Sen. Harry Reid, NV: Wildfires caused by global warming

So? "Reid is a witless opportunist", i.e. he's a successful politician.

Whycome that blog didn't have all the stupid things that Republicans do and say, eh? Maybe it's because the blogger is an opportunist, possibly witless, too?

Hmmmm!

-- "It isn't just that republicans are so ignorant. It's that they are so smug even when they are wrong"

How much is Gore going to extort from California for the carbon credits used by the wildfires?

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I guess you didn't know that global warming road a motorcycle? (watch the news if I you don't know what I'm talking about)

It's sad when someone defends duplicitous stupidity by claming everyone else does it but it's even sadder when it's called the 'definition' of 'successful'.

And then there's the more obvious possibility that a blog written on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 is about stupid things said on Tuesday, October 23, 2007.

Yeah. Truly pathetic.

So far, ALL the fires are manmade: Malibu (the Canyon fire) and Agua Dulce from downed power lines, and the Rancho Santiago fire was set (confirmed).

Real-time aerial photos of the Magic / Stevenson Ranch fire--as it started--showed a suspicious black circle directly adjacent to the dirt service(?) road immediately west of Westridge Parkway, here:

There being no fire anywhere near the vicinity at the time, I expect that one will prove to be arson as well, and suspect that cause for the Arrowhead and Running Springs fires too.

Time will tell.

James Arthur

Yep. There's even some (unconfirmed) rumors opining that Islamic terrorists took the opportunity to join in. We'll have to wait and see if they claim any responsibility... which typically is their style.

...Jim Thompson

It's just now come over the radio that the FBI has entered the scenes investigating arson.

...Jim Thompson

Global warming makes people crazy, so they start fires.

John

Yep. Sad isn't it ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

It's 72F in San Francisco. I can't stand it. I think I'll set something on fire, a nice salmon steak, maybe.

Speaking of heat, has anybody ever heatsinked an SO-8 opamp from the top side? Seems like some decent theta reduction might happen if we epoxy a heatsink to the top. We're running a National LM7372 power-pad part at about 70C, and it drops to about 60 when we push a big steel machine bolt head against the top, with some silicone goop. Looks promising.

So we need a pagoda-type heatsink with a flat, thick bottom.

John

Hmm--that link didn't zoom in on Westridge Parkway as I expected. This is it:

The fire started off the north end, where Westridge Pkwy dead-ends.

The latest update on the LA Times interactive Google map (previously linked) says it was accidentally started by welders. That may be true, but there sure weren't any welders in the vicinity when I first saw it, tiny, and within roughly 5 minutes of its starting.

Maybe 'global warming' affected their judgement, then 'local warming' sent 'em packing?

Cheers, James

I doubt it's 'Sama's boys. It's possible, but they're kind of busy ducking just now.

Besides, they're pathetic--there's a lot of stuff they could do if they had the moxie. The amazing thing is that we let them provoke us so.

Cheers, James Arthur

One of the semi-houses is offering top-and-bottom thermal paths...

Ah, here it is, Vishay's PolarPAK MOSFETs:

Cheers, James

MOSFETs:

Please make that "3.4 deg. C/W through the bottom, and 1.2 deg. C/W through the top."

Cheers, James

Haven't yet anyone suggested that the wildfires are because of the illegal mexicans and/or insufficient prayers?

VLV

Why do you ask? Did they turn around 2 minutes later and claim they hadn't said it?

Nothing amazing about it. The amazing thing is that you guys are still spending more on "defence" than the next ten countries down the pecking order combined. It obviously suits the defence contractors who are collecting the money, and the politicians whose electoral campaigns the defence contractors are supporting so generously, but the general public ought to be getting a little restive.

A few "Muslim" terrorists do seem to be helpful in keeping the tax- payers distracted.

If Osama Bin Laden didn't exist, it would have been necessary for someone to invent him.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen