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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (99312)	2/2/2011 11:34:30 AM
From: chartseer	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224737

Did it cause their President to ban their off shore dilling for years? citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (99312)	2/2/2011 1:24:54 PM
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Russian Scientist Predicts 'mini Ice Age' February 7th, 2006, 10:26 GMT\| By Vlad Tarko "As Sun is expected to experience a period of lower activity, the Earth will receive less heat and thus will cool. Earth's climate is determined mainly by the Sun's activity and by the small changes in Earth's orbit. The effects of other factors, such as the greenhouse gases, are small relative to these cosmic events. A Russian astronomer, Khabibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory in St. Petersburg, reported on Monday that the global warming experienced in the 20th century was mainly caused by an increased solar activity. According to him, this increased solar activity will reach its peak in six of seven years from now, after which the temperatures will start to drop. Abdusamatov said there will be a massive solar output decline between around 2035 and 2045 which will correspond to a mini Ice Age on Earth. "Dramatic changes in the Earth's surface temperatures are an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly", he said, "and result from variations in the sun's energy output and ultraviolet radiation." This is also supported by a recent mapping of North American glacial history which has shown that in the last 10 000 years glaciers have gone up and down many times. In other words, there were large climatic variations. The Northern Hemisphere's most recent cool-down period occurred between 1645 and 1705. Dubbed the Little Ice Age, it left canals in the Netherlands frozen solid and forced people in Greenland to abandon their houses to glaciers" I'll stack this scientist's views in 2007 against any global warmers 2007 views. How about you? Citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (99312)	2/2/2011 11:49:57 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224737

ALBUQUERQUE — Saving your home from foreclosure is increasingly a do-it-yourself project. Enlarge This Image Mark Holm for The New York Times kennycanary ???? Angelica Anaya Allen, director of the Fair Lending Center, started workshops when she could not take on any new cases. Lawyers are scarce and free legal assistance is overwhelmed in New Mexico, so a community center here is offering an hourlong class in how to download the correct forms, decipher the lingo and mount a defense, however tentative and primitive, against a multibillion-dollar bank. “I don’t see success for someone like me who doesn’t understand the law,” said Skylar Perea, a senior care aide who fell behind on her payments during the eight months she was out of a job. “But it’s better than nothing.” In New Mexico, New York, Florida and the 20 other states where foreclosures require a judge’s approval, homeowners in default have traditionally surrendered their homes without ever coming to court to defend themselves. (In the 27 other states, including California, Nevada and Arizona, homeowners have a much harder time contesting a foreclosure even if they want to.) That passivity has begun to recede. While many foreclosures are still unopposed, courts are seeing a sharp rise in cases where defendants show up representing themselves. One factor driving the increase is the changing nature of foreclosure. When people went into default in 2008, it was generally because of the exploding cost of a subprime loan. Unable or unwilling to handle sharply higher payments, the homeowner walked away with little protest. Now many defaults are prompted by stretches of unemployment like Ms. Perea’s. These owners do not have the resources to come up with all their missed payments at once. But if they can persuade their lender to restructure the loan instead of seizing the house, they have a chance of staying put. In New Mexico, this is where the hourlong workshops come in. “When you cannot pay, this is called ‘a breach of contract,’ ” Angelica Anaya Allen, director of the nonprofit Fair Lending Center, explained to a small but diverse group one recent morning. Young and old, solo and in couples, the homeowners in Ms. Anaya Allen’s class were all in breach, clutching special-delivery packages from their lenders announcing that the machinery was now engaged to evict them. They took notes, asked questions — is the courthouse the building on Fourth Street with the blue roof? — and were resolute if not quite eager for battle. “I’m not sure where I stand, but I just don’t want to let the house go,” said Ms. Perea. The legal challenges that she and the other students will make are slowing the foreclosure process. Over the last year, the average delinquency for a foreclosed loan rose to 499 days from 406 days, according to the data firm LPS Applied Analytics. But they are also straining the courts and often encouraging unreal expectations. Louis McDonald, the chief judge for New Mexico’s 13th Judicial District, welcomes the influx of homeowners defending themselves, known as pro se defendants. “They really want to stay in their houses,” he said. “Some of them have fairly legitimate defenses.” But the law grows more complex as the cases proceed, and foreclosure still looms for those who do not grasp its intricacies. “The system is failing those who can’t afford representation,” Mr. McDonald said. The 13th District surrounds Albuquerque on three sides and includes Sandoval County, which has the highest foreclosure rate in the state. Nearly half of the 100 new foreclosure defendants flooding the court every month are there on their own. There are so many of these defendants, and they need so much help understanding the law in a small, overburdened court, that last year Mr. McDonald instituted regular meetings overseen by himself and the district’s two other judges. Volunteer lawyers were on hand to advise the defendants, and the bank lawyers were required to attend.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (99312)	2/3/2011 7:53:38 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224737

Rush Limbaugh: Send Obama to be head of Egypt 'Don't tell me he can't run for president because he wasn't born there' Posted: February 02, 2011 By Joe Kovacs © 2011 WorldNetDaily wnd.com PALM BEACH, Fla. – Radio host Rush Limbaugh took a jab today at President Obama by suggesting the American commander in chief be dispatched to Egypt and become head of state there to deal with ongoing violence. "Why don't we send Obama over to Egypt to be their president?" Limbaugh asked rhetorically on his program. "And don't tell me he can't run for president of Egypt because he wasn't born there. I don't want to hear that. Apparently, he can be president anywhere he wants to be. Maybe a movement to get Obama's name on the Egyptian ballot. He likes it over there. I'm halfway serious about this." Limbaugh made the suggestion during analysis of the violence, which he speculated could be fueled by statements from Obama himself: Could it have been Obama's remarks last night that started all of the new violence in Cairo? He insisted that the transition start immediately, and it looks like it started with a vengeance. And we have news reports [that] Egypt's foreign ministry is blaming last night's remarks by Obama about how the transition must begin immediately for inciting today's violence. ... So, where's the outrage? Shouldn't Obama be held accountable for his inciteful rhetoric? Folks, I'm being dead serious. I could be watching a football game on a Saturday afternoon, bothering nobody, minding my own business, a congresswoman gets shot in Arizona, and I hear that Sarah Palin and I are responsible for it 30 minutes later when I have never spoken about this woman. To be honest with you, I had never heard of her until it happened. It's just the way it was. I had never brought her up. I had never spoken about her. Well, here's Obama going on television demanding all these changes in Egypt, getting out in front of the mob, and the Egyptian foreign ministry is even suggesting that maybe Obama's speech last night had something to do with the outbreak of violence. ... It gets a little tiresome to sit here and listen to the left try to make all these bogus, fraudulent, phony connections for the express purpose of censorship, shutting us down and so forth, and here these guys are out there actually participating in it. Speaking from the White House last night, President Obama encouraged the Egyptian government to begin a peaceful transition. "An orderly transition must be meaningful, must be peaceful, and must begin now," said Obama, who also noted it's not the duty of other countries to determine who will lead Egypt. "The Egyptian people can do that," he said.