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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 06:57:39 [Permalink]
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How about that! This prize will go far in helping to legitimize the fight against MMGW.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Bill scott
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 Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:12:24 [Permalink]
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Let me guess, he will fly out in his private jet to pick up the reward award. And also maybe pick up a few "carbon credits" at the 7/11 on his way out to apease his consensus. This guy is a clown and has turned the whole MMGW debate into his own three ring circus. |
"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:15:34 [Permalink]
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Just paid a visit to the Freepers, and guess what; nary a word on Gore's Nobel.
If I hadn't been having a problem with my idiot computer, Kil'd not have beaten me to this thread,
Al rocks! But I too, don't think he'll run. He's doing what he thinks is most useful with his life.
And I have a question: would a Nobel, as prestigious as it is, really make a difference in the way people vote?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:16:27 [Permalink]
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Gore and the thousands of scientists working on the IPCC report. Don't forget them.
But now the gol-durned lib'ruls are never gonna shut up about Gore. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:18:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
Let me guess, he will fly out in his private jet to pick up the reward award. And also maybe pick up a few "carbon credits" at the 7/11 on his way out to apease his consensus. This guy is a clown and has turned the whole MMGW debate into his own three ring circus.
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Sour grapes, Bill?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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pleco
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:24:19 [Permalink]
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| Good for him...about time he got something since he had the presidency stolen. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Bill scott
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 07:43:48 [Permalink]
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[i]Originally posted by filthy
Sour grapes, Bill?
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Maybe? I wouldn't mind having my own private jet to hop scotch the globe in. Not mention having the money to be able to afford the fuel that thing burns.
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"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 08:59:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
[i]Originally posted by filthy
Sour grapes, Bill?
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Maybe? I wouldn't mind having my own private jet to hop scotch the globe in. Not mention having the money to be able to afford the fuel that thing burns.
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Me too, but the lack of it doesn't worry at me much. I refuse to fly anyway, but the cash would be nice. As I am not familiar with Gore's itinerary, I can't comment on whether his airplane trips are frivolous or not.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 16:20:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
This guy is a clown and has turned the whole MMGW debate into his own three ring circus. |
No, Bill, it's the far right demagogues who have done that. Now-- instead of real discussion-- ditto-heads and Fox News junkies can listen to the "scientists" from the Exxon-Mobile-funded think tanks dissemble about how the solar system is warming or whatever, and the uneducated will fall in lock step and parrot their lies.
Just look back at the discussions with Jerome and see how lies and obfuscation don't stand up to objective data.
Did Gore and Co. deserve the Peace Prize? I don't know. But do they all deserved the crap they're getting from the right? Hardly. Indeed, it speaks volumes for Gore's message that they all go so hard after him with such miserable lies. |
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Robb
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Posted - 10/12/2007 : 17:58:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
Good for him...about time he got something since he had the presidency stolen.
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Yeah, because he has nothing, poor guy. |
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Dave W.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/13/2007 : 02:04:11 [Permalink]
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Speaking of sour grapes: Conservatives reacted to the long-awaited news this morning that Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with mocking derision. For those on the right, the decision to confer the prize to the former vice-president and U.N.'s climate change panel for their efforts to increase awareness of global warming represents the further politicization of what has traditionally been viewed as a prestigious award.
"So now 'Algore' will join Yasir Arafat among the list of noble Nobel peace laureates," Rush Limbaugh said with much sarcasm at the top of his broadcast today. The Norwegian committee, Limbaugh said, has "rendered themselves a pure, 100 percent joke." |
What these ignorant wankers fail to realize is that the Nobel Committee is a private institution. They can give the award to anyone they please. Or perhaps they do realize it but think that they should have a place in the boardroom, even though they are barely competent enough to drool into a microphone.
And the Republican presidential contenders lack the grace to even comment at all. Looking at the field, I am unsuprised.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
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Posted - 10/13/2007 : 04:38:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
And the Republican presidential contenders lack the grace to even comment at all. Looking at the field, I am unsuprised. |
Actually, McCain did. Thought it should have gone to some "Buddhist monks who are suffering and dying in Burma." I don't think he knows that it's not a Pity Prize. Idiot. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/13/2007 : 06:45:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by filthy
And the Republican presidential contenders lack the grace to even comment at all. Looking at the field, I am unsuprised. |
Actually, McCain did. Thought it should have gone to some "Buddhist monks who are suffering and dying in Burma." I don't think he knows that it's not a Pity Prize. Idiot.
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Aung Sun Suu Kyi already has one.
McCain is staggering along on his last legs; no money, little credibility. Now it looks like he's succumbed to Ratchet Jaw Syndrom.
Not a single congratulation from any of them. No pride that an American recieved this honorable award. These people have no grace; no soul; no honor, and no vision beyond their own picayune ambitions.
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends. ~~ Arab proverb.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 10/13/2007 : 10:19:27 [Permalink]
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I wonder which was the last previous winner of the Nobel peace Prize that Limbaugh and his ilk would applaud? Probably have to go back to Teddy Roosevelt. Nope, they'd probably think his trust-busting activity made him a Commie.
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Gore wins Peace Prize!
