Aerie Report, November 25, 2009

Company from Chicago and New Jersey are here at the Aerie for Thanksgiving. Brian and Vicki flew into Newark, NJ, picked up the Mother-in-Law and drove out to PA yesterday. Brian's coming back from a six week stint in Calcutta, India where he was training some folks to do the night shift duties of his company. He actually came in from Germany to celebrate Thanksgiving here. Vicky, Brian's girlfriend and roommate, flew in from Chicago (their home).

While Brian and Vicky have come east, Rick and Sandy (son and daughter-in-law), who live in Portland, OR, drove down to the San Francisco area to have Thanksgiving with Brian's parents and family. From sea to shining sea--and beyond!

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Today we drove up to Corning to visit the Glass Museum and the Rockwell Museum of Western Art.

Posting will be, therefore, somewhat on the light side.

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Coming back from our trip to Corning we took a swing up the mountain to look at the windmill/gas well/gas pipeline construction. The road up was slick as ice with the wet clay. (It's been raining off and on for two days.) We were in the Jeep Compass and there were spots where things got a bit dicey. Then we reached the top of the hill to see a vehicle (another Jeep) off the side of the road, nosedived ass end over grill in the ditch. The vehicle lay on its roof with one rear tire sitting against a tree 10 yards away. The engine block was slightly warm but the muffler was cold to the touch. I don't recall seeing any footprints in the mud. But there didn't appear to be anyone inside.

Brian called 911 to report our findings to the State Troopers and we looked again and again to assure ourselves that no one was inside. Having so assured ourselves, and having informed the authorities, we went on our way trying to figure out how a jeep (with Ontario plates, BTW) could flip over like that, have not a piece of glass broken, have the air bags still intact, and the doors either locked or jammed closed.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the driver/passengers of this mystery vehicle. And we are thankful that it was not us.

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The Hunter In Chief at the Northview Dairy has performed his duties having bagged both a doe and a buck during the last two days. Congratulations to Alan. Looks like the crew on the farm will be enjoying lots of venison. Threecollie has also posted some great photos of the Adirondacks on the same post and a previous one about Hoss' at Long Lake. Happy Thanksgiving to the folks at Northview. (And, yeah, I'm a bit jealous about those deer.)

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The "climatologists" pushing AGW from the UK have run into a bit of trouble lately, in case you haven't heard. Bullying publishers of scientific papers, fudging data to fit their theories, and, well, promoting lie, after lie. All in the name of hiding the actual decline of world temperatures. "Climategate" or "climaquiddick" are the names attached to the unfolding debacle.

All this broke late last week when a packet of information (mostly emails) was leaked (or hacked) to the internet.

On the lighter side of this scientific debacle, we have had the NY Times saying it would not publish materials evidently not meant to be seen by the general public. Heelllloooo? Pentagon Papers anyone? That alone is comedy gold. Is it any wonder that the circulation is nose diving.

Then there is this piece which takes advantage of the "hide the decline" line.



With luck, this should put an end to the hoax AGW has become. It's definitely time to investigate the goings on of the charlatans pushing CO2 restrictions, carbon credits, and the like. Those in the center of the scams should be sharing jail space with Bernie Maddoff.