Hail Obama!

Obama was unexpectedly modest back during his Dem primaries victory speech in June 2008 when he proclaimed that "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow...".

Slow?!? Actually, his ascension has reversed the rise of the seas! OK, a lot of his early supporters are backing away and why should Neptune be any different? But let's be dazzled by science!

A team of researchers reported Wednesday that the ocean did not rise quite as much as previously believed in the 20th century. They proposed a seemingly tiny adjustment that could make a big difference in scientific understanding of the looming problem of sea-level rise.

Instead of rising about six inches over the course of the 20th century, as previous research suggested, the sea actually rose by approximately five inches, the team from Harvard and Rutgers Universities found. 

So there you go!

 

Comments

[rich@gmu]

maybe for his next trick he can warm up Fairfax by about 20 degrees ...

[henry]

Kim was all over this pile of adjustments on top of estimates to drive models that say the sea level is rising faster now. ValJar will not be pleased with this group of henchmen. The problem of so much empty boasting collides with the problem of content free "science." What is a SCOAMF to do?

[Danube on iPad]

Scott Walker is in Coronado.

[Jane]

Could you go tell him I love him, Dot?

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: henry | January 15, 2015 at 07:03 PM -

torture the models some more ...

DoT-

Is he fundraising?

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

DoT, I'm impressed that you have so much sway that he's responding to your concern about getting in the race in a timely fashion.

[Buster McClould]

I thougth there was someone from Coranado here.

Can I get you to go to the bar and spike Boeher's wine..

[Jane]

The republicans are having a pow wow in San Diego. Romney is making a speech from a ship tomorrow. Walker is speaking today or tomorrow.

[daddy]

Clarice,

Lisa Murkowski is Aghast.

Murkowski 'aghast' at rejected suspensions for (Senator Ted) Stevens prosecutors

She's aghast, I'm aghast...whole lot of aghastin' going on.

[Skoot]

test

[Taking on water and listing. Yeah, sea level is rising.]

Good discussions of this sea level paper at Bishop Hill, Jo Nova, and Watt's Up. More modeled alarmist claptrap.

[Danube on iPad]

I love this:

"The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year´s Oscar awards on Thursday. 'The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets,' Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon. Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an 'emergency meeting' next week to address the issue. 'I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards,' he said."

[Jane]

I'm aghast too - which may be the first time Lisa and I have been the same thing.

[Jane]

'I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards,' he said."

I've called an emergency meeting next week to discuss action around tax cheats.

[exdemocrat]

Dot - I'm holding a meeting next week too, but to get more northeuropeanamericans playing in the NBA, on the US Olympic track & field team, and on Soul Train re-runs.

[Dave (in MA)]

Boston Radio Watch retweeted Stephe96 ‏@Stephe96 If you find yourself with your arm in a barrel and wearing a diaper while you sit on a highway to block traffic, maybe rethink your life

[Threadkiller]

Mexican Government To Issue Birth Certificates In The US, A Boon To Obama's Executive Amnesty

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/15/mexico-begins-issuing-birth-certificates-in-the-us/

JATFI

[exdemocrat]

BTW, has it been confirmed there were insufficient left-handers on Europe's Ryder Cup team yet?
Haters.

[Dave (in MA)]

http://howiecarrshow.com/video-boston-commuter-confronts-race-protesters-on-i-93/

[Laura White]

I hope there are more leaden-headed protests such as these--very clarifying AND edifying.

[jimmyk]

DoT, I'm impressed that you have so much sway that he's responding to your concern about getting in the race in a timely fashion.

Was that DoT's concern? I thought I was the one who raised it. He should have come to NYC. On second thought, maybe not.

[Jim Miller]

Is there any doubt that Al Sharpton is not "fuming" but, in fact, is delighted now that he has a new shakedown "cause", and a chance to collect really big bucks from Hollywood types?

(That's a rhetorical question.)

[Ben]

Suggesting one's appearance is a window to your version of truthful things, would imply the glass needs some pressure-washing.

But that would be lost on you. Even simple concepts elude your grasp, notwithstanding the vise-grip on your personal funds.

[Stephanie]

On the idiots that put their arms in concrete - concrete is caustic. I hope to God they got some major burns to deal with.

[Buster McClould]

Did I notice in Dave's 8:09 that there were no Keshawnas or Dewanda's or Gobwana's in the mix of protesters? I thouight it was a "black lives matter" protest not a #whiitebarrelsrule kind of jerk.

I have to say that you people in Mass are really, really tolerrant. I would have punch the heads of both those bitches and kicked that black guy in the nuts had I been there. And I am a nice guy.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 15, 2015 at 07:58 PM -

lol ...

[Janet - healthy and jolly as a joker!]

Slap 'em with tens of thousands in fines & (like someone here on JOM suggested)drag them over into the ditch & let them get out of the concrete on their own.

[Dave (in MA)]

Click on the pic and you'll see a video in which the token black guy threatens the videographer with violence.

[daddy]

Well I'm sorry too see that Duke has backtracked on it's plan to allow Muslims to call for Prayer from the top of the tallest Christian Tower on campus. Duke nixes plan to use chapel tower for Muslim prayer call

I was thinking that from now on if their Sports boys got accused of rape, the Campus Authorities would fearfully side with any Muslims on the team instead of believing fat black exotic dancers---after all, only one bunch is committed to cutting off your head in the name of peace and Duke obviously knows who it is.

Nice job, Mister Brod(be)head!

[Skoot]

not test

[RickB]

Jim Miller,

I doubt Hollywood will be receptive to Rev Shakedown Shucknjive. They peddle what the paying audience will buy and they're very sharp on rejection. Take a close look at mass market image advertising and you'll see the same BOzo and the Thugs effect.

[Ben]

"black guy threatens the videographer with violence."

Too late. You've revealed what you are sub-humonoid.

[Threadkiller]

Action Sharpton has controlling interest in Sony, Rick.

F'n Norks

[Threadkiller]

Too late?

So change isn't possible.

[rich@gmu]

Dave-

have they identified the creeps in the vid-esp those assholes in the green hats? post their addresses and phone numbers so all of Boston can let them know how they feel.

[Dave (in MA)]

"If our government can't handle a few protesters during normal rush hour,I can't imagine the likes of us trying to host an Olympics."
Barbara Anderson, Citizens for Limited Taxation

[Dave (in MA)]

Rich,

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/01/15/protesters-plead-not-guilty-after-blocking-i-93/

On Howie Carr's show they said two of 'em were complaining that rough treatment by the police resulted in them getting "scraped arms".

[narciso]

how can they be not guilty, of course they were obstructing,dr, king, ghandi was willing to go to jail for their beliefs, these won't even do that,

the Belgian tie to AQ, is not new, I became aware of it, through a memoir of a Moroccan,
Omar Nassiri, who eventually was an agent for their securite de etat and the DGSE, that was about three years before 9/11.

[daddy]

“If I were an evangelical student attending Duke University, I would go to the administration officials today and say that after the 1 p.m. call to prayer by Muslims – I want to get on the public address system and quote John 3:16,” Jeffress told me. “I wonder how diverse Duke would be with that request?”

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said in a statement. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

I think for further Kumbaya, they should all have to hold those little electrified shock wands that the Scientologists make their new adherents hold onto while answering questions.

And if they're women they should also have to undergo mandatory clitoral circumcision in this effort to unify.

Serious question; can our American Institutions of Higher Learning get any stupider?

[narciso]

the former organization was apparently watching this group, unlike the DGSE that was apparently on a croissant break,

[RickB]

"how can they be not guilty"

Dunno, Narciso - they look like they have a pretty strong mental defect defense readily available.

[Threadkiller]

Serious question; can our American Institutions of Higher Learning get any stupider?

You cannot be serious.

:-)

[rich@gmu]

daddy-

they did back off (are they trying to spin it as a security concern?). would think that religious groups of all stripes would have had fun with it though. and if Duke is like any other school they allow proselytizing in the various student squares through the day. Have the imam-in-training warble the adhan and have prayer rugs available?

But since services are sex segregated would they run afoul of campus feminists ...

[narciso]

I hadn't considered that, sanity precludes me from that conclusion, meanwhile, just set off the cold fusion bomb, re the Quinnipiac poll in Gotham,

[daddy]

LOL, TK.

In addition to how offensive this idea is on a Christian Campus and in regard to timing, Brodhead and Duke come across to me as guys thinking they need to improve the sound system for when the Morlocks send out their version of "the Dinner Bell," to the Eloi.

Personally I just hope that Duke is enlightened enough to let their coed student (who happens to be a professional pron actress) shoot a scene on Campus with the Muslim Prayer in the background. Maybe she could shoot the scene in the same Chapel as where the Musli, Call to Prayer is taking place.

Why not? Wouldn't that also have "the intended effect?"

[daddy]

Rich,

I'm close to the point of thinking that we need to have another World War in order to create a new generation of Adults, which this current generation is sadly lacking.

[narciso]

the usual nazguls are hovering:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/15/sarah-palin-obama-chicken-for-refusing-to-say-radical-islam-video/

[rich@gmu]

daddy-

probably so. hope not.

and sadly, hope is the first step on the road to disappointment!

[narciso]

this is the jayvee pick I mentioned yesterday:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/01/former-gitmo-detainee-mullah-abdul-rauf-is-leading-taliban-recruiting-efforts-in-afghanistan/

[narciso]

and this is who I was referring to:

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=omar_nasiri_1

[sbw]

Back for a moment to the Swiss deciding to cut themselves loose from the EUtannic. What kind of suction as the ship goes down does the sinking have for us?

[rich@gmu]

it probably won't be good when it all comes unglued.

[henry]

sbw, several steps.

1. Bank capital / holdings of EU state debts, loans to EU firms

2. Loss of export sales to EU

3. Loss of domestic sales as imports become cheap

4. Fire sales of US assets by EU owners (Russians are already selling).

Think 2008, with less buffering.

[Miss Marple]

The entire Duke Muslim chapel flap just shows you how out of it academia is. Normal people know this would get people upset. Not the academics though, they just wanted to be inclusive (and push their multiculturalism and social engineering on their students).

Never considered donors, students, other religious institutions (for gosh sakes, this is the home state of Billy and Franklin Graham), or the people of North Carolina.

I hope the ghost of Doris Duke haunts that administration and sends them screaming into the night. Idiots!

[narciso]

to quote Owen Wilson in Armageddon;

'the scariest environment imaginable'

[Jim Miller]

"4. Fire sales of US assets by EU owners (Russians are already selling)."

So, Warren Buffett is going to make even more money?

Maybe he will even be able to afford a raise for his secretary.

[Jane on Ipad]

Insty has the best cartoon up I 've ever seen. I can't bring it here on IPad, but someone should, and post it on Facebook too.

[narciso]

that's the more charitable interpretation:

[jimmyk]

This one?

[Threadkiller]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET_Awards_2014

Diversity.

[henry]

Jim, cronies always win, except when they win big. Deflation is good if you have cash, devastating if you have debt. Consider Japan's lost decades as a global beta test.

[sbw]

Jane, here:

[jimmyk]

Not going to the march pales in comparison to the decision to release five more Gitmo detainees today. He is just thumbing his nose at the civilized world.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/15/us-announces-release-5-gitmo-detainees/

[jimmyk]

Too slow, sbw. :)

[sbw]

Honest, I refreshed and saw no chicken before I posted.

[narciso]

like I say, the most charitable impression:

http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/01/15/freeze-state-dept-says-u-s-ok-iran-building-nuclear-plants-enriching-uranium/

[Miss Marple]

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson's comment:

Nazis: No Jesus, killed millions.
Shintoism: No Jesus, killed millions.
Communism: No Jesus, killed millions.

Now we have this group who's reared up. No Jesus, wants to conquer the world and kill millions.

And we have walled Jesus off, so there's no moral compass here.

To those who are left, he says love God, your family and your neighbor. That's all you can do.

[Jim Miller]

Let's see. According to a quick look at a French/English dictionary, the sign could read (for the benefit of our French friends): Je suis un poulet.

(Poule also means chicken, but it is feminine, and perhaps closer to our word, "hen".

FWIW, "poulet" is also a slang word for police: "Il s'est fait attraper par les poulets." "He got caught by the cops." Which I don't think is something the French police thought up themselves.)

[narciso]

actually his dog, was a more perceptive analyst:

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/15/jackass-luke-russert-writes-off-combat-vet-joni-ernst-as-unknown-pig-farmer/

[matt]

In solidarity with our Muslim brothers I am going to go to the campus of UC Irvine and use my bullhorn tomorrow to call them to prayers:

Mekeleke Hai! Meka Hiney Ho! And don't let the door hit you in the ass!

The UCI Muslim student union is especially toxic.

Funny how those Muslim radicals had full auto weapons in Belgium today. Back in the day Belgium was where you could get practically anything. I guess some of that still holds true.

One good thing when the Wall came down; most of the Russian troops didn't have the ammo for their weapons, and ammo for that stuff is hard to come by in Western Europe.

I don't think too many Europeans bought it anyway because of the cultural prohibitions, but some interesting stuff was to be had at the flea market in Berlin for a year or two.

[jorod]

It's called erosion.

[narciso]

there's a lot of that going around:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-2912498/Police-raid-Sydney-home-Islamic-sheik.html

[Miss Marple]

Heading to bed.

Nytol.

[Captain Hate]

Luke Russert could single handedly destroy the concept of merit based advancement through the MFM. Not that other examples don't exist...

[Jane on Ipad]

Thanks guys. It's a good cartoon, isn't it?

[narciso]

the Huntress was of a like minded, whereas what startling insight, drove the clique to reactivate the Nexus 6

[narciso]

make him squeal:

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/15/george-washington-was-a-hick-farmer-too-and-more-lukerussertfarmtips/

[Jim Miller]

"Luke Russert could single handedly destroy the concept of merit based advancement through the MFM."

I think Gail Collins beat him to it.

I have been trying, for some years, to figure out how she got the job of editorial page editor at the NYT and, so far, have been unable to come up with any hypotheses that are suitable for a family web site.

But she looks bright next to the Blethen heir, Ryan Blethen, who will probably be running the Seattle Times, in a few years.

[narciso]

I think they call it networking:

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/01/daniel-zimmerman/paris-terrorists-bought-aks-rocket-launcher-belgian-train-station/

[Jim Miller]

Collins is the most interesting of the three since, as far as I know, she didn't inherit the position.

[Captain Hate]

Haven't we had this exact exchange before, Jim?

[Jim Miller]

I see that Daniel Zimmerman finds that loan of 6,000 euros, as interesting as I do. Unless I am missing something, Coulibaly doesn't look like a great credit risk.

[Jim Miller]

CH - Possibly. My memory isn't as good as it used to be. And I had just skimmed through the latest Collins column.

Which I would not advise tha anyone else do.

[Danube on iPad]

"JATFI"

So the Founders had formed some intention about foreign embassies' issuing birth celrtificates to their citizens?

[narciso]

the fellow Belhecine, ponders, had a curious track record before, it also seems a bit far to go for a gun, then again you have the Nemmouche example, who almost made it to Marseilles,

[MarkO]

Apparently, there are some things too stupid even for Duke.

[narciso]

according to the loan application, Coulibaly said he worked for some music enterprise, Naxos,

[glasater]

Jim M-

A couple of Blethen scions are doing time here in our valley. One is in ad production at our local daily and the other is publisher of two (count'em) dailies one here in WW and the other in Yakima.
Times are tough for paper publications.

[glasater]

A french fellow on TV said the automatic weapons in Belgium and France were coming in from the Balkans.

[Captain Hate]

A cautionary tale against going full retard:

http://weaselzippers.us/211133-lib-rag-salon-left-needs-to-replicate-rights-dirty-and-sleazy-tactics/

[Threadkiller]

Aren't you supposed to beg permission before you engage?

[narciso]

the French Ambassador, that seems to be an excuse, considering the long reach of networks to and from Syria, not to mention
North Africa, which isn't that far away.

[narciso]

so the fellow who reversed the penalties is now a judge, one of the prosecutors is still working in Anchorage, not to say Mos Eiseley, (Star Wars reference) and another was prosecuting James Risen, at last recollection,

[Captain Hate]

Lightning round time: Who is dumber: Rowan Farrow or Luke Russert?

[Danube on iPad]

What I have pledged is that when TK posts a Birther loonism, I will inquire as to whether anyone is interested in reading a response and, unless someone does so I won't surprise.

But when TK enthusiastically trumpets his ignorance of the constitution in non-birther areas, I will ridicule him with gusto.

[narciso]

Is Meeka in the trifecta,

back during the London bombing, they said that was where they got the explosives,

[jimmyk]

Gail Collins is married to a big CBS News senior producer, so that might explain something. He wrote a book that's a hatchet job on Rudy's handling of 9/11.

[Captain Hate]

Welp it's Nytol time.

[narciso]

I know you're shocked Stewart got it wrong again,

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2015/01/no-israel-didnt-jail-cartoonist-because.html#.VLie0ctATmR

[Threadkiller]

Pretty sneaky sis.