I'm hot, therefore I am.

Although we had a hot summer in the US, and many other parts of the world, the greatest (relative)  increases in temperature are taking place in the winter.  Night time temperatures have increased more than have day times.  The deep ocean temperatures are increasing more than surface water temperatures.

What the ef?

Here is what this indicates,  our cooling system - our insulation is warming up, it's filling with heat.  This would be like if you had sensors in your walls and attic, they are getting hotter soaking in the heat while your comfort level is changing slower.  Eventually though, when your walls are loaded with their maximum thermal load in relation to the surroundings they fail to moderate further increases, it just passes them along.  

As night is less able to mediate the residual thermal units left over from the day, the feedback loop allows both to go higher, and so it is with winter vs. summer, and deep vs. shallow seas.   This feedback increases because it increases.  I'm hot, therefore I am.

I was intrigued by the wall street protests, now I love it, 3 events that increased my interest.

1) You may not know Paul Singer the hedge fund dude, one of the 100,000 households in the US that own 90+% of the nations assets, and has been fingered already as paying hired writers to write degrading stories about the Wall Street protestors.  Since news organizations all over the nation have laid off many of their real reporters, they simply buy or use stores sold or given to them, sha-zam, that's how the climate deniers are making it happen, they flood TV and print with corporate friendly stories bringing us back to the afore mentioned douche water's project.  (Clarence Thomas is another of his projects along with Ms. Thomas for whom he "donates" to her reichwing "hobbies". )

2) I saw the GE CEO last night on 60 minutes.  I figured he was a nice guy trying to help America, and I always disliked Leslie Stall's style of fawning over men she interviewed.  Wow, surprise.  The guy came off as a capitalist dick who can smile when he insults you as he did to her, and Leslie didn't let him off the hook on everything he puked out.  This prick did us a service, he said things people needed to hear and think about, that American capitalism has no interest nor patriotic morals nor responsibility to pay taxes here, or create jobs here, return their profits here, nothing for America, nothing except a military rock to hide under.  As for her question about low pay in his US shops and how can that build or sustain a middle class his answer was also what people need to hear, "thousands apply for those jobs", get it, that was all there was to it.  And the creme-de-le-creme, he said "people protesting on Wall Street should be rooting for me".   This sums up the race to the bottom, the killing off of the middle class, the grab for billions in cash and assets, the belief the public either does or should love corporations without question, and a get out of jail free card on regulation, fairness, empathy, environment, shared responsibility, support for those displaced by new technologies and markets.  To sum up, Darwin Capitalism.

3) A number of GOP congressmen/senators have said in the last few days these protests have to be stopped  immediately or we may return to the 60's.  Hell, I think we go back further than that if the protests don't continue.

Sure, there are laws against trading with Iran, but if you own the police......well......so what.

As a bonus, you could claim science is a hoax, that'll work too.

Or, you could tell Congress you have no interest in the Canadian Tar Sand Pipeline, but tell Canada you are an investor, but since you own Congress you won't be tried for the lie.

It's good to have more money than Jesus.

The trouble with women, they just won't listen.

GOP moral highlights of the day:
Topeka city council is debating overturning all the domestic violence laws for the city to save money.

Newt Gingrich is railing over the 1958 supreme court Brown v. Board of Education, also a Topeka Kansas violence against children event.

Perry's supporters say Mormons are a cult.

Santorum wants to stub his toe on gays in the military again, saying they make people nervous and could be prayed away.

Perry, shit, he didn't do anything worth writing about.

Herbie Cain says tax the poors food to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.

Palin said she won't run, she saw a mime at the window who talked to her.

Kansas GOP is running Reichwingers against most of it's current GOP office holders who many in the state call moderates, dems & moderate repubs are not welcome here, the trouble with moderates, they just won't fuck'n listen.

What do big banks do?

They;

make nearly 1/3 of the total corporate profits in this nation,

got bigger since the 2008 crash,

make record profits, higher than before the crash,

plan to lay of 10,000 more workers in the coming weeks,

4 biggest hold 50% of all mortgages and 66% of all credit cards,

5 biggest hold 95% of derivatives in the US,

10 biggest hold 60% all bank assets,

rarely loan to small business,

prospered while family wealth fell 12.8 trillion,

paid 5,000 bonuses of at least $1 million in 2008,

can get any government official to take a call,

don't actually like you.

Kyra Sedgwick Urges the President to Reject the Tar Sands Pipeline

Kyra, thanks for your political statement, I do agree.  Valero is going to import this oil into a bonded tax free trade zone set up at the pipe's end in Texas, load it on ships and sell it to other nations.  We get the risk, we get no tax off it, we only get a portion of the oil, we get severe pollution from refining this dirtier than normal oil, we get screwed again by the corporations and the government they own.  Also, divorce your husband and run away with me.

99%ers protest in NYC ridiculed by much of the media and of course by the rich and their supporters

David Weidner, writing in Market Watch.

"If you want to know how a nation supposedly by and for the people has become uprooted, one only needs to see how common young people, who are suffering so badly in this recession, were humiliated further by trying to exercise their given right to peacefully protest.

If this is justice, I’d rather break the law.

The bankers who brought us this mess not only walk free, they drive free in Bentleys paid for by money looted through toxic mortgages, trading debacles and derivative madness. Regulators, prosecutors and an administration patsy to big finance do nothing except hand out $1.3 trillion in bailout cash and guarantees."