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Like this: http://www.sodahead.com/united...
Or this: http://www.businessinsider.com...
etc.

that's bs. just cropping change the point of view, and it's doable with jpeg trivially... http://images.sodahead.com/pol...

Because it's not there

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/temperatures-were-warmer-than-today-for-most-of-the-past-10000-years/question-4723358/
Fifteen thousand years ago, temperatures rose 10 to 20 degrees in just one century.........

About 12,800 years ago we plunged into the Younger Dryas...... When we came out of the Younger Dryas, temperatures again
shot upward, rising 15 degrees in just 40 years.

The end of the Younger Dryas cold period warmed by 9F ( 5C) over 30-40 years and as much as 14F (8C) over 40 years.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/01/16/scientists-balk-at-hottest-year-claims-we-are-arguing-over-the-significance-of-hundredths-of-a-degree-the-pause-continues/
Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., commenting on claims that 2014 was the warmest year on record: 'We have found a significant warm bias. Thus, the reported global average surface temperature anomaly is also too warm.'

Global climate changes have been far more intense (12 to 20 times as intense in some cases) than the global warming of the past century, and they took place in as little as 20–100 years.

Oh...sorry....you just wanted me to post a single already-posted graph. I guess I didn't follow your instructions properly, huh?

Those greasers only live because we allow them to.

And you americans live until your cholesterol allows you to. You have a 35% obesity rate, you should thank god, the universe or whatever you believe in if you still exist as a nation. Look at these disgusting monsters, you call them "humans" in the US, but they would be closed in a zoo anywhere else:
http://images.sodahead.com/pro...

Please, don't let them get outside your country and come to europe. They would scare our kids.

Consider the pictures that I link below --- to the Conservatives they are totally inexcusable. On the other hand, to the Liberals, those are consider *MEAT*

Warning! Please do not click on any of the links below if your threshold of gore has been set too low

http://images.sodahead.com/pol...

http://pro-lifetube.com/upload...

http://images.sodahead.com/pol...

http://clinicquotes.com/wp-con...

http://www.fletcherarmstrongbl...

Consider the pictures that I link below --- to the Conservatives they are totally inexcusable. On the other hand, to the Liberals, those are consider *MEAT*

Warning! Please do not click on any of the links below if your threshold of gore has been set too low

http://images.sodahead.com/pol...

http://pro-lifetube.com/upload...

http://images.sodahead.com/pol...

http://clinicquotes.com/wp-con...

http://www.fletcherarmstrongbl...

Weapons?
I thought it was about arms

You think biodiversity and climate haven't changed radically in the last 4.5 billion years? You think the earth is static state? Have sea levels fallen and risen before?

No, I think that the current warming is primarily caused by human activity, and that this is putting extinction pressure on great swathes of a wide range of ecosystems, is responsible for the observed acceleration in sea level rise.

Forbes is using NOAAs data.

They're not understanding that the increase in CO2 is responded to my a warming over the following decades though. Scientific sources are better, and Forbes' opinion pieces are appallingly unscientific when it comes to climate change.

The economist reported the 25% number

So they did. A well researched and intellectual publication. Not scientific as such, but educated. It gets a pass.

Yet, still no warming during that time

Not quite true. There has been warming.

That is because the CO2 greenhouse effect is weak and marginal compared to natural causes of global temperature changes.

Not even close to correct. Completely wrong. Every time you decompose global warming into the response to natural and anthropogenic forcing it looks something like this. Most or all of the observed warming is anthropogenic. Every time you look at what is applying radiative forcing it looks like this. Anthropogenic forcing dominates, and of the anthropogenic forcings, CO2 forcing is the largest part.

There is no question in the scientific literature that most of the current warming is likely anthropogenic. About 0% of scientific organisations and 0% of scholarly papers refute this fact. We know it better than we know an asteroid impact killed the dinosaurs.

Yeah, they are in consensus that it's been getting a little warmer

A lot warmer, if you're interested in ecology. Take eucalyptus species for and example. 25% of species have a range that spans less that 1C in mean temperature. That means that a 1C change in temperature puts the new long-term survivable range completely outside their current range. That comes with a significant extinction risk, and where movement is blocked by the edge of continents, tops of mountains, or human land use, it get this think called "committed to extinction"

...and humans contributed a little to that.

The consensus is probably contributed the majority of that.

I think most people would say likely all of it, or slightly more. (We are in the cooling part of the Milankovic cycle, having hit the peak about 8000 years ago, so many reconstructions of natural climate is that it would be in a slow cooling ... other things being equal.)

otherwise known as staff working 100+ hour weeks for 30 cents an hour.

But it's about cute cats!

Do tell. What is so cute about flying feral cats? I don't want this flying at me. Do you? Or how about this fluffy fellow?

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003486041/3232273818_16617_10151205510904296_1916430268_n_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg

Nuff said...

You are forgetting structural and stylistic written language differences between now and then. Militia is mentioned as an example/preamble, not as a requirement for the rest of the amendment. You should read a little more of the old literature.

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003486041/3232273818_16617_10151205510904296_1916430268_n_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg

Nuff said...

Funny picture. But wrong.

"10 U.S. Code 311 - Militia: composition and classes
    (a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003486041/3232273818_16617_10151205510904296_1916430268_n_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg

Nuff said...

"And economically, the US hasn't done much to recover since the recession. It's worth noting here that doing nothing leads to a quicker recovery than what we're seeing in the US. Partly, it's Keynesian economics poorly applied and partly it's an administration more intent on ideology than economic recovery."

Can you read graphs?

http://www.cbpp.org/images/cms//5-10-11bud-f1.jpg

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/3/9/1/6/6/5/drf-48787079017.jpeg

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/3/9/1/6/6/5/drf-48787134389.jpeg

http://www.politicalactionnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/economic-recovery-bush-to-obama1.jpg

"And economically, the US hasn't done much to recover since the recession. It's worth noting here that doing nothing leads to a quicker recovery than what we're seeing in the US. Partly, it's Keynesian economics poorly applied and partly it's an administration more intent on ideology than economic recovery."

Can you read graphs?

http://www.cbpp.org/images/cms//5-10-11bud-f1.jpg

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/3/9/1/6/6/5/drf-48787079017.jpeg

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/3/9/1/6/6/5/drf-48787134389.jpeg

http://www.politicalactionnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/economic-recovery-bush-to-obama1.jpg

I don't really like the Republican party any more. They're running the country into the ground. But listening to how hateful the liberals are, and how they wish death to their political opponents (see list below), I can't really support them either. I don't want to be a member of the party of hate. So for now I'll be an independent.

That being said, if even a few of the below links are accurate, wouldn't you protect yourself from the left, who profess to want their political opponents to die?

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9757837/

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/16/dan-savage-hbos-real-time-i-wish-republicans-were-all-f-king-dead

http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-talker-mike-malloy-says-he-wants-gop-literally-dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcqrHLZGDg&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/media-research-center-documents-liberal-death-wishes-against-conservatives

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-dark-side-of-liberalism-death-threats-to-conservatives-and-racist-threats/question-3628447/

And SodaHead, founded by someone who worked at MySpace when people still used it. They're in Sherman Oaks, last I heard. No, there is no reason for you to have heard of SodaHead.

Maintain some perspective.

Where are these guys when you need them?

Thank goodness for spammers. I can threadjack without feeling guilty.

Did you talk about George W. Bush?

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/george-w-bush-is-the-vacation-president-with-a-total-of-967-days-in-two-terms-or-32-of-his-total/question-2562001/

Americans should not have any bars when it comes to face a COMMUNIST country.

Hmmm... remind me what would you call the "bailout" that saved some American banks? Or the GM one?

Link on the RNC vote issue here.

North Carolina did the first one... something about tide levels.

Apparently Arizona did the second very recently.

Kerry wrote NONE of the PATRIOT act.
In fact, he worked hard to restrict it.
It was John ASHCROFT's team, who authored it clear back in may 2001 (i.e. BEFORE 9/11).

The real issue is that you neo-con astro-turfers are here to scream that Obama or the dems did all of the neo-cons dirty deeds.
There are PLENTY of things to find wrong with the dems and Obama.
But to keep conjuring up lies by you people does little good.
All it does is show how truly evil you neo-cons are.

BTW, I am a registered Libertarian. I vote against BOTH of your parties.
But, I really disdain you neo-cons for being some of the foulist scum on this earth.
You have more in common with Communist USSR or China, then you do with America, or the GOP.

1984 is here, Obama can indefinitely detain you with the NDAA signed into law.

Terrorists, as the name implies, operate more on the psychological impact of what they do than the physical impact.

I travel a lot less than I did before TSA showed up. I grew up in an age when "nobody can touch you there without your permission, and if they do, you fight them. You kick, you scream, and you keep fighting until you get help".

Todays parents have to teach their kids "nobody can touch you there without your permission unless they have a cute little patch on their shoulder. You can fight the priest if he does it. But not the people at the airport. You can't even call for the policeman who's standing 20 feet away to help you. You have to let them do it". I loved America when it was free. I'm looking to emigrate.

Explain to me again, who are the terrorists?

Parody from pre-2010: My First Cavity Search: Ages 6 and up.

Reality in 2012: Four year olds. Four year olds, dude.

That's not a link, This is a link.

Oddly enough, the wealthy are already taxed

As it turns out, according to the IRS and ABC News,1,470 American millionaires paid no federal income tax in 2009.

That's a problem with the overly-complicated tax code full of loopholes and deductions easily hidden in the tens of thousands of pages of IRS codes and regulations. The answer to that is simplification, not tweaking rates and adding more complexity.

Nearly 100,000 millionaires pay lower tax rates than middle class, and capital gains (gambling on the stock market and commodity futures) has half the tax rate as a working person's income tax.

If you can make money without working, you're in different world than most people, and you're not talking about the 3.6 million "1%'ers", you're talking about something like 0.00001%. Collectively, they don't really have enough money to make a dent in the federal debt, even if you took all of it. Capital gains are taxed at a lower rate to keep revenues high. That rate has been played with many times before, and even Obama and Biden acknowledge that raising the rate will reduce revenues. That's because investors take on risk, and will be less willing to LOSE money if any gains are taxed the same as no-risk earnings.

Oddly enough, the wealthy are already taxed

As it turns out, according to the IRS and ABC News,1,470 American millionaires paid no federal income tax in 2009. Nearly 100,000 millionaires pay lower tax rates than middle class, and capital gains (gambling on the stock market and commodity futures) has half the tax rate as a working person's income tax. Funny how your tea party was all against repealing the Bush tax cuts for the rich, but against the Obama tax cuts for the middle class.

banks are already regulated

Not nearly enough. For one thing, tha Glass-Stegal act's repeal was one of the causes of the economic meltdown. Do you really think that a 200% APR is in any way not usurious? Yet that's how much many of the payday loan places that the poor use charge.

Well if you are a homophobic troll the chances are that you are looking forward to it because the simple fact is that the more homophobic you are the more likely you are to get an erection watching gay porn.

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/study-proves-homophobes-are-nothing-more-than-closet-homosexuals-what-do-you-think/question-140910/

"At one point, he went to a police station and found a Los Angeles Police Department yearbook for sale. It included photographs and names of the very undercover squads seeking him. He said he wanted to buy a copy as a gift for his police officer uncle. With no questions asked, for $75 he walked away with a photo guide to his pursuers."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/hacking-the-system-because-he-could/question-2086111/

Download the PDF and zoom in (1600%) to the 10641 number of the PDF and you'll see stuff like:
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/1/8/4/7/2/9/one-44065555029.jpeg

http://i54.tinypic.com/1fheex.jpg

There are other strange bits, but that part is strange enough.

If after zooming in you still think that scan or "scan" looks normal then there's probably no convincing you either. You can go ahead and see whatever you want to see.

As I've mentioned already, I don't really care whether it's fake or real. What I see is very sloppy work.

FWIW I was actually going to laugh at the conspiracy theorists, but when I downloaded the PDF from whitehouse.gov it's unbelievably crappy work.

It's about as crappy work as the Pentagon saying they're respecting Islamic traditions and then claiming they buried Osama's corpse at sea. Anyone bothering to do 2 minutes of searching would know that's not traditional at all. When someone told me it was a sea burial, it was so unbelievable that I thought he must have heard the news wrong.

Maybe the US Gov is trying to figure out how stupid the US people can be. Or are just taunting them. Perhaps they are actually putting "dumbing down" substances in the tap water ;).

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-real-reagan-legacy-debunking-myths-about-reagan/blog-396127/

I see this GWB arguement quite a bit. I was given a tidbit of information on the GWB contribution. Congress not the president writes the budget. The congress was Democratic at the time GWB was president. Obama was in congress when GWB was president. Obama is now signing spending bills he introduced while in Congress..

Do you still think GWB is the major player in the deficit? Look at Congress during the GWB presidency.

"Many leading Democrats in Washington these days like to point to the fact that the federal budget was balanced for part of the time that President Bill Clinton was in office. What they do not mention is that those balanced budgets occurred only when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress."
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/no-democrat-controlled-congress-has-balanced-federal-budget-in-40-years-no-republican-president-has/blog-280121/

Ask and the intertubes shall deliver. This and that. First one's not a photoshop, but yeah, lazy GIS - sue me :p

Solar panels replace hydrocarbons the same way fossil oil replaced whale oil for heating and lighting -- things change. You can produce as much electricity as you want with solar panels (or other renewable energy sources), and use some of that energy to make new panels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaics#Energy_payback_time_and_energy_returned_on_energy_invested
"Thin film technologies now have energy pay-back times in the range of 1-1.5 years (S.Europe).[70] With lifetimes of such systems of at least 30 years[citation needed], the EROEI is in the range of 10 to 30. They thus generate enough energy over their lifetimes to reproduce themselves many times (6-31 reproductions, the EROEI is a bit lower) depending on what type of material, balance of system (or BOS), and the geographic location of the system.[75]"

Also, by the way, some people think "fossil" oil is self-renewing (though even then, it is too polluting to use IMHO).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
"The abiogenic hypothesis argues that petroleum was formed from deep carbon deposits, perhaps dating to the formation of the Earth. The presence of methane on Saturn's moon Titan is cited as evidence supporting the formation of hydrocarbons without biology. Supporters of the abiogenic hypothesis suggest that a great deal more petroleum exists on Earth than commonly thought, and that petroleum may originate from carbon-bearing fluids that migrate upward from the mantle."

If you plot the exponential growth rate of renewable energy for the past few decades, within two to three decades, the world will be running mostly on renewables. And there is no sign of that exponential growth rate slowing, even with the recession/depression. Peak Oil is a non-issue in that sense -- even if our society will change, and should change, in various ways, because the true cost of fossil fuels between defense and pollution and corruption is enormous.
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/oil-gas-crude/461
It takes more electricity to make a gallon of gasoline than it would take for an electric car to go the same distance, so if we switched to electric cars, our electricity use would go down (and we would not need the oil at all).
http://www.evnut.com/gasoline_oil.htm
Taxes would even go *down* if the US government gave luxury safe electric cars away to everyone:
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/09eb7f4c973349f2?hl=en
"This essay explain why luxury safer electric (or plug-in hybrid) cars should be free-to-the-user at the point of sale in the USA, and why this will reduce US taxes overall. Essentially, unsafe gasoline-powered automobiles in the USA pose a high cost on society (accidents, injuries, pollution, defense), and the costs of making better cars would pay for themselves and then some. This essay is an example of using post-scarcity ideology to understand the scarcity-oriented ideological assumptions in our society and how those outdated scarcity assumptions are costing our society in terms of creating and maintaining artificial scarcity. "

With energy and agriculture, you can grow feedstocks for industry on land or in the ocean to make plastics. Consider:
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/why-is-hemp-really-illegal/question-554401/
Is this true from the link? "Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fie

The Constitution does go past the 10th Amendment...something about regulating something or ether between the states...

There are many local ISPes that do not serve interstate. In my greater area there are a number of local ISPs that only serve the area.

And if you look at the Constitution it provides for flexibility. For example, General Welfare, which is mentioned twice.

Yes, it allow mentions liberty. The Preamble says:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Now if you look the definition for "welfare" it says:
"welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being."
Thomas Jefferson said of the 'general welfare clause":
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." In Federalist No 41 James Madison said
"the general welfare clause is neither a statement of ends nor a substantive grant of power. It is a mere "synonym" for the enumeration of particular powers, which are limited and wholly define its content."

As you say the feds have gone after people in California for marijuana after the state legalized medical marijuana.

Rather atrocious. It boggles the mind that it's conventional wisdom that Prohibition was a complete failure with alcohol, yet we insist on continuing Prohibition 2.0: WOD.

Agreed bigtime!!! All these politicians and drug warriors have their heads stuck in the sand. There never has been much debate about it, but hopefully it's a good sign that CNN's Anderson Cooper has been having part of his show AC 360 all week about "America's High: The case for and against pot" with drug legalization proponents debating drug warriors on legalization. Now I haven't watched all of them in their entirety but what I did see it looked like the legalization hands were better.

The whole reason we have regulation and oversight is because we already tried free market Libertarianism

No, we have not tried free markets. The closest we came to free markets was in the 1830s. Alexis de Tocqueville was so overwhelmed by what he saw when he toured the USA in 1831 he wrote his books "Democracy in America" extolling how free people were. As there was still slavery, which Thomas Jefferson wanted to end, there wasn't a compleat free market but it's the closed we've had to one. Since then big businesses have become more and more powerful and have bought politicians to write laws favorable to them. In a free market businesses wouldn't have the power to buy them off and the politicians wouldn't have the power to enact bad laws.

Oh, and that Daily Kos link does not say those problems cited were caused by a

Not entirely true: the real trick with the "subprime" loans was in 1995, when the ACORN extortion racket (of which Obama was a happily willing participant in an attack-dog role) was set up. The gist of it was that it changed the CRA by halting all growth actions of a bank (mergers, acquisitions, etc) until all CRA-based complaints against them were resolved in the courts.

Enter ACORN (and attack-dog lawyers like Obama), who saw a gold mine, and began shaking down lenders for "donations" and the issuance of more and more "subprime loans" to people who couldn't possibly meet the Three C's (Capacity, Collateral, Consistency) standards for getting a loan. The conversation really does read like a mafia tactic; the lawyers would come in, have a "meeting" with bank officials, and if the officials didn't cooperate, the result was the filing of enough frivolous CRA complaints to throw the bank for a loop till it gave in.

A few links, if I may:
Link 1
Link 2: Obama's name on a frivolous ACORN extortion suit
Link 3: New York Post
Link 4

Now, this isn't enough to cause big problems. What happened a few years later, though, is that Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac (the GSE's who wound up buying a lot of these loans later) figured out a scam: to roll the mortgages into a bundle, sell a "security" based on them under ridiculously optimistic "mark-to-model" prices, and sell them out into the market. And of course, other banks and lending companies wanted to follow suit, and they got their chance to do it in 1999 when the Glass-Steagall reforms were repealed and the major lending institutions were allowed to slide into the market and start issuing all sorts of securities again.

Just one thing is never the problem. It's when you stack them up that they start to grow exponentially, and then you get everything going wrong at once. Think of it kind of like fat people: diet alone can help you gain weight but it can't make you "obese." Lack of exercise, if you eat relatively little, won't do it either.

But if (on the other hand) you're a slob who wolfs down 3500 calories a day and whose only exercise is lifting the TV remote and occasionally dragging your ponderous bulk to the bathroom to expel the inevitable results of eating and drinking into the porcelain throne...

Texas uses lethal injection not the firing squad. And as governor of Texas Bush signed 152 death warrants, he even signed one for a mentally retarded person.

Falcon

I think you are confusing GWB with WJC (Bill Clinton):
See Bill Rector

Rector seemed incapable of understanding his pending death sentence. For his last meal, he left the pecan pie on the side of the tray, telling the guards who came to take him to the execution chamber that he was saving it "for later".

Personally, I applaud both Clinton and Bush for upholding the law. If you are competent enough to do the crime, you are competent enough to see justice!

But the death penalty is not in question here. What is in question is the death penalty without a trial.

Yet immediately after the Santa Clara bribe and skirmish, Che ordered 27 Batista soldiers executed as "war criminals." Dr. Serafin Ruiz was a Castro operative in Santa Clara at the time, but apparently an essentially decent one. "But Comandante" he responded to Che's order. "Our revolution promises not to execute without trials, without proof. How can we just....?"

"Look Serafin" Che snorted back. "If your bourgeois prejudices won't allow you to carry out my orders, fine. Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning--but execute them NOW!"

Seriously though, if you want to keep saying that GWB is like Che, it really just shows your extreme ignorance. If he were, first, you'd be dead after being labeled a traitor (no trial necessary). Speaking of no trial, Guantanamo wouldn't be a prison, it would be a graveyard. Google "The Butcher of La Cabaña" for what Guantanamo would be like.

Texas uses lethal injection not the firing squad. And as governor of Texas Bush signed 152 death warrants, he even signed one for a mentally retarded person.

Falcon

Sucks for Mac Users! I saw a poll about this on Sodahead.. http://www.sodahead.com/question/106949/