Hey I just realized that Larry Kohler went with the full Obama halo in his avatar.

I hate that.

Hey, the doctor in Singapore checked you for that!

If he is railing against crony capitalism then I have to agree - but fundamental free market capitalism is the greatest secular boon to mankind in the history of the planet.

It has the benefit of making the act of raising money easier. Non-profit = charity = good. If you are not a charity you must be not-good.

I totally loved watching Jon Stewart work through his Kubler-Ross model. Unfortunately he is stuck in denial - but it was interesting to watch him bargain, get a little angry and then go back to denial.

'I am sorry, I overeacted - our form of government is bigger than this.'

Sure, Jon and just a few day ago, the President was instructing the newly graduated, "Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."

Next think you know Jon will be saying, 'He really loves me - he just can't show it'.

Well to my knowledge he trained BO's first press Secretary, Beltway Bob Gibbs. His replacement is Beltway Jay (or alternatively Barker Carney).

Dude, Fred advocates the abolition of all governments everywhere and for the cartelization of those functions that government performs well. OK Fred doesn't say that last bit, but it is the practical outcome of Fred's abolition of that entity formed by people called government.

When you end up with a tribal nation without laws (Congo), Fred refuses to accept that it is the anarchist paradise.

Zafar - The left wing media went nuts when James O'Keefe set up a sting to show the anti-conservative bias of National Public Radio. He and his partner posed as members of the group MEAC to show how willingly NPR executives would align with a group promoting Sharia Law (in order to accept a $5M 'gift' to NPR). The backlash resulted in the resignation of the CEO of NPR among others. story here.

Of course the website had to look authentic. Pamela Geller, who fights against the acceptance of Sharia law in the US - took the site at face value.

The left wing media outlets had to cover themselves and Wonkette is nothing if not left wing.

I wouldn't trust Wonkette to tell me the biological taxonomy of my dog - or to inform me that water is wet.

You could always do a squat and proclaim loudly, "cleanup on aisle 6"

Yep gotta go with Jim here.

I gotta go with Penny Singleton.

Don't look Joan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM

Hi Tommy - The temperature measurements I am using in that example come from the ice core data - and a previous discussion on the topic by Ricochet's own R. Craigen. I sent him a PM to ask about the Ice core data (and the previous thread where it was discussed).

In the meantime - what I remember from his discussion was that the ice core data is pretty solid - it shows events that most Climate Change apologists ignore, like the Medieval Warm Period as well as the Tambora eruption.  Tambora is significant as it is an event that showcases volcanic winter (or that the planet is able to do something in a single cataclysmic event that can effect climate over a huge area and for a significant period of time).

As to accuracy - the ice core data is very accurate and it is publicly available.

Some of the errors it ignores are sensor placement error (heat island effect) as well as oversampling some locales and under sampling others.

Solid 2.

The facts from a human perspective since we are talking AGW.

World population in 1860 - 1B, urban percentage in 1910 - 20%

World population today - 6B, urban percentage 2008 - >50%

Energy consumption per capita in KG of Coal equivalents. circa 1860 - 100Kg (Total consumption therefore 100B Kg)

Energy consumption per capita in Kg of Coal equivalents circa 2000, 2000 Kg (Total Consumption 12T Kg or a 120X increase in energy usage since 1860).

As mentioned before the total warming effect since 1860 is 1.9C of which .4C is said to be attributable to human activity.

2 things immediately spring to mind -

First is that since a 120X increase in human energy consumption only leads to .4C increase in temperature, one can reasonably conclude that the Global Climate is remarkably insensitive to human activity. (Meaning, we have virtually no effect on climate.)

Second - were one to be given the power to regulate human energy consumption to erase the .4C change it would require changing the standard of living from that experienced in Iceland (consuming 16882.5 KG of oil equivalent - the most on the planet) to Eritrea (at 141KG of oil equivalent - the least on the planet) (wikipedia)

Not true. starting with the profound insight of Tom Lindholtz: Who qualifies as a Christian? Whomever the Son says.

The Thief on the cross was promised heaven by Christ himself. He did not profess the creed you propose. Therefore to be a Christian one does not have to profess your list.

Luke 23:39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

⁴⁰ But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? ⁴¹ We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

⁴² Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.^[d]”

⁴³ Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

America's loss and Canada's great gain. No wonder our northern neighbor is becoming more conservative.

Happy Birthday Red Feline! - you are truly the Queen of the Jungle on Ricochet.