Category Archives: Science/Engineering

Rising C02’s hidden benefit

Posted on September 11, 2015 | 3 comments

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Our Barry Hussein and the climate change scammers keep warning that the world’s deserts will expand north unless we give up abundant electricity, the internal combustion engine and other conveniences of a fossil-fueled economy.

Au contraire:

“According to [2013] research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused an 11 percent increase in green foliage over the globe’s arid regions through a process called CO2 fertilization.”

The research finding, that desert margins are shrinking, not expanding, is two years old. Unless you’ve never seen it, in which case it’s as new as this morning. It’s the hidden benefit of CO2 available to all with satellite data. Funny how our own president, his agencies and his “green” cronies never seem to mention it.

Via Sci-News

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Facebook’s windy blowjob

Posted on September 8, 2015 | Comments Off on Facebook’s windy blowjob

“Facebook announced that it’s building a massive new data center in Fort Worth, Texas, and that the facility will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy…”

Impossible. Totally impossible. As big a “blow” job as any lie our Barry Hussein ever thought of telling, about health insurance, Benghazi or Iran. As Power Line notes:

“…all Facebook is really doing is calling 200 MW of new general wind power ‘their’ power, even though it will feed into the general grid whose backbone and main stabilizer will be natural gas and coal.”

“New general wind power” totally subsidized by federal grants because it can’t compete with fossil fuels.

But can the average lefty journalist or news reader figure that out? ‘Course not. Facebook gets its “blow job” and Barry Hussein gets his alternative energy sleight-of-hand. And, as always, the taxpayer gets screwed.

Via Power Line.

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My new iPhone 6 plus

Posted on August 31, 2015 | Comments Off on My new iPhone 6 plus

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Apple haters, like Mr. Goon, will despair but my new iPhone 6 Plus (white in a black Otter Box similar to the pix) is actually pretty cool. Its 5.5 inch screen is so big it’s almost a mini tablet. Easier for old eyes to read. Still fits in my pants pocket.

Oh, I considered an Android. I have to like any operating system called Lollipop. But, in the end, I had to acknowledge that Mrs. Charm and Mr. Boy both have iPhones and so why not be effortlessly compatible? Especially since keeping up with her in the hospital is important and texting him is about the only way to stay in touch. Anyhow, I like it. I already have the fingerprint ID security feature in operation and am consulting the operating manual daily for more tricks.

UPDATE: Meanwhile the last of Andy’s favorite circa ’05 collection of Motorola Razr phones has died. Sayonara, adios, etc.

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Our feckless federal security

Posted on August 26, 2015 | Comments Off on Our feckless federal security

“American soldiers in the Middle East have been receiving emails that sound something like this: ‘Good morning. We thought you would like to know that we are carefully watching your daughter Rosie, the one who lives in Wichita at 1234 State Street. This is to inform you that if your tank moves 100 meters north, she will not live to see the sun rise tomorrow.’”

Just one example of how foreign hackers could bring a whole new meaning to asymmetrical warfare if our federal computer security can’t get its act together.

Via Michael Ledeen.

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“I hope everyone gets well”

Posted on August 22, 2015 | 1 comment

So said a chirpy fellow, ostensibly from Nacogdoches, on the shuttle bus Thursday from the Best Western to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s main building. Underscoring that cancer patients are all over the place.

We’re back home again and not looking to return until the 31st. All that’s waiting now, apparently, is the busy MDA pathologists’ analysis of Mrs. C.’s tests, including a tissue biopsy of one of her cancer-loaded lymph nodes. Oh, and her doctor’s vacation. As she says, never get cancer in August because everyone is gone.

She’s still running a fever, knocked back by continuous doses of Tylenol and in constant pain which pain pills every six hours still are helping. But her right leg is swollen up to twice the left one’s size, so much she doesn’t like to be seen and walking is difficult. Treatment can’t start too soon for us.

Mr. B., meanwhile, had convinced himself, through faulty math, that treatment would be for nought. Our Israeli pal Mr. Goon, who has a degree in physics, explained where he went wrong. For once he was happy to be mistaken.

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Back in the Puckerbrush

Posted on August 19, 2015 | Comments Off on Back in the Puckerbrush

Andy’s off his Central Texas vacation and back gate-guarding again in Webb County (which includes the streets of Laredo), in the far South Texas Puckerbrush:

“It has been 100+ every day since we [him and Tuco the dog] got here and the weatherman is just sayin’ more more MORE!  It is what it is I reckon.”

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Getting ready for the bomb

Posted on August 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Getting ready for the bomb

Now that Barry Hussein’s toothless “deal” has guaranteed that Iran will get the bomb—and has even provided them the billions necessary to build it and its delivery system—it’s time to prepare for its arrival:

“What if a nuclear device were detonated in an urban area today? I explored this issue in a 2007 study modeling a nuclear weapon attack on four American cities. As in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the majority of deaths would happen soon after the detonation, and the local health care response capability would be largely eradicated.”

Appropriately, one of those four American cities is Chicago.

Via Instapundit.

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