BORING...Well...maybe not?

A little earlier today, I needed to go to the store.  Bike gave out, flat.  Okay.  Changed to my wife's bike for now.  Still riding.

Had to go back to store.  This time, I'm just going to the corner, about 1 mile away.  As I approach, I see a police car, parked on the road near a house.  I get closer...There's a second car.  And a THIRD.  AND A FOURTH CAR, 3 blocking driveways, one on the road.  OMG... They're apparently in need of support to need that many cars.  I get to the store, get my items, and I'm returning home.  The cars are still there.  In fact, now there's a FIFTH CAR.  WTF?!

This house is VACANT.  There's no light, the weeds are high... And the cops are sneaking around the house like there's some suspicious activity!  I see one of them, peeking around a corner... WHY?

If this is a SWAT-TEAM WANNABE, why don't they have the area cordoned off?

Yet, they behave like they're in danger...No cars in drive, no sign of vicious dogs, no sign of any animals...WHY THE HECK do they need all these backups?

I rode right by.  They didn't try to stop me.  If it were a dangerous situation, wouldn't they have unmarked cars, heavy duty equipment, someone directing traffic away from the area?

Too bad I wasn't carrying a cell phone camera.  Of course, they'd probably try to confiscate it.

Anyway, I assume that this place has an alarm system.  But OMG... Acting like this?  Gimme a break, even with my untrained eye, I can see there's nothing going on in the house!

I did note, as I passed on the flip-flop -- a tree had fallen onto the house.  It probably set off the alarm.  I can understand 2 cars... NOT 5.

Like what went on here last September; I'm not gonna forget it.  3 cops, a vet, and a "compliance" officer...and we proved conclusively that nothing was wrong... of course they continued to spy on us.

For some reason I think that Marion County Florida police have nothing better to do than spy on innocents and play cat and mouse with Non-existent threats!

Somebody's gonna pay dearly.  It's gonna be our taxes... AS I SEE IT!

Ranting on and on about the non-existent

I'm sure everyone has heard the joke that states, "I've made up my mind; don't confuse me with facts." I know a few people like that. I'm sure you do, as well. They are the "Birthers", the "Truthers", the "doomsayers", the "UFO conspiracy" folks. They are the ones who refuse to look at what's REALLY happening, the ones who won't (or can't) devour data. Quacks don't really fall into this category. But they prey on those who do.

However, my thoughts focus on only one particular aspect of these people (I'll save the quacks for another time-- the quacks and the fools who follow them).

I could call this "The Global Warming Hoax, Part II," and it would accurate enough.

I still hear the siren's call--"We're warming up. The glaciers are melting. It's all Man's fault, and we're doomed! We need action now." FORTUNATELY, I'm lashed to the mast of reality.

Last winter in Minnesota, we had some cold days. -34, -30, -27... The cold started in November, and didn't let up. We usually have a "January thaw." This means temps above freezing, maybe as high as 40. This is usually followed by a cooling off period, which gradually vanishes as the end of February arrives. I know of one exception: 1982. It was a year in which nearly no below zero temps were recorded in my area. Where were the "Globabblist" people? They didn't exist. The theory that indicated a "Warming" hadn't yet been advanced. But it's amazing how many have bought into that theory.

They've been babbling on and on about the glaciers, about the Polar Bear, about the "Greenhouse gases" and Ozone...Strangely, Ozone (O3) is classified a pollutant near the surface, but essential in the upper atmosphere. I've never been able to understand why a difference of 10 miles can make such a difference. I'm not doubting that there is one, but it seems strange.

What puzzles me so much is how the idiots can claim "Global Warming" when over the last two years in the Northern Hemisphere have been BELOW AVERAGE temps, as a whole. You see all the stuff on blogs, but nobody EVER points to the scientific evidence...

So far, they've been yelling about the warming this winter. In Minnesota, we've not yet had a low above 0 in my area. We've had nearly a month below freezing. All temps have been at least a couple of degrees below average. In the last 3 weeks, we've had 10 days of temps below -20.

Temps in Death Valley have been lows in the 30s, and it's plummeted to temps in the teens in Florida, 20s in southern Florida (Including Tampa and Miami), and Key West hasn't been anywhere near normal. Dallas has had temps colder than most people in those parts ever experience.

"THEY" say it's a "Blip." Two weeks is a blip. 3 weeks is crazy. 2 years of colder than average around here is unbelievable. Last winter was cold. This winter has been "Not as cold", but been cold LONGER. I don't see a "thaw" this year, either.

Last year, the ice on the lakes was a couple of weeks BEHIND SCHEDULE in vanishing. Some lakes might not have made it to ice-free when the Fishing Opener hit. That was mid-May.

"They" say it's "Local." Minnesota alone is Local. Or Illinois. Not the entire country. And if "they" say it's because the US is small, CHINA had coldest temps in 40 years, most snow in 50. NORWAY hit a -42. Beijing had 3, Russia wasn't warm.

I had to be fair, examine the Southern hemisphere as well. Temps in the 40s and 50s for lows in South Africa (Highs in the low 70s) Along the Equator, in Quito (Ecuador), temps not much more than 65 (One day I saw it was 77). Sydney has fluctuated between 48 and 80. One time I check Santiago, Chile, got 81. Ok, but it IS summer there, right?

I checked temps in Rio, Brasilia, and Kenya. Some of those "Highs" were barely mid 60s. One day, there was and 80+ reading in Brasilia, and and high 70s in Rio.

I checked the reports from Vostok. Summer there, altitude is a bit high, so I took that into account. the HIGHS are still below 0. How can ice melt if the temp is below freezing, and there is no precip of any kind? The info was showing highs of not better than -9 (predicted) with lows in the -40, -50 range, excluding windchill.

Back to the north, we had record lows for almost a week in August in my area. We had SNOW in Late September, and enough to measure in Early October.

They STILL scream "Warming." I scream "Liar!"

Stop trying to fill us with bull shit. LOOK AT THE FACTS. Look at the conditions that are dominating the globe in the North, and haven't had a lack of effect in the south.

Globabble, yes. "Global Warming"? Well, I've not seen it here. Don't tell me it's because it's local. The Equator to the Pole in the North, plus colder temps in the south -- tells me that you are full of it.

That's the meat of the matter on "Global Warming" -- AS I SEE IT.

Truth in advertising--and unexpected truths in advertising

Unless you have no Televison, you've seen lots of the ads, the commercials that dominate most shows.While I've never really kept track, I suspect that at least 15 commercials are aired in a half-hour show. That means at 30 seconds a spot, 7 and a half minutes are dedicated to ads. That's just commercials. And you've seen some of them.

"So simple even a caveman can do it." I don't know of any cavemen living around these parts. Even the Aborigines of Austrailia are more advanced than this. Can you tell me of a single caveman who needed insurance, had to file bankruptcy, or had a computer?

Then there are the ads for beer, or booze. They're usually puncuated by others telling you that you drunk, you pay the price. The Govt. allows booze commercials, and then forces the cops to watch for drunks who are driving. The "Disclaimers" which tell you to drink responsibly are so small that they are never seen.

Credit card companies offer you a 3% interest rate, but fail to show you in big enough print that if your payment is so much as a minute late your rate is going to jump to 40%, with an $89 late charged tacked on.

Then, there are all these drugs they tell you to try: for Asthma, Heartburn, urinary problems, pregnancy, avoiding pregnancy-- the side effects include death -- how many people actually read the warnings?

"FREE" credit reports... another crock. They tell you to sign up for services that cost 50-60 a month. Do yourself a favor -- write to your credit bureau once a year. That's really all you need to do. And that is free except for your postage and envelope.

But the "Fun ones" are those infomercials. They all tell "results are not typical. Your results may differ." WILL differ is more like it. Someone earns 30 grand a week. Yeah, and I'm Barack Obama. They go out of the way to find "non-typical" results. And what do you get? Shafted.
But I've found one very hilarious hint. Some of these things are shown on the "SYFY" channel. Science Fiction. So if you find an infomercial offering "Free money" and they're charging... take a look closely at the channel they're on. It's those that you really need to watch out for!

It's all nonsense. And sometimes they way tell you it's nonsense is more hilarious than the nonsense itself. And those are theREAL FACTS....As I SEE IT!

While Scanning this blog

I realized that I had accidently mistyped a term in "The Global Warming Hoax?" blog from January.

I IMMEDIATELY coined a new phrase: GLOBABBLE WARMING.

Globbable Warming (N)- the nonsense of Global Warming as spouted when it's -27 and the guy's teeth are chattering.

REMEMBER THE PHRASE. USE IT IF YOU LIKE. But remember, credit to me, ok? Thanks. :))