I just read about the circular firing squads at the IPCC, with calls for the firing of the CPU and even for the disbanding of the entire IPCC (why not the rest of the UN at the same time?). Plus other good details at Climate Depot and also [...]
I just read about the circular firing squads at the IPCC, with calls for the firing of the CPU and even for the disbanding of the entire IPCC (why not the rest of the UN at the same time?). Plus other good details at Climate Depot and also [...]
From Saturday, one of the Met's large Tiffany windows in the American Wing. This is titled "Autumn."
Here are three cool vids of three very cool remote-controlled airplanes.
First, introducing the Hydroboat-plane-car-helicopter-lawnmower-skateboard:
Pretty nifty, eh? And some review I read mentioned "sand and snow", so I guess we can add "dune buggy" and "snowmobile" to the list.
Aerodynamically, what's amazing is how maneuverable it is with' [...]
Whether you call it global warming or climate change or greenie hysteria or a religion or Lefty politics, the fact is that it's an industry, and one which has become increasing lucrative over recent years.
Goldman Sachs, never a company to pass up on chances [...]
It's rare for me to see something worth reading by Friedman, but America vs. The Narrative is pretty good.
Which is the bigger scandal? News-gate or Climategate? As Steyn put it:
"If you follow online analysis from obscure websites on the' [...]
Also at the Met's show is Homer's Snap the Whip (1872). It is a small painting (and just one of several of his versions on the same theme):
That picture reminded me of a snap we took of [...]
Cheers on St. Andrew's Day to our Scots friends and readers!
Now we must move south of the border to take a good summary look at Climategate and its meaning, as far as we now know: Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of [...]
Bright red berries produced in the fall close along the stems of a deciduous shrub, most often in damp areas in the Eastern US, is Winterberry - Ilex verticillata.
Yes some ilex, ie hollies, are deciduous.
Many cultivars with larger [...]
Modern anti-Semitism has developed a seductive and deceptive newspeak etiquette to mask its linkages to discredited precursors and to disreputable objectives. To penetrate the smokescreens put up by modern anti-Semitism, it is necessary to blow away the semantic clouds it hides behind.
A fair-minded person, especially if not well-informed, [...]
Programs
AutoSizer — This has two great uses. It'll pop open the browser (or any program) in full-screen mode every time it opens, and for small programs that tend to open wherever they want (like Calculator), it will make them open right in the center of the screen.
It’s Not Marriage, It’s the Woman. (Thanks to Am Digest for introducing us to that site.)
What's up with the Xanthan Gum thing?
Anglican Bishop says "Happy Christmas" is an Obscenity
My snap of the tree in the Medieval section at the Met is blurred because the guard was not permitting photos, so I took it too fast.
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
3:9 How [...]
Finally made it to the American Stories show at the Met today. Wonderful fun. I highly recommend it, especially with the museum's audio guide. I think going through this show takes around 1 to 1 1/2 hours with the audio, and it will be there until the' [...]
Ioannidis' Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. In his summary, he observes:
Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings' [...]
Noonan: “No one seems to love Mr. Obama now”
Fred Barnes: Why Obama Isn't Changing Washington. One quote:
One insight distinguished Barack Obama from the other presidential candidates last year. While he lacked experience or a special grasp of' [...]
Catastrophe Denied: A Critique of Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming Theory from Warren Meyer on Vimeo.
Your editor is going off duty until tomorrow. 20 people arriving in a while (all bringing pies or vegetable dishes) - and a few more just for dessert. Here's what we're doing:
One just begun on the grill:
One in the oven, [...]
"Just like old Saxophone Joe
When he's got the hogshead up on his toe
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie!
Listen to the fiddler play
When he's playin' 'til the break of day
Oh me, oh my
Love that country pie
Raspberry, strawberry, [...]
I give thanks to God today (and every day) for being a free American - and for being free to read, write, and report whatever I want to here on Maggie's Farm. I am grateful to our Founding Fathers, for our Constitution, for all of the past and' [...]
"Lord, you gotta help me now." Who has never felt that way? New Orleans blues:
[...]
Newsweek pulled the Mallard Fillmore toon below. Good comments on the post at Daily Cartoonist. Yes, I certainly do hate hate, and I hate the concept of "hate crimes." Maybe I'm just a "hater."
At American Thinker, how the scientists did it.
Ian Plimer:Yes, It's a fraud.
Somehow we missed this goodie from IBD: The day the climate stood still which asks the real question: "Is Gaia a "denier"?"
"The makers of the Constitution conferred, as against the government, the Right to be left alone; the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”
United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928). h/t, reader.
[...]
Wines for Thanksgiving. Prof B
Good for a laugh: Artists for Gaia
Norm: All about Sherlock Holmes. It's about the aesthetics of detection.
How considerate of him: Obama will give you $2,500 a year to go to school. [...]
...we do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient truths, this one [...]
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a.aolmailheader:hover {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;Our ongoing series on Woodstock, CT by guest poster Capt. Tom Francis -
Quasset School
At Town Meeting in 1690, the citizens [...]
When the government proposes a major program, one expects a meaningful national consensus behind it. I neither see nor sense any national consensus behind a government takeover of medical care. Quite the opposite, and the polls agree with my impression.
Watch this video at Gateway [...]
Anchoress: Reporting Climategate would be like an attack on the religion of many. Some religions are more sacred than others.
Indeed. Here's the BBC on the climate issue of the day: Scientists fudge data It's hot in Africa Climate has been a major driver of [...]
The Puzzle of Boys: Scholars and others debate what it means to grow up male in
America.
It might be a puzzle for metrosexual scholars, but there is no "puzzle of boys." Boys are simple.
Editor's comment: To understand boys, just check this [...]
He's not in the showers in jail picking up the soap, so why do this so constantly? Is it a twitch? A twitch of submission, like a beta dog? I think it is pathetic - and it reflects on me as a free and proud American. Please tell me' [...]
Here's an intriguing time-lapse compilation from a NASA satellite of weather patterns over a 2-day period. As the technology becomes more common, imagine how interesting it will be to watch a hurricane's birth off the coast of Africa, watch it travel across the wide Atlantic, wipe Florida off the [...]
Putting one of the BD pups and friends on the plane today to Barcelona or Madrid - I forget which - heading to the wedding of a friend since nursery school and a little vacation. I advised them to live on tapas, and, even if it is a boring [...]
I've been slow to realize this: the O is turning out to be a dud. I did not vote for him, but I had some hope that he would try to govern as a pragmatist-moderate - against all evidence, of course. Even the thrill is gone' [...]
By 1940, essentially all American Chestnuts, a dominant climax tree (and a major mast-producing tree - once the major food of Turkey, Deer and lots of other critters) of American forests, were killed by the blight. Their wood has a remarkable durability [...]
Quite possibly. We have been calling "fraud" on this site since forever. The raw data has been carefully hidden for years (see conceal the decline). It's heart-warming to see a Viscount rant. One quote:
As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division [...]
This is a performance recorded for Chinese television at the
Circus Festival of Monte Carlo.
[...]
Gringo made an important point in the comments the other day that deserves to be both repeated and elaborated upon.
Here's the quote:
"Check the net for your stolen ID"
While this purports to be a site that will inform you [...]
Should you financially support my mother-in-law or sister-in-law, if they legally immigrated to the US? Both are of very limited financial means. Government benefits here in the US are actually better than in Germany. Is it up to you to pay to offer them a better life? My wife [...]
Add to the climate list: Climate change causes Filipinos to become prostitutes. Of course it does. Everybody knows that.
Older fellow eats hottest pepper in the world
Burn the witch! Martha Stewart agrees. But who cares what she [...]
Benjamin Franklin's Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745).
[...]"Lost your job, dear? I'll bring home the bacon... just don't expect our marriage to survive"
Dr. Bob: It's all the Christians' fault. Darn those pesky Christians.
Get ready for the Turkey Flu! We're all gonna die!
Two Teens. h/t, Lucianne
How the Dem minimum wage bill killed jobs for teens and college kids
Too heavy for the field (as I am reminded on the rare occasions on which I use it in the field), but it's the only shotgun of the too-many I own that shoots straight. Wonderful for skeet, trap, and clays. I think the weight has something to do' [...]
Among numerous problems, I think the biggest problem with the Dem medical care bill is that there is no national consensus for this.
It is unwise to do things this large without a national consensus, but the Left is intoxicated with their (temporary, cocaine-like) [...]
Dylan Radio. You can request, too. We like it.
Just push "Tune in" and let it play. You do not need to log in.
The Great American Songbook. Guy has great taste in folk/pop music, whether his own stuff or that of his betters (?).
[...]
Jeanne-Claude died - Christo's remarkable wife.
One of the first posts on this site, back when we had around 20 visits per day and had no idea what we were doing (not that we do now), was our visit to Christo's Gates on a frigid day in [...]
You can have these sent to you daily via email. Here's today's:
Eighty One percent say the quality of their own, personal health care is Good or Excellent. No wonder there is no popular support for the Dems' plans to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Who wants their doc working for the government? I want' [...]
Via FOX News:
More than 150 Christian leaders, most of them conservative evangelicals and
traditionalist Roman Catholics, issued a joint declaration reaffirming their
opposition to abortion and gay marriage and pledging to protect religious
freedoms.
The 4,700-word document, called "The Manhattan Declaration: A [...]
Re the earlier post, see Tim Blair for the actual emails. h/t, reader. Quote:
...the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one [...]
Somebody let us know about The Sniper. Good stuff, plus eye candy for both boys and girls:
At Wizbang and Moonbattery.
It is worse than I thought - and I thought it was bad.
I always celebrate my birthday on Thanksgiving. Selfishly, at least I’m guaranteed a turkey and good bottle of Beaujolais. When fortunate, I’m able to share it with family and friends, which is the ultimate of what Thanksgiving is: time to give thanks for others sharing theirs and our ability [...]
Somewhere in either Tolstoy or Dostoevsky there is a comment about the remorse of the hunter when holding a Woodcock in hand. You have noticed that our head image on Maggie's now is Woodcock hunting.
John Stuart Skinner in his classic 1883 The Dog and the' [...]
Part Whatever of The Hitchhiker's Guide is out, this one written by Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl. If you live in a cave and missed Douglas Adams' series, it's an amusing science fiction spoof.
It's called And Another Thing...
Toon via Lucianne.
The Moonbats want to get rid of "Fighting Sioux." The Indians want it kept. How does "The Fighting Sue" sound instead? Or "The Pacifist Sue"? Beat us, please.
Somebody read Sarah Palin's book
They don't build 'em like this anymore. My lousy photo does not do justice to this house, which I assume to have been the parsonage of the First Congregational Church of East Haddam, right across the street.
In the old days, the minister was given [...]
The social psychology of subways
The importance of social networking in life:
...the history of humanity is a history of social networking all the same, according to Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, authors of [...]
In New England, Indian Pudding is as essential a part of Thanksgiving dinner as Pumpkin or Squash Pie.
It's called "Indian" because it is made with corn (maize) meal - the staple food of North American Indians.
Simple rustic ingredients. No sugar?' [...]
It goes against against my instinct, judgement, taste, and sense of proportion to do a Christmas post before Thanksgiving, but I couldn't resist this bizarro Dylan offering. (All money from Dylan's Christmas record goes to charity.)
Remain strange and unpredictable, Bob. We like you that way. This is [...]
Sarah seems to be a subject of great fascination. She was charming, smart, and funny on Hannity last night. Yes, her political points were shallow - but more substantial than "hopey-changey," and she has had more experience than he had - both in life and in [...]
Hard words from VDH: When reality catches up to rhetoric. One quote:
The health-care mess grows worse: The Chinese have caught on that Obama wants to borrow more billions for us, who are cash
poor, to create entitlements that they, who are [...]
I said good-bye to a fellow I have worked with on and off for over 15 years yesterday.
His wife died last winter, and he has finally decided to move to Florida to live with one of his daughter's families. Lonely. He is in his 80s. Most' [...]
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
Thomas Sowell, via Dr. Sanity's One Big Fathead
[...]
She's a pheenom. She's a non-elite, non-Hollywood celeb. She is beautiful, fertile, and athletic. Her hard-working, macho hubbie supports whatever she wants to do. The MSM hates her.
She's a yokel with common sense. Like Truman, Lincoln, and Andrew Jackson.
Even if' [...]
Non-elites: Joe and Carrie
Report: FOX is fair
Top Ten Reasons Black America Fears Rush Limbaugh
Kossers are angry old white men?
Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845)
You can read a blurb about this painting here.
The picture is part of a current show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Stories: Paintings from Everyday Life 1865-1915.
Readers know that I am opposed to death taxes - estate taxes. The wealthy find ways around them (how long has it been since a Kennedy or a Rockefeller held a real job as opposed to an optional job?), but merchants, the middle class, and farmers get screwed [...]
In the course of our basement water pipe flood this summer, I seem to have lost my couple of pairs of light shooting gloves. I like to shoot with gloves even when it isn't too cold. Most of the hunting I do tends to be in' [...]
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Maggie Thatcher
This came in over the transom -
Jim O'Hara is a member of EAA chapter 493 in San Angelo. He is a retired college professor (I believe in Aeronautical Engineering) who learned to fly when he was about 60 years old. He's now' [...]
