You know, I'm getting a little sick and tired of all these self obsessed, narcissistic, machiavellian, amoral masses of motile human excrement turning the world into an ontological toilet. We live in a free society, but this lowest common denominator crap is just becoming a simple excuse to be free of social responsibility, dignity, compassion or accountability for one's own actions. True freedom implies taking responsibility for a complex world of interactions where the price of your freedom is responsibility for the freedom of those around you. All take and no give, is the beginning of a free-for-all that ends in a stinking dung heap where a workable society once stood. Maybe its time to teach ethics to our children so perhaps they avoid the stupid mistakes we're making?

Heck with that, what about John Foggerty, he was tricked by the record industry into selling his artistic soul while not yet out of puberty, After quitting CCR, couldn't write a note of music that didn't belong to the record industry for 20 years. AND finally after getting his life back after the 20 years and resumed writing kick ass music was sued in 1993 by Saul Zaentz, who owned CCR’s old label Fantasy Records. Zaentz asserted that Foggerty's new song "Old Man Down The Road" was plagiarized from "Run Through the Jungle." The recording industry sued John Fogertty for plagiarizing John Foggerty. Like raping him for 20 years wasn't enough, they wanted his new stuff too. The jury laughed Zaentz out of court after two hours (about as fast as a jury can make a decision without doing it right there in the jury box.) Foggerty demanded that Zaentz pay the $1.09 million court fees for this legal insult, and Zaentz told him to kiss his southern exposure. The law to that date had been heavily weighted on behalf of the plaintiff (corporations), such that if a plaintiff sues you and you lose you have to pay the attorney's fees, but if you win, they didn't have to pay yours. It took Foggerty over a year and appealing all the way to the Supreme Court to get a decision, that stated indeed if someone sues you, and they lose, they should pay your attorney's fees.

You know, there should just be a legal requirement for truth in advertising that has a permanent message tattooed into the heads of the RIAA and its minions stating "I am here to screw you, everything I ever do is designed to rob you, use you, and leave you buggered and you can tell whenever I'm lying by the fact my mouth is moving." Of course we'd then be forced to tatoo politician with the message "I blow more CEOs by 9:00 AM than a high priced call-girl does in a year." and who's going to pass that law?

What part of "What mine is mine and what's yours is mine too..." do you not understand???

In fact about 20% of the human genome is owned and patented by for profit corporations in The U.S. and if you don't think that's lead to some ugly mischief, think again. Try this for example. I declare a patent on a critical set of ocogenes. I make a really good test for those genes so you can get tested for the predisposition of certain common cancers, so you can take necessary precautions that may save your life. Being a for profit business, I decide I'm going to charge $10,000 for my test, and nobody else can make a test because I've patented those genes and any test for them infringes on my patent rights.

There is just so much horror and darkness associated with this specific practice, we need to say no. Nobody should have to power to monetize life and death this way.

As a society we need to start figuring out where the line is between what's good for the stockholder vs. what's good for society. Its great for holders of tabacco stock to make cigarettes as addictive as possible. Not so great for society. Monsanto is systematically wiping out any farm that doesn't grow with its seed. It will take a class action suit against them from thousands of farmers to stop what amounts to predatory practices against innocent farmers whose only crime in most cases is being downwind when Monsanto crops pollinate.

That, or allow Monsanto to destroy all small farms not using their product. I which case, Monsanto share holders do incredibly well, and the country suffers.

I'm sorry but "some farmers" hardly even begins to describe the fact that Monsanto has seen fit to go after farmers whose only crime is being downwind of a field growing their product. All it takes is a little wind blown pollen and cross pollination to product an organic seed harvest that has traces of Monsanto's seed in it. So a small farmer who has no sane way of defending himself against a corporate giant loses his farm because he can't can't protect himself against Monsanto's assault on the small farm.

In fact, if you look closer, Monsanto's intent is to eliminate all farms not using their product. That my friends may be good business, but its grotesque evil on a corporate scale.

No... they are results of heat. The evidence is jumping up and biting you. I'm speaking about effect. If you want to talk cause, I'll be happy to show you a couple hundred sources of information from broadly diverse areas of research which create a virtually irrefutable conclusion to emerge. Human Beings are changing the global climate, through first order effects from greenhouse gases, and now growingly through second order effects from the liberation of huge amounts of CO2 and methane from melting permafrost and organic decomposition at high latitudes and ocean hydrides.

Better yet, you go out, hit the science journals, and I mean all kinds of different research. Oceanography, Microbiology, Biology, Geology and Geophysics, Archeology, Botany, Agricultural Science, Forest Management, Hydrology and Water Management. Then come back to me, Let me know what you found, The key is, go with an open mind, and stop trying to prove your point. You can't learn anything from a closed premise. Besides being bad science, it points to religion not informed inquiry.

This is clearly written by someone who hasn't bothered to read even a scrap of the research out there. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS COMPLEX. They just discovered that glacier aren't melting in the Himalayas. Yes, glaciers are melting everywhere else, but not the Himalayas. This is contrary evidence, that demands refining models and coming up with meaningful explanations. THAT IS THE NATURE OF SCIENCE. The reason scientists are for the most part, and I say most part, reporting results consistent with global climate change is because we are experiencing global climate change. The system is however chaotic and there are all kinds of interesting kinks and turns in the research which will ultimate help us come up with better models of the real world. So, for real science to occur, you need to bring in all the evidence, including evidence that conflict with your theory, because in the end, physical reality is the first, last, and only measure of the validity of any theory.

To claim that the lack of refuting evidence, implies external coercion is ridiculous. Its like saying the lack of refuting evidence for Relativity implies political conspiracy. If the government had anything to do with the majority of evidence you might have a case. However the evidence doesn't just come from climate scientists. It comes from biologists, agricultural scientists, forest managers, geologists, archeologists,botanists... on and on. The corroborating evidence literally comes in now from hundreds of diverse scientific fields and specialties. To argue global climate change is quick approaching the kind of religious closed minded belief one associates with flat earthers.

So like your belief, you criticism, doesn't hold water.

Here's a little hint...

You give someone a grant... they go purchase a bunch of computers and test equipment and do this research thing for 1 to 10 years. They collect data, analyze results then publish peer reviewed papers. We call this science

The guys being paid by the oil companies, on the other hand, are doing little or no research, save looking for ways specifically to discredit the people (not the research) of those investigating climate change. So they bandy about opinions, assassinate character, lie, cheat and build grotesque fictions from whole cloth. So its not the funding. Its what's being done with the money. Science in one case, and corporate espionage in the other. Place your bets where you will, I'll take the science camp myself thanks..

The sociological problem isn't comfort. Its having a talking head in a little box tell you what you need to get comfort. Worse because these things only gratify and virtually never satisfy, you have to get today's "Turd Neuvo" to maintain that 1 minute and 14 seconds of comfort. Pavlovian consumption as economic raison d'etre. We don't need this crap. There are DOZENS of nations that consume a tenth of what America consumes and THEY ARE HAPPIER than we are. They save more money than we do. They have better health than us. Their children are getting better educations. People, who among you can't see that obsessive hoarding and anorexia are the opposite ends of the same shitty stick?

This is that religion thing again. Grow a free mind, READ dammit!, Our appetite is not our best friend. Its time to take the profit motive out of living and breathing. I know I just committed the foulest of blasphemies and I'll be forced at gun point to say 1000 hail Wallstreets, but this little experiment in grotesque consumption has run its course and is bloody close to destroying everything we love. Just yesterday I heard they want to strip mine coal in Bryce National Park. That kind of says it all. Enough people. We're turning the world into a toilet. Its like some horrible existential scene from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life", whatever you do, don't eat that last wafer thin mint.

Its time for us to elect representatives who aren't permanently attached to Corporate America's teat. Its time to muzzle Corporate America, and surgically separate them from state, while we're at it rescind their personhood, they've abused the privilege. Its time to teach our kids that they are responsible for the future, that it will only be as good or as bad as they make it, and we who are already here, should spend the rest of our ill begotten existences cleaning up the fscking mess we made, instead of viciously grubbing for more. So a little dignity please! Let's have a little compassion. Grow a pair, and demand that we put our attention to cleaning up the mess. That's a future worth having. That's a purpose worth living for. This knee jerk, pavlovian self satisfying, needs to come to a crashing halt now. It is so time to find out what's important, and let me be the first to let you know its not Axe Spray-on Deodorant, or minty fresh breath, or even the right feminine hygiene product. Perhaps then, we'll all discover the true nature of real comfort and lasing happiness. Being at home in our skins and being able to look in the mirror without shame, or the quiet self loathing at what little we've left our children.