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Another indicator the Global Warming “crisis” is a hoax:

In 2002, the Paris-based International Energy Agency, through its Climate Technology Initiative, awarded Nunez its Climate Technology Leadership Award for his invention. He received U.S. Patent No. 6,651,645 B1 the following year. But financial success has eluded him.

Green groups aren’t lining up like he thought they would to fund his technology. He has won occasional grants to manufacture a few stoves for poor families such as the Erazos. A contractor makes them for him for $325. His own company can’t do it because he no longer has a company or employees. Nunez is broke.

Just like all the rest of the world’s so-called problems, nobody really wants to fix Global Warming, they just want to be in charge of fixing it. If you are in charge of fixing something, getting paid nicely for fixing something, the last thing you would want is for that something to actually get fixed. Besides, there is nothing we can do about global warming so why waste any money.

Al Gore, Clooney, Sarandan and all the rest of the eco-clowns don’t really care. It is much more glamorous to fly around on private jets and travel in motorcades spewing CO2 from their wind holes than actually contributing to a solution.

I’m sure there is no ulterior motive. Dr Neil Frank:

Some meteorologists, including former hurricane center director Neil Frank, say as many as six of this year’s 14 named tropical systems might have failed in earlier decades to earn “named storm” status.

“They seem to be naming storms a lot more than they used to,” said Frank, who directed the hurricane center from 1974 to 1987 and is now chief meteorologist for KHOU-TV. “This year, I would put at least four storms in a very questionable category, and maybe even six.”

I sense a scandal brewing which will probably will reach named storm status soon.

I’ve noticed the categories don’t work in this theme. I’m keeping this theme or another very similar so be patient, it’ll get fixed soon. Also, my linkage from the RSS import is not exactly perfect. A lot of internal links still have the old permalinks and are giving a 404 error. This especially happens if coming from the archives that has about 2400 posts in it, of which only about three or four hundred are here. Clearly there is some work to be done there. Easiest fix is to customize the 404 error page with a redirect or put a re-write rule in the Apache config. I’ve already run some custom utility scripts against the stories in the database and though that fixed a lot of the problem, it wasn’t much fun due to the size of the database and I don’t want to do any more of it.

I saw the news piece linked on Drudge early this morning and Instapundit has it linked via Dean Esmay… The more intrusive the surveillance cameras and red-light cameras become, the more we will see them destroyed in place. Even though it is the right thing to do, I am hoping regular law-aiding citizens will not have to risk doing the dirty deed and that the criminals will become adept at taking the electronics eyes off line without detection.

Yeah, yeah I know, I must have something to hide because if I’m not doing anything wrong I shouldn’t have anything to worry about. Tell that to the Duke Lacrosse players.

There is a reason why Stephen King writes a lot of Novellas of late: he doesn’t have enough new ideas to fill a complete novel. I quit reading King well over a decade ago. I don’t like to read a book that was written in less time than it takes to read. Don’t all his books seem to be eerily similar to each other? They do to me. No one can write a dozen books a year without some serious re-hashing. Some unknown entity is coming from some unknown place to harm people for some unknown reason which may or may not be divulged at some point.

But to the point: Will Stephen King be the latest putz to ruin his career behind making stupid statements that in the grand scheme of things make absolutely no difference whatsoever except for to piss of more than half his customers? I hope so. Not that he needs to work or anything but I just get a kick out of seeing these twits make fools out of themselves while thinking they are so much smarter than everyone else. King is good friends with John Mellencamp, for goodness sakes.

The funny thing about King’s comments in the Time interview, is that they are completely lacking in originality. The mindless repetition of the same tired drivel that has been coming from the Hollywood left since 2003.

People are capable of wondrous achievements when they are able to pursue their dreams.

‘[Temples of Damanhur] are to remind people that we are all capable of much more than we realise and that hidden treasures can be found within every one of us once you know how to access them,’ says Falco.

*snip*

Stunned by what they had found, the authorities decided to seize the temples on behalf of the government.

Of course they did. To accomplish anything great one must first figure out how to bypass the government. The world would never see this amazing piece of work if Falco had asked the Italian government, or any governemnt, for permission before starting.

This past weekend I caught John Cena in the 2006 action romp The Marine on HBO, which I can honestly say is the worst. movie. ever. Absolutely.

I like a good nonsensical action movie just as much as the next guy but this offering belongs at the bottom of the compost heap.  No matter how bad a movie is, stuff can only blow up once. After something blows up in a massive fireball the second time, the party’s over for me. There is no saving grace. Stuff can only blow up once. The only way to come back from a zero rating after such a gaffe is big bouncing boobs and tight panty shots, both of which were almost nonexistent in this movie.

Robert Patrick was the only bright spot  in the movie but he came nowhere close to saving it. I give this movie a zero out of however many whatevers. Don’t bother unless you absolutely get off on giant fireballs. If someone tries to give you the movie for free, tell them to throw it away themselves.

After a few days over the hills and through the woods, we’ve all just arrived back safe and sound from Grandma’s house we went. The usual turkey and trimmings were had by all and it was great to see the in-laws doing fine and well. I hope you and yours had a Happy Thanksgiving too.

Of course, no annual pilgrimage to Bleiblerville would be complete without some memorable event to mark the occasion. A lot of times in the past when the get-togethers were much larger it was usually some minor faux pas that would get the family in a big guffaw and at other times there is blood and trips to emergency rooms involved. One can just never know. The memorable event doesn’t necessarily always happen at Thanksgiving but it is a more frequent hotbed of activity since it is one of the longer holiday events and is usually the biggest draw. I’m sure y’all know the drill.

My faithful readers will remember a couple a years ago at Thanksgiving when the day was spent at the hospital because Grandpa broke his neck while trying to load a bull on a trailer. Grandpa had his brother-in-law helping him but Grandpa is no spring chicken and the brother-in-law is in way worse shape. We’re talking old men here. Second Hand Lions quite long in the tooth. The first thing uncle Johnny said when the bull cracked Gramp’s skull open was, “Jeannie shore is gonna be upset when she sees all that blood.” Though there was blood involved, this year it wasn’t near so bad as the year Grandpa broke his neck but while in the moment it surely seemed nearly as tragic.

In a mere instant my German Shepherd dog mauled and almost killed my in-laws two little rat terriers. Good Lord Almighty! The screaming! The Terror! I had to run up to the house from about 200 yards down the hill so I could beat the hell out of the dog. The tragic, unfortunate event was well over by the time I got up there (I’m no spring chicken, either) but I threw the dog a beating anyway. She was still excited enough to get the gist of it. My dog is the most hard-headed dog I’ve ever had that didn’t get run over by a car yet. I don’t know if throwing the dog a beating did the dog any good, but despite skinning every knuckle on my left hand, spraining my right thumb and big toe, and disjointing my lower back it sure made me feel good.

I am sure Cesar The Dog Whisperer would not approve of my dog disciplining technique, but big whoop. Anyone can make a dog mind while holding it on a leash. If I am standing anywhere around she minds good. It’s making a head strong bitch mind all the rest of the time that’s difficult.

The little dogs went to the vet and were all patched up and I am hoping like Hell they will both survive. They were tore up pretty bad but the vet did a good job for a fair price, I was told. One of the dogs is pretty darn old but otherwise the prognosis is optimistic.

I am about sick and tired of the lunatics that are left in charge of Colorado. This would drive me to commit heinous acts of violence. In Texas McLean could be shot for attempting his little stunt. And it would make me happy to hear about it.

The next time you are driving through Houston and feel the urge to pull over to eat from a taco truck parked in the parking lot of a gas station, you can feel safe knowing that all Taco Trucks have to report in to the city everyday before they plan to sell food.

A rule in place since 2000 required daily trips to the commissary, but operators could take their trucks after serving food all day.

Conrad Janus, acting chief of the city’s bureau of consumer health services, said the revision closes a loophole that enabled truck operators to tell inspectors they planned to take their trucks later that night. That made it hard to ensure they actually went.

Uh, did the taco vendor have a receipt from yesterday? Oh, they could just say they didn’t operate yesterday. Well I guess we know why Conrad Janus is the acting bureau chief: No bureaucrat worth his or her salt would have left such an obvious cash neutral loophole in the original regulation.

So now, in order to more easily make revenue from the regulation without requiring a second inspection the following day, if an inspector shows up and a taco vendor is vending taco’s he or she must have a commissary receipt dated with the past 24 hours.

While difficult to argue against such common sense things as clean water in food preparation areas, I would argue whether more costly oversight from government bureaucrats actually improves the sanitation of the overall mobile taco vending operation or is this just a good way to lord over the petite bourgeoisie.

Now if there were only a government program to make sure these guys wash their hands regularly…

If you decide it is a good idea to eat from a taco truck, you probably think the government regulations make them safe, so enjoy your taco.