Lately, the left has become even more unhinged than usual. This letter appeared in our local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record and is a fine example of that trend. It’s probably the most bizarre letter on climate I’ve ever seen, and of course, nobody in their right mind would bother responding to it. Ironically, the person writing, one Nancy L. Good of Chico, clearly doesn’t understand science herself, only rhetoric and headlines. Given her excluding viewpoint, maybe she shouldn’t be the one voting?
Here’s the letter as it appeared on chicoer.com:
The article on Page 10, June 19, about climate change, should have been on page 1. Why? So Doug LaMafia and the 52 percent of boneheads who voted for him recently would see it and read it.
Why are people still voting for a man who is ignorant concerning proven scientific evidence that we are slowly destroying our home planet by human practices? These are the same type of people who refused to believe the Earth is round and not flat. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I propose a new voting requirement. If you aren’t smart enough to understand science you can’t vote and you can’t be an elected official. I am holding Republicans responsible for destroying my planet.
— Nancy L. Good, Chico
Wow, just wow.
Projection at it’s finest.
Here’s the article she’s upset about: https://www.chicoer.com/2018/06/19/looking-for-signs-of-global-warming-its-all-around-you/
We can all thank Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press for whipping this person into a frenzy, or as they call it these days, “triggered”.
Mark Twain said it best:
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
If she is really into science, I suggest that she might like to go any count the polar bears herself. I’ll chip in for a seal carcass that she can use.
An awful lot of people I know in the UK who are confirmed Alarmists are university educated, but with Arts degrees.
In the 2015 general election, out of 650 MPs, only 26 had science degrees! That’s 4%.
By contrast there are 94 MPs with history degrees, so four times as many.
Sadly over 150 have social science degrees….Maybe that explains the state we are in?
…..And of course there are those whose “learning” mode is rote memorization of “facts” that are being regurgitated by a classroom lecturer whose learning mode was rote memorization of “facts” that had been memorized and regurgitated by a classroom lecturer of an older generation of lecturers.
“CO2 is a greenhouse gas” is a simple, easily memorized little factoid that is becoming a part of universal scientific knowledge. And that little factoid has the advantage of being true as is stated in that simple statement. It’s easy to remember which makes it hard for a true believer to believe that there may be others who just don’t get it.
factoid
noun
1.an insignificant or trivial fact.
2.something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition.
Factoid indeed!
I don’t know how many people can cope with all the different principles and concepts in every field so I’m not sure how any test could work without bias. Would they do a test like Dr. Tim Ball referred to a few days ago “This is like some 40% of the European and American public still think the Sun goes around the Earth even though Copernicus showed it was the opposite 475 years ago.” I don’t how many were ignorant or had put more thought into it than the questioner but its not something that Copernicus did do.
If you were to start to figure out what the celestial bodies were doing from observations on Earth wouldn’t you start with 0 for the x, y and z coordinates of the place from where observations were made? For anyone who can’t do calculus, why wouldn’t you keep Earth at the centre of your universe rather than the centre of mass? The question is about as unscientific as asking how many colours are there in the rainbow https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/newtons-color-theory-ca-1665-31931
If your eyes have glazed over, you’re probably hung up on the centre of a circle needs to be equidistant from every point on the circumference but it was known by even Kepler’s time that the Copernicus’s heliocentric system was just as poor as the Ptolemaic at predicting the movement of planets. What Copernicus showed was that insisting on circular paths was wrong. The real paradigm shift came with Kepler. Not so much the choice of elliptical orbits but that it was a the better choice solely because it worked – or at least it worked much better than the other two.
Nancy, the Earth is neither round nor flat (which can be the same thing), it’s spherical. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
How is this woman so stupid when she only has one head?
A government-administered test to see who can vote for the government. No, I don’t see any problems…
I think the voting age should be raised to 25. I was going to put a smiley face there, but then I thought, “No, I’m serious.”
I would allow exceptions for those who served in the armed forces. The objective is to have mature voters. I know 18-year-olds think they know everything, but they don’t. When they get a little more mature, they will realize this. 🙂
I read something a few months ago about a group of people who want to lower the voting age to 16.
I read that, too. Bad idea!
I think we should go back to only allowing men to vote.
She is just disguising her true ideology: “anyone who disagrees with me cannot vote”. Typical modern progressive.
At least she isn’t demanding that they be sent to the gulag.
Yet.
I saw the quote attributed to Mark Twain. My favourite that I was told was a quote by him but have never found is
Never argue with an idiot, you sink to their level then they beat you with experience
I prefer the Mark Twain comment, “Never argue with stupid people, they’ll drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Seems that Nancy needs to pass what was a 5th or 6th grade test for me, if she wants to be eligible to vote, so here it is.
1 – Does the Moon orbit the Earth? How long does it take? Why does it change shape?
2 – Does the Earth orbit the Sun or does the Sun orbit the Earth? (Okay, I made that one up, but it fits right in here.)
3 – Why do some trees change color in the fall and others do not?
4 – What is the difference between “new” mountains and “old” mountains? Give examples of each.
5 – Why do we have seasons?
6 – How long is the longest day, and when does it happen? How short is the shortest day, and when does it happen?
7 – Why does the ocean have tides? Are there tides on any inland lakes?
8 – What is a solar system? How far away is the nearest star, other than the Sun?
9 – Who invented the electric light bulb. How many experiments did he create?
10 – What are the chemical formulae for the following: A) water; B) salt; C) dry ice; D) household ammonia (a common cleaning product)
11 – What is the biggest difference between fish and land animals?
12 – What is a good way to stop erosion in farmland?n (Got this in 4th grade)
13 – Why are crops rotated?
14 – What kinds of plants fix nitrogen in the soil?
15 – What is the difference between deciduous trees and non-deciduous trees?
Now, if Miss Nancy can answer those basic science questions, she can vote, according to her demand for qualifying to vote. Personally, I don’t think she can answer them, but that’s just me.
Yes, we had good teachers and good science school books back in them there Dark Ages. Maybe it’s time we brought that back and demand an end to the ‘feelz’ stuff and groupthink.
Oh, yeah — you have to answer those questions without looking them up, ’cause we weren’t allowed to look them up, either.
Sara, Nancy could possibly get 9, 11, 12, & 13 right.
9) Algore and lots of experiments
11) Fish are in water and land animals on land
12) Plant the farm land with trees
13) If they weren’t rotated then the roots would be sticking up
That’s a bodacious giggle and a good way to start the day. Thank you!
OK, Sara. I will try.
1 – Does the Moon orbit the Earth? How long does it take? Why does it change shape?
A. Depends on your coordinate system. B) 28 days. C) On a large scale, it does not change shape, a few feet either way, gravitational tidal forces.
2 – Does the Earth orbit the Sun or does the Sun orbit the Earth? (Okay, I made that one up, but it fits right in here.)
Again, depends on your coordinate system. (Anybody who can not plot the correct orbits in a geocentric coordinate system flunks!)
3 – Why do some trees change color in the fall and others do not?
Evergreens have no sense of color and style. They need to take an art history course featuring the Impressionist masters, such as Monet. Hardwoods are not so artistically challenged.
4 – What is the difference between “new” mountains and “old” mountains? Give examples of each.
New and Old are relative, all I know is “The Old Man In The Mountain”, the state icon of New Hampshire.
5 – Why do we have seasons?
To make our food taste better. Otherwise, we would all get tired of our own cooking.
6 – How long is the longest day, and when does it happen? How short is the shortest day, and when does it happen?
A) The Longest Day is a classic movie showcasing the events of June 6, 1944: the Normandy Invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(film)
B) The Shortest Day is also known as “Groundhog Day”, a romantic comedy where the same day happens over and over again.
7 – Why does the ocean have tides? Are there tides on any inland lakes?
A) People who ascribe things that happen on Earth to the moon are called “lunatics”.
B) Opinions vary. Great lakes – tidal, or wind driven depending on who you ask.
The Baltic Sea, same answer, same reason.
8 – What is a solar system? How far away is the nearest star, other than the Sun?
I scream every time someone mentions that Han Solo made the Kessel run in 9 parsecs. A parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
9 – Who invented the electric light bulb. How many experiments did he create?
A) My pet dog, which I named “Edison” for his inquisitive and pesky nature.
B) Created none, conducted many.
10 – What are the chemical formulae for the following: A) water; B) salt; C) dry ice; D) household ammonia (a common cleaning product)
A) wet
B) Lithium Aluminum Hydride, LiAlH4. My favorite salt, useful in organic reduction reactions.
C) Ice – Wet == Dry Ice.
D) Yukk – use Windex instead, and stop stinking up the whole house.
11 – What is the biggest difference between fish and land animals?
This is a tough one. I know some *very* fishy people. Cold blooded, you might say. I know people like that. Scaly, swims with sharks, lays eggs, has gills. Ditto, ditto, ditto, and ditto.
12 – What is a good way to stop erosion in farmland?n (Got this in 4th grade)
Stop farming that land.
13 – Why are crops rotated?
So they always face the sun.
14 – What kinds of plants fix nitrogen in the soil?
Nitrogen is not broken, it does not need to be fixed. For a hundred years, the N-N triple bond was the strongest bond in all Chemistry. This was supplanted in the early 1970s with the discovery of the Ru-Ru quadruple bond by Soviet Scientists. The discovery was so momentous that the Soviet Union issued a postage stamp commemorating the event. That was, and is, the only postage stamp ever issued by any country to recognize a discovery in chemistry. (True, sadly)
15 – What is the difference between deciduous trees and non-deciduous trees?
Some have stamina, and some fade out. See my above comment about conifers needing an Art History course.
I hope this helps.
Best answers ever!!! I hope for more participants. Thank you for the hearty laughter on my part!!
And I ‘d bet the cost of a Rosati’s pizza that Miss Nancy couldn’t answer even one of those questions.
Cheers, and all the best.
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I scream every time someone mentions that Han Solo made the Kessel run in 9 parsecs. A parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
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I believe the boast was 12 parsecs. Obviously, George Lucas thought a parsec was a unit of time. The Star Wars fan base and the latest movie have been trying to explain the mistake away. The second in parsec is an angular measurement–not time, i.e., one second of arc. It’s used to define a measure of distance. A parsec is about 3.26 light-years. Neil deGrasse Tyson says light-year has nothing to do with time, but it’s the distance light travels in one year–so time is involved in its definition.
Jim
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Sara
June 27, 2018 5:04 am
6 – How long is the longest day, and when does it happen? How short is the shortest day, and when does it happen?
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Your question is very ambiguous. A Solar day is defined as the time between the Sun’s position at one meridian and the next meridian. That used to be exactly 24 hours. But now the second is based on a number of cycles of cesium, so a Solar day is increasing slightly over time (due to tidal friction). The actual rotation of the Earth, i.e., one complete rotation in relation to the stars, is called a Sidereal day. Because the Earth is revolving around the Sun, after one Sidereal day the Sun hasn’t quiet reached its meridian. A Sidereal day is slightly shorter than a Solar day.
If the definition of a Solar day is (roughly) 24 hours, then every day is just as long as the next (ignoring the slowing effects of tidal friction). Of course, you probably mean: when is the day of longest daylight? Well that’s ambiguous too. In the Northern hemisphere it’s on Summer Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere it’s on Winter Solstice. At the Equator, the length of daylight and night-time are about equal all year. In the tropics, they only have two seasons: wet and dry. Tropical deserts only have dry and drier.
Your question is obviously phrased from the biased position of a Northern Hemisphere person who experiences four seasons during the year.
Jim
Well, this would eliminate the current crop of “scientists” claiming humans are making the climate change, so, OK . I can go to my kitchen right now and prove I understand science, so I get to vote. I don’t see a problem with this one! 😉
Actually, I agree with Nancy. If you do not understand science, you do not vote.
Voter Registration Question: What is the Ideal Gas Law?
Answer: “PV=nRT” : You pass
Answer: “PV=nRT AND DON’T YOU EVER FORGET IT” : TonyL was your instructor, yes?
The Ideal Gas Law is based on the probability that there are beans available which will not produce flatulence in the consumer.
They mean to make logic out of their politicized “science”. Either you made it or you support the agenda behind it. The rest is just, what did Hillary name it? Deplorable people
If you do not pay net share of government spending you cannot vote. That would pretty much end almost all the insanity happening in governments.
The Earth is not round….it is (almostly) spherical.
I think the technical term is oblate.
Meaning flattened. A bit.
Not the same as “flat” I guess?
The Earth is shaped something like a bagel or a frosted doughball, but without the frosting or cream cheese.
Dang, and I was about to mount an expedition find and bring back the frosting.
Democrats lost the election. Most of them fooled themselves into thinking they’d win. They wanted to win. Some non-rational part of their minds still thinks they did win. They are in that word starting with ‘d’. They didn’t get their way, and they can’t accept that. Many/most of them have collectively gone insane simply because their believed-sacred Will has been thwarted. Things will get worse until their mental health issues are addressed. The media are enthusiastically promoting this insanity. I’d bet fully half of US media poisonalities have already prepared crocodile-tear speeches blaming others for the inevitable assassinations.
A week or so ago Hillary gave a speech in London, during which she whined about how awful the Electoral College was.
Last time I checked, Brit’s don’t vote directly for Prime Minister any more than Yanks vote directly for President.
In the US we vote by state for a panel of electors, who then in turn vote for president.
In Britain they vote by precinct/district/? for a party, then if that party gets a majority, that party’s leader becomes PM. If no party has a majority, they bicker and barter amongst each other and if they can come up with an agreement, somebody becomes PM.
If anything, the American system is a tad more direct.
If I had my druthers, here in the US we would divide the Electoral college electors, one per Congressional district, with the two senatorial electors decided by who wins the state.
Careful what you ask for.
If you use Congressional districts, you inflict the same district Gerrymandering on the E.C. which plagues the House of Representatives.
I do not know if Gerrymandering is a big issue where you come from, but the state I come from actually *invented* the term “Gerrymandering”. It has been a pox on our house ever since.
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The term was first coined by a local newspaper commenting on the newly created district.
The guy who did it was some “Gerry” something or other.
The “mander” part was because the district had the shape of a *salamander* snaking it’s way across the state, avoiding hostile territory along the way.
And so “Gerrymander” was born.
The problem now is that all of the votes for a state tend to go however the one or two biggest cities vote.
With district level voting at least some of the rural votes will still matter.
The other difference is that vote tampering in those cities have the potential to flip the state and gather all the votes for that state.
With district level voting, vote tampering only wins you that one district.
This is what happens when your kids are not allowed to play in games/sports that have a risk of losing the game. The ‘everybody gets a prize’ is a disastrous way to raise kids. They do not know how to accept failure. They have rough lives ahead, poor things.
“The media are enthusiastically promoting this insanity.”
And this is very dangerous because this spewing of Leftwing hatred is agitating the psychopaths out there, and is no doubt causing them to consider turning violent. The next “baseball practice shooter” is already out there.
The Democrats are promoting violence and giving unstable people permission to act out their violent tendencies.
Perfect example of a snowflake: Clueless, livid that Trump won, self-righteous, virtue-signaling, and highly emotional, particularly about the things she has no clue about such as what science really is.
The left has always been looking for an excuse to outlaw opposition to itself.
Section 201 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 reads as follows (in part):
No citizen shall be denied because of his failure to comply with any test or device, the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election
Ms. Good would have to contact her congressman or a California Senator to have the law repealed. That state’s delegation is nutty, but not that nutty.
This morning I read an article about a young progressive who is predicting a return to 70’s style bombings in support of “progressive” causes. From the article the young man seems close to giddy at the prospect.
http://www.wnd.com/2018/06/up-next-1970s-style-bombings-warns-progressive/
The 1970s radicals mostly blew themselves up. Yes, there were a few fatalities among the innocent, but the radicals doing the bombings did not last long, for the most part.
People who took chemistry in college knew better than to have anything to do with that stuff. The ones who did not know better were the ones who got involved. The results were predictable.
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Questions:
Who is Bill Ayers and what was his connection to a group called the “Weather Underground”?
Why did Bill Ayers sponsor an upstart politician named “Barry Soetoro”?
“The 1970s radicals mostly blew themselves up. Yes, there were a few fatalities among the innocent, but the radicals doing the bombings did not last long, for the most part.”
I think the bombers thought that there was going to be a huge uprising among the people and against the government and they thought their setting off bombs would spark this uprising.
But just the opposite happened and the American public was calling for the bomber’s heads, not praising them or joining them.
I think that is why the bombings were few and far between. I think that will happen again if the radical Leftists try it in this day and age.
The Left deludes itself into thinking most people see the world the way they do. They had a rude awakening on Nov. 8, 2016, but they seem to be sinking back into their dream state again.
These days they have the internet, plus various jihadists who would be more than willing to give some training.
Oh, yes, the 1970s. I remember the horror in Philadelphia (because I worked there) over the bombmaking death of the daughter of a wealthy Mainline Philly family who blew up herself and her friends (except for Ayers and Dornn) when pipe bombs they were making detonated and destroyed half a block of housing in a Florida community.
Those were the days, my friend, and this clown thinks there’s nothing to bombmaking, huh? And we’re all Nazis because we don’t agree with his political views.
Well, gee whiz, Myra, now that he’s announced it, the stuff he boasts about knowing – that insider thing, you know – are already under inspection.
Lefties suffer from projection; transferring their genetically inferior pathetic self diagnosis onto others. The more dead someone is, the more qualified one is to vote. Their hypocrisy is blatantly obvious. lol !!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/freak-low-water-levels-in-venice-italy-cause-problems-593347651990
Just a few months after the high water levels in Venice she was wailing about……guess what?!
Well if those that don’t understand science can’t vote, then that would eliminate the voting by 97% of alarmists, journalists, and university professors.
Would voters need to pass an IQ test or a literacy test? That may not be a bad idea, although it was rejected in the past because it discriminated against Black people.
The land of the fruits and nuts.
And flakes. We call it the cereal state.