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Re: GOP Primaries/Caucuses Discussions, Jokes and Prediction

Post by Forty Two » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:03 pm

rEvolutionist wrote:You seriously live under a rock, don't you?
LOL - your usual contribution to discussion. If it's not some form of "oh, come on!" it's a personal insult.

The appropriate response to you here is "go fuck yourself." I'd never say that, though.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:14 pm

:roll: this was from 6 months ago. First hit in Google.

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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:18 am

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Post by Animavore » Mon Feb 01, 2016 3:39 pm

Climate Change Denier Claims (Heh) That 2015 Wasn’t (Ha) the Hottest Year on Record (HAHAHAHA!)

I (and many others) have shown that the loudest voices in the climate change denial noise machine have long since run out of any real credibility. There are numerous ways to reach that conclusion; for example you can look at how their claims have changed over the years (there’s no warming, there’s not much warming, it’s not warming enough to worry about, warming is good for plants, sure it’s warming but it’ll hurt our economy to do anything about it), you can look at their funding sources (tobacco and fossil fuel interests) whose tactics they deploy, or the fact that they rely on long-debunked claims instead of any real evidence.
As the denial never seems to cease, I think they’re not only short on credibility, they’re also just short on ways to sell their snake oil. Their ideas get weirder and less believable every time they speak.

That’s the only conclusion I can draw when the claims I see now are so ridiculous, so outrageously, blatantly wrong that it’s hard to believe they can make them with a straight face.

I recently read an op-ed that falls firmly into this category, and it was no surprise at all that it came from James Taylor, from the bizarre world of the Heartland Institute. Remember them? They put up billboards comparing climate scientists to mass murderers, and when people were outraged at the obviously despicable claim (and they hemorrhaged donors because of it), they took the billboards down and, in Orwellian fashion, claimed victory.
[the claim that 2015 wasn't even close to being the hottest on record] is one of the wrongiest wrongs to have ever been wronged. Yes, far and away, without question, and where it counts, 2015 was the hottest year on record. Many, many temperature readings confirm that, and it’s not even close; even if you account for El Niño (which tends to make things warmer overall), 2015 blew away the previously hottest year of 2014.
Here’s an analogy for you: Taylor saying satellite measurements show 2015 isn’t the hottest year is like inspecting a horrendous car crash, finding the steering wheel intact, and claiming the accident never happened.
And that’s where the consequences come in. Because some of the people ideologically predisposed to use his claims as fodder are other deniers. And some of them have real power, like, say, Ted Cruz. R-Texas.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... _year.html

This dangerous lack of credibility isn't limited to Cruz. Even some of the Republicans who aren't outright denying one of the biggest issues of our day plan on doing absolutely nothing such that they might as well be deniers. Voting for them at this time would be like voting for an anti-vax party at a time of an encroaching epidemic.
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Post by Forty Two » Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:34 pm

rEvolutionist wrote::hehe: :o
LOL, because, yes, we have an open Nazi movement in the US where supporters will declare their support for candidates by displaying the much loved symbol of Nazi Germany. It's just as likely this was a Trump supporter as some jackass calling him a Nazi because, you know, well, like, he's a damn Nazi! He adheres to the principles of fascism and National Socialism!
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Post by Animavore » Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:41 pm

I think it was just a joke. Trump having a star on the Walk of Fame. Lol.
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Post by Forty Two » Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:47 pm

Bunch of polling info -- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

Iowans may be cool with the Trumpmeister General.
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Post by Animavore » Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:55 pm

The good thing about these elections is it gives me a good idea of which States to visit and which to avoid when I tour America.

Not that Iowa has been on anyone's list ever. Even this phone doesn't recognise it and tried to correct it to "I own".
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Post by Forty Two » Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:03 pm

Animavore wrote:The good thing about these elections is it gives me a good idea of which States to visit and which to avoid when I tour America.

Not that Iowa has been on anyone's list ever. Even this phone doesn't recognise it and tried to correct it to "I own".
What?????

Iowa has the world's largest garden gnome in Ames. Image

You can visit the site where the music died when Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper's plane went down. Image

The world's largest popcorn ball is in Sac City. You can visit the Field of Dreams from the Kevin Costner movie of that name. And, don't forget to visit the Villisca Ax Murder House.

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Post by Animavore » Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:10 pm

I do like fields.

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Post by tuco » Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:58 pm

Animavore wrote:The good thing about these elections is it gives me a good idea of which States to visit and which to avoid when I tour America.

Not that Iowa has been on anyone's list ever. Even this phone doesn't recognise it and tried to correct it to "I own".
Out of curiosity, when visiting what are your points of interests? To me the US offers little besides natural points of interests. And those are independent of anything really, they just are. The cities (urban architecture) are, except few, all the same. What else? Galleries and museums .. go to NYC and you still wont be able to see it all. Disneyland we have in Europe too. Else I dunno really. There is nothing to see there. Or is there?

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Post by Forty Two » Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:03 pm

Animavore wrote:I do like fields.

Sold.
If you like fields, you'll love Iowa. They have a corn field almost the size of Latvia.
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:06 pm

and a dustbowl the size of the whole state.
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Post by tuco » Mon Feb 01, 2016 7:09 pm

One thing I never got to see and would love to is some NASA stuff.

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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:33 am

Breaking news: Cruz wins Iowa! The beginning of the end for the buffoon?
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