Comments on: Holiday Parades

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:07:23 +0000

“union boss” is right. Here’s the story on the executives at Hostess: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/hostess.asp After the Wall St. Journal outed them – they made some changes. I would certainly condemn the 80% wage increases for a bankrupt company (as I’m sure any stockholders or creditors would). Hostess products will still be made in Canada and perhaps other parts of the world. I would image that someone will buy the brand names and perhaps start again with an overall lower wage structure and a business model with one-person deliver trucks that deliver all bakery products.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:16:04 +0000

Thanks…it’s 10 AM and I fixed it.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:46:46 +0000

http://iceagenow.info/category/glaciers-are-growing-around-the-world/

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:26:20 +0000

Change to cold comes Friday.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:25:44 +0000

It’s the average NOAA/NWS is using! http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/normals/usnormals.html

http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c017c3393d350970b-pi

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:53:14 +0000

I guess some of those idiots know better, lol.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:47:39 +0000

Racist? Most of the EMs are black! The Muskegon Heights School Board ASKED for an Emergency Manager! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/muskegon-heights-school-district-emergency-manager_n_1349748.html The EMs have community support: http://articles.wsbt.com/2011-04-28/benton-harbor_29485035

Support for Proposal 1 was concentrated near cities and school districts under emergency manager oversight.

Eight counties in Michigan voted for Prop 1: Macomb, Oakland, Livingston, Berrien, Cass, Allegan, Ottawa, and Kent. Seven of these counties either have a school district or city under emergency management, or border a county that does.

Berrien County, for example, contains Benton Harbor, which has been under emergency manager oversight since 2010. More than 63 percent of Berrien County voters voted for the stronger emergency manager law. This was the strongest showing of support from any county.

Livingston County, which borders both Genesee and Oakland counties (where the cities of Flint and Pontiac are under emergency manger oversight), was the next-largest supporter of Prop 1. More than 62 percent of voters there supported it.

Oakland County voters supported Prop 1 at a rate of 57.7 percent. The county contains the city of Pontiac and borders Wayne County, where the Detroit school district has been under emergency manager oversight since 2009.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:11:44 +0000

This morning (Sunday), the low temperature was 27 in G.R. The average is 32. If you call 5 degrees colder than average “toasty”, no wonder you believe in catastrophic “global warming”. The low Monday morning was 31 in G.R. and that was 1 degree cooler than average. We have now had 8 mornings in a row with cooler than average minimum temperatures. Including today (Monday the 19th), Grand Rapids is 1.4 degrees cooler than average for Nov. 2012 and Kalamazoo is 2.7 degrees cooler than average for the month.

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:08:14 +0000

Greatest snow extent EVER observed by satellite at this time of year across Eurasia: http://iceagenow.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Eurasian-Autumn-Snow-Extent.jpg (also well above average across Canada http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_rankings.php?ui_set=1#ca (huge one month climb in October).

By: Bill Steffen

Bill Steffen — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:02:53 +0000

There’s a lot of ice to chase: http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png

And a lot of snow to chase: http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_daily.php?ui_year=2012&ui_day=323&ui_set=0

That’s the greatest extent of snow cover in Eurasia EVER observed in the satellite era.