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You realize you are just as radical, right? Or are you as blind as the "not Liberal" people? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

[rEply] I would classify him and most of his staff as Libertarian. His stated opinion of the role Christianity should play in our government is hardly Libertarian. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think we should go to a straight popular vote. The electoral college makes some people's votes count for more than other's. "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think I've found one of the causes of your confusion. Glenn Beck is an entertainer, not an educator. If you mix that up, you're bound to come to some incredibly bizarre conclusions. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Democrats make a point of promoting diversity, sometimes to a fault. Republicans sometimes refer to them as "nappy headed hoes", or flip the hell out that Obama's gonna demand reparations and they didn't personally own slaves, or whatever. I think level of discrimination against women, blacks, latinos, and gays by the GOP is somewhat inflated but it certainly exists. The more "oppressed" a demographic feels, the farther they're going to stray from 50/50. Thus white women, who don't have it all that bad, are fairly close to the middle. Latino's have a competing demographic of Catholocism that dilutes their variation. Gays and blacks don't have white men or the Virgin Mary to care for them, so they stray farther from 50/50. Or it could just be that the DNC caters to minorities and the GOP repels them. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I just wanted to copy this for posterity. You are so far into tinfoil hat territory. It is hard to take you serious at this point. +1, You beat me to it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

No scientist worth their salt would say one way or another about a particular storm, especially not so soon after it. We can definitively say that the damage was worse as a result of global warming (the extra 10ish inches of sea level). We may also at some point look back at this storm and conclude it was consistent with a trend of increasingly severe weather, or we may look back on it as an outlier. Either way, we'll need a much wider lens than that afforded a couple days later. Blues, Dave Can you tell me how 12 ft 10in of water is causing "SO MUCH" more damage then just 12ft of water.... Man is just a sea flea on a blue whale's tail in terms of Changing the planet.... The power of nature is gonna do what it does.... In the 4.3 billion plus yrs that this place we call earth has been a frozen ball and a tropical heatwave .. Life has come and gone.... 98% of all living things that once were here are now extinct... Our time will come and we too will fall on the extinction list... That is just the way the cosmos works... Whether it be a super volcano, space rock, Gamma ray burst from a super nova 5000 light yrs away or a virus, Are time will come. To me it shows how small minded people are that they think "MAN" somehow can control it... Live life to the fullest and don't sweat the stuff you can't control... Killler First - I didn't even use a lower case version of "so much", so I'm not sure where you got the all caps out of my post. Second - the damage is all about critical elevations....the one inch that clears a seawall, the two more inches that reach that next subway, the inch beyond that takes out a hospital's backup generator, and decades worth of research at NYU. In any case, I'm not entirely convinced of anthropogenic warming yet, or at least not that our contribution is particularly large in the grand scheme of things, but debating the *cause* doesn't preclude managing the *effect*. Mitigation (greenhouse gas control) can wait a bit, but adaptation (i.e. preparing for the change, regardless of its cause) is becoming increasingly important. If we wait till there are water wars, unchecked desertification, annual flooding of coastal cities, (and did I mention water shortages?)then we'll be too late. Your argument that climates fluctuate and species go extinct and we will too is pretty disingenious. The fact that houses eventually fall apart doesn't keep most people from patching a leaky roof, and if you think there aren't things well within our control, you're not thinking hard enough. Better watershed management, water reclamation, desalination, diverse power supplies, increased sea walls, repopulated clam beds, the list goes on and on of things we can do to be more resilient in the face of a less friendly world. Feel free to go the way of the dinosaur if you want, but you'll have to forgive the rest of us who'd prefer to put that off a while. I thought this was a fun article, given it was written in September. Better was last year's report on Responding to Climate Change ...check Chapter 9 if you didn't understand what I said about critical elevations, as they called the subway shot, by vent and stairwell. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Black vote in recent elections: 1996 - Clinton 84%, Dole 12% 2000 - Gore 90%, Bush 9% 2004 - Kerry 88%, Bush 11% 2008 - Obama 95%, McCain 4% So yeah, it would appear that Obama got a bit more of the black vote than Clinton, Gore, or Kerry, but not a tremendous amount, as the demographic overwhelmingly votes (D) regardless of color. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The article is about insurance deductibles, not tax deductions. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Oddly enough, there are contracts that state what union employees will pay for healthcare coverage. Those numbers are frequently modifed during negotiations at contract renewal time. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

No scientist worth their salt would say one way or another about a particular storm, especially not so soon after it. We can definitively say that the damage was worse as a result of global warming (the extra 10ish inches of sea level). We may also at some point look back at this storm and conclude it was consistent with a trend of increasingly severe weather, or we may look back on it as an outlier. Either way, we'll need a much wider lens than that afforded a couple days later. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

4 people died. More people have died from being abandoned in your health care system or due to sub-par treatment. Many more people have died from an invasion based on faulty intelligence. Your outrage is purely based on your political belief system. It is quite frankly a disgrace. You don't care about the people who died, you only care about any potential influence it might have on politics. You, sir, are nowhere near what I would think a christian would be. Your display on this forum is about as hypocritical as it gets. This. Over 2100 people have been murdered in the US since 9/11/12, including many women and children, yet Ron doesn't talk about them. He only cares about 4 men in a war ravaged mid-eastern country, because he thinks news sources that make Ann Coulter look unbiased are going to be able to hang it on Obama. He's 100% politically motivated in this line of attack. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Soldiers? Were American military forces involved in Benghazi? My understanding is there were two state department employees (ambassador and computer guy) and two private security guys killed. Then again, it seems like almost every suppposed "source" in this entire thread is of laughable credibility, so who knows. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I think the argument could be reasonably made either way about who should pay, states or feds, although I'm not sure why people in North Dakota should be on the hook for a boardwalk in Atlantic City. That said, there is one very clear flaw in our system that you're alluding to about mitigation vs repair, and that's the separation of money and control. Governors Christie and Cuomo are about to get a bunch of money to play with. Imagine two engineers are standing in front of them with draft rebuilding plans. One of them focuses on attracting tourism and business and increasing property values. The other focuses on robustness/resilience of infrastructure. Knowing that they can always get more checks when this happens again, which way do you thing the governors will go? Yep, there's the problem. In my opinion, whomever is paying for it should have decision-making authority, or at least VERY substantial input. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

We once had a Libertarian candidate on the ballot for some sort of Parks & Recreation position. I voted for him just to see if his first action would be to eliminate is entire department. lol (I'm not sure if it was city or county, just remember thinking it was an odd one to decide by vote, and even odder for a Libertarian candidate). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Bah, I sure hope Libertarians would turn down federal matching funds. I'd also hope either of the major candidates would turn down super PAC help, but neither can afford to and remain relevant. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

One minor clarification. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

lol @ Awr Hawkins. Don't worry, you only have to keep this completely unsubstantiated story alive for 6 more days. The truth doesn't matter, just the possibility of doubt. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I voted Gary Johnson. I know he's not going to win, but it only takes 5% in 2012 to get Libertarians debate participation, easier ballot access, and matching federal funds in 2016. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

One lazy eye = zero interest in current 3D programming. The technology will have to make a huge leap forward for me to be interested in it. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You're free to interpret that, I guess. I sometimes find clarity by looking at things in the mirror. In this case, what he said was the opposite of "We'd rather just tell you what to than work cooperatively." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Trump should stick to real estate and investments. His TV shows and public image suck. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

His entire piece is about race. it reads more like his entire piece is about Obama trying to cash in on the race card (or at least trying to play to those with very racist views) in a very hypocritical way but it is more fun to just call people names Except it wasn't anything about what Obama was doing, rather about what he (Wheeler) felt. The closest thing he came to anything factual was First, he couldn't say the first part without redefining the term, because an American of Kenyan descent is actually African-American. As for the rest of the statement, he doesn't suggest he did one single bit of research to determine that none of Obama's ancestors were slaves, and people that DO do such research apparently disagree. I don't care what color Obama is, or who he descended from. I thought it was neat that we got whole "first" thing out of the way, and I'll feel the same when we elect a woman, but from my perspective, that's trivia, not substance. Obviously some people's life experience leads them to a different perspective, which places more significance on it, and that's fine too. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'll admit that I consider a willingness to admit to mistake a strength, not a weakness. In my book, an unwillingness in this regard makes someone undeserving of respect. That said, how in the world do you read the quoted part above as an apology? There is nothing even past tense in the statement. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Is Romney still keeping most of his tax records secret? Those "seem like pretty harmless papers to release as long as your not hiding anything! " Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)