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Worst sentence ever written?

Maureen Dowd:

Just as Spock swoops in to rescue the world from red matter in J. J. Abrams’s dazzling new "Star Trek," imagine Barack Spock rescuing read matter for the world.

Or, maybe, the New York Times could stop publishing stupid stories like this and then the newspapers won't need anyone to save them.

What is this place I've moved to?

Summer liquor strike looms in Ontario

Study maps Canada's hidden water to stave off shortages

Study maps Canada's hidden water to stave off shortages

i am paranoid so this actually makes me feel better

Texas Rep. Barton *Thinks* He Outsmarts Energy Sec. Steven Chu

ontd_political: ‘Perplexed’ By Science: Joe Barton Wonders the Origins of Oil in Alaska

Here's the transcript:

BARTON: Dr. Chu, I don’t want to leave you out. You’re our scientist. I have one simple question for you in the last six seconds. How did all the oil and gas get to Alaska and into the Arctic Ocean?

CHU: (Laughs.) This is a complicated story but oil and gas is the result of hundreds of millions of years of geology and in that time also the plates have moved around. And so, it’s a combination of where the sources of the oil and gas …

BARTON: Isn’t it obvious that at one time it was a lot warmer in Alaska and on the North Pole? It wasn’t a big pipeline that we’ve created from Texas and shipped it up there and put it under ground so we can now pump it up?

CHU: No, there are continental plates that have been drifting around throughout the geological ages.

BARTON: So it just drifted up there.

CHU: Uh…. That’s certainly what happened. It’s a result of things like that.

WAXMAN: The gentleman’s time has expired.

And here's the video at Barton's YouTube page.

From what I can gather, Barton's point is that global warming is false because it used to be warm in Alaska. Not sure if he's made the mental leap required to understand that if he uses that argument, it also means the Earth is millions and millions of years old.

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Massive Tamil rally next Tuesday

Ottawa Citizen reports that there will be a massive Tamil rally at Parliament Hill Tuesday at 9am. I find this fascinating. It seems to me that the Tamils to not have the support of most citizens. Everyone I've talked to says they are turned off by the use of the Tamil Tiger flag.

C-SPAN Video Player - First Family Introduces "Bo" the First Dog

C-SPAN Video Player - First Family Introduces "Bo" the First Dog

The dog is cute, but my favorite part is when they bring out the stepladders and you hear the photographers dragging them around.