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Old 01-14-2010, 04:53 PM   #19
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:13 PM   #20
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Are you serious?!? You think global warming is a hoax?! Seriously?

Uhm, where have you been? You honestly believe that garbage?

So, is it nice and toasty up in Canada?

The world's been getting colder for the last 10+ years during the very time that this hoax has been pushed. Scientists were recently found to have had any opposing study findings that suggest the earth is not warming to either have been hidden or the scientists themselves are helping promote the liberal agenda.

To suggest that humans can change climate is ludicrous. It suggests that we are gods. A natural volcanic eruption for example emits far more crap into the atmosphere than we could ever dream of emitting from our cars, our manufacturing, or anything else. Such events have happened since the earth was created and it's been fine.

Climate changes constantly. How do explain the swings from warm temp's to the ice age and back again? Prehistoric Hummers? Give me a freakin' break. Forecasters can't even get the daily weather right and you believe they can forecast decades ahead? When they say the world will raise 2 degrees in the next 50 years, you believe them? And if it does, who cares? We can not stop it. Only God has the power. That said, the earth and space functions at it's natural will. What happens happens from nature.

"Global Warming" is nothing but a power grab agenda designed to allow government to control every aspect of our lives especially when you add in the proposed "health reform". Those two things together puts all control into the hands of the government because everything can be related to energy and health.

I'd love to hear your proof that global warming is a legitimate man made concern.
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:20 PM   #21
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Wow.

You know what... let's just wait for a while and see who's right.

I'd love to be wrong. I really would.
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:31 PM   #22
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Wow.

You know what... let's just wait for a while and see who's right.

I'd love to be wrong. I really would.
OK.

Question is really if you think climate change is based on human actions.

Like I said, climate constantly changes and has seen huge swings throughout world history even though the industrialized age has only been about a 100 years. So how do people explain pre-industrial climate change? It's really just plain silly to suggest that driving cars is warming the planet while we're experiencing one of the coldest years of the industrial age. Florida's pipes are freezing for god's sake.

Just open your eyes.
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Old 01-14-2010, 05:46 PM   #23
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... Question is really if you think climate change is based on human actions...
Yes, I do... but not solely. Obviously climate change can and does happen by itself, as it has for millions of years. But human activity can certainly influence it. We are affecting the rate of climate change.

I don't want to start anything here. Like I said, I'd love to be wrong. We'll see.
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Old 01-14-2010, 06:19 PM   #24
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Botox?

"hot" isn't the first thing that comes through my mind when I see her but what do I know
Try picturing her in a tear-drop bikini and get back to me.
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Old 01-14-2010, 07:14 PM   #25
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hahaha! made me laugh!!

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Old 01-15-2010, 08:23 AM   #26
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hahaha! made me laugh!!

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Old 01-15-2010, 02:11 PM   #27
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You don't know what you're missing.
I can definitely live with that
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Old 01-15-2010, 06:47 PM   #28
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I can definitely live with that
Maybe you prefer Rush Limbaugh in a posing strap, I don't know. j/k
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Old 01-15-2010, 08:14 PM   #29
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Old 01-15-2010, 08:34 PM   #30
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Old 01-15-2010, 11:13 PM   #31
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bunch of hypocrites . Don't see them driving YARISes . Mostly CADILLACs , etc..
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Old 01-18-2010, 04:04 PM   #32
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It isn't.
My modest contribution went out in the mail yesterday already.
It was the easiest check I've ever had to write.

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Red Cross donations amounts begin at $10 which is barely the cost of lunch around here. I know we have a lot of students on this board, but just think what the price of a couple of movie theater tickets can do if we all give.

If you don't like the Red Cross, there are many other organizations trying to help these poor people.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I think I'm gonna write another check and this reminds me I have to around my place and see if I can find usable stuff to give to shelters around here as well.

Do the right things guys.

sorry guys about the off-topic.
this will be off topic but it would've been much wiser (at least in this day/age) to text "HAITI" to 90999 and they would've tacked $10 on your phone bill once to send to them. safer/quicker and easier least when it compares to writing a check
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Old 01-19-2010, 12:50 AM   #33
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people like this should be well paid, for they have an important job, but i think $200k/yr should be the limit. how much money do people really need? as for the jet thing, that should be reserved for the president and other high security risk persons. others can fly 1st class and get driven in limos much much cheaper. why doesnt the idiot move to dc already? gah!
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Old 01-19-2010, 02:54 PM   #34
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people like this should be well paid, for they have an important job, but i think $200k/yr should be the limit.
I think the exact opposite. Singapore has some of the highest paid public officials in the world, and there has been a direct correlation drawn to the reduction in corruption. I say pay them so much they can't be bought out.
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I think the exact opposite. Singapore has some of the highest paid public officials in the world, and there has been a direct correlation drawn to the reduction in corruption. I say pay them so much they can't be bought out.

to that i say have those corruption prone officials put in jail for a minimum of 25 years for taking any type of item/gift/money etc illegally instead of slapping them on the wrist with a suspension/making them resign/putting them on house arrest for 3 days in their mansions. same thing with minimal punishment for illegal drugs. The chinese government frequently gives out death penalties for drug trafficking, and their drug problems are under control. the u.s. has repeat offenders because drug suppliers arent scared enough. all their buds frequent the slammer on short stints, and they know they get out soon. im not saying shoot everyone that makes a mistake, but put the fear of God in them by making an example of druggies through long sentences. and yes it would cram our jails for the next 50 years, but the long term benefit after that would far outweight the inconveinience at first.

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Good ideas there. Most bureaucrats (public officials) I have met have few morals, and were it not for fierce penalties, could be easily bought. Most are not worth the money they are paid now, never mind increasing their salaries.

The big reason for light penalties for drug dealing seems to be the fact that the market is so huge. If drugs were decriminalised, the profit to criminals would disappear, just like it did with alcohol so many years ago; why must we re-learn this lesson, at such great expense??

My feeling is that we should just pitch them in jail, regardless of the overcrowding. If they don't like it in there, then stay the hell out, simply by making an honest living and sticking with legal products. I really don't care if they have to hotbunk, two at a time, just stay out in the first place...
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