What The Hell Is A March For Science?

Aside from turning Manhattan into a giant parking lot, what did these stupid demonstrations achieve?

Well, it was a monstrous sea of virtue-signalling signs and hip clothing and wry facial hair, and not a single constructive thing other than widening the gulf between hyper-politicized agitation for "climate change" and...um...real science.

The idiocy that "consensus" should end the debate is insulting to everyone who understands the scientific method and isn't driven by partisanship or, probably more likely, the quest for funding.

Newton and Liebnitz and Pasteur and Einstein and Rutherford and Barry Marshall and Robin Warren (look 'em up) and Feynman and Mullis and a host of great scientists did not accept the status quo and the pronouncements of the herd.

Scientific investigation should take one wherever the data point. That the AGW establishment jealously guards its data is a testament to their ulterior motives, and a huge red flag. Show me your raw data, and show me how and why you "corrected" them to prove your hypothesis. Otherwise, you are a fraud and a liar and have no respect for the scientific method.

If you agree with one sign, but not the other, you’re part of the problem#ScienceMarch pic.twitter.com/5LDK7VyDc7
— Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) April 23, 2017

And another thing:

Correlation does not imply causation

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 They blinded us yesterday.

Posted by: Roy at April 23, 2017 11:56 AM (fWLrt)

2 Go get your f*cking shinebox.

Posted by: Galileo and Copernicus at April 23, 2017 11:58 AM (fWLrt)

3 Aside from turning Manhattan into a giant parking lot, what did these stupid demonstrations achieve?

As good a substitute for religion as anything else they've come up with ...

Posted by: Adriane the Self-Annointed Critic of the Self-Annointed ... at April 23, 2017 12:00 PM (AoK0a)

4 There are so many of these dumb marches in DC that I don't even bother to pay attention. The only time I care is if I have to go downtown for something, so then I have to look up what roads are blocked off.

I will note the delicate irony that yesterday it poured rain all day and was 30 degrees colder than it had been the day before. Global warming for the win yet again. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:02 PM (sBOL1)

5 I read the content...

These idiots should be forced to live by the dictates they want to force on everyone else. Let's see how long that lasts.

Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at April 23, 2017 12:05 PM (u7NfH)

6 I have global warming in my pants.

Posted by: DealKiller at April 23, 2017 12:05 PM (TTKYk)

7 And, like every other gathering of leftists, I bet they literally trashed the streets with all the crap they left behind.
Did you see the pics of the trash in the streets of D.C.?

Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at April 23, 2017 12:06 PM (lalCH)

8 Glib, smug, stinky elitists. Fack 'em all.

Posted by: AllMyFriendsAreLefties at April 23, 2017 12:07 PM (K8P1X)

9 Galileo had his run in with the "consensus" as well.

Posted by: navybrat at April 23, 2017 12:08 PM (w7KSn)

10 bill nye was there. all i need to know. totally legit. he's a real science guy. pretty sure he went to kollidge and shit, yo!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:09 PM (KP5rU)

11 Clearly, if the science disagrees with doctrine...

Then the science must be flawed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:09 PM (J+eG2)

12 you buncha backward cousinfuckers, wait til you're surrounded by water. then what? trump gonna save yore ass?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:12 PM (KP5rU)

13 Corgis

They have been summoned

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:13 PM (J+eG2)

14 apparently, according to an article i glanced at, but did not read, because bullshit, in the local free rag they are anti "anti-vax" but pro global warming...

blind pigs and acorns, it would seem.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 23, 2017 12:14 PM (7d/yr)

15 Correlation does not imply causation

Who else knows this?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:15 PM (SRKgf)

16 There must be something wrong with me. I'm Not Young, and have never, in my entire life, participated in a "march" or a "protest."

Posted by: shibumi at April 23, 2017 12:16 PM (FkAXz)

17 Just more fascism trying to wrap itself in a cloak of legitimacy.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:16 PM (0mRoj)

18 That some Christians hold to a young earth view is a meaningless slur -- some of the best scientists that have ever lived were Christians who were not impeded by theological points of view, but were spurred on by them. Mendel, Newton, Faraday, and Lemaitre were believing Christians and excellent scientists, unlike the kooks at this march.

Posted by: Cory at April 23, 2017 12:16 PM (FS938)

19 "Who else knows this?"

SHHHHHHhhh

Very hush-hush secret science stuff right there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:17 PM (J+eG2)

20 "Correlation does not imply causation"

Bullshit. Everyone knows wet roads cause rain.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at April 23, 2017 12:17 PM (8mYUr)

21 Just another reason why I'm glad I live in Oklahoma.

Posted by: Soona at April 23, 2017 12:17 PM (Fmupd)

22 The whole AGW scam is merely a vehicle for pushing government control of the economy, i.e., socialism.

1900s: socialism will be more economically efficient

1930s: socialism will avoid booms and busts

1970s: socialism will be fairer

2000s: socialism will save the planet

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (SRKgf)

23 Bill Nye is an engineer of some sort.

Would you trust a bridge that he'd had a part in its design and construction?

Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (v5iqM)

24 Who else knows this?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:15 PM (SRKgf)
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Shhhhhh. This is part of the vast right-wing conspiracy that no one is supposed to know about. We can't let it get out or the left might come to their senses.

And we can't have that.

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (sBOL1)

25 20 "Correlation does not imply causation"

Bullshit. Everyone knows wet roads cause rain.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at April 23, 2017 12:17 PM (8mYUr)

No, no, no. It's dropping barometer needles that cause rain. If we just pin the needles at a high barometric pressure, voila! No rain.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:19 PM (SRKgf)

26 16 There must be something wrong with me. I'm Not Young, and have never, in my entire life, participated in a "march" or a "protest."
Posted by: shibumi at April 23, 2017 12:16 PM (FkAXz)

I've been in pro-life marches before. However, we were civil, orderly, and left the place nice and tidy.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:19 PM (0mRoj)

27 Dear left:
As part of your "pro-science" position, please reacquaint yourself with the biological reality that it is impossible to be born in the wrong body.
-Science

Posted by: vrf at April 23, 2017 12:19 PM (BoOqm)

28 "Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering? "

Dude can't even erect a tent in his underwear.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:19 PM (J+eG2)

29 16; total poser at life. just like me. i believe in nothing. i've made a choice though.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:20 PM (KP5rU)

30 28 "Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering? "

Dude can't even erect a tent in his underwear.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:19 PM (J+eG2)

Hammering in the stakes is the worst part.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:20 PM (0mRoj)

31 Amen Soona

Posted by: OKIE at April 23, 2017 12:21 PM (LtRrq)

32 I have some questions about this old earth against young earth debate.

Let's say I know the exact age of this planet. How is this going to help me in my daily life. How is going to help me be a better Husband, Dad, Friend, or Church Member?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at April 23, 2017 12:22 PM (d76uN)

33
The local headline said it all : Indy rally goers say yes to science, No to Trump.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 12:23 PM (IqV8l)

34 I long for a world where Unicorns exist.

And Starbucks is a myth.

*Shit someone said on Facebook.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:23 PM (J+eG2)

35 Wouldn't it be delicious to administer a test of basic scientific principles to these clowns?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:24 PM (SRKgf)

36 "I've been in pro-life marches before. However, we were civil, orderly, and left the place nice and tidy."

So you hate public union garbage collectors?

Posted by: OKIE at April 23, 2017 12:24 PM (LtRrq)

37
Everyone knows wet roads cause rain.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness

Washing your car causes rain.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 12:25 PM (IqV8l)

38 Correlation does not imply causation

Half a semester of basic Psychology 101 principles like this should be taught in the senior year of every high school. The United States would be a much more pleasant place.

If half the population could understand the concept of projection - another P 101 concept - they would toss the leadership of the Democrat party out on their ear.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 12:25 PM (HTdUD)

39 35; nah, i don't like stuff that sucks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:26 PM (KP5rU)

40 A. You don't have to believe the earth is 6,000 years old to stumble across all the inconvenient evidence that points to a Creator.

B. Go talk to the Chinese about CO2. The U.S. emissions are falling. Because of fracking. Yeah, I know that hurts.

C. Organic food is bullshit. Pun fully intended.

D. Someone over there explain the innocent/scientific meaning of "hide the decline" and then we can talk about AGW. Until that point, you are all just a bunch of clueless dipshits.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 23, 2017 12:26 PM (fdyxv)

41 37
Everyone knows wet roads cause rain.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness

Washing your car causes rain.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 12:25 PM (IqV8l)

See, this I could believe. Also that it causes avian fecal incontinence on a massive scale.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:26 PM (0mRoj)

42 I can't fathom why liberals cling so tenaciously to the AGW crap. (Leftists do it to advance socialism, I get that, but why are liberals so invested in it?)

Why does AGW inspire such devotion, and not the erstwhile debate over, say, non-classical carbonium ions? Norbornyl cations FTW!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:27 PM (SRKgf)

43 Why does AGW inspire such devotion, and not the erstwhile debate over, say, non-classical carbonium ions? Norbornyl cations FTW!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:27 PM (SRKgf)

What if you're more of a dogion person?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:28 PM (0mRoj)

44 NASCAR race postponed until tomorrow due to rain.

DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING!

Posted by: Methos, back to wait and see at April 23, 2017 12:28 PM (3Liv/)

45 This is what our education system is presenting to this country. If we want this lunacy to stop, then we need a complete (yeah, I mean from pre-school thru doctorate degrees) overhaul of this system.

There should be jail time involved with this process also. Educators aren't educating. They're performing mass academic lobotomies.

Posted by: Soona at April 23, 2017 12:28 PM (Fmupd)

46 Half a semester of basic Psychology 101 principles like this should be taught in the senior year of every high school. The United States would be a much more pleasant place.

I always wanted to teach a course in basic logic. Not truth tables or such, just the absolute basics, such as affirming the antecedent/ denying the consequent, that sort of thing.

That alone knocks a lot of fallacies on the head.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (SRKgf)

47 There is more evidence to suggest that Jesus Christ existed, and is who he says he is than there is to support the GlowBull Worming theory.

Yet...here we are.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (J+eG2)

48 Of all the many, many developments that caused me to lose confidence in and respect for our society in general, and its institutions and standards in particular, this idiotic illogical unscientific AGW nonsense ranks high on the list.

Didn't Dyson call this "the greatest scandal in scientific history"?

It's probably my *own* inadequately dark view of human behavior that I find this obsession with controlling other peoples' behavior shocking and infuriating. The lengths to which enemies of freedom will go to rationalize their power lust and bigotries continue to amaze, and disgust.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (nIGPZ)

49 but why are liberals so invested in it?

When beta male hipsterism became a political philosophy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (fdyxv)

50 "NASCAR race postponed until tomorrow due to rain.
"

The science is settled.

Wet race tracks cause rain.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (J+eG2)

51
You know what our problem is?

We care too much about our enemies' opinions.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (bNZKV)

52 I'm 70 & have likewise never participated in a March or demonstration.

On the hundreds of occasions when I've felt passionately about an issue or a candidate, I just wrote a check or volunteered to work in a campaign.

In 2004, I gave a couple of afternoons to a (conservative) campaign. When I got done, the two 20-yr-olds in charge of the office called me into the "private" backroom & asked me if... I would like a job running their phone bank. "We'd like you to teach our volunteers to make the calls the way you do it." Nicest compliment I've ever had, but I told them I already had a job.

Thus I missed my chance to have a career as a phone solicitor.

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (PF3Gg)

53 What if you're more of a dogion person?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:28 PM (0mRoj)
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Dang it, Insomniac, I was just going to accuse Jay of being dogion-phobic.

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (sBOL1)

54 Didn't Dyson call this "the greatest scandal in scientific history"?

First you'd have to explain to them who Freeman Dyson is. Most leftists probably think he invented a new vacuum cleaner.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:31 PM (SRKgf)

55 hells angels, cosa nostra, chased to the ends of the earth. antifa, all good. yeah, this country aint fucked up. somebody gettin paid.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:31 PM (KP5rU)

56 I always wanted to teach a course in basic logic. Not truth tables or such, just the absolute basics, such as affirming the antecedent/ denying the consequent, that sort of thing.

That alone knocks a lot of fallacies on the head.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

That would be another great class, too.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 12:31 PM (HTdUD)

57 @42

Because that's the only stick they have left.

Once that's been dispatched there's nothing left in the quiver.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 23, 2017 12:32 PM (+3YlN)

58 Remember, these are the same people who are now claiming that there is no objective truth.

So they have that going for them.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 23, 2017 12:33 PM (fdyxv)

59 USA> We have the best science that a socialist government can buy....not the kind of science that you can land a man on the Moon and return him safely to earth mind you.....but the kind of science that is necessary for retards and parasites to be a majority of the voting publicl

Socialist Science... Chicago Jesus. The Democratic Party.

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved and economically useless at April 23, 2017 12:33 PM (oBuXO)

60
btw, to all who acquiesced on major social issues, most of them contrived, just to get the Left off your back: thanks a lot Fools.

In case you don't know who you are, you're the ones right now who go along with pretending men who pretend to be women are women. Fools.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:34 PM (bNZKV)

61 56: gaia hater! there is no logic.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:34 PM (KP5rU)

62 What if Earth is Climate Fluid, and still experimenting?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (J+eG2)

63 I thought the point was to draw attention to their anger about taxpayer dollars for their pointless studies and grants potentially drying up after being exposed to criticism.

Hey, don't lots of these SCIENCE!!! universities have hundreds of billions of dollars in endowments?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (fD1ST)

64 You know what our problem is?

We care too much about our enemies' opinions.
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Yup

Posted by: Methos, back to wait and see at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (3Liv/)

65 March for Propaganda.

Posted by: Dang at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (8b+oT)

66 The Science is Settled:

Science = Leftist Politics

Also:

Culture = Leftist Politics
Art = Leftist Politics
Sexuality = Leftist Politics
Race = Leftist Politics
Food = Leftist Politics
Energy = Leftist Politics
Government = Leftist Politics
Education = Leftist Politics
Weather = Leftist Politics
History = Leftist Politics
Who Gets the Last Slice of Pizza = Leftist Politics
Even Superheroes = Leftist Politics

My Spidey-Sense is tingling. I'm sensing a pattern here. Or, as they used to say, "I'm formulating a hypothesis."

But that was long ago, before all The Science was, you know, Settled(tm).

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (Ndje9)

67 61 56: gaia hater! there is no logic.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:34 PM (KP5rU)

You're right. Objective truth only serves to oppress marginalized peoples who struggle with the concept.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (SRKgf)

68 Indeed. Climate change is real. I don't think anyone ever said it wasn't.

The problem is, you think you know what causes it, and you think it's humans, and you can change it.

Your ignorance is blindingly obvious.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (Pz4pT)

69 Liberalism

Stupidity

Cause, Correlation or coincidence?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (J+eG2)

70 Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (Ndje9)

You left out sports.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (fdyxv)

71
I really get a kick out of the constant shock and horror by some on our side about the Left's daily attack on your beliefs and values.

Some of you really do believe the Left will be happy when you give them what they [say they] want. So you give it to them, only to have them come back the next day and demand More.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:37 PM (bNZKV)

72 If you have to "March for Science" it is not "Science" you are marching for.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 23, 2017 12:37 PM (5VlCp)

73 i'm outta here. backwards bumblefucks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:37 PM (KP5rU)

74 Why the marches?

When you are losing in the arena of ideas you create the arena of mental tantrums and physical violence.

It's a time-honored tradition world-wide.

Posted by: Meremortal, weight weight at April 23, 2017 12:38 PM (3myMJ)

75 "So you give it to them, only to have them come back the next day and demand More. "

Like children

And cats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:38 PM (J+eG2)

76 That Neil Gassy DeTyson is one smart feller.

Posted by: Joey 'Two Toots' Biden at April 23, 2017 12:38 PM (G35ay)

77 The best kept secret is that Trump's political standing is actually pretty good!

The WaPo today sez he beats HRC 43-41. Take out California and NY, we're talking DEM beatdown again.

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (PF3Gg)

78 Hey, don't lots of these SCIENCE!!! universities have hundreds of billions of dollars in endowments?
Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:35 PM (fD1ST)

Nah. They don't have THAT much. Most have a billion or two, some 10ish or so, Harvard IIRC a couple times that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (SRKgf)

79
If you're really perplexed as to why the Left the protesting "science" or whatever, the reason is quite simple: It's just another angle of attack to get You to give up another bit of your freedom and/or property.

This bullshit march has nothing really to do with science. It's just a ploy to fuck with you.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (bNZKV)

80 If you have to "March for Science" it is not "Science" you are marching for. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 23, 2017 12:37 PM (5VlCp)
=====

We beeeeeleeeeve!

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (MIKMs)

81 Is the science yet settled on why lesbians are fat?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:40 PM (SRKgf)

82 I love the sarcastic head-tilt and hipster facial hair on the second signholder. Talk about taking it to the enemy!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:40 PM (6FqZa)

83
Back in the early days of computers, when memory and storage limitations existed, it could be 'explained' that multi-variable models were impossible. But here we are, with amazing technology available and we're told that one single variable 'CO2' explains every fluctuation in the planets temperature.

Which wouldn't be nearly so shamefully god-awful if their model wasn't in such absolute disarray right now.

Put they persist.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 12:40 PM (HTdUD)

84 The five billion year old planet should remain at the same exact temperature it was when I was five years old!

This five year old boy knows he's really a girl and we should support his transition!

Posted by: People Who Went to March to Hold Sciencey Signs at April 23, 2017 12:41 PM (fD1ST)

85
And cats.

And what do cats do when they've had, for the moment, enough of you petting them?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:41 PM (bNZKV)

86 RE: 77

Should be 43-40

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 12:41 PM (PF3Gg)

87 If you have to "March for Science" it is not "Science" you are marching for.

Science is becoming a newspeak word like Gay.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:42 PM (6FqZa)

88 7 And, like every other gathering of leftists, I bet they literally trashed the streets with all the crap they left behind.
Did you see the pics of the trash in the streets of D.C.?
Posted by: Fried Baloney Sandwich at April 23, 2017 12:06 PM (lalCH)

Right in one:

http://bit.ly/2oUHD36

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 12:42 PM (17QyB)

89 March Madness was last month. We won.

Posted by: UNC Tarheels at April 23, 2017 12:42 PM (bc2Lc)

90 Rather a march for Junk Science.

Posted by: pat at April 23, 2017 12:43 PM (4MSOz)

91 You left out sports.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (fdyxv)

(Insert Sports Here)

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 23, 2017 12:43 PM (Ndje9)

92 You people are so STOOPED !!! March for Sience is to end Globul Warming... Even my pet Chihuahua could figure that one out !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2017 12:43 PM (WmgTn)

93 I always wanted to teach a course in basic logic. Not truth tables or such, just the absolute basics, such as affirming the antecedent/ denying the consequent, that sort of thing.

That alone knocks a lot of fallacies on the head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (SRKgf)

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Just teach whether or not a thesis has any connection to reality would be a good class. Fuck any conclusions.

Posted by: Soona at April 23, 2017 12:43 PM (Fmupd)

94 Do you remember the college students with 1 psych class? They now know the secret of the mind and can analyze your every motivation. Or even worse, find the psych majors. Why do you major in psych? "Because I was a total basket case until my psychiatrist "fixed" me, and now my crazy ass's goal is to become a psychologist and "fix" more crazy people who will follow my profession into crazy town."

Posted by: Bavaria Clock Support Line at April 23, 2017 12:44 PM (NnnZy)

95 Back in the early days of computers, when memory and storage limitations existed, it could be 'explained' that multi-variable models were impossible. But here we are, with amazing technology available and we're told that one single variable 'CO2' explains every fluctuation in the planets temperature.

If you're going to do reliable multi-variable modeling, where would you start? On the climate??

Not me. I'd start on the stock market.

Don't you suppose the various financial institutions would pour money into doing that if it could be done successfully and reproducibly?

Yet here we are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:44 PM (SRKgf)

96
Take a minute and recount everything the Left has taken away from you in just the last 20 years.

Everything you've given up. Everything the Left has stolen from you. They've taken so much from us.

But Republicans hold a bazillion political offices!!
Big.Fckin.Deal. It ain't doing us nothing.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:45 PM (bNZKV)

97 The whole AGW scam is merely a vehicle for pushing government control of the economy, i.e., socialism.

1900s: socialism will be more economically efficient

1930s: socialism will avoid booms and busts

1970s: socialism will be fairer

2000s: socialism will save the planet
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (SRKgf)

That's it. Done.

No more analysis necessary.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 23, 2017 12:46 PM (Pz4pT)

98 Nah. They don't have THAT much. Most have a billion or two, some 10ish or so, Harvard IIRC a couple times that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (SRKgf)

Harvard and Yale alone have $50+ billion in endowments. $100 billion total is probably a laughably low estimate.

I don't care much for wikipedia, but they seem to have the numbers:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zsbw279

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:46 PM (fD1ST)

99 I have some prolife friends who went out with signs describing basic embryology. Apparently people weren't too happy about it.

Posted by: Lauren at April 23, 2017 12:46 PM (FC1Oo)

100 Well... my daughter received the notoriety she deserves.

http://tinyurl.com/l7nzhgp

Top photo... *sigh*

#TehStupidItBurns

Posted by: CPT. Charles at April 23, 2017 12:47 PM (Quwsn)

101 96

You'd have to measure it in terms of harm avoidance. Think SCOTUS.

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 12:47 PM (PF3Gg)

102 We are gassing people with CO2 people!

Posted by: Bill Maherd at April 23, 2017 12:48 PM (BO/km)

103 Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 12:45 PM (bNZKV)

The Left has taken away things?

It's been a team effort my friend, led by the Left and allowed and aided by the Right.

Notice the sudden difficulty in repealing O-care for just one example. The Right wouldn't vote for it and now won't vote against it.

Where they wrong earlier or are they wrong now?

Posted by: Meremortal, weight weight at April 23, 2017 12:49 PM (3myMJ)

104 Wasn't Newton a young-earther though? As well as being an Arian.

Newton's theology and cosmogony were... weak. He was better at hanging counterfeiters. And at the math of course.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:50 PM (6FqZa)

105 "Top photo... *sigh*"

Is that her in front of the "I speak for the trees" sign?

Posted by: freaked at April 23, 2017 12:50 PM (BO/km)

106 23 Bill Nye is an engineer of some sort.

Would you trust a bridge that he'd had a part in its design and construction?

Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (v5iqM)

Bill Nye developed his "science guy" personal on a sketch-comedy show out of Seattle called "Almost Live". It was hysterical, but for a lot of the jokes you had to be there, or from there.

He got his notoriety and "credibility" with the kids Disney show, which was produced by the same local company, and included a lot of the cast from the comedy show.

He may have been an engineer, but his dream was to be a comedian.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 12:51 PM (17QyB)

107 "I speak for the trees"

They never listen to me.

Posted by: Clint Eastwood at April 23, 2017 12:51 PM (BO/km)

108 AGW (let alone CAGW) violates every tenet of the Scientific Method. It's as if its proponents never took a good high school chemistry or physics.

Maybe there's an exogenous factor at work here.
But it'd have to be really big and involve a lot of energy

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 12:51 PM (bQxkN)

109 2000s: socialism will save the planet
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:18 PM (SRKgf)

And now we got Kenneth Rogoff going full Krugtron, arguing to abolish higher-denomination paper money and to give free debit cards to "the poor" (=, everybody). Because the underground economy hasn't heard of bitcoin apparently.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:52 PM (6FqZa)

110 Hey its at least a far cry from the first Earth day/Lenin's 100th birthday

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2017 12:52 PM (Ot7+c)

111 Was it Toy Story where the little guys were in the Claw Machine.

All staring upward and saying..."The Claw Chooses" with that tone of awe and cult?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:52 PM (J+eG2)

112 Harvard and Yale alone have $50+ billion in endowments. $100 billion total is probably a laughably low estimate.

Ah, in aggregate. I thought you meant each.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:52 PM (SRKgf)

113 This day will be best spent hunting deer and elk sheds and fishing for the big Macks that should be cruising the lake shores by now. I can combine those activities so off I go.

Later, morons.

Posted by: Meremortal, weight weight at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (3myMJ)

114 Give me your models so that I can plug 100 years of known data (haha, yes, I know the data no longer esists anymore for some bizarre reason) into your models and if the results at the models' end date of 2016 matches the known overall and particulars in different locales then we can talk.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (fD1ST)

115 106 He may have been an engineer, but his dream was to be a comedian.

Mission Accomplished!

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (Ndje9)

116 "Bill Nye is an engineer of some sort"

Dingleberry Dynamics is a very specialized profession.

Posted by: freaked at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (BO/km)

117 I have some prolife friends who went out with signs describing basic embryology. Apparently people weren't too happy about it. by Lauren April 23, 2017 12:46 PM (FC1Oo)
=====
Science has advanced since RoevWade. SCIENCE, get it, huh huh, wink wink: SCIENCE.

Climate change funding is an abomination and scientific denial. Just like current PP funding.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (MIKMs)

118 "But it'd have to be really big and involve a lot of energy "

Would be awful hard to hide.

Where might we find something like this?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (J+eG2)

119 And its just another Leftist tactic, total dismissal of their opponents.

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (Ot7+c)

120 (Admittedly that last comment was better placed in the Book Thread. "The Curse of Cash", if you want to read it. I am tempted to suggest pirating it from one of those illegal sites that Rogoff thinks won't exist in utopia. But since that would be wrong, just leaf through it at the bookstore.)
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10798.html

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (6FqZa)

121 I thought you meant each.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:52 PM (SRKgf)

Sorry. Looking back I certainly could've phrased it better.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:54 PM (fD1ST)

122 105 @freaked

Nope... the one with the "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" sign.

double *sigh*

Posted by: CPT. Charles at April 23, 2017 12:55 PM (Quwsn)

123 118 VIA

Indeed, as has been pointed out here before, something on the magnitude of our own sun.

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 12:55 PM (vUcdz)

124 "But it'd have to be really big and involve a lot of energy "
Would be awful hard to hide.
Where might we find something like this

In my pants!

Posted by: Tengo Na Minchia Tanta at April 23, 2017 12:55 PM (BO/km)

125 I'm 70 & have likewise never participated in a March or demonstration.

March or demonstration, no. Been to rallies though: pro-life Austin 1996, tea-party Houston 2009, pro-Trump Denver 2017.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:55 PM (6FqZa)

126 ^ BTW, the WUWT article is worth a complete read...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at April 23, 2017 12:56 PM (Quwsn)

127 /only counting outdoor rallies where unsympathetic people can see me. Indoor Trump rallies are like rock concerts.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:56 PM (6FqZa)

128 The thing that really sent up a red flag for me regarding this whole "AGW" thing was something I heard on the news back in the late 1990s. It was a CBS news report on the Kyoto treaty. That document was actually written in Madrid, Spain. And it was reported that "after six weeks of yelling and screaming" (CBS's words, not mine) the Kyoto treaty was ready to be signed at the upcoming Kyoto conference.

Thing is, when I was a very young man I had the opportunity to hang out with a bunch of STEM guys, who were friends of my then-room mate, who was also brilliant. I think they kept me around as a sort of "bright but uneducated" pet, who sometimes asked interesting questions.

One thing I noticed about these guys was that while they could wildly disagree about this or that hypothesis or theory, they always remained very collegial about it. Oh, sometimes they'd come up with some cutesy insults for each other, like "your mother is a Crazy Schrodinger's Cat Lady" or something of this sort. But the thing was, they never got really irate with each other; there was no "yelling and screaming". You either had hard, empirical, reproducible data to make your case with, or you kept your mouth shut. It was really that simple.

What this "yelling and screaming" bit told me was that the nimrods who had written this Kyoto crap up were NOT hard scientists, and did not have any hard data to back up their claims.

And in the about 20 years since I've seen nothing to change my view on the whole AGW fiasco. It's a fucking scam, pure and simple...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at April 23, 2017 12:56 PM (T1H5V)

129 Ha! I can't believe I'm still getting away with this scam...

Posted by: Bill Nye: The "Science Guy" at April 23, 2017 12:57 PM (qJhUV)

130 WUWT is always worth a complete read. Wish I understood all the meteorological jargon.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:57 PM (6FqZa)

131 Hope the exit polls in France are wrong... They have the so called "Centrist" ahead ...

Posted by: It's Me donna at April 23, 2017 12:58 PM (O2RFr)

132 "double *sigh*"

Maybe she will grow out of it. In any case I agree with about half of what is on that sign.

Posted by: Tengo Na Minchia Tanta at April 23, 2017 12:58 PM (BO/km)

133 48 It's probably my *own* inadequately dark view of human behavior that I find this obsession with controlling other peoples' behavior shocking and infuriating. The lengths to which enemies of freedom will go to rationalize their power lust and bigotries continue to amaze, and disgust.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (nIGPZ)

Related- Sultan Knish has a post up on the Rationing Society. It's all about control.

Posted by: There, I posted something today at April 23, 2017 12:58 PM (Mt8T4)

134 Oort : Scott 'Dilbert' Adams has a red flag
http://tinyurl.com/lozxqjj

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 12:59 PM (6FqZa)

135 "At the end of fiscal year 2014, the market value of the endowment funds of colleges and universities was $535 billion"

Damn.

Per nces dot ed dot gov

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:59 PM (fD1ST)

136
I was part of several Tea Party marches/protests.

All I could think of was walking around with my neighbors in terms of appearance. Thee were no weird haircuts, clothes, signs or paper mache heads.

Plus the area looked no different than when we started at the conclusion. Slightly cleaner, if anything.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2017 12:59 PM (S/hVx)

137 Gasp. Off preposterous pego sock.

Posted by: freaked at April 23, 2017 01:00 PM (BO/km)

138 Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
--------------

The man knows how to tie, and has a large selection of bow ties. In liberal circles, that is much more important.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:01 PM (ZO497)

139 CPT Charles, she's young, she'll see the light some day, hopefully. She's got you to balance her out, even though I'm guessing she won't listen yet. Lots of folks here have liberal relatives. And plenty of folks here were libs once themselves.

Save that photo to embarrass her in front of her future children, though.

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 01:02 PM (sBOL1)

140 The trees swaying back and forth causes wind.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 23, 2017 01:03 PM (kTF2Z)

141 "Indeed, as has been pointed out here before, something on the magnitude of our own sun."

Well then, clearly this source of energy doesn't exist.

Otherwise, we would have found it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:03 PM (J+eG2)

142 But Ace...

Stare decic1s..... Stare decisis...

STARE DECISIS!

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at April 23, 2017 01:03 PM (Hav8L)

143 http://preview.tinyurl.com/lwghwjm

That's an NR article about March for Science's traitorous lunatic tweets.

I have a BS degree.
I'm involved with an org (I won't get into which one here) that purports to stay away from partisan politics, yet signed onto this mess. Anyone who sincerely thought this would really be non-partisan is probably also going broke from sending money to Nigerian princes.

If anything this is counterproductive to whatever stupid thing they were trying to achieve. Clueless virtue signaling (I'm not fond of that term, but it applies here) is part of How We Got Trump and with any luck will just help get more Dems unelected.

Posted by: stace--banned! at April 23, 2017 01:04 PM (c6UIl)

144 53 What if you're more of a dogion person?
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 12:28 PM (0mRoj)
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Dang it, Insomniac, I was just going to accuse Jay of being dogion-phobic.

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:30 PM (sBOL1)

Bwaaaahahahahaaaa!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:04 PM (0mRoj)

145 Conservatives with time on their hands should organize a March for Gravity, just to troll those vacuous lemmings who would protest in a "March for Science."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 23, 2017 01:04 PM (JZdsf)

146 You people are so STOOPED !!! March for Sience is to end Globul
Warming... Even my pet Chihuahua could figure that one out !!!!!!!!!

Da Fuq? Look, bitch, the only reason I stay loyal to you is because I'm a dog. That's what we do.

I figured out a long time ago that Glowball Worming is a scam religion masquerading as scientific theory.

Now go order me some bully sticks, I gotta go find a pile of feces to roll in. Shit's better than Axe body spray, I'm tellin' ya.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein's pet Chihuahua at April 23, 2017 01:05 PM (IcT7t)

147 Correlation does not imply causation

Ha! Google "sunspots stock market"

Sir William Herschel discovered a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. In 1801 he published two papers that, in part because of Herschel's reputation as England's "Kings Astronmer", effectively launched the field of solar influences on Earth's weather. It is in the first of these papers that Herschel discusses an anticorrelation between the price of wheat and the number of sunspots visible on the Sun.

(https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/04/
a-look-at-the-dow-jones-industrial-average-
and-sunspots/)

Posted by: nustas at April 23, 2017 01:05 PM (cJDvr)

148 46 Half a semester of basic Psychology 101 principles like this should be taught in the senior year of every high school. The United States would be a much more pleasant place.

I always wanted to teach a course in basic logic. Not truth tables or such, just the absolute basics, such as affirming the antecedent/ denying the consequent, that sort of thing.

That alone knocks a lot of fallacies on the head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:29 PM (SRKgf)

Logic is nothing more than a construct of the white, cis-het patriarchy meant to oppress wymyn and minorities.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:05 PM (0mRoj)

149 114 Give me your models so that I can plug 100 years of known data (haha, yes, I know the data no longer esists anymore for some bizarre reason) into your models and if the results at the models' end date of 2016 matches the known overall and particulars in different locales then we can talk.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:53 PM (fD1ST)

It's worse than that: they parameterize their models from the historical data (such as they are). That's why it's disingenuous of them to say "we would have predicted that historical result."

Of course. Their model was derived from the historical data. It'd be a pretty shitty if it didn't reproduce the data from it was derived.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:06 PM (SRKgf)

150 Bill Nye is an engineer of some sort.

Would you trust a bridge that he'd had a part in its design and construction?

Does he have a catalog of successful projects in any field of engineering?

Does installing his own IOS updates on his iPhone count?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 23, 2017 01:06 PM (JZdsf)

151 "Nope... the one with the "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" sign. "

She does seem to struggle with spelling Fuck correctly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:06 PM (J+eG2)

152 Sorry. Looking back I certainly could've phrased it better.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:54 PM (fD1ST)

Nah, my bad. I read it quickly, and misunderstood what you meant.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:06 PM (SRKgf)

153 Dilbert Scott Adams:
"The people who know the most about science don't think complex climate prediction models are credible science, and they are right."

AGW doesn't account for variances in the energy that the Earth gets from the Sun. So from first principles, how could it be predictive.

I could go on for pages.

The more practical political question is how over-educated can believe in AGW

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:06 PM (bQxkN)

154
Well, now we know what the Republicans will run on in 2018: We kept everything the same as obama had it, just like you all like it!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:07 PM (ahPd2)

155 Well Le Pen came in second behind the "Centrist" according to exit polling... Means she gets to move on to next round...

Posted by: It's Me donna at April 23, 2017 01:08 PM (O2RFr)

156 Every Monday I tweet SCIENCE! pics which I post on the Monday Night ONT which are girls with big boobs wearing glasses.

They're still more rational SCIENCE! than I saw yesterday

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:08 PM (AOrEZ)

157
I can't wait to hear the Ryan's excuse for continuing obama's budget this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:08 PM (ahPd2)

158 Fire can't melt Zeppelins!

Posted by: Dang at April 23, 2017 01:08 PM (8b+oT)

159 I can't wait to hear the Ryan's excuse for continuing obama's budget this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45
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Blackmail.

Posted by: Dang at April 23, 2017 01:09 PM (8b+oT)

160 Logic is nothing more than a construct of the white, cis-het patriarchy meant to oppress wymyn and minorities.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:05 PM (0mRoj)

You laugh, but I've actually encountered that perspective.

Once in Berkeley some speaker talked about programs for the retarded, and casually mentioned that many retarded women could nevertheless be taught to keep house, etc., concluding with "retarded women can make good wives."

Some feminist blurted out, "Reverse the logic! He's saying 'good wives are retarded!!'"

Uh ... no.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:09 PM (SRKgf)

161
I would've guessed the kids from Leave It To Beaver would die before the kids on Happy Days.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:09 PM (ahPd2)

162 "Every Monday I tweet SCIENCE! pics which I post on the Monday Night ONT which are girls with big boobs wearing glasses.
"

Big Boobs doesn't preclude being a rational scientist.

You are a boobist.

God Day to you Sir.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at April 23, 2017 01:10 PM (d76uN)

163 Bullshit. Everyone knows wet roads cause rain.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at April 23, 2017 12:17 PM (8mYUr)

Rain causes corn. Corn causes whisky. Whisky causes my baby to get a little frisky.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at April 23, 2017 01:11 PM (n8Jnc)

164 I had relatives at the one in Annapolis.
Aagghh.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (Gqgs8)

165 Once in Berkeley some speaker talked about programs for the retarded, and casually mentioned that many retarded women could nevertheless be taught to keep house, etc., concluding with "retarded women can make good wives."

Some feminist blurted out, "Reverse the logic! He's saying 'good wives are retarded!!'"

Uh ... no.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:09 PM (SRKgf)

Some good old fashioned affirming the consequent there. And while I'm being facetious, I'm riffing directly from their way of thinking (if you could call it that).

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (0mRoj)

166 >>>1 They blinded us yesterday.
Posted by: Roy at April 23, 2017 11:56 AM (fWLrt)

; )

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (Gqgs8)

167 I'd drive on a suspension bridge built by Mike Rowe before a driveway poured by Bowtie Nye.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (8nWyX)

168 If half the population could understand the concept of projection - another P 101 concept - they would toss the leadership of the Democrat party out on their ear.

That's raycist!

Posted by: The Democrats at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (VdICR)

169 159 I can't wait to hear the Ryan's excuse for continuing obama's budget this week.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45
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Blackmail.
Posted by: Dang at April 23, 2017 01:09 PM (8b+oT)

That's RAAAAACISSS!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (0mRoj)

170 You either had hard, empirical, reproducible data to make your case with, or you kept your mouth shut. It was really that simple.

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at April 23, 2017 12:56 PM (T1H5V)

Good point. All conjectures are in play until ruled out by hard data, at which point it's game over for that conjecture. End of story. No reason to get hot about it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (SRKgf)

171 Good heavens Miss Sakamoto, you're BEAUTIFUL!

Posted by: Science Enthusiast Who Thinks There Are 347 Genders at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (JkK/t)

172 "Organics are a scam"?

Actual food as God made it... is... a scam?

God is such a swindler!

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (7MudK)

173 So can nonprofit organizations be active and open at these things?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 01:14 PM (fD1ST)

174 170 You either had hard, empirical, reproducible data to make your case with, or you kept your mouth shut. It was really that simple.

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at April 23, 2017 12:56 PM (T1H5V)

Good point. All conjectures are in play until ruled out by hard data, at which point it's game over for that conjecture. End of story. No reason to get hot about it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (SRKgf)

I gotcher hard, empirical, reproducible data for ya right HERE!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:14 PM (0mRoj)

175 "Organics are a scam"?

Actual food as God made it... is... a scam?

God is such a swindler!
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:13 PM (7MudK)

No, organic life. Synthetics are the future. Get on board, meatbag.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 01:15 PM (8nWyX)

176 Some good old fashioned affirming the consequent there. And while I'm being facetious, I'm riffing directly from their way of thinking (if you could call it that).
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (0mRoj)

Exactly. That was the exact point at which I thought I'd like to teach a course in basic logic.

"If we're in Berkeley, then we must be in California." Right? Right.

"If we're in California, then we must be in Berkeley." Right? Right?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:15 PM (SRKgf)

177 "So can nonprofit organizations be active and open at these things?"

Why, what was Chrysler doing?

Oh, sorry.

I thought you said No profit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:16 PM (J+eG2)

178 I had the misfortune of being at my mother-in-law's apartment when she was watching the dinosaur network news.

They were doing a report on this march, and it was mind-breakingly one-sided; replete with smug smirks, and loaded echo-chamber questions along the lines of "Do skeptics actually have a mental disorder?"

Astounding.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:16 PM (7MudK)

179 Socialist Sciencism.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 01:17 PM (LTHVh)

180 Once upon a time, they also poisoned Socrates.

Posted by: navybrat at April 23, 2017 01:17 PM (w7KSn)

181 I will note the delicate irony that yesterday it poured rain all day and was 30 degrees colder than it had been the day before. Global warming for the win yet again. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:02 PM (sBOL1)

The Gore effect. So well-known, it has a name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (0deF2)

182 God is love
Love is blind
Stevie Wonder is blind

Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (bQxkN)

183
Incidentally, iphones are stupid. Never buy one.

Android is so simple and straightforward.
You want to go "back" on an Android? Easy, you press the Back button.

You wanna go "back" on a iphone? There is no back button. Iphones have a single button that does many things, depending on the secret handshakes you apply to use it. Stupid.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (ahPd2)

184 179 Socialist Sciencism.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 01:17 PM (LTHVh)

Lysenko nods.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (SRKgf)

185 SCIENCE! Thread Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028166997975040

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028260774211585

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028373869424644

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028477976244225

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028586654867456

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (AOrEZ)

186 CPT Charles...

Does your daughter believe that a person can be born into the wrong body?

What with her embracing pure science., and all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (J+eG2)

187 178 I had the misfortune of being at my mother-in-law's apartment when she was watching the dinosaur network news.

They were doing a report on this march, and it was mind-breakingly one-sided; replete with smug smirks, and loaded echo-chamber questions along the lines of "Do skeptics actually have a mental disorder?"

Astounding.
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:16 PM (7MudK)

I'd say the people that gobble up every last piece of bullshit from their "betters" and insist it's ice cream are the ones with the mental disorder. But what do I know, I'm just one of those cis-het white patriarchal male oppressors.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (0mRoj)

188 It's a march for Green Energy boondoggles supported by fake Global Warming science.

The Left has been demonizing anyone slightly on the Right with accusations of rejecting science since the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Of course, they like to pick and choose which science they will use. For example, research showing how early unborn babies feel pain is rejected and derided because it endangers public opinion on infanticide by tortuous dismemberment.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (kXoT0)

189 No, organic life. Synthetics are the future. Get on board, meatbag.
Posted by: hogmartin

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I was just over on infowars, and Elon Musk is telling us AGAIN that hooking your brain up to a computer is the next step in evolution.

For the millionth time, all you idiot transhumanists, it's NOT evolution! It's like shoes. We've been wearing shoes for millennia, and yet, oddly enough, our babies are STILL not born wearing shoes.

Amazing how the people who believe so smugly in evolution are the people who always understand it least.

They truly did inherit the wind, didn't they?

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:19 PM (7MudK)

190 Early am TV in Chicago outlets said the march was 40k. Doesn't seem reasonable, but the sun was out. After about the 3-4th time of that assertion (over 4 MSM outlets) however, I started being a little more skeptical.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (MIKMs)

191 181 I will note the delicate irony that yesterday it poured rain all day and was 30 degrees colder than it had been the day before. Global warming for the win yet again. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

Posted by: bluebell at April 23, 2017 12:02 PM (sBOL1)

The Gore effect. So well-known, it has a name.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 01:18 PM (0deF2)

Like when they got snowed in at the global warming conference in Davos. I laughed my ass off.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (0mRoj)

192 Science is based on everyone agreeing, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (fD1ST)

193 SCIENCE! Thread Compliance Pics Part 2

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028710470701057

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028815991017472

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854028920089391105

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854029037005623297

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/854029127577370625

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (AOrEZ)

194 "The earth is not 6000 years old."

Someone should point out that the young earth theory is a minority position in Christianity.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (WnJWI)

195 Science is based on everyone agreeing, right?

Perforce.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (LTHVh)

196 "God is love
Love is blind
Stevie Wonder is blind

Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God"

All birds eventually die.

My mother is dead

Therefore my mother was a bird.

It's too dark inside a dog to read a book.

Therefore dogs create darkness.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (J+eG2)

197 Incidentally, iphones are stupid. Never buy one.

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Oh, God! Every time I have to borrow my wife's iphone, I invariably wind up saying, "I lost the page, and I can't get it to go back."

So she calls me a caveman, takes the phone back... and can't find the page either.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (7MudK)

198 189 No, organic life. Synthetics are the future. Get on board, meatbag.
Posted by: hogmartin

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I was just over on infowars, and Elon Musk is telling us AGAIN that hooking your brain up to a computer is the next step in evolution.

For the millionth time, all you idiot transhumanists, it's NOT evolution! It's like shoes. We've been wearing shoes for millennia, and yet, oddly enough, our babies are STILL not born wearing shoes.

Amazing how the people who believe so smugly in evolution are the people who always understand it least.

They truly did inherit the wind, didn't they?
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:19 PM (7MudK)

I'm not a fan of evolution as a theory of the origins of life, but even I know that's not how it's supposed to work.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (0mRoj)

199 It's pronounced "Sky-ence". Stop pretending that you can't see the "C".

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (zc3Db)

200
The only response to this fake march, besides ignoring it is this: And Not One Starving Child In Africa Was Fed By This

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:22 PM (ahPd2)

201 SCIENCE! Thread Compliance Pics Part 3

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493051780534272

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493134236344321

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493336435363840

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493435303395328

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493532040806400

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (AOrEZ)

202 200
The only response to this fake march, besides ignoring it is this: And Not One Starving Child In Africa Was Fed By This
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:22 PM (ahPd2)

To be fair, aid programs don't do much to feed starving African kids either unless they put out. Mostly they're local warlord subsidy programs.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (0mRoj)

203 As Instapundit says, I'll act like it's a crisis when they act like it's a crisis. Did any of them treat Soylendra going bust like SMOD?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (VdICR)

204 167 I'd drive on a suspension bridge built by Mike Rowe before a driveway poured by Bowtie Nye.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 01:12 PM (8nWyX)

Slightly less important, but I have to mention that Mike Rowe's studliness factor exceeds Nye's by at least 500%.

#science

Posted by: stace--banned! at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (c6UIl)

205 Someone should point out that the young earth theory is a minority position in Christianity.
Posted by: Colorado Alex

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It's too good to check. Don't take away their fun!

It's like discovering that Mama Cass DID NOT die choking to death on a chicken sandwich.

If they discovered that practically no Christians regard the Earth as 6,000 years old, then what would they have left to snicker about.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (7MudK)

206 I dunno - a coworker loaned me her android phone and I couldn't figure it out. I'm comfortable with my iPhone.

Different strokes.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at April 23, 2017 01:24 PM (r4e6W)

207 "The only response to this fake march, besides ignoring it is this: And Not One Starving Child In Africa Was Fed By This"

United Nations organizations are always where there are starving children..

Therefore.............

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:24 PM (J+eG2)

208 For the millionth time, all you idiot transhumanists, it's NOT evolution! It's like shoes. We've been wearing shoes for millennia, and yet, oddly enough, our babies are STILL not born wearing shoes.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:19 PM (7MudK)

That's because we force these unnatural shoes on people. The shoes are inhibitors of evolution, which would like to create feet with shoes on them. Don't believe me? Read The Hobbit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:24 PM (zc3Db)

209
So she calls me a caveman, takes the phone back... and can't find the page either.

Iknowright!

iphones are a lot like the movie Primer-- it's cool to say you "got it" but in truth the movie was crap and made no sense.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:24 PM (ahPd2)

210 SCIENCE! Thread Compliance Pics Part 4

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493675708362756

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493772655558656

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493869992783872

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851493946845003776

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/851494040403148800

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (AOrEZ)

211 Damn.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 12:59 PM (fD1ST)

I'll bet a quarter of that is the Ivy League.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (rF0hx)

212 209
So she calls me a caveman, takes the phone back... and can't find the page either.

Iknowright!

iphones are a lot like the movie Primer-- it's cool to say you "got it" but in truth the movie was crap and made no sense.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:24 PM (ahPd2)

An instructional on cartridge reloading?

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (0mRoj)

213 I'm not a fan of evolution as a theory of the origins of life, but even I know that's not how it's supposed to work.
Posted by: Insomniac

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Exactly my stance.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (7MudK)

214
To be fair, aid programs don't do much to feed starving African kids either unless they put out.

That's not the point!!

The point is you stick the Left's bullshit right back up their asses and then let them defend it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (ahPd2)

215 Indeed. Climate change is real. I don't think anyone ever said it wasn't.

The problem is, you think you know what causes it, and you think it's humans, and you can change it.

Your ignorance is blindingly obvious.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 23, 2017 12:36 PM (Pz4pT)

And the climate as we know it is objectively not changing from the patterns that humans, as a race, have experienced over several millennia. And it is certainly and objectively not warming in the way the Gerbil Worming catastrophists claim that it is. Simply, there is no crisis.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (0deF2)

216 kbdabear brings the smart girl glasses

For the win!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (J+eG2)

217 Nah. They don't have THAT much. Most have a billion or two, some 10ish or so, Harvard IIRC a couple times that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 12:39 PM (SRKgf)

Harvard's endowment is $36.4 Billion.
MIT's endowment is $11 Billion.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (kXoT0)

218 Evolution doesn't pretend to be a theory of the origins of life. It only proposes on how - given the start of earlier life, seen in the fossil record, and given an outside force of mutation - life today has come to differ from the past life preserved in the fossils.

Which means you have to go to the geneticists to learn DNA.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (6FqZa)

219 Big irony is that the only country to cut its emissions is the US, because it's an incidental result of fracking. But natural gas can't be endorsed because it's not a PC renewable.

Could one in a hundred of today's SScience protesters name George Mitchell as the father of fracking

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (bQxkN)

220 I'm not a fan of evolution as a theory of the origins of life, but even I know that's not how it's supposed to work.
Posted by: Insomniac

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I like the transhumanists who say, "Just accept that this is the next step in evolution! Why are you fighting it?"

Look, it's not evolution unless all the previous versions of the species try to kill you. If you're not tested by other species or harsh environments, then you're not naturally selected.

"Stand back and let us do what we dream of doing" is not facing natural selection.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:28 PM (7MudK)

221 Someone should point out that the young earth theory is a minority position in Christianity.

Why? The left keeps perpetuating the same lies for the last century. What makes you think they'll acknowledge this point about Christianity.

The clump of cells argument about abortion has to be the most anti scientific belief the left holds, yet it persists.

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:28 PM (cdYPW)

222 Newton and Liebnitz and Pasteur and Einstein and Rutherford and Barry Marshall and Robin Warren (look 'em up) and Feynman and Mullis and a host of great scientists did not accept the status quo and the pronouncements of the herd.

Ok, I'm listening. I have great respect for the inventors of Fig Newtons and Choco-Leibnitz. Those things are yummy.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 23, 2017 01:28 PM (vRcUp)

223 As Instapundit says, I'll act like it's a crisis when they act like it's a crisis.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

I say, when they start acting as if it's real, I'll believe it's real.

Case in point; building codes. The codes in my area require X depth of footing below frost level. Every inch costs additional dollars. If winters are warmer, then footings no longer have to be X inches deep.

Changes to building code, saving billions, making homes more affordable, because of the 'settled science'?

*crickets*

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 01:29 PM (HTdUD)

224
In the 70's, BBC produced a human evolution propaganda kids show called The Tomorrow People.

It basically promised that humans were evolving with superhuman abilities. That's how the Left sells its bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:30 PM (ahPd2)

225 192 Science is based on everyone agreeing, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie at April 23, 2017 01:20 PM (fD1ST)

I think scientific issues are decided by a show of hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:30 PM (SRKgf)

226 "Mike Rowe's studliness factor "

Rowe has an amazing temperament.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:30 PM (bQxkN)

227 In the 70's, BBC produced a human evolution propaganda kids show called The Tomorrow People.

It basically promised that humans were evolving with superhuman abilities. That's how the Left sells its bullshit.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:30 PM (ahPd2)

The Beeb's in for a ball-jarring shock when they meet Maxine Waters, Lena Dunham, and the Kardashians.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (SRKgf)

228 As Instapundit says, I'll act like it's a crisis when they act like it's a crisis.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

I say, when they start acting as if it's real, I'll believe it's real.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 01:29 PM (HTdUD)

I don't give a shit how they act. It's a joke and it will still be a joke even if they act as if it's real or a crisis.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (zc3Db)

229 I'm not a fan of evolution as a theory of the origins of life, but even I know that's not how it's supposed to work.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:21 PM (0mRoj)

That's exactly how it works you wingnut creationalist. Here's the science of my block button because I'm an expert who cuts and pastes Michael Mann!

Posted by: Dr Cahrsel Joshnon, Scienceologist at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (AOrEZ)

230
Isn't Groot supposed to be an intelligent plant or tree? You don't think the Leftists boobs at Marvel are trying to teach stupid kids that trees are like people but even better?

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (ahPd2)

231 The clump of cells argument about abortion has to be the most anti scientific belief the left holds, yet it persists.
Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:28 PM (cdYPW)

Follow the money. Planned Parenthood is an organization that exists to make money off of women and the tiny shredded bits of their babies and then give it to the DNC so that they can make policy regarding women and children. It's a closed loop and the Left will defend it to their last breath because it is crucial to their political survival. Just ponder that, in order to hold power you have to practice sanctioned murder.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (kXoT0)

232 Another irony.

If the choice were (A) more CO2 (plant food) and higher temperatures or (B) less CO2 and colder temperatures, which would you pick

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:33 PM (bQxkN)

233 D. Someone over there explain the innocent/scientific meaning of "hide the decline" and then we can talk about AGW. Until that point, you are all just a bunch of clueless dipshits.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)

Game changer for me.

Posted by: Done at April 23, 2017 01:33 PM (VjZ79)

234 Evolution doesn't pretend to be a theory of the
origins of life.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (6FqZa)

Evolution isn't a theory. it is a fact.

There are various theories to explain it, but no competent scientific study has ever refuted it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 23, 2017 01:33 PM (rF0hx)

235 Follow the money. Planned Parenthood is an organization that exists to make money off of women and the tiny shredded bits of their babies and then give it to the DNC so that they can make policy regarding women and children. It's a closed loop and the Left will defend it to their last breath because it is crucial to their political survival. Just ponder that, in order to hold power you have to practice sanctioned murder.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (kXoT0)

Excellent summary.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:33 PM (0mRoj)

236 D. Someone over there explain the innocent/scientific meaning of "hide the decline"

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Maybe they meant "hide the decline in civilization" or "hide the decline in morality"?

'Cause they're pretty big on that stuff, too.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:35 PM (7MudK)

237 Here's how scince-y the march was in Denver: Many signs, some big banners, demanding we stop fracking.

Let's see...fracking is a fairly new method, a product of science/technology that helps get the natural gas (it's organic!!) that powers all those "smart" items you love/depend on, but you'd rather we go back an live like our ancestors did a couple of centuries ago (or like NKorea).

Gotcha!!

*Exit question: How did those ecotwits in San Francisco like their recent power outage? Because that's what this anti-drilling/anti-fracking/anti-nuclear power action would get them.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2017 01:35 PM (NOIQH)

238 "Stand back and let us do what we dream of doing" is not facing natural selection.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:28 PM (7MudK)

Urban SJW version of "Hold my beer"

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:36 PM (AOrEZ)

239 Dildo: i mean "theory" in the sense of "hypothesis reproducible in a terlit hobo's lab". Complete with flies.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 01:37 PM (6FqZa)

240 My strategy is: When someone says, "I am the next step in evolution," I kill him and say, "I guess you weren't."

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:37 PM (7MudK)

241 If the choice were (A) more CO2 (plant food) and higher temperatures or (B) less CO2 and colder temperatures, which would you pick

Posted by: Ignoramus

ZeroHedge has a bunch of graphs alongside the CO2 graph. Population. Food supply. Life expectancy.

All rising, but exponentially faster, with an extremely modest rise in CO2.

Now it's presented tongue in cheek, but valid to some extent.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 01:37 PM (HTdUD)

242 Somehow the Left can both Push evolution, as fact... but then say WE are not part of said evolution...

That WE are not affected by it... because evolution is inherently mean...

Posted by: Don Quixote, tilting... at April 23, 2017 01:37 PM (NgKpN)

243 There's nothing more organic than Carbon, is there? It's the very definition of organic, right?

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:38 PM (cdYPW)

244 My answer on Climate Change is "of course I believe in climate change. I believe Earth's climate has been changing for 4 billion years"

It is the liberals who are being unscientific and arrogant by insisting that the climate of of the 1980's is the ideal for the planet and that humanity can maintain a narrow band of average temperature for the planet.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 23, 2017 01:38 PM (8qFZP)

245 In the 70's, BBC produced a human evolution propaganda kids show called The Tomorrow People.

It basically promised that humans were evolving with superhuman abilities. That's how the Left sells its bullshit.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:30 PM (ahPd2)

"Easy - we'll use batteries!"

I've actually heard that one, too, said in all seriousness.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:38 PM (SRKgf)

246 Could one in a hundred of today's SScience protesters name George Mitchell as the father of fracking
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:26 PM (bQxkN)

Excellent point.

Yesterday Norman Borlaug's granddaughter Julie was representing the Texas Farm Bureau at their Earth Day event.

I doubt any of the hipster holier-than-thous marching in DC know who he was or how these redneck hicks with technology feed the world.

Posted by: stace--banned! at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (c6UIl)

247 That's exactly how it works you wingnut creationalist. Here's the science of my block button because I'm an expert who cuts and pastes Michael Mann!
Posted by: Dr Cahrsel Joshnon, Scienceologist at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (AOrEZ)

And that was about the time I abandoned LGF. Any skepticism about chemical soup turning into increasingly complex life forms got you a banning.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (0mRoj)

248
It's too good to check. Don't take away their fun!

It's like discovering that Mama Cass DID NOT die choking to death on a chicken sandwich.

If they discovered that practically no Christians regard the Earth as 6,000 years old, then what would they have left to snicker about.
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:23 PM (7MudK)

Right! It was a ham sandwich, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (+c7tK)

249 Please tell me someone punched Nye in his gay bow-tie until he turned blue and dropped dead.

Posted by: Under Fire at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (UOJLJ)

250 RKae , a boot to the nuts might work too

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (6FqZa)

251 Oops. Should have been

*Exit question: How did those ecotwits in San Francisco like their recent power outage? Because that's what this anti-drilling/anti-fracking/anti-nuclear power action would get them.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2017 01:35 PM (NOIQH)

"Easy - we'll use batteries!"

I've actually heard that one, too, said in all seriousness.

Missed hitting the copy button, I guess.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (SRKgf)

252 Science is based on everyone agreeing, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

To paraphrase Albert Einstein when told of 100 scientists disagreeing with his Theory of Relativity:"Why 100? It only takes 1 to prove me wrong."

Posted by: nustas at April 23, 2017 01:40 PM (SEFXb)

253 Actually it got you a vicious attack, then a banning.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:40 PM (0mRoj)

254 32
I have some questions about this old earth against young earth debate.

Let's say I know the exact age of this planet. How is this going to
help me in my daily life. How is going to help me be a better Husband,
Dad, Friend, or Church Member?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at April 23, 2017 12:22 PM (d76uN)
For a believer, not much. It's that classic problem that Christianity (and likely, Judaism) has had since the beginning: what is meant to be taken as literal truth and what is allegory, metaphor, or a Bronze age nomad's way of expressing a Divine vision of something like the Big Bang, Planet Formation, or Evolution. It's fine to debate such things as long as you don't forget you're arguing over a relatively small portion of the first book of the Bible: as long as you agree on the broad strokes (God created all, He created Man in His image, and gave Man a Paradise which he preceded to screw up by disobeying, introducing Original Sin, thereby causing Man to be evicted from Paradise and necessitating Jesus's sacrifice) its ultimately academic. I think the Young Earth/Anti-Evolution side of it tends to become a bit obsessed with proving themselves right at times, though. Trying to prove an article of faith, especially via science, is folly. At the worst, they elevate their interpretation into a defacto article of faith. You really lose me, as a believer, when you start questioning my faith and insulting me for thinking those first few chapters were about making a few key points in a way a Bronze Age nomad would understand. And yes, I have run into this type of person.For the "I LOVE science sexually!" type, the type for whom "Science" (Meaning Left Wing Neo-Lysenkoism, Global Warming, etc), it's just another way to slander all believers and marginalize them to the rest of the country. The more radical elements of the Young Earth Creationist side makes their job much easier. (Thanks Ken Ham!)

Posted by: Jackal at April 23, 2017 01:40 PM (NiR1r)

255 Somehow the Left can both Push evolution, as fact... but then say WE are not part of said evolution...

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They also say that humans adapt to fit their environment/circumstances over the centuries... except for their brains.

For some reason, brains are MAGICALLY the same, and protected from adaptation by some sort of invisible force field.

That's why you can take a multitude out of Morocco or Afghanistan, plop them down in France or Switzerland, and they'll be just the same as everyone else- which, I think we've all seen, is clearly the case.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (7MudK)

256 Quote from Denver's March For Science:

"We need to show the world and the government that we ain't happy."

She originally was going to the March For Grammar but got sidetracked.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (mvenn)

257 "Easy - we'll use batteries!"

I've actually heard that one, too, said in all seriousness.

Missed hitting the copy button, I guess.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (SRKgf)

That is just precious. I love these people. They are like mental, as well as emotional, six year olds.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (+c7tK)

258 240 My strategy is: When someone says, "I am the next step in evolution," I kill him and say, "I guess you weren't."
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:37 PM (7MudK)

There used to be a debate in chemistry regarding why the amino acids of life are of L configuration (left-handed) and not D.

I joked that maybe there was an L and a D dinosaur, and a rock fell on the D dinosaur.

Turns out the people working on chemical evolution didn't think that that was very funny.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (SRKgf)

259 "Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience dot com, we're shutting them off."

Posted by: Popular Science at April 23, 2017 01:42 PM (fD1ST)

260 Barry Marshall and Robin Warren (look 'em up)

I remember when Barry Marshall cast Robin Warren as Mork in Mork and Mindy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 23, 2017 01:42 PM (oVJmc)

261 "Mama Cass DID NOT die choking to death on a chicken sandwich."

If she only shared it with Karen Carpenter

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:42 PM (bQxkN)

262 Alternate title:
March to Save My PhoneyBaloney Job!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 23, 2017 01:42 PM (e1mEI)

263 I don't give a shit how they act. It's a joke and it will still be a joke even if they act as if it's real or a crisis.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair

Heh. Yes. You can't depend upon the actions of sociopathic imbeciles as an indicator of what reality is.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (vRcUp)

264 From the Denver Post article on the March For Science:

One person marched in a polar bear costume with a poster saying, "help."

*****

Indeed.

The most important step in getting better is acknowledging that you need help.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (mvenn)

265 256 Quote from Denver's March For Science:

"We need to show the world and the government that we ain't happy."

She originally was going to the March For Grammar but got sidetracked.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (mvenn)

Could not read the signs. Common problem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (+c7tK)

266 That is just precious. I love these people. They are like mental, as well as emotional, six year olds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (+c7tK)

To fully appreciate the context, you have to imagine the person saying it to be doing so with a sanctimonious "so there!" demeanor, before huffing off and telling his/her friends how he DESTROYED a denier.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (SRKgf)

267 Follow the money. Planned Parenthood is an organization that exists to
make money off of women and the tiny shredded bits of their babies and
then give it to the DNC so that they can make policy regarding women and
children. It's a closed loop and the Left will defend it to their last
breath because it is crucial to their political survival. Just ponder
that, in order to hold power you have to practice sanctioned murder.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating
in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (kXoT0)

=====

Singing along to 'Look For The Union Label'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (MIKMs)

268 >>The clump of cells argument about abortion has to be the most anti scientific belief the left holds, yet it persists.

A lot of them don't really believe it, it's more of an intentional denial because they cannot deal with the cognitive dissonance that admitting it's a child would cause.

That's why you get crazy studies on gendering your child while still in the womb is bad, lefty shows/stories like "Six Feet Under" where an aborted child's ghost visits its mom, or the longtime favorite: female character deciding to not abort magically transforms the fetus into a baby while still in her womb. The truth creeps out in little ways because it's so darn difficult to deny the obvious 100% of the time.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (NOIQH)

269 Denver Post headline:

March for Science rally draws largest crowd downtown since Women's March

That was what, like 6 weeks ago?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (mvenn)

270
They truly did inherit the wind, didn't they?
Posted by: RKae

They broke it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (IqV8l)

271 Somehow the Left can both Push evolution, as fact... but then say WE are not part of said evolution...

Leftists claim to love evolution but they've never seen an evolutionary force they didn't think they knew better than. Leftists can tell you exactly which species deserve to go extinct and which shouldn't.

If leftists had been around a few billion years ago life on Earth would never have progressed beyond single celled organisms. And that's pretty much what the leftists want to take us back to, now - to take the Earth back to being nothing but green slime. That is the leftist's dream.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (zc3Db)

272 So there you go! You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (0mRoj)

273 Remember when they started the 'anti-science' shit with W?

It wasn't over science, it was over government funding for embryonic stem cell research.

All these Lefty tantrums are usually about protecting some segment of the Lefty money machine that comes from sweet Uncle Sugar.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (oVJmc)

274 "From the Denver Post article on the March For Science:
One person marched in a polar bear costume with a poster saying, "help."

F*k that!

Posted by: The seal at April 23, 2017 01:45 PM (BO/km)

275 okay, it's getting to be nice out, so time to hike to the Twin Peaks to watch basketball and elbows

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 01:45 PM (6FqZa)

276 "Easy - we'll use batteries!"

I've actually heard that one, too, said in all seriousness.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:38 PM (SRKgf)

Yes, when I hear someone self-righteously proclaiming their car is electric, I often ponder just where they think electricity comes from, is it?

1. Unicorn farts
2. Lightning bolts hitting special poles
3. Elon Musk's factories

?

BTW, The answer is never by the "consumption of some other fuel source to generate power.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:45 PM (kXoT0)

277 "I have some questions about this old earth against young earth debate."

The opening of Genesis fits pretty well with the Big Bang and evolution

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:45 PM (bQxkN)

278 Isaac Newton invented gravity when a fig fell on his head.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 23, 2017 01:46 PM (kTF2Z)

279 Simple SCIENCE! Test for the scientifically enlightened elite and SJWs

Without looking it up on Google, define watts, amps, volts, ohms.

Describe how to calculate Amps, Ohms, Watts

If you can do each of these, you are equal in SCIENCE knowledge to that Stupid Nazi Anti-Science Electrician with the MAGA hat who fixed that thingy in the closet that was keeping the plug in the wall from charging your iPhone

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:46 PM (AOrEZ)

280 247 That's exactly how it works you wingnut creationalist. Here's the science of my block button because I'm an expert who cuts and pastes Michael Mann!
Posted by: Dr Cahrsel Joshnon, Scienceologist at April 23, 2017 01:32 PM (AOrEZ)

And that was about the time I abandoned LGF. Any skepticism about chemical soup turning into increasingly complex life forms got you a banning.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 01:39 PM (0mRoj)

For me it was the unnecessary sneering attitude - and belaboring of the subject.

I think my downvoting of a couple of those posts what got me banned in The Great Purge. Or maybe my Bob Hope "Hope" icon. It's hard to tell.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 01:47 PM (17QyB)

281 Yes, when I hear someone self-righteously proclaiming their car is electric, I often ponder just where they think electricity comes from, is it?

1. Unicorn farts
2. Lightning bolts hitting special poles
3. Elon Musk's factories

?

BTW, The answer is never by the "consumption of some other fuel source to generate power.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:45 PM (kXoT0)

I parodied that attitude during the drought here in CA.

How can we get more water?

"Easy. We'll use buckets!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:47 PM (SRKgf)

282 "From the Denver Post article on the March For Science:
One person marched in a polar bear costume with a poster saying, "help."

F*k that!
Posted by: The seal
-----

Meanwhile, the polar bear population is at record levels, and growing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:47 PM (ZO497)

283 "What the Hell Is a March for Science?"

Easy. It's the Pink Pussy Power March, only without the hats.

I bet there's a lot of overlap-- people who participated in both.

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 01:47 PM (PF3Gg)

284 Sign. Sign. Everywhere a sign.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 01:48 PM (IqV8l)

285

These are the same people who think surgery can change one's gender.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 01:48 PM (ahPd2)

286 "We need to show the world and the government that we ain't happy."
***
There is nothing stopping members of the left from abandoning the use of fossil fuels.

In fact, 60M people voted for Clinton. If every one of them stopped using fossil fuels, they would instantly reduce carbon emissions by 20% in the US.

What they want fundamentally is to force *us* to stop using fossil fuels, while they are allowed to continue, either because of carbon credits or some other scam.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2017 01:48 PM (aZq03)

287 I presume that Erin Moran's death was discussed by the Horde. May she RIP. If ever there was a girl who exhibited signs of some sort of abuse it was her.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (kXoT0)

288 To fully appreciate the context, you have to imagine the person saying it to be doing so with a sanctimonious "so there!" demeanor, before huffing off and telling his/her friends how he DESTROYED a denier.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (SRKgf)

I'll power my Tesla with this potato battery I made!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (+c7tK)

289 Speaking of PP and the Party of Death....

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/263204/

Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (r/0kC)

290 These are the same people who think surgery can change one's gender.
Posted by: Soothsayer

----

Even worse. They are the people who think BELIEVING can change one's gender.

And they think new genders can be invented by whims and imaginings.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (7MudK)

291 I already KNEW that liberals ain't happy.

Do I get extra credit?

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 01:50 PM (PF3Gg)

292 Yet another fake hate crime...

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/263169/

Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2017 01:50 PM (r/0kC)

293 All these Lefty tantrums are usually about protecting some segment of the Lefty money machine that comes from sweet Uncle Sugar. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 23, 2017 01:44 PM (oVJmc)
=====

'Clean' energy is like 'clean' money. It comes from the government. Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 23, 2017 01:50 PM (MIKMs)

294 Even worse. They are the people who think BELIEVING can change one's gender.

And they think new genders can be invented by whims and imaginings.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (7MudK)

Maybe they're going to try to levitate the Pentagon, again?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:50 PM (zc3Db)

295
Missed It By That Much, Bill - a limerick

He ponders, asks questions like "Why?"
He wears a lab coat and bow tie.
He looks like a nerd
And he uses big words
That Bill, he's darn nigh a science guy!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:50 PM (mvenn)

296 In fact, 60M people voted for Clinton. If every one of them stopped using fossil fuels, they would instantly reduce carbon emissions by 20% in the US.

What they want fundamentally is to force *us* to stop using fossil fuels, while they are allowed to continue, either because of carbon credits or some other scam.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 23, 2017 01:48 PM (aZq03)

What they want is for us to stop breathing so they will have room for all their social experiments.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:51 PM (kXoT0)

297 Turns out the people working on chemical evolution didn't think that that was very funny.
Chirality and thalidomide were never that funny!

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:51 PM (cdYPW)

298 Turns out the people working on chemical evolution didn't think that that was very funny.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Ugh. Chemistry. I'm getting a headache. You have my respect, sir.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (vRcUp)

299 Meanwhile, the polar bear population is at record levels, and growing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:47 PM (ZO497)

That's it. I'm moving to Guam.

Posted by: Leo DeCaprio at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (n8Jnc)

300 279 Simple SCIENCE! Test for the scientifically enlightened elite and SJWs

Without looking it up on Google, define watts, amps, volts, ohms.

Describe how to calculate Amps, Ohms, Watts

If you can do each of these, you are equal in SCIENCE knowledge to that Stupid Nazi Anti-Science Electrician with the MAGA hat who fixed that thingy in the closet that was keeping the plug in the wall from charging your iPhone
Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:46 PM (AOrEZ)

E(voltage)=I(current) x R(resistance) and P(watts)=I x E.

E=IR and P=IE

You can use alegbra to determine the formulas to figure out the value of any term.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (17QyB)

301 In fact, 60M people voted for Clinton. If every one of them stopped using fossil fuels, they would instantly reduce carbon emissions by 20% in the US.

----

Shows what you know!

MOST Clinton voters DO NOT drive cars!

...Because most Clinton voters are imaginary or dead.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (7MudK)

302
I was watching a propaganda free Science show yesterday about the Emperor Penguin of the Antarctic. The adults (five year old and higher) have to traipse 70 miles over fresh ice to reach their ancient ancestral breeding grounds on firm ground. Many times, back and forth, over a six month period. Year after year.

Everything is timed exactly so that when the young reach a certain age of about five months the ice has all melted and the ocean is at their doorstep. Because the young would never survive a 70 mile hike. I was expecting the usual AGW bullshit at the end but there was none. Most likely because it would be a huge benefit to the adults to not have to traipse across that fresh 70 miles of ice every year.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 01:53 PM (HTdUD)

303 297 Turns out the people working on chemical evolution didn't think that that was very funny.
Chirality and thalidomide were never that funny!
Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:51 PM (cdYPW)

Hah! Chirality. With all of your "Right handed" and Left Handed" molecules. I joked in college where were all the "Glad handed" molecules. You know, the ones that like to kiss babies and run for local office while running a used car dealership?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:53 PM (+c7tK)

304 Micro evolution, evolution within a species, is a fact.
Macro evolution, that all life has evolved from single celled organisms that, oh by the way, started in an environment that would have immediately killed them, fairy tale.

Plenty of actual, real science and "recent" discoveries at creation science dot com.
That is, if you're not askeered.

Posted by: teej at April 23, 2017 01:53 PM (k2yk7)

305 In AK, polar bears are a nuisance-- about as exotic as raccoons-- and both congregate around garbage cans.

Posted by: mnw at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (PF3Gg)

306 The Earth began in 1968. - The Left

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (mvenn)

307 You can use alegbra to determine the formulas to figure out the value of any term.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (17QyB)

Not really. Alegbra is a piece of clothing used to support the kneecap.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (zc3Db)

308 Exactly my stance.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:25 PM (7MudK)

If the inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckianism, Lysenkoism) worked as a mechanism of evolution, why then do Jews still have to circumcise boy babies after hundreds of generations of the practice?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (0deF2)

309 These are the same people who think surgery can change one's gender.
Posted by: Soothsayer
------

Well, actually, one's sex.
I agree with the LGBQTXYZ's that 'gender' is a societal 'construct', i.e., as a state of being, it has no serious meaning beyond a literary usage.

If the topic comes up, I say just that. If the other party in the conversation is an SJW, they quickly begin to stumble over their rationalizations.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (ZO497)

310 The Earth began like 100 years ago - Tommy Vietor, van driver

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (mvenn)

311 That's why you can take a multitude out of Morocco or Afghanistan, plop them down in France or Switzerland, and they'll be just the same as everyone else- which, I think we've all seen, is clearly the case.
Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:41 PM (7MudK)

That's culture, not brains. It's why native Japanese actually do have trouble distinguishing L and R sounds, and why I can't wrap my head around tonal languages, and why feral kids raised by wolves often never get the hang of human interaction. It's not about what makes up your brain, it's more about how your environment develops it.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (8nWyX)

312 300 HJ

>> P=IE

I like pie.

- Joey "Plugs" Biden

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (vUcdz)

313 It's raining and cold outside, 50 deg.

*checks watch*

And, nap time.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:55 PM (ZO497)

314 Turns out the people working on chemical evolution didn't think that that was very funny.
Chirality and thalidomide were never that funny!
Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 01:51 PM (cdYPW)

I remember the thalidomide babies. However, it seems the Left does not, because they are endorsing allowing children as young as six to be drenched in the opposite chemicals required by their growing bodies in order to satisfy a mental illness. I see bad things coming from this: cancers, shortened life spans, regret, and so on and so forth.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 01:55 PM (kXoT0)

315 Nothing says SCIENCE! like a Caddy Escalade or Lincoln Navigator plastered with AGW and I'm With HER bumper stickers

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:56 PM (AOrEZ)

316 OT:

Is anyone still watching "Leftovers"?

I was surprised to see it's still on.

Between the boredom and fact the the characters weren't behaving as human beings would,

i lost interest after 4-5 episodes.

Did it actually improve into something watchable?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2017 01:57 PM (9q7Dl)

317 I agree with the LGBQTXYZ's that 'gender' is a societal 'construct', i.e., as a state of being, it has no serious meaning beyond a literary usage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (ZO497)

But gender is "masculine"/"feminine", not "male"/"female". This is the sleight of hand the left is using.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 01:57 PM (zc3Db)

318 Nothing says SCIENCE! like a Caddy Escalade or Lincoln Navigator plastered with AGW and I'm With HER bumper stickers
Posted by: kbdabear
--------------

Lexus SUV, with a 'Bernie!' sticker.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 01:57 PM (ZO497)

319 Even worse. They are the people who think BELIEVING can change one's gender.

And they think new genders can be invented by whims and imaginings.

---

bad enough they imagine something call gender even exists.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 01:58 PM (vChNs)

320 But gender is "masculine"/"feminine", not "male"/"female". This is the sleight of hand the left is using.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
----------

This is that 'le', 'la' stuff, isn't it?

Posted by: French at April 23, 2017 01:59 PM (ZO497)

321 "If the inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckianism, Lysenkoism) worked as a mechanism of evolution,"

Culture can affect evolution, as it can act as a kind of natural selection. It can even have huge effects over short periods of time, especially so when culture influences momentous historical events

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 01:59 PM (bQxkN)

322 By holding a "March for Science", they hope to imply that Trump must be "against science" just like by holding a march "for women", the message they hope to convey is that Trump is against women. it's silly.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 23, 2017 01:59 PM (7uYFy)

323 The Earth began like 100 years ago
Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM(mvenn)

And yet, Vic persisted.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2017 02:00 PM (DMUuz)

324 These are the same people who think surgery can change one's gender.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45

Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 23, 2017 02:00 PM (vRcUp)

325 Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 23, 2017 02:00 PM (vRcUp)

And fatter.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (zc3Db)

326
Is not the most practical solution to the global climate change issue simply adapting to the particular as all life on the planet already has been doing?

Or does that make too much sense?

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (S/hVx)

327 He left of a major one on that Dear Left thing:

There are only two genders. This is much more demonstrably obvious than the age of the universe (which nobody knows) or catastrophic human-caused climate change.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (39g3+)

328
300 279 Simple SCIENCE! Test for the scientifically enlightened elite and SJWs

Without looking it up on Google, define watts, amps, volts, ohms.

Describe how to calculate Amps, Ohms, Watts

If you can do each of these, you are equal in SCIENCE knowledge to that Stupid Nazi Anti-Science Electrician with the MAGA hat who fixed that thingy in the closet that was keeping the plug in the wall from charging your iPhone
Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 01:46 PM (AOrEZ)

E(voltage)=I(current) x R(resistance) and P(watts)=I x E.

E=IR and P=IE

You can use alegbra to determine the formulas to figure out the value of any term.
Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (17QyB)

Algebra was invented by a demented Zoroastrian and is a tool of Ahura Mazda!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (e1mEI)

329 ABC national news last night did a segment on the melting polar caps.

Posted by: Big Science at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (ziriD)

330 E(voltage)=I(current) x R(resistance) and P(watts)=I x E.

E=IR and P=IE

You can use alegbra to determine the formulas to figure out the value of any term.

Posted by: Hugh Jorgen at April 23, 2017 01:52 PM (17QyB)

MATH IS WHITE SUPREMACIST PATRIARCHY!!!! ELECTRICITY WAS INVENTED BY MUSLIMS!!!

Posted by: Gender Studies Student Who Knows SCIENCE! at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (AOrEZ)

331

Gender/sex is semantics.

Biology is biology and nothing can change it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (ahPd2)

332 Libs place the same blind faith in 'science' that they place in government. Vest it, obey it, don't question it.

Of course, that's only when it's advancing their preconceptions.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (oVJmc)

333 325 Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 23, 2017 02:00 PM (vRcUp)

And fatter.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (zc3Db)

That would have been a perfect comment for "The Eunuch Hat."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (+c7tK)

334 320 French

Et al

Why I always point out that "words have gender, people have sex."

Done and done.

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 02:02 PM (vUcdz)

335
Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

They could get an Espy! So they got that going for them.

Posted by: Very Irredeemably Undude at April 23, 2017 02:02 PM (cdYPW)

336 If the inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckianism, Lysenkoism) worked as a mechanism of evolution, why then do Jews still have to circumcise boy babies after hundreds of generations of the practice?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 01:54 PM (0deF2)

Want to see some weird posts, go to any article on Facebook against FGM and after about 3 comments, the "anti-circumcision of male babies folks" show up and write horrible things. I am neutral on the subject of male circumcision because I am not Jewish, never had a male child, and I am not male. However trying to compare removing male foreskins with removing all female genitalia is not a valid comparison.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 02:02 PM (kXoT0)

337 James Woods responds to Kamala Harris on CA pollution:

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/855639984853835776

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2017 02:02 PM (NOIQH)

338 P=IE

---

Piss = Internet Explorer

#science

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:02 PM (vChNs)

339 This march thing though, I heard nothing about it until like the day before. It just suddenly showed up. How do you get a crowd of people involved in something nobody knows about until right before it happens? I mean, actual participants, not paid activists.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:03 PM (39g3+)

340 let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner

I would have to say that it was no longer a fertile ground for conjecture.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 02:03 PM (HTdUD)

341 WHO NEEDS MAGA HAT WEARING STUPID FASCIST ELECTRICIANS WHO DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE, I PLUG MY PHONE INTO THE CHARGER THINGY SO I KNOW SCIENCE!

Posted by: Gender Studies Student Who Knows SCIENCE! at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (AOrEZ)

342 It'll be Macron v Le Pen

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (bQxkN)

343 ABC national news last night did a segment on the melting polar caps.
Posted by: Big Science at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (ziriD)

What do you expect? It's chocolate candy. If you leave Goobers, Raisianettes or Polorcaps in a car on a hot day, they'll melt.

Oh wait....

Posted by: JoeF. at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (7uYFy)

344 E(voltage)=I(current) x R(resistance) and P(watts)=I x E.

E=IR and P=IE

You can use alegbra to determine the formulas to figure out the value of any term.
----

Resistance is futile.

Posted by: The Borg at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (ZO497)

345 332 Libs place the same blind faith in 'science' that they place in government. Vest it, obey it, don't question it.

Of course, that's only when it's advancing their preconceptions.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (oVJmc)

This is an interesting point. The left was all about "Free thinking" and so forth when they were against the orthodox culture of the time. Now that they believe they are the orthodox, they are against any heresy from it.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (+c7tK)

346 Is not the most practical solution to the global climate change issue simply adapting to the particular as all life on the planet already has been doing?

The left doesn't so much understand in and agree with evolutionary theory as believe in it. As in, the principles of adaptation and survival of the fittest don't really mean anything to them beyond slogans and things to attack creationists with.

That's why a staunch evolutionist will go try to save a beached while but kill babies. Why they believe we'll destroy the planet by raising it a few degrees closer to the temperature it was supposed to have been millions of years ago.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:05 PM (39g3+)

347 By holding a "March for Science", they hope to imply that Trump must be "against science" just like by holding a march "for women", the message they hope to convey is that Trump is against women. it's silly.

---

Can we hold a March for Pussy?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:05 PM (vChNs)

348 let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner

Strangely enough, Muslims support their gay sons undergoing a sex change so they don't have to be slaughtered for being gay. Their daughters however can never achieve male status and must die if they think about sexual reassignment.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at April 23, 2017 02:05 PM (kXoT0)

349 It'll be Macron v Le Pen

That sounds like a Silver Age Comic book cover.

MACRON master of science vs LE PEN, the lady librarian! DON'T MISS THIS BATTLE!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:06 PM (39g3+)

350 let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner

Let's ask everyone who was blown up by a female muslim suicide bomber with a shitload of C4 under her burka

Posted by: Gender Studies Student Who Knows SCIENCE! at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (AOrEZ)

351 Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at April 23, 2017 02:00 PM (vRcUp)

Make the slice at neck level, and it would work for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (0deF2)

352 340 let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Personal observations indicate that they would crave tuna, lick their buttholes, swat dangly-things and sleep 18 hours per day.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (n8Jnc)

353 288 To fully appreciate the context, you have to imagine the person saying it to be doing so with a sanctimonious "so there!" demeanor, before huffing off and telling his/her friends how he DESTROYED a denier.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 23, 2017 01:43 PM (SRKgf)

I'll power my Tesla with this potato battery I made!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2017 01:49 PM (+c7tK)

Oh, you just HAD to bring that up. You monster.

Posted by: GLaDOS at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (0mRoj)

354 The Establishment parties lost in France.

It's Bernie v Trump!

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (bQxkN)

355 Ok. Stay with me here for a moment... let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

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for 27 days a month. Balanced out by the other 3 days

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (vChNs)

356
K-19 The Widowmaker is on. a submarine movie starring Han Solo and Liam Neegan.

If I remember, it was meh.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (ahPd2)

357 So what sex of virgins does a female Jihadi get?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (vChNs)

358 Can I just agree that the sign is stupid. Fear the rightThe earth is not 6000 years old." Gee, did they take a poll of everyone of the right to ask them how old the earth is?. Get a clue, idiot. There are many fine people of religious faith who believe in evolution and even fine people who don't believe in evolution as formulated by Darwin (a lot of missing pieces there) and STILL don't think the earth is 6.000 years old.

Yes; Massive virtue signalling. "We're smarter and better people than you are!!! "

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (fDdVG)

359
K-19 would've been better if it battled U-571 and killed jon bon jovi.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (ahPd2)

360 347 By holding a "March for Science", they hope to imply that Trump must be "against science" just like by holding a march "for women", the message they hope to convey is that Trump is against women. it's silly.

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Can we hold a March for Pussy?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:05 PM (vChNs)

What do we want?!
When do we want it?!

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 02:09 PM (0mRoj)

361 K-19 The Widowmaker is on. a submarine movie starring Han Solo and Liam Neegan.

If I remember, it was meh.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (ahPd2)

Getting Jack Ryan and Oskar Schindler in command of a Soviet sub during the cold war was a pretty big coup for the CIA.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (8nWyX)

362 If the science is settled, why do we need scientists any more?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (mvenn)

363 Is not the most practical solution to the global
climate change issue simply adapting to the particular as all life on
the planet already has been doing?

Or does that make too much sense?

Posted by: irongrampa at April 23, 2017 02:01 PM (S/hVx)

Yes. The left hates evolution.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (tHwdc)

364 The number of Americans who believe the earth is literaly 6000 years old are outnumbered by D&D players. But the left LOOOVESS to bring that up and attack people for believing it.

Psst: most Muslims think the world is around that old, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (39g3+)

365 Hands Solo and Liam Neegan.

NO!

Posted by: Hope Solo at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (ziriD)

366 It'll be Macron v Le Pen

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 02:04 PM (bQxkN)

I wish his name was Macaroon.

I got nuthin'.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 23, 2017 02:10 PM (9q7Dl)

367 It'll be Macron v Le Pen

Le Pen is mightier

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:11 PM (vChNs)

368 The Brattleboro procedure of Fart-Tubing is saving the planet and not placing any unnecessary pollutants/greenhouse gases into the Atmosphere. We are doing are part to save the planent, What our you doing to save the Earth ??

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2017 02:11 PM (WmgTn)

369 When evolution comes up, I usually sucker-punch those who maunder on about it. I just say something like, "Oh, so you subscribe to Darwin's theory"?

"Of course", is the usual reply.

Then you lay the full title of his book on them, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".

The reaction is usually that of a stand-up paddle-boarder who suddenly realizes that there are rapids ahead.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2017 02:11 PM (ZO497)

370 A funny thing ... when I was a chemistry major it was in the college of liberal arts, but I switched to horticulture after two years and got a BS degree.

I gare-own-tee the chem and phys classes for majors had more science than horticulture ... but neither had leftist politics ... back in the day at least. I had 13 hours of calculus for that arts degree ... pretty sure hort majors had none of that.

anyway ... just an oddity. But there is theory in science, as the string theory versus quantum versus whatever will attest. But my brain is mostly stuck in Newtonian physics type stuff. I can't "make sense" of relativity even if the math works.

But my FB cute gal pals that fuckin love science are clueless, even the perfusionist and optometrist types love them some Neil de Grassy on the knoll. oh well.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 23, 2017 02:12 PM (TmCOq)

371 >> How do you get a crowd of people involved in something nobody knows
about until right before it happens? I mean, actual participants, not
paid activists.

It's been in the news for several months - think they started planning it after successful Women's march, and ramped it up after Trump announced EPA cuts. The key is that it's all the same old lefty groups. If you look at their website a lot of the sponsors arr race-related and gender-related.

ttps://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC

Posted by: Lizzy at April 23, 2017 02:12 PM (NOIQH)

372 No way Le Pen gets to 270.
It will be an early night.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 23, 2017 02:12 PM (7uYFy)

373 Jenna Abrams is both right and wrong... Yes technically both signs are right BUT the leftist sign does not mean what they insist it means.

Yes, the climate changes (like... all the time). But that does not mean that a) those changes are caused by human activity and b) that we should be alarmed by those changes.

Yes, evolution has been observed and is real. That does not in any way negate the existence of God nor does it mean that the supposition and guesses that some use to get from observed evolutionary changes to the beginning of everything are fact.

Posted by: redbanzai at April 23, 2017 02:13 PM (FTXAT)

374 I wish someone had gone among the protesters yesterday with the old petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 02:14 PM (AOrEZ)

375 WRT Transhumanists and "evolution":

Yeah, just about everyone gets evolution wrong. I even have transhumanist sympathies myself (at least in terms of believing that knowledge and technology are just about the only things going for humanity, and also probably capable of solving a great many of our problems.) But all this 'next step in evolution' stuff is ridiculous.

The whole point of mankind as intelligent beings is that we don't have to wait for a few thousand generations of people to mutate and for the 'unfit' to die off to have a solution to a problem handed to us by an unthinking optimization process. We can change our minds: Change the thoughts in our heads, in a self directed process, of our own free will. We can actively solve problems, then build tools to implement the solutions. Reason, the main paradigm shift, already happened about a million years ago - it's just taken time to build up steam.

We aren't going to 'evolve' - if we're doing things right, we'll use technology to abolish any future problems (disease, disability, maybe one day even old age), and banish natural selection as an influence over man. If we screw up, then the next generation of civilization will eventually get it. It's inconceivable that mankind would exist in such brutal stasis, subject to random death for physical infirmity, for the hundreds-of-thousands of years it would take for 'nature to provide'.

Posted by: madrocketsci at April 23, 2017 02:15 PM (VF34g)

376 Is not the most practical solution to the global
climate change issue simply adapting to the particular as all life on the planet already has been doing?

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I think that they believe that we're changing things faster than adaptation could keep up with.

Based on....we'll get back to you on that

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:15 PM (vChNs)

377 I wish someone had gone among the protesters yesterday with the old petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Posted by: kbdabear
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We're drowning in that stuff.

Posted by: H2O victims at April 23, 2017 02:15 PM (ZO497)

378 374 I wish someone had gone among the protesters yesterday with the old petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 02:14 PM (AOrEZ)

Caused or contributed to the deaths of roughly 3500
Americans last year alone.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 23, 2017 02:16 PM (0mRoj)

379 I think scientific issues are decided by a show of hands.

In fairness, that's exactly how homosexuality stopped being a mental illness.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 02:16 PM (LTHVh)

380
No way Le Pen gets to 270.

It will be an early night.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 23, 2017 02:12 PM (7uYFy)

If the French do not vote for her after the one other candidate said they would just have to live with daily terrorism and another said the terrorism they were suffering was their own fault and he intended to go turbo on appeasement if he was elected, they deserve what they get.

Posted by: redbanzai at April 23, 2017 02:16 PM (FTXAT)

381 Incidentally, there is a recent push (in public) by some mullahs to claim the earth is super old, because that's what Western science teaches, but even their arguments don't work. The Koran says (like the Bible) that the world was created in 6 days, but the word used in Arabic for "day" can be translated somewhat like "epoch" or "period" which can be up to 50,000 days long, according to my reading and some Mullahs teaching.

That still only makes the world somewhat around 310,000 years old, since they teach that Adam was put on earth 7,000 years ago -- or at least, used to until recently.

As I noted, they've changed their tune, in public, to the West. How they teach in private I doubt has changed, particularly in places like Iran and Syria.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:16 PM (39g3+)

382 Can I just agree that the sign is stupid. Fear the rightThe earth is not 6000 years old." Gee, did they take a poll of everyone of the right to ask them how old the earth is?. Get a clue, idiot. There are many fine people of religious faith who believe in evolution and even fine people who don't believe in evolution as formulated by Darwin (a lot of missing pieces there) and STILL don't think the earth is 6.000 years old.

Yes; Massive virtue signalling. "We're smarter and better people than you are!!! "
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:08 PM (fDdVG)

^^^^^^^!!!!!! You simply cannot drive it into their pea brains that:

The two can exist simultaneously. I was taught both concurrently (Catholic Grade School).

and:

One theory DOES NOT disprove the other.

Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at April 23, 2017 02:17 PM (/U083)

383 Penn and Teller's petition to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 02:17 PM (AOrEZ)

384 367 buzzsaw

LePenis mightier...

- Sean C

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 02:18 PM (vUcdz)

385 "What the Hell Is a March for Science?"

Easy. It's the Pink Pussy Power March, only without the hats.

I bet there's a lot of overlap-- people who participated in both.

Posted by: mnw

*****

One of the women interviewed at the Sciene March in Denver reported she had participated in the March for Women and the March for Trump's Tax Returns and now this. "It's becoming my weekend hobby" she said.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:18 PM (mvenn)

386
What do we want?! Pussy
When do we want it?! Now
How long do we want it for? maybe 9 minutes

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:18 PM (vChNs)

387 Speaking of climate change, here at Peon Manor in Alberta, I had about an inch of snow last night, and the temperature is hovering at the freezing point. Right now, there is fog so thick that visibility is about 500 feet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2017 02:18 PM (0deF2)

388 OT=So, today is one of those times God is giving me a message, only I'm not sure what it is. I've complained about my friend who,m I have decided is possibly really a narcissist. has high functioning autism never diagnosed and just is bad with conversation and social clues. He can be very charming and engaging as many narcissist can be. Haven't talked to him in a while but I was attending a study at his church. I met him at the supermarket At some point after telling me about what's going on t his church. he says "Go home and cook for FenelonSpouse and smiles. Uhhh, did I not tell you three weeks ago that spouse has a job at Amazon fulfillment and isn't home Thursday-Sunday. (I didn't say that; I just thought it)It's as if he doesn't remember anything unless it's directly related to him. and the church he serves So, I have no idea if God is reminding me how self involved his is, or that i should give him another chance. So, off he goes saying, "Do come to this at our church. Do come to that at our church." It's as if he wants the things to be successful (understandably) and so must have the required attendance. It doesn't matter if I personally attend or not.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:19 PM (fDdVG)

389 318 Nothing says SCIENCE! like a Caddy Escalade or Lincoln Navigator plastered with AGW and I'm With HER bumper stickers
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Oh, hey, you live in Austin too?!?!?!?

Posted by: lindarose at April 23, 2017 02:19 PM (JNDQi)

390 What do we want?! Pussy
When do we want it?! Now
How long do we want it for? maybe 9 minutes

Posted by: buzzsaw90

Nobody likes a bragger.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 02:20 PM (HTdUD)

391 The people that advocate that the Earth is only 6,000 years old are like the pro-lifers who want to talk about rape babies. It completely undermines any discussion or debate before it gets started.

I'm in a weird "guided" intelligent design position, but it's honestly not a religious position, I think evolution is largely completely compatible with Genesis.

Posted by: QWERTY at April 23, 2017 02:20 PM (szivi)

392 Next weekend there is sort of a catchall march in Washington. Climate Change, Jobs, and just about anything else you can think of. Don't these people have anything else to do on weekends.

April 29th People Climate March.....be there or be square!

Posted by: Colin at April 23, 2017 02:20 PM (A4n2s)

393 Calculating a biblical day is as credible as calculating the date of the 2nd coming.

Evolving of one specie into a distinct other - not so much.

Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:21 PM (ziriD)

394 In fairness, that's exactly how homosexuality stopped being a mental illness.

And how transgenderism was hand waved, and pedophilia will be in the near future.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:22 PM (39g3+)

395 What do we want?! Pussy
When do we want it?! Now
How long do we want it for? maybe 9 minutes

Posted by: buzzsaw90

Nobody likes a bragger.

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the first 6 minutes are to remember what to do to it

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:23 PM (vChNs)

396 I honestly believe that had religion not taken a side in the whole evolution debate, much of it would have been discarded over time just through scientific consensus.

But because this is an epic battle where two sides have dug in, the scientific community will only attempt to batter the "knuckle draggers"

Same with climate change, had it not been a right vs left debate, it probably would have been jettisoned a long time ago, just like "global cooling" in the 1970s.

Posted by: QWERTY at April 23, 2017 02:23 PM (szivi)

397 If Le Pen can't do better than 22%, it seems almost impossible for her to win the next round. Those are early returns ... but she needed more of that "hidden vote" to appear ... the vote that would not admit to pollsters.

C'est la vie ... bye bye French culture.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 23, 2017 02:23 PM (TmCOq)

398
The people that advocate that the Earth is only 6,000 years old are like
the pro-lifers who want to talk about rape babies. It completely
undermines any discussion or debate before it gets started.

I'm in a weird "guided" intelligent design position, but it's
honestly not a religious position, I think evolution is largely
completely compatible with Genesis.

Posted by: QWERTY at April 23, 2017 02:20 PM (szivi)

That is not true QWERTY and is insulting to boot. The (likely wrong) position that the earth is 6,000 years old is not analogous to the (likely right) position that babies do not lose the right to their own lives because of the vicious criminal acts of their fathers.

Posted by: redbanzai at April 23, 2017 02:24 PM (FTXAT)

399 389 318 Nothing says SCIENCE! like a Caddy Escalade or Lincoln Navigator plastered with AGW and I'm With HER bumper stickers

Oh, hey, you live in Austin too?!?!?!?

Posted by: lindarose at April 23, 2017 02:19 PM (JNDQi)

15 years in La-La Land, I saw that all the time. Also saw lots of Beemers and even a Mercedes AMG with them

Posted by: kbdabear at April 23, 2017 02:25 PM (AOrEZ)

400 I presume that Erin Moran's death was discussed by the Horde. May she RIP. If ever there was a girl who exhibited signs of some sort of abuse it was her.

Mackenzie Phillips still lives.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 02:25 PM (LTHVh)

401 I honestly believe that had religion not taken a side in the whole evolution debate, much of it would have been discarded over time just through scientific consensus.

I wonder the same thing some times. There's a lot of it that just does not stand up to scientific scrutiny or is just the preferred method without clear validity but the alternative is... those craaaaaazy people who believe in God!

Intelligent Design actually makes a hell of a lot of sense, and the evidence makes a lot more sense in that framework but it bumps up against God too much so many just run away screaming "creationist!" like there's bees chasing them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:25 PM (39g3+)

402 I'm in a weird "guided" intelligent design position, but it's honestly not a religious position, I think evolution is largely completely compatible with Genesis.

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JPII said something to the effect of 'souls do not evolve' which I thought was spot on. Just went right over the whole debate.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:25 PM (vChNs)

403 >>>12 you buncha backward cousinfuckers, wait til you're surrounded by water. then what? trump gonna save yore ass?
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:12 PM (KP5rU)

Hello, snark tag?

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 02:26 PM (Gqgs8)

404 There is a hierarchy to creation in Genesis. We had a PHD in geology come to a confirmation class. He's a Christian. There's nothing incompatible about evolution and faith, and a number of scientists who aren't even religious see some holes on what Darwin had to say.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:26 PM (fDdVG)

405 2 Peter 3:8.

"...one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

After reading that, I can't believe anyone still argues about the passage of time. It basically says, "He doesn't talk about this stuff the same way you do. His perspective is totally different." And, y'know, it sorta would hafta be.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 02:27 PM (7MudK)

406 It's as if he doesn't remember anything unless it's directly related to him. and the church he serves So, I have no idea if God is reminding me how self involved his is, or that i should give him another chance. So, off he goes saying, "Do come to this at our church. Do come to that at our church." It's as if he wants the things to be successful (understandably) and so must have the required attendance. It doesn't matter if I personally attend or not.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:19 PM (fDdVG)

This causes me to remember, upon reflection, all the times my X told me she didn't GAS that I didn't recognize at the time.

Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:27 PM (ziriD)

407 Evolving of one specie into a distinct other - not so much.
Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:21 PM (ziriD)

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Get a small breeding population with a high turnover rate and go play God. Let me know when you make a new species.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:27 PM (vChNs)

408 Wow, the BBC is really pulling for Macron. I mean, tugging Macron. Maybe gently cupping?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39686993

"Ms Le Pen leads the eurosceptic, anti-immigrant National Front party. She has attempted to soften the party's tone and brought big gains in the 2015 regional elections.
Mr Macron served as economy minister under current President Francois Hollande. Despite his relative inexperience - he has never served as an MP - polls see him defeating Ms Le Pen in the second round."

"Ms. Le Pen hates both Europe and foreigners. Her perfidy and deception have conned simple country rubes throughout France.
Mr. Macron is a bright shining new symbol of hope and just generally awesome and will achieve great things."

Posted by: hogmartin at April 23, 2017 02:28 PM (8nWyX)

409 I always thought Erin/Joanie was really cute but she really went down a dark path. I wonder if the abuse thing wasn't true. From what I've read and seen, I wonder if any boy or girl star in entertainment avoids it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:28 PM (39g3+)

410 Other than widening the gulf between clear thinkers and fraud based hysteria. And therein lies the rub.

Posted by: MSTisdale at April 23, 2017 02:28 PM (g9d8D)

411 "...one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

******

The earth is 200 to 300 million years old. That's like, what, 6000 in God years?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:29 PM (mvenn)

412
Just saw on the sidebar that Beth aka Bamapachyderm has passed away. She hasn't been around in many years so most of you won't know her.

Strong opinions, she had, I'll say that. Rest in peace, Beth.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:29 PM (2Mdtm)

413
you buncha backward cousinfuckers, wait til you're surrounded by water. then what? trump gonna save yore ass?
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 12:12 PM

That's when I'll grow fins and go back in the water again.

Don't you believe in devolution? DENIER!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 02:30 PM (IqV8l)

414 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKxXbD2Jbyg

Auburn March... Carrot Man... this is how you win...

Posted by: Don Quixote, tilting... at April 23, 2017 02:31 PM (NgKpN)

415 Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:27 PM (ziriD)

It would be easier if he just said that instead of what be be presence on his part that he does give a darn. I could possibly be friends with a person who has high functioning autism. After all, my son has it. I cannot be friends with someone who's a narcissist. And obviously I am not going to be asking his family or church members whether he's either of those things. so I have to figure it out on my own.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:31 PM (fDdVG)

416 Evolving of one specie into a distinct other - not so much.
Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:21 PM (ziriD)

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Get a small breeding population with a high turnover rate and go play God. Let me know when you make a new species.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:27 PM (vChNs)

Buz, that's what I said.

Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:32 PM (ziriD)

417 Best news in the French primary elections today is the hilarious vote totals of the Socialist Candidate:

Benoit Hamon, Socialist - 6%

And remember that the the current president of France, Hollande, is from that same Socialist Party. It would be the equivalent of a standing Democrat president getting 6% of the national vote.

The other commie, Melanchon, got about 18%. Overall, the left in France has basically collapsed, from being the majority not too long ago to being borderline fringies -- similar to the Labor party's collapse in England.

The bad news is that the boring no-ideas "centrist" without a party, Macron, will probably win the general election over Le Pen, because the ENTIRE political system and media are allied against her.

Posted by: zombie at April 23, 2017 02:33 PM (DQ4Fv)

418 >> Intelligent Design

Cf: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 02:34 PM (vUcdz)

419 My problem with a lot of science is that in the name of short hand and the result of sloppy, ignorant reporters, stuff that should be stated as "we estimate based on present evidence..." is stated "SCIENCE DECLARES" in absolute terms. The age of the planet for instance. Nobody knows.

The best guess is hundreds of millions of years old, but there's this cone of uncertainty like tracking a hurricane, the further into the past you get, the less you can be sure of something, because more and more events, changes, and forces you can't have predicted or guessed about are taking place.

The earth appears according to modern science to be very, very old, many millions of years. That's the best anyone can say.

But you get absolute, total certainty statements, and worse, absolute contempt and derision toward anyone who has a doubt or believe that differs from this. Its just not known well enough to be so reeking with arrogance and spittle-flecked mockery the way people are about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:34 PM (39g3+)

420 The bad news is that the boring no-ideas "centrist" without a party,
Macron, will probably win the general election over Le Pen, because the
ENTIRE political system and media are allied against her.

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That seems familiar...

Posted by: JC at April 23, 2017 02:35 PM (3GSgE)

421 "...one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

well God is Light, at the speed of light ... no time? God came up with relativity before Einstein? SCIENCE ... I believe. ha

Posted by: illiniwek at April 23, 2017 02:35 PM (TmCOq)

422 The bad news is that the boring no-ideas "centrist" without a party, Macron, will probably win the general election over Le Pen, because the ENTIRE political system and media are allied against her.

If by some astounding chance LePen wins someone will shoot her, I predict. Either way, Macron is better than the present lunatic, by slight degrees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (39g3+)

423 The bad news is that the boring no-ideas "centrist" without a party, Macron, will probably win the general election over Le Pen, because the ENTIRE political system and media are allied against her.

Posted by: zombie

Both the ENTIRE political system and media are allied against her?

Yeah. No way to win there, as we've recently witnessed.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (HTdUD)

424
The other commie, Melanchon, got about 18%.

Wasn't that the Nazi guy in Patterns of Force Star Trek episode?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (IqV8l)

425 The best guess is hundreds of millions of years old, but there's this cone of uncertainty like tracking a hurricane, the further into the past you get, the less you can be sure of something, because more and more events, changes, and forces you can't have predicted or guessed about are taking place.

*******

So it's conceivable that a butterfly flapping its wings in the proto-Amazon started the whole thing?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (mvenn)

426 Same with climate change, had it not been a right vs left debate, it probably would have been jettisoned a long time ago, just like "global cooling" in the 1970s.

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Its a battle over insane vs sane. - thinking vs hysteria. - freedom vs control. The left resides on one side of each, the right on the other.

Posted by: MSTisdale at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (g9d8D)

427 I just read Scott Adams blog regarding scientific literacy and persuasion.

My takeaway is "Ignorance is bliss." (Not on the part of Scott Adams, but in regards to Climatologists and their devotion to their consensus).

And screw all you phrenology deniers. The consensus of actual, practicing phrenologists point out the abject ignorance of you who don't believe phrenology is real.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 23, 2017 02:37 PM (A3b6q)

428 I thought earth was estimated at 4-5 billion years old.
Life started at maybe a billion, or half a billion ... maybe, they say.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 23, 2017 02:38 PM (TmCOq)

429 423 EDU

So you're saying it's going to be an early night?

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 02:38 PM (vUcdz)

430
After 12 years here I need more than two hands to count all the dearly departed morons.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:38 PM (2Mdtm)

431 There is a mischievous side to my character that wants to say to my friend "I/m making tremendous amounts of money performing my one woman show." which isn't true (I'm not making a lot of money), but it would really annoy him if he indeed is a narcissist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (fDdVG)

432 An ur-butterfly flapping its archeo-wings in the proto-Amazon.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (mvenn)

433 Life started at maybe a billion, or half a billion ... maybe, they say.

---

Life didn't start till they invented booze

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (vChNs)

434 Do you know why no human remains have ever been found in a tar pit? Because petroleum is people. Google it, ya'll!

Posted by: Fritz at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (TNQMS)

435 I think the fix was in against Wilders and against LePen.The Austrians against immigration actually won and than had it reversed by the courts.

Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (r/0kC)

436 So it's conceivable that a butterfly flapping its wings in the proto-Amazon started the whole thing?

Its kind of the same concept. People really misunderstand chaos theory, but basically the more complex the system or theory, the less likely you can remotely predict what is going to be correct (something climate change people really try to ignore). The further you get from hard real time data, the more chaos you get. Hundreds of millions of years away... and you can't presume anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (39g3+)

437 412
Just saw on the sidebar that Beth aka Bamapachyderm has passed away. She hasn't been around in many years so most of you won't know her.

Strong opinions, she had, I'll say that. Rest in peace, Beth.
....
I remember, and I think she'd been fighting cancer off and on for years. She was only in her 50s IIRC.

Posted by: stace--banned! at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (c6UIl)

438 Is he really your friend?

Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:41 PM (ziriD)

439 It's a struggle to beat the Left wing margin of fraud here,imagine how hard it is in Europe.

Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2017 02:41 PM (r/0kC)

440 And screw all you phrenology deniers. The consensus of actual, practicing phrenologists point out the abject ignorance of you who don't believe phrenology is real.

Posted by: Minuteman

You only say that because you have a large bump in the C-4 section of your frontal lobe.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 02:41 PM (HTdUD)

441 Same with climate change, had it not been a right vs left debate, it probably would have been jettisoned a long time ago, just like "global cooling" in the 1970s.

This I don't buy, because it was political right from the start. Evolutionary theory started out as early scientists examining data and asking questions, postulating different ways things could have worked out. It got politicized later. AGW started out political from the start and was almost immediately grabbed as a way to leverage the planet's governments toward socialism and globalism.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 02:42 PM (39g3+)

442 Posted by: gNewt at April 23, 2017 02:41 PM (ziriD)

He calls himself that. I am not sure which is why I'm bloviating about it. ;^) I'll stop now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:43 PM (fDdVG)

443 Macron's wife Brigitte, his former high school teacher is 25 years his senior.

A mommy's boy!?

Posted by: nustas at April 23, 2017 02:43 PM (mBYZv)

444
Life didn't start till they invented booze

Primordial booze from the primordial ooze.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 02:43 PM (IqV8l)

445 And screw all you phrenology deniers. The consensus of actual, practicing phrenologists point out the abject ignorance of you who don't believe phrenology is real.

Posted by: Minuteman

---

I need phrenology like I need another hole in the head

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 02:44 PM (vChNs)

446 27 Dear left:
As part of your "pro-science" position, please reacquaint yourself with the biological reality that it is impossible to be born in the wrong body.
-Science

THANK YOU.

Posted by: Hamilton at April 23, 2017 02:44 PM (sCjDS)

447 So it's conceivable that a butterfly flapping its wings in the proto-Amazon started the whole thing?

.. there was the sound of thunder.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 02:45 PM (LTHVh)

448 444 BC Jr

A Primordial Ordered Pair?

Asking for a Moron.

Posted by: ibguy at April 23, 2017 02:47 PM (vUcdz)

449 Primordial booze from the primordial ooze.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 02:43 PM (IqV8l)

Catchy!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at April 23, 2017 02:48 PM (tHwdc)

450 O/T Does anyone here live in the Florida panhandle? Email in nick.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at April 23, 2017 02:49 PM (tHwdc)

451
Normal
0

7.8
0
2

false
false
false

hahaha, faked you out!!

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 02:50 PM (2Mdtm)

452 basically the more complex the system or theory, the less likely you can remotely predict what is going to be correct (something climate change people really try to ignore).

******

I think on an individual level, fear of chaos is actually a big motivator for AGW proponents. I look at my brother, who went banana-cuckoo-nutso over AGW and I see a man with no core spiritual faith, a personal life in disarray (ugly divorce, lost his medical license due to unprofessional conduct, depression, alcohol abuse) and it gives him something to hang his emotional hat on. In my own life, losing my father-in-law (disappeared without a trace) and the 'unfairness' inflicted on families who have children born with major birth defects have reinforced the seeming randomness of life, and my wife and I are okay with (accepting of) that. Once you accept that you cannot control every aspect of your life you can get on with living it.

He uses the AGW crap as a bludgeon to drive off his own personal demons.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:51 PM (mvenn)

453
My friends, you don't have to be afraid of Emmanuel Macron in la Palais de l'Elysee.

Posted by: Monsieur John McCain at April 23, 2017 02:52 PM (HTdUD)

454

*squirt*

The science is settled.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner, Genetic Engineer at April 23, 2017 02:52 PM (nbDqW)

455 There is a mischievous side to my character that wants to say to my friend "I/m making tremendous amounts of money performing my one woman show." which isn't true (I'm not making a lot of money), but it would really annoy him if he indeed is a narcissist.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 23, 2017 02:40 PM (fDdVG)

Raise one eyebrow, say "COOK for FenelonSpouse? Oh my goodness, no! I have a housekeeper who does that sort of thing !"

Posted by: antisocialist at April 23, 2017 02:52 PM (1DTeb)

456 Once you accept that you cannot control every aspect of your life you can get on with living it.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 23, 2017 02:51 PM (mvenn)

True - you can only control how you're going to deal with whatever comes your way.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at April 23, 2017 02:53 PM (tHwdc)

457 Hot for teacher!

Macron started his thing with his wife when he was 15 and she was his 39 old teacher

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 02:53 PM (bQxkN)

458 all you freaks and weirdos can believe anything you want...

me?

i believe i'll have another beer.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 23, 2017 02:55 PM (H/IO6)

459 Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Bridgette Macron looks pretty good for 64.

She was probably a hottie at 39

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 23, 2017 02:57 PM (bQxkN)

460 I think on an individual level, fear of chaos is actually a big motivator for AGW proponents.

I agree, I think for many of the non-climatologist types (and probably some of them, too) its about control and trying to make things not be different. There's a reason they all base their ideal climate on "what it was like when I was young." Its this bizarre form of quasi-scientific nostalgia.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 03:01 PM (39g3+)

461 >>>100 Well... my daughter received the notoriety she deserves.

http://tinyurl.com/l7nzhgp

Top photo... *sigh*

#TehStupidItBurns
Posted by: CPT. Charles at April 23, 2017 12:47 PM (Quwsn)

I am so sorry. Perhaps she'll outgrow it.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 03:04 PM (Gqgs8)

462 426 Same with climate change, had it not been a right vs left debate, it probably would have been jettisoned a long time ago, just like "global cooling" in the 1970s.

------------------

Its a battle over insane vs sane. - thinking vs hysteria. - freedom vs control. The left resides on one side of each, the right on the other.
Posted by: MSTisdale at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (g9d8D)

Uh, who in the Mainstream right has been actually fighting against the Climate Bullshit?

Not Congress... Not various Presidents (jury is now out on Trump).. not Right leaning Pundits... not Fox News...

They were all fine and dandy to go along with the 'something must be done' set...

Posted by: Don Quixote, tilting... at April 23, 2017 03:07 PM (NgKpN)

463 A quick reminder:

Liberals adore quoting Dwight Eisenhower (whom they had viscerally hated while he was alive and in office), on the subject of the risks to the public interest posed by the "military-industrial complex".

That line is from Ike's farewell address, the reading of which I commend to all of you. It has stood the test of time.

What liberals do *not* want to quote or remember is that Eisenhower also warned against extensive Federal funding for science resulting in the capture of public policy, against the public interest, by a "scientific-technological elite".

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2017 03:07 PM (qJjMA)

464
A lot of people who are totally unable to control their own lives are perfectly willing (and in fact eager, it seems) to subject other people to that same loss of control. The Nanny State is extremely willing to control others lives. It is that intravenous injection of controlling others in the name of 'public service' that drives their lives.

Nothing irritates them more that those who say, 'Fuck off. Leave me alone'.

See also; Tea Party, irrational response

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 03:07 PM (HTdUD)

465 There's a host of stupid in that Watt's Up With That photo essay. Burning, painful stupid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 03:08 PM (39g3+)

466 Maybe I should renew my Union of Concerned Scientists membership. I let it lapse 30 years ago. It was fun for a while to write letters to the editors and sign them Tobias Took, Union of Concerned Scientists.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 23, 2017 03:09 PM (LTHVh)

467 16 There must be something wrong with me. I'm Not Young, and have never, in my entire life, participated in a "march" or a "protest."

I'm nearing completion of my 60th trip in orbit around the sun and can say that I participated in a protest march just once. It was the spring of 1976 and my state college had proposed an increase in tuition & fees, so a big bunch of us trundled down to the State House to protest. My particular interest in this march was fueled by a certain attractive co-ed that I thought was hot for me; she was one of the ringleaders and I figured she'd be super impressed with my commitment to the cause.

As it turns out, I was mistaken, she was hot for some other dude. I did manage to get baked, for free, though. Which was nice.

Posted by: steve walsh at April 23, 2017 03:10 PM (clx/U)

468 Every leftist march explained in one image

http://tinyurl.com/kkaqax9

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 03:10 PM (39g3+)

469 Whoa, that top photo

http://tinyurl.com/l7nzhgp

blows up real big. That lets you see a lot of really stupid wet people in various bedraggled stupid states. It makes me happy.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 03:11 PM (Gqgs8)

470 and these lefty fucks laugh at my religion. whats next? the march for penny loafers? burnt toast? toothless hummers?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 03:11 PM (KP5rU)

471 And screw all you phrenology deniers. The consensus of actual, practicing phrenologists point out the abject ignorance of you who don't believe phrenology is real.
Posted by: Minuteman
You only say that because you have a large bump in the C-4 section of your frontal lobe.
Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 02:41 PM (HTdUD)

Or something is wrong with his medulla oblongata...or he lost his toothbrush like momma says.

Science!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 23, 2017 03:11 PM (5VlCp)

472 "Logic is nothing more than a construct of the white, cis-het patriarchy meant to oppress wymyn and minorities."

Speaking of eeeeevul Whitey, looking at the photos of the "March For Science", there sure are a whole bunch of palefaces depicted as participating. In fact, the absolutely overwhelming majority, far out of proportion to whites' percentage of the population.

Where are the black faces? Where's the "diversity"? Why aren't there Marches For Science that, as the left constantly say, "look like America"?

Exclusionary racist honkies cruelly keepin' the brothers and sisters down yet AGAIN. When will it stop, I ask you?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 23, 2017 03:12 PM (qJjMA)

473 At least prostitutes go away after lying to you, taking your money, and fucking you.

Posted by: DaveA at April 23, 2017 03:12 PM (FhXTo)

474 I'm Not Young, and have never, in my entire life, participated in a "march" or a "protest."

I was in a couple of pro-life ones until I realized it accomplished nothing and took up most of a day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 03:13 PM (39g3+)

475 465
There's a host of stupid in that Watt's Up With That photo essay. Burning, painful stupid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 23, 2017 03:08 PM (39g3+)

They need some good brain food. Some nice crispy fried chicken would clear their minds in no time.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at April 23, 2017 03:14 PM (n3hky)

476 475; hey colonel, go check out one of your eateries dumbass. that aint chicken. pressure fried shit is still shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 03:17 PM (KP5rU)

477 The Nanny State is extremely willing to control others lives. It is that intravenous injection of controlling others in the name of 'public service' that drives their lives.

---

I'm holding out for Mudd World. But first Alice-500, you will blow me

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at April 23, 2017 03:17 PM (vChNs)

478
If the Left decided to say the Moon's orbit was decaying and would plummet into the Earth in 10 years if we don't all become Communists, millions of people would go along with it.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 03:18 PM (POd8l)

479 Just checking in to see where we are at

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2017 03:18 PM (Ot7+c)

480
350 let's say that every member of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda would undergo mandatory sex changes and have their balls removed (orchiectomy), don't you think they would become more peaceful?

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner

Let's ask everyone who was blown up by a female muslim suicide bomber with a shitload of C4 under her burka

Posted by: Gender Studies Student Who Knows SCIENCE! at April 23, 2017 02:07 PM (AOrEZ)

It's not just the mohammedans you have to watch out for......but that's certainly the way to bet.

Posted by: Zombie Rajiv Gandhi at April 23, 2017 03:18 PM (cuZZW)

481 If Science requires a political march ... you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2017 03:22 PM (ZcAbN)

482 Hello #452, this may be true of liberals in general. Before I found this site, I used to read a liberal site (that changed topics frequently), and even before Trump they hated the world, especially the white world--which was rather strange because when they posted photos of their meetups, the only brown person in sight would be the waiter. There is a non-trivial percentage of white people who hate...white people, and I'm sure that if they ever get the race war they want, all the non-whites will instantly perceive that these particular whites are on the Side of Righteousness. Sure they will.

Anyway, most of these folks seemed to have no grounding in life. They are desperately seeking something to believe in and so far, all they seem to have found is abortion, racism, and Hillary Clinton.

I should point out they're not all bad--they routinely take up collections for good causes. But you definitely don't want people that troubled running things.

Posted by: Pogonip at April 23, 2017 03:23 PM (t9QjF)

483 It's not a march for science. It's a march for Marxists.

Posted by: Nan at April 23, 2017 03:23 PM (HUejd)

484 Townhall.com is reporting Le Pen and Macron are leading, Le Pen has total lead with 25%

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2017 03:25 PM (Ot7+c)

485
469 Whoa, that top photo

http://tinyurl.com/l7nzhgp

blows up real big. That lets you see a lot of really stupid wet people in various bedraggled stupid states. It makes me happy.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 03:11 PM (Gqgs

Center left. 350 lb guy with gaged ears, man-bun and full on soup-catcher beard. Dood, the only way you could be even more of a cliche is to dye your hair violently fluorescent pink.

*looks to his right*

Ooooohhhhhh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 23, 2017 03:27 PM (cuZZW)

486 476
475; hey colonel, go check out one of your eateries dumbass. that aint chicken. pressure fried shit is still shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 23, 2017 03:17 PM (KP5rU)

I'll bet it's the Russians that have hacked some of those fine establishments. THOSE are not my eateries. Nothing but nice crispy fried chicken there.

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at April 23, 2017 03:27 PM (n3hky)

487
It's also a March For Silence, not science. As in silencing dissenting opinions/views.

This is a demonstration to Shun Other more than anything else. Oppose the Left and be cast out, they are telling you here.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 03:27 PM (POd8l)

488 Everything I eat is organic, except water and salt.

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2017 03:29 PM (XJrUZ)

489 Astronomy- study of stars
Astrology- using stars to trick people into giving you money

So..

Climatology- using climate to trick people into giving you money

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 23, 2017 03:31 PM (e1mEI)

490
So 40,000 (most generous figure I've seen) individuals out of a population of 330,000,000 showed up for this event. I'm seeing .0001 as the percentage.

Early night for the Democrats.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at April 23, 2017 03:31 PM (HTdUD)

491 >>>189
For the millionth time, all you idiot transhumanists, it's NOT evolution! It's like shoes. We've been wearing shoes for millennia, and yet, oddly enough, our babies are STILL not born wearing shoes.

Posted by: RKae at April 23, 2017 01:19 PM (7MudK)

I enjoyed that a lot! That is exceedingly convincingly put, caps and all.

Posted by: m at April 23, 2017 03:31 PM (Gqgs8)

492
There's no call to disrespect the Colonel's fried chicken.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 03:31 PM (meRub)

493

nood le pen

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 03:32 PM (meRub)

494 488
Everything I eat is organic, except water and salt.

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2017 03:29 PM (XJrUZ)

Where are you getting your organic bologna and Miracle Whip?? Does Hole Foods carry it?

Posted by: Carl at April 23, 2017 03:32 PM (n3hky)

495 492

There's no call to disrespect the Colonel's fried chicken.

Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at April 23, 2017 03:31 PM (meRub)

I agree. Next to bologna and Miracle Whip, there is nothing better than some nice crispy fried chicken!

Posted by: Carl at April 23, 2017 03:34 PM (n3hky)

496 "#ScienceNotSilence"

Yeah--I used to believe that, too.

Posted by: Pluto at April 23, 2017 03:36 PM (Ndje9)

497 1. If we'd set fire to them when they first brought this up they'd be out by now.

2. When I'm treading water next to Al Gore on the drowned Earth I will turn to him say, "Gee Al, you were right, sorry about that" and then push him under the waves.

Posted by: DaveA at April 23, 2017 03:38 PM (FhXTo)

498 Wasn't that the Nazi guy in Patterns of Force Star Trek episode?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2017 02:36 PM (IqV8l)

===

Close. The character's name was Melakon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 23, 2017 03:38 PM (EZebt)

499
Close. The character's name was Melakon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 23, 2017 03:38 PM (EZebt)

Thats racist. What is "Melakon" space talk for "Melanin Man"?

Posted by: Obnoxious Hipster at April 23, 2017 03:43 PM (n3hky)

500 Thats racist. What is "Melakon" space talk for "Melanin Man"?

Posted by: Obnoxious Hipster at April 23, 2017 03:43 PM (n3hky)

Thats just dumb. Melakon is the name of the guy who will be running agaist Le Pen.

Posted by: CNN Reporter at April 23, 2017 03:49 PM (n3hky)

501 The tweeted photo is simplistic and problematic. What separates the two lists is the ideas on the right photo are all testable by controlled experimentation. Those on the right are not. Rather, the latter rely wholly on observations of uncontrollable events and extrapolation of simple concepts to complex situations which may not be applicable. It may still be proven that the observations supporting evolution and the earth's age are wrong, though carbon dating is pretty accurate. However, as noted above, correlation does not imply causation, and there is no evidence, let alone proof, that a relatively small concentration of CO2 can significantly effect the earth's climate.

Posted by: daveSF at April 23, 2017 04:30 PM (/mMiN)

502 I agree with everything on both signs. Relatively few people on the right think the world is 6000 years old. Climate change is certainly real. As for the cause, well, 99.999% of the climate change that has happened in the history of the Earth has had nothing to do with humans. Even today, human impact is smaller than noise.

That said, the left sign doesn't actually contain any useful information. You don't need to know about the age of the Earth, evolution, or climate change in any decision in your life. At most the climate change question would modesty affect your investment in government policy. The sign on the right, everything impacts decisions relevant to living your life, the least useful being nuclear- but as energy prices are highly relevant to the cost of everything else, still highly relevant, though again, mainly on public policy.

Posted by: DaveM at April 23, 2017 04:30 PM (FNtbC)

503 Wasn't it just 40 years ago that scientists were warning us that by 2000 a new ice age would be upon us and that North America would be under a sheet of ice?

They were wrong then. They are wrong now.

Posted by: Infidel de Manahatta at April 23, 2017 04:53 PM (ucIu7)

504 It's not that I don't believe in science. It's that I don't believe that if you had the quality of data you say you have, you'd be spending big money in court trying to keep others from examining it. Since you can totally destroy that argument at any time by simply stopping doing that, but keep on anyway, I am going to keep on not believing you.

Here's a good story I heard but cannot vouch for.

Seems this photographer who was in love with pictures of coastlines came across a 100-year-old photo collection of the coast of California. He was in heaven just looking through it, but soon noticed that the beauty of many of the photo locales had been despoiled by seaside development.

Being a conservationist, he decide to re-shoot the entire collection of shots as they appear today, to show the change and hopefully prevent further ruin. Since this was beyond his ability to personally finance, he prepared a before-and-after sampler portfolio to use to seek funding.

He decided to go for the best and submitted his work to a highly regarded nature society. When they said they wanted to sponsor him he was ecstatic. All that remained was establishing the contract. All the legal stuff went smoothly with the lawyers, until only the final approvals from the top management of the society remained. Suddenly there was a brick wall - nobody would sign off. Ultimately his portfolio was returned with a polite but uninformative rejection letter.

The photographer was not only disappointed but frustrated that nobody would give him an explanation of the sudden loss of interest. Finally a friend of a friend managed to get at the answer from a well-placed insider. Apparently a big celebrity sponsor was shown the project, and pointed out that in the hundred years between the photos, there was no noticeable change in sea level. Even when the photos were not taken at the same tide level, the high tide marks were visible in both, and virtually identical.

So the bottom line was: no global warming, no funding! How many time do you think that has happened with researchers and government or philanthropists? I suspect hundreds of times!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 23, 2017 05:03 PM (LeUrG)

505 Fat Algore will make a fine flotation device in the Waterworld.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at April 23, 2017 05:05 PM (hhbVv)

506 Scientists lie and they lie for money and will lie until their tongue turns black. They will create as many adult fairy stories as they can to get as much money out of the common man that they can. These people at this time appear to be trying to set themselves up as the New Middle Ages Catholic Church, full of white-instead of red-robed scientific cardinals creating dogma and threatening to destroy anyone who questions them or their findings.

Most people, wanting a peaceful life, will go along with it because it simply isn't relevant to the living of their life and some of it aligns with how they want the world to be, whether it is or not. But my thinking is that this is all coming to a head and ready or not, reality is going to come crashing in on their constructed reality. Hence the marches to bolster their position before the roof caves in.

I'd personally rather see them start teaching logic and critical thinking starting in grade school, because right now that will be more useful than a lot of the stuff they want to teach them. And I say that as a bible believing christian.

Posted by: akelm88 at April 23, 2017 05:05 PM (km/D2)

507 "#ScienceIsOurFuture"

Don't make me laugh.

Sure, I'm bitter.

Posted by: Pluto at April 23, 2017 05:13 PM (Ndje9)

508 Being an [expletive-deleted] does not make someone a scientist no matter if they wear a white lab coat and chant lefty slogans.

Posted by: setnaffa at April 23, 2017 05:19 PM (Ba8Wz)

509 test

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at April 23, 2017 06:23 PM (gqMR8)

510 Some say that Genesis is describing an old universe and earth, and a young biosphere, created in 6 days about 6000 years ago.

Posted by: Mike Pitzler at April 23, 2017 07:13 PM (FXg2y)

511 Science, like a fetus is human, has a heartbeat and feels pain during second trimester abortions.
Science, endless carbon free energy with nuclear power.
Science, Hillary Clinton is a robot.

Posted by: Joe Mack at April 23, 2017 11:17 PM (SEFXb)

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