Global Warming Causes More Ice, Film At 11!

You remember how the warming global temperatures changes in global climate would cause less and less sea ice in the arctic? Because the jury-rigged computer models said so? Yeah, turns out the Daily Mail is reporting record HIGH amounts of arctic ice. Because it's

(Pick one)
a)warmer
b)cooler

Hat tip to: Moonbattery (gratuitous beefcake picture warning)

Filtering Out The Noise

You people are so excitable. I got an email from someone who buys into more 'theories' than I do. The gist is that the new socialist medicine bill requires microchipping everyone starting in 2013. The bill, as pointed out by a commenter to the article, requires tracking things put into people, which it would be Very Bad if they were to fail.

Your new knee will have a serial number, and if it goes kaput, the lot number will help them identify a possibly-bad few dozen replacement knees. They aren't going to slip you a chip next time you go to your doctor.

Relax about things that sound too far-fetched to be true. There are enough REAL threats coming down the pipe to keep you on your toes. Spreading exciting rumors not based (entirely) in fact is just a distraction from the actual problems with which we need to deal.

The mark of the beast is coming, don't get me wrong. Just this ain't it. Probably. Yet. ;)

You Got No Right

. . . to secure your borders. That's our job. No, we won't be doing it. No, you can't either. Because shut up, that's why.

The only thing mitigating the horrendousness of government thinking like this, is that SCOTUS has already ruled the Police have no duty to protect an individual, whereas it is pretty clearly a Federal Government responsibility to tend to the security of our national borders.

How does that make it less bad?

In England, they don't have a right to individual self-defense as a practical matter, and the Police are failing to defend people individually. So you'll have (for example) a homeowner up on harder charges, facing more time, than the burglar he tackled breaking into his house.

I'm For Checking Up On Welfare Recipients.

. . . shooting them dead when they don't want to be checked-upon, not so much!

Smart Cars: Volkswagen Fox Cross Edition

The engineering looks good on paper but in the real world . . . The whole car is a crumple zone, including the passenger compartment. If your car goes a meter under the front bumper of a lorry, you're dead. If my car goes meter under the front bumpter of a lorry, my suit gets rumpled and my hat may fall off. They would need the Jaws of Life, but I'd still frikken HAVE one to save.

Super small fuel economy cars: for places where everyone drives them. Not for places where bigger things drive. Ever. Saving fuel is an admirable goal. Just don't take it too far eh.

Hat tip: Moonbattery

The Clue Bat Begins Its Swing Toward Unions

You know it's getting bad* when the Chief of Staff of the Mayor of one of the largest cities in the country is saying things like:

"Unions have priced themselves out of a job."

*bad for unions. Good for everyone else, including the membership of the unions, who pay taxes to support their own and other excessive union compensation packages.

Obama The Nobel Laureate

. . . was also apparently a well-beloved, long-teaching professor of Constitutional Law. Or something. Click the link, Moonbattery once again brings news you won't find on The News.

Feel Free To Fire This Jerk

Should we be surprised that an Elected Hero from Illinois doesn't care about the Constitution? Well, Phil Hare admits he doesn't..

I am of the opinion that someone who doesn't care for the Constitution is not qualified to have a job created by it, but obviously the (dead and living) voters at the Illinois polling places think otherwise.

If you are in Illinois: What are you going to do about this guy, when the campaign season starts in earnest this year?

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Update after a few days of taking heat from constituents: he issued a clarification: he doesn't consider the Constitution when it comes to Obamacare because he thinks it's blatantly constitutional. That's a blatant sign you need to volunteer for the campaign of whomever else is running against him this November in Illinois.

Took The Day Off

I took the day off from work today, and it turned out to be a "road day" with the family, from 10:00 to 18:00 out of the house. 2 scheduled doctor visits, a stop at the clothier's, a restaurant luncheon, and some quality time at the Home Depot and the grocery store, as well as an emergency potty break (pregnant woman bladder emergency) at a friend's house. With my wife and I dragging all three children along, this made for a longish day out

There are several guys where I work who think they are funny. I am happy to be able to report I missed all of their April Fools antics today. On the other hand, we spent several hundred dollars more than we would have, had I been at work. :( Oh well.

Living Dangerously

As a free, thinking individual, I have elected to leave Windows' Automatic Update feature turned off since . . . well, since I installed XP for the first time. Tonight I am paying the piper. "once in a while" best describes my manual update schedule. Tonight there are 64 updates, most several megabytes each, and those are the smaller ones which I elected to download and install. There were several programs MS tried to foist off on me, which would have made this take much longer than it already will.

There are probably people out there (without external backups) that would be terrified not to have Microsoft protecting them with automatic updates. Well, freedom is scary. I like to NOT be the guy making headlines with a crashed computer following an Automatic Update gone horribly wrong. When I heard about such a problem for the first time, it was worldwide news, and I was still running Windows 98 at the time, blissfully stable and not-crashing due to automatic updates.

And now here I sit, waiting, on the user end of a cheapest-possible-service DSL modem, downloading "critical" updates. Oh well.