Posts Made By: Dave Snope

That's a great example, Russ. And par for the course, repeated every day in tens of thousands of federal, state, county, and city government around the country. I've seen it many times. Most decisions are made on the sick and twisted purpose of extracting more money from the productive people in the country. They rarely justify getting more money by being more efficient, they justify it by creating need. It's a welfare mentality. Along with that, I've witnessed countless times, the sick and twisted mindset of people who are squabbling over getting "their share" of the pot. I've seen very bright young people devolve from being to productive to being political infighters, going from spending 90% of their time doing valuable science to spending 90% of their time working "within the system" to justify moving pots of money to themselves from some other groups who "are wasting it on useless research". Everybody ends up in this wringer wasting 90% of their productivity competing for space at the taxpayer's teat. The "cream" that rises to the top are the ones who play the welfare game the best.

In the private industry we spend thousands of dollars to save millions of dollars. In the public sector we spend billions of dollars to save thousands of dollars; we spend millions of dollars to "create" a $100k job.

The smaller the government is the better. There is no doubt. You put money into a system and prices go up. Speaking of which, listening to Obama today once again made me sick. He said that in CA I will get better health care service at the same price thanks to him, and thanks to their partners at the spanish-speaking radio stations getting the word out. Huh? Nothing could be further from the truth. It's now looking like access the healthcare could be the primary driver to make me move from California. I've been denied coverage because I live in CA, because of it's existing Obamacare-like laws making it undesirable to give me coverage. But I digress...

2007:

“This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.

That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.


It's only cool if he does it because he's for the middle class or something.
Senator Barack Obama’s speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2007

Al Franken 2006:
They’re trying to justify these warrantless wiretaps by saying, “Oh, it’s al-Qaida!” One guy is saying it’s just al-Qaida–the Hayden guy, and then on the other hand, you hear from the FBI that they were inundated with referrals on all kinds of stuff with these calls, so much so that they couldn’t get to their real work, and that none of the referrals led anywhere.

I think it’s a Roveian strategy: “We win on national security; we’ll scare people, and then we’ll just win.”

Al Franken 2013:
"I have a high level of confidence that this is used to protect us, and I know that it has been successful in preventing terrorism.

There are certain things that are appropriate for me to know that is not appropriate for the bad guys to know."

They should issue a State Dept. Travel Advisory warning American travelers that they should not bring anything valuable to Russia because of reports that their kleptocrat leaders, even though they have already made themselves billionaires by stealing the natural resources of their own people, are not above petty strongarm thefts of personal property.

These AGW guys have no self realization. Otherwise they would realize that they act like cultists. The end of the world is nigh because we don't raise taxes on the Kock Bros and other people I don't like.


Jonathan Overpeckþ@TucsonPeck
+ Reading more about Lincoln now - his approach to slavery makes me sure he would move on stopping CC because it is moral issue of our time.

I'm not going to believe any conspiracy theory put out by WikiLeaks, if that's what you mean.

Huma Abedin is gathering her friends around husband Anthony Weiner, to support his run for mayor. The Hillary Clinton senior adviser and her sister, Heba, are hosting the first Women for Weiner fund-raiser tonight at the home of author and socialite Jill Iscol, who also hosted a bridal shower for Chelsea Clinton. Abedin’s host committee includes designer Reem Acra, Rory Tahari, lawyer Binta Brown and Cheryl Saban, wife of Clinton backer Haim Saban.

No word if she's still getting her fat paychecks from the taxpayers as a "special government employee" while she campaigns for der wiener. And no word yet from her Wahabist family members about her support for Weiner.

They can't explain the "angry" hot weather (LOL) as correlating to ENSO, so they leap to the conclusion that it's caused by man. Now THAT is some high grade scientific ethics.

Not to mention poor data. Eschenbach checked out and found:
Out of the 112 ACORN-SAT stations, no less than 69 of them have at least one day in the record with a minimum temperature greater than the maximum temperature for the same day. In the entire dataset, there are 917 days where the min exceeds the max temperature

While they are jumping to conclusions, the least they can do is provide the Aussie summer temperature trends and let the reader validate the conclusions. Can you see the man-caused global warming singature here?

I like:

a) The ability to sort threads many ways in the Display Format pulldown menu.

b) The overall simple format of the forums.

I dislike:

a) The inability to display attached photos directly in a post window. Only linked web photos are displayed in the post.

b) That clicking on the forum subgroups takes you to the top of the main forum list instead of the subgroup. It's extra annoying if you are starting near the bottom, such as "Sports", which also, by the way, has the wrong subgroup "COMMENTARY" instead of "Other Groups". If you are in "Sports" and click on it's subgroup "COMMENTARY" you end up at the top of the forums list.

c) Would prefer that older forum messages stay visible longer. Tech info is most helpful if it stays around for years. If I'm looking in "Losmandy" to see how someone solved a guiding issue, and it only shows 90 days, I will to go to another forum to find the answer.

LOL "not affected by Obamacare". Head meet sand. Obamacare has been affecting jobs for the last year. Company leaders have been giving evidence of it for a long time, freezing hiring, shifting workers to part time in advance of it, holding off on growth plans and capital expenses, etc, but Obama's cheerleaders at CNN refuse to see it. And now they've delayed the corporate mandate until after the midterm elections. All those lost jobs will make the Dems look even worse.

It simply wouldn’t do for employers to lay off/shift workers to part-time en masse before the 2014 midterms, you see — as CBS’s John Dickerson so eloquently put it this morning, this does not look good for them.

"The White House made the decision, though, take the pain now before the July 4th weekend rather than have all of these stories over the next year of companies that were laying off workers or having such a hard time implementing this. … The problem for Democrats running is that they’re already weighed down by the feelings people have about this, about this bill and about the opposition from small business and from businesses of all kinds. And though this delay, again, takes this story from being a chronic ailment as it gets implemented, it doesn’t really reduce the fact that in a lot of these states where Democrats are running, red states, this law is unpopular"