Azalin

Any true metal fan knows all about Mercyful Fate \00/

I thought it was a good speech and a positive sentiment. Nothing extreme, nothing partisan, and refreshingly sensible advice from a modern commencement speech.

To you as well - happy independence day, my friend!

I couldn't agree more. Again, I think we're very much on the same page. Any practical alternative to fossils fuels is likely a long way off, and I am 100% against artificially driving up the cost of any form of energy, like what was done to the coal industry a few years ago. That doesn't mean that I do not support research and investment into developing reliable alternative energy, but again - you're right. It probably won't be a reality for a long time. I don't fault people for caring, either - it's just that what so many people believe to be truth is a bunch of manufactured bull#$%& because they take a political view, not a realistic one. The only meaningful legacy that Al Gore will leave is Manbearpig.

I agree completely with everything you posted. I thought I addressed your point, at least very generally speaking, by using the phrase "scale back fossil fuel use without artificially driving up energy costs". For the record, what I mean is continue to use fossil fuels for now, only replacing them when it becomes less expensive to do so. Alternative energy can't just be an alternative, it has to be cost effective, affordable, and widely available to replace fossil fuels in any practical way. I've heard it put this way: you don't have a real energy alternative until you can use it to put jets in the air. Nothing else available that I know of even comes close to being able to do that.

I'm hardly what anyone (except maybe an activist atheist) would call religious, but I've always considered desecration of a grave as physically disrespecting it, since most graves are considered to be hallowed ground. The act of beatification is to my knowledge the exact opposite of desecration. Looks like we've got our own definitions of what desecration is.

That's actually a good question, and presuming you're being genuine, then my honest answer is nobody knows, but the speculation is all over the place. The big problem is that the issue had been politicized, so much of what is passed off as legitimate answers ranges anywhere from likely correct to absolute hogwash. In my opinion, the best thing is for humanity to continue to scale back fossil fuel use without artificially driving up energy costs, and to realize that climate science is both in it's infancy and completely speculative in nature. The best (and only) way to approach any field of science is from a skeptic's point of view.

Che pretty much nails it.

I remember the Crap Throwing Monkey from way back - was that you? If so, I'll have you know that I adopted it in different syntax for use at work, and now the "Feces Chucking Primate" lives and breathes in our work lexicon.

No thanks - that'll just make his posts visible to anyone who has him on ignore.

So I should make a bot to do it for me?

People reacting by disagreeing with an article's premise or calling BS isn't whining or crying, it's disagreement. What do you expect from an open-discussion political forum? Also, take note of how you refer to a leftist's posts about Trump "calling it as they see it" but call it whining and crying when it comes from the right. No bias there, eh?

But that's not desecration. Defacing or defiling a grave is desecration, and is not acceptable. That's why the most villainous are buried in unmarked graves, if indeed they're put into the ground at all.

1957 - a very good year indeed.

You know how it is - they say they need to pay more in taxes, but do they? Of course not - it's enough that they advocate for higher taxes for the wealthy. That's how they earn the adoration of the left - advocate something that they have no intention of imposing on themselves, and voila! They now become wealthy, influential social warriors against the injustices of capitalism.

Please, anybody on the left, make a convincing or compelling case in support of desecrating graves.

Yep - I was in 10th grade during Watergate. It was just a year or so before cable television was in every home, so the hearings were the only thing on television, every day, on every channel.

I would replace the word "stick" with "whoopie cushion", but it is indeed entertaining.

What's lost in this is the fact that these people, as protesters, are often actually rioters. Other times they are there as counter-protesters, there to confront people who march for anything they don't agree with or approve of. How often do we see the right physically attacking or accosting crowds of leftists? If these idiots keep it up, it'll happen sooner or later. The obvious irony is that they consider themselves to be anti-fascists, when what they're doing is adopting fascist tactics (violence and coercion) in order to repress opposing viewpoints. Hopefully this is just a flash in the pan reaction from a bunch of spoiled, angst-ridden kids. If not, it will likely give rise to an opposing wave of angry mobs bent on giving them the beat-down of their lives.

This might have surprised me five years ago, Now I see something like this and entertain myself by reading all the hysterical comments. I'm so glad that I'll be dead and gone by the time these sanctimonious, idiotic children are in charge.

They don't need to learn how to fight - if one of those lisping fairies started yelling at me, I'd fall helpless to the ground in laughter.

But leave Navy Pier. And the Field Museum. They're both worth hanging onto. By taxing rich people their fair share - duh!

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