Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

February 02, 2015

Why We Have Climate Change

As you know we are in the eigth with year of global cooling.  I mentioned years ago this was to be the case because sun spot activity is abnormally low. Hence, I ridiculed the "narrative" of global warming and spat into the wind, afterward.

I did mention that Europeans had already caught on that "warming" was nonsense and were using "climate change." The true believers in America were not so sharp, but they caught on.

So, if it is cold, it is climate change; if it is warm, it is climate change; those huge destructive hurricanes that the government has predicted for ten years are not climate change because they never happened. Melting of sea ice in the arctic was climate change, but not the rapid increase of ice in the antarctic. The lack of CO2 in former warming periods were removed from discussions, so never mind. All very convenient.

Below is what NOAA tells me about global warming, today, in the Glens Falls, NY area. It was -8 this morning at Burger King.

Of course, when it is colder for a week, we have climate change. The definition of climate is irrelevant to the analysis of any given week's frigid or hot air. For those concerned about the climate, perhaps one could buy a goat and sacrifice it to the gods.

Anyway, the sun spots remain at a minimum, so watch out for solar change.



This
Afternoon

Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 90%
Snow

Hi 8 °F
Tonight
Chance Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
Chance
Snow
Lo -10 °F
Tuesday
Mostly Sunny
Mostly
Sunny
Hi 15 °F
Tuesday
Night

Slight Chc Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20%
Slight Chc
Snow
Lo 6 °F
Wednesday
Snow Likely. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 60%
Snow
Likely
Hi 27 °F
Wednesday
Night

Chance Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 50%
Chance
Snow
Lo 8 °F
Thursday
Chance Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 40%
Chance
Snow
Hi 19 °F
Thursday
Night

Chance Snow. Chance for Measurable Precipitation 30%
Chance
Snow
Lo -7 °F
Friday
Mostly Sunny
Mostly
Sunny
Hi 15 °F

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March 08, 2014

Got Email?

So, you voted for Big Brother?


The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection is accused of detaining an Indiana woman at the airport without cause and then quizzing her about her sex life on knowledge the agents may have gained through the interception of private emails. 
Christine Von Der Haar, a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union and filed suit against the agency, saying it violated her constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizures 
In 2012, Miss Von Der Haar accompanied her friend, a Greek national named Dimitris Papatheodoropoulos, to the CPB office at the Indianapolis International Airport to pick up computer equipment he had shipped separately when he flew into the airport a few days earlier, according to a release issued by ACLU. 
The custom agent asked Miss Von Der Haar and Mr. Papatheodoropoulos if they had any plans to marry, and then isolated them from one another to ask about the nature of their romantic and flirtatious relationship and if they were having sexual relations. Dr. Von Der Haar sat in a guarded room for 20 minutes, the suit alleges 
CBP appeared to be concerned that Mr. Papatheodoropoulos was trying to stay in the country illegally. 
“This case raises troubling issues about the power of the government to detain and question citizens,” said Kenneth Falk, ACLU of Indiana’s legal director, who represents Miss Von Der Haar....
These moral and criminal offenses have become daily fare. They will go unreviewed, let alone unpunished (of course, there will be PR babble about looking in to it unless the lid is off a particular cess pool.) We will see if the population has been sufficiently dulled so as to keep voting for the SS.

The good thing is DHS, Das Homeland Security, targeted an academic, a professor of sociology who, apparently, does not have a conservative life style.  The high probability is this person was a true believer.  Eventually, the state suppresses the true believer because they are activists and were subversives on the behalf of the victorious tyranny. They can turn on their former hero on short notice and the tyrants know it.

Got Netflix?  Good BBC:  The Last Enemy.  It is surprising the English establishment developed this mini series.

For light hearted story of how banks run both sides of wars in their control of everyone, except for those they kill:  The International.

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