Oh, Come On, Levi — Let Bygones Be Bygones And Put An End To Your Fifteen Minutes Of Fame…
Has The Time Come For Levi Johnston To Just Shut The Hell Up And Find A Real Job?
Poor, poor little “Levi the former hockey star”. He complains and whines (Vanity Fair) about how Sarah and Todd didn’t cook, clean or do the laundry while Todd and her were busy on the campaign trail with Señor Juan Sidney McCain of Arizona Panama and while Sarah “The Barracuda” was busy trying to run the State of Alaska in the capacity of governor. Wah. Those poor, poor kids were in their teens including both Bristol and Levi who were in their upper teens and that’s just tough. I don’t know about you all but I was “forced” (poor, poor, pitiful me) to cook, clean, do my homework and wash my own laundry too when I was that age. Vanity Fair magazine and Levi Johnston, however, seem to think this is an item worth earning money on though. Okie-dokie then.
Even worse, apparently (according to poor little Levi) Sarah and Todd kept “nagging” him and Bristol to adopt the grandchild, “Tripp”. Turns out that probably wouldn’t have been such a bad idea after all seeing as how this whole “Levi and Bristol are destined for marital bliss” thing has worked out. Perhaps he’s correct in his contention that another benefit of such an arrangment would have been a political one for the Palin-McCain campaign, but just imagine if Bristol and Levi were attempting to raise little Tripp by themselves right now. I think it would clearly be a disaster as evidenced by the happenings in their lives since the nasty breakup occurred.
Oh, and here’s the biggest “shocker” from Levi Johnston — Sarah was “sad” after she and Panama John lost their bid for the presidency. Sarah was “burnt out” and didn’t even see the benefit of continuing her Governorship over the State of Alaska when she was deep, DEEP in debt from defending herself against ethics complaint after ethics complaint when the private sector offered her not only a life rope but many, MANY golden trinkets as well. Another “huge surprise” — Sarah and Todd apparently got into a few heated arguments and even mentioned the “D” word a few times after the grueling months and MONTHS on their failed campaign bid. I think any of us would be ready for a bit of a “spousal vacation” after such a trying ordeal — long-term or short-term, let it play out and see what happens.
So yeah, I think we ought to back off the Palins and their family members, at least for now. Should Sarah Palin ever become a legitimate threat to our Democratic Republic again, that might be different, but as for now, at least in that vein — she’s absolutely irrelevant and Levi needs to zip it and go find himself a real job now.
Just my two (hypocritical? perhaps) cents again.
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Other blogger opinions from all sides of the political divide: Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish is back (welcome back, Andy) and he says this exercise is called “proof of principle”; The Mudflats says Sarah Palin is busy writing her first book from an undisclosed location; Dan Riehl of Riehl World View (Right) starts off sounding a little like MOI then veers way off the beaten path and into “wacko territory”; Joe Gandelman of The Moderate Voice doesn’t seem to agree Palin’s political aspirations on a federal scale are finished yet; Allahpundit of Hot Air (Right) insists Levi’s just a liar, much as Dan Riehl did; Ron Chusid of Liberal Values says this doesn’t prove anything; skippy the bush kangaroo asks — “this is news?”; Drudge Retort offers up an interesting discussion as always… – READ ALL OF THESE COLUMNS IN THEIR ENTIRETY
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10:53 pm on September 2nd, 2009 1
Yeah GTL.
I’d like to find your HS Basketball coach and punch him in the mouth.
11:03 pm on September 2nd, 2009 2
Palin is the only national target the liberals have at the moment. I acknowledge that a lot of the attacks against Palin have been from republican political enemies, but if I was a democrat and it was my calling to attack any and all potential national level opponents, who else is there? There is always Limbaugh to pick on but he isn’t considered a threat for any political office at this time. Honestly, if everything was opposite, Palin was a democrate, no real liberal leaders out there in the country and I had an extreme conservative president in office, I might be happy about the situation but I might still focus my attention on attacking Palin, the only opponent I can find, despite how undercut her national appeal may or may not be.
bad dog Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
@Mike 300 spartans, Mike300, I don’t know how to break this to you, but Palin is simply a great target. Even if she gave up her own 15 minutes of fame along with Levi, she’s so crazy, so extreme, and frankly so dangerous to the country that it’s just too irresistible to attack her. And you know what? She loves it. The more the liberals attack her, the more relevance she gains with her base, who also happen to be crazy, extreme and dangerous. Unfortunately for the Republican Party, having people like Sarah Palin be their spokesman turns off the independent voters who decide elections. So everybody’s winning (except the Republican Party).
If the Republican Party wants to get back in the game, they should jettison the freaks and return to being the Party of Eisenhower.
2:44 am on September 3rd, 2009 3
@GTL: I agree. She’s not running for anything. There’s no reason to keep worrying at her private life anymore. And I say this as someone that loathed the woman for being a symbol of a large part of what is wrong with this country. Especially the anti-science/anti-intellectualism. Granted, she knew that’d happen before she ran…but that doesn’t make it right.
@Mike: Haha. Yeah. We’re scared of Palin. I guess everyone was scared of Britney Spears too. What you’re seeing is the stupid dirty little thrill people get from seeing peoples’ private lives exposed. Freaking everyone on both sides do it and now that she’s not really in politics, people should be ashamed. It’s one thing to dig up dirt on someone while they’re running for office…Even that’s stupid, but at least there’s some context for it. While I personally loathe the whole “OMFG X dated two girls at the same time in High School. Clearly unfit to be an elected official!” attitude people have, it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop anytime soon.
Fandb Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
@JT, There is no question that the democrats are scared of Sarah Palin, as well they should be. No one has energized the republican like she has since Ronald Reagan. She electrifies crowds when she speaks, and she connects with mainstream American conservatives at a very basic level. That is why they are pulling out all stops in an effort to discredit and demonize her. It’s about the only play the dems have in their playbook these days.
She might decide to take the money and run. Personally, I would rather see her take the money now and run again in 2010 (Senate) or maybe even in 2012.
JT Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 pm
@Fandb, You have no idea how much we’d love to see her run for president in 2012 as well.
The woman was dumber than dirt. Even if you take away all the political stuff, everything else she said was still stupid.
It wouldn’t shock me in the least to find out the woman believes the earth is flat.
Mike 300 Spatans Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
@JT, Good point, but just to clarify if perhaps you misunderstood, I never said democrats and/or liberals feared Palin, they just find her as a target. Get a group of a millions and I’m sure you’ll find some that fear Palin, but even if they see her as a helpless paper dartboard, they still are going to keep their dart throwing skills up.
4:59 am on September 3rd, 2009 4
I can’t figure out how to e-mail you directly so I’m using the comments. Sorry.
what we need is a national message from every artist, politician, and famous person that is five-fold.
first, we need to be subsidizing crops in proportion to the scientific food pyramid. Right now it’s almost exactly an inverse relationship between the scientific food pyramid and the way we subsidize crops. I’m not saying necessarily give corn less money, but just raise the necessary funds to make it proportional.
second, the only way to stop global warming, and a great way for families to make a little extra cash, is to get solar panels, since most states now will pay you back for ALL the energy you add to the grid.
third, the only way to fight terrorism is with public transportation, cuz we get most our oil from Saudi Arabia and in the process give money to wahhabists (wahhabism is a hardline sect of Islam) which is what most the terrorists are.
forth, let every one know 1/3 of all women (that we know of) have been sexually assaulted and women need to take extra special care to make sure that it doesn’t happen to them because men rape. that’s what they do. not that it’s any excuse for it.
and finally, if people want to know what more can be done to better the nation, to visit http://www.myspace.com/goodpolicysolutions
JT Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 am
@parker maidlow, Corn itself isn’t the main problem. It’s refining the corn into other things or deep frying it that makes it a problem. Even that isn’t as big a problem is people think it is. Fast food is one of the main causes of obesity. e.g. The Monster Thickburger combo from Hardees is roughly 2 days worth of calories, fat, salt, and carbohydrates. In one sitting. The burger alone is about 1400 calories if you don’t put anything on it. How about we just end government subsidies for crops altogether? Especially since the actual little guys don’t get the first dime of it. The subsidies all go to farms that have thousands of acres, not the little maw and paw farm.
Solar panels are pretty iffy. I’m currently fitting my parents home with them and they’re fragile, prone to leaking, and quite a bit of a pain in the ass to wire in. It also takes extra equipment to wire into the electrical grid. (I’m wiring them in as backup so my mom doesn’t have to live without electricity for weeks after hurricanes and to reduce the power bill.) The technology really needs to advance a bit more and become a *lot* cheaper before they’re a viable alternative for the average consumer. I just spent forty thousand dollars and they’re still going to be using power from the utility company…What they’ve got will supply about 80% of their electricity. It’s not really efficient unless the house is designed as an off-the-grid from the ground up. They also get progressively more expensive per KW the more KW you want because of the inverters/batteries/tracking systems/etc.
They’re getting better, but it ain’t fast enough.
Public transportation is all well and good for the people that live in major cities…Now what about the other 90% of the country? People that live 10+ miles from town aren’t going to be able to just catch the next bus through. Hydrogen fuel cells were a stupid idea to start with. Coal based fuel is even worse. So far the only promising replacement for fuel is gene-modded bacteria, and even that has pretty strong limits.
The real answer is tarring and feathering the lobbyists and killing off the idea that donating money falls under freedom of speech to prevent crap regulations that don’t actually accomplish anything other than driving out competition. If they can have cars that get over 100 miles to the gallon in India, why the hell can’t we? Especially since those cars are about 3-4 thousand dollars. (Wow, I sound like a libertarian.)
The answer to rapists is simple. End the war on drugs, empty the prisons of people guilty of victimless crimes, and lock them up for a really long time. It’ll become a lot less common when it’s known doing it cuts 20-40 years off your life. Same as the solution to child molesters. My gut says to just put a bullet in ‘em…but I know that’s not a viable solution. Eventually we’d end up killing for more and more minor crimes with less and less proof until we’re back to hanging starving children for stealing a half shilling or an apple. So 20+ years of getting what they gave many times over works. If for no other reason than by the time they got out they wouldn’t be capable of it again. If anyone gets sassy about cruel and unusual punishment, tell them the guy will be let out as soon as the woman or child doesn’t have PTSD anymore. Then tack 40 more years on to fit the new sentence.
I’ve gotta stop posting early in the morning. I tend to ramble.
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 am
@JT,
first, I’m not saying corn is the problem, I’m saying that if we subsidize crops in proportion to the scientific food pyramid we would solve the healthcare crisis.
as for solar panels, the price has come down 40% in the last year, and if you do spring to have it plug into the grid, you definitely make your money back, especially if you save energy which you are incentivised to do.
as for public transportation, it is fine and good for cities, that’s the point, pay for it with a gas tax that only applies to that city.
as far as rapists, i’m glad you’re thinking and I like some of those thoughts, but we need to focus on PREVENTION, which was the point of my post – talking points. TELL EVERYONE that at least one third of all women have been sexually assaulted and I gaurantee it’ll go down.
SJ Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Parker,
(total thread hijack, but this sidebar interests me)
Naturally, as a Libertain-ish guy, I’m a little skeptical of your obesity solution. The reason Americans are obese is that we eat for reasons other than hunger. We eat to celebrate, we eat when we’re sad, we eat when we’re bored, and most importantly – we eat long after our hunger is gone. In a recent article, we even eat to celebrate a visit to the gym (taking in more calories than the workout consumed). I’m skeptical that jacking up the costs of a particular type of food would do that much – we will just overconsume something else for the same reasons. The only sure-fire solution is parents being…well parents, and teaching their children proper nutrition. Perhaps the Gov’t can help here…not sure.
Now, even if we were successful on the obestity front, I’m not so sure this would solve the health care crisis. Yeah, there might be SOME savings, but sooner or later we are all going to get sick an die. I don’t think lower obesity rates will guarantee that one day, after 72.2xx to 84.xx years of 100% health, we will peacefully go in our sleep (or better yet, drop dead suddenly while were waiting for public transportation in front of the local mortuary).
Just my 2 cents…welcome – haven’t seen you here before….
Steve
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
@SJ, I’m just saying that the way we currently subsidize crops is almost exactly inversely related to how we should be subsidizing crops, and I’m guessing that a lot of the emotional eating is due to availability.
SJ Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
“I’m guessing that a lot of the emotional eating is due to availability.”
I disagree. Overeating is not caused by the availability of food. If it was, everyone in the Western world would be fat. To fix the problem, you must attack the cause – availability is not it. Unless you want to restrict food to the degree of famine (like Ethiopia or Sudan), food is always going to be available.
My wife was on the diet yo-yo for years after our daughter was born, restricting this and that type of food. It doesn’t work in the long haul. What does work is figuring out why you eat when you’re not hungry – there’s your root cause. Once that was addressed she was on the right path and has been for several years now – and she eats whatever she wants! Several in our family have now had the same successes. The cause may be emotional, spiritual, or in some cases physical (genetic) – but it ain’t logistical.
Jacking up prices and restricting choices may work somewhat with something like cigarettes, where there is no other alternative. It will not work with food because it does not address the root cause.
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
@SJ, I’m just saying that there is strong monetary incentive to eat a lot of meat and a lot of sweats, but I think that poor people will eat healthier if they have the monetary incentive. they’re the ones hit hardest by diet related diseases anyway. and there are plenty of people who eat that way b/c it’s cheap.
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 am
@parker maidlow, The only way to “stop global warming” is to run time backwards to the last ice age. Or fast forward to the next ne. We are in an interglacial period when the Earth naturally warms up. Ain’t nothin’ we can do about it. If humans were the cause of it all, as the alarmists claim, then Mr. Hudson would have found that bay under thousands of feet of ice, and Mr. Muir would have seen Yosemite Tough filled with an alplne glacier.
Look into the solar panel industry – it isn’t as green as made out to be. That is something that people don’t seem to understand, you don’t just wave a magic wand and have electric cars, or solar panels, or what have you just “POOF” into being. There is a lot of mining, processing, and manufacturing going on to make those thing appear. I’m seeing that the rare earths mine in Mountain Pass, CA is maybe going to reopen, now that prices have gone up. A nice open pit mine in the environmentally sensitive high desert of California, near the Nevada border. Rare earth mining and processing generates all sorts of lovely toxics. Oh, did I mention that they are thinking about starting it back up for the raw materials needed for hybrid cars? I’ve been preaching about how dirty some of the supposely “green” technology is. Ever stop and wonder why all those CFLs are built in China? Because the manufacture of them is so toxic that they can’t come close to building the plants to make them here.
@ Guns – Hey, the fascilibs have to do SOMETHING to divert attention away from what they are doing. Now that they have total control of Congress they are in the hot seat. They have marginalized the GOP (well, to be honest, the GOP seems to have marginalized itself), so they can’t shift blame there. They tried attacking We the People and found that We are not buying their o, so tolerant, diverse, and inclusive diatribes about how all those who offer up any differing opinions are thugs or rightwing, gun toting, bible clutching, ter’ist extremists, and Janet so gleefully classified us. And they can’t turn on their own, you know, expose how DiFi has used her position to funnel billions on govt. contracts/money to the companies her hubby fronts for. Or the way Pelosi, when she was avoiding going to her district office to avoid protesters a few years ago, then found them outside her home, told them they had no right to be there, and she didn’t have to listen to them (gee, why didn’t Pres Bush do that with Sheehan?), and had cops haul them away. Or Babs, I have a royal titles so don’t call me Ma’am, Boxer trying to earmarsk $20 million for an unwanted redevelopment that would have directly benefitted her sons company.
@ JT – Good post.
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
@Joe Lovell, you didn’t give a single reason against getting solar panels, and there has always been a direct correlation b/w co2 levels and temperature. whatever warming the earth might do on its own would be slow enough to adjust, but 2007 was the first year that portland or ever had humidity during the summer.
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
@parker maidlow, No, I didn’t. I think they are great if they can save you money. But they are not, as you stated: ” the only way to stop global warming, and a great way for families to make a little extra cash, is to get solar panels.”
“Dircet coorelation?” Then please explain the Little Ice Age. CO2 levels were increasing, so it should not have happened. Also, the warming we are experienceing is within the normal range, so far as can be determined from the geologic record.
Portland had a humid summer? Oh, MY! Case closed, I guess. Ever hear of odd weather? Look at the Dust Bowl era. I even saw it snow a bit in Mojave around Independence Day. Hell, about 15 years ago we had over a week of hard freeze in Sonoma County, CA – night time temperatures in the single digits, day time highs just above freezing. That never happens either. Is that a sign of a new ice age? I bet that if you hunt up some old codgers and get them talking they will dredge up memories of humid summers in days gone by.
I know that there are all sorts of studies out that show that eeee-villl mankind has ruined the planet by causing global warming. And all of those are by people who have an interest in making global warming a real concern. Have you noticed how many scientists who were part of those projects, when they get off the public teat that mandates that they find evidence for AGW, say that the methodology used to put the final report together is BS? That data showing that human activity has little or nothing to do with GW is ignored or thrown out? Again, if it is all caused by human activity, why was Hudson Bay not still covered with continental glacier? Why did Muir find Yosemite ice free? By what the alarmists publish, they should have been filled with glacial ice.
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@Joe Lovell, well I saw a chart that showed co2 and tempurature directly correlated for a long ass time. plus i might not know for sure whether or not it’s caused by greenhouse gasses, but you don’t know for sure that it’s not, and with the monetary incentives for solar panels, why risk it?
Fandb Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@parker maidlow, You have to be careful to not confuse Correlation with Causality. You and Joe can both be correct in this scenario. CO2 levels might be increasing due to fossil fuels, wood burning, fewer trees globally, etc., at the same time the earth is warming slightly, but that does not mean one Caused the other.
NASA scientists have recently concluded that the current increase in global temperature is due to solar activity, not CO2 levels. But you never hear about that, too much at stake politically for the government to believe their own people on this subject.
Another caution: Be wary of any report that discusses “global warming” in a context of now versus the 1970’s (as most reports do). The 1970’s was the coldest recorded decade in hundreds of years. It was so cold that all the scientists back then were claiming we were moving into another ice age. Some even claimed it was being caused by human activity, people were releasing too many particulates into the atmosphere and it was decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching the ground.
I’m done. Sorry to butt in like that…
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
@Fandb, everything I’ve found on the subject says that solar activity doesn’t necessarily account for all of the increase in temperature, plus co2 has never been artificially increased the way it has been recently, that’s why the sun has had so much control over tempurature prior to us. the only way to know for sure could destroy our way of life.
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
@Fandb, No problem, FandB, you hit some of the points I was going to bring up. Especailly the surpression of data that casts doubt on AGW. In many ways the global warming scare is the same as the fear mongering of the gun grabbers. A lot of “studies” that are designed to support rather than prove (look it up, it doesn’t mean what most people think it means) the lefts position. Honest science presents all the evidence, even that which casts doubt on your hypothesis. In fact – ESPECIALLY that which casts doubt.
JT Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
@Fandb, Really? I’d love for you to cite that study. Can you?
Fandb Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@Joe Lovell, “run time backwards to the last ice age” – That might be easier than convincing a liberal that Gore is wrong and global warming is a hoax.
bad dog Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
@Joe Lovell, By “alarmists,” Joe means people who actually understand the subject, like scientists. Just to clarify for those just joining us.
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
@bad dog,
No, by alarmist I mean the politicians who are heavily invested in pushing the bad science behind AGW, and they salivating sycophants such a Bad Dog. The scientists who actually understand the subject are more and more coming out of the background and saying that the “studies” produced by the UN, etc. are politics driven garbage (many of whom were on the panels like the IPCC and were silenced when they said “Hey, Wait! The data don’t support your conclusion! There is NOTHIGN to suggest AGW.”.
So, go back to your fantasy of eating AlGores caviar and jacking off over your gay porn – and maybe get over your denial about being gay yourself.
bad dog Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:42 pm
@Joe Lovell, By “bad science,” you mean, “extremely rare consensus achieved among 2,000 scientists from around the world stating with 90% certainty—as close as you can get to certainty in this type of science—that human activity is contributing to global warming.” Right. And of course, by “good science,” you mean “junk produced by ’scientists’ paid by oil companies.” Right.
It simply can’t be that science is driving policy interest. Oh no. In your little world, it has to be that evil liberal politicians willing to risk their careers just to destroy Joe Lovell’s prosperity and way of life, and got 2,000 scientists to make up a global warming threat just to give Joe Lovell the screw. Right. After, gawl, I remember it got really cold last winter! So there cain’t be no global warming, y’all! Yuk!
Speaking of being gay—YOU’re the right winger who hates living in San Francisco but for some reason can’t seem to leave. I have heard the theory that right winger blather and farts (creating the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, respectively) are the true cause of global warming, but I wonder if constant masturbation to gay porn could also be a cause. In which case I’m going to have to report you to the UN.
Oh, I’m sorry. Am I being uncivil? Should I get off your #@#!!@! back?
P.S. Can I have Al Gore’s famous fried chicken instead?
JT Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@bad dog, I’ve never met a climate scientist that didn’t agree with the consensus on anthropogenic global warming. You guys do know weathermen aren’t scientists, right?
The anti-AGW crowd uses the worst bunch of pseudoscience nonsense I’ve ever seen to support their “points”. Just ask them to quote their sources. Then track the source back to the oil/coal industry. Then watch them get pissed.
Right wingers don’t argue in good faith about *anything*. If someone calls you on your lies, resort to insults. If that doesn’t work, throw a tantrum.
JT Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
@JT, Sorry, the first part of that was to Joe, 2nd part to bad dog.
Joe Lovell Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
@JT, Yeah, we all know that REAL scientists only work for government entities that get even more tax money the worse they make things look.
And the “debunkers” are all local TV weathermen like:
Israel: Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has authored almost 70 peer-reviewed studies and won several awards. “First, temperature changes, as well as rates of temperature changes (both increase and decrease) of magnitudes similar to that reported by IPCC to have occurred since the Industrial revolution (about 0.8C in 150 years or even 0.4C in the last 35 years) have occurred in Earth’s climatic history. There’s nothing special about the recent rise!”
Russia: Russian scientist Dr. Oleg Sorochtin of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences has authored more than 300 studies, nine books, and a 2006 paper titled “The Evolution and the Prediction of Global Climate Changes on Earth.” “Even if the concentration of ‘greenhouse gases’ double man would not perceive the temperature impact,” Sorochtin wrote. (Note: Name also sometimes translated to spell Sorokhtin)
Spain: Anton Uriarte, a professor of Physical Geography at the University of the Basque Country in Spain and author of a book on the paleoclimate, rejected man-made climate fears in 2007. “There’s no need to be worried. It’s very interesting to study [climate change], but there’s no need to be worried,” Uriate wrote.
Netherlands: Atmospheric scientist Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, a scientific pioneer in the development of numerical weather prediction and former director of research at The Netherlands’ Royal National Meteorological Institute, and an internationally recognized expert in atmospheric boundary layer processes, “I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting – a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number – entirely without merit,” Tennekes wrote. “I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.”
And a bunch more. Shall I keep up? Or is that small sample enough to show that they are far from being the local TV weatherman on the late night news.
parker maidlow Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
@Joe Lovell, the thing that I read on NASA’s website said that solar activity could account for 1/4 of the current upturn of our global temperature. If you read different, I’d really like to read your sources, it’s something I want to know about.
Mike 300 spartans Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
@parker maidlow, The science of global warming may be beyond my grasp, but one thing that is clear to me is the plans being offered to attack global warming is essentially an attempt to control human behavior. I’m convinced that cap and trade will not have any of the intended consequences. While I’m most certain that humans have a net effect on the earth’s temperature towards making it warmer, I’m not sure it has a significant effect compared to other factors. But even if man’s behavior was a major factor, and assuming the heat of the globe is a problem, this cap and trade to control CO2 is very ill conceived. For example: if one were to make electricity more expensive to curb the use of electricity, what is to stop people from doing other environmental damage to compensate for the higher price? People in colder climates might start cutting down more trees to heat their houses rather than use electricity. Planting more trees and cutting down fewer ones might be a good idea, but looking at the fires in California, one wonders if there would be less global heating if they had clear cut the wood in those areas. I like to ask a silly question at this point, if there is a shortage of ice, why not make more ice? The answer is that ice makers tend to also produce heat, there is kind of a yin-yang thing going on there. Ultimately cap and trade will just funnel more money from the general public towards politicans and their special friends and squat gets changed.
9:36 am on September 3rd, 2009 5
It’s obvious that the continuing story of “The Wasilla Hillbillies” serves as a total embarrassment for the republican party. What was McCain (or the repub powers) thinking when they selected her?!?!?! McCain hammered Obama on the qualification for President issue and then he picks some idiot who doesn’t even know what periodicals she reads or that Africa is a continent (not a country!) to be a heartbeat away from running this country!! Bush’s popularity was in the toilet after the economy crumbled on his watch; you can’t pick another person with limited intelligence to be on the ticket. All the great candidates that could have been chosen and they pick someone who cost us the election. I wish she would just go and live in an igloo aove the Artic Circle; unfortuantely, it looks like is going to milk her fame for every penny she can get.
And, it turns out the idiot couldn’t even really use a gun. I always suspected as much.
The Varmint
varmint345@yahoo.com
10:27 am on September 3rd, 2009 6
“The America that I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on subjective judgment, of their “level of productivity in society”, whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
Sarah Palin
from her Fascism….I mean, “Facebook” page.
It’s amazing. That an imbecile like this failed ex-governor can mention something as idiotic as “Death Panels” and in the next instance it is a serious part of the national dialogue. Why are the American people so susceptible to such blatant propaganda? I have a theory if you’re interested in hearing it:
We’re idiots.
I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the Sarah Palin/Levi Johnston saga/soap opera. And to think that only one year ago, the geniuses on the Republican National Committee deemed her to be the best choice to be “a seventy-two-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency”.
Are you surprised that the “party of Lincoln” is imploding? You shouldn’t be. You really shouldn’t.
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Tom Degan, Goshen, NY
6:40 pm on September 3rd, 2009 7
in case you have not noticed lately the liberal commie mindset is out.you will see in 2010.maybe when castro croaks we can send obama down there and he can be there prez.he has much more in common with a holes like castro an chaves then he does with avg americans.
1:50 am on September 9th, 2009 8
If Sarah Palin had been smart enough to realize her own limitations and not have accepted the offer to be McCain’s running mate, most likely no one beyond Alaska would have known or cared that her 17 year old daughter was pregnant. But since her ego is larger than her brain, she took this ‘opportunity’ to be on the national stage and dragged her entire family with her. Levi Johnston most likely never in a million years thought when he was hanging out at his girlfriend’s house that he would be dragged along with the rest of the family into that circuslike atmosphere. He obviously was a good boyfriend and went along with what he was told to do…the whole supposed engagement, showing up at the Republican National Convention and having his own personal life exposed for the whole world to see.
Therefore, whatever he does from here on out, in my opinion, is justified. The kid obviously needs to make a living and if people are willing to pay him for his truth of what the Palin household was like, then I see nothing wrong in him providing the goods. From what I’ve seen of him, he is much more believable than Palin ever was. I sincerely hope he makes enough money to do something productive with his life eventually and be able to support his child and find happiness.
BTW, back in the middle of the last century, adopting one’s grandchild, the child of one’s unmarried daughter was an extremely common thing. People went to all lengths to fake that grandma was pregnant while mom was hidden away, then had to return and be ‘big sister’ to her own child. This practice eventually evolved into just sending pregnant teenagers off to maternity homes, confiscating their babies at birth and selling them to infertile couples, desperate for any child they could acquire. Some of the adopter women went so far as to fake pregnancy too so they’d never have to tell the innocent child who had just experienced the equivalent of being sold into slavery, that they were being raised by genetic strangers. As the adoption industry became more emboldened, they began promoting adoption as the way for people to ‘grow a family’, thus it became acceptable and now is revered as a true do-gooder loving’ act. The young parents are still thrown out after the goods have been harvested.
Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston could have been caught in that net and lost their child completely. Thus if I can eek out even one good word for Sarah Palin, it is that inspite of her antiquated nutty idea of faking like she was her grandson’s mother, she did not force her daughter to giver her own child away to save the family from the supposed shame of unwed parenthood. Perhaps the teenaged parents were the ones who saved their own baby from a lifetime of not knowing who he really was, by resisting the idiocy of the grandmother.