[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[SoConPubbie]

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[headstamp 2]

Its OK to have religion in science and politics when it serves the left’s interests.

[Steve_Seattle]

Ted Cruz is three times as smart as the squib who wrote the New Yorker piece.

[Jim from C-Town]

In my personal opinion Francis would make a better climatologist than he does a pope. He is a lousy pope so the bar is set pretty low.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . government shutdown . . . which caused serious and permanent damage to American science."

This ape who claims to base his thinking on hard data puts out this absurd and utterly unfounded assertion.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

“Intellectual achievement used to be revered in this country, not detested,”

It's even progressed to the point where some people no longer believe that Bill Nye is a scientist. Can you imagine that? See how far our scientific leadership has fallen? Cuz If you don't believe Bill Nye is a scientist, then you don't believe in science.

[KarlInOhio]

 and, of course, the man who, last year, almost single-handedly shut down the government of the United States, which…caused serious and permanent damage to American science.

Were scientists killed for their pelts? Did government funded scientists quit and become short order cooks during the short funding interruption?

One thing to remember is that scientists will where themselves out for money just like most other people. Much of the scientific method and publishing of not just results but method and raw data to allow other scientists to duplicate their results is to keep that from happening. When scientists "lose" the raw data and refuse to publish their methods like Michael Mann of climate hockey stick infamy, become very suspicious.

[DesertRhino]

Im not a Catholic apologist by any means. But this was a slap at the Pope too. It was basically the writer saying I hate Criz and Inhoff so much over global warming that even that retard in the corner (the pope) would be preferable.

The whole article was him stamping his feet claiming that the most radical views are mainstream. I have serious doubt that 42 % of America believes humanity is around 10,000 years old. Nice straw man.

But I think the reason he chose the Pope is even deeper. Global warning is after all, nothing but a modern religion. Complete with original paradise (pristine pure earth, untouched), the sinful fall of man (everything that makes our life good is destroying the earth) Saviors that absolve you if you simply follow (AlGore and Obama) and acts of penance (cold house, public transportation, toilets that don’t flush, expensive light bulbs and windmills)

So of course he is curious what the Pope thinks. Who would be discussion microchips and wonder what the Vatican’s opinion is?

[tacticalogic]

The AGW “scientists” aren’t doing anything Gruber didn’t do.

[BipolarBob]

Cruz or Inhofe wouldn’t put Galileo under house arrest because they didn’t believe his heliocentric theory.

[olezip]

That’s too bad, because the Pope believes that science, rational thought, and data all play powerful and positive roles in human life.

Pope Francis, Inhofe, and Cruz are in agreement that science, rational thought, and data all play powerful and positive roles in human life.

The "science" of man caused global warming is far from settled. The principal factor in climate change is the Sun; we may be on the cusp of global cooling.

[Flick Lives]

So a man who believes that the international scientific consensus is a “hoax”...

The phrase "scientific consensus" is an oxymoron. There is no majority vote on what is or is not scientific theory. Theories are provable or they are not.

[AlaskaErik]

Frankie would just be a better useful idiot. But he's already made that abundantly clear.

[Texicanus]

“That’s too bad, because the Pope believes that science, rational thought, and data all play powerful and positive roles in human life. The senators seem as if they do not.”
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The writer is stupid and irrational. He is foolish to compare the pope with the senators. Maybe he is suffering from that “leftwing enlarged brain and liberal superiority syndrome” accidently discovered in a recent government funded scientific study to prove rightwing conservatives are conservative and therefore rightwing. Duh...

The pope is not a scientist. He is a theologian and does not have to scientifically prove anything. He deals with faith, the good and evil (devil) of the world, and G_D’s laws for man, not scientific facts, theories, and laws of the universe, although I believe neither disprove each other. If he wants to believe in Global Warming or evolution let him prove it through the scriptures not science. For now, screw evolution and Global Warming, I don’t have time to disprove either but G_D has left some clues in the scriptures and HIS creation.

The senators should be commended for questioning the so called “data and rational thoughts” used by bogus scientists including their motives. The senators are not accepting Global Warming through the faith or trust of some of these swelled brain liberals without questioning the facts and methodology used to support the conclusions. Like Reagan said, trust but verify. When facts and methodologies are found to be bogus how can you trust the results. There is a lot of bullshit science and erroneous conclusions based on desired outcomes out there. Much of it needs to be identified and tossed.

Both the pope and senators share many of the same concerns but one deals in a word of theology and the others in a world of political bureaucracy. Sometimes they are worlds apart. In a political world sometimes governments get “shut down” when funding is denied. That’s a political fact, not rocket science.