“The Tea Party seems to be a hijacked libertarian movement taken over by ultra right neocons. It’s what I call the Fox News cancer.”
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I would agree. The name holds so much promise– actually returning our democracy to the people. But now that “corporations are people my friend”, the real people are screwed and the Plutocrats are stronger than ever.
Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by R. Gates
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Joshua
Michael –
Lets pray together in gratitude that folks like Daniel are around to save us from fascists liberals imposing authoritarianism on every aspect of life.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
Doug, “Disagreement is considered a prejudice, a type of personal cussedness of the agenda-driven, cranky old guy of the neighborhood.” Fortunately, there are a lot of us old guys about, including at CE, who may have cussedness and crankiness but are not agenda-driven..
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
Humans are not good at predictions, full stop. So don’t make policy on wild projections pertaining to 2100 AD.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Joshua
BTW, Daniel –
Just so you know, you have become my new favorite “denizen.” dude, you leave wags, CWON, and GaryM in the dust.
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Comment on Myths and realities of renewable energy by Peter Lang
Have you compared the costs of the various types of energy storage for your requirements? Have you looked at the Electricity Supply Association web site. It has a wealth of information about what is suitable for different requirements and the costs and excellent summary charts: http://energystorage.org/energy-storage (You ESA have to join to access them).
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by R. Gates
“Neither are the Tea Partiers Saints, but these blanket dismissals of them show lack of information and lack of thought.”
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Well, I’ve never been accused of “lack of thought”, so that’s a new one. If the Tea Party would break ranks with the Republicans as an independent party and adopt these for tenets:
1. That Corporations are not people
2. That Corporate control of our Democracy must end
3. There must be real reforms in campaign financing
4. There must be term limits
plus of course:
5, A constitutionally a balanced budget every year (except in times of war)
Then sign me up!
But as long as they are the crazy far right uncle of the Republicans, they merit very little of my attention.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
A great spot, I love Richmond Park and used to frequent it.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
Robert, I suspect that those over-precise assessments of IQ differences have much in common with over-precise determinations of temperatures past and present.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Faustino
You can’t force that view on me!
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by steven
I think a more complete list of organizations that aren’t people is in order or is your list limited to just corporations?
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by ordvic
Dear Senator,
As you consider legislation, we as leaders of scientific organizations, write to state the consensus scientific view.
Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occuring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.
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If we are to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced
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See the whole letter signed by the 18 scientific organization leaders:
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Steve Fitzpatrick
Steve Mosher,
While they might be helpful, at least in theory, term limits are not going to happen. It’s a ‘fox and hen house’ thing… and the foxes will be deciding on term limits.
WRT corporations: in many respects corporations are similar in a legal sense to people. Heck, in Portuguese, a person is legally a ‘pessoa fisica’, while a corporation is legally a ‘pessoa juridica’. Corporations can be sued like a person, charged with crimes, fined, etc. They just don’t vote. I am not very concerned about corporations participating in political campaigns; nor unions or other organizations for that matter. One way or another the people who control most any organization will use that organization to politically advance their own best interests. That is not going to change.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Joshua
The selectivity of the reasoning at climate etc. never fails to amuse…libertarians arguing for term limits….
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Rob Ellison
I find the truth of progressive dumbness to be self evident.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Joshua
It’s not because they’re dumb…it’s because they’re fascist, cultists intent on starving children and committing “economic suicide.”
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by jim2
curryja | October 31, 2014 at 4:58 pm |
Further, i have serious reservations about C&W, which i discussed in a blog post and Nature Geoscience.
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Oh well, Mosher wanted the truth. There it is.
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by Joshua
Just want to thank me much beloved “denizens.” I’ve spent the last couple of hours in an emergency room with my “father-in-law” as he gets a three inch, nasty gash in the back of his head stitched up (fell down a bunch of stairs) and you certainly have kept me entertained to make the waiting time pass more quickly…
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by jim2
ordvic – that 18 scientists thing was back when common people were scared by global warming.
BY JOE ROMM POSTED ON OCTOBER 21, 2009 AT 5:46 PM UPDATED: OCTOBER 22, 2009 AT 9:47 AM
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Comment on Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments by AK
<blockquote>False — I always mention the PAGES 2k paper from last year. Are there more recent data?</blockquote>The <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2014/10/31/the-kaufman-tautology/" rel="nofollow">revised PAGES2K Arctic reconstruction</a> from <b>this</b> year. McKay and Kaufman 2014.
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