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Robin Gibbs Dead
Donna Summer - Dead at 63
Vidal Sassoon assumes room temperature
A final grand but sad salute to US space supremacy
Dick Clark - who's got him?
Only in Wisconsin: Drunk 80 Year Old Hits Beer Truck
Anybody have Mike Wallace?
Sex Poodle High!!
Ok, I was just going to leave well enough alone with the Chuck Norris video, but damn…this is just too good to pass up, y’all!!!
Al Gore has had some tough breaks — like losing the presidency after getting more votes than the other guy — but the noted environmentalist achieved a singular honor last week, becoming the first vice president to have a Los Angeles school named after him.
And, fittingly, the school will be devoted to environmental themes.
But as in the 2000 election, there’s a catch. Critics say the campus’ location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff.
As if that wasn’t ironic enough, he plays second fiddle to none other than evirowacko Rachel Carson: The Carson- Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences. Am I the only one who notices a few little things, like naming another school after a live pol, and replacing the top soil after building the school, to the tune of $4 million? Or that class instruction will center around recycling, “research”, and beach clean-ups? Can you say “indoctrination“, boys and girls? YES, WE CAN!!!
You have to wonder about a principal who is excited about having an organic garden at his school, with allegedly contaminated soil, though. No links were harmed during this post, but they can be found through Drudge at the L.A. Times.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ooglay*
So, perusing the news this AM I find some good, some bad, and some just…. stomach churning. First, The Good:
The Supreme Court affirms gun rights nationwide. Chicago burns.
Senator Robert Byrd (KKK-WV) has passed away. Senate is looking for a taxidermist, since this places the so-called financial reform bill in limbo, seeing as Byrd is gone and Brown (RINO-MA) is currently finding his balls by hinting he’ll vote against it.
Over in Great Britain, the new Coalition government is hoisting its trousers, announcing a proposal that would require employers to place foreign workers on private health insurance to avoid “undue burden” on their National Health Service, AKA socialized medicine.
The IPCC is once again taking it in the shorts. Sadly, Al Gore cannot be reached for comment.
Now for The Bad:
Things turned fwench at the G20 in Toronto. It’s not unusual for protesters to gather at these globalization circlejerks, but sure seems like Toronto was caught a bit off-guard.
Prez Obama decides to get serious. Country will burn.
Prez Clinton counsels to blow up the well. If anyone knows anything about blowing, it’s him, I suppose.
Lastly, for The Ooglay:
Elena Kagan begins the confirmation hearings process. Meanwhile, the moron tasked with sealing the borders confesses it will never happen, and that border control is not the answer to “immigration reform”.
* I just could not defame that classic.
Update [ArmedGeek]: I hope Aggie doesn’t mind me stepping on her post a bit but I think this is a good place for this.
U.S. Arrests 10 on Charges of Being Agents for Russia
Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
Can we stop calling these fuckers “allies” yet ?
Of Dung Beatles, Tin Kings, and Would-Be Gods…
This has been a crazy week at Casa de Aggie. Last week of school, and several guests coming to town have left me very frazzled. Mix in the news this week, and you would swear there’s a Zombie Rod Serling about.
To start, we have “Sir” Paul McCartney in country to receive the Gershwin Prize for music. According to the WaPo, it was a fantastic party at the White House, complete with serenades to the First Lady, and covers of his music from long ago. Apparently, Sir Mac decided his title makes him qualified to comment on US politics:
After thanking the Library of Congress one last time, he let it rip: “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is.”
Really? So, George W. Bush, who is married to a librarian, doesn’t know what a library is? The same man that had reading contests with Karl Rove?? I have news for you, Macca: just because a prez can read from a teleprompter doesn’t make him well-read. Of course, that astute observation came from a man too stupid to think of a pre-nup with Heather Mills.
Next up we have James “King of Pandora” Cameron. He remarked at the All Things Digital conference that he offered his assistance to British Petroleum. When BP turned him down, he got his tin crown all bent out of shape:
“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron said.
He “declined” to explain who he meant by “morons.” Newsflash: just because you have filmed underwater in a tin can doesn’t give you the expertise to work in this area. Not that it stops him from participating in an EPA brainstorming meeting on how to stop the oil spill. Because Hollywood is soooo realistic, you know.
And finally, we come to the heartbreak of the week: The Goron, almighty priest of Carbon Come, is going through a separation after forty years of marriage. The rumor mill is spinning fast on this, but I believe this encapsulates my feelings best:
Hat tip: Daily Bayonet
See y’all sometime after the weekend!!!
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Hot on the heels on the possible identification of the Climategate leak, comes this delightful smackdown of heretical proportions:
India Forms New Climate Change Body
Yes, I know…still towing the AGW line. But wait for it….
India has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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.
The Science is Settled
Most likely, this summer’s Gulf dead zone will blanket about 7,980 square miles, roughly the same size as last year’s zone, Scavia said. That would put the years 2009, 2008 and 2001 in a virtual tie for second place on the list of the largest Gulf dead zones.
The 3,000 square miles is one of the smallest measurements of the zone since measurements began in 1985, according to a graph in a news release sent from a research vessel in the Gulf. Only those in 1987, 1988 and 2000 were smaller.
You know, honestly, at some point we’re going to have to realize that most of these “scientists” don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.
Stolen from: SDA
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