Posted on May 28, 2009 by yojoe
This should not cause a traumatic explanation when these children are old enough to have this explained to them.
“You see Justin and Jordan, you are twins and you have the same mommy, but you have different daddies. Mommy was having sexual relations with two men when you were conceived. Your mommy is so loving [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2009 by yojoe
Satellite photos of nuclear weapons facility in Pakistan.
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by yojoe
Only a few days ago we were informed that California finally awoke to the undeniable truth that corn ethanol is not the answer, unfortunately a few years and a few billion dollar too late.
The California Environmental Protection Agency apparently has concluded that corn ethanol would not help the state implement Executive Order S-1-07. [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by yojoe
Carbon offsets will not help with global warming.
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Posted on February 7, 2009 by yojoe
From Danger Room,
Forget the extra troops. The big “surge” in Afghanistan and Iraq has been the astronomical increase in the robotic planes ahead. In 2008, 71 Predator robo-craft flew 138,404 combat hours — a 94 percent increase from the year before, according to an Air Force presentation obtained by National Security Drone’s Frank Naif.
Say [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by yojoe
Lasers mounted on military vehicles to shoot down rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds is nothing new. Now Boeing has successfully shot down a UAV, or Drone, with the company’s Avenger Laser system.
Advantage laser.
yojoe out
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by yojoe
Posted on January 21, 2009 by yojoe
From OpenMarket.org,
Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama’s swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush was sworn in eight years ago.
So is that what Bush’s much bally-hooed failure to curb CO2 emissions produced in the way of climate change—a Inauguration Day for Obama that’s eight degrees colder [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by yojoe
Drone aircraft continue to fly more missions for the U.S. military.
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by yojoe
The Marine Corps may lose its new amphibious vehicle the EFV, and get fewer of its tilt-rotor aircraft the MV-22 Osprey.
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Posted on November 26, 2008 by yojoe
Author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, comes out with his new book: Outliers: The Story of Success.
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by yojoe
Within the next few years it is projected that,
at least one-fourth to one-third of all combat missions will be flown by unmanned aircraft. And a few years after that, unmanned ground vehicles will also begin to flood the market and the battlefield, they predict.
Indeed, growing unmanned-ground business will bring with it an expected double-digit growth [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by yojoe
There is no free lunch, even if you are trying to save the environment. From Scientific American,
Scientists have known since 2004 that wind farms kill bats, just as they kill birds, even though the flying mammals should be able to avoid them. Many biologists thought that the bats, like their avian counterparts, might be falling [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2008 by yojoe
Steve Warshank, the founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, the makers of Enzyte (the natural male enhancement product) is not smiling these days. Warshank was sentenced to,
25 years in prison.
Steve Warshak, 42, founder of Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, also was ordered to pay $93,000 in fines. He was convicted in February on 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2008 by yojoe
Forum on Physics and Society (FPS), a subdivision of the American Physical Society (APS) recently reversed its stance on human-induced global warming,
There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming [...]
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Proposal By Al Gore To Stop Global Warming It Wrong
Author Bjørn Lomborg explains why Al Gore is wrong about the proposed solutions to global warming,
These apocalyptic visions are not at all supported by the available evidence. And to me, the solutions prescribed by those leading the charge are akin to building more safari parks instead of farms to feed the hungry. Campaigners in rich [...]
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