Perverting science for politics

[Happy Monkey]

Hee hee. Regnery Publishing, the single largest customer of Regnery Publishing, a reliable source. Amusing.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Hee hee. Regnery Publishing, the single largest customer of Regnery Publishing, a reliable source. Amusing.

It's a sharp instrument for letting the flatus out of the Left's balloons, and its editions frequently are found on the best-seller list, even though it's a tiny little outfit.

HM, you'd have more brain than any other monkey no matter how cheerful were you to start reading their material, instead of that pooh-poohing monkey talk you indulge in when you have no real nor cogent rebuttal. Chatterchatterchatter, swing from tree branch, throw poo. Your ideology, sir, makes you very stupid, very absurd, whereas mine enlightens me from week to week if not day to day.

I just posted a thread about BushCo. forcing the National Park Service to carry a book stating that the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's Flood.

Then I tried not to stick a pin in my eye.

[BigV]

Climate Change Scientists, Officials Testify on Allegations of Administration Interference

Current and former government scientists and officials have testified to a congressional committee about what they call Bush administration efforts to downplay scientific evidence of global warming. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill.

The allegations are not new, but this was the first time key individuals have appeared in person to detail what a new report calls an atmosphere of systematic political interference with climate change science.

Two private groups, the Government Accountability Project and Union of Concerned Scientists, say 1,600 climate scientists surveyed reported at least 435 occurrences of such interference over the past five years.

Nearly half of those responding said they perceived, or personally experienced, pressure to eliminate the words climate change from reports and communications, along with new or unusual administrative requirements impairing climate-related work.

"Political interference is harming federal science and threatening the health and safety of Americans," said Francesca Grifo, senior scientist and director of scientific integrity program for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Grifo adds that nearly 700 scientists or 39 percent of respondents, feared retaliation for openly expressing their concerns.

But the prez says it's not global warming, it's global climate change.. no reason to be afeared...Hey look, a terrorist!

From here and many other places.

[piercehawkeye45]

Sending a human to Mars is probably the most pointless thing we can do right now.

[Ronald Cherrycoke]

Activist Lawsuit: God Guilty of Malicious Climate Change
By Jon Quixote
2/5/2007, 2:20 pm




Fight against climate change has taken a new dimension Monday as a new legal defense group, Spiritual Lawyers Against Natural Disasters (SLAND), initiated international class-action litigation against God for the environmental destruction and Global Warming that has resulted from acts that He has caused to occur. "For many years enviro-activists, spearheaded by Al Gore and financed by trial lawyers, have been pointing to human greed, oil industries, and Western capitalism-based societies as the main causes of Global Warming," said SLAND lead attorney and Executive Director, Peacedove Handwring at a press conference. "While all these factors are a fine cause for international insurance litigation, the primary culprit of climate change that is more powerful and more difficult to deal with, has so far escaped attention of our lawyers. That culprit is God."

Mt. St. Helens: May 18, 1980 was the day that produced more "greenhouse gasses" than any single event in human history.



In that 24-hour period, more toxic pollutants were spewed into the Earth's biosphere than any single day, week, month or year before or since.



And it had absolutely nothing to do with humans

"Over thousands of years, God has been producing so-called 'natural disasters' that have caused many times more pollution and carbon-dioxide emissions than anything man could even conceive," P. Handwring explained. "Yet He has been effectively absolved from any responsibility from our current plight. With the advent of The SLANDers, the free pass afforded to God is going to come to a decisive end."




Pressed for specifics, Ms. Handwring provided some compelling examples to support her claims:

"May 18, 1980 was the day that produced more global-warming emissions than any single event in human history. In that 24-hour period, more toxic pollutants were spewed into the Earth's biosphere than any single day, week, month or year before or since. And it had absolutely nothing to do with humans: it was the eruption of the volcano known as Mt. St. Helens in Washington.

"We in the progressive environmental movement had little to say about this, because most policy experts and scientists dismissed this as a 'natural disaster.' But who is ultimately responsible for supposedly 'natural disasters' such as this? Only one person: God.



"Furthermore, as we allege in our federal complaint, God has been singularly responsible for the repeated ice ages that have plagued the Earth since He supposedly created it, each of which was followed by periods of global warming. We consider it eminently unfair that during these unnatural temperature cycles, so many species could not adapt and went extinct. After all - who is He to play... God!?"

Responding to critics who claim that the SLANDers are pursuing a legal dead-end by suing God, Ms. Handwring said: "It is beyond dispute that we in the progressive community have mastered the art of using the law, schools and public news media to advance anti-industrial, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist, and anti-human perceptions and values. But while we have focused on factories and automobiles and the like, we've allowed God - the most grievous violator of our right to a clean environment - to not face the responsibility or consequences for the fact that He has been the primary cause of Global Warming.

"Consider other supposedly 'natural disasters' that also contribute more to global warming than humans ever could. Lightning strikes a forest and it goes up in flames, belching clouds of toxic materials into the atmosphere. Until now, we chalked it up to a 'random occurrence.' But who is really responsible? That's right - God.

"We at SLAND are now going to marshal and focus our legal skills, and all the resources at our avail, to expose this travesty, and to finally hold God accountable, both in a court of law, and in the so-called 'court of public opinion.' Then, and only then, will we be able to deal with the real cause of so many needless deaths of humans, animals and plants," Handwring said.

The first stage of SLANDers' campaign will be massive public demonstrations by the most notorious enviro-activists who have protested throughout the world over the past 40 years. Ms. Handwring's convincing PowerPoint presentation gave the assembled journalists a preview of what may be coming to a park, shopping mall, or public school near you:



As of this time, God was unavailable for comment. One of God's spokesmen, St. Ernest, however, issued the following statement: "While God certainly respects Ms. Handwring and her fellow attorneys at SLAND, at the moment He is too busy trying to deal with the insanity of religious wars occurring throughout the world to respond to her accusations as fully as He'd like. We are, however, in receipt of the SLANDers' discovery motions, and will be responding to them at our earliest opportunity. And although we aren't sure which court would have jurisdiction in such a cosmic matter, God is eagerly looking forward to defending both Himself and human freedom against SLANDers' allegations.

[God]

Sorry for jumping in here late. Ronny Reagan sent me an e-mail on this. I've been completely focused on sending Bush a sign through Barney.


ANYWAY.......


This whole climate thing is my doing, yes. It's part of the deal. It's a cycle.

Sure, I know that the pro climate change people need a new tool for extracting money out of the western world and forcing them to "change their evil ways", but see this for what it is. A scam.

Ah shit, I gotta go. My firearm proximity alarm just went off for Cheney.

Just remember, I love you all and that you aren't nearly as smart as you all believe.

Hugs,

God

[Happy Monkey]

Isn't that the organization set up to defend corporations that make dangerous or unhealthy products? I don't think creationism is likely to come up.

[tw]

From ABC News of 10 Jul 2007:

Former Bush surgeon general says he was muzzled
The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused the administration on Tuesday of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research.

"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee.

The first U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused the administration on Tuesday of political interference and muzzling him on key issues like embryonic stem cell research.

"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee.

Who here was denying that the White House lawyers routinely rewrote science reports? How many hundreds have to make this testimony before those few extremists acknowledge the closest thing we have to evil.

How much more anti-American was the George Jr administration? They will even pardon Libby for intentionally obstructing criminal investigations. After all. Nothing wrong with that when 800 people - the overwhelming majority innocent - are even tortured in Guantanamo.

What is the new symbol of America? Statue of Liberty or Abu Ghraid? Perverting Science for the Benefit of Politics? Situation normal to wacko extremists. After all, their political agenda is more important than the advancement of mankind. Screw the Surgeon General. Even keeping perscription drug prices high - stifling free market competition - is good for more campaign contributions. Science is not a big contributer to legalized bribery. (How many scientists have a brief case with $1million they can accidentally leave in the White House?)

Better is for science to be vetted by White House lawyers - just like any dicatorship where political officiers must approve everything. Coincidence or damning similarity?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Tw, have you ever wanted democracy to actually win?

You aren't brave enough to answer this question.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Tw, have you ever wanted democracy to actually win?

You aren't brave enough to answer this question.

Urbane Guerrilla, have you ever wanted science and human knowledge to win?

This country was built on the freedom to innovate. Science and technology are part of that. Previous presidents have supported the advancement of human knowledge. Bush actively suppresses the advancement of human knowledge. Read all the examples in the 200+ posts in this thread. Bush hates science. After all, he's said that God talks to him. Why would you need science when God talks to you?

Your hatred of tw is consuming you to the point where you make no sense. Read the damn thread. What does it have to do with hating democracy? This is a thread about how Bush suppresses science. There are many examples. You can't argue against it. It's fact at this point.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Glatt, have you never noticed that hating democracy and speaking against its success and propagation throughout the world is a constant theme in tw's posts? I have. Here's just one more of his attempts to attack humanity's cause. It is execrable and it must not be endured, but avenged.

Frankly, the most that the Administration could do is to delay things a bit -- or else insist that if stem cell research is done, it will not be done on a Federal dime. This does not strike me as a huge thing, really.

Nor would I be in any hurry at all to say Bush hates technology -- because of the ones who are running up and down saying he does; these are people whose views I don't much trust -- on anything.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Nor would I be in any hurry at all to say Bush hates technology -- because of the ones who are running up and down saying he does; these are people whose views I don't much trust -- on anything.

We get it. You hate tw.

But in this thread, he and others have provided many examples of Bush stifling science.

You probably missed it because it was in a tw post, but the former surgeon general said under oath "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried."

[Clodfobble]

So if I read that correctly, you're saying that the Administration does stifle science and innovation, but they're not any good at it so it's okay?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

No, Fobble, I'm saying their power to do so is at its most sharply limited, and that therefore one shouldn't overdo the concern.