Posted on 05/27/2013 8:43:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
No, the internet isn’t causing more storms, it’s beause we landed men on the Moon. At least, that’s what my grandmother says.
“Do we really know how much Gorebull warming contributed to these crime stats?”
“Aren't student test scores effected by Gorebull warming?”
” Childhood obesity has direct ties to Gorebull warming, it's too hot for the kids to run and play.”
” Gorebull warming causes uneven tire wear on cars.” — (Don't offer to give any opinion on why, let the bastards ponder it for the rest of the day.)
That was on CNN a couple of weeks ago — I was about to post that myself.
In the aftermath of the Boston bombing, a lot of people on the right denounced it as a "failure" of the Obama administration.
Here's the problem.
I don't know if anybody else really remembers the days after 9/11. Most people, I believe, assumed we were in for a steady drumbeat of Islamist bombings, with hundreds if not thousands killed each year.
If somebody on 9/12 had stood up and proclaimed the total death toll on American soil of Islamist bombings in the next (almost) 12 years would be 3 (and that attack over a decade later) he would have been considered delusional.
I realize there have been various non-bombing attacks, as at Ft. Hood, but the total death toll is still far under 100 in over a decade.
American military and intelligence types have done a truly astonishing job in protecting us, when you consider that at minimum there are some tens of millions of Islamists who want to kill Americans, and that some of them have massive resources to throw at the problem.
You do know the Weather Channel is now owned by NBC? It’s just another part of their propaganda network.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this book, but I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126
Anti-intellectualism, knee-jerk negativity and credulous swallowing of bogus conspiracy theories are not skepticism, do severe harm, and should be attacked whenever they present themselves.
Absolutely right.
I read that too:
http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/pre1900s/1559/
I remember recently hearing a reporter babe, asking if a asteroid that flew particularly close to Earth was due to global warming...Not kidding.
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Hardly surprising, some people simply have no natural sense of how things work. I think some could study physics for ten years and still lack the basic understanding that others have simply by observing the world around them. I have listened to people draw some conclusions so absurd that I simply ignored them because I considered it pointless to try to educate someone that unknowing.
One example; this comes from more than one person but I have stood and watched the stream that borders on my property flood until it is a quarter mile wide rather than its normal forty feet or so and had people stand there beside me and say that it wouldn’t flood that way if the ditches were cleaned out! The ditches they referred to were under two or more feet of water as they were speaking! I mean the entire area of land in which the ditches had been dug was under at least two feet of water. They could not understand that ditches only carry water into the stream, somehow they thought the ditches could carry the water away and prevent the flooding. The same people would sometimes try to say that the same stream was flooded because the river it empties into was backing the water up to where I live. They apparently never notice that sometimes the river floods massively from upstream rains and the tributary I live on is unaffected. These people often seem to have the notion that THEY are the ones who know what is really happening and it is others who are confused.
“Sandy” ..devastating? yes. Hurricane? not when it reached the US.
It was in the 80s the first time I went to New Orleans. I recall walking with a native looking up at the levee and he commented that some day, a big storm would hit and the whole city would be underwater.
Any intelligent person there knew it was inevitable. It was just a question of when it would happen.
Same goes for the Northeast where Sandy hit. It was tragic, but not in anyway unexpected.
Thanks Impala64ssa.
Thanks
A good part of the problem with modern “journalism” is that it attracts a type of individual that’s so snot gobbling stupid that they’re only real skill is the rotating of thumbs from anus to mouth.
That, my friend, was the quote of the month! :’)
I’m glad no one tried to spin this article about torna- uh, never mind.
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