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From Rush Limbaugh: The Rush Limbaugh program and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, coming to you as always as America's anchorman from the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. We've got some great news here. Listen here, folks. The Congressional...

And so it begins: NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Jewish settlers blocked Gaza's most hardline enclaves on Monday to stop soldiers delivering eviction notices launching a pullout that Israel says will end its 38-year occupation of the coastal strip....

Professor PP at the SD War College as an interesting post about the culture war. In this excerpt he points out that this war includes the children:The culture wars are the result of two sides trying to find a balance...

War games seen as 'message'

A joint Chinese and Russian military exercise set to begin tomorrow is meant as a political signal to the United States, in addition to helping Moscow showcase its weapons for sale to China, U.S. defense and intelligence officials said yesterday.

Join in with the ostrich wing of the Donks - close your eyes and repeat the mantra: "The cold war is over. The threat from Russia is gone."

On the other hand...more realistically, it behooves us to keep our powder dry.

A reader passes on this very informative article about the success, or lack thereof, of technology in the classroom. Read the whole thing, as they say. There are some highlights:These lackluster findings were consistent with middle school test results obtained...

I recently blogged on an NCAA ruling denying schools with abusive or hostile mascots/nicknames the right to participate in NCAA post-season play. The NCAA directive seems to be aimed at schools with Native American mascots. The University of North Dakota...

Lions on the plains would alter order of the food chain

First came the Princeton University spawned idea to return the Great Plains to what was called a "buffalo commons". (No farmers/ranchers need apply.) Now comes this idiocy of converting areas of the US plains into a new edition of the Serengeti, complete with AFRICAN type lions, etc.

Lions in your back yard?...Well, maybe, if a group of prominent ecologists gets to establish a "Pleistocene Park" on the Great Plains. Authors of the plan -- which appears in today's issue of the journal Nature -- say their idea to transplant African wildlife to North America could save many of the animals from extinction.

Oooooh Kaaaaaay. First these moonbats need to relocate their apartments to the middle of the Serengeti - without fences or doors. After a couple of years of this field testing THEN let's hear their ideas. No, let's not - throw them to the lions, and give them their great opportunity to contribute THEMSELVES to the food-chain.

Why is it that these eastern moonbat academics have all these great ideas on what to do with the rest of us out here on the plains. They must truly think that THEY are the only one's who have the intellectual understanding to decide the best way to manage the planet and all of it's occupants - including their fellow citizens.

"Obviously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators. There are going to have to be some major attitude shifts.

Attitude shift? To becoming an item of catfood? Not in THIS life!

That includes realizing predation is a natural role, and that people are going to have to take precautions."

Right, dude. It's MY natural role to kill animals that try to eat me. I'll take precautions, alright. How's about a semi-auto 30-06 with a 20 round clip?

Nevertheless, the scientists say the relocated animals could restore biodiversity on this continent to a condition closer to what nature was like before humans overran the landscape.

This statement is just plain illogical. Bringing AFRICAN wildlife into North America is RESTORING biodiversity to the continent? It seems to the Chief (who has a biology degree) that this is REPLACING the continent's biodiversity. (At least the buffalo commons idea used North American animals.) I'm not alone in reaching this conclusion:

Some scientists and conservationists, however, hoot. "It is not restoration to introduce animals that were never here," says University of Washington anthropologist Donald K. Grayson. "Why introduce Old World camels and lions when there are North American species that could benefit from the same kind of effort?"

Phew! At least SOME reason isn't gone from academia!

There WAS a time in the history of western civilization when this sort of plan was followed to some extent:

Light blogging in the next day or two while I take care of some projects. See you later....

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