I doubt this will make 60 Minutes

TCS: Tech Central Station - The Real Abuse at Guantanamo

Bush Speech

FOXNews.com - Politics - Transcript: Bush Speech on Iraq says it eloquently and well. Of course, the critics will be all over it. The comparison with Viet Nam is true only if we allow the nay-sayers and doom preachers to undermine our will to take this to a successful conclusion. Then, and only then, will the lives of those service members be lost for a worthless cause. I noticed that the soldiers in the audience applauded the speech.

Climate Audit � House of Representatives Committee

Climate Audit � House of Representatives Committee demands of the NSF Mann's source code and data for his infamous hockey stick. It will be interesting to see if the data and algorithms are produced for peer review.

No News Week

A week's vacation to see the three eldest and, almost, no news. If you are a news junkie, then you should take a week away. On the way back, I discovered that the Republicans still don't like democrats and Democrates still don't like republicans. Everyone should take a week without news.

One of the more interesting items I discovered while listening to Fox on Sirius on the very long drive back was the flap over Rove's statements about liberals. The Dems are up in arms over them. They seem to believe that they haven't said very similar (in tone) things about the Bush administration. It is all politics as usual. I also remember some saying since 9/11 things that fit Rove's comments. It is all for political gain, and to hell with the country if they aren't in charge.

And the MP's are non-combatants

Soldier Earns Silver Star for Her Role in Defeating Ambush. To quote "Ranting Prof's" YOU GO GIRL

SGT Hester did, according to reports, a hell of a job and deserves the Silver Star. In fact, all members of the 617th deserve the awards received.

Just wonder if the Islamists attacking the convoy realize they were whipped by a girl?

Seriously, any soldier in that type of war is in combat. Women are in combat and it should be recognized as such.

A Big Win for Reading NSR regs as written, not as wished

Duke Energy Did Not Break Law, Court Says

All the scares fit to debunk

TCS: Tech Central Station - Julian Simon Would Be Proud. Great article on how the alarmists are usually wrong.

It wouldn't make a bad B movie

Public Health Advocates Cite Lack of Risk Notice on Potato Chip Bags because the chips may contain trace quantities of AMD. Let's see, we've been eating cooked starches for thousands of years and no traceable link to cancer. Acrylamide is a neurotoxin when exposed to extremely large doses. For example, workers in acrylamide production and product manufacturing need to take special precautions, especially when used in the dry form. However, studies have shown that these workers do not have any increased risk of cancer. I'd like the prop 65 advocates to show me any evidence that eating fried potatos, baked bread, french fries, etc gives one an increased risk of stomach cancer.

A check of the National Cancer institute does not support this claim. In fact, Japanese have the highest rates of stomach cancer, but it drops when they immigrate to the land of fried foods (the US). It is thought that the advent of refrigeration reduces the incidents of this cancer. One of the causes is a bacterial infection.

Junk Science in Action in the land of fruits and nuts.

We Are Our History -- Don't Forget It

We Are Our History -- Don't Forget It I know I couldn't have said it better.

link found on Power Line

Twin Towers-controlled demolition

UPI Hears... - (United Press International) " Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7."

And I guess the pictures of 747's hitting the towers were faked, too.

Gee, a degree in economics gives you all the power of a civil engineer as well as knowing macro from micro.

Wonder why this bright light of brilliance is a "former" member of the Department of Labor?

Club Gitmo

I've been listening to Rep. Hunter's Gitmo meals. Not bad, but I bet it has all the taste as most mass-prepared meals. And the residents don't have any but the limited choice of the cycle. They should give the MRE's, but, I understand that feeding prisoners and detainee's MRE's violates the laws of war. Now, if it were the eggs and hominy grits T-Rat's, I'd go along with cruel and unusual punishment.

We should send these folks back home in defiance of the federal judge's ruling that in doing so, we couldn't send them to places that would actually torture them and kill them.

The more I read about these peaceful hijackers of Islam, the more I think we are being much too nice to them.

Egyptians on the hijacking of Islam

MEMRI: Latest News covers some interesting reading from several Egyptians on the hijacking of Islam by the Muslim Brotherhood. For the US version see Powerline for links to
the big pharoh taken over by the US version of the Muslim Brotherhood. If half if this is true, then it is of some concern.

Anti-Factory Farm Group

Lawsuit Targets Farm's Treatment of Sows - Yahoo! News. suit about the evil treatment of brood sows. A visit to their website and, you guessed it, a guide to Vege living.

I'd laugh, but some folks really believe in this nonsense

Virtual Eutrophication

Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium has a scary title and raises concerns. However, it is a modelling study. Carpenter is not looking at eutrophic lakes, but is trying to model the amount of phosphorus in the soil and its potential affect on the lake. Wonder how real data compares to the projections.

Virgina Union at the White House

TimesDispatch.com | 'A great honor' for Panthers who won the Div II national BB championships. The President could have spent some time with them. I'm sure he would do it for (spit, cough, spit) UNC (I'm a diehard Wolfpack alum). However, according to this piece, the players were thrilled to be at the White House. I do wish Bush had found the time to really pump these kids up.

The System Works. It would work better if the press coverage dies quickly.

TimesDispatch.com | AP News. Jackson is acquitted by a jury. His innocence or guilt may be debated for sometime, but the prosecution failed to make a case that convinced the jury.

Our legal system may, or may not, let someone who is guilty go free. It is up to the prosecution to make a compelling case. Failing that, the accused should walk. For all the gripes about the OJ trial, this is exactly what happened, the prosecution failed to make a convincing case.

Now, let's hope that the media gets off the Jackson case and finds some real news.

Personally, I have no use for Jackson and think he is not a very nice person. However, I'm not allowed to make life or death decisions based on my personal likes or dislikes.

Our Sins at Gitmo

Power Line has comments from Dr. Brian Byer "Our readers speak" discussing the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo. Dr. Byer makes a very weak comparison of the treatment of prisoners with the terrible things that Seals, Rangers and other go through in training. The comparison fails when one realizes that the US service members who get this traiing are volunteers. They volunteer for this abuse. They can leave and they know that it will be over at a defined time and they will be out having beer and steak telling war stories. The prisoners at Gitmo (and other places) do not have that luxury.

Aside from the weak comparison, what is being done at Gitmo is legal. It may not be nice. It is certainly not as bad as our enemies such as the North Vietnamese, North Koreans, Germans and Japanese inflicted on us. The people at Gitmo are terrorists who do not value human life, except as guided bombs, are part of the organization that attacked us. They are getting better than they deserve. In fact, we should offer to return many of them to their home countries and see how many takers we have. The treatment they are getting at Gitmo is much better than the treatment they would receive if returned home. I understand that some can't be sent home because a federal judge has decreed that we can't return them if they might get tortured at home.

For all of Osama's fellow travelers in the press and the Congress, remember it is the US that was attacked. It is our citizens who were murdered. The killers, if not checked would gladly add thousands more Americans to the body count. I have absolutely no sympathy for them. I expect our soldiers to stay within the law, but I do not expect them to love and coddle these killers.

The Religion of Peace?

MEMRI: Latest News contains an article of concern over the attitudes of the western Muslims. It seems that a lot of them survive on pure hatred. If their hatred of the west is so great, then why stay here? Could the answer lie in the fact that the west is a much better place to live and raise a family than where they came from? Yet many want to reproduce those Islamic nivarna's in the west.

Kerry: The New Al Gore

Kerry: The New Al Gore by Daniel McKirvergan in the Weekly Standard covers Kerry's whining about the "Downing Street" memo which as been around since 2002 and is a report of impressions of impressions of impressions of conversations by un-named people. Gee, that's even below the Newsweek standard of proof.

The gist is that Kerry is playing the Al Gore "I was robbed and should be president" card. Only Kerry has less to complain about than Gore, since the 2004 election was not all that close. We can't even hear "Bush didn't win the popular vote."

It is pure speculation but I think the 2004 election would not have been as close as it was if it were not for the rabid Bush haters. I think most people saw Kerry as an absolute phony. Kerry has spent his life running for President. He tried to become a small-boat war hero like Kennedy. He then plays his whole electrion based on a 3-month combat tour trying to rackup as many medals as possible and then vamoosing. Kerry picks up the VVAW and tries to drive that tired horse to political advancement then drops it in favor of the "war hero" stand. His whole campaign for president was an attempt to contrast himself as the war hero while Bush was a draft dodger. In doing so, he tried to return to the golden days of yesteryear, the '70's, and refight the anti-Viet Nam war. Absolutley the wrong tactic. His display of phoniness was the infamous goosehunt, in which he claimed to have shot a goose but somehow didn't bring one back. A staged media event that he couldn't pull off for fear of offending his anti-hunting base. Kerry lost because he came through as a phony. Most people saw through that.

I really wonder if he believes that if he can impeach Bush somehow we will return to Nov. 2004 and he will be elected President. Seems to me that Dick Chaney would become president or Tom DeLay. I don't see Kerry in the line of succession.

And there are some people out there who really believed he should have been elected. Absolutely amazing.

Mark Steyn says it all

The Spectator.co.uk column by Mark Steyn is excellent. Mugabe can raze a mosque, some fanatic (muslim) can blow up a mosque and kill 20 people and not one single word of protest comes out of Islam or the western left. Yet, 5 very minor incidents by the US at Gitmo and the world is seething with outrage.

The outrage is that the Muslims really don't seem to care if some members of their sect visciously murder, maim and torture others, nor to they seem to think protest is necessary when an absolute psycho like Mugabe razes one of their holy places. If they think the US is the sole source of all the problems in the Muslim world they should look from their self-desicrated holy books into a mirror, that is, if the Koran allows mirrors for self-study.

Found link on Power Line which didn't say much. They don't have to, Steyn says it all. However, I'm getting tired of hearing the leftists beat on the US when it is increasingly obvious that their care for the poor and downtrodden of the world extends no farther than advancing their agenda.

Chlorination of Drinking Water

FOXNews.com - Views - Junk Science - Enviros, Homeland Security Threaten Drinking Water Safety summarizes the benefits of the use of chlorine in drinking water. The alternatives (ozone or uv) are very effective at killing pathogens but offer no residual protection. Chlorine in our water is one of the things that has reduced the infant mortality rate and extended the life expectancy for all of us. How many of us are worried about getting some disease from our drinking water?

Some enviros have made chlorination a cause celebre. Frankly, if they want unchlorinated water, let them have it. Just let the rest of us have a safer public water supply...the one with a bit of chlorine in it.

Gee, some of it is natural.

The Scientist :: "Industrial" Pollutants Reveal a Surprising Origin , Jun. 6, 2005: discusses research at Woods Hole indicating that some of the PDBE found in whale blubber are of natural origin. The article also discusses perceptions on pesticides toxicity and synthetic chemical fears. It seems we have been preconditioned to believe that "synthetic" equals bad. I do take exception at the use of "the infamous pesticide DDT". Let's see, DDT is credited with saving millions of lives. It is still the most effective chemical for fighing malaria, but we don't use it. Yep, it does cause egg-shell thinning when fed in conjunction with a low calcium diet.

The question is do the enviro's just not care that their opposition to DDT results in millions of deaths or are they satisfied with the progress of the genocide?

If they aren't US Citizens, send the home NOW

WorldNetDaily: U.S. Muslims desecrate American flag. I found this on Powerline via Michelle Malking. I made the mistake of watching the video and am burning up. As the Powerline guys noted the "activists" were announcing that you could do things like this in America "we have a permit" and there would be no reprecussions as there are in other countries.

These idiots support the worldwide jihad to turn this country and other democracies into muslim theocracies where basic freedoms we take for granted do not exist.

I support the right of citizens to protest. I've even been against the folks who want to stop desecration of the flag because I believe in the right of a citizen's free speech.. The leader of this group is a "student" who continues to agitate for his belief in the muslim takeover and has been quoted as saying that he wishes to participate in the murder of Americans.

The flag is a piece of cloth. It is the symbol of the United States. The symbol represents many things, among those the honor, history and purpose of the country. Perhaps I have been brainwashed by almost three decades of association with the military, but the national colors are a very powerful symbol to me. The wanton desecration of that symbol by people who abuse the freedoms it represents to enlist others in their crusade to destroy the country is too much.

Anyone who is not a citizen and resides in this country (legal or illegal) has certain rights conferred on them by this country. Those rights include freedom from being murdered, maimed, robbed, enslaved and others like that. They do not have the right to insult the country with impunity. That right is reserved for its citizens. They do not have the right to use our institutions for such practices. I'm sure any number of lawyers would disagree. If my feelings about these non-rights are not within the law, let's be about fixing the laws.

If these folks are not citizens then pack them up and send them home where they can practice any manner of freedom of speech they wish.

A tale of opposites

Up & Coming Magazine "Researchers are busy saving us from ourselves (and out(sic) wallets" is really good. Sunshine is good for you, it isn't good for your. Drink milk, don't drink milk. And so on. Hard to know what to believe.

Jim Knauth's comments at the end are on the spot.

link found on Junk Science

But let the regulated community use erroneous data

EPA Data Not Reliable, Business Lobby Says. The US Chamber of Commerce and others are requesting corrections on EPA databases used for various regulatory purposes. Some of the errors are a bit more than minor discrepancies. Having a 1,000,000,000 difference in the same property of benzene, that's 100,000,000,000%, isn't just a slight oversight. These databases are often used to regulate companies and decide on cleanup criteria.

The response that correcting the databases would take too much time from priority issues doesn't fly. If they can't get basic databases to agree, then just think how good their decisions on those priority issues are.

link found on Junk Science.

Name that out of the mainstream judge

Power Line contains the following piece from NRO's Bench Memo's about a judge who attacked Boy and Girl Scouting as maintaining sexual stereotypes; expressed strong sympathy for the position that there is a constitutional right to prostitution as well as a constitutional right to polygamy;proposed abolishing Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and replacing them with a single androgynous Parent’s Day;opined that a manifest imbalance in the racial composition of an employer’s work force justified court-ordered quotas even in the absence of any intentional discrimination on the part of the employer but operated his/her office in a predominantly black area and hired 0 blacks out of 50 hires.

Certainly seems out of the mainstream. The Judge is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Hijacking the 9/11 memorial

Democracy Project has an excellent piece on those who would hijack the 9/11 memorial. Citations such as the following are absolutely appalling:

Eric Foner, radical-left history professor at Columbia University who, even as the bodies were being pulled out of a smoldering Ground Zero, wrote, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." This is the same man who participated in a "teach-in" at Columbia to protest the Iraq war, during which a colleague exhorted students with, "The only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military," and called for "a million Mogadishus." The IFC website has posted Mr. Foner's statement warning that future discussions should not be "overwhelmed" by the IFC's location at the World Trade Center site itself.

Catalytic Converters for your lawn?

Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution, about 22% of the total. In retrospect, it is not such a surprising find since bacterialogical processes convert ammonia nitrogen into nitrates (and nitrates into nitrogen).

Well, I guess that's why there isn't as much photochemical smog in the desert.

Found on Junk Science ,

HoustonChronicle.com - Report says Louisiana's coastline is sinking; Texas' could be next

HoustonChronicle.com - Report says Louisiana's coastline is sinking; Texas' could be next. The Houston Chronicle covers this one pretty well. No doom and gloom and the world is ending because of man's environmental sins. The report says that there are two historical causes on the Texas Gulf coast. One is the previous use of groundwater wells which deplete the groundwater. They are going to surface water to alleviate this problem. The other is natural from the geological form of the underlying shale layer which allows compression by the tons of silt deposited from the rivers that flow into the Gulf. The second is something we can't fix.

The Gulf coast delta region was formed by the rivers' meandering over the coast and depositing silt over the area. We've channeled rivers like the Mississippi for a couple of hundred years and prevented this natural deposition. I wonder if that also affects the "lowering" since the top isn't being covered. Of course, that's a very long process and a couple of hundred years may not be enough to account for the subsidence.

Created News

The "Runaway bride" coverage is mind boggling. I'm truly amazed that the story still has play. The whole issue was a madeup event, given that about 100,000 people disappear each year without hardly any notice. The media decided to make this one a "story" and then Ms. Wilbanks cheated them by having the audacity of not being raped, murdered or otherwise harmed. When the non-story really turned into a non-story, the media turned on her. No Hacking story with a body in the dump or anything gory that would give them more hours of play, how dare she disappoint them.

Yet the story keeps on going. Wonder if there is any real news out there? Well, there is the Koran abuse dead horse to keep beating.

Media Slander : What a scandal -- five Koran abuses in 2 1/2 years

Media Slander provides a link to the Pentagon report. Other than there must be no more newsworthy stories like the runaway bride, I am hard pressed to see any story in the Koran abuse "news." As stated in the piece, the media wants to cover the Newsweek debacle. On second thought, maybe they think there is a pulitzer in this coverage.

I like the comment about the only way to get media coverage of a positive event is to throw a copy of the Koran on the ground. I'm disappointed that our glorious media want to keep pushing a story that really isn't one.

Harvard�s Diversity Grovel by Heather Mac Donald

Harvard�s Diversity Grovel by Heather Mac DonaldPower Line discussed this at length, but the read was a must. Summer's, in his futile attempts to atone for mentioning evidence-supported facts that have not been refuted, set up a task force to "solve" the problem of supposed lack of gender equity at Harvard. The task force has recommended a whole new bureaucracy, replete with a senior vice provost with special staff and privileges, renaming the current efforts for gender diversity and a new $50,000,000 kitty for hiring people they haven't been able to find.

Heather McDonald has a great review of the task force report. No wonder the cost of the supposedly lower class schools are increasing at about 10% per year if this is the class of people who gravitate toward universities. So if you are an approved minority, a professor at Harvard, making extra bucks, did you get the job because of talent or did you get it handed to you?

aarrgh!

Cheapskate that I am, I refill printer ink cartridges. Refilled the HP952 last night and ended up with nice shades of green in the pictures. Figured that either I pooched the reservoirs or the instructions were wrong. Went out today and bought a new color cartridge. Ran a test page just before I installed to new one. The refill printed perfectly. Go Figure.

And another from the realm of political correctness

CBC News: City of Yellowknife cancels Heterosexual Day because the gays, who have a "gay pride day" think giving equal treatment to heterosexuals is "bigoted and homophobic." Wonder if anyone will figure out that these folks have an agenda that is not about "equal rights," and will do everything they can to stifle freedom of speech.

from Tongue Tied

Wonder if they would recognize a real problem.

KOBTV.com - NMSU considers changing mascot. Out in the sphere of political correctness. The NMSU mascot "scares" children.

from Tongue Tied

FIRE - Thought Reform in Disguise

FIRE - Thought Reform in Disguise links to a piece on the by Harry Silvergate of the Boston Globe on the fall-out at Harvard from Summers' comments on women in science. It seems that part of the reaction is to institute training in gender bias as, eventually, part of all graduate training. This is a requiste for getting an advanced degree.

In my previous post, I was attempting to look at the teaching priorities of Schools of Education. A good number seem to believe that teaching the "right" set of political beliefs is more important than teaching teachers to teach. Harvard now puts the "correct political thought" as a prerequisite for a Doctorate. Excuse me but, what the bleeding hell does gender bias have to do with research of the required quality to obtain a doctorate in physical organic chemistry?

Apparently, political correctness is paramount. So, when I see someone with a Harvard Ph. D., I shouldn't be too impressed with his/her academic credentials, but I will know that he/she has been suitably indoctrinated in political correctness.

'Why Johnny Can't Read, a horror story

'Disposition' Emerges as Issue at Brooklyn College - May 31, 2005 - The New York Sun - NY Newspaper. Apparently in the Brooklyn College School of ecucation, if you disagree with a racist, bigoted prof, you get punished. ( I suppose hatefilled, bigoted statements in class about whites can be considered racists, but that's my worldview: Any bigoted statements about any race is racist.) The story covers "dispostions" evaluations at Brooklyn College. Unless you have and express the same political philosophy as the faculty at Brooklyn, you won't survive the school. It seems that the College believes that training prospective teachers most heavily includes political proscelytizing.

I thought the job of Schools of Education was to teach teachers to teach. For some, not so, and rather surprising what you read when you go to the various websites. The results of my unscientific study are:

The "christian" colleges are honest about their preference for getting out the teachers with Christian Values. What do you expect, they are avowedly, unashamedly Christian schools? Most wait a while to get around to the 'christian worldview" and actually talk about teaching educators.

The College of William and Mary may be outstanding because they never mention any conservative or liberal buzzwords. They proudly talk about the committment of the school to putting out the best educators possible.

The first priority of the University of Colorado, Boulder is "to promote the distinctive identity of the school by building on the already visible contributions of individual faculty members and by emphasizing our shared commitment to evidence-based policy and practice and to democracy, diversity and social justice; " (their italics, not mine). I thought that was the first priority of various political groups.

Indiana State University says "A professional college of education is distinctive in that it responds to societal imperatives derived from the public trust to educate a nation. An enlightened school of education acknowledges that its foremost focus is the general populace and the investment the public has made in public education as central to the preservation and advancement of a democracy. The character of our social fabric, the degree of our civic responsiveness, and the extent of economic vitality are inextricably tied to the quality of our elementary and secondary schools. " Yep, you sure are going to be a skilled math teacher by going there.

The Mission of the (BYU) David O. McKay School of Education is to improve learning and teaching in the school, as well as in the home, church, and community worldwide (Well they are Mormon and not ashamed of it.


"The (Virginia Commonwealth University)School of Education is committed to excellence in the initial preparation and continuing development of professionals for leadership, teaching, service and scholarly inquiry in culturally diverse settings across the life span. The School emphasizes early childhood through secondary education and lifelong learning; scholarship that extends knowledge and improves practice; and collaboration that connects the School of Education to the field of practice and supports schools and relevant educational and human service agencies." Sounds like a place you get educators from.
The faculty of the School of Education at Oswego State University believes that the role of schools is to promote authentic learning by all students. The role of educators in meeting that goal is to function as socially conscious catalysts for change who create and sustain school environments where excellence is cherished and social justice flourishes. These beliefs reflect the mission of the School of Education.

The act of weaving a braid is a visual metaphor for the interactive, recursive and transformative nature of the teaching and learning process. Educators continually weave strands of knowledge, practice, reflection, collaboration and leadership, thus creating a complex braided school fabric in which authentic learning is an everyday reality for diverse students. Concern for social justice anchors the educational process; it is the knot at the top of the braid." Gonna be a good political operative from that place.

University of Missouri, Kansas City
The mission of the School of Education is that of empowering professionals as reflective practitioners committed to a more just and democratic society." Gee I though "empowering" went out decades ago.

At Bakersfield Univesity you could become a governement regulation writer but not a teacher: The mission of the School of Education is to strengthen the foundations of democracy and equal educational opportunity through quality programs which prepare committed education professionals and counselors in the context of a linguistically and culturally pluralistic society.

PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of the School of Education has as its basis confluent education that perceives learning as the merging of cognitive, affective, social, and psychomotor domains. This belief underscores the premise that education nurtures and promotes intellectual growth and the emotional, social, and physical well being of all students with a special focus on diversity and equity." Anyone out there actually understand that?

I got this junk from the schools' websites. Most think their jobs are educating educators. Some don't think the School of Education has much to do with teaching.

Nixon, Watergate and "Deep Throat"

The American Spectator article by Ben Stein has a perspective one doesn't hear much. He is right, Nixon did a great job in all important areas. Watergate was, rightfully, his downfall. He lied and covered it up rather than letting the chips fall where they may.

I never understood why this group of yahoo's wanted to burglarize the DNC. There was nothing McGovern could do to win the election. The perps should have gone down for being arrogant and double stupid. First, there was nothing necessary in beating McGovern, he was doing a fine job of losing the election all by himself. Second, why cover it up and then commit purjury?

No heros in this, then or now.

ENVIRONMENT-SENEGAL: Local Eggs Not All They�re Cracked Up To Be?

A tale of 6 eggs collected and analyzed by a group out to show how toxic the dump in Dakar is. And, migosh, they found dioxins. Wonder if those are the only 6 eggs analyzed or only the six with dioxins? Also, the chickens were "free range" birds and everyone "knows" that those are better for you than the chicken factory variety.

I take issue with the use of "poisionous" and "linked to" all sorts of evils with dioxins as well as the statement that dioxins "typically come from refuse incineration." True, but misleading. Dioxins are trace products of almost any combustion process. Also, one wonders about the toxicity of dioxins. They didn't work as a poison in the Ukranian election. They did produce a terrible case of chloracne.

Probe: Boy Scouts Lied About Black Members

Probe: Boy Scouts Lied About Black Members. I hope it is some idiotic membership accounting problem. If the kid pays his dues, he is a member for that year even if he quits the day after he pays. Also, it is up to the Scout Troop to make sure the membership roles sent to council are accurate.