My Endorsement This Year: Rick Santorum 2012

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  February 1st at 12:00 PM  | 

If you watch politics long enough, you’ll see a moment where the tragedy of a losing campaign gets so bad that you actually stop and laugh. It was the “Taliban Dan” ad back in 2010 that convinced me that Alan Grayson was off to his next stop on his professional career. Examples of this have abounded in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary. Who can forget | Read More »

Give My Children The Lightning Again (Part 2 of 3): Mitt Romney on Energy and The Environment

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 30th at 10:00 AM  | 

When Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle coauthored the dystopic novel Lucifer’s Hammer, they focused heavily on issues of resource management. In the end of the novel, one of the protagonist characters expired uttering the following last words: “Give my children the lightning again.” Yet the challenge of giving future Americans (like my two children) the motive power to enjoy a lifestyle comparable to my own | Read More »

How I Lost My Amateur Status As A Fire-Breathing Racist!

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 29th at 12:30 PM  | 

Most Democrats from the Southern states opposed the bill and led an unsuccessful 83-day filibuster, including Senators Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN), J. William Fulbright (D-AR), and Robert Byrd (D-WV), who personally filibustered for 14 hours straight. -Wikipedia, Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s official. I can no longer compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. I no longer have amateur status as a Fire-Breathing Racist. Just | Read More »

AGW and The Latest China Syndrome

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  July 7th at 10:15 AM  | 

The political consequence of this article seems to be that the simplest solution to global warming is for the Chinese to burn more coal, which they intend to do anyway… – Dr. Judith Curry, Georgia Tech University. The AGW pep-squad has lately found itself befuddled. Kevin Trenbarth of NCAR National laboratory in Colorado, summed up their problem in an email to Dr. Michael Mann. The | Read More »

Tornadoes And AGW?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 24th at 04:30 PM  | 

“And you know look – yesterday, or the day before yesterday, we had the tornado in Minneapolis,” Roker said. “We have had these tornadoes and earlier this week we had a tornado in Philadelphia. And so, you know our weather, or climate change is such now that we are seeing this kind of weather not just in rural parts of our country, but in urban | Read More »

The Green Newt Must Quickly Go Extinct

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 12th at 11:30 AM  | 

It was 10 April 2007. Senator Kerry and Former Congressman Newt Gingrich appeared to debate one another on Global Warming. Newt Gingrich left John Kerry flabbergasted. He looked even more tongue-tied than he did during the 2004 Presidential Election. The Senator came to debate a Denialist and wound up having to hug the tree harder than his GOP opponent. Gingrich made the following statement during | Read More »

Does Pork BBQ Lead to Global Warming?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  July 6th at 09:14 PM  | 

The recent events surrounding Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Fl) and his $50M vote for the ACES Bill in the House of Representatives are a profound example of what is wrong in our republic. It seems that Congressman Grayson sold his “Aye” vote to Nancy Pelosi in return for a $50M hurricane research center to be built near Orlando, Fl. His local newspaper, The Orlando Sentinal, characterizes the center as A Category 5 Waste.

While hurricane research is something that Florida has valid self-interest in appealing for help and support on, it turns out the Grayson project is a bogus pork BBQ platter for several reasons. The Congressman claims making Orlando an epicenter of hurricane research would vitally aid NOAA in performing its mission. The Congressman claims that the center could conveniently tie in to UCF and bolster their Earth Sciences curriculum.

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Global Warming Debate Game Changer? Could We Please Have a Government That Stops Playing Games?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  June 18th at 10:00 PM  | 

On 16 June 2009, US President Barack Obama has released a report on Global Warming (See USG release here) that the Guardian.UK seems to have misconstrued as science. Adulation masquerading as journalism follows below. The Obama administration unveiled the most authoritative report to date on the effects of global warming in America today in an effort to persuade the public of the need to act | Read More »