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Those feathered descendants of the dinosaurs

Posted on July 18, 2013 | 3 comments

Some people have trouble imagining what scientists have in recent decades demonstrated via China fossils to be true: that birds are the descendants of dinosaurs.

Not me and J.D. at Mouth of the Brazos, who watched a Texas Mockingbird in action:

“The way the bird landed and hopped, using its wings and tail for balance, after the lizard (which had no chance at all) made me think of dinosaurs. It is hard to NOT believe that birds are closely related to them.”

Especially the big ones, like Mexican Grackles and Blue Jays. I still wonder about hummingbirds, though.

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Warming lies continue in face of cooling

Posted on July 17, 2013 | 4 comments

“…temperatures have stopped warming in all the data bases going back as far as 1997. All are showing a cooling since 2002 even as CO2 continues to rise.”

So reminds Weather Bell meterologist Joe D’Aleo, as he dissects the Weather Channel’s and NBC’s determination to continue propagandizing global warming in the face of polls showing fewer and fewer Americans believe in it. As well they shouldn’t.

Meanwhile, it’s coming clear that those climate models the “scientist” hoaxers have relied on to forecast future doom for the planet are failing to accurately predict five years into the future, never mind a century.

I still wonder if we aren’t in danger of an imminent Ice Age, re scifi author Larry Niven’s Fallen Angels, now that the Greens he imagined forcing huge reductions in CO2 (bringing on the Glaciers moving south) are actually in power. And their servant Wormtongue is flirting with our economic disaster in his zeal to reduce CO2.

But I’m probably just infected with the gloom-and-doom we’re all been hammered with for the last decade. Pols need distractions to facilitate their ongoing thefts and bribes and this end-of-the-world stuff works nicely.

UPDATE: The hoaxers and their media cronies have the proof! Proof, they tell you. That’s because they’ve manipulated the numbers, cooling the past, so they can keep claiming “this year” is the hottest ever, etc.

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If Trayvon Were my Child I would be Happy He was Dead

Posted on July 16, 2013 | 2 comments

The headline is Bernie’s but the sentiment, covert as I’m sure it is, must resonate with millions.

“I certainly would have personally thanked George Zimmerman for saving me and my wife decades of personal anguish and pain this evil child would have inflicted on us…My no-good son Trayvon dead? Thank you, Lord!”

Afterall, who wants a thug for a son? Not even Wormtongue I’d bet.

As for the much to-do about not very much, as Instapundit says: “This was never about Zimmerman or Martin. It was about firing up Obama’s black vote, and keeping his guilty-white-liberal supporters from abandoning him over his many broken campaign promises…Our political class has no sense of responsibility or shame.”

UPDATE:  Speaking out the right side of his mouth, Wormtongue said publicly that we are nation of laws and the jury has spoken. Then, out the left side (his usual side), he whispered to his disgraced attorney general to have the feds get Zimmerman on a civil rights conviction. The show trial must go on until the polls close in 2014.

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Rule 5: Mahsa Tehrani

Posted on July 16, 2013 | 4 comments

Ms Tehrani is an Iranian model. I’m not sure, but I think that like most of them she probably lives and works outside the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Via Planck’s Constant

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Of skunks and snakes

Posted on July 15, 2013 | 4 comments

Went out on the patio early Sunday (as in about 2 a.m.) to smoke a cigarette and got a glimpse of a big bushy white-n-black tail swishing around the corner of the house. Figured it was the skunk Mrs. Charm sniffed out the other day, or a member of the same family, anyhow. I left it alone. Never mess with skunks.

We also have big raccoons, opossums and armadillos now and again.

J.D., over at Mouth of the Brazos, however, gets the cold-blooded critters. For instance, what apparently was a “good-sized” Prairie Kingsnake advancing down his flagstone walk towards his flower bed and porch. Says he could tell by the shape of its head that it wasn’t harmful, but he stood up from his porch rocker and clapped his hands anyway which made the snake do a 180 and slither away.

All we ever see of the snake variety are pencil-thin, pale-green garden ones. Happily. If my only choice is skunks or snakes, I’ll take the skunks.

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iPod meets washing machine, part 2

Posted on July 14, 2013 | 4 comments

This time it was Mrs Charm who sent it through the washing machine (and the dryer) without noticing that it was clipped to a shirt she’d scarfed up to wash.

Just like back in 2011, when it was me who done the deed, the iPod Shuffle worked intermittently, then skipped through tunes without warning before finally dying for good. Oddly, perhaps, the earbuds seem to be okay.

Mrs. C. mentioned trying the rice trick, to dry the iPod out, but I recalled it didn’t work last time. So, like before, I found another used one at Amazon for $16 and ordered it.

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Snooze media’s wishful thinking

Posted on July 13, 2013 | 3 comments

Every once in a while, the snooze media reveals its behind-the-scenes intentions, such as this gem from WAVY-TV 10’s website:

“NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – It seems much of the country is gripped by the George Zimmerman murder trial.”

You wish. The truth is that “much of the snooze media” is gripped by the trial. An increasingly large “much of the country” is finding better things to do than watch rube tube snooze or read the snoozepapers.

As for Zimmerman, we’ve known from day one that he, like the Duke LaCrosse Team, was going to be lynched. Especially after Wormtongue stuck his racist nose into it.

Via Weasel Zippers.

UPDATE: GZ is acquitted. So he doesn’t go to prison, he’s just in debt for the rest of his life to his lawyers. Lynched, for sure. And now Wormtongue and Jackson and Sharpton will lead the post-lynching mobbing, along with their cronies in the snooze media. Racists every one.

MORE:  PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon says it was the first “American Stalinist show trial” and the big loser was Wormtongue who had already disgraced himself and his presidency by inserting himself in the case. Fortunately the all-women jury had enough guts not to cave to his political pressure.

AND: It didn’t take Wormtongue long to stick his nose back into the case. But I do like this part: “But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.” Late, but good.

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