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    Joe Arpaio - Vile and Rotten

    Why is this guy still in business? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...

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  • Romney The Liar

    Romney The Liar

    The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar. A partial list. Bush had nothing to do ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    Happy Friday. The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. "Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman "The head of ...

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  • Another Unexceptional Republican Claims Obama Is Not An American

    Another Unexceptional Republican Claims Obama Is Not An American

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  • Idiot Quote of the Day: The “Gayer” Obama

    Idiot Quote of the Day: The Gayer Obama

    Rand Paul: Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer. We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

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  • What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    What The Hell Is The Problem With Gay Republicans?

    I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...

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  • Obama – Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Obama - Same-Sex Marriage and Doing The Right Thing

    Finally. “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...

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  • Another Day, Another Vote – Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Another Day, Another Vote - Indiana, NC and Wisconsin

    Election roundup: Indiana. As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...

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  • ‘Romney – The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry’ and Other Fairy Tales

    'Romney - The Man Who Saved The Auto Industry' and Other Fairy Tales

    There are lies...and then there are lies. My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...

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  • A Madman and Fox News

    A Madman and Fox News

    From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this. Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...

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  • Late Night Political Humor

    Late Night Political Humor

    The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor. Happy Friday. "Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...

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  • New GOP Logo

    New GOP Logo

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  • Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    Can Obama Be Swift-Boated?

    It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson. Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...

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  • Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Quote of the Day: The Gay Republican

    Sullivan: What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage? A faggot. Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...

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  • Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    Christian Pastor: Fixing Gay Is Like Squashing a Cockroach

    And they claim that atheists are immoral? The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...

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  • GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    GM Alive, bin Laden Dead

    It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden. Romney, April 2007: It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...

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  • Republicans Are The Problem

    Republicans Are The Problem

      In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics. We have been studying Washington politics and ...

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  • Marco Rubio – Just Another Weasel

    Marco Rubio - Just Another Weasel

    Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play. He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...

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  • Obama’s Move Forward

    Obama's Move Forward

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Obama: A President Who Understands The Significance of Global Warming

Photo by National Snow and Ice Data Center/NASA

In his inaugural address, President Obama said, “We will restore science to its rightful place.

Finally!

Obama’s rallying cry was a direct criticism of former President Bush’s weak record in the area of science.  For the first seven years of his presidency, Bush and his administration all but ignored the problems and threat the planet faced from global warming.  In 2008, Bush announced some token policy measures to curb carbon emissions which was quickly dismissed as being “too little too late”. The Republican party and conservatives in general have denied the very science used by the world’s scientific community to warn us all of the effects of climate change. In a concerted effort with big oil corporations, conservatives have tried to sell us a bogus package of lies in dismissing man’s role in the area of global warming. In doing so, they left science hanging out to dry as they refused to impose the measures necessary to combat global warming. None of this was surprising coming from a party whose clueless leader once called for Intelligent Design (aka Creationism) to be taught in schools’s science classes along with evolution.

The ignorance of some of the top Bush people (including VP Dick Cheney) in the area of global warming is mind numbing.  Rolling Stone magazine has an excellent article on how and why the Bush administration blocked federal action on global warming.  This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand the false debate on this important issue.

Wilkin’s Ice Shelf

Above is an image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antartica.  The shelf, about the size of Jamaica, is now one third its original area.  Glaciologists announced this week that the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the verge of collapsing into the ocean.  All that is holding it in place is a strip of ice which is only 550 yards (500 meters) wide at its narrowest.  Sixty years ago, that same strip was 310 miles (500 kilometers) wide.  The deterioration of Wilkins has been blamed on rising temperatures which have seen an increase of 0.9 Fahrenheit every 10 years for the last 50 years.

Obama’s refreshing view on the importance of science will not prevent the Wilkins Ice Shelf from collapsing.  What it will do, however, is to ensure that science and government are on the same page.  While science can point to the dangers facing out planet, only government can create the policies and measures required to actually deal with these problems.

Finally, the country has a president who actually understands the importance of science.  Nice.

Comments

  1. bigdaddy says:

    http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

    http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html

    There is a lot of information out there. You can either buy in to the hysteria, or you can research it for yourself and draw an informed conclusion.

    Or of course, you can just always take Chicken Little at face value.