Posted on 08/02/2006 6:43:38 PM PDT by torchthemummy
Record-breaking heat and oppressive humidity made people across the eastern half of the country miserable Wednesday and sent tourists in the nation's capital scrambling for relief in the cool marble halls of Capitol Hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It's hot. But what's really unbearable is how the left finds a way to use it in its power grab.
It sure is HOTTT and I am certainly now downplaying reality and yet since no broken heat records are noted it saves the writer from having to explain how all those heat records were set in the 1930's.
Whoops - "not downplaying"
was thinking the heat got to you, making you "downplay reality." bwahahaha!
"HEAT WAVE PRODUCES NEW ALLTIME RECORDS"
an hour later, same headline...finally....at the end of the segment.....
"Heat responsible for record -breaking Demand for electricity"
If you can't scare your listeners, you have no reason for living. (Plus you get neither power nor money.)
I live near Boston where all the media is hyped up over this heat wave. Yet all week, I carry on like normal and I do my morning and afternoon walks like normal. Down in the Deep South, the weather is like this from about late April to early October and you don't hear all the whining.
I'm old enough to remember August 2, 1975 when the mercury hit 102 in Boston. None of the hype back then. People just carried on like normal.
So true. I'm right across the border in Southern NH.
Always loved your screen name. I used to live in Boston and over the last ten years I've read (and own) every major every major book on Boston history. I've always loved the Granary Burying Ground where Sam, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine and others "reside".
The guy I always found fascinating was James Otis the tragic genius that popularised the famous exhortation "Taxation without representation is tyranny." That of course morphed into "No taxation without representation." The guy that actually coined the phrase was a minister named Jonathan Mayhew.
A great book for anyone that wants to learn about the "real Revolution in the minds of the people" as John Adams called the fifteen years between Otis' argument against the Writs of Assistance and Lexington/Concord is "Three Men of Boston" by John Galvin.
Try to stay cool.
The global warming cult is so desparate to be right at least once (they were wrong on the ice age, nuclear destruction and ALAR) that they will even be willing to talk they way into being right with or without evidence.
My late father used to recount how, in 1936, when many of those temp records were set, the grass in the front yard (big, it's in the country) went dormant, then basically vanished, and there were cracks so wide in the soil (which has a lot of clay) that he could stick his hand in all the way.
When it gets that hot again, I'll be impressed.
Don't forget the complete pass Chirac got three summers ago when 15,000(!) of his citizen's died in a heatwave. I will never forget the deep tan he had as he returned from vacation and did the obligatory blame-everybody-else press conferences.
In the winter, up North, it snows. Every dang year, and yet the headlines in the last few years screech and whine and moan like this is some incredible, unforseen cataclysm nobody has ever witnessed before.
It was hotter here, last year-- I was welding a lot, and believe me, I paid attention to the heat index, which was pushing 110 degrees then. It's around 95-98 degrees this summer.
They need to get a grip on real life.
It is SO hot here in the Northeast -- that the hot air coming out of H. Clinton's mouth seems cool by comparison.....
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