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Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud
eldavojohn writes "Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has requested receipts and research documents relating to nearly half a million dollars in state taxpayer money used to conduct climate change research at the University of Virginia while under direction of Michael Mann, originator of the famous 2001 IPCC Hockey Stick graph depicting rapid climate change. Mann appears to be a prime target for Cuccinelli — who has also requested hearings with the EPA to contest the grounds of their carbon dioxide studies. Mann's expenditures of taxpayer money may become problematic if Cuccinelli finds violations of Virginia's Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Cuccinelli has been active in pushing conservative views in the past, including an effort to remove the titillating mammary from the beloved Great Seal of Virginia. No end in sight for the politicizing of the science and research surrounding climate change."
Mod parent up, someone?
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Why should behavioral decisions become protected with special legislation?
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
yeah, and I bet you think "bald" is a hair color. retard.
Listen up! I just saw the new Justin Bieber Bukkaki film, where cute little Justin squirms on his Star Wars bead-spread in his tighty-whites as two guys spew gallons of cum on his cute little face.
I hate to bring this up, but all of your points are easily refuted by simple fact. Both parties have billionaires as their financial base, but the Democrats are much more successful in their financial cultivation of their billionaires. Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Ron Burkel, George Soros, the whole Google gang and Warren Buffet are all huge recent backers of the Democrats. I can't name a single billionaire that I could associate with the republicans today. Bill Gates is mostly apolitical and donates very small amounts to both sides of the aisle.
As far as climate change costing billionaires income, I would wager that some very wealthy democrats and like-minded wealthy individuals have been pinning their fortunes to the climate change scare. Witness former Vice President Al Gore, who is predicted to be the first carbon-trading billionaire. He left office with a net worth of around $4 million, and now is worth upwards of half a billion. In the last election, T. Boone Pickens was trying to get out ahead of a green energy wave, making wind power an issue in the election. Then in the end, he scrapped his plan because the subsidies that the democrats were promising (to this billionaire) didn't materialize in time.
It is not absurd that the global warming scare (now called "climate change" for less refutation) is a liberal conspiracy, as those on the left have been promoting and profiting from it over the last decade and a half. The climate is always in a state of flux, and there is no good reason to think that we have done anything to affect it substantially, or that we could if we wanted to. People are getting rich from creating a perceived problem and supplying perceived solutions from mechanical gizmos to absurd financial instruments based on trading air and cow farts. Modern snake oil, all of it, supported by cooked fuzzy pseudo-science.
-- Len
Mods turned me into a newt!
(I got better...)
Really, though...
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain