sdraoul wrote on Feb 20, 2008 9:23 PM:White Guy (El Guero) speaketh with forked tongue. A news report is a news report, it may or may not be true or accurate. It generally is an anecdote, a printed anecdote. It doesn't matter in the Big Picture because people like you turn it into a massive fabrication by attributing crime to that story.

The only facts that count in counting crime by anyone is facts accumulated by official sources with all facts available to them.

In San Diego County, birthplace is determined and recorded at booking. But not legal residency. When they move on to prison, the inmates are classified by federal officers to determine legal residency so that immigration holds are placed on those suspected of illegal residency. But, only a court can actually adjudicate legal residency, a federal officer can make a case but he can't make a final determination.

Thus, when the State of California prison system reports that 7.9 percent of its inmates are Mexican born, that's all they can report. They can report how many have immigration holds on them, but not put the holds on themselves.

White Guy (El Guero) doesn't know what he si talking about.

DD Wiz wrote on Feb 20, 2008 10:24 PM: The published letter from Frank Thurlow, unable to distinguish between WEATHER and CLIMATE or to understand what global climate change actually means, epitomizes almost to the point of caricature an uneducated casualty in the CONSERVATIVE WAR AGAINST SCIENCE.
He notes the colder low temperatures in winters that serve as the predicted counterpoint to the higher high temps of summer, as global temperatures fluctuate to greater extremes, with an overall increase. This is exactly what has been predicted in the PEER-REVIEWED academic and scientific journals with the same degree of scientific credibility as the recent eclipse.
Oh yeah, it was cloudy so lots of people in this area did not see the eclipse, so I'm sure we'll see these science deniers posting their repudiations that the event even occurred at all.
Don't laugh, this is the same crowd that mailed some of us the brochure from The Geocentric Bible Foundation arguing that the earth does not revolve around the sun, but rather the sun around the earth. And I think the Flat Earth Society must be planning to open a North County chapter soon.

REALITY does not count = wrote on Feb 20, 2008 10:56 PM:- Reality is the Achilles heel of Ron Paul. Grant Kuhn (letter today) speaks the truth about Ron Paul, as the only candidate addressing the most important issues facing our nation and the world. Paul has only one problem: Politics do not deal with reality. And when economic reality hits us in the face with the coming depression, people will blame Ron Paul, the messenger, and not George W. Bush, who “brought it on”.
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SOLON ... wrote on Feb 20, 2008 11:12 PM:… George Bush, in a 2006 CNN interview of Wolf Blitzer, stated “Absolutely” he would bomb Pakistan to kill or capture al Qaeda leaders there even if the Pakistani government objected to it. I just watched the video. McCain, however, condemns this blatant disregard for Pakistani sovereignty, and condemns such behavior. McCain has made a big deal of this in the last week, as he campaigns for nomination.

SOLON ... wrote on Feb 20, 2008 11:16 PM:… The sordid Cunningham saga continues to fester. So Brent Wilkes got 12 years in jail. There will be others, maybe even other Republican congressmen. On the front page of the Washington Post, Jan. 27, appeared this bit of info: QUOTE “Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) told The Washington Post that he helped steer defense funding, totaling $37 million, to a California company, whose officials and lobbyists helped raise at least $85,000 for Doolittle and his leadership political action committee from 2002 to 2005.”
We also know Brent Wilkes served as a Pioneer for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, bundling more than $100,000 in contributions for the president. In my mind, this is a quid pro quo, a bribe many would say. It is said that money is the milk of politics. In my mind it is the poison, and Bush drank it down.
And yes, Fred Scott, letter write today, is correct: This was taxpayer money used by Duke, Brent Wilkes, and Bush. The Republican party is corrupt to the core.

SOLON ... wrote on Feb 20, 2008 11:34 PM:… UPDATE: Just saw the second part of the video about Bush bombing Pakistan. In a new interview with Fox News Sunday on Feb. 10, Bush now contradicts his pledge to bomb Pakistan, and condemned Obama for saying the same thing. Is Bush a drunk amnesiac, or does he just have such a faulty memory? Or is he just wishy-washy? Or, as is more likely, does Bush think it is OK if he bombs Pakistan, but not if a Democrat does it? This just seems so typical of this bizarre president.

McCain - what a pain - wrote on Feb 20, 2008 11:41 PM: - McPain IS going to be the GOP nom. Poor GOP.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Floyd The Scientist wrote on Feb 21, 2008 12:08 AM:Once again we see that DD Wiz is straining at the facts, attempting to demonstrate that "climate" and "weather" are unrelated. The dictionary races to the rescue, noting that climate is "the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation". When the temperature goes down, the average temperature also goes down. This science minute has been brought to you by the Merriam Webster Dictionary, a PEER-REVIEWED source of knowledge and understanding to help you navigate the LIBERAL FUSILLADE OF BLATHER.

danny wrote on Feb 21, 2008 12:08 AM:ddwiz, dont rely on scientists, who error sometimes and will say different thingsin 30 years. rely on the Lord Jesus. His Word has been proven true.

SOLON … wrote on Feb 21, 2008 12:35 AM:… Look at past presidential campaigns, and you see this pattern over and over: the winner tells a coherent, appealing story, while the loser tells a bad story, or more often, no story at all. Now John Edwards had a very good story, but Obama has an even better story. And now that Edwards is out of the race, Obama and Hillary are adopting much of his populist story, except it doesn’t seem to fit Hillary. Hillary is a talented, hard working and brilliant person, but Hillary’s story is not interesting. McCain has no story - just a muddled mix of mean spirited battles with his colleagues, and as one of the principals in the Keating Five scandal, McCain has ugly skeletons in his closet. That’s not a good story. And many veterans have serious issues with him Vietnam story.
Ron Paul is an interesting person who addresses monumental issues, and he may prove to be a prophet, but he does not have much of a personal story, and his party treats him like a pariah. And why dwell upon those who fell by the wayside already, such as Giuliani whose story was all a fabricated myth; and Mitt Romney, who had so many contradictory stories. Fred Thompson was not even a myth. He is much better as an actor telling someone else’s story. But OBAMA -- he has a great story, and America is listening to him. His story resonates true, like a clarion call, all across America. He is humble, diplomatic and sincere -- but also very strong and wise. He bring people together, and exhibits extraordinary leadership qualities. I look at McCain, and I see a destroyer, a pugilist; I listed to Obama, and I hear a healer, a diplomat, a leader wise beyond his years.

The BETRAY AMERICA Act - wrote on Feb 21, 2008 12:50 AM:- I was startled to read what Republican Paul Craig Roberts had to say about Bush’s tantrum outburst last week: “President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to spy on terrorists, and we will all be blown up. Terrorists can only be stopped, Bush says, if Bush has the right to spy on everyone without any oversight by courts.
The fight over the Protect America Act has everything to do with our safety, only not in the way that Bush and McConnell assert.
Bush says the Democrats have put ‘our country more in danger of an attack’ by letting the Protect America Act lapse. This claim is nonsense. The 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gives the executive branch all the power it needs to spy on terrorists.
The choice between FISA and the Protect America Act has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, at least not from foreign terrorists. Bush and his brownshirts object to FISA, because the law requires Bush to obtain warrants from a FISA court. Warrants mean that Bush is accountable. Bush and his brownshirts argue that accountability is an infringement on the power of the president.
To escape accountability, the Brownshirt Party came up with the Protect America Act. This act eliminates Bush’s accountability to judges and gives the telecom companies immunity from the felonies they committed by acquiescing in Bush’s illegal spying.”

A solution wrote on Feb 21, 2008 12:58 AM:In this day and age of thirsting for answers, I have a solution. Lets elect DDWiz king. He has all the answers and is not afraid to tell us.

Queen of Hearts … wrote on Feb 21, 2008 1:11 AM: . It’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s Bush’s Kafkaesque nightmare. The Bush administration has announced its intention to try six alleged al Qaeda members at Guantánamo under the Military Commissions Act. That Act forbids the admission of evidence extracted by torture, although it permits evidence obtained by cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment if it was secured before December 30, 2005. Thus, the administration would be forbidden from relying on evidence obtained by waterboarding, if waterboarding constitutes torture.
That's one reason Attorney General Michael Mukasey refuses to admit waterboarding is torture. The other is that torture is considered a war crime under the U.S. War Crimes Act. Mukasey would be calling Dick Cheney a war criminal if the former admitted waterboarding is torture. We can’t have that, now, can we? Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, has said on National Public Radio that the policies that led to the torture and abuse of prisoners emanated from the Vice President's office. Naw-w-w-w-w-w. Never. Cheney wouldn’t do that, now, would he?

Amazed to Just Curious wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:14 AM:. TO Just Curious. I just read your short post made at 7:13 PM Wednesday evening which said "BIBLE DISCUSSION: Just because I made a statement abou the sun burping." I think the interactions was really was funny. Just a simple two sentences from you on Tuesday evening. "Will Jesus save us if we, liberals repent from our desire to help the poor,down trodden. and the sick. This planet will end when the sun burps or becomes a red star." led to at least seven long posts spread over all day Wednesday about scripture, sciense and theology." You hit a home run! It just happened at the right time, or else it might have gone unnoticed. I was watching the TV program on the History Channel about the marvels of the sun, and it burbing countinously and eventually turning into a red dwarf at th etime I read your post and wrote my first response. Had you just seen the same program on the History channel too, andpickedup on the sun burping and eventually turning into a red dwarf?

Amazed to Just Curious wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:19 AM:. SOmetimes I read Gretawire. I see that someone going by the name of "Just Curious" posts there onhe blog too. If this is not too personal a question is that you or someone else using that name? Just wondering!

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:33 AM:>>>It is overdue, but Congress finally voted to hold two of Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with inquiry regarding the purging of federal prosecutors for political motives>>> Gee after BJ Clinton fired all of them for political purposes, I'm glad you're so concerned about the 8 that Bush fired for political purposes. It's such an important issue that it should be PEER REVIEWED before its commented on again

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:37 AM:>>>White Guy (El Guero) speaketh with forked tongue>>> Maybe that brown guy Raoul el speako with forked tongue, too, if you get the point

Snowbird-2 wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:40 AM:. Poor DD Wiz. He attacks the nice informative letter by Frank Thurlow "Global Warming Hoax" this morning by name calling as usual. Everybody already knows about weather and climate. So with all this cold weather, blizzards, and snowstorms, next summer will have to be very hot to make the mean temperature for the year come out higher. DD listed his peer reviewed documents recently, but they were nearly all about ten years old. Nevertheless even if the globasl weather continued to warm for a while that DOES NOT establish that it is caused by man made CO2. That is an even larger hoax, the one the vast left wing conspirators are using to try to seize world power. They already got the Californa Governor and the state legislature hooked into surrender. This is spreading like cancer though the political systems of other states and even congress.

Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:07 AM:The FISA bill without immunity for the telecoms, is an ACLU lawyers dream come true. And according to Paul Cavanaugh: Democrats offered to allow lawsuits but have taxpayers pay damages, which Republicans rejected." And rightly so.
Two conclusions here: By not allowing the telecom lawsuits, President Bush cares more about protecting our wallets than Democrats. and the ACLU had no "standing." Just a little legal lingo there... it's means you have to first show you were harmed.
How nice of those Democrats to offer our wallets to pay for the supposed misdeeds of others.

Karl wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:34 AM:Alright, something new on the DD Whiz front. I haven't read of anyone denying the eclipse yet but DD has the scoop.

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:39 AM:The liberals news is reporting that Afghan and NATO troops have killed two Taliban commanders. Notice how, as the election nears, its Afghan and NATO, even thought the commander and most troops were American. But we all know why, the liberals have made sure the media have all received the DNC directive:"Any success on the war on terror is detrimental to the causes of the democratic party"

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:48 AM:>>>Thus, "Top Gun" should be spending more time in the slammer than the defense contractor.>>> As the child molesters walk free because of certain types of judges

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:50 AM:>>>In doing so, his implication is clear: "I think one of you did it, and I want you all to know it." >>> Well, they got the message didnt they. Its always better to be more direct tham to be panty-waisted

THE Anti-liberal wrote on Feb 21, 2008 6:21 AM:Does anyone here watch “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann? Well that was a stupid question, kinda like going into a Mosque and asking…hey does anyone here read the Koran. I turn it on occasionally to show my girlfriend (totally apolitical) just how “open minded” and fair and balanced the left is………NOT! He surrounds himself with like minded Leftists malcontents and NEVER has anyone with an opposing point of view on. I’m about as conservative as one gets, and no fan of Bill O’Reilly. It seems the older and richer he gets, the more lazy, boring, and PC he becomes. But what is Keith Olbermann’s obsession with the aforementioned? He has this childish nightly segment where he does the “worse”, “worser”, and “worst” person in the world, thing; any night I’ve ever watched it Bill O has won worst honors. Last night he dedicated most of the show to Bill O; trying to make him out to be a racist…..again. What gives, I’ve never even heard Bill O mention K.O.? Does anyone here know what kind of ratings Keith the Red gets, is he even competitive? Any opinions?

Global Warming to DD Wiz wrote on Feb 21, 2008 6:26 AM:"The published letter from Frank Thurlow", blah blah blah. "WEATHER and CLIMATE" blah blah blah. "CONSERVATIVE WAR AGAINST SCIENCE" blah blah blah."PEER-REVIEWED" blah blah blah. For God's sake man give it a break; do you realize how crazy you're starting to sound.

To SOLON.com wrote on Feb 21, 2008 6:30 AM:Hey dude, what's McCain's position on U.S. "sovereignty". You know, with our broken border problem? How do you, yourself feel about the lack of immigration law enforcement?

OBSERVATION wrote on Feb 21, 2008 6:53 AM:sdraoul wrote on Feb 20, 2008 9:23 PM: Being white has nothing to do with his report. Ignorance is found in all races.

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 7:18 AM:>>Alright, something new on the DD Whiz front. I haven't read of anyone denying the eclipse yet but DD has the scoop. >>> Due to the clouds last night, there was probably a PEER REVIEWAGE problem with the eclipse

El Guero wrote on Feb 21, 2008 7:34 AM: sdraoul ... says that "The only facts that count in counting crime by anyone is facts accumulated by official sources with all facts available to them." Tell that to Melanie Kortlang, the mother of Amy Kortlang, the young woman struck and killed by Rafael Ramirez Perez, an illegal immigrant and habitual drunk driver from Mexico. Or the daughter of that woman killed in Vista ... Or the parents of the kid who was molested in a canyon in Poway by yet another illegal immigrant from Mexico, Jesus Mora Nava. These are crimes committed locally by Mexican illegal immigrants against U.S. citizens whose government offers their famiies no protection, no compensation, no justice. And these are facts, not anecdotes, reported and recorded not by "official sources" but by a free press. It's sdraoul ... who speaks with confused tongue.

BA wrote on Feb 21, 2008 7:41 AM:"As the child molesters walk free because of certain types of judges"
Example please.

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 7:53 AM:I was glad Gates didnt postpone shooting down the spy satellite because of weather and high seas? The Russians and Chinese would have laughed their butts off. Gates, took a page from the post office: "Neither rain, nor sleet nor snow, or gloom of night ... will keep us from our appointed duties"

Just Curious wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:09 AM:Amazed to Just Curious wrote on Feb 21, 2008 3:14 AM:. No, I had not seen the program.

0412 wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:11 AM:Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 5:39 AM LOL. Yep, me and my five liberals, called all the news media and told them how to report the news. American forces are part of the NATO command at least in theory. LOL.

OBSERVATION wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:14 AM:THE Anti-liberal wrote on Feb 21, 2008 6:21 AM: They have different political philosophies and have a personal feud. Been going for some time.

Chcuk wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:33 AM:>>"Neither rain, nor sleet nor snow, or gloom of night ... will keep us from our appointed duties>> Editor- you are absolutely no fun at all. You left out the entire point I tried to sneak by you.

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:40 AM:>> I haven't read of anyone denying the eclipse yet but DD has the scoop>> I think it must have happened though, during the eclipse a stange message flashed across my TV set while I was watching 2010:: "All these worlds are yours except the moon, attempt no landing there. Use them together, Use them in Peace" (Statement not PEER REVIEWED)

Nick wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:43 AM:TO The Anti-Liberal: Actually, I like to watch Bill Maher on HBO for some pretty good debates and The John Stewert Show and The Colbert Report for laughs, these last 2 are hilarious.
Cheers, Nick.

Nick wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:50 AM: As usual, "The Whizzer" laments someone with his WRONG and tiresome phrase "Don't you know the difference between weather and climate". "DD" would like you to think that Weather has nothing to do with Climate, when it quite the OPPOSITE! Weather has EVERYTHING to do with Climate. Just more of the LIBERAL TWISTING OF SCIENCE in the Sham called Global Warming.
The climate where you live is called regional climate. It is the average weather in a place over more than thirty years. To describe the regional climate of a place, people often tell what the temperatures are like over the seasons, how windy it is, and how much rain or snow falls. The climate of a regional depends on many factors including the amount of sunlight it receives, its height above sea level, the shape of the land, and how close it is to oceans. Since the equator receives more sunlight than the poles, climate varies depending on distance from the equator.
However, we can also think about the climate of an entire planet. Global climate is a description of the climate of a planet as a whole, with all the regional differences averaged. Overall, global climate depends on the amount of energy received by the Sun and the amount of energy that is trapped in the system. These amounts are different for different planets. Scientists who study Earth's climate and climate change study the factors that affect the climate of our whole planet.
While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate changes over longer timeframes. Climate events, like El Nino, happen over several years, small-scale fluctuations happen over decades, and larger climate changes happen over hundreds and thousands of years. Today, climates are changing. Our Earth is warming more quickly than it has in the past according to the research of scientists. Hot summer days may be quite typical of climates in many regions of the world, but global warming is causing Earth’s average global temperature to increase. The amount of solar radiation, the chemistry of the atmosphere, clouds, and the biosphere all affect Earth’s climate.
Cheers, Nick

So lemme get this straight, Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:56 AM:You praise the republicans for saving the taxpayer money that would've been lost if people sued the telecommunication companies for breaking the law. You condemn the democrats because if, as they'd wished, FISA would've held as is, those companies would've been sued for breaking the law, and the taxpayer would've paid the damages. So let's examine this logic. Anytime Congress passes a law that says that perpetrators of crimes are immune from civil accountability to their victims, it's good, because it saves the taxpayer money, right? Is that what you're advocating? If your business perpetrates fraud and rips people off, you are immune from prosecution because if you lost a lawsuit, as you surely would, it would cost the taxpayer money? Ron, is this how far you've twisted yourself in the interest of criticizing Democrats and the ACLU? You're arguing that it's good to make perps immune from accountability?

Can you see these people in school, DD? wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:02 AM:As predicted many weeks ago, the phrase "peer reviewed" has become something the yahoos say as a joke now. I'm picturing these people in their school days. Any time they had a teacher that had the gall to know something that they (or their dads) didn't, they just took the content of the lesson and made a joke out of it. "The earth goes around the sun...yeah, right! Ha ha ha" and so on. Let's just say they were the kids that the teachers gave social passes to, just to avoid having them repeat the year. The combination of ignorance, arrogance and immaturity is not exactly impressive in the adult world (although it explains a lot of votes for Bush, the role model of this combination).

DD Wiz wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:06 AM: The posts from "Floyd The Scientist" (12:08am) and "Nick" (8:50am) can't respond to my accurate post so simply misstate and misrepresent my position. Is this carelessness, ignorance, or an outright LIE?
"Nick" says "'DD' would like you to think that Weather has nothing to do with Climate," and then provides an excellent description of both the difference and the interrelatonship, and Flat Earth "Floyd" says: "DD Wiz is straining at the facts, attempting to demonstrate that 'climate' and 'weather' are unrelated" and then cites an excellent dictionary definition showing a relationship.
I have never said that "'climate' and 'weather' are unrelated."
I HAVE said they are different, and the difference is SCOPE, exactly as noted in the definition cited by Flat Earth "Floyd."
So let me ask "Nick" and Flat Earth "Floyd" a question: is there a difference between a watt of electricity being used and the kilowatt-hours on his electric bill? Please read very carefully: I am not asking if there is any relation, I am asking if the two terms ("watt" and "kilowatt hour") are interchangeable.
In the meantime, their continued ridicule and denigration of real PEER-REVIEWED science shows him to be an unfortunate casualty in the CONSERVATIVE WAR AGAINST SCIENCE.
By the way, "Nick" and "Floyd," did ya see the lunar eclipse last night?
Or did you miss it because you didn't believe the PREDICITONS calculated by scientists based on a CONSENSUS of PEER-REVIEWED astronomical science?

DD Wiz wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:07 AM: The post from "Karl" (5:34am) shows that my Escondido buddy needs to take it easy on that last brain cell before he's had that second cuppa Joe. He says: "I haven't read of anyone denying the eclipse yet but DD has the scoop."
Wake up, "Karl," and don't just smell the coffee but take that second cup and don't go for that wimpy decaf stuff. That is exactly my point! No one has actually denied the eclipse, but they criticize, denigrate and ridicule the same PEER-REVIEWED scientific methodology that enables SCIENTISTS to PREDICT future events in the solar system when it happens to apply to geology and climatology in ways that threaten to cut into profits of the pushers of our addiction to non-renewable FINITE FILTHY FOSSIL FUELS purchased from dependence on terrorists and dictators.

DD Wiz wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:08 AM: The post from "Global Warming to DD Wiz" (6:26am) whines (boo hoo! Too bad so sad) about his perception that I am too repetitive on the subject of climate. Hello! READ THE POSTS! Every post from me starts out by identifying exactly which published letter or post I am RESPONDING to. I never introduce new material in this forum. If I want to introduce new material, I send in my own letter using my actual real-world name.
If you don't like the fact that I mention certain subjects too often, then take your pathethic whining to the ANTI-SCIENCE CONSERVATIVES who keep bringing it up.
Oh, I get it, you want the ANTI-SCIENCE CONSERVATIVES to be able to rant and rave and peddle their BIG OIL BULLY propaganda, but if someone tries to respond with real scientific data, you want them to shut up.
Sorry, this is not the Fox (Faux) News propaganda network funded by billionnaire Rupert Murdock, nor is it the Rush Limbaugh show nor is it Bully O'Reilly who can yell "shut up" and cut off the microphone of any rational dissenting view. That God for some semblance of balance from the North County Times!

To THE Anti-Liberal@6:21am wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:13 AM: I watch Keith O, and I agree it's sometimes silly, and yes, he usually has guests who agree with him. But he also has ultra-right Pat Buchanan and others. And his nightly attacks on Bill O are usually well deserved. Last night, for example, Bill O said he wouldn't join a "lynching party" against Michelle Obama "unless she deserved it". Very poor taste. But the thing I like best about Keith O is his occasional rant against W. Nobody else on-air has the guts to say what should be said about the lying criminals in the White House. BTW, do you know Keith started as a sports broadcaster, and still does some of the big games?

Tiresome wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:21 AM: It's so tiresome for people to pretend that a cold winter disproves global warming, or that a few crimes by "illegals" proves a "raging epidemic". Are they stupid or dishonest? Why do they waste our time? Aren't there enough legitimate disagreements to talk about? For example, whether man-made or not, global warming is happening, and is likely to destroy life as we know it. What should we do about it?

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:22 AM:>>if people sued the telecommunication companies for breaking the law>> If the CIA hung on too long and heard the terrorists inviting little boys to the bathhouse down the street, I dont call that breaking the law, I call it great entertainment that should be widely distributed after the arrest was made.

THE anti-liberal wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:30 AM:OBSERVATION wrote on Feb 21, 2008 8:14 AM: Right...obviously they have "differant political philosophies". My point is, I've never heard Bill O even mention K.O., let alone obsess on him the way Olbermann incessantly does with O'Reilly. Just seems a little childish and idiotic to me; but I guess that's how you attract a liberal audience.

Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:38 AM:That's hanging a little to the left, so let me, as I always do, straighten out that shot for ya, So lemme get this straight, Ron @8:56 AM.
If lawyers are allowed to sue the telecoms at taxpayer expense, the lawyers win, telecoms win, taxpayers lose. You with me, so far?
If you allow the lawyers to sue the telecom, at the telecoms expense, the lawyers win, the telecoms wins, and the rate payer loses. Still with me?
If lawyers with no legal standing are allowed to sue, you've just violated Article III. Lawyers win, everyone else legal rights are now compromised, and the Constitution is turned on it's head. Savvy?
What I condemn the Democrats for: Was trying to involve the taxpayer. Taxpayers are an innocent party, in fact, they are a non-party in this case. Taxpayers aren't a part of this, The Bush Administration, the Telecoms, and Slip & Fall Lawyers are.
If the Telecoms violated the law, they should pay the fines, not anyone else. As I have previously stated, which is true of all corporations, they do not pay taxes, or fines they incurr. The consumers of their product will pay.
Clearer now?
If my business were to perpetrate a fraud and ripped people off, Nobody other than myself would be held responsible for the crime. Well, my prices might go up a little.
But, it certainly would not include my neighbor.

esteban wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:48 AM:DD Wiz, give it up with the global warming. There are only a few idiots who agree with you. Face it, you're not winning the argument because you are just plain WRONG! Deal with it! Get on with your life, you lost. you want us to believe you are smart but we aren't buying it.

Oh, no...here we go again wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:49 AM:Are you kidding me? McCain is now saying the equivalent of "I did not have sex with that woman"? I'll tell you, I don't know or care if he did or didn't. I don't know or care if he's lying about it now. But I'm all but nauseous that we have to listen to this kind of an "issue" again. Parents: save your children from the horrors of growing up in a Puritan nation. Send them to school in Canada or Europe if at all possible. There are scholarships! It can be done! Save them from our absurd national obsessions.

El Guero wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:52 AM:To Tiresome (9:21): Maybe if it were your daughter who was killed or your son who was molested you'd feel differently. But, then again, maybe not.

But Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:54 AM:Wouldn't it be more, um, rational or moral to try to find a way for the telecoms to be accountable for breaking the law without burdening the taxpayer? Wouldn't that be a better aim than making them exempt from the law? (If the telecoms were ordinary businesses, then their raising their prices a little would cost them, big time, in the competitive marketplace...)

Floyd The Scientist wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:58 AM:DD Wiz asks if "Watt" and "Kilowatt-Hour" are interchangeable. Since one watt is one volt at one ampere and one kilowatt-hour is one thousand volts at one ampere for exactly one hour, the answer is no. They are not interchangeable but they are related. If you are measuring kilowatt-hours and the number of watts goes down, the number of kilowatt-hours will also go down. Similarly, if you are measuring the climate and the temperature goes down, the climate will also go down. This science minute has been brought to you by Floyd The Scientist, who is wearing her WHITE LAB COAT and is helpfully assisting readers in their efforts to navigate the LIBERAL FUSILLADE OF BLATHER.

Finishing the Bush stories wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:58 AM:You know, it's funny. It's perfectly obvious to everyone, left to right, that Bush was raised with a golden spoon, had unlimited money and power behind him, had influence used to help him along over and over again, and was, for at least 40 years, a kind of "ne'er do well" playboy. A lazy rich fun guy who never had to grow up. When he ran for office and then took over the Presidency, despite this history, the so-called common people dug him, felt like he was not a snob, felt like he was the kind of guy you could chat with. You know why? You know what it was about him that came across that way despite every moment of his life's pampered elitist upbringing? Simple: he's dumb. He can't talk. He cares not a whit about anything complicated in the world and comes across as that being just wonderful. As has been mentioned before, anyone who voted for him, especially the second time, should refrain from voting for at least a decade as a way of apologizing to the rest of us.

time for your meds, esteban wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:02 AM:esteban, do you really mean to say that DD is one of only a few idiots who believe in GW? You honestly believe that "believers" make up a tiny minority of people, scientists, nations? esteban: what planet do you live on? Considering the content of your posts, the most amazing thing about you is that you seem to be able to type. LOL

OBSERVATION wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:04 AM:Finishing the Bush stories wrote on Feb 21, 2008 9:58 AM: "Dead Eye Dick" Cheny is the power behind the throne just as Cardinal Richelieu was to King Louis.

Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:11 AM:Amazing anit it, Roger Covalt?
The Democrats who have owned Sacramento since 1970, again have placed us in another fiscal morass.
And yet, now they want a universal healthcare system too?
One can only wonder, if by current law half of our State's entire budget is slated for education. Yet, when these downturns happen, what happens? That's right! They cut education spending!
Now, if they did legislate a universal healthcare plan, what would happen to it during a downturn? That's right! They would cut it. Got a heart condition? Sorry. Got a broken arm? Sorry. Can you imagine what they would cut out of a medical system in order to balance the budget? As I posted yesterday, the Brit's who lack ER personel, make the ill wait in ambulances, until they have time to see them. Would they cut back on ambulances?

SCOPE AND RANGE wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:14 AM: Esteban at 9:48 says only a few people agree with DDWhiz about global warming.
Maybe, maybe not, but those that do get published in scientific journals.
Only a few people agreed the world was round before Columbus, but they were the scientific elite of that day, standing up to the dogma of the church that said it was flat. The number of people who believe something doesn't make it true - only science can prove what it can prove.
Floyd at 9:58 confirms exactly what DDWhiz said about the difference between wats and kilowat hours. It is a difference of scope and range, not that they are unrelated, just like climate and weather, just like the Whiz said. I thought Whiz explained it pretty clear.

chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:19 AM:>>esteban, do you really mean to say that DD is one of only a few idiots who believe in GW?>>> Everyone believes in weather cycles. But when they change the name weather cycle to "global warming" for sole purpose of making it the biggest money grab and ponzi scheme since Social Security, thats where the disconnect starts

Chuck wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:20 AM:>>Cheny is the power behind the throne just as Cardinal Richelieu was to King Louis.>> and Hilary to Vince Foster

Ms M wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:26 AM:Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:11 AM ....um let's see now the dems. have ruined CA because they have been in charge with a repub. gov. who was going to save the state but the repubs have been in charge of the country and we hear no complaints about how our country has been run (down)to nothing. What's up with that?

3D wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:26 AM: Danny at 12:08 a.m. advises DDWiz not to "rely on scientists" but rather on "the Lord Jesus" whose "Word has been proven true."
I would ask Danny to share with us the info on where the Bible has been "proven true." (I'll resist the temptation to demand that such "evidence" be from "peer reviewed" sources.)
Certainly, there is quite a bit of evidence to show that it is of authentic antiquity, though not all portions can be verified to have actually been written by alleged authors for whom the various books are named, so in that sense of being a valid relic of the ancient past, it is "true."
If a new manuscript were to be found today, such as the Nag Hamadi and Qumran texts that became the Dead Sea Scrolls, found within the last 60 or so years, within the lifetimes of many of us, the question that would excite everyone is not whether or not these were the literal inerrant and infallible Word of a divine deity, but if they were legitimately OLD.
So in that sense, as a mostly validated compilation of ancient manuscripts, the Bible can on some levels be said to have been proven "true," although that standard would also apply to compilations of ancient myths from Rome, Greece, China and India.
But in the sense of whether or not the Bible is literally inerrant or infallible or divine, Danny needs to be more specific in providing his "proof," since in reality there is far more proof of factual errors, internal contradictions and inconsistencies and prophecies, such as the one cited yesterday, that explicitly state specific time periods for completion which passed without their being fulfilled.
I have compiled some specific examples of each that I make available on my websites, with links to hundreds more. Anyone interested can do a Google search on "Putting the Bible in Perspective" (preferably as an exact phrase) and might be lucky enough to find my pages or other excellent web content that is available.

sdraoul wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:27 AM:El Guero--which means white guy--keeps pounding isolated instances of an illegal committing a crime as if we are suffocated by illegal alien violent crime. he talks about one woman losing her daughter but doesn't mention the 32 students kileld at Virginia Tech by a legal or the 6 students killed at Northern Illinois University, nor the 16,000 others murdered last year mostly by members of the lower economic classes of America. No, he talks about ONE illegal who allegedly moslested a kid in Poway but forgets to mention the alleged thosuands of child molestations by legal resident priests of my own church.

El Guero cannot talk of real facts and statistics just an isolated case or two with which he brands millions of people.

I don't know who is worse at insulting intelligent people, El Guero or DD... In either case, they are boring.

Oh, Ron wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:28 AM:We would greatly appreciate it if you would tell us (and be very specific, please) which candidates are proposing that we adopt the British system. Thanks in advance. Now remember, no vague answers allowed. No saying, "well, it may as well be the same as kinda like the British system", or "if we adopt what the candidates actually are proposing, we may be headed down the slope that leads to the British system". Let's stick to plain facts. Tell us the plans of the candidates and how they specifically match up to the British system. And if they have little in common with the British system, then say so, like a man, and promise you won't bother us with this nonsense any longer. Deal?

Floyd The Scientist wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:31 AM:Thanks to the posting by SCOPE AND RANGE and DD WIZ, we have reached a CONSENSUS that climate and weather are related (albeit not interchangeable). This means that record low temperatures translate into a decline in the climate which invalidates the global warming hypothesis. That was easy.

hardtack wrote on Feb 21, 2008 10:31 AM:SOLON, populist leaders are often great orators – Hitler as well as Lincoln – what does it prove? You, apparently, are among the many who prefer well spo