Posts Made By: Dave Snope

You left out this part from Slate:


Q: Senator, if one of your daughters asked you—and maybe they already have—“Daddy, did god really create the world in 6 days?,” what would you say?

A: What I've said to them is that I believe that God created the universe and that the six days in the Bible may not be six days as we understand it … it may not be 24-hour days, and that's what I believe. I know there's always a debate between those who read the Bible literally and those who don't, and I think it's a legitimate debate within the Christian community of which I'm a part. My belief is that the story that the Bible tells about God creating this magnificent Earth on which we live—that is essentially true, that is fundamentally true. Now, whether it happened exactly as we might understand it reading the text of the Bible: That, I don't presume to know.
Sen. Obama, D-Ill April 13, 2008
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/rubio_and_obama_and_the_age_of_earth_politicians_hedge_about_whether_universe.html

Yeah, that climaxes with the prime leftist directive: People who don't like Dear Leader are racists. Garbage.

I completely agree on not putting marijuana offenders in prison. That only hurts society, doesn't help it one bit. Unless of course they were armed and violent gangster traffickers, but hey, legalizing pot would put them out of business.

The number one social issue that is a predictor of violent crime is children born without fathers. There are numerous studies that have shown this. 75% of juevenile criminals don't have fathers. An even higher percentage of violent offenders in the adult prison population.

What correlates most to rising illegitimacy rates? They were steady until LBJ started the War on Poverty in the 60's. It was the rise of the welfare state that precipitated the rise of the fatherless family.

Nothing in that report is right from the first paragraph onwards.

They begin with a huge deception:
While temperature rises appear to be consistent with the projections made in the IPCC’s fourth assessment report (AR4), satellite measurements show that sea-levels are actually rising at a rate of 3.2 mm a year compared to the best estimate of 2 mm a year in the report

The 2007 IPCC maximum estimate was 59 cm by 2100. That is 6.5mm/yr over 90 years. The UCol estimate was 3.1mm/year. Total strawman.

And there are other recent peer reviewed published studies that peg sea level rise at well under 2mm/year. Such a Manfred Wenzel's paper that found the rise at 1.56 ± 0.25 mm/yr and showed that it is not accelerating, which it must be to support AGW theory.

It's hard to move on from there when the scientist's begin with utterly unethical and misleading strawman argument about 'science'. But let's do, since you posted this junk science report created just for the political climate summit in Qatar.

Their primary model starts with this:
Global temperature data can be adjusted for solar variations, volcanic aerosols and ENSO using multivariate correlation analysis…

They cannot use ENSO variability to correct global temperature data. It's only 1/3 of the globe's water area, and the other ocean's have completely different patterns. This had been stated by multiple warmists such as Trenberth et al.

And so on... that's enough time wasted on this political position paper.

Sandwiches and wagons. Great analogies. Thx.

There would be a coup d'etat if they taxed savings that were already in 401-K's.

I can't stand reading articles in liberal rags like TIME. First of all, they speak of tax breaks as "spending" as if it's money they already have, or have a claim to. This is classic leftist flipped reality:
every dollar that government spent on tax breaks increased total savings by about one penny


Then they have to give the class warfare perspective:
80% of retirement savings benefits flow to the top 20% of earners
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"Flow to". Get it? It just passively finds it's way toward the rich. It's not as if they actively made their own financial calculations and decided that this was a smart way to invest their income. And this is a misleading statement and misuse of percentages. It doesn't reflect percentages of income saved by various tiers of incomes, it looks at the total pot which is in fact dominated by older people because they've been in it a long time.

Then he just tosses out an unsupported statement about a crisis:
In the throes of a retirement savings crisis

The only crisis is in his mind: the government can't get enough of your money.

Then he offers contradictory points in the same paragraph:
There is no discernible momentum behind such measures...
and everything is on the table

THen of course the concept of using a Danish study to apply to America and to infer that the tax deductions do not incentivize people to invest.

I've been the Trustee of a 401-K plan for years. And let me make this perfectly clear: Everyone who enrolls in the plan, enrolls because of the tax deduction. From that perspective the incentivization is 100%, a very different way to see it than how this author spins it. As far as lower incomes not participating, I've tried very hard to get lowest income hourly earners to invest "just $10/week", showing examples of ending up with hundreds of thousands of $, but people who live paycheck-to-paycheck won't do it and just plan on having SS. So in effect, it's one government program disincentivizing another. But noooo, it's class struggle in this author's mind.

It's almost as if the auther himself is trying to promote some great new taxation ideas because there really is no meat that he can back it up with.

I tend to agree.

However, I'm worried about a potential stock market crash. What do the pundits say about that?

What a horrible tragedy for that family. And thousands of others like it. It's a narco-anarchy down there.

Maybe this is why they call it "The Fire Escape". That's a tiny recall by today's standards. Maybe they don't sell many of those, I don't know. They had a recall of Escapes in Sept. because the English-built 1.6L four had improperly installed coolant plugs that could lead to a fire. Well this just goes to show that you shouldn't buy the first year of any new model.

Toyota recalled 7.43 million vehicles on October 10. The reason: The Power Window Master Switch could melt, go up in smoke, or cause a fire. Don't they test those cars before they sell them?

Good idea.

I could have validated that, you know. You didn't have to go to that website.