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To: i-node who wrote (983800)	11/25/2016 3:27:41 AM
From: Sdgla	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB i-node Respond to of 1582685

You won't find any self awareness from an elitist like koan. Plenty of examples of people making sure their gov pay checks keep coming : 100 percent of CFPB donations went to Democrats Published November 24, 2016 Washington Free Beacon Facebook Twitter livefyre Email The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the most partisan agency in the federal government in terms of donations to candidates, according to campaign finance data. Employees at the CFPB, which was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, contributed nearly $50,000 during the 2016 campaign with all of that money going to aid Hillary Clinton or her rival, the insurgent socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Agency employees made more than 300 donations during the campaign. Not one went to a Republican candidate. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisc., a frequent critic of the agency, said that it is no surprise that the agency would contribute to the Democratic campaign. Republicans have tried to reduce the scope of the bureau’s broad regulatory power since Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., one of the most liberal lawmakers in the country, oversaw its creation. “CFPB employees fell over each other to give money to Hillary because she supported CFPB’s desire to remain in the shadows and unaccountable to the American people,” Duffy said. “No one is shocked that Washington bureaucrats would donate to the candidate who promised to maintain and expand onerous Dodd-Frank regulations that crush our community banks and local credit unions.” The bureau did not return request for comment from the Washington Free Beacon about the donations. The CFPB was one of just four agencies in which every political contribution went to the Democratic Party or allied groups, though one of those agencies’ donations came from just one employee. Peace Corps workers contributed nearly $25,000 to Hillary Clinton and her allies, including the pro-abortion Emily’s List PAC, the second highest total of monolithic agency contributions.

To: i-node who wrote (983800)	11/25/2016 11:33:54 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1582685

>>People cannot be objective when their survival depends on being committed to a finding<< Except that it doesn't. With Trump, it might be more lucrative to believe that AGW doesn't exist. Let's watch to see if any sell out.

To: i-node who wrote (983800)

11/25/2016 12:46:56 PM

From: koan

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People can make a conscious decision to reject money that is not honorably earned. Many people can do it, it is not uncommon. Scientists are generally pretty ethical as they understand its importance and are more interested in their science than they are in making extra money and are very moral.

Guys like Einstein, Niels Bohr, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell and on and on cared little about money. You can read their biographies for days and never hear a word about money. Their lives revolved around understanding our existence, the mind of God as Einstein once said. And the life of the highest ethical standard was always their first priority. They were all first class humanitarians.

People who reject science and reason and humanity cannot be taken seriously. Science and reason were the big discoveries of the human species. Science is what changed us from a hunter gatherer nomadic animal, to a species that figured out relativity, the age of the universe and built rockets that went to the moon.The age of Enlightenment was born out of science and reason.

Science and reason is what gave us ethics and democracy and a life today more comfortable and longer than any people ever lived in the history of the human species.

People who do not respect science and reason, and who tolerate pathological lying, for example Trump, cannot be taken seriously.

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Not t if you realize the people who matter, so called climate scientists, all stand to gain from positive findings. They are not independent. How often does a priest suddenly decide he doesn't believe? Probably about the same frequency as Warmists suddenly choosing to pursue the truth? Seldom. People cannot be objective when their survival depends on being committed to a finding.