Hot times...Celebrate coal ship's navigation of melting Arctic

Coal. Through the Northwest Passage. Which is melting via carbon emissions (etc.)  Facilitated greatly by....(burning) coal.

...Another 'giant leap' for mankind. In which direction...?

Off-site link to a 9/27/13 news article. New window opens: http://local.msn.com/ship-crosses-northwest-passage


>>>Oh. As part of the Passage passage celebration the coal industry wished me to include the following, for you...and all (coal-) burning lovers everywhere! 


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^^^Oh no....BLACKED-OUT.  Try this one (lyrics on YouTube). Turn it up:


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...Try try again:

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Nature: 1....90%-useless yackity-yak: 0

Off-site link to a 9/20/13 'news' story. New window opens. No affiliation: http://www.myrecordjournal.com/wallingford/wallingfordnews/2411512-129/osprey-nest-leads-to-cell-disturbance.html

...Keeps happening (link): http://www.myrecordjournal.com/news/wallingford/2411512-154/story.html.html




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ha ha: Have a laff about some loose nukes

Speakin' as someone who was actually around back in 1961, I'm feeling "a little" more grateful (now) that a (large) number of us got to see 1962, and beyond:

....Especially if you were alive then, if this story doesn't do some hair-raising for you, nothing much will:
Off-site link, new window opens, no affiliation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/20/north-carolina-atomic-bomb/2845381/?


 ...."Ooooops":

(Image: "Nuclear weapon test Romeo (yield 11 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. 27 March 1954. Author: U.S. Dept. of Energy. "This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain."")


P.S. May not want to read even more here (off-site link, new window) , prior to trying to sleep well....EVER!

Livin' in the USA: Whistling in the dark...

This is supposed to be a humor blog, so let's all force ourselves to (mis-)perceive the following as unbelievably twisted, "dark" humor....!
...Courtesy of a few of your more obnoxious fellow Americans:

Topic 'o the week: "Government" by/through extortion (via a cadre of reactionary dupes/zealots).
Or: The funny thing that's about to happen to your social security check (etc.)...  Off-site link to 9/18/13 news story. New window opens. No affiliation: http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/18/the-final-showdown-why-the-coming-budget-crisis-may-be-the-worst/?

Topic 'o the weeks (ad nauseam):  Miley (A/k/a "What th'...? Where's the talent??") Cyrus. 
Many parents - incl. older women (and men) who (years ago) fought for increased freedoms, which Miley/(some of) Miley's admirers enjoy/exploit/turnabout -- surely must be amused:
Off-site link, new window opens, no affiliation: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball-helps-vevo-conquer-mtv-in-video-views-battle-8814877.html


Topic o' the millennium:

 

(Off-site link to one related article, new window opens, no affiliation: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/17/2633551/climate-science-denial-hearing/)

HaH! My symptoms are amplifying:

Off-site link, 9/16/13 article from "America's Finest News Source".
New window opens. No affiliation:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-finds-leading-cause-of-depression-hearing-wo,33882/

Gaaah! No more! No mas...

(No affiliation. No link. Nothing to do with any of what's represented below in any way, on any level....Nada..)

....The "Progressive" (...ironic, ain't it) "girl".....It's like we're dragged back to 1953. (Repeatedly....She IS a 'drag'.)

...Ad nauseam.  Over to The Byrds playing some Bob Dylan to help out here......

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(FWIW: At least the little insurance lizard is once-in-a-while funny.  
....Gigantic insurance companies....they just want us to love 'em.)

BTW...There are humans - in 2013 - named 'Flo'...?? (Under the age of 70...?)

The Sun may become pregnant now....

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.... "Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun"


Or: That was 'Major Tom'....

Isn't there already enough ugliness in the world...?

...Why go out of the way to manufacture more? (It's a rhetorical question (at this point), dudes.)

(Image source is linked (new window). Edited. No affiliation. No endorsement of this website/content is expressed or implied.)

He's wearing....what??

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Off-site link to 7/29/13 article, new window opens, no affiliation: http://www.thelocal.se/49322/20130729/


'Brief' YT video currently available:

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....Yes, a video in slo-mo (YT link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3iSKT5s-zQ

Keep telling yourself: Climate change - and mankind's effects upon it - are myths

Fortunately, you (and your kids) still have time to learn to swim.....Maybe start growing some gills.

Off-site link to 7/31/13 article. New window opens. No affiliation: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574558/more-than-1400-cities-could-be-underwater-by-centurys-end


>>>BTW: Get ready for (at least) a couple of upcoming news stories informing you that July, 2013 was the hottest month ever recorded at several U.S. locations......

(Image: "'A Flood on Java' (c.1865-1876) by Raden Saleh, lithograph, 32 x 44 cm, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and the Caribbean Studies. his work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.)

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Very direct selling....

 Pay b4 you pass away....Deal before you keel.....Kick-in b4 you kick it....Remunerate before you cremate.....Remit b4 you quit.........(AD nauseam)

(No link, no affiliation:) 

'It was a dark and stormy night'

To wit: Have occasionally thought of making entry into said sad concours via posts proffered hitherto:

(Off-site link follows. A new, au courant window un-shuts (unlatches, unseals, uncloses, becomes agape, throws wide, yawns open....:) 
 http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/index.html

(Image: 'Line art representation of a w:Quill'. This file has been (or is hereby) donated to the Wikimedia Foundation and released into the public domain by Pearson Scott Foresman. This applies worldwide.)



P.S. I wonder if Lady or 'Lerd' Lytton (link) had anything to do with said contest....

Noticed: Neighbor has people come mow precious lawn, 12:45pm on year's hottest day

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Apparently no one died or was overcome manicuring this guy's no-shade lawn.
...Heat index was at 100. (Hey, that coulda been higher, right?....) 'Heat warnings' in effect (excerpt below). 

 

(Image: "(From source) This cholera patient is drinking oral rehydration solution (ORS) in order to counteract his cholera-induced dehydration. This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.")


Excerpt from NWS 'excessive heat warning':

"AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING MEANS THAT A PROLONGED PERIOD OF
DANGEROUSLY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL OCCUR.... 

TO REDUCE RISK DURING OUTDOOR WORK...THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS SCHEDULING FREQUENT REST BREAKS
IN SHADED OR AIR CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENTS. ANYONE OVERCOME BY
HEAT SHOULD BE MOVED TO A COOL AND SHADED LOCATION. HEAT STROKE
IS AN EMERGENCY - CALL 9 1 1."

Turning this into a cat video site

For today.

(If not yet seen...)
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Re: 5 questions for Sarah....

Off-site link to 7/10/13 article about Sarah Palin deep-thinkin' a possible Senate bid.
New window opens, no affiliation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/07/10/sarah-palin-senate-alaska-mark-begich/2505075/?


(First off, let's have Katie Couric ask Sarah the questions, thank you.....)

I have five more basic questions for someone who might (somehow) possibly be voting to enact (or obstruct) legislation affecting our country's present, future.....:

(We'll start with a couple of "warm-up" questions:)

1. Spel this (pictured) animal:   

(Image: 'Bored cat', by David Wagner. No affiliation.)

2: Cipher these:  2 + 2 = ? 
 (Hint: Sum is the same number of fingers ya see on one of your hands. Minus 'Mr. Thumb' of course...)


3. Name the pictured varmint animal. (Not sure Sarah has ever really seen one up-close. Maybe from safely high-above in the air though.... )

(Image: "Grey Wolf Head On", by Lilla Frerichs. No affiliation.)

4. Define the following word, in the context of legislative deliberations and actions:  "Compromise"

5. Define the following word, in the context of legislative deliberations and actions: "Ethical"

Bonus question: Explain/defend this previous, attributed statement of yours: ""What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" --Sarah Palin, inquiring with Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons about banning books right after taking office in 1996."

Bonus question: Is building a gas line "up to" God? (""I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." --Sarah Palin, on the $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state, speaking to students the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip))"

Blog view pump-up time: Hockey offshoot

(Note: This particular post is "rated 'PG-13'":)

Can't really discern what actual talent she might have...Other than publishing endless Twitter/Instagram selfies everywhere, bending forward for any camera in-range, playing-off her parents' fame ad nauseam.... 
(...I ran out of talents.)

...So let's at least put shy-girl Paulina Gretzky's obvious, public assets to work here....To - perhaps - 'earn' a slight, temporary bump in blog viewership:

-- One recent article. Off-site link new window opens. No affiliation: http://www.cbssports.com/golf/blog/eye-on-golf/22549302/dustin-johnson-paulina-gretzky-and-a-monkey


-- Another recent one: Screen capture image is a link to an off-site article. (Click; new window opens. Please follow all off-site links with caution; at your own risk.)

-- This video/narration is kinda (childishly) weird (too):


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...Awwww. ↓Have another....They are EVERYWHERE:

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-- All anyone would ever possibly want to "know" about Paulina (off-site link, new window opens):   http://bustedcoverage.com/2013/07/08/paulina-gretzky-jiggling-boobs-gif/

(.....But just check out, you know.....the Internet....for much, much, much... more.)



I believe there may be hope: ...She'll be starting her devoted work for *any of the linked charities here*....(e.g.: Let's imagine:...... Camp Fire USA...(!)) any day now I'm sure.....

'Free 10,000 dollar auto-dealer check ALL on reddd, bro!'

...Off to plunder the roulette table with my free $10,000 (plus!) check.  
($#*&* thang just come in the mail to me!!):

 ...Thanks, AL:


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(BTW: Buddy Ebsen ("Jed") was - in fact - a fine actor, dancer, sailor ...plus other accomplishments...)