tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post3486754563151778319..comments2024-03-18T04:20:15.987-04:00Comments on Statement Analysis ®: Global Warming and Deception Statement Analysis Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13607372649929274491noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-50339194213096439422015-06-14T13:49:03.849-04:002015-06-14T13:49:03.849-04:00Please do an analysis on Ricky Jones of Delta Utah...Please do an analysis on Ricky Jones of Delta Utah, based on an article I saw in the Daily Beast. Purported hate crime against him. Tons of red flags in this, and an astonishing level of bias in the article. Please, I'm dying to get your analysis Peter! Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416944270093959243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-57185948844101668342015-06-10T21:42:30.566-04:002015-06-10T21:42:30.566-04:00To Anon at 2:00 p.m. today; yes, I am against Dr. ...To Anon at 2:00 p.m. today; yes, I am against Dr. Drew as being an authoritarian in the position he now is, having formerly been a cocaine user, in attributing any real credibility to him. Cocaine is very dangerous to the user and all those around them. It also causes brain damage. The former user cannot be trusted not to do it again, for the very same reasons they did it in the first place. <br /><br />All of these drugs play with the brain cells, frying many of them; one never knows what minute they might fly off the deep end for no good reason; which is why the drug user is referred to has having fried brains. <br /><br />As for the rest of the drug users you mentioned, at least they did get something accomplished with their lives in spite of their mind altering substances. Bully for them. If they'd been so smart, they would have never played with their brains in the first place. In the end, like it or not, they were still drug users and abusers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-64379112182941573032015-06-10T18:53:23.858-04:002015-06-10T18:53:23.858-04:00One last comment/link. This is a link to the Int&...One last comment/link. This is a link to the Int'l Climate Coalition site. If you watch the 3.42 min video, you'll get an "honest" answer about climate change. I like what Tom Harris has to say about preparing for the "unknown" as opposed to knowing/forecasting the when and where/hysterical propaganda to "give now"/silence the opposition. Nobody knows! If you look at dangerous locales along the rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, based on knowledge of what happens when the tectonic plates rub or bend/snap, there will be a tsunami. But no one can say when it will happen. Or, most recently, Kathmandu, Nepal. Nobody could foresee their last earthquake. Based on history, they knew they were vulnerable and it had been a long time since the last earthquake so they were 'due'. However, *preparing* for the eventuality through aid would be more purposeful and practical. i.e., building/codes to match the vulnerability of the environs, early warning systems via alarm outside of radio and TV frequency.<br /><br />http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&id=393Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150573665283919209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-13685320289329981782015-06-10T14:00:34.531-04:002015-06-10T14:00:34.531-04:00To anon on June 10 @7:36 am
About Dr. Drew - you d...To anon on June 10 @7:36 am<br />About Dr. Drew - you dismiss him because of his admitted drug use. Is this wise? Because I'm typing on an Apple IPad produced by a dope smoking LSD user-- the great Steve Jobs-- and its a great product! If you think drug use in itself discredits people, you are living in a bubble unaware of all the advances in our society that were produced by people who, currently or in the past, use drugs. DNA testing of all kinds was revolutionized by the invention of a method for DNA replication that speeded up the process to such an incredible degree that major scientific advances were made possible. The inventor got a Nobel Prize for his work. He came up with his idea after using some LSD. We couldn't test for HIV without it! Ironically, the inventor does not believe HIV causes AIDS. <br />I'm all for debate and skepticism, especially in science. The TRUTH does not fear a challenge. <br /><br />"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it"----Malcolm XSaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-16792691212183923562015-06-10T10:00:24.608-04:002015-06-10T10:00:24.608-04:00Further to the oil sands and using it as an exampl...Further to the oil sands and using it as an example to dispute man-made global warming/cooling/change, etc. At one time, 75 ?million years ago, Canada was a much warmer climate than it is today. How so you ask? The oil sands/Badlands are evidence of this. Given how oil is formed, and given the kinds of herbivorous dinosaurs discovered in Canada’s Badlands (and even on the east coast,) and the temperature required for the kinds of foliage they consumed, Canada was a much warmer country. In fact, gold, diamond, and other exploration in Canada’s north, indicates that much of Canada was very warm ‘back then’.<br /><br />There was more environmental/air pollution at the turn of the 20th century/start of the industrial revolution than there is today. i.e., toxic fumes from factory chimneys, transportation (horses (manure/urine)) oil burning street lamps, oil and wood burning stoves to name a few contributors. The advent of coal fired power plants/nuclear power and the following decades demonstrate that Mother Nature has a capacity to recover, but mostly, there is much less pollution today than then.<br /><br />I could go on and on, but I will end by saying, the fabrication, never mind the owning of, i.e., the electric car has a larger carbon footprint than a fossil fuel car. A two minute video on one versus the other from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/12/economist-explains-18Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150573665283919209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-72474477791536569632015-06-10T10:00:11.451-04:002015-06-10T10:00:11.451-04:00Peter, this is a subject that sticks in my craw. ...Peter, this is a subject that sticks in my craw. Some of the arguments I've run into follow:<br /><br />Re: melting ice caps - The Arctic icecaps are floating. If they melt (which they have in the past, hence why Greenland was aptly named,) no amount of the world would flood. Archimedes’ Principal supports this. Fill a glass tippy top with ice, (some even sticking out of the top like an iceberg,) add water to the rim, and let the ice melt. Note that the glass of water does not overflow as the ice melts. In fact, the water line may be even lower because ice has more volume than water. The same could not be said for the Antarctic cap; however, given the earth's axis and the constant temperature of the Antarctic, this occurrence would be improbable.<br /><br />Canada’s OIL sands. (Tar is man-made.) If you are reading or listening to anything about Canada’s OIL sands and [they] are calling it “tar sands” you know you are listening to hysterical propaganda. The oil sands is a natural occurrence. Refining the oil sands is actually cleaning up Mother Nature’s “oil spill”. And while Barack Obama is pointing his finger at Canada and vetoing the Keystone pipeline, which is arguably the safest way to transport oil (Lac Megantic,) and wanting his legacy to be the “environmental president”, it is an undisputed fact that ‘he’ has invested/sponsored more money in domestic drilling for oil and fracking for gas than anyone else before him (or around him!), creating more domestic output thereby having to import less. (Made in America!) He’s a hypocrite. <br /><br />Speaking of hypocrites, side glancing Neil Young, David Suzuki, Al Gore et al, what about the 1.700 private jets owned by the “greenies” that descended on Davos for the “World Economic Forum” to discuss climate change? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2916539/World-Economic-Forum-Skies-Switzerland-double-number-private-jets.html A military base had to be opened up just for them. What about traveling economy? (gasp) Or video-conferencing? (gasp!) Neil Young has the audacity to come to Canada to pontificate his “green altruism” for the media, while driving around in an electric car, but he has a caravan of burping busses following him around, and idling, empty, while he puts on a concert for Calgary. Not only that, but he doesn’t seem to mind that the channel used to support his music career (manufacturing of records, discs, MP3s, etc., etc.,) is fossil fuel based. http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Corbella+Neil+Young+chooses+comfort+over+convictions/9406082/story.html Driving an electric car negates all that./sarc<br /><br /> imo, this ‘green machine’ (follow the money and careers,) and policies like energy “credits” (aka redistribution of wealth,) is a bigger sting operation than Y2K. <br /><br />The only climate man can control is his immediate surroundings via the thermostat. There is a natural ebb and flow (cooling/warming) of the earth which coincides with the SUN’s solar flares and other natural occurrences (volcanoes, etc.). Other documented events before industrialization (disappearance of the Saqqaq/Dorset/Norse Vikings/ for one, http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/dinosaurs-diets-ecological-niches-new-study-shows-recipe-su) Little Ice Age/Medieval Warm Period supports the notion that the Earth warms/cool and its a natural ‘rhythm’. How long each period lasts is unknown. The “hockey stick” fiasco is evidence of just how far the “green movement” will go to falsify data to support their “work” and FUNDING. Thank God for curious and critically thinking people like Stephen McIntyre who unmasked their “errors".Nichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150573665283919209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-78900361527881385782015-06-10T07:36:08.908-04:002015-06-10T07:36:08.908-04:00Matt, it isn't always easy to gauge which of t...Matt, it isn't always easy to gauge which of the talk show hosts are fake and those that aren't; say like Maury Povich. Who can say for sure since his is just crude blasé entertainment. Then there's Jerry Springer. I knew Jerry personally prior to his entering show business. I happen to know that he was a gentleman back then and not at all like the person he portrays on his show. It pays well. He makes the best of being what he really isn't. Sometimes I can sense his utter disgust towards some of his guests. However, I can't see how he will ever recover his prior good reputation among those who knew him prior to becoming what he is today. <br /><br />Then there's Dr. Drew, I liked him, now I find that he previously did cocaine and smoked pot and recently admitted to it. Right. But that also means he lost all credibility with me and I will no longer listen to anything he says. He's history. <br /><br />I like the frankness of Dr. Phil who doesn't mince words. However, my former husband, now deceased, who was a practicing psychologist/psychiatrist/professor, well published and with vast credentials who reaped high honors in his profession, a brilliant man; said that Dr. Phil never had the proper credentials nor was he ever a qualified practicing psychologist/psychiatrist, and couldn't stomach listening to him. SOOo, do we really know Dr. Phil? I think not. <br /><br />My favorite is Dr. Keith Ablow, who really IS well qualified. Him I admire as being one who tells the truth and stands by his analysis. IMO, no fake. Also, I liked Joy Behar and perceived her to be above board in her interviews. As to Dan Abrams, I always expected him to tall flat on his face, it was no surprise to me when he did. <br /><br />Are they all liars waiting for the fall out? Your guess is as good as mine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-56771389320383966152015-06-09T21:56:00.328-04:002015-06-09T21:56:00.328-04:00I admit that, though I am fascinated with deceptio...I admit that, though I am fascinated with deception detection as a whole, which Statement Analysis even more fascinating, I find myself skeptical sometimes. My wife is highly skeptical of Statement Analysis, and she, like me, will explain it as "I say a lot of those things, but its just what I say. I don't mean anything bad about it". I find it hard to disagree sometimes, as I see an analysed word or phrase and say to myself " I say that all the time, and I don't mean it that way, nor was I lying " I defend Statement Analysis, but sometimes I find myself reading an analysis and reaching a slightly different conclusion, or feel that some of the analyzed items appear to be " over reaching", sort of a self-fulfilling kind of thing. I don't know how better to describe it.<br /><br />That being said, its is incredibly exciting to listen to something that's probably fake, liike Maury. Or watch something interesting on Dr. Phil, and find out the analysis is correct. Statement Analysis seems to be excitingly accurate, but is filled with many variables. <br /><br />Exceptional article, Peter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696212539579604251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-30219500541093652632015-06-09T21:42:49.551-04:002015-06-09T21:42:49.551-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08696212539579604251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-18572453018895970902015-06-09T17:19:34.656-04:002015-06-09T17:19:34.656-04:00AgreedAgreedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680510856590830567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-72678999708953291852015-06-09T16:36:11.911-04:002015-06-09T16:36:11.911-04:00"Nature waits for no man".
Nor does God..."Nature waits for no man".<br /><br />Nor does God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-59276553530946716872015-06-09T15:05:26.342-04:002015-06-09T15:05:26.342-04:00It's kind of hilarious the importance that we ...It's kind of hilarious the importance that we humans seek to ascribe to ourselves.<br /><br />I wonder what exactly precipitated the end of the last ice age, or the one before that? Not cars, not burning fossil fuels, not global agriculture, or industrialized livestock farts driving up the temps...yet amazingly, the climate managed to change with no help at all from us infinitely important human beings!<br /><br />We are truly 'dust in the wind' in the realm of the universe, but to hear us tell it, we are the nexus. I particularly love the people freaking out because the coastal areas are 'shrinking', and valuable real estate properties are being reclaimed by the ocean. They use this as 'proof' of some apocalyptic climate issue. News Flash...we humans don't get to arbitrarily decide where the coast begins, and ends, based on real estate zoning. The ocean goes where it pleases, even if you built a house there. Every square inch of earth was at some point covered by water, (ice, etc)...and it likely will be again some day. <br /><br />Yes the climate is changing...as part of the natural warming and cooling cycle of the planet which has preceded humans, and will outlast us. We better start focusing our energy on ways to adapt, rather than futility trying to prevent it. Nature waits for no man.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680510856590830567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-91311521372843497722015-06-09T09:43:52.410-04:002015-06-09T09:43:52.410-04:00It makes no sense and no excuse that Fairbanks was...It makes no sense and no excuse that Fairbanks wasn't arrested the minute he said he threw the baby into the dumpster, whether she was found there or not, whether they ever find her little body or not, or whether he ever tells them where the baby is or what he did to cause her death, or if someone else caused it, who did? <br /><br />So why the big stall? Finding her or not finding her won't change the fact that HE disposed of his dead baby.<br /><br />WTH!!!? Case opened, shut and closed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-40026759148098143882015-06-09T08:53:31.080-04:002015-06-09T08:53:31.080-04:00OT:
Forensic psychologist can’t ‘fathom’ why fath...OT:<br /><br /><b>Forensic psychologist can’t ‘fathom’ why father of missing baby didn’t call 911</b><br /><br />INDIANAPOLIS (June 8, 2015) — The father of a missing three-month-old girl wrote an email to our newsroom explaining how he placed her body in a dumpster after she died of natural causes.<br /><br />It has been nearly two weeks since Janna Rivera went missing and police are still searching for her body.<br /><br />Her father, Jeff Fairbanks, is the last known person to have seen her and the only person of interest named in the case.<br /><br />In an email sent to our newsroom, Fairbanks said he placed Janna’s body in a dumpster.<br /><br />“Finding Janna was the most important thing, at first, because that gives us closure, a chance at a respectable burial, and exoneration,” wrote Fairbanks. ” However, I am afraid that window may have passed. It was the hardest thing in the world to do, after the fact of Janna’s death, to take the detectives to a dumpster.”<br /><br />He goes on to explain why he didn’t call 911.<br /><br />“Believe it or not, it never even occured to me. Once I couldn’t save her, all I could think about were the girls downstairs… I guess, in some strange way, I was trying to protect them, because I knew she was already gone.”<br /><br />Fairbanks said after driving “aimlessly, waiting for her to wake up, praying, thinking somehow she would,” he placed her body in a dumpster. Then he said he lied to his family and told them he had actually buried Janna, because he felt “so ashamed of what I had done.”<br /><br />“He sounds guilty,” said legal expert and former prosecutor Jack Crawford. “The letter is extremely important to the prosecution of this case. It shows the thinking of Mr. Fairbanks and it shows – in my opinion – a guilty mind. When you make up a story so outlandish as this, lying to your own family about where you buried the little child, that indicates guilt.”<br /><br />Forensic psychologist Dr. Margaret Ann Keaton couldn’t make sense of why Fairbanks chose not to call 911.<br /><br />While admitting, people react to trauma differently, she said the act of calling 911 is something even a child knows to do in an emergency.<br /><br />“As a parent and as someone who has studied violent crime for over two decades, it does not ring true to me that a loving parent with nothing to hide would willingly toss their deceased, infant child into a dumpster for whatever reason,” she told CBS4.<br /><br />She was also concerned by other statements made by Fairbanks.<br /><br />“The statement that ‘after the fact of Janna’s death’ taking the police to the dumpster was the hardest thing he ever did is also troubling because how could anything be harder than tossing your baby’s lifeless body into a trash dumpster in the first place?” she asked.<br /><br />In the email, Fairbanks also mentions passing a polygraph test despite his nervousness. Dr. Keaton said polygraphs are not admissible in court and sometimes, people with psychopathic tendencies can easily pass polygraphs.<br /><br />“Some individuals have flattened affect resulting in less strong emotions, especially less guilt/shame. Such individuals may have a better chance of fooling a lie detector,” explained Keaton.<br /><br />So why haven’t police arrested Fairbanks? Crawford believes they are trying to exhaust all their avenues of finding Janna’s body.<br /><br />“Prosecutors and police want to find that body,” he said. “It helps their case tremendously. And I think by the fact they haven’t arrested Mr. Fairbanks yet, that they’re close. They have some strong leads on where the child’s body may be.”<br /><br />If police cannot find the body, Crawford said they can still charge Fairbanks with murder based on what he’s said. But he believes Janna’s father has much more left to say.<br /><br />“I think he wants to confess. I think he wants to tell where that child is.”<br /><br /> <br />http://cbs4indy.com/2015/06/08/forensic-psychologist-cant-fathom-why-father-of-missing-baby-didnt-call-911/<br />John Mc Gowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00430624388902099338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-21083841094826432842015-06-09T08:52:41.892-04:002015-06-09T08:52:41.892-04:00Anonymous said...
Off topic: Peter, I wondered if ...Anonymous said...<br />Off topic: Peter, I wondered if you'd be interested inlooking at the statements by Alice Goffman who wrote On the Run-a book about her time w/ blacks in Philly. The book is coming under question. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-is-the-next-big-publishing-scandal-20150605-column.html#page=1<br /><br />She destroyed her notes, so its not possible to check her sources.<br /><br /><br />There is much on line now that suggests she made much of this up, which leads me to go to motive, but for now, it is interesting that she chose 3AM as her start time for justice! <br /><br />Interesting link.<br /><br />Peter Statement Analysis Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13607372649929274491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-31812362746596035262015-06-09T08:29:37.693-04:002015-06-09T08:29:37.693-04:00Wake up and smell the coffee. There is no such th...Wake up and smell the coffee. There is no such thing as "Mother Nature". <br /><br />"MOTHER?" If you think there is, find her and bring her here to me. I'd like to shake her huge mammoth sized hand that would be bigger than the universe. <br /><br />But it ain't gonna happen. <br /><br />"MOTHER Nature?" Cracks me up. Makes we wanta laugh out loud. <br /><br />There is GOD out there, and HIS kingdom at His command; nothing more, nothing less. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-59606855183259706682015-06-09T08:16:46.077-04:002015-06-09T08:16:46.077-04:00Ha....! Worrying about global warming and the end...Ha....! Worrying about global warming and the end of the ice age and every other thing that God designed, created, oversees and controls is a total waste of time. And THAT would be all of it. Everything. <br /><br />One way or another, we are ALL just dust in the wind. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-80163034148954608262015-06-09T07:39:50.353-04:002015-06-09T07:39:50.353-04:00Perhaps we should be prosecuting volcanoes for air...Perhaps we should be prosecuting volcanoes for air pollution, poisoning of rivers, lakes and in some cases seas.<br />Mother nature in general for homicide, floods, droughts,plagues, hurricanes and tornadoes (wanton destruction of property)<br />The seas for leaking of methane from methane hydrate deposits causing ships to sink.<br /><br />Volcanoes again for mass homicide, arson, wanton destruction of property and building new land without a permit causing ecological damage to local wildlife and sensitive areas of conservation.<br /><br />Tectonic plates for earthquakes causing mass genocide, wanton destruction of property,arson, contaminating water supplies, denial of services<br /><br />Mother nature for crimes against humanity in general.<br /><br />O0o0o i could make a fortune from all the litigation both as a claimant (I, being the victim of too much rain, not enough rain, too much sun, not enough sun, too hot, too cold, too windy, not windy enough, disturbed sleep patterns due to the sun being up when i want to sleep and not up when i want to be awake, local wildlife being around when i want to be left alone and being absent what i want to interact with it.<br />Birds singing too loudly in the early hours and not loudly enough in the twilight hours,wildlife trespassing on my property when not wanted and not visiting when i want.<br />The sky not being the right color when i want it, the air i breathe being too dirty or too clean and not smelling right when i want a specific scent,the wrong types of season, neutrinos touching me without my permission, exposure to harmful rays, exposure to the passage of time causing me to age physically and all the illness and ailments that result and then finally homicide since i will be killed by mother nature and her cohorts at a time and place of their choosing and with no consultation with me, the end user.<br />We could all be part of a class action.<br />Life is inherently harmful to humans since use of the product will result in death and no one told us this when we were born.<br />None of us signed a contract and the really smart ones who managed to not eat the writing instrument of choice could never have understood all the clauses and subclauses, penalties incurred for misuse of the body etc.<br /><br />I could also be an attorney since only i could understand all the gobbledygook i have written/will write.<br /><br />That will be 5 cents/pence/currency of your choice.<br />Precious metals, jewels, land deeds also accepted<br />Tania Cadoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06511272355142175684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-86255313133640630592015-06-09T01:37:34.915-04:002015-06-09T01:37:34.915-04:00"Also, "pollution of automobiles" i..."Also, "pollution of automobiles" is just a piece of the problem. Larger concerns are use of fossil fuels for power plants and heavy industry, plus deforestation, and several other things. I don't know if you were singling out one issue to make it sound ridiculous or not, but it's much more complex than that."<br /><br />A thousand times agreed!!! cars are not the main issue by a long shot. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-48271624566324593752015-06-09T00:30:23.717-04:002015-06-09T00:30:23.717-04:00I am usually skeptical of any theory.
My husband...I am usually skeptical of any theory. <br /><br />My husband is the type that will skim an article and come to me saying "this is happening...I read about it"<br />Most the time I'll do some more research or read the article and discover it was not as he said. <br /><br />So I see your point all to clearly. <br /><br />People in masses accept. Like Mike Brown. How many people beleive he was innocent. Thousands, millions. All based on a lie that no one was skeptal enough to wonder if it was true. <br /><br />trustmeigetithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05707304982363758140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-64304389811224658672015-06-08T22:42:06.983-04:002015-06-08T22:42:06.983-04:00Off topic: Peter, I wondered if you'd be inter...Off topic: Peter, I wondered if you'd be interested inlooking at the statements by Alice Goffman who wrote On the Run-a book about her time w/ blacks in Philly. The book is coming under question. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-is-the-next-big-publishing-scandal-20150605-column.html#page=1<br /><br />She destroyed her notes, so its not possible to check her sources.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-2776245169183550542015-06-08T22:40:12.766-04:002015-06-08T22:40:12.766-04:00Cuomo's ratings are in a slump; he's milki...Cuomo's ratings are in a slump; he's milking it for all he can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-63099945292059069682015-06-08T22:26:38.491-04:002015-06-08T22:26:38.491-04:00Off Topic: This is regarding the 2 prisoners who ...Off Topic: This is regarding the 2 prisoners who escaped the maximum security prison in upstate New York. I was intrigued by this one portion of what the governor said seemingly unprompted by any question and wondered what others here think. Here is the quote<br />""These are killers. They are murderers," the governor said. "There's never been a question about the crimes they committed. They are now on the loose, and our first order of business is apprehending them."<br /><br />Is there sensitivity in this quote particularly in this sentence "There's never been a question about the crimes they committed."<br /><br />I certainly would not have questioned whether they were guilty as charged just because they escaped and doubt anyone else would, so is it sensitive that he stated this? Only thing I can figure is if he was thinking others might question whether they were guilty because of it being a "Shawshank Redemption" type escape where that character was innocent. I am interested in others thoughts about this.Franknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-57307057619382756882015-06-08T21:44:28.302-04:002015-06-08T21:44:28.302-04:00Of course the climate is changing, it is and has b...Of course the climate is changing, it is and has been in a constant state of flux since the Earth was formed. In historical times, The Medieval Warm Period lasted about 500 years (800-1300). Grapes were grown in England, Vikings colonized and grew wheat in Greenland and the populations of many towns grew into cities. Then came the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) that cooled everything down. We may now be in the 500 years of a warming trend that will last until 2350 or so, then cool down again.<br /><br />The Earth will continue to warm and cool according to it's own rhythm. Man is insignificant and it is hubris to believe that we can change the rhythms of 4.5 billion years. Unless we detonate numerous nuclear weapons, there probably isn't much we can do to change Mother Nature.Pamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-33983769152094639572015-06-08T20:03:37.646-04:002015-06-08T20:03:37.646-04:00When politicians use science as a weapon or tool t...When politicians use science as a weapon or tool they seem to rarely understand it. I don't think their statements have any value in terms of science, but how they want to use the science to further their own agendas. So the opinions and ideas to be gleaned from such analysis should be for the political realm. Analysis of a statement from a regular climate scientist--someone who actually knows what they're talking about--would probably give better data in terms of deception (and informed opinion). <br /><br />Also, "pollution of automobiles" is just a piece of the problem. Larger concerns are use of fossil fuels for power plants and heavy industry, plus deforestation, and several other things. I don't know if you were singling out one issue to make it sound ridiculous or not, but it's much more complex than that.<br /><br />ginxnoreply@blogger.com