The world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Yonder.

Hey Jerry, are you out there?

Watch this. Pay special attention to his point that no one is in command of the global economy, even as world well-being is skyrocketing—

New data from the World Bank show that the proportion of extremely poor people has more than halved over the last 30 years, from 42% of the global population in 1981 to 17% in 2010.

Note the woman at 46 minutes, who dreams of a federal think tank for entrepreneurs. No one in the room grasps the irony! None of the careerist bureaucrats in the hall will rise to suggest that entrepreneurs will best blossom when government and expensively-seated think-tankers just stay out of the way.

Suffering miscarriage in Alabama? Sucks to be you.

Amy, in light of all the posts you've made about vaccines and autism, I think you really need to see this.

It answers the question, "How do vaccines cause autism?"

I cannot stress this enough. If anyone wants to know how vaccines cause autism, they need to see this.

Is Bill Maher utterly tone deaf? No more than his audience, I guess.

Meanwhile, in Nashville, Gibson's got its wood back! Enthusiasts can now buy a sweet Government Series II guitar, in attractive "Government Tan."

Thanks, Patrick. And Crid, that is unbelievable -- federal think tank for entrepreneurs. Seven words: Leave them alone and they will flourish.

But that is precisely when I learned to type! In fact, I learned to type on one of these.

At Cousin Dave: I liked the manual typewriters (forget which specific one) better. Never got faster than 45 wpm but still passing employment tests decades later.

I was taught to use two (2) spaces so ...

Re: Bill Maher. Yea, that guy is an idiot. And, so is his audience. (you know, they claim to be liberal, open-minded, tolerant - ha!)

Amy, whether one uses one space or two I would say it doesn't matter to me as long as the person is consistent. The one thing that does bother me because I find it very distracting is when an ellipsis is typed as three periods without space between them, such as ...

I was taught that it should be typed with a space between so that it looks as it if is trailing off; not all scrunched together like sardines in a can. But, I believe I'm in the minority on both these issues dealing with extra spaces.

Thanks, Amy, but I use two spaces in any fixed-font scenario, such as scriptwriting software or manual typewriters, and leave the single-spaced rule for the rest of my computer-based work.

And yes, I learned to type on a manual, so if the only thing you whippersnappers can use is a computer keyboard or a smartphone, ha!

My skills are morez.

I've always found Bill Maher to be annoying. Calling him an idiot just doesn't do him justice. He's one of those annoying pseudo-intellectuals who imagines he just has the most clever and intelligent things to say and only succeeds in making himself look dumb.

An example would be the time he asked Joe Biden which was more deadly to Americans: a terrorist attack, "air that has too much coal in it," or high fructose corn syrup. Biden answered correctly, although there are some mental giants who don't get it and have used this as an indictment on Biden. But really, who is so concerned that the executive office needs to be worried about this?

From Maggie's Farm, the Best Brit Ad of the Year. Ride on, mate!

More on the Gibson wood raid by the Feds on behalf of two countries who didn't really give two hoots:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/02/what_gibson_guitars_did_with_the_wood_the_government_returned.html

I used to kind of like Politically Incorrect. Not all the time, but some episodes were pretty good. Maher had more of a variety of guests, who usually had interesting things to say and were fairly civil towards each other. And Maher, although he was always left-of-center, wasn't the leftist flag waver that he is now.

This seems to happen to a lot of media types. Over time, they surround themselves with synchphants and people who never dare disagree with them, and eventually they lose track of everyone's humanity but their own.

The last six or seven sentences are weird, as if he's crawling up to the assignment's word count. And his is a plain and readable argument. Worth reading, though, especially for the MSNBC angle.

Black people don't need groceries and black construction companies don't need construction jobs.

This has been decided for you by the Portland African American Leadership Forum.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Snarky content-free anti-science page vs

NASA:

"The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years."

I'd post more but that took two seconds to find and now I'm tired.

> Stop using two spaces after a period!

No. It conveys patience, reflection, and courtesy. It looks cool. I've always resented your software because it won't let me do this.

I've often thought of dropping
into the other font just to
indulge myself.  Like that.

Also, what's the secret, and what's the treatment, other than expensive office visits? (I've never had trouble falling asleep when not on stimulants or traveling.)




Gog, exactly how thrilled would you expect us to be with a cite from NASA? Do you imagine them to be uninterested parties?

At this point, hasn't NASA shown itself to be a collection of typical careerist assholes in government? Aren't most of them offended that they aren't as loved as they were during the space race, even as their budgets have tumbled? Wouldn't they adore the kind of authority that GW-mongering can offer?

GW is real, and I think about 99.92% certainly anthropogenic. So what should we do about it? The best answer is not too much: We have better things to worry about.

When the man on the street thinks about global warming, he thinks "We have to do something!" And when he thinks about WE, he always (for some reason) pictures himself in charge of the effort, rather than being lead by others. And that effort to DO SOMETHING is obviously going to be about command, not helpful suggestions.

When a person new to me —a normal human being, not a successful captain of industry, not a heroic leader of warfare, and not a world-class benefactor to charity— starts talking about global warming in a somber tone of voice, I know that I'm talking to a zombie who wants to use sanctimony to control other people's lives.

I don't think they should be permitted to do that.

Pop quiz. Pencil's fine, scrap paper, no biggie.

1. How old are you?

2. Has anyone ever described GW to you as something that can be dealt with, even partially, through anything besides policy and government enforcement?

3. Isn't that interesting?

4. Isn't it telling? Doesn't that convey vital information about what's on their minds?

5. When was the last time anyone described any problem in our broader lives or our society as having a solution available outside of government?

I put the same faith in GW as I did in the oncoming ice age in the 70's.

And then read the spin they are putting on the climate scientists getting trapped in ice.

Humans aren't causing it. Get a freaking clue!

"I put the same faith in GW as I did in the oncoming ice age in the 70's."

And interestingly enough, the solution for both problems was exactly the same -- authoritarian government. What a coincidence!

BTW, climate.nasa.gov is James Hansen's personal pet project. It must be nice to have a government job where you get paid to push your politics on everyone. Outside of certain dark alleyways of Goddard Space Flight Center, you won't find much support for Hanson around NASA. Google "John Christy", who has a much better data set than Hansen does.

"Humans aren't causing it. Get a freaking clue!"

I love challenges like this. See here, and go further: do some calculations yourself.

Look into how much energy goes into lighting, worldwide. Then, be sure to note that the power plants powering those lights aren't 100% efficient. All of them use heat energy to drive generators.
Look at some simple redox equations, approximations with bounds you can understand, to see how much CO2 and H2O your car produces from a pound of fuel / a gallon of fuel / a tankful. You can look up the density of fuel, its composition, its molarity on-line. Hey, 22.4L/mole at STP for any ideal gas.

How many billions of gallons of fuel did your state go through? How many gigawatts are the generators powering your city putting out?

Did you notice the power plant is rated in both thermal and electrical output?

Have you looked in Wikipedia at population numbers? Just what are all those people doing to support themselves? Did you notice Crid's other post about how far poverty has been beaten back? Do you think some energy access has something to do with that?

Have you noticed the difference in output between those who study the Sun and those who fight government mandates, whatever the reason?

In 1970, I-95 wasn't even complete to Miami, and Chevy and Ford didn't have factories in China. What are the driving numbers now?

Are you going to tell me about how vast the Earth is? Has it not occurred to you that this is exactly the reason changes occur slowly? It surprises and disappoints me when someone thinks they should be able to go outside and feel a change on their forehead; it tell me they do not know the basics of heat transfer. If you think you do, I urge you to look the Three Laws up in Wikipedia and correct whatever misapprehensions you might have, but it all boils down to this:

When you set fire to something, the fire is the hot part. And it's right next to you.