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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

NAIROBI-MOMBASA RETURN—ON THE LUNATIC LINE

The LUNATIC LINE is the name given to the railroad built around the turn of the 20th century, from MOMBASA on the east African coast through NAIROBI to KISUMU on LAKE VICTORIA. Often called the Uganda Railway, its route can be seen on THIS MAP.
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I’ve always wanted to ride this train…..(OK, OK….we didn’t get to ride behind THAT engine…...)

Posted by Earl on 12/15 at 02:33 PM
2009 SUMMER TRIP - Kenya, England, Paris • MOMBASA • Comments •

Sunday, December 13, 2009

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO FRIENDS, RELATIVES, and LOVED ONES

2009 has been a year of incredible changes for the Earl & Gail Aagaard household. Here is how we spent the year:
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Posted by Earl on 12/13 at 11:38 PM
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WHAT DO YOU CALL A MAN WITH NO ARMS….............THAT SHOOTS PAR?

Butch Lumpkin was born with no arms…..but he got a GIANT heart to compensate.
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Yes, of course he tees the ball up for himself…...and he doesn’t have to stoop over to do it, either!
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You are not going to BELIEVE THIS VIDEO

Posted by Earl on 12/13 at 04:25 PM
Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS • HEROES • Sports • Comments •

Sunday, December 06, 2009

WHAT UNDER THE SUN IS “CLIMATEGATE”? UPDATED, UPDATED AGAIN!

I’ve posted several times about Global Warming (click on Environment in the list to the left), and will do so again. But a major development occurred a couple of weeks ago, and the major news outlets in the United States are not doing a very good job of informing the public about it (surprise, suprise!)

Some background: I have long been a skeptic of Al Gore’s campaign to scare us into doing economically damaging things in order to avoid the CLIMATE CATASTROPHE that he INSISTS IS IMMINENT.
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Part of my skepticism is that the actual source of heat for our earth, the sun, is pretty much being ignored….while great emphasis is placed on a minor fraction of the gases known to be trapping heat, a service that is preventing us from turning into a giant ice-ball. And that fraction is carbon dioxide, a gas essential to plant growth, that just happens(?) to be produced by automobiles, power plants, and other things that Al has been preaching against for decades. The fact that Mr. Gore is getting immensely wealthy off his campaign doesn’t increase my tendency to trust him.

HERE IS THE BEST SUMMARY currently available of what has happened, and what it may mean. Just to whet your appetite, I’ll give you some samples:

...And now the climate campaign is having its Emperor’s New Clothes moment.

In mid-November a large cache of emails and technical documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Britain were made available on a number of Internet file-servers for download by the public—either the work of a hacker or a leak from a whistleblower on the inside. The emails—more than 1,000 of them—reveal a small cabal of scientists who, in the words of MIT’s Michael Schrage, engaged in “malice, mischief and Machiavellian maneuverings.” In an ironic twist, one of the frequent correspondents in this long e‑trail (University of Arizona scientist Jonathan Overpeck) warned several of his colleagues in September, “Please write all emails as though they will be made public.” Small wonder why. It’s being called Climategate, but more than one wit is calling them “the CRUtape Letters.”

Posted by Earl on 12/06 at 02:22 AM
Science • Environment • News • Politics • International • Comments •

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