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Discussion vs. Moderation
Posted by: fish | 21 May 2015 at 10:56 AM
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Fish I guess I am dense. Help!
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That is the recent respective comment counts at George’s vs “The Nations Editor”s site.
Discussion vs. Moderation.
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Great! When people lioke the FUE-l moderate they get a vast wasteland don’t they? Anyway, GeorgeR knows all about the suppression of speech, he escaped from FUE-like countries and people!
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Couple new flickers that could spark some flames-
Obama and new Twitter account as a magnet for hate and racists. These aren’t members of the radical left.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/us/politics/obamas-twitter-debut-potus-attracts-hate-filled-posts.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
And then, new President of the Boy Scouts (Robert Gates) proposes overturning ban on gay leaders of Boy Scouts.
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Hey fish did you wash out the sock puppets from the fue counts? At least ‘jon’ has managed to avoid saying we are purple but come to think of it lefty jeffy has not recently either.
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Actually Don, I agree with Pelline that in the aggregate/weighted average- we are a purple region, even in the midst of the Great Divide that Dr. Rebane speaks of, correctly. We are as purple as it gets in California.
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 21 May 2015 at 01:24 PM
As a “relatively” new arrival to these threads I’m only familiar with a small subset of jeffys imaginary playmates. Annie, Bruiser one or two others……there are days I think “Jon” is screwy enough to be jeffy and others when “Jon” seems almost….well….semi-normal.
I will say this if “Jon” is jeffy he oughta stick with this personality as it’s far less annoying than his real persona.
I only wish I could have been here when jeffy was starring as “Gloria Zane”…..from what I hear his performances were Oscar worthy.
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Posted by: Jon | 21 May 2015 at 01:34 PM
Actually “Jon”….jeffy can’t even get that right as the political boat in California is tilted so far to the Blue side
the ship of state is in danger of capsizing. California is blue not purple.
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See he couldn’t resist.
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Now that we have pushed the envelop past the 10th degree, are you ready for the nth degree? To infinity and beyond. And I do think Powers has nice pomegranates and a handsome face.
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Some pushback against Obama’s ridiculous climate remarks at the Coast Guard commencement
By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels
Did human-caused climate change lead to war in Syria?Based only on the mainstream press headlines, you almost certainly would think so.
Reading further into the articles where the case is laid out, a few caveats appear, but the chain of events seems strong.
The mechanism? An extreme drought in the Fertile Crescent region—one that a new study finds was made worse by human greenhouse gas emissions—added a spark to the tinderbox of tensions that had been amassing in Syria for a number of years under the Assad regime (including poor water management policies).
It is not until you dig pretty deep into the technical scientific literature, that you find out that the anthropogenic climate change impact on drought conditions in the Fertile Crescent is extremely minimal and tenuous—so much so that it is debatable as to whether it is detectable at all.
This is not to say that a strong and prolonged drought didn’t play some role in the Syria’s pre-war unrest—perhaps it did, perhaps it didn’t (a debate we leave up to folks much more qualified than we are on the topic)—but that the human-influenced climate change impact on the drought conditions was almost certainly too small to have mattered.
In other words, the violence would almost certainly have occurred anyway.
More here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/21/some-pushback-against-obamas-ridiculous-climate-remarks-at-the-coast-guard-commencement/
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With the exception of Russ Steele’s 6:43, who gives a rats ass about what is in this thread. Common guys, you’re falling off the charts here with your ingrate babble about who is who.
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Meanwhile, the same oil companies that claim climate change is nothing more than a UN hoax are bidding on drilling rights in the arctic because the ice is gone.
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‘Joe Smith’, the disappearance of polar ice has been greatly exaggerated
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
It’s above the average of the last 36 years.
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ingrate babble??????? More lefty moderation me thinks! lol Actually the hoax is much broader smithie as the evidence shows. The most recent ancient ice cores have some very uncomfortable info for you n al gore. CO2 had major highs when us bipeds had no impact on anything. In fact a series of 80,000 year cycles that shifted to 40,000 year cycles and then there is the ice ages. Darn fish farts and brontosaurs burps!!
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Don
You don’t have a clue as to what I was talking about. I respect Russ Steele because he does actual research on what he writes about. Can you at least provide a link for your 10:54.
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A link to ingrate babble, gee let me think, any dem site, seiu too many to count! Its your post so its your job to make sense.
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There is no hoax, just bad science, and there is a rise in temps due to anthropogenic CO2… it’s just so small compared to natural variations you’d never know it was there without someone to tell you.
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Happy Birthday Todd!
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Thanks Barry. Off to the graduation of a relative!
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 May 2015 at 10:14 PM
It’s a “sandbox” thread Paul…..where “ingrate babble” is the order of the day.
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No Don you were the one who went on about new core ice samples etc. I doubt if you made that up but you never know. Just interested in your sources.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 May 2015 at 08:18 AM
So no admission as to the “Power behind the Throne” vis a vis the TPP…….or are they the boogieman who’s name you dare not utter!
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Gregory 10:51
Global sea ice is NOT the same as arctic sea ice. We now have shipping lanes crossing over the arctic seas where historically ice breakers were required to punch through (if they could). The Antarctic sea ice is growing, ironically, because warmer temperatures are creating higher humidity over the land ice and the moisture laden air is being blown out to sea where it snows and cools the ocean surface which freezes. The thickness of this ice is very thin.
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Arctic ice is almost entirely sea ice and is not disappearing. Antarctic ice exists around Antarctica and is at record levels. Here is another link showing polar sea ice separately:
http://www.climate4you.com/images/NSIDC%20GlobalArcticAntarctic%20SeaIceArea.gif
The sky is not falling and the ice is not gone.
Perhaps if you’d offer a link or two describing the shipping lines you think the ice free Arctic is currently enabling, I’d be able to discuss your information with you. There have been a number of “the Northwest Passage will be ice free Real Soon” stories, but as of yet I’m not aware of a Titanic II making its way across it.
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Did (human-caused) climate change lead to war in Syria? Let’s face it. Some human beings will use any excuse to destroy and kill other humans. There are lotsa of examples from barrooms to Congress. The earth will do what it wants regardless of the human bugs crawling around on its surface. When it wants a change it’ll shake, rattle and roll…and shed its old skin during the process of renewal. Hate to be a wet blanket…but come on, the earth’s proven history regarding all forms of change is more powerful than us. We usually get buried during the process.
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Off topic, but reason to celebrate. I find nelly found out what Frisco values are. Just read a article about it. Ain’t Alameda County the most special county in America. They got Frisco values.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2015/05/22/californias-cross-border-laws-may-be-reined/2/
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Perhaps there’s hope!
First from Rand Paul delaying at least the renewal of the misnamed Patriot Act:
PATRIOT Act on life support after Rand Paul stymies renewal efforts
Liberals, libertarians block short-term reauthorizations, leaving a tiny window of opportunity next week for a deal.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/mitch-mcconnell-criticize-house-surveillance-bill-118211.html#ixzz3awqFWha5
And the Dems and Tea party throwing a wrench in the TPP
“But a key crackdown on human trafficking survived the legislative jujitsu. The White House considers the provision a deal-breaker, as it would force one of the nations involved in the TPP talks — Malaysia — out of the agreement. An immigration-related amendment authored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) never got a vote, making it far more difficult for Obama to win over skeptical tea party Republicans in the House.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/22/senate-passes-fast-track_n_7425614.html
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Them Tea Party Dems give us all hope.
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I don’t know if you’re being snarkey Bill but you’re actually right.
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Well, I guess everyone has heard the report of out-of-town paid demonstrators being shipped into hot spots like Ferguson to make them hotter so as to give a proper backdrop to demogauges like Al Sharpton. Apparently the conspicuous money trail leads for these hired hooligans leads back to ACORN (and its spin-offs) which should surprise no one.
What do mean that you haven’t heard of this yet?
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Anyone have a clue as to what the Dept of Commerce $500K grant to NC’s Economic Resource Council is supposed to accomplish? Here’s the piece from County CEO Rick Haffey’s Friday report –
Congratulations to Nevada County Economic Resource Council (ERC) on being awarded the 2014 Science and Research Park Development Grant for $500,000! Below is the public announcement by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Jay Williams visited Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, today to announce the 12 recipients of the 2014 Science and Research Park Development Grants, part of the Regional Innovation Strategies program. The Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) program, which is being run by the Department’s Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE), is a new initiative designed to advance innovation and capacity-building activities in regions across the country through three different types of grants: i6 Challenge grants, Cluster Grants for Seed Capital Funds, and Science and Research Park Development Grants. Secretary Pritzker announced the recipients of the i6 Challenge grants and Cluster Grants for Seed Capital funds in March.
“Supporting innovators and entrepreneurs at every stage is crucial to ensuring America remains competitive in the global economy,” said Assistant Secretary Williams. “The Regional Innovation Strategies Program lays the groundwork from which centers of research and innovation can take root and thrive in cities across the country. I look forward to seeing what innovative opportunities come from Regional Innovation Strategies’ funding.”
The Science and Research Park Development Grants program provides funding for feasibility and planning for the construction of new or expanded science or research parks, or the renovation of existing facilities. The grantees include
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Nevada County Economic Resource Council Foundation, Inc.
Location: Grass Valley, CA
Project Name: American Digital Media Leadership Campus
Program: Science & Research Park Development Grants
Award Amount: $500,000
The American Digital Media Leadership Campus’s mission is to leverage a collaboration of all the critical stakeholders who collectively have the expertise, long standing relationships, and resources to build a globally competitive region that is focused upon providing innovative technologies to the rapidly growing, global digital media industry. By facilitating the transfer of technology and business skills between researchers and industry teams, the Campus will have an added benefit of strengthening California and U.S. economic competitiveness.
This public/private collaboration includes innovation-focused digital media and related technology companies residing within the region; local, state and federal governments, including national labs and world trade center organizations; higher educational institutions with research programs relevant to the digital media industry; a highly technical engineering workforce; angel investors and venture capitalists; a vast array of community organizations, vital broadband providers including one with an emerging gigabyte fiber-optic broadband network coming online; and a partnership with the regional EDA-recognized economic development district, Sierra Economic Development Corporation (SEDCORP).
[later] OK, the 23may15 update has link to Nevada City ideas for this money.
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<i.Apparently the conspicuous money trail leads for these hired hooligans leads back to ACORN (and its spin-offs) which should surprise no one.
Even less surprising is the fact that those executing “The Sharpton Protocol” are deadbeats……
#cutthecheck
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The ERC doesn’t seem to know about it yet
http://ncerc.org/news-articles/
Of the current board, there might or might not be one or two who actually understand growing a business and tech.
http://ncerc.org/about-us/
It looks to me a cool way to make a one time investment in digital media equipment and then watch it get obsolete over the next five years while a grant writer tries to find money to do it again, but that just may be my cynicism on parade.
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George, do you know if the ERC plans to build a digital media college from scratch or are they planning on reviving the old Grass Valley Media facilities?
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George, 9:58am I’m surprised at your post about outside agitators being shipped into Ferguson without citing a source. I haven’t heard this anywhere else. While anything is possible, it does seem like a blantant attempt to shift the focus off the misbehavior by the police. The gov’t has infiltrated demonstrators ever since I can remember (most recently against Occupy Wall Street).
BTW, I have gone to protests in SF, Sacramento and Yuba recently. Does that make me an “outside agitator?”
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Oh Patricia, you are indeed an outside agitator to those who think cannabis smells like marijuana which smells like skunk weed, you rabble rouser you.
Once joined in a protest on the street in front of a college cause the county was going to lop off all the pretty trees lining the road to widened the roadway. Boy oh boy, the grammar school next door joined in and one teacher was busy lifting little cute 1st and 2nd graders up into the lower limbs. The county workers got on the walkie-talkies and loaded up their saws and moved on….until Summer Vacation when they widened the road.
Not aware of police misconduct in Fergersen. Since “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” never happened, I hope you did not buy one of those “Hands Up” tee shirts or hoodies. That would be silly, would it not? Perhaps a “Pants Up, Don’t Poop” tee shirt would be more app-pra-pro.
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PatriciaS 1047am – You are, of course, right; I should have cited the source – yesterday’s Bret Baier ‘Special Report’ on FN. I’ll see if I can also get a link. Thanks for the knuckle rap.
PatriciaS 1037am – No, I have no idea how this money has been purposed, and who will get to spend it for what. It sounds like more government money being pissed away for feel good projects that go nowhere (like the bullet train), or worse, do harm (like the ‘projects’ AB32 has spawned). If any reader has more info, please share it. Thanks.
So now a question for our liberal readers – please report where on your favorite outlets this story has been told.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/foxs-gasparino-calls-walmart-protesters
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Fish 8:24
Here’s a clue. Perhaps we should ask the army of corporate executives and industry lobbyists who wrote the TPP by and for themselves.
duh!!!
“It is incomprehensible to me that leaders of major corporate interests who stand to gain enormous financial benefits from this agreement are actively involved in the writing of the TPP, while at the same time, the elected officials of this country, representing the American people, have little or no knowledge of what’s in it,” wrote US Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I-VT)
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Here’s a clue. Perhaps we should ask the army of corporate executives and industry lobbyists who wrote the TPP by and for themselves.
You act surprised by this. You guys insisted on a government of sufficient size and power to move mountains and then get all wet eyed when the unscrupulous use it for things you don’t like.
/snicker
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For those interested in some plans for using the $500K grant reported in my 1004am, please see 23may15 update above.
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Fish “You guys” ??? Who are you aligning me with here? It is primarily the Republicans and Obama who are TPP supporters. Opposition is from the Democratic left and Libertarian leaning Repubs.
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“You guys” ??? Who are you aligning me with here?
C’mon Paul…you’re on the record for being in favor of single payer health care…I don’t recall ever hearing you say anything against the Welfare State, all the Great Society nonsense that’s hasn’t delivered and is on it’s way to bankrupting the nation….I seem to recall hearing that you’re on board the dubious science train, “You can’t have liberty without a sustainable environment”. These things you are all fine with!
You just haven’t managed to get all the “good stuff” you favor without the off putting and unpleasant pro-corporate/pro-warfare state stuff you hate that’s the other half of the devils bargain of American politics.
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Paul Emery do you have a link to the secret treaty so I can read it?
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Sorry bad sentence.
You just haven’t managed to get all the “good stuff” you favor without the off putting and unpleasant pro-corporate/pro-warfare state stuff you hate. That’s the other half of the devils bargain of American politics.
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Watched a few democrat Senators on the trade bill. I was laughing my ass off. These people shoved millions of laws and rules down the throats of American business and now are so concerned the trade bill will send the jobs overseas! They are already gone! These people running the left are dumber than a rock.
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Here you go Todd
This is from Breitbart which you respect.
Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.
“Has the senator gone into the room where the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is bend held and read the ‘living agreement’ section of the deal that is not available to the public (and which senators can’t even take notes about)?” Breitbart News asked every single office.
Again, only Sessions and Lee confirmed they did.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/07/only-two-republicans-admit-they-actually-read-secret-obama-trade-deal-both-unsupportive/
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Good to finally be getting the recognition we deserve…..
If the little band of outcasts and malcontents at “Rebane’s Ruminations” didn’t exist, we’d have to make them up! SadSacks.com, ThrowingRocksfromtheSidelines.com or ShouldaWouldaCoulda.com
Sure it’s from an ineffectual coffee boy that practically nobody reads but it’s a start.
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Paul Emery, my request was for a link to the treaty itself as you know. Not a news article on how it is so bad that only two Senators have supposedly read it. Jeeze. This crack me up, the left is all worked up, down to even Paul, and no one has read it!
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