This clock is really cool.  Even cooler than the Industrious Clock.

Seanbaby.com:  “This site is intended for people over 18, but only because kids shoot each other if they hear the word ‘fuck.’”

I heard a sound bite yesterday in which President Bush announced his administration’s new air quality standards.  In justifying the need for change, he stated that U.S. power plants are putting “tons” of pollution into the air every year.

This is one of the situations in which a politician’s statement is technically correct but completely out of scale with

reality.  According to 1999 EPA figures cited in the Public Interest Research Group‘s

paper “Lethal Legacy: The Dirty Truth About the

Nation’s Most Polluting Power Plants“, the figures for U.S. power plant annual emissions are as follows:

• SO₂: 20.4 million tons
• NO_x: 23.3 million tons
• CO₂: 6 billion tons

So yes, technically, if you are putting six billion tons of pollution into the air, you are putting tons of pollution into the air.  In that spirit, here are some comparable statements in terms of scale distortion:

“Bill Gates has tens of dollars.”

“The Earth is centimeters in circumference at the equator.”

“The human body contains tens of thousands of cells.”

“Light travels hundreds of miles per month.”

“There’s a person on the Earth.”

On the Israeli siege of the West Bank, Mr. Terje Roed-Larsen, UN Special Co-ordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, writes that the devastation left by Israeli forces is “horrific beyond belief. … [The Jenin camp] is totally destroyed, it looks like an earthquake has hit it. … We have expert people here who have been in war zones and earthquakes and they say they have never seen anything like it. … It is totally unacceptable that the government of Israel for 11 days did not allow search and rescue teams to come.” [emphasis added]

President Bush continues to describe Ariel Sharon as “a man of peace.”

Now is the time to make yourself aware of what is really going on.  Do not just accept the U.S. spin of this being a war against terrorism.  Contact our representatives, tell them that the U.S. cannot stand idly by, let alone fan the flames, as this genocide continues.

Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1937000/1937387.stm

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