Jupiter pole has warmed by 10 degrees.

JAM

Cassandras are back again. Please stop forcing your global warming religion onto free society. We have separation of state and church. Take you AGW religion back to your church and stay there.

JAM

If global warming brought Sandy how do you explain this:

between 1278 and 1438 — A major hurricane struck the modern-day New York/New Jersey area, probably the strongest in recent millennium
August 25, 1635 — A hurricane that is reported to have tracked parallel to the East Coast impacts New England and New York
September 8, 1667 — A 'severe storm' is reported in Manhattan
October 29, 1693 — The Great Storm of 1693 causes severe damage on Long Island, and is reported to create the Fire Island
August 19, 1788 — A hurricane strikes New York City or Long Island and is reported to have left the west side of the Battery "laid in ruins" after severe flooding occurs
October 9, 1804 — Heavy snow falls in Eastern New York peaking at 30 inches (75 cm) as a hurricane tracks northward
September 24, 1815 — Several hundred trees fall and the majority of the fruit was stripped off apple trees just prior to harvesting time after a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island
September 3, 1821 — The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane results in severe damage on Long Island and is accompanied by storm surge of 13 feet (4 m). High wind causes a ship to crash on Long Island killing 17 people.
August 24, 1893 — Hog Island is washed away by strong storm surge associated with a tropical storm

There are more in XX century.
It must have been those firewood CO2 emmisions

JAM

Why stop at solar panels ? They are expensive, don't work at night and even on sunny day in most US they would generate fraction of the energy needed to power the house. I call for progressive politicians to open their mind. We need personal nuclear reactor in every house. This is reliable power source. Works day and night, winter or summer, wind or no wind. Does not need frequent fueling !!! We can even mandate that the waste neutrons to be captured and reused (as an additional benefit) to trans mutate lead into gold. As we all know, Washington - "yes we can" - is fully capable to mandate laws of physics or economics to be modified as needed. This will pay for itself. With the gold produced we can buy extra plutonium to power houses of those who cannot afford personal nuclear reactor for free. Science behind it is as solid as science behind affordable solar panels. Thus we will have unlimited source of energy that pays for itself. Progressive Washington must stop thinking small. Just don't call it nuclear. Come up with some other name. Progressives has unexplained allergy to anything called nuclear.

JAM

That is a primitive look at the problem. It takes massive government help to build car industry from scratch. Japan did this, Korea did this and China is doing it right now. They were producing subsidized cars for decades before their products become competitive and were able to stand against global competition. All countries that have some brains know that auto industry is a key to the strength of the economy and protect it even if orioginally it cannot compete. Only British let their car industry die and today their industry is a shadow of what Germany is in Europe. Neither Bush nor Obama was that stupid to kill US auto industry and expect our economy to grow. It would be much easier to let the banks die and rebuild them from scratch then to build new auto industry. If the economy is so Darwinian, why didn't you demanded to kill all the banks in the first place. They created the whole mess.

JAM

Assembled in Ohio mostly from parts made somwhere else. The only reason those cars are made here is because otherwise Japanese would have to pay stiff tarrifs. Another proof for globalists that free trade is BS and tarrifs work.

JAM

That's the same statistics they are using to prove that we are getting better, our healthcare is the "best in the world" and our schools are great. Go to Wallmart and try to find that US made stuff. Open your computer and find out what exactly was made in USA. You will be lucky to find out a single chip made here. Yes, we still make few passenger jets, some machines and some military hardware. The rest of what we make nobody is really interested in buying, lo tech cheap stuff. The largest exporters in the world are China and Germany, not USA. Even the stuff we make is more often now made using foregin components and tools. When it comes to high tech USA is even shrinking faster. Have you seen US made high end camera, home theatre, TV set or car these days? We used to manufacture things that were leading edge, world was dreaming of. Not anymore. With the few exceptions we make stuff that nobody wants outside US.

JAM

I wonder if you had the same opinion when Linux ripped off Unix. I always found Linux commands to be too similar to Unix commands to be pure conicidence.

JAM

Copernicus law that bad money replaces good money seems to be working in IT.

PC won over Apple
Intell 8088 won over Motorola 68000

Microsoft had multiple wins with inferior products:

Windows won over Apple OS and Amiga OS
MFC won over Borland OWL
Visual Basic won over Delphi
IE won over Netscape and was winning over Firefox for years.

But now Microsoft finally has really good, in some cases world class products and the tables are turned:

Excellent Windows phone 7 seems to be going nowhere.
Excellent Zune is a lost cause.
Fantastic developement environment in shape of Visual Studio and .net seems to be loosing steam.
Excellent C# probably will loose as soon as .net is abandoned.

There is something in IT that good enough often wins over excellent.

Hmmm. so it seems, that atheism is a genetic disorder and the nature will take care of it one way or the other. Amazing how God has it's mysterious ways.

JAM

I was reading New York Times, and was under the impression, that George Bush can inject venom too. But maybe he is not a mammal ?

JAM