Retro Hooker
Reagan Said ….
Yeah, I hit that.
Booze of the Week
The BotW is a bit of a combination of booze and cocktails. I’m still working through the gin section and I’m currently on Beefeater. I’ve about a half a fifth left. This morning I’m drinking a Tom Collins.
My first Tom Collins is:
2oz Gin
1oz lemon juice
1tsp simple syrupShaken with ice, strained into a tall glass half filled with ice. Top with club soda.
This is a very light drink. It is less bitter than a gin and tonic but leans more towards sour with the 1oz of lemon juice. The taste is decent, but I think at these measurements, the lemon just obliterates the taste of the gin.
Most of the recipes tend to vary in garnish. I used none. As the morning progresses, I’ll play with the mix a bit to see what ratios I like best. I will update this post as needed.
As a small reminder: I get that it seems odd to be hitting the bottle at 7am but I work nights and just got off of work. So, for me, it is early evening.
Climategate vs the search engines
There’s been a lot of talk about Google seemingly trying to hide climategate search results. You can read more about this at Soylent Green.
I’d posted an over there illustrating what I’d found searching google (that image is under the fold). Some people began talking about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine.
I’m certainly no fan of Microsoft but they clearly win this round.
If It Walks Like a Duck….
While we live under the stranglehold of Political Correctness and the inability of our G Men to to profile when necessary, other countries are not hindered by such stupidity. A commuter train was attacked in Russia, resulting in the deaths of 26 and injuring almost 100, and they come straight out and use the dreaded “T” word: TERRORISM.
“There is little doubt this is terrorism,” a source in Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s office told Fox News. Who was responsible for the derailment or why it occurred “remains unclear,” the source said.
But the worst part is in the next paragraph:
A second explosive device partially detonated Saturday during the clear-up operation near the disaster site, according to the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin.
A fucking second explosive??? Near the site?? What does THAT tell you??
Now, I’m not saying this was perpetrated by pisslamic fanatics. I am saying it is a terrorist act, no matter who did it.
I bet had this happened here, the FBI would have issued their SOP quote, “This had nothing to do with terrorism/ Islam” in a record-setting 3.2 seconds.
Obama Administration, MTV Edition
Just when one thought they could not cheapen the office any further, along comes that bastion of good taste, MTV, to prove us wrong.
Is it just me, or does it seem like this administration has completely thrown respect for the Office completely out the window? A bunch of celebrity-seeking twenty-year-olds get the run of the place for ratings…..come to think about it, they may do a better job of speaking than Gibby does.
Prove it
I ran across a discussion yesterday regarding Sean Hannity saying that this year was cooler than any year in recent history. The initial discussion started by essentially calling Hannity a liar and a moron because “the science was clear”. The obvious first response to this was, “Yes, but your science is flawed and corrupt.” I’m not going to bother linking to the discussion directly as I don’t think it is really relevant. The very same type of discussion can be found pretty much anywhere you look.
So currently, here is where we stand: We have two separate (known) incidences of intentional fraud coupled (or caused by) corrupt or just plain shitty original datasets. Pretty much all of the AGW studies have one aspect in common: they all refuse to “show their work”.
Studies have shown that too much text is boring and people tend to skim over it without reading. Adding images is said to help focus the reader.
I’m going to show my work. Currently, 100% of the known studies “proving” AGW theories have been shown to be corrupt (both the Hadley CRU and New Zealand studies). What these studies have in common, aside from “proving” AGW, is that they refused to release their original data or methodologies. So, lets apply what we now know to the rest of the AGW studies. We can hypothesize, based on our current data, that studies that refuse to release their initial data or their methodologies used to arrive at their conclusions are frauds and/or corrupt. All of our currently available data shows this to be fact.
I’ve made my hypothesis, revealed the data I used in my experiments, and explained my conclusion. So if there’s anyone out there that would like to “prove my theory wrong”, you actually have an opportunity to do just that. However, I also require that you follow these simple rules of science when you attempt to prove it.
So, the answer to AGW followers is simple: Prove it. Nope, sorry you cannot go grabbing more studies and graphs where the initial data and methodologies have been kept secret as I’ve just proved that those are fraudulent.
I’m a drunken redneck with a high school education able to put this together within minutes of climbing out of bed and I’ve still not yet had my coffee. Science really isn’t that fucking hard.
Hooker of the Week
Underboob and epic ass ….
Stockpiling Tobacco
The latest round of absurd taxes on tobacco did not include pipe tobacco. Pipe tobacco can still be had fairly cheaply.
Update: Commenter “John Galt” points out the error.
That’s $25/lb.
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