November 13, 2010
I am speaking of Representative John Shimkus, R-Ill, and the truly astonishing words he uttered before Congress demonstrated in a video that is constnatly being trolled off Google and YouTube by those who don't want you to see it:
Source and more information here.
If God's Word is infallible,…
November 13, 2010
Maybe.
Just the other day I was thinking that I'd love pop mail access to my facebook "email" account. Facebook "email" is annoying and broken as an email service, but then again, it is not supposed to be an email service, is it?
Untill it is. Facebook will probably, according to rumors on the…
November 13, 2010
It is funny to see this headline on our local news (CBS) web site:
"Some Prep for Snow, Other Think Flakes Won't Fly Yet"
Then I look outside the window and see accumulations nearing a half foot of snow, then I look at the weather maps and realize that the local CBS affiliate is probably buried,…
November 12, 2010
Louisiana is one of those states where really stupid stuff tends to happen, especially when it comes to evolution in the school curriculum. Recently, a state panel was in a position to chose either creationist textbooks with which to abuse the children for whom they are responsible, or good…
November 12, 2010
Observe the current Atlantic Wide satellite image from the National Weather Service:*
Look in the lower third, left side of this image, north of the South American continent, south of Haiti. You can see a blob of clouds that, especially when you look at this animation, is building in strength and…
November 12, 2010
Over eleven thousand Haitians have been infected with cholera, and over 700 have died. The epidemic is worsening very quickly. Over 80 of the dead have died within the last 24 hours as of this writing. The resources needed to deal with this are not available, apparently because cholera in Haiti…
November 12, 2010
As I watched this, I decided to post it on my blog, and then my mind went through a series of possible titles for the post, but there were so many yet so few that would be appropriate.
This lady is obviously crazy. Frankly, perhaps the mail carrier is crazy for not driving off with her arm in…
November 12, 2010
Probably. Or, to be more exact, the seasons seem to end later these days than they did in those days, if "those days" is defined as the first decade or so during which reasonably good (though not perfect) data were collected compared to now. A more immediate question may be: When will this year's…
November 12, 2010
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." (The swine-flu outbreak of 1976 occured when Gerald Ford --…
November 12, 2010
... OK, exhale ...
November 12, 2010
Overall, my opinion of New Yorkers just went down three notches.
At 3 minutes: Why we feel good hating Bush, but bad hating Obama.
November 11, 2010
Wow. Just wow. It just keeps going and going. And going.
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November 11, 2010
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November 10, 2010
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This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows Saturn's rings and southern hemisphere. The composite image was made from 65 individual observations by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer in the…
November 10, 2010
"The brown dwarfs jump out at you like big, fat, green emeralds," said Amy Mainzer, the deputy project scientist of WISE at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Mainzer, who makes jewelry in her spare time, explained that the brown dwarfs appear like green gems in WISE images…
November 10, 2010
"I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?"
November 10, 2010
You've heard that the Arctic ice cap has shrunk, and that there are sea lanes open in the northern summer that had not been open previously, and on and so forth.
Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, scientists have observed the continued disappearance of older "multiyear" sea ice that…
November 10, 2010
Two weeks ago Julia and I took the road from the cabin to Longville and back and noticed that they had put up a new sign at each end of the curvy, hilly treacherous part, where you drive dangerously high above bogs and wooded kettles with no guard rail and there is one blind curve after another.…
November 10, 2010
The evidence is starting to add up. First, we have the absence of evidence, which is always tricky but sometimes relevant: Nobody picked up a rocket on radar, aircraft pilots did not see a vertical high speed accelerating object, etc. etc. Then we have the alternative explanations, including the…
November 9, 2010
Bottom line: If you make less than 250,000 a year (per person, not per family) you have no business even thinking about being a Republican.
November 9, 2010
I know, I know, everybody else has already seen this, but since Comcast, ironically, cut MSNBC from our cable menu, I get my Olberman and Maddow off the net, and there is a delay.
On the suspension:
And, one item on our own Michele Bachmann:
November 9, 2010
Donald Mackenzie has been visiting Mount Ararat in Turkey for several years, searching for Noah's Ark, which according to the Bible was deposited by god on this mountain after the Noachain Flood. Although it seems to not have made news, Mackenzie was reported missing on October 14th.
Mr…
November 9, 2010
How can there be a large mystery launch of a rocket?
More video:
MSNBC's coverage:
November 9, 2010
As global warming progresses, habitats change in their suitability for various life forms. It may be that moose will not be able to live in Minnesota in the future; Of the two resident moose populations, the one that lives in the area more affected by global warming has pretty much died out…
November 9, 2010
Today is indeed a momentous day in history. On this day, in 1927, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was discovered by Teh West. It, of course, had previously been known to all those people for tens of thousands of years who lived among, and eated them.
This is also Carl Sagan's birthday…
November 9, 2010
There are two reasons that the Republicans "won" the house and took more senate seats. One of them was made clear last night at dinner. Our waitress was funny. She started out a little funny-strange, then went to funny-ha ha, and I left the restaurant liking her and wishing more people were…
November 9, 2010
You may recall me mentioning a tornado last year in Wadena.
"The town's been flattened. I'm on my way there for a high school reunion. It looks more like it's going to be a high school clean-up."
If you are in the region, I just wanted you to know about a fund raiser to help get the people of…
November 9, 2010
Decision Points is now available at your local bookstore. I'm not going to get a copy, but I do think that it is appropriate to repost this, in celebration of George's literary success:
November 9, 2010
After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on 4 November, commissioning the lead-ion beam was underway by early afternoon. First collisions were recorded at 00:30 CET on 7 November, and stable running conditions marked the start of physics with heavy ions at 11:20 CET today.
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Operating the…
