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If you're a Minnesotan, would you have any reason whatsoever for believing global warming is happening?
For any reason--human or natural causes?
Last week, we Minnesotans "enjoyed" 25 below zero temps straight up and 45 below zero wind chill. Schools were closed, not due to snow, but due to severe cold. Too dangerous to let little kids wait outside for the bus.
13 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoAm I a redneck because I was against Obama?
Tom Brokow thinks I am because I supported John McCain.
"Listen, I just want to say one thing. Having been in the South in the '60s and Los Angeles, in Watts and northern urban areas, when we were evolving as a country, I'm thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I'm saying to them, "Take this." You know?"
39 AnswersElections1 decade agoIs the following proof of global warming?
Here is part of the seven-day weather forecast for the Twin Cities. Does this mean polar bears would drown in Minnesota?:
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -7.
Tuesday: A chance of snow. Partly sunny and cold, with a high near 0.
Tuesday Night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -9.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 1.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -13.
Thursday: Sunny and cold, with a high near -1.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -19.
Friday: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 8.
21 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoAre all the apocolyptic stories about the year 2012 just so much religious hot air?
On the History Channel, they ran interviews with so-called scientists who insist that the Earth will get blasted by radiation from the center of the Milky Way galaxy when "alignment" occurs.
With all that dust between us and the center? C'mon. Astronomers didn't even know the Milky Way was a galaxy until the 20th century 'cuz they couldn't see anything but dust thataway. What makes them think "alignment" would unblock all that crud?
26 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoWhy do liberals think Dick Cheney is Darth Vader?
Isn't he actually a nice guy who takes American freedom and American power seriously?
8 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIs Isaiah Berlin right? Are there truly desirable values that can't be realized simultaneously?
"According to Berlin's pluralism, genuine values are many, and may—and often do—come into conflict with one another. When two or more values clash, it does not mean that one or another has been misunderstood; nor can it be said, a priori, that any one value is always more important than another. Liberty can conflict with equality or with public order; mercy with justice; love with impartiality and fairness; social and moral commitment with the disinterested pursuit of truth or beauty (the latter two values, contra Keats, may themselves be incompatible); knowledge with happiness; spontaneity and free-spiritedness with dependability and responsibility. Conflicts of values are ‘an intrinsic, irremovable part of human life’; the idea of total human fulfillment is a chimera.
3 AnswersPhilosophy1 decade agoWould you support an American offer to supply Israel with tunnel and bunker buster bombs?
I sure would.
"Heavy shelling was reported in Rafah on Wednesday night as the IDF stepped up its operations against weapons smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor." [BTW, that has nothing to do with the well known city in Pennsylvania, but refers to the Philadelphia mentioned in the Bible.]
17 AnswersMilitary1 decade agoIs Norman Podhoretz right? Are we in the middle of World War IV?
The war waged by America against Islamofascism?
"Telling the story properly has required more than a straight narrative leading from 9/11 to the time of writing. For one thing, I have had to interrupt the narrative repeatedly in order to confront and clear away the many misconceptions, distortions, and outright falsifications that have been perpetrated. In addition, I have had to broaden the perspective so as to make it possible to see why the great struggle into which the United States was plunged by 9/11 can only be understood if we think of it as World War IV.
My hope is that telling the story from this perspective and in these ways will demonstrate that the road we have taken since 9/11 is the only safe course for us to follow. As we proceed along this course, questions will inevitably arise as to whether this or that move was necessary or right; and such questions will breed hesitations and even demands that we withdraw from the field. Some of this happened even in World War II, perhaps the most popular war the United States has ever fought, and much more of it in World War III (that is, the cold war); and now it is happening again, notably with respect to Iraq."
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoHow long would Mexico exist if it fired missiles into Texas?
I'd give it about a day.
17 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoLiberals: Do you really think Islamofascists are only out to get Israel?
Really? Really?
"Khomeini's successor, Ali Khamenei, has consistently married his virulent anti-American rhetoric (Khomeini's "Great Satan" has become Khamenei's "Satan Incarnate") with a global appeal to faithful Muslims to join the battle against the U.S. and its allies. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the most politically adept of the revolution's founding clerics, loved to sponsor militant Sunni-Shiite gatherings when he was speaker of parliament and later as president (1989-1997). He and Mr. Khamenei, who have worked hand-in-hand on national-security issues and have unquestionably authorized every major terrorist operation since the death of Khomeini in 1989, have always been the ultimate pragmatists, even reaching out to Arab Sunni radicals with a strong anti-Shiite bent."
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoDo you think Hamas is in trouble? Do you hope it's true?
"By Tuesday, Day 11 of Operation Cast Lead, Hamas was described as “desperate for a lull,” its leadership in underground bunkers and Gaza in near-anarchy. The terror organization was both boxed in and isolated as apprehensions of Hezbollah opening a second front to Israel’s north failed to materialize—inviting plausible speculation that the war was a ploy by Iran to distract attention from its progress toward the bomb."
13 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIf someone tells you to "Go back into the oven," do you think that person is anti-Semitic?
‘Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that’s what you need!”
This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely. You can watch it on YouTube if you like.
But why bother? The Fort Lauderdale outburst is just one window on the upside-down world of Israel hatred. Across the Islamic world, and in too many points West, it is still considered a penetrating and poignant insight to call Zionists the “new Nazis.” For instance, in Sunday’s Gulf News, Mohammad Abdullah al Mutawa, a sociology professor at United Arab Emirates University, penned an essay titled “Zionists are the new Nazis.” He began: “Today, the whole world stands as a witness to the fact that the Nazi Holocaust was a mere lie, which was devised by the Zionists to blackmail humanity.”
At a Saturday protest in New York against Israel’s military assault on Gaza, some carried signs that read: “Israel: The Fourth Reich,” “Holocaust by Holocaust Survivors,” “Stop Israel’s Holocaust,” “Holocaust in Gaza” and “Stop the Zionist Genocide in Gaza.”
Type “Israel” and “Nazi” into any news search engine and you’ll be rewarded, or punished, with a bounty of such statements from just the last week or so. Gaza is the new Auschwitz, the Israeli Defense Forces are SS troops ... I find myself tempted to simply write “et cetera” because it’s all so familiar by now. But to do that is to dismiss, and therefore accept, such grotesqueries as trivialities, when in fact such charges are deeply revealing — just not about Israel.
First, let us note that if supposedly all-powerful Israel is dedicated to exterminating the Palestinian people, it is doing a bad job. The Palestinian population has only grown since 1948. There are more Arab citizens living in Israel proper today than there were in all of Palestine the year Israel was founded.
Perhaps one reason Israel fails at genocide is that it isn’t interested in genocide? That would explain why Israel warned thousands of Gazans by cell phone to leave homes near Hamas rocket stockpiles. It would clarify why, even amid all-out war, it offers aid to enemy civilians. It would even illuminate the otherwise mysterious clamor from Israelis for a viable “peace partner."
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoIs this not America's golden hour?
Doesn't this prove America is the most moral country in the world?
"So once again, America stands alone beside its vital Mideast partner, and once again, the ensuing floodgates of Jew-hatred crash wide open, spewing the seeds of anti-Semitism even among those to whom the jihadists pose the greatest threat. And each time the world by-and-large falls for this remarkably transparent ruse, the peace-at-any-cost crowd become more mobilized while the hate-mongers grow all the more emboldened."
14 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhen should we American minions celebrate Barack Hussein Obama Day?
ItsNotFactJustBecauseYouSaySo suggested April 1. What do you think?
30 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhy does the major media fear the impact of Gaza?
fighting on the near future Obama administration? Why would they care? Aren't they supposed to be objective news organizations merely reporting the news?
They didn't care about the impact of Sept. 11 on the Bush administration.
Why is the major media so in the tank for Obama?
6 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhich is more disturbing?
Ann Coulter being banned for life from NBC and its cable networks or NBC executives shuddering at the fact that she'd dare criticize Obama?
Executives at NBC TODAY replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton, who recently offered $1,000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Ann Coulter. Hilton is also launching a new book this week, RED CARPET SUICIDE.
"Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY.
One network insider claims it was the book's theme -- a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era -- that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist.
"We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now," a TODAY insider reveals. "It's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."
20 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoThose of you who disparage biological evolution as "just a theory," would you please define scientific theory?
"Scientific theory" has a very specific meaning, very different than the ordinary, everyday meaning of the word "theory." Such statements as "just a theory" are very serious flaws in argumentation. Care to try to change my mind?
5 AnswersAnthropology1 decade ago