They are the walruses -- and they need ice
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They are the walruses -- and they need ice
Ferreira theorizes that ship traffic is diverting the walruses to shore in unusual increasing numbers. But government scientists suspect it has more to do with an increasing lack of sea ice. Walruses have been known to haul out onto land in large numbers in Russia, but never on the Alaska side of their migratory corridor in the tens of thousands, as is being witnessed this year.
Walrus researchers with the United States Geological Survey estimate there could be anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 of the mammals currently taking a rest along Alaska's Chukchi coastline. Ferreira, one of about 234 people who call Point Lay home, thinks the numbers may be even higher. Since only about 20 percent of walruses generally come to shore, scientists suspect another 80,000 walruses may be swimming nearby.
A grim reminder that elections come and go, but the crushing problems that the elections are supposed to address grind on in this country. Speaking of which, it was a kind of a lost day and I'll be covering those elections in Delaware and elsewhere for the Daily News, so there may not be any new posts. Talk among yourselves, as there is a lot going on in the world.
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Linda Burnett, 23, a resident of San Diego, was visiting her in-laws and
while there went to a nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Later,
her husband noticed her sitting in her car in the driveway with the windows
rolled up and with her eyes closed, with both hands behind the back of her
head.
He became concerned and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes
were now open and she looked very strange. He asked her if she was okay, and
Linda replied that she had been shot in the back of the head and had been
holding her brains in for over an hour.
Her husband called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the doors
were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head.
When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough on
the back of her head. A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from the
heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad of dough
hit her in the back of her head. When she reached back to find out what it
was, she felt the dough and thought it was her brains. She initially passed
out, but quickly recovered.
Linda is blonde, a Democrat and an Obama supporter, but that could all be a
coincidence.
The defective biscuit canister was analyzed and it was determined to be
Bush's fault.
— bird11
I don't "sneer" at Christians in the least. I respect the religious faith of many, be they Christians, Jews, Muslims, whatever. In fact, there is an entire movement of "progressive" evangelicals that I have a great deal of respect for. However, there is an overwhelming abundance of evidence that supports the notion that the Earth was not created in six days, or a few thousand years ago, and there is not one iota of scientific evidence that supports those claims. Faith is a powerful force, and depending on your starting premise you can rationalize any belief; If you believe that the bible is the literal word of God, then it is logical to believe that the Earth was created in six days. However, what the woman said is flat out false and ignorant. There is NO scientific support for her claims. If someone chooses to believe something despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, that's there business. If someone wants to believe that God went around creating false scientific evidence that contradicts what is written in the bible, that is their prerogative. But when someone makes certifiably false statements then they should be called out for doing so. When a politician makes such statements and makes her ignorance and falsehoods a prominent part of her political campaign, she deserves ridicule.— Talking point sleuth- Wow! Downy, you must be kidding. You want to focus on discrepancies that are minute in comparison to overwhelming trends of correlation? Get serious, my man. Here. Here's a nice pretty picture for you. You don't have to print anything out and hold it up to the window. It is a textbook example of strong correlation - although not proof or causation - it surely makes a strong case. Too funny. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Co2-temperature-plot.svg— Talking point sleuth
- And downy, here's an important point that, apparently, is above you comprehension. When you're examining a correlation between two variables, it is important to control for other factors. When you point out trends on the 10k scale in comparison to trends over hundreds of thousands of years, you have to consider what other influences affect the causal relationship between two correlated variables. No one ever said that CO2 is the only influence on temperature.
Here. Read this and maybe you'll understand just how faulty your thinking is: http://www.skepticalscience.com/The-correlation-between-CO2-and-temperature.html
==]] The seeming correlation that the authors hoped the reader would see rapidly falls apart. [[==
Oh, my word. Too funny. How anyone can look at the graph I just linked and say that: --snip-- Graphs of CO2/temperature over the last 350K years show no correlation between the 2. --snip-- Is just mind-boggling.
Mind-boggling.
But then again, you do vote Republican.
And you also, laughably, claim that calling the majority of African Americans "unthinking" and analogous to grazing ungulates isn't racist.
And you also think that it would be logical for African Americans to vote for candidates they think won't serve their best interests.
And to top it all off, you think that you're smarter than some 20 million African Americans because they don't agree with your hilarious beliefs about what would be in their best interest.— Talking point sleuth 
"But then again, you do vote Republican." But then again TPOS you vote Democrat so that must explain your rambling posts, twisting of other peoples words and outright lies.
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- There's also the race card and class envy.— RG
"You guys can all take your obsession with incorporating your god into my government and put it in the harbor with the tea." Amen to that, Pagoda. Thank you. Now, back to my pentagram...— one_eyed_jack- Larry King is Will Bunch in 20 years....— will_wonders_never_cease
- Racism is dead.....remember that gem? lol— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine
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Yes, let's send someone to Washington to clean up the fiscal mess who cant even balance her own checkbook. Love those Delaware wingnuts! But hey, she's cute and maybe she will talk to some of them if they vote for her....hahaha— Les Ismore- Comment removed.
"The defective biscuit canister was analyzed and it was determined to be Bush's fault."
Wow, not only was that a lame joke, but it showed me your world view.
— Hamlet
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