Harvey: gathering the lessons.

1. The facts.
a) Harvey became a cat 4 storm before it struck Texas, west of Houston.
b) The landfall occurred between two high pressure centers that blew winds south. Harvey then stalled, but the outer band on its east continued to pump moisture inland.
c) Predictably, the resultant deluge (some 50 inches of rain in some places) could not drain south and inundated the Houston metropolitan area and smaller towns.
d) Federal, state and local resources were marshaled to rescue citizens caught up in the flood. Help came from as far away as Louisiana (the Cajun Navy with its 'air' boats).
e)  There was also a heroic effort to rescues pets and some live stock.

2. The reporting.
On one hand, the reporting was adequate, with the exception of the ambulance chaser claims that the severity of the storm (and flooding) was due to 'global warming'. There was also an attempt by the Media to accuse Pres Trump of being uncaring. These attempts were despicable, the efforts of deranged Trump haters.

3. The damage.
There was storm damage and damage from the flooding and from loss of economic activity. Preliminary estimate is $90B.

4. Problems to be fixed.
There is a suggestion that Houston's drainage system needs improving.

Political humor.

This story is told of the last days of Bill Clinton as President.

Bill Clinton flew to Arkansas, for an unknown purpose(?). He was gone for a couple of hours and returned with a small pig under each arm. The marine at the bottom of the stair to the plane saluted and asked surprised: "what's with the pigs, Sir?" Bill replied: "I got a genuine Arkansas pig for Hillary and Chelsea." The Marine  replied: "an excellent trade, Sir."

List of donors to Hillary.

These were countries seeking favors with the expected winner of our election.

 

 

Idiot of the week.

Folks, I have stopped reporting on the bilge that comes from Nancy Pelosi. So, here is something idiotic from Chuck Schumer.

http://eaglerising.com/46712/schumer-to-trump-allow-illegals-to-vote-to-prove-youre-not-a-white-supremacist/

How Algore Distorts Climate Science by Roy Spencer

An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy

August 19th, 2017

Al Gore has provided a target-rich environment of deceptions in his new movie.

After viewing Gore’s most recent movie, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and after reading the book version of the movie, I was more than a little astounded. The new movie and book are chock-full of bad science, bad policy, and factual errors.

So, I was inspired to do something about it. I’d like to announce my new e-book, entitled An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy, now available on Amazon.com.

After reviewing some of Gore’s history in the environmental movement, I go through the movie, point by point.

One of Gore’s favorite tactics is to show something that happens naturally, then claim (or have you infer) that it is due to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. As I discuss in the book, this is what he did in his first movie (An Inconvenient Truth), too.

For example, sea level rise. Gore is seen surveying flooded streets in Miami Beach.

That flooding is mostly a combination of (1) natural sea level rise (I show there has been no acceleration of sea level rise beyond what was already happening since the 1800s), and (2) satellite-measured sinking of the reclaimed swamps that have been built upon for over 100 years in Miami Beach.

In other words, Miami Beach was going to have to deal with the increasing flooding from their “king tides”, with or without carbon dioxide emissions.

Gore is also shown jumping across meltwater streams on the Greenland ice sheet. No mention is made that this happens naturally every year. Sure, 2012 was exceptional for its warmth and snow melt (which he mentioned), but then 2017 came along and did just the opposite with record snow accumulation, little melt, and the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere for a July.

The fact that receding glaciers in Alaska are revealing stumps from ancient forests that grew 1,000 to 2,000 years ago proves that climate varies naturally, and glaciers advance and recede without any help from humans.

So, why is your SUV suddenly being blamed when it happens today?

The list goes on and on.

Some of what Gore claims is just outright false. He says that wheat and corn yields in China are down by 5% in recent decades. Wrong. They have been steadily climbing, just like almost everywhere else in the world. Here’s the situation for all grain crops in China:

And that lack of rainfall in Syria that supposedly caused conflict and war? It didn’t happen. Poor farmers could no longer afford diesel fuel to pump groundwater because Assad tripled the price. Semi-arid Syria is no place to grow enough crops for a rapidly growing population, anyway.

I also address Gore’s views on alternative energy, mainly wind and solar. It is obvious that Gore does not consider government subsidies when he talks about the “cost” of renewable energy sometimes being cheaper than fossil fuels. Apparently, he hasn’t heard that the citizens pay the taxes that then support the alternative energy industries which Gore, Elon Musk and others financially benefit from. If and when renewable energy become cost-competitive, it won’t need politicians and pundits like Mr. Gore campaigning for it.

To counter what is in movie theaters now, I had to whip up this book in only 2 weeks, and I didn’t have a marching army of well-funded people like Gore has had. (Too bad he didn’t have someone doing fact-checking.) Despite my disadvantage, I think I present a powerful case that most of what he presents is, at the very least, very deceptive.

From http://www.drroyspencer.com/

The pardoning of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Sheriff Joe had become a scourge for the criminals and illegal aliens. That is why he earned the hatred of the communist/globalist faction of our country. Such a person can not get a fair trial in a place like Maricopa County, the home of the deranged Democrat faction of Arizona.

 

In any case, his prosecution was political and the verdict against him was political as well. It is a fact that most illegal aliens in AZ are Hispanic in origin so a Sheriff who does his job correctly can not avoid running afoul of the globalist federal judges (and other Democrats) who want to replace the population with Hispanics.

 

Sheriff Joe has faithfully served the people of his County for 50 years. President Trump has done well to reverse the injustice of the globalist judge and the 12 kangaroos who voted to convict him for doing his duty. 

The origin of the expressions: "left" and "right".

Today's Bible Lesson

 In this crazy political world with President Trump getting hit daily I decided a little Bible Lesson might be appropriate. Remember what Jesus said: 'Goats on the left, sheep on the right' (Matthew 25:33).

Jesus also told Peter that if he wanted to catch fish do it from the right side of the boat. He did and filled the boat with fish. John  21:6 (NIV) ... He said, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish."

Origin of Left & Right...I have often wondered why it is t hat Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left". By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible: Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV) - "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

It surely can't get any simpler than that.