The Governator says "yer dead, California"

Ah-nold has maybe played the Terminator too many times:

In Terminator 1, Arnold was sent back in time to prevent the birth of the guy who was going lead a resistance against the machine-armageddonists.

In Terminator 2, Arnold was sent back in time to defeat the super-terminator who was sent back in time to kill the guy who was going to oppose the machine-armageddonists (machine-armageddonists having learned that killing the unborn is wrong!!!).

In Terminator 3, Arnold was sent back in time to defeat the super-duper terminator babe who was sent back in time to kill the guy who, we find out, actually caused the machine-armageddonist timeline by preventing those humans who wanted to stop the machine-armageddonists instead of fighting them in the future.

The machine-armageddonists won. Of course, we should have realized they won after observing that the machine-armageddonists were still cranking out (faster! better!)terminators and no human-resistors came back from the future ("One possible future. I don't know the tech stuff.") after Terminator 1.

Not counting on the teevee show, of course.

Now, in Terminator 4 ("he absolutely will not stop until the State of California is dead"), Arnold's job is to bring about the GOP's economic Armageddon for California. ("Yer terminated, Democrat fuckers!")



How's he doing?

Will a giant aluminum hat help?

Is the earth's magnetic protection cracked? What does it mean? Who can repair it?

Recent satellite observations have revealed the largest breach yet seen in the magnetic field that protects Earth from most of the sun's violent blasts, researchers reported Tuesday. The discovery was made last summer by Themis, a fleet of five small NASA satellites.

Scientists have long known that the Earth's magnetic field, which guards against severe space weather, is similar to a drafty old house that sometimes lets in violent eruptions of charged particles from the sun. Such a breach can cause brilliant auroras or disrupt satellite and ground communications