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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

June 4, 2011 06:38 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Cats Leave Biggest Carbon Paw Print

Posted By Dave Snope
Don't get me started on the dog owner jokes. I've been in organized dog training for years and I've got a million of them. One thing I sure agree with from that study is that "tight psychological connections between people and their pets". For better, and for worse. A good dog trainer has to be able to tell a person to shut up and stop being neurotic if they want their dog to be able to focus.

June 5, 2011 09:25 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Cats Leave Biggest Carbon Paw Print

Posted By Dave Snope
Among the hundreds (or thousands?) of things blamed on global warming is too many cats:

Droves of cats and kittens are swarming into animal shelters nationwide, and global warming is to blame, according to one pet adoption group.

Several shelters operated by a national adoption organization called Pets Across America reported a 30 percent increase in intakes of cats and kittens from 2005 to 2006, and other shelters across the nation have reported similar spikes of stray, owned and feral cats.

The cause of this feline flood is an extended cat breeding season thanks to the world’s warming temperatures, according to the group, which is one of the country’s oldest and largest animal welfare organizations.

http://www.livescience.com/1582-adoption-group-cat-invasion-due-global-warming.html

June 6, 2011 04:44 PM Forum: Politics

Palin Stands By Her Correct Account of Revere's Ri

Posted By Dave Snope
After his interview today with Sarah Palin, Chris Wallace told the FOX News Sunday panel,
“This is the first time I ever thought ‘This woman is a serious candidate.’”

June 7, 2011 03:04 AM Forum: No Holds Barred

Remembering Another Death

Posted By Dave Snope
Let's not be so hasty. He gave the world the gift of his Little Green Book, imparting such wisdom as:


It is highly recommended that a girl be married off as soon as she reaches the age of puberty. One of the blessings of man is to have his daughter experience her first period not in her father's house, but in that of her husband.

Women of the lineage of the Prophet of Islam are menopausal at the age of sixty; others, once they are over fifty.


The meat of horses, mules, or donkeys is not recommended. It is strictly forbidden if the animal was sodomized while alive by a man. In that case, the animal must be taken outside the city and sold.


If one commits an act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned, and the price of it paid to its owner by him who sodomized it.

If the number of days of the woman's menstrual period is divided by three, a husband who has intercourse with her during the first two days must pay the equivalent of 18 nokhods [about 3 grams or 0.1 ounces] of gold to the poor; if he has it on the third or fourth days, the equivalent of 9 nokhods; and if he has it during the last two days, the equivalent of 4.5 nokhods.

Sodomizing a menstruating woman does not require such payment.




June 12, 2011 07:03 PM Forum: Politics

Only A Conservative Could...

Posted By Dave Snope
Geez, Rod. You could write headlines for the LA Times. I mean, you'd have to learn to exaggerate even more, and have less meat in the article, but your heart is in the right place.

As usual, if he was a liberal, he would be cast by the MSM as a great human rights hero trying to get to the bottom of a mass murder of innocents.

And wasn't it Biden and the democrats first calling for Bush to make Iraq pay for 'his' war with Iraq oil money?

June 12, 2011 11:17 PM Forum: Politics

Obama On The Jew: Never Again!

Posted By Dave Snope
Whoa, look at all the cautious skeptics around here.

As if, you'd actually find something embarassing to Obama in the LA Times. They're still sitting on the Obama tribute to radical palestinian Rashid Khalidi tape from before the last election, while they exhort all their readers to scour the Sarah Palin emails for them to dig up dirt on her. That's today's standard for journalistic integrity.

June 15, 2011 08:25 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age

Posted By Dave Snope
That also makes me wonder if the cold could be worse because the 2020's will have us in the low part of the 60-year temperature cycle. That is, historically:

1870's warm
1900's cold
1930's warm
1960's cold
1990's warm
2020's cold (+ solar hibernation?)

Might want to check again in 5 years and if the sunspot trend is holding, invest in some Florida real estate while it's still depressed.

June 16, 2011 05:14 PM Forum: Politics

Weiner To Resign

Posted By Dave Snope
Now there is a "suspicious package" outside his office on Capitol Hill. Investigators are trying to figure out what it is.

I'm betting it's a mean joke, or some female aide is returning his latex bondage outfit.

June 17, 2011 03:17 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Correlation of Sunspots To Global Temperature

Posted By Dave Snope
Before you waste your valuable time, let me warn you that Joe Romm has just written a rather silly counter-argument to this theory, casts dispersion of Fox News for effect in his 'scientific' analysis, claiming:

But the Little Ice Age wasn’t just driven by a drop in solar forcing — it was also driven by a burst of volcanic activity. And now we have human-caused greenhouse gases that have overwhelmed the much, much smaller solar forcing.

Kinda ridiculous when you look at the above charts. We have a 500-year Little Ice Age period, with periods driven by volcanic activity that happened AFTER the minima? Sure Joe.

But wait, he finishes with a flourish of political emphasis. You be the judge of his scientific integrity:
A Maunder Minimum can’t stop catastrophic global warming — only we can!

June 17, 2011 07:23 PM Forum: Religion

Religion in public schools....

Posted By Dave Snope
The best way for teachers to teach morality and ethics is by example. No need for a K-12 class for it. If the teachers have some basic training in it, they can lead by example in any of the myriad situations that come up in school where moral/ethical choices have to be made.

As far as religion, it's not a violation of the Constitution to teach ABOUT religion. Obviously, lots of schools do that, teaching comparative religions or whatever they call it to grade schoolers all over the country. Of course it's full of PC BS, like only teaching the 'nice' Surahs of Mecca and not the hyperviolent Surahs of Medina.

As long as they don't teach religion in science class, I'm OK with it. No creation science, or creation for that matter. It has no place in science, regardless of how they spin it or minimized evolution as a 'theory'. Put up a Christmas tree and call it a Christmas tree, that's fine with me.

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