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You know Connie makes a great point. Congress allowed us to get an extra hour of daylight early this year why stop there? I rarely sleep more than 8 hours a night, but most often it is dark far more than 8 hours a night. I move that congress approves a 16 hour day and a 8 hour night. By having 16 hours of natural light per day we could save a bundle of energy used to light our homes.
Bateauxdriver
11:55:07 AM
4/27/07

Dang why did they go and put cameras in space. Sorry Bacpac.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070404162259.htm
Bateauxdriver
11:59:35 AM
4/27/07

Smoke and mirrors
I smell conspiracy. Those casinos in Las Vegas want to be beachfront...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070501/sc_nm/globalwarming_ice_dc;_ylt=AqDzW.OJjaIb_CpNPKSqRDfMWM0F
roseymonster
10:44:06 AM
5/02/07

Actually I want my house to be beachfront. Although at 750 feet its going to take a bit more water than what's in the Arctic.
techntrek
11:12:58 AM
5/02/07

I hope tech doesn't get his wish, because that would put my house about 100' under water.
lumberzac
11:17:26 AM
5/02/07

After your property becomes 'beachfront' --- here comes the hurricanes!!
Tilt
12:04:47 AM
5/03/07

Did anyone see the Glen Beck special last night about global warming? I listen to his radio show and he's had a few of the guests on there talking about global warming. It was very interesting because they gave facts no one else was willing to discuss. I think that one fact is the thing that drives me absolutely bonkers about the global warming crowd, there is no room for even discussing it.
Nigal
5:45:03 AM
5/03/07

What facts are you talking about Nigal.
Y2
7:46:45 AM
5/03/07

Shut up and go away Nigal, no one wants to hear your anti-global warming talk! You are wrong I tell you, wrong!






(j/k)
techntrek
7:49:23 AM
5/03/07

Ya see? YA SEE?! LOL!

btw, I lost your e mail with your addie in it so I can send that DVD to ya. Could ya shoot it to me again?
Nigal
8:16:05 AM
5/03/07

Mystery facts that no one talks about, Shhh! don't say it Nigal, Shhh!
uncliff
8:19:24 AM
5/03/07

Sent. I'll take a look-see and then offer it up to someone else.
techntrek
8:27:28 AM
5/03/07

"Did anyone see the Glen Beck special last night about global warming?"

Are you the guy who bemoans anyone who uses "MSM" for information? ;)

Beck isn't even a journalist. He's a born-again, fire-baller who feels he has to make up for his years of abuse (drugs and alky) by over-correcting.

Oh, that and it gets him ratings, too. "Everybody" loves a sober-reformist; hell bent on bashing everything they participated in, especially their accountants.....

bawwwwwhhhaaaa!
laqtis
9:52:02 AM
5/03/07

Wait, did he do meth and boff a hooker, too?
roseymonster
10:28:53 AM
5/03/07

Are you the guy who bemoans anyone who uses "MSM" for information? ;)

I don't believe I have. I'm not even sure what "MSM" is.

Beck isn't even a journalist.

He has never claimed to be. In fact he refers to himself as a rodeo clown with a tv show.

He's a born-again, fire-baller who feels he has to make up for his years of abuse (drugs and alky) by over-correcting.

I find his courage in expressing his faith refreshing. I've never heard him attempt to shove it down anyone's throats, which is quite rare for a Morman.


Oh, that and it gets him ratings, too. "Everybody" loves a sober-reformist; hell bent on bashing everything they participated in, especially their accountants.....

I've never seen nor heard Glen rail against drugs and alcohol. Yes he does intimate his own experiences with drugs and alcohol but he is rarely preachy about it.
Nigal
11:52:27 AM
5/03/07

Yes, he is not a Jim Cramer, but wishes he were.
uncliff
12:19:03 PM
5/03/07

You're on record, just like the rest of us, regarding media bias.

"He has never claimed to be. In fact he refers to himself as a rodeo clown with a tv show. "

Doesn't have to claim he's a journalist. People out "there" will take his word as fact for the following reason:

It makes sense; so then they are more likely to agree with it.

You claimed he presents, or at least his guests do, "facts". If there are "facts" to be had, then we must take a look at not only those "facts", but how those "facts" are being presented, who is presenting the "facts" and why those "facts" are being presented.

Beck is nothing less than the conservative tilt that CNN puts on in order to fend off the claims that they are a "liberal" station.

One very important "fact": Just because you agree with it, or it "makes sense", or "stands to reason", or "sounds logical", doesn't mean that "it" is a "fact". That word is thrown around so much that the general public believes what comes out of Orca's mouth (hail Al Bundy!) is a fact.


I've seen Glen's bias many times, but I've been "programed" to weed that kind of crap out now.

Resistance is Futile!
laqtis
12:27:57 PM
5/03/07

That's all fine and well Q. If ya don't like him don't listen or watch. I find that Beck never presents facts as his own. He merely collects people who do have the facts in an attempt to give the other side of a issue. I never even said I agree with him or the facts. Remember? My post was asking if anyone had watched it which means I hadn't watched it either.
Nigal
12:34:34 PM
5/03/07

"If ya don't like him don't listen or watch. I find that Beck never presents facts as his own. He merely collects people who do have the facts in an attempt to give the other side of a issue."

"Did anyone see the Glen Beck special last night about global warming? I listen to his radio show and he's had a few of the guests on there talking about global warming. It was very interesting because they gave facts no one else was willing to discuss. I think that one fact is the thing that drives me absolutely bonkers about the global warming crowd, there is no room for even discussing it."

I guess alls I'm pointing out is that what you described is the "package" that is presented as "Glenn Beck". With that, you get, him, his opinions (or better yet, what he can agree on, or relates/appeals to the crowd), his Producers bias, his Directors bias, his writers bias (he might not even write all of his won stuff), his guests bias --- all wrapped up in a nice, neat little bias bow.


I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, really. True to you statement, you asked if any one has seen him. I have, and he sucks -- balls and all, and is no better than any of the other crapola that's out there.

My hope is that people out there (here) remember that ole sage advice: "Don't Believe tha Hype".

That's all.
last edited: 5/03/07 12:46:17 PM
laqtis
12:44:43 PM
5/03/07

Dang why did they go and put cameras in space. Sorry Bacpac.

Bateauxdriver
11:59:35 AM
4/27/07

Why didn't the headline read, "The Arctic Ice increased in 2007?"
bacpac
12:45:05 PM
5/03/07

I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, really. True to you statement, you asked if any one has seen him.

No, I asked if anyone saw the show last night about global warming.
Nigal
12:58:54 PM
5/03/07

Here is a documentary from the BBC's Channel 4 called The Great Global Warming Swindle. Enjoy.

Linkage
Nigal
1:08:16 PM
5/03/07

"I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, really. True to you statement, you asked if any one has seen him.

No, I asked if anyone saw the show last night about global warming.”
Nigal"

Where you wanna go, nigal?

Point blank:

No, I didn't see the dipchit present his bias crap about global warming, ad nauseam, ad logicam, ad novitatem, ad numerum, ad populum, ad verecundiam, Audiatur et altera pars, Bifurcation, Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Denial of the antecedent, Irrelevant conclusion, Appeal to Nature, "No True Scotsman...", Non causa pro causa, Non sequitur, Red herring, Hypostatization, Argumentum ad Ignorantiam, The slippery slope argument (REAL BIG ONE, IFFIN` YOU STILL READING THIS), Straw man, Tu quoque, last night.

Sorry, those are just a quick few off the top of my head.

His guests, no matter the night, are bias. They present very little "facts" as you claimed they did.

You did not search the background of those on the show that presented such "facts"; therefore, you just agreed with what they said, turned to us and said that what they presented were "facts".

How do you know what you saw were in did, facts?

You disagree with the global warming crowd, what they said made sense to you, and you believed it -- or else you wound not have said it was a "fact".


Like I said before, where do you wanna do, nigal?
laqtis
1:45:53 PM
5/03/07

Why didn't the headline read, "The Arctic Ice increased in 2007?"”
bacpac
12:45:05 PM
5/03/07

This is quite funny really. I'm in a new area and I was looking for a radio station and I stumble across one apparently called 'news talk'. Fiust thing I listen to is talking about George Tenent and the interviews being given.

Firstly the quotes are played to a background of 'Crying' by Roy Orbison I think. Then they spend about 20 seconds on what he actually said, followed by about 20 minutes of how bad the questions are - they don't even play Tenents replies, just the interviewer's questions.

It all became clear where the opinions of Bacpac and Arclite and suchlike come from. They're just parroting Conservative Talk Radio. They seem to lap it all up abd believe it's all true.

You don't like the message, then listen to tak radio and soon someone will come along and tell you everything is all right and it's just Media Bias.

It would be funny if so many people didn't fall for it hook-line-and-sinker.
last edited: 5/03/07 2:05:00 PM
Y2
2:02:44 PM
5/03/07

Q, you are taking on a combative tone and making some pretty inaccurate assumptions that I agree with the facts presented simply because it's what I want to hear. Never did I even say I agreed with the facts.

I do not doubt your words when you say you aren't looking to pick a fight but it does appear that you are looking for a high spirited debate in which you call into question my intelligence and my ability to diciminate facts between two opposing views.

Not wholly conducive to a healthy exchange of ideas and something I try to avoid.
Nigal
2:26:44 PM
5/03/07

That's all fine and well Q. If ya don't like him don't listen or watch. I find that Beck never presents facts as his own. He merely collects people who do have the facts in an attempt to give the other side of a issue. I never even said I agree with him or the facts. Remember? My post was asking if anyone had watched it which means I hadn't watched it either.”
Nigal
12:34:34 PM
5/03/07

just like Nigal's boy Bush.
Buddha Bear
2:58:28 PM
5/03/07

The funniest part is he's your boy too Buddha. Remember, you voted him in. LOL!

Good to see ya btw. :)
Nigal
3:26:55 PM
5/03/07


THEIR BRAINS WERE SMALL AND THEY DIED
(Mark Graham)

When I sit in contemplation of the human situation
I often feel a certain sense of pride.
For our achievements are many and mighty
And the evidence cannot be denied.
But my reverie is shaken 'cause my thoughts are always taken
To a tragedy that happened long ago,
When there moved throughout the land
Beings awesome and grand
The fabulous dinosaur.

They were creatures in a manner quite reptilian
In their unique and stylish way,
And their numbers could be reckoned in the millions;
But there are zero of these heroes in the world today.
They had music, art and fashion, there was dinosauric passion
And I think they'd be enraged and mortified
That when they`re mentioned today it's only to say:
Their brains were small and they died.

Perhaps some asteroid that mother earth could not avoid
Became the agent of their premature demise.
Well l understand that these things can happen,
So who are we to criticize?
When we'll spend most any price to have the ultimate device
That insures the perfect global suicide.
Well, l would venture instead that the humanoid head
Is where the tinier brain resides.
And when we're gone our works they'll start to crumble
Until nothing can be found.
In ten million years some other guys may stumble
On our fossils then some #&%!$ will begin to expound,
In some scientific study to his cockroach science buddies
How the evidence can never be denied---
They were big dumb and slow, they couldn't go with the flow
Their brains were small, and they died.

Copyright 1987 by Eternal Doom Music

Tilt
12:18:53 AM
5/13/07

or not.
Corey B
7:10:03 AM
5/13/07

Big, big, big too dumb and slow
But, still don't eat the yellow snow.
uncliff
1:06:25 PM
5/13/07

Whap!!

Upside the head with a lead-filled snow shoe.
MarkO
1:56:10 PM
5/13/07

LMAO ---
Tilt
3:53:32 PM
5/13/07

LOL...and you still avoid the everpresent PROVEN danger or DHMO
XL400236
9:21:29 PM
5/13/07

I'm building a DHMO shelter under my outhouse.
uncliff
1:28:54 PM
5/14/07

UM...LOL that may not be the best place (LOL)....Cliff. You ever see this?

XL400236
3:00:04 PM
5/14/07

kudos to Bush on up'g the standards on emissions today!
EarthNsky
4:24:31 PM
5/14/07

LOL..it just hit me...the Enviro/Global Warming clowns are really not too far removed from the Westboro Baptist crowd.

The Global Warming crowd believe in a Hateful GAIA (religion gang) and the Westboro Baptist crowd believe in a Hateful Savior...Both by the way are fake.
XL400236
7:11:25 AM
5/15/07

ENS - Even the revised standards will be far behind many other nations like China and the EU. It a step in the right direction, but its a small hop when it needs to be a large jump.
techntrek
7:55:52 AM
5/15/07

Hey TechNTrek!!

What is that dope talkin' about?
mARKo
8:02:32 AM
5/15/07

Hey Marko. XL's tirade? As usual, who knows?
techntrek
8:12:01 AM
5/15/07

He's spent to much time in the basement of the above 'Reliefitoria'.
uncliff
8:15:26 AM
5/15/07

TECH...ROTFLMAO..>CHINA???yeah they are doing GREAT Things controlling population..but as for controlling Carbon Footprint...you buy anything you want.
XL400236
8:42:54 AM
5/15/07

Xl hits on the point that the US has passed the heavy dirty industry to China so the Companies in this country don't have to answer to the greenies.
uncliff
9:30:21 AM
5/15/07

LOL...the real fact is that the envior thing has nothing to do with "greening" it avoids India and China and other huge polluters and attacks successful societies. That just goes to support the allegation that it is the new home of the dead socialist movement.
XL400236
9:32:17 AM
5/15/07

Aw, you're talkin' that Dittohead stuff again.

How cute!
MarkO
9:56:25 AM
5/15/07

That is my point, 'hittodead'.
uncliff
10:19:25 AM
5/15/07

MarkOOOOO! stop picking on the hickdeads.
uncliff
10:33:17 AM
5/15/07

Aw, but its fun!

XL is an attack on successful society.
mARKo
10:56:23 AM
5/15/07

LOL, Marko!

XL - cars made in China today must get far greater gas mileage than cars that will be made in 5 years in the US. They aren't doing so great with their coal industry or many other things, but when it comes to cars, they have it nailed.

"China, for example, is destined to be the world's largest car market, and Detroit wants a big piece of the action. Yet Beijing recently unveiled mileage goals that are 22% more demanding than today's U.S. levels, and should be 35% stricter still come 2008."

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952051.htm
techntrek
1:20:50 PM
5/15/07

YAWWWN...yeah, heard that stuff about the Soviet Union too...yeah yeah....Greatest Nation on earth, better than anything our pathetic free society will do....we suck....we should emulate them...YADDA YADDDA YADDA....(LOL)

YAWN..And I hear they stopped the Tianamen square uprising without the loss of one single life...(LOL)

Tech....you know the word Gullible is not in the dictionary right?
XL400236
1:53:42 PM
5/15/07

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