No leaders for the doomed

God appoints leaders and when he despises a people and intends to see them destroyed, sends them nothing but fools.

In declining civilizations, good men withdraw to tend their own private gardens. No one remains in the public sphere except sociopaths and con men and all a doomed nation hears until the day comes is whatever it wants to hear from anybody they can find to say it. Otherwise their bridges collapse, their roads deteriorate and their currency is thrown into the streets as worthless.

How soon Iran?

Globowarmthenkers Are Cosmic Klowns Put Here To Make Us All Laugh

Read Robert Felix's inserted comments at Ice Age Now to see between the lines of this article.

If I have a frontal lobotomy can I get a career started as a climatologist? My first proposed study is to investigate how decomposing baby nappies in a landfill in North America can cause deepsea temperature increases on the floor of the Pacific and make the ocean become totally anaerobic in the short space of ten years. Please make that grant check out to "bearer" so I can find a co-signer and get it cashed across the street at the liquor store. It beats the hell of out working for a living. Plus I can pull winsome looking emo girls by telling them I'm a dedicated environmentalist fighting to "save this planet we all need, for future generations. By myself, if I have to, dammit." I'll arch my brow at the end of the sentence to try to look like a really dreamy idealist. I'm an edjumificated sensitive type and also like dogs and children and enjoy romantic walks on the beach. Saving whales n' stuff while making tie-die shirts out flotsam tampon remnants as I free gulls from fishing lines. Yessam. I used to have problems starting conversations with girls until I got onto this gobbler warmsink bandwagon. I don't know what the hell I'm really saying, to be honest, I just copy the other primates because it seems to end in sexual encounters and my teachers smile at me when I say the right magical phrases n'stuff. Truth is I barely even know where in the hell I am half the time. That's why I stick close behind Oprah and Dr. Phil's wake.

Pack It Soon OR Be Priced Out Of Rice

I'm not kidding.

Pack your rice. Becuz its coming.

The Mother of All Famines. Will make Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD look like light summer reading about a zany picnic outing gone wrong.

Dick Cheney Needed New Landscaping Work Around Back of His House

These guys are fighting sans ammo, body armor and support of modern warfare supply lines. Human sand bags. They are there to suck up bullets that might otherwise hit Halliburton consultants.

A clean supply of potable water is step A for occupation of a piece of territory. Might as well send'em all home if that is the best logistics and supply can do for them.

North Korea Says They Will Disarm and Chew Bubblegum

... and they are all out of bubblegum.

Vault-Co prediction : North Korea will disarm the exact same day my career in gay porno makes me my first million. Don't hold your breath or visit the video store on a regular basis looking to see if my debut tape has come out.

Let's Go Broke And Eat Baby Meat For Israel

Oy vey! They only have the world's fourth largest military and nuclear weapons! Why fight when a nice shabbas goy volunteers to go in your place?

Explain the part again to me where blessing Abraham means becoming a slave colony of Tel Aviv and worshipping Pharisees as our masters. I get lost in there somewhere. You said this was a Christian responsibility? Are you sure? I don't think that's in my Geneva bible scripture. Maybe somebody pulled a fast one on you. You do know Cyrus Scofield got bailed out of prison for check forgery the same day he got the job to write the concordance from special pets at Oxford Press, right?

More power to'em, say I. Anybody stupid enough to roll over and bark that easy is going to be doing what somebody tells'em somewhere, it's just a question of who. They're slaves auditioning for masters, the first whipcracker to step forward gets the spoils, is all.

75 cent EMP Proof Neon Lamp Radiation Detector?

Very interesting little circuit this month in Electronic Design. Doesn't detect gammas but might be mounted near your decon/staging area to determine if there's a lot of skyshine coming through. If you saw this flicking pretty bright by the door you'd know you better spend the day inside playing cards. EMP could not burn this out, it's solid state chunky boat anchor hardware that no little zot of EMF is going to knock out.

One thing it needs is a tiny little power supply to ramp 3-12 volts to the 100 volts required and seal it up in a secure watertight case.

Vault-OS : Update #3

This is a computer I bought for $8 at a garage sale and painted with a $2 spraycan. It's a 386 SX with 4 megs of ram and it is running the current version of Vault OS in spite of the fact it has no hard drive, monochrome screen only and even the CMOS battery is dead for the bios. I plan to implement a feature whereby these machines can be told to ignore their BIOs settings and to get an accurate date-time from a TCP-IP service. The app is running in 32 bit protected mode on a 640x480 256 color SVGA display at about 64 fps. It has two visual pages (for smooth flickerless updates) and two offscreen buffers for the GUI interface display management. The current build has all the TCP-IP libraries compiled in, the Metakit database, the John Miles Sound System, the Fastgraph graphics library and a heavily adapted version of FastGUI. The executable is now 1.2 megs leaving roughly 3 more megs to operate with in RAM alone. Amazing what you can do once you ditch windows.

This machine comes with a functional serial port, parallel port, a single USB socket, a microphone input, soundcard output jack and a PCMCIA slot. I already found a network card with floppy disk software that works on this for $1 at a surplus store. So this would be a typical example of a single server/client terminal in the Vault OS Network. You could plug who knows what kind of real time data sensors into this unit without the hassles of having to build a dedicated ethernet board as described in the first draft of the Vault OS architecture. The exact mechanics of how you will read/interpret the data on a port are still up in the air, but I am writing a scripting language that is going to give you all kind of flexibility to do things like read/write to/from ports and some built in routines for A/D conversions and other features for embedded sensors. I will not hard code any of this stuff on my local setup to make sure that others will be able to adapt their networks to do what they want.

Note that the simple presence of a microphone jack implies the capability to read incoming analog sound signals (like from the audio jack of a CD-715 radiation meter) through the sound card and convert them to digital data signals that can be displayed on a graph or display widget of some kind. This part is a gray area but in the act of getting my own setup running I'll be debugging this through the scripting front end. I thought one way of standardizing this might be to insist on Sound Blaster compatibility, that way I could count on an SB driver that I could call off interrupts from inside the script to process audio information. Fantastic things with A/D sensing have been done through sound cards so this is worth investigating.

Right now the important thing to debug is the sensor input framework, but the ports aren't limited to input - they can also be wired to control the outside world ... turn on lights, run the water or fuel pump, manage the temperature of a greenhouse, etc. ... and that's the tip of the iceberg. One very cool application might be a generic system for management of CCD security cameras and getting the framebuffer off of one to splat into GUI windows for real time capture and motion detection on video frames.

Global Warming Math Contravenes Law of Thermodynamics

NASA refused to report these findings. Refused, as in suppressed, purely for political purposes.

Keep one thing in mind at all times.

It's unnatural for a planet to have a temperature like ours does during these brief interglacial periods. It's almost supernatural. Heat is hard to trap, hard to retain and impossible to create without using up other forms of energy.

Heat and warmth are weird and an anomaly in a universe where almost everything is cold.

Cold is normal. Ice Ages are simply the return to normality.

People freezing to death is normal and natural and it's a basic concern for all human life - staying warm. Most of our remarkable qualities have to do with first eliminating primates who are not smart enough to know how to avoid freezing to death.

Oprh Winfrey's balmy tropical apocalypse was nearly as unrealistic as fears of aliens and anal probes. It reveals a person so distant from the necessary details of the human condition that they have entered a strange schizophrenic hyper reality completely separated from life. Global warming is a soft, fuzzy postmodern fantasy that appeals to fags. They couldn't handle anything having to do with real life and for this reason you can clearly see ... nature never meant for them to survive the end of the interglacial. Like grasshoppers, they were only made to flourish for a day and then vanish. They're not survivor type people and global warming was a form of escapist denial that allowed them to continue to nurture their delusions.

Oprah, I reckon you will be unable to get out of town in your limo because of ice blocking the roads and will probably end up somebody's dinner one winter soon.