You guys are going to have to get some topics going. Not sure if I will be able to post until Monday. Last time this happened I was getting about 9 hits a day when I got back....don't let that happen again!!!!
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
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Bad Research, Worse Reporting on Global Warming
In trying to prove that the Bush administration is throttling research into global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists rolled out some breathtakingly bad science.
The group unveiled a supposedly scientific survey of more than 1,600 federal climate scientists as evidence that the administration was engaged in “wide-ranging political interference in research related to global warming.”
“The new evidence shows that political interference in climate science is no longer a series of isolated incidents but a system-wide epidemic,” Dr. Francesca Grifo, Director of the UCS Scientific Integrity Program, said in a press release. “Tailoring scientific fact for political purposes has become a problem across many federal science agencies.”
Grifo obviously doesn’t’ appreciate the irony when he trots out a poll that is so flawed that it is manifest evidence of exaggeration, incompetence or dishonesty on his group’s part.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/bad_research_horrendous_report.html More Lies from the Religion of Global Warming
Um an actual *link* works. lol.
Well, dedanna, where's your contribution topic for discussion?
I'm surprised Rhyno and Jim haven't posted some Democrats are great topic.
Oh, did you see that UC-Santa Cruz cancelled their job fair in fear that the students would riot and throw bottles like they did last year?
How about Hillary's pronouncement that she wants to take the oil companies profits? Does she understand what kind of chaos something like that would create? Is she serious and just hasn't thought this idea through? That's my bet.
Mark,
The Hildebeast is deadly serious. She doesn't believe in profit, unless it is into her personal bank account. She's made numerous statements over the last year about taking things away from people like tax cuts, their income, and their freedoms. She doesn't believe in the America people and is deathly afraid of them being free.
The Hildebeast loathes the troops and the honor & sacrifice they exhibit daily. The Thanksgiving GW Bush served the troops their Turkey Dinner in Iraq, the Hildebeast and Harry Reid were pushing their way to the front of the line violating all protocols to be served first with DOUBLE helpings.
No this woman should never be in office if not disbarred.
Here's one Jim can really slink away from, Pelosi wanting a taxpayer paid mobile shakedown parlour. She want a Boeing 757 rather than a Gulfstream to go back and forth to San Fancisco on Democrat fundraising trips. I have a better idea. Remember the plane Kerry bought to campaign in? It fits the bill and Kerry and Heinz-Kerry can fund the flights for Pelosi out of their own pocket without touching taxpayer funds.
Hey from each according to their ability (or accumulated money) to each according to their need (or political desires).
"from each..."
Good one PCD
Kool-ade, kool-ade, must taste great!
Any comments on this:
At a farewell reception at Blair House for the retiring chief of protocol, Don Ensenat, who was President Bush's Yale roommate, the president shook hands with Washington Life Magazine's Soroush Shehabi. "I'm the grandson of one of the late Shah's ministers," said Soroush, "and I simply want to say one U.S. bomb on Iran and the regime we all despise will remain in power for another 20 or 30 years and 70 million Iranians will become radicalized."
"I know," President Bush answered.
"But does Vice President Cheney know?" asked Soroush.
President Bush chuckled and walked away.
Well Jim. The piece doesn't say what connections this dude has to Iran that he should be taken as a real voice of Iranian thought. The entire piece seemed rather cynical anyway. We've certainly got plenty of cynicism these days, don't we? You might want to try linking to pieces that have a little more meat to them.
What, like NewMax and WorldNet Daily?
Ha ha ha!
Furthermore, that is not only the voice of Iranian thought. The entire world knows this is true (even Bush, he admitted it) with the exception of Dick Cheney, the PNAC group and the wingnuts.
You want some meat, Marshall? How about William E. Odom, a retired Army lieutenant general, head of Army intelligence and director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan. Here:
"Victory, as the president sees it, requires a stable liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American. The NIE describes a war that has no chance of producing that result."
"First, the assumption that the United States could create a liberal, constitutional democracy in Iraq defies just about everything known by professional students of the topic."
"Second, to expect any Iraqi leader who can hold his country together to be pro-American, or to share American goals, is to abandon common sense."
"Too many lawmakers have fallen for the myths that are invoked to try to sell the president's new war aims. Let us consider the most pernicious of them.
1) We must continue the war to prevent the terrible aftermath that will occur if our forces are withdrawn soon. Reflect on the double-think of this formulation. We are now fighting to prevent what our invasion made inevitable! Undoubtedly we will leave a mess -- the mess we created.
2) We must continue the war to prevent Iran's influence from growing in Iraq. This is another absurd notion. One of the president's initial war aims, the creation of a democracy in Iraq, ensured increased Iranian influence, both in Iraq and the region."
Read all of it for some good meat.
Opinion is not meat. Despite this guy's creds, he is retired and not privy to the full breath of info and data necessary to make an informed opinion. Like everybody else who isn't closely involved with the planning, strategy and fighting of this war, he is just a very outside observer. General Patraeus has a very different opinion than does this fellow. Right from the get-go, I'm aligning with the one who sees the chance for victory, not the one who assumes defeat. His assessment sounds like every other cut and run assessment and his take on our involvement also smacks of the usual anti-Bush POV. You think there's meat here, but it smells of the same rot from every other lefty with no heart. Try again.
Odom is a lefty??? I would say that his opinion is well-informed by his experience as well as deep knowledge of the history, culture, and politics of the region, all of which Bush lacks.
Patreus's boss is George W. Bush. He's going to say something contradictory to Bush's "policy"?
Obviously anything contrary to the Bush "policy" is "anti Bush" or "Bush hater speech" and will have no effect on adherents to the Bush cult.
Jim,
Time and time again you have proven yourself to be an extreme Bush hating leftwing Democrat extremist. You endorsing anyone diminishes their credibility, especially when it is an OPINION expressed.
I'm sure the same thing was said about Hitler after the Anschluss.
Once again, Jim, nice try. I have an extremely hard time believing that veteran military commanders knuckle under to the president in the manner your comments suggest. I also have a real hard time believing that Bush just stomps his feet until the military advisors give him what he wants even if they think his idea is crap and unworkable. That's a way too cynical opinion of our government even from you. I don't care how much experience a guy had back then. This isn't back then, it's now. He may have insights, but they are limited by his limited access to what the admin and military now have. He's free to voice his opinions, but to say that there is no one in the upper ranks who believes as Bush does is absolute crap. Based on his article, I'm glad Odom is retired. He's obviously over the hill.
Game,
I guess you didn't see this:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae2d5d24-badd-11db-bbf3-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=be75219e-940a-11da-82ea-0000779e2340,_i_email=y.html
Iran will have the bomb if they don't already. The UN is useless, and as far as I am concerned, Jim, Jay, Rhyno, and other cut and run liberals/Democrats aided in providing cover & tieing our hands to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. I think anyone killed by the Iranina bomb is the responsibility of the Democrats of this country.
pcd, I have been very busy working, and have found a lack of interest in political blogs (I guess I've found real life more interesting than sitting in front of a computer all the time).
Besides, as I said one time, I can only tolerate having to write in the word verification for every single post I make not very much. Rarely, in fact. I just don't prefer to be here unless things in general in this world less depressing.
Anyone got anything with a little bit of actual cheer or humor to it? Cuz if they do, I'll hang out there for a while anyway, so long as I don't have to do the word verification thing there.
I guess sites like this have become too much the same ol'-same ol' all the time. I'm bored with it, and I'm over it. Not worth putting in letters that my grandson could type in any more, much less contributing to. The topics have all come out to end with the same thing again over & over.
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