He Gets an 'F'

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

Sandra Fluke said that she wanted the health insurance she pays for to include contraceptive coverage. Congress (in passing the PPACA or ObamaCare bill) specified that such contraceptive coverage not have a co-pay. How is that free birth control?

Fred wants to know why the South Pole (which just ended its winter) isn't losing ice like the North Pole does in summer. Perhaps its because the North Pole ice is influenced by sunlight and the South Pole ice is influenced by wind, which is increasing and pushing ice northwards.

Fred should spend more time learning and less time writing lest he get an F in basic knowledge..

geoffcutler 7 months, 1 week ago

F-

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

Nothing was keeping SFluke from getting Health Insurance that covered contraception.

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

The girl just wants to fool around on OUR money, not hers...typical Democrat!

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

Courseaire, as a student she buys her insurance through her school. It's her money. She should get the coverage she's paying for. Why should she spend more somewhere else to get the coverage to which she's entitled.

Firepest is rather ignorant. She's paying for her health coverage with her own cash. How difficult is that to grasp?

njc17 7 months, 1 week ago

Good grief, mss Fluke was, first of all, a plant, second a pest. CONTRACEPTIVES should have NO PURPOSE being in a health insurance policy. That is individualistic responsibility. RESPONSIBILITY!! if she wants to whore around she should do it on her own nickle. This seems to be the mantra of the democratic party nowadays. let the government be responsible for you and you can leach off the government. Sadly I'm afraid this has gotten to the point that regaining the personal responsibility of each American may be long past.

dustyrhoades 7 months, 1 week ago

Keep alienating those women, wingnuts. It looked like you were actually making progress with them there for a while, but after that ridiculous and condescending remark about 'binders full of women" last night (which, as it turns out was another Romney lie), I think the wave just broke and rolled back.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

People who are experts in health care (we call them physicians, I should know) say that contraceptives have medical uses beyond birth control. That said, birth control is a good thing and women who feel the need for it (well over 90% of American women) should have no-cost access to it. Now it's the law.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

njc17, So women who use birth control are whores? Have you spoken to your mother lately?

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim-- "Courseaire, as a student she (Fluke) buys her insurance through her school. It's her money. She should get the coverage she's paying for." Uh, she is. Georgetown is a Jesuit (that would be Catholic for the liberals here) university, and they don't believe in contraception or abortion...hence the insurance coverage they provide to students does not cover these things. Fluke could purchase her own insurance which covers these things, or pay for the Georgetown plan and pay an extra $9 per month to purchase her own birth control pills. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/sandra-fluke-says-she-didnt-know-target-sells-birth-control-pills-9. You knew this, right? Cheers!

madstork 7 months, 1 week ago

Really guys…your blogs from last night revolve around birth control? Focus people. The Main Thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing. Protect our citizens, collect reasonable taxes to run an efficient government and create a regulatory environment that fosters economic growth.

fugitiveguy 7 months, 1 week ago

No, to the liberals the main thing is shifting blame to GWB and to not hold the president accountable for anything.

The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

Great Great Great Article, one of the best I have read in a while.

JD 7 months, 1 week ago

binders full of women by JD

AFCHIEF 7 months, 1 week ago

Heim why don't you buy Sandra some condoms and quit bringing up her everytime you have to defend Obama, kind of old already

oceangypsy 7 months, 1 week ago

You know some of us had doubts about Mitt for a long time, but I think the party leaders were right to choose him early as the favorite. The more I see of Mitt, especially in these debates, the prouder I am of the Republican party.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

I was not the one who brought her up. Do you not read the letter before you comment?

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

Almost everything in this letter is either wrong or specious.

"our Libyan ambassador and three support Americans were killed and the consulate buildings were still smoldering when our president took off to Las Vegas for a re-election fundraiser, his primary focus for 18 months"

Yeah, 'cause it's not like presidents have ever taken time off from their duties. Remember how Bush spent his first seven months in office playing golf? Even after 9/11, he was constantly taking vacations, and ended up taking more vacation time than any of his predecessors.

That's not to say that Obama should have gone to Las Vegas, but it's not out of the ordinary; it doesn't make him any worse than his predecessors.

"The president is on record as favoring redistribution of wealth, as did Karl Marx."

Yes, because everyone who agrees with Karl Marx in any way is automatically a Marxist, and therefore evil. Does this principle work for other figures? Since, for example, Hitler was a vegetarian, are all vegetarians Nazis?

"Have you noticed that most states and cities with serious financial problems have been under Democratic control for years?"

Cities are generally under Democratic control, seeing as the urban vote is overwhelmingly democratic. As far as the states, I'm not aware that there's a serious Democratic/Republican split. Of course, Republican-controlled states tend to get more subsidies from the Federal government, so it's easier for them to balance the budget lol

"If global warming is destroying the ice at the North Pole, how come the South Pole hasn’t experienced the same problem?"

Uh... the South Pole is experiencing the same problem. Obviously it will take the antarctic a lot longer to melt, but there's no question that it is melting, and that climate change is responsible.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarctica_Melting.html

Why don't you try doing research before you write letters? These are not arguments; they're a rant.

The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

I agree that presidents take time off, and campaign, and fundraise. However, Obama has participated in a cover up of what happened in Lybia.

Redistribution of wealth has never worked, will never work, Im not saying that Karl marx is evil, infact, on paper communism is by far the best approach to government, but it doesnt work, nor does socialism, they just dont work, we do not posses the technological advancements required to allow for socialism to flow, once food can be replicated out of thin air then we will be able to entertain the idea of socialism.

You are correct cities tend to have large democrat areas, mostly poor, mostly on the government dole, the war on poverty is going o so well. As for a split in states, The number 1 democrat state is California, the number 1 republican state is Texas,..Do I need to say more?

Global Warming is a cyclical condition that happens over a period of time naturally, man has little effect on it.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@The_AnonymousProfit:

But the mere fact that Karl Marx advocated the redistribution of wealth does not make it wrong. Of course, in all economic systems that involve the government, wealth is redistributed in some way (in our system, the government redistributes wealth upward). I agree that we should try to limit it, but there are far better arguments than "Karl Marx believed in it."

"mostly poor, mostly on the government dole"

On the contrary, the poor are far less dependent on the government than the rich. Yes, the poor receive welfare, but the entire economic system wherein the rich are rich depends on government intervention. At least in this country, there is far more welfare for the rich than there is for the poor.

"The number 1 democrat state is California, the number 1 republican state is Texas,..Do I need to say more?"

Yes, you do, actually. California is not the "number 1 democrat state." Yes, it does go democratic as a whole, but Republicans have a lot of power at the state level. California's governor was a Republican from 2003-2010, and that was when the state experienced her massive fiscal problems. The Democrats had a hand in California's problems, but they are not totally responsible.

"Global Warming is a cyclical condition that happens over a period of time naturally, man has little effect on it"

On the contrary, the warming we're experiencing right now is almost certainly being driven by man. Virtually every major scientific organization in the world, from the American Geophysical Union to the Royal Meteorological Society to the national academies of science of 32 countries, agrees on this. There is some question as to how serious the warming is (some scientists, such as Pat Michaels, don't think it's dangerous at all), but the warming is certainly happening, and humans have been causing it.

There have been natural warmings in the past, certainly, but there's no natural explanation for this one. Indeed, as I understand, the earth should be experiencing a mild cooling right now, but is instead warming due to human activity.

The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

I agree again on the Mark thing, Please explain further how the rich receive more welfare then the poor, that is quite a statement.

I am not going to begin a global warming debate, I have been through 3 of them on here already. Well save that for after the election. Just be careful of saying virtually every after any statement, in the past I have shown that countless reputable scientists, scientific bodies, governments etc etc factually reject man made global warming.

As to California, they were once the 4th largest economy in the world, but under the influence of massive government intrusion into the booming freemarket system there, they are now nothing but a gaping hole that sucks money more then any mafia man could ever dream of. New York is right behind them

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

"Please explain further how the rich receive more welfare then the poor, that is quite a statement"

The entire economy is built around government interventions to benefit the rich. Whether it's land policies that prevent people from homesteading on their own and force the public into the market system, to regulations that kill small businesses in favour of big businesses, to government transportation projects that eliminate natural diseconomies of scale, the government clearly promotes big business, large-scale trade, and the rich. That's ignoring specific policies like corporate welfare which directly benefit individual rich people.

Now, you could argue (and indeed, I do argue) that ultimately, this is beneficial to the poor and middle class. Like, these policies do (if not carried too far) promote economic growth overall, and there's something to be said for the statement that "a rising tide lifts all boats." But that doesn't change the fact that the rich are totally dependent on government for their existence.

Actually, there are no reputable scientific bodies that reject anthropogenic global warming; there are some that won't say one way or the other, but since 2007 no notable scientific organization has said it isn't true. There are some climate scientists who reject manmade global warming, but they are a tiny minority. The overwhelming majority of qualified scientists agree that humans are changing the climate.

"As to California, they were once the 4th largest economy in the world, but under the influence of massive government intrusion into the booming freemarket system there, they are now nothing but a gaping hole that sucks money more then any mafia man could ever dream of. New York is right behind them"

Absolutely, and the Democrats and Republicans did this together. The fall of places like California is not proof that the Democrats specifically are bad for this country; it's proof that both parties are pursuing bad policies. Schwarzenegger was governor of California for seven years; you cannot simply blame the Democrats.

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

Andrew...having been an Air Force weatherman for four years and three months I simply do not believe in "man made" global warming. There's quite a bit of evidence to the contrary...and if you look at the slim knowledge of climate that we have ( seeing as we've only been interested in it for a few years. ) you'll find that climate changes back and forth and it doesn't have squat to do with humans unless your a progressive liberal hack. I'll be the first to challenge you on Ahnold also...he's about as conservative as Dusty R!! Hardly a Republican strongman by any means!!

justpassingby2 7 months, 1 week ago

That's not to say that Obama should have gone to Las Vegas, but it's not out of the ordinary; it doesn't make him any worse than his predecessors.

Andrew, I read your posts and admire your ability to think for yourself and that is why I must point out the weakness of your above statement. If we don't begin somewhere in holding our elected officials to higher standards instead of what's become 'ordinary' or worse yet 'no worse than his predecessors', we the people have lost the war. Is there anything more ridiculous or just plain stupid than condemning someone for actions and then turn around and exonerate the next man for the same actions by saying 'his predecessor did it'? Of course not!

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@skylinefirepest:

I hardly see how your being a weatherman makes you qualified to speak on climate issues. Climatology and meteorology are completely different fields. "Whether" refers to short-term, small-scale events, while the climate looks trends in larger regions or the globe as a whole over the long term.

Furthermore, there are many weathermen and meteorologists who would disagree with you. The American Meteorological Society, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and the Royal (British) Meteorological Society represent thousands of meteorologists, and each society says very clearly that humans are changing the climate.

As far as Ahnold is concerned, that's exactly my point: the Republican Party has been expanding government left and right. It's not just Schwarzenegger; it includes both the Bushes, Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Ronald Reagan. At least in terms of government spending, the Republicans have actually been worse than the Democrats in expanding government. If this makes them "as conservative as Dusty R," so be it, but the fact of the matter is that the GOP is at least as much the party of Big Government as the Democrats.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

There is no global warming, and certainly no man-made global warming. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html. An inconvenient truth. Cheers!

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@justpassingby2:

"If we don't begin somewhere in holding our elected officials to higher standards instead of what's become 'ordinary'... condemning someone for actions and then turn around and exonerate the next man for the same actions by saying 'his predecessor did it'? Of course not!"

You're missing the point: I'm not exonerating Obama. I think it's terrible that he cares more about getting reelected than about keeping us safe, and we certainly should make him and all other politicians change their practices.

That being said, there is this common belief on the right that Obama is particularly terrible. He isn't. There is nothing bad Obama has done that his predecessors have not done or would not have done if they were in the same situation. Obama is not a new threat; he's more of the same.

Just getting Obama out of office will not make things better, and replacing him with Romney will almost certainly make things worse. We need to focus on overhauling the two-party system and breaking the public's desire for more government, not on demonizing one opportunistic politician out of many.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Thatcher:

So you're willing to dismiss the work of the thousands of scientists who say otherwise? I realize there is some conflicting data, and I don't pretend to understand the science myself, but when the overwhelming majority of scientists (and, particularly, of climate and atmospheric scientists) maintain that man-made global warming is a fact, we need to take it seriously.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Thatcher:

Here's an article in Forbes claiming to refute the contention that your article makes (i.e.- that it hasn't warmed in the last 15 years). Again, I don't claim to understand the science and thus can't say for sure which article is right, but when the overwhelming majority of climate scientists say that there is manmade global warming, I'm going to side with that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/02/05/global-warming-has-stopped-how-to-fool-people-using-cherry-picked-climate-data/

justpassingby2 7 months, 1 week ago

If obama is just more of the same then shouldn't he be voted out? If romney decides to spend 4 years and taxpayer dollars to strengthen his election chances then vote him out. We were wrong, with help from both sides, to give clinton and bush 2nd terms. Maybe the reason we keep getting more of the same is because we keep reelecting poor performers. Forget about every single past POTUS and romney and judge obama on his record according to your standards. You wouldn't buy a used car from him!

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

Andrew-- There is not now, nor has there ever been, an "overwhelming majority of climate scientists" who believe in man-made global warming. It was warmer in medieval times than it was 15 years ago, when warming stopped. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171973/Tree-ring-study-proves-climate-WARMER-Roman-Medieval-times-modern-industrial-age.html. You may not yet understand the science, but you are smart enough to smell the liberal politics. Cheers! (And I expect you will let us know when you make the Dean's List...alot of us are counting on you to do well!)

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@justpassingby2:

I'm convinced that Romney will be worse than Obama. Romney brags about how he will continue and expand Obama's worst policies (namely, increasing American hegemony abroad). In other areas, Romney claims he'll fix things (for example, shoring up Medicare and Social Security), but has never demonstrated how he'll go about accomplishing it.

The Republicans' record, incidentally, is worse. Reagan expanded government more than Carter, and Bush II more than Clinton. Obama has been worse than Bush II, but all that means is that Romney has a new low to reach.

At any rate, even if we resolve that it's better to vote Obama out, the fact of the matter is that it won't solve our problem. Simply changing who is in office won't stop the government from taking over our lives. What we need to do is build a mass movement that will oppose the expansion of government through direct action, so that whoever is elected, the government will have to fight for every bit of power over us it tries to get.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Thatcher:

Once again, the claims you cite have been disputed by other scientists:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period.htm

The overwhelming majority of scientists certainly do believe that humans are changing the climate. According to a study from 2009, 82% of earth scientists and 97% of climatologists agree that humans are causing global warming. Another study in 2011 found similar results: 84% of scientists believe that humans are warming the planet.

You can find those studies, in that order, here: http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/climate-change/structure-scientific-opinion-climate-change/

Furthermore, all major scientific organizations the world over either state that humans are changing the climate or do not have an opinion on the subject. Since 2007, not a single major scientific body has said that humans are not changing the climate (the last one to say so, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, recanted). There are still some scientists who disagree, but they are a tiny minority.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

And Andrew, remember that the "consensus" of climate scientists in the 1970s was that we were doomed to a coming Ice Age. http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm. That is Newsweek. Also read Time Magazine's 1974 "The Coming Ice Age." Global Cooling was soon replaced by Global Warming, and then with Climate Change. Give it some thought. Cheers!

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Thatcher:

I've heard this claim before; it's a myth. There was not a consensus that the earth was cooling. Some scientists thought that, including the ones consulted for that article, but there were others who believed that the world was warming. There was certainly no where near the agreement that we see today.

In the '70s, when climatology was in its infancy, earth scientists disagreed over whether the world was warming, cooling, or staying the same. Today, climatology is much more advanced, and the vast majority of earth scientists agree that the earth is warming and that humans are causing it. I see no problem accepting their modern conclusion.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

Andrew-- You are a very intelligent guy. Research the University of East Anglia, and Phil Jones. Here's a start: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/6636563/University-of-East-Anglia-emails-the-most-contentious-quotes.html. As a libertarian, you certainly would never condone liberal "scientists" trying to blackball other scientists who disagreed with them, and trying, through liberal "peer review" to keep opposing views from being published. That is exactly what has happened. Liberal "scientists" proclaming a problem (Global Cooling, Global Warming, and now Climate Change), and saying they are the only ones who can fix it. It is now, and has always been, a hoax. If you really want some entertainment, google Al Gore's "Carbon Credits" program. Hilarious! Cheers!

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Thatcher:

That is not what happened. I followed this controversy when it was coming out. These emails were taken out of context. They were not marginalizing opposing views; they saw the other papers as incorrect and did not want them published for that reason. If you thought a paper used incorrect methodology, would you want major scientific organizations to cite it?

There have, as I understand, been three investigations into these emails and none of them found any evidence that scientists were faking data or marginalizing their colleagues. The IPCC remains respected in the scientific community.

The notion that climate change is a hoax is absolutely absurd. It relies on the assumption that hundreds of thousands (millions?) of scientists all over the world, who work in different fields, hold different political views, speak different languages, and live under different governments (some of which surveil them) have somehow organized a global conspiracy. Apparently, all these people are lying about their work, and they're able to coordinate this lie and all its elaborate explanations despite huge physical, linguistic, and political barriers. If scientists could pull this kind of heist off, they wouldn't bother inventing climate change; they'd just take over their governments.

Manmade climate change is a fact; we'll never make progress until we accept this.

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

Andrew, you're a bright kid but after you get out and try to make a living on your own you will probably become more conservative. That said I am perfectly aware that weather and climatology are two different fields...but I know something about climes and the clime people know something about weather!! Or didn't you know that? Cooling was a myth?? Then why do I have an issue of Life magazine dated in the seventies that was warning of global cooling?? And I believe that Time also had an article or so on it...you're simply too young to know! Check it out if you're interested. Right now I don't have time...I'm too busy working to rid our White House of the most un-qualified president in my lifetime. No cred except he was a stinking liberal "progressive" which I think y'all call yourselves now...though there ain't much progressive about the liberal left. That he hasn't done anything that his predecessors haven't done is not much of an argument for giving him another four years...remember six trillion in new spending and NO JOBS...and without business creating new jobs there will be no recovery!!

AbdominalDohMan 7 months, 1 week ago

I have actually enjoyed reading the unusually civil discussion ya'll have been having. Thanks for showing that there can be a disagreement of opinion without having to go into the gutter to bray about it. Maybe some of the more seasoned veterans of this site will take your example to heart and sound a little more intelligent in further debates. We will see.

Toda 7 months, 1 week ago

"The president is on record as favoring redistribution of wealth, as did Karl Marx."

Have you read Karl Marx's theory? Probably not!

Toda 7 months, 1 week ago

skylinefirepest ~ perhaps a telephone call to one of our local residents, Dr John Roe, who is a professor at UNC - Pembroke who teaches Environmental Science and Zoology as two of his classes may make you a better informed individual. He is conducting research on turtles here in our own county. Just a suggestion - by the way, he is very approachable and his studies have been conducted around the world starting in Australia. Just a thought?

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

Tommy, I'm already a pretty well informed person and to put it bluntly, at this point I've read and heard a gracious amount about global climatology and it is not one of my prime interests. I'm sure he would be an interesting person to talk to though.

packwilleat 7 months, 1 week ago

All of them get a "F".......

“545 vs. 300,000,000 People

By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

packwilleat 7 months, 1 week ago

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in a foreign country it's because they want them in a foreign country ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

Every time I hear a politician, it reminds me of an episode from "My Favorite Martian" where Tim talks Martin into temporarily giving him a Martian power. Martin decides to give him the power of levitation for a 24 hour period. When he thinks the power practically useless beyond performing mere parlor tricks, Tim asks for another, to him, more useful power: mind-reading. Martin grants him his wish, to be activated the next day and to last until midnight. Tim also uses this power for parlor tricks, which gets him into trouble. But he also wants to use it for an interview he has that afternoon with Councilman Jack Gramby. Tim wants to write a story about the Councilman's true political intentions. Tim is unable to read his mind because the Councilman is uncommitted in his political intentions, even to himself. So Tim writes a story on what he calls the mental ping-pong of the Councilman.

Arestorer 7 months, 1 week ago

packwilleat;; BRAVO!!!

TOYTIME 7 months, 1 week ago

We hopefully just helped our cause, by casting our vote for Romney/Ryan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FEALT REAL GOOD TO DO SO.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@skylinefirepest:

I'm not saying you know nothing about the climate; I'm saying you aren't an expert, and I won't just take your word for it. I'll trust John Hansen or Ralph J. Cicerone on this issue before I trust a weatherman.

"Cooling was a myth?? Then why do I have an issue of Life magazine dated in the seventies that was warning of global cooling?"

I said it was a myth that there was a consensus on cooling. Yes, there were some scientists who thought the earth was cooling in the '70s, but it was nowhere near the number who say the earth is warming today.

"after you get out and try to make a living on your own you will probably become more conservative"

Perhaps so, but that has nothing to do with this debate. I could become much more conservative and still believe that climate change is a reality. Indeed, outside of the US, climate change was not a liberal/conservative issue.

Do you know who was the first major world leader to warn the United Nations about climate change? Hugo Chavez? Evo Morales? Nope; it was Margaret Thatcher. That's right: Maggie, the icon of conservatism in the United Kingdom, gave a speech to the UN about how we need to combat global warming and climate change:

Thatcher GlobalWarming by Uppsalainitiativet

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

I don't know, I just saw a woolly bear caterpillar with two coats, and a bag saying Florida or Bust.

AndrewSoboeiro 7 months, 1 week ago

@Coursaire:

"I just saw a woolly bear caterpillar with two coats, and a bag saying Florida or Bust."

Is this a response to the global warming post? You do realize that individual areas can get cooler, right? Global warming means the world as a whole is warming, not that every individual region is warming.

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

The woolly bear caterpillar I saw had a Russian accent. You do the math.

teufelhunden 7 months, 1 week ago

HAHAHAHA-lighten up people! Andrew, don't take yourself too seriously. No one knows ALL the answers.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

I was at the Carthage polling site this morning for the start of early voting. While there by the Democratic Party table an old buzzard walked up and stuck his finger near my face and said, 'You're a white man.' Then he turned to the lady beside me and did the same saying, 'And you're a white woman. You should both be ashamed of yourselves.'

But Republicans tell me that it's not about race.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

firepest, someone should have explained to you the difference between weather and climate. They are not the same.

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

Jim - Are you sure you weren't confusing that old buzzard with Foghorn Leghorn? I say, I say.

teufelhunden 7 months, 1 week ago

'Welfare' spending topped $1 trillion in 2011, study shows Published October 18, 2012 FoxNews.com

AFCHIEF 7 months, 1 week ago

HEIM, LMAO but its ok for Blacks to call Blacks who vote republican Uncle Toms

Get over you freakin Race Card BS already

teufelhunden 7 months, 1 week ago

Seriously...so transparent

MikeNC 7 months, 1 week ago

Yea right Heim...I call you on BS. Seems like you have all the anti Black experiences that absolutely no one else ever witnesses. Nice try on the race baiting. As a Democraty party representative you should be ashamed of yourself for telling such lies to the open public on a repeat basis around here, but I guess that is what you understand your job description to be. Mike

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The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

I was going to go have a nice conversation with Jimmy today, but I had to work......

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

Sorry Mike, I have Republican witnesses as well as Democratic ones. The fact is that decent people don't mock this sort of thing or let it go unchallenged. That the Republican side remains in the thrall of apologists for such vile acts makes it easy for us to generalize. When you are willing to confront the racists in your midst, we will start recognizing the change.

Guess no one here is concerned that their party harbors the KKK set.

The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

Hey Jim, your party kept slaves not republicans, your party created jim crow laws, not republicans, your party created the KKK not republicans, your party refused to move on civil rights acts not the republicans, only after being forced did LBJ pass anything, your party created social slavery not the republicans, AND your party to this very day continues to promote modern slavery in the form of welfare.

The GOP does non of this. Period.

coffecreme 7 months, 1 week ago

oh man and i thought the disrespect for bush was too much.... this takes disrespect to a new level

fugitiveguy 7 months, 1 week ago

I too call BS on JH but then again for the Dem/Libs its just SOP.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

TAP, that was our Southern Dixiecrat contingent. We drummed them out and they joined the Republicans. Do the names Helms and Thurmond ring a bell?

As I said, decent people don't tolerate this kind of racism.

MikeNC 7 months, 1 week ago

Jim: It's pathetic and sad, how you dis respect minorities. It's also digusting how the Pilot continues to allow this sort of gutter rhetoric. It's not even about freedom of speech, when someone says these sort of things, with only one goal in mind. To Inflame and Incite. The Hope of Justice, The Scope of Justice, is Justice answers to God. Diane

fugitiveguy 7 months, 1 week ago

Were Helms or Thurmond admitted klansmen like the oft celebrated gentleman from WVA. RIP

fugitiveguy 7 months, 1 week ago

Did Robert Byrd get drummed out. That senile old coot stayed in office until nature claimed him. Drummed out my axx. What a joke the libs are. Minorities are just a prop for them. If they ever get wise...

AFCHIEF 7 months, 1 week ago

JIMHEIM, YOU LIBERALS OCCUPY WALL STREETERS who crap on the flag and in plain terms are scum, so when you talk vile look in your own backyard at your own PIGS

The_AnonymusProfit 7 months, 1 week ago

Jim you didnt drum anyone out, they left in droves after you capitulated to the demands of the GOP. Your spin really needs work.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim (57 min. ago)-- "As I said, decent people don't tolerate this kind of racism." Agreed. Nor do decent people fabricate this kind of racism. Cheers!

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

Jimmy H....as concerns weather or climate I answered that question way back....I still stand by my comments...I'm not an expert but considerably more familiar with the situation than ordinary citizens.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim-- Was this "old buzzard" a former Duke lacrosse player? Cheers!

nothingspecial 7 months, 1 week ago

Jim, you're asking us to think like you and other Democrats. In other words, to change our votes to your man based upon gossip and emotion and very little else.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

I just plan to package up this thread and present it to the Democrats who attend our next meeting. Should be interesting.

mcgal 7 months, 1 week ago

I believe JH about what happened in Carthage today. The KKK has always been in Moore County. The old guys are dead and their sheets may be folded and put away but there are still those that believe as they did.

fugitiveguy 7 months, 1 week ago

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/18/cnn-editor-in-internal-memo-crowley-did-superb-job/

CNN playing for Team Obama. The liberal media pulling out all the stops for the chosen one. Will any of the local lefties be given pause by this, just kidding.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim (1 hour, 48 min. ago)-- "I just plan to package up this thread and present it to the Democrats who attend our next meeting." Fair enough. But at your next meeting, could you ask the other four whether they believe in Global Warming? Thanks! Cheers!

teufelhunden 7 months, 1 week ago

It's just too easy...teehee hee hee hee he

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

Jimmy H, I hate to call you on this but I don't think you have the nads to take this to the MCDP...I think when they see the crap you spout that your job will be in danger.

skylinefirepest 7 months, 1 week ago

To give you an example, Jimmy H., my wife is a registered Democrat and she's ashamed of the whole mess of you from obumma on down to Jimmy H!!!

greentara13 7 months, 1 week ago

oh my word, I'm flabbergasted! I just gave thanks that I as a women can vote, do not have to cover my hair, can own property, etc etc. But if I let it up to you numb nuts, I would be a disenfranchised women. WOW! How much like muslims can you emulate? Please get out of my pants. out of my head and out of my voting booth!

AbdominalDohMan 7 months, 1 week ago

I din't think so.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

skyline, As I said, there were several of us there. Even an elected Republican official came over to see what the commotion was about.

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

tuefelhunden - No need to ask about our attitudes regarding climate change since we are the party of science. It wasn't the Democratic Party that put the rejection of critical thinking into their platform.

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

greentara13 - Then pull your pants up, close your mind (though it probably already is) and shut you booth curtain.

JimHeim - So what, some crazy old bigoted fart comes to your table and you think they represent all republicans? Their are bigots still out there, both Democrats, Republicans & some with no affiliation, black & white.

AFCHIEF 7 months, 1 week ago

Heim you are also the party of crapping on the US Flag so be proud of your party

teufelhunden 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim-Why did you address me? What are we talking about?

Courseaire 7 months, 1 week ago

In De Niro's best voice: "You talk'n to me?"

JimHeim 7 months, 1 week ago

My mistake, it was the adjacent post from Thatcher.

Speaking of which, the correct answer regarding global warming is that it is not a subject for politcal decision making. Science has already settled the issue and now it's up to politicians to decide what to do about global warming/climate change. The prospects do not look good.

Thatcher 7 months, 1 week ago

JimHeim-- We are all relieved to know that science has settled the issue of global warming. Which, I suspect, is the reason they changed the name to "climate change," since there has been no warming since the '90s. Nonetheless, based on your assurance that science has settled the issue, I went out today planning to buy a Chevy Volt. I couldn't find one. People must have bought every one already. Right? I mean, these are popular electric cars...right? They will save the planet, right? I want to do my part. From now on, my worth as a human being will be defined by my carbon footprint. I'm on board, all because of settled science. Thanks. Cheers!

MikeNC 7 months, 1 week ago

You talkin' to me? by my1990ful

He Gets an 'F'

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