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• UN-IPCC's IMAGE Problem

  Dear UN-IPCC Scientist(s),
  
  As CEO of the Institute for Modifying All Government Entities (known as IMAGE, for short), I’m writing to avail you of IMAGE services offered to anyone connected to any government/galaxy, directly or indirectly or accusatorily or inferentially or climatically...you get the picture, I’m sure. The recent [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• Climatic Scare as Flim-Flam

  Shades of George C. Scott and The Flim-Flam Man or Redford and Newman in The Sting, three fine movie-actors portraying the penultimate in the lineup of con artists working their scams on the hapless “mark” about to be had. The current best subject for a movie along the lines of [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

• University as BIG BROTHER?

  I never cease to wonder at the strange, sometimes ridiculously inculcated rules and regulations in institutions of higher learning having to do with everything from restraints on speech to the use of physical facilities. A student learns early (or else) that there are some words or terms that simply can’t [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:20pm EST
  

• The Actual Reason for Show Trials?

  Concerning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, this is what the president said the other day, "I don't think it [the New York trial] would be offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." Attorney General Holder said this: "Failure is not an option. These are'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• 19 November 1863

  What was perhaps the turning point of the Civil War was the bloody battle just outside of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863 in the placid countryside of Pennsylvania. Fifty-one thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were wounded, missing, or dead as a result of the desperate battle. On 19 November 1863, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

• Khalid & IMAGE

  Dear Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
  
  As CEO of the Institute for Modifying All Government Entities (known as IMAGE, for short), I am writing to avail you of IMAGE services offered to anyone connected to any government, directly or indirectly or accusatorily or inferentially or...you get the picture, I’m sure. You [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  

• Justice Trivialized & Propagandized

  The decision by the administration to try the 9/11 perpetrators in a criminal court in New York has outraged most conservatives – and most likely a lot of democrats – and remarked the point that these terrorists have committed crimes per se, not war crimes. If they had committed war [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

• DNC Memorandum #7

  From the office of Governor Tim Kaine, convener, 12 November 2009
  
  **Everyone is authorized to declare victory vis-a-vis the recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, primarily on the basis that Creigh Deeds refused help from POTUS and TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) until it was [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:53pm EST
  

• Athletic Lunacy Reigns

  Wonders never cease when it comes to the amount of money that’s thrown away in Kentucky through the athletic departments of the state’s universities. The only athletic departments that are said to pay their way through income derived from ticket sales, TV, and other sources are at the University of [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:26pm EST
  

• Protective Order as Salvation

  The media seems constantly to be reporting increasing numbers of cases involving protective orders, assaults, sexual-abuse, even murder vis-a-vis women caught up in abusive relationships with men. It’s rarely the other way around. In the Kentucky legislature, there is yet another effort to address this situation, the protection, of course, [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 4:32pm EST
  

• A Terrorist By Any Other Name

  As is the case with everything that happens with regard to any governmental entity, the spin-doctors are at work satisfying their political agendas by using the Fort Hood massacre to make their points. The substantive facts are quite clear, to wit, that an army major of Arabic descent and a [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:23pm EST
  

• How the Guv-Grinch Stole/Restored Christmas

  Apparently it’s not enough that the mainstream media, TV media, local media, national media, and all other possible media spend interminable amounts of resources calling attention to the fact that Kentucky is southbound off the charts as far as everything from obesity to smoking to pill-popping to low graduation rates [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:49pm EST
  

• Political Spin & Backlash

  The spin-doctors are already hard at work concerning the off-year elections just completed, especially those in Virginia and New Jersey, in which the republicans were successful in gubernatorial races – by a landslide in Virginia. Both states were in the Obama camp in 2008 and helped put him in office. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:31pm EST