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Thursday, November 26, 2009

The Morning News: Reality TV Hopefuls Crashed the State Dinner, Health Care for WA Poor Expanded, German General with Balls, Palin Still Did That Turkey Thing

Posted by on Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:14 AM

Homedinner Security Department Needed!: Reality TV hopefuls crashed the state dinner.

Chris Rumble and Warren McGaw: Australia's first legally viable same-sex union.

Man Dies: After Day Stuck Upside-Down in Cave.

Suspect Held in Philippines Killings: He's a powerful politician.

Gregoire's Proposal to Slash Health Care for Poor: Doesn't go through; in fact, care is expanded.

German General Resigns: After information is withheld that an airstrike in Afghanistan killed civilians. (Imagine if American generals behaved this way?)

Hearing Starts Monday: For Fort Lewis soldier accused of killing two fellow soldiers, kidnapping their baby, and trying to dissolve their bodies with acid.

China Will Promise, Too: Less greenhouse gas.

A New Blue Created by Accident: At Oregon State.

Your Thanksgiving Trivia: Franksgiving in the Depression.

How Bad Is Your Travel?: Daily Beast ranks best and worst airports.

'Member this? Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

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Cato the Younger Younger 1
Nice that the Germans are the definition of humanity. Meanwhile here in the Fourth Reich......
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
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"Greenhouse gases." Wow. To me a greenhouse is a nice place where you go and look at nice flowers. They have climeate control inside so it keeps it the right temprature. I don't know what gasses they have inside greenhouses, but they must be nice, because a greenhouse is a nice place.

So this term sucks and fails to inform people what's going on.

I also recently learned that those graphics of sun rays bouncing off the earth and "hitting" a wall of shield up in the atmosphere, which contains the sun rays, is also false. Seems like what really happens in the co2 fills the atmosphere and it absorbs heat more like a blanket than a wall, so what's going on is we are changing our atmosphere into a heat blanket and heating up the earth causing climate change.

Maybe people would get what's going on more if we didn't call it greenhouse gases. If we called the nazi death chambers showers because they had showers in them it also would not convery the bad thing that happened. Why would we pick words that distort and fail to explain?

"os see it makes it LIKE a greenhouse because a green hosue warms up so but in this case that's bad unlike a greenhouse which is a case in which warmth is good" is a pretty convoluted thing to have to make people "get." Those comparisons and double reverse ironies never work in communicating to the public, though graduate degreed people just love that stuff.

Can we call it "overloading the atmosphere with carbon monoxide and dioxide" at least that sounds like something bad and harmful ?

Posted by Lefty Luntz on November 26, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 3
"Overloading the atmosphere?" Well, if you call something that's measurable in ten-thousandths of one percent "overloading," I suppose so. But I don't. Neither do most rational people.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on November 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM
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No fighting on Thanksgiving! Especially when we have been reminded of the beauty of that Palin video.
Posted by funkathrusta on November 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
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How exactly do rational people define "overloading the atmosphere" with gases that can cause irreversible climate change if allowed to linger above 350 parts per million and are presently at about 387 parts per million and rising?
Posted by Rain Monkey http://classifieds.thestranger.com/seattle/ViewAd?oid=oid%3A68649 on November 26, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 6
Rational people don't.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on November 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM

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