Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Jungle Rat]

Always loved the DC. Even more once they called out Junior.

[Jungle Rat]

Looks like Israel has had enough.

[Professor Tiger]

I heard an interview of Natalie Maines on NPR this week. She said she was never really a country music artist at heart. She's got a new solo (non-country) CD out. I toyed with the idea of buying a copy as a form of apology.

[Jungle Rat]

1 percenters had a whole different meaning before the last election. The resemblance is uncanny.

[10ac]

http://www.infowars.com/dhs-seeks-milli ... mmunition/

DHS needs more ammo.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Infowars...this is the site that within 30 minutes of the Boston bombings claimed it was all staged by the govt in order to create a police state

[Dr. Strangelove]

Israel may have sent rockets to destroy a military facility on the outskirts of Damascus. Reportedly huge explosion. No claim of responsibility yet

[Jungle Rat]

bout fucking time

[Toemeesleather]

Cheaper, more stable energy supplies/sources will do more to put people back to work than all the pious condescending rhetoric coming from the greenies.



...Rather, the one noticeable change due to growing U.S. energy independence—and due to shale revolutions fitfully preceding in other parts of the world—will be less energy-based coercion all around.

Russia is losing its sway over Western Europe. OPEC's power was always exaggerated; OPEC was a fig leaf for Saudi Arabia's role as oil-market swing supplier in the short run. But even Saudi Arabia's swing-producer power will be lessened in a world with a greater diversity of supply.

Now we come to the greenies. Those who once told us to despair because our fossil energy was running out now despair because they fear it never will run out.

The earth's store of coal, oil, oil sands, methane hydrates and other fossil reserves is unimaginably large. As long as there is a market for hydrocarbon motor fuels, that market could also be supplied from non-fossil organic materials. A certain folly adheres to all long-range planning if it doesn't allow for technological revolutions that, by definition, usually end up making long-range planning irrelevant. But this also applies to climate panic. Almost as long as humans have been noodling how to get energy out of the ground, they have been noodling how to extract it from sunlight, at least since Henri Becquerel in 1893 discovered the photovoltaic effect.

Before President Obama came along with his misguided subsidy program, which has done more to discredit solar energy than advance it, solar shipments were doubling every 18 months for more than a decade. Today researchers are creating nanotechnology devices whose small volumes conceal huge potential surface area for storing electrons.

At some point these efforts seem likely to pay off. Batteries vastly more efficient than those in use today will revolutionize energy habits again for all the right reasons—a better, cheaper mousetrap that consumers will voluntarily adopt. By then no doubt we will have other worries—such as how the planet's climate might respond to a sharp decline in the amount of carbon dioxide the biosphere is receiving from human sources.

[Professor Tiger]

By then no doubt we will have other worries—such as how the planet's climate might respond to a sharp decline in the amount of carbon dioxide the biosphere is receiving from human sources.

If the amount of carbon dioxide being discharged into the atmosphere radically decreases, then according to the greenies, the earth's temperature will fall. That would be a CATASTROPHE! Another Ice Age! Glaciers will swallow Miami! We'll all die!

That's why they shrewdly stopped using the term "global warming" and started using the term "climate change." That way, when the earth's temperature rises and falls, like it's been doing on its own for millions of years, it will always be man's fault, and the government must intervene with taxes and regulations.

What a scam.

[10ac]

Global Warming has made the masseuse molester millions and won him a Nobel Prize.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Israel's moved two of its "iron dome" batteries to the north of the country. Syria held an emergency war council. Could they go to open war soon?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Turkish leader brands Assad a "butcher" and mocks his inability to retaliate to the Israeli airstrike

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle ... z2SRHnux3S

[Professor Tiger]

Syria will go the way of the rest of the Middle East these days. A secular nationalist dictator who hates the West will be replaced by a Medieval theocratic jihadist who hates the West. There is no good guy over there. Certainly not one worth US backing.

[10ac]

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Just saw this commercial on TV.

[Toemeesleather]

Copied from the other forum....excellent.


http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/a ... TNNoMobile

[bluetick]

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Just saw this commercial on TV.

The Koch Brothers and/or ALEC painting the Humane Society as a big bad lobbying organization. A smart move - tar everybody with the same brush...if there are no good guys, then the Ag Industry wins by default.

[bluetick]

Copied from the other forum....excellent.


http://www.iowastatedaily.com/opinion/a ... TNNoMobile

He makes great points.

How can libs be pro-women's right-to-choose-abortion and at the same time be anti-right to own a firearm?

Of course, the flip side of that is how can gun-owners demand that women give up control of their bodies?

they shouldn't, of course

[Professor Tiger]

...if there are no good guys, then the Ag Industry wins by default.

Hmmm...the Humane Society mainly protects dogs and cats, yet you mention the Ag industry as benefiting from that ad.

Do you happen to own an Indian or Chinese food restaurant?

[bluetick]

...if there are no good guys, then the Ag Industry wins by default.

Hmmm...the Humane Society mainly protects dogs and cats, yet you mention the Ag industry as benefiting from that ad.

Heh @ dogs and cats. We're talking cattle, pigs, chicken and horses...HSUS does as much Ag-industry watchdogging as peta.

In TN ALEC wrote a bill that the teapartiers passed - the Ag-Gag Bill, which says any person or organization that doesn't present agricultural animal abuse proof within 48 hrs is breaking the law. HSUS had just done a 6 month expose on the Tennessee Walking Horse industry and some influential people got busted (the abuse videos are all over the web if yer interested). That was the last straw so the Ag people bought a bill to stop those kind of undercover ops.