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88 wrote: Winter Storm Warning in effect for Washington D.C. area, with snow accumulations betwee 7" and 9" expected between now and 2:00 p.m. on March 2, 2009.

socal wrote:You guys know the planet is tilted on an axis right?

Mikey wrote:Apparently some people - make that a lot of people - who for some reason like to think of themselves as "intelligent", still haven't figured out the difference between weather and climate.

Van wrote:I enjoyed the irony too and I would add that it was hardly a display of hysterics. It was merely a quick, humorous aside.

Mikey wrote:Not particularly hysterical. Cold weather isn't so unusual in the beginning of March in DC. I guess they should have waited until August so that there would be no chance of the naysayers getting all hysterical over supposed irony of it.

smackaholic wrote:

Van wrote:I enjoyed the irony too and I would add that it was hardly a display of hysterics. It was merely a quick, humorous aside.

Goddammit dins, this is no place for quick humorous asides. I mean...


[dopey algore voice] THE PLANET HAS A FEVER!!!! [/dopey algore voice]

Another Global Warming Spectacle Laughed At by the Weather
Anyone participating in the Capital Climate Action campaign against modern civilization scheduled to take place today in DC had better dress warmly. The conspicuously absent global warming we're supposed to be so afraid of has resulted in as much as 9 inches of snow predicted for the region. Discredited global warming profiteer James Hansen, who has been pimping this latest spectacle, may end up getting grounded in New York, where businesses are extending the weekend because they're buried under a foot of snow.

But if the government doesn't mandate that we live like the Flintstones right now, next year it really will get warm, and then we'll be sorry!

The scheduled protest targets a coal-powered plant that provides power to Congress, which just imposed a carbon cap scheme that will result in our paying outlandish taxes on energy in the near future. Congress used to buy carbon indulgences to make up for using their politically incorrect coal power, but no more as of last Friday. Since global warming isn't real, there's no reason our rulers should have to pay a price to combat it — although we sure will.

It's nice to know that liberal Congresscritters will be kept toasty warm by burning coal, while the dupes who elect them trudge through a blizzard baying about global warming.

mvscal wrote: What better way to lift the economy out of a recession than by pointlessly making the production of energy (who needs it anyway?) more expensive? Brilliant stuff right there.

At least he reads off a teleprompter well. Good job, dumbfucks.

Tom In VA wrote:The snow this weekend was - trivial.

Nothing we can do about it. We can Cap and Trade ourselves into poverty and famine before mother nature does

War Wagon wrote:

Tom In VA wrote:The snow this weekend was - trivial.

Unless you were out driving in it.

mvscal wrote:

Tom In VA wrote:Bobby Jindal

How nice. Another token "brown person" chosen strictly for his ethnicity.

No thanks.

mvscal wrote:

Tom In VA wrote:Bobby Jindal

How nice. Another token "brown person" chosen strictly for his ethnicity.

No thanks.

Will the real Gov. Bobby Jindal please come back?

By KATHLEEN PARKER
The Washington Post

What did they do with him?

The Jindal who responded to Barack Obama’s address to Congress was less the brilliant statesman than a terribly mixed metaphor — equal parts Mister Rogers, Bobby Brady and Kenneth the Page.

I know Bobby Jindal, and that guy wasn’t Bobby Jindal.

The real Jindal is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear power plant. The real Jindal has actually read the stimulus bill and can recite its contents. The real Jindal is the sort of politician who promises ethics and education reform, and actually delivers.

Stories of Jindal’s ability to quickly assess a problem and fix it have become the stuff of legend in Louisiana, as when he was assigned the task of reforming the state’s Medicaid program and presented a workable plan the following morning. He was in his 20s.

That kind of performance, followed by his bare-hands approach to Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts as a Louisiana congressman, helped him become the nation’s youngest governor in 2007. What happened to that guy? Who snatched his body?

His staff did.

In fact, Jindal did not write his own speech, and he’s on a choke collar by some well-meaning people who helped him win the governor’s race. What worked in Louisiana in 2007 may not work on the national stage in 2016, when Jindal is most likely to run for president.

The stage-crafting was amateurish and the speech embarrassing. Jindal is smarter than the guy who criticized “volcano monitoring” as an example of wasteful spending in the stimulus bill, prompting the same cringe reflex that Sarah Palin did when she took aim at silly ol’ spending — in France, no less — on fruit fly research that is, in fact, crucial to medical research.

Volcano monitoring may not be a top priority for creating jobs and stimulating credit, which is doubtless what Jindal’s speechwriter meant, but it does save lives. Jindal’s rendering of a spending eruption metaphor (get it?) merely gave Democrats yet another opportunity to question Republicans’ understanding of science and the role of government in protecting the public good.

Being the smartest person in the room can be a mixed blessing. Whether it is advantage or handicap for a brainy candidate depends on having the right people around him. At the moment, Jindal seems to be handicapped by handlers who either don’t trust their candidate or have no faith in Americans’ intelligence.

In coaching him to dim the lights a tad, they stole his spark. Dumbing down doesn’t come naturally to wunderkinds such as Jindal. In trying to sound human, he sounds fake. In trying to sound ordinary, he comes across as an extraterrestrial.

Tuesday’s speech was a setback, much like Bill Clinton’s droning 1988 Democratic convention speech, but hardly a career-ender. When Jindal apparently slipped his collar and resurfaced Wednesday morning on the “Today” show, the Rhodes Scholar Jindal (who was accepted to both Yale and Harvard medical and law schools) was back.

He dropped his “I’m-just-a-regular-guy” shtick and managed to articulate his conservative principles without putting the audience in mind of cookies and milk. Praising Obama’s objectives — while conceding that Republicans have lost fiscal credibility — he emphasized his preference for policies that help businesses create jobs rather than government programs he fears will require a taxpayer feeding tube in perpetuity.

88 wrote:Irony
Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eironeía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood.

mvscal wrote:Welcome to Omonkey's Hog Trough A Go Go. Sooooweeee, pig, pig, pig!!!
Who wants pork?!?

Papa Willie wrote: Nobody gives a fuck about it around here anymore.

War Wagon wrote:

mvscal wrote:

Tom In VA wrote:Bobby Jindal

How nice. Another token "brown person" chosen strictly for his ethnicity.

No thanks.

I don't see it that way.

Will the real Gov. Bobby Jindal please come back?

By KATHLEEN PARKER
The Washington Post

What did they do with him?

The Jindal who responded to Barack Obama’s address to Congress was less the brilliant statesman than a terribly mixed metaphor — equal parts Mister Rogers, Bobby Brady and Kenneth the Page.

I know Bobby Jindal, and that guy wasn’t Bobby Jindal.

The real Jindal is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear power plant. The real Jindal has actually read the stimulus bill and can recite its contents. The real Jindal is the sort of politician who promises ethics and education reform, and actually delivers.

Stories of Jindal’s ability to quickly assess a problem and fix it have become the stuff of legend in Louisiana, as when he was assigned the task of reforming the state’s Medicaid program and presented a workable plan the following morning. He was in his 20s.

That kind of performance, followed by his bare-hands approach to Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts as a Louisiana congressman, helped him become the nation’s youngest governor in 2007. What happened to that guy? Who snatched his body?

His staff did.

In fact, Jindal did not write his own speech, and he’s on a choke collar by some well-meaning people who helped him win the governor’s race. What worked in Louisiana in 2007 may not work on the national stage in 2016, when Jindal is most likely to run for president.

The stage-crafting was amateurish and the speech embarrassing. Jindal is smarter than the guy who criticized “volcano monitoring” as an example of wasteful spending in the stimulus bill, prompting the same cringe reflex that Sarah Palin did when she took aim at silly ol’ spending — in France, no less — on fruit fly research that is, in fact, crucial to medical research.

Volcano monitoring may not be a top priority for creating jobs and stimulating credit, which is doubtless what Jindal’s speechwriter meant, but it does save lives. Jindal’s rendering of a spending eruption metaphor (get it?) merely gave Democrats yet another opportunity to question Republicans’ understanding of science and the role of government in protecting the public good.

Being the smartest person in the room can be a mixed blessing. Whether it is advantage or handicap for a brainy candidate depends on having the right people around him. At the moment, Jindal seems to be handicapped by handlers who either don’t trust their candidate or have no faith in Americans’ intelligence.

In coaching him to dim the lights a tad, they stole his spark. Dumbing down doesn’t come naturally to wunderkinds such as Jindal. In trying to sound human, he sounds fake. In trying to sound ordinary, he comes across as an extraterrestrial.

Tuesday’s speech was a setback, much like Bill Clinton’s droning 1988 Democratic convention speech, but hardly a career-ender. When Jindal apparently slipped his collar and resurfaced Wednesday morning on the “Today” show, the Rhodes Scholar Jindal (who was accepted to both Yale and Harvard medical and law schools) was back.

He dropped his “I’m-just-a-regular-guy” shtick and managed to articulate his conservative principles without putting the audience in mind of cookies and milk. Praising Obama’s objectives — while conceding that Republicans have lost fiscal credibility — he emphasized his preference for policies that help businesses create jobs rather than government programs he fears will require a taxpayer feeding tube in perpetuity.

Jindal - 2016

Moving Sale wrote:

mvscal wrote:Welcome to Omonkey's Hog Trough A Go Go. Sooooweeee, pig, pig, pig!!!
Who wants pork?!?

Racist fuckhole.

88 wrote: I wytched your pic.

Moving Sale wrote:

88 wrote: I wytched your pic.

You are one Rathitht twatlipped fuckhole.

Moving Sale wrote:

88 wrote: I wytched your pic.

You are one Racist twatlipped fuckhole.

mvscal wrote:

Moby Dick wrote:Why were predictions so wrong?

Because they are based on a fundamentally flawed premise.

What do I win?

Moby Dick wrote:Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago.

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.