There are mighty strange happenings in many parts of America’s Southeast.
Oh. Shiny Pony!
I’m almost positive this isn’t about the Senate audit and trying to distance the soon to be jailed from the “Liberal” trademark. </sarc>
That said, good, but surprises are not good in politics, ever.
It’s All In How You Raise ‘Em
There’s a weird myth in dog training, and I think we’ve all been guilty at one time or another, in telling another person that “It’s all in how you raise them”. For owners and handlers suffering under the constraints of [breed specific legislation] and often the little lauded shelter worker*** it becomes a truism comforting those who lack knowledge on their breeds or who’ve read into all the hype and media and simply come across as ignorant morons. For serious dog folk, sometimes it’s something we say just to shut people up.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: Suddenly, as if crossing a line of demarcation — I am reminded of Checkpoint Charlie, the gate that linked West and East Berlin — we leave healthy fields bursting with life, and we arrive at . . . well, we arrive at nothing: just dust, quiet, and a few pieces of unused farming equipment. It’s quite the shift: a real-life Before and After comparison.
Is Anyone in PM Harper’s Office Paying Attention?
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is speaking out (begins at 3:30) against his country’s national broadcaster, ABC. Simon James, the prolific blogger behind Australian Climate Madness, has more.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Sun: The National Council of Canadian Muslims said it will sue Harper and his spokesman Jason MacDonald for libel unless they immediately apologize for and retract comments MacDonald made in an interview earlier this month with QMI Agency.
h/t Larry
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Brouha, whose Sutton home sits a mile from and within view of the turbines, filed a lawsuit Monday against developer First Wind in state Superior Court in Caledonia County. The case is the latest sign of tension between wind developers in Vermont and neighboring residents.
Brouha said he has complained to First Wind and the state Public Service Board about noise from the turbines since they started operating in October 2011. The company maintains the noise levels are in compliance with limits the board set.
Brouha said they aren’t, and it’s taken him this long to prove it. He said he had his own independent sound monitoring done that will show the project is substantially in violation of the 30-decibel noise limits from inside his house.
Reader Tips
Pete Seeger, arguably America’s most successful and beloved promoter of communist ideals, died yesterday, but his history, including what Ed Driscoll describes as his “totalitarian trifecta“, has been dutifully covered up for years now under a never-ending hagiographic wave of star-studded accolades and presidential tributes. As Mark Newgent at the Baltimore Examiner puts it, “When you speak out against communism you get booed, when you’re a cheerleader for its mass murderers you get a Kennedy Center tribute…”
Funny how that works.
Tonight’s tips music selection isn’t Seeger’s most overtly political song by any means, but it perfectly exemplifies the insufferably pious tone that fairly oozed from his pores. Get ready to squirm: Here’s Little Boxes.
You’re welcome.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Schnauzers in the news: a postcard from my Oregon “vacation”, week before last.
Comrade, It’s Cold Outside
Bookmarkable: Interactive earth wind map, with temperature overlay.
And speaking of “comrade” – President Barack Obama is expected to talk about fighting global warming in his upcoming State of the Union address next week, during what could be the coldest in State of the Union address in history.
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Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
NBCs & MSNBCs chief foreign correspondent* Andrea Mitchell: ‘Iran Was More or Less an American Ally’ Before Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ Remark
*Updated
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Predator drones over North Dakota;
The case drew widespread attention because police used a military-style unmanned drone to conduct surveillance on the Brossart farm. Brossart was found not guilty of stealing the cows and got six months in prison over the police standoff, Forbes reported.
Brossart’s attorney asked a judge to drop the charges because he said the drone use was done without a warrant. The judge, however, rejected the motion, the report said.
The Sound Of Settled Science
A paper published today in Theoretical and Applied Climatology finds that the data homogenization techniques commonly used to adjust temperature records for moving stations and the urban heat island effect [UHI] can result in a “significant” exaggeration of warming trends in the homogenized record.
According to the authors, “Our analysis shows that “data homogenization for [temperature] stations moved from downtowns to suburbs can lead to a significant overestimate of rising trends of surface air temperature.”
The paper corroborates the prior work of Anthony Watts, Joseph D’Aleo, et al, finding leading meteorological institutions in the USA and around the world have so systematically tampered with instrumental temperature data that it cannot be safely said that there has been any significant net “global warming” in the 20th century.
“I felt the desire to live there, at least for a while, then checked myself.”
…the second in a two-part series about Cuba beyond Havana.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Pen, phone and IRS – “If Obama used to sigh to supporters that he was not a dictator who could just implement progressive agendas by fiat, he now seems to have done away with the pretense of regret.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
“Arctic temperature anomalies in the 1930s were apparently as large as those in the 1990s and 2000s. There is still considerable discussion of the ultimate causes of the warm temperature anomalies that occurred in the Arctic in the 1920s and 1930s.” – IPCC AR5 Chapter 10
It’s Probably Nothing
#Canada #Bubble update – Median wage vs median home price in Toronto. Yeah, that'll end well! Not. By @TorontoBubble pic.twitter.com/wbSRKRc5EP
— Jesse Colombo (@TheBubbleBubble) January 28, 2014
Reader Tips
Your selection for this evening is the catchy 6th Avenue Heartache(2005) by the Wallflowers. Your tips in the comments.
Wynneing!
Ontario is set to raise the minimum wage – retroactively.
Update: a somewhat “better” explanation here.
Y2Kyoto: Caught In The Icy Grip Of Irony
At Climate Audit, a Ship of Fools timeline…
A passenger, who was standing near Turney when Mortimer called the leader from the ship’s VHF radio, recalled their conversation: “Chris, [captain] Igor has just said we need to expedite people back from the islands so we can get out of here,” said Mortimer.
Turney, standing on the ice edge, repeated the message to confirm he had heard right.
“Affirmative,” said Mortimer.
“If I take this lot out, how long can we stay?” Turney said.
Mortimer repeated that everybody needed to get back to the ship.
The passenger was stunned by the conversation, even more so when, a few minutes later, Turney loaded an Argo with six passengers and drove off towards the Islands.