Random Link o’ the Day:
http://www.tootsie.com/history.html

Wednesday Hero
Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas R. Anderson21 years old from Sauk City, Wisconsin1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary ForceMarch 13, 2006
Lance Cpl. Nicholas Anderson lost his life after the Humvee he was riding in rolled over as a group of Marines pursued a suspicious vehicle near Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He [...]

Random Link o’ the Day:
http://www.camera.touchngo.com/

My Favorite Posts of the Year
Are fast approaching.

LT Michael P. Murphy
Medal of Honor Citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life and above and beyond the call of duty as the leader of a special reconnaissance element with Naval Special Warfare task unit Afghanistan on 27 and 28 June 2005. While leading a mission to locate a high-level anti-coalition [...]

Dumpage

Work Station Treadmill
Source II, III

Final Thoughts on the California Wildfires
The immediate and grotesque politicalization of human suffering in Southern California by certain members of Congress enraged me. I shouldn’t be shocked by the behaviour as I am a cynic and have seen it before. What gets me is how it feels as though it’s getting worse. There is no [...]

Random Link o’ the Day:
http://yourexcusedabsence.com/

Is Global Warming Causing more Wildfires?
In the previous post we looked at Southern California. While Southern Californians might feel they are the most important people in the world, some of us might wonder if there’s evidence climate change has affected wildfires overall. There really isn’t readily available data on “the world” when it comes to [...]

Did Global Warming Cause the Southern California Fires?
Senator Harry Reid thinks so.
What do I think?
Maybe. But I would first ask: “How much CO2 must we remove from the atmosphere to get arsonists to stop starting fires?”
Here are the precipitation trends in the US over the past century:

And here are the historical precip trends from [...]