Since we seem to have steered this hallowed thread onto the subject of weather (understandably so) I thought I'd add my 2 cents.
Here in the great state of CT we set a record low last night at 29F. Freeze warnings had been posted for Sunday and Monday nights, and will continue tonight. Tomorrow the treat in store for us is a high temp. of 49F and rain all day. This is May?
This cold snap has been delivered to us courtesy of the jet stream dipping down out of Canada. (This is all YOUR fault Dushan. It's a conspiracy I tell ya, a conspiracy.)
This past weekend, and just to our north, Vermont, northern New Hampshire and Maine experienced pretty good snow fall.
This is all very disgusting.
BenThere: I would like you to fly over here to CT, pick up the Mrs. and I and fly us back down to St. Thomas. For your efforts you will be paid handsomely plus expenses. No need to await our return flight as there won't be one!!!!
BenThere: I would like you to fly over here to CT, pick up the Mrs. and I and fly us back down to St. Thomas. For your efforts you will be paid handsomely plus expenses. No need to await our return flight as there won't be one!!!!
$50,000 ought to do it. Would you like the A320 or will you need a 747?
Barry said you'd play nice once He was in charge....
Afghan prisoners allege beatings at Bagram air base. Former Afghan prisoners told the BBC that they were abused at a secret detention facility located inside Bagram air base, a U.S. base outside of Kabul. An older prison at Bagram was closed after allegations of abuse and death surfaced. The U.S. military opened a new holding facility in 2009 at the air base, called "The Detention Facility in Parwan," and invited reporters to the prison, touting its transparency. But former detainees claim that abuse at a secret prison in Bagram, which they call "the Black Hole," continues, despite the Obama administration's promise to end torture. The prisoners allege that U.S. troops beat them and deprived them of sleep. Vice Admiral Robert Harward, in charge of Parwan, denied the existence of a secret detention facility and repudiated claims of torture.
Depending on the source there was anywhere between 24 to 37 tornadoes in Oklahoma yesterday evening and into the night. They were six confirmed tornadoes just in the Oklahoma City Metro southeast area. The power of the tornadoes ranged from F-0 to F-4 state wide.
The fatality count has remained at five, with an additional death attributed to the tornadoes as a woman suffered a fatal heart attack running to a storm shelter.
At last count only a little over fifty homes were destroyed in only Oklahoma City, hundred more damaged from levels ranging from light roof damage to severe structural damage. There is no total state assessment of damage as of yet, the count is still on going and final figures will not be arrived at for at least week, if not longer.
As with the devastating May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak, when there were 60 plus tornadoes, some entire neighborhoods have been destroyed. As usual with this tornado damage there will be housing areas where nearly every home has been destroyed or suffered major damage, there are a few houses left basically untouched.
Sorry ol' boy RGB, we are in the same soup here. Only 10C right now and we are awaiting Con's remnants. Be wwkend it should clear, but still cool (17-18C).
I keep asking when is the government going to erect a shield to prevent the jet stream from dipping down our way, and they have other things on their mind like health care and social housing. There is no hope that it will ever change.
Why we in the US don't erect more windmills I don't understand. And not for power either.
You ever see one of those power generating windmills hit by a tornado?
It ain't a pretty sight.
When this power generating windmill stuff first started, some folks here in Oklahoma thought it would be a great idea to build a line of them along the Red River that separates Oklahoma from Texas. They figured that all the hot air coming from Texas could provide all the electrical power needed to supply the entire state of Oklahoma.
But then someone in Texas said all that would do is just prove that Oklahoma sucked, so the idea was dropped.
Rep. Alan Mollohan, a 14-term incumbent, has been defeated by state Sen. Mike Oliverio in West Virginia’s Democratic primary, according to the Associated Press.
With 97 percent of the vote in, Oliverio led Mollohan 56 percent to 44 percent.
Mollohan’s decisive loss – a stunning rebuke for a veteran appropriator who has held his seat for nearly three decades - comes just days after Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) lost his bid for renomination. Mollohan, the son of a congressman, had typically coasted in his re-election bids.
The American citizens are very, very unhappy with you Congress.
This is the thunder on the mountain, the early warning that something bad is about to blow through the District of Columbia. I don't think there's anything anybody there can do about it. The people have a limited role in this government - but where the people do possess power, they are like a force of nature. They cannot be stopped.
That's bad news for the establishment this year. They're going to wake up on the morning of November 3rd and be reminded of who is actually in charge of this country.
Morning, Brick, you'll see we've elected a sort-of-conservative government here. Cameron is clearly Barry's kind of guy, as an invitation to Washington (DC, not Tyne-and-Wear) has already been issued. Some newspapers here say it's because His feelings were hurt over the Falklands nonsense, and He wants to reaffirm the "special relationship".
Yes, I've seen the invitation. Your former PM, Gordon Brown, must be feeling even harder done by, with Barry being so quick to invite your new guy, but blowing off Brown repeatedly.
Have your guy bring a gift box set (European standard, of course) of war films or the like to present to The One.
Or better yet, have your guy cancel and tell Barry, "Can I get back to you?"
Barry Boy wants something or this invite would not have happened!
I wonder....an opportunity to share more of his speeches and collected writings with a British Leader?
Reckon he will have to get someone to load them onto the Ipod as he claims not to know how to work one of them things!
Back during the campaign he did but I guess he has simply forgotten as they are so complex and he has been distracted by all the information showing up on his Blackberry!
Yes, the iPod is a very difficult contraption to operate. I believe it requires, at a minimum, a Masters degree in computer science.
Yet, more 9 year old daughter doesn't have such a degree. And operates her iPod quite adeptly. (A-D-E-P-T-L-Y. Is this the correct word chuks? Wouldn't want to offend the resident spelling N**i!!!!!)
Just check out his short story about "Rod," the guy who tried to join Mensa. He finally got in but he didn't like it much!
It's a wicked send-up of people who like to pretend to be really brainy.
Then there is Woody Allen's The Whore of Mensa, which gives a name-check to my book, Moby Dick.
I kno better than to pick on a nine year-old. They is lots more smart than we am! My own daughter is 20 going on 35 and still, but less often, tells me stuff I really need to know, so "Join the club!"
I was recently reading about Michelle Obama's childhood obesity initiative. Whilst reading what this initiative entails it sounded promising. But afterward I was thinking that although it all sounded good I'm not sure it will work. We certainly need to do something about this epidemic (as well as Adult obesity) but I'm not sure which is the right way to go.
On one hand we have the government trying to do something about it and on the other hand parents really should be responsible for this. But, obviously, they are not. Most kids whom I encounter who are either heavily overweight or obese have parents who are the same. So are these parents really going to do anything for their kids?
Regarding Ms. Kagan' nomination for the Supreme Court:
GWB nominated Harriet Miers and had his head handed to him by the left and the media (why do I insist on making a distinction there? It pretty much is the same thing). Mrs. Miers, while never having served as a judge, had a fair record as an attorney in both government and private practice.
Ms. Kagan, has never been a judge, has never practiced privately (that I know of), and has served in various government roles and at Harvard.
Now, I believe that one of the philosophical outcomes of any presidential election is the potential for having a justice emplaced that matches the party in power's political bent. Ms. Kagan should be confirmed.
I'm just disgusted, but not surprised, at the lack of reporting or criticism on this.
To sum up, GWB did it - Bad.
Barry does it, an addition to the Ten Commandments.
