Fraud in the Fish Industry

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Sunday March 03, 2013 · 11:32 AM PST

2013/03/03 · 11:32

Widespread fraud was uncovered some time ago in the fish industry, and now it has been verified beyond doubt by Oceana,a non-profit established solely to advocate for the oceans using fact-based campaigns. And what facts are better than DNA tests?

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Friday February 08, 2013 · 2:06 PM PST

2013/02/08 · 14:06

I hope no one considers this entire copy a violation of protocols, since my intent is simply to allow you to read one of the great American documents without having to click even one link. Moreover, I do not think the author would have even the slightest objection to the placing of his words in this venue. He belongs here, after all, and were he here he would agree with that sentiment. And after all is said and done, next Tuesday is the occasion of President Obama's Second Inaugural Address. So please read on, below the orange thing, for Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address.

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Monday May 24, 2010 · 8:10 AM PDT

2010/05/24 · 08:10

I apologize for the short diary, like so many others have before me, but I must attend to work.

Please, someone more qualified look into this.

Thanks.

UPDATE - see C Barr's comment regarding TOD

UPDATE 2 - But see Paladine's reference to BP putting a video loop up instead of a live feed. Do we need to, or can we, organize the mass watching of this video to track its honesty? Can anyone record what they are showing? BP stalled in making a live feed available because they did not want any scientists or engineers to estimate the true flow. Are they now running a loop because they do not want anyone to see how much it has increased? What is going on with the video loop questions?

UPDATE 3 - Stonemason points out that there are now plans in place to evacuate Tampa. See the link.

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 · 10:30 AM PDT

2010/05/19 · 10:30

As many of you know, Mark Souder resigned from Congress yesterday. His Democratic opponent was to be Dr. Tom Hayhurst. Now, it is expected that a special election will soon be announced to fill Souder's term.

Hayhurst is in a position to win that election. He has 700 volunteers pulling on the oars, and the Republicans are in disarray. More below the fold.

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 7:09 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 07:09

The SEC has released its Office of Inspector General Executive Summary on why the SEC failed to discover Bernie Madoff made off with so much money over so many years when so many people complained to the SEC that Bernie Madoff was making off with their money.

The OIG concludes that the investigators got right up to the edge of discovering what Madoff was doing but then failed to ask that one last question that would have put them over the edge.

Not surprisingly, the OIG itself reprises the methods of the Madoff investigators and gets right up to the edge of finding out why the SEC failed to uncover Madoff's crimes, but then fails to ask the one last question that would put them over the edge of finding out why they failed to find Madoff.

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 6:30 AM PDT

2009/07/22 · 06:30

There have recently been some thoughtful diaries [here and here] on the nature of people, things and the universe and whether our collective time here on Earth is limited. I feel our time here could be unlimited but for the fact that most people act like unthinking organisms in that they continue to increase in numbers and increase the quantity of things they consume. Obviously, if that trend continues and if we do not escape the planet our time here is limited. Its simple physics, or even just accounting. One of the reasons I've thought that people continue to act as if they are not part of the universe and can continue to act as if we are not subject to the greater laws of the universe is that too few people understand the nature of time. An understanding of the nature of time and of our place in time, I believe, necessarily leads people to rethink their actions. It had that effect on me, anyway. I would therefore propose that an appreciation of TIME become a central part of every school child's education so that children everywhere would know how and why they are each inseparable from the greater Universe. We are of it, and this is what I would teach them.

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 5:15 PM PST

2008/12/31 · 17:15

Some people have recently written about the swarm of earthquakes at Yellowstone that have occurred over the past several days [see here and here, for example, but there may be others I don't know about].

The subject interested me so I thought I would look at the data more closely.

The raw data can be found here. I downloaded it, and have been downloading it for several days. Some of what I have, referenced in the graph below, may have fallen off the bottom of the USGS page.

A graph of the data is referenced below the fold. The patterns are interesting and they are developing. Stay tuned, I think.

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 6:37 AM PDT

2008/03/28 · 06:37

Apparently, no one noticed Eliot Spitzer's article in the Washington Post ironically published the morning of one of his trysts with his $4,000 an hour hooker. Everyone should read it if for no other reason than it is Spitzer's Last Hurrah.

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