Author: Kate

War Room Nostradamus

Century XIII Quatrain 1
His time is up.
Ballots, debates, wild smoke,
Rage and fury throughout every province.
Tears, cries, never times so bitter.
Century XIII Quatrain 2
The czarist prince near the Lakeshore of Etobicoke
Will return in true patriot love.
Going beyond the thoughful ones will draw up a plan.
Rae, LeBlanc, Trudeau, a man in a mask. Others.
Century XIII Quatrain 3
Natural governors prevail:
The brown bag holds the secret.
Banquets offered by day,
Granaries plundered at night.
Century XIII Quatrain 4
The angry barbarian King will be driven west, vanquished.
The people tried by frost,
Women and youth weeping.
The cabinet remains a mystery.
Century XIII Quatrain 5
From the top of the Hill a voice heard,
Be gone, be gone all of you on both sides.
The anger will be appeased by the blood of the blue ones:
From Abbott to Zarac, necks burning in sun, expelled.
Century XIII Quatrain 6
The King and his court in the place of cunning tongue,
Within the temple facing the palace:
In the garden the Dukes of Charest and Dumont dagger tongue.
The scribes rejoice.
Century XIII Quatrain 7
True patriot will sound the trumpet.
Ten ships nearby will turn to drive it back.
Great war ends, the united ones to join in faith.
Through peace he will attain to the empire.
Century XIII Quatrain 8
Near the end of two centuries and eight, governed to its greatest detriment, plundered:
The barbarians may evade the executioner.
Consumed by vapours, great enemy of the entire human race: crazy shithouse rats.
Never were the people so wronged.
Century XIII Quatrain 9
The Gardens at Stanley and Halifax harbours will flood so high
That they will believe the Goracle reborn.
Into the colossal storms the Baird will flee,
Great white ones drowning enrage the people.
Century XIII Quatrain 10
For the war room one, walls will be converted from brick to marble.
Seven and fifty pacific years,
Joy to mortals, the aquaduct renewed,
Health, abundance of fruits, joy and mellifluous times.
From The Quatrains: December 31, 2008

Allahu Akbar: The New “Cry For Help”

A case of Peri-Millionaire Banker’s Son Stress Disorder nearly results in tragedy;

A man is on the no-fly list but is allowed to board the plane. Everyone flying on an inbound long-haul flight to the United States is forced to hand over excessively large amounts of liquids and gels and put the small amounts permitted into separate plastic bags, yet the no-fly guy’s material for bomb-making sails through undetected.
This time the last line of defense worked. Next time, the paradise-seeking jihadist might get lucky and find himself sitting next to, say, Charlie Sheen, too immersed in a lengthy treatise on how 9/11 was an inside job to notice the smoldering socks in the next seat; or to the same kind of nothing-to-see-here crowd who thought Major Hasan’s e-mails were “consistent with his research interests”.

(Speaking of the uncommon heroism of the earthbound, here’s commentary that cries out for a few minutes of combustive companionship in a two-seater…)
Update – This account mentioned in the comments looks to be legit.

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport

Because Thomas Would Keep His Little Caboose Barefoot And Pregnant If Given The Chance

Meaning…

We should be looking at the messages young students are receiving because university is a very important socialization agent for them and the messages they get about how to be good citizens they’re going to carry with them,” she says, adding that very little research is done on the specific content of the brains of leftist professors. “With the erosion of performance based standards in academia, I think it’s becoming something that we need to be more aware of.”

h/t to Anthony Watts, whose suggestion included something about Barney the Dinosaur and a level crossing.

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Thank you for your Christmas greetings and kind thoughts both here on the blog, and by email.
I was going to write a Christmas post, but there’s not much I can do to top this one, so I’ll simply add my own Merry Christmas! to Vitruvius’ effort here, and wish all of you the best for 2010.
I have a couple of posts scheduled for later to entertain those of you who are also spending a quiet holiday at home, house training 9 week old puppies. – Kate


Who Forgot The Sundial Batteries?

Pagan worshippers …

… who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the winter solstice at Stonehenge were dismayed to discover that they had turned up on the wrong day.
About 300 people dressed in robes met at the stone circle on Monday to greet the rising of the sun on the shortest day of the year. Unfortunately, their calculations were slightly out. They had arrived 24 hours early.

h/t Charles MacDonald

The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose: A Lump Of Code In Your Stocking

Steve McIntyre finds something under his tree;

The UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together with code.
Only last summer, the Met Office had turned down my FOI request for station data, saying that the provision of station data to me would threaten the course of UK international relations. Apparently, these excuses have somehow ceased to apply.

Early reviews at Bishop Hill;

Meanwhile, even this extremely limited attempt at openness is not all it seems to be. John G-C has been looking at the code and running it against the data he has. What he has found is that prior to 1855 there was no southern hemisphere data and that when you run the Met Office’s newly released code, this shows up as a gap in the graph of the average. But there is no such gap in the actual CRUTEM index. John’s conclusion is that what we’re looking at is not the actual code used in CRUTEM, but something written especially for public consumption. In light of the scorn that many programmers have been pouring on the quality of the coding standards at CRU, this might suggest that the original code was just too awful to make available for public inspection.

Via Anthony Watts
Update: Reading the comments at the sites linked above, most are in agreement about the nature of the data released.

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