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Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years
An anonymous reader writes "A NASA probe found that cosmic ray intensities in 2009 had increased by almost 20 percent beyond anything seen in the past 50 years. Such cosmic rays arise from distant supernova explosions and consist mostly of protons and heavier subatomic particles — just one cosmic ray could disable unlucky satellites or even put a mission to Mars in jeopardy."
Damn, I'm trying to cut down on feeding the trolls. Clinton was arguably the best President I've seen as an adult, and the first President I voted for was Nixon.
Clinton took a federal deficit and turned it into a surplus. He inhereted a recession and did the right things to end it -- he put money into the hands of those who would actually spend it, like SMALL businessmen, working people, and city governments. He paid to put put 100,000 extra cops on the street, and that coupled with the improved economy caused a marked decrease in crime, particularly violent crime.
There were no wars on his watch, although there were two terrorist acts: Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center. The perpetrators of both terrorist acts were caught, sent to trial, and imprisoned and (in the case of McVeigh) executed.
There were other downsides; Ruby Ridge and Waco were certainly fuckups. But compared to every single other President I've had the chance to vote for or against, he was the best one I saw. I actually voted against him in his first term, but when I saw what a good job he was doing I voted for his re-election.
Contrast that to the incredible incompetent that replaced him. I never thought I'd see a worse President than Carter, but Bush proved me wrong. He turned Clinton's budget surplus into the biggest defecit in American history, got us into two wars that we're still fighting (note I was for attacking Afghanistan, but we had no reason to invade Iraq). He took a big federal bureaucracy and expanded it to mind boggling hugeness, stifled human rights by imprisoning people, even American citizens arrested on our soil, with no trials and proceeded to use torture against them.
He fucked up royally every time there was a natural disaster, the worst fuckup being Katrina (with help from the equally inept La and NO governments).
I don't know what you Clinton-hating Bush lovers are smoking, but I suspect it's white and looks like small rocks.
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