Friday .... Just Because

Well ... it used to be Friday's with Blues and Beer. Things have changed and just are not what they used to be! So just say hello to Bianca and think about what might be.

Friday .... Bianca .... OK by me.............

Cheers!

Seek Out Your Olde Friends ...

I spent the last week in my old stomping grounds reconnecting with some of the people that I have not been able to keep in touch with over the years.

The impetus for this trip to the hometown was another friend whose career has kept him traveling everywhere in the world except the place we grew up. We had been talking for years about setting some time to do a road trip to retrace parts of our path from the "there and then" to the "here and now". It came to pass that there was never likely going to be the golden opportunity we had hoped for. We settled for a fly in and a flurry of visiting rather than the leisurely trip down memory lane.

Regardless of the time constraints we did manage to get together with some of our closest old pals and everyone had a great time. I am grateful for this myself and the most rewarding thing is that all of us involved seem to be equally appreciative of the time spent reconnecting.

Here's to Olde Friends!

OMMAG

If It Did Not Work The First Time ....

Maybe they just didn't try hard enough ...

The liberal mind will never admit failure of understanding or ability or admit culpability for unhappy consequences.  The US government enforced mandate that lending institutions lower (or remove) qualifying standards for mortgage lending to low income (read minority) applicants was an unqualified success in the minds of those progressive (read socialist) groups demanding "Fairness".

The success was short lived as the inevitable results came about.

• Inflated house prices due to artificial push in demand.
• High percentages of mortgage borrowers who never had a hope of making good on their debt.
• Extended debt in the form of equity loans (on inflated value of property).
• Over extension of credit across the board as speculators pushed the market.
• Over exposure of lenders to bad debt (bad loans, risky investment, over valued properties)
• Eventual collapse of the housing market and near collapse of the lending and investment market.
• Near collapse of the US economy and depression of the global economy.

 So what is the US president talking about now? And what are the liberal bobble heads planning?
Well of course they plan to ...  Do more of the same stupid things

OMMAG

Antarctic Volcanoes vs Climate Change

In summary ...

Volcanoes are melting glaciers in West Antarctic but never mind that ... because "Global Warming"!

Or ... read the rest of this selective reporting about science and selective interpretation of research:

Newly-discovered active volcano underneath ice in West Antarctica

A newly-discovered active volcano could erupt underneath Antarctica, melting the ice from below and compounding the effects of global warming, according to scientists.

Researchers discovered the volcano underneath the ice after setting up devices to measure tectonic activity across Marie Byrd Land in the west of the continent.

Scientists had intended to use the seismograph machines to help in their efforts to weight the ice sheet - only to find that a volcano was in fact forming underneath the ice.

Volcanic activity was discovered around 30 miles from Antarctica's highest volcano, Mount Sidley, and although an eruption would be unlikely to breach the ice - the accompanying heat could have an effect on the landscape.

Even a sub-glacial eruption would still be able to melt ice, creating huge amounts of water which could flow beneath the ice and towards the sea - hastening the flow of the overlying ice and potentially speed up the rate of ice sheet loss.

'Numerous volcanoes exist in Marie Byrd Land, a highland region of West Antarctica,' said Amanda Lough, of Washington University in St Louis in the team's paper on the subject, published in the Nature Geoscience journal.

'High heat flow through the crust in this region may influence the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.'

The Climate Alarmism Is Science Study

The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

The worrisome outcomes won't be seen soon. Scientists are talking hundreds of years, but over that time the melt that has started could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.

A NASA study looking at 40 years of ground, airplane and satellite data of what researchers call "the weak underbelly of West Antarctica" shows the melt is happening faster than scientists had predicted, crossing a critical threshold that has begun a domino-like process.

"It does seem to be happening quickly," said University of Washington glaciologist Ian Joughin, lead author of one study. "We really are witnessing the beginning stages."

It's likely because of man-made global warming and the ozone hole which have changed the Antarctic winds and warmed the water that eats away at the feet of the ice, researchers said at a NASA news conference Monday.

"The system is in sort of a chain reaction that is unstoppable," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, chief author of the NASA study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Every process in this reaction is feeding the next one."

Hat Tip = http://antigreen.blogspot.ca/

OMMAG

Nature Intrudes

Way too many geese in Winnipeg

These crap factories are sitting on my neighbour's lawn this morning. We are a long way from water and basically high and dry. But that won't stop these birds from nesting because the competition for space near the water is too much.

We need a cull.

OMMAG

The Sophomore?

The Sophomore the one who expounds sophomoric platitudes and  practices sophistry.

Sophomore: A second year collegian OR a president in his second term with as much sophistication.

Sophomoric: Having or showing a lack of emotional or intellectual maturity, ignorant, foolish and immature.

Sophistry: The use of reasoning or arguments that sound correct but are actually false.

#thesophomore = Barack Obama

The Sophomore is disappointed in the world!

Of course the real world always catches up with these cretins ... especially if someone foolishly allows them to have their way or gives them some authority. That is when they get the real schooling.

OMMAG

Not Einstein

Patent Troll Claims to have Invented House Drying!

SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) – Hundreds of home builders in the Pacific Northwest have been put on notice that if they use a dehumidifier to dry rain-damaged projects, they are infringing on a patent recently issued to a father and son who claim they invented the process.

Crooks abound in the patent business and there is no shortage of ideas that can be claimed as Intellectual Property. 

So who is the effin fool who approved this patent?


Maybe I should patent the practice of using a double slip knot to keep shoe laces tight?

OMMAG

The Correct Use of Force

"Help! I'm being oppressed!" Screams the little bitch ....


OMMAG

Just Because It's Friday

Cheers!

Our Happy Socialist Paradise

In our happy socialist paradise it is the day of singing and dancing ....

The apparatchiks and the non-working workers are well satisfied that the state is empty of capital and the kulaks are driven from the land.

OMMAG