Now for something completely different….

Now for something completely different…. Well not really. You see we have all been here before. For the last 3 years in the late summer as kids go back to school and parents around the Nation rejoices there is a little bit of theater that goes on being played out in the Nation’s Capitol. It…

Mildest US Summer In A Century

Originally posted on Real Science:
Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/ This summer, the US has experienced the fewest number of 100 degree readings in a century. The five hottest summers (1936, 1934, 1954, 1980 and 1930) all occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. CO2 went over 400 PPM this year, indicating that heatwaves and CO2 have nothing…

NSA: 107,000 + employees, $52,000,000,000 + budget

In the Washington Post today: U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released…

Part-time Nation: The $15 Big Mac

Valerie Jarrett said that Obama’s legacy was going to be Obamacare and immigration “reform” – both of which play into this: The Obama administration continues to discount the huge impact its health overhaul law is having in turning America into a part-time nation, calling reports anecdotal and not based on complete data. To paraphrase Groucho Marx:  Who…