Saturday, November 28, 2009

Depressing news of the day

Philippine Massacre number up to 64....some bodies so badly decomposed that they haven't been identified...backhoe operator missing, presumed killed.
Generals who refused to give security to convoy are fired(replaced by their second in command, duh)
And witnesses who were horrified at what they saw are spilling the beans. They thought they were going to kill the big shot and bodyguards going to register, not a bunch of civilians and reporters not connected with the clan.

The fingers are all pointing to the President, who has allowed lesser murders to go unsolved, resulting in a culture where some presume political murders won't be solved and those behind them prosecuted.
Her connections with the clan behind the murders is well known.
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Anyone in Washington notice? Anyone?Anyone?


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Will Swine flu and Bird flu combine to make a new Spanish Flu (1918) pandemic?
Chinese expert worried, saying a lot of deaths being covered up in China...


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TehCreepyThinMan in one discussion board called Avatar Dances with Thundersmurfs

Very few articles on AICN about the movie...This is in contrast with LOTR, where Peter Jackson went out of his way to befriend fansites.

compare contrast: Ten worst movies of the decade.
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JohnBolton was right...
And StPeggy is saying TchTch...
Religious right redux.
well, maybe not religious right: some of the Catholic bishops signing are quite liberal in other social policies.
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Ethics, not science is the problem with climategate.
In science, truth is truth, not the matter of opinion polls. If it can't be replicated, you throw out the theory, not pooh pooh the contradicting data by issuing statements signed by lots of big shots.

and yes, I believe in global warming. Minnesota was under 200 feet of glaciers 12000 years ago.


IN a related item, Computerworld writes about lessons learned about email privacy and identity theft from the incident.
(via Instapundit)

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