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You find the connection between "progressive" and "liberal" to be groundless? I think a poll would show most people would think that's what you were trying to get across. It's certainly a common usage. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Democrats: "Bread and circuses" Republicans: "Bread Cake and gladiator fights" Libertarians: "Candy from Dreamland" First Class Citizen Twice Over

I'm a little dizzy... did you really truly claim these people are liberals? First Class Citizen Twice Over

I got the same thing in a forward of a forward of an email. And someone else told me the same story over dinner. They said it happened to a really good friend of theirs but they couldn't remember their friend's name right at that moment. Someone with viral P.R. skills is trying real hard to destroy the reputation of that walkway. I wonder why. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Do you ever get tired of researching and typing out all of this very interesting and educated material for these guys only to have them reply, "But in 1977 Professor Harry S. Unreliable of the Texaco Institute said, 'I dunno. Maybe not.' Besides, it was really cold in topeka last night so that proves the world isn't warming." First Class Citizen Twice Over

Huh. I suspect the mechanisms of both religiosity and revulsion are built-in. The associations we develop throughout life that trigger those two reactions are learned. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Only charismatic candidates need to be destroyed. The quietly intelligent ones can just be softly ignored and they'll fade away. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I never argued otherwise! That might very well be true in the bigger world outside of speaker's corner. But rushmc is definitely our most religious "true believer" in this crowd. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I have thought about it and I don't discount the idea -- just the messenger and his unjustified self-assurance. Bill is an astounding fellow. He works hard to become qualified to have opinions about the topic. Nobody (or perhaps nearly nobody) else here is so justified. I ruefully laugh the more people struggle to BEE-LEEEEVE that their partisan political views are in god-given agreement with the universe's objective conditions. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Hehehehe. Hehehehehehe!! HahhahahHAHAHAHAHAHAAH BWYAHAHAHAHA!!!! hehehehe..... hehe... First Class Citizen Twice Over

I'm the one who "attacked" your "individual skeptics". I did that because I happen to know some of them are ridiculous and they make you look bad. If you want to show that skeptics aren't loonies, don't include loonies. I didn't say anything about the science because I don't know anything (other than the popular press). But if you think nobody here is talking about the science, you must have Billvon in some Ignore Filter because that's all he does. Pull the garbage out of your oft-forwarded-email-list-of-crapola-skeptics and the remainder might be worth talking about. But while you're tossing in the Oregon Petition, there's no credibility. That's like denying that you have imaginary friends and to prove it you point to Joe, Bill, Betty, and Mickey Mouse. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Chewbacca Defense: "When someone asserts his claim by saying something so patently nonsensical that the listener's brain shuts down completely." First Class Citizen Twice Over

I don't know anything about some of your sources, but if you're posting this to prove that sceptics aren't loonies, you should edit it down first. There are some real loonies messing up your results. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Oh. You should also inspect some others in your list: * Prof John Christy appears to have changed his mind * Leipzig Petition of Fred Singer: Go look that one up too. It's funny. * Dr Roy Spencer, formerly NASA's senior climate scientist is also an Intelilgent Design enthusiast. There are some who might consider that a bad sign. * "IPCC scientists who doubt even the IPCC, said to represent 2500 scientists": without a link this claims smacks of National Inquirer. Citing your sources would help a lot. ...skipping ahead because I've got work to do today... * Ian Plimer, professor of mining geology. mining geology??? * Habibullo Abdussamatov: "Solar irradiance began to drop in the 1990s... a steep cooling of the climate on earth in 15 to 20 years." Steep cooling? But we were just told the sun was causing the WARMING! Which is it? First Class Citizen Twice Over

I really recommend look closely at the "Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine" before including the so-called petition in your speech. It's a well-known fraud. The rest of your post might or might not be credible. I don't know. First Class Citizen Twice Over

If my memory serves correctly the first post removed was mine and I'm pretty certain it was about theological issues only. There's certainly a lot of opportunity to interpret attacks in a lot of posts recently, but was that one of them? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Debts don't have to be paid? What if the borrower's INTENT was never to repay it? Doesn't god get cranky about fraud? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Don't think they won't. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Oh no! I went to dinner. I'm SOOOO sorry I wasn't here at your beck and call. How dare I have a life? First Class Citizen Twice Over

And when the lakes and seas all merged, the fresh water fish all died from the salinity and the salt water fish all died from lack of salinity. And they ALL died from the turbidity of 10^24 liters of water suddenly washing down every mountainside in 3 weeks. By the way, has anyone calculated how many 100,000 years it would take for that turbidity to settle out? How many miles of goopy sediment would there by across the whole ocean floor suffocating all ocean life, especially the fragile coral reefs? End of the world to be sure! First Class Citizen Twice Over

I love how you intersperse your comments throughout the scientist's comments. Then, just to make sure we don't know which words are yours or his, you randomly boldface (or not) your own words. Who wrote the word "wrong" in your quote above? You or him? You'd like us not to know, wouldn't you? It's ok though. You're an eminent scientists yourself. Your judgments are just as good as this guy's, aren't they? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Ah yes, the TRUE scientists' methodology: ignore everyone who points out the flaws in your reasoning. This proves that you're truly among the FINEST of our modern minds. Only the most omniscient and advanced thinker could have your supreme confidence with such ... um ... apparently mediocre information. I hope to be as snart as you someday. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Oh, I beg your pardon. I had no idea you were a PhD Climatologist! Please, carry on with your authoritative opinions. You're clearly so well-educated as to be able to judge the respective quality of all of the evidence with a scientist's perspective. I'm so glad we have such an elite specialist here to put Billvon and our other so-called experts in their place! First Class Citizen Twice Over

Hmm. I think we're going to have to make some arbitrary ruling on that one. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Then how do you justify being dogmatic about your "side"? You want MY dogmatic opinion? I don't have one. Like you, I'm largely ignorant. I'm not a scientist focussing on this problem. All I have are popular accounts of the science (just like you do.) I know I'm not qualified to have a dogmatic opinion. Why don't you know that? First Class Citizen Twice Over