Guys, we are almost at an 11,000 Dax!!!
Thatâs a grand result for the lefties now, they can spend the next few years blaming the judiciary.
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Good luck to President Putin as he takes control of the White House on January 20th.
Michael Moore
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Donald Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed
by Michael Moore
A week has gone by since Donald Trump admitted heâs only been to âtwo or threeâ of his daily presidential national security briefings. There have been 36 of them since the day he secured enough electoral college votes to be appointed president next Monday when the Electoral College meets.
Most would agree the #1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe. There is no more important meeting every day for the President than the one where he learns what the dayâs potential threats are to the country. That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him whoâs trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind.
Of course, our minds have been so boggled so many times in the past year by this foolish man no one seems that surprised or concerned. He can get up at 5 in the morning and send angry, childish tweets about how heâs being portrayed on SNL (âNot funny! Unwatchable!â), or belittling the local elected union leader in Indiana, but he doesnât have time to hear about the threats to our national security.
So, my fellow Americans, when the next terrorist attack happens â and it will happen, we all know that â and after the tragedy is over, amidst the death and destruction that might have been prevented, you will see Donald Trump acting quickly to blame everyone but himself. He will suspend constitutional rights. He will round up anyone he deems a threat. He will declare war, and his Republican Congress will back him.
And no one will remember that he wasnât paying attention to the growing threat. Wasnât attending the daily national security briefings. Was playing golf instead or meeting with celebrities or staying up til 3am tweeting about how unfair CNN is. He said he didnât need to be briefed. âYou know, I think Iâm smart. I donât need to hear the same thing over and over each day for eight years.â Thatâs what he told Fox News on December 11th when asked why he wasnât attending the security briefings. Donât forget that date and his hubris as we bury the dead next year.
We had a president like him before. He, too, lost the popular vote, a majority of Americans saying they didnât want him in the Oval Office. But his governor/brother and his ex-CIA chief/dadâs appointees to the Supreme Court put an end to that, and he was installed as Commander-in-Chief. On August 6, 2001, he was on a month-long vacation at his ranch in Texas. That morning, the White House Counsel handed him his daily national security briefing. He glanced at it, set it aside and then went fishing for the rest of the day. Below is the photo of that moment which I showed the world in âFahrenheit 9/11â. The headline on the security briefing reads: BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE INSIDE U.S. On the top page it tells how bin Laden will do this: with planes. George W. Bush didnât leave the ranch to go back to work for the next four weeks. In the fifth week, bin Laden attacked the US with planes on September 11th.
Itâs one thing to have a president who was asleep at the wheel. But, my friends, itâs a whole other thing to now have a president-elect who REFUSES TO EVEN GET BEHIND THE WHEEL! This utter neglect of duty, a daily snub at the people who work to protect us, the first Commander-in-Chief to literally be AWOL and announcing proudly he isnât going to change â this, I assure you, is going to get a lot of innocent people killed.
To you, Mr. Trump, I say this: When this next terrorist attack takes place, it is YOU who will be charged by the American people with a gross dereliction of duty. It was YOUR job to pay attention, to protect the country. But you were too busy tweeting and defending Putin and appointing cabinet members to dismantle the government. You didnât have time for the daily national security briefing. Donât think weâre going to let you use a modern-day burning of the Reichstag as your excuse to eliminate our civil liberties and our democracy.
We will remember that while the plot to kill Americans was being hatched, your time was consumed by whom you saw as the real threat to America: Alec Baldwin in a wig.
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Cicero didnât actually say that. That extract is a heavily altered version of one of the Catiline Orations delivered by the rabid segregationist Millard Caldwell. The Catiline conspiracy wasnât Ciceroâs finest hour in any case.
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Jaysus.
Sorry Fagan that post was a lot more pompous than I intended.
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The planet is 5,500 years old, apparentlyâŠ
#megalolz
Trump Adviser: Global Warming Could Be Disproven Just Like Flat Earth Theory (VIDEO)
An adviser to President-elect Donald Trump compared the scientific consensus that human beings contribute to global warming to old scientific theories that were proven to be incorrect, including flat earth theory and geocentrism.
During an interview on CNNâs âNew Dayâ Wednesday morning, Anthony Scaramucci was asked why Trumpâs transition team, on which he is a member of the executive committee, sent a lengthy questionnaire asking for the names of individuals working on climate change to employees at the Department of Energy.
Scaramucci evaded host Chris Cuomoâs question, but eventually implied that belief in human-related climate change was a partisan concern on which scientists shouldnât be trusted, rather than the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community.
âLook, I know that the current president believes that human beings are affecting the climate. There are scientists that believe that thatâs not happening,â Scaramucci began, before Cuomo interrupted him.
âThe overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that manâs actions have an impact on science,â Cuomo said. âYou have to correct that whenever it comes out. Go ahead.â
âChris, there was an overwhelming science that the Earth was flat,â Scaramucci responded. âAnd there was an overwhelming science that we were the center of the world.â
Scaramucci presumably was referencing the theory of geocentrism, which held that the Earth was the center of the universe. Copernicus disproved that theory in the 16th century.
âItâs called ignorance,â Cuomo said. âYou learn over time.â
Scaramucci wasnât convinced. Later in the conversation, he said the Trump team simply wanted âcommon sense solutions. Non-ideological.â
âSome of the stuff that youâre reading and some of the stuff Iâm reading is very ideologically-based about the climate. We donât want it to be that way,â he said.
He later added, âIâm saying people have gotten things wrong throughout the 5,500-year history of our planet.â
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The planet is 5,500 years old, apparentlyâŠ
#megalolz
He later added, âIâm saying people have gotten things wrong throughout the 5,500-year history of our planet.â [/quote]
Surprised a seemingly intelligent poster fell for this. This is a perfect example of the kind of hysterical bullshit the left is now engaged in that I referenced in the Ban a Tard thread.
The nutty lefties are outraged that this apparent âyoung earth creationistâ is part of Trumpâs transition team. Itâs staggering how many publications are embarrassing themselves with the reporting of this quote.
According to Young Earth Creationists, the earth is fucking 6,000 years old, not 5,500 you utter morons. Why the fuck do you think he said 5,500 and not 6,000?
The second part of his sentence which of course is omitted, is âhuman historyâ. Liberals displaying their ignorance of the word history as written record, which from a human context began roughly 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia and Eqypt.
Itâs actually embarrassing how dumb lefties have become, and no surprise they lost the election.
Trump owes the ruskies a fortune, heâll do what heâs told.He doesnât want to end up back in queens.
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Trumpâs Vice President rejects the theory of evolution.
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Thatâs some furious spinning, mate.
Most reasonable people, especially those who maintain environmental policy should be evidence-based, can recognise the spin coming from the Trump camp as the shilling for big business snake oil it is.
But your first reaction is to spin furiously for those saying it and go on rant #6489239 about âliberalsâ.
And you wonder why others think youâre cracked. 
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No mate, you are the idiot who fell for the hysterical reaction to the quote regarding a 5,500 year old earth.
If you want to debate the environment, then Iâm happy to do that.
DONALD TRUMPâS WAR ON SCIENCE
By Lawrence M. Krauss December 13, 2016
The President-electâs cabinet appointments speak to a harsh reality: this is an anti-science Administration.
Last week, the Space, Science, and Technology subcommittee of the House of Representatives tweeted a misleading story from Breitbart News: âGlobal Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists.â (There is always some drop in temperature when El Niño transitions into La Niñaâbut there has been no anomalous plunge.) Under normal circumstances, this tweet wouldnât be so surprising: Lamar Smith, the chair of the committee since 2013, is a well-known climate-change denier. But these are not normal times. The tweet is best interpreted as something new: a warning shot. Itâs a sign of things to comeâa declaration of the Trump Administrationâs intent to sideline science.
In a 1946 essay, George Orwell wrote that âto see what is in front of oneâs nose needs a constant struggle.â Itâs not just that weâre easily misled. Itâs that, by âimpudently twisting the facts,â we can convince ourselves of âthings which we know to be untrue.â A whole society, he wrote, can deceive itself âfor an indefinite time,â and the only check on that mass delusion is that âsooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality.â Science is one source of that solid reality. The Trump Administration seems determined to keep it at bay, and the consequences for society and the environment will be profound.
The first sign of Trumpâs intention to spread lies about empirical reality, â1984â-style, was, of course, the appointment of Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of the Breitbart News Network, as Trumpâs âsenior counselor and strategist.â This year, Breitbart hosted stories with titles such as â1001 Reasons Why Global Warming Is So Totally Over in 2016,â despite the fact that 2016 is now overwhelmingly on track to be the hottest year on record, beating 2015, which beat 2014, which beat 2013. Such stories do more than spread disinformation. Their purpose is the creation of an alternative realityâone in which scientific evidence is a shamâso that hyperbole and fearmongering can divide and conquer the public.
Bannon isnât the only propagandist in the new Administration: Myron Ebell, who heads the transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency, is another. In the aughts, as a director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, he worked to kill a cap-and-trade bill proposed by Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman; in 2012, when the conservative American Enterprise Institute held a meeting about the economics of a possible carbon tax, he asked donors to defund it. Itâs possible, of course, to oppose cap-and-trade or carbon taxes in good faithâand yet, in recent years, Ebellâs work has come to center on lies about science and scientists. Today, as the leader of the Cooler Heads Coalition, an anti-climate-science group, Ebell denies the veracity and methodology of science itself. He dismisses complex computer models that have been developed by hundreds of researchers by saying that they âdonât even pass the laugh test.â If Ebellâs methods seem similar to those used by the tobacco industry to deny the adverse health effects of smoking in the nineteen-nineties, thatâs because he worked as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry.
When Ebellâs appointment was announced, Jeremy Symons, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said, âI got a sick feeling in my gut. . . . I canât believe we got to the point when someone who is as unqualified and intellectually dishonest as Myron Ebell has been put in a position of trust for the future of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the climate we are going to leave our kids.â Symons was right to be apprehensive: on Wednesday, word came that Scott Pruitt, Oklahomaâs attorney general, will be named the head of the E.P.A. As Jane Mayer has written, it would be hard to find a public official in the United States who is more closely tied to the oil-and-gas industry and who has been more actively opposed to the efforts of the E.P.A. to regulate the environment. In a recent piece for National Review, Pruitt denied the veracity of climate science; he has led the effort among Republican attorneys general to work directly with the fossil-fuel industry in resisting the Clean Air Act. In 2014, a Times investigation found that letters from Pruittâs office to the E.P.A. and other government agencies had been drafted by energy lobbyists; right now, he is involved in a twenty-eight-state lawsuit against the very agency that he has been chosen to head.
It gets worse. As this piece was going to press, word came that Trumpâs likely choice for Secretary of the Interior is another climate denier, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a congresswoman from Washington State. McMorris Rodgers has made false statements about the scientific consensus on human-induced climate change; if confirmed, she would be able to further distort public perceptions on this issue by controlling how the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Park Service communicate to the public about climate change. McMorris Rodgers is a long-standing opponent of regulations on emission of greenhouse gases and an ardent advocate for the exploitation of public lands for fossil-fuel production. She would now be in a position to oversee use of federal lands for coal, oil, and gas production, potentially reversing the current moratorium on federal coal leasing, as well as making decisions on offshore oil drilling. McMorris Rodgers has even voted against tax credits for production of renewable electricity. She is about as friendly to the production of fossil fuels as a legislator can be.
The unfolding disaster at the E.P.A. represents only one front in the Trump Administrationâs wider war on science. If one way to undermine science is to mindlessly dispute its methods and findings, another is to deprive it of funding, which is what Bob Walker, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign on space policy, is advocating. Walker wants to defund nasaâs earth-science efforts, which he has characterized as âpolitically correct environmental monitoring.â As the astrophysicist Adam Frank explained recently, in the Times, nasaâs earth-monitoring programs, which incorporate at least fifteen earth-science satellites, do more than investigate climate change; they provide data relevant to agriculture, shipping, medicine, and more. In fact, they are essential for understanding and forecasting weatherâwhich is not to be confused with climateâincluding extreme weather events that threaten peopleâs lives. Shutting nasa out of that research prevents it from anticipating and predicting events with wide-ranging consequences.
And the Trump Administration is on course to undermine science in another way: through education. Educators have various concerns about Betsy DeVos, Trumpâs nominee for Secretary of Educationâthey object to her efforts to shield charter schools from government regulation, for exampleâbut one issue stands above the rest: DeVos is a fundamentalist Christian with a long history of opposition to science. If her faith shapes her policiesâand there is evidence that it willâshe could shape science education decisively for the worse, by systematically depriving young people, in an era where biotechnology will play a key economic and health role worldwide, of a proper understanding of the very basis of modern biology: evolution.
DeVos comes from a religious family with a long history of supporting fundamentalist religious groups, including the notoriously anti-science group Focus on the Family. Her family has a net worth exceeding four billion dollars, and they have used that money to establish a foundation which has donated hundreds of thousands to pro-life pregnancy centers that lie to women about the risks of abortion. In 2006, DeVosâs husband, Dick, ran unsuccessfully for governor in Michigan, and, as Jane Mayer wrote last month, âthe DeVos family doubled down on political contributions and support for conservative Christian causesâ after he lost.
Along with her husband, DeVos is an active member of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, a small Protestant denomination with the stated belief that âall scientific theories be subject to Scripture.â According to the churchâs official statement on science, âHumanity is created in the image of God; all theorizing that minimizes this fact and all theories of evolution that deny the creative activity of God are rejected.â DeVos attended Calvin College, which is owned and operated by the Christian Reformed Church. She majored in business administration and political science. (She does not have a degree in education.) And although she has not spoken out directly on issues such as evolution and the Big Bang, her husband advocated teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in science classes during his 2006 gubernatorial campaign. âI would like to see the ideas of intelligent designâthat many scientists are now suggesting is a very viable alternative theoryâthat that theory and others that would be considered credible would expose our students to more ideas, not less,â he said. Given her strong support of his campaign, and their joint investment in both conservative and religious causes, as well as her own religious background, it is reasonable to expect that her views do not significantly diverge from his. (DeVos did not respond to requests for comment.)
There is nothing respectable about the idea of âteaching the controversy,â as intelligent-design advocates describe it. We donât teach modern astronomy by suggesting to students that they feel free to decide for themselves whether the sun orbits Earth or vice versa; instead, we teach them how scientists discovered the realities of our solar system, despite considerable pressure to renounce their own discoveries. Similarly, students should be encouraged to understand that evolution is not some principle laid down on high by a conclave of scientists; they should explore the various empirical tests to which it has been subjected for more than a hundred and fifty years. The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. It should be easy, therefore, for Congress to make sure that DeVos isnât planning to drive our educational system off a scientific cliff. During her confirmation hearings, DeVos should be asked whether she thinks itâs appropriate to teach intelligent design alongside evolution in biology classes, or whether young-Earth creationism should be presented alongside the reality of a 4.5-billion-year-old solar system in physics class. An answer in the affirmative to either question should disqualify her as the highest federal government official overseeing public education in this country. If Congress doesnât exercise its obligation to insure the competence of Presidential appointees like DeVos, then voters need to hold them accountable in the next election.
Taken singly, Trumpâs appointments are alarming. But taken as a whole they can be seen as part of a larger effort to undermine the institution of science, and to deprive it of its role in the public-policy debate. Just as Steve Bannon undermines the institution of a fact-based news media, so appointments like Ebell, Pruitt, McMorris Rodgers, Walker, and DeVos advance the false perception that science is just a politicized tool of âthe Ă©lites.â (Lamar Smith, one presumes, will continue in his role on the House Science Committee.) Science is the one domain in human life where bias and prejudice are systematically eliminated; now those very forces are set to undermine the practice of science in America. It is not only scientists who should actively fight against this dangerous trend. It is everyone who is concerned about our freedom, health, welfare, and security as a nationâand everyone who is concerned about the planetary legacy we leave for our children.
Iâm not defending Trump, Pence, or any other political idiotâs views on religion or science. I was pointing out the predictable hysterical nonsense based outcry from the left on the quote that Sidney highlighted.
These lads have no problem with the morals of pyramid selling mind you. DeVos fortune comes from owning Amway