1 Morning Morons!

2 Just a thought.  Is Obama purposely attempting to take everything into a deep dive so that, at the last moment, he can "pull up," which would make things look good in time for elections? (2010 or 2012 or both)?

3

Headline at Fox this morning from Michael Steele:

 

GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan

 

In new book, Michael Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

 

Is he finally getting the message from the polls that people prefer a non-existent Teaparty to Republicans now? 

 

Does this mean the end of the “big tent”?

 

Funny, from the description in the artoicle it sounds exactly like something Jim DeMint said over a year ago after which all the big tenters from the Mclame camp started stabbing him in the back.

4

Where's Ace? Shouldn't there be three new posts by now.

;^)

5 See? The spammers are up already, so Ace has no excuse.

6 COLD!!

7 Posted by: Vic at January 05, 2010 09:22 AM (QrA9E)

If we're lucky (and smart) this could be the beginning of the trend we've been waiting for. No need to expunge the ranks if the current office holders can quietly sidle back to the right. Retain what incumbent advantage we can, etc.

8 I heard Steele on Sean Hannity's show yesterday. He talked like a conservative Republican on the show from what I heard, but of course, he could have been playing to his audience. Also noticed a number of "You know"'s in his dialogue; he was OK but perhaps not as articulate a speaker as you would hope for from a true party leader.

9 Key to Stopping Terrorism is Negotiating with Terrorists for Lighter Sentences: www.optoons.blogspot.com

10 Just maybe they are finally getting the message. Even a moron will wake up when he gets hit up side the head with a 2x4.

11 Also in that article Steele takes a swipe at McLame. Truly the squishies are getting hit now.

12 Schanahan countdown day 2.

13 The next mother fucker who comes up to me talking about AGW is getting stabbed in the face.

God I hate liberals.  How can these imbeciles even attempt to prove their cult when the entire globe is suffering from freezing weather.

Seriously..  right in the face

14 Global Warming! Feel the BURN!!!!

15 Yesterday. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla) said former VP Dick Cheney should have Satan write the introduction to his memoirs. However, Cheney Holds Out For Cthulhu

16

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Democrats will likely drop the idea of setting up a new government-run insurance program as they try to quickly resolve differences between House and Senate health-care bills, party members in both chambers said.

Democratic leaders may also bypass a House-Senate conference, the normal route for reconciling legislation, in favor of more informal talks to wrap up in a “few weeks,” said New Jersey Representative Frank Pallone, who heads the House Energy and Commerce panel’s health subcommittee.

“I don’t think the public option survives,” Pallone told state lawmakers in Trenton yesterday. “There is nowhere near 60 votes on that.”

Lawmakers will also forge some compromise that satisfies both sides of the abortion debate and prohibits the use of federal funds for the procedure, Pallone said.

“Everyone understands we can’t have federal dollars used in any way, or subsidies in any way, to pay for abortions,” said Pallone, an abortion-rights supporter.

Durbin said he’s not “assuming a thing,” and said leaders would work hard to keep the 60 votes controlled by Senate Democrats together.

“We’ll never have another chance like this in my political lifetime,” Durbin said. “This is it.”

17 WH signing up to a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill this year in order to get votes for Obamacare. on Fox http://tinyurl.com/y8zx3ws

18

A repost from last night, because it's important, IMHO.

293 Now for some actual science. The impact theory of dinosaur extinction is being called into serious question by an inconvenient set of non supporting facts. This is good because I never bought into that simplistic theory anyhoo. It is (or was) accepted science (settled) except that not everyone bought in. Link.

19 “We’ll never have another chance like this in my political lifetime,” Durbin said. “This is it.” --- Hope

20 @13 I hear you, MM. Most of my acquaintances/friends/relatives who were all condescending/jerky when I was trying to tell them why AGW was non-scientific in previous years have yet to apologize. Not that I'm waiting. However, they have shut-up about AGW which is almost just as good.

21

We need to move our chairs closer together to stay warm.

27 degrees? Which is still warmer than the predicted high for Friday.

I need to explain to someone that I'm in the SOUTH...is Al Gore at home or something?

22 Mr. Pink, if you go back to yesterday's post I cleared up my commute for you and Kemp.

23

Democraps have zero chance of passing ANY new sweeping bills during the upcoming election year.

Personally what I see is the Dems running from Obama as fast as they can. He is about to be thrown under the bus.

24 I has anyone read the diverisity visa story and not gotten upset? http://tinyurl.com/ygmyr5z

25

Is this the real reason the Weblog Awards were called off?

26

 Just a thought.  Is Obama purposely attempting to take everything into a deep dive so that, at the last moment, he can "pull up," which would make things look good in time for elections? (2010 or 2012 or both)?

This assumes a president can play the fortunes of this country like Paganini on a Stradivarius.

Not something conservatives believe. Not this one, anyway.

27

I can't accept that dinosaur article, maddog. It doesn't mention the dinosaurs' SUV use that really led to their extinction.

28

Personally what I see is the Dems running from Obama as fast as they can. He is about to be thrown under the bus.

Doesn't really matter, the bastards threw America under the bus already.

29

Ok cool I looked thanks jean.

30

Did anyone see the Guardian article about how people are freezing to death in Peru? (Drudge linked it yesterday -- http://tinyurl.com/yb7sojx.) Note that it is, in fact, summer in Peru, most of that country being in the southern hemisphere.

And yet the article yammers about how "In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly" and that "Climate change campaigners and development NGOs say that the failure of Copenhagen has signed the death warrant for hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and that a quarter of a million children will die before world leaders meet again to try to thrash out another deal at the United Nations next climate change conference in Mexico in December." Except they're, you know, dying from cold weather conditions, not drowing in the rising ocean.

Drink, drink, drink, drink the AGW Kool-Aid.

31 24 I has anyone read the diverisity visa story and not gotten upset? http://tinyurl.com/ygmyr5z

Posted by: Jean at January 05, 2010 09:43 AM (tTdaQ)

Just read it.  I can't imagine any sane person NOT being upset.  It's bad enough that we have an immigration policy that is focused on balkanizing the US.  That alone is intolerable bullshit.  Far worse is that it is apparently designed to bring terrorists into the US.  For all their talk and all the dollars/efforts expended in the GWOT, it seems like a substantial portion of the government is working for the other side.  First, bringing in as many damn enemies as possible.  Then, tolerating Muslim "compounds" known by the locals nearby to be far more shady and dangerous than the Brach Davidians could ever have been.  Liberal infiltrators are tireless in their efforts to undermine and destroy the US.  May each one die in a fire!

32

"Diversity Visas" are only a symptom of the overall bankruptcy of the State Department. It doesn't matter who is in charge, that section of the governemnt has been taken over by the communists and American haters since the FDR admin.

The next Republican president needs to fire every one of them and start over from scratch.

33 Yeah it's like 10 degrees here in Northern VA.

34 I just awoke from a coma, is that miserable W still President?  Is there still lying, cheating, a lack of transparency, cronyism, incompetence, and powerful K Street lobbysists and other wing-nut characters  in the White House, or did we elect a Democrat?

35

The WWF (World Wildlife Fund not World Wrestling Federation which is not WWE) is running these hysterical (in both senses) ad extoling the plight of the polar bear. It shows a mama and a baby polar bear on a little tiny ice floe. Mama jumps off and baby eventually follows. They are dying, dying I tell you! And, as my sons ask, so what if they do die. The seal population explodes? Then we can go back to hunting baby seals.....

Speaking of: What do a dead baby seal and Tiger Woods have in common? They were both clubbed by a Norwegian.

36 These quick build, steel frame buildings with lots of windows really suck when it is 25degs out. Gonna have to get a few more PCs to keep my office warm.

37

"Diversity Visas" are only a symptom of the overall bankruptcy of the State Department...       The next Republican president needs to fire every one of them and start over from scratch.

Posted by: Vic at January 05, 2010 09:51 AM (QrA9E)

Amen.  And really, that's the only way to fix it.  Even Condi couldn't make a dent in the beast using the existing staff.  A total purge would be best.  America-loving amateurs would do a better job than America-hating professionals.  Hell - the current admin is destroying our credibility so fast that nothing the new blood could do would make it any worse, so there'd be nothing to lose.  A few young go-getters might even be tempted to speak the truth and risk offending some of our enemies/false-allies - imagine that!  A few might even be idealistic enough to resist foreign bribes. 

38 My point with the dinosaur extinction article is that the scientific community is subject to the same weaknesses, fads, corruption, and poor judgement as any other segment of society. Theories come and go. They are touted as the final answer, then some son of a bitch comes along and pisses on the parade of a bunch of snooty science elites. At first they are ostracized, ridiculed, and finally the truth has to be admitted and they go on to the next round. For 20 years these people have stated the impact theory as the end all explanation. For 20 years it's been broadcast and taught to children. And it's bullshit. The facts will show it to be bullshit. The facts don't support it right now, but careers and reputations have been built on the theory, so many stand to lose much in the way of prestige and reputation.

39

Joan Rivers bumped off flight in Costa Rica when Continental gate agent finds passport suspicious.

Ha-ha.

40
Wait.

The arctic is no longer cold and the equator is no longer hot. Why, that can only mean one thing...

Man has caused the Earth to shift from its axis!

OMG anthropogenic climate change is worse than we thought. What have we done? O what have we done?!?!?

41 Nice to know Obama has the Joan Rivers situation under control.

42 I'm deeply disturbed to learn that the WWF doesn't know polar bears can swim.

43 I see the Dummycrats are still at war with Cheney and give a rat's ass about actual Muslims with explosives strapped to themselves.

44 44

Joan Rivers bumped off flight in Costa Rica when Continental gate agent finds passport suspicious.

Ha-ha."

Well considering she probably looks nothing like her passport picture I am not surprised. I think she is wearing a Hannibal Lecter style human facemask to be honest.

45 42 Did you know that Ohio has no natural lakes. 

Posted by: Cliff polynikes Clavin at January 05, 2010 09:59 AM (m2CN7)

Umm, Lake Erie?

46 One change for State Dept is an overhaul in their hiring practices. We need to ensure more veterans get those jobs. As it is, they take over-educated wonks and try and make them mid-level administrators. The need retired E-7s reviewing visa applications, not Harvard or Thunderbird grads. The Embassys will run tighter, not as dysfunctional graduate dorms, and the actual policymakers will have experienced, practical men and women around them.

47 Lake Erie's not "natural", it was formed by global warming. 

_{All those mammoths in SUVs...google it!}

48 We can thank Ted Kennedy for "reforming" US immigration policy in the 1960's, to ensure that weren't so many undesirable white people coming in. Thanks, Ted. ROT IN HELL.

49 36 Climate change campaigners and development NGOs say that the failure of Copenhagen has signed the death warrant for hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest and that a quarter of a million children will die before world leaders meet again to try to thrash out another deal at the United Nations next climate change conference in Mexico in December So there will be fewer terrorists 20 years down the road? Sweet.

50

Yes, maddog. We were just mocking the AGW types and not the point you were making by linking the story.

At Tim Blair's MSM Aussie blog, he's currently running a few posts about "proven scientific facts" that the NYT has claimed over its history and that have turned out to be wrong that make the same point you have in #43.

51 just my opinion but the undie bomber looks like those paintings with the kids with the circle heads and huge eyes.......creeps me out

52
I was watching the weather this morning and the weather homo says we're in for frigid weather on account of the jet stream bringing us cold arctic air. I thought it wasn't cold in the Arctic, anymore?

How can it be still so cold in the Arctic to literally freeze the lands thousands of miles away when Algore said the planet has a fever?

53 I am not so much worried about the "big tent" of the RNC, I am just hoping that they put away the big "Checkbook" that we have to keep funding. I never really could figure out what the GW thing was about, when you objectively look at the alternative, Global Cooling, the former is a much better alternative for continued life on this planet.

54 The need retired E-7s reviewing visa applications, not Harvard or Thunderbird grads.

What's "Thunderbird"?

Just make sure you're not staffing the State Department with the idiots who let Major Hasan stay in for the multi-cultural diversity.

55
Serious question: How long until the Warmists tel us we have indeed caused the Earth to shift its axis?

56

It occurred to me this morning that, despite Napolitano's reassurances, that in the case of the "underpants bomber" the system not only failed, but likely failed more than once.

Some guy on FoxNews this morning pointed out that terrorists are not dumb, and that concentrating on flights from "suspicious" countries would do nothing because terrorist know enough to take flights from "friendly" countries.

Terrorists also often perform dry-runs.  So it is possible, if not likely, that Abdulmutalib had taken that very same flight before.  It's even possible that he had several potential routes laid out, and chose the one that he did because a dry run convinced him that it was the least secure.

Either way, has anyone looked into what other flights the "underpants bomber" had also taken in the past year?

 

57 62 Serious question: How long until the Warmists tel us we have indeed caused the Earth to shift its axis? Posted by: Posted by: Huge, Quickly at January 05, 2010 10:08 AM (z37MR) Some idiot in Switzerland is already arguing the reason the winter is so cold now is because the previous month had been too warm.

58

Well considering she probably looks nothing like her passport picture

Apparently the problem was her passport was issued to "Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers" and that confused the airline staffer. [Rosenberg being her married name.]

59 why are we letting anyone from these state sponsored terrorist countries into the USA? oh, you are from there? well we are boycotting you....sorry.....unless you can help us topple your country we really have nothing to talk about.........

60

I'm deeply disturbed to learn that the WWF doesn't know polar bears can swim.

It's a bitch catching seals to eat when you can't swim. We need to give the polar bears some guns. A thought: If pets leave a big carbon footprint does a polar bear leave an even bigger carbon footprint?

61 Do I always have to be coherent for you... Posted by: Cliff polynikes Clavin at January 05, 2010 10:08 AM (m2CN7) Not at all. Why start now?

62

I was watching the weather this morning and the weather homo says we're in for frigid weather on account of the jet stream bringing us cold arctic air. I thought it wasn't cold in the Arctic, anymore?

Duh, because your use of electricity and cars 'n stuff has pulled the cold air away from the poor polar bears. Why do you hate them so?

63
I mean, they're running out of explanations and excuses. The axis is the next logical step, right?

They remind me more and more of the Jehova's Witnesses who have 'faithfully' predicted the rapture since, oh, the late 1800's, and when it doesn't arrive on their predicted dates, they simply change the date.

Someone told me they stopped making specific predictions on the date and now just say it's coming soon.

64
>>The great thing about the United Nations, the worlds poorest always die from whatever cause de jour exist.
Mallamutt,

A frog in water
Doesn't feel it boil in time.
Dude, we are that frog.

65
Some idiot in Switzerland is already arguing the reason the winter is so cold now is because the previous month had been too warm.

Well, that's logical! Wait. What?

Gaia needs balance? Equilibrium?

I know! Gaia is the god of karma.

66 weather homo?

67 Thunderbird is a foreign policy school in Arizona. PC is everywere - but an E7 who happens to check a few diversity boxes is going to be step up from where we are now. Which is actually the spouse of a Harvard grad doing the job as a consular assistant.

68

Chuckie Schumer wants the federal government to pay for it all.

Right, because that money comes from elves and fairies, not New Yorkers.

69 What would the cost of a CCTV link to Gitmo be from NYC?

70
Forecast Fairy, if you prefer.

71 It was 62 degrees in the house this morning when I woke up.  Al Gore must vacationing in Palm Beach.

72

Well finally, it just crossed 32°F here.  My heat pump thanks you.

As for the dinasaur die-off there have always been competeing theories for that. The single impact in Mexico was just one of many. That linked article sort of glazes over the other stuff and it doesn't really change things much.

Yes, the generally accepted by most theory was the impact, but the Princeton woman (no bia there) only trades that single theory for a multiple impact theory.

Personally I do not think it was an impact at all. I think that is the warmies pushing that because they refuse to admit that the climate does goe through natural swings. My feeling is that an impact would not produce a cooling event that would last long enough to drastically alter the climate long term.

And IS what killed off the dinasuars. The reason they died and not the smaller animals is the vegitation required to support huge animals dissapeared. A lot of the small animals died as well but it did not kill off 100% of them.

Thankfully for us or we wouldn't be here.

73 Hey moron guys...I tried to put a scarf on my husband yesterday morning as it was 22 degrees and he has lost two buttons on his dress coat. He said, essentially, that scarves were effeminate, only that's not the word he used. My teenage boys agreed and when he got to the office the gay guy across the hall had a scarf. Are scarves really a sexual preference indicator? How do you find out about these things? As a woman, I can tell you that certain shoes and Janet Napolitano's hair are indicators but scarves? And would that only be in milder termperate zones? Can that be true in say, Fargo, as well? The scarf was Burberry not Hello Kitty.

74
Um, depends, dags. What was the wind chill?

75 Are scarves really a sexual preference indicator?

Mine is bigger than anybody's.

76

"My teenage boys agreed and when he got to the office the gay guy across the hall had a scarf. Are scarves really a sexual preference indicator?"

Yes scarves are teh gey I would agree but unless the dude is wearing a pink hello kitty scarf I wouldn't assume he is gay. I wouldn't think of them as an indicator other than the fact the guys that wear them are more effeminate, metrosexual, or whatever word  of the week you wanna use.

77 Scarves worn on the head are affiminate, around the neck during cold windy conditions not so much.

78 83 17 degrees. I hold that it's more effeminate to hold an opinion about scarves and that he should come out of the closet.

79 Well, it's been several years since I lived on the East Coast, but guys always wore scarves in the cold weather. Tucked into their coats, not wrapped around their necks with the end trailing behind.

80 "...IS what killed off the dinasuars. The reason they died and not the smaller animals is the vegitation required to support huge animals dissapeared. A lot of the small animals died as well but it did not kill off 100% of them. Thankfully for us or we wouldn't be here." Posted by: Vic at January 05, 2010 10:20 AM (QrA9E) I'm skeptical of any single cause for "why the dinosaurs went extinct." First of all - there were small dinosaurs, not just huge dinosaurs. So under that theory, Vic, why did the small dinosaurs die out? And if things like giant asteroids did them in, why didn't they ALSO kill off the crocodiles and snakes? After all, reptiles are cold blooded and any sort of global freezing would kill them fast. And any factor dinosaurs would be vulnerable to should have affected them equally. And a lot of the theories of why dinosaurs died - like prolonged warming and droughts - don't account for why the marine dinosaurs would have died out. So who the hell knows. I wonder if sheer genetic exhaustion doesn't set in after a while: wether a species can age, just like an individual organism. After all, a baby comes out of an adult, aging body... how come it starts totally, completely fresh? Maybe the answer is, it only seems to - but in the long run, over hundreds of millions of years, the DNA of the whole species itself begins to breakdown?

81
If a scarf is used as an accessory to daily attire, then, yeah, it's gay.
But if the scarf is being used out of necessity, sort of like a tool, then it's not gay at all. So it really depends on the temperature.

Also applies to earmuffs. Any man who wears earmuffs when the temp is above 0 degrees is a flamer.

82 Hey moron guys.... The scarf was Burberry not Hello Kitty.

The spambots have achieved human-like speech and are addressing us directly.  We are DOOMED!!!

83 I would have to go with -20 on the earmuffs.

84

Has anybody else noticed how the latest meme coming out of the legacy media is, "Let's be more civil in 2010?"

I think it started with Harry Reid channeling Rodney King on the Setate floor.  Some genius picked it up and decided, "Yeah, that's the ticket."  My local rag wrote an editorial about it yesterday claiming that 2009 was the "year of rudeness."  They provided examples of Joe Wilson (incorrectly identifying him as a Senator) shouting, "You lie!" and Rush's wish that the Precedent would fail.  Personally, I believe that they were really wishing that citizens wouldn't attend any more Tea Parties.

Hell, they even offered up a pledge:

"I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.

I will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.

I will stand against incivility when I see it."

I commented that the editorial staff was retarded.  Obviously, I didn't take the pledge. 

85 So keeping your neck warm is gay? Hmm...Okay. Why not say the same for the coat & go out into the cold wearing only shorts, shirt, & sandals?

86

So under that theory, Vic, why did the small dinosaurs die out?

One of the other theories concerning the smaller one was that they became the birds and didn't die out.

They are all just theories. Hell, we have historians arguing about what happened on the grassy knoll a few decades ago. How we expect people to come up with stuff millions of years ago is beyond me.

 

87

90 Typically my husband and boys take the extreme view. Some long assessory scarves are gay so we will f-ing freeze because, apparently, freezing is heterosexual.

The spambots have achieved human-like speech and are addressing us directly.  We are DOOMED!!!

Yeah, I thought that when I wrote it. Next thread--lace wigs.

88

#89  I'm skeptical of any single cause for "why the dinosaurs went extinct."

I'm not.   I'm sure it was due to giant amoeboid shape-shifting creatures.

/Read it in Dean Koontz's "Phantoms".

89 "Some idiot in Switzerland is already arguing the reason the winter is so cold now is because the previous month had been too warm.

Well, that's logical! Wait. What?

Gaia needs balance? Equilibrium?

I know! Gaia is the god of karma."

I always count on a reversion to the mean.  Some times that reversion can be a real crusher.   The Swiss idiot doesn't realize how his statement falsifies AGW.

90 Anything around your neck signifies an "unready" posture. So, unless it is necessary, eg to keep your brain stem warm, it is a fashion accessory and therefore, in a word - gay.

91
It's a clever way of suppressing free speech. When they can't do it with the weapon of political correctness, they trick people into being 'polite,' which means you shut up while they ram through their agenda.

92 Most coats these days are made so the collar can zip up around the neck, so a scarf really isn't necessary. Plus, they're kind of cumbersome.

93 Outlaw - I pledge to be civil to all citizens I meet openly bearing a holstered pistol on their waist.

94
It also depends how long you're gonna be outdoors. If you wear a scarf and gloves to walk out of a building and into a car and then into another building, you're not only gay, you're a pussy.

95 99 That explains a lot. When I told my 18 year old (home because the water pipes at school froze and burst --thank you AGW) that I had tried to put a scarf on Dad, he recoiled like I had said that I had tried to snip off his testicals with my nail scissors.

96 "A frog in water
Doesn't feel it boil in time.
Dude, we are that frog."

Frogs are not that stupid, really.  Al Gore might stay in the pot, but a frog will get his butt out of that pot if  he can.  Therefore we can assume that Al is dumber than a frog.

97 99 Anything around your neck signifies an "unready" posture.

I take it that's a Freudian concept?

98 104--Ok he wins, I lose. There has to be a first time for everything....

99
Does the scarf hold beer cans?  If not, teh ghey.

100
It's explained in mathematics.
Here, I show you: The amount of clothing you wear is a function of the duration one will be exposed to the elements.

101 107 - no Krav Maga

102 I just think the scarf thing is silly. But I'm 25, what do I know?
/s

103
If you wear a scarf and gloves to walk out of a building and into a car and then into another building, you're not only gay, you're a pussy.

That and you're a cheap bastard for not paying for a parking garage.

104 Typecasting

105

I need the headlines thread so I can say that AP has KSU sitting at #11.  The coaches and ESPN/USA Today at #10 and, wait for it, Fox sports at #9.  Frickin' AP.

To go along with KU at #1 and Texas at #2.  Yes, we know how to play more than just football here in Big 12 flyover country.

106

Unless you're fighting off hordes of Chinese at the Chosin Reservoir in sub-zero temps, no on the scarf.

107 112 107 - no Krav Maga

Isn't Krav Maga an Israeli martial art dealing with hand-to-hand combat?

108 That and you're a cheap bastard for not paying for a parking garage. Posted by: Dang Straights at January 05, 2010 10:40 AM (fx8sm) Ya know how much parking costs here in NYC?

109

All right, the headlines thread now

Brought that from an earlier post and hadn't fixed it, sorry.

110 Scarves when cold is almost a necessity.  Actually keeps you pretty toasty.

111 It's warm and sunny here in San Diego. How are the rest of you doing?

112
Did the men at Bastogne have scarfs? No.

^scarves?

113 Scarves when cold is almost a necessity. Actually keeps you pretty toasty. Posted by: CUS at January 05, 2010 10:43 AM (wOGfT) Actually a little Brandy works good also.

114 35F & sunny in the Houston/Spring area.

115

117

Unless you're fighting off hordes of Chinese at the Chosin Reservoir in sub-zero temps, no on the scarf.

I had a friend who was there. A machine gunner. He allowed that it was unpleasant.

116

I'm skeptical of any single cause for "why the dinosaurs went extinct.

 

The reason they like to point to a “single event” scenario is the KT layer issue. You have plentiful dinosaurs fossils found above the layer and none below the layer. (or at least none documented)

 

What I have never heard an adequate explanation of is the actual length of time represented by that KT layer. It would seem to me that a one inch layer of sediment would take a long time to build up so it would not have been like an on-off switch.

 

I still think the most likely explanation was a long term change in climate caused by natural cycles of the sun. That shrank the available food supply which had the largest impact on the large animals. I think it is a coincidence that we had the meteor strikes at the same time and that the meteor strikes on their own would not have done the trick.

 

So I guess you could say I am not in the “single event” camp either unless you count a long term climate shift as a single event.

117
only if its silk!

118

And on the dinosaur extinction thingy, can you say Noah's Flood?  Sure, sure you can.

 

119 It's warm and sunny here in San Diego. How are the rest of you doing? Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 05, 2010 10:43 AM (Tr9MG) Call me when the earthquake hits ok

120
Scarves are not nearly as effective as a hat. Keeping the top of one's head warm is the key to enduring the cold.

121 Ok, you guys have won him a pass on this one. No more non-electronic assessories. I was trying to be nice. I will be looking out for a picture of Chuck Norris in a scarf though.

122 Did the men at Bastogne have scarfs? No. I believe they did, actually. When I was in the 327th, we were issued OD green scarves.

123 How about - if your not wearing a hat first, then the scarf is gay? If it is cold enough to warrant a scarf - but you don't want to mess up your hair, then I hold it is gay.

124 Just still find it strange that wearing a scarf is effeminate. American men have worn them for generations, & I daresay they were much more macho than the modern man.

125 Most coats these days are made so the collar can zip up around the neck, so a scarf really isn't necessary. Plus, they're kind of cumbersome.

And they get caught on your earrings.

126 '80'sBaby - that was back before global warming.

127

101 Most coats these days are made so the collar can zip up around the neck, so a scarf really isn't necessary. Plus, they're kind of cumbersome.

This conversation is veering from teh gay to teh stupid.

 In New England men always wear scarves tucked into their coats when (a) it's really cold, and (b) their coats don't have zip-around-the-neck design, such as trenchcoats.    It's not a matter of fashion, but of keeping warm.

You might as well argue that using an umbrella when it's raining is gay too --- I can find quite a few high school guys who think that, but they grow out of it when they find themselves soaked to the skin in a cold spring rain.

Plus, cumbersome is one of those things you wear around your waist with formal wear.  Or so I am told.

128 93

Has anybody else noticed how the latest meme coming out of the legacy media is, "Let's be more civil in 2010?"

I think it started with Harry Reid channeling Rodney King on the Setate floor.  Some genius picked it up and decided, "Yeah, that's the ticket."  My local rag wrote an editorial about it yesterday claiming that 2009 was the "year of rudeness."  They provided examples of Joe Wilson (incorrectly identifying him as a Senator) shouting, "You lie!" and Rush's wish that the Precedent would fail.  Personally, I believe that they were really wishing that citizens wouldn't attend any more Tea Parties.

Hell, they even offered up a pledge:

"I will be civil in my public discourse and behavior.

I will be respectful of others whether or not I agree with them.

I will stand against incivility when I see it."

I commented that the editorial staff was retarded.  Obviously, I didn't take the pledge. 

Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at January 05, 2010 10:30 AM (E0EDC)

 

I see you get the New London day also.  The Norwich Bulletin is a bit better IMO.

129 I've spent a good portion of my life working outside in northern climes.  Layering is key.  The second layer for me is usually a turtleneck, which pretty much negates the need for a bulky scarf.  Finally, as Huge says, wear a hat.

130 If you cooked your privates, I bet your eyes would be pretty big too. Posted by: right at January 05, 2010 10:34 AM (EquV1) Hmmm.

131

I heard Steele on Sean Hannity's show yesterday. He talked like a conservative Republican on the show from what I heard, but of course, he could have been playing to his audience.

I suspect this will be a big dividing line between conservatives and republicans.  Or at least between some conservatives and the republicans.  Just because an incumbent sounds conservative doesn't entitle him/her to my vote.  Hell, Obama was talking conservative-ish during the campaign, and I'm not voting for anyone just because they can parrot Rush's talking points.

At this point, I don't really care what any incumbent has to say.  I'm going to base my vote on what the incumbent has done.  And I'm not going to just be looking at the final vote for legislation, but also votes to move the legislation out of committee, cloture votes, etc.  These crapweasels are trying to play a game with us ("Hey look!  I didn't vote for this bill!  I mean, sure, I voted for it when I had to, but I didn't vote for it on the final vote...") that I'm not interested in playing.

For non-incumbents, of course, I don't have that option; but I'll be looking at whether they've had a career in politics, had a real job, what their job performance was, etc. 

I hate to say it, but I'm thisclose to just condemning the GOP as a whole, and I'm fighting against the idea of a republican vote being a wasted vote.  But I'm damn sure not voting for a republican candidate just because of the R. 

132 No, really, the 'scarf = gay' shit is starting to piss me off.

I cruise through time and space with hot wenches.  Who's gay now?

133 Hey, 80's Baby... kratos and I were trying to figure out who the Queen Moronette is. I would argue for wheretherum, on account of the indisputably dark powers she possesses. Besides, I've seen her German Beer Wench outfit pic and can think of worse things to be queened by...

134

22 Mr. Pink, if you go back to yesterday's post I cleared up my commute for you and Kemp.

Holy shit they keep these comments over 24 hrs?  They must be getting pretty ripe by now!

135 So keeping your neck warm is gay? Hmm...Okay. Why not say the same for the coat & go out into the cold wearing only shorts, shirt, & sandals?


One of my big pet peeves in life is women who go out in the snow and the cold wearing short skirts or capris, and sandals, and no hat, and a little fashion coat, and then bitch about the weather.  Adding insult to injury, they're always with men.  Why is "stupid" considered desirable?

I console myself (undesirable but toasty in waterproof Gore-Tex boots, down jacket, and fur-lined hat with earflaps) with the knowledge that I will have all my toes come summer.

136

I would argue for wheretherum, on account of the indisputably dark powers she possesses. Besides, I've seen her German Beer Wench outfit pic and can think of worse things to be queened by...

Which thread was that on?

 

137


The 4th Doctor used his scarf as a tool. It had value as a utility, not an accessory.

138 I guess I would argue the greatest argument against the idea that "factor X" killed the dinosaurs, whatever "X" is, is that there is no reasonable explanation of why ONLY the Dinosaurs would have been wiped out, but not reptiles, for example. Even if you argue that compact size and a warm body temperature gave mammals a survival edge during a global catastrophe of some sort, that wouldn't explain the survival of reptiles like crocodiles. And again, even if let's say T-Rex died out because the environment got too arid to sustain its prey... how would that have caused marine dinosaurs to go extinct? And why THEM, but NOT sharks, for example? None of the different theories adequately address these points.

139 I cruise through time and space with hot wenches. Who's gay now? How do you get that to work? I travel through time wearing a scarf, but whenever I kiss Lucy, she has a meltdown. Maybe I shouldn't let the Red Baron kick my ass so much.

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Lake Erie is the border of Ohio. Not in Ohio.

I mean you should know what I meant even If I don't say it.  Do I always have to be coherent for you to understand.  Sheesh.

Don't start now, it will just confuse us!

141 "I cruise through time and space with hot wenches. Who's gay now?" It depends. Do you nail them, or do their hair? Posted by: right at January 05, 2010 10:59 AM (EquV1) Ohh that's gonna leave a mark!

142 "So keeping your neck warm is gay?" Not if you're using your girlfriend's muff, it ain't. Though you might get a little wet behind the ears...

143

Johnnyreb,

I do.  My wife insists on subscribing to it.  Speaking of the Norwich Bulliten, I was listening to the radio on my way into work and the editor (his name escapes me) announced that they're going release different editions for New London and Windham Counties.

Might be a winner, since The Day sucks.

144 I would have survived the ice age if I had worn a scarf.

145
Why is "stupid" considered desirable?

Heh. For so many reasons, m'dear.

146 None of the different theories adequately address these points.

Posted by: CoolCzech at January 05, 2010 10:59 AM (QECjC) -

Like I said, there is one.  Thing is, you have to approach it with an open mind.

Try Binging (or whichever you prefer) creation science and spend some time on a few sites. I'd put a pretty good one up for ya but I don't do the tiny url thing. I consider it an unnecessary pain in the ass.

147 I think the most likely explanation of dinosaur extinction is, They went Liberal. Their leading scientists convinced them that brontosaur farts were destroying the planet. Naturally, they Summoned the Meteors.

148 @160: well, OK, teej, let's say Noah didn't bring a T-Rex aboard cause it would be too big. There were plenty of cat-sized and chicken-sized dinos, too. And I don't remember the Bible excluding dinosaurs, either.

149 @161 -  Thanks Cool Czech, my first laugh of the day.

150

Scarves?  It's never consistently cold enough in Texas to bother having one.  That's what the collar is for on a coat.  But if it were consistently below 30 or something, then I'd at least consider wearing a scarf, though it'd be one of those non-descript grey woolen scarves with a trench coat that are so popular with the mafia.  And I'd get a fedora while I was at it.  Though I draw the line at having the coat, scarf, and hat color coordinated with each other.  I mean, why not just wear ass-less chaps and march in the Pride parade while I'm at it?

151 @149: you gotta hang out on the ONT, teej. Though the last time I know of that she posted that pic was a few months back.

152

OK, OK

I think we've covered the scarf thing. It's also obvious that the dinos died because they invented scarves, turned gay, and ceased to reproduce.

153

There were plenty of cat-sized and chicken-sized dinos, too. And I don't remember the Bible excluding dinosaurs, either. -

It gets quite involved, but imagine the climate change from a cataclysmic world wide flood.  Especially one where the water not only came from above but also below. An enormous geyser if you will spewing dirt and water high into the atmosphere.  Gives rise to ice "years" instead of ice "ages".  So much snow in a 24 hour period that mammoths get buried and preserved (yes, even mammoths can walk fast enough to keep ahead of a glacier). The sites are there if you're interested in taking a look. Oh, and the scientists, have doctorates from places like MIT so they're not all total idiots like me.

154

Is this the real reason the Weblog Awards were called off?

Posted by: eddiebear at January 05, 2010 09:43 AM (wnU1W)

I would say that's half the story. The other half was their knowledge that the voting is completely riggable and seeing the nominations, like RealClinate for Best Religion Blog, they were powerless to stop it winning. I literally voted many hundreds of times for AoSHQ last year. Their whole vaunted scheme of weeding out repeat voting amounted to them hoping people do not know how to clear their Flash Cache. Sure they could also check voting for large numbers from a certain IP or bank of IPs and throw those out but that would drop the total vote count drastically. They are apparently happy to allow the situation normally but when it will produce something controversial  or they don't like then they had little choice but to can it.

155 @167 Thanks dagny, that was laugh #2.

156 168 I'm pretty sure you can find a picture of General Patton in a scarf. That's wasn't a scarf. He scalped a German fraulein's muff.

157 Would love to check out the ONT thread cool czech but no internet at home.  Maybe after (if) I get my raise.

158 BTW...where is Ace's review of Sherlock Holmes?

159

"Diversity Visas" are only a symptom of the overall bankruptcy of the State Department. It doesn't matter who is in charge, that section of the governemnt has been taken over by the communists and American haters since the FDR admin."

And here I thought ol' tailgunner Joe was dead

160

Actually a little Brandy works good also.

Driving to work with brandy in your coffee, manly.

Scarf...not so much.

This is such an educational blog.

161 Dagny, I believe Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney and W all were seen sporting scarves at one time.  They were tucked in at the neck and worn with long overcoats.

162 The hypothesis, (I don't believe it is a theory yet) that an asteroid impact led to the extinction of the dinosaurs is pretty well supported. The hypothesis is not supposed to act like Columbo solving a murder mystery, its job is to provide a scenario that could account for the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs. Lots of other things died out as well, whole genera were extinguished. When you say something like "Ok, but what about the frogs?", you are missing the point. Any event that is not totally destructive of life on Earth is going to have survivors. Some people survived the nuking of Hiroshima. They were in just the right place. Even a whole half of the two types of birds present at the time were wiped out. Being a bird did not necessarily save your ass. Recent evidence from China suggests the types birds that did survive, the ancestors of perhaps all modern birds, were aquatic birds. The question really is why did some survive and others did not, not why isn't everybody dead. Birds, BTW, are dinosaurs. The scientist in the article likes to dig up sediments that are so close to the point of impact that the chronology is scrambled. When you move a greater distance from the impact site her data is no longer found. There was massive volcanic activity near the time of the impact and its role in the extinction is not well understood. The interaction of the volcanic activity and the impact is also not known. It is not possible to pin down the timing that well.

163

Oh, and WSJ had a funny article today "Who's the NFL's Worst Team?  Our Inaugural Misfit Bowl, Losers Advance and Winners Go Home; Our Simulator Tells All" by Jason Gay.  They had AccuScore help make the call.  Seattle didn't make the cut--got edged out by Buffalo--ha!  The Winners (or the biggest losers), perennial faves, The Lions! 

164 teej, Flood Geology is nonsense. Learn he actual science of Geology and you will see.

165 Response to comments from hubby: Number 104 had it nailed. 

But . . . If you do find Chuck with a scarf, I relent. 

166 You can have my scarf when you unwind it from my cold, dead neck.

167

Flood Geology is nonsense. Learn he actual science of Geology and you will see. -

Hmmm, you mean like the geology that teaches that all the coal comes from trees etc. that died over millions of years, got covered up and turned into coal.  Funny, I'm in the outdoors a lot and every time I see a dead tree, it's rotting and being turned into top soil.  Now, imagine huge masses of tangled vegitation and animals floating around, setteling and being covered up.  It has been shown that it doesn't take "millions" of years for coal to form.  There's a lot more where that came from.

check out creation dot com / age of the earth.

Not all "geologists" agree with your view.  And not all are afraid (or refuse due to their "worldview") to look outside the box of accepted, setteled (can you say AGW?) science.

168 I want you to hurt like I do!

169

Being a bird did not necessarily save your ass.

Tell me about it!

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