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Yellowcake Uranium Found In Iraq, Bush Was Right! Well, Not So Much

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:42:26 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: And guess what:

Top recommended post at Redstate:

Yellowcake uranium found in Iraq, Saddam’s legacy, Bush was right!

Reading comprehension?

FAIL!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

This article from the AP was posted yesterday, reporting the sale and transport of 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada. Some of the leading right wing blogs were quick to hail the find as a significant victory for the Bush administration and proof of Saddam’s WMD program, but as Daniel De Groot at Open Left Points out, their celebrations may be a bit premature, if not dishonest:

I noted last night that a supply of uranium from Iraq had been successfully moved to Montreal in secrecy.

If you check into this, you’ll quickly find that the uranium a) was not weapons grade and b) was well known to the UN and IAEA and was being stored legally by Saddam’s government. It was legally in Iraq according to international law.

I wondered if the right wing echo chamber would use this as “proof” that the WMD claims were true after all. I got even better than I hoped, as not only do they use it that way, but they reveal how dishonest they are by the way they have done this.

Tags: yellowcake, iraq, wmds, the, lie, nukes, saddam

Iraqi Government Sells "Yellowcake" Uranium

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:19:54 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: The right will distort the truth for their own needs.

And the puppet media will help.

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: RockRichard

Mon Jul 07, 2008

U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said.
...
The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer [named] Cameco Corp.

Yeah, yeah. My headline is a bit sensationalist. Here is the important part , though:

The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth "tens of millions of dollars." A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.

Since the Iraqi government is now rollin' in Dinar from this sell, I guess America can stop pumping as much dough in to prop up their government.

I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

Tags: iraq, nuclear weapons, yellowcake

New Program Aids Homeless Vets, But Not Nearly Enough

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:28:10 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: The shelter that housed the two homeless Vets, called "Soldier On", was mentioned in an article from the Boston Herald today. Veterans in the Boston area and across the nation are getting some much needed assistance in securing their own rental homes, thanks to a new federal program.

Last week, housing authorities from Boston to Northampton began issuing 245 rental assistance vouchers to chronically homeless veterans. In the Boston area, 1,950 former service members are considered homeless.

"With the new number of homeless vets that we are creating because of Iraq and Afghanistan, this is focusing on their needs," said U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Somerville), who will make a formal announcement Tuesday

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: RockRichard

Mon Jul 07, 2008

I'm sure we all remember this little SNAFU from our favorite ostrich, Bill O'Reilly:

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On the heels of Bill's ridiculous assertion, I wrote him an open letter. Here is an excerpt:

Dear Bill, I seem to remember you stating that if anyone can find a homeless veteran, just let you know and you'd house them. Well, Bill, today I happened across an article from the Associated Press. Let me introduce you to a couple Veterans:

LEEDS, Mass. - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

...Mike Lally, still only 26 years old, is here, booted out of his house by his wife, padding around in an old T-shirt and sweats at a Leeds shelter called Soldier On, trying to get sober and perhaps, on a day he can envision but not yet grasp, get his home and family and life back.

Tags: homeless, veterans

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:10:39 GMT

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Clip Source: youtube.com

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Picture Of The Day

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:47:55 GMT

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Clip Source: apod.nasa.gov

Hoodoo Sky
Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com / TWAN)

Picture Of The Day

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:13:11 GMT

clipped by: aMiNdViRuS

Clip Source: apod.nasa.gov

SN 1006 Supernova Remnant

Tags: picture

When Using Gestures, Rules Of Grammar Remain The Same

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:52:50 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Hard to clip, more at the source

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — The mind apparently has a consistent way of ordering an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of Chicago.

"Not surprisingly, speakers of different languages describe events using the word orders prescribed by their language. The surprise is that when the same speakers are asked to 'speak' with their hands and not their mouths, they ignore these orders -- they all use exactly the same order when they gesture," said Susan Goldin-Meadow, lead author of a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tags: we, all, use, two, fingers, the, same, way

Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:00:07 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: RESVERATROL I think that I would be incorporating this into my diet straight away, if I was from a family with a history of breast cancer. If it is not what they hope, you won't be much worse off financially.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

PHILADELPHIA – Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer, suggesting a potential role for the agent in breast cancer prevention. Resveratrol is a natural substance found in red wine and red grapes. It is sold in extract form as a dietary supplement at most major drug stores.

"Resveratrol has the ability to prevent the first step that occurs when estrogen starts the process that leads to cancer by blocking the formation of the estrogen DNA adducts. We believe that this could stop the whole progression that leads to breast cancer down the road," said Eleanor G. Rogan, Ph.D., a professor in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Rogan was the lead author of the report that was published in the July 2008 issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Tags: medical

Slow exercise (not fast) is better for menopausal women

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:13:58 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Sensible. Also takes away that little bit of stress caused by forcing oneself to do more and go faster.

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

It's an inevitable truth: as we get older, our muscles deteriorate and we become weaker. Not only can this be an immensely frustrating change, but it can also have many other, more serious implications. We become clumsier and begin to have more falls, often resulting in broken bones or even more severe injuries. There is wide interest in this phenomenon, but to date, the majority of research has focussed on therapies for older patients with advanced symptoms. Now one study, led by Dr Alexandra Sänger from the University of Salzburg, is taking a new approach: scientists are examining the effects of different exercise regimes in menopausal women, with the aim of developing new strategies for delaying and reducing the initial onset of age related muscle deterioration. Results will be presented on Monday 7th July at the Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Poster Session A5].

Tags: health, is, good

The men's sperm were examined for quantity, their ability to move and swim and their size and shape.

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It blows me out the way over 40's risk major problems for a newborns so that "we can have a family, now we have paid off the house". Of course there are the people going into their first real relationship at that age who deserve help too.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.

A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35.

It adds that the chance is significantly lower if he is over 40.

Previous studies have shown that both natural and assisted conception is more difficult if the man is over 40.

The researchers told a European reproductive health conference that it was likely the problems were caused by DNA damage in sperm.

Miscarriage risk

The researchers studied couples who had sought treatment for infertility at the Eylau Centre for Assisted Reproduction in Paris between January 2002 and December 2006.

All were given intrauterine inseminations (IUI), also known as artificial insemination, where sperm is inserted into the womb when the woman is ovulating.

Tags: memememememe

Japan waits on US for CO2 targets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:42:49 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: And George is stalling them beautifully for his masters, the corporations.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Japan says that it will not negotiate new targets on CO2 emissions until it sees what the new US President has to offer on climate change.

A senior Japanese official also told the BBC his country would continue to try to re-negotiate the baseline date against which CO2 targets are measured.

Japan’s emissions are more than 6% above the 1990 Kyoto Protocol baseline.

World leaders are starting the three-day G8 summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern Hokkaido island.

Mr Jun Arima, chief negotiator for the powerful industry ministry METI, promised that Japan would meet its promised 6% CO2 cut by purchasing pollution credits from developing countries.

He also said Japan was hopeful of gathering support at the G8 for its plan for sectoral efficiency targets for industry.

He said the UK had been supportive of the idea, which would oblige the major industrial sectors which account for 40% of global emissions to adopt the best possible technologies.

Tags: fiddle, while, the, world, dies

Aborigine skulls to be taken home

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:47:29 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Strange, this lack of respect for human remains. Guess it shows the attitudes of the time. Also shows us that we have improved in some ways. (Though tell that to kid who has just found a half rotten sheeps skull!)

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A delegation of Aboriginal people from Australia has arrived in Edinburgh to take home human remains.

The six skulls and a human ear bone are in collections belonging to the National Museums of Scotland and Edinburgh University.

Four members of the Ngarrindjeri people made the trip to take home their ancestor's remains.

Aboriginal people and the Australian Government have fought to repatriate remains from museum collections.

On Monday morning, the Ngarrindjeri people burned eucalyptus leaves in front of the university's McEwan Hall in a "smoking ceremony".

The ritual marked the completion of a decade-long process during which remains held in the university's collection have been returned.

'Times change'

The delegation is in Edinburgh for the handover of the last piece of human remains still held at the university - a fragment of bone from a woman's ear.

The remains were acquired by the university more than 100 years ago, when Australia was a British colony.

Tags: kids, collect, boogies; adults, skulls

Suicide rate much higher for medical students: AMSA

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:31:14 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Bullying and nowhere to hide.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The Australian Medical Students Association's (AMSA) convention has heard that suicide rates for medical students are dramatically higher than the average rate for students.

The Association says there needs to be a big change in the way cases of bullying are handled within the medical profession to ensure students are protected.

The organisation's president, Michael Bonning, says bullying by teachers has been accepted for too long.

"It's absolutely amazing that for a well-informed and well-educated part of the community that people feel they're so trapped and they have no one they can turn to," he said.

"We think part of this stems from the culture that's set up inside medical education."

Tags: old, ideas, aren't, necessarily, correct

Why some conservatives are backing Obama

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:15:39 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: How you vote should be governed by your interpretation of what the candidates have to offer. You may be able to think of the good of the country or you may be pressed by the need for food, shelter and clothing (not to mention medical insurance).

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.

These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials and policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s. Scratch the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far more damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans expected to switch sides during a presidential election.

"The untold story of the Bush administration is the deliberate annihilation of the Reaganite, small-government wing of the Republican Party," said Michael Greve, director of the Federalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "A lot of people are very bitter about it."

Tags: coulda beens, never was's, shoulda beens, vote

What is St. Elmo's Fire?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:44:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As with all electrical phenomena, St. Elmo's Fire is about electrons. So, what is St. Elmo's Fire if it's not a form of lightning? Find out in the next section.
I had no idea either and the film was a distraction from what it is.

Clip Source: science.howstuffworks.com

If you were to look outside your home during a thunderstorm and see a tall streetlamp glowing with blue flames, you might be tempted to call the fire department. Then you might notice that the streetlamp is on fire but isn't actually burning -- and the water from the fire hose isn't putting out the flames. At this point, you might be about ready to call a priest, but that, like the call to the fire department, would be unnecessary. The phenomenon you're witnessing is actually St. Elmo's Fire. (Which has nothing to do with a 1980s coming-of-age film starring a young Emilio Estevez.)

St. Elmo's Fire is a weather phenomenon involving a gap in electrical charge. It's like lightning, but not quite. And while it has been mistaken for ball lightning, it's not that, either -- and it's definitely not fire.

St. Elmo's torchlike flames shoot off the mast of a
ship at sea.