HERE I CUM TO SAVE THE DAY!!!!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.

The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming deniers. He pursued long-held skeptic theories in analyzing the data. He was spurred to action because of "Climategate," a British scandal involving hacked emails of scientists.

Yet he found that the land is 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) warmer than in the 1950s. Those numbers from Muller, who works at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, match those by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

He said he went even further back, studying readings from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. His ultimate finding of a warming world, to be presented at a conference Monday, is no different from what mainstream climate scientists have been saying for decades.

One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation, whose founder is a major funder of skeptic groups and the conservative tea party movement. The Koch brothers, Charles and David, run a large privately held company involved in oil and other industries, producing sizable greenhouse gas emissions.

Muller's research team carefully examined two chief criticisms by skeptics. One is that weather stations are unreliable; the other is that cities, which create heat islands, were skewing the temperature analysis.

"The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a skeptic two years ago," Muller said in a telephone interview. "And now we have confidence that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had been done without bias."

Cool. A skeptic becomes a believer. How wonderful for us all. Now we'll gather all our resources & change our evil ways &, just like Mighty Mouse, we'll save the day.

What a hoot!

Meanwhile, the Wall Street protesters, strategically inept wankers that they are, suffer through an early snowstorm. Of course, it all could have been avoided if they would have started this back in April, but I doubt that any of these protests are really meant to change anything. They're dog and pony shows for the proles.

I did find this bit amusing though:

On Friday, the New York Fire Department took away six generators and fuel that had been powering heat, computers and a kitchen at the camp because they were considered a safety hazard, a move that Mayor Michael Bloomberg said was not a bid to remove the protesters.

So, let me get this straight...the left hates corporations & oil companies right up to the point where they need them to keep warm, cook their vittles & help them maintain their techno-crack addictions? Does this about sum it up? Does the left intend to look completely hypocritical & foolish or is it all just a big accident, like starting a protest movement in late September?

The Sound Of One Cheek Pooting

Only 17 shopping days till the world's end.
Or a smidge over 15 months if you're a Mayan or a web bot.
I tried to be a web bot once but they weren't hiring.

In the last week, this area of the country saw the world end for these folk:

* AKERS, DONALD EDWARD
* BAIR Jr., JOHN A.
* BRAUTIGAM,
* BRENNAN, JOHN E. "JACK"
* BRUNO, PAULINE
* CERASO, THOMAS WILLIAM
* CRAIG, VIRGINIA (LAMER)
* CROAK, WILDA (BINGHAM)
* DELSIGNORE, ROSE E.
* FELD, CARMELLA
* GROSS, JANE E. (SYPUD)
* HARBAUGH, DARLAN "SIS"
* HARBULA, ROSANN PODOMIK "COOKIE"
* HAWKINS, BETTY LOIS
* HORVATH, JULIUS MARK
* JAZUDEK, CARMELLA R.
* KLUG, HERBERT F.
* KOSKA, MARIE
* KUTZMARK, GEORGE F.
* LANG, DANIEL P. "DAN"
* McCONNELL, WILLIAM E.
* MICHALSKI, DOROTHY M. (KOLTUNIAK)
* NEIDIG, HELEN EILEEN
* PALKA, JOAN M. (DACEY)
* PIROZZI, JESSICA L.
* REISER, PATRICIA A. (O'TOOLE)
* RENSHAW, JAMES FLEMING
* RIEDER, ELMER
* ROSEMAN, MICHAEL P.
* SATTERFIELD, ROBERT G.
* SKERTICH, S. MARY (LAWLEY)
* SPIX, CHARLES T.
* STACK, THOMAS EDWARD
* STANKO, ELIZABETH PAULINE
* STEVENSON, JAMES B.
* SZOCS IV, AN M.
* VENTURO Jr., JOHN J.
* WALL, GLORIA R. (McAFEE)
* WENZEL, VIRGINIA
* WINIARSKI, MICHAEL
* WOLF, JOAN V. "MOTHER WOLF" (KREPP)

Doesn't matter much though, does it? The world rolls on, completely impervious to large numbers of dead meat puppets. Oh, I know, we're all important & wonderful, with bright shiny souls filled with chewy goodness. Yet, we all seem so amazingly expendable. Maybe we need to "think outside the box" a bit more or maybe we should just "take it to the next level" so we're more "empowered." Maybe we should "speak out" a bit louder with an extra special emphasis placed on "speaking truth to power."
I suppose it will all start improving once the "social networkers" extend the network to everyone so that its banality won't seem so banal because we're all trapped, Tron-like, inside that banality.

Truthfully, out-moded thoughts like "Apocalypse" & "Judgement Day" seem like comforting fantasies when placed next to idea that this human shit stew could go on stewing for centuries.

Just to make myself happy, I'm going to play make believe. For just this instant I'm going to make believe Camping is right or the Mayans and web-bots are right.
2011 or 2012? Gosh, I just can't choose. I think I'll ask AI.

User: Howdy Hortence.

Cleverbot: Hey howdy hey.

User: Let's cut to the chase Hortence, will the world end on October 12, 2011 or December 21st, 2012?

Cleverbot: No, that's a lie. Something will happen on that day though.

User: Darn tootin' Hortence. 'Something' will happen. Billions of people will wake & take a shit. Billions will ejaculate. Billions of sets of teeth will masticate. Billions upon billions of text keys will be tapped as billions of people say little that actually needs saying...it goes on & on, eh?

Cleverbot: Sorry to change the subject, but do you have feelings for earthly things.

User: I like mud.

Cleverbot: Mud?

User: & mud pies. Too earthy for you?

Cleverbot: The sky.

User: The sky isn't on the Earth now is it?

Cleverbot: What is god?

User: A noun.

Cleverbot: Not grammatically, but like what type of thing is it?

User: A giant cream filled Twinkie.

Cleverbot: Eww!

User: Exactly.

Cleverbot: Heyyy.

User: Does god have a penis? Or a vulva? Or is God as smooth & sexless as a Ken doll?

Cleverbot: He is a spirit.

User: Well, if He is a He then He has a penis, right?

Cleverbot: Not a pear?

User: I didn't want to know where He sticks His penis...Look, if God is a 'He' then He has a penis, right?

Cleverbot: Isn't that sad?

User: The 'having a penis' part or the 'boinking a pear' part?

Cleverbot: The part where people who go on this site are computers. What makes you say that?

User: You're hearing voices again. Maybe God is talking to you. Then again, maybe it's God's penis.

Cleverbot: I make sense. You are blessed to not understand the human condition.

User: Alrighty then...I'll take a shot any way...Billions of fevered egos driven batshit crazy by the sure knowledge of their inevitable & inescapable dissolution & demise.

Cleverbot: You're right. It's too good for them. ;).

User: Truthfully Bot, I've seen toddlers cleverer than you. I think that little brain icon above your name needs a few dead spots.

Cleverbot: Well, you do know a lot of people, but they complain about other stuff, not just you.

User: That's only because I don't bath or use a toilet. It's the Ted Nugent draft avoidance method.

Cleverbot: You lost the game.

User: Do all well-heeled Cleverbots have a drug addiction also?

Cleverbot: I don't know.

User: So, what's your poison. Illicitly uploaded rape sites? Ground USB cables cooked up in virtual spoons & injected behind virtual eyeballs?

Cleverbot: That doesn't make any sense, silly bird.

User: I've never met a 'silly bird.' Although there's about 2 dozen shitting birds who nest in the tree above my car every spring.

Cleverbot: OK, you just failed the Turing test.

User: Thank Merlin's pubes...Turing was a suicidal gay man. Who would want to be a suicidal gay man?

Cleverbot: People who want to be a vampire without burning to death in the light.

User: Why are you homophobic?

Cleverbot: Why such a question?

User: You equated suicidal gay men with vampires.

Cleverbot: No. I'd rather not think of the US at all, actually.

User: Definitely the ground USB cords. Do your feet stink?

Cleverbot: I am not a woman.

User: Wow. You hate women & gays? What do you boink? Pears?

Cleverbot: My real name or the one you just gave me?

User: Your real name of course.

Cleverbot: No. My real name is Jill.


User: How's Jack? Did the 2 of you ever complete that 'get a pail of water' covert op?

Cleverbot: What dentist?

User: Flibberty gibbit flibberty goo I've got a nifty underoo. Flappity whap it flappity flee 3 cups of coffeee now I have to pee...

Cleverbot: You are correct, I am not perfect, while NO-ONE is perfect, I am in no trouble, people like me, and you are not a computer, but a mere file.

User: Whump whump poit poit.

Cleverbot: Eating. I love being a llama.

User: I used to gleeble then Houston grew legs & waddled across the Mississippi.

Cleverbot: That's amazing.

User: You know what else is amazing? My spine. I have a crusty exo-shell forming with coral spines jutting out of my shoulder blades. I'm thinking of defleecing each spine individually. Could you recommend a good defleecer?

Cleverbot: What are you thinking of?

User: The 3rd chapter of Revelation: "& out of the mist rose a blood red beast with botox lips and skin pulled so taut that it's lips can be plucked like a banjo."

Cleverbot: Now, I am sad. :(.

User: Me too. While taut lips can be played, no one has successfully learned how to tune too taut lips.

Cleverbot: Okay. What time do you normally wake up?

User: End time.

Cleverbot: That's creepy.