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Climate cycles linked to civil war

I'll just keep pointing out that the US system is the envy of no one and is often the "how terrible things could be" boogey-man used in other countries' domestic policy debates, even by conservative parties.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 01:41 PM) I guarantee you neither the Yankees or Red Sox want to see Detroit in the ALDS. Possibility of seeing Verlander twice in cold weather? That's no good. Heard on B&B earlier this week, the winner of the AL East is likely going to have to play the Tiger, so they might actually prefer the WC and avoiding Verlander twice in a 5-game series.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) The man's era across 210 innings pitched is 2.28. This post of yours here defies logic. Verlander is aces almost every time out. 18-0 this year when the Tigers score 3+ runs.

Less efficient, more expensive.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 24, 2011 -> 02:00 PM) Wait, all of the sudden the Dems care about adding millions of people and costs to private insurance plans? That is a complete 180 from the ObamaCare debates. ObamaCare is a s*** handout to private insurance but it's better than the previous status quo. Raising Medicare's retirement age doesn't really save money and disproportionately affects the poor, since they tend to work more physically demanding jobs and haven't seen life expectancy increases.

did the stimulus work? A review of the nine best studies on the subject

Raising the Medicare Retirement Age: Not just morally wrong, but fiscally pointless.

lol this team

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 11:37 PM)

If the standard deviation for an individual is 15, how do you determine the error bars for n-individuals? Been a while since stats class.

I took a partial one as part of a larger evaluation.

Aside from the standard "IQ tests are rough indicators at best and subject to social, economic and environmental effects," there's this WTF? moment in the concluding paragraph: "aside from where wealth and, therefore, power is controlled, liberals control everything!" Since when is "the media" not a collection of multinational businesses? Since when is show business not a business? The only one that really fits her claim here is academia.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 03:03 PM) Think about their economies...those are mostly agricultural production states, and despite a moderate blip in 2008, food prices have remained high and government subsidies have remained strong. This jives with what their governor recently said. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43658416/Farms_Keep...rowing_Governor

I'm pretty sure they were also able to avoid the housing bubble that sank pretty much everyone else.

Over at the National Review, Kevin Williamson, who recently made a completely non-sensical attack on Krugman's criticisms of the "Texas Miracle," makes even more terrible arguments that questioning politicians on their stances on scientific issues are just "gotcha" questions and that liberals don't really care about science anyway. Yglesias responds.

NE and SD have been doing relatively well throughout this whole recession iirc.

No one argued that Texas is doing poorly, just that it's not some anomaly thanks to its tax and regulatory environment.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) Nuclear reactor site in VA has supposedly scrammed successfully. North Anna's operators were planning to manually SCRAM the reactors but the safety systems automatically tripped them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 02:25 PM) Nuclear reactor site in VA has supposedly scrammed successfully. Coworkers near Raleigh felt the quake.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 12:48 PM) The people I read who actively work on clean energy policy are aghast at that NYT article that Mr Genius cited. In particular they're frustrated at the part I've bolded, how in their efforts to write an article saying that green jobs haven't shown up, they limited themselves to 1 city in the san fran area, but then missed massive job growth throughout the rest of the eare. Talk about a bait and switch. The NYT cites the Brookings study, but then pulls out one tiny piece of it to make the exact opposite argument of the study. As Climate Progress wrote, Brookings actually found nationwide: On top of that, median salaries for cleantech-related jobs are $46,343, or about $7,727 more than the median wages across the broader economy. But you’d never know that from the NYT hit job.Link2 LIBERAL BIAS!!! But more seriously, what's with the ridiculously slanted article there?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 23, 2011 -> 08:28 AM) We are doing very little as a government to help protect ourselves, and it scares the crap out of me. No need for sarcasm, just agreement with this. Even removing AGW and the huge impacts there from the equation, our energy security is pretty weak.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 04:57 PM) I'm going to actually give some props here. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 17, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) Its really too bad he has near-zero chance to win the nomination. He'd probably have a better shot in the general than most of the other GOP candidates. More from Huntsman along the same lines:

It's usually a good idea to stay away from the first year of new models, too. Think of it like the 1.0.0 release of the car...you better wait until at least the first patch or two is out before diving in.

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