OK, I have to admit this, I am a nerd and enjoy Science Fiction. As such I am going to use the fact that this is somewhat political in nature as an excuse to post up this clip. If you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, this won’t mean a thing to you.
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Posted under Misc
Written by admin on March 19, 2009
A reader yesterday was trying to suggest that Chris Dodd was innocent on the “Chris Dodd Amendment” that allowed the bonuses at AIG to go forward. After his initial denial, Chris Dodd has come out and admitted that he was the one that put the amendment in. Hopefully this video will set the record straight. Hat tip to Vulcan’s Hammer.
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Posted under Economy
Written by admin on March 19, 2009
First off, hat tip to BoBo for coming across data on donations from AIG.
A lot has been made of employee bonuses at AIG, and for good reason. The bonuses were part of a legally binding contract prior to money being given to AIG. Chris Dodd added an amendment that provided an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009.” Oddly enough, the very bonuses everyone is up in arms about are part of that exception.
Since we are watchdogging money closely, as we should be, perhaps we should look at having politicians return political donations that were made from AIG to their campaign. AIG was not in a condition to be giving out political donations at that time, and giving those donations surely didn’t help their financial situation.
I do find it interesting who the top person is on their donation list. I will give the benefit of the doubt to Dodd though and put aside any thought of the amendment having anything to do with AIG being a loyal donor. Regardless, it would be a wonderful gesture if Dodd returned the $103,100 that was donated to his campaign. Obama could return his $101,332 and McCain could return the $59,499. Heck, if all the politicians returned last year’s donations, AIG could get nearly $600,000 back! It isn’t much, but sometimes you have to take some baby steps in order to gain some momentum.
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Posted under Economy
Written by admin on March 18, 2009
WISN (ABC-Milwaukee) is reporting that scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee used a synchronized chaos math application and applied it to climate data over the past 100 years. They have discovered that the air and ocean systems of Earth go through periodic periods of synchronization and de-synchronization. A shift in the climate occurs each time the systems lose synchronization. They are able to explain the various heating and cooling cycles of the past century using this technique.
Their research team found that the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and temperatures have actually leveled off since 2001. This fits their theory as the Earth is currently showing the signs of system synchronization. They expect that temperatures will remain steady or even cool for the next couple of decades, until another de-synchronization occurs.
Dr. Anastasios Tsonis brings up a key point in the whole matter. ”But if we don’t understand what is natural, I don’t think we can say much about what the humans are doing. So our interest is to understand — first the natural variability of climate — and then take it from there.” A scientist that uses common-sense… very impressive!
He went on to say, “So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural.” Perhaps man isn’t the main driver of climate change.
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Posted under Climate
Written by admin on March 17, 2009
I guess I should start bringing my video camera with me to these events in addition to my regular camera. Beautiful video of this wonderful event that I found on Youtube.
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Posted under Misc
Written by admin on March 16, 2009
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