Did your March come in like a lion? Ours did – wind was gusting up around 35 or so, it tried to fool us all by staying cool all weekend – so I’m pretty sure that it will be very pleasant around here for the next few months, until the heat sets back in.

(note to global warming idiots: it’s always hot in the summer around here, because it’s the desert. that’s what happens in the desert – it gets hot in the summer. go back to wishing you hadn’t mailed out the ‘polar bears are dying from lack of ice’ whiney flyer that arrived after news of the thickest polar ice cap in years being formed has reached most people.)

This is also the time of year when people in cooler areas of the country (anywhere there is snow, for example) start thinking about the fact that the bowl games, and, more recently, the Super Bowl, were played here, and the weather didn’t suck. The FBR Open showed green fairways and fans wearing shirtsleeves with frosty beers in their hands. In a few weeks PIR will be the center of NASCAR’s universe, and again, fans will be shown in shirtsleeves and shorts, while the rest of the country is still thawing out. These people in the cooler areas of the country are processing all these scenes of joyful nice weather gatherings, and calculating how much it would cost to move out here.

I have one request to make of those of you considering such a move: give me a call in July, or August, and arrange to come out and spend the week. I can’t guarantee a good time, because I won’t be leaving the house unless absolutely necessary, and even then only in the early mornings hours before the sun comes up. Are you kidding? I don’t go outside after 110 on the thermometer, unless it’s for really, really, really cheap golf rates – and even then, only with enough ice and water to make a penguin uncomfortable. Now, think about this: those days are, more often than not, found in groups of 100 or more. Yes, more than 100 days over 110 more often than not. That means that for a third of the year, you never leave the house.

It just dawned on me that you have that issue now – only because you are snowed in and CAN’T leave the house for over a third of the year. Huh. Just blew my own argument out of the water. How’s that for talented?

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Well, my cousin didn’t come through with any funnies this week, so I will end the week with the request that you click the logo above, and buy a red shirt to wear on Fridays. I have my “Rolling Thunder” on, and feel rather sporty…

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I will be spending today working on my family website, Yes, Cartter With two T’s. I highly recommend you looking over my blogroll, as there are several worthy additions, and be sure to tell them I sent you. You may also notice that I have removed my rating system, be aware that if one of the blogs you click on offends you, then you should close it; you will be returned to my blog. I am not responsible for the content of other’s blogs, no matter how much I agree with them.

Most notable additions, in the past few days:
TJ’s Anti-Contrarian Blog
Old Soldier
Some Things Just Need To Be Said
Dad of the Doodsters
Think Passion
Right Turn – Your Turn

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Found this at The Anti-Contrarian after being pointed there by GuyK.

No, it couldn’t possibly be A NATURALLY OCCURRING WEATHER CYCLE – it must be GLOBAL WARMING!!!!

“According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950. (i love that part about ‘pre-suv, pre-kyoto, pre-carbon footprint’. heh heh heh)

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 … 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.

I agree, one cold winter does not mean we are headed into an ice age. But several warmer-than-normal summers does not mean we are having an affect on the global climate, either. I remember winters so cold it would hurt to breathe, and winters so mild you could play outside in shirtsleeves. I also remember summers that the snow wouldn’t melt on the high peaks until June, and snow would reappear in September; other summers where the snow wouldn’t appear at all for an entire CYCLE.

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade 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.”

I’ve still got my parka. People here in Phoenix laugh when they see it hanging in my front hall closet. I just smile, and repeat the Boy Scout motto to them.

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I really didn’t know what to post about today, but thankfully I ran across a warning, provided by a fellow conservative, Ozark Guru, over on the American Conservative Forum. (are you a member yet?)

Here’s the warning:

A “heads up” for those men who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends. Here’s how the scam works:

So tell your friends to be careful.
P.S. Walmart has wallets on sale for $ 1.99

No no, don’t thank me – this is a public service announcement.

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