Seriously, now, if you’re going to name a Navy ship after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose only claim to fame (let alone heroism) was surviving a bullet to the head, it makes perfect sense: Name another one after the pugnacious punk thief and drug-dealer who was puffed as a racial victim by the lying Democrat news media and the president they helped elect and have covered for ever since.
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Obamalot, Obsessions, The Culture
The dystopian outlook that seems to dominate science fiction these days, particularly the apocalyptic kind, foresees an eruption of the dormant but volatile Yellowstone volcano in Wyoming as civilization shattering, especially in North America.
So does the U.S. Geologic Survey: “If another large caldera-forming eruption were to occur at Yellowstone, its effects would be worldwide. Thick ash deposits would bury vast areas of the United States, and injection of huge volumes of volcanic gases into the atmosphere could drastically affect global climate.”
Comes contrarian meteorologist Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell to say that such an eruption would likely, counter-intuitively, be a ho-hummer in most places downwind.
“Remember Mt. St. Helens. There was very little notable disruption to the climate from that. Great sunsets yes and of course the utter devastation around it, but the volcanoes that are of prime concern are in the tropics, and in the Arctic. Volcanoes in the westerlies have their ash distributed quickly, and so I don’t think this would have any real affect on the climate, or put it this way, it would be in the category of Mt St Helen[s] which was minimal…”
Lots of apocalyptic scifi authors who, along with their readers, seem to delight in imagining human misery, are going to look awfully foolish if the thing does blow and Joe is right. And things just might get a little crazy if he isn’t. But I’ll place my bets with him.
UPDATE: OTOH, as Bastardi’s colleague Joe D’Aleo notes, Jellystone has the potential to be 2,000 times the size of the Mt. St. Helens eruption.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obsessions, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged Joe Bastardi, Mount Saint Helens., Yellowstone eruption
April 2, 2014 in Obsessions, Rule 5, The Culture
Tagged plus-size models, robyn lawley, Rule 5
It’s so refreshing to find a scientist who is willing to speak the truth, in the face of his nattering peers. Particularly a physicist, the hardest of all the hard sciences, and, of course, it would be Freeman Dyson:
Via Instapundit.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obsessions, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
No such notice for the starving millions of North Korea, nor the dying in Syria or the oppressed of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Nope. But five (count ’em) five anti-Israel resolutions in one day.
“Paula Shcriefer, the US representative to the UN’s Human Rights Council, …noted that ‘none of the world’s worst human rights violators, some of whom are the objects of resolutions at this session have their own stand alone agenda item at this council,” and emphasized that “only Israel, a vibrant and open democracy, received such treatment.'”
It’s the democracy part that really gets to the Dictator’s Club. Also the Jooz.
Via Weasel Zippers
Mr. Goon is right. We need to return to the enjoyment of these fetching young women instead of their ho-hum skinny sisters. Sorry, but I don’t have her name.
News Babe Megyn Kelly, another reason to watch FoxNews. The other being that its competitors are Democrat stenographers.
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