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Comment Re:I'll sue ya! (Score 1) 414

So if the Government takes over for my ISP do I have to:
1. Have my computer pass a safety and emissions test once every other year?
2. Pass a computer driving test to get a computer operator license?
3. Pay a fee to register my computer every year?
4. Pay for tickets if I go too fast on the Internet?
5. Put a license plate on my computer?
6. Put up with construction delays during peak usage times, because they won't pay someone to work on it during off hours?

Comment Re:"Pork" vs "infrastructure" (Score 1) 414

Liberals tend to be against road projects, because they would rather spend the money on mass transit, or school teachers.

In my opinion Mass Transit should not be publicly funded by State, or Federal Government. And School teachers even in the worst paying states start out around $22 per hour and go up to $40 per hour, with better benefits than most of the private sector, and have more time off than nearly all the private sector.

Comment Re:Constitutional basis for the pork? (Score 1) 414

USPS actually costs much more to deliver a letter than what you pay for. It is subsidized by Tax dollars. USPS may charge less to deliver a letter, but they charge more to deliver a package. USPS pretty much has a Monopoly on letter delivery. If you want it delivered faster then others also provide that service.

Comment Re:Common Sense (Score 1) 656

So the "Proof" of global warming is basically that we have no better theory? Yet patterns of warming don't match very well with patterns of CO2(with the exception of the last 40 years or so). We are being told that Global temperatures have gone up by fractions of a degree. I would be amazed if they could actually get all that data together without the margin of error being at least fractions of a degree. I can have 3 different digital thermometers in different places in my yard and they will all read different. Going back 100 years they didn't have digital thermometers. Temperatures in Cities are warmer than outside cities.

Global warming appears to me to be science with an agenda behind it. With something as big and as complex as this, I think you could try to have the numbers say just about whatever you want them to say.

Comment Re:Common Sense (Score 1) 656

And surely it isn't too hard to comprehend that there are cycles and some are longer than others. We know there have been cycles that have lasted for more than fifty years. So who is to say that we are not seeing just another cycle? Why is it that when it is getting warmer is it caused by humans and when it is getting colder it is caused by a cycle?

Comment Re:Common Sense (Score 1) 656

According to the charts used by the Global Warming crowd there was a warming period from 1860-1880 but then a cooling period from 1880-1910 then a warming period from 1910-1940 then cooling from 1940-1950 Then several ups and downs since that have been equated to a general warming.

Did the sea level continue to rise by 1.7 mm during the cooling trends?

"Humans have been burning fossil fuels for more than 100 years."

If C02 levels have been elevated for over 100 years then why have we continued to see long periods of cooling?

Comment Re:Common Sense (Score 2, Interesting) 656

It has been said that the Global temperature rising by 1-2 degrees? Average temperatures vary by more than that every year. Also 50 years ago without Digital thermometers the measurements could have been off by 1-2 degrees.

It is also a proven fact that temperatures are warmer within cities than outside of cities. They may try to take that into account when figuring out Global temperatures, but a Corn field from 50 years ago will be warmer now that it is paved and full of buildings. Remove the data from larger cities and your global warming becomes more of a regional warming. While other regions are getting cooler.

And how exactly is it that the ice caps are going to completely melt with a 1-2 degree change in temperature? If the temperature moves from -89 to -87 nothing is going to melt.

If all the glaciers are melting where is the rise in sea levels?

When the winters and summers are extra warm everyone blames Global warming. Why when it is extra cold can we not discount global warming?

Weather patterns are cyclical it will get warmer and it will get cooler. I would prefer warmer vs cooler.

Comment Re:Duh. (Score 1) 1601

According to ABC exit polls Obama LOST among white voters 55% to 43%. Watching the media talk as if Obama Walks on water for all voters is just plain incorrect. Obama lost by 12 percent among whites and that number was much higher in most non metropolitan areas of the country.

It is nice to see the media is color blind in all this. Every single Media outlet is copying the exact same words to describe everything about the Obama presidency. Come on this stuff has all happened before, but now because a black man is president everything is now "Historic". I thought we were not suppose to be judging people based on skin color alone? After all Obama is Half White, and was raised by White women. The only thing about him that is black is his skin color. The media has fallen all over this guy, and in the process they have failed to be objective. They have lost all credibility.

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