http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/20/global-warming-study-climate-sceptics

Here we go again

AGWers:  We measured climate in some places, and then we guess it applies to places we don't measure, and the earth is getting hotter than ever!

Humans:  You can't really apply a measurement to a place and time you didn't measure.

AGWers:  STFU can we get these people fired? Oh crap they stole our email

Humans:  See if you don't measure it then you don't know what the temperature was in that place, and since "global warming" is just a set of local measurements, you have no business saying the areas you did check count for places you didn't.

AGWers:  Well we applied the measurements to the places we didn't check, and it comes back THE SAME TEMPERATURES ALL OVER. 2x must equal 4!

Humans*: What part of "you don't know so you can't guess in Science" don't you get?

AGWers:  OK assmunch we checked a BILLION readings, and then we applied them to the blank spots, and we CONFIRM it's the same temperature all over!  3 Across is "Qqqqqq"

Humans:  Sorry I'll stick with basic logic and the scientific method

AGWers:  I get paid to guess about climate! You get paid by oil companies to save the first world economy! You're a whore!  I asked Fred and Mitt who I met in a bar at a conference, and they guess what they don't measure too, so, it's consensus!   I file my taxes BEFORE I get my income reports so I get my refund in time for Christmas

Humans:  remind me what the empirical test of your theory is again

AGWers: There isn't one! That's being lawyerly instead of scientificy! 






* i can think of insulting names too

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for until we get penal colonies on the Moon

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LOL

http://www.skullbunnie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/the-libyans.png

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i SAID emigrate to Costa Rica

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bush got promises of NATO support in Afghanistan

but outside UK a govt that tried to keep it up got bounced

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Islam was founded 600 AD so there were no muslims free ro slave in BC times

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if that bastard starts replicating itself and then dropping clones into jupiter, we are SCREWED

America's national pension plan is kaput by 2017.  To survive we each must find our own way

I plan to work like a dog til I die, like a cowboy.

Alternatively, I will

1. create a services corporation (what services, doesn't really matter. Data encryption)
2. Sell long-term contracts for services.  Will I actually do work and be paid for 10 years? Hell no. Does it matter? Hell no!
3. create a holding company and transfer my equity in the services corporation to the holding company
4. have the Holding company borrow to the hilt from UBS using the equity in the services company as collateral
5. having leveraged the high value of my services corporation already, I will then have the services company borrow to the hilt from JP MorganChase

ok to this point we have been legal

6. Bust out both companies' assets and bank accounts.  This damages UBS and JP MorganChase.  But they banked for Hitler, so, screw them!
7. Buy gold
8. move to costa rica. Costa Rica doesn't extradite anybody.

but that all might be more work than just working til I drop like a cowboy. Also cowboys are cool.

Oh yeah, and the felony thing

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1.  Godwin's Law says merely that any argument continued long enough, the Nazis will come up.
2.  Since the Nazis were totalitarians who believed there was a Nazi way to brush your teeth, pray, jump rope and add, that is indeed inevitable.
3.  The modern corollary that anybody bringing up the Nazis, LOSES, is not properly "Godwin's Law".  It is just some rule invented by internet-nazis.
4.  I think those internet-nazis have a guilty conscience.
5.  I didn't mention "Nazis" I mentioned fascisti. YOU mentioned Nazis by bringing up Godwin's law.
6.  Since Obama can bomb where he likes, without ok from a legislature, for as long as he likes, by what means he likes, he has claimed Il Duce's war powers to a T.
7.  They both took out Libya so it's a fun comparison. Hail Obama! Eja eja alala!!
8.  I've got two more points left...

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someday Dpenguins & East will be the #1 company for legal malpractice insurance to clients in the world

$50 insures you against damages caused by attorney malpractice committed by any attorney you might retain*












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Obama, without Congressional approval before or after, made war on Libya for his own reasons, for as long as he liked, with as much force as he liked, until he got the result he liked.  If he goes to Ethiopia and Greece he can unlock the Mussolini skin

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my names not valenka

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ask dpenguins

If the contractor files a claim to homeowners insurance for an accident that occurred while contractor was doing job on property, homeowners insurance will pay rather than spend 10X as much WINNING a lawsuit.  They just jack up the premium to the homeowner.

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what's the caption? Cause that's the stupidest outcome imaginable. It amounts to malpractice to sue a homeowner and go to trial instead of suing an insurer, who is happy to pay out so they can then soak everybody for higher premiums and blame lawyers.

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in my county there's a code for pool fences to keep kids out and if he met that code then there's no liability

also fat people can beat a chain link fence by putting a 2x4 over the top and walking on it til the metal is bent

damn kids did that to a corner of the hotel lot where I worked

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hrm
hes not so good though is he? he keeps losing family

I guess if you can walk into a room full of gunmen wearing leather and they dont shoot you because they're staring at your ass in leather, then you're above average, so La Femme Nikita is +++

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yikes  we have been pwnt

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Here's an example of American Exceptionalism!

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WASHINGTON -- An Ohio woman who is such a strong opponent of an upcoming ballot initiative that she is willing to appear in ads opposing the measure has now found herself co-opted by the other side as the unofficial spokesperson for the anti-labor forces.

Next month, Ohio voters will be voting on Issue 2, a ballot referendum on S.B. 5, a measure that restricts collective bargaining rights for state employees, among other provisions. Opposition to the legislation inspired large protests from residents around the state earlier in the year.

The pro-labor group We Are Ohio is urging voters to vote no on Issue 2 and thus reject Republican Gov. John Kasich's controversial legislation.

Its newest ad features Cincinnati resident Marlene Quinn, who almost lost her great-granddaughter Zoey in a fire. "If not for the firefighters, we wouldn't have our Zoey today," stated Quinn in the ad. "That's why it is so important to vote no on Issue 2. Issue 2 makes it illegal to negotiate for enough firefighters to do their job."

Quinn is not an actor. She is genuinely opposed to Issue 2.

But a new ad by the pro-Issue 2 group Building A Better Ohio uses the same footage of Quinn in its own new ad -- making her a de facto spokesperson for an issue she opposes.

In the Building A Better Ohio ad, Quinn also appears onscreen and states, "If not for the firefighters, we wouldn't have our Zoey today." A narrator then jumps in and adds, "She's right. By voting no on Issue 2, our safety will be threatened."

WATCH A COMPARISON OF THE QUINN FOOTAGE IN THE TWO ADS:

"I think it's dishonest and downright deceitful that they would use footage of me to try to play tricks and fool voters," Quinn said in a statement.

"It's insulting to the brave firefighters that saved the lives of my grandson and my great-granddaughter Zoey. I'm outraged. They did not ask my permission. I feel violated. I want to stop Senate Bill 5. Everyone should vote No on Issue 2."

Building A Better Ohio did not return requests for comment.

According to Melissa Fazekas, a spokeswoman for We Are Ohio, more than 10,000 people volunteered to collect signatures to qualify Issue 2 for the November ballot. They were required to obtain 231,149 signatures, with a certain percentage from at least 44 counties in the state. Their campaign wound up with more than 915,000 signatures certified in total from all 88 of Ohio's counties.

UPDATE: 3:30 p.m. -- The New Media Firm, which produced the original ad for We Are Ohio, noted on Twitter that it has heard from two TV stations that have decided to pull the Building A Better Ohio ad featuring the footage of Quinn: "Breaking: WSAZ in Charleston and WTAP in Parkersburg have pulled the misleading Issue Two Yes ad. #weareohio."

We Are Ohio confirmed the news to The Huffington Post. Neither WSAZ nor WTAP returned a request for further comment.

UPDATE: 4:45 p.m. -- Statement from Jason Mauk, spokesman for Building A Better Ohio:

Opponents of Issue 2 chose to use a personal story to make a political argument, but the same story makes an even more powerful case for supporting the reasonable reforms we're asking of our government employees. Without Issue 2, our communities will continue to lay off police officers and firefighters because they can't afford to pay them. By asking our government employees to pay their fair share of benefits and earn their paychecks based in part on performance, we can generate millions of dollars in savings that will keep safety forces on the job protecting the public.
The reality is opponents of Issue 2 have been caught by Ohio's largest newspapers lying in their television ads, and they've proven they'll say anything to distort the facts. They don't like our efforts to set straight their multi-million dollar campaign of dishonesty and emotional scare tactics, but we'll continue to educate Ohioans about why a yes vote is critical not only to public safety but also to the economic vitality of our state.

UPDATE: 5:48 p.m. -- A press release sent out by We Are Ohio said at least eight TV stations pulled the Building A Better Ohio ad. None of the stations returned a request for comment, nor did Building A Better Ohio.

Paul Weber, one of the Cincinnati firefighters who responded to the call saving Zoey Quinn, sharply criticized Building A Better Ohio on Tuesday.

"I applaud the decision by the stations to pull down this deeply offensive and misleading ad,

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Gepetto at Large

^^
please edit

he's [frigging] psycho yikes

'Austin Powers' actor suspected in prison death
By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press | AP

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aw was just pic of Merkel frowning and the caption

LEAVING THE EURO?  I FIND YOUR LACK OF FAITH DISTURBING

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well they said on the radio that when he was in college he was experimenting with vegan diets to eliminate his body mucus, so he wouldn't have to shower

so that's impressive

he went crazy

THEN he became a billionaire

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is that the one where they killed Charles the Good while he was giving alms to the poor from a stool, and then when the French put the rebels down, they hanged most of them, and it wasn't fast enough to suit the citizens and they climbed onto the gallows and strangled the perps with a dog's intestines, and then put their corpses in a tree hugging each other to show their conspiracy; and the one rebel said "Hey I'm a noble" so they gave him trial by combat, and he was gonna win and cut the knights head off, and he was sitting on the knight's chest to take off his helmet, and the knight reached up and "pulled his private parts through the plates of his armor" so the rebel begged off and was hanged with the rest?

Cause if not, you should do that one instead it was cool

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Explain the significance of the introduction of the stirrup to Western Europe!

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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2277196183588&set=o.314670616874&type=1&ref=nf