Should We Eat Aliens?
February 27th 2007 18:30
NEWS:
AUSTRALIA: INTEREST RATES
Interest rates in Australia, like the cost of living, are going up one more incremental step.
The Australian cost of living is about to make one of its incremental changes. The Australian dollar lost more footing Thursday as against the U.S. dollar. As of Tuesday, the Australian to US exchange ratio, this last week fell to 0.7620/1.00. It appears that to forestall further decline, the Australian National Reserve Bank will be forced to increase interest rates.
VIEWS:
After all the artificial fixes are worn out, the simple laws of global economics will require Australians to increase their country’’s Gross National Product There just isn’’t any other final remedy. Any other ‘‘alleged’’ remedy would be just another band-aid. Make more, make better Australians!!! and I guess the same goes for everybody.
NEWS: The U.S. Supreme Court to look at high speed chases:
On Monday the Supreme Court Justices will begin considering a case where a 19 year old Victor Harris was paralyzed in 2001 in an intentional automobile collision in Georgia, U.S., where Deputy Timothy Scott, after having receiving permission from his superiors, used a police technique called ‘‘Pursuit Intervention’’ where the idea is to ram a fleeing vehicle at an angle to spin it around allowing the police to apprehend the fleeing civilian.
After Scott’s patrol vehicle angularly contacted with Harris’ vehicle, speeding to avoid apprehension at speeds between 73mph to 90 mph, Harris’ vehicle went into an embankment leaving Harris paralyzed.
Harris sued Scott for his injuries and has prevailed in what appears to be two trials in the Trial Courts, having argued that he was just a speeder, fleeing only because he was scared, and ‘‘deadly force’’ was unjustifiable.
High-speed police chases are fodder for cable news, but they kill more than 350 people on average every year. This week, for the first time in 20 years, the Supreme Court considers limiting how far police can go in trying to catch a fleeing suspect.
Craig Jones, Harris' Atlanta-based lawyer, said Harris had committed no serious crime and that officers could have ended the chase and tried to arrest Harris at his home at a later time.
Of interest are the facts that Harris was never prosecuted. Scott left the Coweta sheriff's office for another law enforcement job in Georgia.
VIEWS:
I can only think of a few reasons why such an incident may take place: The driver is under the influence; the driver has warrants outstanding; the driver is fleeing from a crime or there are drugs present. Beyond these, it just doesn’t seem reasonable to try to outspeed the police. My article did not give facts to indicate why the chase started in the first place.
Without knowing why the chase started, it is difficult to form an opinion in this case. Hopefully, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices will have more to go on - tough question with more than 350 people each year being killed (presumably in the U,S.) as a result of high-speed chases Certainly, the police must use discretion in deciding whether or not to continue a high-speed once started.
NEWS: IS IT A HOAX OR IS IT FOR REAL?
Russian fishermen from the Rostov region of Russia claim to have caught a very, very strange creature weighing nearly 100 kilograms, after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. They claim to have filmed the ‘‘monster’’ by using a cell phone before eating it (They had been put to sea for two weeks - food getting low?) One of the fisherman said it was the most delicious ‘‘fish’’ he had ever eaten.
Click here to see the creature. Pravda
The fishermen believe they had caught a “space alien”; scientists were, of course disappointed that the physical evidence has disappeared into the mouths of the fishermen.
VIEW:
You are going to have decide for yourself, terrestrial or extraterrestrial? I sure don’’t know. But it sure is very, very interesting!!! (Is there a ““Black Lagoon”” in the Rostov region of Russia?)
NEWS: HERE’S A SURPRISE!!
Australia will be banning the sale of incandescent light bulbs, saving 800,000 tons of CO2 emissions during the three year phase-out period, with an annual emission reduction of 4 million tons by 2015. Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) are to be the new stars, though the LED guys are lurking on the sidelines. California is also mulling on this ban. Globally lighting is equal in emission contribution to about 70% of the world's passenger vehicles.
VIEWS:
Wow!! Who would have guessed that light bulbs contribute 70% as much emission to the atmosphere as all the world’s passenger vehicles? Not me, that’s for sure.
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," A congressional candidate in Texas - name unknown
JOKE OF THE DAY:
An old county doctor went way out to the boondocks to deliver a baby. It was so far out
that there was no electricity. When the doctor arrived there was no one home except for the laboring mother and her 5 year old child.
The doctor instructed the child to hold a lantern high so he could see while he helped the woman deliver the baby. The child did so, the mother pushed, and after a little while, the doctor lifted the new born baby by the feet and spanked him on the bottom to get him to take his first breath.
"Hit him again," the child said. "He shouldn't have crawled up there in the first place!!"
Thanks for visiting; hope you enjoyed my blog today; if so, please vote and don’t forget to click on my sponsors’ links; I get credit for this.
AUSTRALIA: INTEREST RATES
Interest rates in Australia, like the cost of living, are going up one more incremental step.
The Australian cost of living is about to make one of its incremental changes. The Australian dollar lost more footing Thursday as against the U.S. dollar. As of Tuesday, the Australian to US exchange ratio, this last week fell to 0.7620/1.00. It appears that to forestall further decline, the Australian National Reserve Bank will be forced to increase interest rates.
VIEWS:
After all the artificial fixes are worn out, the simple laws of global economics will require Australians to increase their country’’s Gross National Product There just isn’’t any other final remedy. Any other ‘‘alleged’’ remedy would be just another band-aid. Make more, make better Australians!!! and I guess the same goes for everybody.
On Monday the Supreme Court Justices will begin considering a case where a 19 year old Victor Harris was paralyzed in 2001 in an intentional automobile collision in Georgia, U.S., where Deputy Timothy Scott, after having receiving permission from his superiors, used a police technique called ‘‘Pursuit Intervention’’ where the idea is to ram a fleeing vehicle at an angle to spin it around allowing the police to apprehend the fleeing civilian.
After Scott’s patrol vehicle angularly contacted with Harris’ vehicle, speeding to avoid apprehension at speeds between 73mph to 90 mph, Harris’ vehicle went into an embankment leaving Harris paralyzed.
Harris sued Scott for his injuries and has prevailed in what appears to be two trials in the Trial Courts, having argued that he was just a speeder, fleeing only because he was scared, and ‘‘deadly force’’ was unjustifiable.
Craig Jones, Harris' Atlanta-based lawyer, said Harris had committed no serious crime and that officers could have ended the chase and tried to arrest Harris at his home at a later time.
Of interest are the facts that Harris was never prosecuted. Scott left the Coweta sheriff's office for another law enforcement job in Georgia.
VIEWS:
I can only think of a few reasons why such an incident may take place: The driver is under the influence; the driver has warrants outstanding; the driver is fleeing from a crime or there are drugs present. Beyond these, it just doesn’t seem reasonable to try to outspeed the police. My article did not give facts to indicate why the chase started in the first place.
Without knowing why the chase started, it is difficult to form an opinion in this case. Hopefully, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices will have more to go on - tough question with more than 350 people each year being killed (presumably in the U,S.) as a result of high-speed chases Certainly, the police must use discretion in deciding whether or not to continue a high-speed once started.
NEWS: IS IT A HOAX OR IS IT FOR REAL?
Russian fishermen from the Rostov region of Russia claim to have caught a very, very strange creature weighing nearly 100 kilograms, after a strong storm in the Sea of Azov. They claim to have filmed the ‘‘monster’’ by using a cell phone before eating it (They had been put to sea for two weeks - food getting low?) One of the fisherman said it was the most delicious ‘‘fish’’ he had ever eaten.
Click here to see the creature. Pravda
The fishermen believe they had caught a “space alien”; scientists were, of course disappointed that the physical evidence has disappeared into the mouths of the fishermen.
VIEW:
You are going to have decide for yourself, terrestrial or extraterrestrial? I sure don’’t know. But it sure is very, very interesting!!! (Is there a ““Black Lagoon”” in the Rostov region of Russia?)
NEWS: HERE’S A SURPRISE!!
Australia will be banning the sale of incandescent light bulbs, saving 800,000 tons of CO2 emissions during the three year phase-out period, with an annual emission reduction of 4 million tons by 2015. Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) are to be the new stars, though the LED guys are lurking on the sidelines. California is also mulling on this ban. Globally lighting is equal in emission contribution to about 70% of the world's passenger vehicles.
VIEWS:
Wow!! Who would have guessed that light bulbs contribute 70% as much emission to the atmosphere as all the world’s passenger vehicles? Not me, that’s for sure.
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," A congressional candidate in Texas - name unknown
JOKE OF THE DAY:
An old county doctor went way out to the boondocks to deliver a baby. It was so far out
that there was no electricity. When the doctor arrived there was no one home except for the laboring mother and her 5 year old child.
The doctor instructed the child to hold a lantern high so he could see while he helped the woman deliver the baby. The child did so, the mother pushed, and after a little while, the doctor lifted the new born baby by the feet and spanked him on the bottom to get him to take his first breath.
"Hit him again," the child said. "He shouldn't have crawled up there in the first place!!"
Thanks for visiting; hope you enjoyed my blog today; if so, please vote and don’t forget to click on my sponsors’ links; I get credit for this.
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