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The IPCC made falsifiable predictions based on scientific models and data.
The predictions came true.

You aren't citing any — which is especially curious because you blasted me for not providing accurate citations before... And, of course, even if some such predictions did come true, it is not proof. Unless this guy's predictions make him a scientist too. California did get the punishment, you know, a rather obvious one, which is much more than one can say about IPCC's results.

And yet you claim the field is not falsifiable

Actually, this time around I didn't have to make such a claim of my own. I simply cited claims made by others. You have nothing to say about that, you keep coming back with "IPCC" and personal insults. I think, I'm done here.

Being contrarian doesn't make you clever.

It being warm does not prove the need to ban incandescent light bulbs either.

Fundamentalist Christians are going to be pissed! http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.

But seriously, this is pretty good news.

Haha cherrypicking the most extreme and retarded forms of religion and making fun of them is so easy.

Almost as easy as picking on those who defend them.

It's a guaranteed slam dunk! I mean, arguing with you would be like defending extreme religion, amirite??

Depends on the argument. If you argue if people have the right to believe anything they want to believe, nope, because that is a person's right. You on the other had, are making a weird defense of them, so I'm assuming you are defending their actions.

Oh how very clever and original you are!

Oh pshaw, you're making me blush! But thanks, I try to entertain people. But I couldn't do it without your help, so don't sell yourself short.

As for your spirit of condemnation and patting yourself on the back for being so much smarter, at least all of that is intact. Whew! That was a close one. You barely managed: now you're on equal footing with those extreme religious types!

I've always wondered when I get a post like this. Do you have these majickal conversations in your head where you have your enemy say outlandish things for you to skewer with your rapier wit and devastating riposts?

As for equal footing with the far -right religious fundamentalists, it is the difference between people who actually take pleasure in other's illnesses, and people who don't, and find such poor examples of humanity as ripe targets for ridicule.

Ya might consider that at some point, because you are in the ripe target group there me hearty AC.

Fundamentalist Christians are going to be pissed! http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.

But seriously, this is pretty good news.

Haha cherrypicking the most extreme and retarded forms of religion and making fun of them is so easy. It's a guaranteed slam dunk! I mean, arguing with you would be like defending extreme religion, amirite?? Oh how very clever and original you are! As for your spirit of condemnation and patting yourself on the back for being so much smarter, at least all of that is intact. Whew! That was a close one. You barely managed: now you're on equal footing with those extreme religious types!

God will now not only punish them there Qeeeayars, but the people who took away God's divine and loving punishment for them.

But seriously, this is pretty good news.

The hurricanes are caused by too much butt sex:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/06/...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Oh, you want to talk about who is taking over ? Not to mention what they take out.

For decades.

I know you don't want to face it, but the right-wing is the bastion of the thought police.

You should probably just abandon your false conception of the left-right political spectrum, and make your arguments without it. Even if you had a historical point (which you don't), you'd be fighting uphill against reality. Of course, denying reality and living in fantasies is a hallmark of the right, so...you'll keep on keeping on. We will always have been at war with Eastasia, and the chocolate ration will be increased to 30 grams a week.

how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?

"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"

Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...

Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...

a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere

how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?

"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"

Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...

Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...

a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere

how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?

"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"

Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...

Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...

a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere

how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?

"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"

Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...

Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...

a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere

how did this blatant misinformation get modded informative?

"There are no Christian groups that demand that that for the Bible"

Christian Dominionism must be a new concept to you. http://www.publiceye.org/chris...

Rick Santorum in 2011: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

Tom DeLay just yesterday: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Mike Lowrie of Louisiana: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...

a sitting Colorado legilator: "if you disagree with me and other Christians, you are demon possessed": http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

the Religious Right's wishlist for Trump to create a theocratic Xtians First nation: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

basically anything by this guy: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

Jim Bakker who thinks Trump is the Messiah or his forerunner: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except Algeria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Syria (pre-civil war), Turkey, Indonesia, Kosovo, Djibouti, Albania, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone , and a few others. No, not every Muslim country is all hunky dory with other religion...but not every Muslim majority country is Saudi Arabia. And not even every repressive regime in a Muslim country is religiously oppressive; several are secularly repressive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Recent wars/conflicts fought by and over Christianity just off top of my head newer than your joke of a historical record:
-North Ireland
-The Lords Republican Army
-the Croatian and Bosnian wars
-the mistreatment/forceful conversion of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas and elsewhere

Obviously not the person you responded to but...

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/...
http://www.postcrescent.com/st...

If nothing on Hillary's server was classified it should be released without redaction for full review and inspection by any party. That has not happened, and it won't happen. FOI requests regarding information on her server are denied almost as soon as they are filed.

You aren't giving credit where credit is due. Judicial Watch has a lawsuit pursuing information along these lines, and is making progress.

Is Judicial Watch going to use those funds to prevent more imaginary terrorist attacks?

the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers.
We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

...on Friday's Republican campaign event, showing videos of Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee engaging in question-and-answer sessions with extremist pastor Kevin Swanson, who then went on to say that he would smear cow dung over his body to protest a gay couple's wedding and urged the government to execute gays in the future if they don't repent.

the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That last one is a longer read.
But it includes such gems as "legitimate rape", sexual assaults in the military excused as "hormone level created by nature" and last but not least - rape as god's will.

P.S. Dear, right-wing, moderators... we can play this game of you trying to ignore facts while calling pointing out such facts trolling until you run out of mod points or I run out of copy/paste.

the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

...on Friday's Republican campaign event, showing videos of Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee engaging in question-and-answer sessions with extremist pastor Kevin Swanson, who then went on to say that he would smear cow dung over his body to protest a gay couple's wedding and urged the government to execute gays in the future if they don't repent.

the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That last one is a longer read.
But it includes such gems as "legitimate rape", sexual assaults in the military excused as "hormone level created by nature" and last but not least - rape as god's will.

This is how out of touch a growing number of RWNJs are:

"Growing Number Of Conservatives Seem Utterly Unaware That Obama Is Attacking ISIS"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...

http://www.juancole.com/2014/0...
http://www.politicususa.com/20...
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
http://jezebel.com/5923898/rep...

Read and weep (or laugh, if you're cynical enough to appreciate the irony).

Holy crap I need to get out of this country. Pretty soon we're going to have another Victorian era, only worse. At least in Victorian times people knew how to act polite usually.

It'll split long before that happens - which is what you tirelessly advocate here, anyway :) - so why not just move to the part of the country that'll be sane post split? New England or PNW or something.

Oh, no.. God will punish us with all his might...

Fusta... Grow up a little, eh? Can you do that for us?

Oh, no.. God will punish us with all his might...

Fusta... Grow up a little, eh? Can you do that for us?

Oh, no.. God will punish us with all his might...

Oh, no.. God will punish us with all his might...

Matthew Hagee says that praying for healing in Jesus' name always cures everything. Except a case of the stupids.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-healing-jesus-name-works-every-time

If prayer isn't curing stupidity then you obviously aren't praying hard enough, or praying to the wrong god(s).

Matthew Hagee says that praying for healing in Jesus' name always cures everything. Except a case of the stupids.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-healing-jesus-name-works-every-time

For what reason?

For being false, first of all. "Atheistic Marxism" has been in decline for decades, and it's not because Christianity defeated it. It is because it is an unworkable social construct which failed in competition with moderate Socialism and Capitalism, especially when bolstered by a bedrock of humanism. Furthermore, defending against authoritarian dictatorship by embracing authoritarian dictatorship is stupid. Embracing the tinpot tyrants of Christianity to avoid Marxist dictators is a fool's game. What does the underlying dogma matter when they both would strip me of my rights and freedoms? And finally, your argument works just as well if you were arguing for Islam as a bulwark against "Atheistic Marxism."

That is not the point. The point is that anti-theists try very hard to mix Christianity and Islam (for example) in the same bag.

Whenever some theocratic Islamist terrorist blows a bomb in a crowded square, anti-theists say "this is what religion does".

As it most certainly was.

They know that Christian people, even if they have occasional faults, are nice and friendly people; so the only way to condemn religion per se is to say that Christianity is the same as Islam - which is a very ridiculous idea.

Really? So Christians aren't calling gays demonically possessed? They aren't push lies to children in violation of the Constitution? They aren't involved in the cover up of horrific crimes against children? They aren't involved in killing children for witchcraft? They don't file charges to have skeptics arrested for debunking their lying claims? They aren't fighting against laws like the Violence against Women Act? Those are just a smattering of current problems that Christians are causing or exacerbating. That's not even counting the numerous acts of evil that Christians are historically guilty of.

Shall I continue, or do you get the point yet? An individual Christian is most likely a perfectly fine and upstanding citizen. The same is true for the average Muslim, the average Jew, the average Hindu, etc. The institutions of Christianity, however, are just as filled with dogmatic ideologies as those of Islam and such. You mistake the fact that they have been largely neutered in the west for the idea that they are benign.

I don't think mindless greed is much a problem with him.

********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.

Your sig is hilarious is this context.

I'm sure the greed of Mitt and his friends is anything but "mindless". If he's got nothing to hide, he should release more than his 2010 tax returns (and 2011 estimate). Hell, his father released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for Governor of Michigan.

Perhaps you should read the NYT and Vanity Fair articles and then wonder how much he could possibly care about middle-class and poor people instead of the rich - and those other people known as corporations. They've had 12 years of the lowest personal and corporate tax rates in history and have so far failed to fulfill their self-anointed roles as "job creators", yet (amazingly) have done really, really well for themselves and their personal wealth. Sure, perhaps more tax cuts will help - them.

Republicans have publicly stated that their #1 priority is removing President Obama from office.

...asked him if he stands by his previous statement that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term President.” [Republican Senator] McConnell confirmed that his goal remains unchanged.

I believe they're willing to purposely tank the economy to achieve that end. The Tea Party Nation even urges business owners to pledge to *not* hire anyone in order to hurt Obama:

I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

While both parties are far from perfect, I'm constantly amazed how people who are *not* white, rich, straight men think the Republican party actually cares about them.

Cheers.

So, to you, stacking the Supreme Court with anti-abortion zealots

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111400720.html

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/05/sekulow_recalls.html

and going after porn with a vengeance by increasing Justice Department prosecutions and devoting FBI resources to porn DURING A TIME OF TERRORISM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/bushs-war-on-porn-perve_b_7704.html

and viciously pushing to remove porn's sources of funding

http://www.forbes.com/2003/05/01/cz_sl_0501porn.html

and levying huge fines on outspoken media opponents for talking about innocuous things

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0408043fcc1.html

or for showing a tit

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/01/entertainment/main626925.shtml

or using swear words

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article390108.ece

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/epps

isn't doing much to push the religious agenda?

How much more does it take to convince you that Bush, especially during the time he had no Congressional opposition, was actively doing things to help the religious zealots? Are you sure that YOU haven't been living on Mars the last seven years?