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15 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - MSNBC's O'Donnell Brea... · 0 replies · +2 points

Isn't there something called "chroma key", a way of superimposing a separate image on top of video? So I suppose that the screen isn't visible to the guy there... only to us.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Labor threats carry po... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is the AP trying to promote the phenomenon of the hyphenated American. I have an Irish surname and was born in 1945. From this story you'd think that I knew something about how to be hyphenated. You'd think that I had some kind of allegiance to something Irish, that several members of my family had been in trade unions, that I vote Democratic, etc.

I can think of only one relative who may have been in a union (say, 50% odds). And I'm a Republican (like the Fitzgeralds of this story).

You have to wonder what the mentioned Wisconsin deal has to do with Irish heritage. The public service employees there are certainly not generally of Irish descent.

In such circumstances the press conceives of a story line first and then goes out to find someone to ratify the planned content. So they went to Irish union leaders, hence the distorted picture.

15 years ago @ Big Peace - Americide? Obama's Not... · 1 reply · +26 points

I see that Obama promoted himself to "professor". The fact is that the tenured professors typically exploit young people, generally those who want to be professors, by letting the young people teach their classes.

It's because professors really don't give a damn about teaching, about the development of their students. They just want to have an easy, well-paid existence in which they are able to do whatever the hell they want, any time that they want.

So they create phony junior professorships such as "adjunct" professors, and other non-tenure-track positions such as "lecturers". There I give you Obama: he was a mere lecturer, a hired instructor; he was never, ever a professor.

We know this in part from John Lott, the author of "More Guns, Less Crime", who was a young scholar who sought and ultimately got a tenured position at another university. He was junior faculty at Obama's institution at the same time that Obama was there. He reports that Obama never did anything that professors do in the way of scholarly research. No publications. Zip. At no time would he have been permitted to refer to himself as a professor.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - World is \'one poor ha... · 0 replies · +5 points

This stuff is the same as Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, a Malthusian paperback that foretold destruction in the same way. Ehrlich used to go on the Johnny Carson show to give us his spiel.

Then a funny thing happened. Decades passed and every one of his predictions--- he provided dates--- turned out to be false. Not by a little; by a very long way. Basically everything that he said would get much, much worse got much better.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Solar surprises raise ... · 0 replies · +5 points

This is a very shallow article. Way back in the early 1970's a meteorology professor of mine told me that he was interested to have found some research on the solar wind's effect upon the formation of cirrus clouds (high clouds). The solar wind consist mainly of protons, hydrogen nuclei, and electrons, that belch out of the sun... mainly during high sunspot activity. It has nothing to do with light--- visible, ultraviolet or infrared.

So this solar wind is still a leading idea regarding fluctuations in solar activity affecting climate on earth. This article is about another possibility, but it's only a possibility--- that the total amount of electromagnetic radiation from the sun varies enough to matter.

The neglect of the solar wind idea is not acceptable because the recent quiet period of the sun should have lead to a hotter earth, due to the reduced formation of high clouds. That goes the other way, the opposite way from the way the "scientist" is arguing. He's trying to make it seem that he's discovered that the influence of CO2 is worse than thought.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Controversial Brazilia... · 0 replies · +2 points

One of the images involves some third-world-looking moron murdering the queen of England. I recall that England sent gunboats to Brazil in the late 1800's--- for the purpose of ending slavery there.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Muslim Gay Bar: Why Ar... · 0 replies · +3 points

No gay Muslim bar would be complete unless ham sandwiches are sold. There also MUST be a disco floor... and I would think that an adjacent dog care facility for bar guests would be highly desirable.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Bias in Standarized Te... · 0 replies · -4 points

Sorry, Junk, but your problem is that you are not competent to read scientific articles that use mathematics beyond middle school level. Why don't you, say, crack open an integrated circuit and look at the wonderously complicated microcircuitry under a microscope--- and make stupid critical remarks about how the Intel engineers can't make something simple that you can understand?

Random number generators are a part of almost every computer language, such as Visual Basic which is distributed by Microsoft. They have many appropriate uses, such the use that is made of them in the article on testing.

15 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Police: Ohio man, son ... · 1 reply · +2 points

Warning... the Southern Poverty Law Center is a notorious left-wing operation. Hence the comment about the "the `explosive growth' in the anti-government movement in recent years". It's intended, the comment is, to associate this nut with the tea party movement. In reality, anyone who isn't anti-government today is a nut.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama fires back at po... · 0 replies · +26 points

This article states that there was a ban on government funding of stem cell research, but that false. There was only a ban on certain kinds of stem cell research, those involving cells derived from embryos.

The other kinds of research, such as those involving adult stem cells, continued to be funded by the federal government. There was never a ban... and, the research on adult cells has been particularly promising.

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