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Vote for Santorum or Satan will take over America February 22, 2012 at 12:52 pm  Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew  Let's see, who could it be ... SATAN!? This is one way the GOP is trying to kneecap Santorum, making hay out of something he said back in 2008 about Satan. Suddenly, for the fundamentalist infested Republican Party, talking about Satan as a real threat to the nation like this is cah-raaazy! Word out to GOP faithful, throw Santorum off the train February 22, 2012 at 9:44 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew I heard some of it last night flipping through the cable channels. Then this morning on Morning Joe it was all the rage. Apparently those weren’t flukes and the word has not-so-quietly gone out to any in the GOP still listening to reason: throw Santorum off the surging train. Here comes the sun, like you’ve never seen it before February 22, 2012 at 8:35 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew NASA’s SOHO mission team has posted some beautiful images of our local star under the fitting header The Sun as Art. Some of the images have been reworked, but most are simply composites or color filters. They’re remarkable, and a reminder of the enormous power of a massive hydrogen fusion reactor (And potential energy source) pumping out 4 trillion terawatts a mere 93 million miles away. Now if only I could find the original slideshow link … This is your cost for gas on Fox News February 21, 2012 at 6:54 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
Via Balloon Juice, above, this is what your gas prices have actually done over the past year courtesy of Triple A. Below, this is your gas prices for the past year on Fox News. Hahaha! Any questions? Hubble spies watery spectra on distant super earth February 21, 2012 at 6:33 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew  A hypothetical water world orbiting a nearby red dwarf. This planet would be much cooler than GJ 1214B. Click image for more on the latest find. The Hubble Space Telescope pulled off an interesting feat this month. A super earth designated GJ 1214B orbiting tightly around a red dwarf 40 light years away may be loaded with water: Heartland Institute facing questions over leaked documents February 21, 2012 at 1:02 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew It struck me that a lot of readers may not know the back story on the post about Watts, below, so here’s some context. The Heartland Institute is a right-wing org originally created in 1984, appropriately, to spread lies about issues like the health effects of tobacco use. When that gig started drying up in the 90s they had to find new wealthy benefactors, fast. One of the biggest clients they landed was the fossil fuel energy industry, interested in using similar disinformation tactics to combat pollution regulations and especially the growing scientific consensus on human induced climate change. Last week internal documents from Heartland came to light reportedly showing the lengths to which the institute would go to further their sponsors’ interests. Via the Wiki: Permian forest brought to scientific life February 21, 2012 at 9:53 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew  An artist's impression of a 300-million-year-old peat forest in northern China, based on plant fossils preserved in a huge volcanic ash-fall. PNAS Paleobiologists of all kinds are used to dealing with frustrating scraps. Occasionally they get entire bones and once in a blue moon a nearly complete skeleton or fossil of an extinct plant or animal. But scientists working with remains below a Mongolian coal mine have done one better, they found a 300 million year old forest preserved in volcanic ash and have brought it to virtual life in what is being called the Permian Pompeii: Santorum to nation: God likes greenhouse gases February 21, 2012 at 8:27 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Speaking on Face the Nation this weekend, GOP front-runner and future guest-in-a sweater vest Romper Room host Rick Santourm decreed that Barack Obama is following a phony, dare we say heretical theology, in which the end goal is to enslave man to that commie bitch mother earth. Or something like that: Anthony Watts may have some ‘splainin to do February 21, 2012 at 7:11 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
A few days ago an insider at the industry friendly Heartland Institute reportedly released some internal emails and other documents. One of them seems to feature Anthony Watts of the climate change denier site WhatsUpWithThat in a very bad light: Other than that … February 20, 2012 at 8:42 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Move over John Glenn, I’m a half century old today. So I’m taking it easy. Maybe that would be cause for the blues, but considering the crazy shit I’ve done over the years, from heads down vertical relative work skydiving to broken bones right and left, to a decade and a half of technical rock climbing half the classic routes in North America including El Capitan and then some, I’m fortunate to be alive and in one piece. This would be an off day in celebration, except it’s a holiday which means if I do work, I get double pay. Can’t pass that up in this dismal day and age. |
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