Azalin

What's wrong, all those facts ganging up on you once again? Probably the part with words.

No doubt that's true, but I would have thought that the subsequent division of Germany would have left a bitter taste in their more recent memory.

Cool - you just became my go-to guy for all things world history.

I was surprised to see Spain supporting it (if only by 1%), and was really surprised that Germany wouldn't. France was no surprise at all.

Ah, the facts and details of obfuscation once again rear their head.....

That's why I said 'if they're just little kids'. Older kids don't need awards for 'just showing up' I like that - a bonus for good attendance. Wouldn't that be nice, eh? You should have said 'yes, we have a bonus for good attendance - it's called keeping your job. We also offer a similar bonus for not stealing from the company.'

You can have all kinds of classroom, textbook, and theoretical knowledge, but that doesn't amount to squat when it comes to living in the real world, so most college kids can't be expected to have a clue of how things really work. Add to that the fact that most college kids aren't paying the bills for their healthcare, student loans, car loans, or even rent - someone else often provides them - so why not support supplementing them with tax dollars? They won't understand until they begin to raise children of their own. And even then, there's no guarantee.

Hillary will only commit to something if it's popular. She won't take an official stand - and usually not even offer an opinion - on anything until she can tell which way the wind is blowing.

Guilty as charged, my friend. Guilty as charged.

With that gout to deal with, neither does he.

Don't hold your breath.

He's a Gary Johnson supporter butthurt that his guy didn't get the nomination.

I'm pretty sure the Pope drinks more than that.

2 or 3 are certainly more manageable than 7,000, but that's still more talking than I care to do.

Judging by the average age of those in attendance, I'd still call that fossil fuel.

Stop hitting yourself in the head. You're stupid enough already.

How would you like to have seven thousand women who want to cuddle, or compain that you 'never talk'?

So, you believe that republicans are the only ones politicizing science? If you're so against one side injecting their dogma into the issue, why do you give the other side a complete pass? There are entire books written on bigfoot, too. I guess you believe them as well.

I ate too much kebab, now I falafel.

It's a partisan issue because politicians have taken it up and made a cause out of it, and any proposal for dealing with the issue that I've ever heard involves either greater regulation, increased taxation, or both. Whenever either side adopts a position on a given issue, the issue tends to become polarized. People will take a stand based on their political philosophy, not upon the facts. While somewhat reasonably stated, the wording of your question reveals these same biases in you. You said "discounting the fact that so many conservatives are scientific illiterates" - where do you come off making a claim like that? How far up your own backside do you have to be to actually believe nonsense like that? In addition, you go on to say "do they really like being controlled by unelected industtrialists with no concern for their well being or anyone elses?", when a similar claim can be made against progressives who really like being controlled by elected officials and their appointees who are driving an economic agenda disguised as science. What your question completely ignores is that a large segment, if not a majority of those questioning AGW do so not as deniers, but as skeptics, who demand evidence, not consensus, of AGW before economic or regulatory legislation is enacted upon.

Quaid - start the reactor!

Dirka dirka, Mohammed jihad.

Those are facts and details. Stop obfuscating.

I'm having a very difficult time imagining how this would work - people in wheelchairs & walkers reaching around and groping eachother, or everyone heaped in a semi-motionless pile and groping eachother? I admire their attitude, though.