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August 15, 2012

“We’re going around the country, talking about, ‘How do we put people back to work? How do we improve our schools? How do we make sure that we’re producing American energy? How do we lower our debt in a responsible way?’ And I don’t think you or anybody who’s been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. We’ve always tried to bring the country together,” President Obama said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

Obama: I Don’t Think Anyone Would Suggest I’ve Tried To Divide The Country | RealClearPolitics

Right ….

August 15, 2012

The nation’s first elected black governor, Doug Wilder of Virginia, has lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television for his comment Tuesday about banks keeping people “in chains.”

Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant Republican claims that Biden’s remarks before a largely black crowd in Danville, Va., brought racism into the presidential race.

First black governor of Virginia, Doug Wilder, slams Biden for ‘chains’ remark 

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Macon, Georgia has received more than eight inches of rain the last six weeks, and is listed by the US Drought Monitor as having an exceptional drought.

The only thing exceptional is the level of BS coming out of the US government.

Temperatures will probably not make it above 70 degrees today here, which will make it our second coldest August 16 (after 2008) going back to 1893.

www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv

Seventy percent of all midwest July daily record maximums were set prior to 1940. More than 20% of  them were set in 1936.

The graph above shows the USHCN average maximum temperature and eleven year running mean  for Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

July 2012 was more than four degrees cooler than 1936, and was also cooler than 1901, 1934 and 1954. The period since 1990 has been the coolest of the last century.

When people like Katherine Hayhoe say that the heat is unusual, it is a further indication that they have no idea what they are talking about.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Ecuador announced Thursday that it was granting political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London awaiting the decision.
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The move leaves Mr. Assange with protection from arrest only on Ecuadorean territory, meaning he could only leave the embassy for Ecuador with British cooperation.

Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum – NYTimes.com

1. Has the Mississippi River dried up?
2. Has half the population of Oklahoma moved to California?
3. Have clouds of dust blown into New York from the midwest?
4. Have thousands of people been dying from the heat every week?
5. Does the midwest look anything like this?

If the answer to any of these questions is no, then you fail.

Twitter / borenbears: Globally, July was 329th straight …

NOAA picks a cold period for the baseline, adjusts recent temperatures upwards and fails to account for UHI. The odds of them reporting honest temperatures are zero out of infinity.

Perhaps Seth could explain why half of the lower 48 US states set their all time high temperature record during the 1930s.