Under The Hill

Robrief no. 1: Polar bears can tough it out
Polar bears are amazing, hardy survivors and quite very capable in surviving and adapting in the harshest, ever-changing, ever-shifting environment. There have been a recent spate of alarms and concerns about polar bears in the media due to nonsensical global warming hype. Especially the last week’s announcement by the Bush administration to place polar bears under a threatened species protection status, an understandable move to protect the polar bears not from the melting glacial ice BS but from future illegal poaching and sport-hunting by the indigenous tribes (and wealthy hunters paying big money for the thrills).

However, there’s a whole other reason for placing the great white northern bear under that status: the recent move by Russia to lay territorial claim to the Arctic seabed, for there is a vast but unproven repository of oil and gas deep under the Arctic continental shelf. That move angered Canada, the United States, and Denmark, since the Arctic shelf also fell under the Canadian, American and Dutch territories. Furthermore, oil companies have poured in great amount of money in R/D of ultra-deep drilling technology for several years but politics and alarmist concerns about global warming have hampered the effort to put ultra-deep drilling technology into practical usage, except Russia going ahead with it. But, by placing the polar bear under threatened species status, the US and Canada could feel justified to protect the Arctic range for the sake of polar bears.

Unlike people being so awey-cutesey with poor, helpless polar bears floating on melting ice pieces, I’m not worried about the baloney media-inspired plight of polar bears. Face it, people: polar bears CAN swim for up to 100 miles anywhere, have an amazing ranging ability as long as there are plenty of food sources under the water (seals and whales are polar bears’ yummy, tasty meals) and do not need ice/snow to survive. They have survived much warmer periods in the Arctic in the distant past, few times in fact. Nigel Marven, a zoologist who spent few months studying and filming the polar bears last year said this:

“I think climate change is happening, but as far as the polar bear disappearing is concerned, I have never been more convinced that this is just scaremongering. People are deliberately seeking out skinny bears and filming them to show they are dying out. That’s not right,”

You can read all the statements from credible scientists putting kiboshes to the whole baloney of polar bear plight from the media and GW alarmists HERE.

Polar bear is the apex of all the land mammal species in the world. They’re so tough and resilient and they will survive for another several thousand years in colder or warmer periods, whether on ice or on dry land. As long as there are big bull walruses to snag and snack on. (warning: extreme graphic videos)

Robrief no. 2: Deaf man was on Judge Joe Brown show
This afternoon, while on break from work, I was watching Judge Joe Brown show and there was a segment about a deaf man suing a hearing man for the damage to the deaf man’s car windows, as result of the hearing man’s throwing beer bottles at the deaf man. The deaf man was named David Read from Shakopee and the show had an ASL interpreter for him. David Read claimed he assumed the hearing man to be interesting in him but apparently miscommunication and misunderstanding ensued when the hearing man became angry with David and threw a beer bottle at his car, shattering the windows. Judge Brown was hard on David, asking inquisitive questions and David simply reiterated over and over the incident and he claimed he cannot speak but Judge Brown almost didn’t believed him since he looked at the police report and stated that David did spoke to the police about the hearing man. Whatever. I don’t know how the story ended since my 15 minutes was up and it’s back to work (that segment ran for half-hour instead of the usual two 15 minutes case segments). Does anyone know of David Read and what’s his story about?

Robrief no. 3: Alright, Hillary, what are you implying?
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out. ~ From the NYPost article today.

Robrief no. 4: Jupiter is reeling from climate change!
The horror of so many gases heating up the atmosphere, resulting in Jupiter have a new red spot. Dang those billion SUV drivers driving around too much and the oil companies getting richer in Jupiter! There ought to be a Congressional hearing! Send up Al Gore to teach those Jupiterans some inconvenient lessons at once.

Robrief no. 5: Arthur Culvahouse as Vice President nominee for McCain?
Interesting - picking a Reagan alumni to run a search for a Vice President nominee for the McCain campaign, which, back in 2000, Culvahouse even counseled Dick Cheney, who was supposed to pick a VP nominee for Bush, to become the VP nominee for Bush! This is going to be an interesting process for the McCain campaign.

Robrief no 6: The Nightmare Ticket of 2008: McCain/Obama/Clinton!
Heh.