Falling snowflakes glimmered in streetlights, so wide that they billowed to the ground like parachutes, and so tantalizing that even awestruck adults reached out their hands or stuck out their tongues to catch one.
By Wednesday evening, the flakes were big enough to hold their shape for a moment on the street before melting into the pavement, and a dusting had collected on parked cars in some parts of town. The flurries tied a record for Houston’s earliest snowfall ever and warmed the hearts of winter weather lovers who have pined for snow since it last made an appearance on Christmas Eve 2004.
“I’ve got a pot roast in the Crock-Pot, and I’m going to go home, change into my warmest pajamas and eat pot roast and enjoy what may be the only real winter day we have all year,” said Tina Arnold, an Illinois native who took advantage of the wintry backdrop to pick up Christmas presents Wednesday at The Woodlands Mall. Since 1895, records indicate, snow has fallen this early just once — on Dec. 10, 1944. Ali Ahly had been cooped up in an office all day when he stopped to gas up his white Mercedes-Benz near the corner of Hillcroft and the Southwest Freeway at 7:30 p.m.
The 43-year-old, wearing jeans and a leather jacket, stepped out from under the gas station canopy and looked up as the downy flakes sifted toward him. Then he stretched his hand toward the sky. “This is real snow,” he said. “I feel like I’m in Lake Tahoe.”
This global warming thing is starting to sound bogus.
#40 – Mr. Clarity.
I did RTFA. Even after I noted that it was posted on the web site of Alex Jones, extreme-right-wing radio personality, conspiracy theorist, and veteran of a failed campaign for Republican state representative in Texas. And that it was formatted to look like an article you might find in the on-line version of a “legitimate” publication, like the NYT or World News Daily, even though it’s just the unedited ramblings of random wingnuts who agree with Jones.
I was never a dog in Pavlov’s lab (I was always more of a fan of the Rescorla-Wagner theory of classical conditioning, so I must have been a rabbit), however I think I may have discovered YOUR current lot in life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Gm-aRe5A&feature=related
And “Hegelian Dialectic”?? w00t!w00t! You’re scarin’ me with all that book larnin’!! You must be one smart fella to have identified the derivation of that cockamamied Global Warming nonsense. Are you sure it wasn’t Buddhist or Socratic or Hindu dialectic though? How about Marxist dialectic? That sounds like some commie shit to me!!! Global Warming! Commie, pinko shit. Jawohl, mein Herr!!!!
Ice a mile thick where New York Used to be!!! WOW!
#41 Mister Mustard
Nope, it’s the Hegelian Dialectic: Problem, Reaction, Solution!!!
Must have struck a nerve. You did everything but address the issue, that being HUMAN CAUSED GLOBALWARMING (slash) CLIMATE CHANGE IS BULL$HIT!!!!
GLOBALWARMING (slash) CLIMATE CHANGE Religious fanatics are so difficult with which to reason.
#43 Hard to reason with true believer, isn’t it?
A little warming would actually be welcome around here (Northeastern USA). Then I wouldn’t have to schlep so much firewood…my last tank of heating fuel was over $1K! Bring on the global warming, anthrogenic or whatever it is, and I’ll be more than happy to pump out less CO2 into God’s universe.
#45 Shhhhh. Don’t complain about cold too much here. Otherwise Mickey Mouse (A.K.A. mister mustard) will start his copy/paste run to try to explain you that what you’re experiencing is just an illusion, according to his sub-god (euphemism for saint) Gore (Obama is his current god, whom is able to perform miracles even before taking office) and his scientific posse.
Anyone not on his bandwagon is an infidel, non-believer, atheist lab assistant.
#46 – ‘dro
You’d have to pull a Blagojevich to get a job as a lab assistant.
As to Global Warming, it’s incontrovertible. No matter what the oil company-funded “scientists” proffer as their bought-and-paid-for “opinions”. Even Republican Arnold Schwarzeneggar has capitulated.
Give it up, ‘dro. You and Mr. Clarifying Lotion can gnash your teeth until they’re down to stubs. It makes no difference.
The vote is in. The die is cast.
See what happens #45? I hold you personally responsible for the pain that poor ER nurse will have to undergo in order to treat tonight’s Mickey Mouse’s delusion
#48 – ‘dro
STFU. Really.
“This global warming thing is starting to sound bogus.”
Nooooo! Really?! And only “starting to” now? Interesting that as long as the climate is a bit too warm in Texas, that the Chicken Littles of climate science can make a case via the news media. But not until the snow and ice beings to pile up in TEXAS! Is G.W. possibly considered to be a bit of a flop. I’m REALLY getting sick of hearing how the whole damn world revolves around what happens in TEXAS! And the blizzard conditions happening everywhere else, just don’t seem to count. Half the eastern seaboard is frozen over, right now! And Texas gets a few flakes, early. STOP THE BLEEDIN PRESSES! Yeah, maybe if enough Texans are inconvenienced, Global Warming should be rethunk. But not until, eh?
I think the key word in “Global Climate Change/Warming” is GLOBAL.
Global means the whole world. Not Texas, Not the NorthEast USA, not what is outside your front door. Not 6 weeks, not early this year.
Silly Hoomans.
I used to live in Tucson, where they now and then have winter snow (hint: don’t drive anywhere around there until it melts…a lot of folks there are just not used to northern-type winter weather).
One of the most ridiculous things I ever saw was a palm tree covered with snow. Wish I had a pic of it but my unfortunately my camera was broken at the time. I’m sure someone else must have caught one, though.
#52 Your camera was broken. Sure. I bet you said the same thing when Jesus resurrected.
#51 I’m beginning to really worry about MM.
I got a phonecall from a healthcare professional attending him and asked if, knowing a little bit of his personality by his blog posts, I could help him with the diagnosis.
So, in order to help him, I need to fill some holes from posts he has made here and came up with a questionaire for him. If you see him, please direct him here for the answers, it is of the essence.
When you tell people you don’t get what they’re saying you:
a) start to feel a little anxious
b) feel like throwing the keyboard to the ground
c) need the urge to write a very long post explaining why you don’t get what people say
d) all of the above
You have begun telling people to “STFU”, do you:
a) feel your anxiety go thru the roof
b) feel a blinding rage
c) feel hopeless
d) all of the above
In a recent reply on the blog, you stated that you were an atheist once, does this mean that:
a) you didn’t have imaginary friends when you were a kid and begun having them as an adult
b) you saw Jesus on a ridged Ruffle’s chip (which is a fricking miracle since they’re ridged, not like those phoneys that saw him on a Lay’s or a cheese toast)
c) you passed near a church and heard a voice saying “repent!” and that scared the beejesus (unlike bobbo that calls him beejebus) out of you
d) you saw a guy with a “The end is near, Jesus is coming.” sign in the street and pondered on it for a week at home without setting a foot out
If you answered a) on the above question, did you figured your new religion because:
a) you only had one imaginary male friend.
b) the imaginary friend resembled that western looking man that was born in the middle east (another frigging miracle)
c) he told you he was Jesus and that you should not upset him
d) the last imaginary friend you had before Jesus told you you were going to meet him next
About your conection between logic and religion, you came to this conclusion becuase:
a) it is obvious that Jesus had to reborn 3 days after he was killed
b) you read it in a conclusion on the subject made by Al Gore’s group of Global Warming experts…sorry, scientists
c) no way you were having imaginary friends as an adult if it were otherwise
d) other then wine, what else could water be converted, Pepsi?
You believe in Global Warming because:
a) Al Gore wouldn’t lie, he’s a Christian
b) It means the sign of the end of times becuase when Jesus resurrected, a big bolt of lightning came down on earth to do so and, since Global Warming will put the same atmospheric conditions all over the world as the ones present where Jesus was killed, we’ll have a wave of resurrections all over the world.
c) God’s punishment to mankind for their sins was the big flood and the Global Warming experts said that’s what will happen when Global Warming arrives.
d) it is hot were you live, so anybody saying they’re cold are infidel nuts.
Do you feel dirty about your infidel, non-believer past? Do you despise yourself becase of it?
Please, the answer to these questions is urgent for the treatment. Hurry!
Pedro, I’d love to help you out, as well as Mister Mustard, the deserving potential recipient of your constant and seasonal goodwill, but caught in the rapture that he is, I think our help is beyond Mustard.
No, we must take people on their own terms, unbelievable as they may be from time to time. I think half the time he tells anyone to stfu, he is doing it with humor, but the other half of the time, he is just being lazy or recognizes he has no legitimate response. The former case is often accompanied with loads of vile and profane hebephrenic outbursts and the latter by too worn excuses like “you don’t make any sense.”
All a dodge. All a heavy sauce to cover up the rotten meat underneath.
Too bad. I was feeling in a helping mood after watching the latest House M.D. episode. It’s like receiving the gift from the pregnant woman.
#55 – Bobo
How appropriate that you and ‘dro should team up.
You two deserve each other. Many happy returns
)
# 40 Mr. Clarity said, “So what is the IPCC shooting for???, A “STATIC CLIMATE””
Yes, they want that which has never existed. Actually, they want grant money, lots of it.
#57 There’s no team-up. It was just a proof of concept.
Now, all I did was like House, help you with the regular blog posters into believing that “you can get pregnant without doing it (A.K.A. the concept of virgin conception)”, so you can make the blog happy by being right.
Now, in order to spare me a trip to bobbo’s place, send him my present to him directly. It is very hard to walk that far away with a cane.
#53 – Say what??
I know this article has rolled off, but I just wanna state that “God’s universe” is from what my Mom used to say when I was a kid and left windows open in wintertime, i.e. “Don’t do that…you’re just helping heat up God’s universe”. Perhaps I should’ve put His name in all lower case, because I’m really just one of those fence-sitting agnostics at heart. (pretty sensible in a way, I hope)
Devout atheism is just a different kind of religion as far as I’m concerned.