Reply: Don’t thank us, thank the NCDC!

Other moderators…I de-spammed this comment because it is Justin’s photo that is the topic of this post.

Sorry I missed it in the original post — I don’t think you said why it’s significant, did you?

While you’re at it, you might try to explain the significance of the Mars stuff, too. I had assumed you were aware that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and others got these briefings from NASA as standard operating procedures. OF course, they were all intelligent, engaged people who were genuinely interested in the space program.

The question is why Bush didn’t get it. But that’s not what you highlighted.

So tell us – what is the significance of Bush sending a proxy to get his information when past presidents have done it themselves as a point of national pride?

Both posts are trivial, IMHO. You’re getting different mileage? Tell us how.

REPLY: Well I suppose the concerns you raise are equally significant to posts about Millard Fillmore. Prove to me that 1) Bush specifically sent a proxy, instead of the process being normal chain of information handling, i.e., show that he consciously ignored it, told somebody else to handle it, and doesn’t know anything about it, and 2) Fabrications aside, why it’s OK to put loads of carefully chosen disaster photos that are mostly emotional in nature into a report on science that should be factual, not emotional.

Then I’ll consider it worth my time to respond further. Otherwise I think you are simply harping on things that only interest you, and not the majority of readers here.

Maybe in his pessimism but there is something wrong in our economic system. It isn’t the free market, it isn’t honest greed, it isn’t just Congress. It is the Fed and your local neighborhood, “respectable” member of the government-backed banking cartel.

“Respectable”, hah! The only difference between them and counterfeiters is they are legal and don’t require a printing press.

The photoshopped flood scene was likely chosen because it was easier to obtain and license than an actual photo.

The part that’s frustrating is the repetition of AGW vs. GW theme. Without looking I’m quite sure that viewpoint can be derived from many of the referenced papers, many of which blithely state or assume AGW as fact.

This paper, just like the IPCC SPM, is going to be a real nuisance. Unfortunately, not much can be done about it. The authoring board can likely defend it six ways from Sunday. The best anyone can do is point to the likely bias in the text. The fact that they used a graphic instead of an actual photo is pretty much beside the point . The point, of course, is the bias of more flooding from AGW message, more specifically, the AGW part.

Can there be a more trivial complaint? How about the paper stock the thing was printed on? The font? The background color for the graphic text box? It was basically green — what sort of message was that supposed to imply?

Some would pray that God should make climate skeptics look silly and trivial, but it would too often be a superfluous prayer.

How about that photo on your masthead, Anthony — is it yours?

REPLY: No it’s not mine, but it’s also not “fabricated” to illustrate a point. It is a photograph of earth’s atmosphere seen from the International Space Station, publicly funded, and thus public domain.

“Can there be a more trivial complaint? How about the paper stock the thing was printed on?” Ed, there’s no printing of this, it is an electronic draft.

Actually yes, I think there could be a more trivial complaint; your complaining about Bush and the Mars announcement on the other thread comes to mind. If you have something of value to say that is factually based, say it, otherwise if you just want to rant about how silly and trivial we are, there’s other blogs for that.

Exactly, they knew that democracy will always fail as soon as the majority realize they can vote themselves all of the minority’s money and property.

He’s dead wrong, of course, in almost every particular , like all these populist pessimists (if he thinks real wages haven’t risen since 1968 he is smoking something better than I am).

But he is funny.

Sometimes you have to let the gamebird hang for a bit. Acquire the desired odeur.

Like the man said, when your opponent is hurting himself, just get out of the way.

Me, I’d go for the valid and deserved kill.

I’ve read just about all the Don Marquis I could find on that site. I particularly liked “only thy dust …”. Thanks a heap. Here is a favorite of mine who never fails to entertain day after day. He might be a bit of an acquired taste because he is so shockingly self-honest. One can learn quite a bit about our monetary system while being greatly entertained. Here is his latest:

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG080508.html

Back where I came from, the people who constitute the current “press” wouldn’t have made it through First Grade. I’m serious.

Your Protists fall on deaf ears.