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	<title>Thoughts Aloud &#187; Science</title>
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		<title>AGW Update</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/07/28/agw-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Taylor, blogging for Forbes Magazine has a great article entitled, &#8220;New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism.&#8221; It is short and well worth the read. It concludes with: In short, the central premise of alarmist global warming theory is that carbon dioxide emissions should be directly and indirectly trapping a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Tsunami Video Yet</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/03/28/best-tsunami-video-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2011/03/28/best-tsunami-video-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have seen a lot of clips of the Japanese tsunami; but this is the most riveting five minutes of video I think I have ever watched: Obviously, the person who filmed this survived; but I&#8217;ll bet he was puckered by the time it got up to the third floor and just kept coming! The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Livermore Laser</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/31/livermore-laser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/31/livermore-laser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered an old retired friend who is stunned that the government has revealed the project he has been unable to talk about all these years, &#8220;US lab debuts super laser.&#8221; Equipment connected to a house-sized sphere can focus 192 laser beams on a small point, generating temperatures and pressures that exist at cores of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/29/progressive-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. has diagnosed our malaise and written a book on, &#8220;The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.&#8221; It and excerpts from it are available on his website, &#8220;Liberty Mind.&#8221; I eschew the Orwellian use of the word &#8220;Liberal&#8221; to refer to the Marxist Left; but if one substitutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Disagreeable</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/17/being-disagreeable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/05/17/being-disagreeable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 16:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a well-earned reputation as a contrarian. In part, this is a result of my extreme &#8220;missmatcher&#8221; (a NLP input filter sort) mind. Where most people, being &#8220;matchers,&#8221; compare new data with what is already known looking for similarities, my mind automatically looks for differences. Ask me to compare similar objects, and my mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Late Now</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/04/30/too-late-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/04/30/too-late-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just reread my &#8220;Dark Ages II&#8221; essay, where I make the case that we are inexorably sliding into another dark and uncivilized era, and that there is absolutely nothing we can do &#8211; that we would permit ourselves to do &#8211; to prevent it. Someday I should get around to tightening it up, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the Planet</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/04/24/saving-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sagacious George Carlin understood &#8220;Earth Day&#8221; for what it was, and explained environmentalism as only he could. His unique species may now be extinct; but thanks to YouTube, his work remains immortal. If you are offended by Politically Incorrect thoughts, Piously Incorrect words, or Common Sense &#8211; viewer discretion is advised. ◄Dave►]]></description>
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		<title>Ike&#8217;s Farewell</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/07/ikes-farewell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/02/07/ikes-farewell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 06:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a comment on another blog, a Lefty linked to Ike&#8217;s farewell address to make the familiar point about his warning regarding the military-industrial complex. Once there, I took the time to read the whole speech. Doing so, I noticed another warning he offered, which I have never heard repeated: Akin to, and largely responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Not Lawyers Like America.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/24/not-lawyers-like-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/24/not-lawyers-like-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I encountered a really profound and thought provoking comment on the Secular Right blog today. In a thread entitled, &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Science,&#8221; Heather Mac Donald said: Obama says he will “restore science to its rightful place.” All very nice and anti-oogedy-boogedy. I’ll believe Obama’s self-congratulatory rhetoric, however, when he stands up to the radical green lobby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Camille</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/14/classic-camille/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/14/classic-camille/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camille Paglia has become one of my favorite Leftist commentators, because she calls them like she sees them; rather than throwing away her credibility by defending the indefensible, as most of her contemporaries on the Left do nowadays. Her latest column, entitled &#8220;Obama&#8217;s early stumbles,&#8221; is classic Camille addressing many subjects in answer to reader&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pravda on AGW</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/11/pravda-on-agw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/11/pravda-on-agw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the world is upside down when Pravda will publish a scientific perspective that it is difficult to find anywhere in the American MSM. I followed a Drudge link to a Pravda article entitled, &#8220;Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age,&#8221; expecting to find new Russian data. There was nothing new in it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Sagacity</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/05/rare-sagacity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/05/rare-sagacity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a thread entitled, &#8220;Who is pro-science, the Left or the Right?&#8221; on the Secular Right blog, I have encountered a 71 year-old sage, who has made several profound comments that are well worth reading. &#8220;Gene Berman&#8221; does not have his own blog; but he should, for his perspective deserves a wider audience. He prefers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindpower</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/03/mindpower/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2009/01/03/mindpower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After avoiding it for days, I finally joined a discussion at the Secular Right blog in a thread entitled, &#8220;As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God.&#8221; It took a lot of turns and had gotten around to a disagreement over whether African natives were as intelligent as other races. Typically, the Leftists thereabouts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Political Spectrum Chart</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/17/new-political-spectrum-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/17/new-political-spectrum-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/?p=450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working (not very diligently) on an essay to explain my latest version of my political spectrum chart. Now that Orrin has resurfaced from being buried in his workload, I need to move it near the top of my to-do stack, as it was the discussion on his blog that instigated the change. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/05/missile-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/12/05/missile-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just watched the missile launched from Vandenberg A.F.B. I hope it hit the target, which was supposed to be a missile launched from Alaska. ◄Dave►]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of Metrosexual Puberty</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/25/the-age-of-metrosexual-puberty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/25/the-age-of-metrosexual-puberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mommies, Daddies, and Kiddies didn&#8217;t used to be considered synonymous &#8211; nor were they meant to be. I recently submitted several of my pages to the Gender Analyzer, and the underlying AI engine has always reported with a confidence level well above 70% that they were written by a man. Thus, I was surprised to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA a National Disgrace</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/16/nasa-a-national-disgrace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/16/nasa-a-national-disgrace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for NASA to fire Dr. James Hansen and get out of the Junk Science business. Do not miss this report in the London Telegraph: A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa&#8217;s Goddard Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweaking Blue Balls</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/02/tweaking-blue-balls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/02/tweaking-blue-balls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another beaut from a blog called Iowa Hawk (that is begging to be explored further by me). Entitled, &#8220;Balls and Urns,&#8221; it boils down statistics and calls polling for what it is: Statisticians love balls and urns. A typical Stats 101 midterm, for example, usually includes a question along these lines: &#8220;You take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheeple Herding</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/02/sheeple-herding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/11/02/sheeple-herding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an awesome essay regarding the fallacy of trusting polls and their use as a strategy for sheeple herding. Entitled, &#8220;The Left&#8217;s Big Blunder,&#8221; it is both encouraging and seriously thought provoking; starting with: Two campaigns are being waged right now for the presidency of the United States. No, I&#8217;m not talking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bovine Flatulence?</title>
		<link>http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/2008/10/30/bovine-flatulence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>◄Dave►</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence continues to mount that much of the Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW) hysteria is junk science. Now MIT is turning on them: Boston (MA) &#8211; Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data [...]]]></description>
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