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November 9, 2008In the first of what I assume will be many examples of why you don’t elect someone who has never once led anything to be President of the United States, Barack Obama’s public statement about the future of our missile defense system in Poland does not match what he told the leader of Poland in private.
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Remember when Joe Biden told two crowds that Barack Obama was going to be tested by a manufactured international crisis within his first 6 months as President because of his inexperience and weak stand on defense?
“Gird your loins,” Biden told the crowd. “We’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride.”
Putin Plans To Return As Russian President
Democrat Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy has been hospitalized after complaining that he felt ill. Since May, Kennedy has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor. His condition or the reason surrounding the hospital stay are unknown.
UPDATE: Local news in Boston is reporting that Kennedy was hospitalized after suffering a “minor seizure.”
UPDATE: AP reports Kennedy has returned home. Aides say the seizure was due to a change in medicine.
The world’s largest particle collider, an 18-mile long behemoth machine called the Large Hadron Collider that lies 300 feet beneath the French / Swiss border, will be fired up on Wednesday. Supporters say it will provide an almost endless stream of vital physics information, none of which I will ever understand. There are a few who think that it will create a black hole under the earth that will travel to the planet’s core and implode it from within.
This doesn’t sound promising.
“We have had some last-minute problems,” said Dr Bailey, who has spent 30 years at Cern [the location of the LHC].
The LHC is a giant racetrack around which two streams of protons will run in opposite directions before smashing into each other. The debris is the important stuff, hopefully providing insights into the nature of mass, alternative dimensions and the dark matter and energy that is thought to make up most of the universe.
But to achieve the collisions you need lots of electromagnets to hem the protons in and keep them on target. And to get really powerful electromagnets you need to keep them cold – very, very cold. To within a few degrees of absolute zero, in fact.
This was the problem on Monday. The LHC’s enormous cooling system failed partially, raising the temperature to the intolerably high temperature of minus 269 degrees C or so.
There are going to be about 300 journalists present when the machine is powered up at 3:30 AM Eastern Time, so we’ll be sure to find out quickly that it’s all Bush’s fault when the thing explodes.
Tamara Urushadze, a Georgian television reporter on the front lines in her war torn country, was hit by sniper fire during a live report and continued reporting.
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