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Temperatures Close To Record Overnight Low Of 47 Degrees, Set In 1872

The record low for Aug. 31 is 47 degrees, set in 1872. Overnight Sunday into Monday, the nippy readings were close, and in some areas even lower.

Did you see the latest NYT headlines about the people of Chicago suffering record setting cold?

Neither did I.

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Healthcare debates are making for a long hot summer, except it hasn't been all that hot after all:

The July 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

I'm still waiting for the screaming NYT headlines warning us of yet another summer temperature record broken and how it signals the demise of the human race if we don't act now since it changed a whole .8 degrees.

Because if the temperature had actually gone UP .8 degrees, you know that is how the headlines would have read.

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I think the Cash for Clunkers (C4C) is an interesting preview of the Goracle's Cap and Trade scam.

Cap and Trade is supposed to be a financial incentive to be more efficient (pollution-wise) in manufacturing. If you can't be more efficient you buy yourself (trade) more carbon (pollution) credits from someone else who doesn't produce as much carbon (pollution) as you do.

In the C4C program, someone's current vehicle can't become more efficient, so why not trade that old inefficient clunker in for a vehicle that is more economical and efficient?

Sounds reasonable. However, instead of the purchaser paying the financial penalty for not being able to be more efficient on his own, everyone else does it for him via a "government voucher". The cash part of the C4C is taxpayer money.

Sound familiar? Just like the mortgage bailout already in progress, responsible taxpayers are paying for their neighbor's previous poor decisions. Last year the bad decision was too much house, this year it is too much car. But don't worry, everyone else will help pay for those bad decisions. No need for the irresponsible to take any financial hit for choosing poorly.

Anyways....If you look at the stats of the C4C, you might be surprised to find out that Ford F-150 and Chevrolet Silverado are now considered fuel efficient vehicles, as well as the Jeep Patriot. I guess they are efficient if the government is subsidizing the purchase, but last year owners of the same vehicles were demonized as owning environmentally unfriendly gas guzzling SUVs. Last year liberals were wagging their fingers at truck/SUV owners, this year it's a pat on the back. I guess as long as taxes pay for the gas-guzzlers, it is ok.

So what about the Cap and Trade part of the Cap and Trade? In this case your income was Capped by the government because those vouchers need to be funded by taxes. The government then Traded your money to someone driving an old gas guzzler to buy a shiny new marginally more efficient gas guzzler.

So was the environment saved by all the Capping and Trading? Not very much. But alot of money is changing hands and someone is definitely getting richer and definitely benefitting in the process, all under the ostensible banner of "Save the Planet".

The C4C program gets a double dose of ostensible banners to shame us into action, "Save the Planet" and "Economic Stimulus".

I wonder if there is an Eddie Bauer edition Hummer? (click on the link and search the page for Hummer) You might as well roll in style while guzzling gas in your tax payer funded eco-vehicle on the way to the next "Save the Planet" rally.

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Even at headquarters of the of man-made Global Warming lunacy, things are not quite normal:

this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City. Not one 99-degree day in Central Park. Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90. For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.

The daily average last month was at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this was the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record.

I especially like this factoid, reported so calmly:

In the end, this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881, when sweltering New Yorkers grumbled about a sudden early August heat wave.

If that factoid had been reversed and it had been the hottest June and July since 1881, can you imagine the screaming headlines of doom?

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3,000 Low Temp Records Set This July!

Here are some stats and maps regarding the unusually cold July that is happening over a large portion of the U.S., especially the Northeast quadrant

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The Goracle just might be familiar with the location of the latest non-Global Warming Record breaking temperature.

Coolest July 21 recorded in Nashville as cool wave continues in Tenn.

By Associated Press

7:59 AM CDT, July 21, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Cool weather has broken a previous low temperature for July 21 in Nashville that was set when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.

When the temperature at the National Weather Service station dipped to 58 degrees at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, it wiped out the previous record low for the date of 60 degrees, which was set in 1877.

NWS forecaster Bobby Boyd noted it was the third consecutive morning when Nashville either tied or broke a daily low temperature record.

Temperatures were cool, but did not break records at several Tennessee cities.

Knoxville dropped to 59 degrees Tuesday morning, Chattanooga had 60 degrees, Tri-Cities recorded 58 degrees and Memphis was 69 degrees.

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http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=32084

 

July mornings aren`t supposed to be 50 degrees, but once again today, we`re (North Dakota) seeing temperatures well below normal. With two inches of rain on my wheat crop in the last two weeks, we have plenty of moisture to carry us for awhile.

 

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http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/458551

 

Record low high temperatures are forecast for southern Wisconsin on Friday as a very cool Canadian air mass covers the region.

 

It's Alive...maybe

Seems that even the dinosaurs of the MSM have finally figured out that they have been played by Mr Transparency

"Don't know much about geography..."

“One of the largest Muslim countries in the world”

NOAH POLLAK - 06.03.2009 - 12:32 PM
So said President Obama of the United States, with the quasi-professorial formulation that “if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”

America is a great country, home to many peoples and religions, and Obama made me wonder: where exactly does America stand on the list of Muslim countries?

Obama is right — we’re one of the largest, only outranked by Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Russia, Yemen, China, Syria, Malaysia, Tanzania, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, Somalia, Guinea, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Libya, Jordan, Chad, Turkemenistan, Philippines, France, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, Thailand, Mauritania, Germany, Oman, Albania, Malawi, Kenya, Eritrea, Serbia and Montenegro, Lebanon, Kuwait, the UAE, and…well, at some point here you get to the United States, which has (estimates vary) around 1-3 million Muslims.

I’m sure when he returns to these 57 states he’ll offer a theory of what “largest” means.

Nothing else to say, the article says it all.

But I am waiting for the MSM to pounce on this "Obama-ism" with the ferocity that they attacked every verbal slip-up Bush made.

I guess they've adopted the Vatican policy on mistakes....the BHO never makes one. (And excommunicate that guy programming the teleprompter)

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It's my Birthday, but the government got the "gift".

This is what it costs to have a vehicle in York County Va. The vehicle doesn't even have to do anything, just sit there. And this is just the fee for 1/2 of the year.

The county government's take on it is that we're getting a break b/c the state of Va pays 50% of the tax on cars on our behalf. But if you have a boat, trailer, motorcycle, we're going to screw you...er...tax you on the full value.

Realize that this is not a road use fee, a wear and tear on the asphalt fee, a cleaning up the roadside litter fee, but simply a "fee" for owning something. The nicer the thing, the more the government thinks you should pay.

Taxation for operations? No. Class warfare? Yes.

I feel like I need a cigarette...b/c I certainly got screwed.

Max reaches escape velocity

Max finally got enough of the Langley suntan salon and came home today.

Mom is upstairs taking a well deserved shower.

Santorini and Dad are both sitting at the kitchen table looking at the baby wondering what to do next. It is unclear which one is whimpering more.

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Who can take tomorrow...Spend it all today? The Obamaman can.

Room at the inn

The hospital called at 9pm and said for us to come on in to start the inducing. Delivery sometime tomorrow afternoon?

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Michelle Obama’s Mother Finds Washington to Her Liking - NYTimes.com

More top-notch reporting from the BHO Cheerleading section of the NYT.

An In-Law Is Finding Washington to Her Liking

Michelle Obama’s Mother Finds Washington to Her Liking - NYTimes.com

But after three months in the Executive Mansion, Mrs. Robinson is unexpectedly and decidedly savoring her new life.

She entertains visitors from Chicago. She attends White House dinners and concerts hosted by her daughter, the first lady, Michelle Obama. She dines at local restaurants and delights in events at the Kennedy Center, where she often sits in the president’s box and chats with performers.

Yes, this can be found in the "Politics" section.

Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech

Jesus Missing From Obama's Georgetown Speech | NBC Washington

Amidst all of the American flags and presidential seals, there was something missing when President Barack Obama gave an economic speech at Georgetown University this week -- Jesus.

The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com.

The gold "IHS" monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day, CNSNews.com reported.

I think if I were editor of that paper, I would have titled this article:

"Common Sense and Common Cents both missing from Economics Speech given at Local Church"

Today's forecast

Mobile Blogging from here.

Sunny, no clouds, high in the mid 70s and 100% chance I will not be going to work today.

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Today's Headlines:

EXCLUSIVE: Obama's $500,000 book bonanza
Deal reached 5 days before he took office

As he empathized with recession-weary Americans, President Obama arranged in the days just before he took office to secure a $500,000 advance for a children's book project, a disclosure report shows.

Analysts say there don't appear to be any rules that would bar such transactions after a president takes office, but it's unclear whether an incoming or sitting president has ever signed a book deal upon entering the White House.

The book deal came on top of nearly $2.5 million in book royalties paid to Mr. Obama last year for "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," according to the Senate report, which was filed by Robert F. Bauer, who served general counsel to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign.

Yesterday's Headlines: (Cue shimmery fadeout effect and spooky going back in time music)

From a House Ethics investigation report, spurred on by Democrat anger over Newt Gingrich's book deal....from the congressional record. The speaker is Joe Moakley, liberal democrat from South Boston on Dec 22 1995.

Mr Moakley: The Ethics Committee made a very strong statement in their report. I want to take this time to read a section of the ethics committee report, and I quote:

"Existing rules permit a member to reap significant and immediate financial benefits appearing to be based primarily on his or her position."

Mr Moakley: At a minimum, this creates the impression of exploiting one’s office for personal gain. Such a perception is especially troubling when it pertains to the office of the Speaker of the House, a constitutional office requiring the highest standards of ethical behavior.

I guess the loophole today is that while the Office of the President is also a constitutional office, no one today is under the impression that it requires the highest standards of ethical behavior anymore.

WTH...?

MADRID (AP) — An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid.

Ameneh Bahrami, 30, told Cadena SER radio, "I am not doing this out of revenge, but rather so that the suffering I went through is not repeated."

Late last year an Iranian court ruled that the man — identified only as Majid — who blinded Bahrami in 2004 after she spurned him, should also be blinded with acid based on the Islamic law system of "qisas," or eye-for-an-eye retribution, according to Iranian newspaper reports from November.

But Bahrami, who moved to Spain after the attack to get medical treatment, said Wednesday that under Iranian law, she is entitled to blind him in only one eye, unless she pays euro20,000 ($25,110), because in Iran women are not considered equal to men.

"They have told us that my two eyes are equal to one of his because in my country each man is worth two women. They are not the same," she told Cadena SER.

Bahrami explained that she was now waiting for a letter from the court to go back to Iran for the punishment to be carried out.

Cadenda SER said that after undergoing treatment in Barcelona, Bahrami recovered 40 percent vision in one eye but since then doctors have not been able to prevent her from going totally blind. She also suffered horrific burns to her face, scalp and body.

She says she now survives on euro400 ($500) a month in aid from the Spanish government.

The woman said Majid would be blinded by having several drops of acid put into one eye, whereas she had acid splashed all over her face and other parts of her body.

It was not immediately possible to make contact with Bahrami on Wednesday. No one at the Iranian Embassy was available for comment either.

Too many levels of crazy to address...

Hammurabi could not be reached for comment either.