Actually, it is. It indicates they themselves were aware of their intent to falsify. People who have real data that proves their point don't need "tricks".
> In the meantime, we have a nearly universal consensus among smart people who have really studied the issue, and who generally would rather avoid politics, that AGW is going on
What we have is a universal consensus that global warming provides an excuse for centralizing control, limiting freedom, and re-allocating resources according to liberal agendas. Of that, there is a certainty. The rest of the data - genuinely studied by "smart people" - show that Earth may be in a warming trend, that that warming trend has been grossly exaggerated for political reasons, and that modelling climate is a) extremely complex, and b) entirely inaccurate up until now - as even the "hockey stick graph" man himself, Michael Mann, now freely admits. http://www.technologyreview.co...
> Conservatives lie.
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" "If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance" "Every family will save $2500 a year minimum" "healthcare.gov is ready" "there wasn't a smidgeon of evidence of the IRS targeting conservatives" "I take the 5th" - Lois Lerner on IRS bashing conservatives "I take the 5th" various people connected with Solyndra "I take the 5th" Bryan Pagliano Clinton's former IT staffer who handled her private email system "Lack of transparency is a huge advantage" Jonathon Gruber, http://www.sandiegouniontribun... The lying and stonewalling from Obama and his crooked organization has been proven over and over, demonstrated over and over, is on-going, shameless, and reason enough to doubt what he claims to be true. He hasn't made one single right decision since his first election. Now we can add refusal to reveal secret side-agreements with Iran to his list of chicaneries.
> If you had actually made an intellectual journey like you describe, you'd be able to show me some actual evidence other than misunderstood correspondence
Who the fuck are you to to be able to sit on your high throne and judge what kind of a journey I have taken or not? You think YOU are one of those liberal "elites" that you can take a dozen words in a random context and then pontificate so wisely about an entire life? You don't know shit about my life, and you are entirely too smug in your bubble, so much so you obviously don't deign to even pretend to try to see opposing points of view. Thanks so much for that, 'Mr. Tolerance and Diversity'..
The "global warming deniers" are products of the fevered and wild imaginations of paranoid liberals. What they truly are are people who think socialism has never worked and that the available evidence of warming, human-caused or not, is a shoddy excuse to try that idiocy again.
The IPCC had internal emails seized and circulated by hackers proving they were "using the trick" (THEIR OWN WORDS) of adding arbitrary figures to global warming data. This was proven. The UN was challenged to respond to this, "investigated", and announced there was no problem and left the same people in charge. Google for those emails, the proof is simple enough even for a liberal drowning in groupthink to understand. The UN has even admitted the entire "global warming thing" is a trojan horse for eliminating capitalism, and that, too, is easily googlable.
IF there was ANY scientific validity to ANYTHING the UN has said about global warming, its' credibility is now destroyed beyond any salvage, it's just that simple.
The SCIENTIFIC DATA that was NOT doctored by the UN - such as Nasa's - show that "warming" ended over twenty years ago, thereby proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that we don't know SQUAT about global warming OR whether it is human-caused. What we CAN prove is that impoverishing the world in the name of "combating" global warming (and capitalism) will do no one any good but the would-be dictators already benefiting from your gullibility. Far better would be bringing the proven benefits of liberty and capitalism to the poor of the world being kept that way for political reasons.
Data held by True Believers and People With Agendas simply cannot be trusted. The UN (and NOAA) show this clearly, NASA's, by and large, still has SOME credibility, though I doubt it will by the time Obama is done politicizing it.
Facts REMAIN facts even when they don't support your agenda. Liberals lie. I understand how hard this is to internalize and deal with, I made that journey myself and it hurt like hell, but I'd rather the brutal truth instead of the comforting lie.
...is never having to prove anything you say. You just keep repeating the same accusation, and that's all the proof you need. Never mind that the UN's IPCC were caught doctoring their data. Never mind that they were "exonerated" and left in charge in spite of doctoring their data, global warming is forever.
On a more pragmatic note, assuming this lunacy is legit, it raises the national debt to $22.5 trillion dollars - and will neatly top off Obama's presidency with a nice, round $24 trillion dollars.
The sum total of every dollar in existence, printed or electronic, representing wealth or fraud, every single one, rich and poor, all the dollar-based money there is, can't pay even half that. So why even bother to talk about it? If people really expected it to be repaid, they blew that chance by electing Obama. Now, it's just 'well, you lose, sucker.'
...that's why The Big Lie technique is so effective. Repeat it over and over and over and drown out any nay-sayers or conflicting data and stay on message and you will carry the day. It worked for Hitler and it works for climate change. Of course, when we are shivering in the dark in our little American 3rd world ghetto looking at our Chinese and Russian Lords and Masters who put out more CO2 PER DAY than we have been able to stop in a decade of shutting down our economy, we might question the final price tag. Or YOU will. I'll be dead when the REALLY bad consequences hit...
> "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali"
Obama can call it anything he jolly well likes, but that peak was named by an act of Congress in 1917 and it will require an act of Congress to undo that. No "executive order" or other such malarky has the slightest effect. Obama can no more rename Mt. McKinley than he can Cmdr Taco.
There comes a point when rolling multi-trillion-dollar balls when we must admit that money cannot be printed out of thin air without consequences. The US money supply has increased 400% under Obama, inflation is being held barely in check by keeping it between the government and the Fed - and by redefining the definition of "inflation" as not covering food or energy so they can lie about it more easily. But that won't last forever - anyone who buys groceries or pays electric bills already knows this. And Obama knows it, too, he is simply counting on his faith that that bomb won't go off until another President takes office and can then be blamed for it.
>Otherwise they just accuse you of "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy.
Oh, so it isn't hypocritical at all to sign "someday, maybe, intends to" agreements requiring expendatures that will cripple the US economy because it gives China, Russia, et al, a short-term advantage in the world markets? That's not hypocritical, hmmm? Obama needs to stop licking foreigner's boots and pay attention to the REAL world, or we WILL ALL pay the consequences. Even as it is, no small part of those consequences have already become unavoidable thanks to his idiocy, and I don't refer to "climate change."
Could we - just once in a while - maybe point out an obsolete standard without implying it's part of a vast secret male conspiracy to make women uncomfortable? 'Cause if that's really what is going on, somebody isn't tell me, and that's racist. Or sexist. Or somethingist.
Clinton also announced a new initiative to replace the warplanes of the American air force with modern and environmentally sound flying pigs. "It is an achievable goal," she is quoted as saying. Whether or nor this meant it was a desirable one to achieve was not addressed by the candidate.
It's GMO and therefore automatically bad and evil and meant to make a profit for big business and increase income disparity. We kept people from getting enough vitamin A with golden rice and we'll keep them from reducing their carbon footprint with this stuff. LIBERALISM UBER ALLES!!!
"Edward Snowden is an evil turncoat and general git because he embarrassed us in general and Lord God Obama in particular and so we hate him and intend to try to screw him every way we can, so long as it is consistent with the daily screwing requirement of Trey Goudy."
Has no one else realized that the ONLY growth we are getting in this country is ways in which people are dodging the government?
Think about it. Are people building new restaurants? Hell, no. You already have to be filthy rich to open a new restaurant, the amount of regulations you need to go through is staggering, and impossible without lawyers and similar ilk to do the heavy lifting. So we get food trucks, instead. Lots of new food trucks, all around areas where regulation-happy government lunatics have kept people from trying to open restaurants. Coincidence? No.
Look at the Tiny House movement. Is this because it's just plain fun to live in a tiny house? HELL no. It's because more and more people can't afford the regulations, taxes, and controls placed, directly or indirectly, by various levels of government, on normal "housing". It's no surprise many tiny homes are on wheels - that puts them in a much-less regulated area, and one the RV industry can be counted on to help defend.
Look at Uber and Lyft. Look at taxies probably the greatest anti-consumer, scam-the-customer-for-all-he's-got cutthroat government regulation. The whole idea is antithetical to free markets and consumer rights. It exists because people who run the taxi companies are constantly funneling money back to politicians who promise to protect them from the slightest competition. Uber and Lyft find a way to get around these regs and the next thing you know is everybody and his brother wants to regulate and/or ban them and why? Is it because consumers are complaining? No, it's because the taxicab companies want it that way.
The "gig" economy exists because of Democrats and their job-killing policies. It takes the vast risk out of hiring someone you otherwise have to support with all kinds of government-required expenses, Obamacare far from the least among them. She helped create the "gig" economy, it's a direct result of her and her miserable party's proclivity for destroying old-fashioned jobs to fuel their social "justice" agenda.
We could go on and on with this. People are desperate to get out from under a stifling government. It's about time we realized that all of this is a reaction - an allergic reaction - to Big Government, and maybe start voting the damned thing smaller.
Government is the greatest destroyer of wealth ever created, and it has proven itself as an antidote to capitalism, the greatest creator of wealth ever spawned. With less government we wouldn't need to work so damn hard to get around it!
> if an aircraft containing radioactive material as fuel were to crash, spreading such fuel across the crash site
Everyone knows how dangerous deuterium can be. Why it's one common component in dihydrogen oxide, which kills more people every year than any other chemical substance ever invented. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
...to trigger a massive government witch-hunt. We have criminalized learning about chemistry and then we wonder why we need so many H1B visas to supply chemists.
...the only exercise Liberals aspire to? The fact that bumblebees are not colonizing new areas "opened up by global warming" - especially in the face of the fact that no warming has been seen for twenty years except by people who expect to make money from it - is clear evidence that their decline has some other cause. It's not like the damned bees are refusing to use the new territory. What? Are they offended about warming and doing a racial suicide to make us feel guilty?
Come on, if you want to keep up the charade at least put a little thought into the story. Is that just too much to ask?
> "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,"
It did no such thing. Emails and documents associated with Jonathan Gruber show clearly and unmistakably that this was NOT the case. The law was crafted with "lack of transparency" and the clear intent to try to force states to set up their own exchanges by threatening to withhold subsidies from buyers in states that failed to do so. That it failed to force most states to comply with this heavy-duty arm-twisting does not imply SCOTUS needs to charge in and "save" the law by imputing motives to Congress that were clearly never present. This is judicial activism, pure and simple, and impeachment proceedings to remove the guilty judges should be undertaken in response.
First of all, America isn't going to elect this idiot, "it's the economy, stupid."
Secondly, exactly how is this clown going to get the rest of the world to go along? Declare war on China? Try to block trade to Russia? Embargo all the 3rd world countries who won't go along with it because they don't want to starve, so they all starve to death?
...is that NY has proven it has no place to put Cuomo when they finally convict him of being the most corrupt governor in NY history - which, in view of the competition, is one hell of an accomplishment. But he burnished those credentials right in the midst of the escape when he demanded the police drop everything to give him a tour of the prison and then held everything up so he could take reporters on that same tour to get the right slant down on it. That's why the prison authorities are hopping mad, and that's why the bastards apparently have made it to New Zealand while Cuomo fiddled.
We invented a special programming language to implement this paradigm. It's called "C." It's quite popular, actually. Responsible for almost every security problem in the world, but popular...
That the more advice the government gives us for health and nutrition, the fatter and unhealthier we get?
Decades, people. For decades we were told things like "salt causes high blood pressure" - even though that was one study in the 1950's now discredited, yet I still get that advice over and over. "New" research - now years old - shows you need a certain rare gene to have anything like a direct causal relation between salt intake and BP, and most Americans DON'T have it.
For decades we were told to beware eating saturated fats. Following government guidelines we switched to high-carb diet to avoid these fats. What does recent research show NOW? High saturated fats in blood come from high-carb diets, NOT high protein, even when that protein comes with saturated fats!
There are now dozens and dozens of examples of this sort of stuff. The real fact of the matter is that the government "guidelines" aren't based on "science," and never were, they were written by lobbiests for various food groups. Black people are far more likely to be lactose-intolerant than whites, yet the government, heavily lobbied by the dairy industry, still features lots of dairy, and no word of warning or advice for an entire population that will certainly have trouble if they heed the gov't's "advice."
It is certainly arguable at this point whether the government ever uses actual science in its' endeavors. We've all been thoroughly brainwashed about global warming, yet we still set low temperature records in the US and Europe this past winter. We are still being told about the plight of the poor polar bears, even though satellites clearly show more ice coverage at both poles than ever before in the satellite era. The GW alarmists now earnestly explain that this is because of global warming. Warming is proof of global warming. Cooling is proof of global warming. Even if the temperature does nothing it's still proof of global warming! THAT is what passes for "science" when the government just wants an excuse to do something it just plain wants to do - like regulate energy use.
We are long past the time when we should have begun paring back everything the government should be allowed to do, but instead it has grown like a cancer, sticking it's bureaucratic nose into business it should have no business being in. Michelle Obama should not be deciding what the nation's schoolchildren eat for lunch. She should pick out the White House china and keep her mouth shut, the only Constitutional role the First Lady ever had. And the rest of government should do likewise.
When the government actually shows competence in doing something, THEN and ONLY then should we think about expanding its' role. But so long as government continues shenanigans like intrusive and unconstitutional nation-wide spying that doesn't stop terrorists, or a bunch of TSA clowns who don't stop terrorists, or a nitwit president who doesn't even think terrorists need to be stopped, America should treat the government like the gigantic, bureaucratic, poorly-managed, travesty that it really is.
It is not news to anyone that southern California is a desert. It was a desert when the first settlers arrived, it is a desert now supported only by a massive water management structure, and when that structure goes away it will go back to being a desert. That's nature, dudes.
But California is in this fix because of Liberals and their policies. There is no argument here possible, they have owned and operated the state since the turn of the 19th Century. It's their little utopia that the rest of us should emulate. And they are in this fix because for the last 50 years they have jettisoned every single planned water-management project their original development framework called for. They have scuttled major portions of the system already built. They are, even now, pouring fresh water into the Pacific for the benefit of some miserable little fish, and all of it a concession to the greenies and their lunatic anti-human agenda. So the "Party of the Poor," the "Champions of the Middle Class" and so on and so forth, are now slowly strangling the people they claim to want to help to keep their campaign coffers full of green slush. In short, they lied about having a handle on California's environment. They weighed the middle class against a minority of activists and decided for the activists. And this is what Liberals do, every time. They aren't a political party, they are a formation of special interests currently tacking on the same course. And if that course should crush a few farmers or destroy a few more jobs, well fuck you, people. You exist to serve the State, not the other way around! And it's long past time people begin to realize what they are really dealing with. These are fascists, no more and no less. And they won't be happy until they are sending Jews and climate deniers to death camps in Canada.
> simulated projections based on those measurements.
Oh, goody! More made-up numbers based on models not published written by who knows who with who knows what personal agenda using money from who-knows where. That'll clear everything right up!
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> "using the trick" is hardly a damning phrase,
Actually, it is. It indicates they themselves were aware of their intent to falsify. People who have real data that proves their point don't need "tricks".
> In the meantime, we have a nearly universal consensus among smart people who have really studied the issue, and who generally would rather avoid politics, that AGW is going on
What we have is a universal consensus that global warming provides an excuse for centralizing control, limiting freedom, and re-allocating resources according to liberal agendas. Of that, there is a certainty. The rest of the data - genuinely studied by "smart people" - show that Earth may be in a warming trend, that that warming trend has been grossly exaggerated for political reasons, and that modelling climate is a) extremely complex, and b) entirely inaccurate up until now - as even the "hockey stick graph" man himself, Michael Mann, now freely admits. http://www.technologyreview.co...
> Conservatives lie.
"If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor"
"If you like your insurance you can keep your insurance"
"Every family will save $2500 a year minimum"
"healthcare.gov is ready"
"there wasn't a smidgeon of evidence of the IRS targeting conservatives"
"I take the 5th" - Lois Lerner on IRS bashing conservatives
"I take the 5th" various people connected with Solyndra
"I take the 5th" Bryan Pagliano Clinton's former IT staffer who handled her private email system
"Lack of transparency is a huge advantage" Jonathon Gruber, http://www.sandiegouniontribun...
The lying and stonewalling from Obama and his crooked organization has been proven over and over, demonstrated over and over, is on-going, shameless, and reason enough to doubt what he claims to be true. He hasn't made one single right decision since his first election. Now we can add refusal to reveal secret side-agreements with Iran to his list of chicaneries.
> If you had actually made an intellectual journey like you describe, you'd be able to show me some actual evidence other than misunderstood correspondence
Who the fuck are you to to be able to sit on your high throne and judge what kind of a journey I have taken or not? You think YOU are one of those liberal "elites" that you can take a dozen words in a random context and then pontificate so wisely about an entire life? You don't know shit about my life, and you are entirely too smug in your bubble, so much so you obviously don't deign to even pretend to try to see opposing points of view. Thanks so much for that, 'Mr. Tolerance and Diversity'..
The "global warming deniers" are products of the fevered and wild imaginations of paranoid liberals. What they truly are are people who think socialism has never worked and that the available evidence of warming, human-caused or not, is a shoddy excuse to try that idiocy again.
The IPCC had internal emails seized and circulated by hackers proving they were "using the trick" (THEIR OWN WORDS) of adding arbitrary figures to global warming data. This was proven. The UN was challenged to respond to this, "investigated", and announced there was no problem and left the same people in charge. Google for those emails, the proof is simple enough even for a liberal drowning in groupthink to understand. The UN has even admitted the entire "global warming thing" is a trojan horse for eliminating capitalism, and that, too, is easily googlable.
IF there was ANY scientific validity to ANYTHING the UN has said about global warming, its' credibility is now destroyed beyond any salvage, it's just that simple.
The SCIENTIFIC DATA that was NOT doctored by the UN - such as Nasa's - show that "warming" ended over twenty years ago, thereby proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that we don't know SQUAT about global warming OR whether it is human-caused. What we CAN prove is that impoverishing the world in the name of "combating" global warming (and capitalism) will do no one any good but the would-be dictators already benefiting from your gullibility. Far better would be bringing the proven benefits of liberty and capitalism to the poor of the world being kept that way for political reasons.
Data held by True Believers and People With Agendas simply cannot be trusted. The UN (and NOAA) show this clearly, NASA's, by and large, still has SOME credibility, though I doubt it will by the time Obama is done politicizing it.
Facts REMAIN facts even when they don't support your agenda. Liberals lie. I understand how hard this is to internalize and deal with, I made that journey myself and it hurt like hell, but I'd rather the brutal truth instead of the comforting lie.
...I would suggest we make electing human beings to public office illegal.
...is never having to prove anything you say. You just keep repeating the same accusation, and that's all the proof you need. Never mind that the UN's IPCC were caught doctoring their data. Never mind that they were "exonerated" and left in charge in spite of doctoring their data, global warming is forever.
On a more pragmatic note, assuming this lunacy is legit, it raises the national debt to $22.5 trillion dollars - and will neatly top off Obama's presidency with a nice, round $24 trillion dollars.
The sum total of every dollar in existence, printed or electronic, representing wealth or fraud, every single one, rich and poor, all the dollar-based money there is, can't pay even half that. So why even bother to talk about it? If people really expected it to be repaid, they blew that chance by electing Obama. Now, it's just 'well, you lose, sucker.'
...that's why The Big Lie technique is so effective. Repeat it over and over and over and drown out any nay-sayers or conflicting data and stay on message and you will carry the day. It worked for Hitler and it works for climate change. Of course, when we are shivering in the dark in our little American 3rd world ghetto looking at our Chinese and Russian Lords and Masters who put out more CO2 PER DAY than we have been able to stop in a decade of shutting down our economy, we might question the final price tag. Or YOU will. I'll be dead when the REALLY bad consequences hit...
> "McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali"
Obama can call it anything he jolly well likes, but that peak was named by an act of Congress in 1917 and it will require an act of Congress to undo that. No "executive order" or other such malarky has the slightest effect. Obama can no more rename Mt. McKinley than he can Cmdr Taco.
> but you have to start the ball rolling somehow.
There comes a point when rolling multi-trillion-dollar balls when we must admit that money cannot be printed out of thin air without consequences. The US money supply has increased 400% under Obama, inflation is being held barely in check by keeping it between the government and the Fed - and by redefining the definition of "inflation" as not covering food or energy so they can lie about it more easily. But that won't last forever - anyone who buys groceries or pays electric bills already knows this. And Obama knows it, too, he is simply counting on his faith that that bomb won't go off until another President takes office and can then be blamed for it.
>Otherwise they just accuse you of "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy.
Oh, so it isn't hypocritical at all to sign "someday, maybe, intends to" agreements requiring expendatures that will cripple the US economy because it gives China, Russia, et al, a short-term advantage in the world markets? That's not hypocritical, hmmm? Obama needs to stop licking foreigner's boots and pay attention to the REAL world, or we WILL ALL pay the consequences. Even as it is, no small part of those consequences have already become unavoidable thanks to his idiocy, and I don't refer to "climate change."
Could we - just once in a while - maybe point out an obsolete standard without implying it's part of a vast secret male conspiracy to make women uncomfortable? 'Cause if that's really what is going on, somebody isn't tell me, and that's racist. Or sexist. Or somethingist.
Clinton also announced a new initiative to replace the warplanes of the American air force with modern and environmentally sound flying pigs. "It is an achievable goal," she is quoted as saying. Whether or nor this meant it was a desirable one to achieve was not addressed by the candidate.
It's GMO and therefore automatically bad and evil and meant to make a profit for big business and increase income disparity. We kept people from getting enough vitamin A with golden rice and we'll keep them from reducing their carbon footprint with this stuff. LIBERALISM UBER ALLES!!!
"Edward Snowden is an evil turncoat and general git because he embarrassed us in general and Lord God Obama in particular and so we hate him and intend to try to screw him every way we can, so long as it is consistent with the daily screwing requirement of Trey Goudy."
Has no one else realized that the ONLY growth we are getting in this country is ways in which people are dodging the government?
Think about it. Are people building new restaurants? Hell, no. You already have to be filthy rich to open a new restaurant, the amount of regulations you need to go through is staggering, and impossible without lawyers and similar ilk to do the heavy lifting. So we get food trucks, instead. Lots of new food trucks, all around areas where regulation-happy government lunatics have kept people from trying to open restaurants. Coincidence? No.
Look at the Tiny House movement. Is this because it's just plain fun to live in a tiny house? HELL no. It's because more and more people can't afford the regulations, taxes, and controls placed, directly or indirectly, by various levels of government, on normal "housing". It's no surprise many tiny homes are on wheels - that puts them in a much-less regulated area, and one the RV industry can be counted on to help defend.
Look at Uber and Lyft. Look at taxies probably the greatest anti-consumer, scam-the-customer-for-all-he's-got cutthroat government regulation. The whole idea is antithetical to free markets and consumer rights. It exists because people who run the taxi companies are constantly funneling money back to politicians who promise to protect them from the slightest competition. Uber and Lyft find a way to get around these regs and the next thing you know is everybody and his brother wants to regulate and/or ban them and why? Is it because consumers are complaining? No, it's because the taxicab companies want it that way.
The "gig" economy exists because of Democrats and their job-killing policies. It takes the vast risk out of hiring someone you otherwise have to support with all kinds of government-required expenses, Obamacare far from the least among them. She helped create the "gig" economy, it's a direct result of her and her miserable party's proclivity for destroying old-fashioned jobs to fuel their social "justice" agenda.
We could go on and on with this. People are desperate to get out from under a stifling government. It's about time we realized that all of this is a reaction - an allergic reaction - to Big Government, and maybe start voting the damned thing smaller.
Government is the greatest destroyer of wealth ever created, and it has proven itself as an antidote to capitalism, the greatest creator of wealth ever spawned. With less government we wouldn't need to work so damn hard to get around it!
> if an aircraft containing radioactive material as fuel were to crash, spreading such fuel across the crash site
Everyone knows how dangerous deuterium can be. Why it's one common component in dihydrogen oxide, which kills more people every year than any other chemical substance ever invented. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
...to trigger a massive government witch-hunt. We have criminalized learning about chemistry and then we wonder why we need so many H1B visas to supply chemists.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn...
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
http://www.telegram.com/articl...
Chemistry sets-one of the epic whirlpool nodes of government lunacy.
...the only exercise Liberals aspire to? The fact that bumblebees are not colonizing new areas "opened up by global warming" - especially in the face of the fact that no warming has been seen for twenty years except by people who expect to make money from it - is clear evidence that their decline has some other cause. It's not like the damned bees are refusing to use the new territory. What? Are they offended about warming and doing a racial suicide to make us feel guilty?
Come on, if you want to keep up the charade at least put a little thought into the story. Is that just too much to ask?
> "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,"
It did no such thing. Emails and documents associated with Jonathan Gruber show clearly and unmistakably that this was NOT the case. The law was crafted with "lack of transparency" and the clear intent to try to force states to set up their own exchanges by threatening to withhold subsidies from buyers in states that failed to do so. That it failed to force most states to comply with this heavy-duty arm-twisting does not imply SCOTUS needs to charge in and "save" the law by imputing motives to Congress that were clearly never present. This is judicial activism, pure and simple, and impeachment proceedings to remove the guilty judges should be undertaken in response.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/11/14...
http://dailycaller.com/2014/11...
You know, just a LITTLE honesty now and then from this administration would be very refreshing, do let's try to encourage them to be so, shall we?
First of all, America isn't going to elect this idiot, "it's the economy, stupid."
Secondly, exactly how is this clown going to get the rest of the world to go along? Declare war on China? Try to block trade to Russia? Embargo all the 3rd world countries who won't go along with it because they don't want to starve, so they all starve to death?
What kind of moron buys this crap?!
...is that NY has proven it has no place to put Cuomo when they finally convict him of being the most corrupt governor in NY history - which, in view of the competition, is one hell of an accomplishment. But he burnished those credentials right in the midst of the escape when he demanded the police drop everything to give him a tour of the prison and then held everything up so he could take reporters on that same tour to get the right slant down on it. That's why the prison authorities are hopping mad, and that's why the bastards apparently have made it to New Zealand while Cuomo fiddled.
We invented a special programming language to implement this paradigm. It's called "C." It's quite popular, actually. Responsible for almost every security problem in the world, but popular...
...aside from the fact that it's completely wrong I can't see a problem with it.
"Oh! We didn't know that gun was loaded! Gee, whillickers, sorry about that!"
"We didn't think that part of the H1B law about hiring Americans FIRST really applied to us!
That the more advice the government gives us for health and nutrition, the fatter and unhealthier we get?
Decades, people. For decades we were told things like "salt causes high blood pressure" - even though that was one study in the 1950's now discredited, yet I still get that advice over and over. "New" research - now years old - shows you need a certain rare gene to have anything like a direct causal relation between salt intake and BP, and most Americans DON'T have it.
For decades we were told to beware eating saturated fats. Following government guidelines we switched to high-carb diet to avoid these fats. What does recent research show NOW? High saturated fats in blood come from high-carb diets, NOT high protein, even when that protein comes with saturated fats!
There are now dozens and dozens of examples of this sort of stuff. The real fact of the matter is that the government "guidelines" aren't based on "science," and never were, they were written by lobbiests for various food groups. Black people are far more likely to be lactose-intolerant than whites, yet the government, heavily lobbied by the dairy industry, still features lots of dairy, and no word of warning or advice for an entire population that will certainly have trouble if they heed the gov't's "advice."
It is certainly arguable at this point whether the government ever uses actual science in its' endeavors. We've all been thoroughly brainwashed about global warming, yet we still set low temperature records in the US and Europe this past winter. We are still being told about the plight of the poor polar bears, even though satellites clearly show more ice coverage at both poles than ever before in the satellite era. The GW alarmists now earnestly explain that this is because of global warming. Warming is proof of global warming. Cooling is proof of global warming. Even if the temperature does nothing it's still proof of global warming! THAT is what passes for "science" when the government just wants an excuse to do something it just plain wants to do - like regulate energy use.
We are long past the time when we should have begun paring back everything the government should be allowed to do, but instead it has grown like a cancer, sticking it's bureaucratic nose into business it should have no business being in. Michelle Obama should not be deciding what the nation's schoolchildren eat for lunch. She should pick out the White House china and keep her mouth shut, the only Constitutional role the First Lady ever had. And the rest of government should do likewise.
When the government actually shows competence in doing something, THEN and ONLY then should we think about expanding its' role. But so long as government continues shenanigans like intrusive and unconstitutional nation-wide spying that doesn't stop terrorists, or a bunch of TSA clowns who don't stop terrorists, or a nitwit president who doesn't even think terrorists need to be stopped, America should treat the government like the gigantic, bureaucratic, poorly-managed, travesty that it really is.
It is not news to anyone that southern California is a desert. It was a desert when the first settlers arrived, it is a desert now supported only by a massive water management structure, and when that structure goes away it will go back to being a desert. That's nature, dudes.
But California is in this fix because of Liberals and their policies. There is no argument here possible, they have owned and operated the state since the turn of the 19th Century. It's their little utopia that the rest of us should emulate. And they are in this fix because for the last 50 years they have jettisoned every single planned water-management project their original development framework called for. They have scuttled major portions of the system already built. They are, even now, pouring fresh water into the Pacific for the benefit of some miserable little fish, and all of it a concession to the greenies and their lunatic anti-human agenda. So the "Party of the Poor," the "Champions of the Middle Class" and so on and so forth, are now slowly strangling the people they claim to want to help to keep their campaign coffers full of green slush. In short, they lied about having a handle on California's environment. They weighed the middle class against a minority of activists and decided for the activists. And this is what Liberals do, every time. They aren't a political party, they are a formation of special interests currently tacking on the same course. And if that course should crush a few farmers or destroy a few more jobs, well fuck you, people. You exist to serve the State, not the other way around! And it's long past time people begin to realize what they are really dealing with. These are fascists, no more and no less. And they won't be happy until they are sending Jews and climate deniers to death camps in Canada.
> scientific evidence suggests that the human brain flails when it comes to navigating wide-lens, slowly-unfurling crises like climate change.
Haven't proved it's happening.
Haven't proved it's bad.
Haven't proved there is anything that we can do about it beside immolating the human race.
Kindly stop beating the greasy smear on the roadway that used to be a dead horse.
> simulated projections based on those measurements.
Oh, goody! More made-up numbers based on models not published written by who knows who with who knows what personal agenda using money from who-knows where. That'll clear everything right up!