Great Global Warming Quote

Nothing from me - just thought this guy was worth quoting. Not that any GW fanatics will be able to understand it at all...

"In the ice core record, CO2 increase has always lagged behind temperature rises and the lag involved is estimated to be 400 to 800 years." [emphasis mine] "There has never been a period when a CO2 rise has preceded global warming. I have seen it argued that the past 30 years has been so exceptional that it MUST, for the first time in the history of the globe, be CO2 driving the warming trend. That is an assertion of such low probability that it should require very powerful evidence to support it. I have seen no such evidence. Indeed, on a cursory inspection the slow but steady increase in atmospheric CO2 is clearly not coming through in a slow but steady rise in global temperatures. Instead we see rises and falls in global temperatures that bear no obvious relationship to the steady rise in CO2 unless one puts the cart before the horse and announces that there is no other possible reason and the trend period adopted is carefully chosen to suit the proposition." - Stephen Wilde

The whole article can be seen at:
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=1041

Tax these idiots

2 posts in one day? Well, I couldn't resist after reading a few recent quotes from Hollywood "stars" about politics, along with all the utter meanness these morons exhibit for anyone that doesn't engage in herd think like they do.

I Googled for the top paid actors and actresses, and came up with numbers for the top 20 in 2006. That is good enough for my purpose. I propose that we simply pass a law for these 20 alone - all income is taxed at 90%.

Oh, sure - we can pass a law for these 20. What, you missed Barney Frank and Fu...er...Chuck Schumer passing a law recently for just the AIG employees that received bonuses? Get with the program.

Here goes. The top 20 actors and actresses earned an average of $23 million each in 2006. Taxed at 90%, this would have netted the U.S. Treasury $414 million for just 20 people in ONE YEAR!! And hey, this tax STILL leaves these imbeciles almost $2.5 million to spend as they like. Perhaps we should pass another law that says they have to donate 90% of the left over income to reducing their carbon footprint - you know, all the pollution they create jetting here and there, living in their multi-million dollar mansions, driving their Maybachs and Escalades...

Wow - that would STILL leave them almost $250K per year - a LOT more than I make!

Hey, let's do this! If we expand the 90/90 rule to ALL rich celebrities, we could probably pay back the trillions of dollars of debt being created by Nobama! And, we reduce class envy - the overriding goal of liberal Democrats. Should pass easily given the current makeup of the executive and legislative branches. We wouldn't even need a Supreme Court battle :)

Actors, musicions, football/basketball/baseball players...they all vote liberal anyway, so they should be on board with this. We all need to sacrifice, right?

Right?

WooHOOO! Let's DO it!!

Social Networks

I'm finally discovering social networking a-la the internet. Oh, I've known about MySpace, FaceBook, and more for a while, but I never really saw any benefit wasting time "chatting" with people that had nothing better to do than sit at their computer...hey, wait.

All I DO is sit at my computer. Having become certifiably insane to the point of continuing in higher education as a "mature" adult, and having an IT job, I never get to leave my computer(s). I feel naked without a keyboard and monitor, and an internet hookup.

So I did the mature thing and signed up with some professional sites first, like LinkedIn. Then I meandered into MySpace and Twitter. Well, nothing happened for a while, and I got bored after the initial few days of learning my way around.

Then I signed up at FaceBook. The first day, someone I hadn't seen for 30 years asked me if I was the Jimmy Jones who.... Yes, I was. Then: 'Bam'. The hits kept pouring in. After a few months on FaceBook, I have hooked up with more than a dozen people that I haven't seen or spoken to since high school, which was almost before we had electric lights. I have really caught up with them too, because they posted not just pictures, but family albums, with captions! And they TALK about the pictures. And they TALK about what they are doing, and what they are going through. And I do the same thing! And it seems as if the 30 plus years has all but vanished in many cases.

My sister has been digging through old family photos, restoring some, and posting a LOT on FaceBook. The ones that can't be determined are put up for all to guess at: "anybody know (where, who, what) this is? And inevitably someone does. This is great. Talk about knowledge-building, friendship-making, family-strengthening, and just plain good times.

I don't know where it will go. And like all new technologies and practices it is getting abused and tiresome in some cases. Especially all the "what animal are you", "what superstar are you" type quizzes. Enough, already.

But the basic function and service provided have a lot of value to me, and I plan to get as much out of it as I can. I'm excited about the potential, and look forward to checking everyone out each day to see what new goodies people have posted, or what new "old" friends and acquaintances have joined.

Hope to see you there. Say "Hi" if you find me!

Jimmy Jones