October 02, 2012
— Ace Global warming, like pollution and smoke due to indoor fires.
Indeed, 1.4 million deaths are caused by outdoor air pollution, which is almost entirely unrelated to global warming. This air pollution, of course, is still predominantly caused by fossil fuels, but only because that is what we mostly use for fuel in the world. So, while the report is technically correct in saying that these 1.4 million deaths are caused by "the present carbon-intensive economy," these deaths are in no way caused by climate change. Rebranding air pollution, mostly from particulate pollution, as "carbon" appears both disingenuous and designed to confuse. It was clearly intended to convey the message that these deaths were somehow relevant for the global warming debate.Moreover, 3.1 million deaths in 2010 were due to indoor smoke, which in no way is caused by global warming and has little or nothing to do with fossil fuels. According to the World Health Organization, indoor air pollution is due to cooking and heating with biomass fuels (agricultural residues, dung, straw, wood) or coal products, and biomass, which is entirely unrelated to fossil fuels, constitutes more than 85 percent of the total. So, while the study lumps all these deaths together as resulting from the use of carbon-based fuels, it is only true in the most exaggerated meaning of that word, in that all biomass contains carbon.
The bottom line: When the study reports that 4.975 million people die in 2010 from the "combined climate-carbon crisis", the reality is that 4.575 million have not been caused by global warming.
And he's got a problem with the 0.4 million left over, too.
But this headline has gone out to all the liberal media today, including Businessweek. Global warming, it is claimed, will kill 100 million people by 2030.
Just nonsense and mummery, like the Prophets of Doom of old.
We seem to have become a Post-Enlightment culture. Mysticism and prophecy are all the rage again, as they once were.
Smoke Inhalation Counts As A Global Warming Death? Alex seizes upon this to suggest Susan Rice's next talking point:
bviously Ambassador Steven's death due to indoor smoke inhilation is more evidence that we must redouble our efforts to fight global climate change.
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Posted by: mugiwara at October 02, 2012 10:12 AM (Arhcd)
Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at October 02, 2012 10:12 AM (GRvW4)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:13 AM (Dnbau)
There used to be a highly advanced human population...back in 20,000 BC.
But Serial Killer Earth killed them.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 10:13 AM (l5RhJ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 10:13 AM (oSFWF)
Posted by: MacGruber at October 02, 2012 10:14 AM (S+el1)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 02, 2012 10:14 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Global Warming--Like a Hug! at October 02, 2012 10:14 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 02, 2012 10:14 AM (QF8uk)
'
When it gives neither I know it is just like newspaper polls, bullshit.
Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (YdQQY)
Just sayin'.
Posted by: eastvalleyphx says fuck islam at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (GRvW4)
Posted by: soothsayer at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (oSFWF)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (Dnbau)
If they truly had the courage of their convictions they would be rooting for the dystopian fantasy of global warming...
That is, until they admit that a warmer earth means more humans.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (vY2x+)
Posted by: Alex at October 02, 2012 10:15 AM (3x3F6)
Posted by: Weepy the Trashman at October 02, 2012 10:16 AM (3SvjA)
Posted by: ace at October 02, 2012 10:16 AM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Dante at October 02, 2012 10:16 AM (NWLVJ)
Posted by: izoneguy at October 02, 2012 10:17 AM (oKH8p)
Posted by: soothsayer at October 02, 2012 10:17 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 10:17 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (8y9MW)
But this headline has gone out to all the liberal media today, including Businessweek. Global warming, it is claimed, will kill 100 million people by 2030.
Well good! Less competition in front of the death panels when they start rationing our health care choices. You'd think lefty asshats would WANT this.
We seem to have become a Post-Enlightment culture. Mysticism and prophecy are all the rage again, as they once were.
As I've stated previously, one more reason why I refer to so-called progressives as "regressives."
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (4df7R)
Quit hating science, cons!
Posted by: Concerned Scientists, Inc. at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (DLu2s)
Posted by: Penfold at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (Dnbau)
We had a coal burning stove while I was growing up.
How the hell did I survive? Surely the clinkers alone should have killed me off.
Posted by: Lauren at October 02, 2012 10:18 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (QKKT0)
Global warming is like bacon -- there isn't anything it can't do!
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (8kq7+)
Posted by: Waterhouse at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (POGCP)
Posted by: Iran at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (oSFWF)
Posted by: ace at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 10:19 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Reality Check at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (ELEDJ)
Posted by: Montgomery Burns at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (XvHmy)
When I first heard of this before the first minute of research was done by me I looked at the proposed solution. You can always tell what the "real" problem is by the proposed solution. In this case it was more government control or more taxes or both. So I determined that the real problem was the US had too much industry and that the citizens in this country who paid taxes did not pay enough.
In other words Obama material. So now even though Congress said no to this BS Obama is implementing it through Pharaoh said anyway.
Every SOB who pushes this shit should be in jail.
Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (YdQQY)
Or are cold temps caused by global warming as well?
Yes. Definitely Yes. Remember the snow storms in DC last year? Climate change, baby!
Posted by: Lauren at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Penfold at October 02, 2012 10:20 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: Max Power at October 02, 2012 10:21 AM (q177U)
How many people died in the non-Anglosphere last year? (I'll count India in there too.)
They're the fault of liberals.
Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the UN.
Quinn Excites Dismay.
Posted by: Al at October 02, 2012 10:21 AM (MzQOZ)
Everybody is over-looking carrots. Carrots are what we should be scared of. Did you know that everybody that ever ate carrots has died or will die. This carrot plague has to be stopped.
Posted by: polynikes at October 02, 2012 10:22 AM (m2CN7)
Since we have already trashed the thread topic:
Top Hezbollah operative Ali Hussein Nassif has reportley been killed, along with several other Hezbollah members, in clashes near Homs.
Hezbollah is Shia, like Obama. Watch for some recognition of this development by O, he has just taken a hit in his ladyparts.
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 10:22 AM (1Y+hH)
The logic behind these statistics is comical, e.g. "A child drowned because he swam in a lake that 10,000 years ago was solid ice. If it weren't for global warming, he would've been able to walk on the ice to safety once he realized he was drowning."
Posted by: Manolo at October 02, 2012 10:22 AM (kl3xJ)
Posted by: 10,000 Dead Pompeiians at October 02, 2012 10:22 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Roy at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (HiKk0)
Posted by: Richard Hayes at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (DLu2s)
This is not, alas, true of the global warmists and their fans.
Posted by: suburbanbanshee at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (cvXSV)
Posted by: Global Warming--Like a Hug! at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (r2PLg)
Had they lived, they would have intercepted Tony Romo
Posted by: Eli the NFC East Comic at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (wwsoB)
Posted by: Vic at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (YdQQY)
This is the sort of story that doesn't pass what I would call my super-duper grade-school arithmetic/smell test. To wit:
1. There are roughly 7 billion people in the world.
2. The average world age expectancy is roughly 70.
3. That means, and again this is rough, that roughly 100 million people die in the world every year of something -- violence, car crashes, heart disease, cancer, old age, etc.
4. This story is telling us that something like 5% of world deaths are caused by global warming/carbon pollution.
I just don't buy it. That's obviously a grossly exaggerated statistic, and anyone with fifth grade math skills could see it in an instant.
And, of course, even if it were true, if we all of a sudden could or would decide to simply do away with using carbon fuels, you'd have to account for the millions who would die of starvation, war, societal breakdown, etc.
Utopians never understand that there are tradeoffs on the road to nirvana.
Posted by: The Regular Guy at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (qHCyt)
Posted by: Rachel Carson, burning in hell as we speak at October 02, 2012 10:23 AM (bAGA/)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 02:20 PM (Dnbau)
Let's just not talk about all the people in third world shitholes who die of malaria and other insect-borne diseases who would have survived if they had some fucking DDT. Because DDT is bad.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:24 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: soothsayer at October 02, 2012 10:24 AM (jUytm)
you've seen this right? really, this needs its own post. these freaks need to be shamed and they should crawl back under their rocks
check out the guy in the green....onesie (yes....I typed onesie)
tiny.cc/vddklw
Posted by: laceyunderalls at October 02, 2012 10:24 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 10:24 AM (oSFWF)
Posted by: Exile at October 02, 2012 10:24 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Jason Alexander at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (vjyZP)
You liked that study, wait til the one comes out about how many people get killed by racism each year.
Clearly Ambassador Stevens was a racist for getting himself killed in an effort to prevent SCoaMF's reelection.
Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (6BgmB)
Posted by: Manolo at October 02, 2012 02:22 PM (kl3xJ)
YES! Exactly! Welcome to the fold, comrade!
Posted by: Environuts at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (4df7R)
12 Oddly enough, Mars is seeing unexpectedly warm weather.
It's the Sun.
'Global warming' is real enough...it has happened periodically, throughout the history of our planet.
It happens to the other planets in our solar system too.
Solar activity...increases in volcanic activity...there are several factors that cause periods of 'global warming', here on earth.
All of which are far more powerful than whatever we puny humans are doing.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (l5RhJ)
Posted by: Reality Derp at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (tG36f)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:25 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD the revelator at October 02, 2012 10:26 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Soothsayer F. Kennedy at October 02, 2012 10:26 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 02, 2012 10:26 AM (hyB08)
Posted by: Bart who lurks with SMOD 2012 and is Master of his domain at October 02, 2012 10:27 AM (he2LC)
Posted by: Max Power at October 02, 2012 10:27 AM (q177U)
Posted by: The Looming Global Population Explosion at October 02, 2012 10:27 AM (MQLiy)
Geez, learn to think like a scientisk on the government teat.
Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 10:27 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Max Power at October 02, 2012 02:27 PM (q177U)
Yeah and you saw what the ice age did to all those cute little animals...
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 10:27 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: Lizabth at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (JZBti)
Where are they now?
What about all the people that were going to be killed by the hole in the ozone?
Where are they now?
It's the same with every fucking "study" with these people.
Seatbelt law, helmet laws, warning labels, drunk driving, speed limits, licenses, environmental laws, disability laws, discrimination laws--on and on, all this shit to get you used to the idea of the government telling you what to do and not a damned thing to do with increasing safety or freedom.
When the fuck do we get our freedom back since none of their "safety" has worked?
Posted by: RoyalOil at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (imtbm)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: soothsayer at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (jUytm)
Posted by: Barry O'Fuckstick at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (he2LC)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (B/VB5)
Although I have to admit that these scientifically ignorant morons make me even more sick than ozone does (after all, the ozone doesn't have the free will to intentionally cause asthma, free radicals, and premature aging).
Posted by: Norcross at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (4EA5K)
Posted by: Cognitive Disconnect at October 02, 2012 10:28 AM (4eNxd)
But not the nanny, because that would mean you were part of the evil 1%.
Posted by: Supercalifuckyou at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (vjyZP)
Posted by: Max Power at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (q177U)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (Dnbau)
"Global warming, it is claimed, will kill 100 million people by 2030."
wait. that would make the left happy.
Posted by: Fresh at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (O7ksG)
Many of them could cook with nice clean electricity or natural gas, but the fucking eco-fascists throw tantrums every time a Third World country wants to build a power plant or any country wants to get natural gas.
Let's just not talk about all the people in third world shitholes who die of malaria and other insect-borne diseases who would have survived if they had some fucking DDT. Because DDT is bad.
Not just DDT, but people are bad. Billions of people have to die so stupid rich white proggs can feel good about "saving teh planet" (for whom?). Poor brown people are easier to kill en masse than rich white progg people...
Posted by: Radish the Grouch at October 02, 2012 10:29 AM (/kI1Q)
18 What are the Left upset about? Humans are just a virus killing Mother Gaia, right?
Right...you'd think they would be cheering about a thinning of the herd.
Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (l5RhJ)
@DLoesch Screencapped the Obama campaign's ladyparts tumblr. http://twitpic.com/b0gbz1
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 02, 2012 02:29 PM (YjDyJ)
I saw it before it was scrubbed.
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: Lizabth at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (JZBti)
Posted by: sTevo's Obama Phone at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (uIz80)
Not a single person survived medieval times. You do the math.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (QKKT0)
"With the surge of American troops over and the Taliban still a potent threat, American generals and civilian officials acknowledge that they have all but written off what was once one of the cornerstones of their strategy to end the war here: battering the Taliban into a peace deal."
If Romney is smart he won't talk about this, either.
Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: PR at October 02, 2012 10:30 AM (KHo8t)
Dance, Nazi Troll, Dance.
And for someone who calls the Enlightenment "Satanic" you show a positively whelming understanding of Christianity.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 10:31 AM (8y9MW)
'post-Enlightenment' is a good read on this--complete with auto-de fe
Posted by: Major _____ de Coverly at October 02, 2012 10:31 AM (Dll6b)
AtC's comment deserves front-page billing.
Posted by: Radish the Grouch at October 02, 2012 10:31 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 10:32 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at October 02, 2012 10:33 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:33 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at October 02, 2012 10:33 AM (lOmbq)
New evidence suggests that the Crusades- which involved the invasion of peaceful Muslim lands and the indiscriminate murder of non-Christians- was largely motivated by climate change and the associated competition for resources.
Studies have suggested that the warming of the era has been attributed to deforestation and livestock domestication that began in earnest during the Medieval period.
There, you have your answer. Now excuse me while I check the mail for my big fat research grant check.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (hyB08)
I'm having trouble with the whole "Stevens died of smoke inhalation" story. Has anyone explained why, if Stevens died of smoke inhalation, he was bruised and bloodied?
At what point was he beaten--before, after, or during the fire?
Posted by: Average Jen at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (bGg6O)
Solar activity...increases in volcanic activity...there are several factors that cause periods of 'global warming', here on earth.
All of which are far more powerful than whatever we puny humans are doing.
THIS. Sometimes the stupidity of other people amazes me (I know -- trust me, I'm getting better). When I mention this to these idiots, I almost always get that blinking, glassy look of, "Okaaay... I don't really understand what you're talking about, so I'm not going to say anything. I'm pretty sure I'm right and you're wrong, but I don't have any facts to back that up so I'll just pretend I know what you're saying."
I mean, how often does someone have to make a movie about prehistoric times with jungles where we now have temperate forests,. oceans where now there's desert, and great ice sheets where we now have arable land? Just how often do you have to point at a picture of a fucking Mastodon and say, "There's a reason a big, shaggy elephants didn't survive to the modern era." Just how often to you have to point out that the word "AGE" in "ICE AGE" means that it was a period of time with a beginning and an end and that it happened WITHOUT humans having anything to do with it?
I mean, WTF!
*deep, cleansing breaths*
*falls off soapbox*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (4df7R)
1) Climate change has always existed.
2) All people ever born have always died.
3) Climate change kills everyone!
Posted by: Church of Environtologist at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (BrQrN)
Posted by: Reality Check at October 02, 2012 10:34 AM (ELEDJ)
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 10:35 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2012 02:28 PM (B/VB5)
Check out alexthechick's excellent rant on that very topic in the previous thread. Epic.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:35 AM (4df7R)
threat, American generals and civilian officials acknowledge that they
have all but written off what was once one of the cornerstones of their
strategy to end the war here: battering the Taliban into a peace deal."
If Romney is smart he won't talk about this, either.
Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 02:30 PM (bJm7W)
--------------------------------------------------
Unless he includes the word "nookler" in an explanation.
Posted by: Soona at October 02, 2012 10:36 AM (S0iwx)
Liberals can't understand causality.
It completely escapes them in addition to it being terribly inconvenient for their belief structure.
Posted by: garrett at October 02, 2012 10:37 AM (gplzV)
Posted by: liquidflorian at October 02, 2012 10:37 AM (Kx/oz)
Posted by: Reality Dreck at October 02, 2012 10:37 AM (aHR5E)
Don't forget to hug your chimney sweeper
And don't you DARE hold your child's hand in public if you're a man, because that means you're an incestuous pedophile.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 10:37 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:37 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Reality Check at October 02, 2012 02:34 PM (ELEDJ)
That stupid shit was disproven last time you went on an inane rant you fuck face. I'm sorry Romney isn't out screaming "stone the fags". Maybe if that's what you want you should move to fucking Iran.
Posted by: Adam at October 02, 2012 10:38 AM (tG36f)
Posted by: Old Style Communists at October 02, 2012 10:38 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: WalrusRex at October 02, 2012 10:38 AM (hyB08)
Posted by: Alar at October 02, 2012 10:39 AM (IoNBC)
"bviously Ambassador Steven's death due to indoor smoke inhilation is more evidence that we must redouble our efforts to fight global climate change"
That and lead poisoning.
Posted by: harleycowboy at October 02, 2012 10:39 AM (wSTfB)
Posted by: jakeman at October 02, 2012 10:39 AM (96M6e)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 02, 2012 10:39 AM (lWXSF)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 02, 2012 10:40 AM (JxMoP)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 02, 2012 02:24 PM (oSFWF
Assad is also Shia. Which is why O won't touch him. Iran is Shia too.
Gaddafi? Sunni
Taliban killed by drones all the time: Sunni
Saddam followers killed by O: Sunni
Bin Laden: Sunni
Al Zawahiri (where is he?): Shia
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (aHR5E)
http://t.co/c2eWA5jA
Posted by: The Political Hat at October 02, 2012 02:35 PM (XvHmy)
We like to focus on the one data point that agrees with our agenda...
Posted by: CAGW Zealot at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 02, 2012 02:40 PM (JxMoP
Its not killing people fast enough for their tastes.
Posted by: buzzion - Free Kratos at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (Dnbau)
**
WTF are they complaning about? I always thought the mass thinning of the population is what these freeak cultist wanted?
Posted by: dananjcon at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: jakeman at October 02, 2012 10:41 AM (96M6e)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2012 10:42 AM (B/VB5)
See? You just can't get this kind of stupid meets batshit insane anywhere else.
Where's my popcorn. Oh, there it is.
Dance, little troll. Dance.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at October 02, 2012 10:42 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Terra-bul World B Free at October 02, 2012 10:42 AM (7fLDW)
Posted by: Whooping Cough at October 02, 2012 10:42 AM (IoNBC)
The answer is obvious. The human race can only survive if we outlaw combustion of all types immediately.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 02, 2012 02:17 PM (QKKT0)
Flag-burning will have a waiver, per SCOAMF executive order.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 02, 2012 10:42 AM (TIIx5)
Many Illinois leaders — including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Gov. Pat Quinn who spoke to The Associated Press ahead of a news conference to announce the sale — supported the purchase because they said it would bring up to 1,100 jobs to Illinois. Federal officials have said it would help alleviate prison overcrowding.
"It means a prison that has been sitting here empty will be used again and create a lot of opportunity for working families in the areas," Durbin said.
The sale of the facility has been stalled for years. Most recently, Virginia Republican U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, who heads a key House subcommittee overseeing the federal Bureau of Prisons, objected to the purchase because he believed terrorism suspects would be housed there. The Obama administration, which supports the sale, has vowed that won't happen and federal law now prohibits any transfers from Guantanamo Bay to Thomson.
Posted by: Al Capone at October 02, 2012 10:43 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2012 10:43 AM (B/VB5)
Posted by: Fritz at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (vm7ot)
Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: Compartmentalized Homosexual Freemason Mormons! at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (BrQrN)
Fuck you. Fuck you sideways with a pineapple. It's shockingly sexist and pathetic and disgusting.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD the revelator at October 02, 2012 01:30 PM (VtjlW)
golf clap
Posted by: garrett at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (gplzV)
It is. But we want to choose who lives and dies, not leave it to chance.
Posted by: Liberals at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (lWXSF)
Obama For America has already scrubbed the lady parts post.
Captured on Twitchy by Michelle Malkin, known possesor of Lady Parts.
Posted by: fluffy, dick at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (3SvjA)
Posted by: Jordan, from CO, Carbon Monoxide at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:44 AM (Dnbau)
Captured on Twitchy by Michelle Malkin, known possesor of Lady Parts.
Posted by: fluffy, dick at October 02, 2012 02:44 PM (3SvjA)
And Drudge...
Posted by: Hello, it's just me Donna at October 02, 2012 10:45 AM (9+ccr)
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 10:45 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Reality Check at October 02, 2012 10:45 AM (ELEDJ)
Posted by: Schrödinger's cat at October 02, 2012 10:45 AM (feFL6)
From January 1, 2012 through today, 1430 EST, more than 31 million abortions have been performed worldwide...I guess they've been spared a really horrible death caused by global warming.
Posted by: Dagny T at October 02, 2012 10:46 AM (WCU94)
Thanks for that tip. That was amazing!
Posted by: Ian S. at October 02, 2012 02:42 PM (B/VB5)
**
I needed a cigarette after reading.
Posted by: dananjcon at October 02, 2012 10:46 AM (eavT+)
Posted by: garrett at October 02, 2012 10:46 AM (gplzV)
Polar bear farts cause global warming. Which kills the polar bears. Which stops them farting. Which cools the earth. Which allows the polar bears to thrive. Which makes them fart. Which warms the globe. Which kills the polar bears.
Damn, it's tough being a liberal.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 02, 2012 10:46 AM (U+DUu)
There is evidence that the Solutrean culture was greatly admired by the Neanderthals for its rich diversity of erotic charcoal carvings. The Neanderthals had to content themselves with smutty stick figures made from twigs.
Posted by: Dr. Leakey at October 02, 2012 10:46 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Pyrocles at October 02, 2012 10:47 AM (cv5Iw)
Posted by: Cajun Carrot at October 02, 2012 10:47 AM (UZQM8)
Posted by: Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb at October 02, 2012 10:47 AM (XvHmy)
"Working families" is still code for "public employee unions", right?
Posted by: Radish the Grouch at October 02, 2012 10:47 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at October 02, 2012 10:48 AM (Dnbau)
Posted by: Nikita Khrushchev at October 02, 2012 10:48 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: mediumheadboy at October 02, 2012 10:49 AM (aHR5E)
Posted by: Suck It Grim Reaper! at October 02, 2012 10:49 AM (4TBK2)
"When Obama came out and endorsed gay marriage, Romney gave one low-key speech against it and then gave up. That's his stance on traditional values."
You said you are voting Romney. Nothing else you say matters.
Posted by: Meremortal at October 02, 2012 10:49 AM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Adam at October 02, 2012 10:49 AM (tG36f)
I used to be a threat to every child on the planet, but now I'm a big, fat nobody.
Imagine how I feel.
Posted by: Radon Gas at October 02, 2012 10:50 AM (lOmbq)
Posted by: Cajun Carrot at October 02, 2012 10:51 AM (UZQM8)
"It means a prison that has been sitting here empty will be used again and create a lot of opportunity housing for working families "Democrats" in the areas," Durbin said.
FIFY.
Reminiscent of that TV show "COPS," or as my boys and I call it, "Meet the Democrats."
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 02, 2012 10:51 AM (U+DUu)
Posted by: Funemployment Easy Chair at October 02, 2012 10:51 AM (38ReL)
Posted by: Obama supporter making a fool of himself on youtube at October 02, 2012 10:51 AM (4eNxd)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at October 02, 2012 10:52 AM (wR+pz)
The part that's hilarious is the morons finishing that sentence "Just as the models predicted." (Some models predict polar amplification. Some predict polar cooling. None of them predict North Pole Amplification -and- South Pole cooling.)
Posted by: Al at October 02, 2012 10:53 AM (MzQOZ)
Posted by: mallfly at October 02, 2012 10:53 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 02, 2012 10:53 AM (QF8uk)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at October 02, 2012 10:54 AM (HiKk0)
Posted by: The Next Ice Age at October 02, 2012 11:00 AM (MQLiy)
Bjorn Lomborg's degrees are in political science. He's a douche.
Here is a link to Source Watch showing he's just a watermelon commie servant of Satan.
Posted by: Invictus at October 02, 2012 11:02 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: The Mega Independent at October 02, 2012 02:39 PM (lWXSF)
What we don't realize is that the "scientists" who conducted this study and published the results are ACTUALLY working for the American energy fossil fuel lobby. This is all an elaborate scheme to undermine the work of environmentalists by making them look like silly frauds.
I know because Matt Damon told me so.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/b][/i][/u] at October 02, 2012 11:02 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Evilpens at October 02, 2012 11:07 AM (ck76k)
Orbital Laser Death Beams sound good. Here's looking at you, Berkeley!
Posted by: Stu-22 at October 02, 2012 11:10 AM (k4bdL)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 02, 2012 11:11 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 02, 2012 11:33 AM (PHb2k)
Posted by: steevy at October 02, 2012 12:29 PM (6o4Fb)
Posted by: Science! at October 02, 2012 01:12 PM (jo70i)
Posted by: Georgia Guidestones Population Goal at October 02, 2012 01:29 PM (jo70i)
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Posted by: wheatie at October 02, 2012 10:12 AM (l5RhJ)