Feb 28 2008
This and That.
Time to get back to work here.
One of my hobby horses has been the Global Warming Scam. Sometime last year I got into a discussion at The Vigil [I won't link to it, don't want to attract loony lefties] wherein I got a couple of hoity toity look down your nose responses to the effect that if I couldn’t link to some peer reviewed articles to support my views I wasn’t worth reading. I posted this link to the series of articles in The National Post by ‘The Deniers’, eminent scientists all who are not part of the ‘consensus’ so touted by the Goracle and the rest of the lefty brain dead. Made no difference.
I should say I support Global Warming, bring it on I say, but alas I think we may be in for a period of Global Cooling. Another five years and they’ll be handing out credits for CO2 production and a big carbon foot print [not to be confused with a Big Foot footprint, something else entirely] will be deemed socially and morally correct. Which brings me to this article, ‘Temperature Monitors Report Wide Scale Global Cooling’. It’s actually kinda scary.
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.
Haven’t heard much from the Goracle lately, have we?
Update. The link seems to have gone screwy but Dr. Sanity has a post on the article with a link that worked when I tried it.
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A YouTube video worth seeing, Mark Steyn on Multiculturism.
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A couple of days ago it was my birthday, one week later it is my daughter’s. Today she mentioned that I was born in ‘36 and I’m 72, she was born in ‘72 and she will be 36. I don’t know if this might be a common occurrence, it seems odd enough to me to not be. Numbers are fascinating, wish I could be a mathematician.
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Project for Sunday, figure out uploading pics here. [Put that to remind myself].
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He’s ba-a-a-a-a-ack!
Excellent.
BTW, the Goracle doesn’t have many friends here in Wisconsin. Seen a couple of weeks ago in a rural grocery store: “AL GORE CAN KISS MY FROZEN ASS” t-shirt.
Ligneus, my good man, belated Happy Birthday.
That is a bit of an oddity with the numbers. I always have wished I were brilliant enough to comprehend the relationship of music to math. I seem to intuitively grasp it, but haven’t the aptitude to play with that.
You are so much better read than I, I am wondering if perhaps you are familiar with Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi)?. It had that theme of music/math in it. I was fascinated with the book when I was a teenager but would have to read it again to see if at 55 I would interpret it differently.
Pete, it will be tough for the Goracle to go from jetting around the world as chief honcho of the greatest threat to mankind, Academy Award, Nobel Prize, to laughing stock.
Zee. About four years ago a friend recommended Magister Ludi to me, I got a copy, got about forty pages in and then never got back to it. I find fiction difficult to read these days, guess it’s just the shortage of time thing.