…so people will understand that I’m about as interested as David Freddoso in being overly nice in pointing out his past bloviating. My back isn’t actually killing me, right now, but that’s only because I was being very, very careful about removing all that anemic winter from the car. I’m going to be forty in a couple of months; I don’t bounce back from straining myself over anemic winters like I used to.
Three observations about our marvelous new technological paradigm:
- Everything in print gets recorded these days. Everything.
- Nothing ever goes away. Ever.
- The only thing that people are patient about when it comes to online matters is in waiting for just the right moment to demonstrate that someone is an idiot.
I would join David in suggesting that RFK Jr get out of the weather prediction/doomsaying business, only I can’t for the life of me think of anything else that he’d be any less incompetent at. Ditch digging? He could learn that on the job.
Moe Lane
PS: Just to reinforce the scorn: the plural of anecdote is not data; I am not obligated to accept your religious beliefs as being scientifically valid; and this is why political dynasties are a bad idea.
Enjoy your morning.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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What to do about repeat liars?
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:13AM EST (link)It’s one of the conundrums of the modern age that people can be continuously wrong, or lie, but never lose a free forum to spill their bilge one more time.
That they are allowed get away with it was always the cause of one of Mr Bushmills’ rants. He always said, “In the Bible, on the second wrong guess, they threw false prophets over a cliff.”
Seems appropriate.
By the way, VB is somehere over Greenland I suppose, and will be on station tomorrow.
St George
So Moe you are turning 40 soon? Two
throwback59 Monday, February 8th at 9:27AM EST (link)observations about that number:
1. you’re still a kid, sonny
2. Isn’t that RFK Jr’s I.Q.?
Actually...
Next93 (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:48AM EST (link)No one is ever going to call me a warmist, but I have to point out that that there are two sayings that pretty much cover all weather conditions:
Summer: “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity”
Winter: “Yeah, but at least it’s too cold to snow”
The weather geeks love to point out that there’s no such thing as too cold to snow, but the fact is that when you’re at -20, any moisture in anything but the fastest-moving air mass has precipitated out long before it gets to you. On the other hand, when we start to get to the point where CO2 actually exists as a gas, like in March, we get buried in snow.
Point is, heavy snowstorms in certain parts of the country are actually pretty much consistent with the idea of warming. Which is to say, they’re proof of absolutely nothing. Weather isn’t climate when it’s snowing any more than it is when it’s sweltering.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Oops - meant to say "here in the upper midwest".
Next93 (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 9:50AM EST (link)Sorry, I meant to say that the two sayings cover all weather conditions here in the upper midwest. Your mileage may vary.
This is what happens when you click “send” because you’re late for work.
Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.
Seriously? The warmer it gets the more snow
throwback59 Monday, February 8th at 10:01AM EST (link)we are going to be hit with? Man, I’m not looking forward to summer.
YouTube Parody Video
melvinwinter Monday, February 8th at 9:51AM EST (link)Here’s a parody video on global warming featuring Kermit the Frog singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green”: http://www.youtube.com/user/Optoons#p/u/0/r2XIGTR4hiY
What about 1996???
DefendUSA (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 11:42AM EST (link)Remember *That *storm*?
We were snowed in for a week living five miles from Dulles. We measured 27 inches in our yard. My husband did not head downtown for a week…and gee, I do remember the weather being cold and not anemic in all the years since. After all, winter is cold and summer is hot!!
*starred thought*
To be a leader is to do the uncomfortable thing. Man up, Mr. President.
I'm roughly 10 years younger
Wing Zero (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 8:56AM EST (link)Moe, and I’m hurting. But I did my driveway about 6 times to keep it from piling up. Then I helped out my neighbor. She had let it sit. Up front, her drive way was pure ice. That stuff was a flipping explitive to move.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.