en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/519572 Comments by moc http://tv.breitbart.com/msnbcs-odonnell-breaks-down-in-tears-over-thought-of-planned-parenthood-defunding/#IDComment141291913 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. Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:34:03 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/msnbcs-odonnell-breaks-down-in-tears-over-thought-of-planned-parenthood-defunding/#IDComment141291913 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9M0S29O0&show_article=1#IDComment135547698 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. Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:01:45 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9M0S29O0&show_article=1#IDComment135547698 http://bigpeace.com/mmoriarty/2011/03/13/americide/#IDComment134611408 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. Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:13:27 +0000 http://bigpeace.com/mmoriarty/2011/03/13/americide/#IDComment134611408 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.999426eed38d24123132435f3d303867.31&show_article=1#IDComment121973883 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. Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:19:44 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.999426eed38d24123132435f3d303867.31&show_article=1#IDComment121973883 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6f90940f6d9bb44d73f1c586d3a44fbb.8c1&show_article=1#IDComment102786040 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. Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:57:54 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6f90940f6d9bb44d73f1c586d3a44fbb.8c1&show_article=1#IDComment102786040 http://tv.breitbart.com/controversial-brazilian-art-exhibit-distracts-from-san-paolo-biennial-celebration/#IDComment100955152 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. Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:02:49 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/controversial-brazilian-art-exhibit-distracts-from-san-paolo-biennial-celebration/#IDComment100955152 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/08/14/muslim-gay-bar-why-are-the-intolerant-preaching-tolerance/#IDComment93205581 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. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:44:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2010/08/14/muslim-gay-bar-why-are-the-intolerant-preaching-tolerance/#IDComment93205581 http://bigjournalism.com/junksciencemom/2010/08/08/bias-in-standarized-testing-no-but-dont-tell-that-to-academics/#IDComment91662074 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. Mon, 9 Aug 2010 01:50:32 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/junksciencemom/2010/08/08/bias-in-standarized-testing-no-but-dont-tell-that-to-academics/#IDComment91662074 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FRPCRG0&show_article=1#IDComment76629740 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. Sat, 22 May 2010 08:45:58 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FRPCRG0&show_article=1#IDComment76629740 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.233373d23429b898bbcc4a0e13f0af00.c41#IDComment31394312 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. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:23:45 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.233373d23429b898bbcc4a0e13f0af00.c41#IDComment31394312 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A6CNP80#IDComment31288369 This article contains a misleading statement about 'species that live in the deep ocean' containing mercury. The devious intention of the AP writer is obviously to show that no matter how far away a fish gets from dreadful, industrious man, man's pollution follows. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The mercury that is in the ocean is no more a contaminant than is the salt in the ocean, as it comes from geothermal plumes that exist along tectonic plate boundaries on the floor of the ocean. The mercury that is there now was there in the ocean when there were no fish on earth at all, only bacteria. And it's not the case that only the fish that inhabit deep ocean water are thus affected. The mercury in the ocean extends to inshore waters and bays--- wherever the water is salty. And, by the way, the epidemiological-style research that you have heard about concerning good health outcomes for people who eat lots of fish generally pertains to people who have consumed oceanic fish containing methyl mercury. It's the fish in the ocean who contaminate us (to little or no ill effect); it's not the other way around. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:01:07 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A6CNP80#IDComment31288369 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090720.SF49231#IDComment27816110 No dental insurance. GOOD! Dental insurance isn't worth it. Not if you buy it yourself. You'll generally pay about half of the cost of a new crown every year, whether you need a new crown or not. Moreover, you should not have insurance for minor medical expenses. You should have only catastrophic medical insurance. That way you won't be blowing off the wealth of the nation hanging out in medical offices; you'll be spending your money wisely, which is to say only as needed. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:07:25 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090720.SF49231#IDComment27816110 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97PPGU00#IDComment19936484 I don't recall the details, but about the business of the disease being less serious in the US, the same thing happened with "SARS"--- that respiratory disease that developed in China that was of such great concern a decade or so ago. There was a great deal of commentary at the time about how there were no deaths at all in the US, although we did have cases, but many in China and in other east-Asian countries. Most of the discussions revolved around the differences in the health care systems. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:53:42 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97PPGU00#IDComment19936484