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Comment Re:Global Warming? (Score 1, Interesting) 273

The average global temperature is rising is settled? Uh, no, sorry, it's not settled at all. First of all, we have scarce data for the temperature of the oceans. What little data we have comes from the ARGO global array, and that only measures the top layer of the oceans. The UK Met Office EN3 subsurface ocean temperature data shows a decline in heat from 2003 to 2013. So that means the deep oceans would need to be warming in order to compensate for the surface cooling we've measured. However, we don't have any measurements of deep ocean temperatures, which leaves your claim of global temperature rising to be unfounded.

Comment Re:Might cause a re-thinking of the F-35 (Score 4, Insightful) 275

First off, the F-35 has forced China and Russia to commit a large amount of time and resources to try and counter it's superiority. From an economic standpoint, if you're forcing potential enemies to dedicate time and resources to try and counter your technology, it's a win. Secondly, just because Russia and China are able to develop technology to detect it doesn't mean it's useless. There are numerous other potential uses that don't involve Russian and Chinese radar.

Comment Re:Hottest quarter? (Score 1) 552

Hmm....highway melted due to forest fire correlates to weather temperatures?* Current temperature in Sachs Harbour, NT is 2, compared to the normal range of 3 to 11 for this time of year. Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pag... Yellowknife, on the other hand, is 21, at the upper end of the normal range of 13 to 21 for this time of year. Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pag... Norman Wells, which lies about an equal distance between the two, is 17 where normal range is 11 to 23. Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pag... Whati, which is relatively close to Yellowknife, is at 17 where the normal range is 12 to 22. Source: https://weather.gc.ca/city/pag... So unless today is much cooler across NT than at the time of your posting, it seems the region is well within normal bounds overall (based on small sample size of 4), with only Yellowknife reporting a high in the upper bounds of normal. It also seems that the north end of the territory is actually pushing the boundaries of unusually cold, while the southern most region is in the upper half of normal. *Drought is not necessarily a result of warmer atmosphere. It's even possible that the extremely long and cold winter is the cause of the drought. Delays in melting of snow in the higher altitude regions results in a decline and/or delay in spring flooding. Manitoba is currently experiencing a very late seasonal flood for this reason too.

Comment Re:How deep is the rot in Washington? (Score 1) 682

You know what the 5th is, right? From Wikipedia: The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from being forced to incriminate themselves. Incriminating oneself is defined as exposing oneself (or another person) to "an accusation or charge of crime,"
Your conclusion that " If pleading the Fifth were considered evidence of guilt, it'd be completely useless." is wrong. Clearly, by it's nature, the 5th is an indicator of a wrongdoing.

Comment Re:How about the DOJ? (Thanks, Bush!) (Score 1) 682

I apologize for my last reply. I agree with you that Bush put people he preferred into the DOJ with political opinions oriented to his. But that's exactly what happens with every administration, so I assumed you were putting up a "Ya, but Bush!" argument to downplay the seriousness of the IRS becoming politically oriented.

Comment Re:How deep is the rot in Washington? (Score 1) 682

Wow, you clearly aren't following the facts in this story at all, or you're wearing your Democrat polarizing glasses. First, I don't watch fox news because I don't get fox news. I live in Canada, and don't subscribe to your fantasy world of Democrats good - Republicans bad. They're all politicians, therefore they're all liars motivated by self-interest. That being said, there's no doubt that the IRS has been steered to target potential Republican funding sources. Lerner pleaded the 5th for a reason. You don't need to do that if you didn't do anything wrong. But please, just for the record, explain why the IRS did nothing wrong, this is not a scandal, but Lerner needed to plead the 5th anyway.

Comment left-wing spin (Score 1) 682

They targeted likely opponents of the Obama administration in an attempt to impede the flow of funds to their opponents. It is a clear politicization of a department of the government that shouldn't be politicized. Any other interpretation of this is spin.

Comment Re:Fox News? (Score 4, Insightful) 682

can you find the story on the Washington Post or the New York Times? If so, maybe you could provide a link, and we can compare the details included or omitted by each source. If, on the other hand, all you want to do is take a cheap shot at Fox news, then maybe you should be modded down as a troll....

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