Burger King apparently quashed the right of franchisee Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), which owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, to continue these signs. Nice try, Mirabile. Way to conform, Burger King. No wonder Wendy’s has you beat.
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Tagged AGW, Burger King, Global Warming Is Baloney, Mirabile Investment Corp. (MIC)
It doesn’t do most people any good to question the assertions of the acolytes of the First Church of Global Warming. Except, uh, when you’re a famous physicist named Freeman Dyson:
"The change that’s now going on is very strongly concentrated in the Arctic. In fact in three respects, it’s not global, which I think is very important. First of all, it is mainly in the Arctic. Secondly, it’s mainly in the winter rather than summer. And thirdly, it’s mainly in the night rather than at the daytime. In all three respects, the warming is happening where it is cold, not where it is hot."
You’re still mocked and shouted down, of course. But, uh, you know, you don’t care. Good thing heretics are no longer burned. Yet.
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Fifty percent composite airframe (read plastic) and its first fly-by-wire is Boeing’s new airliner aborning. If, as some speculate, Air France 447 crashed into the Atlantic May 31 because of lightning-induced electrical problems with its computers, Boeing’s robotic Dreamliner could turn into its Nightmare–and ours. But, then, with half the airline market already invested in fly-by-wire Airbus, well… There’ll be plenty of pain to go around.
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Tagged Boeing 787, Dreamliner, fly-by-wire
I was willing to hear out the warmists on their Chicken Little bit until the Dictator’s Club weighed into it. I mean, come on, this is the outfit whose human rights council is run by tyrants who spend its time condemning Israel, while its Muslim members oppress women, gays, Christians, Jews, etc.
Now comes that paragon of corruption, Kofi Annan, issuing a phony little warmist addendum that draws a sneer from an expert that it is "a poster child for how to lie with statistics…worse than fiction." Isn’t it about time somebody figured out what’s going on here? It ain’t science, that’s for sure.
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Now that the Brazilian air force’s media-assisted "debris trail" has been debunked, it’s probably best to ignore whatever the mainstream media produces on the disappearance. But several good sources remain. One of the best is the (mostly) informed speculation at Airliners.net. Best weather analysis still is here.
UPDATE: Well, make that debunked, and then resucitated with more detail than before.
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Posted in Obituaries, South of the Border, Weather/Climate
Tagged AF 447, Air France, Airliners.net, Brazilian Air Force, Weather Graphics
Scientists are getting so desperate for the return of sunspots that they are now counting sunspecks. The one on the left is fading away, the one in the middle is a "dead pixel," an artifact of the SOHO spacecraft, and the two on the right are the latest candidates for sunspots. I’m wondering if the lack of activity will mean a cooler-than-usual summer. Well, I can dream, anyhow, as our daytime temps at the rancho climb steadily into the 90s.
Via Watts Up With That.
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Tagged SOHO, sunspecks, sunspots, Watts Up With That
Back in the day, Air Force pilots used to joke about "Air Chance." Some civilians still mutter darkly about the fly-by-wire, automated Airbus, although this apparently is its first major crash with passengers. For now the proposed explanation for the disappearance of Flight 447 over the mid-Atlantic, is severe turbulence, a possible lightning strike and hail damage.
Yet airliners are designed and pilots are trained to handle weather. It’s tempting, in this day of terrorism, to assume it was a bomb. Reports of simultaneous electrical failure and loss of cabin pressure suggest something like that. But they’ll have to find the wreckage, and hopefully the black (actually orange) flight data and voice recorders before we will ever know the cause for certain. If then.
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