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So when can you do the Joni Mitchell thing?
Excuse me, while i put some on that.
Pictures 1 and 3 are so dreary. Can we all just commit suicide?
Seems like Taylor Swift needs to calm down.
Ice Eight.
The ice, it grows.
Is it me or has the Impeachment Inquiry shambled on up to the finish line? All the air seems to have gone out of that balloon.
Ice, ice, baby.
The IG's report makes it clear that Mueller's team spent no time validating the FusionGPS dossier findings. By ignoring the dossier and by dragging the Muller investigation out past the mid-terms, Mueller's delay may be partly responsible for the House Dem majority that are voting to impeach. Mission accomplished, Mueller, Brennan, Clapper and Comey!
Very dreary and depressing.
Why can't you swim in those lakes?
Shoulda worn my Althouse WonderCleats today, but by the time I realized how icy it was I was plum wore out and came back home.Shoulda
You're either properly cleated or you're not.
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
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This is potentially an interesting connection. Romney campaign's foreign policy advisor was Stephen Schrage, the Halper associate who invited Carter Page to Cambridge symposium on July 11-12 at which Halper surveilled Page.
Romney doesn’t want any kind of a trial. His campaign manager was on the board of Burisma.
Skylark said...
Romney doesn’t want any kind of a trial. His campaign manager was on the board of Burisma.
I will be interested to see how much money Graham and Burr have made over there as well.
Sasse is almost acting as if he is clean. But my guess is China is his bugaboo.
Achilles: "Sasse is almost acting as if he is clean. But my guess is China is his bugaboo."
We already know that China owns Amash outright thru his family business. Amash has to vote for impeachment or suddenly there are going to be supply chain "problems" for his company.
Mitt has suddenly gone into Radio silence. Guess the NYT's doesn't need an R "reaching across the aisle" and calling TRump a "racist" when there's an impeachment trial going on.
Don't worry after this is over, Mitt will be in the News again, attacking Trump and winning applause from the Left.
Sasse is getting paid off by paul Singer. If you want to know which way Ben will vote, ask Paul Singer.
Mitt's up to eyeballs in Foreign corruption. So, are a lot of Senators, that's why Miss Lindsey won't call Biden as a witness.
https://theonlyfloridaman.com/index.php/2019/04/14/yes-somone-actually-made-a-florida-man-documentary-and-here-it-is-folks/
Via Rantburg:
WattsUpWithThat] The sun is currently in the midst of a deep solar minimum and it is about to reach an historic milestone. So far this year the sun has been blank (i.e., no visible sunspots) for 266 days and, barring any major surprises, it’ll reach 269 days early next week which will be the quietest year in terms of sunspots since 1913 when the sun was spotless for 311 days. In fact, the current stretch of consecutive spotless days has reached 29 and for the year the sun has been blank 77% of the time. The current record-holder in the satellite era for spotless days in a given year is 2008 when the sun was blank for 268 days making the 2008-2009 solar minimum the deepest since 1913.
Solar minimum is a normal part of the 11-year sunspot cycle, but the last one and the current one have been far deeper than most. One of the consequences of a solar minimum is a reduction of solar storms and another is the intensification of cosmic rays. The just ended solar cycle 24 turned out to be one of the weakest in more than a century ‐ continuing a weakening trend that began in the 1980’s ‐ and, if the latest forecasts are correct, the next solar cycle will be the weakest in more than 200 years....
And from the comments:
Several weeks ago, an article was posted here about a Russian scientist perfecting her model of solar output. The model fit known solar patterns over the last 400 years or more. One conclusion was the years 2030-2050 could be the coldest in 400 years.
It’s not the first time I’ve read 2030 + is going to be cold.
I’ve read 2030-2100 colder than normal then it heats up again.
We recently watched Pleasantville again.
It was made around 1998. The school scene where the teacher was lecturing about global warming and what it would be like in 20 years — now — was instructive.
Soon great fun will result from a pair of ice skates and a large sheet of cardboard. Speed skates work best. Smart students learn physics by leveraging the wind.
The snobs have ice boats. And hand warmers. And face masks. And hot toddies in a thermos.
Question for the Professor: Does a congresspersons oath of office effectively place them under oath during official house proceedings and if so would not intentionally lying during said proceedings constitute perjury? Who has the standing to charge them if this is so? i.e. Adam Schiff...Thanks
Seeing Red: "It’s not the first time I’ve read 2030 + is going to be cold.
I’ve read 2030-2100 colder than normal then it heats up again"
We are certainly heading into a minimum which is why the dems/left/LLR-lap poodles are desperate to get back into power so they can claim their magical green nude eels saved the day when it will have been a naturally occurring periodic solar minimum.
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Pictures 1 and 3 are so dreary. Can we all just commit suicide?
Yeah, Meade ought to take a chainsaw with him next time.
Badgers v. Corn tomorrow for a trip to the volleyball Final Four. WI beat NE twice this season.
Watch!
Looks colder than Hillary Clinton's tits.
Seeing Red quoted: "The model fit known solar patterns over the last 400 years or more."
Proves nothing. It is a trivial exercise to fit a model to a known data set. The problem is that such a model has no predictive value. The ability to make predictions requires more than a model, it requires a theory of what causes what.
We lack such a theory for climate, and for the Solar cycle.
Anybody who had linear regression in undergrad (or business) school knows that you can always pick parameters to fit a line to a data set, but no one in their right mind thinks you can predict the future from that. If it were possible anyone could get rich speculating in the markets.
Curve (or model) fitting is not necessarily useless; it can sometimes be suggestive of an underlying physical law, which could then be proposed as a hypothesis and tested by experiment.
It is difficult to imagine what sort of experiments could test a theory of the mechanism behind the Solar cycle, if we had one. Which we don't.
Holy Smokes!! Hilary had some work done, and she's starting to look like Barbra Streisand.
Teh horror:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/13/doj-imran-awan-records/?fbclid=IwAR3FY7HeTV81KnEGSjZP8csc-Qg-omHrzlBBqvjqm2lc2ung3g5DtXL-fWY
The Daily Mail:
Hundreds of Antifa protesters clash with police outside Downing Street and are ridiculed for holding anti-democratic 'F*** Boris' protest just hours after the nation voted to make Johnson Prime Minister
Oh really
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2019/12/after-a-massacre-in-a-jewish-market-in-jersey-city-a-rabbi-seeks-a-muslims-advice.html
"German Shepherd fails service dog test but becomes Internet sensation
Watch the video...
Come again:
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/joe-bidens-brexit/90942/?fbclid=IwAR1jWP_QhNqOPs9rxPVPQFo3uBoB31gSdN2F7Nq4k6d8e0N3pdzpfqEZP2s#.XfQVeR5PQg8.facebook
where's joe pientka,
the FBI agent who accompanied Peter Strzok to the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 to interview Trump's new NSA adviser, @GenFlynn?
He's also the FBI agent who met with Bruce Ohr to pass on Steele info to FBI.
He tapped into Halper, the crack cocaine addict, (the least of his unsavory habits)
See Svetlana Lokova's work to find out what an absolute POS this guy was involved in this shit-show
Uh oh!! Existential crisis for LLR-lefty Chuck!!
Up to now LLR-lefty Chuck has been pretending to support Mitch McConnell (wink wink- to sell that LLR facade) but LLR-lefty Chuck has really REALLY been supportive of Stolen Valor Da Nang Dick Blumenthal. And now Blumenthal is attacking McConnell!!
LOL
What a conundrum!
Whats Chuck going to do? Follow his heart and real purpose and drop the charade by attacking McConnell? Or will he instead grit his teeth to the point of cracking them and pretend to attack Blumenthal?
This is going to be fun fun fun.
I’m looking at headlines in the British papers about yesterday’s vote.
The Grauniad is trying to raise $1.5 mil because 2020 will be an epic year for America.
Huh?
No halper is the company factotum, which ayen for china and sticky fingers o
In finance (palmer national bank) went under he may have been the middleman between steele and the fmr russian intel officer married to a ukrainian im contact with simpson before and after the trump tower meet.
And don’t forget - inEngland, snowfalls are a thing of the past.
Except this weekend it seems. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Sound like when they tried to flip hanilton county in ahia in 04.
What is this jeremy corbyn day
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/12/13/ignoring-rest-of-world-un-general-assembly-approves-eight-anti-israel-resolutions/?fbclid=IwAR2i-mLzK0yaACxmRSKaYzeYcugpBji6YSb7zpfFDVTch5fcplymBFapRYA
going on .... Water of purest hue
On earth, would appear turbid and impure
Compared with this, whose concealing dew
Dark, dark, yet clear as ice, moved under the obscure
Eternal shades whose interwoven looms\The rays of sunlight or moonlight
or something in between
Toda el agua que fuera aquí mas limpia
arrastrar impurezas pareciera
a esta que nada oblida comparada
por mas que esta discurra oscurecida
bajo llegiedra sombras que no dejan
nunca paso a la luz, se puede que si se puede que non,
del sol ni luna, del sol y luna,
porque la nuestra ultima esperanza esta la injusticia del buen Dios nuestra Señor tan amabile
You meanrefuse to aupply heavy weapons to ukraine for three years.
https://mobile.twitter.com/alimhaider/status/1205688923554557952
Proves nothing. It is a trivial exercise to fit a model to a known data set. The problem is that such a model has no predictive value. The ability to make predictions requires more than a model, it requires a theory of what causes what.
I can't speak for solar patterns, but making a model fit too well (over fitting) makes the predictions even worse. Basically, the model is made to fit features that it can't account for and that messes things up. There is a suspicion that most climate models are over fitted. They don't model from scratch and there are knobs that are adjusted to fit a period of time for which temperatures are somewhat known.
Yuck! Who can live in that environment?
Speaking of which, who wants to save my marriage. The wife absolutely wants to live in southern California for the climate and style of life.
I absolutely refuse to live in LA because I hate that soul-sucking town. I hate the traffic, the pollution, the endless miles of concrete and highways.
Any suggestions for nice smaller cities is SoCal without outrageous home prices?
@Bill, RoT:
San Luis Obispo?
Lucien.
Noted. It looks great.
What could go wrong:
https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1205687806338752513
Anyone got tips on tattoo removal technology/companies? I want to invest -- that's going to be a thing, if it isn't already.
“ The IG's report makes it clear that Mueller's team spent no time validating the FusionGPS dossier findings. By ignoring the dossier and by dragging the Muller investigation out past the mid-terms, Mueller's delay may be partly responsible for the House Dem majority that are voting to impeach. Mission accomplished, Mueller, Brennan, Clapper and Comey!”
Interestingly, the previous Congress requested that the Carter Page FISA warrants be declassified. Trump was initially in favor of it. Then DAG Rosenstein told him that Mueller’s rabidly partisan prosecutors would use that to find him Obstructing Justice (using the Weissman/Lawfare misinterpretation of the Obstruction statute I have repeatedly discussed before). Trump backed off, at least until the OIG FISA investigation was complete. It’s complete. There are repeated calls for the applications to be fully declassified. I would expect that Trump will be more interested this time.
@narciso
what does 'no' mean in your 9:17 post?
"Now we know why the FBI (Wray) has gone to such great lengths to keep Pientka away from Congressional inquiry.
The IG Report found that under Pientka's supervision and approval, there were incorrect factual assertions in the 1st FISA app.
Put more bluntly, Pientka knowingly lied to the FISA court." per @TechnoFog
"Also, Joe Pientka ("SSA 1" in the report), who also interviewed Flynn with Strzok, made the operational decision to use Halper as a source targeting the Trump campaign". per @JohnWHuber
"Bill, Republic of Texas said...
Any suggestions for nice smaller cities is SoCal without outrageous home prices?"
Maybe you could look for towns or areas of towns that still have dirt roads. In the DC area that signifies lower house prices but middle class people (or else millionaires and the highest house prices of all.)
About the drugs maybe acomma would have helped
Yes Bill, all is not lost there yet, SLO town is not really Southern Ca but close enough and lovely, Pismo Beach is excellent also.
Lots of little towns on the way...
Pismo Beach is excellent also.
Just watch out for that left turn at Albuquerque!
Oh:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1205624685142130690
Voldemort is less two faced than amash, he wanted troops out of syria and afghanistan but not this way
is there a Latin phrase for this?
Obama gave Pearson Publishing $350 million to create Commoncore text and Pearson gave Obama a $65 million dollar book deal in return
The Obamas’ $60m book deal has broken all records.
insidiosis coniurationem fecerant?
Is there a Latin phrase for this?
Yep.
this rocks
Lesbian Walks Up to Church Saying “I’m Here For My Stoning,” Guy Tells Her to “Come Back Tomorrow”
https://reformationcharlotte.org/2019/12/12/lesbian-walks-up-to-church-saying-im-here-for-my-stoning-guy-tells-her-to-come-back-tomorrow/
is there a Latin phrase for this?
Sure- "Vos scalpere dorsum, ego scalpere dorsum."
Also, in Welsh- flesmih llik t'ndid nietspe yerffej.
Lesbian Walks Up to Church Saying “I’m Here For My Stoning,”
She must have been a rainy day woman.
Julius Caesar walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a Martinus."
The bartender gives him a puzzled look and asks, "Don't you mean a Martini?"
"Look," Caesar replies, "If I wanted a double, I'd have asked for it."
"You're either properly cleated or you're not." Wild Chicken
I took my darling walking across the lake on ice
She told me she had cheated and she wasn't very nice
She wasn't properly cleated, I didn't have to push her twice
Now I need a lawyer cause her cleatage didn't suffice.
Note the timestamp on this tweet:
thom@thwphipps
the year is 2019 and president trump is discussing isis with prime minister johnson
12:36 PM · Jul 4, 2015
https://twitter.com/thwphipps/status/617371513277259776
He says he’s a screenwriter. Which I guess is true: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7074745/
The first layer of the 5 miles thickness of an ice age glacier. You got to start it somewhere.
Sunspot activity predicts a decade of colder than average global temperatures starting around 2030.
Time to move south.
We've had unusual weather in the Boston area over the past several weeks. Unusual in the sense that there have been more cold days and snow than I recall typically getting in late November and December.
Ahh yes, bare trees in the winter gray sky. My youth. The images still resonate BUT
Sunshine is therapeutic, especially in the winter.
As usual. The image didn’t get properly linked.
https://images.app.goo.gl/fjn1ts1yffc4m6TE9
There are repeated calls for the applications to be fully declassified. I would expect that Trump will be more interested this time. <
Yes, he was surrounded by swamp creatures until Barr came along.
This is quite the feint with Joe Pientka. Back in the day it seemed that he and Strozk had partnered on the interrogation of Flynn and I for one had thought that he had been the good guy and it was Strozk who falsified the interpretation of the interview in the 302s. But apparently, the content of their 302s was reversed all along, that is, the authorship was confused, what was thought to have written by the one was written by the other. Not sure where to go from there. Except that we seem to have another villain.
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