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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ontd_political: Peter MacKay voted sexiest MP?

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.

this is why i love the internet

askmefi:Which eye do you look at when you are talking with someone?

first of all, that someone asked and secondly, that so many people had serious answers.

I love how unimpressed by tv child prodigies are

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Tea Party

I haven't read much about it, but there is a "Tea Party" movement where people protest paying taxes by doing something with tea. This sort of reminds me of South Park's underpants gnomes with their business plan:

Phase 1: Collect Underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit!

There was a protest in Atlanta (my hometown) and my favorite part is that they took MARTA, a big budget government program if ever there was one, to get to the state capitol.

Another Accident at St. Patrick & King Edward

Another serious accident at the intersection of St. Patrick and King Edward. A man was struck by a school bus and is in serious condition.

Wikipedia: In the 19th century the street had the "by-wash" running through its centre, an open sewer that ran from the Rideau Canal to the Rideau River.

The by-wash was removed and replaced with a tree lined boulevard, making King Edward one of Ottawa's prettiest streets in the early 20th century. With the construction of the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge and the Queensway, however, the street became congested with large commercial vehicles and quickly became dirty and dangerous.

The city's currently on phrase 3 of a 4 phase reconstruction project, but nothing can really help King Edward until commercial traffic is rerouted out of the city. It's very strange to see logging trucks driving through town.

Errol Morris Researches the Heck Out of a Photograph

Errol Morris, my favorite documentarian, has a five-part series in the New York Times about a photograph found on the body of a soldier at Gettysburg.