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It’s too bad that Obamacare can’t be permanently derailed. Firing Sebelius just ensures that another disposable Obama shill will occupy that cabinet post until the make-excuser-in-chief needs another scapegoate to take the blame in the REAL war on women.

Our congressman, Paul Gosar (R-AZ), released this statement regarding Sebelius’ “resignation:”

I join with many of the American people tonight in happily accepting the resignation of Secretary Sebelius. Under her watch, and through her incompetence, our nation’s healthcare system has been harmed, hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted, 5 million people lost their chosen health insurance, and the country was far worse off than it was when she started. She directly supported the “Lie of the Year” by falsely claiming people could keep their insurance and their doctors. Under her watch millions saw their policies cancelled, many saw their rates increase, many have lost their physicians. Her departure is welcomed by Americans everywhere.

Gary Varvel cartoon via The Patriot Post.

15 Apr 2014 by Beltway Kabuki Humor Whacko Politics

Pool Pee Panic

desert swimming poolGreg Pollowitz at Planet Gore wrote a rebuttal to a Time Magazine article entitled “No, It’s Not Safe to Pee in the Pool, Says Science.” The Time article claimed that components in the urine could combine with chlorine to produce chemicals potentially dangerous to humans.

While the “scientific” analysis that dangerous chemicals are produced was basically true, the quantities of chemicals were not discussed. Pollowitz wondered how many people urinating in a pool would be needed to kill a swimmer. He found additional research on the topic and discovered that to produce dangerous chemicals in an Olympic-sized pool, you would need about three million swimmers peeing in the pool. THREE MILLION! But wait, it gets better.

However, there’s a problem. The researchers in the paper showed that for a concentration of 0.33 millimoles of chlorine per liter (about 15 mg/L), the dilute concentration of uric acid (5×10-5 moles per liter) eliminated all of the free chlorine. Hence, if we want chlorinated water that can actually turn all of the uric acid we’re peeing in it into cyanogen chloride, we need a more concentrated chlorinated solution.

If an approximately one-hundredth-strength-of-pee concentration of uric acid uses up 15mg/L chlorinated water, we need super chlorinated water-—on the order of 1500mg/L, or roughly half a liter of chlorine per liter of water.

In the end, we need a pool that is two parts water to one part chlorine and would probably burn the eyeballs out of your sockets and make your skin peel away from your bones (this calls for a pool boy who can only be criminally sadistic). If you and three million other people could get at this pool and unload your pee into it before your bodies melted, before the crowd crushed you to death, and before you drowned from the massive tidal wave of pee… yes, you could feasibly die of cyanogen chloride poisoning originating from chlorinated water and pee.

To conclude, Pollowitz wrote:

And that’s why, boys and girls, we don’t trust everything we read in the MSM.

04 Apr 2014 by Greenbats Media Whacko Politics

GREENBATS® On Parade

Apparently, this is a bunch of delusional climate alarmists on a march from LA to DC in the name of “climate justice.” They happened to be in Wickenburg, AZ today with their flags and signs vowing to “save the planet one step at a time.” In the photo, one member of the parade was carrying a sign with a link to some parent organization which I removed since I won’t link to any whacko sites, even photographically.

Greenbats®

Damsel snapped the image on our way to the supermarket. Click on the image to enlarge.

At any rate, they picked a poor time to march through our town along US 60 on a day when the temperatures are way below normal for this time of the year. The NWS was reporting a high temperature of 63° with windchill to the low 50’s. Many of the homeless-looking and apparently unwashed people in the photo were clad in walking shorts, so I bet they were getting their “Gore effect” welcome to our town. They may have even had a little rain on their parade from scattered showers in the area today.

02 Apr 2014 by Global Warming Greenbats Whacko Politics

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