Let’s see how you fare….
h/t Raphael

h/t concrete

Call it a prediction….
Related – 141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming…

1. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov, Dr. Sci., mathematician and astrophysicist, Head of the Russian-Ukrainian Astrometria project on the board of the Russian segment of the ISS, Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
2. Göran Ahlgren, docent organisk kemi, general secretary of the Stockholm Initiative, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden
3. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
4. J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Member, UN Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000, Pretoria, South Africa.
5. Jock Allison, PhD, ONZM, formerly Ministry of Agriculture Regional Research Director, Dunedin, New Zealand ….

No fruit fly guys, though.

IRS files $79,000 tax lien against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Sky Is Not Falling – Putting Climate Change on Trial presented by the FCPP.
Guest Speaker: Bruno Wiskel, Professional Geologist, Author and Speaker
Date: December 2, 2009
Place: Windsor Room, Viscount Gort Hotel, 1670 Portage Ave., Winnipeg
You must register by today. Check at the link for more details.

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Logo Design

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….you might be from Saskatchewan.

Rachel vs Zenyatta – the case for each.
The Eclipse Awards will be held Jan.18th.

An interview with Mark Helprin.

Great moments in unilingualism.

(taken on my way to Minot yesterday.)

Perfect.

14 for 14.

h/t R. Black

The bodywork on the bike isn’t even attached. I don’t know how it ever could be. There must have been a fight at the child labour factory when this thing was made, obviously the stronger five year old stole the bits that allowed this bike’s bodywork to be attached to its silver bamboo frame. So it just sits there making this thing even more ridiculous. You would expect that motorcycle bodywork would be made of plastic, true. But given the fact that this stuff a) didn’t burn and b) is as flexible as a Viagra induced erection, tells me that it is something from another planet, possibly China. I suspect that it may be some super organic, self regenerating rice paper or something.

h/t Simeon

Wanna see something really scary?

Australia? Where the average daily temperature is “room”???

Gordon Laird’s “THE PRICE OF A BARGAIN: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization”

So says Foxnews.

I’d put off that “letter to Santa Claus” for a few days if I were him.

Illustrated.