Gene Frenkle

I get it, you're a Libertarian, government is bad. Be suspicious of the government. You can say it until you're blue in the face. In this case, you're wrong. The science today says man made global warming. You are not a climate scientist, though you may know one or think you know about it or something like that. You're no more of an authority on the subject than I and what you have to say about it means very little, just like me. Without an agenda, the best either of us can do is to agree with the latest science, even if it disagrees with our ideologies. But of course, you know better and will share that opinion. Thanks in advance.

All things being equal, promising research gets funding, provided there's no retarded executive bias against the outcome. Now go ahead and tell me how naive I am as to how things really work in the 'academic textbook writing' world.

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

You're trying so hard that you're not even making sense anymore.

Oh, you're right. Is it too late to take back the part where I lumped you in with 'vast conspiracy theary' nuts? Your explanation is Occam's Razor to a tee. That's just inaccurate. You are free to conduct your own experiments and disprove Global Warming even though you think you are being persecuted. The Men in Black are not after you - take off your tinfoil hat. The compiled data is freely available. Disprove away! Just not with illogical unsupportable claims. Oh yeah, if it's just about the science then you've got nothing to B word about. Ideology.

Please, please somebody find me a wacko who is funny because he is trying to be. Anybody!

Oh no schitt, brainiac. Like no president has ever had his speeches written for him... Just because the last one STILL mumbled and stumbled through his doesn't mean that you need to find an excuse as to why the current one is actually able to string two coherent sentences together. Somebody's got the giggles!

Jesus Christ

If this is your best shot, then he's doing something right.

What's your alternative, go with your gut?

The Global Warming deniers may be right - only time will tell. I've certainly taken a wait and see attitude toward this whole thing lately. I don't believe it is as cut-and-dry as Al Gore would make it sound, though a lot of people seem to be basing their judgments on the messenger instead of the message. A lot of Liberal types do just the opposite, embracing the message because of the messenger. That said, the Global Warming deniers sure do display many of the defining characteristics of Intelligent Design proponents, AIDS deniers, Holocaust deniers, anti-Vaccinationists, 911 Truthers, etc... First, we should only base our judgments and actions only on our current scientific understanding of the subject, as imperfect as it may be. That's the absolute best we can do at any given time. Like it or not, the consensus of more than 90% of the climate scientists in the world points to man-made global warming. There is no real debate about this among the vast majority of these people. Anyone who is arrogant enough, with no relative knowledge on the subject, who chooses not to accept this as the most likely truth has a belief. Belief is driven by ideology. None of the groups above have shown the ability to change in the face of evidence. They all make wild accusations of vast, complicated conspiracies. When evidence is presented, they bend and twist their story as fantastically as needed to continue to fit their pre-conceived notions. No matter what science says, there will always be deniers, conspiracy theorists and various other crackpots trying to make noise. The Global Warming denier crackpots are receiving more credit and attention than they would normally get because normal people have other reasons to deny man made Global Warming that have nothing to do with science. Flame away.

The Palin family is no O.J., I'll tell you that.

From 'Paranormal Warfare' down.

Larry rocks some stellar topics these days... The Palins Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on Autism and the 'Mommy Instinct' Alien Visitation Psychics Paranormal Warfare Exorcism

All this talk of lawyers is really taking some of the 'trailer' out of this for me. Leave the Alaskans to Alaska as far as I'm concerned.

The last 8 years still includes 9/11. How about the 8 years prior? Were we torturing people then to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil? Was the lack of anything horrible happening on 1/1/2000 proof that the Year 2000 bug was successfully diffused?

Please don't ruin my gut reaction with your facts.

That made me laugh.

Damn, I'm getting my wingnuts confused?

So much for taking the high road, huh? Out of curiosity, where do you stuff your principled Compassionate Christian Conservative values when these types of issues arise?

Kind of like you blindly accepting that torture directly led to thwarted terrorist attacks just because you're being told so by the very people who have every reason in the world to try to rationalize and justify their actions under ever-increasing public scrutiny.

First, you're setting up a false dichotomy of water boarding vs. dead Americans. You're also making assumptions about the validity of what's being reported with regards to the motivations of the torturees for spilling their guts, assuming that's what happened.

Your evidence is anecdotal and there have been plenty of studies that say that torture is not effective. Assuming you get past the part where we're aspiring to be more human than the animals who attack us. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topi...;news_id=510315 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/519416/

Let's all start creating threads of random quotes in large fonts. It's quite profound.