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‘Unusually Thick Ice’ in Antarctica Traps Scientists With Unusually Thick Heads

Posted on | December 30, 2013 | 60 Comments

It probably seemed like an excellent idea: Load a bunch of tourists and journalists aboard a ship for an expedition to Antarctica in December (the height of summer at the South Pole) so they can see for themselves how global warming is melting the ice.

Alas, somebody forgot to tell the ice that “the science is settled”:

Most of the passengers and some of the crew stranded on a scientific expedition ship off Antarctica will be evacuated by a Chinese helicopter should the weather allow, Russian authorities say.
“A decision has been reached to evacuate 52 passengers and four crew members by helicopter from China’s Xue Long ship, should the weather allow,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Russian-flagged MV Akademik Shokalskiy has been stuck on an ice field since last week with 74 people on board. The multinational passenger list includes scientists as well as tourists and crew.
Snow gusts that severely hampered visibility on Monday forced the icebreaker Aurora Australis to turn around, passengers aboard the stricken MV Akademik Shokalskiy had been told to prepare for the “worst case scenario”. . . .
The expedition is being led by University of NSW Professor Chris Turney who continues to post updates on social media.

Try not to laugh at their ridiculous misfortune:

After nearly a week trapped by deep Antarctic ice, the 74 passengers aboard an expedition vessel could soon be freed.
An Australian icebreaker ship Aurora Australis is 28 nautical miles away from the Russian-flagged Akademik Shokalskiy and is waiting for snow showers to pass, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The Aurora Australis needs better visibility before trying to break through the ice and reach the stranded vessel.
This attempt follows the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, which was just six nautical miles away from the trapped vessel when it couldn’t get any closer due to unusually thick ice.

Via Memeorandum, with more blog commentary by Doug Powers at MichelleMalkin.com, Weasel Zippers and Pirate’s Cove.

Special thanks to Susan Rector on Twitter for the joke I stole.

 

Category: Global Warming, Science

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Probation Page

Posted on | December 30, 2013 | 40 Comments

The World’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ was released from the Indian River County Jail Dec. 20 and will remain part of Florida’s “supervised population” until Oct. 1, 2016. WPTV reported:

VERO BEACH, Fla. — Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian-area teenager who was arrested after police said she had a sexual relationship with an underage girl, was released from the Indian River County Jail early Friday morning [Dec. 20].
Hunt, 19, was released just after 1 a.m. and was quickly driven away in an SUV with her family.
“I think she’s grown up a lot. She’s had to face a lot of adult issues being very young. She’s learned and she wants to just close a chapter and move on, set some goals and look to the future,” said Hunt’s mother Kelley Smith.

Remember: Prosecutors offered Hunt a plea bargain and no one outside Indian River County ever would have heard of this case if she had accepted that deal. Instead, the “Free Kate” movement decided to turn Kaitlyn Hunt into a gay-rights cause célèbre.

“Free Kate” supporters lied about the ages of the girls and demonized the victim’s family, subjecting them to harassment even while, as prosecutors subsequently learned, Hunt violated her terms of pre-trial release by continuing to communicate with her underage victim, sending the girl obscene photos and videos. And so Kaitlyn Hunt had to serve three months in jail.

Most of us would like to forget about this sordid episode and move on. Unfortunately, some of Kaitlyn Hunt’s most fanatical supporters — including @NicoleBonnet1 and @Periabo — continue cyberstalking and harassing critics of the “Free Kate” movement:

See? If you think Florida law should be enforced, you’re a “disgusting perv” and @NicoleBonnet1 will report you to Child Protective Services for investigation by social workers. There’s going to be lawsuit! She’s making a list! She’s going to get “the feds” after you!

This obsessive behavior is simply online terrorism, intended to smear and intimidate opponents of the movement @NicoleBonnet1 supported. Meanwhile, Rachael Carson Zerbe (whose maniacal persistence I described six weeks ago) now seems to be under the impression that quoting from a “FreeKate” Facebook page is a crime.

Rachael and her friends are the ones who support the criminal in this case, yet they’re convinced their critics are guilty of crimes.




 

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

In The Mailbox, 12.30.13

Posted on | December 30, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
The Looking Spoon: Everything You Need To Know About Obamacare In One Venn Diagram
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Pajama Boy Unchained
Proof Positive: Fibber McPOTUS’ Closet
Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense Of Masculine Virtues (h/t Darleen Click)
Doug Powers: NYT Claims Benghazi Attack Was Fueled By YouTube Video
Twitchy: “Zero Self-Awareness!” Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’ Most Absurd Tweet Yet?


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: GLAAD’s Fascist Totalitarianism
American Thinker: The Solar Swindle
Blackfive: Enlisted, The New Comedy On Fox
The Necropolitan Sentinel: #PajamaBoy Throughout History #GetTalking
Don Surber: Man Of The Year
Jammie Wearing Fools: Climate Clowns Trapped In Antarctic Ice
JustOneMinute: Meanwhile, Back In (And To) Iraq
Pat Dollard: Leftist Labor Unions Caught Funding GOP War On Conservatives
Protein Wisdom: I Get E-Mails
Shot In The Dark: Death Rattle
The Jawa Report: New Details Released About 2000 Ramallah Lynching
The Lonely Conservative: Benghazi Witnesses Challenge NYT’s Latest Pravda
This Ain’t Hell: Disabled Vets Are Worthless
Megan McArdle: Online Santa Needs More Elves, Sleds, And Reindeer


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Category: Linkagery

Second Terror Bombing in Russia

Posted on | December 30, 2013 | 9 Comments

More than 30 people killed in two days:

A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. . . .
Russian officials attributed the explosion on Sunday to a bomb packed with shrapnel, possibly carried in a bag or backpack. It was detonated in the main railroad station in Volgograd, a city 550 miles south of Moscow and 400 miles northeast of Sochi. The bomb blew out windows in the building’s facade and left a horrific scene of carnage at its main entrance. At least 17 people were killed, and nearly three dozen others were wounded, some of them critically, meaning the death toll could still rise.
On Monday morning a blast struck a trolley bus in the city, killing at least 15 people, including an infant, according to preliminary reports. Photographs posted by Russian news organizations showed that the force of the blast tore open the bus and shattered windows nearby. Nearly two dozen others were wounded in what officials immediately described as a suicide bombing.

Via Memeorandum.

 

Category: Russia, Terrorism

Success Is Its Own Defense

Posted on | December 30, 2013 | 84 Comments

If something works, it works. To intellectuals, however, theory takes precedence over practice and ideological abstractions like “equality” are more important than actual success and happiness. So in the wake of their failure to destroy “Duck Dynasty” because of patriarch Phil Robertson’s alleged homophobia, now the Left has its collective panties in a bunch because, in 2009, Robertson said this:

“Make sure that she can cook a meal, you need to eat some meals that she cooks, check that out,” he said. “Make sure she carries her Bible. That’ll save you a lot of trouble down the road. And if she picks your ducks, now, that’s a woman.”
“They got to where they’re getting hard to find,” Robertson remarked. “Mainly because these boys are waiting until they get to be about 20 years old before they marry ’em. Look, you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket.”
The Duck Commander company founder added: “You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16, they’ll pick your ducks. You need to check with mom and dad about that of course.”

From all the pearl-clutching horror inspired by this quote, evidently we’re supposed to think the Robertsons are the Louisiana Taliban. But then you get to the end of the article and read this:

Robertson practices what he preaches. He began dating his wife, Kay, when she was only 14 and he was 18. They waited until Kay was 16 to get married.

Oh, that’s right: Phil and Kay Robertson recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. they’ve got four grown kids and numerous grandchildren and — by the way — they’re millionaires. For obvious reasons, the Left must discourage this way of life.

 


Category: Culture

Rule 5 Sunday: On Presuming To Be Modern

Posted on | December 29, 2013 | 12 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Having wasted most of my Sunday (sleeping or playing Eve-Online, A Terrible Game), it is now time to consider the handiwork of God, as Lewis Grizzard once said before heading down for a tour of Atlanta’s strip clubs.
I am, as usual, obliged to remind the Loyal Readers that while most of the links to follow are quite tasteful and artistic, others are Not Safe For Work, and clicking on them could lead to a serious contamination of your purity of essence, among other unfortunate eventualities. On with the linkagery!

Blogfodder kicks off this week’s parade of pulchritude with some vintage TV Rule 5, and YankeePhil follows that with happy birthday wishes to Beth Behrs. Randy’s Roundtable brings several babes dressed for the season, Fishersville Mike has a Duck Dynasty-related post, and Ninety Miles From Tyranny goes for the three-pointer with Morning Mistress, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Girls With Guns. Blackmailers Don’t Shoot also has a holiday trifecta with Merry Monday Christmas Linkfest, Sad Man’s Tongue Left Something In Our Stocking, and Friday Rule 5 With Shakira.

EBL’s holiday herd of heifers included the unwise Justine Sacco, Rachel Washburn (Eagles cheerleader turned intel officer), Joey Heatherton, Communal Free Love Madness, and a Robot Extinction Update.

Soylent starts the week with a breakfast buffet, 2013 Cameltoe Bowl Contenders, Monday Motivationer Spassfabrik Solo, Christmas Eve Spassfabrik, Falconsword Fursday Layla Harvest, Overnighty Shadows & Light, Corset Christmas Leftovers, T-GIF Friday, Weekender Emily, and Bath Night.

A View From The Beach has Karolina Kurkova, Piranha Attack, Mi Mi Mi, Santa Baby, Merry Christmas!, Bad Santas In The News, Maybe We Can Switch Teams With The Aussies, Year Round Oyster Consumption, and Angels Sing.

Proof Positive’s Weekly Babe is Avonte Wright, his vintage babe is Shelly Winters, Sex in Advertising is covered by the Victoria’s Secret angels singing “Deck The Halls”,  and of course the obligatory 49ers cheerleader. Dustbury wraps up the year with Katy Perry and Marianne Faithfull.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Nozomi Aso,  Analu Campos, Erica Dixon, Mayuko Iwasa, Tabby Brown, Monika Jakisic, more Mayuko Iwasa, Chloe Bennett, Sasha Dindayal, and Dominique Le Toullec. Also, Knee High Boots and Faces.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, January 4.


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Category: Rule 5

‘Pajama Boy’ as Rorshach Inkblot

Posted on | December 29, 2013 | 37 Comments

The latest weird sequel to the ObamaCare ad controversy is the claim that conservatives mocking “Pajama Boy” are anti-Semites.

Such a claim involves a lot intellectual gymnastics which might be better described as the psychological projections of a profoundly disturbed personality named Jay Michaelson:

Parenthetically, the model himself is one Ethan Krupp, an Organizing for America staffer who is, in fact, Jewish. But whether Krupp himself is circumcised or not, Pajama Boy is semiotically Jewish, even stereotypically so.
In fact, Pajama Boy stands at a centuries-old nexus of anti-Semitism and misogyny.

Yeah. Right.

Jay Michaelson tells us very little about conservatives who made fun of a silly ad, but tells us an awful lot about the strange ideas that swirl around inside Jay Michaelson’s deranged mind.

“Some things you have to read to believe.”

 

Category: Health Care

Facts the ‘Experts’ Never Mention

Posted on | December 29, 2013 | 11 Comments

Philip Klein calls our attention to an overlooked statistic:

Massachusetts, whose health care reform program was used as a template for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, had the highest per capita health spending in the U.S. in 2009. . . . [T]he state spent $9,278 per person on health care in 2009, which was 36 percent higher than the national average of $6,815, and 11.2 percent more than the next-highest state, New York, which spent $8,341.

Was the relatively high cost of health care in Massachusetts a cause or an effect of the push for socialized medicine? The political impetus for ObamaCare came from highly urbanized, Democrat-dominated states where the cost of health care was already high.

If the result of this national policy is to spread the misery (i.e., causing a rise in health-care costs in more rural Republican-dominated states) why should liberals care? This simply deprives the GOP states of an economic advantage they previously enjoyed.

You could do some other correlations:

State …………….. Vote 2012 …. TFR 2010
Rhode Island ……… Obama 62.7% …………. 1.63
Vermont ……………. Obama 62.8% …………. 1.66
Massachusetts ……. Obama 60.7% …………. 1.67
New Hampshire ….. Obama 52.0% …………. 1.67
Maine ……………….. Obama 56.3% …………. 1.70

Utah ………………….. Romney 72.8% ………. 2.45
Alaska ……………….. Romney 54.8% ………. 2.35
South Dakota ……… Romney 58.3% ……….. 2.27
Idaho ………………… Romney 64.5% ………. 2.24
Texas ………………… Romney 57.2% ………. 2.16

TRF is total fertility rate — the average number of lifetime births per woman, based on annual birth rates — and you see that the top five states as measured by TFR all went for Romney, while the five lowest-fertility states all went for Obama. The average rate of the high fertility states (2.29) is 38% higher than the low-fertility states (1.67 average), which tells you that the political differences reflect profound differences in culture and lifestyle. Nationalizing policies favored by the low-fertility states can therefore be seen as an attempt to abolish these differences, to force the high-fertility states to abandon their culture and lifestyle.

 

Category: Health Care
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