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Even Before Russert Funeral NBC Considering Replacement
Replacing Russert and Keeping $60 Million A Year Job One for NBC
Meet the Press” under the late Tim Russert’s tutelage was reportedly a $60 million annual cash cow for NBC attracting 4.17 million viewers on any given Sunday.
Picking the wrong host could open the door for ABC News’ “This Week” and George Stephanopoulos, which has averaged 2.8 million to zoom into the lead.
“Hardball” host Chris Matthews is the odds-on “internal” replacement candidate. That show averages about 2.3 million viewers, less than CBS’ “Face the Nation” and more than Fox’s show with Chris Wallace.
Mathews is a “talker” with a lot of opinions and not the reporter like Russert. Nobody is talking since Russert is barely cold but you can bet there are lot of thinking going on.
Gender “Equality” Fact, Fiction or Even Appropriate?
Feminist and liberals have their underwear knotted up over an 6′1″ adolescent Oregon girl who has been banned from competing on a boy’s basketball team when she has been more than holding her own. Others point out that women’s sports were created to give girls and women a place to compete, and had that not been done boys and men would elbow them off of nearly every team amateur and professional. In fact boys and men are absolutely barred from competing on girls and women sports team. For instance how many women could compete with a male NBA player for a spot in the WNBA?
Feminist routinely complain that that seldom do WNBA make $100,000 a season while the NBA minimum salary is $477,000. Of course profit for the NBA are more than one hundred fold greater than the WNBA. Is gender “equality” possible or only if the playing field is tilted.
Prepare For Big Chill - Even Ice Age.
Prepare for the big chill. Notwithstanding the near hysteria over global warming the earth cooled 0.7C in 2007, the fastest decline in the age of instrumentation, putting us back to where the Earth was in 1930.
Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut, and who served as mission specialist on the Apollo 14 lunar mission writes the same solar phenomenon that doomed Napoleon’s army may soon stop Al Gore’s march to glory cold.
The sun goes through a series of 11-year cycles in which sunspots fluctuate in both number and intensity, greatly influencing Earth’s climate and weather. The end of each cycle is called a solar minimum, where sunspot activity is at a low point. Activity usually picks up after that as each new cycle begins. The most recent minimum occurred in March 2007. Sunspot activity should have increased shortly after that but sunspot activity has remained at a virtual standstill.
If you log on to www.spaceweather.com, you will see a current picture of the sun from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) with but a single tiny sunspot, dubbed number 992. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this, according to Chapman, was during what was called the Dalton Minimum, a particularly cold period that lasted several decades starting in 1790. “Northern winters became ferocious,” he says.
Solar researchers report no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate another repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth. Were that to continue at that rate for 20-years a drop of 14 degrees Celsius would trigger glaciation and an ice age would return.
Chapman and increasing numbers of other scientist are asking the rhetorical question “What’s wrong with this picture.”