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Yay!

2 This Australian ex-pat is very happy this morning

3

Quoting Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged". 

"Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed."

4 Woo Hoo... throw somthing on the barby!

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The Australian Liberal Party...dumped their leader for supporting this nonsense...

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Rush was talking yesterday about the folly of third-parties and how we should not even entertain such nonsense. Quite right. Now the problem we have is this: Should we adopt that so-called purity test, or should we sit back and pray the powers-that-be in the GOP do right by us and our party?

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Good to see some sanity in the world.

7 So, after last night's rousing speech by the Commander in Chief, how many West Point Cadets have resigned?

8

SOMEBODY finally saw through the hype and BS and did the right thing.

Why can't we??

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Should we adopt that so-called purity test, or should we sit back and pray the powers-that-be in the GOP do right by us and our party?

I think we should call them primaries, and do the cleansing at that point.

10 That ALP party are nuttin but a bunch of rabble rousers.

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Well, we can't sit on our thumbs and do nothing. If we do nothing, we'll end up with more Dodoscoozafavas. The purity test or a purity oath is not such a bad idea. Why?

We need to find out if these (R)'s are actually on our side and not playing for the other team, either knowingly or unwittingly.

Take Pawlenty, for example. We can't have a guy who is either too stupid or too worried about groupthink to tell the truth about global warming. Which brings us to the hard part: How do we get rid of Pawlenty or bring him to his senses? I dunno. But I do know we need to do something to fix this problem.

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The Australians have acted stupidly.

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I don't think fixing the primary process will help that much. Here's why: Let's say we have a RINO and a conservative in the primary. The RINO (who isn't nearly as bad as Scooz, so it's not as obvious) gets all the money and support from the RNC. The conservative has no money, no ads, no name recognition. The Rino wins.

Our problem is with the leadership of the party. We need to stop them from choosing these RINOs in the first place.

We got Crist vs Rubio. Crist has the name, the money, and all the support. Crist, I beleive, can win either an open or closed primary, makes no difference.

14 I was impressed with Abbott, and even more impressed that the usual rabble of pissed off lesbians, ABC journalists* and sack cloth underpant wearing greenies all collectively pissed their pants after he bitch slapped Kevin Rudds Manbearpig reduction scam.

* The ABC is our state run left wing propaganda arm.

15 And they're speculating snow in Houston on Friday, which would be the earliest in recorded history that we receive snow.  The previous record was set LAST YEAR (12/10).  The very notion that we get snow 2 years in a row is pretty unbelievable.

Phil Jones could not be reached for comment.

16 At least they're not getting a heaping-helping of global warming today.

17 "Australia is a small greenhouse gas polluter in global terms, but one of the worst per capita..." By ROHAN SULLIVAN (AP)

What part of CO2 isn't pollution, and it isn't warming the Earth, and we just showed you how the guys saying that it is are liars and cheaters, doesn't this fool understand?  Yeah, Rohan, if that is your real name, I see what you did there.

18 Yea, there's snow here in Dallas but that's God just scratchin' his head.

19 For the moment, simply voting out all incumbents will suffice to take Congress away from the Democrats while sending both the Republicans and Democrats the message that we're disgusted with the lot of them: that may help the 'pubbies to get that old time religion again. I don't think a third party is a good idea but it would be nice to get back to two parties, at least.

20 I'm loving it. Right before Copenhagen, stupid little know-nothings are tying down Gulliver.

21 ('Course "stupid little know-nothings" is my affectionate phrase for us reasonable folk.)

22

"Yea, there's snow here in Dallas but that's God just scratchin' his head."

I guess God should try some Head'n'Shoulders, Sam's sells it by the case. 

23 Charles Tue, Dec 1, 2009 10:33:20pm

forever?...AGW has taken a hit...now what?, disclaiming deniers is not good enough and this thing is exploding

Uh, no. It isn't.

Charles Tue, Dec 1, 2009 10:37:08pm re: albusteve

it's an issue that's certainly picking up steam...what strategy will resolve this rift so we can move forward?

No, it's not. It's dying. In a week or less it will be completely out of the news.

Charles thinks this whole thing will blow over in a week. Keep warming that globe Charles.

Yeah more Charles, sorry. But if this guy is going to double down on stupid this late in the game he should be made to own this. It's like running up the gang plank for the Titanic as it's lifted from the dock yelling "This boat is unsinkable!"

24   @3:  Posted by: mark c at December 02, 2009 09:20 AM (SBIko)

I read those words 41 years ago.  But I never thought they could apply to us in my lifetime.  Very sobering...

25 From US News & World Report: Penn State Will Investigate 'Climategate' A little more than a week ago, E-mails exchanged among an English university's climate change researchers were illegally obtained from a server and posted online, the report says. If these "illegally obtained" emails supported "The Meme", I'm 100% sure that the media would be referring to the hacker (or insider) as a "whistle blower".

26 A cold day in climate change.

27 Now Canada is the AGW enemy and the mask is truely off - it is not about climate but governance. http://tinyurl.com/y9v7oh3 "I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada"

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23  Don't apologise for dragging Mad King Charles out for another beating.

Just because a handful of driveby dingbats do the "take the time to comment about how much they don't like to read something nobody is making them read in the first place so can we all just stop talking about it" concern trolling is no reason to hesitate. 

That sanctimonious tool is a good punching bag, and he deserves it. 

More victory laps, please.

29

Imagine my surprise when I got up this morning and saw snow on the ground here in Dallas on December 2. Why, you could have knocked me over with an IPCC report. What with all this global warming and stuff, I hadn't figured on seeing any snow before February, if at all, here in Big D. And then, the temperature. 34 degrees! I can only assume that if not for global warmng, the temps would have been in the teens and the snow would have amounted to at least a foot.

Eat it, global warming idiots.

30 I keep reading that the oil and gas companies are spending millions to cover up climate change. (Ref: http://tinyurl.com/ygr2eyv) First, where do I get my check - seriously who is getting paid? Second, why - they make money regardless and may make more.

31 23 Rocks

Yes, we shouldn't get too wrapped up in Charles, and watching him melt, and let it dominate threads. There are other topics more important.

OTOH, he is a force in the blogosphere, at least for another week, and his unfounded (unfounded now, because there's now evidence) assertions need exposing. 

His words on AGW are much like vacationing at one of a certain few resorts in Thailand on 26 Dec 2006 and after seeing the tide suddenly recede a mile or so out to sea, declaring that now is the time to go hunt seashells, rather than haul ass for land 5 miles inland and 300' higher. People may get hurt both ways, but one way is much worse.

Charles is wrong, and he knows it. Perhaps someone will prepare a heavily Photoshopped .gif, to highlight his wrongness.

32 Charles is wrong, and he knows it. Perhaps someone will prepare a heavily Photoshopped .gif, to highlight his wrongness.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 02, 2009 11:37 AM (7CMP3)

A graph of the currently warming cult approved average temperatures with a curve plotted from the same data minus Phil Jones' special sauce that vibrates should do it.

33 Should we adopt that so-called purity test, or should we sit back and pray the powers-that-be in the GOP do right by us and our party?

I think calling these things a "purity test" is the wrong approach. There are some bills and agendas that are pushed by the liberals that a true Republican has no business supporting. Crap and Tax, the health scam bill, and amnesty are big examples of current liberal agenda items that should be deal breakers for conservatives.

The other thing is long term consistency. If you side with the liberals more than 20% of the time you are no conservative. If you side with them more than 50% of the time you ARE one of them.

34 I'm freezing my ass off and sitting inside my own house with a sweater on. On the up side, yelling "It's SNOWING!" did get my rugrats out of bed with a minimum of whining.

35 #32 A Balrog of Morgoth (now with 100% more smugness!)

“A graph ……. that vibrates should do it.”

Are you suggesting an animated .gif?

Sir, in the name of Common decency, have you no mercy? Wait ...

36 What is clear is that the CRU should be shutdown.

If we assume that this "ClimateGate" is nothing, then clearly by the then obvious fact that the "science is settled", we don't need them any more, and the money can best be spent elsewhere. And all you "climate scientists" out there, I'm sorry but you hitched your horse to a wagon that isn't moving any more.

On the other hand, if "ClimateGate" is the worst scientific scandal of the century, these rascals should not be in the business any more.

37 Middle Earth rejects AGW?

38

A graph of the currently warming cult approved average temperatures with a curve plotted from the same data minus Phil Jones' special sauce that vibrates should do it.

There's a really bad joke lurking in all this about a Mann who can only get it up/get an uptick with the use of Valu-Rite Data (tm).

 

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Hey, anyone want to join me in a campaign to edit all Wikipedia entries referring to Global Warming, the IPCC, etc to say something like this (now-fixed) change I made to the IPCC entry:

I changed the opening sentences to read:

"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the source of The Great Climate Hoax, the greatest "scientific" scandal in world history. Created specifically to generate false data showing climate change caused by human activity, in order to justify Global Socialist Governance."

40 What a bonehead. Double-posting dirty motherfucker.

41 Need a rope?

42 The Last Vestage of Enron

Almost two decades before President Barack Obama made “cap-and-trade” for carbon dioxide emissions a household term, an obscure company called Enron — a natural-gas pipeline company that had become a big-time trader in energy commodities — had figured out how to make millions in a cap-and-trade program for sulphur dioxide emissions, thanks to changes in the U.S. government’s Clean Air Act. To the delight of shareholders, Enron’s stock price rose rapidly as it became the major trader in the U.S. government’s $20-billion a year emissions commodity market.
Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, keen to engineer an encore, saw his opportunity when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were inaugurated as president and vice-president in 1993.

To capitalize on Al GoreÂ’s interest in global warming, Enron immediately embarked on a massive lobbying effort to develop a trading system for carbon dioxide, working both the Clinton administration and Congress. Political contributions and Enron-funded analyses flowed freely, all geared to demonstrating a looming global catastrophe if carbon dioxide emissions werenÂ’t curbed. An Enron-funded study that dismissed the notion that calamity could come of global warming, meanwhile, was quietly buried.

43 Houston will be getting a "dusting" on Friday. I'm breaking out the suntan lotion for this global warming event, or maybe some shake n bake. Not sure yet.

44

I'm freezing my ass off and sitting inside my own house with a sweater on.

Well, now you know what winter in Wisconsin feels like :-)

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