Meanwhile, NASA's mission now seems to be making Muslims feel good about themselves. BHO told Charles Bolden that one of his highest priorities should be "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science... and math and engineering."
Have you ever paid attention to the error bars on tree ring and ice core data? They are very, very poor surrogates for actual calibrated thermometer readings. Besides, as we all know, or at least we should all know, correlation proves exactly nothing.
And I actually have a degree in physics and a math minor. I have studied differential equations, thermodynamics, and climate science. I refuse to believe that the driving function for the atmosphere is a trace gas that interacts with pretty much the same spectrum as water vapor. The math associated with thermodynamics is extremely complex, in fact some of the most difficult that mankind attempts. The premise that it all boils down to man made CO2 is nonsensical. The *only* evidence that is the driving function is correlation, and that is no evidence at all.
Seriously? Let's see, the prototypical establishment R in the mid-80's was Bob Dole. Did Dole ever cuddle up to Iran, take over 1/6 of the economy, sell out Israel, put bondholders behind unions in a bankruptcy, use the IRS to punish the political opposition, ignore immigration laws, make up new immigration laws on his own, run up more debt than every other president combined, or run arms to the Mexican cartels in a cynical effort to destroy our second amendment rights? No.
Nonsense. If you look at receipts to the feds as a pct of GDP, it remains remarkably consistent, between 16.9 and 19.2% between 1980 and 1999. When tax rates are raised, rational people modify their behavior to mitigate the impact. And the big driver of the reduction of the deficit was not Clinton, but Gingrich, who forced Clinton to submit five budgets in 1995 before he found one palatable enough to let pass.
So, would you consider O to be conservative or liberal? BTW, the deficit reductions under Clinton were the direct result of the policies of Reagan and Gingrich.
Progressive income taxes have resulted in the largest debt in the history of mankind. Poor voters don't bear the full brunt of the economic burden they are lashing to their more successful neighbors, which is a conflict of interest if there ever was one. Taxes should be made as regressive as possible.
So we know that the earth has warmed and cooled many times before. We really have no credible evidence regarding the actual rate of change in these prior instances. CO2 levels seem to have varied wildly, up to 7000 ppm, during both heating and cooling cycles. Has anybody isolated the reasons for heating in the past? Can those reasons be ruled out in this instance? If not, then AGW alarmists are in thin ice. Natural processes are almost always much more complicated than we realize. The premise that CO2 is the sole driving factor in climate change is laughable.
Um, didn't she get her clock cleaned by the junior senator from Illinois last time around? Plus, she is a serial liar. Her work as a senator and SOS were not really very remarkable. Then there is the fact that fellow Ds are selling her out with the e-mail scandal. She is toast.
I never said I wanted a 4.0, I am simply pointing out that "easy" majors get higher GPAs than "hard" majors, which I think sends the wrong message about the relative merits. Some high schools are now giving 5 points for an A for college-level courses.
I went to a major private university, got an undergraduate in physics, minor in math, and almost got a minor in chemistry too (lacked one class but it was time to graduate). The college of math and science awarded average grades resulting in a GPA a full point lower than the university at large. I never understood how the university could basically state that the students in the college of math and science were a full GPA point stupider than the early childhood education majors.
I had an ActionTek ADSL router provided by Century Link. All the computers on my network started having browser requests hijacked to a rogue website. I ran all kinds of virus checks on the PCs and found nothing. A check of the DNS IP address in the router revealed a known bad actor. The support tech at Century Link was completely unaware that this was even possible.
BS. Everybody has one vote. If people vote for tax and spend politicians, knowing that their rich neighbor will have to pay, but they won't, well that is corruption in every sense of the word. Everybody should pay income tax on their first dollar. The tax code is for funding the government, not for social engineering.
Um, how can there be less than zero debate? Would that be like words flying back into someone's mouth that they never even said? Inquiring minds want to know.
The highway that runs through my town has had many speed limits over the years. Way back when, it was 55 mph. Then 65, 75, now 80. Guess what, the accident rate is remarkably unchanged. The revenue from speeding tickets has dropped pretty dramatically. So all the tickets written when the limits were stupid low were not to insure safety, but to collect revenue, a practice not at all dissimilar from the bandits and highwaymen of yesteryear.
In fact, I would opine that speed limits are really a form of prior restraint. "You cannot drive over an arbitrary limit that applies to all times of day and weather conditions or we will take away part of your wealth, regardless of whether you cause an accident or not."
Does having a single speed limit even make sense? On a clear day with no traffic in a sports car, 120 mph might be perfectly safe. Add in some snow, driving a truck, with lots of traffic, 20 mph might be dangerous. People should drive at the speed they feel comfortable and be held accountable for accidents they cause.
The lady holding the scales of justice is blindfolded. She does not administer justice based on income statements or balance sheets. People far smarter than you figured this out a very long time ago. The fact that the justice system is imperfect, as are all human endeavors, in no way invalidates this point.
Nobody is under any obligation to share their financial details on net worth with any government official. Income, yes. Net worth, no. Net worth changes every single day depending on markets for real estate, equities, bonds, equipment etc. The overhead associated with appraising everything would be enormous. Then you have classes of people who have lots of paper wealth, but little income. Say a farmer. He may be worth millions on paper, but have little cash flow, and lots of that is committed to paying off bills for seed, chemicals, diesel fuel, etc.
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IMHO the only reasonable way to fix it is for an Article 5 convention of the states to put the leviathan back in its place.
Didn't we all pretty much learn how to calculate this in physics? Conservation of momentum and all that?
Meanwhile, NASA's mission now seems to be making Muslims feel good about themselves. BHO told Charles Bolden that one of his highest priorities should be "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering."
Have you ever paid attention to the error bars on tree ring and ice core data? They are very, very poor surrogates for actual calibrated thermometer readings. Besides, as we all know, or at least we should all know, correlation proves exactly nothing. And I actually have a degree in physics and a math minor. I have studied differential equations, thermodynamics, and climate science. I refuse to believe that the driving function for the atmosphere is a trace gas that interacts with pretty much the same spectrum as water vapor. The math associated with thermodynamics is extremely complex, in fact some of the most difficult that mankind attempts. The premise that it all boils down to man made CO2 is nonsensical. The *only* evidence that is the driving function is correlation, and that is no evidence at all.
Seriously? Let's see, the prototypical establishment R in the mid-80's was Bob Dole. Did Dole ever cuddle up to Iran, take over 1/6 of the economy, sell out Israel, put bondholders behind unions in a bankruptcy, use the IRS to punish the political opposition, ignore immigration laws, make up new immigration laws on his own, run up more debt than every other president combined, or run arms to the Mexican cartels in a cynical effort to destroy our second amendment rights? No.
Wrong. There is nothing moderate about BHO.
Nonsense. If you look at receipts to the feds as a pct of GDP, it remains remarkably consistent, between 16.9 and 19.2% between 1980 and 1999. When tax rates are raised, rational people modify their behavior to mitigate the impact. And the big driver of the reduction of the deficit was not Clinton, but Gingrich, who forced Clinton to submit five budgets in 1995 before he found one palatable enough to let pass.
It was not about building on any lands. It was about smoking peyote. OK for some, not for others, based on skin color.
So, would you consider O to be conservative or liberal? BTW, the deficit reductions under Clinton were the direct result of the policies of Reagan and Gingrich.
It sounds like you have read "Atlas Shrugged". Then where would all the poor go to loot?
Progressive income taxes have resulted in the largest debt in the history of mankind. Poor voters don't bear the full brunt of the economic burden they are lashing to their more successful neighbors, which is a conflict of interest if there ever was one. Taxes should be made as regressive as possible.
So we know that the earth has warmed and cooled many times before. We really have no credible evidence regarding the actual rate of change in these prior instances. CO2 levels seem to have varied wildly, up to 7000 ppm, during both heating and cooling cycles. Has anybody isolated the reasons for heating in the past? Can those reasons be ruled out in this instance? If not, then AGW alarmists are in thin ice. Natural processes are almost always much more complicated than we realize. The premise that CO2 is the sole driving factor in climate change is laughable.
Um, didn't she get her clock cleaned by the junior senator from Illinois last time around? Plus, she is a serial liar. Her work as a senator and SOS were not really very remarkable. Then there is the fact that fellow Ds are selling her out with the e-mail scandal. She is toast.
I never said I wanted a 4.0, I am simply pointing out that "easy" majors get higher GPAs than "hard" majors, which I think sends the wrong message about the relative merits. Some high schools are now giving 5 points for an A for college-level courses.
I went to a major private university, got an undergraduate in physics, minor in math, and almost got a minor in chemistry too (lacked one class but it was time to graduate). The college of math and science awarded average grades resulting in a GPA a full point lower than the university at large. I never understood how the university could basically state that the students in the college of math and science were a full GPA point stupider than the early childhood education majors.
I had an ActionTek ADSL router provided by Century Link. All the computers on my network started having browser requests hijacked to a rogue website. I ran all kinds of virus checks on the PCs and found nothing. A check of the DNS IP address in the router revealed a known bad actor. The support tech at Century Link was completely unaware that this was even possible.
So the poor should be allowed to make tax slaves of the rich because political candidates buy advertising. Got it.
BS. Everybody has one vote. If people vote for tax and spend politicians, knowing that their rich neighbor will have to pay, but they won't, well that is corruption in every sense of the word. Everybody should pay income tax on their first dollar. The tax code is for funding the government, not for social engineering.
Every single vote was from a D. Dear Leader stampeded them off a cliff, and many lost their jobs over it.
Um, how can there be less than zero debate? Would that be like words flying back into someone's mouth that they never even said? Inquiring minds want to know.
Um, there was zero debate on Obamacare before it was voted on.
You would force someone to take out a loan or sell their farm to pay a traffic ticket? I hope you never have authority over another human being, ever.
The highway that runs through my town has had many speed limits over the years. Way back when, it was 55 mph. Then 65, 75, now 80. Guess what, the accident rate is remarkably unchanged. The revenue from speeding tickets has dropped pretty dramatically. So all the tickets written when the limits were stupid low were not to insure safety, but to collect revenue, a practice not at all dissimilar from the bandits and highwaymen of yesteryear. In fact, I would opine that speed limits are really a form of prior restraint. "You cannot drive over an arbitrary limit that applies to all times of day and weather conditions or we will take away part of your wealth, regardless of whether you cause an accident or not." Does having a single speed limit even make sense? On a clear day with no traffic in a sports car, 120 mph might be perfectly safe. Add in some snow, driving a truck, with lots of traffic, 20 mph might be dangerous. People should drive at the speed they feel comfortable and be held accountable for accidents they cause.
The lady holding the scales of justice is blindfolded. She does not administer justice based on income statements or balance sheets. People far smarter than you figured this out a very long time ago. The fact that the justice system is imperfect, as are all human endeavors, in no way invalidates this point.
Nobody is under any obligation to share their financial details on net worth with any government official. Income, yes. Net worth, no. Net worth changes every single day depending on markets for real estate, equities, bonds, equipment etc. The overhead associated with appraising everything would be enormous. Then you have classes of people who have lots of paper wealth, but little income. Say a farmer. He may be worth millions on paper, but have little cash flow, and lots of that is committed to paying off bills for seed, chemicals, diesel fuel, etc.