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US consumer confidence in surprising fall from six-year high | Business | theguardian.com

Progressives believe that rodeo clowns threaten national security, but they think it is hilarious when sons of WWII Nazis make jokes about gassing conservatives to death.

“All this was inspired by the principle – which is quite true in itself – that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily;”

Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf

Coloradans can’t buy AK mags, because the government doesn’t trust Americans.

Instead, the government is buying 600,000 AK mags to give to Islamic terrorists.

10–AK Rifle Magazines – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities

The US military doesn’t use AK’s, and there is no reason why a research lab would need more than a half dozen.

It would appear that Obama is trying to start WWIII.

h/t to Robertv

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Terry’s Take: Hurricane Camille-the most powerful in U.S. history

Back on this date in 1969, hurricane Camille was rapidly intensifying over the Gulf of Mexico. In just 24 hours (August 17th) it would enter the state of Mississippi as the strongest category 5 storm to strike the United States mainland with a central pressure of 26.72? and extreme winds of up to 190 mph.

Terry’s Take: Hurricane Camille-the most powerful in U.S. history | WQAD.com

Next week is the one year anniversary of my friend breaking his neck on a mountain bike. He is a qudraplegic and  says that he wishes he hadn’t survived the accident.

One second he was in perfect health, and the next second his life was wrecked.

Drafts seen by Reuters of the study by the UN panel of experts, due to be published next month, say it is at least 95 percent likely that human activities – chiefly the burning of fossil fuels – are the main cause of warming since the 1950s. That is up from at least 90 percent in the last report in 2007, 66 percent in 2001, and just over 50 in 1995, steadily squeezing out the arguments by a small minority of scientists that natural variations in the climate might be to blame.

Experts surer of manmade global warming but local predictions elusive – World – DNA

They are so sure, that Kevin Trenberth sent this letter out :

They can’t explain the lack of warming, but they are 95% sure that the warming they aren’t seeing is caused by man.

James Hansen wrote this in 1999.

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

h/t to Tom Nelson and Marc Morano

-Coldest summer on record at the North Pole
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

–Record high August Antarctic ice extent
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png

–No major (category 3-5) hurricane strikes for eight years
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html

–Slowest tornado season on record
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/torngraph.png

–Second slowest fire season on record
http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm

–Highest August Arctic ice extent since 2006
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php

–Four of the five snowiest northern hemisphere winters have occurred since 2008
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/nhland_season1.gif

-No global warming for 17 years
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/rss/from:1997/trend