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  • 2/08/2009 9:45 am - On Stimulus Packages, Lobbyists, and Congressfolk : Hey Frank, why not? We're already into the Republic of China for over $850BB that they recently loaned us to keep our failing economy afloat (aka, so we could subsidize their economy via the continued purchase of low grade generic crap that our citizenry seems to love) and as there ...
  • 2/08/2009 9:31 am - "Inland Tsunami" at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Wasn't the First of Its Kind : The seiche phenomenon is also a relatively common occurrence on the Great Lakes, and is tied to a unique combination of wind direction and tightly packed isobars (specific to the geography of the lake), rapidly changing atmospheric pressure, storm speed and, just as also effects the height of the ocean ...
  • 1/29/2009 10:48 am - The Future of the "Gateway Arch" is On the Table—Will You be Part of the Discussion? : C'mon guys....staying on the rails isn't any fun. The majority of the more significant discoveries I've made have come from a position tangential to the mainstream of conventional wisdom. Sorry though for the unintended irritation. The major gist of the point was, as Barky noted, the definition of the term ...
  • 1/28/2009 10:57 am - The Future of the "Gateway Arch" is On the Table—Will You be Part of the Discussion? : Our nation has a multitude of buildings, battlefields and other icons that qualify as being of historic import in one sense or other, but does that designation (being of high historical value) automatically assign them to the auspices of the NPS? To what criterion do we allow jurisdiction of denoting ...
  • 1/26/2009 3:24 pm - Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? : I thought I knew better from my days living in Utah, but when I read the comment regarding how there's never been more forested land in the continental US that currently stands (no pun intended) I thought it would be worth the update to all parties concerned about just how ...
  • 1/22/2009 10:59 am - Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? : It's sad that our lives are being manipulated by a chosen few on the issue of our planet's "weather" cycle. It's even more curious how after decades and decades of abuse from mankind, his "intellect" now drives him to right past wrongs which he doesn't even completely understand. A guilty ...
  • 1/21/2009 10:07 am - Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? : Interesting notion, that of "more usable land". But usable in what manner? The atmospheric variances that currently exist on the planet and the direct interaction that they impose on the existing land masses are a direct result of not only the proximity and topography of land masses in relation to ...
  • 1/20/2009 3:32 pm - Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? : Sorry Sandi, but I've taught more Bios classes than you'll ever take. Plants love CO2? There's some accuracy in that statement. Plants tolerate CO2 is a better way of making that statement. There's also a bit more accuracy in the statement that with the slash-and-burn deforestation that's been eating away ...
  • 1/20/2009 3:11 pm - Commentary: What Would An Economic Stimulus Package for the National Parks Buy Us? : I guess the operative inference was in pointing to "our" definitions. For simplicity sake we often refer to things in "our" terms, but clarity and understanding could be obtained by utilizing more exacting terms, which neither include double entendre nor doublespeak. Therein lies a major issue with "our" version of ...
  • 1/20/2009 11:04 am - Commentary: What Would An Economic Stimulus Package for the National Parks Buy Us? : [i]And how many of us spell our country's name "Amerika"? [/i] I believe it was originally inscripted as Amerikkka in accordance with the ultra-conservative movement in the Deep South...... Take from one and give to another isn't your precious democracy, whatever the hell that is, it's RobinHoodism at its basest ...