Snow On The Ground

Snow on the ground
Snow on the ground
I really effin' hate snow on the ground

Couldn't head South
Iced over runways
Snow hits the ground
Need yourself a snowcat
Drivin' like a fool
Because of effin' snow on the ground

Let it up, hey!
That effin' snow on the ground
Drivin' like a fool
Tired of walkin' in that snow on the ground

Let it up, hey!
Effin' snow on the ground
Drivin' like a fool because of snow on the ground

Driving like a fool
In school through June
Bus spinning around
I really effin' hate snow on the ground

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

With apologies to General Larry Platt

Let it Snow

I'm never sad to see the end of snow.

Tony Snow was the exception to that rule and the scientific community is united in that fact.

He had an infectious smile and seemed like a truly nice guy who had his priorities in order.

Sadder than the loss of Tony Snow, is the lack of compassion shown by those on the loony left.

It says a lot when they have to post this at Democrat Underground...

I gave the moderators instructions to delete inappropriate posts about Tony Snow.
So, instead of creating extra work for them, it would be nice if people would voluntarily refrain from posting inflammatory crap that makes us all look like jerks.

Thank you for understanding.
Skinner
DU Admin

Closer to home in the People's Republic of Johnson County comes the Daily Iowan Opinion Blog...

The Death of Tony Snow

It reminds me of something someone said to me years ago...

Some people are raised right, others are just jerked up.

Effin Snow, Effin Snow, Effing snow

We've moved from a record for December snowfall, to the snowiest month ever in Iowa.

hoo-ray!

The old record for December snowfall was 17.7 inches in 1961.

Before the snow today we had accumulated 21.1 inches.

The record for snowiest month was 22.2 in February 1962.

I used to see the "Gore-bull" warming sign in my mother's neighborhood, until it became buried under snow & ice!

HA!

The Greenpeace offshoot printed the signs on cardboard and their web site encourages people to download and print their material for distribution on car windshields.

Those never get tossed and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I'm already in Maui in my mind.

Snow (Hey Oh)

I'm sure this will make its way into the global warm-errs argument.

Snowless Des Moines: City nears record for longest stretch without snow

Today will mark the 275th day without measurable snowfall in Des Moines, the last being 0.2" on March 4.

Is it really a record?

And worth measuring?

Historically, June, July and August aren't big snow months and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Now they're fretting about the unlikelihood of a White Christmas.

I'm with State Climatologist Harry Hillaker -- "Every nice day we have now is one less day of winter. Winter's not really my favorite season of the year.  It's nice not having to wear the heavy winter jacket and all that stuff."

Besides, it was just 2010 when we were looking at nearing the record of 72 inches of snow.

April Fool

Only an idiot would think winter was done when spring had sprung on the calendar and the scientific community is united in that fact.


Light snow moving into portions of western Iowa this morning may reduce visibility for drivers. The National Weather Service said a dusting to a half inch of snow is possible.

It will be cloudy in Des Moines this morning with isolated light snow.

I've seen it snow during the weekend of the Drake Relays at the end of April.

White Christmas

It's hard to believe it was two weeks ago when the Ragister reported(?)...

Dreaming of a white Christmas?
Don’t get your hopes up.
While official forecasts don’t predict as far ahead as Dec. 25, it’s unlikely Iowans will wake up to snow on Christmas day, based on history and current weather patterns, a National Weather Service official says.

I hope those racists who wanted a WHITE Christmas are happy.

These idiots who need snow to get them in the Christmas spirit deserve to have it dumped only on them and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Ragister also noted, Only in your dreams will Des Moines get a foot-and-a-half of snow this Christmas.

13.1 inches is CLOSE!

Surprisingly, it ended up on the ground

Blizzard blankets Iowa in white, more than 13″ of snow on the ground

I'm just pleased that we haven't lost power, so far.

Cold, Rain & Snow

This morning we had the biggest snow flakes I've ever seen at the Not So Vast Right Wing Ranch.

You'd swear they were as big as the paper snowflakes you made in elementary school and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Naturally, the Weather Wienie (WHO's Ed Wilson) blew another forecast.

Thursday night he was saying the Des Moines area would miss another snowstorm, escaping with only rain.

Last night he changed that to an inch of snow for the metro.

Today's reality, a Blizzard Warning for the Des Moines metro and his competition claiming 5 to 7 inches of snow for the metro.

In the immortal words of Grant Young, "goodjoboutofyou".

Hell And High Water?

Before the latest snow event Friday, I drove past Principal Park, home to the Iowa Cubs, and a sign reassuringly stated that the snow will be gone by Opening Day on April 8.

I chuckled to myself highly doubting it and then thinking if that were so, it would be replaced by flood waters as the risks are rising with each snowflake.

Weather Wienie Ed Wilson has the snow rankings now at #5 from our previous high of #9 with 61.7".

In the immortal words of Scott Lame (George Carlin) on Wonderful WINO radio, "that's four spaces, four spaces, four spaces, four spaces" and the scientific community is united in that fact.

There's more on the way Sunday, 6", even though the Weather Wienies had predicted it would miss Des Moines, they said Friday was a dusting and that amounted to about 4".

I know I'm not the only one tired of these TV twerps who are rooting for us to get the all time record of 72".












I'm taking up a collection to get a dump truck filled with snow to dump it on each of these dip shits cars.

I think if they want 72 inches, they should get their wish!

Snow Job

House Speaker Nancy Pa-LOSER couldn't attend yesterday's Gore-BULL warming protest (Good Timing) because her flight was delayed by a snowstorm.

CONgressman Ed Ma-LAR-key (D-Mass) chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming didn't make it either.

A few others took a snow day.

Someone named Kat wrote on the Climate Action web site..."I don't want to travel in the snow today. However, I am donating my bail money to fight mountaintop removal."

Now that's commitment and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Organizer's say 2,500 attended, other reports have it at 500.

Video from Politico.com (below) makes it hard to believe the first figure and is well short of the several thousand who were supposed to attend.

Discovery.com says...

global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.

A professor of physics at Princeton University, Dr. William Happer, says we need to emit more carbon dioxide, not less.

Happer was fired by Gore at the Department of Energy in 1993 for disagreeing with the vice president on the effects of ozone to humans and plant life.

ENOUGH!

I can see the snow continues to fall as I sit here typing this.

During the night a garbage truck became stuck, blocking our lane, as it attempted to pick up the refuse it couldn't pick up last week because of the snow.

It's sooo apparent that there is no such thing as global warming and the scientific community is united in that fact.

My major fear is that the "community" will be accurate about the next ice age because of global cooling.

My wife's theory is that we're in a giant snow globe and getting all shook up every few days.

HMMMM!?

Wooly Bully

Gore-BULL Warming?

Tusk, Tusk.

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

Per the National Weather Service (NWS) we received at least 3 inches of snow yesterday.

It's a wet, heavy, slush type of snow.

The kind that's ripe for giving a heart attack or at the least pulling a muscle

NWS records indicate for the month we've received 21 1/2" and since December 1 we top out at 51.4" .

That's Mammoth and the scientific community is united in that fact!

Wait, it gets better...

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

And...

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

Finally...

Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off man made climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."

Embraceable You

Old Man Winter has decided to give us at least another inch, I'll let you figure out where.

The weather wienies tell us to expect another one to three inches today, with a wintry mix for Friday.

I see recently that Libby Jacobs (pictured) told the Ragister that Des Moines should...

Embrace winter: "Let's embrace the cold and snow and celebrate it like other communities do with winter festivals and seasonal activities."

Love ya Libby, but why would I want to embrace something that keeps kneeing me in the 'nads?

If I get close enough for an embrace, it would be around the throat and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Were you outside Sunday?

Many activities were canceled, even church, because Christ it was cold.

If Iowans want to act like Minnesotans or Canadians, that's OK-EH!

Keep in mind how silly it sounds calling off a winter festival because of the weather...

GILFORD, N.H. (AP) - Much of this week’s winter carnival in Gilford has been canceled, due to too much winter.

Parks and Recreation Director Herb Greene notes that the cancellation of 2 events was due to poor road conditions and snow-filled parking lots.

Chris' sister did a Polar Plunge one year that was called off because it was too cold...A POLAR PLUNGE!

We've all heard how the "CLIMATARDS" have had to call off their Gore-BULL warming conferences because of cold and snow.

I can't wait for Hawaii, see ya in the Spring!

Snow? I hope it's a BLIZZARD!

From The Examiner

New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is starting off in a combative mode against the press by issuing detailed rebuttals to what he considers unfair coverage of Bush.

“The New York Times continues to ignore America’s economic progress,” blared the headline of an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday by the White House press office.

Minutes earlier, another e-mail blasted CBS News, which has had an unusually rocky relationship with the White House since 2004, when CBS aired what turned out to be forged documents in a failed effort to question the president’s military service.

“CBS News misleadingly reports that only 8 million seniors have signed up for Medicare prescription drug coverage,” Wednesday’s missive said. “But 37 million seniors have coverage.” On Tuesday, the White House railed against “USA Today’s misleading Medicare story.”

“USA Today claims ‘poor, often minority’ Medicare beneficiaries are not enrolling in Medicare drug coverage,” the press office complained. “But by April, more than 70 percent of eligible African Americans, more than 70 percent of eligible Hispanics, and more than 75 percent of eligible Asian Americans are enrolled or have retiree drug coverage.”

White House sources said Snow, who started on the job Monday and has yet to give his first public press briefing, is determined to aggressively counter what the administration considers unfair assertions in both news and editorials about Bush. At the same time, he is eager to make the notoriously secretive administration more accessible to the press.

To paraphrase that pro corn flakes tiger, also named Tony, "He's GREAT!"

Good Timing

You need good timing for comedy and Gore-BULL warming protests.

On a day that the mayor of Washington D.C. has declared a snow emergency, with an expected 6 to 10 inches of snow, several thousand people are supposed to take part in the largest protest of Gore-BULL warming ever in the U.S.

Iowan (Idiot Of Warming At NASA) James Hansen is expected to speak at the event.

If these "CLIMATARDS" really want to do something useful, pick up a shovel and clear some sidewalks because that much snow will shut down D.C. and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Welcome to Winter

As I'm writing this, Weather.com says the temperature is -4 with a feels like temp of -28.

Local forecasters say today's High will be -1.

Should any temperature of zero, or below, be considered a High?

The headline on Drudge...

Winter Blows In

They could have, and should have, stopped after the first two words and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I recently received a PowerPoint e-mail (courtesy of Chris' aunt in Naples, Florida) titled "Let It Snow".

It advised me to sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy pictures all the while Dean Martin crooned.

I deleted it without opening because I don't want someone in Naples extolling me on the virtues of snow, I wouldn't send them something about the joys of heat and humidity.

Although it is easier to shovel.

Shaka

In the immortal words of General Douglas MacArthur, "I have returned".

Three weeks in Maui has left me tan, rested and ready to be SNARKY!

Here's proof...

The merchant where Obama goes to get his shave ice, or Hawaiian snow cone, wants to name the President's favorite flavors after him.

The problem is after you get it, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I actually have to thank the Mrs. for coming up with that little gem.

Our time in Maui mostly consists of reading books, watching humpback whale action while we read (as well as dolphins and honu's).

Occasionally, we take the opportunity to fall asleep in our beach chairs.

Nappin' in the USA
Nappin' in Hawaii
(Apologies to John Cougar Mellencamp)

Three weeks goes way too fast, especially when you have to return to still more snow.

In the condo complex, where we stay, are other smart Iowans who are able to escape for longer periods (five, six weeks and longer).

I had a brief brush with fame on the return trip, on our Los Angeles to Dallas leg, I passed by and nodded to former Cleveland Brown running back Jim Brown (sitting in first class and on his way to Super Bowl VLIV).

I will say he looked in good shape for someone nearing 74.

Hawaii Five-O

It was a warm and wonderful three weeks and then reality bites.

"Cold is STUPID" and SNOW SUCKS!

Some say we missed the worst of it with the below zero highs(?) and the snow.

I say just because we weren't here, doesn't mean we missed it.

Winter is always the best time to leave Iowa and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I experienced a big milestone while I was away, turning 50 in the 50th state.

Or is that...FITTY?

Other than keeping up with the Packers, I tuned out to most of the worlds happenings.

I can't wait for next year.

BOOK IT, DANNO!

Fiberal's worst nightmare

That hit show "Cheney in Charge".

President Bush will undergo a "routine colonoscopy" at the Camp David retreat on Saturday, temporarily ceding his powers to Vice President Cheney.

Cheney will serve as acting president until such time as Bush, who will be under anesthesia, says he is ready to resume his duties, presidential spokesman Tony Snow told reporters.

First order of business, BOMB IRAN and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Second, round up all the Dummycrats.

You know that's what's running through the loony left's mind, so why disappoint them.

"The president has had no symptoms" of cancer, said Snow, who noted that Bush had been scheduled for such an examination since undergoing a colonoscopy in June 2002.

I know from firsthand experience the drugs work well, even when they don't give you the virgin scope.

Godspeed Mr. President.

Rodent rage

The Marmota Monax had his moment, Groundhog Day, and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Regardless of whether he sees his shadow, he did (How could he not with all the camera lights?), Spring doesn't come to the calendar until March 20.

I caught the weather wuss on WOI TV/5, last night, talking about an average snowfall for the season is 33 inches and we're at 30.

He sees us going above average, with snow into April!

"Cold is STUPID!" and SNOW SUCKS!

The Snow Fell

There are two good thing about today's miserable snowfall (the Liter believes any snowfall is miserable).

It will melt quickly and it will end talk about a stupid record, Snow (Hey Oh), and the scientific community is united in that fact.


Why don't we measure the number of consecutive days the temperature has stayed above freezing?

It makes as much sense as tracking the lack of snowfall in summer.