2005 August | Liberally Conservative

Will Lawyers Be Our End?

by Liberally Conservative @ 2:37 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

“The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden’s safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn’t irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.”

~Michael Scheuer

Former terrorism analyst for the CIA

Actually Mr. Scheurer is being all too kind.

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Attic Quote of The Day!

by Liberally Conservative @ 2:34 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”

~Mark Twain

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Weather History for RFK

by Liberally Conservative @ 8:23 am. Filed under Uncategorized

Since Robert Kennedy Jr. has earned “Attic Knave of The Day” honors (below), we have some expert information supported by historical fact concerning hurricanes and tropical storms.

Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to assume that the recent rise in their number and ferocity is because of global warming.

But that is not the case, scientists say. Instead, the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures of several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. The recent onslaught “is very much natural,” said William M. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University who issues forecasts for the hurricane season.

From 1970 to 1994, the Atlantic was relatively quiet, with no more than three major hurricanes in any year and none at all in three of those years. Cooler water in the North Atlantic strengthened wind shear, which tends to tear storms apart before they turn into hurricanes.

In 1995, hurricane patterns reverted to the active mode of the 1950′s and 60′s. From 1995 to 2003, 32 major hurricanes, with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater, stormed across the Atlantic. It was chance, Dr. Gray said, that only three of them struck the United States at full strength.

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Source: New York Times

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August 31, 2005

Will Lawyers Be Our End?

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