This video is going wild-viral as I write (see Splurb.com)
Imagine a world without religion. Let me count the wars. BRB…
[...]edited by: David Miller,
Utah Editor
This video is going wild-viral as I write (see Splurb.com)
Imagine a world without religion. Let me count the wars. BRB…
[...]***update 12:33AM US MST (UTC-7)***
Here is an example of actual code from the CRU. Try explaining this away warmers…
;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
(…)
;
; APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION
;
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
valadj is an array that if we plug [...]
These are heady days for us liberal warriors and the news just keeps getting better. Today, I give thanks for James Bopp Jr., vice chairman of the Republican party and his new G.O.P. litmus test.
Between RNC Chairman and the token negro, Michael Steele, the pasty, white, religious fanatics [...]
I belong to a little photo group on Facebook where we have themed contests every week and people post photos appropriate to the theme. This week a woman in San Diego posted a picture that keeps haunting my thoughts. I’ll just link to it here as I don’t want to [...]
Last week, I was listening in to Jim Matheson’s telephone town hall and Matheson, when asked about the deficit, gave an answer that went something like this: “The deficit is a huge problem because members of congress can’t handle making choices about the budget. We once had pay as you [...]
White hat hackers, deserving of the Nobel Peace Price, procured emails from a British University server, hosting some of the most prominent global warming researchers, exposes a conspiracy to manipulate data, overstate conclusions and hide [...]
This is a reality the Founding Fathers were well aware of when they suggested one man one vote. That’s why they created some checks against a large ignorant populous…by creating a Republic.
What else?
[...]
Global warming denialists like to point out that science is never perfect. They are right. Computer models can be off, and experts can disagree about causes and effects. However, there can be no denying the massive evidence that climate change is happening now.
The world’s oceans [...]Joe Cannon is using his post as Editor of the D-News to whine and cry and carry on about how those mean secularists are silencing sweet as angel cake Christians. I felt more gorge rising as I read the whole piece. Cannon’s thesis is simply this:
The secularists allow that [...]
These are folks who were still lined up in Ohio after midnight for Sarah Palin’s book signing. These people are 20-percenters. They are tribalist, uninterested in facts, generally ignorant, uninformed Americans. The type the Founding Fathers warned us about. They are bad Americans all.
[...]An important cautionary tale from the Onion.
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
NOVEMBER 14, 2009 | ISSUE 45•46
ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he [...]
At One News Now – the house organ of the arch-conservative group American Family Association – they published an article by Marcia Segelstein in which she declared:
Listen up, parents. The goal of sex education is not to prevent unwanted pregnancies and diseases. The goal is to promote sexual freedom.
Segelstein’s [...]
Barack Obama is being besieged from all sides about his pending decision on what to do about an undeclared war. I don’t know why this should be his decision alone. If conservatives in congress still have ants in their pants for war, as they did when Lyndon Johnson was president, [...]
Charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo
Via HuffPo’s Ryan Grim, Glenn Greenwald and Daily Kos.
In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee [...]
Its true! One of our regulars here at OneUtah provided free legal services to the prisoners in Guantanamo. See if you can guess who?
Apparently AG Eric Holder’s firm also represented these terrorists, and that pretty much proves that Obama IS effectively, Al Quaida.
Here’s proof.
Its true! One of our regulars here at OneUtah provided free legal services to the prisoners in Guantanamo. See if you can guess who.
Apparently AG Eric Holder’s firm also represented these terrorists, and that pretty much proves that Obama IS effectively, Al Quaida.
Here’s proof.
Representative Craig Frank has a blog post with a big headline:
Repeal of 1% Restaurant Tax Receives Unanimous Approval
Repealing a tax should be popular right about now. Especially since Senator Howard Stephenson and others are proposing to raise the sales tax on food.
Unfortunately, repealing this tax isn’t as pretty as [...]
NOM* the National Organization for against Marriage, really knows their morality. So they quietly dumped their newly disgraced vapid spokesmodel.
Carrie Prejean, the decrowned Miss California and darling of the Christian right, appears to have been scrubbed from the National Organization for Marriage website. The move comes [...]
This is getting depressing. I’ll let Rachel Maddow take it, she’s always upbeat even when the chips are down.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
It’s as if Congress is determined to make us all sorry we ever asked for health [...]
So, here’s my thing: When I wrote this post originally I was in a foul mood. I should know better than that but apparently I don’t. I’ve made some adjustments. If you read the original post, and read this updated version , you’ll see the wonders of being reminded to [...]
I’ve been avidly following the debate in the D-News Letters to the Editor section about sex education. The debate has actually been surprising – a large number of persons have supported sex education.
An intriguing theme emerged among those opposing sexuality education – the “teaching morals” argument. Boiled down to its [...]
If you have not had your head buried in the sand you have likely noticed that Chris Buttars has been going all out to win the “ignorant homophobe of the decade” award. He is a veritable quote mine:
In interviews, Buttars says that gays and lesbians [...]
In response to Ken Bingham’s loving concern that The African Prince has “demeaned” POTUS by “groveling” to foreign leaders; Not to worry Ken, even Republican presidents understand the idea of showing respect to others as well as their culture and public status.
Even people who live on farms understand this concept. [...]
From Towleroad:
A 2005 amendment banning same-sex marriage in the Texas may have inadvertently banned all marriages, says Houston attorney Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a candidate for attorney general [snip]
“The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by voters, declares that “marriage in this state shall consist only of the [...]
Via Think Progress:
Last night on Faux News, the network’s top legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained the system of justice laid down by the U.S. Constitution– and how it applies to trials of accused terrorists. Host Bill O’Reilly then rejected the Constitution in favor of military tribunals.
Napolitano: There was [...]
I’ve been thinking back over the many debates that took place here at OneUtah and elsewhere during the fight over California’s Prop 8. An argument I heard over and over from church members supporting Prop 8 was that legal precedents that applied in racial, sex, and religious [...]
Via Media Matters, where they are reading Sarah Palin’s new book so we don’t have to:
From Page 388 of Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life:
We got into this economic mess because of misplaced government interference in the first place. The mortgage crisis that [...]
At heart, I really am a little kid. I know this. I accept it. I embrace it most of the time.
…and right now I am pretty much jumping up and down and chanting “nah nah na nah nah!”
I love watching the homophobes at the Sutherland Institute twist in the wind. [...]
The Nation’s Aram Roston has a blockbuster piece explaining how Afghan Taliban groups actually get more funding from U.S. taxpayers than they do from selling opium.
This morning, the Roston article was a topic of discussion on Dylan Ratigan’s MSNBC show.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, [...]
According to KSL, Senator Orrin Hatch is calling the present health care bill a “potential disaster”. Of course, our present healthcare system is not a potential disaster. There’s nothing potential about it. It’s a full-on disaster for many people.
The couple in this video made too much money to [...]
Not an exact likeness of Rep. Jim Matheson
It’s time to let Rep. Jim Matheson know what we think of his votes for the poison-pill Stupak Amendment and against the House health insurance reform bill, the America’s Affordable Health Choices [...]
After visiting Arlington National Cemetery in the morning, President Obama completed his eighth meeting of the war council this afternoon without making a decision about Afghanistan strategy.
The President asked the Pentagon brass for more options on Afghanistan. They gave him [...]
He’s not just a state senator, he’s the president of the Utah Taxpayer’s Association, “your tax watchdog”. His own personal web site says,”Fighting to reduce your taxes, not add more!” (exclamation point is his)
But now Sen. Howard Stephenson, taxpaper advocate, is saying we need to increase the tax [...]
I previously posted a great video which I believe condensed the health care debate to simple terms. I found this additional video by the same young men.
I have nothing to add here except the fact that these young men did NOT impugn the police department in any way.
[...]So, there’s been a lot of discussion about “Do you remember where you were when the Berlin Wall came down?”
The answer is yes – I was in Grinnell, Iowa at college. For the most part, I don’t remember the day being terribly remarkable. I ran into a friend – [...]
The President of the United States demeaned himself and the office of the Presidency by using an extremely offensive term (tea-bag) ,referring to a lude sex act, to describe his critics.
From the New York Times Blog Prescriptions:
“Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going [...]
Hat Tip to mcjoan at Kos. From Jessica Arons, Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
1. It effectively bans coverage for most abortions from all public and private health plans in the Exchange: In addition to prohibiting direct government funding for [...]
At Open Left, Paul Rosenberg is discussing the idea of strong, progressive primary challenges to the crappy Dems who voted for the Stupak or who voted against the health care reform bill. Utah’s Jim Matheson is one such craptacular Democrat. From Democracy for Utah, we get this provocative passage:
Matheson’s [...]
Political realignments in the US tend to be painful things. Forty years ago, the US entered a period of political dealignment – one that fractured the New Deal coalition, that shattered a great many assumptions about politics and policy, that broke the American consensus about the role of government. For [...]
I am overcome with emotion. The election of The African Prince accompanied by the defeat of many Republicans was a good start. The passage of this bill in the face of the lies and distortions of evil people, the Tea Baggers, ALL republicans, Blue Dogs and powerful corporations, is [...]
Civility isn’t the end all be all of politics but this is overboard.
[...]I blame Hugo Schwyzer, who has been publishing and republishing a series of posts about sex, relationships and intimacy.
Hugo recently republished a post in which he wrote:
I’ve generally held in recent years that sex outside of the context of “commitment” falls short of both a feminist and a Christian [...]
Rep. Michele Bachmann led the charge today in what she described as a “last stand,” storming Capitol Hill to prevent Congress from enacting health care reform. Describing the protest as a “desperate act,” Bachmann told supporters that she hoped to scare congressional' [...]
The Democrats picked up a seat in the House yesterday NY-23 – a seat held by Republicans since shortly after the Civil War. In this race, the Republican candidate was chased out of the race by the Teabagger/9-12 hard core base, and threw her support to the Democrat. Of all [...]
Once again, at great expense, Utahn’s are voting on machines audited by a private corporation which has changed it’s name at least three times. In the first two years, Utah spent over 20 million dollars for the privilege of leaving our fingerprints on a touchscreen, (an actual ad campaign.)
After becoming [...]
After many months of not offering any alternative health care reform plan, the House Republicans have unveiled a proposal for the de facto total deregulation of the health insurance industry.
Rep. John Boehner
If you’re uninsured, this won’t help you.
If you’re insured, but you worry [...]
For many months after leaving Washington DC in disgrace, former President Bush refrained from public statements. Now he’s speaking out, reminding us of his administration’s multiple catastrophes.
Via Think Progress:
Eight years ago, President Bush asserted with great bravado that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would [...]
Rep. Lynn Hemingway is proposing a bill that would create a two-track system of sex education in Utah schools – the first track the current “keep your knees together and pray” abstinence only and a new track of comprehensive sex education.
The problem – the major obstacle to meaningful reform of [...]
Would you be happy if:
You did not worry about being laid off from your job? You knew you could afford the cost of health care for your family? You could be paid to go to college?My sister was recently telling me about an Oprah segment about Denmark, the happiest people in the [...]
The gun lobby’s favorite pieces of research – a 1995 study by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz that reported an astounding 2.5 million defense gun uses each year in the United States. Yep, you read it right.
The Kleck study claims that 2.5 million times per year, someone uses a gun [...]
This morning on CNN Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with Matthew Hoh, the first U.S. official to resign in protest over the Afghan war. In his eloquent letter of resignation (PDF), he wrote:
I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures [...]
Glenden Brown, Richard Warnick, Cliff Lyon, Larry Bergan, shane, Ken Bingham, Becky Stauffer, Frank Staheli
