Author Archives: Tony Heller

Several commenters are starting to sound like 13 year olds, with constant gutter insults. This really doesn’t help anyone out.

One of the wilderness rangers I worked with in New Mexico used to be a National Park Service ranger at the Grand Canyon. He told me a story  about a 1970s death in the Grand Canyon where a hiker was … Continue reading →

Almost everything we did as kids in the 1950s and 1960s for fun would get children in serious trouble now. Society now protects children by stifling and frustrating all their natural instincts. This is producing a lot of mentally unbalanced … Continue reading →

LANLOverview.pdf One out of every six days in Los Alamos has a thunderstorm, and they are often accompanied by hail. I grew up there and remember it quite clearly. Alarmists come to this blog and claim that hail is unusual … Continue reading →

Life at Wartime Los Alamos Here are a few of my outstanding memories: On a hike, seeing a tree blown to kindling wood by lightning. Lightning at Los Alamos? Tell me about it! This was poignant, because just the day before … Continue reading →

In June 1981 I was working as a wilderness ranger in the Sandia Mountains just outside Albuquerque. Two hang gliders were preparing to take off as a thunderstorm built up. We warned them not to go, but they didn’t listen. … Continue reading →

Obama has succeeded in getting Code Pink, the Tea Party, and socialists working together. Restore the Fourth protesters stage rallies against NSA surveillance San Francisco protest to target Senator Dianne Feinstein as part of demands for reform of Patriot Act … Continue reading →

President Obama now knows that he can get away with anything, and that Republican leaders lack the integrity or personal strength to keep him from running roughshod over the US.

Even more shocking is that New Mexico has had thousands of hailstorms with large hail. NM Weather Hazards Here is some expert analysis on the subject h/t to sunsettommy

President Lyndon Johnson was best known for being the most liberal member of the Senate, before he created the welfare state and started the Vietnam War. Like Obama, Johnson also thought that he controlled the climate. PRESIDENT BACKS CLIMATE CONTROL … Continue reading →