Wednesday, September 03, 2008

The Oil Drum: Peak Oil Update - August 2008: Production Forecasts and EIA Oil Production Numbers

Recently on the Colbert Report

Bob Barr


and Scott McClellan

Ron Paul @ the Rally for the Republic

6 parts:
Rally For The Republic
Rally For The Republic
Rally For The Republic
Rally For The Republic
Rally For The Republic
Rally For The Republic

on Fox News (9/3/08); Ron Paul on Glenn Beck 09/03/08

News conference on Tuesday:
Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic News Conference 1 of 2
Part 2

Ron Paul Campaign For Liberty/ rally for the republic
CI: The Wonder Girls Are Ones to Watch Say Brits

haha

Virgin Media: Girl groups: the ones to watch


Lee Bul - Eternity MV Teaser
Lee Bul - Forever MV Teaser

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Photos: Benedict XVI


Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful in the Paul VI hall of the Vatican during his weekly audience on August 27, 2008. The pontiff on August 27 "firmly condemned" Hindu-Christian violence in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, which he said had "claimed several lives" in the past few days. "I learnt with great sorrow the information concerning the violence against the Christian community in Orissa state which broke out after the reprehensible assassination of the Hindu leader, Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati," he said. (AFP/Getty)

CASTELGANDOLFO, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 1: Pope Benedict XVI meets Ingrid Betancourt at his summer residence, on September 1, 2008 in Castelgandolfo, Rome, Italy. Franco-Colombian politician Betancourt was held hostage in Colombia for six years by members of the FARC guerilla organisation and was rescued on July 2, 2008. (Getty)


CASTELGANDOLFO, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 1: Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing to Ingrid Betancourt and her relatives during a meeting at pope's summer residence, on September 1, 2008 in Castelgandolfo, Rome, Italy. Franco-Colombian politician Betancourt was held hostage in Colombia for six years by members of the FARC guerilla organisation and was rescued on July 2, 2008. (Getty)

Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican on September 3, 2008. (AFP/Getty)
(I've seen a bunch of photos like this one.)

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. (AP/ALESSANDRA TARANTINO)

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican September 3, 2008. (Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI leaves at the end of the Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican September 3, 2008. (Reuters)

What are you doing, kid?


A child gestures as Pope Benedict XVI (not pictured) waves to pilgrims gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence of Castelgandolfo in the outskirts of Rome during his Sunday Angelus on August 24, 2008. The Pope told Spanish pilgrims at his weekly Angelus prayer on Sunday that he was praying for the 154 victims of the Madrid air disaster. "I must assure you that I continue to pray for the eternal rest of the people who died in Wednesday's tragic plane accident at Madrid airport, and for those who were injured," said Benedict, speaking briefly in Spanish to pilgrims gathered at his summer residence outside Rome. (Getty)

Spanish Olympic teams, what bad examples you have been! (The Argentinians, you too!)
Peter Hitchens, Rubbish about crime
Paul Gottfried, More on Palin

It is we, and not the neocons, which the liberal Left is seeking to drive off the planet, and trying to get them to notice that we’re “antiwar” is a useless conciliatory gesture. Our task is simple but also dauntingly expensive. It is to create our own counter-media and counter-establishment, a task aiming at giving our side at least a seat in the public political discussion. In this work we can expect not help but torrents of hostility from the left. And if we go anywhere, the Robert Wexlers of this world would proclaim us to be the reincarnations of Hitler and Hamas.

Our work of consolidation must therefore be carried on alone, and we must never allow the words to fall from our lips or even to appear on our computer compositions starting with the indescribably stupid phrase “nice people right and left would agree.”
Twitch: 바람의 나라 (Kingdom of the Wind) Already King Before Even Starting?

official website

trailer:


slideshow
Twitch: TIFF Review: TOKYO SONATA
NLM: Interview with Peter Kwasniewski (mp3) and Thomas Aquinas College Chapel Cornerstone Laid

Also from Voice of Catholic Radio Long Island: Mrs. Colleen Hammond, The Increasing Need for Female Modesty in Dress and Behavior

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

JP says she is going to split with her husband, and try to go home. Please pray for her.

GL, The man who created paradise (a fable)

Gene Logsdon, Organic To Be
Remarkable story about strip-mining, farming and resurgence.
Wendell Berry writes in the Foreward: "... there is something wondrous and redemptive about ... [an effort that would] employ the technology of destruction to begin the restoration of what has been destroyed; and how this singular effort might inspire the efforts of others to do the same thing; and how finally a whole community of people might ally themselves with the inherent goodwill of any place to heal itself and become the Paradise it once was."

original
Reuters: Google sees new browser displacing desktop software

Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox

via Drudge: Oil price of $100 a barrel on horizon...

and

Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
In the task of waking humanity up to the plight of resource depletion, the market is not very helpful, even if it occasionally does give useful warning signs. It’s a bit like the broken clock that tells perfect time twice a day.

From IGN

Flight of the Conchords Grounded?
Interview with Summer Glau
In Plain Sight: "Season 1" Review
Why You Should Watch Fringe
Fall 2008 TV Preview: Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Photos for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Bill Kauffman at the Rally for the Republic

Ron Paul Rally For The Republic Bill Kauffman Part 1


Ron Paul Rally For The Republic Bill Kauffman Part 2

Rally for the Republic
Hollywood Reporter: Voice of Movie Trailers Dies

Dr. Laura on the Sarah Palin nomination

Sarah Palin and Motherhood
It surely won't win her more fans among feminists...

Jennifer Roback Morse, It Takes a Family to Raise a Village

on Catholic Answers Live: rm, mp3

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse - Your Coach For The Culture Wars
blogspot

Dominican Liturgical Books

NLM: Dominican Liturgical Books
Rod Dreher: The death of small-town newspapers

Maybe it's not a problem with the newspapers or the writers, but the small towns? The decline in the newspapers there might be a reflection of the state of small towns, if they are dying? (Or community, at least.)