Scientists wrong about global warming!

Here's the thing, they are wrong in the wrong direction. If your eyes glaze over looking at graphs and such, the upshot is that:

The Arctic sea ice is disintegrating "100 years ahead of schedule", having dropped 22% this year below the previous minimum low, and it may completely disappear as early as the northern summer of 2013. This is far beyond the predictions of the International Panel on Climate Change and is an example of global warming impacts happening at lower temperature increases and more quickly than projected. What are the lessons from the Arctic summer of 2007?

(quote from Carbon Equity via The Oil Drum.)

What a difference even a year has made. Watch this video and listen the music. (from November 2006.)

Caption contest

REUTERS/Jason Reed

What is the purple thing Rudolph has, and what is he trying to do with it?

Secret Weapon in the War on Squirrels

This one is for all lovers of gray furry things.

GOP revises logo to include sound effects

Global Warming Wear

From the BBC

Indonesian soldiers hold giant matchsticks while modeling forest-fire themed camouflage uniforms. The colorful uniforms are scheduled to be introduced in 2010 or when Aceh is submerged, whichever is sooner.

Fashion Tips

Reuters

Caution: Exiting through a cat flap makes your butt look big.

No Snark Here

I just like this picture. (not in a creepy way. I think we need all the peacemakers we can get starting at a young age.)

Children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi wait for their turn to perform on the 138th birth anniversary of Gandhi in the northern Indian city of Lucknow October 1, 2007.

REUTERS/Pawan Kumar

Idahoans continue crime spree

REUTERS/Australian Customs/Handout

Famous Idahoan Russet "Rusty" Potatohead was arrested by Australian custom officials while trying to import 293 grams of ecstasy into the country.

In his defense he said, "I am not gay, I love my wife, Mrs. Potatohead."

"And I can't even tap my foot," he neglected to add.

Bush Vetoes SCHIP

AP-Bela-Szandelszky

And the public reacts.

Frederick of Hollywood

AP photo

Frederick of Hollywood explains what will happen if Eduardo "Dirty" Sanchez is declared an illegal alien.

Call the ASPCA

REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

Oh puleez, give the dog a bone with some meat on it.

Wow, bowwow!

from Telegraph.co.uk

"Hey everybody, Cheney said he'd make me dinner!"

News from the UN

(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

Members of the United Nations General Assembly look on as Pretzeldint Bush once again relates how he caught a perch in a stocked pond on his "ranch" in Crawford, Texas, USA.

"That sucker was this big! Really."

I wish I could say this was unbelievable

The US forces take a page from the trophy hunter and poachers' bible. The US forces are luring in Iraqis so they can shoot them. This is called baiting. Here is the link.

The picture above is a bear at a bait trough. Could you, would you, should you shoot it? I am not viscerally anti-hunting by any means, but baiting just seems like cheating. You might as well shoot a pig in a sty (and pork tastes a lot better than bear.)

Baiting Iraqis is beyond the pale. In many states baiting for game (by hunters) is illegal. And I would add that in all states, I think it is unethical.

But as an anti-insurgent tactic, it is unbelievable. In a culture where so much is missing, any found object is a tool not necessarily a weapon. Why even bother with the snipers? Let's just put out shiny geegaws that explode when they're touched, or poison the drinking water.

Why do I always have to sit with the wackos?

Photo Credit: Steven Sunshine

Madame Tussauds flew its wax statue of Abraham Lincoln to D.C. on a Delta Shuttle flight on Thursday. Abe rode in the coach section with regular, non-presidential passengers. As for how they got him to sit down, a spokeswoman informs us that he will be depicted in a seated position in the wax museum, which opens in Penn Quarter on Oct. 5th.

As long as he's not in an emergency exit row, I'm cool with it.