{"id":8392,"date":"2014-02-06T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T11:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2014-02-06T06:58:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T11:58:26","slug":"8392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/02\/06\/8392\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, snow (for now), hello cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

So yesterday was a pain in the ass. They originally said it would snow for morning rush hour, then taper off and snow some more in the afternoon. Instead, it basically decided to keep snowing until about 7:00 or so last night. So not only was the drive in a hassle, but the drive home sucked, too. And then I had to sit on the tractor and plow the driveway (my wife was kind enough to shovel out the end of the driveway so I could get in, and I barely made it to the garage through the foot+ of snow that had piled up). Fortunately it also turned cold and windy – dropping from a balmy 26° or so to, of I dunno, about -1 on my thermometer as I write this. Looks like the forecast for at least the next week is friggin’ cold with occasional snow. At the risk of sounding like an Atlantan, I must say that this is getting rather tiresome.<\/p>\n

This just in from Bizzaro World: Pat Robertson made sense yesterday while discussing the Nye v. Ham debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Robertson said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there was a Bishop [Ussher] who added up the dates listed in Genesis and he came up with the world had been around for 6,000 years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t no way that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To say that it all came about in 6,000 years is just nonsense and I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time we come off of that stuff and say this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s be real, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not make a joke of ourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to be realistic,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he concluded, and admit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that the dating of Bishop Ussher just doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comport with anything that is found in science and you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just totally deny the geological formations that are out there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not the only thing that makes you a joke, Pat, but it’s nice to know you don’t deny incontrovertible science<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Televangelist Pat Robertson pointed to the cold U.S. weather on Tuesday \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the fact that there were no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SUVs driving around in Jupiter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to assert that global warming was a scam created by scientists.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh. Alrighty then.<\/p>\n

I think I now know why all the Super Bowl ads (that I<\/em><\/strong> saw, anyway) sucked. It’s because the Puritans sailed over on the Mayflower and bred a small but virulent group of uptight cockroaches that continue to influence this country’s social mores even to this day. Therefore, all the good ads got banned. I haven’t seen them all yet, but the ones I’ve seen haven’t been ban-worthy (though the PETA one with scantily clad hot females basically having sex with veggies was maybe pushing it a bit – “think of the children!<\/em><\/strong>“).<\/p>\n

Of those I’ve seen, I think this one is my favorite (and one that, IMHO, could be enjoyed by the whole family):<\/p>\n