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Florida’s Major Hurricane Strikes: No Change In 120 Years
Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT:
From Roy Spencer via GWPF: ? ? Florida’s Major Hurricane Strikes: No Change In 120 Years Roy Spencer I’ve updated a plot of Florida major hurricane strikes since 1900 with…
Embrace Holy Week
Christians attended Palm Sunday worship service yesterday but unfortunately any make the mistake to move quickly to Easter and forget about the week’s events that led up to the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday. Do not make that mistake. Jesus … Continue reading
My Theory Of Parenting
It’s all about building up lots and lots of calluses. There is no way someone who has never played the guitar could pick up one and start playing for hours as if he were Jimi Hendrix. And it’s not just … Continue reading
#PrincessBrideScience
There is a new twitter hashtag #PrincessBrideScience that related famous quotes from that movie to science so I decided to have some fun with the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) cult with a few tweets. Once word leaks out that an … Continue reading
Understatement of the Year
I received a letter from Honda stating that my 2003 Odyssey needs to have its SRS electronic control unit repaired because there is a possibility that the air bag will deploy in a non-crash scenario. A portion of the letter … Continue reading
Welcome To The Hotel Obamacare
You can enroll anytime you like but you can never leave! Team Obama will not want many more Obamacare horror stories like this to appear on NPR. It’s bad enough that one of Alaska’s residents had to go through hell … Continue reading
NASA Demonstrates Unequivocally That Global Warming Theory Has Failed
Originally posted on Real Science:
In 1988, the world’s greatest climatologist published these three possible forecasts for future temperatures. Scenario A assumes continued exponential trace gas growth, scenario B assumes a reduced linear growth of trace gases, and scenario C…
Upside-Down Pinocchio
As we get close to the debt ceiling battle, let’s remember what Obama said as a Senator in 2006: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is … Continue reading
Obama’s Other Red Line
Back in 2009 Team Obama told us we needed the $787 billion stimulus to prevent the US Unemployment Rate from going over 8%. Here was their chart and I put a red dot where August’s unemployment rate clocked in today. … Continue reading
Hilton Head 2013
On vacation this week and enjoying time with my family. Not reading political news this week and taking a much needed break. I’ll be back in a week interacting with my blog buddies here but until then…..
Never Forget
69 years ago men willingly boarded landing boats, jumped out of planes and piloted gliders not knowing whether they’d live to see another day. There is a good reason why their generation is sometimes called ‘The Greatest’ because I don’t … Continue reading
Defending Maker’s Mark
UPDATE 17-FEB-13 – Maker’s Mark has reversed their decision and decided to keep their proof the same. See details in comments section. Maker’s Mark decided to lower the alcohol content of their flagship product and while many have … Continue reading
Originally posted on The Conservative Citizen:
“There is no doubt we need additional revenue.” Of course you do. Just in case you missed O’s pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS (if you were like Rat, you hurriedly changed the channel until…
The Value of a Part Time Job (part 3)
This is the 3rd and final post in a weekend series where I am celebrating the Labor Day holiday by reminiscing about what I learned from my first part time job at Wal-Mart that I held beginning halfway through my … Continue reading
The Value of a Part Time Job (part 2)
This is the 2nd post in a weekend series where I am celebrating the Labor Day holiday by reminiscing about what I learned from my first part time job at Wal-Mart that I held beginning halfway through my sophomore year … Continue reading
The Value of a Part Time Job (Part 1)
We’re in the middle of Labor Day weekend and Unions use this event to remind us that if it weren’t for them, we’d have to work this coming Monday. But instead of dedicating another post providing evidence how Unions are … Continue reading
They Grow Up Too Fast
When my first child was about 3 months old I attended the wedding of my sister-in-law and during the reception my father-in-law walked over to my table and told me that the time between this (he pointed at my baby … Continue reading
A Week Off The Grid
While the rest of America was pouring over the details of recent SCOTUS decisions on Obamacare and Arizona immigration reform, my family was recharging our batteries at a lake house with no Wi-Fi or 3G cell coverage. In other words, … Continue reading
People Aren’t Normal
There was a fascinating journal article published in Personnel Psychology (“The Best and the Rest: Revisiting the Norm of Normality of Individual Performance”) that showed personal performance across many industries didn’t fit a normal distribution (bell curve) but instead fit … Continue reading
Kentucky Derby Week
As someone who was born in Kentucky, graduated from the University of Louisville and lived in that great city for 10 years, this time of year is special to me. Since my wife is also from the Bluegrass state, we … Continue reading