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I wish I could share his confidence but I'm not convinced that a win against Steyn and Macleans is going to inspire anything positive. It may very well end up having the opposite effect.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding on mandatory minimums is that they were the trade off when we abolished the death sentence. My understanding on "double credit for time served" (which I don't agree with) is that while a person is in jail awaiting trial, they are still technically innocent (innocent until proven guilty) so it is the court's way of acknowledging their former innocence...or some stupid thing. Insane, but that's the way we do things. In all honesty, I'm just relieved he wasn't found guilty for manslaughter, which happens with alarming frequency even when first-degree intent is obvious. Our justice system needs a serious overhaul but the jury did the best they could with what they had and ensured that he is going away. It's also interesting that they didn't exercise their right to recommend a sentence and instead left that to the judge. I would be shocked if he got anything less than 25 years, and even at that it means he's only eligible to apply for parole at that time, it doesn't mean he'll get it. The dangerous offender designation was made for people like Pickton, I hope he gets that too.

That's a fantastic interactive site you've linked. At the 25,000 - 22,000 year point (where the Bering land bridge is introduced) clicking on the book icon brings up a great summary of the 'Milankovitch hypothesis' of warming and cooling trends through the ages. This one is worth bookmarking, thanks RW!

It should be no surprise that this very flaw you point out raises considerable doubt on their peer-review process, as John McLean explains.

Oh, that's just wrong. I bet you they've been influenced by that nasty Ed the Sock Puppet. :angry:

No. The fact that you found the conclusion from the links I provided suffices for me. Same goes for your post critiquing the conclusion and a review of the heat capacity study. If you don't like the way a webpage lays out its links, take it up with them. If you don't agree with a page owner's politics, that's up to you. If you don't agree with a peer-reviewed conclusion, submit your own review, that's what the process is for. I offered links in response to your stated inability to find any peer-reviewed studies critical of man made global warming. I never asked you like the way they were presented or even to agree with them. Frankly, I couldn't care less if you do or not.

Here's 2 for you, here and here that I had no trouble locating from Marano's links. If you want the rest, I'll leave it to you to spring for the subcriptions, sign up for online access or c/p the links, depending on how interested you are.

The term "excited delirium" is a controversial one that is used primarily by medical examiners and police forces. It's not a term recognized by either the American or Canadian Medical Associations or their Physciatric counterparts. "Excited delirium was originally coined by medical researchers to describe the extreme end of a continuum of drug abuse effects such as cocaine-induced excited delirium (Ruttenber, McAnally, & WetH, 1999)." Source That's not surprising given the increased number of incidents whereby police find themselves dealing with people high on cocaine, meth, ecstacy and other popular stimulants. This article could be important if it's proven that the RCMP's recent policy change is what prompted them to more quickly (and frequently) use their tasers than what they previuosly would have. But I do have a problem if the RCMP is suggesting that a "prolonged and dangerous struggle" was an issue at YVR. There was no struggle between police and Dziekanski whatsoever before the taser was used, never mind a prolonged and dangerous one. I have a problem too in that RCMP "believed him to fit into that category" and that "someone in a full-blown excited-delirium event cannot respond to you when you try to negotiate". In this case, their "belief" may have been insufficient to accurately assess the situation and their negotiations appeared non-existant. There's a very fine line between educating police in the broader aspects of mental health and making a split-second diagnosis of more complex aspects, one of which may not even be a legitimate psyschiatric condition. They are cops and therefore need to know enough of human nature to handle people but they're not instant shrinks, nor should they be led to believe they are. An inquiry might find this new policy needs a second look.

Point taken, kengs, although we weren't all raised amid piles of cheap plastic toys. It's our good fortune at having been born into a free and prosperous society that allows our children the high standards they enjoy. See I was raised with the idea that fun meant playing hide-and-seek in the corn stalks...because we were free from hunger. Fun was pretending the oil barrel was a horse...because we were free from the cold. Fun was playing at the frog pond in summer and skating on it in winter....because we had prosperity in a little bit of land to call our own. Fun was standing in my grandpa's work boots and preteneding I was off to the big world....because we had the security of his job. Fun was watching 2 or 3 generations of family playing cards around the kitchen table or laughing around a campfire...because we had value in our roots. Fun was rolling dough around the kitchen floor while my granny baked break...because someone was home everyday to raise and love me. Fun was building huge snow forts and sledding with the neighbor kids...because, well we didn't have global warming in the 70s. That's the kind of fun I'm talking about, and those are the means by which I learned my moral teachings every day because I was free to be a child: life is meant to be enjoyed, family comes first and looks after each other, we take our responsibilities seriously, we provide for our elders and our kids, we work hard, take pride in ownership and pay respect to our past .So no, there's no rule that childhood has to be fun, you're right. It's just so much better when it is, and it doesn't have to come at the expense of someone else.

Stuff like this only helps one realize that we're fortunate in our part of the world where childhood is actually supposed to be fun, innocent and free from depravity and horror. That's not true in much of the rest of the world.

According to Utah State Code, this is how an arrest is supposed to be made: 77-7-6. Manner of making arrest. (1) The person making the arrest shall inform the person being arrested of his intention, cause, and authority to arrest him. Such notice shall not be required when: (a) there is reason to believe the notice will endanger the life or safety of the officer or another person or will likely enable the party being arrested to escape; (B ) the person being arrested is actually engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, an offense; or © the person being arrested is pursued immediately after the commission of an offense or an escape. The cop didn't place the driver under arrest when he told him to get out of the car, he simply said to get out, which the driver did. The cop walked toward his car and as he put his ticket book down on the bumper said "put your hands behind your back" and then pulled out his Taser at the same time he was turning around to face the guy. Is that what cops are doing now, pulling out their Tasers before there's any threat of violence or escape like this guy did? The driver was an idiot for walking away and being so obnoxious about the ticket, but the cop did not make an arrest according to Utah state law because he didn't inform the guy of his intentions and none of the exemption clauses fit with what we saw on the video. I don't see anything "textbook" about it. They were both in the wrong. To those who think he resisted arrest and deserved to get tased, at exactly what point in the video was he even placed under arrest, and for what? The cop has two ways of dealing with an unsigned ticket -- write on it "refuses to sign" or make an arrest. Easy way or hard way, his call. I agree with you, Drea...the idea of using the tool of communication seems to be underutilized.

Rather than give you a series of links I'll just give you Marc Morano's roundup. There should be more than enough links here for you perusal. It's good that you want peer reviewed information from the GW skeptics. I assume that you also hold the opposing views to the same standard, but I wonder what it says about the peer review process that Michael Mann's so-called Hockey Stick theory passed peer review and was included in the IPCC's 2001 report as a key finding. From there it was used as a basis of argument for countless papers on the anthropogenic view of GW. The Hockey Stick theory has since been widely discredited, in part because some have found it impossible to reproduce Mann's findings -- one of the difficulties being that he refused to disclose his data when challenged. Scientific American ranked him as one of the top 50 influential voices in science, even though he has been forced to retract some of his original data, and yet he still defends his theory. There have also been other questions raised about the IPCC peer review process in general, specifically in John McLean's article.

I think we're past the point of assigning blame and should be focusing on recommendations to ensure this doesn't have to happen again, especially in light of the coming Olympics to BC. Licia Corbella's recent column makes the recommendation that YVR install closed circuit video cameras in the arrivals lounge (where Dziekanski's mother was waiting) that show arrivals coming off the plane and through customs...similar to what they have at Calgary airport and others. If she had been able to see that he had safely arrived she wouldn't have left thinking he'd missed his plane and it's safe to assume she'd have had a far easier time in getting someone to locate him and steer him in the right direction. My understanding is that she had erroneously told him to wait by the baggage claims carrousel when he should have in fact kept moving to the arrivals lounge area. Seems like a no-brainer recommendation to me. I'm sure the various inquiries will make similar recommendations to bring YVR up to speed as an international airport.

I don't know. What's your definition of legitimate -- Al Gore and Michael Mann? Source Carter's publication record.

Go to youtube and search for Prof Bob Carter's lecture series on the data of GW. It's in 4 parts but the third addresses the question of CO2 emissions. The pace isn't what you may think it is.