All ya'all have is hysterical Chicken Little fear-mongering...

The Uninhabitable Earth
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html

While the notion that some “adjustments” to historical data might need to be made is not challenged, logically it would be expected that such historical temperature data adjustments would sometimes raise these temperatures, and sometimes lower them. This situation would mean that the impact of such adjustments on the temperature trend line slope is uncertain. However, each new version of GAST has nearly always exhibited a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history.
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ef-gast-data-research-report-062717.pdf

That's *REAL* science, people....

And it conclusively shows that Human Caused Global Warming is a POLITICAL issue...

Not a science issue..

This is why it's simply impossible for ANY rational person without a political agenda to take Global Warming hysterical zealots seriously..

They have *NOTHING* but hysterical, baseless and factless fear mongering...

And yet, when the same election was held 6 months later, NOT-45 not only lost the EC vote, she *ALSO* lost the Vanity Vote..

So, apparently, Americans had a change of heart on NOT-45 and President Trump..

Facts...

So sucky when they don't go yer way, eh? :D

BOTH of which were ALSO TRUE, under OBAMA.

Total and complete bullshit..

AGAIN, EXCEPT for the Americans who are ashamed to have Trump as President, especially when they have to explain it to our friends and allies overseas how America has apparently collectively LOST ITS MIND.

And yet, President Trump's forays in foreign policy trips have been wildly successful! :D

Once again, you don't have ANY facts on your side.. You just have hysterical bullshit..

EXCLUSIVE: Study Finds Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data

“The conclusive findings of this research are that the three [global average surface temperature] data sets are not a valid representation of reality,” the study found. “In fact, the magnitude of their historical data adjustments, that removed their cyclical temperature patterns, are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/exclusive-study-finds-temperature-adjustments-account-for-nearly-all-of-the-warming-in-climate-data/

You see, Balthy... Unlike you, I can *CITE* to support my claims and conclusions..

You never do...

Now I have shown you mine.. Where is your cite that the above is a lie???

Hmmmmmmm????

Once again, yer wrong... :D

Yea??

PROVE it.. PROVE that it's a lie..

You can't because it's a stone cold fact...

My point is that there is a REASON why children under 21 cannot drink, there is a REASON why children under 18 cannot vote and there is a REASON why children under 16 cannot drive..

They are not OLD enough to be able to make mature decisions..

With modern hormone therapy and surgery, when they become an adult, this is routinely done all the time.

The fact that you think it's perfectly acceptable for a 5 year old to be able to CHOOSE their gender is EXACTLY my point about the Dumbocrat Party...

NEVER been TRUE. And no RATIONAL person ever said it was.

And yet how many of the Dumbocrat Party supported Rachel Dozeal??

Really Michale, sometimes you are so blinded by your own ideology and so far off the deep end, it is truly mind boggling and awesome to behold, in a twisted fascination kind of way, "Just how crazy can this guy really be?"

Says the guy who thinks it's perfectly acceptable for a FIVE YEAR OLD to choose their gender... :D

"For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is a 5 yr old boy can choose to be a 5 yr old girl.."

And your point is???? With modern hormone therapy and surgery, when they become an adult, this is routinely done all the time.

"For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is blond hair blue eyed girl can be a black woman.."

NEVER been TRUE. And no RATIONAL person ever said it was.

"For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is that a man can put on a dress and be allowed to use the girls bathroom.."

ALSO, AGAIN, NEVER has been TRUE. This is nonsense fear mongering and pure ignorance, along with willful stupidity. True transsexuals are something else ENTIRELY. And many are physically indistinguishable post operation from women who were naturally born female.

Really Michale, sometimes you are so blinded by your own ideology and so far off the deep end, it is truly mind boggling and awesome to behold, in a twisted fascination kind of way, "Just how crazy can this guy really be?"

"He's going in the OPPOSITE direction that Obama and the Democrats were going..

BY DEFINITION, that is "good for the country".."

EXCEPT for all the people who voted for Hillary Clinton instead, who were MORE numerous than those who voted for Trump, and see it as BAD for the country.

"Stock market is up and going higher.. Consumer confidence is up.."

BOTH of which were ALSO TRUE, under OBAMA.

"Americans are PROUD to be Americans again, after 8 years of being ashamed to be American..."

AGAIN, EXCEPT for the Americans who are ashamed to have Trump as President, especially when they have to explain it to our friends and allies overseas how America has apparently collectively LOST ITS MIND.

Which is one reason I think we'll see a wedge being driven in between "collusion" and "conspiracy".

You have to conspire against something, and now, thanks to the Russian lawyer, it can be "election laws."

I'm not surprised. Their goal is to debase and misuse the word 'collude' until it means nothing.

And that's the pro-polluter lie in a nutshell.
Clue: Democrats don't have their 'own' scientists. Scientists worldwide didn't fake ice core samples, or change the historic record. Certainly, the chemistry of Climate science can't be faked.

Right now, America stands ALONE as the world's sole denier of climate science, swayed by the enormous sums of money, fake science, and lobbying done by companies such as Exxon (who admitted burying studies they didn't like) and Koch Industries.

Deny if you like - we're the ones who will find ourselves far behind the rest of the world in renewable energy resources if we keep this up.

This morning, both on Rush and on the lowest AM station on the San Antonio dial was the narrative that Greenpeace colluded with the Russians.

Thanks in large part to the tribal positions on environmental issues, the narrative is that the tree-hugging Left colluded, too, and it will stick.

The real narrative should be that Russian state will inject disruptive influence where ever they can.

It's an academic piece, to be sure, directed, I suppose at the writer's fellow academics. There still exists a schism in the Vatican between those who intellectually follow Francis, and those who prefer the more literalist and traditional theology of Benedict, who still lives in the cottage out back. This writer is perhaps writing for those scholars, to make the point that Francis' philosophy is rooted in established church tradition, rather than being a radical departure from the norm. It is rather, says the writer, the more recent convergence of Catholic and evangelical fundamentalism that is the historic novelty, and a departure from the legitimate mission of the church.

Unfortunately, his construction omits or glosses over the role that the Catholic Church played during the 20th century in American politics - particularly its role in promoting censorship, culminating in the Hayes Commission in Hollywood, which was described by one wag as an era of "Jews making movies about Catholic values for Protestant families". It's debated, for instance, whether the anti-abortion movement of today would exist if the heretofore little-discussed doctrine hadn't been a plot point of the 1963 film The Cardinal, based on the life of Cardinal Francis Spellman of New York (the Vatican advisor on that movie was Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI).

Still, the writer of the piece you posted makes a very point that bears repeating: the philosophy being expounded by conservatives who have adopted the hybrid 'evangelistic Catholic' credo has little to do with traditional church doctrine, and even less to do with the teachings of Christ as understood by modern scholars of the church.

And yet, the ENTIRE amount of warming from Human Caused Global Warming is SOLELY and COMPLETELY from the "malleable" ADJUSTMENTS and TWEAKS made by your Dumbocrat scientists.

So, the FACTS clearly show that it's your Dumbocrat so-called "scientists" who think that "science" is "malleable"....

Today on Morning Joe, the NYT Nairobi bureau chief described how Islam had held together the historical rival clans in Somolia.

He went on to blame US policies for destroying that, but my point is that it can be fraught to disrupt the "organic link between culture, politics, institution and Church."

As far as the original quote goes: yowza!

Just so happens that I have a clippable version of the great ending to Woody Allen's Mr. Big. Think of this as a slightly overweight equivalent to michale's movie quotes.

The Private Eye has had to shoot naked girlfriend/murderer in self defense, and in her dying breath asks him how he could have done that. Quote:

The manifestation of the universe as a complex idea unto itself as opposed to being in or outside the true Being of itself is inherently a conceptual nothingness or Nothingness in relation to any abstract form of existing or to exist or having existed in perpetuity and not subject to laws of physicality or motion or ideas relating to non-matter or the lack of objective Being or subjective otherness.

He ends by reflecting that even though it was a subtle concept, he thought she understood it before she died.

Well, Balthasar, not ever having been very religious, I had to look up a few words as I read this piece. And, then I thought "Francis wants to break the organic link between culture, politics, institution and Church."

If Pope Francis wants to be effective in spreading his message to "break the organic link between culture, politics, institution and Church", especially in parts of the US where the need for this message is so great, then he might suggest that his messengers write more clearly and concisely, in language that is readily understood by the people to whom the message should be directed and that more succinctly contradicts the only message they seem to be hearing.

This was a very well written piece but, I have to wonder how relevant or persuasive it can possibly be with the people it purports to be directed toward.

It just doesn't strike me as an effective communique that has any chance at all of reaching the people it needs to reach nor of neutralizing the simple arguments made by the other side.

(B) AMENDMENTS TO PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT —

Wait. What? Amendments? What about repeal?

All the themes which put the hounds into full bay are still there, plus some bones for Cruz and fat for the other wing.

McCain says he has a list of things from his Governor he has to get from the store , and won't vote for it until he can pick those up.

I wouldn't bet on the mtp passing unless leadership just wants it have a vote on Senators' records and move on.

Yes. Exactly. Bookmarked for future re-read.

M [25]: Liz got my point. The problem is, is that so many folks that you've been listening to believe that science is malleable, that all of those numbers and facts can be somehow bent to the will of Democrats, else the results would conform better to Republican (or conservative, or libertarian) doctrine. Hence their focus on belief, which they view not only as an agent of change in society, but also in the physical world. But few are content to change society simply by praying for it.

The truth is, science is science, and fact is fact, and, although you can obscure it (even for centuries) through sophistry, it remains immutable: innate properties and mathematics do not change, even when heavily prayed at.

Unfortunately, as a friend of mine says constantly, 'truth has a liberal bias', and the science just keeps yielding different results than those Republicans would like to see. The answer isn't to deny reality, but rather to discuss ways to use that knowledge to improve life for everyone.

But who am I kidding? While I dream, the President wants to turn the profession of international diplomacy into a version of Rollerball.

In other words, you are not going to address the point whatsoever..

Have you seen this?
https://laciviltacattolica.com/june-2017/evangelical-fundamentalism-and-catholic-integralism-in-the-usa-a-surprising-ecumenism/

Or the Democratic Party platform bends their "science" to be in lockstep with the Democratic Party platform.

This is the problem that happens when one major party is composed almost entirely of guys who dropped out of high school, business majors, and home-schooled religious fanatics: science and art take a big hit when they're in power. I suppose that we should be grateful that Republicans acknowledge that there is such a thing as 'science' at all. I suppose DARPA only survives because it's described to them as "better guns", and medical research survives because it is described as "better babies".

In my opinion, the Republican party should be represented not by the noble Elephant, one of the only other animals of the earth that knows and practices love, but rather by one of the dinosaurs from the "Ark Encounter", a gigantic state-funded monument to ignorance and superstition in Kentucky.

These dinosaurs would bring us back to our brutish roots, to the pre-civilized world of 'might makes right' and 'to the victor go the spoils' and other such nonsense. In their world, government is unnecessary as long as there is a strong man in charge, invoking the gods to follow his warriors into battle.

In their world, economics is replaced by voodoo economics: wacky ideas like trickle down theory, which postulate that society would best be served by a return to Feudalism.

And yes, in this world boys would be boys and girls would be girls and this would be enforced at the point of a gun, because freedom's just another word for not having a gun pointed at you by a social monitor.

And it gets much worse and very much darker when the subject of ethnicity arises. Suffice to say that the dinosaur would almost certainly have to be white.

Subtlety is not one of President Trump's virtues.. :D

"Patience is not one of my virtues.. Actually, I don't have any virtues but if I did, I am fairly certain patience would not be one of them.."
-Crowley, SUPERNATURAL

:D

Of course, he practically dislocated Mme. Macron's shoulder when he shook her hand. :)

Apparently, President Trump is not the world pariah that the Left would have us believe.. :D

Naw, I have to catch up on some stuff, now that I have rejoined civilization.....

Touche' :D

But, maybe even in SPITE of McConnell, this country is definitely heading in the right direction now...

The facts that support this conclusion are everywhere... :D

I am not here to defend McConnell...

you can't be taken very seriously.

Anyone who says that President Trump is NOT good for America can't be taken seriously either.. :D

Until you can tell me PRECISELY what McConnell has done since January 20, 2009 that can be said to be good for America, you can't be taken very seriously.

Except for the "enlightenment" felgercarb, Liz's assertion is dead on ballz accurate...

The Right DOES ignore "truths" because "truths" are subjective and is completely based on ideology..

For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is a 5 yr old boy can choose to be a 5 yr old girl..

For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is blond hair blue eyed girl can be a black woman..

For the Dumbocrats, the "truth" is that a man can put on a dress and be allowed to use the girls bathroom..

Those are "basic truths" of the Left Wingery..

Of course, the FACT is that a 5 yr old boy will ALWAYS be a male..

Of course, the FACT is that blonde hair blue eyed white girl will ALWAYS be white..

Of course, the FACT is that a man putting on a dress doesn't make it permissible to invade a woman's bathroom..

So, yes.. THAT is one of the more pronounced differences between the Dumbocrats and the GOP..

Dumbocrats see the world as they WISH it to be and act accordingly...

As far as "evidenced based assertions", Liz is correct again...

The Dumbocrats DO adhere to "evidenced based assertions".... But *ONLY* the evidence that supports their ideology... They IGNORE any evidence that doesn't fit their ideology...

This is very easy prove...

In your mind, is there ANY discrepancy between the Dumbocrat Party platform and factual unfiltered science??

Any discrepancy at all??

No, there is not...

Now, think about that..

What are the ODDS that real factual unfiltered natural science would be TOTALLY and COMPLETELY in lockstep with a political ideology??

The odds that REAL NATURAL SCIENCE would be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY one with a Party ideology is mind-bogglingly astronomical to the point of impossibility..

Given this FACT, there are one of two possible conclusions..

Either the Dumbocrat Party platform bends their platform to be in lockstep with the science..

Or the Dumbocrat Party platform bends their "science" to be in lockstep with the Dumbocrat Party platform...

Now, of the two, the FACTS clearly show that, for the Dumbocrats, the latter conclusion is the fact-based conclusion..

So, to sum up..

Liz is dead on ballz accurate..

The Democrats ARE truth based..

THEIR truth....

The Democrats DO use evidence-based assertions..

But ONLY the evidence that supports those assertions..

"So say we all"
-Battlestar Galactica

Anti-Trumpers... :^/

a majority of the electorate actually prefers the democratic platform to the republican one, they just don't trust democrats to go to the mat for the ideals they claim to support. after so many years of "splitting the baby," there's a credibility gap.

Which is exactly what I have been saying for over a decade.

The Democrats have GREAT ideas.. They have they most awesomest policies....... IN THEORY....

But when the rubber hits the road, when reality comes up and smacks the Democrats on the arse, the Democrats find out that their pet theories simply DO NOT WORK in real life...

The latest foray by Califonia into the realm of Single Payer is a perfect example..

"Hay guys!!! Wouldn't it be JUST AWESOME if we instituted a SINGLE PAYER plan!!!! How frakin' awesome would THAT be!!!??"
-California Government

"How are you going to PAY for it??"
-Californians

"..... Oh.... Well... er..... uh.... Well, we didn't think of that... Guess we'll kill it..."
-California Government

Like I have always said..

GREAT... in theory...

LOUSY... in reality...

And what's so hilarious is that it HAPPENS EVERY TIME!!!

The Democrats try the same thing over and over hoping for a different result..

The very definition of insanity...

Is there anything that McConnell has been "up to" since January 20, 2009 until today that can be said to be good for the country?

He's going in the OPPOSITE direction that Obama and the Democrats were going..

BY DEFINITION, that is "good for the country"..

Stock market is up and going higher.. Consumer confidence is up..

Americans are PROUD to be Americans again, after 8 years of being ashamed to be American...

So, yea.. What's happening is pretty good for this country..

It would be a LOT better if the Dumbocrats and the moron Republicans would get with the American people and support President Trump..

But politicians have to play their games.. :(

So is Congress, so are the D's and R's and so, it goes, is the idea of America?

Which is why it's so great that we have President Trump in office..

As ya'all point out gleefully, the Rs hate President Trump almost as much as the Ds do...

"You're neither fish nor fowl. You're what happened when the donkey snuck into the horse barn"
-Dr Leonard McCoy

:D

Which is EXACTLY where the Dumbocrats were when they were scrambling to get TrainWreckCare into existence..

Ultimately, the Dumbocrats succeeded and cemented their status as the Minority Party in perpetuity...

Will history repeat itself??

Stay tuned.. :D

So is Congress, so are the D's and R's and so, it goes, is the idea of America?

Now I understand the decline of America and what it means to have that speeded up!

I see few options for McConnell, and I'm searching for the World's smallest violin in anticipation.

Okay, so here's what I don't get and I'm hoping someone will explain it to me ... like I'm a six-year-old.

Is there anything that McConnell has been "up to" since January 20, 2009 until today that can be said to be good for the country?

If so, then how so?

And, if not, then how can anything remotely to do with McConnell be brilliant?

And, if not, then how can anything remotely to do with McConnell be brilliant?