The Shambling Mound's Seventh Week

[tcpip]

It was an fascinating week watching the lurchings of the Shambling Mound, Lord Dampnut, with trajectories towards the ridiculous, the improbable, and the unfair dominating the headlines. Never one for shortage of content, Lord Dampnut continues to shake up the United States in a manner that leaves more level minds nonplussed (nota bene: this may

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[johnny9fingers]

Not enough folk calling climate-change deniers silly Cnuts. (Some Anglo-Saxon alternative spellings have a wondrous aptness.)

[tcpip]

Well, more King Cnut's courtiers. The King was operating in a very scientific manner, arguing that you can't change the tides by barking orders at it.

I'd love to know what Scott Pruitt thinks the cause of climate change actually is, if not carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Part of me is worried he would say something quite ignorant like "water vapour" (which is superficially true, but...).

[johnny9fingers]

True, according to the legend it was Canute's courtiers who told him he was so great that the tide would obey his orders.

But as a simple catch-all insult which is easily applied to climate-change deniers...

[tcpip]

> But as a simple catch-all insult which is easily applied to climate-change deniers... <

The most extraordinary groups are those who simply want to disband climate research groups. Because apparently if w stop studying it, it'll just go away...

[abomvubuso]

Lord Dampnut says (or rather, tweets) all those bullshit statements after taking his daily (nightly?) dose of Breitbart kool-aid. No surprise that Steve Bannon is largely considered to be calling the shots at the White House.

[luzribeiro]

Some hawks must be hating it in their guts that it's not them who is on top of the situation.

[dreamville_bg]

All clear. Just one minor inquiry. Is nonplussed more like flummoxed or rather like dumbfounded? :-D

[tcpip]

Either!

[luzribeiro]

This is getting weirder

Oh, so it's "wire tapping", not wire tapping now.

And through a microwave, no less!

[tcpip]

Microwave photography is kinda-sorta possible. But certainly not through kitchen equipment.

[luzribeiro]

Fascinating.