The idea that a Free People would meekly submit ...

Then go Galt. Show the rest of us what FAIL really looks like.

You really think the Founders would have been outraged over paint colors?

Bush's Treasury and Fed were going to start throwing money around with or without the Democrats' involvement. Paulson and Bernanke were that panicked.

The bailout was bum rushed like the Afghan war. Technically, Congress could have stopped it if they wanted to. Practically, it happened so fast that the only people calling shots were in the Executive branch.

these bonuses are required pay and they were not performance based. Why are people calling them bonuses then?

Because Wall Street firms categorize them as bonuses so they can claim impermissible tax deductions and cheat the system.

It's not as bad as you think. It's worse.

Obama received a lot of campaign contributions

By "a lot" do you mean "a drop in the bucket"?

1/5000 of his total donations. From individual employees, not the company. Get real.

No. According to this article only 20% of the CDS contracts being written were actually insurance on securities one of the parties owned. i.e. buying fire insurance on your own house.

The other 80% were speculation on someone else's securities. i.e. buying fire insurance on Dresden, 1944. So it goes.

I think you've answered your question. Why should the ACLU lift a flying finger to protect the 2nd Amendment? The NRA has a laserlike focus on the 2nd, has more resources, and doesn't give a damn about the rest of the Bill of Rights.

They're actually very complementary organizations, but don't tell that to an NRA member, because he'll probably go for the rifle in his pickup's gun rack.

Sheesh, can't you read?

THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE RISK of human induced climate change.

That statement doesn't commit the IPCC to finding whether the probability is 0, 1 or anything between.

You can understand the risk of asteroid impact without thinking it will happen in the next 10 years. If you actually understand the risk of climate change, you're going to be very concerned about the next 10 years.

How is "The Senate" = "The Obama Administration"?

Obama is doing almost nothing about this bill, although I don't think he would veto it.

Individual Representatives and Senators, who are very concerned with elderly people who have nothing to do but watch TV and vote, are driving pretty much the whole thing.

that does not make the odds of an asteroid destroying the earth 1:50...as wrong as the person calculating the odds are, the odds are still going to be incredibly small.

That's because you're assuming a prior probability of asteroid impact, which you're probably estimating from observation (i.e. if you've lived 50 years with no asteroid strikes, that gives you an estimate of the upper bound of the prior).

These guys aren't saying you should disregard priors when you have them -- like with asteroids. But for the LHC, arguably there is no accurate prior because nothing in that energy range has ever been done before.

If you disbelieve scientists who are, individually and collectively, vastly better informed about every climate issue than you are because...you read something on the internet...then you're a denier.

Yes, I'm sure GM, the largest corporation in the world had nothing to do with those efforts, just as it had nothing to do with the laws developing the interstate highway system or the destruction of the streetcar lines it purchased.

If you're so well informed about history, what makes you so confident about the simplistic causality? Have you been reading the libertarian equivalent of Howard Zinn?

Because the net atmospheric concentration of CO2 has gone up 40% over the last century or so. That's a very significant change, and it's basically all due to human activity. In the laboratory, it is more than enough to cause significant greenhouse warming.

As for the rest of your argument: "Although natural sources represent most CO2 emissions, they do not contribute to the recent observed increase in concentrations because natural sources are balanced by natural sinks that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The increase in carbon dioxide concentration arises because the increase from human activity is not completely balanced by a corresponding sink." -- USG via Wikipedia

You're making an invalid assumption. Many systems are easier to predict and understand on a large scale.

For example, if I boil a pot of water, I can easily predict how its overall temperature will increase. It's much harder -- impossible in fact -- to predict exactly where bubbles will nucleate.

Overall temperature = climate. Location of the bubbles = weather.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it were completely extinct in Haiti but hanging on in the Dominican Republic, considering the stark difference in the condition of the native forests.

Run their own phishing blacklist? Is that really a good use of their time?

Maybe they should sue Google, without any contract having been broken?

Or break into their data center and force them at gunpoint to turn the machines back on?

Mozilla should have gotten Google to contractually agree to keep the servers running through the end of life of Firefox 2, and they didn't, which is their screwup. But you're just conspiracymongering.