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Crazy like Andrew Sullivan

Just as with the impossibility of Bristol giving birth the Trig we have Doyle claiming that "global warming is happening faster than expected". 

www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEE5AN1H2.htm

Temperatures are falling, CRU head Phil Jones is looking at serious criminal charges, and Alister Doyle is convinced that the ocean is about to rise two meters.

What is it they teach in journalism school that allows their graduates to transcend the corporeal world and perceive a truth that us mere mortals refuse to acknowledge with our backwards physical sciences?

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Fork - Done

I think this is the first proof of intentional fraud.  Up to now there has been plenty of evidence in the form of manipulated data, but the AGW hucksters have been able to claim they were honest mistakes or equipment malfunctions. 

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Alister Doyle goes full retard

Heh

First there is this "smoke" from a "chemical plant"

Looks like steam to me, and with all the problems Reuters has had with fauxtography it probably isn't even a chemical plant.

Doyle then confuses the very old and unpopular "global warming" cliche with the more recently discredited meme of "climate change"

Once you start an article like that you might as well close with the big lie:

"President George W. Bush formally dropped Kyoto..."

Always nice to see the many layers of fact checking at Reuters in action.

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Anthropogenic Climate Change is Dead

and the harbingers of nonexistent doom have been utterly discredited (again)

www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_climate_reports_they_lie.html

Meanwhile Doyle speculates on which of the people most responsible for this grand fraud will get a Nobel Peace Prize:

blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/09/30/a-green-nobel-peace-prize-next-week-or-one-too-many/

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2009 Blog Update

The problem with this blog is that Alister Doyle doesn't seem to change much.

Clicky here for BS

I suppose it will be fun to watch him continue with the anthropomorphic global warming meme long after it has been totally discredited.

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Severe Global Warming Event in Texas, March 2008

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The legacy media, intolerant of dissent

Just a reminder that the Alister Doyle blog at Reuters is not accepting comments if they fail to comply with the left wing Reuters global warming group-think.

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The legacy media, slow to change

With temperatures falling and the religion of global warming becoming more discredited with each passing week, Reuters Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle is still on autopilot:

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EXTREME MEASURES

Recently expanded my reloading capabilities to include 500S&W and 380ACP. The massive 50 caliber cartridge being the largest thing I have ever reloaded and the cute little 380 is now the smallest.



Here is where the disclaimer is supposed to go about not using this information to blow up your toys and hurt yourself. Seems to me that if you are reading this and have the means to round up the tools and supplies then there is nothing to stop you for using a search engine to find actual reloading data. This is about the joy of shooting, as a form of in your face, anti-environmentalism and how to do it cheaper thus creating as much lead pollution as possible.

Some folks reload for accuracy, or just for the fun of it. For the 50 caliber you can’t ignore the economic incentive. Compare the Hornady XTP cartridge that costs $2.60 EACH to a reloaded cartridge with the same Hornady XTP bullet. Primer + powder + bullet adds up to “only” 77 cents each. Obviously it could be much less with a plain cast bullet.

Reloading the 380 is a less obvious choice. A box of Remmington’s around here cost 36 cents each. My cost for this first reloading session added up to 11 cents each. If pulling the handle on a reloading press doesn’t sound like a fun evening and you are trying to add your labor cost to the total, then reloading the 380 might not be your bag.

The difference between the two calibers really stands out when it is time to measure out the powder. The 380 uses only 3.0 grains of Bullseye but those long fat 50 caliber shells each got 40 grains of 2400. (15.4 grains = 1 gram) So a single 500S&W cartridge contains more powder than two full Kel-Tec magazines. It is also twice the powder charge and double the bullet weight of my favorite 44 magnum recipie. Bwuhahahaha!!!!!

Perceived recoil with this 380 load is slightly less than with Remmington factory ammo. The semi-auto functions, the brass lands in about the same place, lead goes downrange. What more could anyone want? The recoil generated by this 50 caliber load was significantly less than factory ammo with the same bullet. This was in line with expectations and was the desired result. I love big artillery but not so much when it still hurts a week later.

Will update with accuracy test results later….

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Kirkwood, Missouri

Yes, home sick today.  Laundry and dishes are done, slept most of the day.  Blogging as a last resort you might say.

No, this is not a defense of the actions of "Cookie" Thornton.  My prayers are with his victims and their families.

Maybe, he was insane, or maybe not.  Have a look at the Kirkwood City Ordinances.  No doubt about it, if he lived in a zoned residential area he was not permitted to drive or park his business vehicles in the neighborhood.

Am I spoiled for the freedom of living in rural Texas?  The Kirkwood city ordinances make the place sound like a micro managed over regulated hell hole full of little Eichmanns.  At any rate, the solution to the problem is NOT to go shoot up the city council chambers.  The solution is to go live someplace with more of a free commerce orientation.

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Everything old is new again

Not exactly, this IBD editorial is not a 70's style ice age prediction due to man made pollution:

If Alister Doyle and the other man made global warming nuts are paying attention they might take this opportunity to make the scheduled switch back to global cooling.  At the turn of the century (the one 108 years ago) it was impending ice age, by the early 20th century there were dire predictions of global warming.  For most of the 2nd half of the 20th century it was back to impending ice age.  The most recent global warming hysteria has lasted nearly a quarter century already.

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Monsoon collapse imminent, women and minorities hardest hit

It has been a while since I bothered to read the retarded nonsense Doyle writes so the idea that the collapse of a monsoon is a "damaging" environmental catastrophe is a new manifestation of the usual insanity

The rest of it is just the same old tired discredited clichés.  Human use of fossil fuel, global warming, the evil logging industry, and the yet the be seen 2mm per year sea level rise, yadda yadda yadda...

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Duplicate rants

Had a couple of incredibly bad customer service experiences in the last few days. Instead of typing up a big long boring blog post, how about if I just direct you to rants which have already been written:

Autozone

PayPal

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Clueless

A stopped clock is right twice a day. How many years can he continue to be so very very wrong?

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Stuck on Stupid

If you were curious, Alister Doyle is still out there spewing his nonsense

Still waiting for these Goracle worshipers to seamlessly switch back from man made global warming to man made impending ice age.

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Ameritron AL-572 progress report

After four months of use it is time for an update



First of all, I don't agree with Ameritron shipping this amplifer out with the power supply generating a plate voltage of 3000 volts.  The data sheet for the tubes clearly calls for a lower voltage.  IMHO the excessive plate voltage is the primary reason this model has such a bad reputation for blowing up tubes. 

The internal jumpers on mine have been changed so that the plate voltage is about 2400 volts.  With the lower plate voltage, this unit can still produce 900 watts continuous on the lower bands, 700 watts on 10 and 15 meters, and generally manages over 1000 watts peak on single sideband.

On the plus side, the amplifier does exactly what is expected of a kilowatt  class amplifier.  Reaching out past 500 miles on 80 and 160 meters with marginal band conditions is not a problem.  The amplifier also continues to function at a lesser power level with one or two tubes inoperative (more later) plus it helps keep the radio room warm on cold winter nights.

Last week the notorious MFJ lack of quality control finally struck.  Turned on the amp one evening and noticed that it was only doing about 600 watts and two of the four tubes were dark.  The cold solder joint was found and fixed easily but how many more have I not found yet?

Overall, I give it one thumb mostly up with qualifications.  It does near legal limit power for SSB, it doesn't draw too much current from an ordinary 120VAC outlet, and it can continue to operate with 1 or 2 tubes out, if you are willing to deal with making modifications and repairs yourself.

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Peggy Noonan says:

Who, of all the powerful women in American politics right now, has inspired the unease, dismay and frank dislike that Hillary Clinton has? Condi Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein? These are serious women who are making crucial decisions about our national life every day. They inspire agreement and disagreement; they fight and are fought with. But they do not inspire repugnance. Nobody hates Barbara Mikulski, Elizabeth Dole or Kay Bailey Hutchison; everyone respects Ms. Rice and Ms. Feinstein.

What has Peggy been smoking?

Unease, dismay and dislike are very apt adjectives for Pelosi and Feinstein.  Many on the left have had far less charitable things to say about Dr. Rice.  Peggy then proceeds to finish the paragraph with a sentence that is obviously untrue.  So blatantly false that you have to ask why it was written.  Plenty of people hate Mikulski, Dole, and Hutchison.  In this modern internet age you don't have to speculate on the subject, evidence of those sentiments is only a google away.

Is it possible that someone who uses the English language to earn a living does not know the definition of the word respect?  If a poll were taken today I would guess that around 40% would answer that they do not respect a radical left anti second amendment politician named Feinstein.  Lastly, Peggy herself has once again demonstrated a lack of respect for Dr. Rice by failing to use her proper title.

 

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What if there was a drama and all the actors were villains?

Mix Boeing, the FAA, Dan Rather, a fired Boeing engineer, Mark Cuban's HDnet, OSHA, allegations of monkey business during crashworthiness testing, and stir gently over medium heat.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2003889663_boeing180.html

I apologize to my fellow engineers for putting the word "Boeing" next to the word "engineer".  It won't happen again.

 

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Live Earth

Doyle has written one Reuters story and two blog entries about the "Live Earth" concerts since my last update. This Gaia worshipping nonsense is getting out of hand. The surface of the earth is infested with living organisms but most reasonable people agree that the bulk of this 6x10²⁴ kilogram planet is not "living". Add to this the delusion that the climate is in "crisis" and the hubris to think the climate can be influenced by holding some concerts and you have fulfilled the clinical definition of mental disease. Now Doyle has repeatedly claimed that global warming will "spread disease". How many diseases will be spread when a bunch of dirty hippies congregate in large groups to hear Shakira tell them that they are the chosen ones who must save the planet? A spokesman for one of the carbon offset scams, Michael Buick, summarized the insanity best when he said "It's a dilemma for Live Earth -- they have to create carbon to save carbon"

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Inconsequential

A 47 nation internet poll that only drew 26,000 responses is the subject of Doyle's latest rant for the Reuter's wire:

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and ex-U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan are best suited to champion work to fight climate change, a 47-nation opinion poll said on Monday.

Yech

Not completely worthless you say? How about if a third of poll participants said that no one was suited to lead an assault on climate change? A substantial portion of that third likely realize that "an assault on climate change" is an impossibility applied to the nonexistent.

This story also includes the increasingly nuanced phrase: "Scientists in a U.N. climate panel say that greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, will bring more droughts, floods and rising seas." I can step down the hall and get two scientists to say just about anything if I promise to take them to Dairy Queen and buy them a Blizzard, and I'm talking about real scientists, that work for a living, producing real products, not some retarded losers on a U.N. climate panel.

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