No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for January 2nd, 2008

Natural flow of atmospheric energy melting Arctic ice

by @ 20:22. Filed under Global "Warming".

(H/T – Jon Ham)

The “scientists” that are still pushing human-caused Gorebal Warming are admitting that a natural cyclical flow of atmospheric energy headed toward the Arctic Circle is warming things up there. Somehow I doubt they took into account the cyclical increase in solar energy that is coming to a close when they claim that natural causes are a secondary reason for temperature changes.

Right on cue, here’s tonight’s predicted low temperatures:

Milwaukee – 6 degrees (8 degrees below average)
Raleigh, NC – 19 degrees (12 degrees below average)
Tampa, FL – 29 degrees (24 degrees below average; oh, and they’re under a hard freeze warning tonight)

Yep, a whole lot of Gorebal Warming going on out there.

Can you drive a stick?

by @ 15:29. Filed under Miscellaneous.

That’s the question Chris the head barkeep asks. Me? Oh, hell yeah. I’ve owned 7 cars; 4 of them, including the last 3, have had that third pedal. It is great knowing that, when I do my poor rally driver imitation in the snow, I can judge just how much throttle I can give to hang the tail of the car out as far as I want and no further without the transmission grabbing another gear and messing that up.

Guess that calls for another NRE poll… :-)

Can you drive a stick?

Up to 1 answer(s) was/were allowed

  • Yes. (50%, 56 Vote(s))
  • Like a race car driver. (38%, 42 Vote(s))
  • No. (9%, 10 Vote(s))
  • What did you just say? (4%, 4 Vote(s))

Total Voters: 112

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Revisions/extensions (8:24 pm 1/2/2008) – I’ll figure out how to test those of you who say “like a race car driver”.

The PLAN continues to grow and modernize

by @ 15:17. Filed under International relations, War.

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to Duncan Hunter, and to a leser extent, Fred Thompson, pay attention. Jeff Head has been tracking the growth and modernization of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (that would be the Red Chinese), and he’s come out with his beginning-of-2008 update. There are two big areas of concern from where I sit:

– The biggest is the explosive growth in the amphibious capacity. Many naval observers have said the only thing that has kept Taiwan from being absorbed by Red China has been the inability of the ChiComs to get their massive army over water; they’re rapidly rectifying that oversight.

– Almost as troubling, especially with the de-emphasis on ASW in the US Navy, is a modernization of the PLAN’s submarine fleet, both attack and missile subs. Those quieter attack subs give them the theoretical ability to make the Western Pacific a very dangerous place for the 7th Fleet, while modern missile subs give them a second-nuclear strike capability.

I’m not as concerned, at least yet, about the continuing work on the ex-Varyag. At the point the Red Chinese are in their quest to be the worldwide empire, it does not really enhance their offensive capability. However, it does in the interim give them another way to bloody the 7th Fleet and in the longer term, it gives them expertise in carrier operations that, barring another paradigm shift I can’t yet forsee, they will need to march beyond what the Japanese called the Southern Resource Area 70 years ago.

Hack-A-CFL

by @ 13:52. Filed under Envirowhackos, Politics - National.

I know, the Iowa caucii are tomorrow, but I do have to take some time to point you to a pair of broadsides launched at the bipartisan Party-In-Government execution of the common incandescent light bulb. First, we have BrianR over at The View From The Island, who links the coming ban on the good light bulbs to the broader affront to freedom the envirowhackos pose. Next up, Brian M. Carney at OpinionJournal/The Wall Street Journal points out how GE and Philips are making out like bandits.

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