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by Joel Aufrecht
11:48 AM, 20 Jan 2006
"Republican strategist Ed Rogers," talking to Chris Matthews on NBC, tries to deflect and minimize the Abramoff scandal's impact:
MATTHEWS: The White House put out the statement yesterday that the White House staffers had been meeting with Jack Abramoff. And I just think that's worthy of further discussion.Wait, wait, go back a second, what was that about that one guy in Florida? Do you mean Gus Boulis? The guy whose alleged murders were paid $95,000 by Abramoff's business partner Adam Kidan? You think maybe Abramoff killed him? Or are you just joking about an on-going murder investigation one or two steps away from Abramoff, who was one step away from Bush? Notice also the aggressive, hardball followup from biased liberal media hack Chris Matthews.
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by Joel Aufrecht
09:44 AM, 20 Jan 2006
The law of unintended consequences states that changes to complex systems will produce results other than those intended. Forest fire prevention in the United States in the 20th century is a classic example; by aiming for total fire suppression, firefighters left huge amounts of flammable material in the forest, and when fires did break through the suppression, they were far more powerful and destructive. Essentially, the forest ecosystem had evolved to anticipate and depend on forest fires, and taking away the regular fires disrupted the system.
It occurred to me that meteorite impact prevention is going down the same path. We are on the verge of gaining the ability to identify and intercept asteroids that would otherwise hit Earth to tremendous effect. Is there any possibility that Earth ecosystems in some way anticipate or depend on meteor impact catastrophies?
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