Two great Bruce Campbell movies coming up,
In 2008, we'll be treated to Bubba Nosferatu and the Curse of the She-Vampires, a prequel to 2002's masterpiece Bubba Ho-Tep
Later this year, another addition to a series, My Name Is Bruce in which Campbell is mistaken for his character from the Army of Darkness series and is forced by a small town to fight evil demons (something like The Three Amigos and A Bug's Life).
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Hats off to Michael Crichton's Message Board
I don't do chatrooms, message boards, etc., but I found this when looking up something on Crichton. I love the bolded sentence (bolded on Crichton's page, too). Hats off to Crichton and his web team.
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/messageboard.html
1. Many message boards have an “off-topic” section. This is not one of those boards. Please stay on-topic or your post will be deleted. Straying off-topic too many times (determined by the webmaster) will result in being banned from the website. Also, this is NOT a chat room. Casual conversations between posters will be deleted without notice. We do not use chat room or 'short-cut' "English" on this message board. Posts using, for example, "kewl," "u" for "you," or no capitalization or punctuation will be deleted.
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/messageboard.html
1. Many message boards have an “off-topic” section. This is not one of those boards. Please stay on-topic or your post will be deleted. Straying off-topic too many times (determined by the webmaster) will result in being banned from the website. Also, this is NOT a chat room. Casual conversations between posters will be deleted without notice. We do not use chat room or 'short-cut' "English" on this message board. Posts using, for example, "kewl," "u" for "you," or no capitalization or punctuation will be deleted.
Your Daily Duck
Al Gore. C-student in college, but he's still smarter than the PhDs and marketing & design specialists in the auto industry. What's next? He'll tell Ted Nugent how to finger a power chord? Or how best to release the his arrow with a 10-point whitetail is in his sights? Actually, I'd like to see him try either of those, because you know damn well he thinks Uncle Ted could use his advice on such matters.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmIyZmMwYTcyZGQ3YmZkY2Y3YjkwOTFkNzhiZjU2ZjA=
Al Gore. Inventor of the Internet. Climatologist. Now add auto industry expert to the list.
The Goracle raised blood pressures in Detroit Wednesday when he lectured U.S. automakers on their business model. A main reason "our auto companies are in trouble," he told the Senate climate panel, is "they got all these gas guzzlers they can't sell that people don't want to buy.”
Bunkum.
In December, GM rode the backs of double-digit sales increases in its big new Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs to turn its first quarterly profit in two years. Just last month, sales of its biggest gas-guzzler - the Chevy Suburban - were up a whopping 33 percent. Profit margins on light trucks run upwards of $7000 a vehicle, which is foreign makers have also been jumping into the SUV market.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmIyZmMwYTcyZGQ3YmZkY2Y3YjkwOTFkNzhiZjU2ZjA=
Al Gore. Inventor of the Internet. Climatologist. Now add auto industry expert to the list.
The Goracle raised blood pressures in Detroit Wednesday when he lectured U.S. automakers on their business model. A main reason "our auto companies are in trouble," he told the Senate climate panel, is "they got all these gas guzzlers they can't sell that people don't want to buy.”
Bunkum.
In December, GM rode the backs of double-digit sales increases in its big new Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs to turn its first quarterly profit in two years. Just last month, sales of its biggest gas-guzzler - the Chevy Suburban - were up a whopping 33 percent. Profit margins on light trucks run upwards of $7000 a vehicle, which is foreign makers have also been jumping into the SUV market.
Friday, March 23, 2007
More busting on Gore
Jonah Goldberg from National Review Online takes a look at the urgency behind Al Gore's passion to save the world... by telling all non-rich people what they can and cannot do.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YWZiYWFhZTQ3ZmM2NDcyMzM3OTk1YWY5MjVjNmZkY2Y=
Global warming is what William James called a “moral equivalent of war” that gives political officials the power to do things they could never do without a crisis. As liberal journalist James Ridgeway wrote in the early 1970s: “Ecology offered liberal-minded people what they had longed for, a safe, rational and above all peaceful way of remaking society ... (and) developing a more coherent central state.”Isn’t it interesting how the same people who think “dissent is the highest form of patriotism” when it comes to the war think that dissent when it comes to global warming is evil and troglodytic?
On the one hand he wants everybody to change their lifestyles dramatically. These are the sacrifices the voracious energy user Al Gore won’t have to make because he can buy “carbon credits” for his many homes and his jet-setting.
But when asked this week about the enormous and unwise costs his plan would impose on the U.S. economy (according to the global consensus of economists), Gore said that his draconian emissions cuts are “going to save you money, and it’s going to make the economy stronger.”
Wait a second. This is the gravest crisis we’ve ever faced, but if we do exactly as Gore says (but not as he does), we’ll get richer in the process as we heal Mother Earth of her fever? Gore’s faith-based initiative is a win-win. No wonder so many people think it’s mean to disagree.
Cricket. Game, set... MURDER!!!!!
Alternate title: Sticky wicket, wicked googly.... wicked wicket DEATH!!!!!
Good Lord. I thought peopel in central PA were rabid Steelers fans (hiya, Jeff, how's it goin'?).
Compared to this, they're just passive, apathetic quilting bee members.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_as/cricket_pakistan
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan's national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.
Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after his team's defeat to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day sealed Pakistan's ouster from the tournament.
Mark Shields, the deputy police commissioner, said police were investigating if more than one person could have been involved.
I can't help but see the Jamaican police from the Beatles' HELP! when I read that last line.
"Because Bob was a large man, it would have taken some significant force to subdue him..."
Protesters in several Indian cities, for instance, burned effigies of their national cricket players and destroyed portions of one player's half-built home after the team was beaten Sunday by Bangladesh.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Outsource Hindus staff Christian call centers
I think this is a parody (the selections for "reading impaired" and "for eunuchs" somewhat gives it away) but it's pretty funny.
http://larknews.com/may_2006/secondary.php?page=1
DES MOINES — Last month, Lori Danes, 43, called the prayer line of a major television ministry and requested prayer for her mother's persistent ulcers. But her prayer representative, who called himself "Darren," prayed in a strong Indian accent that "all the gods would bless her mightily."
"I was stunned," Danes says. "It was like I'd called a demon prayer line." The manager of India Prayer Solutions, located in Mumbai, India, apologized for the incident and fired the employee who, he said, had not been properly trained. But dozens of similar incidents have rattled U.S. callers since major ministries began outsourcing their prayer lines to India. The ministries insist they are overwhelmed by the growing number of calls for prayer.
"There aren't enough Americans willing to sit in the prayer tower and take calls anymore," says a prayer coordinator at a major ministry which jobbed out its prayer lines last year. But the interactions have left many callers baffled.
Rich Douglas of Orem, Utah, called a prayer line for the first time this month, requesting prayer for his wife's cancer. His prayer partner, "Stephanie," took him through a series of prayers that felt "pretty clinical," says Douglas. "I definitely didn't sense the Spirit. It sounded like she was reading from a script."
"Stephanie," whose real name is Reha Jain, is a Hindu woman who works at a call center in Mumbai and has prayed with "many satisfied prayer customers," she says. "It's like my old job at a Microsoft call center. The caller is happy if you deliver quality customer service." Her fellow worker Rajneesh Tuwalla likewise had never heard of a single U.S. ministry, but was "sick of working at the Sprint call center," he says. "The customers always got angry about their bill."
Tuwalla landed a job at a prayer center and learned to pray "Christian prayers" by watching Kenneth Copeland.
"All the TV preachers pray good, but Copeland prays the best," says Tuwalla, who mimics Copeland's style on the phone with callers. Like many service reps, he uses an American name while on the job. In Copeland's honor, Tuwalla calls himself "Ken."
Tuwalla has heard the rumors that U.S. ministries may repatriate their call centers. He hopes it isn't true. At his Sprint job he would have to "run around the block and maybe pull the head off a stray chicken" to settle down every night because of the stress he felt serving demanding U.S. customers. But the prayer center job is more relaxed.
"The callers are very nice," he says. "I like my life again."•
http://larknews.com/may_2006/secondary.php?page=1
DES MOINES — Last month, Lori Danes, 43, called the prayer line of a major television ministry and requested prayer for her mother's persistent ulcers. But her prayer representative, who called himself "Darren," prayed in a strong Indian accent that "all the gods would bless her mightily."
"I was stunned," Danes says. "It was like I'd called a demon prayer line." The manager of India Prayer Solutions, located in Mumbai, India, apologized for the incident and fired the employee who, he said, had not been properly trained. But dozens of similar incidents have rattled U.S. callers since major ministries began outsourcing their prayer lines to India. The ministries insist they are overwhelmed by the growing number of calls for prayer.
"There aren't enough Americans willing to sit in the prayer tower and take calls anymore," says a prayer coordinator at a major ministry which jobbed out its prayer lines last year. But the interactions have left many callers baffled.
Rich Douglas of Orem, Utah, called a prayer line for the first time this month, requesting prayer for his wife's cancer. His prayer partner, "Stephanie," took him through a series of prayers that felt "pretty clinical," says Douglas. "I definitely didn't sense the Spirit. It sounded like she was reading from a script."
"Stephanie," whose real name is Reha Jain, is a Hindu woman who works at a call center in Mumbai and has prayed with "many satisfied prayer customers," she says. "It's like my old job at a Microsoft call center. The caller is happy if you deliver quality customer service." Her fellow worker Rajneesh Tuwalla likewise had never heard of a single U.S. ministry, but was "sick of working at the Sprint call center," he says. "The customers always got angry about their bill."
Tuwalla landed a job at a prayer center and learned to pray "Christian prayers" by watching Kenneth Copeland.
"All the TV preachers pray good, but Copeland prays the best," says Tuwalla, who mimics Copeland's style on the phone with callers. Like many service reps, he uses an American name while on the job. In Copeland's honor, Tuwalla calls himself "Ken."
Tuwalla has heard the rumors that U.S. ministries may repatriate their call centers. He hopes it isn't true. At his Sprint job he would have to "run around the block and maybe pull the head off a stray chicken" to settle down every night because of the stress he felt serving demanding U.S. customers. But the prayer center job is more relaxed.
"The callers are very nice," he says. "I like my life again."•
Nancy Pelosi, stop calling yourself a Catholic
From an open letter to Nancy Pelosi, written by Fr. John Malloy, pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco:
Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic.
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=695280f1-c90e-44d8-a866-d8e28f5ef457
Nancy, you are fooling yourself and I fear fooling many good Catholics. You are simply not in sync with the Catholic Church. Until you change your non-Catholic positions, you should stop calling yourself Catholic.
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=695280f1-c90e-44d8-a866-d8e28f5ef457
One thing I never thought of doing to a dead deer
I've done a couple things with them, mostly with a pair of knives and some gutting gloves.
But this is incredibly disturbing. No humor to be found here; just disgust.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/21/ap/strange/main2593908.shtml
But this is incredibly disturbing. No humor to be found here; just disgust.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/21/ap/strange/main2593908.shtml
Weapons of Grass Destruction
The World Masters of RockGrass release their new album April 9, 2007.
Third world dictators and enemies of freedom quake in their boots.
http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/
Third world dictators and enemies of freedom quake in their boots.
http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/
Chuck Norris: The Legend Continues
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/22/norris22.xml
"To this day she remains modest: a 5ft tall slip of a girl, and yet one so courageous that she has become the first female officer to win the Military Cross. Pte Michelle "Chuck" Norris, 19, had only recently completed her Army training when she braved heavy sniper fire to climb on top of a Warrior armoured vehicle to haul her sergeant to safety after he was wounded in the head. One bullet from an AK47 rifle ripped through her rucksack as she came under fire from five different positions. But she refused to let go of Colour Sgt Ian Page, dragging him to safety and then jokingly referring to him as "Dad" as they and their comrades waited in the darkness for a rescue helicopter. "AL-MIGHTY PREACHER RUNNING OUT OF POWER
A New York Post article by John Poderetz, a frequent National Review contributor:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222007/news/columnists/al_mighty_preacher_running_out_of_power_columnists_john_podhoretz.htm
The middle part, dealing with Gore's hypocrisy vis a vis using nuclear power instead of massive financial and freedome oppression to help "save the world":
Fair enough. He believes the world is in a crisis and that politicians must do what is best, not what is convenient.
But what about the Goracle walking through a little fire himself? He knows as well as anyone that the only form of energy that has no effect whatever on greenhouse gases is nuclear energy.
And yet here the Prophet of Doom was bizarrely tentative.
"I'm not opposed" to nuclear power, spake the Goracle, but suddenly he became deeply solicitous of the role of the free market. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, you see, and when the price of gas drops, energy companies drop their plans to construct them.
Given the level of his concern, why would the Goracle not suggest Congress offer enormous incentives to energy companies to build nuclear-power plants?
And since many companies don't even bother to try to build nuclear plants because of community opposition, why would he not embark upon an educational effort to explain to the American people the environmental benefit to be gained from a major program to build nuclear power plants?
Why? I'll tell you why. Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign. He's willing to speak the Inconvenient Truth to Power - just so long as it doesn't offend his own power base.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222007/news/columnists/al_mighty_preacher_running_out_of_power_columnists_john_podhoretz.htm
The middle part, dealing with Gore's hypocrisy vis a vis using nuclear power instead of massive financial and freedome oppression to help "save the world":
Fair enough. He believes the world is in a crisis and that politicians must do what is best, not what is convenient.
But what about the Goracle walking through a little fire himself? He knows as well as anyone that the only form of energy that has no effect whatever on greenhouse gases is nuclear energy.
And yet here the Prophet of Doom was bizarrely tentative.
"I'm not opposed" to nuclear power, spake the Goracle, but suddenly he became deeply solicitous of the role of the free market. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, you see, and when the price of gas drops, energy companies drop their plans to construct them.
Given the level of his concern, why would the Goracle not suggest Congress offer enormous incentives to energy companies to build nuclear-power plants?
And since many companies don't even bother to try to build nuclear plants because of community opposition, why would he not embark upon an educational effort to explain to the American people the environmental benefit to be gained from a major program to build nuclear power plants?
Why? I'll tell you why. Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign. He's willing to speak the Inconvenient Truth to Power - just so long as it doesn't offend his own power base.
Al Gore talks about global warming
...to two Congressional committees, and stated it's a "catastrophe" and we "must do something now or it'll be too late," and the newspeople placed palm leaves at his feet. Just thought you'd like to know that hot little piece of news.
Also notable today: bears dropped fertilizer in the woods, man was inhumane to his fellow man, and the sun rose in the east.
p.s.
One Democratic official called him "a prophet." As Mr. Creosote says in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, "Better get me a bucket...."
Also notable today: bears dropped fertilizer in the woods, man was inhumane to his fellow man, and the sun rose in the east.
p.s.
One Democratic official called him "a prophet." As Mr. Creosote says in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, "Better get me a bucket...."
New Dean Koontz book coming out soon
See http://www.deankoontz.com/ for details about the new book, called "The Good Man." (I think that's the title).
Just be sure to turn off the annoying 'Odd Thomas' avatar in a white shirt that starts to talk.
There's a youtube contest. The best 30 second "trailer" for the book gets five thousand bucks, and everyone who enters gets a tshirt.
Just be sure to turn off the annoying 'Odd Thomas' avatar in a white shirt that starts to talk.
There's a youtube contest. The best 30 second "trailer" for the book gets five thousand bucks, and everyone who enters gets a tshirt.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Smack my bitch up
I have a version of that song by Prodigy done in 'lounge singer' style by Richard Cheese, a cheesey singer from Las Vegas.
I wonder why I thought of that song while I read this letter sent by two Republicans to Al Gore asking him to answer some questions while appearing before a congressional committe tomorrow (I think it's tomorrow, March 21).
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/letters/3.20.07_Letter_to_Al_Gore.pdf
My favorite question (regarding his propoganda film, An Inconvenient Truth)
In Grist Magazine, you explicitly acknowledge, in your words, "overrepresentation fo factual presentations [in the film]." What is your motive for the "overrepresentation?"
I wonder why I thought of that song while I read this letter sent by two Republicans to Al Gore asking him to answer some questions while appearing before a congressional committe tomorrow (I think it's tomorrow, March 21).
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/108/letters/3.20.07_Letter_to_Al_Gore.pdf
My favorite question (regarding his propoganda film, An Inconvenient Truth)
In Grist Magazine, you explicitly acknowledge, in your words, "overrepresentation fo factual presentations [in the film]." What is your motive for the "overrepresentation?"
Communism was replaced by the threat of amitious environmentalism.
Who said that... Thomas Sowell? G. Gordon Liddy? Cheney? Rove?
Nope. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who, as he says, lived under communism for most of his life.
Read more of it on National Review's newest blog, "Planet Gore."
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTgwNmFjOTk0YzBjMTYxN2Y2MjczOWY2MTcwZDI2Mjg=
"It becomes evident that while discussing climate we are not witnessing a clash of views about the environment but a clash of views about human freedom."
The - so called - climate change and especially man-made climate change has become one of the most dangerous arguments aimed at distorting human efforts and public policies in the whole world," Klaus said.
Nope. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who, as he says, lived under communism for most of his life.
Read more of it on National Review's newest blog, "Planet Gore."
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTgwNmFjOTk0YzBjMTYxN2Y2MjczOWY2MTcwZDI2Mjg=
"It becomes evident that while discussing climate we are not witnessing a clash of views about the environment but a clash of views about human freedom."
The - so called - climate change and especially man-made climate change has become one of the most dangerous arguments aimed at distorting human efforts and public policies in the whole world," Klaus said.
Rosie O'Donnell Thinks 9-11 Was an Inside Job
Surprised?
First, her simple-minded attempts at free-verse poetry.
I suppose we're supposed to be impressed that she spells the
word "our" like this: 'r.' It was stupid 20 years ago when Prince
did it and it's idiotic now. The e.e. cummings "no capitalization"
ploy works great... if you're e.e. cummings. If you aren't e.e. cummings, you like a college sophomore trying to look wordly and intellectual (i.e., a dumbass).
Big news. She's now a fire and construction expert. She knows
that the only thing that could have resulted in an even collapse
of the buildings was a perfectly evenly distributed fire.
for the third time in history
fire brought down a steel building
reducing it to rubble
hold on folks
here we go
• The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a
perfect collapse was impossible.
Screw the Popular Mechanics editors
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=1
who interviewed actual specialists who thoroughly debunked all of the
points she makes here (points which other idiots
have been making for five years). She doesn't need
degrees and experience to understand this. She's a bloated
cow on television, so she's already an expert in any field
she decides to think about.
Bottom line. If this had happened on a Democratic president's
watch, she wouldn't be raging about conspiracies. Deep down
even she knows that. It's Bush Derangement Syndrome, Stage III.
Favorite Rosie description that I read years ago:
"Rosie O'Donnell, who mistakes volume for talent."
Every time I see her hemmorhoids-on-an-elephant's-ass face,
I'm reminded of that line.
First, her simple-minded attempts at free-verse poetry.
I suppose we're supposed to be impressed that she spells the
word "our" like this: 'r.' It was stupid 20 years ago when Prince
did it and it's idiotic now. The e.e. cummings "no capitalization"
ploy works great... if you're e.e. cummings. If you aren't e.e. cummings, you like a college sophomore trying to look wordly and intellectual (i.e., a dumbass).
Big news. She's now a fire and construction expert. She knows
that the only thing that could have resulted in an even collapse
of the buildings was a perfectly evenly distributed fire.
for the third time in history
fire brought down a steel building
reducing it to rubble
hold on folks
here we go
• The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a
perfect collapse was impossible.
Screw the Popular Mechanics editors
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=1
who interviewed actual specialists who thoroughly debunked all of the
points she makes here (points which other idiots
have been making for five years). She doesn't need
degrees and experience to understand this. She's a bloated
cow on television, so she's already an expert in any field
she decides to think about.
Bottom line. If this had happened on a Democratic president's
watch, she wouldn't be raging about conspiracies. Deep down
even she knows that. It's Bush Derangement Syndrome, Stage III.
Favorite Rosie description that I read years ago:
"Rosie O'Donnell, who mistakes volume for talent."
Every time I see her hemmorhoids-on-an-elephant's-ass face,
I'm reminded of that line.
Monday, March 19, 2007
How to save the world... at no cost to the rich and powerful
Hey all you people fighting for cap and trade on carbon emissions. This is the future you are so earnestly fighting for. And guess what.... you aren't going to get the same immunity from these laws that your heroes will. You'll be tossed right back into the masses when they're done with you.
This story from the U.K. shows the Brave New World Al Gore is envisioning for the 'unwashed masses' like you and me. I'm sure the politicians and ultra-rich will be subject to the same restrictions they propose for us... aren't you????
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/ngreen11.xml
Harsh new taxes on air travel, including a strict personal flight "allowance", will be unveiled by the Conservatives tomorrow as part of a plan that would penalise business travellers, holidaymakers and the ourist industry.
The Conservatives will also suggest - most controversially of all - rationing individuals to as little as a single short-haul flight each year; any further journeys would attract progressively higher taxes, a leaked document entitled Greener Skies suggests.
In a further departure from Tory tradition, the party will underline its green credentials by welcoming Al Gore, the Democrat former US vice-president, to a meeting of the shadow cabinet on Thursday.
Among the proposals, which the Tories insist are options for consultation, are:
Charging fuel duty or VAT on domestic flights. The document notes that there are "no legal barriers" to introducing either levy and adds: "We have pledged that any additional revenues from environmental taxes that we propose at the next election will be offset by equivalent reductions in other forms of taxation."
Replacing the £10 to £80 Air Passenger Duty with a per-flight tax levied on airlines which would penalise the dirtiest engines the hardest.
A personal "green air miles allowance" which would punish those who flew more often with a higher tax rate. The document states: "For example, everyone could be entitled to one short-haul return flight per year at the standard rate of tax, but additional flights would be charged at a higher rate."
Remind you of anyone in the news a lot lately?
Another prophet of disaster
Who says the ship is lost
Another prophet of disaster
Leaving you to count the cost
Taunting us with visions
Afflicting us with fear...
I wonder what we can do to prevent the disaster? Who will save us?!?!?!
This is about manipulative political leaders in general, from Iron Maiden's "Live After Death" (just about the best live album in my collection).
But gosh, even though this formula has worked for thousands of years,Rev. Al wouldn't stoop to such trickery just to get himself some sortof political power, would he? He has no reason to exaggerate... He inspired "Love Story" for God's sake! And he found Love Canal! His mother used to sing him to sleep with the "Look for the unionlabel" song. The man's a saint, I tell you!
Global Warming North Pole trek cancelled due to extreme cold
Not since Al Gore's global warming speech was cancelled due to cold temperatures,not since Rosie O'Donnell's bodyguard carried a gun, has there been such a sweet news headline:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16887788.htm
The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment
"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
So..... global warming can cause unexpected cold as well as overwhelmingdeath-inducing heat. So by logic, then it can cause seasonably mild temperatures,too, like a nice warm Spring day. We're all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait a second... let's see that quote again:"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
Since when is deadly frigid temperature not predicted close to the Arctic Circle in winter-time?
Reminds me of the time I went for a walk in the ocean but was turned back by lots of unpredictable wet stuff.
So here's their web page. On every day's page for which there is a measurement(I think I saw all 8 days' worth) the ice measurement was 0.0 centimeters, yetthere's a photo of ice with water running through it, a photo of a plane flyingover water and ice, and a close-up picture of a what looks like a lot of snow. Makes you wonder what their definition of 'ice' is or how they selected whereto measure it. We're to believe they got frostbite in 100 degree below zeroweather while they were walking on dry ground? Maybe it was all just plainold snow...
But then why do they say this in their March 10th post? From where are they sendingtheir voice message again?
"Listen to Ann's weekend voice message from the ice." So is there ice or isn't thereice? Or is the ice that's there the kind that 'doesn't really count,' when measuringice for a global warming propoganda piece?
Their expedition map. Apparently they didn't get far enough to even mark theirprogress on the map, because I can't see any noted.http://www.bancroftarnesen.com/explore/ArcticOcean2007/ExpeditionMap.jsp
Media attacked for "climate-porn"
I like that new term. The six-o'clock news shows should use
that as the title for their "Prophet Al" segments every time they
talk about anthropogenic global warming. Something about truth
in advertising, don'tcha know.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5236482.stm
A sample:"The awesome truth is that we are the last generation to enjoy the kind of climate that allowed civilisation to germinate, grow and flourish since the start of settled agriculture 11,000 years ago."
Gosh, I don't think that's alarmist. That's just impartial, scientific fact.
"If our readers thought we put climate change on our front pages for the same reason that porn mags put naked women on their front pages, they would stop reading us. "
Ian Birrell, The Independent
That's because you have them scared to death and you're tellingthem that this is FACT you're printing and backing it up by slanderinganyone who is skeptical as being a shill to the oil companies. They're caught up in it the same way Americans panicked at Orson Wells's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. They didn't know it was balderdash, so they reacted as if to a real emergency. Give both sides of the argumentequal time and people will start abandoning publications that use scare tactics.
Dems & media call for Gonzalez to step down
... after the firing of 8 (eight) of Attorneys General.
But they were okay with Janet Reno firing all 93 (NINEY-THREE) at once in 1993.
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/flashback-attorney-general-reno-seeks-resignations-from-prosecutors-nyt-1993
Some selections from the March 24, 1993 issue of Time, explaininghow it is okay for Democrat administrations to fire Attorneys Generalat will.
"Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton."
"All 93 United States Attorneys knew they would be asked to step down, since all are Republican holdovers, and 16 have resigned so far. But the process generally takes much longer and had usually been carried out without the involvement of the Attorney General. Battles of the Past "
"Ms. Reno is under pressure to assert her control over appointments at the Justice Department. She was Mr. Clinton’s third choice for Attorney General and arrived after most of the department’s senior positions were already filled by the White House."
Good thing Reno didn't have to step down over this, or she wouldn't have been able to protect our country as a member of The Most Ethical Administration in History by burning the Branch Dividians alive and grabbing Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint to send him back to the totalitarian country that his mother died escaping (and not incidentally, trying to free him from).
Go about your business. No hypocrisy to see here.... no hypocrisy to see here...
But they were okay with Janet Reno firing all 93 (NINEY-THREE) at once in 1993.
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/flashback-attorney-general-reno-seeks-resignations-from-prosecutors-nyt-1993
Some selections from the March 24, 1993 issue of Time, explaininghow it is okay for Democrat administrations to fire Attorneys Generalat will.
"Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton."
"All 93 United States Attorneys knew they would be asked to step down, since all are Republican holdovers, and 16 have resigned so far. But the process generally takes much longer and had usually been carried out without the involvement of the Attorney General. Battles of the Past "
"Ms. Reno is under pressure to assert her control over appointments at the Justice Department. She was Mr. Clinton’s third choice for Attorney General and arrived after most of the department’s senior positions were already filled by the White House."
Good thing Reno didn't have to step down over this, or she wouldn't have been able to protect our country as a member of The Most Ethical Administration in History by burning the Branch Dividians alive and grabbing Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint to send him back to the totalitarian country that his mother died escaping (and not incidentally, trying to free him from).
Go about your business. No hypocrisy to see here.... no hypocrisy to see here...
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Just bought the DVD at me local Borders and watched it tonight. I haven't seen it since 1994 or so, and I'd forgotten most of it.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0052722/
This DVD has as a bonus feature explanations on how they made the leprochauns look so real. My half-ass guess was close enough that it made me feel more clever than the average bear, but some of the details are pretty ingenius. They have some shots of the scenes actually being shot, which is a nice bonus to the bonus feature.
Walt Disney also made a 30 minute tv special (included as another bonus feature) showing how he talked the leprochauns into being in his film, which I hadn't known before.
Darn good movie. If anyone wants to borrow it, let me know.
New York Times publishes article questioning Hal Gore's facts
Why do I call him "Hal"? Because his voice has about as much animation as the
computer HAL in 2001: a space odyssey. I just coined that moniker, and I'm
tired enough to think it's clever.
Anyway, some scientists are asking Supercomputer Al to come back down to
earth with his statements. Al Gore stretchthe truth? Don't make me laugh.
Seriously, it hurts when I laughthat hard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
A sweet quotation:
“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”
Have you ever heard a more diplomatic way of saying someone is full of crap?
computer HAL in 2001: a space odyssey. I just coined that moniker, and I'm
tired enough to think it's clever.
Anyway, some scientists are asking Supercomputer Al to come back down to
earth with his statements. Al Gore stretchthe truth? Don't make me laugh.
Seriously, it hurts when I laughthat hard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
A sweet quotation:
“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”
Have you ever heard a more diplomatic way of saying someone is full of crap?
Hummer more environmentally friendly than Prius? Mm'yep.
The Hummer is cheaper per mile of use and its manufacture is more "eco-friendly" than
that Prius all the Hollywood peoplelove to brag about driving. Leonardo DiCapprio is killing Mother Earth!
http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188
that Prius all the Hollywood peoplelove to brag about driving. Leonardo DiCapprio is killing Mother Earth!
http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/editorial_item.asp?NewsID=188
The Great Global Warming Swindle: It's all your fault!!!!
... or maybe it isn't. England's Channel 4 had a special called The Great Global Warming Swindle.
It's posted on You Tube in 8 different parts.
Here's a link to part 1 of 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IPHmJWmDk&mode=related&search=
You'll see links to the other 7 parts when you view this one.
Two very interesting facts that you won't hear on the nightly news:
One:The most fascinating fact so far is the revelation that Earth's temperature chart over the last century or two closely matches the graph of solar activity, and bearing almost no comparison to CO2 levels.
Two:There's great evidence that rises in CO2 are a result of increased temperature, not the cause of it.
You can stop reading right there, because those two sentences hold 90% of the impact of this post, and I get long winded after this.
Some highlights of the report. The former president of America's National Academy of Sciences wrote, in the Wall Street Journal, regarding the recent IPCC report that claims global warming (GW) is definitely man-made.
"I have never witnessed a more disturbintg corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report."
"But this is not what it appears to be-- it is not the version that was approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page."
What happened? United Nations beaurocrats and politicians deleted many vital statements which they didn't like. And we all know how infallable beaurocracy is.... how many PennDOT workers prop up shovels most of the day?
Some statements from some of the 15 key sections the politicians & beaurocrats deleted: "None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the oberved [climate] changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases."
"No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic causes."
I could copy more interesting (and enlightening) information, but there's a good fact every minute or two and I'm too lazy to type that much.
I'll post a link to the transcript of the program if I find one.
Hearing the clips of the 'activists' listing the evils of energy use and the costs we will all surely suffer reminds me of some anti-drug public service announcements on television/radio in the 80s. On this series of PSAs, celebrities would tell somberly stare at the camera and tell you "If you use drugs, you... will... die." Great scare tactic, but it makes me lose respect for you because you can't use a rational, honest argument.
Same thing for the hysteria-mongers scampering along at Al Gore's heels.
It's posted on You Tube in 8 different parts.
Here's a link to part 1 of 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6IPHmJWmDk&mode=related&search=
You'll see links to the other 7 parts when you view this one.
Two very interesting facts that you won't hear on the nightly news:
One:The most fascinating fact so far is the revelation that Earth's temperature chart over the last century or two closely matches the graph of solar activity, and bearing almost no comparison to CO2 levels.
Two:There's great evidence that rises in CO2 are a result of increased temperature, not the cause of it.
You can stop reading right there, because those two sentences hold 90% of the impact of this post, and I get long winded after this.
Some highlights of the report. The former president of America's National Academy of Sciences wrote, in the Wall Street Journal, regarding the recent IPCC report that claims global warming (GW) is definitely man-made.
"I have never witnessed a more disturbintg corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report."
"But this is not what it appears to be-- it is not the version that was approved by the contributing scientists listed on the title page."
What happened? United Nations beaurocrats and politicians deleted many vital statements which they didn't like. And we all know how infallable beaurocracy is.... how many PennDOT workers prop up shovels most of the day?
Some statements from some of the 15 key sections the politicians & beaurocrats deleted: "None of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the oberved [climate] changes to the specific cause of increases in greenhouse gases."
"No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic causes."
I could copy more interesting (and enlightening) information, but there's a good fact every minute or two and I'm too lazy to type that much.
I'll post a link to the transcript of the program if I find one.
Hearing the clips of the 'activists' listing the evils of energy use and the costs we will all surely suffer reminds me of some anti-drug public service announcements on television/radio in the 80s. On this series of PSAs, celebrities would tell somberly stare at the camera and tell you "If you use drugs, you... will... die." Great scare tactic, but it makes me lose respect for you because you can't use a rational, honest argument.
Same thing for the hysteria-mongers scampering along at Al Gore's heels.
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