“We’re All Gonna Die”

AGW – Al Gore’s Climate Predictions a “Hot Mess”

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Perhaps that should be rephrased, a “Hot, Cold Mess“.

Al Gore had no better luck predicting what the Earth’s temperature would be in 2017 than he did divining the “intent of a hanging chad” in the 2000 Presidential Election.

From the Climate Depot, “Global temperatures COOLER now than when Gore won Nobel Prize in 2007“.

Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong-un Reach Agreement

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Both Kim and Trump have reached agreement that territorial integrity of each of their most personal hairstyle assets shall not be encroached upon or expropriated by either party in any way. Any perceived incidence of such misappropriation will immediately be taken to the full UN Security Council for adjudication.

Norks – Susan Rice Says, “Keep Your Nukes, Kim”

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So how did Kim Jong-un all of a sudden get miniaturized nukes and the ICBM missiles capable of carrying them anywhere in the Continental U.S.?  Could it be because that was exactly what the Foreign Policy of Barack Obama and Susan Rice made inevitable?  The Conservative Daily News reports, “Rice tells Americans: Live with nuclear North Korea“.

Echoing Barack Obama‘s foreign policy on North Korea, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice told President Donald Trump to “tolerate” a nuclear North Korea.

“History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea — the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War,” she wrote in a New York Times op-ed.

Keith Richards RIP Update – “Rhinestone Lineman” Edition

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Here’s your Keith Richards RIP Update for August 2017:  He still lives, but Glen Campbell, unfortunately, does not.  Glen wore his ‘Lineman’s‘ jacket (the one studded with ‘Rhinestones‘) for years while working his way to ‘Phoenix‘.

 

Norks – Polly’s Vacating Pyongyang ~updated

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From the Washington Post, “North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say.” So who woulda’ thunk it?

North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.

The new analysis completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country’s atomic arsenal. The U.S. calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts believe the number of bombs is much smaller.

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Nostalgia – The Automat v. “Fight for $15 Dollar” Minimum Wage

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The Washington Post, interestingly, points out that “‘Free lunches’ like the $15 minimum wage may hurt the people they’re meant to help.”

TANSTAAFL. With self-serv Ordering Kiosks, kitchen automation, and factory pre-preparation, can it be so long before the old idea of “The Automat” is new again?

Take the proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a policy endorsed in the Democratic Party’s new “Better Deal” platform.

An increase in the federal minimum wage, stuck at $7.25 for eight years, is long overdue. But more than doubling it would likely result in massive job losses and cuts in work hours.

We’ve already seen preliminary evidence that raising wages in Seattle to $13 has produced sharp cuts in hours, leaving low-wage workers with smaller paychecks. And that’s in a high-cost city. Imagine what would happen if Congress raised the minimum wage to $15 nationwide.