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That pic is worse than markO's.
Stovie
2:43:53 PM
4/06/09

There's some proof of GW when that crotch rips out.
salebored
4:52:28 PM
4/06/09

Good news.

A Stanford University study found that global warming would probably reduce death rates in the United States because warmer temperatures reduce deaths. The study estimated that a 2.5 degree C. warming would lower deaths in the United States by about 40,000 per year.

Department of Energy studies have shown that global warming will reduce American heating bills more than it would increase air conditioning costs.

Roads would suffer less from icy or snowy conditions, and airline passengers would have less delays because of global warming. Less accidents, less road deaths, faster travel times all help the U.S. in economic benefits because of global warming.

Global warming will continue to improve American agriculture because of longer growing seasons, warmer winters, and more CO2 in the air. More food, more ethanol production, greater food exports to a hungry world.

Better news. Obama's plan to stop global warming won't work without China's help, and it won't erase the benefits of global warming for a thousand years.


"Findings on the exchange of heat and CO2 between the atmosphere and deep ocean, which suggest that climate change is effectively irreversible in less than 1000 years."
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/carbon_sinks_losing_battle_rising_emissions_129553.html
prosecutor
6:31:44 PM
4/06/09

and everyones a little bit closer to the beaches

EPIC WIN!
crash bang
6:49:36 PM
4/06/09

When a celebrity is called in front of the Congress to testify on treatement of Farmers because she "PLAYED a farmer's wife" and taken seriously...sorry thats too much for me.

You guys may not take them seriously but the PrezBOterians do.
theXL400
6:45:43 AM
4/07/09

Many times thorough research is done for movie parts and the actors become experts of the people they play. Get your head out of your ass, you're doing too good a job at playing the part of an ignorant fool.
salebored
7:43:04 AM
4/07/09

Global Warming is a lie.....
stratd00d
7:50:48 AM
4/07/09

You don't know that any more than you know god exist. Man made GW as we hear it is, in part, lies yes. Every day the sun comes up and warms that side of the Globe.
last edited: 4/07/09 7:45:00 AM
salebored
8:02:47 AM
4/07/09

"and the actors become experts"

you have got to be kidding. please tell me you're be sarcastic. you don't really believe for a second that research for a part makes anybody an expert on anything do you? and you told somebdy else they had their head up their ass in the same post.

hahahahahahaha
last edited: 4/07/09 8:40:15 AM
baume 66
9:03:54 AM
4/07/09

Silly libbies think actors are their god.
Stovie
9:31:32 AM
4/07/09

Even the Shrub appointed crew agrees there is global warming...

The map itself was finished in the middle of last year, but the previous Interior Department didn't want to release it and other Antarctic maps, said map co-author Richard Williams Jr., a glaciologist for the USGS. The report with the map bears the 2008 date and the previous interior secretary's name on it.

The map shows found for the first time that an entire ice shelf — the Wordie ice shelf on the western end of the Antarctic peninsula_ has essentially disappeared. In 1966, it was 772 square miles. In addition, about 4,500 square miles of the Larsen ice shelf is gone.

"The map portrays one of the most rapidly changing areas on Earth, and the changes in the map are widely regarded as among the most profound, unambiguous examples of the effects of global warming on Earth," the USGS report concludes.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090406/ap_on_sc/arctic_ice;_ylt=Ag0xgfdc3QIPKtAB7phiSJms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlOWR0N2poBHBvcwMxMDcEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNhcmN0aWNzZWFpY2U-
roseymonster
9:37:15 AM
4/07/09

These people aren't picked to play parts in movies because they are natural born ignorant hicks, if that's the role. I have a whole cast of that type applying here and now.
salebored
9:41:20 AM
4/07/09

Many of the people in the movie biz are as, if not more sincere in what they do than many of the preachers that stand before you on your religious day. Go play with your light switch opinions.
salebored
9:52:33 AM
4/07/09

you really were serious. i'm sorry for you. i find it frightening to hear anyone speak like this.

much like the mix here, i'm sure there's a wide range of intellect among the hollywood bunch. even if they're among the brightest, researching a role makes nobody an expert. it makes them informed.
baume 66
10:03:16 AM
4/07/09

They hire experts to teacher the actors. They are consultants and many are expert witnesses.


much like the mix here, i'm sure there's a wide range of intellect among the hollywood bunch baume 66

That was my point, light switch thinking is big on this board, if one actor's an idiot then they all are, ByGod!
last edited: 4/07/09 10:06:36 AM
salebored
10:29:37 AM
4/07/09

Silly libbies think actors are their god.”
Stovie
10:31:32 AM
4/07/09

I suppose if one had one's head up one's azz in Jerkwater, Miss it might seems that ways.
MarkO
10:46:04 AM
4/07/09

i didn't claim all actors, or any actors for that matter, are idiots. i'm discussing your absurd claim of researching a role can qualify somone as an expert.

how many actors research the role of surgeon?
last edited: 4/07/09 10:40:07 AM
baume 66
10:54:00 AM
4/07/09

I have no idea what TF you are talking about Mac.
MarkO
11:13:18 AM
4/07/09

drunkO is really drunk today.
Stovie
11:18:40 AM
4/07/09

Tllt
11:19:18 AM
4/07/09

that was to salebored marko, you just happened to post in between with an actor comment.
baume 66
11:19:36 AM
4/07/09

"i'm discussing your absurd claim of researching a role can qualify somone as an expert."

OK, which one of you made that absurd claim??
MarkO
11:24:00 AM
4/07/09

'how many actors research the role of surgeon' Dr. Ron Paul was in a movie, almost.lmao
last edited: 4/07/09 11:02:23 AM
salebored
11:25:40 AM
4/07/09

You got it, Stubbie.

I'm reelin' and a rockin', drunk as a skunk.

What is your excuse, inbreeding?
MarkO
11:26:00 AM
4/07/09

Not to be an obtuse prick(hey-hey!!!) but is not research the way to become an expert?

I suppose that would depend upon HOW much research.
MarkO
11:27:20 AM
4/07/09

much more to it than just research.
baume 66
11:29:46 AM
4/07/09

“'how many actors research the role of surgeon' Dr. Ron Paul was in a movie, almost.lmao
last edited: 4/07/09 2:02:23 PM”
salebored
2:25:40 PM
4/07/09

huh??? WTF does that have to do with your claim?

i think i've figured out which end of the intellimeter you favor.
baume 66
11:33:10 AM
4/07/09

You just now figured that out? For years he's posted variants on "both political parties suck, maaaaan" like it's a profound political discovery.
Mutt
11:38:45 AM
4/07/09

duh
Stovie
11:40:10 AM
4/07/09

i've been absent for a while.
baume 66
11:43:10 AM
4/07/09

No kiddin'

Ah, but does one have to be an expert to be an advocate?
MarkO
11:48:44 AM
4/07/09

of course not, but an advocate has no business posing as an expert.
baume 66
11:50:12 AM
4/07/09

I must have missed the advocate posing as an expert.

Enlighten me.....
MarkO
11:51:05 AM
4/07/09

Many times thorough research is done for movie parts and the actors become experts of the people they play. Get your head out of your ass, you're doing too good a job at playing the part of an ignorant fool.”
salebored
10:43:04 AM
4/07/09


from this, my comments of today have stemmed
last edited: 4/07/09 11:28:56 AM
baume 66
11:54:29 AM
4/07/09

The actors, many times go into the area and meet the people and the people around those people and can collect information that doesn't roll around in the DC street gutters.

It is fun to poke a stick in this snake pit and watch the tangle of Tales roll.
salebored
11:58:46 AM
4/07/09

"Many times thorough research is done for movie parts and the actors become experts of the people they play."

Some actors do work hard to become "expert" on their roles.

Ben Kingsley was one hell of a Ghandi.........
DeNiro was one hell of an XLax....
MarkO
11:59:45 AM
4/07/09

LOL!
roseymonster
12:03:48 PM
4/07/09

yep, next time your in need of medical attention call neil patrick harris. he's an expert. has been for 20 years now.
baume 66
12:04:17 PM
4/07/09

I think I need one of you experts to check me for hernia.

Oh no thanks, my prostate is fine!
MarkO
12:08:05 PM
4/07/09

DeNiro was one hell of an XLax....”


Ha!
Nonconformist
12:11:54 PM
4/07/09

Taxi Driver or Cape Fear?
Tllt
12:13:40 PM
4/07/09

ROTFLMAO.....No wonder these clowns voted for this incompetent twit.
theXL400
12:21:09 PM
4/07/09

Dang, I forgot about Cape Fear.

I'll go with Taxi Driver for $800, Alex.

Mitchum was the best Cape Fear psycho, sorry Bob.
MarkO
12:28:54 PM
4/07/09

It's a religion and an industry
The cold truth about global warming

By Dr. William Campbell Douglass 9/5/2008

Enter your Email Address to get your free copy of The Cold Truth About Global Warming, Plus Dr. Douglass' Health Newsletter:


I'll never sell your email address to anyone, period. And you can stop getting my e-letter at any time by using the link on the bottom of each email.

If you're staying up nights worrying about your carbon footprint or how climate change is leaving polar bears adrift at sea, I've got the best advice you've heard in a while - get some sleep.

Al Gore and his global warming flunkies have half the world brainwashed into thinking our ice caps are melting, our seas are on the verge of boiling, and that everywhere from Miami to Juneau, Alaska is about to be ravaged by tropical diseases from malaria to Dengue Fever. Well, I've studied the science and I've got an "inconvenient truth" for Gore and company - the only hot air that's threatening the planet is coming out of their mouths.

Global warming has benefited from one of the greatest public relations and marketing efforts in recent history. You'll hear plenty from environmentalists about carbon emissions, clean energy, and the disappearing arctic, but here's what you will NEVER hear them admit:

Scientists have reaped MILLIONS from their global warming "research." They've turned supporting global warming - despite what the science really says - into a cash cow!


http://www.douglassreport.com/reports/global-warming.html?gclid=CNncuLC835kCFRAMDQodtDSrVA
stratd00d
12:39:11 PM
4/07/09

That's the dumbest argument against global warming I've heard. I guess cancer researchers are propegating cancer so they can keep milking the system or AIDS researchers keep ensure that AIDS gets spread around so they can keep their bank accounts full.

Pure foolishness.
roseymonster
12:44:39 PM
4/07/09

Disappearing polar ice caps make a mysterious comeback
You won’t hear about this in any mainstream media, but there’s new evidence that Al Gore’s
“rapidly disappearing” polar ice cap has made a remarkable comeback. According to statistics from
the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, polar ice cap levels that had shriveled to
just 4 million square kilometers by January of 2007 are now back up to their original level of 13
million square kilometers.
According to scientists, the northern hemisphere is in the midst of one of its coldest winters in
decades, and snowfall has reached a record level that hasn’t been seen since 1966. Last winter, central
and southern China experienced crippling snows that brought much of that vast country to a
halt for days on end. There was even snow in the Middle East, of all places.
To me, the concept of man-made climate change strains credulity. First, let’s take a look at the
“facts” upon which this supposed warming trend is based. How long would you say that mankind
has been able to accurately record temperatures? A hundred years? A hundred and fifty at the
most? If you see a TV weatherman talking about a “record” high temperature, was that “hottest
day” ever, say, in July of 1712? Nope. The records usually don’t go back much farther than the
1890s. So how can you draw a conclusion about a global warming trend based on a little over a
century of accurately kept records, keeping in mind that a century represents little more than a
nanosecond of geologic time? You can’t.
I know that there are other factors involved—polar core samples, soil records, etc. But earth
scientists are always telling us how cyclical the world is—how the earth has experienced several
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ice ages where massive glaciers advanced and retreated over the course of several millennia.
Knowing that, I find it just a little laughable to be getting worked up over doomsday scenarios that
predict all of mankind to be living in a sweltering desert just 20 years from now unless we all stop
putting our groceries in plastic bags
stratd00d
12:47:52 PM
4/07/09

The global cooling scare that never happened
I don’t know if you remember this or not (I know I didn’t), but a little over 30 years ago many
scientists were stirring up fear of global freezing. On April 28, 1975, Newsweek printed an article
called “The Cooling World.” Here’s a quote from the article: “The central fact is that after three
quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling
down…If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines
could be catastrophic.”
So what ever came of the global cooling crisis? Nothing—because there was no crisis. The
earth naturally experiences temperature fluctuations. So yes, the earth gets hotter and colder, but
it’s nothing to be alarmed about.
I was looking over a few of the global temperature graphs put together by climatologist Cliff
Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann. They noted that in the last 4,500 years, there have been as
many as 75 major temperature swings. They also pointed out what I find to be a very interesting tie
between volcanic eruptions and the temperature of the earth: Whenever a major volcanic eruption
occurs, the earth’s temperature plummets.
Since 1991, we’ve had very little volcanic activity so, statistically, we’re due for some. And you
know what that means—temperatures will fall, and the global warmers will be out of business.
stratd00d
12:52:06 PM
4/07/09

Stocks should be traded in nickles not pennies,
and all of you should pop prozac in lieu of bennies.
salebored
12:53:37 PM
4/07/09

the truth is, the global warming threat is nothing more than a
carefully planned scare tactic by greedy politicians looking to take over the world by filling you
with fear and distracting you from the real threats to you and your loved ones. And at the root of
it all is the United Nations. After all, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change is one of the leaders in the effort against this non-existent threat.
That’s why, as a man of science, I think there’s a suspicious stink to the global warming issue.
Scientists follow the money
To be sure, there are legitimate scientists and researchers who ascribe to the theory. And I’m
sure that climatologists are both stunned and excited that their discipline has actually become
sexy and high-profile over the last 10 years. But no one bothers to point out that there are just as
many legitimate scientists and researchers who think global warming is a bunch of hooey.
I often rail about the undue influence that money, business, and politics have on our health
and our healthcare system. Other scientific disciplines are identical to medicine in this way—they
don’t operate in a vacuum.
Until this global warming hubbub, climatology wasn’t considered a life-or-death issue the
way medicine is. And just like doctors who are influenced by money from Big Pharma, so too are
earth scientists and climatologists swayed by grant money and funded research.
Since global warming has become a divisive political minefield, there’s big-time grant and
research money being tossed about to help politicians (regardless of their stance on the issue)
make their points. Which is why you need to take the entire global warming argument with a
gigantic grain of salt.
An easier way to say it is this: the same climatologists and researchers who advocate global
warming are often being paid to study it. If they want to continue their research––and they do––
on the dime of government and private groups, you bet they’re going to find evidence of global
warming. Just like the cigarette company scientists for years always seemed to conclude that their
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employers weren’t making anyone sick. It’s amazing what scientists will conclude when there’s
money involved.
stratd00d
12:58:01 PM
4/07/09

And , on the other handout are; more scientisssst that are paid to debunk the firstliars and again a third to debunk the fist two and 'who who?' says the spotted owl,' will buy me a drink'.
salebored
2:06:04 PM
4/07/09

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