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tomierna's Avatar Picture tomierna (Admin) – December 07, 2007 09:46PM Reply Quote
Politics. Don Granberry on the old Spork Boards was quite fond of talking about them, and here we continue on in that fine tradition.

tliet – March 27, 2012 10:37PM Reply Quote
One only has to look at (not watch, mind you) FoxNews to understand the man.



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ddt – March 28, 2012 12:26PM Reply Quote
Watch out, Bill -- I just heard (in a Fresh Air interview, even) that Rachel Maddow is a pretty good shot with an AR-15!

ddt

John Willoughby – March 28, 2012 01:33PM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
And I heard (in a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air interview) that Carlton Banks is not!

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – April 20, 2012 09:10PM Reply Quote
How we blew the mining boom...

It's shameful to think a $22 million ad campaign has sabotaged the country's future....

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – April 29, 2012 03:29PM Reply Quote
DPBD!

Oh God please no...

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Billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has announced he will seek Liberal National Party preselection to take on Treasurer Wayne Swan at the next federal election.

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Mr Palmer, a former major donor to the LNP, dismissed suggestions he would need to give up his business interests.
“I don’t think I have to give up anything if I win the seat. Politics is about ideas; you’re not there for money. You’re not going to become rich being a politician,” he said.
“I’m not going into politics to pursue business interests; I’m going into politics if I can [to] contribute to ideas, where this country should go.
“We’ve only got a small family company.”

Small family company?

Oh God - this would be like Donald Trump becoming a congressman or senator...

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – May 02, 2012 03:56PM Reply Quote
DPBD!

If you can successfully change your kid's nappies I think you're a fit parent...



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John Willoughby – May 03, 2012 09:01AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
...unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style. What dicks. I know that our humanitarian aid is keeping thousands or millions of people there from starving, but how long do we keep Hannibal Lector on an IV? Every minute that regime continues is another minute of torment for its people and its neighbors.

El Jeffe – May 11, 2012 01:46AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
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tliet
Just ran into the BBC coverage of that. And yes, this is how the 'scientific evidence' that global warming isn't happening gets produced.

Are there any statistics/claims/studies that discuss the effect of ocean/sea upon any part of the surface of the Earth versus that of a populated (somewhat densely) area of the Earth?

I would guess, with absolutely no credentials for doing so except that I have a brain in my noggin, that a square mile of sea might be considered less harmful to the climate than a square mile that contains developed human society.

Fair broad generalization?

Would the swapping of sea for humans be seen to be more harmful?

tomierna (Admin) – May 11, 2012 03:09AM Reply Quote
Hideously Unnatural
The sea, its Cyanobacteria, and other plant like organisms are a huge co2 sink.

Trouble is, we're killing the oceans too.

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – May 11, 2012 06:09AM Reply Quote
It's estimated the various ecosystems on the planet are able to recycle 9 trillion tons of CO2 each year. The only problem is it's estimated that 15 trillion tons are emitted each year...

And that's the problem...

John Willoughby – May 11, 2012 07:30AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I'm doing my part... every time I exhale, it's into a properly designated recycling container.

El Jeffe – May 11, 2012 09:29AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
I wonder if less sea surface area would be seen as good, if eventually replace with humanity/construction. Or not so good.

John Willoughby – May 11, 2012 11:02AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Less sea surface lowers the planet's albedo, which means less heat/light reflected back into space. More solar heating of the planet. Bad.

ddt – May 11, 2012 01:05PM Reply Quote
Tell it to the Maldives.

ddt

El Jeffe – May 12, 2012 01:40AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
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John Willoughby
Less sea surface lowers the planet's albedo, which means less heat/light reflected back into space. More solar heating of the planet. Bad.
That is what I would have thought. Just wanted to hear it from someone else.
So, it would be bad if I started lowering the surface area of the oceans/seas.
Not too many folks do that/this, though.
Not sure how bad, on a scale of coal-burning, or rainforest-stripping, or car-driving this is, though. Any guesses?
That is, if I neither burned coal, drove cars, nor stripped rain forests, but I did lessen the ocean-covered Earth, am I the worst offender, or somewhere down the line? Worse from just car-driving folks? Or the best offender?

tomierna (Admin) – May 12, 2012 03:39AM Reply Quote
Hideously Unnatural
I'm not sure how you are going to lower the surface area of water on the planet at a similar scale to how much we are affecting the environment in other ways.

You'd have to outrun the processes which are making the surface area of water on the planet greater, like the melting of the ice caps.

El Jeffe – May 13, 2012 02:36AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
crowd-sourced/funded documentary on Greek Economic Crisis called Debtocracy

http://www.btscene.eu/blog/496/debtocracy/

At 43:30 mark on this video, it dovetails into a story I've mentioned here before, and that is of John Perkins and his Economic Hitman confessions.

You can see John in more depth at this video http://bit.ly/IRKQle

I have read his book http://amzn.to/IRKXNG and it is interesting and sad.

El Jeffe – May 13, 2012 06:48AM Reply Quote
What a journey.
climate...

BAN COFFEE! (Bags)
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What is the hole in my coffee bag?
Answer
The hole in the coffee bag is a degassing valve that is sealed into the packaging material to preserve coffee freshness. Freshly roasted coffee emits carbon dioxide (CO2) for up to 24 hours. We package our coffee immediately after roasting. To allow the degassing process to continue, we equip our bags with the degassing valve to allow C02 to exit the package while preventing oxygen and other gases from entering.

John Willoughby – May 13, 2012 11:15AM Reply Quote
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I, too, have a degassing valve.

Tony Leggett (Moderator) – May 16, 2012 04:35PM Reply Quote

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