Did July feel hot to you? Well that's because it was the hottest month on record.

Courtesy of Slate:  

Earlier this week, data from NASA and the Japan Meteorological Agency showed July was the hottest July on record, globally. Thanks to a particularly strong El Niño, these sorts of monthly records have been coming fast and furiously lately, so that news like this almost seemed like nbd. But then, on Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that not only was last month the hottest July on record globally, it was also the hottest month on record overall. Since NOAA started keeping track in 1880, there has never been a hotter month. That’s a very big deal. 

The month was hot from start to finish. July 1st was the hottest day in the U.K.’s history—the Guardian briefly had to pause its liveblog of the heatwave because its computer servers overheated. On July 31st, the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran reached an unfathomable heat index of 165°F, nearly a world record.

Personally I cannot even fathom a heat index as high as 165 degrees, but I will tell you that I damn near melted in my house all through late June and July.

If this keeps up there will be no global warming naysayers left. They will have all died from heat stroke.

Wonkette, and others, on Sarah Palin quitting her internet subscription channel.

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So yesterday Wonkette caught up to the breaking news of Palin's newest failure:

This July 4th, Sarah Palin celebrated America by announcing that she is quitting the Internet-teevee-channel grift, because quitting is what Sarah Palin does best. In video and text announcements on the Sarah Palin Channel, Governor Quitterface declared that as of August 1, anyone can consume premium, previously paywalled Palin content, because Sarah Palin is getting rid of her paywall for freedom, and not because the Sarah Palin Channel was an economic failure, heavens no. 

Others have finally noticed as well including The Examiner: 

Just one year ago in July 2014, the Sarah Palin Channel debuted as an alternative news outlet for conservative viewers. Now after a less than stellar roll out, all content will be made available for free.

Mediaite:   

The former governor of Alaska, vice presidential candidate and Fox News contributor said that the decision stems from a desire to “make sure that your voices and mine are heard by the widest possible audience across this great land of ours” as the 2016 presidential election approaches. But if this venture were really such a smashing success, would she really be willing to walk away from all that incoming revenue?

Oooh, oooh let me answer that one. No.

Talking Points Memo: 

Sarah Palin announced on Saturday that she would stop selling subscriptions to the Sarah Palin Channel in August, a little over a week after Fox News cut ties with the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate. 

Palin launched her online video channel about a year ago because she was "tired of media filters."

And Raw Story: 

The announcement came less than a month after Palin was dropped by Fox News. The former governor’s stock has been in decline since her “painful” speech at an event in Iowa in January.

Let's see six years ago on July 3rd Palin quit her job as governor and this year on July 5th she quit her job as  herself on her paid subscription channel.

What is it about July that makes Palin want to quit everything?

As you will notice not one of these news outlets makes any suggestion of Palin quitting to launch a campaign for President, where a couple of years ago that would have been the prevailing theory.

Proving that the media might be slow on the uptake sometimes, but if you beat them over the head long enough eventually they will figure things out.

In other news is looks like there is a publisher ignorant enough to give Palin yet another book deal:  

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin signed a deal with Regnery Publishing to write Sweet Freedom: A Devotional. The faith-based book is scheduled for mid November, just in time for Christmas. 

The devotional will feature 260 meditations--one for almost every day of the year--that explore and apply biblical principles to the pressing topics of our time. 

Palin's going to "write" a book about religion and faith?

What will she write about next speechifying and effective child rearing?

Gee I wonder how many tens of copies this book will sell?

Sarah Palin's next speaking gig is all about farming. Wait, what am I reading?

Here is what is says about the Ag PhD Field Day at its website: 

We invite you to join us for a free Ag PhD Field Day on our farm near Baltic, SD on Thursday, July 25th from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.! Our goal with the Field Day is to create a one-day event where you can learn more about how to raise better crops by hearing from a host of expert guest speakers, seeing new technologies in the field, participating in hands-on demonstrations, and visiting with other top farmers from around the country.

And they invited Sarah Palin to be a "featured speaker" why?

Here is a list of others who are also speaking:

• Guest speakers including Sarah Palin 
• Corn Panel featuring Darren Hefty & several high-yield corn farmers 
• Soybean Panel featuring Brian Hefty & several high-yield soybean farmers 
• Wheat Panel featuring Rob Fritz, Phil Needham, & high-yield wheat farmers 
• Estate Planning with one of the top estate lawyers in the country 
• Drainage Law with one of the best drainage lawyers in the country 
• Grain marketing sessions with grain marketing experts 
• Crop insurance sessions 
• Live Ag PhD Radio Show with Brian & Darren 
• Speakers on irrigation & drainage through tile lines plus a live tiling demo and a lift station 
• Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the field plots 
• A special Brian vs. Darren field day section with corn, soybeans, and wheat

Okay, so WHY is Sarah Palin speaking at this again? And WHAT could she possibly say?

I mean is she going to blame the poor crops on Obamacare?

Is she going to support the farm subsidies while condemning the President's "socialist agenda?"

I really don't get it. After all this woman's whole mythology is based on killing animals for meat, NOT growing vegetables for healthy eating.

But perhaps the reason they invited her was to find out HOW she took such a barren, lifeless, and infertile area as this:

And managed to grow these:

Only reason I can think of.

Remembering Alaska's Independence Day four years ago today!

(Part Two)

"Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out. And a problem in our country today is apathy. It would be apathetic to just hunker down and "go with the flow". 

Nah, only dead fish "go with the flow". "

God that was a great day!

I remember being on the phone all morning trying to find out why the Governor had called a last minute emergency press conference, and giving the press only about twenty minutes to get all the way out to Wasilla to cover it.

When I learned the reason I could not stop laughing and smiling.

And I am again laughing and smiling today.

Thanks Sarah Palin! That was the nicest thing you ever did for Alaska!

If you are interested here is the transcript.

Of course this is everybody's favorite version of the speech.