Al on Ice

Up in Fairbanks, some folks did a five-ton statue of Al Gore, in ice.

It looks mighty fine.

The only thing is....will global warming melt Al?

The answer is.....well....we will just have to wait and see. I'm having hopes that global cooling will help save Al, one way or another.

Biodiesel and Stupidity

NOTE: Update at bottom!

I have no confidence in people to grasp and understand environmental science and real science. In today's news, up in the Bloomington district of Minnesota, they decided to close the district schools.

The state had apparently mandated the use of biodiesel.....but what the idiots had thought about....when it gets cold enough.....biodiesel will clog up. Naturally, Minnesota got cold enough.

The state had tried to run the buses, but kept having problems in keeping them up and running. Naturally, the buses got behind schedule....in freezing weather....and a bunch of kids got all froze up.....which naturally upset a number of parents. So far, the smart science guys and the environmental folks are keeping their mouth shut.

For those who aren't aware.....once you get way down in the temperature...biodiesel is kinda like jelly. Normally.....just 15 or 20 degrees won't do the trick. You'd have to be down below zero or more. In Bama or Texas...it would hardly ever happen. In Montana or Minnesota...this might occur a dozen days out of the year. So its hard to imagine how these environmentalists in the state sold everyone on this idea, and didn't explain all the science involved, but then....they really don't know the science.

UPDATE:

Based on continuing analysis of the fuel mix....the mixture of parafin in the normal diesel (the 98 percent side)...was the trigger to the freezing of the fuel......NOT the 2 percent bio-mixture.

The curious thing....who approved this particular mixture in this region....is unknown. The rest of the state? No one is saying much on problems....yet they had the same weather and temps. I'm thinking that they bought their mixture from one dealer.....a small-time guy....and there was something of a discussion on the mix....and this was the "fix". Bio-diesel isn't exactly a huge money-maker or massive requirement.

So bio-diesel isn't dead....it just needed a moment of reality.

Gay-Straight Club

This past week or two....out in Waynesboro, Penn....some folks have been advocating and pushing for a gay-straight club at the school. Folks have kinda leaned toward it but no one is sure about the majority of the parents in the local area. Adding to the problem....the county school represenatives are very quiet on how this might be perceived.

This week....they had a group of seven folks....one with a Bible....objecting to the idea of the club being formed. Apparently there were folks on both sides of this argument...meeting on this situation.

I can remember being in a rural Bama school, and there were a total of seven clubs. They were all "worthless" in nature. Sadly, I will admit I was not a member of any of them. If you asked the majority of kids at the school....none were members. There were maybe sixty kids who were part of the seven clubs...and that was it. Band Club held the biggest group of participants.

Clubs to me....are pretty a joke. Although I'm guessing plenty of folks today "force" their kids to get involved and participate.

The necessity of having a Gay-Straight club at school? Well....I'm guessing they would meet....discuss things....then go home. I'm having doubts that the gay kids are there to meet and socialize....and the few straight kids who do show up....will have a reputation which will be difficult to counter in the school....at least if this were a southern school.

Some kind of pet project for a couple of teachers? Yes. Without much doubt. They will try to convince some straight kids that it'd be nice to "defend" the gay kids and by being in this club....it would be a good thing. Some parents would put intense pressure on their kids to be participants at the Gay-Straight Club.....as straight members. Then you'd have some sarcastic kids who'd come home and tell dad that they had converted.....watching dad have a panic attack while they laugh at the comment.

I'm guessing that a few kids will show up and ask to form a student-teacher love society, or a oral-sex-is-ok-with-opera-music society. A few unusual guys will ask if they can form a Texas-chainsaw society....which might freak out the teachers who helped with the Gay-Straight Club.

Just another day in America.

The Media: Day 2

It is an amusing moment for the media. Now what?