http://www.coloradodot.info/news/media-room.html says that I-70 between Glenwood Springs and Dotsero, CO will be closed till tomorrow at least. If your going east to west you have to take US 40 to CO 13 about 3 hours out of your way.

Climate-Change Skeptics
by Meteor Blades
Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 09:15:03 PM PST
The following groups say the danger of human-caused climate change is a ... FACT:

U.S. Agency for International Development
United States Department of Agriculture
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
National Institute of Standards and Technology
United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Energy
National Institutes of Health
United States Department of State
United States Department of Transportation
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
International Arctic Science Committee
Arctic Council
African Academy of Sciences
Australian Academy of Sciences
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts
Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias
Cameroon Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Canada
Caribbean Academy of Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Académie des Sciences, France
Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/03/breaking-obama-sold-judgeship-for-healthc...

My husband put a comment in. It is still awaiting approval from the moderator. We will see if they will allow it.

Some readers and contributors here find trouble with statements like that. That is how the Wausau Daily Herald labeled the Keillor column that I have the link below from. The Chicago Tribune labeled it Unreality is the current reality. I wish Keillor were right, he ends by saying eventually we will wake up. I wish I had that much faith.

While I was reading this column I was thinking of one reader/contributor in particular who takes great offense when I say that logic is illogical. Of course logic is logic and illogical thoughts are illogical. I was assuming one could assume that I was talking about reality, not the fantasy world where one would assume that we as humans would function logically.

Keillor says in the column basically that the Republicans would be laughed out of town for being totally illogical. He says that their ideas make "perfect sense if you're a shut-in and your TV is locked on Fox New, but not if you are ambulatory and able to read English."

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/02/mass-transit-is-as-am...

Is it really true that "all of the world’s 24-hour rapid transit systems (NYC Subway, Chicago L, NY-NJ PATH) are in the United States of America">

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing It was a plot that did not work. Eight and a half years later the bastards succeeded.

this is what he should have said

http://blahg.blank.org/2010/02/21/an-apology-for-the-ages/

Chase Bank reduced my line of credit from $10,000 to $2,500 without telling me. I sent Chase an email requesting that they raise my limit back to $5,000. I mentioned that there was a problem with my credit report and I was disputing it.

Chase wrote back the next day that they turned me down and I would get a letter within 10 days explaining it. They also said I could call a number for further infomation.

I called the number and explained that it seemed absurd to me that I had $68,500 of credit on three credit cards with them but they wouldn't raise my credit line back to $5,000. The lady asked me to hold for a minute and came back on the line and said that they were raising my credit line to $5,000.

Today, I got the letter in the mail from Chase and it says "Your request for a credit-line increase was given thoughtful consideration by Chase Bank USA, N.A."

Now, my question is: How thoughtful could the consideration have been if all I needed to do was to call and say "Please"?

Forbes did a write up of the predictions of Daniel K.N. Johnson who looks at economic, social and other factors to come up with a prediction of what countries will win what medals.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/19/olympic-medal-predictions-business-spor...

He predicts the United States will win 26 medals and 5 gold. As of today the USA has 24 total and 7 golds. Kind of close.

Real Time is back and Bill Maher takes on the Tea Baggers in this edition of New Rules.

Maher: And three, cult members always attribute all of their problems to one simple explanation. Now here's an amazing statistic. In a recent poll almost ninety percent of Tea Baggers said that they thought taxes had either gone up or stayed the same under Obama. Only two percent thought they went down. But the reality is taxes have gone down for ninety five percent of working families taxes went down.

Think about that. Only two percent of the people in a "movement" about taxes named after a tax revolt have the slightest idea what's going on...with taxes.

So, it would be easy to just mock, except that those who fall under the control of cults aren't necessarily weirdoes, they're victims. And we shouldn't forget that these people are our relatives, our neighbors and the folks at the next table in the restaurant. Especially if that restaurant is Hooters and it's dollar wing Wednesday.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-new-rules-tea-part... watch the whole clip!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100220/ap_on_go_ot/us_obit_haig

Those were the days.

Why Spirituality is Needed in Politics

By Dave Belden

I used to think that the left / liberal tradition was all about struggle, anger, and righteous indignation. That was what fueled generations of oppressed and marginalized people to fight the status quo to free the slaves, reform the factories, gain the vote, enforce standards for safe food and medicine, combat racism, sexism and homophobia, and win all the democracy, rights and social safety nets so far gained. But I have realized that, even more than angry struggle, its success has been borne out of empathy. You only get ready to give rights and respect to others if you still the insistent voice of your own ego and self-absorption long enough to put yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. It’s about imagination and compassion.

The globe recorded its fourth warmest January since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies rated January 2010 as the 2nd warmest January on record, behind January 2007. January 2010 global ocean temperatures were the 2nd warmest on record, next to 1998. Land temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere were the warmest on record, but in the Northern Hemisphere, they were the 18th warmest. The relatively cool Northern Hemisphere land temperatures may have been due to the well-above average amount of snow on the ground--January 2010 snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was the 6th highest in the past 44 years. Global satellite-measured temperatures for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the warmest on record in January, according to both the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and RSS data sets. This was the second time in the past three months that the UAH data set has shown a record high global atmospheric temperature.

Texas, which seemed way below normal to me, had the 29th coldest january in 116 years. Florida had the 10th coldest. Washington and Oregon had the 4th warmest.

Maybe Tiger should move to Haiti? Let them live in one of his houses? Play aid, not golf!

Try...

The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos

I hope Ravi is correct.

too cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWY_KFYcZg&feature=player_embedded#

http://www.nea.fr/html/brief/brief-03.html is an article from France about HLRW?

http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?t=53780&highlight=collegehockeystats

Clear Channel aside, this is important. Evidently the RIAA is asking to get radio stations to pay a fee each time a song is played on the radio.

http://www.noperformancetax.org/en/Take%20Action/Join%20the%20Cause

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/02/16

"If ever she's poor and old and grey,
And her own dear boy is far away."
"Somebody's mother" bowed low her head
In her home that night, and the prayer she said
Was, "God be kind to the noble boy,
Who is somebody's son, and pride and joy!"

This is one of the posts on "Mad Sci": http://www.madsci.org/posts/1266245640.Ph.r.html

It seems like a fun place. Science is fun?

And not because I love math. Because math is not what you think.

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

I think April and Billy would even be interested

http://www.drewlitton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/supersaints1.gif

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-indiana-man-survives-stranded-020810,0,40... states the dog did survive.

http://www.teamglorybound.com/