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To: Brumar89 who wrote (743262)	10/2/2013 8:58:24 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1577996

NY Mag's Jonathan Chait Mocks WWII Veterans Barred from D.C. Memorial ......................................................................................................................................... by Warner Todd Huston 2 Oct 2013 breitbart.com New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait spent his government shutdown day mocking WWII veterans who were shut out by the National Park Service (NPS) when they came to visit the National WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday morning, Representative Michelle Bachman (R-MN) and several Republican members of Congress helped tear down the barricades shutting the elderly veterans out of the WWII memorial. After the barricades were removed, dozens of veterans flooded in to conduct their often emotional visits. But, thinking he was being funny, Chait took to Twitter to poke fun at the veterans, joking that the NPS should barricade the memorial with old Nazi soldiers. This is a pretty hard-hearted "joke," as many of these veterans are in their late 80s and 90s and may not be able to make the trip again. It wasn't long, of course, before the Twitterverse erupted in condemnation of Chait's "funny" joke. Instead of apologizing, Chait lashed out at his critics. He tried to claim he was mocking tourists, not the WWII vets. "Also, the joke was on the idea that the memorial would be blocked to tourists, not on the tourists," he said. Then Chait even tried to turn his own atrocious behavior into an excuse to claim he was the one being attacked. Chait again took to Twitter to complain, "Left and right both whip up fake-outrage mobs online, but conservative fake-outrage-ists seem more taken with violent fantasies."

To: Brumar89 who wrote (743262)	10/2/2013 10:00:39 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577996

The science was settled – before it even started. americablog.com 95% certainty humans causing global warming, per new UN climate report 10/1/2013 7:00am by Gaius Publius 33 Comments According to the just-issued United Nations climate change report, the odds that humans are causing global warming has increased to a 95% certainty. Yes, they’ve looked hard at the evidence, and yes, we’re the perp. In effect, we’re de-terraforming the planet — making it less and less hospitable as a place for our species to live. I’ve been writing about climate lately for a reason (well, several). One is that we’re on the verge of seeing full new report from the IPCC (the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The report is in four volumes, three covering some aspect of climate change, and one a synthesys of the others. Volume I, from the IPCC Working Group 1, deals with the physical basis — the evidence that climate is changing and predictions about how much it will continue to change under a number of scenarios. The full Volume I report is out; the rest are due in 2014. To read just the Summary for Policymakers, click here (pdf). My discussion of IPCC climate scenarios from previous reports is here. The bottom line from the Volume I Summary: It has been determined that humans are now 95% (“very likely”) certain to be causing global warming, up from just “likely” as stated in the previous report (AR4