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charlesg 9 months, 1 week ago on LETTERS: What's the truth on global warming?

LETTERS: What's the truth on global warming?

Unfortunately, Robinson quotes a bunch of scientists, most of whom receive grants based on producing a gloom-and-doom scenario

I don't know how you've been so misled, but studies are conducted hundreds of times, reaching a specific conclusion, whether or not grants are involved; indeed, many people conduct their own research on their own time, donating their materials to do so. The notion that Scientists adjust their studies to reach a conclusion and thus receive more grants is fabricated nonsense.

If you want to really learn about it, only you can read the studies to get the best information possible.

The earth is constantly changing. The sands of the deserts were once the bottom of the ocean. Greenland, until the Ice Age, contained lush vegetation. Did man kill off the dinosaurs?

Correct, the earth is constantly changing. The climate history of Earth, however, is neither haphazard nor random. What's great about this is that there are predictable cycles about many of these changes, which people can verify by reading ice cores in the Andes mountains, in Antarctica, or other remote locations which are somewhat devoid of contamination. For example, one of these cycles deals with 100,000 years of orbit adjustment with the planet Earth and how glaciation is impacted. So, you have to account for these cycles when constructing models.

I am bothered that it seems that those on the far left, who have long wanted to have total control over our country, have hitched their wagons to environmental matters having found that their former socialist/communist agenda wasn't working fast enough. Even worse, our school children are being indoctrinated to believe that we must destroy our way of life to "save the earth"

Seriously? You honestly scare yourself with this rubbish? Man up.

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charlesg 10 months, 1 week ago on YARBROUGH: Plum Nelly Pitts says Higgs boson won't fix stupid

YARBROUGH: Plum Nelly Pitts says Higgs boson won't fix stupid

FordGalaxy, I don't feel better about ridicule, but I do find it important to point out lousy articles, particularly ones proudly putting their ignorance up on display.

Seriously, go back and read it - with such 'stern' warnings such as : "because if we keep messing around with His universe and not giving Him full credit for what He has created, we are likely to end up atop Mt. Ararat in a rowboat with two houseflies and a pair of possums."

This is speculation based upon myth, nothing more, chanting "let's not discover what lies ahead, because an old tale said something bad might happen."

Believe in God? Great, go for it; you won't be ridiculed by me for doing this, indeed I don't speak to my own family in this manner. Belief in supernatural_beings_of_any_kind while asserting fear of tomorrow based upon ignorance? Then yes, here is where I speak up. In this case, not only has Dick not learned physics, he's determined not to pick up a book and learn for himself; with or without credit to his deity-of-choice. Re-vitalizing ridiculous fears of tomorrow based upon deluvian tales is helping nobody.

I'd say I know you've viewed my posts before, but I think if you read them, you'll find I'm somewhat consistent in allowing the believers to believe what they want (of any faith), but using their faith as a rationale to influence others won't 'cut the mustard'.

If you think otherwise, I'll read.

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charlesg 10 months, 1 week ago on YARBROUGH: Plum Nelly Pitts says Higgs boson won't fix stupid

YARBROUGH: Plum Nelly Pitts says Higgs boson won't fix stupid
  • Unnecessary capitalization of 3rd-person male pronouns? Check.
  • Anti-Science rhetoric based upon mythical fears? Check.
  • Incoherent ramblings from local oaf? Check.

...I think we have a winner here, folks...

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charlesg 10 months, 1 week ago on Chick-fil-A surprises some with gay marriage talk

Chick-fil-A surprises some with gay marriage talk

I'm sure people were also disgusted back when inter racial marriage ban was found unconstitutional.

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charlesg 11 months ago on High court upholds key part of Obama health law

High court upholds key part of Obama health law

Jan, there you go again, actually reading the law instead of sharing a knee-jerk opinion. When will you ever learn that this type of behavior is frowned upon?

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charlesg 11 months ago on High court upholds key part of Obama health law

High court upholds key part of Obama health law

To continue your city-dweller car insurance example, it would still be constitutional (according to the ruling), and within congress' power, for congress to pass a tax to give incentive to purchase car insurance. Whether or not it's part of the 'use the roads' contract, it's still under the power to levy a tax. And you're right, no matter how Obama (or any other Representative) classified it, "the law must be struck downbecause Congress used the wrong labels" is incorrect.

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charlesg 11 months ago on High court upholds key part of Obama health law

High court upholds key part of Obama health law

Go back and read pages 30-35 of Roberts' decision, and you'll see that this is a tax, whereas a "penalty of fine or jail time" would in fact be a punishment of unlawful behavior. Not purchasing insurance, as this law is worded, doesn't constitute unlawful behavior.

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charlesg 11 months, 1 week ago on MCCULLOUGH: Right to free speech sometimes presents quandaries

MCCULLOUGH: Right to free speech sometimes presents quandaries

I agree, particularly with the trash-picking-up-trash quip. For any legal authority to ban an American from saying : "I wish to pick up trash under this banner" seems short-sighted.

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charlesg 1 year ago on LARSON: Teacher offers prayer's chance that God might exist

LARSON: Teacher offers prayer's chance that God might exist

@FordGalaxy - Your initial inference was more inline with what I meant, that of God being a 'Supernatural Creator', not necessarily "Government in and of itself". As someone who does not believe any of this, I find being constantly reminded of the majority of Americans' beliefs through the Government mouthpiece as an "official yearly ritual" to be a violation of: 1) The Constitution's establishment clause 2) Madison's original intent, as quoted (1811): "Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative"

If, regarding your fear of State dependency and replacement of God with Government, then I think we share a common ideal. I, too, shudder at a North-Korean style demigod worship, I just realize that "Wall of Total Separation" (Madison, 1819) means prohibition of a National Church as well as prohibition of state-sanctioned belief. This is a wall of intended mutual division, not a one-way mirror.

If I appear oversensitive, consider running through the following exercise: For the next week, every time you see, hear, or speak the word "God", mentally substitute it with "Allah", and the abundance of spiritual control from the Federal Mouthpiece will become much more apparent.

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charlesg 1 year ago on LARSON: Teacher offers prayer's chance that God might exist

LARSON: Teacher offers prayer's chance that God might exist

FordGalaxy - President Obama's Executive mandates, Senatorial Committee bills, an ultra-fundamentalist "NDP Task force" coordinating propaganda, all, to me, constitute "Shoving Down Throats".

If you think that Governmental involvement in your life is limited to your examples (personal visitations, fining, etc), then I don't think you fully grasp how powerful the State is.

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