SOME LIKE IT HOT!

I don't mean the great Billy Wilder film, starring the great Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in drag. I mean, SOME LIKE IT HOT! I am one of those "SOME," and I am liking it today real good! 88 degrees forecast for our high...the pecans have leafed out...winter is over, thank God!

Just a couple of things I've been pondering whilst I was supervising The Mrs. as she mowed the grass at Daddy's apartments today.

1) What kind of imbecile can look at pure, true, scientific data and draw the conclusion that "it don't matter...we're still rolling downhill like a snowball headed for hell..." when it comes to the idiocy of the man-made global warming debate? All I can figure is that only an imbecile with an AGENDA can!

This article from the right-wing BBC, "Quiet Sun Baffling Astronomers" provides a true look through the microscope into the brain cells of the brain dead when it comes to this subject.

Ya' just gotta love it! And it would be funny, if it wasn't so serious. Even though sun spot activity is at a 100 year low according to research...we're still gonna all roast like pigs on a spit!

Let us look at a few lines from the article. Speaking of some retarded Professor Lockwood, the article states:

He added that the current slight dimming of the Sun is not going to reverse the rise in global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

"What we are seeing is consistent with a global temperature rise, not that the Sun is coming to our aid."

Oh really? Ask Canada, Greenland, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, Alaska, Michigan, and the old Soviet Bloc just how much they enjoyed their "warm winter." Just ask 'em. I'm sure they had a lovely time sunning on the shores of the Great Lakes...and a buddy of mine near Denver, CO spent his weekend shoveling about 3 feet of snow...in late April...3 stinkin' feet of snow... The article continues:

Data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows global average temperatures have risen by about 0.7C since the beginning of the 20th Century.

Ooooooohhhhhhh. Now, I ain't real good with ciphering C to F, but I think that's about 1 stinkin' degree F in the last 109 years. I'm scared! Heck, if this continues it's gonna be 89 degrees on this date in NW Louisiana in 2118. I'd like that even better...I like it HOT! What the article fails to mention is that in 2007-2008, all of that 109 year rise in global surface temperature was wiped out. We are back at square One.

And the IPCC projects that the world will continue to warm, with temperatures expected to rise between 1.8C and 4C by the end of the century.

Oh really? "...1.8 C and 4C..." First of all...why just 3 or 7 F degrees? Why don't they expect it to rise 10 to 15 F degrees? Maybe because during a high solar activity cycle it only raised ONE STINKIN' DEGREE IN 109 YEARS! So, the IPCC with all it's "paid for research (cough cough) by grants 'scientists' " should be really pissed off at the Sun. It is not cooperating. It stopped cooperating several years ago. Maybe the UN can pass a resolution, and force the Sun to make it's pet scientists not look like a bunch of fools, and start throwing off flares and spots and junk. I bet it'll work! Everything the UN resolves gets done right away!...

As I said, this whole mishmash would be funny if it was not so danged serious. These imbeciles can look plainly at data, solar activity, and geologic history that shows long periods of global warming and cooling over millions of years. And still conclude that "Yep! we're screwing up the planet. Yep! we'd better quit driving cars, and producing electricity, and eating, and breathing, and letting cows fart, and...everything! Let's just STOP EVERYTHING!!!"

It is foolishness at best, but what makes it serious is that there are enough imbeciles that write laws that have drunk the green Kool-aid.

(LONG, LONG PAUSE)...Okay, so I started writing this post 3 hours and 40 minutes ago. During that time, I was informed that one of the window unit air conditioners in one of Daddy's apartments had a fan motor locked up. Also, during that time, the temperature reached 90...which it currently is. So, 90 might not sound so hot, but those upstairs apartments, with the "solar-flareless" sun beating down can get pretty uncomfortable (especially if the renter is almost 300 pounds, with two little bitty kids and a wife with a bun in the oven...downright miserable really). So, it fell to me and #3 son to put in a new window unit AC upstairs. Thank God, Daddy had the foresight to buy a few "spares" for just such occasions.

Did I say that I like it hot? I'm rethinking that...

Okay, on to #2...

Much has been made in the press the last few days over the Miss USA Beauty Pageant, and the answer that Miss California gave about gay marriage. Many have speculated that her answer cost her the title. In fact...and this is a little annoying to me, Carrie Prejean (Miss California) seems to believe herself that the answer she gave cost her the coveted title of Miss USA.

So, I'm wondering...just wondering here...if she was not quite as talented as the winner, not quite as perfectly curved, not quite as intelligent, or had the Miss USA appeal of the winner! Now, I'm not a big fan of beauty pageants, and actually haven't watched one since Burt Parks was breathing. But if gals want to spend their time on that stuff, it's okay with me. I am a Libertarian, and figure that if folks want to do something that doesn't mess with my life...GO FOR IT!

But I must admit (as a dirty old man) that the gal that won the title of Miss USA, (Miss North stinkin' Carolina) Kristen Dalton is a beautiful young lady. Is it possible in any way...any way...that she deserved the crown she sought more than the California girl? Did THE QUESTION by a gay guy judge REALLY cost her the crown?

Miss USA, Kristen Dalton (North stinkin' Carolina)

My advice (since it so widely sought) to Carrie Prejean (and that's another thing...how did a California girl get a coonass name like Prejan? She ought to be living in Breaux Bridge and peeling shrimp) is to just let it go. YOU LOST! You WILL NOT win everything that you shoot for in your life. You will fail many times in your life. You are young, and beautiful, and may not realize it just yet. No matter what perfection you seek in your body, your intellectual pusuits, your life goals, etc...you will not attain them all. You will have greater disappointments than this, so LET IT GO.

A few things gripe me. One is a "sore loser." Another is a "sore winner." But even more griping to my rapidly balding cranium is a "victim." The "victim" mentality just really gives me the reds... Carrie, you are beautiful, talented, and have a full life ahead...if you don't screw it up by attending your personal "pity party."

The third thing I pondered was about how Bush lied about torture down at GTMO, and what I think about it all...but it is now 5:40 pm...The Mrs. has dinner ready...and I am wiped out from watching The Mrs. work, and thinking about stuff. If I remember, I will tell y'all the real truth about the CIA torture tomorrow.