Republicans Against Science: Boast Willful Ignorance as their Trademark

[ChriswUfGator]

Thanks Stephen.  When you get a chance, and if you are willing to give me secret info, would you please convey to me the method of placing the video as you did?  This would be better than my simply placing the url. 

He's explained it to me like 17 times and I still can't get it to work right. So good luck on that one, lol!

[BridgeTroll]

http://www.youtube.com/v/o64Fz-KW1Dk

For youtube videos it is pretty easy...

1)  Select the flash button right above the 
2)  Copy the embed info... see below.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o64Fz-KW1Dk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

3)  Cut the bolded section and paste into the flash brackets.
4)  Change the /embed/ to /v/
5)  Replace the 200,200 with the 560, 315 in the embed code

Finally PREVIEW before posting... enjoy! 

[Midway ®]

Oh, wow! Thanks ! I'm gonna try this now;

1)  Select the flash button right above the 

ummm...ok

2)  Copy the embed info... see below.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o64Fz-KW1Dk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

done

3)  Cut the bolded section and paste into the flash brackets.

Uhhh....lemme think.....ok I think I got it...

4)  Change the /embed/ to /v/

This one's tough....oh! there it is!

5)  Replace the 200,200 with the 560, 315 in the embed code

All right! now let's see if it works;


http://www.youtube.com/v/IAaDVOd2sRQ

Hey look! I'm posting movies!

[BridgeTroll]

I knew you could do it...

[FayeforCure]

Faye, I must tell you, for several years you appeared to be kind of a loon with your political views. It just didn't seem like any of that was actually possible, and there were probably better explanations for what was going on with any given thing. But the more I've learned, that we've all learned I think, about the agenda in Washington, and the agenda in our own state under Rick Scott, the cheering for the "freedom" to die of curable diseases because you can't afford health insurance, etc., the more I've realized that you were actually right all along. I'm about as liberal in many ways as it gets, and I still didn't think what's actually happening was really possible. But it is.

I suspect much of this country is in for a very rude awakening.

Thank you sooooooo much ChriswUfGator. It truly is incredibly hard to believe the inane destructiveness of power hungry politicians and some of their insane policy changes that serve corporatism rather than the people. It's been so insideous over the past 30 years, that the gradual "drip, drip" went unnoticed by most.

Though I credit many insightful sources online for my own realization, I also think that as an immigrant I have been a bit more studious of the changes that were going on in the US.

I am sure many people thought I was exagerating ( to put it kindly), and as much as I hate to be vindicated, I value people like you and stephendare sharing your changed perspective about me.

It is hard to be a lone voice locally against conventional wisdom, even if we always shared a liberal perspective.

BTW, I still remember when the word liberal was a dirty word here in Jacksonville. I had to remind my neighbors about the value of "liberty and justice for all" as the root of being "a liberal."

[Midway ®]

That's just the problem. Most people don't realize how bad things can get and how badly it will affect them, until they are shown. They need an object lesson to understand what's really happening. Then a couple of years later, they forget all about it because they become fascinated with staring at the latest small shiny object from China.

[FayeforCure]

Scientists Revolt

Rick Perry officials spark revolt after doctoring environment report

Scientists ask for names to be removed after mentions of climate change and sea-level rise taken out by Texas officials




Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 October 2011 08.05 EDT
Article history



Rick Perry's administration deleted references to climate change and sea-level rise from the report. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP


Officials in Rick Perry's home state of Texas have set off a scientists' revolt after purging mentions of climate change and sea-level rise from what was supposed to be a landmark environmental report. The scientists said they were disowning the report on the state of Galveston Bay because of political interference and censorship from Perry appointees at the state's environmental agency.


By academic standards, the protest amounts to the beginnings of a rebellion: every single scientist associated with the 200-page report has demanded their names be struck from the document. "None of us can be party to scientific censorship so we would all have our names removed," said Jim Lester, a co-author of the report and vice-president of the Houston Advanced Research Centre.


"To me it is simply a question of maintaining scientific credibility. This is simply antithetical to what a scientist does," Lester said. "We can't be censored." Scientists see Texas as at high risk because of climate change, from the increased exposure to hurricanes and extreme weather on its long coastline to this summer's season of wildfires and drought.


However, Perry, in his run for the Republican nomination, has elevated denial of science, from climate change to evolution, to an art form. He opposes any regulation of industry, and has repeatedly challenged the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency.


Texas is the only state to refuse to sign on to the federal government's new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. "I like to tell people we live in a state of denial in the state of Texas," said John Anderson, an oceanography at Rice University, and author of the chapter targeted by the government censors.


That state of denial percolated down to the leadership of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The agency chief, who was appointed by Perry, is known to doubt the science of climate change. "The current chair of the commission, Bryan Shaw, commonly talks about how human-induced climate change is a hoax," said Anderson.


But scientists said they still hoped to avoid a clash by simply avoiding direct reference to human causes of climate change and by sticking to materials from peer-reviewed journals. However, that plan began to unravel when officials from the agency made numerous unauthorised changes to Anderson's chapter, deleting references to climate change, sea-level rise and wetlands destruction.


"It is basically saying that the state of Texas doesn't accept science results published in Science magazine," Anderson said. "That's going pretty far."


Officials even deleted a reference to the sea level at Galveston Bay rising five times faster than the long-term average â€" 3mm a year compared to .5mm a year â€" which Anderson noted was a scientific fact. "They just simply went through and summarily struck out any reference to climate change, any reference to sea level rise, any reference to human influence â€" it was edited or eliminated," said Anderson. "That's not scientific review that's just straight forward censorship."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/14/rick-perry-texas-censorship-environment-report

[Dog Walker]

"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean â€" neither more nor less."

Substitute Rick Perry for the egg.