You have my sympathies, because I
know how you feel. Even in winter, when temperatures
plummet enough to create an entire neighborhood of frozen snot-nosed kids, you
fear raising the furnace thermostat even one extra degree because you're the
one who might make the final, irreversible maneuver to set the world on the
global warming train to hell. Yes, YOU,
friend and, like it or not, you're helplessly engulfed in the albeit loony
climate ideas espoused by Al Gore disciples and other blame-humans-first
climatological cultists.
Good news! Well, depending upon your point of view. How's about we throw a little cold water
(literally) on global warming? And we don't need anybody from the laughably
unobtainable 98% consensus of nonexistent international pro-warming climate
scientists to do it.
Is a mini ice
age in our future -- our near future -- asks Mark Prigg of the UK's Daily Mail Online (July 10, 2015)? Apparently, some new research portends to
confidently predict the occurrence of solar cycles, suggesting that between
2020 and 2030 -- right around the corner -- solar cycles will cancel one
another out. This, if the science holds,
will regenerate a phenomenon known as the Maunder minimum, a mini ice age affecting the Earth between
1646 and 1715. Not exactly the good old
days particularly when one realizes this drawn-out instance could last 10 years
or so.
Scientists
involved with the study claim to have broken a code which effectively replaces
previous beliefs about sunspot activity and what actually takes place way deep
under the sun's surface, leading to an almost rock-solid calculation system
able to predict the sun's activity -- and a mini ice age seems a high
possibility in just a few years. In
basic terms, sunspots all but disappear for a few years and the sun is
essentially "silent" or "sleeping" as intricacies under the
surface retool for a dramatic return years down the road.
Before we stock
up on air conditioners and fans in anticipation of global warming's heyday,
scientifically established predictions of a mini ice age might instead cause us
to prepare for The Big Chill and all the snow, ice and misery that go with
it. Frankly, I can't imagine how one
prepares for a decade or decades-long winter awarding both humans and animals
almost inevitable death and destruction on a massive scale.
The science is
complex, so you might wish to consult the full online piece or other definitive
sources.
A mysterious,
loud explosion on a beach in Rhode Island propels a woman into the air and
onto some rocks, where she sustained injuries.
Not to fear, authorities assured beach goers that it seemed safe to
return for sun and surf, even though nobody had a clue as to the cause. Wow, THAT is confidence! Just because first responders didn't find bomb
fragments or anything else in the sand, that doesn't mean -- hey, you rescue folks did see the original movie, Invaders from Mars and those sucking
sands, didn't you? Beware the beach (sun
block won't help, either).
Ted Cruz
supporters remain riled over the New York Times' refusal to list his best selling book on
its best seller list, their excuse involving some sort of mumbo-jumbo about
selection standards or something. All
the news that's fit to print, 'cept for what some don't want to call news.
Big Pharma and
its corporate and political operatives continue the war on vitamins and
supplements, and won't be satisfied until our choices are taken away. If you want to guzzle fish oil by the liter
because you think it will help you grow wings, it's your business. This is the (Obama) government that can't
even keep sensitive information safe at the Office of Personnel and Management,
so what the heck do they know about vitamins?
Whoa! This thing about Obama's HUD (Housing and
Urban Development) plotting and planning to bring low-income housing (and
high-trouble people) to neighborhoods where people just want to be left alone
to live as they wish with what money and success they have earned is a disaster
in the making. I think at least one
congressman is striving to defund any such attempts, but this will be a tough
one. What happened to the America we
knew? Julian Castro, why don't you take
your family and go live in the very lowlife atmosphere that you and the rest of
the Obama bunch wish to inflict upon the country?
The minimum wage
would not be a topic for discussion anywhere if it weren't for government
waste consistently sending neighborhoods and decent working folks into poverty
and high taxes. Government leaders
merely attempt to take the pressure off themselves by dumping costs and
unwarranted blame onto the backs of small business owners and others.
Drones at the
Southern border instead of a fence?
Sounds reasonable. Could they be
equipped with special human sterilization rays to assure that each illegal
alien remains just one illegal alien?
Sorry, I just can't seem to elicit the proper sympathy. . .
White People is the name of
a "documentary" intended to run on MTV. Produced by an "award-winning"
illegal alien (pardon my ignorance, but is he an award winner because he IS an
illegal alien?), the show focuses apparently upon some clueless young white
people willing to blame non-white folks'
ills on their own whiteness. Well,
thanks a lot, fellow Caucs. Who said
color doesn't matter anymore? I'm
beginning to feel the same about the word, diversity as some do about
ethnically unpopular terms.
