Rumsfeld expels US media from Guantanamo Bay - "Writing for the Miami Herald, journalist Carol Rosenberg stated Wednesday morning that the military had "ordered all independent news media off the base by 10 a.m. Wednesday, and had arranged a flight to Miami to expedite their departure."" -- Hmmm.
Warcrimes court finds multiple Darfur massacres - "The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said his office had documented massacres with hundreds of victims in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region as well as hundreds of rape cases."
Flying a Plane Into the World Trade Center? Why Not Fly Out of LaGuardia? - "Here is a new, and so far unasked question about the badly debunked official explanation of the events of September 11th 2001. If you spend years planning a spectacular attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, and you are a less than adequate pilot, and you wanted to ensure the attack would be completed without giving the U.S. air defense apparatus the chance to follow their normal procedures and intercept your plane, why would you choose to fly out of Boston? Why would you choose to risk getting lost or stopped as you try to fly 190 miles to your target when you can hijack a plane from one of three airports within sight of the target?"
Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe - "Carter is one of hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. "Climate experts" is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore's "majority of scientists" think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field."
Southern Baptists Consider School Strategy - "As concerns persist about how classrooms are handling subjects such as homosexuality and "intelligent design," some members of the nation's largest Protestant denomination want the Southern Baptist Convention to consider creating an exit strategy from public schools."
Wealthy foreign couples coming to U.S. so they can select baby's sex - "Opponents say this amounts to medical tourism for designer babies and should awaken lawmakers."
Study: Meth use rare in most of the U.S. - "Methamphetamine use is rare in most of the United States, not the raging epidemic described by politicians and the news media, says a study by an advocacy group."
Smog in Beijing: 'Doctors tell you not to go outside' - "China is the world's second-biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions and is expected to overtake the United States as the biggest, bringing acid rain to roughly a third of the country and poisoning nearly three quarters of rivers and lakes."
Scientists create hybrid butterfly species in lab - "Scientists said on Wednesday they have created a distinctive red and yellow butterfly in the laboratory by interbreeding two different species in a way similar to what they believe has occurred in nature."
Hawking says humans close to finding answers to origin of universe - "Acclaimed British physicist Stephen Hawking has said that humanity is finally getting close to understanding the origin of the universe."
Photos taken of 'living fossil' in Laos - "The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist."
Quote of the Day
"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."
~ Bob Seger, (Against the Wind)
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