Posts Made By: Dave Snope

Patrick Keafer said:

As a fiscal conservative the amount of debt combined with the skewed tax

You don't seem to understand what a fiscal conservative is.

The government has plenty of revenue and it has continued to rise over time, with the exception of a slight dip after the 2008 recession.

All of those programs that you are worried about collapsing are projected to have future problems due to spending increases.

It's TimeMZ

The guy who said "I don't think the upper class can comprehend or understand what the lower class would do", and the lady that says "he's from a different economic system (and can't relate)", are amusing.

Blacks voted en mass for the uber-wealthy yachting snob John Kerry, they idolize rich JFK with his decadent royal lifestyle, are pleased with the the richest congressman in history (before Kerry) LBJ, and revere FDR, one of the richest men in American history.

It's not how much money a man has that determines if he gets the black vote. For 90% of them, what matters is if you have a "D" after your name. Then all is forgiven.

Then there are all of the rest of democrats in the country that are demonizing Romney for being rich and out of touch. Hippocrites? Seems to fit.

Gay troop leaders camping alone with with a bunch of young boys? What could go wrong?

Gay troop leaders teaching leathercraft and knot tying to young boys? What could go wrong?

The phenomenon that you are referring to is primarily driven by the sensationalist media and a few zealot scientists that fuel their need for disaster stories. This is the way it has always been with the media. While the media blasts us with speculative ideas about "worst tornado season ever", and "warmest June on record", the facts are usually overlooked. They completely ignore that the long-term tornado record shows that this is a mild season, or that we are in a record low period of hurricanes to hit our country, or that there have been many periods of warmer temperatures than today.

First, before we focus on causes, we focus on the actual temperature (and other data) records, and the evolving science of the proxies to measure such things. Then, if something unusual is measured, the focus can swing to causes. Unfortunately, the most activist of climate scientists focus on causes first, then try to find data that fits the premise. This blatant violation of the scientific method is overlooked by the media in their lust for sensational stories. It may take years, or even decades, to unravel the bad science. For example, none of the catastrophic predictions that Dr. James Hansen has been making since the 1980's have ever come true. The media completely ignores that he has been wrong 100% of the time and faithfully prints whatever new catastrophe he predicts for the future.

As we have noted numerous times here, there are thousands of good scientists using ethical methodologies publishing thousands of peer-reviewed papers about climate and related effects. There reports, while exciting from a scientific progress perspective, show that nothing scary is going on and aren't sensational enough, or are too technical for the scientifically illiterate reporters, to attract media attention.

What is very exciting to the reporters are outlandish hyperbole such as Dr. Hansen's "The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death." Or similarly outrageous emotional statements by Kevin Trenberth, Peter Gleick, Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, Phil Jones, etc.

Yeah it's normal to have a 1960's birth certificate scanned as 12 layers in Illustrator.

Just like it was normal that Bush's 1970's national guard letters were typed in Microsoft Word default font and spacing.

One thing's for sure, it's normal for the LA Times to make the false and sleazy tie-in to birtherism.

An elusive man photographed earlier this month in a fur-covered goat suit crawling on his hands and knees close to wild goats near Ben Lomond Peak has been unmasked.

The individual, who has been dubbed “Goat Man” by the media and has drawn comparisons to the legendary Big Foot creature, is apparently a 57-year-old hunter from Southern California, Phil Douglass, conservation outreach manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources, told the Standard-Examiner on Monday.

On the advice of a friend from Utah, the man phoned Douglass and provided information Monday that substantiates he was the person in the goat suit photographed by Coty Creighton on July 15.

“He gave me details that convinced me it was him,” said Douglass, who did not ask the man’s name. “I’m satisfied that this was a person preparing for a hunt and did it with knowledge and experience.”

Creighton said Monday he enjoyed the suspense that surrounded Goat Man’s identity.

“I thought I wanted answers, but I was naive. I should have left well enough alone. Now I just want the mystery back,” he said in an email to the Standard-Examiner.

The man said he traveled to the Ben Lomond Peak area to test out a goat suit in preparation for an archery hunt of mountain goats in Canada in 2013, Douglass said.

“He found out about Utah and that it was fairly easy to get close to the goats to (train) to get a clean harvest shot with archery equipment,” Douglass said.

The man told Douglass he has hunted in several foreign countries, including Mongolia.

The man said the goat costume was made out of a hooded painter’s suit, the kind that is readily available for purchase in home repair stores. He outfitted the suit with Polarfleece to give it the appearance of fur and wore a hat backward, pulling the brim down to his chin to look like a billy goat’s beard, Douglass said.

The man mentioned that there are small groups of hunters who also wear goat suits to get close to herds.

“Hunters do some amazingly creative things to be successful,” Douglass said.

The man said he had no idea that he was being watched or photographed. He told Douglass that he shot video of himself near the goat herd, frequently had to adjust the hood of his costume and had to take breaks from crawling on all fours.

This is one of my favorite Larry King moments:

DEBRA TATE, FMR. SISTER IN LAW OF ROMAN POLANSKI: I would like to see this whole thing go away. I think that there has been a lot of time that has passed and we need to bring it to an end.

KING: Have you ever talked to Roman Polanski?

TATE: I have.

KING: How can you have a civil conversation with someone who so brutally murdered your sister?

TATE: Roman didn't murder my sister.

Shambles, my a$$. Overblown BS from CNN, quoting typical sensationalist overblown BS from British leftist press and tabloids, then passed on to us by Rod. If some of the Brits get butthurt because of a mildly-put suggestion from a man who ran one of the most successful and safe olympics ever, then let them cry. When Romney places CHurchhill's bust back in the White House where it belongs, the British crybabies will have long forgotten the classless individual who took it out and who gave them a CD collection of old American movies as a presidential gift.