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To: koan who wrote (53382)	9/14/2013 10:32:06 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By greenspirit TimF Respond to of 85487

Then why do rich people send their kids to private schools? Are they stupid?

To: koan who wrote (53382)	9/14/2013 10:58:17 AM
From: sm1th	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

I have seen no evidence anything works better than democratically run public schools. You haven't looked for it, the evidence is abundant.

To: koan who wrote (53382)	9/14/2013 12:10:55 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 85487

Study: 114 Out Of 117 Global Warming Predictions Wrongby Whoopie • 13 September, 2013 • Politics, Tech • 0 Comments Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short time periods. That’s the upshot of a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change that compared 117 climate predictions made in the 1990's to the actual amount of warming. Out of 117 predictions, the study’s author told FoxNews.com, three were roughly accurate and 114 overestimated the amount of warming. On average, the predictions forecasted two times more global warming than actually occurred. Learn more: J. P. Travis who has a better head for math than me wrote this over at I hate The Media: Since one would expect wrong predictions in an unbiased field of study to fall equally on both sides, we can easilycalculate the odds of 114 straight errors being on the over-estimate side. It’s the same odds as flipping a coin and getting 114 straight heads or 114 straight tails: 0.5^114 = 0.00000000000000000000000000000000004815 That’s less than 1 chance in a hundred undecillion that climate modeling is an unbiased scientific field of study. (An undecillion is a number 10^12 times larger than the estimated number of stars in the universe.) The Left is habitually on the wrong side of any issue. I’ve maintained that if these people were blindly flipping a coin to decide their policy positions, over the long term they’d be right half the time. Clearly they deliberately choose positions that are carefully calculated to cause harm. Even so, FoxNews gives these climate scientists the benefit of the doubt suggesting they need to go back to the drawing boardregarding their climate models. Dude! They been to the drawing board and they have conspired to promote a lie calculated to cause maximum harm to industrialized nations to fulfill a political agenda. The fact that even now, knowing what we do they still persist in trying to advance this agenda should tell you everything you need to know. There is no reasonable doubt.

To: koan who wrote (53382)	9/14/2013 2:12:09 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By sm1th Respond to of 85487

Freedom works better than making decisions for individuals through government. That's why we don't vote on what type of food you will eat each day, we let the individual eater decide, even if they are a subsidized eater (food stamps, or other government payments are paying for the food). We don't vote on what types of cars will be available, we let the people involved in buying and selling cars decide. There are cases where its really hard to inject competition. For example competing mercenary groups probably are not the best way to take care of national defense. But in provision of services to individuals competition works better than government monopoly.