Because individuals working for the Govt don't buy PR campaigns from K-street law firms (owned by Congressmen), makers of Shiny spy toys do.

And none dare call it treason, or even really corrupt, it's all above board, and everyone gets a piece. Unfortunately the piece you and I get is the shaft.

Then by the time they were actively planning to go on the planes, my agents would sit right next to them, knowing all their friends.

My agents would have slipped them a date-rape drug, and re-routed them to Club-Gitmo for um... therapy.

The liberals shoot that plan down every chance they get. In the 70's the NY Post published the names of every agent in the middle east. Continuous congressional investigations do the rest. So much for HumInt.

How could a virus come from a pig-sty? Even if in poor condition. Bacteria live for a long time in feces, virus don't.

A virus needs a live body to live body transfer, or at least a short term in a moist cool dark place.

Now I could see a transfer happening at slaughter. To kill, gut, and dismember an animal is a very intimate thing, you get covered in goo, there are aerosols of blood and other fluids. Yes, it's messy, and you're playing with sharp knives, cutting through bone and cartilage, leaving sharp edges to scrape yourself on... After all the hard work is done, you scrub and scrub, and you can't get the smell of blood off your body. It's much easier to call out a pro... But it's important to do it once or twice, you quickly learn a whole lot about anatomy.

I wonder about that... I see that Egypt is slaughtering all it's swine as a precaution.

Do the Egyptians raise swine for domestic consumption, or is it for export to Europe?

I thought touching swine was a crime in a Muslim country, and eating it... could cost your head.

Don't worry...it will end up being all our fault even if it DID start in Mexico....

Silly Penguin, don't you know? It's all George Bush's fault!

You're missing the important perspective where this is a win-win.

The Law-Firm made money, the Lawyer made money, and Goldman-Sachs... Well - two-outta-three ain't bad.

Hey TapeCutter, Here is the site http://www.surfacestations.org/ It supports my observations that weather stations report increasing temperatures when heat islands have been installed around the station.

I'm 47, and have seen lots of hysterics whipped up. After 30 years in electronics, I'm back in college anticipating a career change. I see the writing on the way, and I want to own the exit plan. In 06 I had a college class where one project was to correlate global climate and glacial retreat of the Nisqually glacier. So I plotted the retreat of the glacier and global weather data provided in the text. R-squared was 0.47, pretty crappy correlation. I read some about the Nisqually glacier, it's on an active volcano, and also sees around 250 earthquakes a year. So that's one picture of climate science, have students plot temperature and glacial retreat of a glacier on an active volcano.

Political activists say one thing, eye witnesses say another. http://www.indict.org.uk/witnessdetails.php?target=Qusay

Yes, the political activists say one thing, the witness say another - http://www.indict.org.uk/witnessdetails.php?target=Qusay

The North west passage was first crossed in 1906 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/420084/Northwest-Passage

Al's famous hockey stick is dirty data taken from weather stations that have experienced heat islands being installed in the form of pavement. Go check out surface data.org. Sometimes one needs to "scrub" the data, and throw out obviously tainted data from a compromised station.

Remember all the data pointed to a new ice age in 1970, now the same data points to warming...

Go see Geology.com for the latest in antarctic dust... Turns out that just about all dust in antarctic ice record comes from Patagonia. Previous thought was that dust in the antarctic ice record indicated global warm dry years. Current thought is dust in the antarctic ice record is heaviest in cold dry years when Patagonian glaciers were advancing, released little water, and dust from dry terminal moraine coated antarctic ice. Warm years in Patagonia the glaciers retreat flooding the terminal moraine, and trapping the dust.
http://www.geology.com/news/2009/antarctic-dust-and-climate-record.shtml
The real source is Nature.com, but I don't have an active account.

I think most people don't know just how bad Saddam was...

He employed a professional rapist to rape the wives of anyone who spoke out against the regime... Oh, and the whole family was brought in to observe their Mother/Daughter/Sister being raped in order to punish the offender.

He employed an industrial plastic shredder to shred alive anyone who spoke out after having the wife raped... Hated people were fed in head first, really hated people were fed in feet first. Shred the wife before the husband.

Ever seen the video of dissenters being thrown off the top of a four floor building? I caught it once on Fox.

One of Saddam's sons used the elementary school system as a source of children for his sex-capades. Any complaints - Daddy's got a shredder...

Some folks spend their entire life walking on paved over ground. I suppose some of them will never ever set foot on ground that's not been bull-dozed flat, planted and manicured. They've only ever seen nature through a car window or a TV screen, and every word the announcer utters is gospel, and the constant message is "Be afraid, be very afraid". By the way send money to our lawyers who will help save the cute-furry critters.

Those are the folks who worry most about the environment.

The ice shelves in that quote are ~10Kyrs old

It's an amazing coincidence that the last ice age peaked about 10k years ago too.

Hmmm maybe we are emerging from an ice age, and glaciers and such mmmm melt after an ice age...