Yep!  It’s snowing in Atlanta.  It is one of those globby, wet snows that piles up on cars, but melts as soon as it hits the streets.  Yards are getting a covering of white punctuated by yawning black crevasses channeling melt water to storm sewers.

This is not the pretty snow seen in northern climes.  This is sloppy, ugly, wet, pneumonia breeding Southern rebel-yell snow. To add to the local misery, the kids won’t even get out of school.

Bummer!

Last night, I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items for our dinner.  There was hardly any bread on the shelves, and there was no milk at all.  You see, it is a tradition in Atlanta that whenever “SNOW” is mentioned in the local weather forecast, everybody runs to the grocery store and stocks up on milk, bread, and other important items just in case.

Now, hoarding perishable food items is not as irresponsible as you may think.  A couple of times per decade, we get an ICE STORM.

Ice storms are terrible things, and ice storms love pine trees.  Atlanta, Georgia is cursed to be covered in pine trees.  Pine trees are the worst kind of tree you can have.  They are the weeds of the tree family.

If only all those weirdo environmental, tree-hugging idiots knew the real worth of these criminal conifers. The darned things are not even worth burning as firewood, and you can’t kill them fast enough to keep them out of you yard.

Pine trees will fall over in a heavy rain. Put a quarter of an inch of ice on their limbs, and you will have them crashing on power lines all over the Southern United States. Millions of people will be out of power, and heat, for weeks. That’s why we hoard milk and bread.

Beer works pretty good, too.  If only we were shut in for a while, and I could work down this supply of beer I have laid in for the bad times.

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Keanu Reeves in The Matrix

One of the favorite science fiction themes is the idea that a person, today, is just the realization of a computer program.  The person or being that did the programming did it long ago.  The result might be a world as in the movie, The Matrix.

In the Matrix people worked at their jobs in modern looking buildings doing neat looking things.

But, there were a group of people that knew how to escape that paradigm.   Once outside the Matrix, the world looked like a bombed-out Detroit.

Everything was imaginary and programmed.  Humans were cloned in a giant “hatchery”, or something like that.

This idea can get really scary, especially if you have done any computer programming with one of the modern object oriented languages.

In object oriented programming you start by creating “classes”.  Let’s create an animal class, and from that evolve a human class that inherits certain biological traits that all animals share.  Then, we can proclaim an object of the people class as one instance of a person, like an Al Gore.  There would also be Bob’s, Ronald’s, Donald’s, Jim’s, and even females like Marilyn Monroe, etc.

From the basic class idea we can program into people the way they think and react in logical terms, and some hard-wired illogical contrary traits.  This way you could create a smart person, and have them do stupid things like Barack Obama.

Suddenly, fiction makes as much sense as reality.

Is intelligence a natural occurrence or a a programmed artificial property?

My contention is that whatever the answer is, we have artificial intelligence in the White House.  It is time to click on the “Interrupt” button to send Barack Obama and his Marxist programmed minions to the trash bin.

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My wife hates it when I do this, accusing somebody of being stupid.  But I think I am justified by making the observation that the whole darned world has gone over the brink.

In particular, the whole Obama Administration is stuck on stupid.  Here are a few examples.

• Continued support for a failed health care bill.  Stupid!
• The EPA finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.  Stupid!
• The Obama Administration’s continued backing of Cap & Trade.  Stupid!
• Funding public projects under the guise of job creation. Stupid!
• Trying terrorists like they were US citizens with commensurate rights.  Stupid!
• Continuing along the path of closing the prison at Guantanamo.  Stupid!
• Cutting funding of the European ballistic missile shield.  Stupid!

I guess you get the idea.  The Obama Administration has been screwing up by the numbers, and it looks like there is no end to the charade going on in Washington.

Y’all have a good day.

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Read the walls within. See where Obama his economics ken.

Yep.  Obama’s economic stimulus programs have turned into crap.

The Obamahoods insist on re-running demonstrably failed Keynesian deficit spending schemes, over, and over, and over, and over.  FDR was the first to try deficit spending as a cure-all for the Great Depression.  After years of deficit spending, dam building, and road grading, the economy was not measurably better off.  We all like to think that it was, but, history shows differently.

Instead, it took the impetus of a World War to put everybody in the nation to work producing weapons for the diminishing free world.  Not only did World War II salvage the USA from the Great Depression, but, the USA salvaged freedom and democracy from extinction.  The event that jump-started the US economy was a great war, not targeted spending.

Presidents Kennedy and Reagan chose to cut overall taxes to spur economic activity, and it worked.  It worked so good that the liberal whiners dubbed the 1980’s (The Reagan Years) as the age of indulgence and excess.  Hey, just give me some more of those sinful excesses.

Cutting taxes is an immediate release of money into the economy, resulting in almost instantaneous results.  Millions of small businesses who save money to pay taxes quarterly have the opportunity to IMMEDIATELY make capital investments in their businesses, hire people, letting the market economy to do what it does best.  The market oriented economy creates wealth.

Why do the Democrats not get this?

It gets real simple, real quick.

The Demo’s don’t want to reduce taxes because it diminishes the power and role of government, therefore, the authority of Democrats in your life.  It’s all about power and control.

When presidential candidate  George H. W. Bush was campaigning against Ronald Reagan, Bush dubbed supply-side economics as Voo-Doo Economics.  The name stuck, even though Reagan’s signature economic success was based on cutting taxes, increasing overall Federal revenues.

Voo-Doo Economics works.  Obama’s Doo-Doo Economics don’t.

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There is a mystery surrounding the idea of peer reviewed scientific studies.  While the idea is meritorious, publishing in peer reviewed literature has gone from being the best way to present research to a dubious method of presenting agenda originated studies masquerading as legitimate science.

The latest example is a study published in 1998 by the formerly respectable British medical journal, Lancet.  This is the famous study that found a statistical connection between autism and the common vaccinations recieved by infants worldwide.

Since then, parents, interest groups, and almost everyone else proceeded along the path of refusing vaccinations to infants because it was erroneously thought the vaccinations caused or contributed to a child being autistic.

There is enough misinformation in this world, and Lancet should be shut down for taking 12 years to retract the bogus study.  This is not the first time Lancet has been caught presenting politically correct studies as science.

So, what happened to all that peer review that is supposed to keep these rubbish studies from being published?  It simply doesn’t happen.  In the case of climatology, the authors of various studies choose the “peers” who will review the article.  How about that?  Peer review by buddy.

I don’t know why the gross statistical errors in the autism study were not uncovered before publication in 1998, but it seems that the term, peer review, is just another expression.

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How many time have we heard that all the glaciers in the world are melting?  How many times have we heard that today’s temperatures are the warmest in the last 1000 years.  How many times have we heard that the Arctic ice is thinner than any time in history.

Himalayan Glaciers Are Safe From Global Warming

How many lies can we take?

As with the tired old saying, “What goes around, comes around.”, we are starting to see the climate warming scam crumble, and pretty soon it will be collapsing in great big pieces, with the realization that catastrophic global warming is the biggest scam the world has ever seen.

The Times Online recently published the story about the United Nations IPCC claim that the Himalayan glaciers will all be melted by the year 2035, and the baseless RUMORs it was based upon.  It turns out that the Chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, is a wealthy man.

Pachauri is on the board of directors of several international energy companies, and stands to gain Billions of Dollars from his ventures, all of which depend on the IPCC position of catastrophic global warming, and trading carbon credits internationally.   The guy is crooked, and typifies the mentality of those who are advocates of man-made global warming.

The IPCC picked up on an article by the WWF, which quoted a little known Indian scientist, that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.  There is no supporting study, and recent peer reviewed studies show that the 15,000 Himalayan glaciers are in no such trouble.  It is all babble by the leftist agenda driven World Wildlife Fund.

Although I have blogged many times about the world’s climate history, it bears repeating that there have been periods in the past as warm as, or warmer, than the current period.  For example, remember the bull crap circulating that the Arctic ice is thinner today than it has ever been?

Take a look:

USS Skate In Open Water At North Pole In 1959

USS Skate & USS Seadragon At North Pole In 1962

WOW!  Where did all those submarines come from?  Where is all that Arctic ice?  Why doesn’t the scientific establishment admit that all the hype about Arctic ice disappearing is just a bunch of tax raising hooey?  Subs cannot surface at the North Pole, today, because the ice is too thick!

Once again, the whole thing about global warming and carbon dioxide being the cause is an international scam of huge proportions.  There are Billions and Trillions of dollars at stake, and all the politicos and government funded scientific grant hogs are lining up to get their share.

It’s pathetic, and we cannot let it continue.

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HT to Robert Bateman for North Pole submarine pics.,

That Old Freight Train Is Coming

That big old Democrat health care freight freight train is coming down the tracks, and there is little we can do about it if the Demo’s get the bill ready and can vote on it this weekend, or Monday.  If this happens it will be the biggest heist in the history of the world.

Even with the wheels coming off the Democrat band wagon, they will do anything to get his disaster passed into law.  The Great Satan, Barack Obama, will do anything to get a health bill passed, and the more socialist and government run, the better.  He doesn’t care about the American people.  His only consideration is his warped agenda.

It is only a possibility that the Senate race in Massachusetts will go Republican.  The mere possibility that the Republican candidate, Scott Brown could win is providing the impetus for the Demo’s to rush the process this weekend.

The only thing that will get a Democrat to work on a weekend is the chance to rape the American public. That’s what the Demo’s are all about.

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Photo from Wikipedia.

Here is a YouTube video of a Q&A during the Massachusetts Senatorial race to replace Ted Kennedy. Republican Candidate  Scott Brown is an extraordinarily intelligent, articulate, and fearless man.  He doesn’t take guff off David Gergen who sold his soul to the corrupt Democrat Party a long time ago.

Hat tip to The Jawa Report.

Senator Max Cleland - He Failed His Constituency

Remember way-back in 2002 when people would criticize the creation of the Department of Homeland Security by comparing its probable effectiveness to that of the US Postal Service?  All this was going on during the mid-term elections of 2002, and a Senate seat in Georgia was up for election.

The mid-term elections of 2002 were particularly rancorous.  One of the big issues was the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, which was the result of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and of the recommendations of the later inaugurated 9/11 Commission.  The Commission recommended creating a gargantuan Federal Beauracy from 22 existing agancies.

One of the most contentious Senate races in the nation during the elections of 2002 was the battle between Georgia Senator Max Cleland and challenger Saxby Chambliss.  Former war hero Max Cleland was beaten badly by an electorate that was ready for a change.

The Democrats claim that Senator Cleland was accused of being unpatrotic, and I am sure that there were those who honestly saw Max in those terms.  I simply saw the Senator as getting stupid, and following his master’s orders to marginalize the nation’s security by voting to unionize the new department.

Now we know the results of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and it is not good.  The President and the majority Democrat Congress still want to unionize the DHS in the face of its abject failure, exposing American citizens to even greater, and more numerous threats.  We will pay more, too.

It is time to destroy the Department of Homeland Security, and start all over again.  Unfortunately, the President and the majority in Congress are not that smart.

Things are going to get more stupid, and more dangerous.

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