The following story is in reverse chronological order. Enjoy.


11. Jennifer said, from the kindness of her heart, she'd bring me a cup, half filled, of KY personal lubricant.

10. Jennifer responded saying they sometimes, for performing ultrasound tests, use an application specific gel but also sometimes use KY (personal lubricant.)

9. I texted Jennifer, asking for some ultrasound gel, telling her an explanation would be forthcoming from her husband.

8. A good friend's wife, we'll call her "Jennifer," is an OB/GYN (and a good one, I hear, but as I have no experience with...never mind), I figured she has a near-limitless supply of ultrasound gel. Score!

7. Due to some knowledge of chemistry, I decided to use a non-corrosive coolant (no beer, no pee, preferably no water.) Based on several factors, I chose CPL in some environments and ultrasound gel in other applications.

6. Consideration must be given to variables such as messiness, smell, and efficiency.

5. Due to baffle stack construction and housing material, one must weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a given coolant according to what is and is not acceptable,

4. Recommended coolants range from simple (water, beer, urine, etc) to more complex (wire pulling gel or ultrasound gel) to purpose-specific (gun grease, CLP, etc.)

3. To offset this initial pop (and to increase the suppression level), some users recommend using a coolant in the baffle stack. By using a liquid or gel coolant, the temperature of the gases are drastically reduced due to evaporative cooling.

2. When deploying suppressed weapons, some applications experience a pop with initial rounds, due to the rapid heating of ambient gases in the suppressor causing a subsequent increase in gas pressure, resulting in a popping sound.

1. PV=nRT tells us that as gas temperature increases, gas pressure increases.

Read this article, then contemplate:


1. "Facts are infinitely malleable in service of ideology." The point is made to service his argument, but works equally well for the counterargument.

2. "What with the Northeast sweating out a triple-digit heat wave, naive observers might expect a spate of global-warming stories in the media." These same "observers" were asked, during the recent cold winter, not to look on a cold front as proof for or evidence against global warming. A sweltering heat wave proves global warming just as a cold front proves global cooling.

3. "According to Lord Ernest Oxburgh, who led the investigation, the probe uncovered 'absolutely no evidence of any impropriety whatsoever.'" Big surprise. In the months to come, the same guy will probably uncover no evidence that BP had anything to do with a terribly over-stated (and as yet unproven) oil spill in the gulf - it too was (is) an orchestrated hoax by the right.

4. The underlying science is still in question; it isn't, as Gore and countless others tell us, "settled." By writing articles such as these that "assume" man-induced climate change, they slowly give more credibility to an argument that has little. Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes true.


I am constantly entertained by the "the science is settled" thing - and its being presented with no science. "An Inconvenient Truth" has been proven fully fiction, the scientific debate continues (and will continue till at least one environmental weather model can accurately characterize atmospheric water vapor - none can yet), and the many lies now being covered over become the next cry of McCarthyism (strangely accurate, since McCarthy was right.)


In the end, it doesn't matter. The day fast approaches when the earth as we know it will be no more. And, unless these "scientists" are re-writing botany too, plants love sun light and carbon dioxide.

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.

The procedural vote passed 215-210 with no Republicans voting in favor and 38 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against deeming the faux budget resolution passed.

Never before -- since the creation of the Congressional budget process -- has the House failed to pass a budget, failed to propose a budget then deemed the non-existent budget as passed as a means to avoid a direct, recorded vote on a budget, but still allow Congress to spend taxpayer money.

Is it racist to acknowledge that the first black US President is the worst President in US history? Jimmy has been supplanted!

Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner's comment regarding the proposed financial reform bill now before Congress:

"This is killing an ant with a nuclear weapon,"

President Barack Hussein Obama's rebuttal:

Well, if the Republican leader is that out of touch with the struggles facing the American people, he should come here to Racine and ask people if they think the financial crisis was an ant . . . These Americans don't believe the financial crisis was an ant. They know that it's what led to the worst recession since the Great Depression. And they expect their leaders in Washington to do whatever it takes to make sure a crisis like this never happens again."

How do simple metaphor and simile so easily escape a Harvard-educated community organizer? Or, perhaps, their was no way to polish the turd, so Hussein instead went with misdirection.


Again, I stand in absolute astonishment that:
1. Half the nation voted for this ass clown.
2. Almost half still think what he is doing is good.


We are so unbelievably screwed.

1. McCrystal is right, Biden is an idiot. And, for the not military peoples: the Vice President is not a part of the military chain of command.

McCrystal's failure is one of strategy, his rules of engagement virtually guarantee a failure in theater. "Human warfare" is a pipedream of the left - and it has yet to claim a victory.

"Let them hate, so long as they fear."


2. The amusing part of Obama's $20billion fund, fleeced from BP, is two-fold. First, the Constitution gives the President no authority to take money from a corporation and dispense it however he wishes. There is, in the Constitution, "due process of law" and BP didn't get that. Next, the government oversees the dispensing of the funds - and if the spill has taught us nothing else, it should have taught us this: government oversight accomplishes nothing good.



3. That this President claims, "unprecedented" border security resources is laughable. Strangely - for such a huge national issue - this administration has dramatically increased spending in every area of federal government purview EXCEPT border security. We toppled the Taliban in weeks, and we can't secure our border. Well, we can, but we won't.

"Let them hate, so long as they fear."


4.

The Beatles legend said: "Sadly we need disasters like this to show people. Some people don't believe in climate warming - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
"But the facts indicate that there's something going on and we've got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet - clean, renewable energy is for starters."

Statements such as these are my by morons, for morons, act accordingly. Holocaust deniers are roughly on par with flat earth advocates and gravitation deniers; global warming skeptics are those that have, thus far, refused to call a political cause a scientific certainty.