Nopherhole cannot stress enough the importance of visiting Daniel’s BBQ in Tonganoxie. NASCAR drivers who fly into the Lawrence City Airport cannot miss the best BBQ joint left in Kansas City on their way to the Track.

See http://ksspyder.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/kansas-city-barbecue-gotta-try-daniels-barbecue-in-tonganoxie/

or http://tinyurl.com/NASCARBBQ

Sotomayor backers urge reporters to probe New Haven firefighter | McClatchy

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Personal attacks on private citizen seen as reasonable to get noble hispanic judge on the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court overturned Sotomayor based on her application of the law, not on the merits of the case. That is the Constitutional thing for the Appellate Court and the Supreme Court to do.

Duh.

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Unintended secondary effects.

Obama desires to tax coal out of existence. Google [Obama coal "out of business"]

Coal is the base of all electric energy used in the world. What happens when the price doubles overnight?

Nevermind that millions of jobs  wiped out, and new “Enrons” trading funny paper called carbon credits. That is f&(ing infuriating enough.

Nopherhole has three main choice as an electric utility.

1. Take it up the a$$.
2. Buy alternative energy that is priced at the second highest cost price, that is coal. [which has doubled in price]
3. Think outside the buns.

Three is the USE space.

Three includes fibbing on the amount of coal used. The average Joe Wacko  doesn’t realize that coal comes in different flavors. Some coal is just barely beyond disintegrating vegetable matter. At the other end of the scale is super hard, high carbon coal. The energy content is doubled for the hard carbon coal, typically from the Eastern US coal mines and higher in sulphur. A large proportion of utilities have switched [because of environmental regulation] to Western Coals, which have down to half the energy in them per ton.

Long story short, sneak some Eastern coal into the mix, but count it as Western Coal. All those heavily laden trains descending from Wyoming Western Coal mines go east will have return traffic loaded with some counterfeit coal from the East.

Three also includes buying coal energy from Canada and Mexico. A little wallet grease will go a long way toward having the source for the energy labeled as wind, solar, biomass, and burning SUV’s.

Getting that energy to the United States may involve [and it must if something is really flowing], huge, million volt direct current transmission lines going north and south. These will be built through areas that have less than one person per square mile. Won’t that be lovely.

Aha you say, nopherhole forgets that North Dakota can build huge wind farms and hook those up to the huge, million volt direct current transmission lines. Wrong you wacko. If nopherhole builds a coal plant in Canada and then builds huge, million volt direct current transmission lines, nopherhole builds those lines to carry its energy only. Why? to add one more kilowatt to a huge, million Volt direct current transmission line traversing land with one person per square mile involves building huge facilities that cost $millions. Well, you say, the wind energy can pay to hook up. Wrong! Wackos complain that wind farms paying their fair share is wrong. It should be FREEEEE.

Three also includes doing stuff to the coal that some might consider “Thinking outside the buns.” Coal comes with water in it. Boiling off the water in the fire sucks up energy. So nopherhole dries his coal more to get more energy with the same amount of carbon. Nopherhole can’t think of an easy way to do this. Western coal, if it contacts too much air, spontaneously bursts into flame. And it’s a Hydrogen flame which is hard to detect. The first fatality is on Obama’s train ticket to hell.

Three also includes throwing other stuff into the fire. Mostly money, but tires, mulch and the morgue’s John Does come to mind.

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Afghanistan counterinsurgency

Article hints at Obama bin Barack interfering with troop deployment amounts. NONONO!

Got to stop Obama!

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McLaren looking for hybrid powertrain engineer

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Nopherhole predicted jumps related to unintended secondary effects [USE]. Just because the First Clean Air Act and revisions gave us clean burning fuel injected monsters which wackos claim are unfair, the hybrid is “as plain as day” leap for everyman cars.

And the elites start. vis a vis the url above.

Nopherhole knows that the racing world has already seen world class diesel racers and hybrids already.

What will come next? Antilock and Active Steering or Stability control use brakes to stop wheels from losing traction. That was traction retrieved by braking. What if you come at it the other way? Extremely light racers with the ability to pour more power via hybrid technology to tires that can use it.

Look at it this way – accelerating out of turn two on the back straight. Front left wheel is lightly loaded compared to other three wheels. [don't get nopherhole started on active aerodynamics killed by Porsche on the Spyder 550 when the competition got too hot.] Oops, foregot to mention four wheel drive. Computers can automate the distribution of hybrid drive to separate motors on each wheel, which, by the way, can turn into brakes if needed.

Supply the finesse of electric drive at the left front wheel, leaving the engine to provide more remaining power to both back wheels in proportion to the ability of the tire to provide propulsion. Right front… well you should get the idea.

The Nascar formula, for example, would have to be changed/tweaked, but maybe they could lighten the cars by two Danica Patricks, at least on Laguna Seca. How about a race that is flag to flag with no pitstops? This would be a challenge because the weight of the fuel would change as a percentage of the total body weight when going from full fuel at the start to empty at the end.

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The Pine Tree State orders 64,000 MacBooks, with more to come

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Nopherhole predicts tremendous waste, lost computers, misused, abused, zombie, etc.

Nopherhole’s daughter attends a school where every student is required, given and needs a macbook. While the technology is beautiful, the management and administration of the program is a nightmare. And that’s only about 800 laptops.

WASTE

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From Anncoulter.com and Human Events

With the Supreme Court’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

To recap the famous Ricci case, in 2003, the city of New Haven threw out the results of a firefighters’ test — which had been expressly designed to be race-neutral — because only whites and Hispanics scored high enough to receive immediate promotions, whereas blacks who took the test did well enough only to be eligible for promotions down the line.

Inasmuch as the high-scoring white and Hispanic firemen were denied promotions solely because of their race, they sued the city for race discrimination.

Supreme Court ruled she was wrong in not pointing out the discrimination. But look at the dates. These firemen could be dead in their graves before they got justice. We should be glad that some aren’t. I think courts have problems with dead litigants.

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Nopherhole attended the Car as Art Concours de’Elegance on the Kansas City Art Institute grounds.

While the heat was enough to melt tin, the aluminum, steel and leather and yes, some vinyl held up. Nopherhole is hoping to draw some readers to BubbleBoot. And there will be good stuff there.

Aha, but first, weedhead politics!

Politics has rung the death nell on electric cars, at least electric cars that run on electricity.

Before nopherhole jumps the gun, remember that only the weedheads passed the bill in the House. And all of this is based on the premise that human beings expire deadly gases from our lungs. That’s the mental Snake River Canyon jump certain weedheads make from the Clean Air Act. To be regulated, Carbon Dioxide must be defined as a deadly gas under the Act.

Some weedheads say ignore the intent of the law. But if the EPAy’ers define Carbon Dioxide as poisonous gas, it must first be regulated at ground level where humans are exposed to the gas’ highest levels, like the gymnasium at the basketball game. Or at the Nascar track. Or the backyard Barbeque.

Miniscule amounts of carbon dioxide in the air at the tops of mountains they say will cause massive shifts in climate. But the amount of climate impact was greater when the moon exploded off the surface of the earth and the hundreds of years of rain filled the ocean, and the supercontinent of Nopherholyhell began slowly migrating around the world.

We know the climate changes. Remnants of forests are fossilized beneath deserts, massive inland seas provided nourishment for the Pteradons, and Ronald Reagan ruled the world.

Nopherhole lied. The best consensus science, that is, science arrived at by a bunch of people guessing, says the winter temperatures will rise maybe a couple of degrees. Luckily for England, Ireland and America, we stuck with the Fahrenheit system, so the impact will be less.

Nopherhole lied again. It’s Climate Change. Thermometers will need to be designed to vary as quickly as your Acura’s tachometer.

The example that the EPAy might be able to extend is the “regulation out of existence of Chlorofluorcarbons.”  These chemicals had many uses including halon fire extinguishing systems. Obviously, the Act takes priority over saving burning materials. [misleading, but oh heck, nopherhole can do politics too.] And now the ozone hole, which was first detected during the National Geophysical Year in the 1950’s, is not effected. This is easily explained because the atmosphere over the northern hemisphere exerts its changes on the southern hemisphere in a very remote way.

Luckily, most advanced economies with vast wealth in the northern hemisphere can help the third world countries at and south of the equator.

As explained in earlier posts, nopherhole is a technology fan and would truly like to drive an electric car. After all, being on the cutting edge with a 1982 diesel Toyota pickup smashed by a climate-tossed tree, a 1984 diesel Toyota Corolla that refused to run when the temperature was below four degrees Fahrenheit. [This would be huge negative number in Celsius.] The 1987 Suzuki Samurai that was viciously attacked by Consumer Reports. Any mechanical engineer knows that greatly increasing the moment of inertia with the huge outriggers fitted to test cars caused them to tilt. I still want to know how many cars rollover in the world due to bad roads or driving and compare that to toilet testers verdict on the simple Samurai. The Chrysler LeBaron convertible with its marvelous body longevity, until T-boned at an intersection. The low fronted Dodge Intrepid that took out a twelve point buck two miles from my home. My offspring’s Cutlas Supreme that slid off a snowy road smashing its right side and permanently sealing the right front door.

Now nopherhole’s spouse’ VW Turbo lost a hub cap.

And finally, my wonderful Prius, that nopherhole is told contributes to the pollution at the nickel mines in Canada.

Nopherhole has taken the cutting technology ride, and my Mobile One has never failed me.

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Toyota shareholders OK founder’s grandson as head

By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
Toyota shareholders approved the appointment of the company founder’s grandson Akio Toyoda as new president Tuesday, hoping that reaching back to the automaker’s family roots will help steer the manufacturer out of its worst ever crisis. More than 3,300 shareholders packing a hall at Toyota Motor Corp. headquarters — a…
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Predictions are losses of 550 billion yen and then they state what that is in dollars. Buy TM! The dollar is going to fall so while you may lose 550 billion yen but it will be $10billion dollars. Nopherhole thinks the following is correct. TM will not turn Yen into dollars. Why would they? Yen are worth more. If the Yen is worth more, why restate it in lousy dollars? If Toyota is planning on spending money in America, it will cost a hell of a lot less. And if sales of Priuses are booming in Japan, and Yen are worth more….

You get the idea.

Toyota is a world wide company. Plunging dollars may help. I don’t know how that will impact the USA, but don’t fall for the Propaganda.

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