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Coming only days after a Tea Party activist was punched and his wife assaulted at a rally in North Carolina by a Democrat supporter of Obama. Now a young conservative is struck by a NC Congressman.
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After the scale of the BP oil spill in the Gulf became evident, Photographer Nathaniel Welch went to Venice, Louisiana, to see what had become of his favorite fishing grounds. He used artificial light to capture these objects as he found them on the beach. Welch: “Ryan Lambert of Cajun Fishing Adventures took me out on his boat to some outer islands near Grande Isle, LA, where the majority of oil was starting to come ashore. As we got close to the island on the backside, we started to see an oil slick in the bay, not thick black oil, just a sheen on the water, too subtle to photograph, but you could smell it. We pulled up on the back of the island, got out, and walked out onto the beach on the front of the island. Big gooey tar balls were on the beach and also coating everything from old beer cans to marsh vegetation. There was an eerie absence of wildlife.
I’ve been going down to Venice, Louisiana for years to fish. I’ve fished offshore for the pelagics like tuna and marlin, and I’ve fished inshore in the marshes for coastal species like trout and redfish. It’s an understatement to say the fishing is exceptional. It is ironic that when fishing offshore there, the oil rigs are the fishing destination and that’s where we would set up. The fish congregate underneath and around the rigs, as the small bait fish use it for protection.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports that there are 35 National Wildlife Refuges that line the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida that are currently at risk from the BP oil spill. These refuges are home to dozens of threatened and endangered species, including West Indian manatees, whooping cranes, Mississippi sandhill cranes, wood storks, and four species of sea turtles. “This spill is significant, and in all likelihood will affect fish and wildlife resources in the Gulf—and across the North American Continent—for years, if not decades, to come,” said Fish and Wildlife Service Acting Director Rowan Gould in a recent teleconference.
All images Nathaniel Welch/Redux Pictures
Oil coated aluminum can, Louisiana, 6/5/10
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Oh boy, it looks like a French psychiatrist actually bothered to psychoanalyze me!!!! What's more, he never even had me as a patient in his clinic!!!!
Ordinarily, I'd tell him to get a life, except that I doubt that's something that he'd be able to do, not after I force-strangled h
From Discovery News - Top Stories:
Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn't get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumb
From Geeks are Sexy Technology News:
French Canadian journalist Maxime Johnson, who's currently visiting the "Display Taiwan" exhibition in Taipei, brought LiteOn's upcoming LED "mobile lamp" to my attention today. As most LED light bulbs, the "mobile lamp" is compatible with tradi
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Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have taken the first steps toward building functional, transplantable livers. In a study in rats, published online today by Nature Medicine, the researchers took donor livers, gently stripped t
From The Engineer - News:
Birmingham's first public charging points for electric cars have been unveiled at the city's Bullring shopping centre. The four charging points are the first of 36, which will be spread across Birmingham and Coventry as part of the CABLED project, a tri
What does a sunset look like when you’re racing through space at 8000 meters per second?
This:
Oh, I could go on and on about the curvature of the Earth, the layers of the atmosphere, the distribution of colors, how the aerosol layer is thin and glows after sunset, and what it must be like to go through 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. But you can get all that information from the NASA website. And really, the enduring nature of this picture is not what it shows, but that it was taken by a human being in space.
From Yahoo! News: Science News:
The meandering sand dunes and bird islands of Barataria Bay have become the epicenter of the environmental disaster spewing from BP's offshore well. And fishermen are bitter. Oil-caked birds, stranded sea turtles, globs of gooey brown crude on be
Not alienating religious conservatives key to success
The Spiritual Libertarian which covers libertarian news from a Christian perspective editorialized on Rand Paul's recent win, "Rand Paul and Libertarian Success":
Rand Paul's winning the Republican nomination for Senator from Kentucky with 59% of Republican primary voters, and now leading in the general election polls, gives the libertarian movement new hope. But much more importantly, it gives libertarians a template for success.
The crucial mistake Rand Paul did not make, which most libertarian candidates consistently make to sabotage themselves, is demonize the Republican Party and alienate all the many thousands of voters who have historically voted for Republican candidates. In this respect, Rand Paul was smarter than most libertarians.
Here is the principle: libertarians cannot win elections, or even broadly influence people via the election process, if they are seen as anti- all Republicans. Voters who have historically supported Republicans will tune out and dismiss libertarians who voice blanket condemnations of the party which in the past has felt like home to them.
More information at ChristianLibertarians.com
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Given the limitations of silicon-based transistor technology, the electronics industry has been searching for a replacement candidate in order to build the next generation of fast computers— could carbon nanotube-based transistors serve as suitable replacement devices? German Scientist Johanne
Sharp has released a television with yellow pixels, saying it produces more vibrant colors. CIE color space is based on a combination of red, green, and blue light. Is this talk of yellow pixels just a lot of talk about what reduces to redundant capabilities or is there real benefit to be had?
The
This week at the Intersection, in addition to our regular postings we're also going to carry a series of guest posts from Science in the News (SITN), a group of Harvard Ph.D. students whose communication attempts we greatly admire. This is the first post, and merely intended to let SITN introduce itself. One hope is that by featuring the group here, we will inspire the growth of similar organizations at other campuses. So, here they go: Science in the News (SITN) is an organization of PhD students at Harvard University, and our mission is to bring the newest and most relevant science to a general audience. At SITN, we strive to share our enthusiasm for science without over-hyping the promise of new discoveries, and to wade through the technical jargon to make science more accessible. For over a decade, we've been presenting a fall lecture series at Harvard Medical School. The lectures focus on a diversity of current and newsworthy topics, such as stem cell biology and climate change. We also publish a regular online newsletter, the SITN Flash. The Flash is written by graduate students at Harvard and focuses on current scientific discoveries and emerging fields. SITN also hosts “Science by the Pint” in ...
"This is not the Republican Party, this is the Libertarian Party"
From Eric Dondero:
The State Republican Party took the unusual step of officially denouncing State Senator Jake Knotts for his comments against probably GOP Governor nominee Nikki Haley. Knotts, who supported a rival candidate for the nomination, called her a "raghead" on a local South Carolina radio show Pub Politics.
Now Knotts is responding by accusing Haley, and current Governor Mark Sanford of being sexually tolerant "Libertarians" who've taken over the GOP.
From The State:
Lexington County Republicans voted to rebuke state Sen. Jake Knotts and ask him to resign his office after he used a racial slur last week against state Rep. Nikki Haley.
Both lawmakers are from Lexington County and the dispute was a feud between old guard Knotts and Haley, who represents the rising conservative wing of the party. Knotts referred to Haley, whose parents are Indian immigrants, as a “raghead” on an Internet political talk show.
Knotts said Thursday night he would not resign, and said the resolution was pushed by supporters of Haley and Gov. Mark Sanford, Knotts’ longtime adversary.
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) answers a question during a news conference at the Statehouse Friday, June 26, 2009. Knotts confirmed that SLED has agreed to open an investigation into governor Mark Sanford's actions.
“This is not a Republican Party, this is a libertarian party,” Knotts said, noting the group did not censure Sanford last year after he admitted an extramarital affair. “This is nothing but politics. I’m not resigning. I could care less.”
UPDATE!
In a video just breaking Sen. Knotts now says that the Libertarian Party has infiltrated the SC GOP. "This is nothing more than politics coming from the Libertarian Party." See the video of a sweaty Knotts being interviewed at the Eisenhower Republican blog Ikekonic
From Eric Dondero:
The Iowa Republican Party recently nominated former longtime Governor Terry Branstad, a thoroughly uninspiring choice. As a result, the Libertarian Party may now be poised to pick off a more substantial margin from the anti-tax, anti-incumbent Right.
From LP press release via IowaPolitics.com:
Eric Cooper, the Libertarian Candidate for Governor of Iowa, said today that Terry Branstad’s win in the Republican primary is great news for the Libertarian Party. Cooper is attempting to get 2% in the Iowa Governor’s race in order to get major party status in Iowa for the Libertarian Party.
“There is a strong anti-incumbent sentiment in America at present, and with Terry Branstad’s win in the Republican primary, it means that we will essentially be running against two incumbents in the general election,” says Cooper.
Cooper, 44, (the Libertarian candidate for Governor) is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Iowa State University, and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Iowa.
Cooper is running a Tea Party style campaign. His platform includes repealing the minumum wage, overturning bans on smoking, repealing cigarette taxes, and allowing fireworks sales. Coopersmallergovernment.com
by Clifford F. Thies
The Center-right bloc scored a surprising victory in the parliamentary election just concluded in Slovakia.
The four parties of the center-right, one of which is a newly-formed flat-tax party popular among the young people of the country, secured a majority in the parliament. The current prime minister, leader of the Social Democrats, all but conceded the election, saying he is ready to lead the opposition in parliament. Iveta Radicova, leader of the Christian Democrats of Slovakia, who looks likely to be the next prime minister of her country, described the victory as a "morning miracle."
In Slovakia, the center-right bloc is the more inclusive (with respect to Hungarians and Roma people). For example, Ms Radicova says that the laws must go that criminalize use of the Hungarian language in certain instances and forbid dual citizenship.
Contributing to this surprising victory was the failure of the Peoples Party to meet the threshold for representation in the parliament. Accordingly, even though the popular vote was close between the ruling, center left/far-right coalition and the opposition center-right, the center-right won a clear majority of the seats in parliament.
Outgoing ruling, center-left/far-right coalition (69 seats)
Social Democrats 35% (62)
Slovak Nationalists 5% (7)
Peoples Party 4% (0)Center-right bloc (77)
Slovak Christian Democrats 15% (26)
Freedom Party 12% (22)
Slovak-Hungarian Bridge Party 8% (15)
Hungarian Christian Democrats 8% (14)
Note the Freedom Party (SaS), supportive of the flat tax is identified by The Economist as "the free market party."
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