This Is What Passes For Science These Days

The folks over at space.com have a short article on the effects of earthquakes on the balance of earth mass.

Sounds like a good read for a lazy day, yes ?

Until you read it and realize that this is the kind of stuff that AGW types write:

One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past.

Whose winter/summer has such a profound effect on the length of day ? Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere ?
There is actually a link in that "length of day" stuff that has an even smarter article on how the day is getting longer because humans are polluting the planet.


Another bright spot in the article that defies mathematics, and probably physics, is:

The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).

8.8 earthquake that struck Chile....1.26 milliseconds.....also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).

That's right. Moving the Earth's figure axis, it's mass balance, by 12.5% more caused a move of 18,529.4% more.

Amazing!

No Better Time Than Now To Be Reminded

So, Scott Brown Does What He Said He Would Do........

So what ?
Sen. Brown voted for cloture on the 0bama jobs bill, thus sending it toward the eventual passage. Or, something.
Well, by the way the story has been spun, if Sen. Brown had voted against the bill it would have been fully stymied.
Not so fast.
The truth of the matter is that those Libertarian Republican( hahahahahaha) poster-child members of The United States Senate voted for it as well. Further proof that ANY Republican is better than ANY Democrat.
More like further proof that Libertarian Republicans are still just as irrelevant as ever.

I await the further brilliance of Eric Dondero on how Senators Collins and Snowe are proof that Republican Party = Libertarian Party.

In case you need to read up on your argument before you respond Eric, here is the crap you spouted previously:
How To Elect A Candidate That Hasn't Been Deemed "The Only One That Can Win"
Quick Quiz

Happy Birthday, Mr. President

.....and thank you for the great gift of your service and example of what it means to be a good and great man !

For Those Still Too Stupid To Understand Just How Ugly The Republican Party Has Become

If you still cling to the gross stupidity that is "any Republican is better than the best Democrat", just because he calls himself a Republican-and you know who you are. (she/herself - for the English impaired)

I offer the brilliant, short, simple phraseology of the genius that is Andrew Breitbart

Pretty simple. Pieces of shit.

Quick Quiz

What does John McCain understand that Eric Dondero will never, ever understand ?

Correct.
That being a member of the Republican Party is not enough.

h/t: Dennis Byrne

Given Enough Time They Were Bound to Solve The Problem

Not every Muslim is a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim.

The single greatest fear for today's airline passenger has been the possibility of a terrorist causing your death while in transit.

The latest government intrusion into the airline passenger's personal freedom has solved the problem of Muslim terror aboard airliners.

Credit where it is due

GO TSA !!!!!!