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[Geee]

Dear Mr. Gore,

 

It hit below freezing in some spot in all 50 states (57 if you are Barack) last night.

 

Just thought you would like to know.

 

That is all, Geee

[nickydog]

Dear Mr. Gore,

 

It hit below freezing in some spot in all 50 states (57 if you are Barack) last night.

 

Just thought you would like to know.

 

That is all, Geee

 

P.S. And Thanksgiving is still nine days away! Nickydog

[Valin]

Dear Mr. Gore,

 

It hit below freezing in some spot in all 50 states (57 if you are Barack) last night.

 

Just thought you would like to know.

 

That is all, Geee

 

 

Here's how it works. If the temp. is high, this is *man made climate change. If OTOH the temp. is lo this is *man made climate change. I hope I have cleared this up for you.

 

 

If you have any question....take it to someone else...I'm busy and don't have time for small minded people like you.

 

 

* What's with the Man Made? That strikes me as more than a little Sexist.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Dear Mr. Gore,

 

It hit below freezing in some spot in all 50 states (57 if you are Barack) last night.

 

Just thought you would like to know.

 

That is all, Geee

 

 

Here's how it works. If the temp. is high, this is *man made climate change. If OTOH the temp. is lo this is *man made climate change. I hope I have cleared this up for you.

 

 

If you have any question....take it to someone else...I'm busy and don't have time for small minded people like you.

 

 

* What's with the Man Made? That strikes me as more than a little Sexist.

 

 

 

ALGOREMANBEARPIG is a space alien!

[SrWoodchuck]

Can the Long-Extinct Woolly Mammoth Be Cloned? http://www.livescience.com/48769-woolly-mammoth-cloning.html

 

A woolly mammoth carcass recently unearthed in Siberia could be the best hope yet for scientists aiming to clone the massive, long-extinct beast.

 

The mammoth specimen, which was discovered in 2013 in a remote part of Siberia, oozed a deep red liquid when it was first discovered. Scientists have now analyzed the mammoth to understand how it lived and died — and whether it will yield enough undamaged DNA to make cloning the extinct creature a reality.

 

Details from the mammoth autopsy will air in the Smithsonian Channel special called "How to Clone a Woolly Mammoth," on Nov. 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

 

In May 2013, scientists from the Siberian Northeastern Federal University crossed the icy expanse of Siberia to reach Maly Lyakhovsky Island in the far north, where rumor had it a mammoth was lurking in the permafrost. At the time, two giant tusks were poking out of the ground, but when the researchers dug further, they found an almost complete mammoth, with three legs, most of the body, part of the head and the trunk still intact.

 

During excavations, the carcass oozed a dark red liquid that may have been fresh mammoth blood. In fact, the mammoth meat was reportedly fresh enough that one of the scientists took a bite of it.

 

"This is definitely one of the best samples people have ever found," Insung Hwang, a cloning scientist at the SOOAM Biotech Research Center, said in the show.

 

In the past, mammoths have yielded only a few dried specks of blood, and none of them left enough intact DNA for a cloning experiment.

 

Life and death

 

The researchers then took the carcass to Yakutsk in Russia, where a group of experts had just three days to thoroughly examine the specimen before it was refrozen to prevent rotting. The team used carbon dating to determine that the female mammoth, nicknamed Buttercup, lived about 40,000 years ago. Tests conducted on the mammoth's teeth revealed it was likely in its mid-50s.

 

Based on growth rates from the tusks, the team deduced that the mammoth had also successfully weaned eight calves and lost one baby. Feces and bacteria in the intestines revealed the ancient matriarch ate grassland plants such as buttercups and dandelions.

 

Tooth marks on her bones helped the scientists glean information about Buttercup's grisly end. The mammoth had become trapped in a peat bog and was eaten alive from the back by predators such as wolves.

 

While scientists probed the elbow of the mammoth, the large beast oozed more blood. Chemical analyses revealed that the blood cells were broken, but still contained hemoglobin, or oxygen-ferrying molecules. Unlike humans and other mammals, mammoths evolved a cold-resistant form of hemoglobin that could survive at the near-freezing temperatures present during the Ice Age.

 

"The fact that blood has been found is promising for us, because it just tells us how good of a condition the mammoth was kept in for 43,000 years," Hwang said.

 

Via TheFeralIrishman

[clearvision]

Can the Long-Extinct Woolly Mammoth Be Cloned? http://www.livescience.com/48769-woolly-mammoth-cloning.html

 

 

Can we say "Jurassic Park"?

[Geee]

Watch a timelapse of the US Capitol dome restoration

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/watch-a-timelapse-of-the-us-capitol-dome-restoration-9868494.html

[SrWoodchuck]

This piece of agitprop has several incongruities. One of them is...."racy shirt."

 

[Pepper]

My goodness that is awful @SrWoodchuck

[SrWoodchuck]

Sweet @nickydog & @Pepper!

 

I went with the smallest pic I could find!

 

Does kinda stop your digestion & threaten to send it the other way, huh?

 

It's to celebrate her getting the Minority Leadership. It's the best they have....and a darn good example of what happens to progressive elitists.

 

The blue top covers her "shin skin" after all that plastic surgery......plus she has a trunk, a suitcase & a carry-on made of liberal leather....which she can use on her cross-county flights in the Minority Leaders Piper Cub.

[SrWoodchuck]

HUGE SOLAR PLANT LAGS IN EARLY PRODUCTION http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WORLDS_LARGEST_SOLAR_PLANT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-11-17-14-33-47

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The largest solar power plant of its type in the world - once promoted as a turning point in green energy - isn't producing as much energy as planned.

One of the reasons is as basic as it gets: The sun isn't shining as much as expected.

Sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened in February, with operators saying it would produce enough electricity to power a city of 140,000 homes.

So far, however, the plant is producing about half of its expected annual output for 2014, according to calculations by the California Energy Commission.

It had been projected to produce its full capacity for 8 hours a day, on average.

---->"Factors such as clouds, jet contrails and weather have had a greater impact on the plant than the owners anticipated," the agency said in a statement.<----

It could take until 2018 for the plant backed by $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees to hit its annual peak target, said NRG Energy Inc., which operates the plant and co-owns it with Google Inc. and BrightSource Energy.

"During startup we have experienced ... equipment challenges, typical with any new technology, combined with irregular weather patterns," NRG spokesman Jeff Holland said in a statement. "We are confident that Ivanpah's long-term generation projections will meet expectations."

The technology used at Ivanpah is different than the familiar photovoltaic panels commonly used for rooftop solar installations. The plant's solar-thermal system - sometimes called concentrated-solar thermal - relies on nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors at the site, each the size of a garage door.

The mirrors reflect sunlight to boilers atop 459-foot towers - each taller than the Statue of Liberty. The resulting steam drives turbines to create electricity.

When the $2.2 billion complex opened, Energy Department Secretary Ernest Moniz called it a "symbol of the exciting progress" in renewable energy.

While the agency still says the project remains in good standing, Kaitlin Meese, an analyst at research firm Bentek Energy, said its early production figures "do not paint a strong picture for solar-thermal technology development."

The operation of such plants is highly dependent on weather conditions, and predicting when and how strongly the sun will shine is not a perfect science.

A little bit of inefficiency with mirrors can translate into a loss of power output ranging from small to significant, said Dr. Neil Fromer, executive director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology.

Problems could include getting the thousands of mirrors pointed in precisely the right direction, especially in the cool early morning, or keeping them clean in the dusty Mojave Desert.

Operators initially expected to need steam from gas-powered boilers for an hour a day during startup. After operations began, they found they needed to keep boilers running more than four times longer - an average of 4 1/2 hours a day.

State energy regulators in August approved the plant's request to increase the natural gas it is allowed to burn by 60 percent.

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OK. Some thoughts:

 

1.) This was touted as "the best of the best of the best" in green energy. It's so good at power generation, that the company that runs it....calls itself NRG....get it? "Dingy" & son heavily invested. 'Nuff said.

 

2.) They're the ones that want a "grant" of $539,000,000.00 to pay off their government loan of $1.6 Billion. They want a "grant" = free money.....to pay back a "loan" of tax-payer money that they need to stay current.

 

3.) It is only producing energy for "half" of it's projected (8) hours a day. They can't say it is only producing energy for 4 hours a day?

 

4.) They never foresaw...."clouds....vapor trails(?)....and.....weather?" Is this a "Climate Change" problem? Vapor trails......really?

 

5.) The proper concentration of solar needed for making steam is dependent in large part, on proper positioning of 350,000 garage door sized mirrors....all "controlled" by computers....that hasn't been as efficient as it should be, because of early morning cold.......and.....because they get "dusty"....in the M-O-J-A-V-E D-E-S-E-R-T.

 

6.) They are asking t o increase their energy output up to 60%.....using natural gas. What? It's a Solar Energy Plant that uses 60% natural gas to work? That....might.....be....a....problem.

 

 

The one thing they excel at....is killing birds by immediate incineration....as the birds pass over between the mirrors & the power generating towers. Estimates range from 1,000 to 28,000 yearly.[see below]

 

My suggestions:

 

No grant. Sell the birds as "Ivanpah, Government-Financed Pre-Roasted Mystery Fowl."

 

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/13/the-2-2-billion-bird-scorching-solar-project-at-californias-ivanpah-plant/

 

AP via iOTWReports [special Vitriol by P.O.'d Woodchuck]

[Valin]

Sweet @nickydog & @Pepper!

 

I went with the smallest pic I could find!

 

Does kinda stop your digestion & threaten to send it the other way, huh?

 

It's to celebrate her getting the Minority Leadership. It's the best they have....and a darn good example of what happens to progressive elitists.

 

The blue top covers her "shin skin" after all that plastic surgery......plus she has a trunk, a suitcase & a carry-on made of liberal leather....which she can use on her cross-county flights in the Minority Leaders Piper Cub.

 

 

Deleted...over the line.

[Valin]

Only a Professor of Law would say something completely ignorant as this. I'm thinking he got his PHD out of a cracker jack box.

 

Imperfect Union: The Constitution Didn't Foresee Divided Government
Watching the battle between Obama and a Republican Congress for two years may shake Americans' faith in the Framers.
Garrett Epps

Nov 18 2014

 

 

 

And From The Comments

 

LittleWillie • 10 hours ago

 

The Constitution's biggest fault is its inability to protect the United States from people who fetishize the Constitution. (Understandable, given that it arose from a culture swooning over Stuff That Other People Wrote Down--e.g., the Bible.)

Seeking Truth, I stuff words into my mind's pipe as quickly as possible and inhale. But so much of Truth is nonverbal. Words fail us; they can't tell the story. We think they can; we're mistaken. We're addicts in denial, so we keep smoking.

 

.... ...

 

 

 

[Pepper]

No grant. Sell the birds as "Ivanpah, Government-Financed Pre-Roasted Mystery Fowl."

 

Remember Kramer and the Chicken Roaster

 

[Pepper]

No Justice, No Peace! #Ferguson Protest Leader Has Car Stolen During “F*ck the Police” Rally

[Valin]

No Justice, No Peace! #Ferguson Protest Leader Has Car Stolen During “F*ck the Police” Rally

 

 

I'm sorry

 

Well not really

 

 

 

 

[Valin]

Man Stuck In Wall For 3 Days: Drugs, Stargazing Led To Unplanned Excursion
Paul Felyk Tells Police About Time Travel, Crystals And Real-Estate Fraud

November 17, 2014

 

LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) - A man stuck inside a Longmont store’s walls for three days said he found himself in the jam because of drugs and a desire for “a better view of the stars.”

 

That bizarre revelation follows the quirky case of Paul Felyk, 35, who fell from a Marshalls’ roof more than a week ago into a tight space in between the building’s walls.

 

According to court records, Felyk told police his troubles began after he was having problems with a female friend. He said he stopped in the Marshalls parking lot to use some meth, then climbed to the top of the building because he “wanted a better view of the stars.”

 

Eventually he fell more than 20 feet through a void in the roof and was trapped.

 

(Snip)

 

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

I don't think a comment is required at this point.

[nickydog]

Man Stuck In Wall For 3 Days: Drugs, Stargazing Led To Unplanned Excursion

Paul Felyk Tells Police About Time Travel, Crystals And Real-Estate Fraud

November 17, 2014

 

LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) - A man stuck inside a Longmont store’s walls for three days said he found himself in the jam because of drugs and a desire for “a better view of the stars.”

 

That bizarre revelation follows the quirky case of Paul Felyk, 35, who fell from a Marshalls’ roof more than a week ago into a tight space in between the building’s walls.

 

According to court records, Felyk told police his troubles began after he was having problems with a female friend. He said he stopped in the Marshalls parking lot to use some meth, then climbed to the top of the building because he “wanted a better view of the stars.”

 

Eventually he fell more than 20 feet through a void in the roof and was trapped.

 

(Snip)

 

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

I don't think a comment is required at this point.

 

No, the story is enough on its own.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via TheoSpark

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via TheoSpark

[SrWoodchuck]

 

Via MyEmail....PJMedia: http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/11/18/oh-jerusalem/

[NCTexan]

I think that he also has a great opportunity for a new book... Gun Cleaning for Dummies

 

Check out the full link with pics and tweets (BTW... I'm sure that there's a pimp somewhere out there who would love to buy the offending gun.)

 

CBS Sports

 

 

Jose Canseco says he will sell his finger on eBay

Late last week, Jose Canseco's finger literally fell off while he was playing in a poker tournament. He accidentally shot himself in the hand during a gun-cleaning accident a few weeks ago, though doctors were able to reattach the digit. Not good enough, apparently.

Here is Canseco's master plan:

[SrWoodchuck]

Obama's pResidential Library

 

 

Via Wirecutter

[Valin]

Happy 59th!

 

Our Mission Statement

By William F. Buckley Jr.

November 19, 1955 8:00 AM

 

There is, we like to think, solid reason for rejoicing. Prodigious efforts, by many people, are responsible for NATIONAL REVIEW. But since it will be the policy of this magazine to reject the hypodermic approach to world affairs, we may as well start out at once, and admit that the joy is not unconfined.

 

Lets face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW not exist, no one would have invented it. The launching of a conservative weekly journal of opinion in a country widely assumed to be a bastion of conservatism at first glance looks like a work of supererogation, rather like publishing a royalist weekly within the walls of Buckingham Palace. It is not that, of course; if NATIONAL REVIEW is superfluous, it is so for very different reasons: It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

 

NATIONAL REVIEW is out of place, in the sense that the United Nations and the League of Women Voters and the New York Times and Henry Steele Commager are in place. It is out of place because, in its maturity, literate America rejected conservatism in favor of radical social experimentation. Instead of covetously consolidating its premises, the United States seems tormented by its tradition of fixed postulates having to do with the meaning of existence, with the relationship of the state to the individual, of the individual to his neighbor, so clearly enunciated in the enabling documents of our Republic.

 

(Snip)

[Valin]

I think that he also has a great opportunity for a new book... Gun Cleaning for Dummies

 

Check out the full link with pics and tweets (BTW... I'm sure that there's a pimp out somewhere out there who would love to buy the offending gun.)

 

CBS Sports

 

Jose Canseco says he will sell his finger on eBay

 

Late last week, Jose Canseco's finger literally fell off while he was playing in a poker tournament. He accidentally shot himself in the hand during a gun-cleaning accident a few weeks ago, though doctors were able to reattach the digit. Not good enough, apparently.

 

Here is Canseco's master plan:

 

And there are people who will spend money to buy it.