The Week That Was October 30, 2010   Quote of the Week For me, it is far better to grasp the  Universe as it really is than to persist in  delusion, however satisfying and  reassuring. –Carl Sagan Number of the Week 24 to 1 This Week By Ken Haapala On Oct. 29, the French Academy…

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Hans Christian Anderson’s The Emperor’s New Clothes tells the apocryphal story of an emperor who was swindled by two weavers. They told him that his new clothes, made from their wonderful lightweight new fabric, would be invisible to incompetent people. It would be a good way to identify incompetents. With fanfare, the weavers supplied him…

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Hi Everyone, Federal Parliament is beginning this week. Perhaps the biggest issue will be a carbon Tax so we need to be as active as we can be. One of the actions we want you to help with is to call for a royal commission and / or a realistic public debate on the Science…

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by Rebecca Kleefisch   Dear Friends, About two and a half weeks before I became Scott Walker’s running mate, my life changed. No doubt my life changed the night of the primary, too, but what happened before is something I want to share with you. Statewide campaigns are a rigorous business. I had traveled Wisconsin…

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Attacks on coal-mining and use would trample on hopes, progress, living standards and lives Are these people crazy? Are they so disconnected from reality that they don’t understand how vital coal is to jobs, living standards, civil rights progress and life itself? How else can anyone react to a new environmentalist campaign to erect black…

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Education Reform – The Highest Priority For All Governors Today is Monday, October 4, 2010. I will be attending a Luncheon Event in support of gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker including a truly special guest, the 55th Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. Governor Christie, elected last year in spite of huge Democrat party support and…

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