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"The other Donald" |
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18 Jul 2005 06:33:03 PM |
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Who says global warming is bad? |
To all you naysayers,
If it weren't for my piece of ***** Blazer that emulates a mosquito fogger,
you tree-huggers would never have learned about this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
You can thank me later....
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-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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| User: "Enkidu the Atheist" |
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| Title: Re: Who says global warming is bad? |
18 Jul 2005 07:01:07 PM |
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"The other Donald" <the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrote in
news:P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251@tornado.texas.rr.com:
Yo, Donald . . . Did you mean to attach a v-card to your usenet posts?
It's not a common thing to do, as most news readers don't display them
properly, and don't allow for importing them.
Doesn't hurt anything, though.
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Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid
no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to
say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest
the taxation of all property equally.
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: Who says global warming is bad? |
18 Jul 2005 10:20:56 PM |
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"Enkidu the Atheist" <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9697AD208A3F8255229@130.133.1.4...
"The other Donald" <the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrote in
news:P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251@tornado.texas.rr.com:
Yo, Donald . . . Did you mean to attach a v-card to your usenet posts?
It's not a common thing to do, as most news readers don't display them
properly, and don't allow for importing them.
Doesn't hurt anything, though.
You had mentioned that, before. I don't know what's causing it. I've not set
anything to automatically attach it, nor am I
A pattern I believe I've found, though, is that they attach when I begin a
thread with a new post.
--
-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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| User: "Enkidu the Atheist" |
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| Title: Re: Who says global warming is bad? |
18 Jul 2005 10:26:19 PM |
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"The other Donald" <the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrote in
news:sk_Ce.202544$6g3.83231@tornado.texas.rr.com:
"Enkidu the Atheist" <Enkidu.the.Atheist@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9697AD208A3F8255229@130.133.1.4...
"The other Donald" <the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrote in
news:P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251@tornado.texas.rr.com:
Yo, Donald . . . Did you mean to attach a v-card to your usenet
posts? It's not a common thing to do, as most news readers don't
display them properly, and don't allow for importing them.
Doesn't hurt anything, though.
You had mentioned that, before. I don't know what's causing it. I've
not set anything to automatically attach it, nor am I
A pattern I believe I've found, though, is that they attach when I
begin a thread with a new post.
There is a setting for this in OE, but I haven't used it for years, so I
don;t remember where it is.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to
ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all
the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant
people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking
among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who
would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our
schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
-- Isaac Asimov, Canadian Atheists Newsletter, 1994
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| User: "Mapanari" |
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09 Aug 2005 03:01:30 PM |
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"The other Donald" <the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrotenews:P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251
@tornado.texas.rr.com:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
Global warming to me means:
Millions that need to be dead, will be deaded in places like Bangladesh and
Africa due to famines and low lying areas being flooded by salt water.
That 100 acres I own abutting the Everglades National Park on the west coast
of Florida will be nice ocean front property in about 30 years.
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---Mapanari---
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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18 Jul 2005 07:46:57 PM |
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In episode <P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251@tornado.texas.rr.com>, The other Donald
burst into the room and exclaimed:
To all you naysayers,
If it weren't for my piece of ***** Blazer that emulates a mosquito fogger,
you tree-huggers would never have learned about this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
You can thank me later....
Soon as I get over the near heat stroke from the heat index of 105 today.
108 to 109 projected tomorrow.
Hell, it was *90* when I got up at six this morning...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "stoney" |
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27 Jul 2005 05:30:29 PM |
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:46:57 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In episode <P_WCe.24505$0N2.20251@tornado.texas.rr.com>, The other Donald
burst into the room and exclaimed:
To all you naysayers,
If it weren't for my piece of ***** Blazer that emulates a mosquito fogger,
you tree-huggers would never have learned about this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
You can thank me later....
Soon as I get over the near heat stroke from the heat index of 105 today.
108 to 109 projected tomorrow.
Hell, it was *90* when I got up at six this morning...
You knew that and moved there anyway....
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "Bob Squared" |
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19 Jul 2005 11:24:47 PM |
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Makes me wonder what is hugging Uranus' vent?
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| User: "stoney" |
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27 Jul 2005 05:31:18 PM |
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 04:24:47 GMT, "Bob Squared"
<trent@primusnetworks.com> wrote:
Makes me wonder what is hugging Uranus' vent?
Shrub and other useless Cling-ons.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "stoney" |
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26 Jul 2005 01:44:34 PM |
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:33:03 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yahooX.com> wrote:
To all you naysayers,
If it weren't for my piece of ***** Blazer that emulates a mosquito fogger,
you tree-huggers would never have learned about this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
Ice shelf collapse reveals undersea world
Ecosystem thrives despite near freezing and sunless conditions
By Bjorn Carey
Updated: 5:53 p.m. ET July 18, 2005
The collapse of a giant ice shelf in Antarctica has revealed a
thriving ecosystem half a mile below the sea.
Despite near freezing and sunless conditions, a community of clams and
a thin layer of bacterial mats are flourishing in undersea sediments.
"Seeing these organisms on the ocean bottom -- it's like lifting the
carpet off the floor and finding a layer that you never knew was
there," said Eugene Domack of Hamilton College.
Story continues below ? advertisement
Domack is the lead author on the report of the finding in the July 19
issue of Eos, the weekly newspaper of the American Geophysical Union.
The discovery was accidental. U.S. Antarctic Program scientists were
in the northwestern Weddell Sea investigating the sediment record in a
deep glacial trough twice the size of Texas. The trough was unveiled
in the 2002 Larsen B ice shelf collapse.
Toward the end of the expedition the crew recorded a video of the sea
floor. Later analysis of the video showed the clams and bacteria
growing around mud volcanoes.
Since light could not penetrate the ice or water, these organisms do
not use photosynthesis to make energy. Instead, these extreme
creatures get their energy from methane, Domack said today.
The methane is produced inside the Earth and is distributed to the sea
floor by underwater vents.
This type of ecosystem is known as a "cold-seep" or a "cold-vent." The
first of its kind was discovered in 1984 near Monterey, California.
Since then, similar ecosystems have been discovered in the Gulf of
Mexico and in the Sea of Japan.
This recent discovery is the first cold-seep to be described in the
Antarctic. The nearly pristine conditions -- which have been
undisturbed for nearly 10,000 years -- will serve as a baseline for
researchers probing other parts of the ocean. They better hurry though
-- debris from the iceberg calving has already begun to bury some of
the area.
Domack hopes to find new species and that this discovery will open the
door to future Antarctic expeditions, specifically into Lake Vostok, a
freshwater lake that sits two miles below the surface.
Any knowledge gained from studies into Antarctic life could help
researchers search for life in other subterranean water locations on
Earth. And, experts say, this research could better prepare scientists
to examine the hypothesized ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa or on
Saturn's moon Titan.
© 2005 LiveScience.com.
You can thank me later....
[not a tree-hugger but]
Gee, if Christians actually paid their employees something worth a
***** Donald, among myraid others, could actually afford to have the
engine of their aged chariot rebuilt or be able to replace it.
Interesting article, Donald.
So's this next one and the last involves evolution;
http://www.livescience.com/history/050721_king_george.html
Doctors Poisoned Crazy King George, Study Finds
By Michael Schirber
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 July 2005
06:31 pm ET
King George III (1738-1820) held the throne of the British monarchy
during the American Revolution and the defeat of Napoleon, and he was
rather crazy.
His long reign was punctuated by severe bouts of mental derangement.
A new hair analysis suggests that the king's doctors may have
exacerbated his illness by inadvertent arsenic poisoning.
In 1969, it was proposed that George III suffered from hereditary
porphyria -- a genetic condition that affects the synthesis of heme,
an important component in blood. This posthumous diagnosis was based
on historical medical records and the presence of the disease in other
members of the royal line.
An attack of porphyria can cause a variety of symptoms including
abdominal pain, a racing pulse, constipation, and red or discolored
urine, as well as mental disturbances such as hallucinations,
depression and paranoia.
Although this genetic defect can explain the king's physical suffering
and mental incapacity, the persistence, severity and late onset of his
episodes are unusual.
It's possible that environmental factors contributed.
Scientists have previously studied a lock of the king's hair, which
was collected at the time of his death and is now owned by a museum,
but attempts to glean genetic information have failed.
Martin Warren of the University of Kent, UK, and his colleagues have
now analyzed the heavy metal content of the hair and detected a high
level of arsenic.
Arsenic interferes with the same heme-synthesis, so its presence could
have induced and perhaps worsened the king's acute attacks of
porphyria, the researchers say.
'Disturbing' clinical notes
The source of this arsenic may have been the king's own doctors.
During his illness outbreaks, they prescribed him emetic tartar -- an
antimony-based medicine used to induce vomiting.
"The Royal physicians' clinical notes make for disturbing reading,
since the medication was clearly administered by force or deception,"
write the researchers in their July 23 article for Lancet.
Antimony is a metallic element, frequently found in nature with
arsenic. For this reason, antimony-based compounds, which were
popular with doctors for centuries, were often contaminated with
arsenic.
If this were the case in the king's medications, he could have been
receiving several milligrams of arsenic a day (a lethal dose, in
comparison, is between 60 and 80 milligrams). The body can expel
arsenic, but over time a chronic toxicity develops.
The concentration found in the king's hair was 17 times what is
believed to be the threshold for arsenic poisoning.
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/050721_caterpillar.html
Killer Caterpillar Eats Snails Alive
By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 July, 2005
2:00pm ET
Caterpillars in Hawaii trap snails with silk webs and devour their
captive prey alive, scientists announced today.
Predatory caterpillars are very rare -- only a few other species are
known in the world. Of the 150,000 species of moths and butterflies
known worldwide, only about 200 are predatory.
This newly described species, Hyposmocoma molluscivora, is the only
known moth or butterfly larva to eat shelled animals like snails. The
caterpillars are small -- only about eight millimeters -- and lug
their silk casings from leaf to leaf.
This discovery Daniel Rubinoff and William Haines of the University of
Hawaii is published in the July 22 issue of the journal Science.
Meat only, please
The caterpillars are strictly meat eaters -- they don't eat plants
even when starving.
They take a page from the spider handbook of hunting, using silk
otherwise designed for cocoon-making to snag their snail snacks. When
a hungry caterpillar runs into an unsuspecting snail on a branch or
leaf, the caterpillar immediately begins to attach the snail to the
leaf with silk webbing.
The webbing apparently prevents the snail from sealing itself against
attack or fleeing by dropping to the ground. Next, the caterpillar
wedges its case next to or inside the opening of the snail's shell.
It stretches its body out from the case, and corners the snail in the
back of its own home. There is no place for the snail to run or hide
as the caterpillar eats it alive, leaving nothing but an empty shell.
And that's not even the trickiest part. Many caterpillar casings were
observed to have the tiny shells stuck to them, probably as
camouflage.
Strange islands
The new caterpillars join a collection of unusual insects native only
to Hawaii. Ambush caterpillars, damselflies with nymphs that live on
the ground, and spiders that spear their prey in flight are all
examples of Hawaiian insect oddities.
The Hawaiian island chain is the most isolated land mass in the world,
and the authors say this discovery provides further evidence for how
species isolation leads to the evolution of unusual hunting strategies
and other traits.
Although these caterpillars have only been recently discovered, it's
possible they may not be around for long. Current widespread
destruction of lowland habitats and the wiping out of large numbers of
native Hawaiian plant species could lead to the caterpillar's
extinction.
Today, some of the last bits of the forests these snail-eating
caterpillars call home are located in nature preserves.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "James Ascher" |
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| Title: Re: Who says global warming is bad? |
18 Jul 2005 07:01:39 PM |
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The other Donald wrote:
To all you naysayers,
If it weren't for my piece of ***** Blazer that emulates a mosquito fogger,
you tree-huggers would never have learned about this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8619890/
You can thank me later....
That's nothing new. We've known about organisms living in inhospitable
places like deep-sea thermal vents for years. Here are some links:
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-2/chemistry/chemo.html
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/habitats/vents2.htm
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/5771/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0010/feature6/
James
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