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Friday October 26, 2012 · 1:03 AM PDT

2012/10/26 · 01:03

I didn't see this mentioned, sorry if I missed it :

This is from Mitt Romney's Tumbler :

Spot the problem ?

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Thursday July 07, 2011 · 12:34 AM PDT

2011/07/07 · 00:34

From Appropriations.house.gov

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – NASA is funded at $16.8 billion in the bill, which is $1.6 billion below last year’s level and $1.9 billion below the President’s request. This funding includes:
* $3.65 billion for Space Exploration which is $152 million below last year. This includes funding above the request for NASA to meet Congressionally mandated program deadlines for the newly authorized crew vehicle and launch system.
* $4.1 billion for Space Operations which is $1.4 billion below last year’s level. The legislation will continue the closeout of the Space Shuttle program for a savings of $1 billion.
* $4.5 billion for NASA Science programs, which is $431 million below last year’s level. The bill also terminates funding for the James Webb Space Telescope, which is billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to Hubble. Originally budgeted at $4.5 billion dollars in 2005, due to cost blowouts and delays it is now budgeted at $6.5 billion dollars. The main mirror is 6 times the size of the $2 billion dollar Hubble, and yet it is half the weight, and is designed to run for 10 years without the possibility of being serviced by a shuttle program that won't even exist anyway. The JWST was planned be launched by an Ariane V rocket from French Guiana, as the United States does not have a suitable heavy launch vehicle available.

If cancelled, this will be the third cancelled NASA observatory programs in the last 5 years, joining the Terrestial Planet Finder, the Space Interferometry Mission in the past two years.

Australian CSIRO : "Climate Change is Real"

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Sunday March 14, 2010 · 4:16 PM PDT

2010/03/14 · 16:16

In a joint release today, two of Australia's most apolitical institutions have directly attacked global warming sceptics who claim that global warming is not happening. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have issued a six page easy to read snapshot (940kb PDF) of the Australian Climate, showing how it has changed over the last 60 years and hitting back at the "smokescreen of denial" that has covered the media in the last few months.

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Sunday September 13, 2009 · 11:35 AM PDT

2009/09/13 · 11:35

So, getting towards the end of browsing the images people had taken for more additions to to this image, I started noticing a trend.

After using Publicly Funded Transportation and Publicly Funded Roads to get to the Publicly Funded sidewalks to walk to the Publicly Funded Parks, at the end of their protest, what did these haters of Government Interference do ?

They threw their rubbish down for the Publicly Funded garbagemen & women of Washington DC to take care of. Carrying home all those thin sheets of Cardboard was obviously the task of someone with a larger work ethic.

More below, with an added sting.

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 3:51 AM PDT

2009/09/09 · 03:51

(Just a quick diary for your morning coffee)

With the 9/12 circus rolling into town, here is a nice image summarizing some of the wonderfully mangled language used in protester signs up to date. I'm sure we'll see some more examples in the next few days

( Just a little warning - the full image size is 5598 pixels x 3310 pixels, file size is 1.827 megabytes. )

For a full transcript, a nice collection of misplaced apostrophes, and some serious your/you're abuse see below :

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 12:36 AM PDT

2009/08/17 · 00:36

Three weeks ago on the Something Awful boards, poster Mourning Due started a thread called "Sick of hearing my country bashed in Congress, so: Healthcare Stories", calling on people in the United States, Canada, England, Australia and other people to :

...post our experiences with the health care systems of our countries. Doesn't matter if they're negative experiences with the Canadian system or positive experiences with the American one, let's hear some real personal anecdotes as to how we've been treated and how much we've paid.

Three weeks later, the thread is filled with over 40 pages of trauma, disasters, pain, loss and soul-crushing agony, and what it cost for the victims.

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 7:23 PM PDT

2009/07/16 · 19:23

Summary of story at The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

Not much information at the moment - around 40 minutes ago two bombs exploded at the Marriot and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta. The Ritz-Carlton has lost it's facade so it suggests that it was a bomb outside the building, no word on damage at the Marriot.

Initial reports are at least 4 deaths at the Marriot, and 3 injuries at the Ritz Carlton. Police are saying there have been 4 foreign deaths.

It's currently assumed that it's another attack by Jemaah Islamiyah, who also attacked the buildings in 2003, killing 12.

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 · 6:10 AM PST

2008/12/17 · 06:10

In 2006, legendary scientist Dr Robert Bussard Gave a speech entitled "Should Google Go Nuclear", where he proposed that Google could build a 100 Megawatt Inertial Electrostatic Confinement reactor for less then their annual electricity bill.

Dr Bussard had been working on the design on a shoestring budget for the US Navy since 1987, right up to his death in 2007. The current research program was continued by Dr Richard Nebel, and today a peer review panel could not find any reason why it should not work.

This doesn't mean that it will work, it's just that there's no obvious flaw in the concept.

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Sunday January 06, 2008 · 3:25 PM PST

2008/01/06 · 15:25

Many people are familiar with surveys that claim that only a small percentage of Americans "believe" in Evolution. Surveys have come out in the past showing as that creationism is in the Majority.

This month the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology have an editorial around their a survey that gives a somewhat more optimistic view, and suggests that politicians claiming to support Creationism may have hitched their cart to the wrong Equus caballus

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 2:39 AM PST

2007/12/21 · 02:39

In a public relations coup for the New Australiann Government, Japan has agreed to drop the 50 Humpbacks from their planned 'Research' whaling for 2007-2008. They still plan to kill 950 minke whales and 50 fin whales, though.

In the last week, the Labor Government laid out a series of plans to shadow the Japanese fleet with RAAF recon aircraft and customs vessels to document the slaughter and then use it in evidence in a international court action.

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Sunday September 23, 2007 · 2:37 AM PDT

2007/09/23 · 02:37

Journalists in Australia received a 10 page file on a member of John Howard's government claiming that he was gay, that he attended bathhouses, and that he was having male affairs with members of his staff.

No paper published that accused's name, however a few places did accuse the opposition Labor government of trying a smear. But this morning one of the veteran journalists revealed who had given him the file in the first place.

The source was also member of John Howard's Government, who was looking to swing factional numbers his way by removing a left-leaning member of his own party.

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Thursday September 06, 2007 · 10:07 PM PDT

2007/09/06 · 22:07

When Dick Cheney was here in Australia in February, this banner was shown to the crowd in a media beat-up stunt:

Now George Bush turns up, and the same tiny rent-a-crowd turns up. They had to go with a refurbished banner, and they just chucked a new name on :

The pro bush demonstration was outnumbered by photographers, media, police and anti-bush demonstrators.

So, are they out of money, or just out of ideas ?

Sorry for the bad pictures, they were grabbed from a video where a anti-bush protester squirted tomato sauce onto the sign. Don't worry, I'm sure there will be much high resolution ones on Fox and Drudge in a few hours.

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The literal Trash of September 12th, 2009

Misspelled Protest Signs aka the Low Hanging Fruit ...

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Marriot and Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta bombed, 10 dead, 50 injured

Pollywell Fusion Reactor passes peer review

FASEB Survey : Creationists are in the minority.

Japan backs down on the Humpback Whale hunt.

'US Style' smear politics backfire badly in Australia

Oz 'Pro-Bush' demonstrators either broke or out of ideas.