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CLIMATE MCCARTHYISM
Monday, August 18, 2014 7:38 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote: Climate McCarthyism has claimed another victim. Dr Caleb Rossiter - an adjunct professor at American University, Washington DC - has been fired by a progressive think tank after publicly expressing doubt about man-made global warming. Rossiter, a former Democratic congressional candidate, has impeccably liberal credentials. As the founder of Demilitarization for Democracy he has campaigned against US backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa, against US military support for dictators and against anti-personnel landmines. But none of this was enough to spare him the wrath of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) when he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science." Two days later, he was sacked by email. The IPS said: "We would like to inform you that we are terminating your position as an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies...Unfortunately, we now feel that your views on key issues, including climate science, climate justice, and many aspects of US policy to Africa, diverge so significantly from ours." In the WSJ OpEd entitled Sacrificing Africa for Climate Change, Rossiter argued that Africans should benefit from the same mixed energy policy as Americans rather than being denied access to fossil fuels on spurious environmental grounds by green activists. He wrote: "The left wants to stop industrialization - even if the hypothesis of catastrophic, man-made global warming is false." http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/06/13/Climate-McCarthyism-claims-yet-another-victim
Monday, August 18, 2014 9:28 AM
ELVISCHRIST
Monday, August 18, 2014 9:43 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: So you're NOT in favor of free markets and at-will employment?
Monday, August 18, 2014 10:12 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Monday, August 18, 2014 10:31 AM
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:03 AM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact.
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:06 AM
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:26 AM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong.
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong. Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods."
Monday, August 18, 2014 3:19 PM
Monday, August 18, 2014 3:20 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong. Hey, I just talked to my pal Luigi. He thought the "real bigotry" was "onne uh dose, whatchacallem, redwoods." And this is what passes off as the " intelligent " side of the debate.
Monday, August 18, 2014 9:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong. Teaching science is bigotry....
Quote: A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks...
Quote: I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber.
Quote: Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.
Monday, August 18, 2014 10:50 PM
Monday, August 18, 2014 10:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:38 PM
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: If NASA found out that one of its scientists in charge of orbital engineering was actually a flat-earther, should they be allowed to get rid of him? If a catholic priest stood up in church and declared from the altar that he did not believe in god, should the curch be able to give him the heave-ho? If a general said before the invasion of Iraq that we'd need far greater numbers of troops than we were prepared to send, should he be able to be fired for his opinion?
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: So, because AGW isn't real, you feel the need to insult those you'll never meet over the internet.
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:56 PM
Monday, August 18, 2014 11:58 PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:31 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:43 AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:01 AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:15 AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:21 AM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation. Ponder this reality: Charlie Manson just got married, and the raptard can't even get a date. Says a lot about how fucked up he is, doesn't it?
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:22 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it. You're a troll.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:15 PM
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's not a complex. It's real bigotry & it's flat out wrong. Teaching science is bigotry.... Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry. Quote: A white guy, saying his refusal to acknowledge overwhelming evidence... is the same as discrimination against blacks... Discrimination is discrimination. Period. Quote: I am amazed that after all this time, you always manage to top the last utterly idiotic thing you said with something even dumber. Which only makes YOU on par w/ a Grand Dragon ,decked out in your pointy headed finest. Quote: Thankfully, with your disposition, I doubt you'll ever breed and spread your inanity to the next generation.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: If a general said before the invasion of Iraq that we'd need far greater numbers of troops than we were prepared to send, should he be able to be fired for his opinion?
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: HEY, that's amazing. Just yesterday, I mentioned a Grand Dragon, and here you are, using the same term today. Haven't heard anybody around here use the term in , like, forever Like mentioning it got it stuck in your mind.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:08 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry.
Quote: Discrimination is discrimination. Period.
Quote:Which only makes YOU on par w/ a Grand Dragon ,decked out in your pointy headed finest.
Quote: Sister, they don't know what to do w/ just one of me !
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:42 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Creation science would be an apt analogy. Teaching the bible / Torah / Quran as scientific fact. No, see, son, this is teaching science as science. Your persecution complex is fuckin' adorable, though.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 6:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry. But that didn't happen. He got fired for NOT teaching science, and pushing the idiotic politically-entrenched, science-free bullshit you continue to excrete.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:51 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by ElvisChrist: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nothing you say has an iota of truth to it. So oil spills have never killed even a single animal? Wow. I did not know that.
Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:26 AM
Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:25 AM
Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:08 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2014 1:19 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:13 PM
THGRRI
Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Getting fired for teaching science = bigotry. But that didn't happen. He got fired for NOT teaching science, and pushing the idiotic politically-entrenched, science-free bullshit you continue to excrete. Wrong. ... he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal describing man-made global warming as an "unproved science." He refused to blindly accept you cult's agenda. And good for him.
Thursday, August 21, 2014 8:15 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: In my backyard, this seems to be the coolest August in memory. I think it got into the 80's a few times, but lots of high in the 70's, no 100's, and I don't recall any 90's yet this month. Must be that global warming, Eh?
Friday, August 22, 2014 9:25 AM
Friday, August 22, 2014 2:39 PM
Friday, August 22, 2014 4:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THGRRI: 63 Trillion Gallons Of Groundwater Lost To California Drought, Pushing Earth’s Crust Higher http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/21/63-trillion-gallons-of-groundwater-lost-to-california-drought-pushing-earths-crust-higher/
Friday, August 22, 2014 6:43 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Quote:McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism."
Friday, August 22, 2014 6:58 PM
Friday, August 22, 2014 8:35 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Magonsdaughter: Quote:McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism ." Don't think that applies in this case
Quote:McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism ."
Sunday, August 24, 2014 5:53 AM
Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:49 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Sunday, August 24, 2014 1:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Why don't you ask PETA or The Sierra Club what that number should be.
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