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December 21, 2008 Jerry:
The entry on
Thursday the 18th, credited to a writer by the name of John appears to
be plaigarized from Francis Turner's entry on the Baen forum on Mike's
Madhouse on the same day. Francis' entry is time dated 16:36 GMT which would
be about 7 - 8 AM Pacific. Francis is a contributer to several of the forums
on Baen who lives in France but, I believe is either American or English. I
haven't asked him. Just thought that I'd drop a line about it to let you
have a head's up.
Tom Williams, Jr.
I suspect it was inadvertent and possible due to
sloppy cutting and pasting on my part. More to the point it's out of date:
current Swiss practice is not what it used to be, and there are home
invasions there or were last year.
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Little Ice Age Caused By Humans???
I am so confused! 8-)
Re-forestation after a pandemic caused the Little Ice
Age? Then shouldn't we be worried about causing a new Ice Age if we do what
the Greens want now?
BTW, notice how the author waits until three
paragraphs from the end to mention volcanic eruption and reduced solar
activity.
God bless and Merry Christmas.
Lee
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28353083/
'Little Ice Age' hastened fall of Aztecs, Incans
'Humans have been in altering climate for longer
than we ever imagined'
In the 16th century, the diseases Europeans brought
to the New World decimated native peoples. The reforestation that came
next may have ushered in one of the first instances of human-induced
climate change, helping cause the Little Ice Age <clip>
I suspect the Maunder Minimum had more to do with
it than reforestration. I don't really believe that CO2 has that much
effect. The flatulence of cows will have more effect...
We need some climate models that will actually
predict the past: that is, put in initial conditions for, say, 1900 and
run it to see what happens in 1950. Until we can do that, spending
billions on "remedies" is senseless.
Isn't one of the goals of the greens a form of
reforestration?
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Bush and Cheney conspiracy!
http://washingtontimes.com/news/
2008/dec/22/bush-cheney-comforted-troops-privately/
Yep, they've been caught red-handed.
Operations involving thousands of troops, clandestine
meetings, and private Presidential letters. . . It seems that the White
House has sent personal letters from the President to each and every family
of our troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Every Single One. No public proclamations, no press
opportunities, just a personal thank you from the Commander in Chief.
THAT is what I call supporting the troops. Hats off to
the White House. .
-- Recent novels from Michael Z. Williamson CONTACT
WITH CHAOS, Apr 09 from Baen Books BETTER TO BEG FORGIVENESS, Mar 09 from
Baen Books (mass market edition) THE WEAPON, Mar 07 from Baen Books (mass
market edition)
I'd have been happier if we supported them by not
going into Mesopotamia in the first place, but yes: having committed the
Legions, we owe them our support as we expect them to support us.
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Somali Piracy "What Happens
Next"
Jerry,
The entirely predictable "what happens next" with
regard to the Somali pirate rings is they will come ashore in East Africa
from the Suez to South Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Eastern Indian
Ocean to kidnap Western tourists and rich locals for ransom -- buying off
the local cops and military patrols in the process. That's the historic
pattern of pirates. There were a lot of kidnappings of wealthy citizens in
the old Caribbean, as far as England with the Barbary Pirates and that was
the main thing late Roman Republic pirates did ... purely a case of follow
the money. The step after that -- which is probably the point where the
world will act effectively -- is when they start actually seizing and
looting sea coast tourist towns with Westerners in them.
The ultimate answer to this problem is to go ashore in
Somalia, destroy every sea going craft, level every fishing village and to
kill every armed person who resists with the attitude that collateral damage
is a feature, and not a bug, for the operation.
We are not there yet and won't be for at least a
decade. I do note that seizing a western tourist filled cruise ship off
Southern Egypt, off South Africa or off the coast of Eastern India will be
very close to that "actually seizing and looting towns" as far as tipping
points are concerned.
T
Julius Caesar promised the pirates that if he
were ransomed he would come back to crucify them. They didn't believe him.
They should have.
As you say, predictable: but so long as the
companies pay protection money for ships, this will proceed slowly. It's
when the current revenue stream dries up that the fishermen will look for
other ways to garner income.
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Stalin assassinated Patton?
Dr. Pournelle,
I have no idea if this has any credibility or not, but
Stalin certainly had reason to Hate Patton for reasons we all know.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/
northamerica/usa/3869117/General-George-S.-Patton
-was-assassinated-to-silence-his-criticism-
of-allied-war-leaders-claims-new-book.html
"His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with
Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he
staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's
Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which
broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch.
Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to
recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the
NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general."
Matt Kirchner
I heard George Noory interview the author on
Coast to Coast. It sounds like a very complicated scheme, and I find it
hard to believe it could be kept confidential for so long, but there were
a lot of Stalinists back in those days: Joe McCarthy wasn't smooth, but he
was right in many cases (including the cleaning woman); and there were a
lot of people who thought that Patton was trying to get us into a war with
the USSR (and I suppose he was; "We have to fight them sometime so why
don't we do it while we have a goddam army over here to do it with"); but
by the time he died I think the opportunity was over, wasn't it? It's
unlikely that Patton was a threat to Stalin by then. And ordering a hit on
a popular general would have been very dangerous. More likely someone who
wanted us to fight Stalin would have a better motive but then it wouldn't
have remained hidden: the point of a false flag operation is to have the
false flag seen to be operating...
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Alert: Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm
"Mistaken" - Joins Senate Report of More Than 650 Dissenters
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord
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Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm
"Mistaken" Monday, December 22, 2008
Posted By Marc Morano – 8:25 AM –
Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov
Prominent Scientist Fired By Gore Says Warming Alarm
‘Mistaken’
Joins Senate Report of More Than 650 Dissenting
Scientists
‘The current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken’
Weblink to this Release: <http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
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Link to Full Printable PDF Report of More Than 650
Dissenting Scientists <http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?
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Dissent from the consensus can be hazardous.
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