…is a wonderful jungle that will be wiped from the face of the map because someone used hair spray, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Jawa Report, with a post on al Qaeda starting an official Twitter account.
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future nation of America. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson, with a wee bit of help (sorry, I covered the signature)
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets†calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts
Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
The GOP passed a revised continuing resolution Saturday, which seeks to delay the “Affordable” Care Act individual mandate for a year, along with repealing the tax on medical devices (that last is popular with Democrats, too). As John Boehner pointed out, this is what the American People want (well, most want the “Affordable” CA immolated and replaced with a real solution). In that CR we also find
(CNN) House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill coming up for a vote Saturday night, a spokesman for Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, told CNN.
A senior House leadership aide confirmed that development.
The so-called “conscience clause†would allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women which they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds. That prominently includes birth control, which most insurers are required to provide for free under current Obamacare rules.
It’s not just about women, but men, too, since men would be able to purchase contraception and undergo sterilization procedures. That last one is bigger than contraception, along with Obama’s requirement that the health insurance provide abortifacients. It’s sad that this even needs to be encoded in law, considering what the 1st Amendment states in regard to religion.
And, yeah, this has driven the Left to Moonbat Level 8
And now back to the Senate.
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
It’s so terrible! Won’t someone think of the kids!
(WTVY) The calendar may say fall, but it looks like winter in Montana.
Storms brought several inches of snow to parts of the state Wednesday night into Thursday.
(MagicValley.com) Snow is falling early in some parts of the state (Idaho) — including a couple of ski areas.
Officials reported snow at Brundage Mountain near McCall on Tuesday and a light dusting atop the mountains at Bogus Basin outside of Boise.
Forecasters are calling for more snow the rest of this week with heavy, early-season dumps north of Ketchum. Meteorologists are predicting as much as 10 inches to accumulate near Galena Summit through Thursday.
(Register Guard) Fall has barely arrived in Oregon, and already it’s snowing big-time at Crater Lake.
Marsha McCabe, a spokeswoman for the only national park in Oregon, says there was an unusually early snowfall Tuesday night, amounting to about 8 inches.
Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot, the deep oceans ate the warming.
(FYI, the meme comes from this hysteric article about “snowfalls being a thing of the past” which includes the line “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”.
As one of the folks in the comments at the story writes “So, we’re supposed to feel sorry that they came here illegally and we are supposed to provide translators for them?”
(Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods)
Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage — not the water-damaged cars, not the old family pictures and not the sheds carried away by the rushing waters.
The destruction, however, was only the beginning of what’s been a nightmarish two weeks. They didn’t have flood insurance. And because they are not citizens or legal residents — and don’t have family members who are — they won’t get the federal government’s help.
“They say that faith and hope die last,” said Juan Partida, 40, a dairy worker who along with his wife Mari, who is pregnant, do not qualify for federal emergency aid because they are in the country illegally. “We need to have faith and hope that we’ll get help.”
You can get it back in your home country.
“We were flooded like everyone else. We suffered the same damage,” said Norma Miramontes, 42, who along with her husband, a construction worker, is in the U.S. illegally.
Well, illegals sure have the “I’m entitled” mentality pushed by Liberals down pat, eh?
Read: Bummer: Colorado Illegals Face “Uncertainty” After Floods »
…is a horrible waste of chocolate, the same chocolate that will be destroyed by someone turning trees into cabinets, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Atlas Shrugs, with a post wondering if Obama called Iran to congratulate them on getting the nuclear bomb.
Read: If All You See… »
Funny thing about society nowadays: those who are shrill and unhinged, throwing rhetorical bombs, are listed to more than people who are rational and calm, at least in politics and in the media, hence, those who are shrill and unhinged feel emboldened to be more shrill and emboldened. Hence, we end up with things like this
(Winnipeg Free Press) The 800-odd authors of the report are selected by their fellow scientists in the various disciplines relevant to climate change as the acknowledged leaders in their field of study. Their job was to review all 14,000 scientific papers on climate change published in the past five years. And they are doing this work at the behest of the world’s governments, not as some random pressure group; it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
All these authors, selected by the IPCC for their Belief that the miniscule warming since 1850 (1.4F) is caused by Mankind and their willingness to push for hard-left solutions, are “working for the world’s governments”. Interesting. They aren’t working for science?
Scientists are very cautious people. They won’t go one millimetre beyond what the evidence makes indisputable, knowing that they will be attacked by rival scientists if they do. They are much more comfortable talking about probabilities rather than certainties. They are, in other words, a nightmare for journalists who have to transmit their findings to the world.
So, I guess we’re being told they aren’t actually scientists.
There is reason to believe that it’s already too late to avoid this one. The protective covering of floating ice that has shielded the Arctic Ocean from solar heating for so long is now going fast, and we will probably see an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the August-September period as early as the 2020s. Mercifully, this is the smallest of the three major feedbacks in terms of its impact — but it triggers a bigger one.
So that “ice free 2013” has gone out the window? What happens in the next 7-13 years when the Arctic is not ice free? Here comes the bomb
Those are the killer feedbacks. Earth has lurched suddenly into a climate 5-6 degrees C higher than now a number of times in the past. The original warming usually came from massive, long-lasting volcanic eruptions that put a large amount of CO2 into the atmosphere — but in every case it was feedbacks like these that carried the planet up into a temperature regime where there was a massive dieback of animals and plants.
We are the volcanoes now. Our own emissions would take a long time to get us up to really high average temperatures worldwide, but all we have to do is pull the trigger on the feedbacks. The rest is automatic.
So, if volcanoes have been primary drivers of climate in the past, ie, natural forces, why can’t natural forces be the primary driver of this modest warm period? Steven Goddard notes the cooling from the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, causing cooling. When the reduced temps from that eruption are removed, we end up with this
(From Wood For Trees)
We see that as CO2 levels have gone up, global temperatures have barely risen. But, we’re all volcanoes now.
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Continuing with his normal use of the resources of the White House, owned by The People of the USA, for hyper-partisan campaign style speeches, (NMP) Obama loves him some “Affordable” Care Act for Other People, and whines at Republicans (video here, if you can stomach it) in his Weekly Address
Hi,
everybodyDemocrat voters (WT-had to fix that). This Tuesday is an important day for families, businesses, and our economy.It’s the day a big part of the Affordable Care Act kicks in, and tens of millions of Americans will finally have the same chance to buy quality, affordable health care as everyone else.
If “affordable” means “seeing your premiums skyrocket“, well, yeah. If it means 30 million left without insurance, sure, OK, Sparky. If it means people being dumped from their company policies and seeing America turned into a part-timer economy, yup.
It’s also the day that a group of far-right Republicans in Congress might choose to shut down the government and potentially damage the economy just because they don’t like this law.
Say what you will about George W. Bush, he was never this hyper-partisan or derogatory towards his opponents (perhaps he should have been, at least now and then, but that’s a different discussion). Obama never acts as POTUS, but as President Of Those Who Vote Democrat.
If you’re one of the vast majority of Americans who already have health care, you already have new benefits you didn’t before, like free mammograms and contraceptive care with no copay, and discounts on prescription medicine for seniors. You’ve already got new protections in place too, like no more lifetime limits on your care, no more discriminating against children with preexisting conditions like asthma, or being able to stay on your parents’ plan until you turn 26.
Problem is, those are masking issues (except for the contraception thing, which is pandering to those who don’t feel like spending a few bucks a month for protection as they have irresponsible, casual sex), things that are popular, designed to be the honey masking the taste of nasty medicine. Or, if you like, some nice chipolte ranch, tomatoes, and a pretzel bun on a s**t-burger.
I will work with anyone who wants to have a serious conservation about our economic future. But I will not negotiate over Congress’ responsibility to pay the bills it has already racked up. I don’t know how to be more clear about this: no one gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States of America just to extract ideological concessions. No one gets to hurt our economy and millions of innocent people just because there are a couple laws you don’t like. It hasn’t been done in the past, and we’re not going to start doing it now.
He’ll work with the President Of Iran, but not Republicans. He’s added over $6.5 trillion to the debt. Yet, he blames Republicans in Congress for his prolificant spending during the years Dems controlled Congress. Where’s his own budget? It is consistently late, and so horrible that even the Democrat controlled Senate won’t vote for it.
Read: Obama Discusses “Affordable” Care Act And “Far Right Republicans” In Weekly Address »
A whole generation has not known any statistically significant warming. Could more generations be without? (via Junk Science)
(Reuters) The IPCC reiterated that a warming trend is “unequivocalâ€, and some effects would last far beyond the lifetimes of people now alive, such as heat penetrating ever deeper into the oceans.
In other words, the oceans ate their warming, which is very convenient (but doesn’t explain why this didn’t happen during the previous spikes during the Modern Warm Period), and they aren’t quite sure if the current pause will last for several decades (such as the late 40’s through the late 70’s) or longer, but they need a way to Blame Mankind in order to get some of that sweet sweet taxpayer money.
BTW, Ace notes that the NY Times finally realizes that taking Michael Mann’s tree ring based “hockey stick” was a mistake.
This is the conclusion of an actual study
(Salon) Why don’t people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They don’t want to be associated with environmentalists.
That’s the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists.
Sadly, the envirowackos cause all legit environmentalists to be lumped together. And despised.
In one (study), the participants—228 Americans recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk—described both varieties of activists in “overwhelmingly negative†terms. The most frequently mentioned traits describing “typical feminists†included “man-hating†and “unhygienic;†for “typical environmentalists,†they included “tree-hugger†and “hippie.â€
Not all environmentalists are hippies and tree-huggers. I’m not. I like clean air, water, and land. I like trees. The wackos cause a negative stereotype of all.
The results of three additional studies suggested this aversion to perceived stereotypical behavior impacts people’s behavior. In one of them, 140 Americans (again recruited via Mechanical Turk) read an article about climate change and “the need for individuals to adopt sustainable lifestyles.â€
“Climate change” is not about the environment, and these wackos have further eroded belief in environmentalism. Thanks, wackos!
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