenas (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 08:04:49 (198.103.161.1)
The motion passed, with only two against. Is the stage now set for a nice little Constitutional crisis? It doesn't look like either Conyers or Little Boots are in a compromising mood. Subpoenas to be .......
161: Outside Asylum, Ruh roh! China says "No mas." (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 06:53:47 (198.103.161.1)
The Emerging Markets magazine quoted Chinese central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan as saying "many people say that foreign exchange reserves in China are (already) large enough." "We do not intend to .......
162: Outside Asylum, They draw an interesting distinction between "voter fraud" and "election fraud" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 04:37:58 (74.105.129.248)
Voter fraud is Republican code for vote suppression. The way it works is that they find some reason to claim voter fraud (usually it's a handful of improperly completed registration forms), at which p .......
163: Outside Asylum, He can't resist those "Bring 'em on!" moments, can he? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 03:51:00 (74.105.129.248)
this one is going to blow up in his face just like the last one did. Conyers, Leahy and company are in no fucking mood to play pattycake. .......
164: Outside Asylum, All right! Available light, and B&W too! You're quite the traditionalist, John. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-21, 03:47:28 (74.105.129.248)
Leicas are gorgeous, aren't they? .......
165: Outside Asylum, Sehr schön! nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-20, 15:21:20 (74.105.129.248)
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166: Outside Asylum, "You're doing a heck of a job, Alberto!" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-19, 20:01:52 (74.105.129.248)
White House Seeking Gonzales Replacements Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support .......
167: Outside Asylum, The guy who was convicted of killing Daniel Pearl has already applied for an appeal (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-19, 13:33:20 (198.103.161.1)
"I didn't do it, that other guy in Gitmo just confessed!" Talk about being hoist by your own petard. Goes to show you just how valuable and trustworthy the information you get from torture really is. .......
168: Outside Asylum, Bjorn Lomborg is going to be in the same session (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-19, 09:15:55 (198.103.161.1)
It should be very interesting. .......
169: Outside Asylum, Or you could use the horizon and rotors to do this: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-18, 12:01:21 (74.105.129.248)
Lots of cool things things you can do with this image. .......
170: Outside Asylum, And don't have the horizon bisect the image. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-18, 11:49:28 (74.105.129.248)
It doesn't take much. .......
171: Outside Asylum, Here's the exact wording of the applicable definition in the act (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 18:29:39 (74.105.129.248)
(4) The term "covert agent" means— (A) a present or retired officer or employee of an intelligence agency or a present or retired member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty with an intelligence a .......
172: Outside Asylum, I didn't watch, I read live a live blog. However, (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 18:14:49 (74.105.129.248)
The opening statement by Waxman, vetted and approved by the CIA through Gen. Hayden, said that when Novak published his column, her status was covert. Hayden has specifically said "She was covert." Wh .......
173: Outside Asylum, Here's a chart of all the leaks (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 17:37:49 (74.105.129.248)
From BradBlog, this lays out the full-court press they put on to get this info out there. I really doubt that just punishing Joe would have merited this kind of operation. I also wonder who that blac .......
174: Outside Asylum, Toensing is a Washington lawyer (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 12:39:55 (198.103.161.1)
She was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration. She's a full-time shill for the administration, and has been used extensively by them to blow smoke over the Wilson/Plame scan .......
175: Outside Asylum, Where did she work again, and what did she work on exactly? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 12:06:38 (198.103.161.1)
And who was worried about the "smoking gun coming in the form of a mushroom cloud"? You'd think with concerns like that, they'd have made sure the people working on Counter-Proliferation would have be .......
176: Outside Asylum, Be careful grabbing that end of the stick (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 11:40:44 (198.103.161.1)
You'll get dirt all over your hands. .......
177: Outside Asylum, Apparently C-SPAN will be running a special on presidential pardons tonight. Too funny :-) (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 11:39:25 (198.103.161.1)
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178: Outside Asylum, Vicki Toensing is now up.. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 11:37:11 (198.103.161.1)
She started off quite cocky, but now is stammering. The committee isn't cutting here any slack. She is trying to present her opinions as fact, and they're not letting her get away with it. Waxman just .......
179: Outside Asylum, We have to assume the CIA gave their approval for this disclosure. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 10:57:15 (198.103.161.1)
If that was the case, the disclosure is certain to be legal. Nobody at the CIA is going to playing cowboy on this one - these are the legal suits giving their OK. .......
180: Outside Asylum, Doesn't matter (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 10:27:34 (198.103.161.1)
Once it was known that she had been covert AT ANY TIME - especially when her connection with BJ became known once they were outed as well - every single contact she'd ever had would have been scrutini .......
181: Outside Asylum, It turns out Plame's testimony was just the appetizer. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 10:21:11 (198.103.161.1)
They are now interviewing James Knodell, who is apparently Director of Security at the WH, the guy who would have been responsible for investigating to see if a breach of the law occurred. They are ch .......
182: Outside Asylum, Well, maybe Waxman, Conyers, Leahy and Boxer can do a transplant. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:52:10 (198.103.161.1)
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183: Outside Asylum, I took a dry run at retirement after the Tech Wreck. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:50:55 (198.103.161.1)
I was out of work for a year and a half, with no financial worries. I had nothing planned out to do with myself, so I couldn't stand it. My father took early retirement from his work as a research bio .......
184: Outside Asylum, Boggle. Oooookay! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:46:30 (198.103.161.1)
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185: Outside Asylum, Yeah, and according to Ann Coulter it was with Canada's help... * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:44:51 (198.103.161.1)
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186: Outside Asylum, Last night at dinner, dessert was off the table (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:43:43 (198.103.161.1)
Then later it was put back on the table. A statement like "Off the table" has no legal force, you know. I think if some solid toehold evidence comes out of the upcoming hearings, it will be back on th .......
187: Outside Asylum, Let me try an analogy on you (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:31:59 (198.103.161.1)
If someone murders someone but the police can't prove he did it (say he had a nice alibi cooked up). Since no charges were laid, does that mean no crime was committed? This is what you're left with on .......
188: Outside Asylum, That really is the $64,000 question (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:28:08 (198.103.161.1)
This took Brewster-Jennings out of play. Their mandate was obviously well known by Langley. Why would someone want to take them down? The answer that pops up is "Because they had discovered, or were a .......
189: Outside Asylum, When Waxman called for a recess the gallery began to chant (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 09:15:13 (198.103.161.1)
"Impeach now! Impeach now!" .......
190: Outside Asylum, Nope. It was needeed to counter the RW spin that she wasn't covert. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:56:07 (198.103.161.1)
See LWRs insistence that she couldn't be covert since she hadn't been on covert missions in the last 5 years. That spin is now dead. I expect the CIA gave her very specific guidance on the answer to t .......
191: Outside Asylum, People she met were already blown. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:45:19 (198.103.161.1)
Anyone she had contact with on any of her trips will have been examined by "interested parties" already. The info is stale and has no operational impact any more. Its importance now is legal. ::: TOPI .......
192: Outside Asylum, Anything to keep your mind off what's actually happening, eh? * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:43:21 (198.103.161.1)
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193: Outside Asylum, I'd rather let the witnesses and the testimony address the facts, thanks. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:40:59 (198.103.161.1)
I'm not a lawyer (and neither are you) so lets just listen to what the people under oath have to say. We'll sort out who was right and who was wrong later. .......
194: Outside Asylum, Careful, you'll get dizzy. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:36:41 (198.103.161.1)
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195: Outside Asylum, Now she's all over Rove.... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:34:27 (198.103.161.1)
How he still has his security clearance, even though he was involved in leaking her identity. .......
196: Outside Asylum, Lynch: "Did you send your husband to Niger?" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:26:39 (198.103.161.1)
Plame: "No. I did not recommend him, nor did I send him. I am glad that I am under oath to reply to you." Looks like they're demolishing all the talking points, one by one. Under oath. .......
197: Outside Asylum, Diane Watson: "The CIA has confirmed to this committee that your position was covert and classified." (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:20:40 (198.103.161.1)
The S.S. Karl Rove has been holed below the waterline. .......
198: Outside Asylum, Not any more.... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:14:50 (198.103.161.1)
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199: Outside Asylum, Oops. she just blew you out of the water too... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:10:03 (198.103.161.1)
In questioning by Cummings: Covert status at time of leak? Yes, congressman During past 5 years from today, did you conduct covert missions overseas. Yes, sir You went on covert missions outside of th .......
200: Outside Asylum, Libby threw sand in the umpire's eyes, as I said above. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:06:14 (198.103.161.1)
Patience grasshopper, there will be charges soon enough. .......
201: Outside Asylum, The CIA cleared Waxman's opening statement in which he said she was covert. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 08:05:09 (198.103.161.1)
She has confirmed her status about 4 times now, with an explicit recognition of the fact that she's under oath. I think perhaps it's your interpretation of the law (and Victoria Toensing's as well) th .......
202: Outside Asylum, Sorry, that dog doesn't hunt any more * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:59:16 (198.103.161.1)
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203: Outside Asylum, She just shot down Tom Davis (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:58:45 (198.103.161.1)
TD: "Did anyone at the CIA ever tell you your career had been damaged?" VP: "Yes." .......
204: Outside Asylum, That's just the spin you're trying to sell. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:52:26 (198.103.161.1)
If she says she was covert, she was covert. Every word she says today was vetted by the CIA, and she won't be saying anything untruthful under oath (unlike some others we could name). I think the roof .......
205: Outside Asylum, And that Novak's column destroyed her status (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:46:25 (198.103.161.1)
and may have damaged others who worked with her. She's under oath, boys. .......
206: Outside Asylum, Valerie has just testified under oath that she was covert. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:43:37 (198.103.161.1)
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207: Outside Asylum, Waxman hearing - Valerie Plame confirmed covert. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:32:03 (198.103.161.1)
On CSPAN, CNN and FOX now, I just read it on a live blog. Waxman started off by quoting Poppy Bush about how reprehensible it is to disclose a CIA agent's identity. Plame was a GS-14 level 6, whatever .......
208: Outside Asylum, Now that's how science should be done. Peer review by combat! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-16, 07:12:48 (198.103.161.1)
Or in other words, so what? Does the opinion of this lay audience change the science? .......
209: Outside Asylum, He killed Kenny! The bastard! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-15, 13:05:15 (198.103.161.1)
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210: Outside Asylum, In case you hadn't noticed (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-15, 06:33:11 (198.103.161.1)
Nobody believes your administration or its military minions any more. The standard responses to this seem to be, "Yeah, if I was tortured that long I'd confess to stealing the Crown Jewels too," and, .......
211: Outside Asylum, My condolences too, John. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-14, 13:07:24 (198.103.161.1)
I watched my kid sister die of cancer at the age of 36, and I know that good care makes an enormous difference in how it unfolds. I'm glad you were able to say the things that needed saying with your .......
212: Outside Asylum, OK, you've got fifteen years - go! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 20:23:05 (216.221.75.99)
Fifteen years to: discover an entirely new principle, ensure that it doesn't cause more problems than it solves, develop the technology, commercialize it, cost-engineer it and deploy it to a significa .......
213: Outside Asylum, It also makes sense if you need to put a little distance (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 20:05:00 (216.221.75.99)
between your CEO and a certain Mr. Waxman. .......
214: Outside Asylum, How many BTUs are there in a barrel of technology? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 20:03:13 (216.221.75.99)
Technology ain't the problem, we got lots of that. The problem is energy, particularly the kind that can drive the transportation that knits this whole over-elaborated mess together. I don't see the t .......
215: Outside Asylum, No, the looniest of loons say (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 18:50:09 (216.221.75.99)
"Yes, we'll have oil available for decades, but what happens when a globally-interlinked industrial civilization that needs 80 million barrels of the stuff every day to keep going finds itself with on .......
216: Outside Asylum, Re: I'm not saying we can do this like tomorrow, but by the end of the next decade we should be in fine shape. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 18:38:34 (216.221.75.99)
OK. I'll wait till the end of the next decade to get excited, then. .......
217: Outside Asylum, Please point me to a commercial cellulosic ethanol process. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 18:36:43 (216.221.75.99)
I live in the only city in NA that even has a pilot plant running, and last I heard it's producing less than 15 barrels of ethanol per day. If you can post some links to other cellulosic processes and .......
218: Outside Asylum, How do you turn Miscanthus or switchgrass into ethanol? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 18:19:17 (216.221.75.99)
There is currently no commercial cellulosic ethanol process available. Crop-based biofuels compete with food. Here's a commentary on that subject from Lester Brown: Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Au .......
219: Outside Asylum, I heard Maggie got the idea from Lyndon LaRouche... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 15:00:14 (216.221.75.99)
There just isn't an original thought left in the world. .......
220: Outside Asylum, Real Climatologists expose GW movie hoax (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 08:46:49 (209.217.111.244)
On Thursday the 8th, the UK TV Channel 4 aired a programme titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle". We were hoping for important revelations and final proof that we have all been hornswoggled by th .......
221: Outside Asylum, Yeah, it has set the cat among the pigeons over there. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-12, 03:33:13 (74.105.129.248)
It has given a lot of analytical support to the "peak has already happened" crowd. .......
222: Outside Asylum, I think Venezuela's going in the shitter (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 19:07:22 (74.105.129.248)
but I don't think the failure of the workers' paradise is going to be anything except a convenient excuse. Seen what's happening to Saudi Arabia? The North Sea? The United States? Kuwait? Global Crude .......
223: Outside Asylum, Huh? I value both humans AND animals (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 18:48:54 (74.105.129.248)
After all, are not all creatures, as God's creations, valued equally by Him? If God values us all, can I do any less? My last sentence means, "Any species would see the demise of another species that .......
224: Outside Asylum, Given what's going to knock on Mexico's front door within the next three years, I'l take Venezuela for $1000, Alex. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 15:17:51 (74.105.129.248)
From the link: The Scenario * Mexico's biggest oil field is Cantarell. Its 2 million barrel per day output was responsible for 60% of Mexico's production, and all its oil exports to the United Stat .......
225: Outside Asylum, You've read this wrong. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 15:11:17 (74.105.129.248)
I'm not saying this many deaths are desirable, I'm simply saying they are inevitable. Humans will do little to precipitate the dieoff other than simply continuing to consume resources and excrete wast .......
226: Outside Asylum, "Hmmm. That reminds me of another asshole I know. He's nuts too!" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 10:28:27 (74.105.129.248)
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227: Outside Asylum, Actually, taxes won't help. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 10:25:56 (74.105.129.248)
What the world needs is about 6 billion human deaths from various causes over the next 30 to 50 years. That should bring our population back into a sustainable balance with the remaining global resour .......
228: Outside Asylum, It must be, even George and Laura do it! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-11, 01:32:21 (74.105.129.248)
I've never understood what was so significant about a bit of coloured rag. Right? .......
229: Outside Asylum, Want a peek at how widespread and ncestuouous the corruption is? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-09, 12:57:07 (198.103.161.1)
From the linked article: *********************************************** A large global hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management (dba, Cerberus-Gabriel), is at the center of an emerging Pentagon and CI .......
230: Outside Asylum, According to other sources we consumed about 6% more in 2003 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-09, 08:47:01 (198.103.161.1)
That seems reasonable, given that 1.5 mbpd of that "consumption" is actually exported from the Tar Sands to the USA, and the fact that our economy has a strong bias towards resource extraction in gene .......
231: Outside Asylum, Pat Buchanan reacts to Libby verdict. Verrrry interesting. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-06, 11:33:24 (198.103.161.1)
Repost from elsewhere, I didn't see this: Pat Buchanan on MSNBC: "If, there was no underlying crime, then WHY did Libby lie ?" Buchanan then called for Congress to open an investigation into the lying .......
232: Outside Asylum, They must not have polled many Afghans. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-06, 04:03:36 (74.105.129.248)
Our vaunted image is taking a real shellacking there these days. .......
233: Outside Asylum, And they've had 12 years to fix it. And nobody did. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-06, 04:01:49 (74.105.129.248)
Hmmmm. .......
234: Outside Asylum, Did you read the story, or just my teaser? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-04, 11:19:24 (74.105.129.248)
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235: Outside Asylum, You looking for an "Oh Shit" moment? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-04, 11:02:43 (74.105.129.248)
Check the story I linked above, from the LA Times, on the changes to the oceans. This is the first time an environmental story has made me seriously contemplate suicide. .......
236: Outside Asylum, Pulitzer-worthy reporting from the LA Times (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-04, 10:56:30 (74.105.129.248)
Take the time to read it. It's a magnificently researched five-part story about the state of the oceans. Here's a taste: MORETON BAY, AUSTRALIA -- The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy grow .......
237: Outside Asylum, My mother made the best soup. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-03, 15:21:53 (74.105.129.248)
Her soup had soul, man. .......
238: Outside Asylum, "I" am an emergent property (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-03, 12:39:15 (74.105.129.248)
of the complex self-catalyzing chemical reactions of my constituent molecules. The use of "soul" in that context is just a literary device. .......
239: Outside Asylum, What do you mean by "soul"? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-03, 08:07:17 (74.105.129.248)
There are a number of definitions. I have different levels of belief in each: 1: the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life NO 2: the spiritual principle emb .......
240: Outside Asylum, Hyperbolic discount functions (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 13:44:36 (74.105.129.248)
Read all about 'em. .......
241: Outside Asylum, The problem with price (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 11:19:21 (198.103.161.1)
As long as demand is not perceived as irrevocably outstripping supply, price will continue to be driven by above-ground factors and expectations that the future will mirror the past. Prices right now .......
242: Outside Asylum, None. Why do you ask? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 10:14:46 (198.103.161.1)
Do you think I might be trying to manipulate the global oil market by posting on Outside? .......
243: Outside Asylum, Do you really think Saudi Arabia is going to open their burqa to the West? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 10:13:46 (198.103.161.1)
Saudi Oil Minister: "Hi! Yes it's true, our oil production has started to decline, and it will never recover. Have a nice day." I don't think so - the Saudis have declared all oil data to be state sec .......
244: Outside Asylum, Maybe, maybe not (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 10:07:29 (198.103.161.1)
If we ramp up coal fired electricity, probably nobody will breath easier. If oil depletion triggers a global recession we might produce less CO2, but the cost could be a bit high. .......
245: Outside Asylum, Saudi Arabian oil production declines 8%, and it's not voluntary. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-02, 08:49:37 (198.103.161.1)
Here's some excellent data analysis by a fellow over at The Oil Drum who uses his real name (Stuart Staniford) ;-) He has looked at Saudi Arabian 2006 production data from four different sources, and .......
246: Outside Asylum, And Iran: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 12:16:57 (198.103.161.1)
Iran's production in January was 3.7 mbpd, identical to December's production, and well below their 2005 average of 4.05. In fact that's exactly how much they were producing in 1993. I Don't think the .......
247: Outside Asylum, Regarding Nigeria and Iraq (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 12:05:39 (198.103.161.1)
Nigeria is down by 600,000 bpd due to terrorist attacks, according to The Guardian . According to USA Today Iraq is down by 700,000 bpd. I think my number of 1.5 mbpd is reasonable, if not even a bit .......
248: Outside Asylum, We will probably be able to stay on the current production plateau for another 3 years or so. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 11:56:54 (198.103.161.1)
Cantarell dropped 1 mbpd last year. KSA is pumping 1 mbpd less than a year ago. The North Sea is declining by 8% per year. US output is declining by 3% per year. Canadian output is declining, except f .......
249: Outside Asylum, Annie is a "crock whore". * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 09:22:12 (198.103.161.1)
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250: Outside Asylum, There is a lot of speculation about Iran's actual situation. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 09:21:04 (198.103.161.1)
None of it is good - Iran has started rationing gasoline. If Iraq and Nigeria were both magically to be cleansed of their afflictions, they would together be able to add at most 1.5 mbpd to the world .......
251: Outside Asylum, As an ex-Defense Minister, it's ironic that he's now a loose cannon. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 07:51:54 (198.103.161.1)
With a screw loose as well... .......
252: Outside Asylum, That T. Boone Pickens is such a confused old man. Right? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-03-01, 07:00:44 (198.103.161.1)
Texas oilman Pickens says global oil production at its peak DOHA, Qatar — Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens sees today's stubbornly high oil price as evidence that daily global production cap .......
253: Outside Asylum, The only people he has credibility problems with (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-27, 04:24:29 (74.105.129.248)
are people like you who wouldn't give him any cred no matter what he did. Most of the thinking world realizes that a hair shirt is not a required accessory for a social conscience. People much richer .......
254: Outside Asylum, And I like digging down into steaming piles of shit and coming up with nuggets of truth (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-27, 03:41:40 (74.105.129.248)
Gore's Office Responds To Drudge’s Latest Hysterics 1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green po .......
255: Outside Asylum, Always up for a little game of "Shoot the Messenger", eh? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-26, 20:26:29 (74.105.129.248)
Gore's Office Responds To Drudge’s Latest Hysterics 1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green po .......
256: Outside Asylum, There are people out there who are driven more by love of country than money. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-25, 08:09:47 (74.105.129.248)
And I suspect their number is higher than you might expect in the military. Being faced with the second phase of your country's worst strategic blunder of all time should sharpen a few peoples' sense .......
257: Outside Asylum, Do you think they would actually quit? Do you think they should? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-25, 07:47:55 (74.105.129.248)
US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to hig .......
258: Outside Asylum, Canada rejoins the 14th century (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-23, 12:34:53 (198.103.161.1)
The Supreme Court gave us back habeas corpus. That's the Canada I love. I'm one happy, happy man today. Now if we can only get some traction on climate change and consign Governor Harper to the dustbi .......
259: Outside Asylum, I wonder what hospitals in the USA would look like (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-22, 20:39:24 (74.105.129.248)
if your oil supply was cut by 80%? That's what happened to Cuba in 1990. They've had to make a lot of adjustments, and all things considered, they're doing very well. Order the movie at the link - it .......
260: Outside Asylum, I'll see your forests and raise you an ocean (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-22, 06:55:38 (198.103.161.1)
VANCOUVER - Unless we halt completely the emission of carbon dioxide from the world's energy systems, we risk an oceanic catastrophe worse than the one associated with the disappearance of the dinosa .......
261: Outside Asylum, I picked up tickets to David Suzuki's tour closer in Ottawa on March 2. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-22, 06:48:39 (198.103.161.1)
I'd really like to see Suzuki, Gore and Ed Schreyer on a stage together some day. Why Ed Screyer you ask? Because he's the new chairman of ASPO Canada, the Canadian chapter of the Association for the .......
262: Outside Asylum, My day job is boring (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-20, 18:51:00 (74.105.129.248)
It has absolutely no bearing on who I am, what I believe or what really matters to me, so I don't bother talking about it. That wasn't the case back before the tech wreck when I was one of the guys wh .......
263: Outside Asylum, Patrick Fitzgerald has just given Scooter a few sleepless nights. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-20, 17:56:34 (74.105.129.248)
The closing two paras of his summation, as reported by the livebloggers at FireDoglake (not totally verbatim): Is this about a bunch of madmen, two men? Or is about somemthing bigger, is it about som .......
264: Planar Speaker Asylum, I used the Canary 339s for a year or so (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-20, 04:13:42 (74.105.129.248)
Not on Maggies, but I've heard them now on four different dynamic speakers. They are one hell of an amplifier, never put a foot wrong. Lots of dynamics, great transparency, and they walk the fine line .......
265: Outside Asylum, Re: but are so silent about who's funding the Sunnis. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-20, 03:45:19 (74.105.129.248)
Strange isn't it? As strange as the fact that almost all of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi but y'all bombed the shit out of everywhere except Saudi Arabia. Oil? Couldn't be. Could it? .......
266: Outside Asylum, Here are a few suggestions (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-19, 16:47:41 (74.105.129.248)
Move closer to work Take the bus Car-pool Join a green electricity co-op Follow a hundred mile diet (eat only food grown within a 100 mile radius) Become a vegetarian Grow some of your own food Use co .......
267: Outside Asylum, Looky here (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-19, 09:50:19 (198.103.161.1)
There's a gummint web page with this very question as its title. It seems impossible that a gallon of gasoline, which weighs about 6.3 pounds, could produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) when bur .......
268: Planar Speaker Asylum, I was able to hear the matchup yesterday (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-18, 11:42:44 (74.105.129.248)
My Aleph J driven by the Tom Evans Vibe/Pulse sounded fantastic on the Quads - clean, transparent, very dynamic and musical with very high resolution. It sounded much better than my Audion PX25 that w .......
269: Planar Speaker Asylum, It was reading about the Bedini that got me wondeing about the J. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-16, 08:31:21 (198.103.161.1)
No, I haven't wangled an invite to Rick's yet. I've heard the 57s a number of times recently at a friend's place, and every time I end up wondering why I'm still messing around with my toy speakers. F .......
270: Planar Speaker Asylum, Any thoughts on matching a Pass Aleph with Quad 57s? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-15, 13:22:16 (198.103.161.1)
I have an Aleph J, and I may be getting 57s. Has anyone tried using an Aleph 3 or 30 on them? .......
271: Outside Asylum, I use one as my listening chair. It has only one drawback: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-15, 08:17:50 (198.103.161.1)
I fall asleep in it too easily. It's a great chair, well worth the money IMO. .......
272: Outside Asylum, Remember the guy in the Fram commercial? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-12, 15:36:48 (74.105.129.248)
"You can pay me now, or you can pay me later..." Yes, 75% or 90% CO2 emission reductions are potentially ruinous, economically speaking. They are inevitable, though. The only question left is whether .......
273: Outside Asylum, Can you give us a hint? * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-12, 08:36:40 (198.103.161.1)
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274: Outside Asylum, "Scooter Fibby"? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-12, 08:32:29 (198.103.161.1)
Bob Woodward is on the stand now in Libby's defense. Between "One of the President's Men" and Walter Pincus It's been a bit of an interesting morning. .......
275: Cable Asylum, I know exactly what you mean! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-12, 04:07:51 (74.105.129.248)
I've been using Aluminata ICs and a PC for a litle while. On Saturday night I brought home a demo pair of the speaker cables, and they are just as revolutionary. I've been using Kimber Select KS-3038, .......
276: Outside Asylum, Sounds like an exceptional deal to me (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-11, 13:30:33 (74.105.129.248)
One million tonnes per year is 20,000 barrels per day - approximately 0.14% of what the US imports, and only 0.1% of what the US uses overall. One one-thousandth of the US consumption. 0.02% of the wo .......
277: Outside Asylum, Wave a towel over her (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-09, 05:47:10 (198.103.161.1)
An older Jewish gentleman marries a younger lady and they are very much in love. However, no matter what the husband does sexually, the woman never achieves orgasm. Since a Jewish wife is entitled to .......
278: Outside Asylum, Re: Arghhh! The Warmists are right (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-08, 20:30:46 (74.105.129.248)
The amount of carbon in the atmosphere has increased from 578 gigatons in 1700 to about 766 gigatons in 1999. That's over 30%, all due to our influence. .......
279: Outside Asylum, Yes, they are inseparable (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 11:59:42 (198.103.161.1)
And nobody will be willing to forgo their military. In the best of all possible worlds they would be, but this isn't that world. I don't like the thought any more than you do. I live in an oil exporti .......
280: Outside Asylum, You risk-taker, you! * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 11:20:38 (198.103.161.1)
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281: Outside Asylum, I see you've grokked the situation. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 11:15:59 (198.103.161.1)
Oil Wars. We are seeing OW III in Iraq right now. OW I was Iran-Iraq, OW II was Kuwait. Of course, there's a good case to be made that Iraq is actually OW V, that WWI and WWII were also OW I and OW II .......
282: Outside Asylum, The scale of that solution puts it out of reach. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 11:07:32 (198.103.161.1)
Close "all fossil fueled electricity plants"? Replace them with windmills (which can only supply an electrical grid with 25% of its total load) and NIMBY Nuclear? Everybody gives up their military? We .......
283: Outside Asylum, The scale of the cutbacxks required look "daunting" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 10:40:23 (198.103.161.1)
From the linked article: To stabilize atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the primary contributor to global warming — CO2 emissions would have to drop 70% to 80% , said Richard Somerville, a theor .......
284: Outside Asylum, They don't call me "the dismal friend" fer nuttin' either (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 10:24:09 (198.103.161.1)
Yes, we are clever little monkeys. What we lack is foresight and self-restraint. With that combination it's a whole lot easier to get ourselves into trouble than to get ourselves back out. I'm convinc .......
285: Outside Asylum, I've used the original 28/35/50 Tri-Elmar (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-07, 08:08:33 (198.103.161.1)
It was my hands-down favorite travel lens. Yes, it's a lot of money, but you do get what you pay for. My all-time favorite lens on the M6/M7 was the 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH, but it's less practical on an .......
286: Outside Asylum, Jesus, get your facts straight. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 09:44:46 (198.103.161.1)
The summary was just released. The full reportsd will be released by working Group, starting in May. The final sysnthesis report isn't due to be adopted until November. The terms for acceptance and re .......
287: Outside Asylum, Sourcewatch does a great job on this "petition" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 09:26:56 (198.103.161.1)
Case Study: The Oregon Petition The Oregon Petition, sponsored by the OISM, was circulated in April 1998 in a bulk mailing to tens of thousands of U.S. scientists. In addition to the petition, the mai .......
288: Outside Asylum, Good enough? Nope. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 09:18:44 (198.103.161.1)
Lots of people appear before Senate committees. Scientific credentials are not required, the committees can invite whoever they wish. .......
289: Outside Asylum, Is that the best you've got? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 08:52:04 (198.103.161.1)
From Wikipedia: Jaworowski's theories were not published in a scientific journal, but in 21st Century, a magazine published by Lyndon LaRouche.[3] He's a well known GW skeptic, but as far as I can tel .......
290: Outside Asylum, What's the phrase, "Keeps turning up like a bad penny"? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 08:38:10 (198.103.161.1)
They've had three years to advance their debunkery, but they are reduced to recycling the same old BS. These guys have to learn to keep up. .......
291: Outside Asylum, Science is not conducted by petition. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 08:23:11 (198.103.161.1)
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292: Outside Asylum, Re: 15,500 "scientists" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-06, 07:57:39 (198.103.161.1)
What's their definition of a "scientist", beyond someone who signs their petition? I found the following on a page about the petition: Some 16,000 scientists, two thirds of whom have advanced degrees, .......
293: Outside Asylum, "Might" is the operative word. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-05, 13:39:14 (198.103.161.1)
What it might do is ensure that more of our species come out the far side of the bottleneck into a planet that is still capable of supporting some rebuilding. Now, whether that would be a good thing o .......
294: Outside Asylum, I hate to say it, but Kyoto is pointless as anything except a political flag to wave. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-05, 13:24:38 (198.103.161.1)
Whether China or the USA is in or out doesn't matter. The CO2 limits imposed by the treaty are pathetically inadequate to deal with the scale of the problem. The problem with GWB is not that he won't .......
295: Outside Asylum, The 9-11 hijackers and their links to KSA (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-05, 11:36:01 (198.103.161.1)
9/11 hijackers tied to Saudi government, Graham says in book WASHINGTON -- Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi governmen .......
296: Outside Asylum, Decisions about not laying charges are always subject to revision in the face of new evidence (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-03, 07:02:04 (74.105.129.248)
Fitz has said that the biggest problem with Libby's perjury and obstruction was that it "threw sand in the umpire's eyes". That sounds to me like he is plenty willing to lay bigger charges once he can .......
297: Outside Asylum, Canada wants "Harper caps" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-02, 12:44:30 (198.103.161.1)
Any country the size and shape of Canada is permitted to have only one Harper as a leader during its national lifetime. .......
298: Outside Asylum, I've already posted what I'm doing about it. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-02, 11:37:30 (198.103.161.1)
Three years ago I sold a 3500 square foot, triple-garage suburban McMansion and moved to a 1600 square foot urban bungalow (without even a garage). Last summer I traded in my BMW 540i/6 on a 2001 VW J .......
299: Outside Asylum, Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-02, 08:11:28 (198.103.161.1)
Their true colours keep shining through: Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate chan .......
300: Outside Asylum, About that surge of 21,500 troops - how many are really going to be going over? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-02, 08:05:00 (198.103.161.1)
Does that number of 21,500 represent the full contingent of combat and support troops, or just the combat troops? According the linked site: Over the past few years , DoD’s practice has been to deplo .......
301: Outside Asylum, Nukes are an answer for CO2 from electrical generation (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-01, 06:59:46 (74.105.129.248)
They don't do squat to address the emissions from vehicles, or to buttress our civilization against oil depletion, though. Since most oil is used for transportation, having lots of electricity won't h .......
302: Outside Asylum, You were listening to The Current too, eh? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-01, 06:35:36 (74.105.129.248)
Tom d'Aquino blew my mind. Sounds like that boy got religion, along with most of the Canadian business community (well, except for the CEO of Suncor, maybe). The only process block standing between us .......
303: Outside Asylum, Used 'em for years (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-02-01, 03:34:47 (74.105.129.248)
I got my first M4 in 1975, and they have always been dear to my heart. I've never used their SLRs, as they never had the unique qualities that made their RFs so photographically valuable. Instead, ove .......
304: Outside Asylum, He'll do anything to avoid talking about the here and now. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-31, 13:01:08 (198.103.161.1)
It's a pretty pathetic attempt at misdirection. .......
305: Outside Asylum, Snurk! That's hilarious, thanks. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-31, 11:05:04 (198.103.161.1)
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306: Outside Asylum, Re: Conflict of Interest -- Do NOT expect them to have ANY solutions! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 12:55:06 (198.103.161.1)
LOL. That was a very nice shot. .......
307: Outside Asylum, There wouldn't be any opportunity for that if you guys had taken the lead, would there? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 12:40:36 (198.103.161.1)
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308: Outside Asylum, Somehow I think their goals are different. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 10:35:15 (198.103.161.1)
Actually, we could be looking at two manifestations of global preparations for impending hard times. If my crystal ball isn't too cracked I expect we'll see major shift toward authoritarian government .......
309: Outside Asylum, I also think it's possible and desirable. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 09:49:03 (198.103.161.1)
However, whether it's desirable depends very much on how we get there and what shape we're in when we arrive. Where we part company is that I don't think it will be voluntary or that it will contain v .......
310: Outside Asylum, I have a horrifying sense of inevitability right now (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 09:29:03 (198.103.161.1)
As everybody here knows (because I've told you endlessly) I've been following Peak Oil analysis for a few years now, with a special interest in the global socioeconomic implications of a "fast crash" .......
311: Outside Asylum, Some dark speculation (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 08:34:12 (198.103.161.1)
One of my darker fears is that the Democrats recognize a necessity for this as much as the Republicans. Though I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt, I've seen little enough substantive movem .......
312: Outside Asylum, Re: POLL: What do you think of the Big Bang Theory of origin of the universe? And some related questions. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 04:37:20 (74.105.129.248)
1. The cosmologists I've read and read about appear to think the matter is settled. Insofar as my limited background in the field is able to follow their arguments, their arguments seem reasonable and .......
313: Outside Asylum, Now it's zampolits? Where are you people heading? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-30, 04:02:44 (74.105.129.248)
Strike that last question - it's pretty obvious where you're heading. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — President Bush has signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules and po .......
314: Outside Asylum, Reminds me of a doctor: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-29, 11:22:22 (198.103.161.1)
"Yes, you're dying, but not from what you think..." Gee thanks, doc. PEMEX has enabled very corrupt and short-sighted policies with the Mexican government, no question. But ultimately it won't matter .......
315: Outside Asylum, And away goes Cantarell (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-29, 10:38:22 (198.103.161.1)
Text from WSJ: Daily output at Mexico's biggest oil field tumbled by half a million barrels last year, according to figures released Friday by the Mexican government. The ongoing decline at the Canta .......
316: Outside Asylum, She has one? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-28, 12:39:54 (74.105.129.248)
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317: Outside Asylum, IIRC you won every battle in Vietnam too. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-28, 12:22:53 (74.105.129.248)
There's more to winning an asymmetric war than winning the battles. .......
318: Outside Asylum, In honour of the decline in Mexican oil production: A Very Grimm fairy tale: "The Magic Tar Sands" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-28, 09:59:51 (74.105.129.248)
Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, lived a very stupid king in a world of his own and his evil vizier, the Chain-man. One day it got very cold in the palace, and the king summoned his vizier .......
319: Outside Asylum, 5.7 hectares, 3.2 planets. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-28, 09:38:31 (74.105.129.248)
That translates to 14 acres. .......
320: Amp/Preamp Asylum, If you're determined to try SS (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 18:19:21 (74.105.129.248)
Consider the First Watt Aleph J recommended by edta below. I have one, and it is the nicest SS amp I've heard. That said, it is by no stretch of the imagination the nicest amp I've heard. The good one .......
321: Outside Asylum, A bold new stategy from Libby's Leagle Beagle (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 13:56:40 (74.105.129.248)
A leak from Scooter Libby’s legal team has revealed that his attorneys plan to “swing for the fences†with a bold new defense: that Libby never even heard of weapons of mass destruction until he had .......
322: Outside Asylum, You'd never get close to them - they'd all have machetes... * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 09:12:15 (74.105.129.248)
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323: Outside Asylum, Here's a link for a pyrolysis process that is perfect for hemp (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 09:09:05 (74.105.129.248)
I also neglected to mention that one output from this process is char which can be used as a soil conditioner. When it's plowed into the soil it acts as a long term carbon sequestration mechanism. If .......
324: Outside Asylum, There is no way of avoiding dependence on foreign oil (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 09:00:21 (74.105.129.248)
The numbers don't leave you that luxury. However, hemp as a source of biomass for pyrolysis has some very interesting properties, lot least of which are its growth rate and the ability to grow pretty .......
325: Outside Asylum, How do you know that? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 08:41:08 (74.105.129.248)
Just because it hasn't come up in the first three days? Fitz is proving to be pretty wily, and it doesn't surprise me that he hasn't mentioned him yet. He is on the witness list, albeit for the defens .......
326: Outside Asylum, The depths are too great to make it prectical (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 08:33:12 (74.105.129.248)
The current record for drilling is the Jack 2 exploratory well in the gulf of Mexico that gave all the cornucopians shivers of delight last year. It went down through 7,000 feet of water and 20,000 fe .......
327: Outside Asylum, Don't worry, there is a low-cost high-volume source of ethanol available (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 07:56:18 (74.105.129.248)
It can be made in large quantities from - taadaaa - oil! By hydrating ethylene. Oh the horrible irony. .......
328: Outside Asylum, Energy returned on energy invested (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-27, 07:45:28 (74.105.129.248)
The net energy of corn ethanol is now widely agreed to be 1.1 : 1, meaning that for every unit of energy you spend you get 1.1 units of ethanol energy. The net energy only rises as high as 1.3 if you .......
329: Outside Asylum, Well in that case, this is the season. Now is the winter of our discontent... nt (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 23:42:17 (74.105.129.248)
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330: Outside Asylum, Patience, grasshopper, patience. To everything there is a season. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 22:44:39 (74.105.129.248)
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331: Outside Asylum, Hmm. Rove and Batlett subpoenaed. By Libby. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 22:31:49 (74.105.129.248)
Something tells me there's going to be some midnight oil burnt at the White House this weekend... Jan. 26, 2007 - White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials—including deputy .......
332: Outside Asylum, Ari Fleischer's testimony is going to be interesting too (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 13:19:19 (198.103.161.1)
Given that he's been given a grant of immunity, he can't take the 5th. I suspect we're going to hear some very interesting stuff from old Ari. .......
333: Outside Asylum, Your final point (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 12:27:13 (198.103.161.1)
"Whether Armitage told a reporter(Novak) or not does not automatically remove the official classification of an intelligence agent." This is precisely the thrust of Fitzgerald's latest filing. He's ge .......
334: Outside Asylum, I'm pretty sure you're wrong. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 10:36:07 (198.103.161.1)
Men like Fitzgerald don't waste this much energy on lost causes. He's got a plan whose full dimensions and scope will only become clear as he unrolls it. I don't know if he's setting up grounds for im .......
335: Outside Asylum, Fitzgerald just sprang a very nice trap on Libby (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-26, 10:03:58 (198.103.161.1)
Yesterday Fitzgerald filed a motion alleging a new motive for Scooter Libby to lie to investigators and the grand jury: Libby knew that he had signed non-disclosure agreements in connection with his e .......
336: Outside Asylum, From The Independent (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-25, 12:45:38 (198.103.161.1)
Baghdad is paralysed by fear. Iraqi drivers are terrified of running into impromptu checkpoints where heavily armed men in civilian clothes may drag them out of their cars and kill them for being the .......
337: Outside Asylum, 2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-25, 03:57:10 (74.105.129.248)
CLEVELAND - Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of .......
338: Outside Asylum, I haven't had so much fun since the pigs ate my sister. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-24, 18:19:56 (74.105.129.248)
The "circular firing squad" comment came from Michael Isikoff of Newsweek: Jan. 23, 2007 - It was the last thing the White House needed at a time when President Bush is already on the defensive over I .......
339: Outside Asylum, Some amazing Mark Twain I'd never read (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-24, 17:33:37 (74.105.129.248)
To the Person Sitting in Darkness Having now laid all the historical facts before the Person Sitting in Darkness, we should bring him to again, and explain them to him. We should say to him: "They .......
340: Outside Asylum, I know - I was thinking about your exposure over there. This is very bad business. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 14:37:06 (74.105.129.248)
I hope your pilots pop lots of flares and make you throw up from the evasive maneuvers. Seriously - stay safe. .......
341: Outside Asylum, Given the global nature of the arms trade (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 14:21:01 (74.105.129.248)
I don't know how you could say Iran is the bad boy. Unless you were just trying to bolster the case for yet another war of aggression... .......
342: Outside Asylum, Loks like the Iraqis finally got the hang of those SA-16s (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 14:09:34 (74.105.129.248)
Just in time for the next 21,500 targets. .......
343: Outside Asylum, One cool bit of serendipity (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 11:20:26 (198.103.161.1)
The "16 words" in the SOTU were laid out there by Fitzgerald in his opening statement. The MSM will be talking about it tonight. Cheney's fingerprints on the case were also revealed by Fitzgerald. The .......
344: Outside Asylum, So, Scooter Libby's trial is underway. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 11:09:22 (198.103.161.1)
And right from Fitzgerald's opening statement Cheney's neck in in a noose. What a great day! .......
345: Outside Asylum, Ahhh, Jim Kunstler. The man can turn a phrase, all right. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 07:52:55 (198.103.161.1)
His book "The Long Emergency" first woke me up to the catastrophic possibilities of Peak Oil. I saw him speak in the fall, and he's very entertaining - in a bleak, hopeless, nihilistic way. I loved it .......
346: Outside Asylum, Now this is cool - will he be at 10% in two years? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 07:48:41 (198.103.161.1)
Down 10% a year for the last 5 years? Geronimooooo...... .......
347: Outside Asylum, Saturday in Karbala: what they said happened, and what actually happened (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 06:07:27 (198.103.161.1)
On Saturday there was an attack on a provincial command center in Karbala, Iraq. First we have the American military press release: KARBALA, Iraq – The Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) in .......
348: Outside Asylum, The BBC has the budget to do a poll... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 05:31:00 (198.103.161.1)
No way would Governor Harper approve of funding a poll preordained to be critical of our "friends". No biscuits for us indeed - at least until after the next federal election. .......
349: Outside Asylum, The BBC should just buzz off (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-23, 03:56:51 (74.105.129.248)
Unless they're registered American voters, of course: The view of the US's role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically, a BBC poll suggests. The World Service survey, c .......
350: Outside Asylum, What? It's not enough just to be a citizen of your fair land any more? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-22, 20:05:01 (74.105.129.248)
I don't want to do anything legal. I just want to gloat. .......
351: Outside Asylum, I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-22, 18:47:53 (74.105.129.248)
it smells like ... defeat ... .......
352: Outside Asylum, Like a rock (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-22, 16:04:44 (74.105.129.248)
Falling like a rock, that is... (CBS) President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that's strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq and deeply .......
353: Outside Asylum, That's a gem of a post. Thanks. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 18:19:53 (74.105.129.248)
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354: Outside Asylum, I remember after the last preznetial election, when I was raising suggestions of electoral fraud (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 18:05:28 (74.105.129.248)
I was fairly roughly told that the Democrats had lost, so shut up and get the fuck over it. The shoe seems to pinch when it's on the other foot... .......
355: Outside Asylum, Bush explains his Iraq policy in terms everyone can understand (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 13:37:10 (74.105.129.248)
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356: Outside Asylum, We need to understand the questions to have any hope of finding valid answers (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 13:31:49 (74.105.129.248)
Nobody has "the answer" yet. We make individual judgements based on our interpretation of the facts available. From those judgments we form conclusions which become the basis for our actions. As I sai .......
357: Outside Asylum, It needs an international body to focus and support the debate (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 13:25:30 (74.105.129.248)
While I agree with you about the institution's lack of perceived gravitas, they're pretty much all we have. They are at least recognized as an international body, and many of their programs command gr .......
358: Outside Asylum, The time frame seems a little short for them to invest their way out of this one. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 12:42:35 (74.105.129.248)
They've got a couple of years before TSHTF. How long does it take to find, drill, prove and produce a new offshore field? .......
359: Outside Asylum, We did that yesterday, at your request. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 09:32:48 (74.105.129.248)
I posted a list of suggestions on your thread yesterday. I've also posted repeatedly about the steps I've taken personally to ensure that I'm part of the solution, and not part of the precipitate. ::: .......
360: Outside Asylum, Landmark UN study backs climate theory (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 09:03:48 (74.105.129.248)
2,000 scientists all but end the debate: Human activity causes global warming A major new United Nations report shows global scientists are more convinced than ever that human activity is causing cli .......
361: Outside Asylum, We are the knights who say 'Oy"... * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 08:31:52 (74.105.129.248)
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362: Outside Asylum, It's called Iogen. They're doing cellulosic ethanol (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-20, 07:39:16 (74.105.129.248)
They have a demonstration plant running using an enzymatic process. There has been no word yet on the life cycle EROEI of their process, which still requires energy for distillation. The analyses I've .......
363: Outside Asylum, And to put their production claims into perspective (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 20:28:43 (74.105.129.248)
The 900 million gallons per year they quote is about 60,000 barrels per day. That's four minutes of American consumption. These numbers are insanely small. .......
364: Outside Asylum, I did. There's lots of PR out there on them, and not much substance. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 20:03:56 (74.105.129.248)
They're a penny stock that went on the market two years ago, currently trading at $0.07 after a blip to $0.15. I'm reserving judgement. .......
365: Outside Asylum, Here from the press release of Nov. 13 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 19:56:45 (74.105.129.248)
Presently, the De Beers plant is now operating at 10,000,000 gallons per year on sunflower seed oil as feedstock and has contracted for additional feedstock for additional plants. However, the final .......
366: Outside Asylum, If you run into that article again. please post a link (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 19:23:20 (74.105.129.248)
I'd be interested, because i haven't seen any that were halfway commercial with time horizons less than the proverbial 18 months. I'd be pleased to see this not be the case, because this is the only b .......
367: Outside Asylum, I'll believe it when I see it (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 19:01:49 (74.105.129.248)
There's way too many of these "production will start in 18 months" press releases out there. If they make it, great. However, there are no commercial, or even long term pilot plants running yet. The a .......
368: Outside Asylum, As usual, the devil is in the details. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 18:14:00 (74.105.129.248)
I was quite excited when I first encountered the notion of algal biodiesel a couple of years ago. Since then there has been little buzz about it beyond the endless linking to a couple of research lab .......
369: Outside Asylum, Keep your eye on Mexico (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 17:54:19 (74.105.129.248)
Cantarell is one of the world's Big Four fields. PEMEX has recently admitted it has entered serious decline, and one of their officials has even quoted a 40% per year decline rate. This has been confi .......
370: Outside Asylum, Yay nanobots! They'll fix everything - just ask Ray Kurzweil.. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 11:02:06 (198.103.161.1)
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371: Outside Asylum, And you complain about people not reading what you write? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:42:47 (198.103.161.1)
My first paragraph was devoted to the period around WW1, exactly the time you asked about. The discussion of volcanism from 1980 to 1983 was extra-credit work for you. Please read what I write. I put .......
372: Outside Asylum, That's a terrible argument. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:28:19 (198.103.161.1)
Let's solve the problems that exist today, shall we? OK, now you post your wiggly chart again... .......
373: Outside Asylum, Want to seed the oceans with iron? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:22:34 (198.103.161.1)
I prefer Terra Preta if we're going to explore biological carbon sequestration. There's less likely to go wrong with it, and it improves soil fertility ands can provide biofuels at the same time. ::: .......
374: Outside Asylum, I did answer your question. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:18:20 (198.103.161.1)
My explanation is a strong increase in aerosols, specifically sulfate aerosols, released by the combination of coal and oil burned during the massive industrialization triggered by WWI. It's probably .......
375: Outside Asylum, Kyoto is bullshit (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:14:35 (198.103.161.1)
It can't be enforced, and the targets are ludicrously inadequate compared to the scale of the problem. The only purpose it serves is a a public signal that the signatory governments understand at some .......
376: Outside Asylum, Nothing. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:10:46 (198.103.161.1)
In Reply to: What should USA do to stop global warming now? * posted by mr grits on January 19, 2007 at 09:53:25: There is nothing that can be done to stop it at this point - the signs are there .......
377: Outside Asylum, I'll take sulfate aerosols for $1000, Alex (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 10:01:06 (198.103.161.1)
Sulfate aerosols reflect light back into space, and so contribute to global cooling. They are produced from SO2 released in the combustion of fossil fuels - the same SO2 that contributed to acid rain. .......
378: Outside Asylum, Now how does all of last year last year stack up historically? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 09:29:26 (198.103.161.1)
See any trends? .......
379: Outside Asylum, Here's a followup from yesterday's discussion (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-19, 09:25:37 (198.103.161.1)
You wanted comparisons to the temperatures during the 30 year control interval. Here you go. There's lots more stuff at the NOAA page linked below. Try reading it. Global Warming is all about trends. .......
380: Outside Asylum, You'll have to wait, I'm afraid (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 16:58:55 (198.103.161.1)
Until there is regime change south of the border, I'm not setting foot on, nor wing over, American soil. As soon as there's a democratic preznit (no matter whether s/he is a Democrat or a Republican), .......
381: Outside Asylum, You're right, I was just fucking around. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 16:41:01 (198.103.161.1)
If there eventually is good published research that points conclusively away from human causes, it will be all over the Internets in neon letters before you can say "fudged data". Till then, I'm reall .......
382: Outside Asylum, You suggested Oreskes' study had been discredited (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 15:00:33 (198.103.161.1)
And I found that your concerns about it were largely unfounded, that's all. When a single scientist is vindicated in the face of rejection, it's usually in a new or relatively unpopulated field. The o .......
383: Outside Asylum, The Oreskes study (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 14:46:46 (198.103.161.1)
The main objection to it came from Dr. Benny Peiser. From this article : He purported to do a similar survey with different results. His letters [4] were rejected by the editors of Science. A crucial .......
384: Outside Asylum, al-Maliki says "Give us guns and get your troops outta here." (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 14:38:21 (198.103.161.1)
Well, well. I do think George ought to take him up on it! America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister s .......
385: Outside Asylum, Could you point me to one of those "noise level" estimates? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 14:21:56 (198.103.161.1)
I'd like to see one - all the mainstream models seem to say otherwise. Maybe I'm missing something important... .......
386: Outside Asylum, Would 98.5% count as "virtually all"? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 14:18:31 (198.103.161.1)
From this article : A small but vocal minority (under 1.5%) of the scientists involved with the report have accused the IPCC of bias. Interestingly, one very vocal set of critics of the IPCC have accu .......
387: Outside Asylum, How do you determine if they overemphasize the human effect? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 13:35:10 (198.103.161.1)
What are the criteria and assumptions that allow you to draw such a conclusion? Do you have access to either the data or the models? Or is this just based on a distrust of popularized science and the .......
388: Outside Asylum, Re: LOL! You are a slippery bastard! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 13:29:58 (198.103.161.1)
"But as I pointed out, when one includes the effects of polar amplification due to albedo changes, even 5C fits." You now mean there are models, presented seriously, that do not include it? Yep. As I .......
389: Outside Asylum, Your objections would hold more water if I were using this map as evidence of GW. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 12:56:12 (198.103.161.1)
Unfortunately, I can't. It's just a piece of a press release. I'm not using it to argue for GW on its own - as you point out, it's pretty thin scientific gruel. That's why I said it was "suggestive, n .......
390: Outside Asylum, The specific temperature is not the determinant. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 12:48:10 (198.103.161.1)
The point is that the average temperature rise was uniform and very widespread. Whether it was 5C or 4 or 3 isn't the determinant of whether it fits the model. But as I pointed out, when one includes .......
391: Outside Asylum, Cooling down? Nah, I'm just getting warmed up, globally speaking (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 12:38:56 (198.103.161.1)
30 years - from the midpoint of the base period? Well, OK if you say so - it's still not part of the debate. You introduced it as a red herring , apparently to make it seem as though I was advocating .......
392: Outside Asylum, "The observation fits the model" is not "evidence". (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 12:25:34 (198.103.161.1)
If a theory generates a curve, and we have one datum that happens to fall on that curve, we can't use that one datum as proof, because it has no statistical significance and you can draw an infinite n .......
393: Outside Asylum, Lord you're full of shit and vinegar today. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 11:53:18 (198.103.161.1)
Sorry you felt bamboozled. I was just trying to be precise. GW simulations like those linked below, estimate a global average temperature rise of between 1.5C and 6C (3F to 11F) by 2100. Keep in mind .......
394: Outside Asylum, The first US Attorney to go (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 11:27:34 (198.103.161.1)
Was Carol Lam, who successfully prosecuted Duke Cunningham... .......
395: Outside Asylum, I didn't understand that as a personal attack (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 11:20:10 (198.103.161.1)
"You" clearly referred to the Resmuglican Party, not to Larry. Larry was just collateral damage. I agree wholeheartedly with both the sentiment and the tone. I'll admit that I found "Vulture Breath" t .......
396: Outside Asylum, Sigh. I know, but my didactic urges just overwhelm me sometimes. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 10:41:04 (198.103.161.1)
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397: Outside Asylum, Why? They're not saying this map proves global warming, and neither am I. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 10:27:48 (198.103.161.1)
Its main value is to show that the temperature elevation was consistent across the hemisphere (and indeed the world). If this were "weather as usual" we'd have seen the sort of variability around the .......
398: Outside Asylum, Nice bit of quote-mining. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 10:17:00 (198.103.161.1)
Just as you shouldn't put words into my mouth, you shouldn't take them out either. Bad, unethical Victor. Here's what I said: The importance of this map is that the facts it presents fit the observati .......
399: Outside Asylum, All this was, was data. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 10:02:39 (198.103.161.1)
The map made no speculations, political, scientific, economic or psychological. It is what it is - data. .......
400: Outside Asylum, Do you really want to argue this? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 09:58:12 (198.103.161.1)
Yes temperatures vary. That's why pictures of regional climates are built up out of long term averages from large numbers of reporting stations (not single points like you cited). The map I posted is .......
401: Outside Asylum, Those schlubs at NOAA - what do they know about climate anyway? * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 09:35:40 (198.103.161.1)
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402: Outside Asylum, Whatever you say, Larry. By the way, (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 09:29:31 (198.103.161.1)
You did notice the word "Global" in "Global Warming", right? Does that help you buy a clue? As a climatologist you make a great sock puppet. .......
403: Outside Asylum, Gapminder (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 08:40:48 (198.103.161.1)
This is one of the cooler "explore the state of the world" tools I've come across. There are lots of ways to play with it, graphing different social variables against each other in different ways, and .......
404: Outside Asylum, A temperature map of last December (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 08:37:38 (198.103.161.1)
So this is what all those headlines last month look like on a temperature map. It really was as bad as it sounded, and it looks even worse. 5C anomalies through the entire northern part of the hemisph .......
405: Outside Asylum, OK, consider yourself corrected (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-18, 04:14:18 (74.105.129.248)
Do you recall who invaded who at the start of that little unpleasantness? Hint - Iraq crossed the border into Iran. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history .......
406: Outside Asylum, A Fox News commentator funded by Big Tobacco. Riiiiight. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-16, 10:29:00 (198.103.161.1)
These are the guys who are truly equipped to comment on climate science... From the "Junk Science" entry in Wikipedia: The term was further popularised by Fox News columnist Steven Milloy, who used i .......
407: Outside Asylum, And Outside once again becomes a "target-rich environment" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-16, 06:59:42 (198.103.161.1)
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408: Outside Asylum, So that's why your people are sicker? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-16, 03:46:19 (74.105.129.248)
You're saying that if you only spent less money on pharmaceuticals you could afford actual health care? Those pharma guys are all private companies that all make their own profits, which takes them ou .......
409: Outside Asylum, Re: This sounds real scientific (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 08:25:36 (74.105.129.248)
From that bastion of bias, Harvard. Of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere, one quarter is taken up by land plants, another quarter by the oceans. Understanding these natural mec .......
410: Outside Asylum, The lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 08:02:23 (74.105.129.248)
What does the lag of CO2 behind temperature in ice cores tell us about global warming? This is an issue that is often misunderstood in the public sphere and media, so it is worth spending some time .......
411: Outside Asylum, No thanks. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 07:11:18 (74.105.129.248)
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412: Outside Asylum, LWR's dismissal of anthropogenic CO2 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 07:10:44 (74.105.129.248)
The end of that CO2 graph is something LWR always conveniently ignores. We've pushed the level up 35% above what was already an historically peak level. The only way to maintain that man's activities .......
413: Outside Asylum, We've got a dog in the GWOT (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 07:04:25 (74.105.129.248)
We're fighting for you in Afghanistan, and our casualties there are proportionally higher than your guys are taking in Iraq. We're all in this together, so American actions have a strong influence on .......
414: Outside Asylum, Casualty estimates from "The Surge" (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-14, 05:58:52 (74.105.129.248)
Pentagon planners this week warned President George W. Bush that his "troop surge" plan could double U.S. casualties in Iraq in the coming year and result in 10,000 or more American deaths by the end .......
415: Outside Asylum, It's OK, they're not coming home. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-12, 15:43:16 (74.105.129.248)
And always will be. .......
416: Outside Asylum, Anyone remember Tom Paxton? I pulled some old lyrics out of the "What goes around, comes around" file (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-12, 13:38:35 (74.105.129.248)
I cut my musical eyeteeth singing Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton tunes in coffeehouses. These lyrics resonate like the devil, these forty years later. Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation Words and Music by Tom P .......
417: Outside Asylum, I just scanned through some real time threads on Condi's Senate appearance (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-11, 12:46:39 (198.103.161.1)
Whoooeee. They ripped her a new one! Out of the 19 or 20 Senators who questioned her, she only had two or three friendlies. Everyone else from both parties nailed her time after time after time. No wr .......
418: Outside Asylum, Senators hear about the real oil situation, for the very first time. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-11, 10:13:11 (198.103.161.1)
And they're shocked. Stunned. Amazed. What rock do they live under? Just how bad are the geopolitics of energy, from the perspective of the United States? This morning the Senate Committee on Energy a .......
419: Outside Asylum, How about a military coup? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-11, 06:32:36 (198.103.161.1)
A "Revolt of the Generals" seems particularly appealing and expedient right now. .......
420: Outside Asylum, That's in metric, right? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 13:29:04 (198.103.161.1)
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421: Amp/Preamp Asylum, TEAD Linear A: Lotus Elise; Audion Silver Night PX-25: Jaguar XKR (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 13:26:02 (198.103.161.1)
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422: Outside Asylum, True. 27. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 13:12:13 (198.103.161.1)
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423: Outside Asylum, Interesting test. Not an IQ test, but interesting nonetheless. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 13:00:48 (198.103.161.1)
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424: Outside Asylum, Did unconstrained growth not happen under communism? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 11:35:04 (198.103.161.1)
At least in some sectors of the economy (like the military-industrial complex) it did, though this was at the expense of the needs of the citizens. As well, all the trees in England were cut down in u .......
425: Outside Asylum, How they compile the statistics (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 11:22:59 (198.103.161.1)
Here you go, much more at the link. The 2006 average annual temperature for the contiguous U.S. was the warmest on record and nearly identical to the record set in 1998. Based on preliminary data, the .......
426: Outside Asylum, Here's a cute one from The Sandbox - Doonesbury's MilBlog (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 10:53:15 (198.103.161.1)
Tonight we went out on another mission, a short one, to clear part of one of the main routes between here and all the other military bases in Iraq. Coming back, we had a bomb explode near us. However .......
427: Outside Asylum, That's friggin' hilarious! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 10:50:01 (198.103.161.1)
I think I'll set up a Peace Through Pork stand at the local Green Festival this summer! Who can argue with peace? .......
428: Outside Asylum, I think it looks like this (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 10:45:19 (198.103.161.1)
All your climate are belong to us!!!! .......
429: Outside Asylum, Hottesdt year on record - Climate Scientists disagree with HiFiGuy (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-10, 07:23:12 (198.103.161.1)
Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years -- capping a nine-year warming streak "unprecedented in the historical record" that was driven in part by the burning .......
430: Outside Asylum, Re: Why vote? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 10:41:34 (198.103.161.1)
During the last two preznetial elections they effectively didn't. All is well. .......
431: Outside Asylum, That's a good beginning, all right. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 10:39:19 (198.103.161.1)
70% of the world's oil is used for transportation. Half of that goes into passenger cars. So increasing the efficiency of every passenger car in the world by 25% would save 10% of the oil. Cool. What .......
432: Outside Asylum, The mind reels. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 09:59:44 (198.103.161.1)
"If the problem is population growth, the answer is industrialization." While the theory of Demographic Transition has some merit, where the hell are the resources going to come from to make this a gl .......
433: Outside Asylum, Fair enough, but even that moves the goalposts (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 09:15:55 (198.103.161.1)
"Greed" has a moral dimension that obscures the underlying mechanisms and shifts the debate to less productive ground. "Don't be greedy, think of others" is a good and valuable admonition, but its his .......
434: Outside Asylum, So why do these problems exist even in non-captialist countries? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 08:47:22 (198.103.161.1)
The fact that you couch the problem in terms of one particular economic system tells me you either don't understand or don't accept the real underlying problem. That problem is the generically-driven .......
435: Outside Asylum, So We the People are really just sheep? Nice. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 08:38:06 (198.103.161.1)
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436: Outside Asylum, USA Today indicates he's got a bit of a sales job in front of him (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 08:13:45 (198.103.161.1)
But nobody's buying any more. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday shows a daunting sales job ahead for the White House, which is considering a plan to deploy up to 20,000 additional .......
437: Outside Asylum, Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-09, 07:34:50 (198.103.161.1)
Richard Heinberg (a well-known educator in Peak Oil field) has just published an exceptional analysis of the intersection of CC and PO, how the activists in both camps differ in their backgrounds and .......
438: Outside Asylum, I couldn't possibly worship a god that takes himself seriously. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-08, 17:25:50 (74.105.129.248)
A self-deprecating sense of humour is a crucial quality for a god in this or any other universe. Gods without one eventually go insane. .......
439: Outside Asylum, More on Iran and nuclear power (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-06, 20:22:40 (74.105.129.248)
He may have been a son of a bitch, but he was OUR son of a bitch. That made it all OK, I guess. .......
440: Cable Asylum, REVIEW: JPS Labs Aluminata Cable (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-06, 18:11:40 (74.105.129.248)
Model: Aluminata Category: Cable Suggested Retail Price: $3500 Description: power cord Manufacturer URL: JPS Labs Manufacturer URL: JPS Labs Review by GliderGuider ( A ) on Janua .......
441: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Aleph J (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-06, 17:23:45 (74.105.129.248)
I have one and it almost keeps up with some really exotic tube amps. It's the best small SS amp I've heard. For sweet, open sound and reasonable power into normal loads I don't think SS gets much bett .......
442: Outside Asylum, We win gold (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-05, 13:03:51 (198.103.161.1)
4-2. Sounds like it was a good game. .......
443: Outside Asylum, Re: I just can't understand why you Canadians fear warmer winters (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 12:50:26 (198.103.161.1)
Two words: Pine beetles In more than two words, invasions of non-native species from the south. Like those people who only used to be found in Baltimore... .......
444: Outside Asylum, Wireless routers are now commodity products (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 12:46:12 (198.103.161.1)
Meaning they are trivial to install and use. I have a Linksys connected to the cable modem. The big desktop next to it is is hard-wired to one Ethernet port of the router, and the other three machines .......
445: Outside Asylum, I second this suggestion (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 12:03:21 (198.103.161.1)
I just picked up a basic laptop with a 15.4" screen, a dual-core Pentium, one gig of RAM, a 100 gig SATA hard drive and wireless, with XP Home loaded, all for about $850 USD before taxes. It's the cat .......
446: Outside Asylum, At first I was going to respond to this. Then I thought, "No. I really shouldn't..." (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 11:25:41 (198.103.161.1)
But I hate the thought of crushing the life out of you, so consider this post to be CPR. .......
447: Outside Asylum, I know you were. I was just being ornery... * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 11:05:32 (198.103.161.1)
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448: Outside Asylum, I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 10:40:44 (198.103.161.1)
Will that do for now? .......
449: Outside Asylum, Grrrr. Baird (my MP) has just been named Environment Minister (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 10:22:59 (198.103.161.1)
I now have a major reason to get active in the upcoming election. Hmmm - should I work for the NDP or the Liberals? BTW, I forwarded your links to the NRSP and DeSmogBlog to Guiderette, and they are n .......
450: Outside Asylum, Proving once again that it's the photographer and the subject that make a successful picture (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 08:15:10 (198.103.161.1)
Not the camera... .......
451: Outside Asylum, They apparently worship Thanatos (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 08:13:53 (198.103.161.1)
That gives them lots of scope in picking their enemies, because everyone is a target... .......
452: Outside Asylum, These guys again (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 07:48:20 (198.103.161.1)
Canada is going to have more than its share of oil-industry shills and flacks in the coming years. At least this group is blatant enough to be obvious even on a cursory inspection. I like the candid w .......
453: Outside Asylum, I think that's a pretty good analysis (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-04, 06:42:10 (198.103.161.1)
I was tremendously disappointed when I saw the contents of that report, mainly because it confirmed my suspicions that there isn't even a "least bad" exit strategy left. The significance of the report .......
454: Outside Asylum, I wonder how yak butter goes with grits? * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 13:25:06 (198.103.161.1)
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455: Outside Asylum, I don't understand your point (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 13:24:08 (198.103.161.1)
Are you implying that I view Israel as some sort of enemy? Not so. I view them as a regional superpower that is prone to throwing their weight around, as superpowers have been known to do. There's a h .......
456: Outside Asylum, Some embargo... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 12:59:58 (198.103.161.1)
I should have made it clear in my original post that I was ragging on Condoleeza Rice, who said a month ago that she couldn't understand why a country with as much oil as Iran has would need a nuclear .......
457: Outside Asylum, Why would they want to keep the spent fuel? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 12:45:38 (198.103.161.1)
As a bargaining chip to keep Tehran from ending up like Baghdad? I'm completely on Iran's side in this little dance. As a sovereign signatory to the NPT they have the right to do anything they want sh .......
458: Outside Asylum, Now why would Iran want a nuclear power program, I wonder? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 12:31:40 (198.103.161.1)
Iranian authorities say the country has stopped supplying natural gas to neighboring Turkey in order to meet growing demand at home this winter, Radio Farda reports. Eleven of Iran's provinces are cu .......
459: Outside Asylum, 89 (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 11:24:39 (198.103.161.1)
All my grandparents lived to be over 90, my parents are in their early 80's and are both in good shape. If I quit eating so much meat, get some exercise and drop a few pounds I'll probably live well i .......
460: Outside Asylum, Are those nasty lesbians threatening America again? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 10:21:33 (198.103.161.1)
Time for another terrist attack to let 'em know God disapproves. "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to ma .......
461: Outside Asylum, A portrait project worth spending some time with (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 10:08:06 (198.103.161.1)
The linked project is a set of over 50 portraits of Americans from all ages and walks of life. These paintings epitomize what I admire most about the United States. Here's part of the artist's stateme .......
462: Outside Asylum, Ah, got it. Thanks. Still a nice bit of PR, though. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 09:09:00 (198.103.161.1)
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463: Outside Asylum, The article certainly calls it a swearing-in. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:34:54 (198.103.161.1)
Isn't this ceremony traditional for Congresspersons? What makes it "official" or not? .......
464: Outside Asylum, Don't lett Connerd hear you say that... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:31:51 (198.103.161.1)
While I agree, and the option to "swear or affirm" without using a holy book is always available (even to the President and Congresscritters if I'm not mistaken), American pubic opinion would be outra .......
465: Outside Asylum, Well, there is the notion of a "disinterested third party". (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:29:01 (198.103.161.1)
Under normal circumstances (i.e. the country in question isn't occupied, and the crimes to be tried are internal), of course the home country should conduct the trial if they wish. However, when the c .......
466: Outside Asylum, Now here's a smooth move (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:16:10 (198.103.161.1)
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virg .......
467: Outside Asylum, I would have preferred an ICC trial, yes. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:03:14 (198.103.161.1)
And I think that even many of his victims would have preferred that whole ugly truth come out. .......
468: Outside Asylum, Perhaps "conditioned by the system" is a more charitable description (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 08:01:49 (198.103.161.1)
I agree that oncology seems to be one of the most suspiciously hidebound branches of medicine. When my 36 year old sister contracted oral cancer 15 years ago, we were treated to front row seats under .......
469: Outside Asylum, The point is, it appears as though the USA did tell them how to handle it. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 07:44:28 (198.103.161.1)
If this had been a purely Iraqi decision (like the Ceaucescu executions were in Romania), I might agree with you. But this one was orchestrated by the occupying powers back in DC, and Iraqi wishes see .......
470: Outside Asylum, I am adamantly against the death penalty under any circumstances (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 07:30:52 (198.103.161.1)
But certainly the world is little worse off without him in it. If I were to support the death penalty in any form, I'd approve of him receiving it. I'm just sorry that so much information died with hi .......
471: Outside Asylum, Here's an actual study of doctors and religion (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 07:23:57 (198.103.161.1)
Let's start with the stereotype: Physicians are women and men of science. They are good at dealing with the empirical, with what they can touch and test—thank God! So they tend to be dismissive of th .......
472: Outside Asylum, No, it says you're 1% human and 99% monkey. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 07:11:44 (198.103.161.1)
But we already knew that. .......
473: Outside Asylum, Sorry, I forgot to take my soma this morning. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 07:09:28 (198.103.161.1)
Saddam was double-plus ungood. Dear Leader is double-plus good. I'll do better, I promise. Please don't send me to Room 101. .......
474: Outside Asylum, If it's a choice between bonobos and your God, I'll take the bonobos, thanks. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:59:52 (198.103.161.1)
They are a much better role model for humanity than all that smiting and smut in your silly book. .......
475: Outside Asylum, I hope he spells better than you, at least... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:57:11 (198.103.161.1)
Hippocratic, m'boy, it's spelled Hippocratic. In your opinion, why does a belief in God make one a better diagnostician? .......
476: Outside Asylum, Now that's the Spirit! (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:54:08 (198.103.161.1)
Sing out, Brother Connerd! .......
477: Outside Asylum, Why was Saddam executed in such haste for the Dujail killings? Gwynne Dyer lays it out (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:29:40 (198.103.161.1)
Dujail? Here is a man who began his career in power in the late 1960s by exterminating the entire (mostly Shia) leadership of the communist party in Iraq, went on to launch an invasion of Iran in 198 .......
478: Outside Asylum, There we go. Let's bring back the auto de fe. It makes a nice family outing. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:10:05 (198.103.161.1)
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479: Outside Asylum, How do you know he dosen't have a hotline to God? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 06:00:59 (198.103.161.1)
He has presented testimony to that effect hasn't he? Isn't he an eyewitness to the influence of God in his own life? Doesn't that make the things he says true? who are you to question another's faith .......
480: Outside Asylum, Since Conner and Draz have got us all thinking about religion... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-03, 05:57:52 (198.103.161.1)
Here's an interesting article from the IHT. Atheism is coming out of the closet in the United States, and the atheists who have opened the door aren't in the mood for multicultural ecumenism or inter- .......
481: Outside Asylum, People give testimony about their alien abductions, too. Is that evidence? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 18:41:20 (74.105.129.248)
To be of any general value, evidence must be objectively testable, and preferably falsifiable. That means that the test cannot not require a pre-existing belief in the veracity of the evidence. There .......
482: Outside Asylum, What you call "a new rationale"... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 11:58:25 (198.103.161.1)
others might call "further scientific investigation". We make predictions based on our current understanding of how the world works, and the completeness of our information. If the predictions don't p .......
483: Outside Asylum, Sooeee... * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 11:40:47 (198.103.161.1)
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484: Outside Asylum, Does he have a shred of human decency? If so, the answer is YES. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 11:37:26 (198.103.161.1)
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485: Outside Asylum, That's OK. A few will read it and say "Huh. Things make a little more sense now." (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 11:35:37 (198.103.161.1)
I'm not try to convert the inconvertible here, just trying to give a few people a bit of mental ammunition against the debunkers. Plus I thought it was interesting, and who better to share this newfou .......
486: Outside Asylum, GW and the 2006 no-hurricane season (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 11:22:51 (198.103.161.1)
Down below, Road Warrior mentioned the lack of Atlantic hurricanes this last year as a datum that argues against global warming. That got me interested enough to poke around and learn a bit more about .......
487: Outside Asylum, Interesting (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 08:35:03 (198.103.161.1)
It's interesting how the "left wing extremist wack (sic) job fruitcakes" keep reciting facts while their opponents just keep reciting ad hominem insults. .......
488: Outside Asylum, While I disagree on the human influence... (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 08:22:47 (198.103.161.1)
I think the outcome will be the same whether we're forcing the issue or not. The only reason it would make a difference whether warming is anthropogenic is if we were able to change our behaviour enou .......
489: Outside Asylum, For me the telling feature is how widespread the reports of high temperatures are. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 08:02:02 (198.103.161.1)
Yes, Prague was warm and Ponchatoula was cold. But the reports of high temperatures are coming in from around the globe. And the greatest effects are visible just where the theory predicts: in the pol .......
490: Outside Asylum, These Manichean struggles are so difficult (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:53:49 (198.103.161.1)
I find it so hard to tell the good guys from the baddies. Sometimes I think that the only good guys are the ones who aren't fighting at all. .......
491: Outside Asylum, I look on it more as outreach. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:51:56 (198.103.161.1)
Feel free to ignore it. .......
492: Outside Asylum, I'm not on any quest. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:49:49 (198.103.161.1)
I don't think anything can be done about the problem, for precisely the reasons demonstrated in that article. Given the global scale and the need for international cooperation to do anything about it, .......
493: Outside Asylum, Thanks for the pointer. The book's now on my list. * (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:41:50 (198.103.161.1)
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494: Outside Asylum, I've already posted what I'm doing about it. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:36:15 (198.103.161.1)
Three years ago I sold a 3500 square foot, triple-garage suburban McMansion and moved to a 1600 square foot urban bungalow (without even a garage). Last summer I traded in my BMW 540i/6 on a 2001 VW .......
495: Outside Asylum, Yep, the lack of hurricanes was good news. (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 07:33:14 (198.103.161.1)
Unfortunately, climate change is evaluated over much broader geographic regions, and by looking at trends instead of individual events. Judged by those criteria, the lack of hurricanes should be treat .......
496: Outside Asylum, Let's ring in the New Year with some headlines (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2007-01-02, 06:50:48 (198.103.161.1)
The following headlines are all taken from the most recent page of the Energy/Environment board on DemocraticUnderground.com, all posted since last Friday: Washington DC's Famous Cherry Trees Blossom .......
497: Outside Asylum, So it's all-out civil war by Monday? (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2006-12-28, 20:18:54 (74.105.129.248)
It will be "interesting" to see what the Sunnis decide to do in response. Or maybe it won't. .......
498: Outside Asylum, Wrong target, my man. Kerry is, like, so yesterday. Your targets for today are: (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2006-12-28, 05:58:07 (74.105.129.248)
A couple of anti-American traitors named Waxman and Conyers. Pretty soon they are going to be doing everything in their power to put America in an unflattering light, and saying all kinds of ugly thin .......
499: Speaker Asylum, The Audio Analogue Enigma (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2006-12-27, 20:15:22 (74.105.129.248)
I'm using one in my living room system driving a pair of Meadowlark Swallow bookshelf speakers, and I couldn't be any happier. A very nice CD section, an excellent tuner, a great 50 wpc power amp and .......
500: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Re: SS Pre with Tube Amp (0.00)
Posted by GliderGuider on 2006-12-27, 17:45:28 (74.105.129.248)
I'm currently using a Tom Evans Vibe line stage with a pair of tube amps - an Audion Silver Night PX-25 and a Tom Evans Linear A. It sounds fantastic with both of them. With most SS/tube combinations .......
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