Scammers Try Every Which Way To Exploit BP Oil Leak
As we warn on the Scambusters home page, crooks have unleashed a tidal wave of scams to cash in on the BP oil leak.In this issue, we identify the range of tricks, from investment scams and phony jobs, to bogus fund-raising and financial support.
I believe it is fine to debate religious ideas, within reason. However, we need to understand that when people’s core beliefs are threatened they become defensive and inflexible regardless of the content of those beliefs. To pound, willy-nilly, on issues they find threatening will only stifle debate, not extend it. Furthermore, to attempt to alter someone’s core beliefs without offering something that will adequately replace the framework of his life is to attempt cruelty of the first order.
USA Today, the second-largest newspaper in the country after The Wall Street Journal, is undergoing a company-wide shift in focus from print to digital content. With that shift comes the biggest overhaul in staff structure since it opened in 1982. The staff soon will be cut by 9 percent (approximately 130 employees). The reorganization is meant to put more focus on digital media like smart phones and tablets.
All 12-step programs use some variation of the following as their first step: “We admitted we were powerless over (insert addiction here)–that our lives had become unmanageable.” Many of us had trouble admitting to ourselves that we were powerless, and in some cases were unable to come to terms with the idea that our lives were unmanageable. So here’s as simple an explanation as I can come up with.
http://sunrisedetox.com/blog/2010/08/27/the-first-step-is-no-theory-part-1/
A bacterium, Salmonella Enteritidis, can be on both the outside and inside of eggs that appear to be normal, and if the eggs are eaten raw or undercooked, the bacterium can cause illness.
What can I do to reduce my risk of getting Salmonella Enteritidis from eggs? Tips to Reduce Your Risk of Salmonella from Egg – CDC Features
Scientists, skeptical by both nature and training, always urge a dose of caution when looking at any one event as evidence of climate change. They look at the totality of events and discover patterns that help determine how our climate is changing.
Deniers, on the other hand, are eager opportunists, who will use single points of data, or single events (remember Snowmaggedon?) to claim that the patterns do not exist. Theirs is a world of scientific dishonesty and misinformation.
And it is the high level of professional skepticism–not the useless back-and-forth encouraged by deniers—that makes the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by man all the more powerful. 97 to 98 percent of climate researchers support the fundamental conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The head of the National Academy of Sciences has indicated that we know more about the link between man and climate change than we do smoking and lung cancer. More…
http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2010/08/is-climate-change-causing-wild.php#1623153
http://news.discovery.com/human/glass-water-weight-loss.html
Awesome? Is that the best you can do?
So I saw another of those bumper stickers: “My God Is An Awesome God”.
Uh, isn’t “awesome” pretty much par for the course when it comes to gods? And what about that “an” part? Are these people polytheists? “An” implies that there are others, and if that’s the case should folks perhaps be looking for one that’s more awesomer?
Just askin’.