Pres. Obama: "Git that fat lardy arse, Gore, on the'phone - NOW!"

I am obliged to my e-pal and regular visitor here, 'JK' , for spotting this bit of weather news from the green black president's own home town, Chicago:

The cloudy, chilly and rainy open to June here has been the talk of the town. So far this June is running more than 12 degrees cooler than last year, and the clouds, rain and chilly lake winds have been persistent. The average temperature at O'Hare International Airport through Friday has been only 59.5 degrees: nearly 7 degrees below normal and the coldest since records there began 50 years ago.

More bad weather is on the way Saturday with a cold rain expected to linger through the bulk of the morning. Rainfall could be heavy -- especially north of the city, which would be a reversal of Thursday's deluge that targeted the southern suburbs. [My emphasis]

And, yes, I know that weather isn't climate but lots and lots and lots of weather is!  And so far this year, almost everywhere, most of it has been on the cold side.  Still, I'm sure our American cousins will not mind paying all those extra global warming taxes to, er, keep things even colder!

Chill out, Baby, and stay cool!

Additional - 5 minutes later:  The indispensable Allan Sullivan links to this article in the Telegraph whose headline says it all:

Crops under stress as temperatures fall

It goes on:

After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.

In the meantime our 'glorious leaders' continue to insist that zillions of acres of former wheat fields are turned to the production of biofuels to stop the world from, er, warming!

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[JK]

And as if that poor tyke in Germany that got strick by that rock from the heavens weren't enough:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/48024637.html

"Damn Oprah!"

"Watcha talkin' 'bout Cuz?"

"Our GREEN PLAN!!!"

"Well Cuz, I did mention the Green Plan - then our Guantanamo Plan to locate some bad guys to Bermuda midst givin' 'em $100K. Al? You know what happened?"

"Frankly Oprah, no."

"Well eighty-five percent of the working class families in Detroit called in to admit they were all al-Q too. We'll have a huge problem if the politicians turn on their TV's."

"Well Oprah, what's the Phase Two Plan?"

"Eh Al? You got a house down in Bermuda too don'cha?"

"Yeah Oprah, actually three, but one is the one me and Tipper run the global warming thing out of - which, if you'll recall - since ya promised to sign that anti-tobacco nonsense (FYI-Al Gore's fortune to run for the Senate in the first place came from tobacco interests) Oprah, I'll be forced to run Global Warming Central out of the basement."

"Al? It's not on Monserrat. I mean your Bermudan properties?"

"No Oprah."

"Well then Al, we'll only take up the upper three floors. A hunerd K?" Sheeit. Gordie B. might want the sixth floor but then he's dueling with that Duffouse feller and Duff'll probably finace his boatride off the Emerald Isle. See where I'm goin' Al?"

"Actually no, all I ever did was run Liggett Tobacco, spent some time in the Senate then spent some time in litigation with the Florida Supreme Court. Then I did that inconvenient crap. Oprah? You know this, what're you asking?"

"Well Al, there's gold in them thar hills. Bermuda I mean. Got it all set up."

"Oprah? I'm not following it."

"Al, it's simple. Duff is gonna send Gordie packing and he'll need a landing spot. Bermuda is UK, I've got the 100K arranged for moving expenses and it's a tax haven, nuff said?"

"Well Oprah, I guess. But what about Global Warming?"

"Al... make friends with the Rastafarians."

JK

[David Duff]

It's the way you tell 'em, 'JK'!

[JK]

Shhh, I'm simply recording. I may make errors in transcribing.

You did I'm certain notice my one little misspelling, "Duff'll probably finace his boatride"?

I figured David, that since (at least in the US) no politician ever writes a damn thing - aside from financial disclosure forms - that'd get you (personally) out of the espence of having to pay for the boat-ride. Let the aides do it - ah Monica, where are you when I'm single?

No. Don't answer that. I'm 40 pounds lighter.

Illustrating - an Arkansas politician to be fair & a Demo:

"U.S. Rep. Marion Berry has underestimated the value of a Washington home on required financial disclosure forms by, oh, a half-million or so. He seems to be reporting cost of the Capitol Hill rowhouse (which he apparently rents out) -- $369,000 -- rather than the required current market value of $947,000. Honest mistake, his staff says."

(Hard to figure why you'd intentionally underreport. With Google mapping.)

http://www.talkbusiness.net/Weblogs/WeblogItemDetail.aspx?WebLogItemID=787c39e9-cddb-4ec5-a97b-b901c846a252&WeblogID

Now David I can understand how I might get the UK version of "WTF?" But heck, I don't know what "MP" actually stands for.

"Minister" - something or another? If that'd be the case, then it'd also explain why all the religious nut-jobs have tons of ammunition replacing Grandma's preserves over here.

JK