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Mean Old Man Winter steps down from the North early: Will he stick around?

The US set nearly 1,000 record cold temps over the Thanksgiving break, suggesting to some that the Old Farmer’s Almanac may be right about its prediction of a long, bitter winter.

“Global warming caused the very cool US summer, and the very cold US winter,” writes warming skeptic and blogger Stephen Goddard, presumably with his tongue in his cheek. “It makes everything more extreme.”

Mean Old Man Winter steps down from the North early: Will he stick around? (+video) – CSMonitor.com

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h/t to Marc Morano

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters . . . . . but they mean to be masters.”

– Noah Webster

NASA’s global warming story depends on a huge amount of warming in the Arctic. They accomplish this by creating imaginary data where they have no stations, and cooling the past at the few stations they do have.

Tampered : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Measured : Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

In 1989, the UN had to solve global warming by the year 2000.

Mercury News: Search Results

But now the UN has until 2015 to save the planet.

EU official: U.N. needs global warming answer by 2015

Gaia has been merciful, and has allowed the UN a few more years of funding and tropical boondoggles.

Obama has been a birther for his entire life :

When I first met Barry, when he showed up I think it was the summer before fifth grade, he was hanging out at the tennis courts. And at the time that was the very Wimbledon-like, where everyone had to wear white clothes and white tennis shoes. Very careful about the soles of the shoes because you didn’t want to scuff up the courts, mark them up.

So yeah, I can picture him as this slightly — “chubby” is too strong, but rounded, short little guy, Barry Obama. And he told us that his father was an Indonesian king and that he was a prince, and after he finished school he was going to go back, and he would be a ruler in Indonesia. And I absolutely believed him.

I understand that he told his fifth-grade class that he was Kenyan royalty, but I never heard that story until years later. My sister and I remember very clearly that he was an Indonesian prince and that he would be going back there.

I think part of the reason that he came up with being an Indonesian prince or a Kenyan prince to his fifth-grade class was sort of that sense of OK, I feel a little different, so I’d better be something a little fancier, because it was a fancy school.

The FRONTLINE Interview: Kristen Caldwell | The Choice 2012 | FRONTLINE | PBS

He has been a delusional, lying nutcase – living in a fantasy world for his entire life.

‘Operate on this mother so that we can take her baby’

A mother was given a caesarean section while unconscious – then social services put her baby into care

Last summer a pregnant Italian mother flew to England for a two-week Ryanair training course at Stansted. Staying at an airport hotel, she had something of a panic attack when she couldn’t find the passports for her two daughters, who were with her mother back in Italy. She called the police, who arrived at her room when she was on the phone to her mother. The police asked to speak to the grandmother, who explained that her daughter was probably over-excited because she suffered from a “bipolar” condition and hadn’t been taking her medication to calm her down.

The police told the mother that they were taking her to hospital to “make sure that the baby was OK”. On arrival, she was startled to see that it was a psychiatric hospital, and said she wanted to go back to her hotel. She was restrained by orderlies, sectioned under the Mental Health Act and told that she must stay in the hospital.

By now Essex social services were involved, and five weeks later she was told she could not have breakfast that day. When no explanation was forthcoming, she volubly protested. She was strapped down and forcibly sedated, and when she woke up hours later, found she was in a different hospital and that her baby had been removed by caesarean section while she was unconscious and taken into care by social workers. She was not allowed to see her baby daughter, and later learnt that a High Court judge, Mr Justice Mostyn, had given the social workers permission to arrange for the child to be delivered. In October, at a hearing before another judge, she was represented by lawyers assigned to her by the local authority and told she would be escorted back to Italy without her baby.

‘Operate on this mother so that we can take her baby’ – Telegraph

These forecast temperatures would obliterate all cold records for early December.

Fort Collins, CO Weather Forecast from Weather Underground

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

“There is far more danger in public than private monopoly, for when government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayer. Government never makes ends meet – and that is the first requisite of business.”

– Thomas Edison

“The Constitution is NOT an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

– Patrick Henry

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