‘Tis interesting

So in an argument over global warming at anther site, I pointed out the fact that NASA, NOAA, The Brits, and the Australians had all been changing temperature data.

Also that Sea Ice has been both lesser and greater in the past 100 years than it is now.

I was asked for cites, which I provided.

The response? The predictable “I don’t believe you/those sources are not Peer Reviewed (which means that they haven’t been approved by those who will tell us what to believe) therefore they are not valid”.  In other words, “I don’t want to learn because I have already made up my mind….”

I’ts like arguing with a newly converted (Insert Religion Here) that just won’t listen to any data which does not fit their preconceived thought patterns.

I might be wrong about global warming, but I have yet to see ANY data that has’t been “massaged” that purports to prove it is real. And I still ask these folks “if you believe that Glowbal Warming is real, why don’t you live as if you believed that it is real?”…they never answer.

With all of the above, I am reminded of the old phrase “Never try to teach a pig to sing…..It wastes your time and annoys the pig”.

ETA: Stolen from HERE:

It is amazing

How the media and the folks on the Left (but I repeat myself) have taken to the attack on Scott Pruitt….

It all stems, it seems, from his choice to base policy on SCIENCE, rather than fashionable “consensus” Junk Science….He wants an honest assessment of the “data” that is used to make policy….to let everyone examine the methodology and the datasets themselves. To base policy that affects many millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars on actual, you know, science….

The Left is up in arms, and for good reason. He won’t hear of spending money or making policy where there is no science…or where the data cannot be examines or the methodology is secret…where the results cannot be independently verified or reproduced……

But that has been the modus operandi of the “environmental” folks at the EPA for YEARS…decades, even…..Come up with at theory (generally unresearched and unproven or researched using poor “science”) as to how Mother Gaia is being damaged (usually the fault of some Big Business)…and make a regulation to fix the (nonexistent, or marginal) perceived problem….

We need more truck Control

14 high school students dead after truck crashes into bus.

Note that this is nearly the same number of High School kids killed in Parkland.

By a truck driver.

We must do something. Trucks are too easy to get. Truck drivers need to be subject to a more rigorous background check.

(Please note that I am not making light of ANY of those deaths. Both incidents are a tragedy. 14 more kids are dead, and that is terrible.)

I’m just pointing out the illogic of the arguments….

My prayers for the families of the dead and injured.

Not much has changed

50 years ago,  or four years ago,  or 3 years ago, or 26 years ago.  No changes to the behavior.

There seems to be a race thing….or a culture thing, or something that makes Black people living in Black neighborhoods periodically riot and burn and loot their own neighborhoods  when they perceive (truthfully or not) that an injustice has been done

Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago explains (watch the whole thing at the link,…the video won’t embed).

They rioted and burned….and their neighborhood has never recovered…even 50 years later.

Why don’t other races do that?

Yeah, I know, pointing out the above makes me a rayciss. 

Sad, just fuckin’ sad:

Overheard:

“I didn’t pay any taxes this year, I got money back!”. This from a guy driving a local contractors work truck and wearing a union hat to his buddy at the gas station….

If I had had the time, I might have explained exactly how that part works….Sadly (Or maybe it is better) I didn’t.

No, you idiot, you PAID TOO MUCH every paycheck and at the yearly settlement, you got your EXCESS TAX PAYMENTS back.

It’s no wonder the government and the Media can lead folks around. 

And yet….

I don’t see him telling us to carry guns to prevent crime……

Surgeon General suggests that more people carry Naxolone to prevent opioid overdose deaths.

Why not promote the carriage of firearms to prevent all those muggings and shootings (in the streets as well as in schools) such? Especially in places like Chicago, Baltimore, LA and, of course, New Yawk? Just think, after the first week, all those criminals will be aired out and then crime will drop….Leaving more time for the Police to watch for overdoses……

More of that liberal logic, I guess