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Genocide by energy-rationing

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

Editor: Accepted definitions of “genocide” generally involve the mass killings of people belonging to a particular group.Selecting the black people in Africa for misery, disease, and death by deliberately depriving them of life-saving DDT, as described at www.jbs.org/node/1603, is, therefore, consistent with the ordinary definition.World energy rationing, by preventing the construction of refineries and atomic power plants, affects a much broader socioeconomic group. This group is pe...

Giuliani Relies on SC Treasurer's Dad

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- The 80-year-old father of indicted South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel will remain as Rudy Giuliani's regional chairman in the early voting state despite his son's legal difficulties.

The younger Ravenel, 44, was indicted last week on a federal cocaine charge and accused of buying less than 500 grams of the drug to share with other people, prosecutors said. Ravenel had been state chairman for Giuliani's South Carolina campaign. The day the indictment was made public, the campaign said he had left but did not release any details.

Ravenel's father, Arthur, told The Associated Press in an interview that his son has a drug problem.

It's not easy choosing themes

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

WASHINGTON - The nation - or at least a chunk of it - groaned last week as Hillary Rodham Clinton outsourced her official presidential campaign song to the Canadian Celine Dion (ooof, Celine Dion!). It's too late to help Hillary, but here are some suggested theme songs for the rest of the 2008 pack.

Rudy Giuliani

Losing on abortion

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

In an op-ed titled "Why Pro-Choice is a Bad Choice for Democrats," Ms. Henneberger, a former Times reporter who spent 18 months interviewing women in 20 states writes that most women--especially most Catholic women--who voted for Al Gore in 2000 but against John Kerry in 2004 did so because of President Bush's strong pro-life convictions, manifested in his promise (kept) to appoint "strict constructionist" judges to the Supreme Court. She points out, also, that in a recent New York Times/CBS pol...

Don't count Republicans out in 2008, Ms. Henneberger warns, as long as Democrats keep handing them the abortion issue--and a passel of votes.

Neighbors tilt at plan for wind turbine

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

Curt and Christine Mann are renovating their Grant Park house to make it green to the nth degree. They're recycling wood, installing airtight foam insulation and solar lighting, and capturing gray water to flush toilets.

But what sets the Manns apart from other enviro-conscious families is their plan to install a device not seen in any other Atlanta neighborhood —- a 45-foot wind turbine.

When the turbine's three 6-foot blades spin, electricity will be generated to help power the home.

Tahoe fire draws attention to forest thinning

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Ten years ago this month, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore traveled to Lake Tahoe to unveil a plan to improve the clarity of the famous alpine lake and to reduce the risk of a catastrophic wildfire by thinning the thick, often sickly forests surrounding its shores.

Now, a raging forest fire in wooded neighborhoods three miles south of South Lake Tahoe has turned the spotlight again on fire risk.

So far, the government's record of success is mixed: Although forest thinning work has been accelerating, only half of Clinton's goals have been met.

Where did global warming go?

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

With the record cold temperatures recorded across the nation this past week, there's only one thing I can think of: Global Warming. Farmers of strawberry, peach and citrus crops are devastated by the not-so-much unusually late, but unusually cold and long cold snap we've been trudging through. I know that the strawberries at my house have never looked worse, except back in January.

I rather enjoy it when someone poses the argument to me that this cold snap is temporary and normal, but all and all we're getting warmer. I ask them: If the cold is temporary and normal, how come when we have heat waves it's global warming and not temporary and normal? How come you say that there are natural fluctuations in temperature when your view is threatened and it's cold, but go deaf and dumb when the tables are turned?

I read this week that Hawaii had freezing temperatures last week. Hawaii! I see each and every day more and more stories of record cold, devastating frost on crops, gas bills growing again, yet I turn on the Weather Channel the other night, and for five minutes. . . five full minutes. . . I stared, gape-jawed at the TV with my wife patting my back, trying to keep me from snapping like the fragile twig that I am, because for those five minutes, all that was covered on The Weath...

You'd better get a lawyer to figure this one out

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

My friend is not from the USA. He periodically asks me about life in America.Raj: I read that a lot of Americans want the government to provide health care for everyone.Me: I've heard that, too.Raj: I don't' get it. Why would you want health care from the same government that created the Katrina fiasco? The same government that took three months to give me a simple passport?Me: Good question.Raj: What do you know about global warming? Al Gore keeps telling everyone to reduce energy usage. Claims...

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Your views: Leaving our mark

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:45:37 +0000

Readers express a variety of opinions in their letters to FLORIDA TODAY.

Stormwater project hurts Melbourne woods

I care deeply about the protection of the Indian River Lagoon. Stormwater retention ponds can be very helpful in keeping polluted runoff from entering the lagoon.

Military Experience Rare Among '08 Candidates

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

Though the next president will probably command soldiers in two separate wars, few of those hoping to win the job can say they've ever seen combat or even taken abuse from a drill sergeant.Monday, June 25, 2007

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Though the next president will probably command soldiers in two separate wars, few of those hoping to win the job can say they've ever seen combat or even taken abuse from a drill sergeant.

Sarasota company fights high gas prices with electric cars

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- At around $3 per gallon, the price of gasoline is both a boon and a bane to Sarasota-based solar and electric vehicle maker Cruise Car Inc. The benefit is obvious: As the numbers on the signboards outside stations move upward, more and more people start looking for ways to ditch their gas guzzlers, be they eight-cylinder sport utility vehicles or two-seater golf carts. But because Cruise Car's parts are made in China and shipped around the world and cross-country to a ...

PERSPECTIVE: Testing of voting machines a never-ending pursuit

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- If you heaved a sigh of relief last week when Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans to have Ohio's voting machines tested for security, you've forgotten recent history. Brunner, a Democrat elected last fall, will not be the first elections chief to have voting machines screened for potential security and operational lapses. The machines of all three firms operating in Ohio - Election Systems & Software, Hart Intercivic and Diebold Election Systems - alrea...

Testing of voting machines a never-ending pursuit

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? If you heaved a sigh of relief last week when Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans to have Ohio?s voting machines tested for security, you?ve forgotten recent history.

Brunner, a Democrat elected last fall, will not be the first elections chief to have voting machines screened for potential security and operational lapses. The machines of all three firms operating in Ohio ? Election Systems & Software, Hart Intercivic and Diebold Election Systems ? already have been tested. And retested.

But you may have missed the news about Brunner?s predecessor, Republican Ken Blackwell, paying experienced firms InfoSentry and Compuware to conduct reviews similar to the one Brunner announced she will lead.

The Internet IV

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

These days, “Internet line severed” is about as dramatic as yesteryear's headline “Titanic sinks.”

For the third time in six months, on Friday someone in Southern Humboldt must have breathed on the single cable that connects us to the ether outside the Redwood Curtain.

While many businesses take a heavy hit when the regional fiber optic cable -- think 4-pound-test monofilament fishing line -- is down, I'm sure productivity at many other businesses goes up substantially. After all, employees with access to computers waste a huge amount of time surfing the Internet. I can't tell you how much time, because I can't access the Internet right now. You can look it up yourself after they splice the cable back together.

Tracking down White House work e-mails

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:33:35 +0000

Letter to the editor: Democrats refuse to give credit to the president