Peter_Puget

Both incidents I have mentioned are almost certainly events “orchestrated” with the willing participation of the AP. The AP is not merely an observer of events but actively participating in them. In the context of the Pulitzer prize such considerations are of great importance. I should strive to be clearer in my posts as you did not understand the point of my post from the title or understand the background of the incidents referenced. Having relatives killed in war and wounded in war, I am fairly certain “the price paid”is far greater than any individual death so the answer is no they do not represent to price of war. In any event these incidents were orchestrated media events. Are they the price of a "free" press? Is the price worth it?

The actual Pulitzer Prize for news photography goes to the "Associated Press Staff for its stunning series of photographs of bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities." One of these stunning photographs shows the Blackwater contractors strung up on the Fallujah bridge; another is the famous execution on Haifa Street. There are no pictures of the Iraqi elections. Since news by definition shows the truth, one would expect the insurgency so lovingly depicted in these AP photos to have triumphed. But since that never happened and prospects grow dimmer by the day, the Pulitzer should be awarded instead for Poetry, since according to the Greeks history is reserved for things as they are but poetry may deal with things as they should be. The award of the Pulitzer to this disgusting series of photographs should be welcomed by posterity. Fifty years hence people can look back at the work of people who called themselves journalists and judge. The photographs themselves are available at the Pulitzer website.

Dru - This is even better! Unit Structures

When I was a child I......

The route to the left of the large left facing corner on left side of wall. Not sure of names. P1 was dirty and wetish if my memory is correct. Getting to the top is easy plus you get to check out the micro crimper short routes along the top as well.

Based on Statisics Canada info!

Dru - Look at the Grand P website they claim to be the second fastest growing city right before FM. Of course they were using data as of 2001.

Walk to the top and rap in! Forget p1. One man's opinion.

Old news Dru get something more current.. by the way I am talkin' Fort McMurray Calgary is so yesterday!

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml My scratch calculation shows a bit more than 200mpg BUT I will repeat I was speaking of 500mpg of gasoline not of the fuel utilized. In addition I am not advocating those numbers. Numbers like this have been thrown around but pro-subsidy groups all over the place. link Face if we are going nuclear that much was obvious years ago when the anti – nuke movement was more popular. Anyone have any idea on what the fastest growing city is in Canada?

LOL Change fuel to gasoline. Flex fuel technology! It's been all over the news lately. The above analysis of course considers only gasoline expense. But it clearly shows the potential size of any savings. If the market cannot be moved by the huge savings available then what possible impact will any government subsidy? Well the most likely outsome is simply a misallocation of funds.

A car's annual fuel cost is ($/gallon) times (gallons/mile) times miles. So, if we drive a car 10,000 miles a year and gas costs $2.50 per gallon, then our annual fuel cost is $25,000 times the gallons per mile. If gallons/mile goes from .04 yesterday (25 miles to the gallon) to .002 "right now," our fuel bill goes from $1000 to $50 (assuming we do not increase our driving). Converting these annual savings to a present value by multiplying by 10 (corresponding to an interest rate of roughly 10 percent), we would pay $9,500 more for a car that gets 500 miles to a gallon than for a car that gets 25 miles to the gallon. The auto companies sell 15 million vehicles a year. If they could get $10,000 more per car, that would be $150 billion more per year in revenue. If the economics of the fuel-efficient car do not work for $150 billion per year, what will it take?

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A judge has awarded the former wife of a multimillionaire businessman a divorce settlement worth more than $40 million even though she admitted having affairs with her rock-climbing guide and a man she met on a flight to China. link

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link This short paper raises some interesting issues. I wonder how the press will react over time to this issue.

Norman - Are the people you are referring to given any medications at all? Will Schiavo be given any meds to offset any possible discomfort? My Uncle Charlie died of bone cancer and he stopped eating and drinking shortly before he died. Would you expect dehydration impacted him differently than it would me (in terms of physical discomfort) if I stopped drinking tomorrow?

A couple of thoughts: This is a political question. There is nothing wrong with seeing it debated in a very public manner. The very concept of a private life and a public life is of a political nature and our concept of what is public and what is private is constantly changing. Isn't this exactly how we should behave in a DEMOCRACY? Better the debate is open, inclusive and pasionate than decided in the dark chambers of some court. It strikes me odd that most of the people I have discussed this issue with are much more emotionally attached one way or the other to the whole Schiavo debate than any of them were to the debate before the Iraq War.

Is that the same BVB as on 8a.nu?

Maylou – Throughout the US the acreage designated as wilderness has growth I would say more years than not since 1964. The political machinery is firmly in place do you really think that you can predict that in 20 years no one will propose it become a Wilderness area? It seems more likely than unlikely.

Are these next on the Wilderness list: link I am not against some are designated as wild but at some point enough is enough