First I get my copy of Sarah Palin's book and now I learn that Jimmy Buffet has a new album coming !! Woooowhoooo!
Scheduled to be released on December 8th. Get your early copy here.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
First I get my copy of Sarah Palin's book and now I learn that Jimmy Buffet has a new album coming !! Woooowhoooo!
Scheduled to be released on December 8th. Get your early copy here.
president Zero, Our Hero, has announced he is almost, kinda sortof, working hard, thoroughly reviewing, taken enough trips, attended enough parties, (okay, one more), and may be ready to arrive at a response to the request of General Mc Chrystal delivered over 100 days ago for some more troops.
The world awaits...........*
(* not really)
Why, say it ain't so!
Longtime readers know the olde Rumbears position on man made GlowBall Warming. It is, has been and will continue to be a hoax. I have read the books and written inumerable musings on the failing thereof. So much so that I tired of the topic. Well, it's back. Recently, hackers accessed the files of the leading scientists supporting GlowBall Warming and found evidence of fraud. Literally, they have been cooking the scientific data to get their desired results. It's a fraud, a hoax.
......revealed by a thousand or so emails, documents, and computer code sets between various prominent scientists released following a leak from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
This may seem obscure, but the science involved is being used to justify the diversion of literally trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuels. The CRU is the Pentagon of global warming science, and these documents are its Pentagon Papers.
Don't take my word for it. Go read the e-mails. Threats to withold submissions for peer review, attacking those scientists with contrary opiions, and destroying data that supports the position that man made GlowBall Warming does not exist.
Here are three things everyone should know about the Climategate Papers. Links are provided so that the full context of every quote can be seen by anyone interested.
First, the scientists discuss manipulating data to get their preferred results. The most prominently featured scientists are paleoclimatologists, who reconstruct historical temperatures and who were responsible for a series of reconstructions that seemed to show a sharp rise in temperatures well above historical variation in recent decades.
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Secondly, scientists on several occasions discussed methods of subverting the scientific peer review process to ensure that skeptical papers had no access to publication.
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Finally, the scientists worked to circumvent the Freedom of Information process of the United Kingdom. Nowhere is this better evidenced than in the email reproduced in full below (minus Dr. Jones’ contact details):
From: Phil Jones
To: “Michael E. Mann”
Subject: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu May 29 11:04:11 2008
Mike,
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t
have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!
Cheers
Phil
Andrew Bolt says other emails discuss suppressing data. East Anglia University's Professor Phil Jones wrote in 2005 that "If they ever hear there is a freedom of information act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send it to anyone."
"Obviously some of the world's top climate scientist, ones most involved in developing this theory, involved in a massive collusion stretching from America to Britain in trying dodge, fiddle with data, destroy data when others try to check it, sceptics try to check it," says Bolt.
Lies, damnable lies.
My old pal JD Hayworth is apparently looking at a run for the Senate seat currently held by the RINO John McCain. You remember him, he was the one dragging down the Palin/McCain ticket in the last election. Recent polling has JD in a statistical dead heat with the the RINO McCain.
John McCain may have been the GOP's national standard-bearer just a year ago, but now he's in electoral trouble at home. And this time no one can claim it's because of Sarah Palin.
A new Rasmussen poll shows the Arizona Senator in a dead heat with potential GOP primary challenger J.D. Hayworth.
I say Run JD, Run!!! Time to rid the Senate of this old fossil from Arizona and bring in someone who will put America first!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Holy Jumpin!!!!! The Lions won on the last play of the game. They continue to stalk that Wild Card slot with a 2-8 record.
He ate so much over the holidays that he decided to quit cold turkey.
Thanksgiving is a time when turkeys turn from gobblers to gobblees.
My wife gave me a haircut this morning. Tomorrow, she's going to make Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Did ya go to a celebration? Honor those Vets? Pay your respects at the Tomb of the Unknowns? Salute the flag?
Guess who didn't? Yup. president Zero, Our Hero.
Good luck finding this photo....anywhere.
Okay, Okay...it was an Aerostar.
Many of you (2) wrote and wanted to which plane was that I was talking about in the last entry. You know the one about that whore Mary Landrieu.
Well it was a model 601 "Ted Smith" Aerostar says my logbook. Fast, sleek and handful to fly. Like flying an arrow. We used it when we had to move freight...fast. Had some issues with the fuel delivery system and that is what led to our unscheduled landing at what they now call TYS. (GOOGLE) I wrote about it sometime back. Here ya go......
....lost the right engine later that year with a full load of freight southbound out of Columbus, oHIo. Declared an emergency through ATC and by the grace of God found ourselves over Knoxville, TN. We could not stay in the air and were downbound at 800 feet per minute. Unable to feather the dead one, it steadily windmilled. Circled the airport and ran through the checklists. Busted over the fence, threshold in sight and just as we thought we had it made....hit an owl in the left engine. The cowl exploded and the plane turned rapidly to the left. Unique view of the runway out of my side window. With two pilots stomping on the right rudder and we "landed". Rolled out and came to a stop. Egress was, as they say, expedited. I threw up. Captain Murray, well, he was a Captain. Towed from the active taxiway to a hanger. Dispatch was called. Mechanics were called. We flew that bitch home later that night. Sans cowl. Same old whore in a torn dress.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Were just haggling over price at this point. But make no mistake, you and I are paying her. Thanks Mary!
“I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it,” Landrieu told reporters after her floor speech.
Well good on ya Mary! At least we know when the next cloture vote comes up it's just a matter of price. Here's a link if you want to pay her direct. Otherwise just bend over and wait.
I feel a story coming on. Like to here it? Well, here it go.........
Back in the old flying day of the Rumbear we had this nasty old plane that all of us had been on, in and spent countless hours around. Hard to control yet fun to fly. Fastest plane in the fleet. Sleek, twin engines that would get you to flight levels in leaps and bounds. Yet, a mess on the inside and out. Well, the owner finally made enough $$$ on the leaseback to take it out of circulation for a while and clean the old girl up.
The plane came back on line with a new paint job, new TBO's on the high powered twins and a fine looking interior. We were all impressed. Couldn't wait to take her out for a blow around the patch, as they say. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm. So Captain Tom Garretson takes her aloft for the days scheduled run and returns to my ramp late that evening. I walk out to greet him and ask in my innocent can't wait to get this thing aloft sense "So what ya think".
"Same old whore in a new dress."
Crestfallen, I later made a flight or two in the plane and had to begrudgingly admit ole Tom was right. She was dressed up, looked good and had all the right looks...still flew like a lame duck in a wind storm. The Mary Landrieu of our fleet.
Well, the bottom fell out of the GlowBall Warming crucible the past few days. My buddy Chris has the gore E details (get it? ) over at his great site. Seems some hackers tapped in to the scientific vast GlowBall Warming computers in the UK and guess what. They lied. They cheated. You got duped.
While we wait for the liberals to
Now, we here at the Chronicles are a classy bunch. Far be it from us to say I told you so. But sometimes.....well, you bring stuff on yourself. So
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Hard to think about my dad and not smile about Uncle Bud. (He is 3rd from the right) My Uncle, the Socialist from Canada. Go figure.
Fond memories ...Told me some good stories of my dad. Hell, I even let him drive my Porsche ...once. Another time he visited me in SF....we had a spirited discussion on politics over a bottle of cheap rum in a run down hotel on Lombard Street. As I recall, dinner in Chinatown followed. Then again, maybe it was two bottles of rum and we skipped dinner.
As a former member of Parliament his cohorts had the opportunity to get up and speak on his passing. What they said is below. The link I had on this is no longer any good. So I will print it in it's entirety here.
The House met at 1332.
Prayers.
MEMBERS' STATEMENTS
Hon Bob Rae (Premier): Mr Speaker, I wonder if I might have unanimous consent to make a statement about the passing of a member of the House.
The Deputy Speaker: Is there unanimous consent? Agreed.
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BUD GERMA
Hon Bob Rae (Premier): Yesterday, the Deputy Premier and I were away from the House attending the funeral of Bud Germa, who was a member of this place from 1971 to 1981. I'd like to take this opportunity to say a few words about him.
Bud Germa was born in the Sudbury basin. He joined the armed forces, the RCAF, in the Second World War. He came back to Sudbury and worked as an electrician for Inco. He then went into municipal politics. He was elected to the federal Parliament in a by-election in 1967 and he was elected to the provincial Legislature in 1971. He was defeated in the election of 1981.
Bud passed away over the weekend after a long struggle with cancer. I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words about him beyond the simple description of the chronology of his political career.
I did not in fact serve with him, though I was the leader of the party from 1982. Of course, I got to know him extremely well because he remained politically active until the very end of his life. Those who served with him -- and I know there are some members present who remember him vividly from his time in the House. He was what I think one could describe as a political original. He was someone of great passion, verve, good humour and blunt speech.
He was not someone who either minced his words or chose to phrase them in particularly flowery ways. His eloquence stemmed entirely from his experience and from his sense of the people he represented. He cared deeply about the people of Sudbury and the Sudbury basin. He cared deeply about the people he worked with and for. He cared passionately about their health and their safety and their position in our society. He cared very, very deeply about this province and about Canada.
I said that Bud Germa was a man of great and good humour. It is not, I think, possible for me to express in quite as pungent and direct a way Bud's humour, certainly in the current political climate, but I would say that Bud's commitment to being straightforward and his commitment to service was not a grim or onerous task for him; it was one that he took up with gusto and with a great deal of vigour and with a great deal of joy.
He was a tremendous partisan debater in this House at a time when night sittings were a regular fact of life rather than a two-week exception at the end of a session. He was known to everyone as a tremendous participant in debates, particularly in the periods of the minority governments between 1975 and 1981, when debates and votes were constant and were very closely argued.
I know that other members will want to say a few words. I had a chance yesterday, together with the Minister of Finance, to raise a glass at the Nickel City Hotel at about the time question period was due to start yesterday as we were reflecting at the end of the funeral on his commitment to ordinary people, on his sense of passion and compassion for them and on the enormous joy that he took in public service.
All of us will miss him. I shall certainly miss him. To his family, many of whom we were able to meet yesterday -- to all of them -- we wish our very best and our sense that this is, of course, a sad event, but it's also a moment in which we celebrate a remarkable life of service for the people of the province.
Mr James J. Bradley (St Catharines): I rise on behalf of the Liberal caucus to express, as well, to the family and close friends of Bud Germa our remorse and our sadness at his passing last weekend.
It was just last week that I was chatting with some of the Sudbury members about Bud Germa, asking about his health, because I know that, particularly in recent weeks, he has had great difficulty in his battle with cancer.
It's interesting that, when I say "a battle with cancer," Bud Germa was never a person who would give up. I was reading an article from the Sudbury Star on February 23 of this year. One of the comments that Bud made himself with his usual candour was the following: "The prognosis is not terminal at this point. It's going to have to get me, because I'm not going to give up." That probably exemplifies Bud Germa and what he was all about.
Bud Germa, to me, was always what I expected in a New Democrat. He was perhaps a stereotypical New Democrat from northern Ontario, where I was born a number of years ago in the city of Sudbury, and the causes he fought for were causes that were dear to the people in that area, particularly to workers who worked in difficult circumstances relating to health and safety in the area. He was a very grass-roots individual. He had little time for theory and academia. In fact, he once referred to members of his own party who were more the people relying on theory -- and I can't remember the first part, but academic something heads, and I can't remember what it was. But that was terminology he used on that particular occasion.
Bud Germa, as I say, was a fighter. He was a person who represented his constituents well at the municipal level, in the federal Parliament where he served for almost two years after winning a by-election and of course in the Ontario Legislature, and even after he left the Ontario Legislature he was still a force to be reckoned with in his community.
Always the people who are closest to people like Bud Germa have probably the most relevant things to say about them. One I was reading was by Ron MacDonald, who is a staff representative with the United Steelworkers of America. He had a couple of things to say about him which I think really point out what Bud Germa was all about.
He said, "Germa stood out from most politicians because what you saw is what you got," and how true that was. He also said: "When he believed in something he fought for it. You didn't have to agree with his position, but you knew he didn't have a hidden agenda. He wasn't slick or polished and there was nothing devious about him."
That, I guess, says it best, perhaps better than anyone of us could, and I thought it was most appropriate that subsequent to the funeral, the report I had was that many of his friends proceeded to an establishment in Sudbury which was well known to many people in the area. I was too young, of course, to ever be involved with it, but I know that many people in the Sudbury area have heard of the Nickel City Hotel. Bud would have been delighted that, subsequent to celebrating his life and paying tribute to him as he passed, the congregation then moved to the Nickel City for the wake.
Mr Norman W. Sterling (Carleton): Bud Germa came to this Legislature in 1971. I came here in 1977 and had the experience of sitting on the opposite side of the House in government while Bud Germa sat in these benches in opposition. I can remember sort of the first blush of Bud Germa. We used to sit late at night and I used to time my exit out of here so I wasn't going home on the same street as Bud Germa was, because I thought if there's one guy I don't want to meet on a dark Toronto street it's Bud Germa.
But I must say that over the ensuing three or four years I got to know Bud Germa a little bit better, and as the previous speakers have said, Bud did appear like a very tough guy on the outside and was very direct. Conversations with him on political structure and theories would be less than a sentence long and he would be very pointed.
Because he was pointed he did appear rough on the exterior, but when you got sitting down with him, I don't think anybody on any side of the bench or any political party could doubt his integrity and his real softness on the inner. He was really a Softee Toffee and probably wouldn't like you saying that, but the truth of the matter is that he was very generous in terms of his time, given particularly I believe to people who really needed it in his area, and people who really needed his help and came to him. He was probably the least selective of anybody in terms of who he dealt with and how he dealt with the problem.
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I know his good friends like the member for Nickel Belt, Mr Laughren, and Mr Martel, who spent many hours with him, both in this place and in other establishments, enjoyed the number of stories that Bud Germa had. Bud Germa had more stories about various aspects of Ontario life than anybody I know of.
He probably epitomized sort of the two extremes of politics. On the one hand, if you got him into an argument in this place about an issue, you couldn't get somebody who was more dogged, more determined, more stubborn about that, but on the other hand, you probably couldn't find a person in the Legislature at the time who was more good natured and better humoured than Bud Germa.
I think that when people who watch us on television from time to time see us laugh at an inappropriate time, the odd time that happens to us, because politics is a tough thing to live with when people are talking about passionate issues on one hand and then an off comment comes and we laugh at the inappropriate times, I think in some ways he represented that kind of dichotomy that we find in politics here in the province of Ontario.
I think Bud Germa did, as he would say, a hell of a job for his constituents in Sudbury. He was a guy who worked with his hands, who came to this Legislature and continued to represent the people who did work with their hands.
I want to express our sympathies and our appreciation, as members of the Progressive Conservative Party, for the contribution he made to this Legislature, to Sudbury and to the people of Ontario when he served them so well in this place. Our sympathies go to his family and his friends. We will all miss Bud Germa for his contribution and his good humour and his good nature that he brought so well to this place.
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