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UK Climate Minister Slams Media And 'Blinkered' Deniers: 'It's The Science, Stupid'
Edward Davey is the UK's Secretary of State for Energy & Climate. On Monday he gave a blistering speech at a Met Office Climate Services event held at London's Institute of Physics.
He slammed the climate science deniers and those in the media who enable them:
Of course there will always be uncertainties within climate science and the need for research to continue….
We make progress by building on what we know, and questioning what we don't.
But some sections of the press are giving an uncritical campaigning platform to individuals and lobby groups who reject outright the fact that climate change is a result of human activity.
Some who even deny the reality of climate change itself.
This is not the serious science of challenging, checking and probing.
This is destructive and loudly clamouring scepticism born of vested interest, nimbyism, publicity seeking contraversialism or sheer blinkered, dogmatic, political bloody-mindedness.
This tendency will seize upon the normal expression of scientific uncertainty and portray it as proof that all climate change policy is all hopelessly misguided – from pursuing renewable energy to emissions targets themselves.
By selectively misreading the evidence, they seek to suggest that climate change has stopped so we can all relax and burn all the dirty fuel we want without a care.
This is a superficially seductive message, but it is absolutely wrong and really quite dangerous.
Hear! Hear!
The whole speech is worth reading, but the part on the science bears repeating:
The physics is clear: greenhouse gas emissions trapped in the atmosphere have direct consequences: increasing temperatures; less ice and snow; sea levels rising; more risk of extreme weather. To name but a few.
Forecasts of the rate at which the world will warm in the future may differ – but all the traffic is in one direction.
The decade between 2000 and 2010 was the warmest in the global temperature record – warmer than the 90s, which was warmer than the 80s, which was warmer than the 70s.
And if we continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at the rate we are now, this will continue and will get worse.
On emissions and on such greenhouse gas emissions, I agree with what Oxford's Professor Myles Allan wrote last week in the Mail on Sunday:
"As almost everyone agrees, they still have to come down."
And how do we know all this to be true?
To coin a phrase, "it's the science, stupid."
It's what the evidence tells us.
It's the science, stupid.
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SOS Clinton is in the hospital again. It must be difficult for a leader to admit that particulate warming of ~30% of
The total is a great concern for herself. But now that her doctor has told her that it is a great concern for her personal health, she may be expected to stay out of the plane for awhile. I don't think that her doctor should try to change her relationship with nature for there isn't a way out of her dependence on nature for good health.
Better to adhere to the facts and telecommute.
I've given up hope that the hard core deniers will shut up. On Monday night, Bill McKibben had to deal with one of our worst from the LNP on Q & A (ABC national TV). The majority of the audience was barracking for Bill which confirms opinion polls that the deniers have lost a lot of ground in Oz over the last couple of years, ME
Didn't it take more than 25 years before the general public started to understand the dangers of cigarette smoking? That's too long when it might already be too late to deal with fossil fuel carbon pollution.
Can America borrow Edward Davey for about 10 years? He doesn't mince words.
Wow, that is really good to see.
(Who was our Secretary of Energy again?)
Re. "It's the science, stupid."
I like that, but more and more I am getting the impression that the majority of people think "science" is "just your opinion." And that all opinions on the subject are equal.
So, I am not sure "It's the science, stupid" will register. I'll try it the next "Intelligent Design" come up, just to see if it will make any difference ;)
Climate has a couple of advantages over smoking. People didn't see the mass deaths of smokers but everyday now, they see disasters piling up around the world. Smoking is also a highly addictive and pleasurable activity while the rapid uptake of renewables shows that using energy from FFs is not addictive or pleasurable. That means there is no personal reason to avoid understanding the connections and it should, and is, growing much more rapidly, ME
The media loves controversy and the deniers have taken full advantage of that. They know the big lie works. The controversy over evolution which should have ended many decades ago has been kept alive so we should not expect the arguments over global warming to end in the lay media. To think that an overwhelming amount of scientific facts can end the controversy is a mistaken notion.
One Degree of Separation
Most readers here will be familiar with the idea of "six degrees of separation", so I won't repeat it here.
Instead, my point here is this:
While we tend to focus in many of these discussions on the understanding of the average citizen, and the (very real) problem of poor media coverage of climate change, which limits and confuses the public's understanding, we don't talk much about the fact that specific people who care about climate change know specific public leaders directly and well, or at least know someone well who knows them, and what could be done via those networks to get our leaders off their duffs to do something about climate change.
For example — and a very relevant example here — forget talking about six degrees of separation; if my understanding is correct, there is only ONE degree of separation between a key leader and influence at CAP and the very next (presumably) Democratic nominee for president, or at least the presumed front-runner at this point, Hillary Clinton. John Podesta, I assume, and perhaps others at CAP, know Hillary directly, or at least I assume they do. If there is not ONE degree of separation between CAP's senior-most leaders and Hillary Clinton, for example, at most there are two degrees of separation.
So, while we all like to consider the poor media coverage and the deleterious influence of that on public understanding, we should do much more in the way of asking (and demanding answers to) questions such as this: "If John Podesta knows Hillary and Bill directly, why the H_ll can CAP not play and more vital and (more importantly) EFFECTIVE role at prompting real progress?" And related questions. You get the idea.
How many (oodles!) postings have we read about the (admittedly) terrible coverage of the NY Times and other media, regarding climate change, over the last four, five, six years? But how many times have we had an open post and open discussion of this sort of question: "Why doesn't Joe encourage and prompt CAP leadership or recent-past leadership, including and especially John Podesta, to prompt Hillary (and why not Bill too!) to take a clear and strong stand regarding climate change and begin to Lead the public dialogue about it?" Get it? — Joe to John to Hillary and Bill. Tell us, please, how Hillary would rule regarding KXL if she were president today; or (better yet) prompt and encourage her to tell us; or (at least) pose the question to her, privately and publicly.
Although I agree that the media deserve criticism, I am beginning to think that we should PUBLICLY ask many more questions, and have much more discussion, about these types of strategies that involve one, two, or three "degrees of separation" between very specific people — real people with real names. In my view, we are talking about those types of things far too little.
I'll ask the direct question here: Will you, Joe, make a post explaining (in your words) how all this works or doesn't work today, and then — more importantly — open up a free and honest dialogue and debate about what might be done to begin to prompt better progress using these types of approaches?
Wonderful words to salt away. Refreshingly blunt from a politician.
Question: He goes on later to say:
"Our main challenge is to agree (to) international actions that will reduce emissions enough to avoid really dangerous climate change, keeping global temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels."
He then says: "And to meet this scenario, we need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050, with greater cuts for the developed world, where per capita emissions are highest. "
The "we" in this case is the entire world. "with greater(?) cuts in the developed world"
My question is: How much per year would this be for the developed world? And starting when? I fear the answer.
I will try to research this but if someone knows the answer, please let me know.
Brooks, I believe it's the exponential function. Assuming a peak in 2015, which leaves 35 years until 2050:
(1 – perAnnum)^35 = 1 – totalReductiobn
For the entire world: A totalReduction of 50%, the perAnnum is 1.96%
For a developed world totalReduction of 60%, the perAnnum is 2.58%
For a developed world totalReduction of 75%, the perAnnum is 3.88%
MSM denialism has nothing to do with 'controversy' and everything to do with ideology. Where there is a question involving elite interests, say in the sanctioning, subversion, invasion by jihadi murderers and coming destruction and partition of Syria, the MSM is in 100% Groupthink mode. All articles attack Syria, falsely portray the conflict as a 'civil war', falsely assert that murderous Sunni fundamentalists are only now entering the fight, and suppress totally every story that puts the ideological narrative in question, and a brief sojourn in the real 'Free Press' on the web, shows that there are scores such stories. Similarly with reporting on China, Russia and Iran-near 100% bias and uniformity of opinion, and no 'controversy' whatsoever.
Brooks, the last agreement was that action on the new agreement (2015) should start in 2020, ME
"confirms opinion polls that the deniers have lost a lot of ground in Oz over the last couple of years". As evidenced by the strong action the Australian government has taken to reduce its world-leading exports of coal and any further exploitation of newly-found fossil reserves. Oh, wait…
How do these numbers comport with what one of his boys, Anderson, is publishing? Anderson's numbers show about 10% per annum reduction in CO2 emissions is required to meet the 2 C ceiling. I haven't seen those numbers challenged. Both sets of numbers are fiction, since even Anderson admits 1 C should be the real target, and both sets are based on models that do not include all the major positive feedback mechanisms.
Yes, science change is clear and much more important is that the world must act immediately to stop it with the greatest amount of urgency.
In this regard, Obama must stop Keystone XL immediately and start action to stop accelerating climate change.
Obama must make action on climate change a wartime scale effort of prime importance
All other acts of governance must be comply.
These are encouraging and hard-hitting words but our governments here in the UK seem to do little to match them as Caroline Lucas, our only Green Party MP pointed out today:
The refusal of the majority of Lib Dem and Conservative MPs to back a 2030 decarbonisation target in the Energy Bill today raises serious questions about the huge influence wielded over the Coalition by the fossil fuel industry – and exposes the complete failure of political leaders to recognise that the green economy is our best route out of recession.
It's also deeply worrying that sensible amendments proposing to examine the huge costs involved in new nuclear power were overwhelmingly rejected.
Given our government's obsession with roads over trains (we have the highest train fares in Europe), a reliance on gas and a CCS implementation that actually works, GDP growth and air travel expansion then slashing the support for solar installations and screwing around with the limited grants available for home insulation it will be interesting to see what they do to actually support Davey's fine words.
You have it exactly right. Notice how the Amen Corner here becomes ecstatic over fiery words from a politician, but overlooks the lack of action in the past, on the books, or planned for the future relative to the all-out effort actually required to avoid the cliff.
It is a great shame that, despite having people such as Ed Davey in government, the UK Parliament yesterday rejected amendments to the new Energy Bill that would have required the UK government to set carbon reduction targets by April next year. In so doing, the UK has now:
– failed to honour promises made in the Climate Change Act;
– failed to act on the advice of its own scientific experts;
– failed to dismantle the subsidies that support fossil-fuel production;
– failed to provide certainty for investors in renewable energy (at any scale); and
– failed to take a lead to encourage other countries also to work towards a sustainable future.
I therefore think John Ashton, a former Foreign Office climate expert, was right to conclude recently that no-one who has voted for this new Energy Bill can be considered to be taking the threat of anthropogenic climate disruption seriously.
Hi Stephen. I have been fortunate enough to be able to watch key bits of the debates both yesterday and Monday. In both, Caroline Lucas spoke eloquently and dealt with interventions from 'sceptics' brilliantly by describing the intervention (rather than the 'sceptic') as "ignorant". My only criticism would be that she tried to say too much and therefore spoke too fast.
Are you saying the MSM denies climate change? That doesn't seem to make any sense. It reports on what the deniers are saying but that isn't denialism. That's reporting.
Dennis, Thanks for explaining the math.
If we are to avoid an ecological catastrophe, global emissions need to be reduced to near zero as soon as possible.
Clearly the latter is never going to happen. However, even worse, exponential functions being what they are, the annual reduction rapidly becomes implausible when you move the goalposts.
For example, I think I am correct to deduce that 10% annual reduction would be required in order to achieve an 80% reduction over 15 years from 2015 to 2030.
Thanks for the math Dennis,
Those numbers sound, to understate, hard. It sounds like some heavy magic is required to reverse present trend by 2015 and go negative by amounts you show.
I need to goma (get off…) and do some digging and such. I'd like to see some of stuff from Anderson's video on Emporer's clothes compared with Robert H. Socolow's wedges stuff. Then like to see whole thing related better to Joe the plumbers world, e.g., if we get to 4 deg C in 2050 it means NYC will be having heat waves of 120+ deg F.
An app to let you vary key numbers and give scenarios would seem doable.
Also a future headlines feature for different scenarios. "Yesterday Cat 5 Hurricane Inhofe came ashore at Miami Beach… (By 2020 all hurricanes above Cat 3 coming ashore will be renamed for prominent climate change deniers.)
I would have loved to hear that speech come out of President Obama's mouth.
Thanks ME. Two years.
That would match nicely with first ice free September in Arctic ocean.
Thanks Martin for writing on your website. The chart on wet bulb temperatures is nice .Psychrometric chart from Wikipedia.
Martin, if you adopt my worldview that the global electorate could, for the most part, care less about climate change and especially making the sacrifices required to avoid the cliff, and that they elect the governments and politicians who reflect their disinterest, then you will find little in the actions of these governments and politicians that will be unexpected or disappointing. It is only when your expectations are unrealistic that disappointment sets in.
For example, if Obama were truly interested in taking a strong stance on climate change, he would have long ago rejected the Keystone pipeline, and made a fiery speech when he did. Even though I believe acceptance or rejection of the pipeline is irrelevant in the larger picture, a strong and immediate stance would have sent a strong message.
In about 1964, when I was still a grad student, I saw 'The Organizer', with Marcello Mastroianni. In the middle of a rousing organizing speech (which to this day tingles my skin when I recall it), one of my classmates, a Welsh Lefty, jumped up, pumped his fist in the air, and cheered on the speech. That's the kind of rousing speech we should be hearing from our politicians about climate change, with no waffling or delaying for time, but they know that's the last thing most of the electorate wants to hear.
I would suggest that the more one engages with deniers about the science, the more the science will be an issue. Which is not where we want the discussion to be, it is where the other side wants the discussion to be.
Where we want to be doing is changing policy, and here we can actually thank the right-wing propagandists for they have shown us how to get the job done.
And that is to argue strategically. This means moving the Overton window. If you want the right to accept a useful compromise, that means you must seriously and repeatedly make the argument for policy way, way to the left of that compromise.
As an example, why not start a serious discussion for nationalization of the fossil fuel industry? They have not been acting in the national interest for decades, they have blown their chance to be responsible citizens and we should take them over.
Or, to flog my pet position, why not argue for a national public utility, which would install large-scale renewable energy only, and offer the resulting electricity for no charge?
Stop arguing the science – the science is proven. Deniers and naysayers should be dismissed as scoundrels. Anybody who questions the science should present a scientific paper or shut up.
And let's start talking radical policy.
Agree with your numbers Martin. I also agree that numbers like 80% reduction by 2030 are closer to what's needed to avoid catastrophe (not speaking from expertise, but from the reading of those who are). I've also read that the first 20% to 25% could be achieved by conservation only – not requiring any reduction in living standards (albeit costly to the bottom lines of many deserving companies).
Ed Davey on energy bill and government carbon target http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22769238
"…hey know that's the last thing most of the electorate wants to hear…."
Why do you keep saying that? Poll after poll (and blog post after blog post by Joe, here) show that the vast majority of Americans want action on AGW.
"not requiring any reduction in living standards". Anderson shows that altering the supply will not get the required reductions in the near term, and will drive us over the cliff. Correcting his numbers for inclusion of positive feedback mechanisms, and temperature ceilings outside the danger zone, it is clear that only the most stringent emission standards have any hope of avoiding the cliff.
97% of the top climate scientists agree that our climate is warming, and that most of the recent warming is due to carbon pollution. http://clmtr.lt/cb/s4z0AU
These polls have the same credibility as the posters who claim we can make a painless transition to renewables with no sacrifices necessary. There are two polls I believe: the 0.01% of Americans who attended the February climate rally vs the 33% who watched the SuperBowl, and the millions of climate action types who couldn't be bothered to vote in the 2010 election and allowed the Deniers to take over the House. I guess they were too busy responding to pollsters!
Oh, they probably will, but 'Actions speak louder than words', particularly in the 'Great Dissembler's' case.
Are you joking? How do you get that idiocy from what I said? And, yes, large sections of the MSM do publish straight denialism, or partial denial, often while smugly, sanctimoniously and hypocritically feigning 'acceptance' of the science. The Australian, the very centre of hardcore denialism and vigorous opposition to renewable energy in this country, used to openly boast of its aim to become 'carbon-neutral'.
It's the 'degrees of separation' amongst the ruling elites that count. There are one or two of those, at most.
Lucas is just stating 'the bleeding obvious'. In the sham UK 'democracy' real power is, as it has always been, wielded by the rich. They control politics totally, and the public are bystanders. The 31% turn-out for the local elections recently shows how many realise that. Elite wealth is based on fossil fuels and financial manipulation, so decarbonisation is out of the question. The UK vies with the USA as the most unequal regime in the OECD, with the worst social parameters, and it is only going to get much, much, worse. But at least you are world-leaders in exterminating defenceless animals, as the coming, pointless, but illuminatingly savage, slaughter of badgers shows yet again.
I was in the UK during the 2010 election. Just before the election there was a leak of some sort of survey of opinion amongst 'Young Tories', the archetypal 'young fogies' who, with their future selves, the 'senile delinquents' make up much of Toryism and the English ruling caste. It revealed that these chaps were quite mad, extremists along US Tea Party lines, and viciously anti-Green.
The Right, I believe, are engaged on a project, a sort of mass experiment, to see just how rapidly and deeply can a group devolve and just how quickly the frontal cortex can be rendered redundant and replaced by a hypertrophied 'reptilian brain' stoked up on pure malice, greed and arrogance. Believe me, our Antipodean knuckle-draggers could give any Northern Hemisphere auto-lobotomisers a real run for their money.
An interesting thing about emmissions is that they have already been emitted. So if emmissions are reduced then the emmissions are pulled from the air. To follow the emmissions to the oceans; well there, no there isn't much way to reduce those emmissions yet. But as you may have guessed, they were speaking of the future.
Yep, our governments always seem determined to be world leaders in something or other …
Thanks Dennis. It is little wonder that libertarian economists don't want to accept the nature of reality but reality does not change just because you refuse to acknowledge it.
The decision not to include Carbon Targets in our Energy Bill will be of irrational equivalence to Obama approving the KXL pipeline in the USA.
Thanks for taking a look around, Raul.
Thanks for that video, prokaryotes. Very interesting (window-dressing). However, it remains a shame that Michael Fallon (Energy Minister and climate sceptic) chose to try and discredit Tim Yeo (former Environment Minister and advocate of Target setting now) in the Energy Bill debate.
There's an old saying 'Justice delayed is justice denied', which can be expanded to the blog world as 'posting delayed is posting denied'. It can be further expanded to the Keystone decision because, even though I believe the pipeline is not that important in the larger picture, an immediate hard-hitting Presidential response could convey a strong interest in starting to protect the climate. The long-term waffling means that even a rejection of the pipeline won't send much of the message that could have been sent.

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Seeing flashing lights is called photopsia. But "seeing stars" is a perfectly normal way of referring to the phenomenon.
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The 'Duomo' (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore) is my '3rd place' attraction in Florence.
From the outside it is a stunning building and easily the most beautiful in Florence (not that there is much competition !) along with having a similarly attractive interior. This review is for the Duomo in general - I review my climb up the bell tower of Duomo separately.
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Also, video submissions are not linked to a review and are not identified to a member when you look at them on the specific webpage. The best way to look at videos of mine that I mention is going via my TA profile then clicking the 'Videos' link.
Just before covering my personal views of the Cathedral, please note that as official information sources can change and the Internet links at the top of each attraction webpage on Trip Advisor can be wrong (or even absent !) I deal with visitor information/ticketing etc in the dedicated section for the attraction in my TA Trip List. This is because I have sole-control over that, can add Internet links and can edit/update it with ease to reflect changes (reviews cannot be amended after they're posted). It might also contain photos/video links if they fail to get posted with this review or on this webpage....
Unfortunately, you cannot really get a really decent view of the outside of Duomo to do it full justice as it is centrally located in the 'compressed' part of the city - the cathedral baptistery especially gets in the way to properly capture the magnificent frontage as you can't get far enough back when directly in front of it. The beautiful front view is enhanced by the accompanying bell tower which I think is actually the best looking part of Duomo.
Along with looking, it is worth having around the front to catch a bell-ringing 'session' fro the bell tower, which I managed to video and will hopefully get posted OK on this webpage. The reverberations of the chimes is especially enjoyable due to the close-proximity of surrounding buildings for once being beneficial ! however, I remain confused about when the ringing can be heard - it doesn't seem to follow accepted convention.
The video clip I've added was the last 2mins of a lengthy peeling at 1145, but at 1200 there was nothing - then 2 days later at 1200 there WAS a good peeling session, but it was quite short; answers on a postcard please !
The cathedral rightly gets a lot of restorative attention, so some views might be spilt a bit by scaffolding; however, it also means the largely slightly off-white finish and decorative work on the facades gleam and sparkle magnificently - it really is a joy to behold....
I've also added a selection of my photos to this review.
Moving to the inside (it's free and you can take photos !), the experience is dominated by looking upwards into the interior artwork on the dome, there are other things but that is the dominant feature. Other elements of the cathedral can be visited, but they are all 'extras' which cost (there is a combined ticket you can get for some of them) - they are the baptistery, bell tower and of the dome itself (of course !).
I found the memorabilia shops by the crypt and in the base of the bell tower to have some interesting items for sale - most notably a good selection of large, high-quality, prints of various Duomo features.
Most visitors to Florence will be drawn to looking at Duomo without reading a review, so all I have to do is confirm it is an enjoyable visit and the views inside and out are just as good as you expect - do remember to try and catch the bells ringing !
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No kickoffs, no punt returns, defense restrictions, several not playing, etc.
Did the writer forget to mention that this was 'flag football'?
Losers cleaning RES? Wow, not what I was expecting for a Spring finish.
- 7:51 a.m. April 16, 2011
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Wow sam you deny not being a Ute hater but your the first to comment on Ute article? You crack me up! Are you that obessed? Do your dreams consist of you standing in front of the Ute Football team saying your clever comments? You never have any valid points, least duckhunter tries to discredit the U of U.
- 8:50 a.m. April 16, 2011
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They know if they rush more than 4 on their no-name QB that it will get ugly.
- 8:53 a.m. April 16, 2011
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Wow, three comments from three fans who care about the Utes more than any other
team! This is great!
I'm excited for the Spring Game, it'll be a lot of fun, and maybe the offense can find its footing today against the limited defense, and then it can get started from there! Go Utes! Make this 4 comments!
- 9:27 a.m. April 16, 2011
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What is a "beat-digger" anyway? Please don't explain because I went to
Alta and don't care.
Can't wait until September!
I hope this Palamo kid is the real deal and takes it to the competition. Rugby players are just plain crazy so it will be fun to see how he translates.
Although we already know how Morgan Scalley turned out:)
Go Utes!...on to the PAC12
- 9:49 a.m. April 16, 2011
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Palamo is the real deal...freakishly fast and shifty for a big guy. And Langi is proving himself a stud...Great running game this year, fun to watch. A healthy Wynn will be huge. Still, we won't know anything until Fall ball...We may drop 4 games this year, but the competition will be so good, and the games so much more exciting...
- 2:21 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Utesie21, I guess at 7:51am I'm an early riser huh? So how did the Non-Punt,
Pass, or Kick scrimmage go?
My guess is that the fans did not get to see much. It's not ready to show and the continued injuries are dragging things down. Hoping your RBs showed up. According to the article that seemed to be the main focus.
Coach Whit didn't call for a real scrimmage like BYU did so that would disappoint most fans. Anxious to hear how things went even with the training wheels on.
- 2:34 p.m. April 16, 2011
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A buddy of mine, that is a ute fan but not an absolute tool, went today. He'll give me an accurate assesment of it and I'll post something. He went to the one earlier in the week as well and he was not impressed.
- 2:55 p.m. April 16, 2011
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All I have to add to your comment sam is Go Utes!
- 2:59 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Please read the article ! The statement from coach Whitt is to showcase the NEW
talent. During the regular season Utah fans may not see the reloads and this is
a great time to see the new recruits. In addition why not hold out some starters
to cut down on injuries to the first team starters ? Cougar fans should be
concerned with their new coaching staff and a mediocre signing class, but some
would prefer to elevate the Y's program by putting down the Utes. That behavior
should have been left behind in Jr. High.
I'm sure that with 7 home games and a schedule that has Idaho, Idaho State, New Mexico State, that the Cougars have on their schedule and just be content. Leave the Ute bashing alone. Don't the Cougar fans have their work cut out for them by contacting more missionaries in the field ?
I, for one, am looking for the start of the game to see what the new blood looks like and leave the decisions of who plays what to the former COY in Whittingham and 3 time assistant COY in Coach Norm.
It's good to be a Ute!!
Red Rocks !
- 3:03 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Looks like the offense was not good. Oh well.
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Duckhunter | 3:16 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Looks like the offense was not good. Oh well.
LOL...Trouble ahead for the Utes. 4 man rush, 7 in coverage, with a vanilla D.
The Utes are going to struggle to put up points in the Pac 12
- 3:35 p.m. April 16, 2011
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By the way Duhkunter Utah signed another QB. You asked me to let you know. Now
you have some extra Ute bashing on your plate. Good luck. By the way where is
the LOL that you use so freely ? Nobody laughs but you. Why not just let the
coaches coach as Whittingham , that you know so well, will do what HE thinks is
best for the team.
It's good to be a Ute ! Go Red Rocks !
- 3:47 p.m. April 16, 2011
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"A buddy of mine, that is a ute fan but not an absolute tool, went today.
He'll give me an accurate assesment of it and I'll post something. He went to
the one earlier in the week as well and he was not impressed."
What, no Kwhitt or Spence Eccles inside scoop? Just your roomate? I'm sure all Ute fans will be holding thier breath awaiting your dire, gloom and doom report.
- 4:14 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Remember all that Spring game attendance trash talk people were talking a few days ago? Anyone know the attendance at the Red-White game? Just curious...
- 7:28 p.m. April 16, 2011
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the other paper ( which reported on the spring game) mentioned an attendance of 15,000..... largest crowd ever.
- 7:50 p.m. April 16, 2011
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Duck.. What's an absolute tool ?
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You talking about the 5,000 fans that sat in the winter storm and watched a
REAL football game.
Or the 12,000 fans that was getting a tan, watching the players in the leotards trying to imitate the red rocks
- 8:42 p.m. April 16, 2011
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"A buddy of mine"
Wow DH how much do you have to pay him to be your buddy?
- 10:11 p.m. April 16, 2011
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As promised.
The offense was all but inept. His reasoning? They do not have enough of the right personal to run a pro style offense and need to recruit bigger, pass blocking, linemen. The execution was very poor and the qb's are not very good. He said he can't believe he is saying it but they need wynn and that worries him.
The tight ends, a very important position in the wco, are not good enough. The rb's will have to catch passes out of the backfield and did not show that ability.
He thinks the personel are just wrong for the offense they are trying to run.
He thinks the defense will be outstanding.
- 7:43 a.m. April 17, 2011
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ATLANTA - A two-putt par to win the Tour Championship in a playoff was worth an extra $1.5 million to Camilo Villegas.
A 7-iron to a scary pin on the 71st hole, under more pressure than he has ever faced?
That was invaluable.
Villegas overcame a five-shot deficit with six birdies on his final 11 holes of regulation - the last one after going at a dangerous flag on the 17th - and won the Tour Championship on the first extra hole against Sergio Garcia for his second straight victory.
"Winning is awesome," Villegas said after closing with a 4-under 66.
The 26-year-old Colombian, who had gone 85 starts on the PGA Tour without winning, picked up his second in a row with a finish that brought the gallery to life on a sunny afternoon at East Lake.
In a four-man race coming to the final holes, Villegas caught Garcia with a 7-iron from 184 yards to 12 feet on the 17th, then twice hit beautiful lag putts from 45 feet for par on the 233-yard 18th - once in regulation to finish at 7-under 273, then in the playoff to win.
"Probably the shot of the tournament there," Villegas said. "There's a great chance the ball is going to plug if it comes up short in that bunker, and a yard long and it's in the water. So it's just hit and beg. It happened to be just fine."
Anthony Kim and Phil Mickelson each shot 69, and each had a chance to join the playoff. Kim, a former Oklahoma standout playing in the second-to-last group with Villegas, missed from 30 feet. In the final group, Mickelson missed his birdie putt from 20 feet.
Garcia, who blew a 54-hole lead of at least three shots for the third straight time, also had a 20-foot birdie putt to win in regulation.
He didn't give himself much of a chance in the playoff when his 4-iron came up 30 yards short and to the right. His flop shot over a bunker stayed in the collar of the green, and a chip to extend the playoff came up well short.
"I doubted myself too much early on, and it cost me," said Garcia.
The consolation prize might be the Vardon Trophy for lowest adjusted scoring average.
Garcia came into the Tour Championship trailing Mickelson by one-hundredth of a point, and wound up at 69.40. Mickelson finished at 69.42.
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In Java6 both quicksort and mergesort were used in
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How is this a performance issue? Won't the compiler will reduce these to the same thing?
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Obama: BP disaster tells us we must pass a "long-term energy strategy"
Reid: "This is an opportunity for us as a country to move away from fossil fuel, to do a better job of looking at renewable energies that are available to us all over this country."
"I said to the Republicans, join with me," Obama said. "There's been some good work done by John Kerry and Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. Let's go. Let's not wait. Let's show the American people that in the midst of this crisis, all of us are opening our eyes to what's necessary to fulfill the promise to our children and our grandchildren."
Greenwire (subs. req'd) reports today on Obama's remarks at an SF fundraiser for Sen. Boxer (D-CA) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Here's more:
"The fact of the matter is, is that not only do we have to revisit how these oil companies are operating … but we've also still got this overarching issue," Obama said….
"Even if you hadn't seen the catastrophe down in the Gulf, the reason that folks are now having to go down a mile deep into the ocean, and then another mile drilling into the ground below, that is because the easy oil fields and oil wells are gone, or they're starting to diminish."
He added, "That tells us that we've got to have a long-term energy strategy in this country. And we've got to start — we've got to start cultivating — we've got to start cultivating solar and wind and biodiesel. And we've got to increase energy efficiency across our economy in our buildings and our automobiles."
Obama spoke about the push for an energy and climate bill just hours after meeting with a skeptical Senate Republican conference on Capitol Hill where members — including Graham — urged him to pare back and try a less comprehensive approach because of uncertainties over the oil spill.
Yes, Lindsey Graham, who has morphed from a bipartisan statesman to an incoherent pol mocked by his colleagues, has now become the incredible shrinking man, on his way to becoming a truly de minimis politician:
"On energy and climate, the way you move forward is you have a comprehensive approach you can sell, and I don't think many people believe that the oil spill has helped to get more voters on offshore drilling," Graham told reporters after the meeting with Obama. "It's made it a harder climb, so let's do smaller versions of an energy, climate bill."
Let's do a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy energy bill that just opens up the South Carolina coast to drilling — and only by BP — okay?
Here, on the other hand, is the Senate majority leader today on the Senate floor:
The bill can't move forward without some Republican cosponsor. Since that does not appear to be Graham ( though I would expect he'd vote for the final bill if it made it that far), and since Sen. Cantwell has given Sen. Collins (R-ME) all the cover she needs to abandon her long-standing commitment to climate action, that leaves Sen. Snowe (R-ME), who did not prove terribly reliable during the healthcare debate, but who certainly understands the threat of anthropogenic global warming.
Sad, really, that this most modest, market-0riented climate bill, which would easily get 60 votes if Republicans were not hell-bent on denying Obama any victories that might show he is a bipartisan leader who can solve problems, may well wither on the vine.
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I assume that you mean Snowe, Graham, and maybe Brown will be needed, since Nelson and Landrieu can be expected to vote no. Are there any surprises out there- like maybe McCain joining up if he wins the primary?
Reiterate Obama: "Even if you hadn't seen the catastrophe down in the Gulf, the reason that folks are now having to go down a mile deep into the ocean, and then another mile drilling into the ground below, that is because the easy oil fields and oil wells are gone…"
I don't repeat the "or they're starting to diminish" bit because the easy recovery is in point of fact now all in geopolitically nightmarish locations. A quibble compared to the overarching message.
Obama gets that our predicament is pushing us to objectively absurd activities, dead-end capers. Like I've said before, he's a person who gets the big picture but is not naturally inclined to try and cram it onto a bumpersticker.
Was Graham replaced by a double because he dared threaten the oil behemoths?
Will the fossil fuel behemoths keep America in the 19th Century of energy until we're no longer a world leading economy?
We're on course to have an increasingly intractable balance of trade if we fall further behind renewable energy leaders like China, Germany, Spain, and Denmark, let alone the billions we send to Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Would the GOP trash the American economy because they're tied to the money gusher that has little future?
We might get Florida's LeMieux to get to 60. We'll get Snowe and Collins, and lose Landrieu and Nelson.
Actually I am in favor of making the bill smaller by eliminating the tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to the "clean coal" hoax and to the toxic, dangerous, expensive and ineffectual nuclear power boondoggle.
Getting rid of those provisions, which do absolutely NOTHING to address the climate problem or build a secure & sustainable energy economy, would make the bill a LOT smaller.
I'm sure Senator Graham would agree, since he's not a bought-and-paid-for stooge for the fossil fuel and nuclear power corporations or anything.
SA, #5, I agree that the legislative sausage is really stinky on this one.
President Obama is not quite right. We are drilling in deep water because Saudi Arabia keeps a good chunk of production capacity idle to manipulate the price of oil. This makes the price of oil high enough so that these kinds of efforts can be profitable. Saudi Arabia can manage this because the US has abandoned its low oil price policy. There is still plenty of easy oil for a US oil consumption rate of 17 million barrels a day and that rate, which we would have now if we had kept up with CAFE standards, would require Saudi Arabia to idle too much capacity to make money by trying to control supply.
Soon, President Obama would have the story right because Saudi investment is seeming less effective than it used to be. They still produce oil cheaply with new investment, but probably not dirt cheap. But, the issue is not more difficult supply yet but uncontrolled demand. The US cheap oil supply policy shifted into an oil supply only policy where we kept up military protection of access to oil but failed to continue to cut demand. This is counter to the national interest. We would do best by using up the remaining easy oil at a very low price while constantly shifting off of oil.
At this point, to get back on an easy oil only diet with a low oil price we need a cut in consumption to about 16 million barrels of oil a day. This will force so much idle capacity in Saudi Arabia that they will undercut OPEC partners and the oil price will fall. Then we need to keep on cutting at a steady clip as lack of productive investment in new oil supply leads to a decline in availability of easy oil. So long as we keep demand about five million barrels a day below production capacity, oil will be cheap and our transition off of oil will proceed at the lowest possible cost.
Under the present circumstances, domestic production, aside from stripper wells, is pretty much insane. We should be getting off of oil at the lowest possible cost, not trying to play a fools game in a market of manipulated prices. It makes no sense at all to try to produce intrinsically expensive domestic oil.
"It makes no sense at all to try to produce intrinsically expensive domestic oil." Chris, #7
Unless of course if you look at it thru the eyes of BIG OIL and Big Money.
Lief #8,
Quite right. We have conflated the national interest with oil interests. That sort of worked when we had a low oil price policy but it does not work with what amounts to a high oil price policy.
For what it is going to cost the nation in the gulf… incalcuable… it would be a bargain to establish a national solar energy and conservation bank designed to fully fund AT ZERO INTREST, anyone desiring electric cars, photovoltaics, home geothermal, grid based on/offshore wind, desert based concentrators, tidal options, and the new bio-refineries being developed… The biggest problem right now is the lack of readily available capital, especially as it is being sucked up into credit default swaps and speculation betting which contributes absolutely nothing to the economy. Instead of an endless compromise, capitalize a national bank, allow everyone to participate, and see a revolution happen overnight… We need an emergency effort and this would rapidly involve millions of folks, at all levels, using market principles. I for one would immediately contract for solar on our roof, retrofit my entire house, and sign a contract with GM for a Volt. This would create a tidal wave of demand, innovation, and change… which is exactly what we need. It would give each of us, at all levels from little old me to PG&E the incentive to shift into high gear.
Couldn't this be done with an executive order directing the Fed to fund us? They were able to dump trillions of money into banks without legislation and we still don't even know where the money went… It's about time for the people.
GET IT DONE, OBAMA… We need millions of new jobs, clean tech, clean fuels, and safe low-carbon solutions and this would do it…
"It makes no sense at all to try to produce intrinsically expensive domestic oil."
So which bits of this death-wish-ridden society are assumed to make sense ?
Obama is pinned by legacy across the board of policy options. He cannot hope for a second term, and prevention of a calamitous republican presidency, if he attempts significant punitive measures against oil consumption, and is thus limited currently to such affordable efficiency and innovation measures as inherited foreign policy priorities, and ongoing domestic political corruption, leave open to him.
For those measures to achieve a 5% cut in oil supply by 2012, thereby postponing that year's early loss of the global oil market cushion, and its resulting price spike and recession, would be a notable achievement.
Yet the idea that those means would be sufficient to heavily depress global prices and so make offshore drilling redundant seems a naive and wishful sort of thinking. Consider:
– Global oil demand is returning to 2% growth per year (~ 1.7 MBbls/day).
– According to the most authoritative of sources (the US DOE, & DOD, & others) global supply will start to decline during 2012 giving a shortfall off global demand of around 1.7% (~ 1.5 MBbls/day) by year's end, besides the absent market cushion of 1.0 MBbls/day.
– By 2016, according to the same sources, due to reserve depletion plus 'above-ground' factors global supply will have reached an annual decline rate of around 4% per year, year on year. That implies a shortfall of almost 10.0 MBbls/day off global demand in that year, which is more than half of current US oil consumption.
Thus unilateral US action to cut its usage sufficiently, year on year, to offset both rising global demand and depleting global supply so as to maintain a low global oil price, is a pipe dream.
Obama's remarking of the need for 'a long-term energy strategy' is very welcome, if characteristically restrained. He has to know very well that, in parallel with the climate issue overall, this is a matter of common security, i.e. that it cannot be resolved at other than a global level. – Specifically, any nation not meeting its duties under an equitable and efficient treaty to manage its oil demand sufficiently will, not may, will be free-riding on the efforts of others, eroding both the latters' function and the treaty-members' cohesion.
It perhaps needs saying here that unless global oil demand is reduced faster than supply declines, then a declining saw-tooth of oil price spikes and recessions seems the most probable course of the global economy, with serial impoverishment leading to geo-economic and geo-political fragmentation.
Meanwhile, with rising global tensions over resources, and with energy-innovation capacities constrained by turbulent economic decline, the interactive feedbacks would be continuing to accelerate unchecked off at least the next 35 years of timelagged warming.
Obama doubtless has all of this information at his fingertips – and it is welcome that he's now got as far as advocating for a long-term energy strategy. At Copenhagen, in amongst the calculated tactic of serial escalating snubs to developing nations, he mentioned that the climate is actually an issue of common security. On energy, as a central component of climate strategy, he needs to start explaining to the US public just what common security requires.
In particular, in response to the fossil lobby's potent lie over Kyoto:
"It ain't global and it won't work",
Obama would do well to now promote the question:
"If we don't act, why should they ?"
Chris @7 & 9, (& Leif @8)
Thanks for putting these points in such clear language. It's some subhuman game of cat and mouse, combined with the shell game – how noble…
Along the same lines I found a statement from a World Future Society promotional mailing:
"..(N)eutralize Petrodollar Power.. within the next decade." Deutsche Bank
They were talking about electric cares. We need more bold energizing statements of the reality we can, and must, create.
I agree with Lewis about Obama needing to start explaining to the US public about various aspects of climate change.
From my point of view, most Americans have wrongly made up their minds that climate change is still just a tiresome debate between various factions. Thay have nearly closed their minds to new information. They reason,"If this were really a problem, we'd hear about it from the government."
You can help encourage Obama to educate and lead on climate here: http://www.change.org/global_warming_education_network/petitions/view/obama_please_educate_and_lead_on_climate_change. Sign the petition, then call the White House to ask the same thing at 202-456-1919. (Every signature sends another e-petition to the president, so get your Facebook and regular friends and family to sign too.) Thanks!
Warm regards,
Lewis (#10),
Recall that a cut of 3 million barrels a day in US consumption covers the demand growth elsewhere for about 4 years because you've left oil in the ground for later. It also postpones what you worry about in 2016 as well as softening it. Cutting a million barrels a day of US consumption each year after the initial cut is just a matter of efficiency in the transportation fleet. We could go faster as well if needs be though I think we'll start a bandwagon because people elsewhere in the world will like the idea of cheap oil and will want to keep it that way. And we do have means of persuasion in some cases. Mentioning the words "carbon tariff" seems to get the attention of some pretty quickly.
I'm pretty sure people in the US would be happy with President Obama using our Standby Gasoline Rationing Plan if he can deliver $0.60/gallon gasoline. Remember that it has a "white market" in spare rations so you can alway pay more if you want to, or make some money if you have spare rations.
I think that we will greatly increase the likelihood of legislative action if ocean acidification is more broadly understood. The chemistry is indisputable and the effects on shellfish and coral are already impacting commercial interests.
"Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) was joined by her colleagues Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and 41 other Members of Congress in sending a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing their concerns about the effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems and coastal communities. The letter urges the EPA to play a more active role in addressing ocean acidification under the Clean Water Act."
From her webpage: http://capps.house.gov/2010/05/capps-farr-inslee-urge-epa-to-take-more-active-role-in-addressing-ocean-acidification.shtml


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A year ago, Virginia coach Mike London spent the spring and summer evaluating four quarterbacks who were locked in an even competition for the starting job in 2011.
As the Hoos begin spring practices this week, London does so with a much clearer picture of the position with Michael Rocco returning for his second season as a full-time starter. While Rocco has established himself as the clear leader of the offense, the competition is expected to remain compelling this spring.
Sophomore David Watford hasn't given up.
"He's doing well academically, he's getting stronger, he's probably gained about 15 pounds," London said. "I expect him to really compete this spring. Obviously Michael Rocco has distinguished himself as far as a guy who can get it done. He's proven that. But David, he said, 'Coach, I came here to play.' I think the competition between those two guys in particular is going to be fun to watch during the spring, although there are only 15 opportunities. Nonetheless, it will still be fun to watch."
It should also make both quarterbacks better.
Rocco started all 13 games last year, but didn't really seem to get comfortable until Watford's role decreased. The two had been sharing playing time until late October, when Watford went from conducting full series to executing specific plays. Rocco started all 13 games, and Watford played in 10 of them. Rocco finished with 2,671 yards, 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. The rest of their quarterback competition from a year ago Ross Metheny and Michael Strauss has since transferred.
With the recent recruiting classes, though, depth is not a problem. Nor should the position be this spring.


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Organic and Processed Food?What's the difference between processed and organic food? Which one is healthier for you? Which one should you try to avoid? These are all very good questions about processed and organic foods and are very important to consider when buying these foods. Organic food may have certain advantages over processed food such as more nutrients but, processed food may have different advantages over organic food like more calcium. [1] ,[2] Will you choose organic food? Processed food? Both?
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Organic food. We've all have heard about it but, what does it really mean? Organic foods refers to food items that are produced, processed, packaged without using chemicals such chronic diseaas fruits and vegetables. [4] Advantages of organic foods are nutrients, toxin-free, taste, and the environment it grows in. [5] It totally avoids GMOs [genetically modified organisms], and appears to have the potential to lower the incidence of common conditions such as cancer, coronary heart disease, allergies and hyperactivity in children. [6] Organic foods also have more vitamins and minerals that protects you from se. [7] According to the Daily Green, we get 7% of our calories from soft drinks, which are not organic, then we do with vegetables. [8] So is eating organic food is good for everyone? All of your bodies need nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to help keep us healthy. And by eating all of those in fruits and vegetables makes it a tasty way to stay healthy.
What are Processed Foods? [9]
While organic foods are foods that are produced without any chemicals, processed foods are foods that are produced with chemicals like frozen vegetables, fish, berries, oatmeal, and 100% whole-grain bread. [10] Some processed foods are considered junk food, which is high in fat and sugar and is one of the leading causes for the soaring number of cases of type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and tooth decay. It is also linked to hypoglycemia and candida. [11] But not all processed foods are unhealthy. Many processed foods are just as nutritious or in some cases even more nutritious than fresh foods that have been stored depending on the manner in which they are processed. [12] Some healthy processed foods are soy milk, cereal, bread, orange juice, and tofu that are fortified with calcium and are extremely useful to people who avoid milk products because of allergies, personal preference, religion, etc. and is a good thing. [13] It is always important to read labels to distinguish what processed foods are good for you and which are not.
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My use of asylum was incorrect. The Obama administration is using refugee status as an excuse, try searching refugee. There is a specific list.
A person can be given asylum from any country. It use to be rare, Obama has made it commonplace.
@Howard Beal
The LDS church leadership has told people to come here legally. They urge compassion, but rewarding people with citizenship or allowing them to stay is not compassion in my opinion. Compassion is teaching people right from wrong and enforcing the laws. Would you reward a child's bad behavior and call it compassion? What would the child learn from your actions? That bad behavior was OK?
How about compassion for those who lost their jobs, were victims of people here illegally or had their id stolen? They are doing things right, they should be rewarded.
I defer to God who tells us not to lie, steal or covet. Business needs to clean up it's act and start being a good community member.
- 2:59 p.m. July 3, 2014
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Over a million people with very little means come here each year legally (on green cards). Ask them how they do it. There are work visas that can be turned into residency cards, and end up as green cards. Also many organizations that help people. If one million each year can do it, there is no reason the 12 million here illegally can't.
Why is there a fence around the White house? Military bases? etc. Fences make good neighbors. At an estimated cost of $113 billion per year for people here illegally, a fence makes sense financially.
Most people look at the immigration to this country and talk about the 1776-1976 period as wide open and unlimited. A recent poll showed that only 18% of Americans know that we are giving out more green cards now, than any time in history. Double the number yearly from the 1776-1976 period.
- 3:47 p.m. July 3, 2014
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@Mike Richards
" Obama refuses to check voter I.D. which allows MANY illegals to vote in American elections."
And what, do illegal immigrants just get lucky in picking names of registered voters to sign in as? Your claim seems to ignore the fact that there's virtually no voter fraud in this country.
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In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of
the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls over a
two-year period in just one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens. While
that may not seem like many, just 3 percent of registered voters would have been
more than enough to provide the winning presidential vote margin in Florida in
2000. Indeed, the Census Bureau estimates that there are over a million illegal
aliens in Florida, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has prosecuted more
non-citizen voting cases in Florida than in any other state.
Two Government offices that have determined that people have voted here illegally.
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I learned very early in my public elementary school teaching career that if you
wanted to create more bad behavior all that I had to do was ignore the bad
behavior and if I wanted to increase the bad behavior at a faster rate all I had
to do was reward it. It is human nature that bad behavior will always get worse
if there are no consequences.
Not only has the Obama Administration been ignoring the bad behavior of those that enter and stay in the United States illegally, but the illegal aliens are being rewarded with what they came here for in the first place, schools, medical, jobs, and a better life. I really don't blame them, I blame the Obama Administration and the previous Bush Administration for not enforcing immigration laws not only for the illegal aliens, but the employers that hire illegal labor.
As long as the Administration continues to reward illegal immigration it will continue to get worse. Presently due to the lack of consequences the illegal immigrants feel that they have been invited and entitled to enter the U.S. illegally.
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I suggest Mike Richards read the 9th commandment then offer proof for his hype.
- 7:15 a.m. July 4, 2014
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What we are seeing now is not "immigration," it's invasion. Immigration happens when people are permitted to enter a country. Invasion happens when people jump the borders and demand things of residents. It's like the difference between a house guest and a burglar. Simple and straightforward for anyone with the ability to reason.
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