BURN: Slow Snow Job

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Following the Christmas "anthropogenic carbon caused climatic warming disturbance" (or something) which deposited three feet of former polar ice on New York City, it took  five days to clear the streets. This obvious union worker slow down should bring national outrage and new regulation of municipal unions, but alas it won't. The union denies it (natch) even though last year's "carbon creature created catastrophe" actually dumped 1 1/2 inches more snow - yet all the streets were cleared in twenty four hours. (and with exactly the same number of units on the road) The brain rust at NY Times figures the snow job delay was the result of Mayor Bloomberg's failure to declare a "snow emergency" - requiring people to remove all vehicles from the streets for snow removal. The question, "How and where to?!?" was apparently irrelevant to their thesis.

Hey!  I'm talkin' ta youz! Move dat friggin' car ya  moron!

IMAO - Government union workers who do any disservice to the public who pays their salaries - leave alone placing them in danger (two died in NY when emergency services couldn't get to them), should be fired, arrested, tried, fined and jailed. And maybe hanged...or worse...take their pensions away!)

This stuff could keep you awake at night, but here's a nice bedtime story:  In days of old, when GOP was bold and actually had some vision and guts... (Via Politico)

July 1981  Robert Poli, president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, (PATCO) sought an across-the-board annual wage increase of $10,000 for the controllers, whose pay ranged from $20,462 to $49,229 per year. He also sought a reduction of their five-day, 40-hour workweek to a four-day, 32-hour workweek. (Do the math – 20-50% salary boost and 20% fewer hours is a 40-70% raise – when the economy was still on the ropes from Jimmeh Peanuthead) The FAA made a $40 million counteroffer, far short of the $770 million package that the union sought.
Aug 3, 1981 13,000 controllers walked out after talks with the FAA collapsed. As a result, some 7,000 flights across the country were canceled on that day at the peak of the summer travel season. Reagan branded the strike illegal and threatened to fire any controller who failed to return to work within 48 hours. Federal judges levied fines of $1 million per day against the union.
Aug 5, 1981 Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who ignored his order to return to work! To the chagrin of the strikers, the FAA’s contingency plans worked. Some 3,000 supervisors joined 2,000 nonstriking controllers and 900 military controllers in manning airport towers. Before long, about 80 percent of flights were operating normally. Air freight remained virtually unaffected.  In carrying out his threat, Reagan also imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring the strikers.
October 1981 The Federal Labor Relations Authority de-certified PATCO.

And we all lived happily ever after. Amen.

Rest in peace, Mr. President. And thanks.

A heartfelt Happy New Year to everybody - and thank you for reading us! May God grant you peace, prosperity and new opportunity in the coming year - and may God bless this nation!

CRASH: Of Dogma and Dopiness

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Federal Republic of Nigeria

Special Council for Rescue to Climate

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If you believe that, you will be interested in the latest article from the climate geniuses at NYT!  Yup, they are again pretty sure that they are under three feet of snow because of global warming.  If I may paraphrase this wisdom:  "See the melting ice, like, makes it snow more n’stuff? So ya know, like, the snow reflects the sunlight n’stuff? So like it’s colder ‘cause it’s warmer n’stuff."

Or something.  Allrighty then – glad that’s cleared up!

Good article by Mark Landsbaum in OCR:

Global Warming Explanations Made Up as They Go Along

“You can make up any analogy you want, but the fact is that computer models don’t show that change,” Pat Michaels, a climatologist and senior fellow at the Cato Institute told The Daily Caller. It is, said Michaels, the “core problem of climatology:” “It is attempting to explain everything even when everything becomes contradictory.”

“They make this stuff up as they go along,” said Myron Ebell, director of the Center of Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

“This failure to skillfully predict any of the extreme weather patterns we have seen in the past should be a wake-up call to policymakers and the public that the climate science community is overselling the prediction skill that is possible,” writes Roger Pielke Sr… “Moreover, until and unless they can skillfully predict observationally documented CHANGES in the statistics (probabilities) of the different major circulation patterns, their explanations are necessarily flawed.  There is no evidence that the global climate model multi-decadal predictions (and even shorter term runs on a year or less into the future) have the needed skill."

So, I’m thinking the the smart move, is to spend Billions we don’t have, impose massive fees and taxes in a recessed economy, and transfer all our wealth to third world countries to eliminate miniscule ammounts of greenhouse gasses that probably have absolutely nothing to do with climate warming.  Yeah, that’s the ticket!  And of course – God bless ‘em – Califunnya is setting the gold standard of committing fiscal sepuku for the sake of Junk Science!

In the wise and immortal words of the epic philosopher, climate genius and cultural icon, Homer Simpson, “D’OH!!”

BURN: Anti-Science George Moonbat Gets Pawnd

In a piece in which climate witch-doctor George Monbiot explains away the laws of thermodynamics, and ATTEMPTS to explain the record cold effecting BOTH the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, we get this lurid crap--

The global temperature maps published by Nasa present a striking picture. Last month's shows a deep blue splodge over Iceland, Spitsbergen, Scandanavia and the UK, and another over the western US and eastern Pacific. Temperatures in these regions were between 0.5C and 4C colder than the November average from 1951 and 1980. But on either side of these cool blue pools are raging fires of orange, red and maroon: the temperatures in western Greenland, northern Canada and Siberia were between 2C and 10C higher than usual.

Well, the maps show that IF you cook the maps, George.  See, it is kinda a matter of SCALE...

This is the map Moonbat would like you to see, with those "raging fires of orange, red and maroon" covering whole bunches of territory.  It uses a 1200 km "smoothing" of the data.

But if you use a 250 km "smoothing" scale, this is what the map looks like--

Funny...  Those appear to show very different realities.  Those "raging fires" become isolated data points, instead of huge swaths of territory.

For a complete pawning of the Moonbat Monbiot, read this excellent piece at Watts Up With That.  It points out that the "Nuuk" data point is very likely the result of the weather station at Nuuk showing false data, and just why.

It ALSO reports on the record cold sweeping Australia, which most of us have not heard anything about.  This is SUMMER in Australia...

BURN: The Definition Of "Frivolous Law Suit"

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I file and defend against law suits for a living.  I cannot imagine filing a frivolous law suit, and I wonder what people mean when they natter about them being a big societal problem.  This, however, is a great example of one of these rare beasts.

WASHINGTON—A mother of two from Sacramento, Calif., says that McDonald’s uses toys as bait to induce her kids to clamor to go to McDonald’s and to develop a preference for nutritionally poor Happy Meals. With the help of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, today the mom, Monet Parham, is filing a class action lawsuit aimed at stopping McDonald’s use of toys to market directly to young children. The suit will be filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco shortly after the court opens for business Wednesday morning.

It isn't really a serious law suit...on any number of levels.  Note the "forum shopping"...mother in Sacramento filing in San Francisco (where the "City Parents"...over the veto of their mayor...just outlawed Happy Meals).  I have no idea of the venue rules in Kulhlifornia, but that wouldn't fly in Texas.

But the "mother" involved is an amazing example of litigious idiocy by a reproductive unit (not a parent), along with her Center For JUNK Science Against The Public Interest co-idiots.  See, this isn't about winning a lawsuit.  This is all about flogging a Collectivist agenda and imposing litigation costs as a strategy.

Note, for instance, that the content of the CSPI press release shows this not-parent has about a dozen choices she refuses to exercise--

1. turn off the TV
2. allow your children to only watch PBS (which will propagandize them in ways you'll approve)
3. provide your daughters a father (this involves a perhaps unwarranted assumption on my part, but there is certainly no indication this "mother" has a father in the home), since fathers are better equipped (generally) to say "NO", and it provides another source for "NO"
4. learn to say "NO" (this will become increasingly necessary as your children mature)
5. learn to say "If you pester me after I say 'NO', you will be punished"...and mean it (actual parents learn this lesson fairly early)
6. teach your children to resist social pressure (which is all this is about, and WILL get much greater as these girls mature)
7. buy the Happy Meal...and have the gumption to ORDER the meal with the optional "good stuff"..."Even though Happy Meals television advertising shows brief glimpses of healthier products, such as Apple Dippers and low-fat milk, the default options put into Happy Meal by McDonald's employees are usually French fries and sugary sodas."
8. buy the Happy Meal...give the kids their toys...and DISCARD that awful food (that most people in the world would kill to have)
9. buy the Happy Meal...give the kids their toys...and DONATE the food to someone who needs it
10. buy the Happy Meal...and EXERCISE with your doughy progeny
11. find some toy with which to bribe your brats (who you are teaching to be brats) away from the Happy Meal
12. surrender custody of your children, since you clearly cannot deal with the responsibility of parenting

Remember, as you read about this, that the Nazis were anti-smoking, anti-processed foods, pro-vegetarian, pro-organic zealots.  They also relied on the power of the state to undermine families and dictate choice.  The Collective is remarkably consistent.

Is there a REMOTE chance that this lawsuit will result in the relief requested?  I don't think so.  Is there a chance it will cost MacDonalds a lot of money to fight?  That is the point...which in most courts, should get everyone on the plaintiff's side a sanction, which the law MANDATES in such cases as this.

CRASH: **WARNING** GLOBAL DISASTER LOOMS

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BE AFRAID - BE VERY, VERY AFRAID - While the whackos descend on Cancuun, a global crisis of Biblical proportions threatens our very existance, and it ain't Anthropogenic Global Warming!

While the 134 nation Climate Summiteers sit on Cancuun beaches sipping sissy drinks with umbrellas - and diliberating Junk Science - another entity will hold our first interplanetary summit at Moon Base Buzz Lightyear to deliberate on the real immanent global peril...

The science is settled people. The Gallileo/Capeurnican Heliocentric Solar System Scam is at the very the core of an evil inter-planetary capitalist plot to destroy the earth and divert solar and cosmic energy to the bourgeoisie larger planets! Look at the ground people - is it moving? Of course not! The Sun and planets are clearly rotating around our flat earth.

Why do you think the world's population explosion is taking place in the Eastern hemi-flat? Don't be stupid! When the Plutonian orchestrated imbalance of humanity reaches critical mass, the earth will tip over and we'll all fall off!

We can stop this, but we'll need your money. Lots of it. All of it. Send your check, cash, money order, gold bulion, jewelry, firstborn male child to:

FLAT EARTH TIPPY-TRIPPER
c/o Bernie Madoff Trust Fund
Butner Federal Correctional Institution

And just pray we're not too late! Do the right thing.

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While the absurdity of these climate idiots lends itself to humor and parody - back in the real world, where economies are collapsing, poverty is advancing and children are literally starving, spending billions on pseudo-science for a climate crisis that does not exist is beyond insane. It is grossly immoral and reprehensible.

The actual threat to humanity is not climate change - it is the Green / Eco movement. And it is not a future computer model generated theory, it is happening in third world countries right now.

Eco- Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death.

“The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated. Eco-Imperialism is the first book I’ve seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line. It’s a must-read for anyone who cares about people, progress and our planet.”  – Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder