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Thank God for this the best day ever.
May everyone realize today that love is the solution to every problem.
SCIENTISTS ADVOCATING WARMING ASKED NOT TO DEBATE THE ISSUE
Here indeed is what AGW sceptics are up against, especially here in New Zealand. The following is taken from a debate that was set up by the Avenues magazine of Christchurch. The debate featured Dr Gerrit van der Lingen as the AGW sceptic and Professor Bryan Storey as the AGW advocate. Their opposing arguments were then judged by a retired high court judge, Justice John Hansen, who claimed to be an unbiased observer.
In Dr van der Lingen’s argument, he made the observation that Al Gore refuses to debate the points in his film, An Inconvenient Truth. In Professor Storey’s response he said, quote:
“Our professional bodies recommend that we do not publicly engage in debates over climate change as it gives a platform for the vocal minority to express their views, often scientifically incorrect or carefully selected to distort a longer term trend. This will undoubtedly be the advice that the former US Vice President Al Gore will have received, influencing his decision not to engage in televised debates.”
If this is not totally unscientific I do not know what is. The statement unequivocally precludes discussing the issues with anybody, scientists included. It is not as if the TV people would make the mistake of putting a layman up against Gore, and even if they did, he could then be excused for refusing to debate (even though he is a layman himself). Also it makes nonsense of the judge’s claim of being unbiased, since if New Zealand scientists are told not to debate the issue, the evidence against AGW is going to go unheard by the supposedly unbiased public, to which the retired judge belongs.
At first I thought Dr Lingen’s comparison of the one-sided reporting of climate change issues with Nazi propaganda a little strong, but if peer debate about climate change is not going to be conducted, the whole issue is an attempt at a scientific whitewash by the AGW proponents.
For a full transcript of the debate, see here
SCIENTISTS ADVOCATING WARMING ASKED NOT TO DEBATE THE ISSUE
An email from Nicholas Sault [tikouka@yahoo.com] in New Zealand
Here indeed is what AGW sceptics are up against, especially here in New Zealand. The following is taken from a debate that was set up by the Avenues magazine of Christchurch. The debate featured Dr Gerrit van der Lingen as the AGW sceptic and Professor Bryan Storey as the AGW advocate. Their opposing arguments were then judged by a retired high court judge, Justice John Hansen, who claimed to be an unbiased observer.
In Dr van der Lingen’s argument, he made the observation that Al Gore refuses to debate the points in his film, An Inconvenient Truth. In Professor Storey’s response he said, quote:
“Our professional bodies recommend that we do not publicly engage in debates over climate change as it gives a platform for the vocal minority to express their views, often scientifically incorrect or carefully selected to distort a longer term trend. This will undoubtedly be the advice that the former US Vice President Al Gore will have received, influencing his decision not to engage in televised debates.”
If this is not totally unscientific I do not know what is. The statement unequivocally precludes discussing the issues with anybody, scientists included. It is not as if the TV people would make the mistake of putting a layman up against Gore, and even if they did, he could then be excused for refusing to debate (even though he is a layman himself). Also it makes nonsense of the judge’s claim of being unbiased, since if New Zealand scientists are told not to debate the issue, the evidence against AGW is going to go unheard by the supposedly unbiased public, to which the retired judge belongs.
At first I thought Dr Lingen’s comparison of the one-sided reporting of climate change issues with Nazi propaganda a little strong, but if peer debate about climate change is not going to be conducted, the whole issue is an attempt at a scientific whitewash by the AGW proponents.
For a full transcript of the debate, see here
http://nzclimatescience.net/images//avenuesdebate.pdf
The fruits of Republican leadership, unemployment up everywhere. The numbers are lower since the statistics aren’t determined using the 1930s measures.
Jobless rates up in every state
While some states fared better than others, December was a cruel month for many workers nationwide, and economists predict job losses will continue for the rest of this year.
All 50 states recorded an increase in the jobless rate in December and an overall spike since last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday (Jan. 27). The national unemployment rate rose from 6.8 percent to 7.2 percent — compared with 4.9 percent a year ago.
More, including map at:
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=372388
Republicans should put their money where their mouths are and refuse any and all funds from the stimulus package.
Lets see who recovers quicker.
The Democratic party wanted funding for light rail projects. Use of light rail has rising dramatically during the Republican recession. Wichita was planning on a rail system to link up to Newton. However Tiahrt was opposed to the idea of bringing investment and jobs to Wichita.
MP, I hear you are shutting down your website and won’t let anyone take it over. Why give up such a good thing?
And to think, we once had a nation-wide light rail system which was the envy of the world, then we tore it up and scrapped it.
Citing Obama Opposition, McDowell Warns Against Fairness Doctrine
Reimposition Could Undermine Kids TV Regulations, Public Radio
John Eggerton — Multichannel News, 1/28/2009 3:27:00 PM MT
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McDowell suggested that a stealth version of the doctrine may already be teed up at the FCC in the form of community advisory boards to help determine local programming. McDowell says he is fine with those boards if they are voluntary–some stations already seek such input. But that if they are required, as the FCC has proposed, “Would not such a policy be akin to re-imposition of the Doctrine, albeit under a different name and sales pitch?”
McDowell also said that efforts to reimpose the doctrine could stretch to cable, satellite, and even the Internet. “Certain legal commentators have suggested that a new corollary of the Doctrine should be fashioned for the Internet, on the theory that web surfers should be exposed to topics and views that they have not chosen for themselves,” adding: “I am not making this up.”
“And to think, we once had a nation-wide light rail system which was the envy of the world, then we tore it up and scrapped it.”
But they make such wonderful walking paths!!
Pmom… Doug has been threatening to shut down his hate site for months… we can only hope he finally follows through.
I think his one hate site is the perfect antithesis to the anti’s multiple hate-sites.
“May everyone realize today that love is the solution to every problem.”
Even teenage pregnancy?
Of course beber.
I thought love was what caused it. Stupid me.
Love or lust?
There is a difference.
Alaskans Brace for Redoubt Volcano Eruption
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Hardware stores and auto parts shops scored a post-holiday run of business this week as Anchorage-area residents stocked up on protective eyewear and masks ahead of a possible eruption of Mount Redoubt.
more at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485048,00.html
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Alaska won’t be complying with co2 and pollution output regulations any time soon.
Shades of Al Gore, Alaska is expecting a volcano eruption. Can you just imagine all the emissions this will cause. More than man can do for years. Hey enviros , maybe this was caused by global warming or cooling out of our control. Kathy and Rod here’s your emissions not in KS.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090130/D961EER00.html
I would say I beat you to the punch george, but we both posted at 8:09 a.m. :)
Thanks for the link to the Vonnegut bit….
however I did accomplish my task.
That is, to kill 30 minutes.
“Mind the volcano!”
— Lewis Carroll
“There is a difference.”
Not to a teenager.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.shoe.monument/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — For the war-beaten orphans of the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, this big old shoe fits.
A monument to a shoe thrown at former President Bush is unveiled at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.
A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.
Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the shoes hurled at Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by journalist Muntadhir al-Zaidi during a press conference in Baghdad.
Al-Zaidi was jailed for his actions, and a trial is pending. But his angry gesture touched a defiant nerve throughout the Arab and Muslim world. He is regarded by many people as a hero. Demonstrators in December took to the streets in the Arab world and called for his release.
The shoe monument, made of fiberglass and coated with copper, consists of the shoe and a concrete base. The entire monument is 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) high. The shoe is 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) long and 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) wide.
The orphans helped al-Amiri build the $5,000 structure — unveiled Tuesday — in 15 days, said Faten Abdulqader al-Naseri, the orphanage director.
For those supporting the 1.2 trillion spending bill, can you please outline which parts would actually stimulate the economy?
There may be one or two republican senators that get peeled away and vote for it. They will be voting to give their constituents a piece of the massive idiotic spending. They will vote in hopes of getting elected as opposed to what is right for their state and their country.
How many Democrats will oppose the massive unfunded spending?
They will vote in hopes of getting reelected
Duh, they are already elected. And the typos start early today…
I agree ks. should just reject any fed. spending, after all they think it’ll just prolong the downturn.
We’re still enjoying the bush legacy, gdp’s biggest drop in decades, while oil co. had one of their best yrs. (could there be a relationship?)
And, financial co. had their 6th best yr. for bonuses. We’ve got to compensate them well or those that made the fubar will move on to better paying jobs!
Et tu, Brute?
Castro Throws First Punch at Obama, Demands Return of Gitmo
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,485589,00.html
Fundy-CON Ignored Biblical Passage d’ Jour
1 Corinthians 7
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. . . . 7 I wish that all men were [celibate] as I am.
http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/25/mags_diary21_retail_graph_2.jpg
Interesting little graph showing how much retail square footage per person USA versus several European examples.
Mixy–
“I have no doubt that a year from now [2004], some grand square in Baghdad will be named for George W. Bush.” Richard Perle
Well, Richard was right. Bush did get a monument dedicated to him.
In the shape of a giant bronze shoe.
SolDevVB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 8:33 am | Permalink
For those supporting the 1.2 trillion spending bill, can you please outline which parts would actually stimulate the economy?
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The supporters of this bill will not answer your question Sol.
Just think . . . if Fundy-CONs obeyed their literal reading of the Bible, none of them would get married and their religiousity for the simple-minded would die out.
It’s a shame, really . . .
Anti-Sol–
If Obama wants it, it’s good.
All of it. Money spent in America for American projects utililzing American workers and products, will provide stimulus.
As for giving back Gitmo, we should do it.
Or better yet, we keep Gitmo and give Cuba Dallas . . .
CapnAmerica
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
Anti-Sol–
If Obama wants it, it’s good.
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Fantastic!
It’s probably smarter to increase pay checks instead of going lump sum. Most people won’t even notice much their increase and will spend it as soon as they get it.
Phantom
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
All of it.
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Ahh…..I think I am going to go drink some Clorox now…
CapnAmerica
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
Anti-Sol–
If Obama wants it, it’s good.
How utterly blind and unthinking. Obama wants you to emasculate yourself capnSocialism. Get to it.
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Phantom
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
All of it. Money spent in America for American projects utililzing[sic] American workers and products, will provide stimulus.
Phantom, I will give you the benefit of doubt. Have you read what this money is going for?
All politicians of all political persuasion seem to think most about keeping their jobs. Not really too much different that the rest of us, but their efforts are in the public eye since they are at the mercy of the public who decide whether they keep the job or not. How many of that “public” are well informed? How long is the memory of that “pubic?”
Further, WHO KNOWS for absolutely sure what will work best to end this recession sooner, leave America healthier? Even if there is someone(s) who knows, there are an equal number who think they’re wrong. Which crystal ball will be more accurate? Do YOU know, for sure?
This comment might tell us something about how the voting on the stimulus package will go — no matter whether it is the right or wrong solution.
“…if the recession is still going strong in the Fall of 2010, Republicans will say “Democrats threw your hard-earned tax dollars down the toilet. Time to get rid of them.” But this is a huge gamble for the Republicans. This recession has already been going on for a year and they rarely last three years. Even if the recession is not technically over, but jobs are no longer being shed and houses are no longer being foreclosed it will be a lot easier for Democrats to claim it was their leadership that improved the economy. What can the Republicans say? It was their courageous no votes against bills that passed anyway that saved the economy?”
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2009/Senate/Maps/Jan29-s.html
3 Ways the Stimulus Package Would Help Laid-Off Workers
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/planning-to-retire/2009/01/29/3-ways-the-stimulus-package-would-help-laid-off-workers.html
Sol lies that Obama wants you to emasculate yourself capnSocialism.
On the contrary, I have never felt so empowered as I do since Obama entered Al Gore’s house.
It was the BushCONs who constantly told us to “be afraid, be very afraid” . . . orange alerts!!! and buy plastic and duct tape now!!! and “thanks to us torturing people and spying on you, you are safe.”
Even if more attention was paid to Peter Schiff (an adviser to Ron Paul), would it have made a difference? Would Americans sit by idly, calmly, with great understanding (not to mention great hunger, lack of shelter…) and patience while everything fell apart so we could start all over?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0a_1232747931
Partially subsidized COBRA coverage.
Helps those laid off, but not the economy.
COBRA extension for older workers.
Same as above.
Job Creation.
* Construction.
Short term. Nothing lasting. So maybe a small spike, but nothing lasting.
* Education.
Again, this is short term and extremely targeted to specific jobs.
*Public service.
Reads more like equipment purchases. Again extremely targeted.
*Green jobs.
This requires spending by businesses. With the new taxes (Bush’s tax cuts expiring) I doubt many businesses will be upgrading. This is, though, the first long term item I’ve seen.
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There were no dollar figures for the COBRA spending. The other listed spending will consume 130.1 billion. One eight of the spending bill and not much stimulus.
One of Obama’s key complaints with the Patriot act was the speed with which it passed. There was not enough time devoted to actually thinking about the impact. Same with this spending bill. We are lashing our great grandchildren to this debt and will have not much to show for it.
Why don’t we slow down and really consider the problem and possible solutions before knee jerk throwing 1.2 trillion at the problem.
Got an access denied on your link Linda. Got another link?
KJV:
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.
2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
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Good morning Capn.!
I appreciate that you bring us a verse each day! I think I’ll use it as a way to educate a little on the Bible in general.
I use to do Bible study with a Baptist Minsiter that said many people use Bible verses like arrows in a quiver. They always have a few favorite that they use to shoot into the heart of true believers.
You are a perfect example of one that uses Bible verses out of context to make some obtuse point or another.
Pauls first epistle to the Corinthians was written a approximately three years after Paul had established the church there. He felt they had strayed a little and the purpose of the letter was to get them back on track.
This letter to the Corinthinians is one of my favorites and it contains some of my favorite scriptures. It should be read completely and in the context of it’s original purpose.
The great depression of 1930. The government tried to spend their way out of it, just as we are today. Ten years later the country was still in shambles. Were it not for the US getting involved in WWII, there is no telling how long it would have lasted.
Why can’t we learn from that mistake? This is a business cycle. You can not control it. Attempting to do so will only lengthen, not lessen, the pain. Get it over with. Let the market correct itself – read letting those “too big to fail” fail. Those that invested wisely will be rewarded with survival. Those companies that invested riskily will be punished by being acquired or vanishing.
Attempting to curtail this downturn is like trying to keep the sun from setting tonight. Futile at best.
“On the contrary, I have never felt so empowered as I do since Obama entered Al Gore’s house.”
Pitiful. It takes a president to make the Libs feel empowered. Bed wetters.
capnSocialism,
Obama says you should tithe 90% of your earnings and savings. Your master has spoken. Break out your check book.
You have obviously given up rational (or any for that matter) thought. Continue to blindly follow your master.
SolDevVB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:29 am | Permalink
CapnAmerica
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink
Anti-Sol–
If Obama wants it, it’s good.
How utterly blind and unthinking. Obama wants you to emasculate yourself capnSocialism. Get to it.
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But that’s what Capn wants Sol. He is is a *white,*male,*Christian who hates everything he is.
“Got an access denied on your link Linda. Got another link?”
Sol, are you talking about the one where I mention Peter Shiff? I don’t have another, and I don’t understand the access denied because I just clicked it and got there. The things that make you go hmmmmm.
It’s a compilation made of several times Mr. Schiff was one of several so-called financial experts interviewed over a period of about a year and he was the lone dissenter from all other experts — he was laughed at each time. Today, what he said then makes his crystal ball very accurate, and all others very wrong!
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SolDevVB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 10:04 am | Permalink
capnSocialism,
Obama says you should tithe 90% of your earnings and savings. Your master has spoken. Break out your check book.
You have obviously given up rational (or any for that matter) thought. Continue to blindly follow your master.
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Obama appears to be a “Do as I say and not as I do type of guy.”
Obama’s tithing record is abysmal as he tithes as if he makes about $5,000/year – paltry contributions for a man of wealthy income.
Linda,
The access denied means that the page is blocked for me here at work. The company firewall.
“…This consensus, which generally favoured the market over the state, “light-touch” regulation of financial services and the free flow of goods and capital across borders, is somewhere between on the defensive and in full, not always organised retreat.
What is a lot less clear is what might replace it.
It’s true that the global economic crisis and the debt bubble that preceded it did not deliver on much of the promises made by defenders of globalisation and market forces. Instead it was one of the biggest misallocation of resources in history; to housing and consumption that either wasn’t needed or really couldn’t be afforded.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/01/30/the-end-of-the-davos-consensus/
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/01/open-thread-130/#comment-512045
The impact of this statement is still resonating. This has to be the most braindead sheeple remarks I have ever read on this blog – and that alone speaks volumes.
My first response? Rick Warren and the inauguration.
Hey, Blog Barons:
I tried to leave another heartfelt post today – and couldn’t. I repeat: If you have some problem with me, get a pair and explain the reasoning for this.
There were absolutely no swear words in my post.
Gotta say – yer censors sort of s–k.
Sometimes FilmFan a poster must split a word to make it acceptable
as sume
Upd ike
Oh, and as soon as you think you have something / anything figured out, the ‘filter’ will be changed, tweaked and you’re back to square one. All the while you are allowed to read the downright horrible posts the ‘filter’ doesn’t have any affect on.
Wish Charles Darwin a Happy Birthday
Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. In celebration of his 200th birthday, Shropshire Tourism has created a web site that enables people from all over the world to wish him a happy birthday. The map showing those birthday wishes is well worth looking at. Additionally, there’s a great deal of useful information about Darwin on the web page. The URL for the web site is http://www.discoverdarwin.co.uk/happy-birthday/, look around and share your birthday wishes with the world.
from: http://www.theclergyletterproject.org
web site that enables people from all over the world to wish him a happy birthday.
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Chas, Charlie’s dead.
LMFAO. Thanks anit. Been a crappy day and that was my first smile. Cheers brother.
Ummmm so are Lincoln and Washington… but we still have Presidents’ Day to celebrate their birthdays… ID 10 t
Oh, yea, besides, take it up with the town in England… They are the ones sponsoring the web site… LOL
Weather Channel Founder Warns of Colder Climate
Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.
John Coleman
1-28-2009
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/38574742.html
Hank posted January 30, 2009 at 6:08 am
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“Their opposing arguments were then judged by a retired high court judge, Justice John Hansen, who claimed to be an unbiased observer.”
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Dear Hank,
Do you actually believe that science is done by “judging” opposing arguments written in the “Christchurch glossy lifestyle monthly magazine AVENUES”?
That’s pathetically stupid, even for a Republican dog trainer in Wichita Kansas.
And Hank. . . WHY does your copy/paste repeat itself, except the email and pdf line?
Do AGW deniers forget what they read just a few paragraphs earlier?
high jacking?
two words?
1 cut
2 paste
3 insult
NOW!
Ummmm so are Lincoln and Washington… but we still have Presidents’ Day to celebrate their birthdays… ID 10 t
That is probably why there aren’t many e-cards to those two.
Darwin is not dead.
Definately NOT DEAD.
He has, however, EVOLVED.
AMEN.
bigotbawks posted January 30, 2009 at 10:48 am
Weather Channel Founder Warns of Colder Climate
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You’re a day late, bigotbawks.
cosmos_originally
Posted January 29, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Permalink
JimJohnson posted January 29, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Heh, heh, heh…
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No JJ. . . that’s a big ROFLMAO!
JJ foolishly trusts a TV weather guy to educate him (JJ) about the history of climate and AGW science.
The Amazing Story Behind Tho[sic] Global Warming Scam
By John Coleman
January 28, 2009
“. . .
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle.”
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The science actually began in the 1800’s, long before Dr. Revelle’s research.
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm
Beat me to it, Chas.
Of course, there are people who will bleat about how Darwin was wrong about some of his observations, and therefore the theory of evilution is in tatters, because we evilutionists worship Darwin, and our theory is not based on 100 years of scientific rigor, but squarely on Darwin.
Hee.
Is it “Christian bashing” to laugh at flat earthers? This is important.
Do you actually believe that science is done by “judging” opposing
cosmos
sciencefaith revolves around cryptic black box algorithms and sending in a politician to deliver a science briefing. Now there issciencefaith for you !!!““The Bible tells me so”
If there’s one thing that most strikingly distinguishes conservatives – one large faction of them, at least – from progressives and liberals, it’s their urge to root both science and social policy in the authority of Holy Scripture. And here, more than anywhere else, we see present efforts that should be discredited by a long string of historic failures. No one today, for instance, even in the deepest depths of the Christian right, doubts that there are people living in Australia. And yet Christians of earlier times called it “senseless folly,” not to mention heresy, to suppose that anyone could live with their feet above their heads on the other side of the earth, or even that it had another side. The Bible, after all, was quite clear on this, speaking in several places of “the four corners of the earth” with the heavens stretched above “as a curtain.”
Confronted with such passages, today’s so-called biblical literalists explain that they’re just poetic images and not to be taken literally. But that would have been news to the people who wrote them down, as well as to the Bible’s most careful and pious interpreters in earlier ages. Leading scholars and “Church Fathers” like St. Augustine were just as certain that the Bible ruled out the existence of Australia as today’s conservative Christians are certain that it rules out evolution. And the consequences of thinking otherwise, they believed, were just as dire; to imagine that people inhabit another hemisphere would do as much moral and spiritual harm as imagining them related to apes. For how, then, could the Gospel be preached “to the ends of the world,” as God demanded? Doubting the plain meaning of Scripture on one point means doubting it on everything, right? And this amounts to abandoning God.”
http://conservativesarealwayswrong.googlepages.com/
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Chas
Posted January 30, 2009 at 10:39 am | Permalink
Wish Charles Darwin a Happy Birthday
Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. In celebration of his 200th birthday, Shropshire Tourism has created a web site that enables people from all over the world to wish him a happy birthday. The map showing those birthday wishes is well worth looking at. Additionally, there’s a great deal of useful information about Darwin on the web page. The URL for the web site is http://www.discoverdarwin.co.uk/happy-birthday/, look around and share your birthday wishes with the world.
from: http://www.theclergyletterproject.org
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Maybe a better day to use would be the day “The clergy letter” pastors started worshiping Darwin.
As the job situation continues to tighen folks are going to be asking why we have all the illegals in this country taking jobs.
HOOVER, TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER
Here is something that should be of great interest
for you to pass around.
I didn’t know of this until it was pointed out to me.
Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover
ordered the deportation of ALL illegal aliens
in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.
Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal’s after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.
And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexican nationals!
The program was called ‘Operation Wet Back’
so that American WWII and Korean veterans
had a better chance at jobs.
It took 2 Years, but they deported them!
Now, if they could deport the illegal’s back then,
they can sure do it today!!
I if you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wet Back (as one word) into your favorite search engine
and confirm it for yourself.
Reminder.
Don’t forget to pay your taxes…
12 million+ Illegal Aliens are depending on you.
Hey, heard a story on this this morning. Janet –??? Forgot her name, is initiating a program to deport all illegal immigrants after their jail sentence. If I’m not mistaken this is an Obama appointee. Granted I caught most of this while getting ready for work, so I don’t have any of the hard facts.
Bully for her anyway.
Thanks Tara… I agree with you… Not sure if laughing at flat earthers is Christian Bashing… I guess maybe, IF the flat earthers claim Jesus told them the earth is flat….
Ya know, I think we should just be concerned about climate change… instead of getting bogged down in who/what is responsible… I also think that the stewardship of creation is important, regardless of what direction climate change goes…
Protection of the environment where we live is of paramount importance… Look how much difference has been made in the smog problems in California, and in Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, and Detroit… and anywhere else that used to be covered in soot, and coal dust…. Pittsburgh is a really great place to visit since the clean-up of the rivers, and the smog… compared to when I spent summers there as a kid…. And the clean up in Lake Erie is fantastic, since they took seriously the huge amounts of pollution, and other crap in the water…
These are things that anybody should be FOR… regardless of who/what is responsible for whatever climate changes we may encounter… I’m sure those folks in Alaska arent terribly worried right now about WHO/WHAT is making that volcano rumble and roar… They ARE concerned with survival….
Of course, on every Darwin day, it’s important to also remember Alfred Russel Wallace.
Because, seriously, wouldn’t you be just PEEVED if you got beaten to the punch like that?
And then everyone celebrated your scoper’s birthday for years and years afterward?
Oooh, there was probably all of this delicious drama and hissy fits that the history books don’t tell use about.
Darwin would be most upset if he thought anybody would be worshipping him… I mean, after all, Darwin was a believing Christian in his life time… Darwin worshipped GOD…
I like this guy. He makes you think.
Perhaps the most solemn conceptions that
have caused the most fighting and suffering, the
conceptions ‘God’ and ‘sin,’ will one day seem to us of no more importance than a child’s plaything or a child’s pain seems to an old man;— and perhaps another plaything and another pain will then be necessary once more for ‘the old
man’—always childish enough, an eternal child!
It is the profound, suspicious fear of an
incurable pessimism which compels whole centuries to fasten their teeth into a religious interpretation of existence: the fear of the instinct which divines that truth might be attained TOO soon, before man has become
strong enough, hard enough, artist enough…. Piety, the ‘Life in God,’ regarded in this light, would appear as the most elaborate and ultimate product of the FEAR of truth, as artist-adoration and artist- intoxication in presence of the most logical of all falsifications, as the will to the
inversion of truth, to untruth at any price.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Looks like gw is causing security concerns for nato.
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=41451209&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281
Actually, Chas, I believe his faith took a blow when his daughter died. He was pretty wracked with guilt for marrying his cousin.
Dunno if he ever climbed out of that hole.
It is very touching to listen to this seven year old read a portion of his list of 100 Things I Believe (written when he was the ripe old age of six.)
“And the Children shall lead.”
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Thirty Things I Believe
by Tarak McLain
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99478226&ps=cprs
That’s true, Tara… but many people of faith experience lots of peaks and valleys in the course of their lifetimes… After all “blind faith” doesnt allow one to see reality…
SolDevVB posted January 30, 2009 at 11:00 am
cosmos science faith revolves around cryptic black box algorithms and sending in a politician to deliver a science briefing. Now there is science faith for you !!!
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SolDevVB again attacks the “messenger”, and ignores the facts.
Actually, the basics of the AGW theory are based on fairly simple calculations that can be done by hand.
Arrhenius published the first calculations in 1896.
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timeline.htm
Tara, perhaps his terrible feelings of guilt came from his religious convictions…???
Cosmos again dodges the question –
Why is Hansen’s code black boxed? Why isn’t it peer reviewed?
Why send a politician to a science briefing?
Gotta go for now… back later!!
Grateful_Dave — Gotta like Nietzsche…
Boxlock20
Posted January 30, 2009 at 11:04 am | Permalink
As the job situation continues to tighen folks are going to be asking why we have all the illegals in this country taking jobs.
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Box, I agree with your post. But there’s something else we should do. Tax the he11 out of companies that have shipped jobs off shore.
XXX,
Why do you think companies ship jobs off shore?
Think about that for a minute.
And now think about how exactly your solution is going to help anything.
SolDevVB posted January 30, 2009 at 11:22 am
Cosmos again dodges the question –
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SolDevVB again dodges reality and science. . .
Why can’t you answer the questions cosmos? Is your faith that weak?
weak
weak
weak
Fast aproaching pathetic.
Parise be.
SolDevVB again dodges reality and science. . .
Science – cryptic black box algorithms. Non peer reviewed methods.
Politicians giving “science” briefings.
Reality – Record setting winters – back to back.
SolDevVB posted January 30, 2009 at 11:41 am
Reality – Record setting winters – back to back.
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Reality — the ten warmest years since the 1880’s occured during the last twelve years.
Reality — SolDevVB cannot refute the fact that anthropogenic GHG’s have caused, and are causing long-term warming.
Awwwww. cosmos’ faith has failed her again. She can’t answer three very easy questions and has to resort to the fudged numbers resulting from the root of the first two questions.
cosmos also can not refute that climate change is caused by natural occurrences.
Cosmos,
Here is a question for you.
How many tons of natural GHG’s does nature produce each year.
What is the margin of error on those numbers?
Now, how many tons of GHG’s are estimated to be released by man?
When you see that the margin of error on natural emmisions is greater than what man is accused of emitting… does it make you wonder?
SolDevVB cannot refute the fact that anthropogenic GHG’s have caused, and are causing long-term warming.
Facts, by definition, can be proven.
Prove it.
Nathaniel,
Does it make you wonder when you realize that CO2 levels have risen sharply due to humans burning huge amounts of fossil fuels, and land-use changes?
Or does it create an uncontrollable urge to read bogus AGW denials written by Dennis Avery, Steven Milloy, et al?
Nat,
Add that to the list of questions cosmos can’t answer.
cosmos’ faith…
pa
the
tic
Praise be.
CapnAmerica
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:21 am | Permalink
Just think . . . if Fundy-CONs obeyed their literal reading of the Bible, none of them would get married and their religiousity for the simple-minded would die out.
It’s a shame, really . . .
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And as the next verse continues – “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
In fact, it is written that Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding.
Guess you just read what fits for your lifestyle.
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!!
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DIVE!
DIVE!
Aowooooooooooooo gah!!!!!!!!!
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Say you Libs,
Pool your money and you could buy-out McClatchy!
What a steal! 68 Cents/Share!
How pathetic.
McClatchy stock drops 8 cents and that’s a 10.5% change!!!!
CapnAmerica is on a mission to prove just how much he doesn’t read or understand the Bible.
And he is a Sunday School teacher?
Lord save the children!
http://tinyurl.com/dghx4z
This patient is almost FLAT LINE.
Call the Code Mary. Time of death…..
Chas,
He felt guilty about marrying his cousin because he believed it caused his daughter to be weak, and die before her time.
I don’t know where religion figured into it, it doesn’t really matter.
Darwin could have eaten live babies for lunch every day and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference.
http://tinyurl.com/dghx4z
This patient is almost FLAT LINE.
Gosh, notice the drop after the Democrats took control of Congress………
Time of Death may be called on 2/5/09.
THAT is the BIG DAY for many here.
Now down to 67 seconds to Midnight…
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Okay,
speaking of the ‘timequake’ idea kind of thingy….
like Houdini in the river with a lock he couldn’t see
when you think you hit the bottom then you better find the key
like Custer at the Horn when he turned around and said
“when you think you fin’lly got ‘em, you’re just as good as dead”
like Ponce de Leon speakin’ Spanish in the swamp
“I was lookin’ for a fountain, but it’s water that I want”
like Pike at the top and ev’ry other freak
“I was lookin’ for a mountain, I took a little peak”
like Buddah at the sermon when he didn’t say a word
if you think you hear a flower, it’s a flower that you heard
like da Vinci on the roof with his arm in a sling,
“A man’s got the power, but a bird’s got the wing”
like Vincent Van Gogh when he chopped off his ear,
“I’d like to give her twenty, but I still gotta hear”
like Crockett at the wall lookin’ back to Tennessee,
“the livin’ costs you plenty, but the dyin’s still for free”
Okay, I know that’s an oldie, so what.
I’ve lived through it.
HELL, I’ve lived through it TWICE!
Have a nice time……
Now down to 66 seconds to Midnight…
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Looks like some of the shine is off the golden microphone at the eib network
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“a bill introduced by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, no employee would be allowed to make more than the president of the United States.
Obama’s current annual salary is $400,000.”
Well I think Obama’s salary is too high. It should be cut in half!!!
Seriously, Bush and democrat company blew it for freedom in America when they nationalized the banks. Now, government will decide how much every American can make. Government will set the standard and from there it can only go downhill.
Those poor ignorant people deplore the evil sinful salaries of the CEO’s. And they would have had no standing had it not been for the American taxpayers buying the banks. There was no reason for government to intefer with private businesses paying whatever salary the market would stand.
No longer.
Clap if you want. But it all rolls downhill.
Your salary is next.
Don’t hold your breath annie waiting for the EIB to fail. Everytime a democrat or president lower themselves to listening to Rush Limbaugh and then crying publicly about it: Rush gets another set of wing$.
Except, of course, the unFairness Doctrine gets enacted.
hey what am radio host makes 400 million?
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/01/19/daily27.html
The company won’t say how many people were let go locally, but Clear Channel Communications Inc. has cut nearly 9 percent of its work force nationwide.
Clear Channel gave pink slips to 1,850 workers at its corporate offices as well as both its radio and outdoor advertising divisions, according to a memo from chief executive officer Mark Mays. Clear Channel, based in San Antonio, Texas, employs about 20,000 people in radio, television and outdoor advertising,
Most of the cuts were in the sales department, but ultimately all operations were affected, Mays said.
Local reports have named one of the local employees let go as Gabe Hobbs, a 25-year executive with Clear Channel, who is credited for discovering national talent like Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck, who got his talk radio start at WFLA-AM.
The layoffs were first reported last week by New York newspapers, which said they would coincide with the inauguration of Barack Obama. The cuts are expected to shed about $400 million in costs as well as provide a more national approach to its operations, limiting staffing at local levels.
A way,
I don’t want the fairness doctrine. I want you guys to scream your message from every rooftop in America.
Hmmmm… Rush makes $400 Million… Clear Channel CUTS $400 Million from its spending…
Gee, they could have cancelled Rush, and not had to make any other cuts…. LOL
See, that’s EXACTLY where the government controls on salary will lead. Idiots proclaiming how much everyone ELSE should make.
All the whiners jealous for more handouts.
An empty hand full of nothing and mouth full of gimmee.
And Chas is so qualified to run a national radio station. And he knows the solution.
It won’t be me screaming Annie. It will be those waiting for the Obama utopia which will never happen.
“McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. MNI (NYSE)
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An action a republican or conservative can take today: Stop all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. You already know there is nothing in them but Obama love. It’s just the habit. You’ve been getting them all for years, right?
Well no, you are helping the left.
American_Way
Posted January 30, 2009 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
See, that’s EXACTLY where the government controls on salary will lead. Idiots proclaiming how much everyone ELSE should make.
All the whiners jealous for more handouts.
An empty hand full of nothing and mouth full of gimmee.
You look at every Obama supporter on here. You will see, somewhere, where they have posted about those that have. It is all about other people’s money.
“hey what am radio host makes 400 million?”
The network makes more than that from advertising.
They don’t earn 300 million, then pay Rush 400 million. That’s not how it works.
Pretty hard hitting stuff there A way. Guess you cons should be buying a few more cans of gold bond powder, you know give Rush a few bucks and keep your sweaty testies dry at the same time.
Chas you never cut your biggest revenue producer. That is why you aren’t running a radio station. You cut out the bottom first.
“It is all about other people’s money.”
We work so BlowJay can blog.
Annie I will give Obama a pat on the back for one thing. His constant references to Rush have sent his ratings soaring. He might save someones job because they will need a sales staff to get new advertising for their most popular show.
They don’t earn 300 million, then pay Rush 400 million. That’s not how it works.
Sure it is. Ask Obama.
We work so BlowJay can blog.
True dat.
mmmmmmm, sweaty testies
Ok,
His constant references to Rush have sent his ratings soaring.
Then why the layoffs? You would think that they would be adding to the staff if that was the case. Perhaps Rush’s audience are unemployed.
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fleettwood
Posted January 30, 2009 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
mmmmmmm, sweaty testies
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and…
testy sweaties…
“Then why the layoffs?”
Do you even know what Clear Channel Communications does?
Of course. They channel clearly.
Do you even know what Clear Channel Communications does?
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Beam wingnut propaganda across the fruited plains.
ting a ling there moose…………
sales of gitmo gear must be down….
So wingnuts do you really think corporate America wants to deport 12 paying customers
Obama and the dem greenies, greening up the country at the public expense. This is all in the name of more jobs. I call it more government largeese. If you are on the favorite list and bend off over we will give you and your company a chance to get some of the public’s money. This is the same old saving the world BS. Pay attention Kathy and Rod maybe you can get on this select energy group to reduce emissions. I say let the markets do this not our nannies. Another promise from O.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28934164/
So wingnuts do you really think corporate America wants to deport 12 (million) paying customers
Looks like one of Obama’s better picks is doing just that.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano – Deport Criminal Illegal Immigrants
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/homeland-security-secretary-janet-napolitano-deport-criminal-illegal-immigrants
The stimulus package SHOULD be spent on putting people back to work. In it I want to see infrastructure spending and building down in Louisiana, fixing old dams and bridges, working on better ways to do renewable energy. BIG projects that hire a lot of people.
I’m off like a prom dress. Y’all be good and be safe. Should be some interesting Super Bowl commercials this year.
More new rules and bills being signed by the Messiah. It’s payback for all the lib groups who supported Obama. Obama is acting more and more like a King and I for one don’t like it. Catering to group classes speaks of communisum.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_labor
Obama is acting more and more like a King and I for one don’t like it. Catering to group classes speaks of communisum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4daYJzyls
but you were alright with this george
“george” posted –
” Catering to group classes speaks of communisum.”
You should sue BableFish. They turned into gibberish what you most obviously posted in the original German.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Michael Steele was elected Republican National Committee chairman on Friday, defeating the incumbent party chief and three other challengers over six rounds of voting to become the first black to lead the GOP.
Obaama’s backdoor draft has been signed.
Get ready to serve your country!
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52840
Told ya so.
Pleefer
Posted January 30, 2009 at 3:57 pm | Permalink
Obaama’s backdoor draft has been signed.
Get ready to serve your country!
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52840
Told ya so.
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Obamadoublespeak for Draft.
“Defense Department Establishes Civilian Expeditionary Workforce”
But you get a medal and high respect for your efforts.
So if these people are Civilian DOD Workers, they can be used to go door-to-door to take your guns, since they are not Federal Troops.
They are part of the Civilian Expeditionary Workforce.
That’s different.
Insanity…but reality.
I wonder if anyone will care?
Like I said the other day, “where do you go to get your armband?”
Like a “Motor-Voter” type thing?
Welcome to The Party.
Pleefer
Posted January 30, 2009 at 4:12 pm | Permalink
Like I said the other day, “where do you go to get your armband?”
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Oh right! You get uniforms! And big black boots.
And they teach you to goose step too.
So many in such great need of the “straight jacket” patrol… Quick, call the padded waaaambulance…
And the lil Obamanazi is calling the cops already.
Stop that Free Speech!
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140410p.pdf
Did you even read the directive (that starts immediately, btw)?
Of course you didn’t. This is the GRANDE UNVEILING of the police state and you’re here, like usual, ommitting reality out of your mind.
Are you one of those effed up ministers whom misconstrue Romans 13?
Hitler, Stalin, PolPot…all installed by God?
It’s coming down, ya fool. Wake up or at least quit leading your sheep to slaughter.
You people have ZERO credibility and have not a hint of what can be called “a clue”.
The “Fool on the Hill” has been rewritten, “The Fool Has the Highground”.
Dear Hank,
Thank you for the pdf link in your 6:08 am copy/paste. It has a good collection of the stupid, obvious falsehoods you AGW deniers believe.
Little news flash regarding the Limbaugh show, his pay and the Clear Channel layoffs.
Limbaugh is on the air in over 600 markets. His $400,000,000 contract is for 8 years.
This equates to roughly $60,000 per market he is on in or $7,500 per year. Obviously larger markets are going to pay more of the freight.
But $7,500 a year for what is most likely your #1 rated show or “talent”. That’s a bargain in the media business and why most radio is syndicated these days.
How much do you think Anita Cochran or someone in a lead chair in our market make per year? A hell of a lot more.
You’re surely welcome, cosmos!
Is it getting colder in your world too?
Fondly,
Hank
“It has a good collection of the stupid, obvious falsehoods you AGW deniers believe.”
Who cares? Oops. Too late.
“WASHINGTON (AFP) – Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).”
Hank posted January 30, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Is it getting colder in your world too?
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Yes Hank. . . I live in the Northern hemisphere, and January 30 is in the winter season.
The “other” major CO2 problem. . .
‘Acid oceans ‘need urgent action’ ‘
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7860350.stm
‘New Study Shows Climate Change Largely Irreversible‘
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090126_climate.html
“. . .
If CO2 is allowed to peak at 450-600 parts per million, the results would include persistent decreases in dry-season rainfall that are comparable to the 1930s North American Dust Bowl in zones including southern Europe, northern Africa, southwestern North America, southern Africa and western Australia.
The study notes that decreases in rainfall that last not just for a few decades but over centuries are expected to have a range of impacts that differ by region. Such regional impacts include decreasing human water supplies, increased fire frequency, ecosystem change and expanded deserts. Dry-season wheat and maize agriculture in regions of rain-fed farming, such as Africa, would also be affected.
Climate impacts were less severe at lower peak levels. But at all levels added carbon dioxide and its climate effects linger because of the ocean.”
cosmo, can’t you read? Or are you a denier?
What part of “largely irreversible” do you not get?
“Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted,”
Forgot.
Praise be.
BDP,
“Climate impacts were less severe at lower peak levels.”
Dear Hank,
If you are not familiar with winter on our Earth. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter
“Climate impacts were less severe at lower peak levels.”
What does that have to do with the NOAA finding?
Give it up. It’s over.
“…even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted,…”
Did you know the January temperature for Wichita, Kansas is 29.5 degrees.
http://www.cityrating.com/cityweather.asp?City=Wichita
Today was 58 degrees hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Did you know the record high in Wichita on January 30 was 70 degrees F in 1890?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oh yeah, look for yourself, here’s the official record. :)
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/climate/viewrecords.php
http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/
Crying like a baby when President Barak Hussein Obama takes presidential initiative, but no complaints were heard from the the other side when constitutional and human rights were being trampled in the preceding administration.
Did you know that averaging temperatures across entirely different climate zones is like averaging telephone numbers from different countries?
(chortles)
Union officials say the new orders by Obama will undo Bush administration policies that favored employers over workers. The orders will:
_Require federal contractors to offer jobs to current workers when contracts change.
_Reverse a Bush administration order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.
_Prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses meant to influence workers deciding whether to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
A new sheriff is in town. Get used to it.
“We need to level the playing field for workers and the unions that represent their interests,” Obama said during a signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
“I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem. To me, it’s part of the solution,” he said. “You cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement.”
Regular
Posted January 30, 2009 at 6:13 pm | Permalink
Did you know the record high in Wichita on January 30 was 70 degrees F in 1890?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
That was only at Wichita MidContinent Airport Reg.
It was much cooler in other parts of the city. ;)
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DavidB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/
Crying like a baby when President Barak Hussein Obama takes presidential initiative, but no complaints were heard from the the other side when constitutional and human rights were being trampled in the preceding administration.
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Which one of your constitutional or human rights were violated?
Weather for Wichita, KS
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Current: Mostly Cloudy
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65 degrees Jan 31 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I can remember back in the 20th century when it was cold in January
Okay, we have another person who is the right person for the job.
Yeah, he fail to pay taxes also.
Steele becomes first African-American RNC chairman
Steele, the first African-American to hold the post, defeated South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, 91-77, in the final round of voting among the RNC’s 168 members. Only 86 votes were needed.
“This is our opportunity. I cannot do this by myself,” he told the crowd at the annual RNC meeting Friday. “God bless you, and God bless our party. … It’s going to be a new day.”
Steele also told his fellow party members that it will be a “great honor to spar” with President Obama.
For the duration of his campaign, Steele fought perceptions that he was too moderate to lead the party because of his blue-state roots and his former membership in the Republican Leadership Council, a group that sought to curb the influence of social conservatives in the party.
“For so long, we’ve allowed the Democrats to define us, we’ve allowed the media to define us, and so it’s important for us to begin to establish with clarity who we are, what we believe as we begin to go out and take, I think, a brand new message to the American people,” he said Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/rnc.chairman/?iref=mpstoryview
“Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the secretary of Health and Human Services, paid around $100,000 in back taxes after his nomination to pay for a car and driver he was supplied but did not report as income, according to documents being prepared by the Senate Finance Committee.”
Mike Steele should fit right in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111201084.html
GOP Fliers Apparently Were Part Of Strategy
Md. Tactics Similar To Ones in 2002
By Matthew Mosk and Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 13, 2006; Page B01
The six Trailways motorcoaches draped in Ehrlich and Steele campaign banners rumbled down Interstate 95 just before dawn on Election Day.
On board, 300 mostly poor African Americans from Philadelphia ate doughnuts, sipped coffee and prepared to spend the day at the Maryland polls. After an early morning greeting from Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s wife, Kendel, they would fan out in white vans across Prince George’s County and inner-city Baltimore, armed with thousands of fliers that appeared to be designed to trick black Democrats into voting for the two Republican candidates.
Republicans bused in workers to pass out “Democratic Sample Ballots,” which included Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Michael S. Steele. (Associated Press)
Online Resources
2006 Elections
The glossy fliers bore photos of black Democratic leaders on the front. Under the headline “Democratic Sample Ballot” were boxes checked in red for Ehrlich and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele, who were not identified as Republicans. Their names were followed by a long list of local Democratic candidates.
Nearly a week later, a fuller picture has emerged about how the plan to capture blacks’ votes unfolded — details that suggest the fliers, and the people paid to distribute them, were not part of a hurry-up effort but a calculated strategy.
The Republicans must be REALLY scared to let a Negro into their all-white, all-male club.
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Steele, the first African-American to hold the post, defeated South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, 91-77, in the final round of voting among the RNC’s 168 members. Only 86 votes were needed.
Dawson …He boosted his prospects earlier in January, but a number of party members said they didn’t savor the thought of having a white Southerner as the face of the party in the age of Obama. In September, he resigned from a country club with a whites-only restriction in its deed.
Yeah, warm temperatures never happen in Wichita in January (and this is just “part” of the last half of the 20th century.
January warm dates (partial list of Wichita High temperatures)
January
Date Temp F Year
7 69 in 1965
12 66 in 1960
21 69 in 1964
22 75 in 1967
23 73 in 1967
28 69 in 1968
29 70 in 1971
31 69 in 1986
D@mn those commie B@#Tards
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Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more
of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more
and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The
unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be
nationalized,and the State will have to take the road which will
eventually lead to communism.
Karl Marx, 1867
“TOPEKA, Kan. – Preliminary figures show that the state collected $21 million less in tax revenues than expected in January.”
That is really weird. Usually they are spot on.
“Steele, the first African-American to hold the post,…”
Which part of Africa is he from?
“Which one of your constitutional or human rights were violated?”
That would be none. but, but but…
democratunderground sez so.
Which part of Africa is he from?
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The American part dummy
the Perfect Republican Plan:
Wreck the US economy, then turn it over to a black president.
the Perfect Republican Plan Redux
Wreck the Republican Party, then turn it over to a black chairman.
waahhhhhhh
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DavidB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 7:01 pm | Permalink
the Perfect Republican Plan:
Wreck the US economy, then turn it over to a black president.
the Perfect Republican Plan Redux
Wreck the Republican Party, then turn it over to a black chairman.
waahhhhhhh
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You haven’t heard?
Pelosi says the Crats are in charge now.
“Reverse a Bush administration order requiring federal contractors to post notice that Reverse a Bush administration order requiring federal contractors to post notice that workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.
I don’t get this one.
Contractors don’t have to post the notice, but, is it still true that “workers can limit financial support of unions serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.”??
Are they limiting information to the workers?
“The American part dummy”
That’s not what it said.
Russell Tice has laid out how the NSA captured electronic communications of law-abiding Americans.
“The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”
The Fourth Amendment prohibits these unreasonable searches.
The Second Amendment isn’t the only one in the Bill of Rights, you know….
Funny thing about secret wiretapping, it’s mostly secret. When the dust clears on the economy, we can investigate how the laws were broken and we’ll know more.
As to tossing off human rights abuses by a “were you personally abused” ruse… no, I was not waterboarded. But I was not gassed in Polish concentration camp either, but I don’t give the the Nazi regime a pass on genocide…
We (me, you, all of us) are signatories to treaties obligating us to investigate and prosecute torture. And one way or another, someone is going to held to account for breaking the law…
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DavidB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 7:21 pm | Permalink
Russell Tice has laid out how the NSA captured electronic communications of law-abiding Americans.
“The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”
The Fourth Amendment prohibits these unreasonable searches.
The Second Amendment isn’t the only one in the Bill of Rights, you know….
Funny thing about secret wiretapping, it’s mostly secret. When the dust clears on the economy, we can investigate how the laws were broken and we’ll know more.
As to tossing off human rights abuses by a “were you personally abused” ruse… no, I was not waterboarded. But I was not gassed in Polish concentration camp either, but I don’t give the the Nazi regime a pass on genocide…
We (me, you, all of us) are signatories to treaties obligating us to investigate and prosecute torture. And one way or another, someone is going to held to account for breaking the law…
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Wake up Mr. Naive.
I don’t think I’m giving anything away here, but intelligence and the U.S. have had the ability to listen in on civilian communications for about 35 years. And, they have done so – unofficially speaking of course. :)
Again, point out what constitutional and human rights that have been violated for you or someone you know. How about a distant relative? A casual acquaintance. A neighbor from 30 years ago?
The isolated cases where constitutional rights were violated, the accused was well compensated and the courts reversed the government.
Now, other than whining in the usual nasal Lib manner, what else you got?
Sure, wipe the toilet with the flag and claim you are being patriotic….
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Posted January 30, 2009 at 7:38 pm | Permalink
Sure, wipe the toilet with the flag and claim you are being patriotic….
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Do you post anything else besides spittle-drooling rhetoric?
That should read “advisor to Obama”
Since the GOP has selected a Black man to be the head of the RNC, will Rush now dust off his favorite recording, and change the words slightly, and play “Steele the Magic Negro” for oh, say, three or four months??
LOL — I highly doubt it…
The neighbohood stabilization part of the Stimulus plan, turns out to be all about those people in danger of having their mortgages foreclosed on — NOT funding for the ACORN organization, that does nothing in the way of assisting mortgage foreclosure folks… See the MSNBC website, for Countdown… Worst Persons segment for tonight..
Ah but Chas, you forgot the long tennacles of A.C.O.R.N. They have a mortgage/Housing unit as well.
ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC)
The ACORN/AHC version of consumer
advocacy has consisted of a three-decade assault on free enterprise and a history of extracting resources from financial lenders seeking abatement of ACORN’s public relations assaults. Specifically, this report examines ACORN’s
impact on the housing problem. Documents provided by internal whistleblowers, cross-checked with public records and recorded events, expose hypocritical lending recommendations tied to ACORN Housing Corporation’s
• ACORN leveraged the Community Reinvestment Act in order to attack lenders’ reputations and secure financial resources for itself;
it has also endorsed loans offered by companies that fund ACORN operations
• ACORN’s decades of lobbying and publicity seeking have contributed to the current housing crisis by lowering lending standards
• Despite raking in a troubling 40 percent of its revenue from taxpayers over the last three years, ACORN Housing Corporation’s actions
range from controversial to borderline illegal:
• AHC has worked to obtain mortgages for undocumented workers
• AHC relies on undocumented income, “under the table” money that may not be reported to the Internal Revenue Service
• ACORN’s “financial justice” operations attack lenders for “exotic” loans, but AHC has recommended ten-year interest-only
loans (which deny equity to the buyer) and reverse mortgages (which can be detrimental to senior citizens)
• AHC may have violated federal law by failing to maintain a proper distinction between its tax-exempt housing work and
the aggressive political activities of ACORN
Given this record, Congressional appropriators and administration officials should investigate ongoing and future grants to ACORN Housing Corporation.
Here’s a talking point in the green jobs debate: The wind industry now employs more people than coal mining in the United States.
Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, the coal industry employs about 81,000 workers. (Those figures are from a 2007 U.S. Department of Energy report but coal employment has remained steady in recent years though it’s down by nearly 50% since 1986.) Wind industry employment includes 13,000 manufacturing jobs concentrated in regions of the country hard hit by the deindustrialization of the past two decades.
The big spike in wind jobs was a result of a record-setting 50% increase in installed wind capacity, with 8,358 megawatts coming online in 2008 (enough to power some 2 million homes). That’s a third of the nation’s total 25,170 megawatts of wind power generation. Wind farms generating more than 4,000 megawatts of electricity were completed in the last three months of 2008 alone.
http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/28/wind-jobs-outstrip-the-coal-industry/
James… take it up with MNBC… ACORN isnt listed in the Stimulus package anywhere… I seriously doubt ACORN would qualify for the type of program that the neighborhood stabilization portion of the Stimulus package lays out… That portion is not for the purpose of securing loans… But, for assisting those who are at risk of LOSING their mortgages…
As far as I can tell, anybody who would try to get a reverse mortgage, has to be half nuts anyway… And as I understand it, in order to get an interet only loan, one has to have a very high credit rating… which would not be the case for undocumented individuals…
IF ACORN managed to secure mortgages for illegal aliens, then ACORN should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Heehee the Bush White House staff were running Microsoft Office 2003… that figures somehow… somehow that is so right….
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After having unsuccessfully to make some community activists an issue in the campaign, they have to try to redeem themselves. and all they have is another big bucket of nothing.
Massive voter fraud?? Got that one wrong, too, didn’t they?
No ideas, no leadership, no followers, no successes to show for eight years of presidential power…
In fact, so far, “No” is all they got. But they will vote for the Recovery Plan after having voted against it and claim “Mission Accomplished.”
Regular posted January 30, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Did you know that averaging temperatures across entirely different climate zones is like averaging telephone numbers from different countries?
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Regular seems to believe that telephone numbers represent scalar magnitudes, just like temperatures do.
Regular is a retired Industrial Hygiene engineer, an AGW denier, and a troll.
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cosmos_originally
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:06 pm | Permalink
Regular posted January 30, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Did you know that averaging temperatures across entirely different climate zones is like averaging telephone numbers from different countries?
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Regular seems to believe that telephone numbers represent scalar magnitudes, just like temperatures do.
Regular is a retired Industrial Hygiene engineer, an AGW denier, and a troll.
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cosmos believes that different climate regions can be represented as ‘one world climate.’ cosmos believes in the hacking of science by Hansen using ‘political voodoo dolls’ to present unscrupulous scare tactics bludgeoning pure science.
cosmos is not a scientist.
James — Countdown replay is currently on MSNBC… You can actually WATCH and HEAR the statement on the Stimulus package… Then you can argue with the program…
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Chas
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm | Permalink
James — Countdown replay is currently on MSNBC… You can actually WATCH and HEAR the statement on the Stimulus package… Then you can argue with the program…
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Sorry, watching a more factional TV show right now (slaps knees and laughs) – The Da Vinci Code
(chortles)
Yeah, knowing what is actually IN the Recovery Plan will spoil all their arguments…
‘Global Temperature from GISS, NCDC, HadCRU‘
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/giss-ncdc-hadcru/
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DavidB
Posted January 30, 2009 at 9:30 pm | Permalink
Yeah, knowing what is actually IN the Recovery Plan will spoil all their arguments…
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Ummm, no – the contents has been known for awhile. Only the uninformed is clueless.
After the ‘plan’ gets chopped and sliced in the Senate, then it will appear in a much altered form minus the pork projects.
You Democrats really don’t Give a Sh t!
‘Tax Issues’ Dog Daschle
Obama’s health and human services nominee admits $100,000+ in missed taxes — days after treasury pick’
Obama picks a tax dodger who employs and illegal immigrant as Treasury Secretary. A tax dodger who now heads the IRS.\\
Then Obama picks Dashcle, another Tax Dodger to head HHS.
Obama swears to never hire lobbyists, and he has now hired 3 Fu ckin Lobyists! Who The Fu ck Cares?
Obama has now asked for and so far the House has passed the Largest Socialist Spending Bill in History.
You DemoRats really don’t give a sh it, do you.
What pure as shol es you are.
Give yourselves a lil extra lube tonight.
You will need it.
You’re righto JJ
We won and we don’t give a rat’s patootie about you and your fellow do nothing bedwetters.
Perhaps you can kindly crawl in your hole and suck dirt.
Thank you.
Max–
Ever notice how Obama always wears dark glasses during bright sunlight?
That’s because he’s COUNT DRACULA!
We legions of the UNDEAD must follow his every wish . . . we have no volition of our own!
Soon, The Master will call us to go forth and round up all the guns so that you will be defenseless against our beautiful wickedness!
You’d better start sleeping with all your guns–loaded, safety off–under your pillow.
Mixy–
Not elegant or even clever . . . but somehow, perfectly fitting.
Well done.
Thank you JimJim. You are eloquent and dignified, as ever… but you really have an unpleasant anal-fixation…
Interesting to see Michael Stephen Steele accepting the chair of the Republican National Committee. He was one quarter of the non-caucasian population of the room, as far as I could see… Like the last convention… plant a few minorities on the podium as stage dressing…
Perhaps some fresh blood in the RNC will help them get real and look at some of the issues we really need to confront as united Americans…
I too am glad to see Michael Steele one, as it were, as a big underdog for RNC chair.
Tomorrow, or Monday at the latest will come the “token black”, “Uncle Tom” comments from the “real” blacks on the left as well as the usual self hating, guilt ridden white liberals. Hope I’m wrong about that, but just wait.
Who was the last black to act as DNC chair?
Anyone?
Have the Prices taken James McCluer to lunch yet?
Some how, I’m betting they have not. He doesn’t eat much for lunch. What excuses do the Prices’ have for their less than generous response?
The blog readers would like to know…
Though I am kind of busy with tax stuff and other work, I’ll take you to lunch James, on me; where-ever you want.
I was just watching a rather interesting report on the news.
When we invaded Iraq, we removed a regime that if nothing else, kept a lid on the sectarian violence. With the lid removed, the violence escalated, as we all know. At the same time, we ushered in the beginnings of a democracy there. Now, it appears, a substantial backlash is brewing among the people, directed pretty much equally at all the religious factions, and the biggest benificiary of that backlash seems to be the Iraqi Communist Party! Now whooda thunk that George Bush of all people would be the instigator of a communist revolution in Iraq? The irony is staggering!
Email is: WilliamJames54@gmail.com
I’ll take you to lunch James, on me; where-ever you want.
Quite wide of you. Bravo.
Jed
Posted January 30, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
I was just watching a rather interesting report on the news.
When we invaded Iraq, we removed a regime that if nothing else, kept a lid on the sectarian violence.
Yeah. Let’s bring back the mass graves. What is a few dead Iraqis?
Awesome!….not really.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5614520.ece
I know, I know, leaving…
I wonder if the total prematurely dead, Iraqi body count is higher post Saddam, then it was during his entire reign. I’m betting it’s close.
Of course many of those mass graves were filled under the watchful eye of bush 1, so maby they shouldn’t count.
Solly,
“Yeah. Let’s bring back the mass graves. What is a few dead Iraqis?”
As I read the figures, we now hold the Dead Iraqi record.
Yea, but they died happy being freed!
WPE gave American stock market, worst January Ever!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090130/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks_68
Et tu, daschle! It’s looking like a good year for the IRS!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_go_pr_wh/daschle_taxes_19
Regular does not have the time to go out to lunch.
He is too busy reading his old Industrial Hygiene engineering books, trying to figure out how to calculate the scalar magnitude of his telephone number.
LOL — good one Cosmos!!
Hang in there now…. ok??
What’s with all the cons here going hmmmmmmmmmm? I hate to break it to them, but no matter how much they hmmmmmmmmmmm, they’ll never become sex toys.
We are already a billion!
The number of the Internet users overcomed psychologicly important limit – a billion! This information can be found in the report of U.N.O., named “About informational economy”. Amasing grow of the Internet continues, its number of users grew to 20%. First place is occupied by USA (200 million users), China (111 million users), Japan (85 million users).
Hey, I’m a newest one here of cause, but… Did you ever think that we could look for the circumstances, which lead to actual financial situation in the word, in the root of the global warming? Possibly, negative energy of people conglomerates, generating one more manifestation of nature, which rise against mankind? This time Nature powers got its purpose. Isn’t it?
It’s apparently no longer enough for Google to map almost every corner of the Earth. Now the Internet’s 800-pound gorilla is turning its attention to the universe. NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone’s desktop a high-res, 3D view of the Red Planet.
Full story on CNN
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/02/shouldnt-it-be-called-google-mars/
Facebook seemed to be relatively free of abhorent sexual behavior used by some practitioners of social networks, including MySpace. However, that changed when an 18-year-old man from outside Milwaukee was charged with posing as a younger woman in order to solicit nude photos of his male classmates and then coercing them to perform sexual acts.
Full news: http://www.crn.com/security/213201918
Amid an escalating debate over just how kid-safe social-networking sites are, Texas authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of a sex offender accused of using MySpace in violation of his parole. Jesse Clay Scott, 33, of Seguin, Texas, is just the latest of about 30 convicted sex offenders arrested to date by the Texas Attorney General’s Fugitive and Cyber Crimes units for allegedly accessing MySpace in violation of parole conditions.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10157193-93.html
Goats can now make medicine in their milk. But they can’t make money…yet.
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration approved Atryn, from GTC Biotherapeutics, a medicine to treat a hereditary deficiency of the clot-preventing chemical antithrombin. It will be the first medicine made in transgenic animals to be sold. Investors shrugged. Shares in the tiny company are worth only 75 cents and the stock market puts the company’s value at a measly $75 million
http://blogs.forbes.com/sciencebizblog/2009/02/the-first-drug-from-designer-goats-.html