huh…so, Einstein was right, God does not play dice with the universe, instead he plays darts with the universe. (I always thought he was a Boggle man…)
No, it means he prefers getting it on with erstwhile science mags.
The last time we had a national disaster, Rick held his hand out and asked for aid. Mind you, he had previously left fed money on the table for education, because it had strings that he didn’t like. We apparently can’t afford to pay our teachers, or fix our school system, but by God we’ve got a budget surplus! And Rick WILL ask for aid, as long as there’s no strings attached!
Hell no. Only time he did it, he was so premature that Mary didn’t even know what happened. Guess that comes <heh heh> when you hold it 13 billion years.
Ron Paul believes that governments should not intervene with disaster relief. We’ll see how he feels if his house burns down.
So, uh, whats with the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, then? Do they stay half-sane b/c the oil is undersea, not underground? What’s the sideways falloff distance for that magnetic harmonic convergence?
I get the humor here but I’ve got to say that Texas and Texans revere murderers, provided they are politically connected, their skin color is the right shade and their victims probably deserved to die anyway.
No kidding. We ranch. For every cow that is shipped elsewhere and tree that dies it matters not if the drought lasts another 6 months after the fact. The conditions taking them to that were already the death knell for them.
You commented on your linked June and July data being able to provide “long term drought trend in Texas” analysis, that if it (drought) exists “it’s hard to find it in the actual data.” I said you’re looking at a tiny window that doesn’t come near telling the whole story.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but you appear to draw conclusions from and then dismiss the validity of your link in two successive posts.
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huh…so, Einstein was right, God does not play dice with the universe, instead he plays darts with the universe. (I always thought he was a Boggle man…)
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At least the old guy is finally out of his Magic 8 Ball phase. Look what happened to the freaking dinosaurs!! :eek:
-XT
He would probably blame it on the US not being on the gold standard, or something like that.
(Emphasis added with loathing and revulsion.)
First one must show the existence of a god of any kind. Then one must show that that god has a desire for people to act in a certain way and not a desire to simply sit back and watch the monkey show.
What a lot of people don’t understand is that if ranchers sell off a cow, they’re not just selling HER off, but also her milk and any calves that she would have borne for as long as she was producing well. And it takes years to rebuild herds. No, I don’t ranch…but I do read, and I’ve known a few people who deal in livestock. It’s gonna take us a while before Texas can recover, and some farms and ranches are going to go under, permanently.
My husband was able to buy a farm out in West Texas for a hunting range, and the reason he was able to do this was because it’s marginal farmland. The family that had been trying to farm it finally had to call it quits after a previous drought had pretty much bankrupted them. They were glad to take my husband’s money and move into town to try to start over. It’s a good thing that we aren’t trying to produce anything on that farm other than deer and other game, because even in the best years, it’s hard to grow anything there.
Its no country for old men, is it?
I don’t understand what you are saying. Are you saying that two months without rain is enough to induce drought conditions or it isn’t? If you have issues with what Dr. Spencer is saying, then you should address you questions to him. He is a professional meteorologist and access to sources of information I don’t.
I do agree that talking Texas droughts is inconsistent, but the people who blamed Texas droughts on AGW are the one’s that started it.