Serious Sarah

Just curious if she needed a ghost writer for her responses to your questions. Thanks in advance for your answer, JNS.

Jay, your link as it reads on screen is either not showing up as intended – reads the code – or it’s a literal reading of Sarah’s latest word salad before translating into English. Is it showing up correctly on your laptop? And yes, her reality show is almost done: ratings are falling like a brick. Speaking of books, why don’t YOU write one, even about her? Halperin did. Lovely Catherine Mayer is finishing hers. KT needs to write one too. Alas, I wish you’d return to Haiti for a real followup; Sarah is just there for more photo ops and ’12 resume padding. And yes, she will run in ’12. Do you, Scherer, Crowley, and Katy have a betting pool on her run?

Yes, it’s being fixed. Thanks. We’re not allowed to bet on stuff we cover, alas. If we could, I’d be winning over Scherer who’s convinced she won’t run.

This Franklin Graham? This guy?
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Obama: “born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother.”
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“They want to build as many mosques and cultural centers as they possibly can so they can convert as many Americans as they can to Islam. I understand that.”
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As president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, he receives two full-time salaries and two retirement packages. Last year his total compensation from the two Christian ministries was $1.2 million.

The size of Graham’s total 2008 compensation — $535,000 from Samaritan’s Purse and $669,000 from Charlotte, N.C.-based BGEA — drew questions from nonprofit experts. They doubted that one person — even the energetic, globe-trotting Graham — can do two full-time jobs when those positions are head of organizations that employ hundreds and spend hundreds of millions around the world.

As head of the Boone, N.C.-based Samaritan’s Purse, Graham earned more last year than any other leader of an international relief agency based in the United States. That includes eight with larger budgets, according to data compiled by Guidestar, a group that monitors non-profits.

Jay, when you interview, do you have a set of questions that you ask? Do you ever vary the questions based on the answers you get? Do you feel comfortably informed about the record of the indiviual before you do the interview? Do you do pre-interviews of others to get a broader point of view? If you find an answer you have received is false, do you make every effort to inform your readers of the truth? Do you review the answers after the interview for their accuracy?

Hey Jay -

Did you ask serious Sarah whether that deer she supposedly killed on TV was actually taken home and eaten, or was it left to rot there like some slob hunter would do (after they cut off the antlers, of course)?

Sarah really does eat what she kills (moose chili, smokes salmon she and Todd catches, etc.). Hopefully that does NOT apply to fellow R’s, media starlets, and working class voters she’s abandoned, stabbed in the back (again, hopefully not literally), quit on, etc. If she’s hoarding fava beans and Chianti in the pantry, we’d better watch our asses.

Thanks, Jay. Since there’s no bet, NOW you can tell Scherer to study her resume. She tends to “quit upward”: leaving jobs for shinier ones. Yes, she’s a quitter but always comes back to try to grab something higher. Besides, her natural greed is too much temptation to resist after coming so close thanks to McCain (thank you, McCain, thank you very much).

Oooooo, a Sarah Palin VIDEO!!!!
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Well, let me dim the lights a bit. Maybe light a candle or two….Sarah deserves the best! Her charm! Her wit! Her firm perky common sense! How can any Real American Male resist!
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I know I can’t!

No offense to unattractive, overweight, out of shape, eighty-five year old women, but why did Saturday Night Live turn to an unattractive, overweight, out of shape, eighty-five year old woman (i.e., Tina Fey) to play the part of an attractive, ideal weight, in shape, forty-five year old woman (i.e., Sarah Palin)?

Wait. That wasn’t really Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Socialists? That was an actress?
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Oh my God! What have I done?!?!?

Chris Lehmann:

Everything that’s wrong with this country: Sanders speech is on CSPAN2: Sarah Palin has 7-figure reality TV deal
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@lehmannchris Fri 10 Dec 17:59 via web

TRA, Sarah really did appear on Socialist Night Live. So did Katy Perry in a REALLY low-cut Tickle-Me-Elmo T-shirt. Award-winning TV.

Gracious, gifted Gov. Sarah Palin is a kind, charitable Christian lady, and she is very close to the Billy Graham family; but, isn’t Haiti more of a Sean Penn-Angelina Jolie sort of place? You know…hopeless, but good face-time photo ops.

Sarah Palin is an idiot ! What kind of foreign policy knowledge does she hope to gain by visiting a rotten condemned country like Haiti ?

President Obama has better taste, style and class than this stupid bimbo. He had brilliantly chosen to visit Germany and Europe, the great civilisations of the world, during his Presidential campaign. He would never have embarassed and downgrade himself like the Palins by visiting those born losers in Haiti. While President Obama made great friends with the great cultural leaders of Germany and Europe, Palin is forever condemned to be with those unpolished, undesirable, unwanted Haitian barbarians.

As Mrs Barbara Bush puts it nicely, I hope she stays in Haiti and never returns. Wasilly Hillbilly and Haiti So-silly, they are perfect pair of losers. They are being avoided by the whole world like lepers.

Sarah is old news, get over it

Another outbreak of Palin LWDS hits Swampland.
That’s twice in only one day.
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I have counted 10 new cases of LWDS in this article alone. I would recommend you all seek immediate medical help before it’s too late.
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For those who are not knowledgeable about LWDS please read the following information. It could save your life.
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Sarah Palin Left Wing Derangement Syndrome [LWDS]
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Symptoms:
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1. Condition boarders on insanity.
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2. Extreme fear of Sarah Palin’s ability to influence a majority of Mainstream. Americans.
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3. Fear that Sarah Palin will influence more women to vote Republican.
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4. Fear that with Sarah’s help Republicans will gain control of both houses of Congress and of the Presidency at the next election..
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5. Fear that as Obama’s approval rating continues to sink and is now lower than his approval rating, [down to 46.4] that Sarah Palin will attract more and more women to vote Republican and therefore doom Liberals to the ash piles of history.

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6. Condition causes the near total loss of Reason and Common Sense.
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Treatment:
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Psychiatric care and possible confinement to a Psycho Ward at a local hospital.
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Left untreated this condition can be fatal.
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To be of service to my fellow commenters at Swampland, I will continue to do research on LWDS and report back from time to time on the results of my research.
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No need to thank me. I am happy to be of help to you people who have contracted this terrible disease. I have enlisted Dr. Earl to assist me on this very important project.

3xfire, it is absolutely comical to watch these left wingers go bonkers every time Sarah’s name gets mentioned. They literally fall all over themselves trying to out cute each other with their petty insults and disparaging commentary. Their insecurity is rampant and not without some foundation. Sarah should be given a great deal of credit for rallying the conservative base in an exemplary fashion…the turn out for mid term elections was a clear example of her influence and sent a loud and clear message to Obama and his supporters……DO NOT take the American people for granted. They are quite cognizant of Sarah’s drawing power and they compensate for their own inadequacies by trying to demean her. Juvenile behavior, at best, but then again, totally predictable. When all else fails, start name calling and hurling insults….it is inherent to their very nature. (nasty, ill disposed and VERY insecure in their own skins)

I, for one am not afraid of Sarah Palin. I think she’s a hoot. She’s funnier at times than Carlin was. Huck, she’s even funnier than George Burns ever hoped to be. Sarah Palin and her followers make me laugh.

Good Grief, Did you even talk to the woman or just use emails? Did you go to the same Journalism school as Bailin’ Palin ?

No, Jay didn’t attend the same college as Sarah. Jay went to Columbia whereas Sarah finished at Idaho …after attending Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho, etc. Did you read their bios before asking?

decon: I have eaten plenty of wild game. Didn’t mean I personally hunted for it.

apr, I did “hunt” with my dad and uncle when young, but never actually hit anything. I was just following along because they were into it. Hated sitting out in the cold in total silence, often fell asleep. Fishing was another matter back then – was quite into it – but I don’t do that anymore either. BTW, check your #35 reply at Sanders filibuster tweaked post.

Actually, I don’t fear Palinr. I fear for America because she brings out the worse in candidates and her followers who know nothing of government, science, or even their own religion but live in a world in which every brilliant (????) idea can be written in three words on a bumper sticker. Unfortunately, that is what the FAUX crew and their Republican hangers-on have come down to. I really feel sorry for what was the Grand Old Party but which is now an a shadow of their ideals. What a bunch of losers and to watch Boehrner try to get in front because “I are their leader”..

Fortunately, there are still some adults in the room and they aren’t R’s.

In tragedies, such as the Haiti problem, libtards are front and center right after the terrible event. They raise money singing song after song of “let’s hold hands and save the world”, but within a very short while they move on. They forget about the poor folks left behind. It is on to bigger and better things. The TV crews have left, so they follow like sheep to the next big liberal farce.
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Whereas people who are dedicated to truly saving people are there months and even years afterwards. Liberals exploit the crisis for their own gain. They’ve been doing it for a long long time now.

Jay went to Columbia whereas Sarah finished at Idaho …after attending Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific, North Idaho, etc. Did you read their bios before asking?

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Liberals are total snobs. You look down your noses at anyone who didn’t go to an Ivy League school. Which would include 98% of all college graduates. You are the most superficial people in the world. She just made $1M for killing and cutting up a caribou and got PETA and the citified sissies of the world to declare war on her. She’s pocketing $8M from the series and getting priceless publicity including a Time cover story and several blog posts. She also published a book which also generated a ton of cash and will do a well covered book tour. And you think she’s the dumb one.

What did you do this month?

What the hell, are you trying to create a candidate via email?
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Everyone knows what a incompetent ass she is when asked questions directly, you know when she doesn’t have time to ask her handlers how to respond.
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Do you really expect us to buy this tripe you are passing off as informative journalism?

How incompetent can she be? One of the outlets estimated her net worth at $12M and that was before she 2nd book and the TLC series for a reported $8M. Last week it was the cover of Time and on the op-ed pages of several major newspapers including the WSJ and Washington Post for positions on the economy, taxes and religion.

That’s a pretty competent incompetent don’t you think?

Chris Matthews made the same suggestion musing if it was even Palin writing the emails. Two uber-liberals in the media forming a circular firing squad. Jay could not possibly have been happy with that suggestion which directly attacks her (Jay’s) intelligence and credibility.

And you think Sarah is the dumb one.

If you don’t like their politics than Hate them. The Liberal Motto.

What’s more it points to the ignorance of her adoring public.
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Follow the money if you must. It is not a measuring stick for the correctness of your decisions, but what you are willing to do to get.

That’s the ticket Art, it’s the GOP in trouble. Obama is so over his head he has to drag out Bill Clinton to sell his extension of the Bush tax cuts. And you gotta love Bill. A gasbag but a fun gasbag. Wasn’t it priceless watching Obama after 20 minutes and realizing Bill wasn’t going to shutup said, “Gotta go”, and then go? This is small potatoes but what was Obama thinking putting him out there in a press conference?

Barak Obama can’t raise taxes 1% on billionaires but it’s the GOP in trouble. You just keep thinking that. Are you the same guy who misunderestimated GWB in 4 elections and got your clock cleaned 4x’s?

Still love that story. Jeffrey Toobin just did a rant regarding the Supreme court decision in Gore v Bush. Good to see 10 years later that wound still bleeds. Of course as is Jeffreys way he bungled half the facts and his entire analysis which was picked up and mocked in the National Review and elsewhere by real lawyers. Did you know the Supreme Court did not stop the recount? Did you know 7 Justices sided with the 3 Florida democrats on their supreme court who said the recount had to be state wide with the exact same standards in all wards or the recount could not be legal? Radical election steallng bastards. The same standards? By everyone? That’s an outrage! You probably didn’t know that. Neither did Jeffrey. Jeffrey is to the law what Al Gore is to the environment. Gore’s management of that ordeal was sleazy and history will not be kind.

Frankly earl, I could care less what it is that you think. I have found the majority of your posts redundant, something about Liberals and nothing about the topic or, the individual of the topic.
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Sending an Email to a supposed Presidential Candidate, and publishing the response as serious Journalism is beyond belief.
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Your inability to understand that is also beyond belief.
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Like Twitter, Tell me what you are going to do for this country in 240 letters or less. I can hardly wait.

A little off topic but has to be part of the debate over the smartness of Sarah v Obama. He’s all part of the GW hysteria and would love to set up the UN to manage the global economic but his bungled diplomacy and humiliation at Copenhagen ended that dream. Sarah has been right on this issue from day one.

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the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is drawing to a close in Cancun. Delegates and protesters have endured record cold temperatures–the Al Gore effect–and, thankfully, hardly anything has been accomplished. An Associated Press reporter who buys anthropogenic global warming hook, line and sinker is distressed:

Weary delegates from almost 200 nations struggled through all-day talks Friday to cobble together final decisions wrapping up the U.N. climate conference, small steps to revive the faltering, yearslong talks to guard the Earth against planetary warming.

No grand compact mandating deep cuts in global warming gases was in the cards. Instead, the two-week session focused on a proliferation of secondary issues–a “Green Climate Fund” to help poor nations, deforestation, technology sales and other matters.

The cross-cutting interests of rich and poor nations, tropical and temperate, oil producers, desperate islanders and comfortable continental powers, all combined once more to tie up the annual negotiating session of environment ministers down to its scheduled final hours.

That’s right. What is going on is that the leaders of developed countries are well aware that global warming hysteria is overblown if not 100 percent fraudulent, and no country has any intention of impoverishing itself to satisfy a bunch of hoaxers. Japan took the lead in that regard this year. But the AP is bitterly disappointed

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More can be read at Powerline or any one of another 3 dozen conservative websites, the WSJ, Fox, etc. Every single person in Cancun knew before they went that nothing was going to happen but it was already all expenses paid and this is December and it was in Cancun.

What the money proves is this isn’t a stupid woman. What the money proves is people who call her stupid are stupid. These are the same people who after GWB cleaned their clock in 4 elections will still insist GWB is the dumb one.

It’s a trait of liberals and only of liberals. It’s proof they’re elitist snobs. Jay went to Columbia. Sarah went to, ‘those schools’. You’ve got to be kidding me! Could you possibly be more pretentious, phony and obnoxious. Liberals mock themselves.

As we speak the ideological roof is falling in on liberals. Obama can’t raise taxes on billionaires even 1% and he has huge majorities. What do you think is going to happen next year?

So that’s why Time put her on the cover. I wondered.

Sanders is a twit. You do know McConnell sent Reid a letter signed by 42 republicans they won’t pass any legislation until AFTER spending bills and the tax bill pass. Meaning the more he babbles on the less likely to get to DADT, Start and a lot of other pending legislation. Obviously McConnell intends to run out the clock. Right now Bernie is his MVP. May he keep talking.

Sounds like you’re jealous, rdw. Can’t get in an Ivy League school or other top-flight one for your field? That’s entirely your fault and your lack of ability, intelligence, etc. …and your problem too, not ours (except when we have to scroll past your whiny rants, but I digress). Poor kids do get into the top schools …if they’re smart and talented enough and make the effort. Also, Ivy schools aren’t always the top picks for all professions.

Is this the standard to which journalism has devolved? An email interview? You might as well have asked that Palin interview herself. Shameful.

You are a bit testy today, allthings, but I understand…things have not been going well for your political persuasion since Nov. 2nd. What I, personally, plan to do for my country is this: I have already served in the military (volunteered right out of medical school and served two tours..one in Iraq and the other in Afghanistan), I volunteer about ten hours a week at a free clinic here in town, my wife puts in around thirty at this same facility and I diligently pay my taxes, (a very large sum,I might add) both state and federal, with nary a complaint. I also stay active politically and donate time and money to conservative causes. My most important contribution, however, is being a good parent and role model for my children. They will both grow up to be responsible citizens and will be aided by having a solid, Christian foundation. There you go, allthings, my commitment in less than 240 words. Have a nice day and stay well.

…the only things missing from earl’s gilded resume are a medical license and proof of it. Some details on military background should be solemnly amusing interesting. I’m not a veteran but others here are and will able to spot a fake at once.

I am retired. Graduated from Drexel University with an MBA from Weidner and smart enough to know I have friends who didn’t got to collage and are smarter than me and you. They’re dumb like Michael Dell and Bill Gates. It is purely a liberal thing to think someone with a degree is smarter than someone without. Pure snobbery.

sman888: I sort of asked the same question of Jay, with no response.

It’s really not hard to figure out. Have you seen Palin’s schedule? Stomping for candidates, writing books, feeding half of Alaska, making a mini-series and listening to requests for an interview from an army of reporters. Jay made the most of the best opportunity she had knowing Palin is so golden and few people would even know how the interview was conducted.

More liberal snobbery

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Republicans chose Congresswoman-elect Kristi Noem of South Dakota to deliver this week’s radio message. Noem was an upset winner of the Republican primary and we supported her in her general election campaign against incumbent Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin. Noem returned South Dakota’s only Congressional seat to the Republican column, where it belongs.

In the video below, Noem delivers this week’s Republican message. It is easy to see why she won: she’s good. It is a positive sign that the GOP leadership chose her to represent the party. In my view, she captures just the right tone for the incoming Republican Congress. Loosely associated with the Tea Party movement, Noem’s style as well as the substance of her remarks refutes the dumb slanders that the media have hurled against this year’s conservative uprising:

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rdw – another conservative hottie smarter than all of the Columbia graduates who covered her. A number of conservative websites have labeled her a star in the making. This clip is from powerline. Keep an eye on Boehner. He had a very distinctively different style than Newt. He’s like Patreaus on that he sees the need to develop as many good officers as possible by giving them responsibility and exposure. Many of his young Turks will be moving into the Senate in 2012 and 2014. The nature of SD politics gives Noem a step up should a Senate seat open up.

Paul Ehrlich was Al Gore before there was an Al Gore. Liberals of the day drank his kool-aid as well.

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Paul Ehrlich is the Stanford University scientist and doomsayer who predicted early in the late 1960′s that “the population bomb” would soon result in global starvation. Those of us who were around at the time will remember Ehrlich’s ubiquitous 1968 book The Population Bomb. Ehrlich argued that unless we adopted drastic measures our future was grim. A famine of biblical proportions was to occur by 1975.

In 1980 Ehrlich famously made and lost a bet with Julian Simon based on Ehrlich’s predicted scenario of resource scarcity. George Will recalled the bet in a good column on the global warming scare:

Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford scientist and environmental Cassandra who predicted calamitous food shortages by 1990, accepted a bet with economist Julian Simon. When Ehrlich predicted the imminent exhaustion of many nonrenewable natural resources, Simon challenged him: Pick a “basket” of any five such commodities, and I will wager that in a decade the price of the basket will decline, indicating decreased scarcity. Ehrlich picked five metals — chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten — that he predicted would become more expensive. Not only did the price of the basket decline, the price of all five declined.

Will added a footnote to this history: “An expert Ehrlich consulted in picking the five was John Holdren, who today is President Obama’s science adviser. Credentialed intellectuals, too — actually, especially — illustrate Montaigne’s axiom: ‘Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.’” There is much more to the story, making it of current interest, as John Hinderaker noted in “Politicizing science.”

When Peter Robinson sat down with Matt Ridley to discuss The Rational Optimist, Ridley’s new book, the Erhlich/Simon wager came up early. The Rational Optimist says “we’re all kings now” because of exchange and specialization.(Ridley’s site for the book is here.) Like Ehrlich, coincidentally, Ridley is a zoologist by training. Through our arrangement with the Hoover Institution, we are pleased to present the interview with Matt Ridley in its entirety.

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Ehrlich has been proven wrong on everything. Not just wrong but really stupid. The NYTs has yet to report on Pauls humiliating bet but it’s a very famous legend among conservatives as an example of liberal silliness. So too will Al Gore. One of the things Sarah Palin will help do is cut off the academic gravy train. Expect funding for GW to be reduced by 90% within two years. That’s among US institutions and funding to the UN.

decon and allthings,
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“…the only things missing from earl’s gilded resume are a medical license and proof of it. Some details on military background should be solemnly amusing interesting. I’m not a veteran but others here are and will able to spot a fake at once.”
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“Like Twitter, Tell me what you are going to do for this country in 240 letters or less. I can hardly wait.”
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My resume is similar to Earls. I am not a doctor but I am a Veteran and my wife and I also volunteer a substantial amount of our time working at a local soup kitchen and at a food pantry to help the poor in our community.
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Decon and allthings, the two of you have to be the most ignorant, idiots on this green earth. Your posts confirm what losers you both really are.

You guys take the cake! The Twitter comment was sarcastic directed at the wonderful Palin who communicates to us via email and twitter to run for President but will not sit down for an honest conversation with a journalist.
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I could care less what it is that you guys do.

When you make superhuman resume claims, 3x (and earl) – and rely on those authoritarian claims as a crutch to prop up your arguments – you need to present superhuman evidence. Most of us here don’t do that. Still waiting, guys. Or does that phrase “All hat, no cattle” apply to you?

decon, you simply MUST stop flirting with me online. To begin with, at 38, I am half your age, already spoken for and NOT at all interested in having a fling with you. It is pretty obvious that you are the jealous type, too and I can only imagine the hell you would put some guy through ( I shudder to even think about it.) My military service was extremely interesting and probably provided my best learning curve, both from a professional and personal standpoint. It certainly honed my skills as a surgeon. Since you are so curious, I served with the 332nd expeditionary medical group in Iraq and with the Heathe Craig joint theater hospital at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan….good tours, both and a wonderful growing experience for me. Our troops are quite extraordinary…you and all Americans should be very proud of them.

BTW earl that was 240 letters long, the average length of an English word is 5 Characters long ad a space for typing it becomes 6, That means 40 words and I do not think that Twitter even allows that many.
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I will give you the benefit of the doubt and admit that it is easily misread, but I hope you get now the thrust of my argument, that a Presidential candidate and a good journalist would not settle for an email interview and twitter communications for serious discussions.

decon,
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“When you make superhuman resume claims, 3x (and earl) – and rely on those authoritarian claims as a crutch to prop up your arguments – you need to present superhuman evidence. Most of us here don’t do that. Still waiting, guys. Or does that phrase “All hat, no cattle” apply to you?”
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I don’t think Earl or I consider what we do/did in our professional careers or with our volunteer work to be in anyway “Superhuman”. It’s just the facts. Nothing that the average American wouldn’t do to help the poor of their communities.
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decon,
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Neither Earl nor I will give you our personal information that would allow you or anyone else to locate us and our families. With all the crazies out there that would be stupid and I am amazed that you and Patrick continue to ask for that personal information. I also stated Earls views on this because he already posted them several weeks ago.

“Neither Earl nor I will give you our personal information that would allow you or anyone else to locate us and our families. With all the crazies out there that would be stupid and I am amazed that you and Patrick continue to ask for that personal information. I also stated Earls views on this because he already posted them several weeks ago.”
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There’s no need to fear liberals. You find a lot more to be feared on your side.
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Plus the only thing I’m interested in are your ideas and solutions. I don’t give a sh!t about your name, where you live and how great you are. You reference your superior wisdom but shows very little of it. Earl makes points and references to his medical background to make us believe he’s an authority on HC.
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You guys can skip it. There’s no need to tell me what should be self evident without the announcement. If it’s not self evident it was a wasted effort anyways.

“Paul Ehrlich was Al Gore before there was an Al Gore. Liberals of the day drank his kool-aid as well. ”
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Unlike ideologues such as yourself that seems unable to formulate original ideas outside the echo chamber, liberals generally agree on things that both makes sense and have majority support. If the idea falls to the way side (in light of new facts) we tend to move on to the idea that explains something far better.
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I’ve yet to find one ideologue that has the ability to step outside their own convictions even when the evidence proves them overwhelmingly wrong.
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Idealogues and new ideas don’t mix.
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And that is why you worship Sarah and hate science but pretend that liberals think Al Gore is some kind of father figure for everything global warming. To tell you the truth – I haven’t read one single article/book he written, interview he have made or watched his movie. There are so many other sources outside Al Gore about climate change.
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You know wealth of books.
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Or to illustrate an example – you think socialism and fascism is the same thing on the left. Because you read ONE book. Ignoring pretty much all political science, history and the countless of books about it written by people who have studied and written about it for decades.
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The irony (It’s what best describes ideologues like yourself) is that if global warming is proven wrong I’ll move onto the right answer. But no matter how much evidence that you’re presented with, you will still continue believe what you do.

GW as it’s been presented is essentially a hoax. There is no doubt we’ve seen some warming but no proof it’s all that unusual. There is no proof it’s been caused by CO2. The evidence suggest sun spot activity plays a more significant role. The fact is we don’t have good historical data. We cannot devine 1/10 of a degree temperature changes using tree rings or ice cores. It’s been hyped for political and financial purposes. It’s dead.

My God, how can you disagree or doubt tree rings and ice cores. THAT is the basis of the global warming theory.
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There is not a shred of empirical data, only educated guesses as to what has happened on the earth for the last billion or so years.
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But, it is not about global warming or climate change. It is however, all about one world order controlled by socialists or socialist leaning libtards.

Turns out you received all of your answers by e-mail right? According to CNN this morning she only was willing to be interviewed by e-mail for Time’s front page article (written by you).
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So you have no idea whether she actually answered your questions or paid someone to answer them for her.
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Your excellence in journalism is astounding. Willing to do anything to get the facts, including rolling over on your back and asking for your belly to be rubbed. You really are a dog person.

hippo,
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“Liberals generally agree on things that both makes sense and have majority support.”
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You are a comedian. You sure can fool yourself. Majority Support? Where were you on November 2? The Liberal agenda was totally rejected by a majority of American citizens.
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Now you can do what you do so well and that is Spin the situation in some ridiculous way and claim you didn’t lose the election. You will probably claim it was only the economy or the American public is just too dumb to understand what’s best for them.
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Facts and reality are not your strong suit.

you think socialism and fascism is the same thing on the left. Because you read ONE book. Ignoring pretty much all political science, history and the countless of books about it written by people who have studied and written about it for decades.

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There is more than one book but it doesn’t matter. It’s actually pretty easy. Modern conservatism, the right, is based on classical liberalism, favoring individual rights over the totalitarian instincts of the state. Modern liberalism is by definition big govt. You’ve regulate everything including what can be said and where. The fairness doctrine was obviously unconstitutional and obnoxious. You want Fox and Limbaugh out of business because you don’t agree with them. Olbermann is fine. That’s just a weak example of the totalitarian instinct but obvious and undeniable.

So on the left you have big govt and socialism and on the right small govt, individual rights. If this wasn’t always so it has been since Reagan. Fascism is not socialism but it is clearly totalitarian. It belongs on the left.

if global warming is proven wrong I’ll move onto the right answer. But no matter how much evidence that you’re presented with, you will still continue believe what you do.

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Actually you won’t. You’ll fall for this nonsense the rest of your life. You are a kool-aid drinker not a thinker. The GW is a political movement pretending to be a political movement and it has failed at both. You don’t even understand the depth of the damage. Climategate was about academic smucks refusing to put their publically financed research on public sites for public review. The funny thing is in their humiliaiting (for real scientists) refusal to do so the appearance of someone hiding a fraud was found to be someone hiding their own incompetence, sloppy work and the scandal of peer review. Michael Mann and Phil Jones never shared their data. Claims it has been publically reiewed were in fact lies. When forced they had to admit they either lost their data or some of it had been compromised. When it was publically reviewed they also found out in the case of Jones all of the variances were due to adjustments to the base data.

The net result of that is peer review is dead. It’ll still be done but there is the next step of public review. What both Mann and Jones found out there are a ton of scientists in the public sector with more and better experience and much higher standards. How all of this safe academic know their peer review won’t be a pal in the business with the same vested interest but a real auditor with no vested interest.

I know for example this warming trend peaked in 1998 and has been stable to slightly colder since. NONE of the models predicted this. S now since they’re all wrong how has the theory adjusted?

BTW: Senator DeMint has written a bill requiring NASa to release every bite of data they’ve collected on weather and climate since they’ve been in existance adding criminal penalties for not doing so. Further all data collected is to be placed on public websites in real time gong forward. He is also addressing the responsibilities for academics using federal grants. If Mann takes a dime we own it all. None of this, we’re the elites, you’ll just get confused.

For more on this check a great site, http://www.wattsupwuiththat.com. It’s a fabulous site well designed and accessible. It’s designed so grade school students can see historically and in real time what is happening at the ice caps. Albert grossly exaggerated the melting. Anthony Watts has been at the forefront of unmasking incompetents and working with Congress to make sure ALL data the public owns is publically disseminated in real time. The academic despise Watts. Someone a couple/few years ago gave him a huge grant because this is a slick site. On it you can collect real time and historical data on all ice caps’ glaciers, etc from several sites. For some reason the National snow and Ice Data group hasn’t been able to do daily feeds BUT they are cooperating and seem to be moving in that direction. There are several other collectors who are providing daily feeds.

Bad news for your team. Al Gore is an idiot. He so greatly exaggerated the ice melt rate he should be classified a liar. Not that it matters. It’s almost better people think he was honest. When the ice cap doesn’t disappear in 2012 as promised they’ll know it’s the science and not blame Al.