From NBC29:
Protestors, angry with the way Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has tried to make his case, rallied on grounds at the University of Virginia Friday afternoon.
Only one small problem…..
Turnout was smaller than expected, as just a few people showed up. Organizers put the rally together to express the viewpoint of some students and faculty. They say the actions of Cuccinelli could have severe ramifications on the academic world.
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The protest organizer, shown below, doesn’t inspire confidence, especially when you listen to what he has to say. Where’s Bill McKibben when you need him?
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Can’t type. Glued to desk.
I don’t think making comment on the guys lack of hair and appearance is doing this site any favours at all,would expect more from WUWT moderators
on topic
I wonder if the media would turn out in same number if an anti Mann protest were
staged,do wish some one some where would stage one
D. King says:
August 21, 2010 at 11:32 am
There was no need to apologise mate. I think the humour of your original post had been missed, actually went stratospheric in the case of the complainant.
DaveE.
Dave please don’t be so intolerant of humor. In this present recession/depression and climate of political insanity, humor just might be something we all need.
Enter … the Coneheads of SNL (Saturday Night Live) fame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-vAWecEus
Origin of the Coneheads, Innsbruck Austria, 1975 (“The Luge Men” presented by Jackie Stuart):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwGut744kk
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David A. Evans says:
August 21, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Thanks Dave. I am sensitive to the point though,
and wanted him to know that.
Best,
Dave King
The largest protest in 1000 years, apparently.
Billions?
What amazes me about these types of events is that if you change around the players and events of the narrative just slightly these same protesters would be demanding exactly the opposite of what they are so vehemently defending.
If they were being honest with themselves and were presented with the following story instead would they react the same?
Attorney General Eric Holder filed a suit in Louisiana today asking for BP records to be released concerning the siteplan for the Deepwater Horizon well. BP has been withholding data about the well siting and safety plans. The plans were drawn up by Manley Michael who had received several million in federal grants to research the location and safety procedures. BP is refusing to release any of the data the plans were based on claiming that if the information were released for others to examine they would be disadvantaged because their competitors would learn their trade secrets. Two groups of protesters met on the courthouse steps. BP’s defenders said that BP has the right to research whatever they want, and if government steps in demanding accountability then you might as well forget having fusion power anytime soon. You can’t solve an energy crisis without breaking a few eggs. Opposite the BP defenders were several young college students who shouted chants demanding BP release the data and that the evil oil companies can’t hide behind their massive piles of cash anymore. They demanded that everything be “open-source” and in the public domain so we can punish the person responsible for the shoddy research.
So maybe that isn’t exactly what happened, but how is the situation that different? Government funds were used to research something that may have been fabricated or at the very least sorely lacking in the competency department. They should have the right to hold the person accountable for the quality of their work regardless of whether they work for or against an oil company.
Now if these protesters won’t admit which side of the fight they would be on if rather than an educational institution the AG was going after an oil company for exactly the same reasons then they are hypocrites and should be branded as such.
In my opinion demanding accountability for some of these outrageous grants that professors across the country receive to “research” the mating habits of red breasted tree frogs while intoxicated with cocaine (the frogs, not the professors … well maybe both) could only be a positive step for academia at this point.
JM
Evidently someone didn’t have enough money to hire Acorn or SEIU.
And that’s right. Exactly.
But — this would call for the protesters to ascribe human and well-meaning motives to the opposing side, and once you’ve started calling someone a “denier,” that ship’s not only left port, it capsized while rounding the Horn. Our public support for one particular viewpoint in science, like our public support for one particular viewpoint in anything else, is based almost entirely on the same underlying logic as our public support for one particular sports team, no matter how many games they lose or how incompetent their playing is.
tarpon says:
August 21, 2010 at 6:07 am
Pushing a lie uphill is really hard …
Looks like a harsh winter is coming to the Northern Hemisphere. Steeper hill.
Oh dear. What an embarassing demonstration of support.
You know actually I think… somebody should check this because I might be wrong … but I think Ryan Mc Elveen was the promoter of the protest last March at the Capital. You remember the one that got snowed out?
That one.
Excellent post! Well, they have less people than realclimate.org…
Frankly I am disappointed in the UVA leftists. Anybody who is anybody in politics knows you can get all the protesters you need by sending a bus around to the local homeless shelters and undocumented worker pickup points.
If Mann couldn’t even get any of his old students to come out to stick up for him he really must be dirt on campus.
As for Dave’s complaints about comments on McElveen’s follically challenged state:
Hey, I knew there were aliens on campus these days, but I thought they were all from this planet!
Ah, he must be president of the campus albino club, no wonder he’s against global warming!
Aren’t vampires supposed be, like, sexy?
His name is spelled Evil, as in Doctor Evil, not McElveen…
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At 12:37 PM on 22 August, mikelorrey had written:
“Frankly I am disappointed in the UVA leftists. Anybody who is anybody in politics knows you can get all the protesters you need by sending a bus around to the local homeless shelters and undocumented worker pickup points.”
Apparently all of the qualified community organizers in the area are concentrated downstream in the Potomac watershed, leaving none in the distribution of the James (where Charlottesville is located).
Now, were there a gathering of folk to condemn Dr. Mann and to praise Mr. Cuccinelli’s effort to recover taxpayer funds misappropriated to the support of the Hockey Schtick fraud, I have little doubt that the regional TEA Party types would have had no difficulty aggregating people in such numbers that the local NBC affiliate would have been hard-pressed to photograph and report the demonstrations at all.
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Imagine a politician throwing a party just before the elections, and nobody goes………..It’s that bad……….poor Mann.
There was a larger group of protesters when WKRP switched to rock and roll. I’m surprised AGW is even getting any press these days, it’s such an unpopular topic.
Academia – the only place left on the planet not constrained by the laws of man.
Pretty good thesis! Where do I go to sign up for a job?