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To: TideGlider who wrote (733500)	8/19/2013 12:16:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578020

*'Remove Muslim Brotherhood like Nazis'...*

To: TideGlider who wrote (733500)	8/19/2013 12:17:43 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1578020

muslim brotherhood mob parades nuns in Cairo as prisoners of war...

To: TideGlider who wrote (733500)	8/19/2013 12:53:59 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1578020

The White House credibility deficit ....................................................................................... Guardian (UK) ^ \| Sunday 18 August 2013 \| Jeff Jarvis According to Britons, Americans are incapable of irony – and our president is proving their point. In his address about Egypt's military coup – or whatever bowdlerizing euphemism is permitted this week in Washington – Obama condemned the notion that "security trumps individual freedom." Really? After his press conference announcing an oversight commission for the NSA, it emerged that the NSA's truth-challenged director of national intelligence, James Clapper, would apparently oversee the oversight. The White House had to explain the joke, and then said Clapper would merely facilitate. And in the latest revelations from Edward Snowden on NSA noncompliance even with its over-broad license to snoop on most anyone, the Washington Post reported that the administration – which supposedly welcomes this discussion and at first permitted a spokesman to defend the administration on the record – tried to withdraw his quotes and replace them with a new statement. The Post wouldn't go along with this gag and reported the attempt. The Post was right to refuse to play along and allow the White House to write its spokesman's quotes after the fact. I was shocked last year when it turned out that the New York Times allowed some sources to "approve quotes" after uttering them, a policy it quickly reversed. I have been equally shocked to find some European reporters, as a matter of standard procedure, giving me the opportunity to review and alter my own quotes. No, what's said is said: that is the very definition of "on-the-record". That is the punchline of the Snowden affair: when we can't trust what government tells us, we come to trust those whom government doesn't trust. Thus, we no longer necessarily care what the official line is and who delivers it. And when that happens, access becomes worthless. Ah, the irony. (Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...

To: TideGlider who wrote (733500)	8/19/2013 1:14:16 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578020

'Obama Robber' terrorizes Austrian banks: Thief wears mask of President Obama during heists Obama ruled out as perp because perp spoke Austrian. Man Charged For Robbery While Wearing Obama Mask

To: TideGlider who wrote (733500)	8/19/2013 1:33:33 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578020

The problem with your post is it isn't even wrong. Just irrelevant. Our sun is a variable star. But is nowhere near variable enough to account for the climate changes in the geological record. Google snowball earth sometime. Greenhouse gases act as an amplifier of changes in in isolation. Not to mention changes in albedo, covering and exposing carbonaceous material, creation and drying of bogs, etc. Our planet has a lot of mechanisms that take pretty small changes and amplifies them to create big changes in climate. We have been mining and burning billions of tons of fossil carbon in the form of coal alone a year for decades. Lesser amounts for centuries. We have significantly increased the amount of CO2, methane, soot particulates, water vapor and other things in our atmosphere. And those are triggering other mechanisms, like open water in the Arctic, which are amplifying those changes. Likewise, the increasing temperatures are causing bogs to dry up and permafrost to melt. Both of those then release their methane and expose their carbon to oxidation. Ocean bottom waters are warming. That means they hold less dissolved gasses and opens the possibility of the clathrates becoming unstable and releasing their methane. And there is a lot of both at the bottom of the oceans. So your thinking in this, like many subjects is simplistic, ill-informed and superficial.