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Obama is taking the weekend off from his usual skeet shooting, to try out the greens in Greenland this weekend.

He feels devastated by the melting going on at minus 51 degrees, and plans to address it in his state of the union speech next week.

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During the years following the 1938 gun ban in Germany, the crime rate among Jews dropped to almost zero.

Middlesboro Daily News – Nov 12, 1938

I heard this story on NPR the other night.

Baby boomers have a reputation for being addicted to exercise and obsessed with eating well.

But that story didn’t jibe with what physician Dana E. King and his colleagues see walking through the door of their family practice every day in Morgantown, W.Va.

“The perception is that the baby boomers are very active — they are, you know, climbing up mountains, and they are a very healthy bunch,” says King, a professor in the department of family medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. “We actually see people that are burdened with diabetes, hypertension, obesity, [and] who are taking an awful lot of medication.”

So King and his colleagues mined data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a big federal survey, to compare baby boomers — those who are now in their late 40s to 60s — with people from two decades ago who were in that age bracket.

There were some surprises, says King, who, along with his colleagues, reports the results in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

Baby boomers are healthier in some important ways. They are much less likely to smoke, have emphysema or get heart attacks. But in lots of other ways, the picture’s not so great.

“The proportion of people with diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity [is] increasing. And perhaps even more disturbing, the proportion of people who are disabled increased substantially,” King says.

Double the percentage of baby boomers, as compared with the previous generation, need a cane or a walker to get around. And even more have problems so bad that they can’t work.

“Only 13 percent of people said they were in excellent health compared with 33 percent a generation ago, and twice as many said they were in poor health,” King says. “And that’s by their own admission.”

Aging Poorly: Another Act Of Baby Boomer Rebellion : Shots – Health News : NPR

Depending on the current weather, climate experts try to blame either more or less snow on CO2, in order to get more funding. There is no correlation either way – as there has been no trend in US snowfall.

The graph below plots average snowfall at all HCN stations which have been continuously active since at least 1920.

Forecasters are predicting widespread electricity outages in the northeast today.

Today would be a good day to turn on Obama’s smart grid of solar and wind power, which he promised five years ago.

COMPASS Traffic Cameras – Highway 401 (Toronto)

National (US) Poll * February 8, 2013 * Hillary Clinton Is Most Popula

Obama Needs to Be Brutally Honest About Climate Change in His State of the Union

Obama Needs to Be Brutally Honest About Climate Change in His State of the Union – NationalJournal.com

I don’t think Obama is capable of telling the truth, but if he did – it would be something like this.

Climate has little to do with CO2, and even if it did there wouldn’t be much we could do about it because US CO2 emissions are already declining. Go complain to people in Asia – and quit trying to wreck the US with your communist inspired schemes.