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Looks like Christie found a patsy. A lesson to all who feel going along to get along at work is the right move. When the US was the number one power, it was skill that determined who the leaders should be. Today, it's the people who are the best at sucking up.......

bgamall4 says

No, there are enough assault rifles to shoot down drones

Again, it's impossible to shoot down a bird with a rifle. Even more so for a drone. Adding "assault" to the definition doesn't make it more possible. To have a chance at shooting down a flying object you need, basically, to deliver a cloud of projectiles, which is achieved either by shotgun-type weapon, multi-barell machinegun (think 4-barrel DSHK or, better yet, Gatling), cannon with shrapnel projectile, or missile with shrapnel-loaded warhead. Rifles are useless against flying objects.

I was speaking theoretically anyway.

And showed your ignorance on the subject (and basic science really).

I have no clue if people would be motivated to shoot down drones, you troll.

The only people who would be motivated to shoot down drones with rifles would be people who have no education, common sense and knowledge about shooting. Having any one of three would be enough to understand how laughable the proposition is. BTW, why did you dodge the question about your profession and education level? Did you go to college? Heck, have you finished HS? Fess up, Gary, public wants to know.

CiC, don't you know you're not allowed to mention anecdotal evidence about cooling and AGW, unless it's about a heat wave or receding glacier or lack of ice cap in the Arctic, in which case anecdote away.

It's been much colder than usual around Baltimore so far this winter.

Ahem, excuse me, it is no longer referred to as Global Warming. (I mean really, that was so 10 minutes ago!) Please use the correct PC term--Climate Change. This accounts for all weather anomalies. Thank you for your cooperation.

Everything nominal to profile.

thunderlips11 says

Everything nominal to profile.

Normal except that according to your graph it looks like we are headed toward the next ice age.

They thought so in the 70s, after 40 years of cooling trends.

The BBC, Science, In Search Of, Newsweek, all ran articles in the mid 70s warning of the possibility of an impending Ice Age.

For the record, I believe there has been some warming, at least in the past century. The Devil is all in the details of how the statistics are compiled (the Hockey Stick graph is absurd, as in any graph that compares multiple different proxies to actual measurements in the past few decades. For example, we've only been measure the Arctic Ice Cap spread since about 1980, so we have no idea how large it was nor how long into the year it lasted before then other than snippets of anecdotal evidence), and I believe it's a travesty that the Scientific Method, that should be treating the primarily Anthropogenic-driven Global Warming hypothesis with repeated challenges and skepticism, has neglected Ocean Currents, Sun Emissions, Ocean Outgassing, and a myriad of other known or potential climate forcing measures - even if it ends up proving AGW.

The Earth is so complex, that a few years to make a consensus is meaningless, as there is no possible way we've explored the topic anywhere near comprehensively.

We need to answer why past CO2 levels have fluctuated widely in the total absence of human activity, also, and eliminate any natural cause as the prime driver. I don't mean back when meteorites were pounding the earth, nor in the Jurassic Era, but in the Quaternary period itself.

It should be noted that the IPCC was largely formed through the efforts of Maggie Thatcher, who was in the throes of an epic battle to replace labor-voting working-class unionized British Coal with tory-voting college-educated engineers running Nuclear Power Plants at the time.

In short (too late) - I'm leaning towards this guy's position:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/my-global-warming-skepticism-for-dummies/

And I believe in aggressive pursuit of alternative energy, but we have to beware of the enviro fanatics and the lawyer-get-rich-quick scheme of suing over every alternative energy project (ie Nantucket Sound, or any hydro project). If we have to kill more salmon to create renewable energy, with our lousy other choices being Nuclear, Oil/Gas, or live like unwashed hippies, I have to say "Goodbye Salmon". The lesser of two evils and all that.

Also, a Maunder Minimum is more a threat than Global Warming. Most of the arable land is in the Northern Hemisphere. If the temperature drops a few degrees fahrenheit, with 6 Billion people, we have a major problem.

I think we are focusing on wrong issues - the more pertinent question is who will win in nfl divisional playoffs this weekend.

Quigley says

On an aside, anyone who wears their pants higher than their navel shouldn't be on a poster anywhere.

No exceptions?

We need to investigate who sent Piers Morgan. Why does he always talk about guns on his show? Something doesn't jive with him. Waterboarding should be useful to dertermine his intentions and the identity of the puppeteers.

marco says

Christie vs Hillary who says we don't have great leadership ? Huh ?

P.S. Will Hillary wear the $500,000 gold necklace, a present from the King Of Saudi Ararbia, at the inauguration....?

Yes She Can

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think."

- Adolf Hitler

Wow, so Christie turns out to be a common thug who exacts retribution on his political enemies, and he's STILL your hero. And the only defense you have for him is to attack Hillary Clinton.

Sad.

thomaswong.1986 says

Bellingham Bill says

just for the record, my retired Apple millionaire friend was priced out of Los Altos, and that was 2-3 years ago.

real millionaires live in SilverCreek... even back in the day, why buy a chicken shack in LA when you can buy a modern home in SC.... whats the point, are you looking to bank roll the retailers on University Ave so they can charge you $5 cup of coffee ?

It's true that for the same $, you can get a nicer place in SC than in PA/LA/Cupt/Sara/LG. But;

- schools are not as good in SC. Some prefer a less stressful school, so in that case SC is better. But many people buying $1m+ houses look for high academic achievement schools. Private school is an option, but...

- traffic is worse in SC. Commute to North SJ, or Cupt, or PA; it's much better in the Fortress area than from SC. And there's more routes; in the last two days there's been a fire and series of crashes on 101N. Not a lot of other good options. But if going from LG to North SJ (for example), you can take San Tomas if 17/880 is bad.

- Not only that, but traffic is generally worse around evergreen and sc. just going to the store or shopping is more troublesome than in other areas.

After all, Thomas, you live in LG; obviously you see some benefit there compared to SC.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

At least Killer Krispy didn't murder all those people in Benghazi

How can we be sure about it? I mean, with the demonic coverup skills he demonstrated....

Only acceptable form of healthcare is annual physical for healthy individuals, everyone else should be just thrown into river grande.

Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.
Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

The mandatory sign up process felt like a digital cavity search in front of CGI, UnitedHealth Group, NSA, Booz Allen, Romanian identity thieves, and countless other strangers. And on suspicion of what crime? Breathing, apparently. Corporations are people, but they don't breathe. Humans breathe, which is now the basis for a government penalty, unless we submit ourselves to corporations and policies that they don't even show us - we have to buy to find out what's in them, if we can even see then. Democrats enacted it, but if we must trust the Republicans to protect our data, the fox has been put in charge of the hen house.

Straw Man says

Quigley says

On an aside, anyone who wears their pants higher than their navel shouldn't be on a poster anywhere.

No exceptions?

She shouldn't be on a poster; she should be on my face.

SoftShell says

Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.
Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

I think they were scyrocketing non stop under repub watch for years!

donjumpsuit says

Who needs jobs?

Can't you just make money by sitting in your piece of Real Estate have have it appreciate 30% a year?

Some on this board seem to think this is true. If we can just get everyone remaining to leave the workforce the unemployment number will look great and we can bring QE to a screeching halt.

Call it Crazy says

For Every One Job Added, Nearly 5 People Left the Workforce

But the Stock and Housing Markets are just fabulous dahling!

The 16-19 demographic drop is particularly troubling - it's confirming what I suspected all along - that these young millenial bums want to sit on their ass all day long on "social media" and play video games. Their parents need to provide them a swift kick in the ass which should not be too hard to find considering their obesity.

The labor participation rate has been dropping since 2000 when Bush became President.
What did he do to screw up so bad?

SiO2 says

thomaswong.1986 says

Bellingham Bill says

just for the record, my retired Apple millionaire friend was priced out of Los Altos, and that was 2-3 years ago.

real millionaires live in SilverCreek... even back in the day, why buy a chicken shack in LA when you can buy a modern home in SC.... whats the point, are you looking to bank roll the retailers on University Ave so they can charge you $5 cup of coffee ?

It's true that for the same $, you can get a nicer place in SC than in PA/LA/Cupt/Sara/LG. But;
- schools are not as good in SC. Some prefer a less stressful school, so in that case SC is better. But many people buying $1m+ houses look for high academic achievement schools. Private school is an option, but...

- traffic is worse in SC. Commute to North SJ, or Cupt, or PA; it's much better in the Fortress area than from SC. And there's more routes; in the last two days there's been a fire and series of crashes on 101N. Not a lot of other good options. But if going from LG to North SJ (for example), you can take San Tomas if 17/880 is bad.

- Not only that, but traffic is generally worse around evergreen and sc. just going to the store or shopping is more troublesome than in other areas.

After all, Thomas, you live in LG; obviously you see some benefit there compared to SC.

Amazing timing! I JUST came back from looking at a house in the Silver Creek/Evergreen area. I totally agree with the traffic issue. 101 in the morning is terrible but of course so is pretty much anywhere in the Bay Area. The main problems I saw were isolation, its just a bunch of residential housing with no interspersed commercial. Shopping will take a car. The house were also mostly original late '60s to early '70s and not kept up well. The yards were dead, cracked concrete etc. Not a slum but not sparkling.

Of course one man's dump is another mans fixer upper.

Bush and Clinton pushed through NAFTA and foreign visas along with doing away with Glass Steagall which destroyed the American middle class.

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999. Note "... how much it will buy."

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Friday, January 10, 2014 __ Level is 105.3

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes! This was in the New York Times on August 27, 2006:

And up to date (by me) is here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

WOW! The UNtrustworthy are certainly in control of what information is apparent to the people!

And http://patrick.net/?p=1230886

Tru dat...but the pace has quickened under oc...
dublin hillz says

SoftShell says

Insurance premiums will continue to skyrocket unless the republicans win all 3 branches in '16...which will not happen.

Goodbye Starbucks...we are all fucked.

I think they were scyrocketing non stop under repub watch for years!

Nice. :-)

Call it Crazy says

Yep, Very Sad....

Yes very sad:

1. That you can't discuss Christie without bringing up Obama or Hillary. They have nothing to do with this, yet that's all you can talk about.

2. That you can't grasp the difference between something bad happening and being the DELIBERATE CAUSE of something bad happening. If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point? As much of a moron as he is, he didn't deliberately cause 9/11 to happen as political payback for some imagined slight. Why can't you understand that it's the MOTIVE that is the problem? Christie DELIBERATELY endangered the public for no good reason. His intent was to CAUSE traffic jams. Nobody was criticizing him until we learned that he did it ON PURPOSE, as an act of political retribution. If you accidentally run over a squirrel with your car, you are perhaps careless and maybe a bad driver. If you DELIBERATELY swerve to run over a squirrel, you are a sadistic bastard. Are you starting to get the difference yet?

3. You can't form a coherent argument; all you can do is post stupid pictures with pithy slogans on them.

Manslaughter? Or Murder?
And the thread turned into a script for stand-up comedy show.

Homeboy says

If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point?

Bush got thousands of Iraqi, Afghan, and other Arab terrorists and murders killed ...

These thugs wont be killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in

the future...And how is this bad again ?

Call it Crazy says

My big concern is that in some ways, but not all, the Fed has returned us to 2007 – assets of all kinds including home prices are rising rapidly –

When people talk of Housing Bubble... some simple attribute all to the

"Mortgage Crisis" and missing out on the over the top price appreciation.

This becomes dangerous when key people are in govt policy positions.

thomaswong.1986 says

Homeboy says

If you want to play the "how many people died on your watch" game, then George W. Bush wins by a landslide, but what's the point?

Bush got thousands of Iraqi, Afghan, and other Arab terrorists and murders killed ...

These thugs wont be killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in

the future...And how is this bad again ?

The terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and bush put all the Saudis on a plane and shipped them back to their country safe and sound, then attacked the wrong country. You don't get how that's bad? You must be a goddam genius.

Homeboy says

he terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, and bush put all the Saudis on a plane and shipped them back to their country safe and sound, then attacked the wrong country.

PLO terrorist came from Germany, Ireland and Italy...

You seemed to forgotten how long Syrian, Libyan, and Iraq have been pro-state

sponsored terrorist. You equally forgotten how long they were seeking

Nukes.

Homeboy says

then attacked the wrong country. You don't get how that's bad? You must be a goddam genius.

homeboy = short on memory !

http://www.youtube.com/embed/S0f5u_0ytUs

http://www.youtube.com/embed/6mpWa7wNr5M

Homeboy says

1. That you can't discuss Christie without bringing up Obama or Hillary. They have nothing to do with this, yet that's all you can talk about.

Leadership.... deal with it today to understand who is the better one for tomorrow.

Not again. Imbeciles. Why can't have we have a real opposition???It is like voting between Attila the Hun and Vlad the Impaler.

Why are we even arguing about this?

Bush took out Sodom, freed Iraq, and got rid of all the terrorists!

(Or, in the language of WTF1986, "all the terrorist.")

The Jews really learned a lot from the Nazis.
Where they improved on the Third Reich was in the field of propaganda. It's really not easy to conduct an unprovoked war of extermination against a population and then successfully bill the survivors as terrorists. That takes a special sort of spin!