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Best Ever Skeptic Comment Against Alien Life
2008-06-03 02:56:00 This is a real zinger...In 2000, a group based in the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology in Wales declared they had found alien microbes in a Leonid fireball based on an infrared spectra of the organic material. Skeptic Matt Genge had this to say:The infrared spectra of the Leonid meteors are not evidence for bacteria, norare the infrared spectra of comets," Genge said. He added that the data show afeature that is common in all organic material."If you took me, put me in an oven, dried me at 300 degrees and then took myinfrared spectra, I'd have [this feature] too. This would certainly not beevidence that you'll find Matt Genges on comets.SOURCE: Space.com
By: Deep Sky Blog
Real estate skeptic helps stop Michael Jackson ranch foreclosure
2008-05-12 01:45:00 Long-term readers of this blog will recall much discussion two years ago or so about investor Tom Barrack’s late 2005 interview with Forbes magazine. In the piece, he thought real estate was pretty much toast, saying, “There’s too much money chasing too few good deals, with too much debt and too few brains.”) Well, guess who’s back dabbling in high-profile, California property? Read this press release … Michael Jackson today announced that the foreclosure sale of his Neverland Ranch property scheduled for this week has been cancelled by Colony Capital, LLC, which just acquired the existing loan on Neverland Ranch from an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group. Mr. Jackson said, “I am pleased with recent developments involving Neverland Ranch and I am in discussions with Colony and Tom Barrack with regard to the Ranch and other matters that would allow me to focus on the future.” Need background on the...
Cult of Scientology Conspired to Destroy Skeptic Organization CSICOP
2008-05-05 00:00:00 In the late 1970s, the Cult of Scientology conspired to discredit and silence the Committee for Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal, CSICOP, an organization headed by world-renowned Humanist leader Paul Kurtz, who also heads the Center For Inquiry. The 1977 order from the top level of the "Church" of Scientology outlining ...
The Skeptic?s Annotated Qua?ran
2008-04-16 04:06:00 I was looking for a Sura I remembered and Google introduced me to The Skeptic’s Annotated Qua’ran. The site displays each sura of the Qua’ran, along with analytical study notes giving a plain-English analysis of important verses. Verses are also marked with a useful legend highlighting specific attributes: Injustice Intolerance Cruelty and Violence Absurdities Good Stuff Women Contradictions Sex Interpretations Science and History Family Values Language Homosexuality For example, Sura 9:29: 9:29 ...
Ronald Wieck?s 911 skeptic show~starring Arthur Scheuerman
2008-02-29 20:37:00 by Geezer Power ….12:37 pm Well here it is folks, right out here in front of God and everybody. These nerds from the JREF blog have been very busy on the innertubes, even setting up web sites like the ones of Mark Roberts. Ronald Wieck claims that he can find ...
By: Suzie-Q
11 Rules for Selling to a Skeptic Posted By : jindal
2008-02-08 04:02:00 Let’s face it: the greatest accomplishment for a member of the sales community is closing a deal with a skeptic. Many who are proficient at this art agree that it is far more gratifying to convince someone who initially felt your product was not necessary that it indeed is, than to complete what the industry ...
Reminder: Royal Society member and noted skeptic Dr. David Calquhoun at U o
2008-01-25 16:48:00 Tonight the University of Toronto Secular Alliance, Freethought Association of Canada, Centre For Inquiry Ontario, and Skeptics Canada are teaming up with University College London professor, Royal Society member, and noted skeptic Dr. David Calquhoun to present Science in an Age of Endarkenment: Scientific Fraud, Quackery, Religion and University Politics at the University of Toronto. This is ...
Book Notes: Letters to a Skeptic
2008-01-21 19:44:00 Letters to a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity is a solid little book of Christian apologetics by Dr. Gregory A. Boyd, an evangelical theologian, and his father, Edward K. Boyd. It reproduces their correspondence over a three-year period, during which the elder Boyd asked his son nearly all of the basic questions that potential believers face (e.g., why would a good God permit suffering? how do I know the Bible is true? how can Jesus' death atone for anyone's sins?). At the end of the process, his father became a Christian. Though lacking some of the personality of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity, still the gold standard for popular apologetics in my opinion, Letters to a Skeptic covers an enormous amount of ground in less than 200 pages, and its conversational tone makes it a quick read. I would definitely give this book to anyone who is interested in following Christ but stymied by intellectual objections. The Boyds' dialogue starts wit...
By: Reiter's Block
What will it take to convince a skeptic? Part 5
2008-01-09 20:39:00 The email discussion between Real Climate's Gavin Schmidt and Swedish physics professor Carl Gustaf Ribbing continues. If you missed the previous parts go here.Orange: RibbingGreen: Gavin1) "Green-house effect"I am pleased that you now agree that a cloud is not a green-house gas. A progress in contrast to your initial statement:"While the dominant greenhouse gas is indeed water vapour, CO2 is asubstantial contributor. The rough proportions are 50% WV, 25% clouds,and 20% CO2 (with other small absorbers like O3, CH4, N2O, aerosols etc.making up the difference)"The statement you quote was in response to a question about the'greenhouse effect". I am disappointed that you choose to playsemantic games instead of simply accepting that your original claimwas baseless.More important for me is that I have heard prof. Lennart Bengtsson,Enviromental Systems Science Centre, Max Planck Institute forMeteorology, Hamburg - a leading IPCC-contributer - state that thepresent calculations do not inc...
By: Revolving Doors
Global Warming Skeptic Invades the New York Times
2008-01-01 20:15:00 John Tierney has written a great article on the coming year of global warming alarmism. He claims that whatever happens, In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm: Today?s interpreters of the weather are what social scientists call availability entrepreneurs: the activists, journalists and publicity-savvy scientists who selectively monitor the globe looking for newsworthy evidence of a new form of sinfulness, burning fossil fuels. A year ago, British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record. At year?s end, even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record ? it was actually lower than any year since 2001 ? the BBC confidently proclaimed, ?2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend.? Tags: global-warming, climate-changeShareThis
Announcing the IT Skeptic Awards for 2007
2007-12-31 15:27:00 The IT Skeptic – The IT Skeptic is pleased to announce our annual New Years awards, inaugurated last year. These awards are presented to deserving figures and organisations in the IT industry in general and the ITSM industry in particular. This year?s winners are: The Terminological Debasement Cup goes to Sharon Taylor, ITIL3 Chief Architect, for vague and … read more
A Skeptic?s Testimonial on Mindfulness Meditation
2007-12-27 04:27:00 One of the things that I like to promote on The Frame Problem is Mindfulness Meditation. Meditation is a practice I began a few years ago. I am a rigorous skeptic. What brought me to meditation was having read a number of scientific papers published in leading Psychology and Medical journals on its scientifically demonstrated ...
What will it take to convince a skeptic? Part 4
2007-12-17 22:38:00 Gavin replies.See part 3, 2 and 1.Ribbing: OrangeGaving: GreenI am coming back to our discussion on the role of carbondioxide for climate change. I shall use the same order, but I have a feeling thatit is really the second issue that is our bone of contention.1) The relative roles of water vapour and carbon dioxide.The dipole moment of the water molecule is unusually strong (1.85 D) and the CO2 has no dipole moment, so it only contributes to IR-absorption by vibrations. Thus one H2O absorbs IR radiation much stronger than one CO2. Furthermore, under normal conditions close to sea level, there are about 100 times more H2O:s than CO2:s.Admittedly this proportion is reduced with altituded, over deserts etc. From this starting point I claimed that 20% from CO2 is too high.As I mentionened in my previous mail, it is basically wrong to include clouds as a GH agent. It is not a gas, and their chief effectis to cool. Yet, if officials of UN have decided that clouds are a green-house gas, wh...
By: Revolving Doors
What will it take to convince a skeptic? Part 3
2007-12-17 22:25:00 Professor Ribbing, still not convinced, has another go against climate scientist Gavin Schmidt:Dear Gavin,I am coming back to our discussion on the role of carbondioxide for climate change. I shall use the same order, but I have a feeling that it is really the second issue that is our bone of contention.1) The relative roles of water vapour and carbon dioxide.The dipole moment of the water molecule is unusually strong (1.85 D)and the CO2 has no dipole moment, so it only contributes to IR-absorption by vibrations. Thus one H2O absorbs IR radiation much stronger than one CO2. Furthermore, under normal conditions close to sea level, there are about 100 times more H2O:s than CO2:s. Admittedly this proportion is reduced with altituded, over deserts etc. From this starting point I claimed that 20% from CO2 is too high.As I mentionened in my previous mail, it is basically wrong to include clouds as a GH agent. It is not a gas, and their chief effect is to cool. Yet, if officials of UN have...
By: Revolving Doors
What will take to convince a skeptic? Part 2
2007-12-14 21:15:00 In What will it take to convince a skeptic?, I presented an email debate about climate change between two scientists. Here their discussion continues. Dr Gavin Schmidt from RealClimate comments further on physics professor Carl Gustaf Ribbing's previous remarks.Orange: RibbingGreen: GavinAn indication for this is that people have been doing atmospheric heat transfer calculations for 50 years or more. In these calculations "Model atmospheres" withdifferent amounts of water vapour have been used, but to my knowledge no alternative CO2-content has ever been used.That's because people know pretty well what the CO2 content is at any one time. 50 years ago it was 315 ppmv (now it closer to 385 ppmv of course). In contrast, the distribution of water vapour is both more uncertain and much more variable at any one point. I'm not sure this is at all relevant to the point at hand though.I therefore insist that that the contribution of CO2 is less than 20%. I have a transmittance spectrum fo...
By: Revolving Doors
What will take to convince a skeptic?
2007-12-12 21:35:00 A friend of mine who is a scientist in Uppsala recently composed a rather provocative letter to the editor in the local newspaper. In his letter, Tor Kihlberg claims that he has encountered a considerable amount of people in the scientific community of Uppsala that are still denying the threat of climate change. Their denial, he claims, is based on psychological mechanisms and not on scientific facts. He turns to the skeptics and asks them what kind of proof they would require to be convinced and if they finally were, would they then be ready to change their lifestyles. A bunch of distinguished professors took the bate and wrote angry replies. One of them was Carl-Gustaf Ribbing. Tor didn't confront Ribbing's arguments upfront, instead he rather slyly challenged Ribbing to send his statements to the IPCC crew of RealClimate. Ribbing took on the challenge and wrote to RealClimate. Climate scientist Gavin Schmidt was very quick to respond.---------------------------------------...
By: Revolving Doors
Thik Chicken-Hole Friars Download
2007-11-22 20:04:00 Today begins the official holiday season. Which means in-laws. Which means that, to deal with in-laws, I will get drunk tomorrow morning around 9 and hopefully not meet back up with sobriety until January 1st.Here's another great one from the 90s to hold you over on your holiday weekend. Thik Chicken were a Birmingham band, so I'm obligated to stick up for them. Maybe it's just the holidays and Chicago's too fucking cold so I'm thinking of home. Thik Chicken were considered a "File 13" band ("File 13 is just a name for music from a certain group of bands from Birmingham, Alabama. We used it to put out our own tapes and records and what not. Since we never made any money to speak of, you wouldn't call it a business"), along with Lamenstra, the Dougs, and a few others. The most recent incarnation is Skeptic?, who were featured on the last podcast. The band had a demo tape before this that I've heard but don't have, and this 7" was the last thing they recorded. Maximum Rock n R...
Call me a skeptic....
2007-11-19 14:57:00 Synthesizing reams of data from its three previous reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time specifically points out important risks if governments fail to respond: melting ice sheets that could lead to a rapid rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species brought about by even moderate amounts of warming, on the order of 1 to 3 degrees. So a change in temperature of 1 to 3 degrees will wipe out large numbers of animal and plant species (there is some suggestion that it would be up to 1/3 of all life)? Now I am not a scientist... but it is these sorts of statements that actually solidify by belief that these people are out of their minds with exaggeration and sky is falling paranoia. Again... one has to only go back to the historical temperature charts that were available less than a decade ago to see that these same scientists believed that this planet had sustained long periods of time with average temperatur...
By: Coldheartedtruth
The Arizona Republic: Warming Skeptic is ?On the Fringe?
2007-11-18 13:54:00 Apparently, the Arizona Republic cannot discuss the work of globaloney skeptic Robert Balling of Arizona State University without constantly pointing out that his “peers” think he is an idiot that has been bought off by “industries.” The paper cannot write a story about his career without constantly pointing out that he is a “fringe” scientist ...
The Arizona Republic: Warming Skeptic is ?On the Fringe?
2007-11-18 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Apparently, the Arizona Republic cannot discuss the work of globaloney skeptic Robert Balling of Arizona State University without constantly pointing out that his "peers" think he is an idiot that has been bought off by "industries." The paper cannot write a story about his career without constantly ...
By: Publius Forum
Can a skeptic believe in God?
2007-10-17 02:03:00 Part 1:Part II:Can a skeptic believe in God? This is a segment from the 2006 Amazing Meeting. Michael Shermer speaks first followed by James Randi. These two clips are only a short introduction to a great discussion. For details see http://www.randi.org/amazingmee-ting/.
By: ExChristian.net
The Power Of Less - A Skeptic?s Story Of Real Estate Success
2007-09-10 18:20:00 Thesa Chambers was not an instant convert to RealEstateShows.com. She was using another product that allowed her to put as many photos as she wanted into the main presentation. She saw that as a decided benefit. She decided to give RealEstateShows.com a try after hearing the reasons why we limit our main Shows to 30 ...
PFOX plays the victim; we play the skeptic
2007-08-31 00:00:00 In a recently issued press release, this is how Regina Griggs of the PFOX (Parents and Friends of 'Ex-gays') organization describes a recent encounter that she claims her group had with gay activists: Last week Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays...
By: Good As You
The Adam and Eve story
2007-08-05 03:44:00 The Quran’s Adam & Eve story as we all know was shameless plagiarized from the Bible, which in turn was plagiarized from the Torah! What does this prove? Jews are the most innovative creative fiction writers and the rest are imitators! lol. Anyhow, here’s the Adam & Eve story in cartoon format: First there was ...
The Fold's 'New Skeptic' Video
2007-07-30 00:00:00 The Fold are out with the video to their new single 'New Skeptic', from the album 'Secrets Keep You Sick'. Watch it below the fold....
News & Current Events :: Global Warming Skeptic Hopes to Diffuse Alarm over
2007-07-26 07:00:00 Author: Eric Subject: Global Warming Skeptic Hopes to Diffuse Alarm over GreenlandPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:00 am (GMT -4) Global Warming Skeptic Hopes to Diffuse Senators' Alarm over Melting in Greenland Jim Brown Melting ice on the arctic island of Greenland poses no threat to the earth, says a U.S. congressional staffer. He hopes to convince his fellow travelers of that this weekend during a journey northward. Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), will be traveling on Senator Barbara Boxer's (D-California) global warming trip to Greenland. Senator Boxer will be heading the congressional "fact-finding" trip to ostensibly see first-hand the alleged effects of manmade global warming on Greenland and how it is going to theoretically cause catastrophic sea-level rise in New York, Florida, and other coastal areas. Several senators from the Environment and Public Works Committee that she chairs will also join Boxer, as will Morano -- a global...
Predictions of the Fashion Skeptic
2007-07-19 16:00:00 First off if you find this post strange it is because my strange-yet-lovable husband is writing it. His views do not reflect the opinions of this blog. Void in Utah.... My name is Grindy and I approve this message! I've noticed fashion goes to some interesting sources for inspiration. I'm a big believer in "Nothing new under the sun" and think it's, "All been done before." So Fashion has gone to the Military ad nauseam, they've tapped into skilled trades and fairy tales. So where next? Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Ninjas. I know what you're thinking... Ninjas and fashion don't mix. I disagree, they were probably the first people to really go out on a limb with the "basic black", perhaps they took it a little too far but I digress. Regardless, I think Tabi are going to be the next big thing! The separation of toes 1-2 and 3-5 (3-6 in the south) will be all the rage! If you ladies can wear this and feel normal You can wear this and feel normal
By: Ma Petite Chou
If you are a climate skeptic...
2007-07-17 11:13:00 ...what would it take to convince you that human emissions of CO2 is disrupting the climate? What kind of evidence would it take to make you change your mind?
By: Revolving Doors
Articles of Apostacy - Part 3: Exploring Muslim minds
2007-06-10 02:37:00 My name is Salahudin and this is the story of my experience with Islam: from being a born Muslim to an agnostic atheist.This article is a continuation from part 2. By this time I had openly declared my apostasy. And when I was forced to confront Muslims about my philosophical critiques against Islam, they intellectually squirmed ...
My experience with Islam - Part 1: My Islamic background
2007-06-06 09:38:00 My name is Salahudin and this is the story of my experience with Islam; from childhood as a born Muslim to an adult as an agnostic atheist. I was born in 1986 in Lahore, Pakistan. I come from what would be considered an “upper middle class” family with my parents being of a high skilled technical profession. ...
Atheism - a unifying force!
2007-06-02 21:14:00 Agnostic Atheism is a blog of ex-Christians, pretty much like our own little blog here. You can even call their blog our “cousin site”. They have the same issues with Christianity as we have with Islam. Apart from the immense ideological similarities we share, we also have other interesting - tactical - similarities. For one thing their blog, ...
Day 37 Ten Zen Seconds Blogtour?Mindfulness for the Skeptic
2007-05-28 15:00:00 Donna Druchunas is a freelance technical writer and editor and a knitwear designer. When she’s not working, she reviews books about science, religion, and skepticism and mouths off on the Skepchick blog where she is part of a team of thinking women who reject superstition and pseudo-science and prefer to use reason and evidence to ...
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! - Creationism
2007-05-21 17:52:00 Like the description says: “Penn and Teller expose the bullshit that is creationism.” I recommend that you click the video and watch it full screen. It’s about 26 minutes or so. It applies very VERY well to Muslims who make the EXACT same crap argument. If there’s any video that targets Christianity but applies to ...
Heaven is not my type of place!
2007-05-07 07:02:00 The Quran is essentially of Arabic taste! Of course there might have been “god’s wisdom” in revealing it that way, so that early followers of Islam might have good grasp over it, but people who have no Arabian affiliations or connections find it extremely absurd to relate to some of its cultural settings. The heaven as it ...
?Why The Gods are not winning?
2007-05-03 17:12:00 Excellent article explaining the ground realities of how religion (generally) is faring in the world today. (It’s faring rather poorly by the way, as my fellow Towelian Feeza wrote below! Three cheers!) Here’s an excerpt: “Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels ...
Richard Dawkins on CNN
2007-05-02 00:00:00 In The Name Of Towelie, Richard Dawkins is hereby declared a Saint!!! Watch his interview on CNN as he demolishes the religiously motivated misinformation spread by those who hate atheists, agnostics and atheism. Notice that he talks along the lines of the Towelian article, “Who is more motivated to act on justice? The theist or non-theist?“
The Human Slaughter House Formally Known As The Country Of Iraq
2007-04-25 05:41:00 If hell exists, its coordinates will coincide with Baghdad and surrounding areas, Iraq is the craziest place in the world today. What happened? How did 20 some years of torture from Saddam’s rule get worse to become this? In the hell formally known as Iraq, you will find a US army regrettably chasing their tails in the desert sands ...
?Biryani stinking? Muslims & ?cheeseburger wielding? Islamophobes
2007-04-25 00:14:00 There are established World-Views that stubbornly pervert reality to very parochial points of view. In Muslims it is a profoundly deep rooted inferiority complex which we Towelians shall henceforth call the “Biryani stinking” complex (More on this below!). We could have called it the “Falafel snorting” complex but in light of the extreme anti-Arabism going ...
Why worship God?
2007-04-22 01:12:00 I’ve never understood why theists (especially Muslims) worship God. If you’re a theist, then I implore you to come to my “rescue” and tell me why it is so important to worship God. Here are some reasons that might come to your mind, but they are unsatisfactory: “We must worship God because he is the creator.” I can’t see ...
Yet Another Skeptical Global Warming Documentary Ignored by American Media
2007-04-11 03:34:00 Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You’re Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change Posted by Noel Sheppard - NewsBusters.org Contrary to claims that the science of climate change has been settled, the causes of the past century’s modest warming is highly contested in the climate science community. The climate experts presenting [sic] in the video demonstrate ...
Russia Skeptical About Iran Announcement
2007-04-10 17:50:00 Iran said Monday it has begun operating 3,000 centrifuges - nearly 10 times the previously known number. Russia said it had not received confirmation of the claim.Iranian officials said on Monday Iran had started injecting gas into a batch of 3,000 atomic centrifuges being installed at Natanz. They gave no figures for the number of machines set up and running, saying U.N. inspectors would confirm numbers.Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement."We haven't got a confirmation yet that they have actually begun uranium enrichment at the new cascades,'' of centrifuges."Iran's enrichment activity, until now at an experimental level, has drawn international criticism, including from Russia, its closest big power ally. The U.N. Security Council has slapped sanctions on Iran for not stopping the work.Russia has developed close economic ties with Iran and is building its first nuclear power plant in the southern port of Bushehr.Tensions over the nuclear row ...
By: Munaeem's Blog
News & Current Events :: Easter Prime Marketing Time for Skeptics
2007-04-06 21:36:00 Author: Eric Subject: Easter Prime Marketing Time for Skeptics Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:36 pm (GMT -5) Easter Prime Marketing Time for Skeptics By Rachel Zoll It's a predictable part of the Easter season: The period of reflection on the Crucifixion and Resurrection has become a popular time for marketers to roll out works — from the scholarly to the sensational — that challenge Christianity's core beliefs. In the last several years, churchgoers have been hit with a steady stream of claims that Jesus didn't die on the cross, that he had a wife and kids, and that the Bible is a fraud. Christians across a broad spectrum of belief are angered by the trend. They accept the freedom to question religion, but wonder why the assaults come during their faith's most sacred days. "Why are they doing it now and why are they doing it in such a provocative way?" asked the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit writer and author of "My Life With the Saints." "...
The Skeptics Are Wrong - There Are Still Easy Ways To Make Money ? - Financ
2007-04-05 09:08:00 The Skeptics Are Wrong - There Are Still Easy Ways To Make Money …FinanceVisor.com (press release), CA - 1 hour agoThat's according to Derek Gehl, CEO of The Internet Marketing Center (www.marketingtips.com) - whose company specializes in helping people start successful … Source: Internet-Marketing - Google News
By: AllToSearch
Skeptical Conspiracy Theories Answered
2007-03-23 15:11:00 Here at Reasic, I like to try to answer any and all objections, no matter how nonsensical. Today, I was provided with an example of such an argument. A visitor named “R Boutiere” left a long, one paragraph comment that was littered with unsupported data, unverified assertions, logical fallacies (mainly straw man arguments), and general ...
By: Reasic
Exxon Cutting Ties to Global Warming Skeptics?
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Could it be true? Is Exxon actually going to mend its ways and get on board the Global Climate Change Train? Exxon in 2006 stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit advocating limited government regulation, and other groups that...
Less Despair, but More Skepticism
2007-03-16 21:50:00 My most recent post on the Cardinals‘ prospects this season has generated a fair amount of hate mail. Most of it was focused around my claim that Walt Jocketty “allowed the Cardinals to bleed talent when they desperately needed to add it”. The “talent” the Cardinals lost this winter was pitching talent — namely Jeff Weaver, Jeff Suppan, and Jason Marquis. You might assume that I was suggesting that Jocketty needed to do more to replace that pitching talent, but in fact that isn’t really the case. I’m pretty comfortable with not paying the markup for pitching this winter, and I’m pretty comfortable with how their rotation is shaking out. In fact PECOTA projects the Cardinals to allow the second-fewest runs in the National League, behind only the Padres, who have their huge park working for them. The pitching is fine. But I think Jocketty desperately needed to add some offense. Here’s the thing. If you’re going to go wi...
By: The RotoFeed
Skepticism & Despair: St. Louis Cardinals
2007-03-16 08:47:00 So now the word is out that two-thirds of the Cardinals‘ starting outfield — Jim Edmonds and Juan Encarnacion — is likely to begin the season on the DL. I don’t want to make too much of this. Neither player is expected to be out for all that long, though you have to wonder about Edmonds, who is recovering from two separate injuries (shoulder, foot), is 37 years old, and is no stranger to the Disabled List. Still, these injuries are going to expose just how top-heavy the Cardinals are. The story I linked to above suggests that the Opening Day outfield might be Chris Duncan in left, Preston Wilson in center, and Scott Spiezio in right, which is not only a below-average offensive trio but might be the worst defensive outfield since the 1997 Oakland A’s. I don’t know whether injuries tend to snowball, but I do know they’re a bigger problem when neither your bench nor your farm system is ready to produce adequate replacements. From my point of vi...
By: The RotoFeed
U.K.'s Cameron Skeptical of 'Surge'
2007-03-14 06:58:00 LONDON, March 13 -- Conservative Party leader David Cameron on Tuesday said he was 'skeptical' of President Bush's 'surge' of troops into Iraq, saying sectarian bloodshed could be curbed only through political negotiations among Iraq's rival ethnic
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