Fascinating Weather Update

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This is one of the most interesting weather updates I have had the pleasure to read, especially since it concerns the fate of a system which used to be a menacing typhoon, and then a collapsing tropical storm, and is at the time of this writing, a mere tropical depression.  From reading the series of these updates, I get the feeling that there has been lively debate (possibly with thrown crockery) at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which uniformly turns in a great product. I reproduce it here in full, and will likely refer back to this post from a more informed future post.

MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//
SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING//
RMKS/
1. TROPICAL DEPRESSION 08W (MA-ON) WARNING NR 040
DOWNGRADED FROM TROPICAL … Continue reading →

Bring Me My RINO Gun.

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Sorry, bit of a rant coming on, I fear.  I’m so mad at the GOP shenanigans that I can hardly see straight.

This “gang of six” deal is a butt-rocket.  I could go on copying and pasting pros and cons and cons and cons, but the two facts I care about are this:

  • It’s a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR tax increase by any honest math
  • The plan “drew immediate praise from President Barack Obama.” (Wall Street Journal)

That’s enough for me.  Okay, one more, from the same WSJ paragraph:  “The plan would reduce the deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years.”  Gee, can you spare it?  That’s just the amount the Obama has added to the deficit SO FAR!  By the end of this year it’ll be $5T … Continue reading →

Typhoon Warning

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17JUL:

While anything is possible, this “prognostic reasoning” from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center is alarming:

MODEL GUIDANCE IN THE EXTENDED TAUS HAS REMAINED VERY CONSISTENT OVER THE PAST 2 DAYS IN REGARDS TO THE TRACK AND TRACK SPEEDS. DUE TO THE LACK OF A STRONG MIDLATITUDE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND WESTERLIES, THE RE-CURVE IS UNUSUAL IN THAT THE SYSTEM WILL TRACK AT RELATIVELY SLOW SPEEDS (10-14 KNOTS), MAINTAIN TYPHOON INTENSITY STRENGTH PAST TOKYO; AND LACK SIGNIFICANT BAROCLINIC INTERACTION UNTIL IT MOVES EAST OF TOKYO.

Translation: No standing rain line means this typhoon will not be “scooted off to the east” like most are. It will also not be weakened by the wind shear associated with said scooting. It will be weakened only by dry air and cooler water, … Continue reading →

Time Mag v Constitution, Day 15: Patterico

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Patterico has a series of posts tracking the impressively dishonest and wholly anti-Constitutional views being pimped by Time Magazine’s Managing Editor, Richard Stangel. Stengel was once CEO of “The National Constitution Center”, now runs their Peter Jenning Center for the Political Rectification of Obama’s Praetorian Media.
Patterico (in a guest post and letter campaign by Aaron Worthing) wrote to the Center with a list of specifics and detailed refutations, chapter and verse as it were. The summary of their weaselly non-answer seems to be “Buy the magazine! Click the link!”

To find out whether Stengel made those claims, read his article. To learn what the Constitution says about those issues, you can find an annotated Constitution by clicking here.

So there’s a lot of controversy.  What do you … Continue reading →

Thank You Boehner, McConnell; Let's Do Some More

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[Update:  I don’t know what Leader McConnell’s cockamamie scheme is supposed to accomplish, but for now I’ll simply assume it’s a delaying tactic, and on that basis not argue about it too much.]

GOOD SHOW, Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell, in telling the President to find more revenues where the sun don’t shine!  I am officially off the war path of abandoned-by-my-party indignation (as promised), and I think that if you message this right, you can win back a lot of Tea Party support, so foolishly squandered in the Continuing Resolution debacle–bygones.  You’ve already done the hard work–now get the word out.  I’ll help.

[pullquote]Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday[/pullquote]

Here’s what else I’ll help with: Call the President’s bluff on the August second doomsday. … Continue reading →

Reagan. Reykjavik. Boehner.

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[Update: So far, so good.  Keep it up!  Speaker Boehner, if we make it to August 2nd without a deal, for what it’s worth I will be back on the GOP bandwagon, and I will encourage everybody I know to come along.  Good show so far; KEEP IT UP.  Thank you!]

Short and simple: Speaker Boehner has an opportunity to regain some trust from the Tea Party which put him in his chair.

The opportunity here is the same as that presented to President Reagan at Reykjavik. Like Reagan, he has been presented a choice between rapid defeat and slow defeat.  Reagan refused to play by the rules set forth in places like the defeatist, accommodationist New York Times.   He walked away, and far from being empty-handed, … Continue reading →

Honda CB900C

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I have finally found out exactly what that bike was I saw 20 years ago.

Honda’s American CB900 would not be so long of wheelbase, nor mechanically quite so interesting, if those who designed it had not chosen to use a maximum of existing hardware. Specifically, they opted to work with only lightly altered CB900 nee CB750F engine/transmission cases and the GL1100-CX500 final-drive assembly. This approach, like making the CB900 out of the CB750F, was shaped by manufacturing economics. They had to couple a left-side transmission output stub to a right-side final drive, and the twain could not be made to meet without taking complicated measures.

What Honda’s engineers did to resolve their right-to-left dilemma was to cobble together some transfer gears, a jack-shaft and right-angle bevel drive … Continue reading →

Time Magazine Debases Constitution

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“If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn’t say so.” — Richard Stengel, Managing Editor of Time Magazine, and former President and CEO of the National Constitution Center.

Please help share the linked article from which the following quote is taken.

The fourteen factual errors in the recent Time article are actually a big deal because the author of that awful piece, Richard Stengel, holds an incredibly influential position.

The author is not only the Managing Editor for Time, but he spent two years as President and CEO of the National Constitution Center. And even today, he works with the National Constitution Center’s Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, whose stated mission is “to help both professional journalists and students … Continue reading →