Free-for-all Topics and Discussion: Feb. 7, 2012
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I just remote start it before I get in the shower in AM, and before I leave the office in PM, and it gets to temp and defrosts if needed by the time I get to it.
Think of all the poley bears he is saving!
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nAaZ-4Uq570
What a dip shit. There is no better phrase for her.
The world holds its breath, hoping for the best after six days of radio silence from Antarctica -- where a team of Russian scientists is racing the clock and the oncoming winter to dig to an alien lake far beneath the ice.
The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the surface of the icy continent. Lake Vostok hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/03/missing-scientists-mystery-deepens-in-frozen-antarctica/print#ixzz1lilfj4bX
via dailybayonet.com/2012/02/vlad-in-vostok/
He said, she said!
I just hope they find Trenberth's missing heat.
"It was not a coup at all, it was the wish of the people,'' Ahmed Thoufeeg, the vice president's secretary, told AP news agency. Mr Hassan's office has denied widespread reports that the military put pressure on Mr Nasheed to resign."
Very democratic, let's have a 'Maldivian Spring'!
"Late last year the Cardonas brothers began donating to the Obama re-election campaign and to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the New York Times reported. They gave donations of $38,000 each to the DNC and more to the election campaign itself, putting them high on a list of so-called "bundlers" who make large campaign contributions."
Whew!!!!! At least it's not BIG Coal money!!!!!
Stimulantus Money?
"Born in London before moving to Norfolk, Mrs Green was 17 years old when she joined the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on 13 September 1918 - two months before the armistice."
Lest we forget.
"Rising gasoline prices accounted for four-fifths of the increase cited in the study... For this year, energy costs for about half the U.S. households will be 21 percent of total income, up from 12 percent 11 years ago, according to the study." www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-02-07/energy-takes-twice-as-much-income-for-half-of-u-s-households.html
But not to worry... with renewable's of wind and sunshine energy will soon be free!!!!!!!!
Imagine your organization is facing attacks from all sides. Imagine it’s losing members and revenue. Imagine governors and mayors – of both political parties – publicly denouncing your industry as “broken” and move swiftly to stifle your power and influence, while you flail away helplessly.
What to do? What else to do but go down drinking?
That’s what members of the National Education Association’s National Staff Organization have apparently decided. The NSO is an association of sorts for teachers’ union staff – political and communications types.
Following an “Advocacy Retreat” with the theme “Building Our Unionism,” members set sail on a 7-day cruise from Miami on February 5th “with stops at Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and Isla Roatan.”
townhall.com/columnists/kyleolson/2012/02/07/eag_exclusive_teachers_union_staffers_set_sail_on_7day_caribbean_cruise
By ADAM LIPTAK
Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning.
“Among the world’s democracies,” Professors Law and Versteeg concluded, “constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. Constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s.”
There are lots of possible reasons. The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights...
Yeah, just the right to individual freedom, that's all.
(cont'd below)
Americans recognize rights not widely protected, including ones to a speedy and public trial, and are outliers in prohibiting government establishment of religion. But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care.
Yeah, the communist manifesto is soooo superior. Just ask the Soviet... oh never mind.
It has its idiosyncrasies. Only 2 percent of the world’s constitutions protect, as the Second Amendment does, a right to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)
Apparently, tyrannical governments feel it necessary to disarm their citizens. I wonder why?
(cont'd below)
The Canadian Charter is both more expansive and less absolute. It guarantees equal rights for women and disabled people, allows affirmative action and requires that those arrested be informed of their rights. On the other hand, it balances those rights against “such reasonable limits” as “can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
Yeah, our constitution spits on women and disabled people, because they are not individuals.
www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=2&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
Thankyou, New York Slimes.
As for limeted period of time... "Such a declaration lapses after five years or a lesser time specified in the clause, although the legislature may re-enact the clause indefinitely"
Indefinitely.
Posted on February 7, 2012 by Anthony Watts
From the video description:
AtmosNews takes a lighthearted look at an unexpected analogy, explaining why some people call carbon dioxide (and the other greenhouse gases) the steroids of the climate system. Statistics and extreme behavior are involved, whether we’re talking about baseball or Earth’s atmosphere. NCAR scientist Gerald “Jerry” Meehl explains why.
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/07/your-tax-dollars-at-work-an-ncar-cartoon-on-steroid-use-in-baseball-and-climate-change/#comment-886938
You really must see this cartoon. I think it's the crappiest piece of propaganda to which I have ever been subjected.
Has Bill Gates become senile? Good question, would be interesting to see a professional opinion on that.
Is he perhaps feeling guilty about having all that money? I suspect that is true.
Personally I think Bill Gates feels some need to atone for his "sins" unfortunately as the man had no ethics to start with he can't manage that atonement without committing more sin...
Cheers
Tom
I think there was something about it over on JoNova's too but all I saw were a couple comments in a "unrelated" thread that mentioned the dam.
Everything seems to indicate to me that:
A) As far as the "environment" goes none of the alarmist claims are coming true there either but rather things have been very beneficial for you.
and B) That your government still has it's head up it's arse and reality be damned.
For another debunking of SkS's bogus graph.
"LOS ANGELES (CBS) — When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home.
The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County...
Your kids could also end up costing you big bucks: the ordinance also prohibits digging any hole deeper than 18 inches into the sand except where permission is granted for film and TV production services only."
losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/08/la-county-oks-1000-fine-for-throwing-football-frisbee-on-beaches/
I'm sure glad to hear Los Angeles has rectified all of their serious issues.
Alan Guttmacher, a child health expert at the National Institutes of Health, says Atlanta-based Strong4Life "carries a great risk of increasing stigma". The campaign has been criticised for using stark images of overweight children to warn of obesity risks." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16958865
"In a letter to fat activist Shannon Russell, Dr Guttmacher, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said childhood stigma "can reinforce unhealthy behaviours". Stigma also "poses risks to the psychological health" of obese adolescents, Dr Guttmacher wrote."
Need more be said?
Just ask Skeletor here, she'll tell ya!
Think I may need a night light now too.
Odessa temperature reaches low of -20c and hell actually freezes over.
Article below from Australian NineMSN news website.
news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8417131/frozen-sea-makes-freaky-sounds
"Each summer thousands of tourists and locals flock to the Ukraine's Arcadia beach, one of the most popular in eastern Europe, and listen to the waves lap peacefully against the shore.
But this winter as the temperatures drop below -20 degrees Celsius the sea there is making a very different sound.
The Black Sea near the city of Odessa has frozen over for the first time since 1977 and the ice and rocks are rubbing against each other to create an alien soundscape of bizarre squeaks, chirps and whines.
"Ukraine has been hardest hit by Europe's recent cold snap, with 136 people in the former Soviet republic reported dead from the freezing condition...see photos
The Ukrainian government said around 90 percent of the deaths were alcohol-related.
"Alcohol creates the illusion of being warm, so it's not surprising that people are drinking and not surprising that they pass out," Red Cross spokesman Joe Lowry said.
"Obviously, a full belly or hot drinks is far, far better for you than vodka."
Another 3000 people have been hospitalised because of the cold."