…words fail me here. Just laugh, it is funny.
The “props” for the Rev. Al Sharpton, and not the congratulatory kind, can be viewed here: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/23/rev-busts-out-the-science-lab-to-school-right-wing/
…words fail me here. Just laugh, it is funny.
The “props” for the Rev. Al Sharpton, and not the congratulatory kind, can be viewed here: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/23/rev-busts-out-the-science-lab-to-school-right-wing/
When Sharpton’s not doing science, He’s conspiring to stage racial attacks to be blamed on Gov’t officials. He still owes damages to one official he and Tawana Brawley. smeared.
Look it up.
@ur momisugly Biff33 You can also question your principles: put them to the test, and discard them if you find them wanting.
That was a wasted 3 minutes of my life that I can never get back.
Look, most of the support for doing something, anything about CO2 is coming from the younger, greener generation. If we are going to do stuff because they want it done, then the mountains of debt to come will logically belong to them. We’re not leaving it for them; they ask that it be done in their behalf. Yes, it’s nuts, but politics isn’t about reality, it is about manipulating perceptions, and about popularity (electability). The popularity part being something the R’s need to learn soon, and I hope they do, because the country needs a credible opposition party.
John–For the Republicans to become “popular” they have to become Democrats. How does that help?
Labeling and bullying are the “new normal” in America. Politics is about who can scream the nastiest things in the most convincing way. I think to some degree politics has always been like that. It’s just now we have YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and there is no escaping the bullies anywhere. Makes it seem so much worse than in the past.
Gary says:
January 23, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Is that dry ice, frozen CO2, bubbling away in those beakers?
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I believe old Al may be releasing previously sequestered CO2
This type of irresponsible behavior should never be allowed.
ok if I must
/sarc off
cn
Okay, so we can disagree with the right Reverend’s science. But you’ve got to admit that he’s set up one elaborate bong there.
Robert Wykoff says:
January 23, 2013 at 5:10 pm
@Andrew Dickens. I resent always being labeled laughably wrong, anti-science, hating the poor, sexist, racist, xenophobic, and homophobic, because I am a conservative, which I assume is why you resent being labeled a conservative.
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Are you assuming because Andrew is a liberal it is he that is anti-science, hating the poor, sexist, racist, xenophobic, and homophobic and is upset he is not getting credit for it and you are?
cn
Everything in the video was incorrect or misleading. There is a difference between climate change, man-made climate change and catastrophic climate change, yet the terms are constantly used interchangeably as if they were synonymous. Not just in this drivel, but nearly everywhere in the mainstream media. The result is that most people have no idea of what is actually a fact and what is not! Both sides of the argument were so mis-characterized by Al’s ramblings that it would be impossible to untangle that mess and make a helpful comment.
Obama’s phrase about ‘the children and future generations’ is right up there with Marie’s “Let them eat cake.” nonsense. Does anyone really think our children will be grateful that it is not a tenth of a degree warmer (assuming all CO2 mitigation works beyond expectations) while they are suffering through the hellish economic depression we are setting up for them? Its like the captain of the Titianic deliberately smashing into every iceberg he can find, then promising to pass out blankets to keep the passengers warm, as they slip into the icy water.
In normal times, such a man would be considered insane!
Al Sharpton = Hypocrite
Here he is talking about Climate Change in reference to being caused by man (GHG) (CO2) and his beakers are full of Dry Ice (CO2) pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere while saying it is in effect an environmental hazard to do so
F U N !
Bob Tisdale says:
January 23, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Anthony, it appears that Al Sharpton has become a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists like Kenji.
Bob and Anthony,
I have observed that Kenji is far less dogmatic about the U of CS and catastrophic AGW than the Rev’rend Al and the rest of the unleashed AGW believers.
It gives one paws, to wonder why…
MtK
May I humbly suggest that if anyone out there is expecting an addition to your family that you cross “Al” off your baby name list.
The only solice is he barely has an audience that watches him.
biff33 says:
January 23, 2013 at 11:58 pm
You left out a very crucial step in the process of thinking, which is continually questioning whether principles are applicable and evaluating the effect of their application. If you are not critical and stop realistically evaluating the results of applying your principles to the real world you are not thinking. That is the step that ideologues always forget. Being self-critical is hard work. They would rather apply their “principles” mindlessly in all situations regardless of how they work or fail to work in practice.
Hence communists dismantle perfectly effective privately owned farms and try to “collectivise” agriculture in the face of falling agricultural output. Their belief in their principles is so strong that they ignore all evidence that their principles are failing to work in this instance. Instead they push forward in the belief that if they just keep trying even harder to do what isn’t working then the world will start behaving as their principles tell them it should and agricultural output will increase massively.
Meanwhile conservatives strive to dismantle perfectly effective and efficient government programs in health and education in the face of massive cost increases failures and inefficiencies in the private sector in those areas. Ignoring evidence that the outcome is not what they expected they push forward even harder in the belief that eventually complete and perfect privatisation will yield cheap health and education for all.
Both suffer from the same kind of blindness, an excessive faith and belief in the power of “principles”. Simple principles are no better than rough rules of thumb that might hint at things that it is reasonable to try. You should never stop looking at what the real effects of policies are and be prepared to let what happens in the real world dictate policy and not your “principles”.
Don’t worry about MSNBC influencing the masses with their 400k viewers per day. They’re just preaching to their progressive liberal schizophrenic choir.
The race-baiting business ain’t what it use to be. He’s seen what kind of scratch the other Al has been raking in with the climate calamity business. You have to admire his hucksterism acumen.
Keep in mind that Sharpton has spurred multiple riots and murders. He is not a comic figure — he’s malignant.
“Meanwhile conservatives strive to dismantle perfectly effective and efficient government programs in health and education…”
Huh?