Meanwhile Back On Hoth

So we’ve got another couple inches of Gorebal Warmening as of 4am, and more coming.

As an added bonus we might get a chance to an icy sleety rain for a few hours before another change back to rain.

Sort of like a white chocolate mousse with no calories.

what’s not to love?

Update: a snowy day here in Evil Capitalismia

But “BUSH!!!”, Right?

– BREAKING NEWS –

EX-NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN FOUND GUILTY OF CORRUPTION, TAKING BRIBES WHILE IN OFFICE

Not only was he a miserable, DEMOCRATIC, inept, short-bus/short-OF-buses, lying sack-of-shit FAILURE, he’s a CONFIRMED thief, too.

Imagine that.

ths update: Oh for cripes’ sake. Try to find a (D) or the word “Democrat” ANYWHERE in this BBC story about the verdict.

“…Mayor of the city from 2002-10, he was criticised for failing to implement his evacuation plan when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005….”

“Criticised”? He LEFT HIS PEOPLE TO DIE.

Seems to be the thing for these Democrats to do.

There were LOTS of buses, but, really. What difference would it make?

A Shocking Bias Crime In NJ

I have shopped here, and now I feel horribly intimidated by the hate

A supermarket employee has been arrested after razor blades were found inside two packages of butter sold at the New Jersey store.

The 22-year-old worker was charged with food product tampering in connection with the blades found by Best Market customers last month, police said.

The blades were found inside sticks of Kerrygold butter bought at the Holmdel store.

At the time, Best Market said it pulled all Kerrygold butter from its stores and was having store managers inspect each package for signs of tampering. All the Kerrygold butter from the Holmdel store was turned over to the FDA.

First they sabotage our butter…where does the Irish hatred end?

More Climate Change ZOMG From Georgia Through New England

I’m not sure what language this is in but it doesn’t sound good

THE DIGGING UPSTREAM DYNAMICS OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL RAPIDLY CATCH UP WITH THE SRN STREAM DYNAMICS TO POTENTIALLY PHASE OVER THE SERN PORTION OF THE COUNTRY. THIS WILL ALLOW A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN MOISTURE ADVECTION FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO AND ATLANTIC TO INTERACT WITH A DEVELOPING COASTAL LOW ALONG THE SOUTHEAST COAST… WHILE ONE OF THE MORE IMPRESSIVE CONFLUENT ZONES ALOFT KEEPS THE ARCTIC AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE ENTRENCHED OVER THE EAST. A TRUE BAROCLINIC LEAF PRECIP SHIELD WILL EVOLVE FEATURING MAJOR ICING FROM ATL TOWARD CAE THEN SHIFTING NORTH TOWARD RDU AND A VERY HEALTHY DEFORMATION ZONE OF BANDING SNOWFALL FROM NRN GA/SWRN NC/NWRN SC NEWRD TO SWRN/CENTRAL VA BEFORE REACHING THE DC/BALT/PHIL METRO AREAS. THE ICE
ACCUMULATIONS REMAIN MIND-BOGGLING IF NOT HISTORICAL WITH ADDITIONAL .50 TO 1 INCH AXIS FROM ATL/AHN/AGS TO CAE TO RDU AND 8 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW FROM AVL/GSP TO ROA/LYH/CHO AND JUST SOUTH OF IAD/DCA WITH A POSSIBLE FOOT NEAR SWRN NC/NWRN SC. WPC CONTINUEDTHE COMPROMISE OF THE GFS/ECMWF/UKMET WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SREF MEAN FOR THE BEGINNING OF A CLASSIC EAST COAST WINTER STORM.

THEN ON THURS… THE INTENSIFYING SURFACE LOW GOING THROUGH RAPID CYCLOGENESIS WILL TRACK FROM THE OUTER BANKS OF NC TO THE NEW ENGLAND COASTLINE. THIS WILL RESULT IN A WEALTH OF ATLANTIC MOISTURE SURGING INTO THE NRN MID-ATL STATES AND NORTHEAST FOR A NARROW BUT IMPRESSIVE AXIS OF HEAVY SNOWFALL. THE GUIDANCE IS ALL
UNANIMOUS IN A WELL-ESTABLISHED DEFORMATION AXIS/COMMA HEAD OF HEAVY SNOW BUT DIFFER ON THE EXACT CORRIDOR. WPC TOOK A MEAN APPROACH OR TAKING OUT THE SPECIFIC DETAILS AND RESOLUTION OF THE GUIDANCE FOR A HEAVY SNOW AXIS JUST WEST OF THE I95 CORRIDOR FROM DC/BALT AREA TO BOS AND CONTINUING UP INTO MAINE. THE EXACT
AMOUNTS ON THURS ARE STILL SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN BUT A STRIPE OF 6 TO 12 INCHES WILL BE POTENTIALLY POSSIBLE FROM NERN PA/NWRN NJ THROUGH DOWN EAST MAINE.

I’d better get another case of wine…

Climate Change!1!1!1!1!

So far this Winter we’ve gotten about 48″ of Gorebal Warmening.

Our average is around 15″.

Oh and perhaps another 8-12 due Thursday.

It’s been very lovely.

So I Thought Perhaps Santa’s Sleigh Had Crashed

Sunday night we had a lovely 2 or so inches of fresh fluffy snow, and when I walked out yesterday morning at 4:30 or so to go to work there, prancing about in the pristine whiteness, were 8 deer who seemed rather put out that I would be so cheeky as to disturb their vixen-like dashing and dancing.

The Good Ship Lollipop

Has sailed

(CNN) — Shirley Temple Black, who rose to fame as arguably one of the most well-known child actresses in Hollywood history, died late Monday night, her publicist said.

She was 85.

Temple died of natural causes at her Woodside, California, home, surrounded by family and caregivers, a statement from Cheryl Kagan said.

Mr. Bojangles, dance

ObamaCare = Cancelled Insurance = Put Your Kids On Medicaid

I’ve been looking for this for two days. Gobsmacking.

…The Benjamin family pays $1,788.00 for their current private health care plan, which covers the entire family, but no longer meets the requirements of the Obamacare law.

The Benjamins could buy separate policies without subsidies, but it would cost their family $16,000 at the very least.

Experts say that putting children on Medicaid has many drawbacks, including the small number of doctors who will accept it, a concern echoed by Benjamin:

“Now I’m just going to hope and pray that they’re [the kids] not going to need to go to the doctor.”

Lying liars who lied.

The Columbia Pictures Lady

via the always interesting sidebar at Ace’s here’s the very neat story of the Columbia Pictures logo.

Must Be the Nasty, Burnt Coffee

…making the employees nasty.

Although I will say, there’s a thriving black market in PHONEY blue “service vests” so people can drag FiFi into the store, instead of leaving the mutt home where it belongs.

Smart Power: “F**k the EU” Edition

So now we have the spectacle of the Soviets, sorry, the Russians I mean, recording the conversations of our Diplomats and somehow it finds its way on to YouTube

A leaked phone call posted on YouTube caught Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland saying “f—k the EU” while speaking with U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. Nuland used the expletive while complaining that the European Union hasn’t done enough to get Ukraine to break an agreement with Russia and instead sign on to a trade agreement with Europe.

Yes, if that name sounds familiar it’s because it is: Victoria Nuland first came to fame as Hillary’s Benghazi Talking Points Editor, so she is fully steeped in the Obama Tradition of Excellence.

Anyhoo, so the Vladster decides, while I’m sure humming his version of “Anything the NSA can do the KGB can do better”, to give a little Reset Button of his own to Obama and releases this tape.

Naturally, Obama and the State Department react in exactly the wrong way: they apologize for what she says.

The State Department’s top official for Europe apologized today after being caught making a crude and dismissive remark about the European Union, one of America’s top allies.

Are you kidding me?

The proper response is “We expect, in fact we demand, candor amongst our employees in their private deliberations. You can and you should hold them to a high standard for their public comments and actions but if your delicate sensibilities are upset by what individuals say in their private conversations than I would strongly suggest that you shouldn’t listen to them.”

Dear IMF,

We would really love to show you the documents and records of how wonderfully our economy is doing, and specifically my keen grasp of economic reality and policy, but unfortunately we can’t

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Nine first-responders were killed and seven others injured as they battled a fire of unknown origin that destroyed an archive of corporate and banking industry documents in Argentina’s capital on Wednesday.

The fire at the Iron Mountain warehouse took hours to control and at least half of the sprawling building was ruined despite the efforts of at least 10 squads of firefighters.

…The destroyed archives included documents stored for Argentine corporations and banks, said Buenos Aires security minister Guillermo Montenegro.

But trust me, our banking system is solid so just give me the money.

Kisses,

Christina

Somebody’s Asking For An Audit

Since he’s obviously such a racist teabagger

During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.

Simply Outrageous

These militarized police departments have got to be brought under control.

Happy Birthday To Us

Eight years ago y’all were so kind to start dropping by.

And we certainly appreciate it!

I Guess This Can Get Filed Under “Unexpectedly”, Too

I know it’s a big surprise in some quarters.

CBO: O-Care slowing growth, contributing to job losses

The new healthcare law will slow economic growth over the next decade, costing the nation about 2.5 million jobs and contributing to a $1 trillion increase in projected deficits, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released Tuesday.

The nonpartisan agency’s report found the healthcare law’s negative effects on the economy will be “substantially larger” than what it had previously anticipated.

The CBO is now estimating the law will reduce labor force compensation by 1 percent from 2017-2024, twice the reduction it previously had projected.

This will decrease the number of full-time equivalent jobs in 2021 by 2.3 million, the CBO said. It had previously estimated the decrease would be 800,000.

You know what they say about ASStimates.

But it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s responsibility ~ she made THAT quite clear. So who to blame?

Daggum.

It’s a pickle.

ths update: Somebody else noticed.

CBO essentially reaffirms GOP talking points on health care. Says it will cost jobs, feel as if it raises taxes and contributes to deficit

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) February 4, 2014

And MAN! Is he EVER getting beaten up by the Tweets responding to this one. How DARE he, basically.

I’m a little confused by the “feels” like a tax increase. As I point out in in Instapundit’s comment section (from whence I stole this Tweet.):

Did I miss something, or didn’t our very own Supreme Court SAY ObamaCare WAS a tax? So when those premiums skyrocket, it’s FEELING like a tax increase because IT IS.

Right?

My Kind Of Precise Forecast

From the Extended Forecast page of the National Weather Service

…SENSIBLE WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS…
LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN/SNOW IN THE WEST WILL TRANSLATE EASTWARD
AND INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THE SYSTEM DEVELOPS ALONG THE NORTHERN
GULF COAST SAT/D4 INTO THE SOUTHEAST SUN/D5. A WELL-DEFINED SYSTEM
SHOULD MOVE UP ALONG THE COAST AND THEN EXIT NORTHEASTWARD INTO
THE CANADIAN MARITIMES MON/D6 AND WELL INTO ATLANTIC CANADA BY
TUE/D7. PRECIPITATION COULD BE ROBUST… OR COULD BE NEXT TO
NOTHING…FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.

They get points for honesty.

The Super Bowl Was Neither Super Nor a Bowl Contest

It was a BORED meeting.

ths updates: But the freakin’ Tweets about Denver are hilarious…now.

I LOVE Tim Tebow

And this is SO cute.