Meanwhile, half a mile away
Meanwhile, half a mile away,
Sarah Palin takes careful aim with her rifle…
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Indeed, I know many of my friends would take that shot too.
bears are so woofy!
What noise DO bears make?
Depends on the bear. They growl, they make whoofing sounds, they do big roars when they’re in combative situations (or, hey, in spring). GRAAHH!
wow, bears….
The scariest wild animal in Scotland is just a wildcat…..meow meow.
All our bears and wolves are dead. Probably Sarah Palin’s ancestors.
Killing people who speak up about issues they care about is hilarious, isn’t it? Oh, you were ‘just joking?’ Funny how people can say completely offensive things, like “Kill him!” and then claim they were just joking, and the person offended by such radical statements should ‘take the stick out.’
Yeah, I’m thinking something along those lines right about now, myself.
I’m going to kill everyone you care about, in the most gruesome fashion imaginable, while forcing you to watch. Just joking!
The joke wasn’t made in the same manner, clearly. Don’t chalk it up as the same thing when it clearly isn’t. The picture is referring to Palin seeing a polar bear and taking aim, not a liberal nut in bear suit that she doesn’t agree with. Hell, the person that made the picture just might have made it for the fact that it dissed Palin, not to say anything of the protester. It really is just a joke sometimes. Not everything has to be a hateful slam against an opposing viewpoint.
Mmm, I think it is delivery that makes a joke. You are trying too hard so it is forced humor that isn’t meant to be funny. If you joke with a friend and say you will kick their ass, you don’t go into explicit detail unless you are trying to make them uncomfortable.
We joke about our impulses and anger as an outlet. Repressing them does nothing but make them worse. So a joke now and again won’t hurt anybody. I know a lot of conservatives I can state wanting to beat their heads against walls til the stupid oozes out. Does that mean I am going to do it? No.
Do I care if they are uncomfortable? Not really, I already state how mad I am. Should I care about their feelings? Not really since I cannot control how they feel about anything I say. Your statement is whining about a person’s opinion which is beneath you, my friend. You can do better.
If they weren’t such hypocrites, calling us hateful when they are ten times worse, then I wouldn’t mind. But look at both sides. Which side mentions killing members of the other side? Conservatives do. I’m equally against my own side making the same sorts of comments. I’ve had friends say they want to kill George Bush. I call them on it. There are more constructive ways of dealing with anger than announcing you want to kill the source of it.
That is why it is a release. A statement of anger that helps blow off steam. I have the urge to kill people all the time when I am frustrated or angry. Well, the urge to wish for their death really hard. In the moment, releasing that frustration is the most constructive thing to do.
So if he is mad, let him be mad. Move on, you’re getting upset about them being upset. I am wanting to beat people’s head against the wall right now and I dare you to try and yell at me about it. It’s the internet, get over it.
I think Bush should be fired from a cannon at an exploding oil rig. What are you going to do about it that I will actually give a damn about? Call me a facist? Call me a monster? Call me a hypocrite? Tell me why I should care because I really don’t. You being mad at somebody being mad is your own hypocrisy. We have emotions and make emotional statements.
Get over it or don’t. Your choice.
We have emotions, but adults decide how to act on their emotions rather thean letting their emotions dictate how they act. I’m not claiming perfection in that regard, mind you.
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As for Bush, of course it is okay to be mad about his actions. But is Bush the root cause of his actions, or do each of his actions stem from an unbroken chain of cause and effect reaching out to encompass the entire universe? Let me ask you, why is forgiveness important? Is forgiveness an act that helps the one forgiven, or does it help the one doing the forgiving? Should you forgive George Bush for his sake, or for yours?
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By placing blame and moral judgment, you are really judging the entire universe. You are putting your consciousness on a pedestal it does not belong on. This creates undue stress on the conscious mind as it tries to justify its position as ultimate moral arbiter.
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And you are justifying and empowering the forces of blame
and judgment that exist within your own mind. Those forces are just as happy to attack you with blame and judgment as they are to attack others, but you have nowhere to hide from them as they are in your own mind.
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Again, I am not claiming I’ve put these ideas into practice perfectly, or even well. Understanding and action are two different things. But I’m working on it.
Too far and to a sad degree… That’s where you have taken this conversation. You are talking about action. At what point did I state that I was constructing a cannon or finding an oil rig to blow up? What action are you speaking of? It is mature to address your emotions. It is foolish to just lock them down. Vent them out and be done with it.
I do judge the universe, I also know where my judgments stop being valid since they are my opinions. They are like assholes, we all have judgments and opinions. And I know exactly how harshly my opinions and judgments judge me, don’t pretend that I don’t.
Now for maturity. So in this maturity, you decide to have a childish outburst about somebody having an outburst, wait not even an outburst but a joke they thought was funny. Oh yes, quite mature. Nice show of action.
Just remember, I am not the damn fool who made a fuss over cobrajoe’s joke. I am just the damn fool taking issue with your outburst. Good thing you stated that nobody is perfect. I am just judging you as you are judging him.
If you want to preach wisdom, preach it to yourself grasshopper. This is a LOLz site.
How was my response childish? Overly serious, maybe, but there are reasons for that. Read my response below.
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Was I judging cobrajoe, or was I trying to make a point about ‘haha, only serious?” type statements, where a person can excuse any sort of statement by claiming it was just a joke?
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Sorry if I was stating the obvious or sounded condescending. I just think that most people don’t understand why forgiveness is important. I’m glad that you do.
If you were sorry, you would try to do it less instead of trying to constantly inject seriousness into people jokes. Yes, they mask a sort of anger or slight but they allow people to vent. I have way too much anger to just bottle it all in. I vent and find that I am nicer for it. I embrace my ability to be horrible without remorse but I do it in ways that allow me to be nice to others. Hence my love of games. I can mow downs hundreds, even envision those that slighted me in significant or insignificant ways. Then I just let it go. I got my virtual revenge and moved on.
I don’t strive for perfection. I just strive to be a passibly decent human. It is why I don’t respond to every inflammatory post here. There isn’t a post. If they are stupid then I won’t likely reach them anyway. If they are just being jerks, the same rule probably applies.
But alas, I am now babbling without a point in sight, so I shall stop.
Would you believe, I AM trying to do it less? Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want, but I’m trying. It’s just that debating like that is my form of venting.
There ya go. I am honored to have helped you vent.
Wow, I was partly the topic of a debate-vent. Should I be honored?
Sure, we both have made a positive impact on his life by letting him safely blow off steam in the comforting glow of his monitor. Good times. Pootbeer all around.
OMFG!!!
Ummmm, are you supposed to be on any psychiatric medicine ?
It’s spelt “fascist” not “facist.”
BTW, DWM & Seth, please shut up.
Yes, please!
And you may go die in a fire while covered in ticks.
ticks?
so that you get lyme disease in case you survive the fire.
That and they will explode all over you, covering you in infected and digested blood. Fleas can’t do that.
Bravo, Seth!!
It’s mostly the leftists on this site who have been saying things like “Kill Bush” and the like.
Citation needed.
It doesn’t matter how much you want to kill someone as long as you don’t actually do it!
You guys are so funny when you’re desparate. Seriously, you just keep me laughing and laughing…
Didn’t a McCain supporter yelled out “Kill Him” and obviosly referring to Obama?
Nah- he yelled God Damn America !
proof?
is thor possibly a member of the Westboro Baptist Church?
I go to Rev Wright’s church
Oh what a clever and snappy comeback.
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So, is it now liberals who talk about stoning abortion providers and the women who seek them out?
Half a mile!!
She has an amazing rifle! (probably a .50 caliber)
Ya, that is a hell of a shot…
I’m not sure if you’re being serious, or just agreeing.
But for those who don’t realize how long of a shot that is, one half of a mile is 880 yards (8.8 football fields).
A good friend of mine owns a Barret Model 99 single shot .50 caliber rifle. Basically, it is a single shot version of the long range sniper used in the military.
He has it sighted in for 400 yards, and can place three shots with an inch diameter of each other. However, it took him all day of shooting $5 a round ammo to get it sighted in that close. 400 yards is far enough away that it is very difficult to see a full grown person with the naked eye.
It takes more precision to take a long shot than people realize. When aiming a half a mile away, if you move the muzzle of the rifle by a quarter of an inch, you will miss your target by 18 feet!
Worry not, I have your back on this. It would be a remarkable and almost impossible shot to make. Let’s just say I know a lot of self styled gun nuts and I debate against idiots who claim swords have honor while guns have cowardice. So in this, you have my support.
Cool. We should go shoot some clay pigeons some time. At least they won’t complain about global warming.
That could be cool. The niggling problem is that I lack proper gun training and a gun. I support the rights but I don’t have one due to lacking time and money for proper training, the guns themselves, and place to put them.
Either way, I have your back in a debate since I believe it is the person not the object that possesses intent.
Training is easy enough, find someone that you think would be safe with a gun, and chances are they’d be happy to teach you as long as you’d listen to them.
You might also be able to use their gun while in their presence.
If you went to UNL, I’d hook you up with the Rifle Club, it’s a bona-fide sports club, and there’s a 10 lane range in one of the basements on campus.
I would be happy to teach you myself, but chances are I don’t live
live anywhere near you.*
(Stupid clumsy fingers, now people will think I’m dead)
Bwah ha ha ha ha!
ZOMBIE!!!
That would be cool. Thanks for the info. Now I just need to move out of this crappy townhouse and into a proper house where I could store something worth having.
You’ve also got to account for gravity at that sort of distance.
Sarah Palin is just that good.
In bed?
she has 5 kids so maybe?
IT’S JUST A COSTUME! DON’T SHOOT!
It just makes it easier to remove the skin to make a rug.
She’ll mount the head of the liberal on her wall!
The head goes on her wall next to the journalist, the two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.
Only the bear’s head, an environmentalist doesn’t make much of a trophy. (They don’t put up a fight)
Certainly more than game wardens. And frankly, it’s not like you’re out there engaging them hand-to-hand. THe amount of fight in them doesn’t matter much.
Especially if you are using some kind of super rifle that can fire from a half mile away…
Hur hur hur, hurting people who believe differently than I do is funny! It’s even funnier when they won’t fight back! Were you a bully in your school days, or did you learn that behavior later in life?
Because that definitely makes cobra a bully. It’s a simple joke. People make jokes at the expense of everything these days, so stop being pissy and just laugh from time to time. Seth, I can respect you and your ideals whether or not I agree with them, but dang, you can be really anal sometimes.
I happen to think jokes like this mask real anger, and let people dehumanize others while maintaining plausible deniability. The underlying message is that certain people are sub-human, fit only to be shot, skinned, and hung from a wall. Maybe it’s just me, but I happen to think that isn’t funny.
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Let me relate a personal anecdote. I was violently assaulted and mugged in Seattle by a group of six young men. I lost my left eye in the attack. When people ask me about the incident, I tell them that I have forgiven those men. I don’t want them dead and I don’t want revenge. I also don’t want them to be able to hurt others like they hurt me, but that isn’t out of personal animosity towards them.
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Maybe I just have personal issues with people saying they want to kill people like me. Maybe it hits a little too close to home.
So basically you are forcing your self imposed decree of judgment onto somebody else while decrying me for the same above?
Oh yes, Seth, stay classy.
I’m not forcing anything on anyone. Words are not force. And I wasn’t decrying you, I was trying to point out why holding onto grudges might not be in your best interest. Sorry I pissed you off.
Exactly, words are not force or the action you are decrying. Therefore you are arguing over nothing BUT words.
So you retract your statement to the effect that I am forcing my judgement on him? I will state here, for the record, I would defend to the death cobrajoe’s right to make jokes about shooting anyone he wants, whether or not he would defend my right to state that I don’t find such jokes funny.
Sure, I shall retract it.
Can we drop it and put my stupid knee-jerk behavior behind us now, or do you require some sort of ceremonial atonement?
In bed… And no, we’re good.
In bed…
When ISN’T this comment appropriate? From now on, I’ll put it at the end of the self-rightous lectures people go on. Here, you can have a Win!
Thanks it. They taste like Skittles. XD
GAH…. *removes it from above statement*
Well, why’d you put it in?
My typing style tends to be verbose so sometimes my fingers and my brain are typing two similar statements. Moments like that are when I am not editing it out in time.
Simple answer: Cuz I am a spaz with words.
DWM, will you please stop writing “in bed” all the time!
Um, let’s go with no. Sorry.
AC is just mad that he/she is not getting any……in bed
Are you corrupting an innocent, naive, 16 year old?
Can’t be that naive if you know you are being corrupted.
Good point.
Side note: froofrou rocks. That is all.
maybe I’m schizophrenic.
(Ha!)
That would mean you are out of touch with reality, not having multiple personalities. That is a different condition all together.
Ok, ok multiple personalities, you win, etc. etc.
BTW do you have a job? Are you on this site all day?
Yes, I have stated a number of times that I post here in between doing work. So yes, I have a job and am here. Do you have any more fishing intended for personal attack fodder planned?
*full of humility*
Most sorry, great DWM: in future I shall read every comment on every page in order to take in all information about you. That way, when I launch my, perceived, personal vendetta against you, you won’t have to repeat yourself.
Anyway, aforementioned “fishing” was a casual, mildly flippant remark not intended to be over analysed.
Sorry if I insulted you btw, I’m sure you do work.
It’s the level of discourse I’d expect from a 12 year old. But this is a LOL site. So.
I love you too, bacon flavored sunshine. ^_^
I’m a bully, eh? GIMME YOUR LUNCH MONEY!!
Personally, I don’t care what you believe, but I really don’t like it when people try to force their ideals on me. I believe global warming is all hype and no substance. I also believe that if polar bears were to go extinct tomorrow, the guy in the polar bear suit wouldn’t know or care until some other environmentalist types found out and started making a stink about it.
So call me a bully if you want, but I want to sit down next to him with a sign that says “Polar Bears Lie.”
Stating one’s ideals does not equate to forcing them on others. Expressing your own counter-ideas is a healthy response to hearing ideas one does not agree with. Shooting someone, skinning them, and putting their head on a wall isn’t.
I get that you don’t like people to have opinions that are different than your own. But what ever happened to, “I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?”
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Yes, I’m being a stick in the mud. Sorry.
I am just waiting for you to practice what you preach.
Show me how I’m not practicing what I preach and I’ll try to change. I’m not saying cobrajoe can’t have his opinion, or make his joke. I’m just stating my opinion. He (and you) can take it or leave it, it’s just an opinion. It’s not like I have a gun and am threatening to shoot him if he doesn’t agree with me.
Where have you criticized any of the violent statements of hatred made by leftists against Republicans?
Wow. You can’t read, can you? Where did I criticize violent statements of hatred by leftists against Republicans? In this very thread. I said that I had friends claim they wanted to kill GWB, and I called them on it. You find me some more violent statements of hatred by leftists and I’ll do it again.
“You can’t read, can you?”
Give him a break, there’s still plenty of school years left for him to learn.
Dear, come up out of the basement. Your friends are here with your medication !
Find a few. Seriously, you can’t.
In bed.
Both sides do it, and both sides claim they don’t. That’s just the way it works – no side is holier than the other. Can’t we just accept that as a fact from now on?
Stating an opinion on an issue is one thing. Stating an opinion on a person because their opinion makes you angry is another.
Seth, I think you are taking my comments too seriously. The whole “shooting someone” joke was not mine to begin with, but keeping the “head and skin of the bear” were merely jokes aimed at the fact that they could be taken as hunting trophies even if the guy was taken out of the game playing lasertag.
I’m actually one that loves a debate. This give me a chance to explain my ideas while listening to criticisms and evidence of the other view. I have both learned much, and taught much in heated and non-heated debates with my friends as well as total strangers.
My problem with discussing global warming comes from the debates where people have no proof, yet expect me to believe, and yell at me and call me names because I don’t believe their arguments.
But I also find this LOL particularly funny because of a friend that would
have thought the same thing when he saw a “Polar bear” surrounded by such signs. I’m sure he would have said it out loud too, he is an enthusiastic hunter, and a stout conservative who loves scaring liberals.
I’m totally over this debate, and I apologize to anyone I may have offended by being a stick in the mud and taking things too seriously. I had a point, but I feel like I’ve totally lost it by overreacting. Sorry.
In bed.
Stop it!
Why? I’m having fun.
Because you made Seth wet his pants again !
O_O
No worries Seth. I just figured you deserve an actual explanation
rather than just calling you some random name.
I think I know what your point was, but I felt like it was not necessary to discuss it here.
You can believe that global warming is all hype, but science and reality would prove you otherwise.
You can believe all that crap if you like, but reality says the Earth is cooling.
By “reality” you mean the tiny microcosm you inhabit where you get your “news” solely from snotty teenage GOP bloggers. Bet you believed the Great Global Warming Swindle “documentary” as well.
Did you believe all the respected scientists in the 1970s who warned us about the coming Icea Age?
Again, citation needed. If I recall, there was one crackpot guy whose crackpot theories the media picked up and ran on a slow news week. Nobody agreed with him. There were no ‘respected scientists’ who said anything more than ‘this guy’s a loon!’
Oh puh-leez. Click my name for info on this urban legend you’ve swallowed that there was a such a consensus.
Yes, EP, I think you live in Bizarro land.
If you know of actual proof, I’d be happy to hear it. Seriously.
But right now, the reality I see is that all the big science out there is getting big grants from private sectors and the government to study a phenomenon that doesn’t really exist. (Why would they fix that “problem?)
Jesus, just go to any reputable scientific website, magazine, or book and read about it. I bet you’d rather ignore everything and play science conspiracy. Did you fail science in high school? Did you go to high school?
Sorry, but I don’t go by the name Jesus. Also, I would suggest you refrain from calling names or insulting my education in a discussion, it’s not practice because then you look like you have a lack of relevant arguments.
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As for my education, I excelled in science, and earned my degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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The scientific articles I have read on this subject either assume global warming is real, then give me the causes; or assume global warming is real, then give me some solutions.
I did not claim conspiracy, but I do believe that many out there already believe what they are trying to prove, and I also believe that there is more than enough data that can be interpreted in a number of ways to “prove”either side without resorting to completely falsifying data (like the fabled “hockey stick graph”).
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As I stated above: My problem with discussing global warming comes from the debates where people have no proof, yet expect me to believe, and yell at me and call me names because I don’t believe their arguments.
There are something like 700 scientific journal entries saying it’s a crisis and that it’s man made, and like 26 saying it’s not that big a deal and that man isn’t causing it. The Bush administration purposely pick and choose the ones they wanted to portray in the public eye, and play them off as equal levels of opinion. Think the many ties to BIG OIL have anything to do with that? NAHHHH
I went from one guy claiming I was thinking it was all scientific conspiracy to another guy claiming it is all Government conspiracy.
The government doesn’t have a role in censoring which scientific reports get portrayed in the public eye. Every scientific report gets published in a scientific journal, and it’s up to the news companies to decide if a journal article is worth reporting on, if they even know about it.
“One of the useful things this film does is expose the inisidiousness of the “fair and balanced” approach to media coverage of an important issue like this. Toward the end of the film, as Gore starts addressing the “skeptic” argument, he contrasts the picture generated by the mass media with the picture generated by scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. Of nearly 1000 scientific articles about global warming published in the past few years, 0, count ‘em, 0 percent disagree with the conclusion that increased buildup of greenhouse gases is raising the planet’s temperature. Of the nearly 700 articles from the US media surveyed, more than half express reservations about that conclusion.
Now, for those who don’t hang around academics all day, I want to explain what Gore means by “peer-reviewed,” because it’s important. A peer-reviewed scientific journal is one where the editors and readers who make decisions about what to publish are themselves credentialed scientists. Peer-reviewed journals put submissions through a screening process whereby they are evaluated by qualified professionals in the field, who recommend for or against publication on the basis of whether the science is sound and whether the conclusions are important. Naturally scientific journals want to publish studies that generate a lot of interest; but they are trying to generate that interest in the scientific community, and in order for scientists to get excited about a conclusion they have to be persuaded by the research behind it.
Peer-reviewed articles are thus held to a different and much more rigorous standard of proof than scientific articles that come out in mainstream media sources, where the only way most editors have of testing the validity of one expert’s research is to talk to another expert. The imperative to be “objective,” or more accurately to present the appearance of being politically neutral, encourages editors and producers to keep calling up ‘experts’ until they can find someone willing to argue ‘the other side.’ But–and this is the point of this part of Gore’s presentation–on global warming, within the community of scientific professionals who are competent to evaluate the evidence, there is no other side. The only ‘experts’ on the ‘other side’ are the mouthpieces who are paid to be there, either by the Bush administration or by the petroleum and automotive industries. So these media articles that purport to show you “both sides” of the global warming debate are not so much showing you the other side of the issue as generating it. ”
And guess which side speaks louder.
Ever take notice Mars heats and cools with l’il ole planet earth, also?
Our mighty sun and the whole solar system is a little bigger than wee humans think we are. Global warming and/or cooling is fact- “Man-made” is hypothesis at best, destroyer of individual liberty at worst.
IF man made, take into consideration all the nations government’s playing weather modification and metals-based cloud seeding for radar war games.. and wonder what effect they are actually contributing over the common individuals use of his vehicle or belch.
Look at the culture of who’s touting this new religion, and who their enforcing their dogma to, and it becomoes clear it’s not worrisome for the earth’s sake per se, but for humanity’s individual rights and freedom.
Historically yes, but is Mars experiencing speedy (natural) global warming right now?
You would think it would be if this is related to sun cycles. hmmmm.
Aw, did ohno just get pwnd?
No, I think ohno has a valid point. How long have we been measuring the temperatures on earth? How long have those samples been accurate? Now, compare that to the age of the earth. Heck, even compare that to the length of time humans have been around. We have only seen a small fraction of whatever climactic cycle the earth’s atmosphere is in.
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While studying the temperature on mars would be helpful in determining if the variations in the sun are to blame, this method may be inconstant too, mars is further away, has a different atmosphere and terrain, and travels in a different orbit.
Besides, how do you accurately measure the temp of another planet?
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So far from what I have seen, global warming could be considered a cult style religion. “What? You don’t believe in global warming? Well, you must be stupid.”
Core samples of arctic and antarctic ice give us records for over 6 million years. Accurately.
Ice samples give us accurate temperature records?
Can I throw the BS flag?
Yes because they can tell through the striations how much freezing and meltin has occurred. Also, the materials therein can be analyzed to determing the gas rations in the atmosphere at a given point in geological history. I posted a link.
Tom Lehrer FTW!
This isn’t humorous at all. Does anything that says Palin on it make the front page here nowadays??
Depends on your type of humor. Around here it’s usually a liberal sense of humor, but I thought it was funny too, so… Maybe only liberals/moderates find certain things funny. At least in moderation… A straight up Palin slam is a little less so, I suppose.
If that is the case, I am insulted. I have some damn good Palin ones that nobody ever voted for. T_T
rly? any palin slam is either true or hysterically funny
I thought it was funny…actually, pretty much any half-decent caption would have been funny with that picture!
I think this one is lame. No chuckles here.
I think it’s a pretty good one… As long as you all quit taking it so damn literal. It’s funny as sh*t if you pretend that it’s an actual polar bear. I know it’s hard for some people to wrap their minds around the figurative sense but lighten up and open your minds. My goodness!
I don’t really care about Polar Bears.. they can swim, they’ll adapt to global warming… FYI my comment is not sarcasm saying we should care about polar bears… I am actually advocating not giving a damn about what happens to polar bears, I could really care less about their survival! F*** Em!
Eat ‘em?
Well they still need something to swim to… As for their environment, if we lose all the ice they are on, the water has to go somewhere and that is into the mainlands.
Actually the numbers of polar bears have been increasing steadily for decades. The idea that they’re threatened is just another bit of left-wing propaganda.
You’ll believe absolutely anything, won’t you? Click my name for the New Scientist report on “Climate myths: Polar bear numbers are increasing”
I don’t think EP ‘believes’ anything in the way normal people do. I think he simply says what he thinks will sway people to his ‘team.’ It has nothing to do with belief, it has to do with control. In fact, his complete lack of empathy, his inability to connect related ideas, and his dehumanization of others leads me to believe he’s simply a very clever AI program. Or a sociopath.
I have links too.
“Interestingly, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an international organization that has worked for 50 years to protect endangered species, has also written on the threats posed to polar bears from global warming. However, their own research seems to undermine their fears. According to the WWF, about 20 distinct polar bear populations exist, accounting for approximately 22,000 polar bears worldwide. As the figure shows, population patterns do not show a temperature-linked decline:
* Only two of the distinct population groups, accounting for about 16.4 percent of the total population, are decreasing.
* Ten populations, approximately 45.4 percent of the total number, are stable.
* Another two populations — about 13.6 percent of the total number of polar bears — are increasing.
The status of the remaining six populations (whether they are stable, increasing or decreasing in size) is unknown. “
You do realise that there are other factors other than temperature, such as restricting people SHOOTING THE THINGS which might have had that effect?
Oh, wait, nevermind. Logic like that doesn’t exist on the planet you live on with your paranoid delusions and whiny victim complex. Better hide right under your bed tonight, the liberal media conspiracy, the scientist global warming conspiracy, the gay agenda, they’re all on the look out for you tonight.
In bed… With various impliments and creams.
Damn you EP and your facts !!!!
Can I just point out that if a larger proportion of the known polar bear population is decreasing than is increasing, surely that indicates an overall downward trend? It’s a little confusing for you to quote such an article in support of your claim that the polar bear population is increasing when the figures themselves appear to directly contradict that claim, regardless of whether the apparent decline is temperature related or not.
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Anyway thanks for all the comments, I’m glad to have provoked some debate! Just one last thing to point out though… my use of “half a mile” was rhetorical – I felt it a better option than to say “meanwhile, 350-or-so yards away…”
How much does the Reich Wing pay you, EP? Or are you just lonely since no one likes you, you have no friends, and you’ll settle for negative attention because, hey, at least it’s attention?
Wow, all that negativity over two lines about polar bears on a comment board. Sheesh.
Nobody attack this guys polar bears, he’ll think you have no friends.
Clearly I missed the boat on something. I took this as a potshot at Sarah Palin and her tendency to hunt moose, bear, etc., not necessarily a death threat against liberals or polar bears.
That was the intended joke, but some people misconstrued it. It happens.
Bet the won’t be many “Moose” or Elks” clubs inviting her to speak.
Palin never shot a polar bear(and seth that is the joke not her killing people). It is illegal to hunt polar bear people!!!
there’s no such thing as polar bear people! that would be a half-bear half-human hybrid. and although that would be teh sexy! they don’t exist.
u r such a trad.
doosh.
pfff.t
Watch out when the polar bear people breed with pigs, then we’ll have to worry about the dreaded manbearpig.
We should work on this. image an army of manbearpigs…
Trad.. (polar bear) as in what I,m talking about (people) as in who I,m talking to. And whats up with “teh sexy!” are you in to animals?…
just bears. but only the woofy kind.
Maybe she swims that short distance to Siberia to hunt them.
these polar bears were put all over DC by greenpeace. one even caused a bomb scare near my office.
yay furries
That stuffed animal represents a majority of the American people right there
I always thought I was a genius but this is brilliant!!
poor poor hobo
Yay for homeless furries.