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Global Warming: Is There NOTHING It Can’t Do?

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I’ve got a little unexpected time this morning, so at breakfast I scanned the free copy of USAToday that was waiting outside my door.

The headline that struck me first was this:

Global warming may raise kidney stone risk

No, I’m not kidding. The story states:

Global warming could do more than hurt polar bears: It could force a rise in kidney stones, scientists warned Monday.

“We see a relationship between kidney stones and temperatures everywhere,” says study co-author Margaret Pearle of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. “Even in places with air conditioning, warmer temperatures mean more stones.”

Kidney stones result from salts crystallizing in the kidneys, often triggered by dehydration, causing famously painful blockages. Nationwide, kidney stones strike about 12% of all men and 7% of women over their lifetime.

Warm southeastern states get 50% more cases than northeastern ones. The new research says global warming will drive this so-called kidney stone “belt” north triggering at least 1.6 million new cases by 2050.

The United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year warned that industrial emissions of greenhouse gases very likely would raise average global temperatures 3 to 7 degrees this century, raising risks for heat stroke and expansion of tropical diseases such as malaria.

The kidney stone finding, reported Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combines the panel’s projections of higher U.S. temperatures with Medicare and Veterans Administration health records stretching from 1982 to 2005 to estimate how many extra U.S. kidney stone cases will result from global warming.

In tomorrow’s paper Chicken Little will be quoted stating that the sky is falling – also backed by a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and an SUV will be indicted for deliberately killing its passengers in a rollover. GM will be named as a co-conspirator.

I Can Haz Podcast?

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I Can Haz Podcast?

Squeaky and Caleb are running a weekly podcast every Tuesday night at 11:00PM Eastern on topics of general shooty goodness. Tomorrow night’s ‘cast includes a pre-recorded interview with Michael Bane “about the ParaShoot and gun stuff.”

You can “tune in” by going to Gun Nuts: The Next Generation, and if you can’t catch it “live,” it’s available for download later.

Modern media. They’ll let anyone do it.

No wonder the LA Times is laying off people.

I Love Blogs

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I Love Blogs

Via Instapundit, I got to read Mudville Gazette‘s dissection of CNN’s (The Most Busted Name in News) treatment of Bud Day.

Read the whole thing, but the last line says it all:

America’s most decorated living veteran – it’s no small wonder the Left fears him.

And it’s no wonder the “Yellowstream Media” hates and fears the New Media.

Spread this one around.

CNN – STILL the Most Busted Name in News

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CNN – STILL the Most Busted Name in News

They’ve done it again! First they claim that the Assault Weapons Ban (that wasn’t) kept machine guns “off the street” and that a pre-ban AK-47 could destroy cinderblocks that a post-ban AK-47 couldn’t, then they decried the use of Gunkote with an example of a (REAL!) Glock, now it’s the claim that “55% of gun owners use them in suicide attempts.”

No, I am not sh!**ing you.

They did correct themselves…

…10 minutes later.

Which was a better turnaround than the first example. Hell, maybe they’re learning.

But I doubt it.

Quote of the Day

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Quote of the Day

Limbaugh’s audience is often underestimated by critics who don’t listen to the show (only 3 percent of his audience identity themselves as “liberal,” according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People and the Press). Recently, Pew reported that, on a series of “news knowledge questions,” Limbaugh’s “Dittoheads” — the defiantly self-mocking term for his faithful, supposedly brainwashed, audience — scored higher than NPR listeners. The study found that “readers of newsmagazines, political magazines and business magazines, listeners of Rush Limbaugh and NPR and viewers of the Daily Show and C-SPAN are also much more likely than the average person to have a college degree.” – New York Times Magazine “Late-Period Limbaugh”

This is the piece in which it was announced that Limbaugh had signed up for another eight years with Clear Channel for a reported $400 million. Yes, friends, the Left is correct: the rich do keep getting richer.

One reason: they don’t ignore “flyover country.” Them ignorant rubes on the farm aren’t so ignorant nor such rubes, and we have money, too. It may surprise you to know, but Jeff “You Might Be a Redneck” Foxworthy is, I believe, the highest-earning comedian going. According to Forbes, his 11 comedy albums have sold 14 million copies – more than any other comedian including Bill Cosby; he earns up to $150k per stand-up show, his merchandise earns him $2.5 million a year. A quote from Foxworthy, while I’m at it:

I remember being in a meeting in L.A. and the guy had a turtle neck and his hair pulled back in a pony tail and three or four earrings and he had on a cashmere turtleneck and a blazer and he goes, “Jeff, I know your people.” And I’m looking at him: “My people would beat the hell out of you,” you know? But to me, it’s like between the two (Los Angeles and New York), there’s 200 million people and they would tell me, “Well, you`re not hip or you’re not on the cutting edge.” I’m like, “There’s 200 million people not hip and not on the cutting edge. You don’t get that.”

Not hip, not cutting edge, but not stupid either.

Limbaugh and Foxworthy are cashing on on the 200 million people who live in “flyover country,” even when that country is L.A. or N.Y.C.

And more power to them.

Except Obama wants to tax the hell out of them for making obscene profits.

The McFit McDiet

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The McFit McDiet

We all know that McDonalds is eeeevil, right? Morgan Spurlock proved it. Jared Fogel tells us that only Subway is the one, true path.

Then along comes Chris Coleson.

Chris Coleson battled his weight for years, but when he had trouble sliding into a restaurant booth it boosted and fueled his desire to drop the excess pounds.

But rather than try conventional diets, which had failed him before, the then 276-pound Coleson opted for his own “realistic” solution in December: he’d only eat at McDonald’s.

After six months on his McDiet, Coleson lost 80 pounds and dropped 14 pants sizes. His waist went from 50-inches to 36.

“I didn’t make my goal of 185, but I’ve made some great lifestyle choices and I’ll make that goal,” the 42-year-old said on “Good Morning America” today.

RTWT.

ZOMG! Does this mean we’re in for endless “Chris” McDonald’s commercials now? A Chris vs. Jared deathmatch?

And can someone bitch-slap Morgan Spurlock for me?