Grand Theft Economics
David Highfield
(KDKA)
Dec 21, 2005
David Highfield
(KDKA)
Dec 21, 2005
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Part of the mystery is that the blue ice that has been reported is actually purple.
KDKA David Highfield reported the purple splotches in the snow on Monday night. The report sparked phone calls and e-mails from several other people claiming to also have blue ice in their yards.
The FAA doesn't have the people to investigate each claim, but they are investigating the original case in Butler County.
The question is whether or not the purple splotches could be blue ice.
Blue ice is toilet waste that leaks from airplanes.
It's highly unlikely, said Nicole Begley, of the National Aviary. I don't want to speculate on what it was, but it would take a rather large flock of fruit eating birds.
Most of those fruit eating birds have moved on.
Begley also said that there's not much fresh fruit left around and that birds don't normally defecate all at the same time while in flight.
There was actually toilet paper inside that purple stuff, said Stan Walchesky, of Jefferson Township. I said this aint birds.
The risks of blue ice from a health perspective are relatively small, said Dr. Bruce Dixon, of the Allegheny County Health Department.
Dr. Dixon says people can hose it off in better weather to prevent stains and that there's no reason to worry about your dogs.
The issue is much more aesthetic, Dr. Dixon said. People don't like the idea of human excrement being dispersed throughout the air and landing on their property.
Comment: Comment: Naturally, "people don't like the idea of human excrement being dispersed throughout the air and landing on their property", but do people care about the fact that
bovine excrement is being dispersed throughout the ether and ending up in their minds as their "opinions"?
Dec 19 2005
CBC News
Dec 19 2005
CBC News
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
A couple in Central Newfoundland has had a close encounter with a mysterious object that appeared to fall from the sky at a high speed.
"I would say [it was] the size of a chicken, probably," says Joanne Knee, who says her experience on Friday afternoon reminded her of the story of Chicken Little.
Knee and her husband were driving from Gander to Carmanville when an object narrowly missed their truck.
She said the beige-coloured rock hit the ground so close to the truck that when it exploded, shards damaged the front grill and a signal light.
"It was such an explosion from it," she said.
"It was just [as] if someone had shot off a gun in the truck. It was just amazing."
Knee and her husband returned to the spot Saturday to find a pile of charcoal-like rock.
They picked up a sample, and after a little digging observed that a cylindrical piece of the material was lodged deep into the side of the road.
Knee said there was no sign of construction or of people working in the area.
Joe Hodych, who teaches earth sciences at Memorial University, said it is possible that the object came from space, and that he is anxious to see the sample.
"Meteorites are very rare. So most reports turn out not to be meteorites in the end," Hodych said.
"But they're extremely important to science."
Knee hopes someone like Hodych will analyze the rock.
However, Knee would like to keep at least a part of the rock as a souvenir.
Comment: Comment: While meteorites that impact the earth may be officially "rare", in recent years they have become
all too common. What does this seemingly exponential increase in space rocks hitting the earth mean? Read Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book "
The Secret History of the World" to find out.
spaceweather.com
23 Dec 2005
spaceweather.com
23 Dec 2005
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
It's happening again: For the second time in less than a week, a sunspot is materializing before our very eyes. Just yesterday sunspot 838 was a barely-visible speck. Now it is wider than the planet Neptune.
Sometimes, the magnetic fields of fast-growing sunspots become unstable and explode. The magnetic field of sunspot 838, however, does not appear to harbor energy for strong flares. Stay tuned for updates.
spaceweather.com
23 Dec 2005
spaceweather.com
23 Dec 2005
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
If you get a telescope for Christmas, point it at Mars--fast! The red planet is receding from Earth at a speed of 30,000 mph and shrinking as it goes.
23 Dec 2005
Reuters
23 Dec 2005
Reuters
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
NEW YORK - The time-honored office tradition of whining at the water cooler just might get you fired, according to a newly compiled list of workplace horrors around the world.
Two workers who exceeded the official limit of two moans per employee at one unnamed German firm were fired this year. Several colleagues quit before their moans could be counted.
Their employer's strict policy tops a list compiled by Challenger, Gray and Christmas. The Chicago-based outplacement firm gave nine notable examples from hundreds of cases.
By RAY HENRY
Associated Press
Dec 22, 2005
By RAY HENRY
Associated Press
Dec 22, 2005
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - It's a Charlie Brown Christmas for Rhode Island's official Christmas tree. The 18-foot Colorado blue spruce lost its needles and died after Statehouse workers dried it with commercial fans and sprayed it with a fire-retardant chemical. The workers were following the stringent new fire code enacted after a nightclub blaze in Rhode Island nearly three years ago killed 100 people.
The pathetic-looking tree was hustled out of the building Wednesday night.
23 Dec 2005
AP
23 Dec 2005
AP
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - A clam that a Portsmouth couple thought was rotten turned out to hold a rare gem: a purple pearl that could be worth lots of money.
It happened earlier this month when Barbara Krensavage brought home about four dozen quahogs from a Newport seafood restaurant. Her husband, Thaddeus or "Ted," was shucking them when he came across one he thought was diseased. Upon closer inspection, the couple found the pearl.
"We're finding out there's only a handful on earth," Barbara Krensavage said. "We were excited, biting it and everything."
Dec 22, 2005
Dec 22, 2005
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
LOS ANGELES - Astronomers aided by theHubble Space Telescope have spied two more rings encircling Uranus, the first additions to the planet's ring system in nearly two decades.
The faint, dusty rings orbit outside of Uranus' previously known rings, but within the orbits of its large moons, said Mark Showalter, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who made the discovery.
Details will appear online Friday in the journal Science. The discovery, announced Thursday, means scientists now believe the seventh planet from the sun possesses 13 rings.
Created: 19.12.2005 11:39 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:02 MSK
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Created: 19.12.2005 11:39 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:02 MSK
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
Russian intelligence agencies have repeatedly stated that no UFOs have ever been spotted over Russian territory. However, witnesses from the general public continue to contradict these reports with stories of their personal encounters with the paranormal.
Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has put together the most reliable of these reports and come up with a list of UFO sightings in Russia and other post-Soviet countries for 2005.
By LAWRENCE MISHEL
and ROSS EISENBREY
Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute and Ross Eisenbrey is EPI's policy directory.
By LAWRENCE MISHEL
and ROSS EISENBREY
Lawrence Mishel is president of the Economic Policy Institute and Ross Eisenbrey is EPI's policy directory.
Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:00 EST
1. Profits [Corporate] are up, but the wages and the incomes of average Americans are down.
2. More and more people are deeper and deeper in debt.
3. Job creation has not kept up with population growth, and the employment rate has fallen sharply.
4. Poverty is on the rise.
5. Rising health care costs are eroding families' already declining income.
Comment: Comment: As George W. Bush sez, "It's been a Great Year for Amurkans!"
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