posted December 10, 2010 10:43 PM            

Too hot.......too cold........it's all man made global warming.

Hey AD, are you trying to say the old gray Lion isn't what he used to be?

Don't make me hit you over the head with Ben Franklin.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and WISE.

posted December 11, 2010 09:31 AM            

Next time you're gonna break out the Leonine Humor could you please post a cats and coffee warning first?

I'm having a hard time typing now, due to the rivulets of coffee streaming down my monitor!

posted December 11, 2010 09:33 AM            

I heard he was a lecherous old man...hmmm

I've always been partial to Thomas Jefferson myself

posted December 11, 2010 01:50 PM            

This is an official "Coffee and Cats Alert"

Do not read any further until you have swallowed the cat and sedated your coffee.

Of course, you know Ben Franklin was responisble for the pithy rejoinder..."Go fly a kite"?

posted December 11, 2010 03:36 PM            

Do not worry, my coffee is sedated, with whiskey!

FYI ~ You don't want to mess with me, cause I could take on 28 five year old kids in a fight.

How do I know this, you may ask?

I took the quiz! http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

(you don't have to sign up...just look for the little link saying: no thanks, just give me my results)

And if that wasn't impressive enough for you, here's what else I can do:

posted December 11, 2010 09:19 PM            

You could take on 29 five year old kids in a fight.

Got you covered here too.

YOU COULD TAKE 41 NINETY YEAR OLDS IN A FIGHT!

Bloodthirsty site aren't they?

Perhaps you should reevaluate whom might not want to mess with whom!

Your coffee is sedated with whiskey? Not good mixing stimulants and depressants.

posted December 12, 2010 08:59 AM            

They called a global climate summit but nobody came.

Actually, a few people did show up for the UN climate change conference in Cancún. To be precise, there were about 15,000 delegates from 194 countries. But no one of any importance bothered to come -- no leaders from the free or the un-free world. It was left to the totally daft Ted ("I'm not chased by demons") Turner to try to keep everyone from falling fast asleep and forgetting all about global warming.

Thank god for small fiascoes. They are so much better than the big ones.

What a difference a year makes.

At this time last year, the lunatics were in full command of the asylum. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and a supporting cast of thousands were jetting off to Copenhagen to swear their undying allegiance to the idea that it is necessary to save the planet from the scourge of human life. That would be human life, most particularly, as it is lived here in the United States and other parts of the world that have not yet gotten around to pulling the plug on capitalism and moving on to a more enlightened way of organizing production and redistributing material wealth.

"Climate change is a religion for them, so there was no way they were going to miss this," said one GOP aide of the huge contingent of Democratic representatives and senators who boarded Air Force and commercial jets for Copenhagen. "This is their Hajj."

Never mind that the "Climategate" scandal had only recently exposed how climate scientists working for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had conspired to quash evidence contrary to the theory of man-made global warming. Paying no attention to that, Obama began his speech to the UN Climate Summit Conference in Copenhagen with these words:

Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave a growing danger to our people. All of you would not be here unless you -- like me -- were convinced that this danger is real. It is not fiction, it is science. Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet….

That's why I come here today -- not to talk, but to act.

Well, actually, nothing came of the Copenhagen conference. There was no global climate deal. But so what? The point is, the president rubbed shoulders with just about all of world's leaders at the Copenhagen conference -- everyone from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Indian premier Manmohan Singh, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. From Copenhagen Obama flew on to Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize and give another speech filled with intimations of his own omniscience.

That was COP-15, as the Copenhagen conference is called in UN lingo. It was the 15th annual Council of Parties since COP-1, the Berlin Climate Summit held in 1995.

Heads of state are conspicuous by the absence from COP-16, as the Cancún confab is called. No fewer than 119 heads of state signed up for Copenhagen. Even Robert Mugabe, the deranged president of Zimbabwe, felt compelled to put in an appearance. As far as I can tell from COP-16's blog site, Mexican President Felipe Calderón, was the only head of state in attendance this year. Nor did any leading U.S. Democrats come down to soak up the sun or to add some much needed spice to the warmed-over warnings of global warming being served to the participants. Even alarmist-in-chief Al Gore was a no-show.

Calderón did not help the cause by giving a thuddingly boring opening address. Calling on negotiators in Cancún to make progress in the interest of their children and grandchildren, he said that the "eyes of the world" were focused on the meeting. In an audience composed of mid-level UN officials and apparatchiks like Jane Davidson, the Welsh environmental minister, I doubt that there was a single soul who didn't know full well that the eyes of the world were glazed over at the thought of one more global warming summit.

Thus it was left to always surprising Ted Turner -- author of the autobiography Call Me Joe -- to try to inject some life into the conference. Turner, a longtime supporter of the president, said that Obama had made "a big mistake" by ramming through Obamacare rather than cap-and-trade. As he put it in his inimitable way, "If we don't stop global warming, we'll be extinct, and then we'll be really sorry."

And this raises a further subject for honest wonderment. What a difference a year has made in the life of our 44th president.

posted December 12, 2010 09:08 AM            

Maybe we can have frozen margaritas? Or hot ones. Just set them outside!

posted December 12, 2010 05:44 PM            

I think you enjoyed sedating that coffee more than you're letting on.

Nothing wrong with a frozen margarita..provided it's not naturally frozen.

Ready for a visit firecracker?

Well, just start down Interstate 75 and you'll start seeing the....jwhop this way signs when you cross into Florida from Georgia. Can't miss it.

However, you might want to wait a few days. Our daytime temps are in the low 50's right now because of man made global warming. I do wish the northerners would keep their Artctic blasts up north where they belong.

More man made global warming!

Tremendous Lake-Effect Snow to Follow Blizzard
By Meghan Evans, Meteorologist
Dec 12, 2010; 1:14 PM ET

posted December 13, 2010 06:54 PM            

Weekend Blizzard Goes Down in the Record Books
By Heather Buchman, Meteorologist
Dec 13, 2010; 1:02 PM ET

The blizzard that pummeled the Upper Midwest over the weekend was one for the record books, burying some communities with nearly 2 feet of snow and breaking 100-year-old records in others.

Even all the way to the South, new records have been set as snow and brutally cold air blasted in behind the storm.
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/42951/weekend-blizzard-goes-down-in.asp

20-Degree Temps Coming To Central Fla.
Ocala Could See Low Temperature Hit 19 Degrees

POSTED: Sunday, December 12, 2010
UPDATED: 6:27 pm EST December 13, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The coldest air of the season will blast Central Florida by late Monday night and record-low temperatures in the high teens to mid-20s are expected across the region.

Hard-freeze warnings -- temperatures below 28 degrees for at least three hours -- have been issued for Orlando and all of Central Florida.

posted December 13, 2010 07:37 PM            

quote:

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The blizzard that pummeled the Upper Midwest over the weekend was one for the record books, burying some communities with nearly 2 feet of snow and breaking 100-year-old records in others.

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The State Patrol stopped patrolling certain counties because the weather was so bad in Iowa.

It was -20 in places.

This morning it was -15 below I think.

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posted December 13, 2010 07:49 PM            

nevermind jwhops, i am booking a cruise to honduras and belize. you can keep fla this winter.

which is too bad as i would love to sip baileys and coffee with you in the bay at some local joint.

posted December 15, 2010 07:22 AM            

Perhaps I should rummage around in my closets and send you one of my fur lined togas!

Oh, and Bigfoot too.

Can't blame you for skipping Florida this winter firecracker. Australia sounds good right now. Perhaps I should look up my old friend Aus...whom I haven't seen around here for a while and introduce you.

Randall, if it's for medicinal purposes....is it still drinking?

posted December 15, 2010 10:44 AM            

Randall, Medicinal isn't drinking. It's medicine!

posted December 15, 2010 09:59 PM            

Surely AD, you couldn't have meant Bigfoot would get hairballs from licking you!

Just drink the medicinal brandy in Bigfoot's cask and get happy!

posted December 16, 2010 10:13 AM            

Japan played a major role in undermining the Kyoto Protocol at the recent UN climate conference in Cancun, Mexico. Tokyo declared that it would not commit to a second period of Kyoto after 2012 unless all other major economies were required to make carbon emission cuts. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yoshito Sengoku, called Kyoto "unfair and ineffective." The 1997 Kyoto Protocol only requires the "rich" developed countries to restrict their economic activity while allowing the developing countries to pursue growth at full tilt. The United States has long been criticized by the developing states and the Green movement for refusing to ratify Kyoto because of its asymmetrical mandates. Now it is Tokyo's turn to be attacked.

Yuri Onodera, Friends of the Earth Japan: "Japan's move to drop out of the Kyoto treaty shows a severe lack of recognition of its own historical and moral responsibility. With this position, Japan isolates itself from the rest of the world. Even worse, this step undermines the ongoing talks and is a serious threat to the progress needed here in Cancun."

The truth is quite the contrary. The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan knows exactly where its responsibility rests. Japanese industry cannot be put at a competitive disadvantage when the U.S. and China are free of any limitations. And Japan was not isolated, as it was joined in its stance by Russia, Canada, Australia and Turkey while America stood by its previous position. Other developed nations are thought to support a break with Kyoto in private, though the self-destructing European Union seems paralyzed on the subject.

The UN Framework Conference on Climate Change has been advocating a new treaty to replace Kyoto, but the Cancun Agreement pushes that effort into at least another year of talks. The odds are getting longer against any new treaty based on the Kyoto model as the number of major nations opposed to accepting imposed limitations increase.

The BASIC bloc of China (the world's #3 economy with a GDP of $5 trillion), Brazil (#8 with GDP of $1.6 trillion), India (#11, $1.3 trillion) and South Africa (#31, $0.3 trillion) is adamant about the right of its members to develop without external constraint. The U.S. (#1, $14.1 trillion), Japan (#2, $5 trillion), Canada (#10, $1.3 trillion), Russia (#12, $1.2 trillion), Australia ($13, $0.9 trillion) and Turkey (#17, $0.6 trillion) refuse to accept restrictions unless BASIC does. Together, these ten nations account for over half of the global economy; $31.3 trillion in GDP out of a world total worth $58.1 trillion according to the World Bank.