US Politics Mega-thread - Page 894

On February 22 2014 11:29 Introvert wrote:
We have Joe Biden as VP. So whether we care or not, he's there. There isn't anything more stupid than that.

On February 22 2014 11:29 Introvert wrote:
We have Joe Biden as VP. So whether we care or not, he's there. There isn't anything more stupid than that.

On February 22 2014 11:35 Roe wrote:


There's Sarah Palin. So, there's easily something more stupid than that.

On February 22 2014 11:35 Roe wrote:


There's Sarah Palin. So, there's easily something more stupid than that.

In completely unrelated news: The partisan bickering is going into the next round!

On February 22 2014 11:49 oneofthem wrote:
joe biden is literally captain america. you are being unamerican

On February 22 2014 11:35 Roe wrote:


There's Sarah Palin. So, there's easily something more stupid than that.

As ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight. The oil company is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S., relying on the controversial drilling technology to extract it.

The exception is when Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed. Tillerson has joined a lawsuit that cites
fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.
The Wall Street Journal reports the tower would supply water to a nearby fracking site, and the plaintiffs argue the project would cause too much noise and traffic from hauling the water from the tower to the drilling site. The water tower, owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation, “will sell water to oil and gas explorers for fracing [sic] shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” the suit says.

Though Tillerson’s name is on the lawsuit, a lawyer representing him said his concern is about the devaluation of his property, not fracking specifically.

On February 22 2014 07:10 Chocolate wrote:

I'm not saying he is a good person, but that seems like an article whose sole purpose is to rile up people already of a certain political persuasion and confirm their beliefs (hence the popularity of the article). Also keep in mind that CEOs are doing a job and want to do it well, so of course they are going to try to maximize profits (and it's not just the oil industry cutting corners...). Personally I think your job can involve one thing and you can think something else when it comes to you personally. I think annuities are wastes of money but if my job involved selling them I would want to do a damned good job.

This isn't that much better than articles decrying Obama for going on vacation when X political crisis is occurring.

Yeah, from the title it seems like it could be anything from a total roast to a circlejerk.

On February 22 2014 08:49 xDaunt wrote:

Okay, I've been meaning to ask this for a while: how old are you? I'm guessing like 15. Even your posts still have spots.

On February 22 2014 12:10 Wegandi wrote:


I'd argue Barbara Boxer takes the cake (though Graham isn't far behind).

On February 22 2014 13:15 Sub40APM wrote:

Well, all of you would be wrong. This is a *doctor*
+ Show Spoiler +

Anti-evolution Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga.) ran unopposed in Tuesday’s election, but nearly 4,000 voters wrote in Charles Darwin to protest their representative’s views. (Broun called evolution “lies straight from the pit of hell.”) Darwin fell more than 205,000 votes short of victory, but what would have happened if the father of evolution had out-polled Broun?

On February 22 2014 14:00 Yoav wrote:
I'm with Simberto.

That said, the science-denial is a problem, and the denial of standard Christian theology is, to me, even more troubling. Neither the Catholic Church, nor any mainstream Christian body, holds with young-earth creationism. Even most evangelicals don't believe that. It takes a special kind of fundamentalist to insist on young-earth creationism, given that this debate was settled in the Church a century ago.

On February 22 2014 15:00 Roswell wrote:

And then you have people who believe god created the universe/earth with the big bang.

On February 22 2014 16:07 lamprey1 wrote:
science has created "dark energy" and "dark matter" to make sense of how various galaxies move.
and both of these look like "anti concepts" similar to "god" in order to balance all their equations.

bottom line is science really does not know why galaxies move in the way they do and so they've had to create "dark matter" and ackowledge they really don't know wtf is going on.

i'll give some cutting edge cosmologists credit for having the balls to admit how little they know about galaxies.