Posts Made By: Dave Snope

And this morning one of the busiest freeways in the country, the 405, is shut down during morning rush hour so the Campaigner In Chief can leave town with his fresh millions given by the 1%'er Hollywood elites.

LOL.

How much for Mooch?

No worries over at CNN, though. Here's what Candy Crowley sez:

“Usually you kinda give the president a pass on leaking confidential stuff”

Now for the punch line Delivered by Steven Goddard:

Here in the US, these same good people at NOAA have been adding half a degree on to all temperatures for the last 326 months. Then they tell us that we need to have our taxes raised, because their inflated temperatures have been above average for the last 326 months.

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/government-scientists-add-half-a-degree-then-claim-that-temperatures-are-above-average/



Wah-Wah-Waaaaaah

You just gave me a great idea to make me more secure in my retirement: Every member of Astromart has to write me a check for $10,000. That's a lot cheaper and fairer than your AARP survey suggestion, and more importantly, it would give me the stress-free life that is my human right. Right now the stress is too high, what with having to worry about a big erosion of my retirement savings from crashing stock markets and inflation due to unsustainable deficits and out-of-control government spending.

This is virtually the same reasoning as your suggestion. Make other people pay for your stuff. To make it even more "fair", if you currently own Chinese telescope gear, you can write me a check for only $5000. Japanese gear, $7500. If you can afford American telescopes, you can afford to write me a check for the full $10,000. How would you feel if you knew that I was having to make the choice between food and a trip to a dark sky site? Between medications and an Ha solar filter? It's heartbreaking. The way I worry about inflation eating my savings, I might never be able to look at the Sun. Your contributions will create jobs, too, as the money trickles down through the astronomy equipment pyramid. PM me for my mailing address.

Here's a fun little anecdote. I happen to be reading the book "Unbroken" right now, about olympic runner and WWII hero Louie Zamperini. He went to New York in July, 1936 for the Olympic trials:

That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation's history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. In Manhattan, where it would reach 106 degrees, forty people would die.
...
Sweating profusely day and night ... virtually every athlete lost a hugh amount of weight. By one estimate, no athlete dropped less than ten pounds. One was so desperate for relief that he moved into an air-conditioned theater, buying tickets to movies and sleeping through every showing. Louie was as miserable as everyone else. Chronically dehydrated, he dranks as much as he could; after an 880-meter run in 106-degree heat, he downed eight orangeades and a quart of beer... His weight fell precipitously. ...
All over the track, athletes were keeling over and being carted off to hospitals. ... The heat was suffocating. One runner dropped, and the others had no choice but to hurdle him. Then another went down, and they jumped him too. Louie could feel his feet cooking; the spikes on his shoes were conduction heat up from the track. Norman Bright's feet were burning particularly badly. In terrible pain, he took a staggering step off the track, twisted his ankle, and lurched back on.

It's a great book, and Louie goes on to the Berlin Olympics, shakes Hitler's hand, gets drafted into the AAF, and endures years of cruel heat and dust training in the U.S., fighting in the Pacific theater, and as a prisoner of war.

Just what I always wanted: dinner with a leader of the chattering class. Presidential candidates talk for a living, not listen. They just want you to sit there and be a useful idiot. There would have to be some rules. On him. Only speak when you are spoken too, and answer all questions directly like a standard human being.

I'd sign up for a raffle to get Barack to wash and wax my car. I'd play some Stevie Wonder for him and give him a beer.

(At Occidental) Mr Obama also became a huge fan of Stevie Wonder and took a boring low paid job so he could understand what it was like to be poor and black. :S

Since they don't allow car washing on certain days, and require state-approved environmental detergent, and it can't go down the gutter, and the music violates a noise abeyance law, and you can't drink beer in your front yard, I'd then have him arrested for multiple nanny-state violations.

I'd sign up for a raffle to get Romney to scoop dog poop in my yard. He loves dogs, right? I'd pay him CA minimum wage of $8.00 for his hour of work, then I'd take out Fed Income Tax, CA Income Tax, State Disability Insurance, MediCal, Medicare/Medicaid, state-mandated medical insurance premium, and FICA, and give him his paycheck for $3.00

I can't wait for season 2

That article is so wrong on so many levels. And the pictures, too. But let's not let NC have all the "luck". The NAS is predicting a huge sea level rise in San Francisco, as mentioned in that article. Five feet by 2100. If you believe that, Rod, and anything else in that joke of an article, I'll sell you the Golden Gate bridge. Here is the S.F. hockeystick that's worse than the NC rise. So who can claim the biggest disaster? Look at the historic sea level rise in this picture, with their prediction tacked on to the end. If science had any more ethics, these guys would be demoted to scrubbing algae off tide buoys. And if journalism had an ethics, the LA Times writers would be demoted to writing ads for mattress warehouses.