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The destabilization of Syria was so they could build a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey and compete with Russian oil.
That wasn't going to happen if a Russian friendly government was in place. Plane and simple.
  Qatar was funding the Clinton campaign for a reason.

As for Afghanistan, while G.W. was chasing Taliban, the Clintons were investing in minerals and mining.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science...

It's always been about the money.

How about the $750,000 speech Bill Clinton gave for Ericsson 9 days before telecom equipment was left off a list of items prohibited by Iran sanctions. Just a coincidence probably.

No, but accusing him of "conspir[ing] with foreign governments to defraud the American public" is, given what we actually know.

Bigot: one who is intolerant or hostile towards different social groups. Trump != social group. The end.

she doesn't have any kind of coherent agenda or vision

Yeah, incoherent. . . compared to Trump's coherent policies

Unless you have actually gone through and changed your citizenship, you haven't lived "as an immigrant"

Not citizenship, but permanent residence. I had Japanese permanent residence.

Well, I suppose if Japanese is your native language, it is no wonder that you have such queer notions about identity and racism; Japan is one of the most xenophobic and racist countries I have ever spent time in.

English is my native language. Funny. . . saying an entire nation is racist is, in itself, a very racist thing to say. Maybe if you were not so quick to judge your experience in Japan would have been different.

Which demographic would that be? Democrats just lost the House, the Senate, the presidency, and with that, the supreme court, so don't hold your breath.

Straight white male. You think ideology matters in Trump's America? This is about the "master" tribe, which people like you are not allowed to become "citizens" of. . . I despise this mentality, but I think I have seen it more than someone with your characteristics might have been exposed to. I feel like only that can explain how you seem to see Trump in such a naive light.

You accuse people of racism, xenophobia, and fraud for the flimsiest of reasons and express your disapproval and condemnation

No, I accuse Trump for what he himself has SAID. . . I am intolerant of unilateral intolerance.

Well, I'm accusing you of being a progressive and a Democrat; you certainly sound like one. And while you obviously don't understand why that offends people, I think it's important to make it crystal clear to you that it does. Perhaps that will induce people like you to reflect a bit on what you're saying and advocating, because obviously reason isn't getting through to you.

I am neither, but I don't want to get too ambitious here. . . if I can get you to make a single post where you properly use the term "bigot", I will consider this entire thread a yuuuge success.

Reading through your posts, I really feel like you are having this conversation with someone else. . . maybe someone in your past. . . maybe your parents. . . Anyway, I am not that person, but I hope you were able to find some kind of resolve. Seems like you really needed it. . .

And yet the folks committing violent acts and mayhem in American cities are leftists.

I assume you're talking about the anti-Trump protests, yes? So far, they seem to be relatively peaceful. A quick summary from the linked article:

1. Nearly 2,000 protesters gathered in downtown Chicago chanting "Not my president" and "F*** Trump" outside Trump International Hotel & Tower. Police said they arrested five people mostly for obstructing traffic and criminal trespass.
2. In New York, thousands of protesters could be heard chanting and banging drums as they marched past Rockefeller Center up Sixth Avenue... At least 65 people were arrested, NBC New York reported, quoting police. Most of the arrests appeared to be for disorderly conduct.
3. More than 100 people shut down a major highway through downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night NBC Los Angeles reported. As of midnight local time (3 a.m. ET Thursday), 13 people were arrested.
4. Police said more than 7,000 people mobilized in Oakland, California, where tear gas and flash-bang grenades were deployed. Bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers, reported NBC Bay Area. Thirty people were arrested on charges including vandalism and unlawful assembly, and three officers were hurt.

NBC's article mentions many other protests, but the above were the ones I could find where arrests were reported.

I haven't seen the KKK, the Neo Nazis, or the Skinheads doing this for the last 8 years whilst Obama has been President.

You're not serious, are you? Come on -- must I really demonstrate that the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads are violent, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office? Fine. Here are recent examples of violence related to these groups:

1. At a June 26th 2016 Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, CA, Six Klan members were arrested after using a flagpole to stab protesters.
2. On June 8th, 2014, Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda killed two police officers and left a swastika on one of their victims.
3. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, killed 3 at a Jewish community center in April of 2014, including a 14-year-old boy.

And that list above isn't comprehensive, nor does it cover incidents beyond the last two years. A complete list a violence associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads within the last 8 years would likely fill volumes, but I assume I've made my point.

Perhaps the real problem is... the left!

You're welcome to think what you like, but if you'd dare to take just a minute to step outside of the Fox News conservative echo chamber, you might discover that folks on the left are not nearly as bad as you've been told.

And yet the folks committing violent acts and mayhem in American cities are leftists.

I assume you're talking about the anti-Trump protests, yes? So far, they seem to be relatively peaceful. A quick summary from the linked article:

1. Nearly 2,000 protesters gathered in downtown Chicago chanting "Not my president" and "F*** Trump" outside Trump International Hotel & Tower. Police said they arrested five people mostly for obstructing traffic and criminal trespass.
2. In New York, thousands of protesters could be heard chanting and banging drums as they marched past Rockefeller Center up Sixth Avenue... At least 65 people were arrested, NBC New York reported, quoting police. Most of the arrests appeared to be for disorderly conduct.
3. More than 100 people shut down a major highway through downtown Los Angeles Wednesday night NBC Los Angeles reported. As of midnight local time (3 a.m. ET Thursday), 13 people were arrested.
4. Police said more than 7,000 people mobilized in Oakland, California, where tear gas and flash-bang grenades were deployed. Bottles, rocks and firecrackers were thrown at officers, reported NBC Bay Area. Thirty people were arrested on charges including vandalism and unlawful assembly, and three officers were hurt.

NBC's article mentions many other protests, but the above were the ones I could find where arrests were reported.

I haven't seen the KKK, the Neo Nazis, or the Skinheads doing this for the last 8 years whilst Obama has been President.

You're not serious, are you? Come on -- must I really demonstrate that the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads are violent, regardless of who sits in the Oval Office? Fine. Here are recent examples of violence related to these groups:

1. At a June 26th 2016 Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, CA, Six Klan members were arrested after using a flagpole to stab protesters.
2. On June 8th, 2014, Jerad Miller and his wife Amanda killed two police officers and left a swastika on one of their victims.
3. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., founder of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, killed 3 at a Jewish community center in April of 2014, including a 14-year-old boy.

And that list above isn't comprehensive, nor does it cover incidents beyond the last two years. A complete list a violence associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis and skinheads within the last 8 years would likely fill volumes, but I assume I've made my point.

Perhaps the real problem is... the left!

You're welcome to think what you like, but if you'd dare to take just a minute to step outside of the Fox News conservative echo chamber, you might discover that folks on the left are not nearly as bad as you've been told.

No, instead he was doing business with an Iranian bank which funds terrorists while the U.S. had sanctions on Iran.

He also was deliberately doing business with Cuba while the U.S. had sanctions on the country.

But of course when President Obama lifted most sanctions on Iran and Cuba, that was a travesty and Republicans were outraged. Wonder why they're keeping their yappers shut about Trump dealing with a terrorist bank and that commie nation to the south? Hypocrites.

Citation for the registration requirement, please.

Is this what you're looking for? Here's the NY Times

If you supported Trump kindly go fuck yourself, and I'll take the moderation results of this post. If not then I apologize to you, but not the man who decided to run a campaign based on sowing as much hatred as absolutely possible.

This is what happens when you run that kind of campaign.

We didn't protest when Barack Obama was elected. Twice.

Here's some observations about the protests:

• Pre-printed signs,
• Cash to pay protestors
• Crowd Warm-up pro
• Professional inciters
• Alert media to get it all on TV

You're being manipulated.

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There were quite a few protests in 2008 and 2012, and they had the above list in effect.

When all you've had on display has been rank hypocrisy, double standards, a complete lack of principles, and an utter disregard for the truth, this is what happens. You DNC surrogates and the right-wing establishment created a political environment so toxic that an honest and intellectual leader doesn't have a chance, and ensured the rise of Trump since it would take someone like him to beat you at your own game.

Take Elizabeth Warren, for example. She was supposed to be a champion for wall st. reform after no justice was served after the 2008 meltdown, but she turned her back on Sanders and left him to wither on the vine, so she could align herself with the same HRC that refused to release transcripts of her Goldman Sachs speeches. Then even Sanders, rather than leave the party and run as an independent when proof of DNC's treachery emerged, fell in line and expected his followers to undergo a complete 180 turn as well. The cognitive dissonance was so thick you could cut it with a knife, but we were supposed to be good little sheeple and swallow what we're given and be told what to think. Because Trump.

All the accusations of Trump's sexism, while supporting someone based purely on her gender, who happens to be the same person who persecuted female victims of her spouse's sexual harrassment: pure hypocrisy

All the accusations of Trump's racism, while rallying around racist groups like BLM and the president himself deliberately fanning the flames of racial tension to the point where police were being ambushed and murdered. Hypocrisy. Where normal rules don't apply for a certain people south of the border, and they get to enjoy a double standard on immigration while the rest of the world gets in line. Hypocrisy.

All the accusations of xenophobia, as we watch France post military on their street corners and gay nightclubs become the scene of massacres. Where there is self-censoring of any criticism of one particular group, and treating it with special consideration out of fear of inciting violence to the point of being unable to call a spade a spade, while in the next breath condemning as bigoted those who do criticize and raise objects to the mass importation. Hypocrisy. Being told to welcome the intolerant with open arms, even as mass-murders show up to free speech events in our own country:

All the accusations of being a war monger and having a disastrous foreign policy leading to WW3, even as we witness the rise of ISIS and a proxy war in Syria with Russia, a foreign policy disaster that can be placed at the feet of Obama and HRC: more hypocrisy.

The first clue Trump would win should have been the Americans that stood in the way of Harry Reid's corruption by refusing to go quietly to their 'free speech' fenced pen in the middle of the desert. Rather, they had an armed confrontation with overbearing authorty that did not represent them. They were called traitors and domestic terrorists and Y'all Queda, at a time when many people already feel strongly that the government does not represent their interests. Someone who drinks the kool-aid may not be able to understand this, but Trump isn't nearly as repulsive as the hypocrisy surrounding those that denigrate him.

The FBI didn't get the warrant to search the emails until Oct. 30. http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

I found more evidence of the conspiracy! Black people burned their own church in a FALSE FLAG operation and painted Trump graffiti!

Obviously a REAL right-winger would NEVER do that, so it had to be those left-wing naggers!

Trump 2016!

The only foreign political leader Trump ever praises is Putin.

Oh ho ho! If only Trump's admiration for oppressive leaders and regimes were limited to Putin.

The ACORN people got fired too, before it was discovered that those videos were faked and O'Keefe was ordered to pay up $100,000 for that stunt.

Donald Trump's foundation paid O'Keefe to make the Veritas videos.

You believe whatever you want to. O'Keefe is a convicted criminal whose "exposé videos" have repeatedly been proven fake.

It really depends on the radiation (lower UV range ionizing radiation is less dangerous than being in the sun for a long time,) and the fact that you're moving through it quickly reduces the chance that it will be bad. It just depends a lot of things.

And if an AI is checking you, then you're probably not going to get your dick and ass grabbed by this guy:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

Meh. Welcome to yesterday. Dallas police have already used a robot with a pound of C-4 to blow up a sniper in July 2016. This ain't no cheesy science Fiction.... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

Anyone who engenders hate against any group

And THAT is why I'm not voting for Clinton.

No actually. The CIA's forte is not supposed to be signals intelligence. In fact they've fought that for decades, preferring old school spycraft.

I'm talking about this DNC staffer that was killed after the first wikileaks release:

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

Assange implicated him as the leaker, not the Russians. And there are all kinds of shady things about his death. But don't worry, the DNC fact checkers will debunk it for you, so you can keep blaming the Russians. Hillary has to get elected, after all.

Well, of course it probably was Russian hackers. Whether they were actually sponsored by the Russian government, or were freelance Russians who just used tools originally built by the Russian intelligence agency, is another question. The evidence is pretty good. They're not just hacking the DNC, by the way; they're aiming at anything to do with our election they can find.

But the question is: so? With respect to the leask, well, no matter who did them, the leaks are still the leaks.

Wired: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/...
NBC: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

The "server room without internal procedures" is really the key to all this. What and who gets to define access for years of domestic content without question.
Recall the internal and external reactions to PRISM.
Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Qwest reportedly balked nsa records sweep (5/12/2006)
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/1275...

"Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act is very much akin to "unlimited" in unlimited bandwidth in a mobile phone contract. It's not so much an adjective as it is a branding label.

Still. Every insurance plan has an out-of-pocket maximum and the law prevents life-time limits on benefits. While it's possible for deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums to be quite high, I'm dubious about the claim, "depleted his savings and insurance benefits" -- unless he's not good at managing his own money. To be fair, the summary did say this happened over 18 months, so there could be some cost build up due to his case exceeding a calendar year and the deductible and out-of-pocket fees being reset (I don't know if it works that way for a continuing treatment).

Universal single-payer health plans don't (for the most part) have deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.My first encounter with an out-of-pocket expense was last week - $5 for a DVD with a copy of my dental x-rays. First time in 60 years. I've literally spent months in hospitals, had a bunch of operations, dozens of treatments, and there's never been a co-pay or a deductible. The only time I ever saw even a copy of any bill was when Workman's Compensation sent me a copy of the bill they paid for one workplace accident tht required surgery - and that was strictly advisory - big notice saying "DO NOT PAY THIS!".

As for the universal drug plan, the maximum amount is $87.16. It's $0 for children under 18 (or 25 if they're attending classes), welfare recipients, and people receiving at least 94% of the old age guaranteed income supplement.

Your "Affordable Care Act" is not affordable, same as your "Transportation Safety Administration" screeners are useless because you don't need protection from a family-sized tube of tooth paste - they catch that, but they miss 95% of weapons and wasting more than half a billion on machines that have a lower success rate than dogs.

It doesn't have to be this way. Thank both parties for being in the hip pocket of the insurance companies.

Obama is paving the way

I'm not sure why this is modded down, because it's almost certainly the reason NASA isn't bothering to buy more seats from Russia.

If you haven't noticed, you're not paying any attention, but Hillary Clinton is on the warpath with Russia and the entire DNC seems to be following her. She essentially declared war on Russia in the last debate.

And if you think that's just windless paranoia, NBC News just broke this: CIA Prepping for Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia

Dramatically understating the scope of the problem does not make for "safety":

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com...
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...

And that's just the citations I could find from a 30-second Google search that didn't even glance beyond the second page of search results. Many (perhaps even most) of those phones were not being charged at the time of the incident.

Okay, let's go through the list.

Deutch did agree to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, which Clinton pardoned. The Attorney General had declined to prosecute, suggesting that Deutch had been offered a deal whereby he'd plead guilty to a misdemeanor and the investigation would be dropped.

Before I go on, as I understand it, not being a lawyer, is that criminal intent is a matter of intentionally doing something that is a crime. What the defendant actually meant to do after committing a crime doesn't matter. This seems to be the dividing line as to who gets prosecuted and who doesn't, and Clinton is on the "doesn't" side of the line. There's no evidence that she intentionally did anything to get classified information on her server.

Petraeus deliberately handed over classified information against the rules. Kristian intentionally took a picture that would be classified. I'm not familiar with Martin's case, but taking classified documents home sure sounds like a deliberate action that violates the law. Van Buren was apparently not charged with anything, much like Deutch. Nishimura deliberately got classified material onto his own equipment.

A little googling got this article, which has other names. In all cases, negligence was not prosecuted, and deliberate violation of the law didn't necessarily carry a prison sentence.

So, yes, these names don't qualify by my stated criteria, and nobody's provided me one counterexample to show that criminal prosecution of Clinton would not be unprecedented.

The dead are voting, and surprise, surprise, they're voting Democrat.

Also no surprise that it's a Dem that's now recommending an easily manipulated voting method.

They must've seen the rampant mail vote fraud in Austria and figured they'd like to pull that off too.

You have to start comparing to third-world countries to find the levels of corruption that exist in the DNC.

Of course, according to Democrats, Americans are too stupid for that.

No, but we are smart enough to know that if you don't have a problem, then you don't need a solution that causes other problems. We do know for certain though, that republicans are stupid enough to to buy into the bullshit they're fed by the political overlords they're conned into voting for. It must be hell going through life so scared of everything.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2449...

Here union member, prove you're loyal... when you get your mail-in ballot, just sign it and leave it blank and drop it by the office. We'll take care of it from there and make sure you get the best work assignments...

I'm sure that could never happen... it's not like mail-in ballots are considered more vulnerable to fraud or anything...

The alt-right is an actual thing though

So are SJW's. And they too have separated themselves from traditional liberals, adopting a much more radical agenda. Just ask Bernie Sanders, an old-school liberal who ran head-long into the SJW movement during his campaign.

The sad thing is that Sanders would have made for a much better President than either of the two ass-clowns who got the nominations. But these days only the most shrill voices dominate. And as a straight white male who wasn't able to tout his victimhood and label all his opponents as sexists/racists/homphobes, he never stood a chance on the new SJW left.

party leaders still have time to recover some shred of dignity

Ah, that famously gallant concern Democrats have for the Republican Party...

No Democrats here bud....

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

Here's one: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7024930/

I was in my teens for Reagan and the start of the first Bush administration, so my memory of what was said about them is pretty fuzzy. But i don't recall a big deal being made about nuclear war being made, and that certainly wasn't my biggest concern during either the election for Bush 1's 2nd term or either of Bush 2's terms.

But Trump has said that he's okay with using nuclear weapons offensively:
https://thinkprogress.org/9-te...

Trump has also said that he won't guarantee defending our allies, which is potentially a very destabilizing action:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

He said during the first debate that attacking an Iranian ship would not start a war. (To be fair, doing so wouldn't _definitely_ start a war, but almost identical actions have been considered acts of war in the past and could easily be considered so again, so saying that it definitely wouldn't is 100% wrong.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

And i can find any number of references for the off the wall stuff Trump has posted on twitter at 3am, in fact there has been analysis presented here on slashdot about the emotional tones of his tweets then vs when his staff is in charge:
https://politics.slashdot.org/...

Now normally i wouldn't say "this person acts unhinged on twitter, therefore they'll end civilization." However he has stated himself that he's willing to cause turmoil among our allies, which will lead to politically unstable situations, he's said himself that he's willing to preemptively use nuclear weapons, and he's said things that seem to indicate he doesn't know what is and is not an act of war.

If you combine that with the kind of temper and tendency to get unhinged when he feels he's been attacked or insulted that he's demonstrated both in real life and in his late night twitter sessions, i feel that it's reasonable to be very concerned.

Being against pipelines is the same as being for oil spills from trains. Pipelines are far safer, and spill far less than even small train spills.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/in...

When you fight the pipeline, you fight for trains full of oil. The oil has to be moved around, even if you wish people used less of it.

Obama fired the head of the IRS for illegally targeting the Tea Party saying his actions were "inexcusable".
Peter Thiel being sued by Labor Department, or is NBC news a liar?

You have lost even more credibility by calling me a liar on well known issues. You convinced no one and shamed yourself in the process.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...
http://www.iflscience.com/heal...
http://www.livescience.com/547...

Propylene glycol, a chemical found in e-liquids, can irritate the eyes and airways, Siegel said. Early studies have also revealed that when propylene glycol or glycerin are heated and vaporized, they can degrade into formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, he said. Both of these chemicals are considered carcinogens, although it's not yet clear how repeated exposure to them may cause cancer, he said.

does not require much looking..

Does not require much looking...

Does not require much comprehension, either.
I know English is hard, but try and look up the difference between will and can and will and may.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...
http://www.iflscience.com/heal...
http://www.livescience.com/547...

Propylene glycol, a chemical found in e-liquids, can irritate the eyes and airways, Siegel said. Early studies have also revealed that when propylene glycol or glycerin are heated and vaporized, they can degrade into formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, he said. Both of these chemicals are considered carcinogens, although it's not yet clear how repeated exposure to them may cause cancer, he said.

does not require much looking..

Does not require much looking...

I'm not an American, so I won't be voting for either, but it does seem that (a) most of the stories about Hillary, if not all of them, are just shitposts by whiners who can't speak intelligently to problems with her policy direction, and (b) Trump has no clue how to lead a country, and no idea about what to do in complex policy issue like Syria, to the extent that he says whatever comes to mind at the time and he has no regard for whether the things he says are true and accurate, or not.

Just my impression.

I'm not an American, so I won't be voting for either, but it does seem that (a) most of the stories about Hillary, if not all of them, are just shitposts by whiners who can't speak intelligently to problems with her policy direction, and (b) Trump has no clue how to lead a country, and no idea about what to do in complex policy issue like Syria, to the extent that he says whatever comes to mind at the time and he has no regard for whether the things he says are true and accurate, or not.

Just my impression.

He also wasn't shooting at them.

Neither was Tyre King or Tamir Rice, and that didn't stop police from gunning them down. In fact, they didn't even have real guns.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS...

It was actually a rhetorical question. We know for a fact who is doing it, and why. Yes, they are in fact Pro-Trump. They are also anti-US, and in particular anti-NATO. However, they've also hacked the RNC, and even in the DNC hack were particularly interested in their oppo research on Trump. The fact that they haven't publicly released that info they gathered just tells you they plan on using it privately, but don't want to hurt them publicly.

The fact that I can ask a rhetorical question with a well-known answer, and an answer with multiple possibilities listed got modded insightful, tells you everything you need to know about the ignorance of the mods here on /. lately.

Colin Powell never should have talked shit about Donald Trump. You mess with the bear and you get the h4xx0rs.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

might have known it would be you.

Yes, it is me — the guy, who debated you into a corner on the inexplicable failures of Blacks in America, which are in such sharp contrast to the successes of Asians, who, presumably, are (or recently were) just as much a target of "racism" of the Whites dominating the country...

People criticising the guy who was trying to harm them by denying them equal marriage are not "SJWs".

Yes, of course, they were. But, if you wish to talk semantics, let's see your definition of "Social Justice Warrior" — one, which does not cover 90% of folks calling for boycott of Firefox over Mr. Eich.

They are people who want the right to marry whomever they like

The above statement is wrong in itself, unless you think, "equal marriage" must also include incest. For better or worse, you still can not marry "whomever you like".

No, the case was explicitly about gay marriages — and that term is about as sensible as "low-sodium salt" or "meatless steak". You can market a product like that — freedom of speech and all that — but an attempt to legally require equating it to a real thing is a legitimate target of opposition.

because the only other option is to deny their freedom of speech rights.

Does not follow.

At any rate, whether or not Brendan's position on "gay marriage" was valid or bogus, he was a fine programmer and software engineer. Ousting him for the "inkorrekt" opinion did a disservice to the Mozilla project, negatively affecting millions of users.

Looking at the 8 most powerful to make landfall, six of them have been since 1998.

And if you go back further, you'll see we've had a swell time recently. Check out - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for example. Could go on and on. Check out - http://www.livescience.com/143... to understand that we're really returning to where we were about 1000 years ago.

Did you look at their last graph from 1880 on? That doesn't line up with the CO2 levels worth a damn. I know, it's science. Requires thought.

You know about the scientific method, don't you? If you have one counter example to your theory, the theory is wrong. We have plenty of examples where it's wrong. Even if you throw the data prior to the 1920s out, there is the fact that the 1930s was the hottest decade of the 20th century. Even if you throw that out and consider the past 30 years. To a real scientist like myself, this is all very clear even by inspection.

Yes, we are warming, isn't due to CO2. Is it man? Could be in part, find the cause(s) first then we can consider if it's man or mother nature. Off hand, it's looking like mother nature. Can we do something about it? Maybe. Let's all agree it's not CO2 first and look for some real causes. Stop the politicizing (money making out of BS) of science. We have plenty of other BS to deal with already.

Nye hasn't published any papers on this topic. Let's look at what real scientists have found.

Even as Al Gore was trying to scare everyone into believing that the frequency and intensity of cyclones was in the process of skyrocketing,

So.....Bill Nye is a science denier.....because you drank the hatorade on Al Gore??

Dr. R.N. Maue

Who has a doctorate in meteorology, not climate science, so you might want to ease up with that 'not a real scientist' attack least it hit your appeals-to-authority fallacy in the face in the process.

Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity

Annnnnd now from actual climate scientists: It is unclear whether global warming is increasing hurricane frequency but there is increasing evidence that warming increases hurricane intensity. You look at a list of the most powerful hurricanes/cyclones and it's going to be heavy with storms in the last 20 years. Looking at the 8 most powerful to make landfall, six of them have been since 1998.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...

Bird collisions kill millions of migratory birds. Especially power-lines:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4544...
but wind turbines quickly catching up:
https://abcbirds.org/threat/bi...

It is true, cats are killing a lot too. A stray pet cat is a formidable predator, - that is why in some countries stray cats are illegal. Birds are different from humans, and some loss of younglings is inevitable. However power-lines, and now more and more wind turbines, decimate the strongest ones, who survived, grew up, and are capable to fly thousand of kilometers.

Even without these additional hazards only 30 - 70 % of them make it depending of a year. And we doom them as species with these invisible for them tall obstacles.

1) Complex life is relatively rare and widely separated in space and time.
2) Complex life doesn't survive long-term (nuclear war, grey goo)
3) Complex life does survive, but for some reason doesn't communicate or colonize other worlds (a "Prime Directive", or perhaps they "sublime" in the Ian Banks/Culture sense)

I actually lean a bit towards 3 myself, but humanity will eventually find out, one way or the other.

Could also be a combination of the above. It could be somewhat rare for complex, intelligent life to arise, moderately rare for it to survive, and extremely rare that it decides to make its presence known. I mean, it's possible that lots of intelligent races decide that Hawking's theory that if there's intelligent life out there it could be dangerous is correct, and that they should therefore hide. Odds are that any other intelligent life will also have arisen in a competitive ecosystem and will have its own propensity toward violence to make it cautious.

So, if someone wants the benefits of the police, but doesn't want to pay for them, will they be covered? Or will they be excluded? That's always been the problem with "voluntary" basic services.

Some fire services work that way. The tax is voluntary, but if you didn't pay, the firefighters watch your house burn down.

For those here who missed the news a few years ago, here's how things work in some parts of the US:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-no-spray-firefighters-let-home-burn
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/07/9272989-firefighters-let-home-burn-over-75-fee-again

Hard to believe, I know.

For those here who missed the news a few years ago, here's how things work in some parts of the US:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-no-spray-firefighters-let-home-burn
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/07/9272989-firefighters-let-home-burn-over-75-fee-again

Hard to believe, I know.

Worth mentioning that Chelsea is being moved to solitary confinement.

But don't worry, the government has recognized national whistleblower's day!!