We have our first snow of the year, so clearly global warming is a hoax.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
The GOP is a fucking disgrace.
Second rate reporter says what?
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
Optimism opens the door to great things.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
Bark louder, little dog.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
The revolution will be supervised.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.
Punchy
You lucky fucker. I’ve been pining for God’s Dandruff for weeks now. Weatherman says maybe Tuesday, which means it’ll be 62 and cloudless on Tuesday.
How in hell can I get in the holiday mood looking at grass? Perhaps I should smoke it….
Dork
Snizzle in the first wizzle of Decizzle? Fo shizzle.
jon
But next Summer, global warming will be back!
I wonder if the next denialist mantra will suggest that the Earth isn’t tilted on its axis* but instead the seasons come from normal fluctuations in the CO2 levels and all that stuff about long periods of darkness is just a Norwegian socialist hoax to steal all of Sarah Palin’s daughters into sex slavery.
*We all know who was in the Axis, right? Why else would people mention these thing but as a code for something…?
SiubhanDuinne
Snow down here too, although the system is fast-moving and nothing stuck except up in the north Georgia mountains. Still, the flurries were pretty.
And since this is a weatherish thread, I’ll mention again something I posted last night way down in one of those lo-o-o-oong threads: I heard from my Canadian kinfolk that *for the first time since 1843* Toronto had a 100% snow-free November.
Take that, you global-warming deniers!
debit
@Punchy: I would happily exchange your grass for my light dusting of snow and 15 degrees. I hate early December in Minnesota. It’s right about now the realization sets in that it’s only going to get worse.
Neutron Flux
I am looking out the window here in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas at the palm trees.
Now, I will have to go back to KS in January, but for right now all I can is, “Sorry about your luck.”
Sanka
ION:
If it wasnt for those damn tea-partiers and talk show hosts spewing their hate and splitting up the Republican party, maybe healthcare reform could sail through the Democratically-controlled Congress and White House. And, birthers also. Also, Politico is biased, so this must be a lie…
tgeb
it snowed down here in bumfuck, Mississippi as well. There’s not a single business that won’t close early today.
BC
Subzero temperatures and snow in forecast for Montana. But we need the subzero temps (how I hate them!) to kill off the pine beetles that are killing off the evergreens.
Michael D.
I moved to The South from Eastern Canada to get away from snow. Snow is something you go TO.
rob!
so clearly global warming is a hoax.
Also, Jesus.
MR Bill
Light snow and 32 in Trendy Blue Ridge GA. 1/2 inch coverage and 42 the predicted high.
demkat620
It’s snowing here too. Which sucks cause I need to go christmas shopping after my daughter’s basketball game.
God I hate winter.
RedKitten
Mike…it’s not snowing here at all. :)
demkat620
John will we see pics of Miss Lily in the snow?
demkat620
@Michael D.: No, snow is something you stay away from. Forever. I’d move to Miami in a heartbeat but the hubby and kids like all the “Seasons”.
I told them you can watch that shit on the tv at the beach in January. But do they listen? No. Which is why I am still in PA. SUX.
Zam
Well my wingnut friend is throwing huge fits if anybody refuses to say that “climategate” is absolute proof global warming was a liberal hoax.
kay
@Zam:
Why did we do the hoax, again? What would be the point of this elaborate hoax we perpetrated? That’s what I’m not clear on.
Just a lot of time on our hands, and active imaginations?
Redshirt
It was 70 in MA last week. 5 inches of snow tonight.
New England is the best England. ;)
coffeegirl
well it’s not snowing here, so that proves that global cooling is a hoax……
4tehlulz
@kay: So liberals can impose their enviromentofascist order, but making us waste less. Also, Islam.
JGabriel
Waitagoddamfuckingminnit. Georgia and Mississippi are getting snow before NYC?
Of course there’s nothing weird about that. How that could possibly lead someone to think climate change might have anything to do with the deep south getting snow before the northeast?
It’s always been that way.
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Folderol and Ephemera
The “Climategate” bullshit is kind of a last straw for me. (Almost) nobody knows what the fuck they’re talking about when it comes to the (marginal) controversy, and nobody in the major media besides the NYT (as far as I know) is correcting anyone. I mean, even Jon Stewart got it wrong. What. The. Hell.
So fuck it – either a) install an international carbon-reduction regime by fiat, and bypass the “democratic” process (because people are, in general, fucking retarded) or b) let the world melt, and watch billions suffer (because, fuck us, we deserve it at this point).
Feeling pseudonymously grumpy today. Sorry.
kay
@4tehlulz:
That makes sense. I assumed it was part of our obsessive quest to make former President Bush look bad by engineering a Nobel for Gore.
Mission accomplished, leftists. Good job.
valdivia
no snow in nyc yet, though we are supposed to get some. pretty grey though.
Noonan
Looks like God might be on the Palin ticket in 2012:
Omnes Omnibus
@kay: Why did we do the hoax, again? What would be the point of this elaborate hoax we perpetrated
Chat Noir (iPhone)
Warm & cloudy in Key West. Husband planned a b-day vacation in warm south Florida for me. I miss my cats terribly, tho. Gradma is baby sitting and emailing us pix and updates.
Also checking in at B-J to see what’s news.
JGabriel
@SiubhanDuinne:
But that is central to our point! If there was a snow free November in 1843, then clearly it can happen at anytime! You don’t have to invoke an islamohomosociocommie scare tactic like global warming to explain it!
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NutellaonToast
@Zam: Sounds like you need some new friends. IF you’re in the Bay Area we can hang.
gnomedad
Well, I drive fast but I’m still getting old, so relativity is a hoax.
Folderol and Ephemera
Also:
Fuck you WaPo! Fuck you very much!
Omnes Omnibus
@gnomedad: Do you ever put the car in reverse? That’s the problem. It makes time speed up.
PeakVT
@kay: What cracks me up about the hoax accusations is that there is no way a bunch of lefties could sustain a worldwide hoax involving thousands of people. We’re just not that organized. Hell, I don’t even think we agree on whether or not to be organized at all.
JGabriel
Nick Allen @ The Telelgraph (via Noonan)
And anyone who disagrees is an evil, stem-cell eating, liberal abortiofascist traitor who should be shot and ignored because their opinion doesn’t matter anyway, being that they’re, like, also totally unAmerican, too, and aren’t united in that nation of ours like the rest of us real Americans with common-sense and heart.
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kay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Right. Thanks. Now that I know the goal I’ll get right on it.
I had heard the “this is all about Al Gore making millions”. Our true goal seems to be at odds with Al Gore’s. Maybe they’ll straighten all that out at the next secret meeting in Copenhagen.
Omnes Omnibus
@kay: According to the same people, Al Gore is a hypocite. And fat. Also. Too. Back atcha. You betcha.
Poopyman
Well, it’s raining -cats- -and- dogs here in Tidewater MD right now. (OK, the cats are actually asleep upstairs.) Temps are falling, though, and it’s supposed to switch to snow this afternoon.
I’m tempted to go out and hang the -Christmas- Holiday lights right now just so I can relive my Pittsburgh upbringing. Seems it always rained when we put up the lights, so if it’s going to snow down here that proves global warming is some liberal commie talk.
Comrade Darkness
@BC: Don’t you need something like 35 straight days of it to really knock them back? Hope you get them, I like forests.
We are now at (counting on fingers) 285 (6?) straight days without an inch of snow. We broke the record last Friday of 276 days. Usually we get 150 inches for the season. And I want my snow. I like snow. I’m going to have to move to Montreal or something.
kay
@PeakVT:
It’s true. But we have Gore, who is all-powerful and mighty, a veritable dictator, except in Florida, or when he’s before the Supreme Court.
They just have that plucky hockey mom, Sarah Palin, with her imaginary pipeline.
New Yorker
Well, Houston getting show shows that global warming is a hoax, just as the Nets winning last night shows that they’re the team to beat in the eastern conference.
Steeplejack
Snowing here in D.C., too. And getting colder. It was 38° when I got up this morning. Now it’s down to 33°, and it’s supposed to go to 26° tonight. Winter is here.
Nylund
I moved from Toronto to Dallas and the last thing I expected was to see more snow.
cmorenc
Portions of Louisiana around Baton Rouge and the I-12 corridor had the earliest snow on record last night (I’m in NC, but some netfriends from that part of Louisiana posted that info, along with some pictures of the deep-Dixie snowfall, on another nonpolitical forum I participate in).
So clearly, this is devastating proof that global warming is a hoax. You can, if you want, go out this afternoon an buy yourself a hummer without any further guilt whatsoever. Um, guys by “hummer” I do mean the car, rather than the other kind of “hummer”, though if that’s what floats your boat, you can go out and find that too without any guilt about causing any global warming thereby – though if your SO finds out about it, there may indeed be some very localized heating within your household. [See: Tiger Woods for example].
Woodrowfan
Northern VA (DC-lite) is gettng snow by the shovelfuls…
Also, Al Gore is not at the optimum BMI so clearly there is no climate change!
cmorenc
OK, just KIDDING about La snowfall proving global warming is a hoax – you will still be a colossal asshole if you go out and buy a car-hummer (I’ll refrain from further opinion about the other kind). Unfortunately, this won’t keep idiots like Sen. Inhofe from spouting off about events like this being alleged proof global warming is a hoax.
Rey
Well- it’s 32 degrees here in Memphis, and snow is in the forecast for this evening. I’m pretty sure that dumb ass Mayor in the suburb of Arlington will take to his Facebook and blame our Muslim President.
Also, the poll that was taken in the local paper on whether Mayor Dumb ass was being just that, a dumb ass is pretty evenly split. (Sigh)- this is the place I call home….
gbear
It’s sunny now but we’ve got a dusting of snow on the ground and the roof. It is 19 degrees right now. I realize that in March we’ll be running around in t-shirts when it gets this warm, but running errands last night in mid-teen temps and a stiff breeze felt DAMNed cold.
We haven’t had a decent amount of snow for the last three winters. I’m pretty sure that’s the ‘new normal’ around here, and it sucks for the native plants.
JGabriel
gnomedad:
That article should be subtitled: Conservatives Use Technological Marvel To Deny Relativity.
Seriously, does anyone else find it head-scratchingly perplexing to watch these dweebs post their anti-science screeds on the internet ?
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AhabTRuler
@cmorenc: The confusion can be repaired with the use of a capital “aytch” and a (TM): Hummer(TM)!
As opposed to BJ, which is just bloody confusing.
gbear
@cmorenc:
I can’t figure out how the deniers can see unusual or record breaking weather events as proof that climate change doesn’t exist. Light, meet day.
JGabriel
@cmorenc:
But, what about the methane?
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mcd410x
Couldn’t be happier with the World Cup draw. England are in a lose-lose sitch with the U.S.: even if they win by 3, it won’t be enough for their over-hyped fans.
AkaDad
Iraq has WMD’s. We will be greeted a liberators. We don’t torture. Tax cuts for the rich increase revenues and grows the economy. Global warming is a hoax.
I’m starting to see a pattern here.
HRA
From the land where no local weatherman or weatherwoman will ever let the word, blizzard, pass their lips and come out of their mouth since the 1970s. We have had the first no snow November since the 1860s.
Since the predicted Friday 4-9 inches bypassed us, we are patiently waiting for it to hit us. Only I hope it’s not today. Waiting for the delivery of my new washer and dryer.
JenJen
Don’t know if you’ve all heard this story yet:
At least 65 horses, 2 people, killed in Lebanon Raceway fire
My father and uncles raised trotters and pacers, and as a kid and teen I spent as much time at Lebanon Raceway (near Cincinnati, Ohio) as I did in school. This story sickens me to my core, because racing can be an ugly business, and my gut tells me this could be an insurance scam in addition to an unspeakable horror and tragedy. I am so angry this morning I’m shaking.
MR Bill
Well, I can’t speak for global warming, but I’m located at a 2000ft elevation, so, yeah, we often get snow as early as Halloween, in North Georgia. When I was a kid (in the ’60), one expected 5-7 measurable snowfalls per winter, with one or two over 6″. Since the ’95 Superstorm we’ve only had a couple of +6″ snowfalls, with winters on the dry side. This has been a blessedly wet year (finally out of drought, hydrologically speaking).
It is a proof of idiocy to point to a specific Weather event, and pretend it more than a single data point in the continuum of Climate.
Tom
So today, Sarah Palin is saying we need to be a more humble, contrite nation:
This is her two weeks ago:
I really, truly think she is dumb. After watching her vacant eyes recapping an Illinois Purdue game on a local newscast, I can’t really come to any other conclusion.
But it’s only confirmed with stuff like this. You have intelligence to mold a consistent message. She just says stuff that she thinks sounds good… and makes sure she throws in “Reagan” every so often to get the monkeys to jump up and down.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Snowing in College Park, MD. It started out as rain. The cats are not amused. We’ve been through the scream to go out the front door, see it is snowing; scream to go out the back door (because different door, different weather, right?), several times since we got up.
Fine you daft cow. Every session of Congress will begin with prayers by a Rabbi and Mullah. Supreme Court sessions will get a full rotation, starting with the Wiccans.
R-Jud
We got a dusting of snow while we were in PA last week. It was enough to make things picturesque, but fortunately not enough to prevent us driving en masse to the bowling alley or ruin our bonfire. Looks like they are getting about 3″ today, though.
It was below freezing here in the UK yesterday, but stayed sunny and bright. I have no idea what today was like since I woke up at 2:30 pm (thanks to jet lag and a cold), and it was already getting dark. Sunset was at 3:55. Ugh.
Michael D.
@demkat620: What I meant by going TO snow is for things like downhill skiing and stuff.
Comrade Mary
I watched The Nature of Things on Thursday and actually yelped “Jesus fuckin’ Christ” at least twice. The Arctic is thawing, yo. (All three parts of the Arctic Meltdown shows are available at the previous link, but I’m not sure if you have to be in Canada to play them.)
For example: the Arctic ice cap has historically stayed in place in summer, shrinking somewhat from winter, but still present and accounted for. By 2007, it was shrinking at a catastrophic rate, and by 2015, the Arctic is projected to have NO ICE CAP AT ALL in the summer.
And yeah, Toronto was snow free all November, which was great for cycling. We expect some snow within a few days.
gnomedad
@JGabriel:
We’re so good at domesticating technology that we forget how strange it is. So the moonbats see no paradox in chatting about those godless elite librul scientists over their GPS-equipped phones which would not work if general and special relativity weren’t true.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Global warming = Hoax cooked up by lying elitist egg head hippys who want to control our lives and make us eat tofu.
Creationism = Serious science developed by serious scientific scientists who just want you to be aware of the facts.
It’s TRUE!
AngusTheGodOfMeat
Typical humans. Who is thinking of the plight of the farm animals?
Comrade Mary
What the hell? My entire comment disappeared on clicking Submit.
Anyway: this Nature of Things three part series on the Arctic meltdown is damn scary. The Arctic ice cap has been shrinking precipitously in recent years, and it’s projected that around 2015, the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer. This was originally expected to happen around 2100.
All three shows are available on the CBC web site, but you may need to be in Canada to play them.
And yeah, Toronto was snow-free all through November. I saw a tiny frosting of snow on my garage roof the morning of December 1, but I was assured that it happened after midnight.
Comrade Mary
Test post. A simple post with two links was completely rejected twice, not even showing as as going into moderation.
Elizabelle
And where be the picture of Miss Lily in the snow?
Writing from central Virginia. We are expecting a dusting of snow later today, but not expected to stick.
Montysano
We got a nice snow here in north Alabama, but it’ll all be gone by noon.
The streets are strangely empty, probably because Alabama football fans are already inside, on the couch, staring at a blank teevee screen, awaiting kickoff 4 hours from now. I’m pulling for Bama for obvious reasons, but also hoping to see the insufferable Tim Tebow get knocked on his ass.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Zam:
Shouldn’t this be an oxymoron?
Comrade Mary
Grr. Anyway, here’s something else. Toronto marine biologist/SF writer/scary smart curmudgeon Peter Watts demolishes Climategate here.
hal
Boy, the media is working overtime to make Desiree Rogers the most scandalous person in Washington (look out Baucus!) The front page of NYT online? If it weren’t for the media, this literally wouldn’t be a story.
Nutella
But if it’s warm tomorrow then global warming is true!
And if it’s cold the next day then it’s a hoax.
And if it’s warm the next day then it’s true.
[repeat]
I am afraid that only about 20%of the US population have even an inkling that weather is not the same thing as climate.
Bostondreams
Did anyone catch AirTran completely obliterating a wingnut story flying around the blogosphere?
AirTran: ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire..and Here is How We Did It.’
Go Gators, also.
demkat620
@Michael D.: Yeah to me that’s just crazy talk.
I am such a clutch I would kill myself skiing and the thought of being outside in that stuff on purpose…
Shell
But I thought RW’er’s were all in favor of making money. Big, big money. So shouldn’t they like Al Gore now?
Rain predicted this after noon here in NJ, changing to snow later tonight. I guess this storm will drop the temps cause right now it’s 42 degrees.
gnomedad
@Comrade Mary:
That’s excellent. Thanks for passing it on.
RedKitten
@Nutella: Honestly, I think that the biggest mistake that scientists made was even starting to use the term “global warming”. Even “climate change” was a mistake. When it comes to scientific matters, a large segment of society is very, very literal, and won’t believe it if they can’t see it. I think the best thing that scientists could do right now is get back to the “pollution” aspect of things, and how it’s affecting our air and water. We can SEE pollution in the air and litter on the ground and in the water. People understand pollution, and don’t think of it as some sort of lefty hoax if they’re told that pollution has very bad consequences for us and for the planet.
I know…it’s dumbing down science, which is really quite sad. But otherwise, you get all of these idiots who think that climate change is a hoax if they experience a cold day in January.
TR
And the sun’s out now, so clearly this “night” thing is a myth.
JenJen
Good gawd… via Andrew Ross Sorkin and Matt Taibbi, check out this bankster’s vanity plate.
Taibbi says the car and plate belong to Morgan Stanley Vice Chair Rob Kindler. Balls, I’m telling you. Balls.
debit
@Bostondreams: Ah hah hah!! That was a great read, thanks.
ppcli
@Nutella:
The one that makes me most want to weep is the “how can we predict the next few years of weather? We can’t even get tomorrow’s weather right?” Since it’s, like totally *obvious* that if getting tomorrow more or less right is hard, getting the next few decades more or less right must be, like totally a gazillion times harder.
Compare: We can’t predict what will happen on the next spin of the roulette wheel. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t be nearly 100% confident that if you start with $1000 and put $10 on red one hundred thousand times in succession, you will lose all your money.
TR
@JenJen:
Does that asshole think his car is too big to be keyed?
Morbo
Probably about 4″ on the ground here, mostly from Thursday night and Friday. It’s coming down pretty lightly right now. I need to get the usual winter driving adjustment made to my brain as I took a couple drifts in the business park yesterday.
HeartlandLiberal
Yep. Houston PROVES there is no global warming. As for major shifts in climate, ‘abrupt climate change’, predicted in most models, well…
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/78552332.html
HOUSTON – Normally hot and humid Houston is dealing with
weather it rarely gets: snow. Snow began falling Friday morning in Houston and other parts of southeast Texas and as of late Friday afternoon had not stopped.
National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Roeseler says
it’s the earliest snow in Houston’s history. The previous record
for Houston was Dec. 10 in 2008 and 1944.
Snow is rare for the nation’s fourth largest city. In the past
15 years, it has snowed four times, including Friday.
The National Weather Service says there have been reports from
counties southwest of Houston of accumulations of 3 to 4 inches.
There have been reports of half an inch or less in Houston with
suburbs south of the city reporting 1 to 2 inches.
AS of 4:00PM Friday there were reports of snow on Galveston Island. Earlier in the day it had been snowing as far southwest as Victoria.
Corner Stone
@JenJen: If that license plate actually exists in the wild that is beyond balls.
It’s not even straight balls. It’s the absolute balls.
Corner Stone
@AhabTRuler:
I am so freaking confused right now.
Adam Collyer
Ughhhhhhh. There’s a stupid Tea Party going on outside my window in Foley Square in New York City.
They’re protesting the trial of terrorists. There’s about 200 people here, and they have megaphones and a video wall. And they’re disrupting my law school final exam studying. Which is funny, because none of these people seem to have any confidence in the judicial system…yet still support the death penalty.
I know it’s only 200 people and it’s New York, so it’s a very small percentage. And according to my quick canvass of the area during my run this AM and my website research, most of them are from Staten Island. But it’s still disheartening.
Adam Collyer
Ughhhhhhh. There’s a stupid Tea Party going on outside my window in Foley Square in New York City.
They’re protesting the trial of terrorists. There’s about 200 people here, and they have megaphones and a video wall. And they’re disrupting my law school final exam studying. Which is funny, because none of these people seem to have any confidence in the judicial system…yet still support the death penalty.
I know it’s only 200 people and it’s New York, so it’s a very small percentage. And according to my quick canvass of the area during my run this AM and my website research, most of them are from Staten Island. But it’s still disheartening.
Shell
It’s weather like this that makes me yearn for a working fireplace.
Tropical Fats
Cold in Indianapolis, so global warming is a hoax here too, also, and the values that we hold so dear. You betcha!
Corner Stone
@Montysano:
Can I get an AyyyMen-nuh!!
Corner Stone
Fer God’s sake Case! Put some mustard on that damn thing!
Comrade Darkness
Okay, for all those who are not obsessed with weather.
These are the NOAA outlook maps for this winter.
We are in an El Niño right now, which makes some parts (in the south, funny enough) colder than average, and others in the north, warmer than average. Of course the El Niño could disappear sooner than predicted. It’s a beast with its own will.
D-Chance.
It was 22 degrees last night here in deep ETex. Where’s my purported AWG when I need and want it?
Think I’ll turn on the gas burners a little higher…
Elie
@Folderol and Ephemera:
I agree.
Elie
@Elie:
Adding to it, just finished a conversation with my husband on why we can’t get people to do things that prevent the complete destruction of our wild salmon habitat…
This morning just came back from observing for returning spawners in one of our local streams…surprise, no returns this year so far, and the past years either as we struggle in a multiyear effort to return wild salmon to spawn here. Many people watched for years and years as they disappeared and though we have dedicated volunteers working to help return them, the average Joe never even noticed they were gone. Along with them the decline of otters, heron, hawks and eagles that they supported in this still fairly rich but slowly diminishing habitat..
Global warming is just one piece of this huge puzzle of destruction. My sadness is how stupid and how corrupt at our core because we KNOW things are different and that the wildlife are declining across the board. In Puget sound, the December bird census continuously shows decline, year after year.
So because of some administrative email issue, the complete notion of global warming and habitat change is kaput, even as we see the decline and change with our own eyes across a broad set of indicators..
Fuck humans. We are going to get what is coming to us.
alistair
@JenJen: I call BS on that plate, as CT has only 6 characters max for vanity plates. I’ve never seen a plate with more than 7 characters in any state. I did see a big black Mercedes S550 with the plate “THEBOSS” here in Los Angeles. Anyone with that plate who isn’t named Bruce Springsteen has to be a giant douche.
I saw a car with the plate “REAGENT”, which was cool for a moment until I realized the owner was probably a real estate agent and not a chemist. The only vanity plate I’ve ever seen that I would actually want was “REDSHFT” on a BMW M3.
asiangrrlMN
@Corner Stone: A-fucking-men!
I haz a dusting of snow. It is not enough. All you snow haters can bite me. Oh, and boiling hot coffee should not be spilled on one’s buttock/thigh. I’m just sayin’.
Cole, thanks for the Tunchie pic below. Much appreciated. I needed it.
And, just because I can–edit!
Comrade Darkness
@alistair: I call BS on that plate, as CT has only 6 characters max for vanity plates.
It’s a New York plate…
Elie
— On an odd and interesting happening this morning, I saw a little hummingbird at our window as we sat drinking coffee…
Its about 30 degrees this morning and the little female came up to our window where I usually hang one of our feeders…
This caused great activity as I ran to the garage to find a feeder and began to brew up some nectar. I called my next door neighbor who is also cooking up some and after cooling, I will hang up a couple of feeders and see if she returns…
The Rufus hummingbird is a little toughie. Last year we saw some around here and several friends put their feeders back out. To my knowledge, no one has seen em in January, but who knows…
I have no idea what they eat. No way are they relying on just feeders cause most folks take em down at the end of August…
Ah nature! Mysterious and marvelous, amazing and heartbreaking…
cleek
no snow here in Northerly Carolingus.
Corner Stone
@alistair:
I’m going to go on record here and just say that any personalized plate (that doesn’t support a school or cause thru donations) is a big freaking marker of douchedom.
Shocking number of these in AZ for some reason. I drove from PHX to Tucson and the whole two hours was a corn O copia of doucheness.
Comrade Darkness
@alistair:
Google can keep you from looking ignorant. Just sayin’
From the NYS DMV:
cleek
saw a vanity plate this week, on a new Mustang : “RU 18 QT”
Mike in NC
OT, but here’s the opener from Dana Milbank’s column in tomorrow’s Washington Post :
His dickishness knows no bounds…
Corner Stone
@D-Chance.: Beaumont? Marshall?
geg6
Holy shit, Pitt is up by 3 TDs over Cincy. Wow! This makes me very happy and warm on damn cold day here in the ‘Burgh, with a light dusting of wet snow and super gray skies. I am looking forward to 2 weeks off in two weeks. I fucking need a damn break from work. I am also looking forward to the Pens tonight at my John’s. He tells me that oysters, calimari, and salmon are the proteins for each course, but won’t tell me the whole menu. I also know that an orange pound cake is also involved. Gotta run out and get a nice oaky chardonnay. Hopefully, a fire in the fireplace. I’m feeling cuddly and romantic today. Beacuse I’m such a lucky woman, John may get lucky himself. ;-)
asiangrrlMN
@Mike in NC: Wow. That’s some major-league bullshit right there.
geg6, don’t get too romantic yet. Oooooh, interception, Pitt! Wa-hoo. Edit: Interception, Cincy!
valdivia
@Mike in NC:
gawd. that was awful. I refuse to read any more of that. I hate that guy, what a dick.
geg6
asiangrrlMN: The romanticity DOES NOT depend on the outcome of the Pitt game. Though a win would certainly help.
valdivia
to counter the sad (actually more like a mad) that reading the Dickwhisperer gave me here is a saturday laugh: The Slate contest of write like Palin. Hilarity abounds.
licensed to kill time
Chilly and overcast on the edge of the ocean here (left coast, way down south). I saw two dolphins sleeping on the surface of the ocean this morning. They just sort of float and snooze for a bit, then dive down, resurface, float, snooze. Eventually they get recharged and swim away.
If it snowed here I would eat my hat. If I had a hat.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
If you get a chance, make sure you go read the last letter in this weeks GOS Saturday Hate mail-apalooza. I think you have to be smoking something just to make sense of it.
Skepticat
Just beginning to spit snow in Portland, Maine, with about six sloppy inches predicted. I made a screaming trip from Mass. last night and got here in time to be holding her hand when my hundred-and-one-year-old friend died. Talking and joking in the morning, she declined extremely fast. Comfortable in her own bed, she slipped away very quietly and peacefully, just stopped breathing. I hope we’re all that lucky when the time comes.
Her daughter, my friend since birth, is slogging through snow and rain on her way from D.C.
And my best friend is leaving Monday to visit her brand-new grandson in Montana.
The wheel turns.
Comrade Darkness
@Mike in NC: @valdivia: It’s a window into the inner workings of the winger mind. Nothing more. Leadership == Religious Cult Figure. He can’t frame it any other way because he can’t comprehend it any other way. Framing it rationally, such as: Obama is an employee of the people. He gets hired to do a job. He gets a four year job review. Is out of reach for these guys. I’d pity them if they weren’t poisoning the public discourse with their insecure idiocy.
(me likey the edit…)
asiangrrlMN
@geg6: Whew! That’s good. Because I have a hunch this game is gonna be up and down the rest of the way.
Skepticat, my condolences to you and her family on your loss.
JenJen
@alistair: The link says the plate was made as a joke, and since it wouldn’t make a bit of sense that an asshole with a plate like that would hand the keys to his Cayenne to a NYC valet parker, yeah, it can’t be real-real. It’s hard enough for me to believe that he would’ve even had it made as a joke and passed a photo around. But who the hell knows with these people?
Takes me back to that “Jump, You Fuckers” sign. That should be considered one of the iconic phrases of this miserable endless decade.
geg6
asiangrrlMN: And the state of mind I’m in led me to think: up and down? Yes, I’m hoping for a lot of up and down later. And not talking about football, either. Cold weather does weird things to me.
asiangrrlMN
@geg6: EXCELLENT, geg6. Cold weather does that to me, too. Then again, so does hot weather….bow-chick-bow-bow!
justinslot
Can I ask why the Memeorandum links about climategate almost always go to intensely stupid people? Memeorandum can’t find anybody offering a rebuttal? Do they not read Scienceblogs?
Elie
@Skepticat:
Best regards to you. What an honor to be at such a transition as your friend’s Mom’s passing.
Liberty60
I have been keeping careful records of the daily temperatures here in Southern California, since last 4th of July.
The data clearly shows that the average daily temperatures have trended downward, not upward. It is demonstrably cooler now, than it was last July!
This is, then the final nail in the coffin of AGW. I am sending my scientific data to NewsMax, Townhall, and Pajamas Media, bypassing the liberal filter of the media of George Soros and Al Gore.
Also, Jesus.
Little Dreamer
@demkat620:
In Florida, people sit around the pools and eat lobster on Christmas day. ;)
Just saying!
Shell
Somebody earlier said teabaggers were in NY protesting terrorist trials. On the news just now they said they were 9/11 family members. Teabaggers trying to steal the spotlight again?
Gravenstone
@gbear:
This is the disservice done to the discussion by the original framing of “global warming”. Any time temps allow the (willfully) unenlightened to point and say something along the lines of “warming, my ass”, they can smugly assert their correctness. However, the more rational viewpoint is to note that conditions becoming significantly different from the norm (warm or cold, wet or dry) may point to the beginning of global changes.
Gravenstone
And Cincy storms back to win by virtue of a friggen missed PAT for Pitt. I should be indifferent, but I was rooting against Cincy.
asiangrrlMN
@Gravenstone: Me, too. Damn.
geg6, is your John still getting lucky tonight?
Ed Drone
@alistair:
The best vanity plate I ever saw said, “Beyond.” That’s all. This was back in the late 80s, by the way.
Now, what kind of car was it and what color?
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Remember, this was several years ago, and that model isn’t made any more.
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It was a blue (Plymouth) Horizon
Ed
grrrlgeek
Cincy won! woohoo!
sorry, just need to revel in one of teams doing well. It’s my alma mater. I am a NY Giants fan.
pseudonymous in nc
The “Climategate” emails have been altered, according to a friend who’s in a position to know. Quite the hit job.
I think you’re wrong about that: look beyond the tabloid idiocy, and most England fans would gladly take a 1-0 to start the group, with no injuries or dumb yellow cards. The hype may actually be worse for the Americans, given that ABC/ESPN will be harping on about 1950 in the lead-up.
Yutsano
Oh the weather outside is frightful…
Oh c’mon someone had to do it!
Ben Richards
I am sure someone already wrote this, but the 6 hours of snow and 26 degrees temperatures in Houston yesterday support your assertion
Bill
The snow here in NEPA is icy, and the roads are unhindered by traction. My Subaru just pulled a van and trailer off a guardrail, out of a ditch, and up a fierce hill. My snow tires are leaning against my sailboat. My Subaru found traction where none exists, on summer tires, and pulled twice it’s own weight up a damn hill. My Subaru is a god.
Porlock Junior
@TR:
“And the sun’s out now, so clearly this “night” thing is a myth.”
You watch out there. This is more sinister than you think.