Something like this is needed to excite the American people enough to demand that our comatose politicians do something to mitigate this impending crisis.

It has occurred to me that if any nation were to attack us in a manner in which whole towns are destroyed, we would be up in arms, singing "God Bless America" and bombing the living sh-t out of them.

The fact is that nations such as ours are in fact causing similar and even worse disasters in poorer less "developed" countries due to our unbridled use of fossil fuels.

For the moment, they are not mobilizing against us. But what if....

Like William H. Macy, who scored an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor as the bumbling and browbeaten salesman Jerry Lundegaard in Joel and Ethan Coen's classic 1996 namesake film that inspired this series, Thorton is one of our country's more accomplished character actors.

Really???

ROFLMAO

Now, from people who are real scientists and actually are qualified.........

Emeritus Professor Les Woodcock is one of them. When I ask the former NASA scientist about `climate change' and `global warming', he laughs.

"The term `climate change' is meaningless. The Earth's climate has been changing since time immemorial, that is since the Earth was formed 1,000 million years ago. The theory of `man-made climate change' is an unsubstantiated hypothesis [about] our climate [which says it] has been adversely affected by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 100 years, causing the average temperature on the earth's surface to increase very slightly but with disastrous environmental consequences.

"The theory is that the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuel is the `greenhouse gas' causes `global warming' - in fact, water is a much more powerful greenhouse gas and there is is 20 time more of it in our atmosphere (around one per cent of the atmosphere) whereas CO2 is only 0.04 per cent.

"There is no reproducible scientific evidence CO2 has significantly increased in the last 100 years.

"Anecdotal evidence doesn't mean anything in science, its not significant.

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Hal Lewis, Professor Emeritus UCSB

As reported by the Gateway Pundit:  Top US scientist Hal Lewis resigned this week from his post at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He admitted global warming climate change was nothing but a scam in his resignation letter.

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When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

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How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d'être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford's book organizes the facts very well.) I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

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This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don't think that is an issue.  I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club.

The civilian model began in part because of the persistence of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who saw an Army convoy while filming a movie.[12]

Even compared to other heavy passenger vehicles, Hummers without the diesel engine options have very poor fuel economy. Because the H2 is built to the over-8500-lb GVW class, its fuel economy is neither published by the U.S. EPA nor counted toward Corporate Average Fuel Economy.[37] For example, H2 in one engine configuration averages an estimated 14 mpg-US (17 L/100 km; 17 mpg-imp) on the highway and 10 mpg-US (24 L/100 km; 12 mpg-imp) in the city.[37] It has a curb weight of over 6,000 lb (2,700 kg), making it technically illegal for use on some streets in the U.S.[38]

His now run on vegetable oil and he got GM to make a hydrogen version in 2005.

Buurrrrrr

As a native Floridian but now Midwesterner I can honestly say this is the coldest Winter I've ever spent on this planet.  It's been horrible.

And it's not over yet, despite the early blooms in my garden.

"The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity," Holder said. "If you don't believe that, you look at the way -- forget about me, forget about me. You look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee -- has nothing to do with me, forget that. What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?"

Storm front dot org - to which I will not link - is not happy

It is the 50 year anniversary of LBJ's civil Rights legislation.
A sad day for every White person in the ussa.
(I was 10 so don't blame me!)
True to his uppity, HNIC nature, Holder was whining about his unprecedented, hateful treatment at the hands of congress.

A medical clinic in Mena, Ark. announced that it would be closing, citing a large drop in need for the clinic as people have signed up for health insurance under Obamacare.

"Because people are qualifying for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, our free medical clinic will not be needed anymore," Stacey Bowser, the director of the 9th Street Ministries Clinic, told the Mena Star.

(A photo of Ethan as a toddler adorns to back cover of the album, and the lyrics of the single Here Comes Those Tears Again, which charted on Billboard at No. 23 and where you can very distinctly hear a young Bonnie Raitt singing back-up, are credited to Nancy Farnsworth, who is Phyllis' mother and Ethan's grandmother.)

Personally, I might find it rather difficult to listen to other artists cover its tracks The Pretender, Linda Paloma and Your Bright Baby Blues.

Knowing the backstory of The Pretender as I do, I never fail to be stunned by the sheer and alternating depths of Browne's sadness, anger, angst and vulnerability whenever I hear it, which I believe to really be best conveyed and understood by listening to that album in its entirety.

(Upon its conclusion, one might be surprised to realize that the entire album is actually less than 36 minutes in length.)

There are times while playing it when I see Browne consciously teetering on the edge of a precipice, as though he's pondering whether or not to leap. As such, The Pretender is an album to which I can listen only sparingly, because its raw intensity retains an innate capacity to oftentimes drag me down a dark road and overwhelm me.

And as talented as Lucinda Williams and Bruce Springsteen are, their covers of selected tracks from that seminal work will probably ring hollow to me.