The scientific community *knows* that climate change is real. The scientific community is made up of individual researchers at universities all over the world, anyone who practices good science and adheres to the scientific method is in no doubt about what the research points to. You can't buy the global scientific community, there are too many of "us" (i guess) that are all absolutely anal about good scientific practice. You could buy one or two, you could buy a small group, but the only thing that changes the opinion of the global scientific community is hard scientific reasoning.

I can't speak for where you live, but if you were to walk into my university's physics department tomorrow and ask any lecturer or professor about climate change, they'd tell you that, and the same goes for just about any university in the UK, holland and france i imagine, if not more like germany and so on. Anyone who has spent any amount of time comparing graphs and looking for statistical anomalies will tell you that there is a god damn big and unwieldy peak sticking up on the temperature/time graph right about where we started mass producing greenhouse gases, and the only new influence into the equation was us, because the old peaks are flat compared to this one. This is happening on a HUMAN timescale, not on a geological one.

We're seeing ocean floor methane bubbling up to the surface that we haven't seen before due to the heating of the ocean, and only this week the scientist who studied it tweeted flat out that if even a fraction of that methane is released into the atmosphere... "we're fucked."

It's pretty damn serious, but i'm not telling you that you need to pay huge taxes or fees to green companies or anything, and no scientist ever will. The agendas that politicians take up in the name of science should not stop you from accepting the science, and there are simple, good common sense things you can do to make a small difference that would cumulate to something big if we all did them. The only reason governments haven't been investing more into green energy is because they are relentlessly lobbied by the hugely wealthy and powerful and corrupt energy firms.

What is more likely?

The editor took a huge and inexplicable shit on her explanation, but the steps according to this document are:

Step 1 - Oral Swabs and Smear;
Step 2 – Buccal Specimen;
Step 3 – Trace Evidence;
Step 4 – Clothing;
Step 5 – Underwear;
Step 6 – Debris Collection;
Step 7 – Dried Secretions and/or Bite Marks;
Step 8 – Fingernail Scrapings;
Step 9 – Pulled Head Hairs;
Step 10 – Pubic Hair Combings;
Step 11 – Pulled Pubic Hair;
Step 12 – Perianal and Anal Swabs and Smear;
Step 13 – Vulvar or Penile Swabs and Smear;
Step 14 - Vaginal Swabs and Smear;
Step 15 – Cervical Swabs and Smear

JSing and Chaos made the two small leaps here that points to the interpreter as the responsible party to context. Meaning can be elusive to folks who have problems with critical thinking and with regard to 'racism' (the definition and intensity of this label range from arbitrary to anally-exacting considering the range of interpretation) there is no clear, consensual handbook...In the 00's, the word 'nigger' being so flagrantly abused and praised as it has become a filler-word in hip-hop and rap culture as well as a safe-haven for haters who love to toss the convenient label 'racist' around like skee-ball tickets, when they simply refuse to fucking think, or dislike someone, or are simply cunts, etc.

True racism exists but not on the scale imagined by the weak-minded and overly sensitive who both recoil from the very notion of certain words even existing (wouldn't the world be such a wonderful place if the word nigger did not exist and the world could all hold hands and blow soap bubbles and kiss puppy dogs?? Pretentious, American, WHITE PEOPLE have so abused both the concept and history of racism that the waters of it's essence have become murky. Chumps use the label 'racism' as if it were ranch dressing to refer to all manner of perceived evils of the world when their little cruise-liner of self-delusion drifts ever-so-slightly off course.

Could be for a some but not all of the following reasons:

Peeps here have neurotic voting habits.

Peeps here abide by some anal-esque adherence to their neurosemantic–dexterity circuits.

Peeps here can't stand anything that has to do with churchy-stuff or goddy-god-god subject matter (becasue they have a log-jam the size of Ohio lodged in their asses).

Peeps here think kids doing cute shit is not worthy of their time or vote.

Peeps haven't seen it yet (It's only been up 3hr 10 mins and only 20 or so peeps are logged-on at any given time, and considering the votes-to-views, it will most-likely get a buncha votes as 4 of 11 that have viewed, voted it up)

Peeps have something against Baptists in Kyrgyzstan and children or a combination of, or all of the three.

Some peeps simply suck at life.

Lifes' a bitch when there's so many personality-types and the baggage that comes with 'em....

Anal?

Whomever discovered that beaver anal gland juice could be extracted for consumption is a true champion of industry (and imagination)!

One for, "view you arrest record online' popped-up for me....Did you get the anal beads one??

All my endless banter in the body of this post to simply say, I am sorry if offended the skewed sensibilities of some of the more virulent from my sullied past.
Everyone is not as capable as others to simply "be" and accept folks for who they are. I wear my anal-orality on my sleeve to a fault, and would that the entire world do the kum-ba-ya someday, even those with sticks larger than my own implanted firmly in-anus.

The real point of this post being, I tire of news-sound-bites concerning current politics garnering most of the votes considering the stuff is designed to distract and confuse those who think they have a clue.

As well I feel that active members should invigorate the place creatively rather than trumpet the popular culture's demise with endless rhetoric, or flavors-of-the-week commentary. The fact is, a small core of regular users keep this place interesting not the passing fancies.

Those I have called out here have used their status and skills to promulgate agendas or espouse clap-trap in the past and their popularity and stellar rises means only to me that humanity is still the most gullible of mammals on the planet.

Wake up and live and point me in the direction of the shills so I can build a rail with which to run them outta town upon.

Peace to all, Merry Xmas, Happy Hanuka , and Salami Like-em with with sourdough bread and stone ground mustard.

I'm over being the bad-guy who, for my own bullshit reasons seeks to cull all manner of cheesy offerings from the flower bed.

In the past, when someone who genuinely felt slighted for our having banned them according to a careless infraction, I recall the truly repentant exercising their communication skills to come to their own defense.

Here's my mind hard at work: If they come back they care, and if they simply slink-off they must not believe in their work that much to give a fuck anyhow.

Now-All you pedantic, anal fuckers can climb the fuck off my back for taking license. Please. It's like a broken fucking record of a song no one can stand.

I'll second @enoch's comment and just add that if you're going to take someone to task for not doing a little research you should maybe do your own research a bit more thoroughly. Point 42 of 234 points in the man's lawsuit:

"42. Defendant Orosco and defendant Arredondo then informed Defendant Chavez that Plaintiff was known in Hidalgo County to insert drugs into his anal cavity. This information was false."

It's unlikely that his lawyers would make that assertion unless they know it to be true or at least know that it can't be disproven.

If you'd like to read the entire lawsuit it's here

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.UnwGfGJDuSr

Agreed on the word, but there is -no- possible "other side of the story" that makes this encounter okay. Unless the basic facts (multiple anal probes followed by surgery followed by the victim receiving a bill), are incorrect. There is just no way to justify anything past the first xray and probe. Certainly no way is the victim liable for the charges for a failed medical search.

@kevingrr

im trying to understand your point here.

is it JUST how this news piece is presented in a sensational manner?

OR is it that the piece didnt mention the officers mentioning of his previous run-ins with mr eckert and his propensity in hiding drugs in his ass?

in which i would ask:why is that relevant?
does this little sniglet of information somehow excuse the officers abuse of power?
it would explain the k-9 search.
and maybe even a cavity search.
but how does that piece of information explain 14 hours of anal torture?

if its just the over-hyped hyperbole than i can agree to an extant.
but it wouldnt change the outcome of an officer using his authority to belittle and humiliate.

bullies will be bullies.

It's like I'm psychic...amazing what 90 seconds of searching can find:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/justice/new-mexico-search-lawsuit/

"Hildalgo County K-9 officer did inform me that he had dealt with Mr. Eckert on a previous case and stated that Mr. Eckert was known to insert drugs into his anal cavity and had been caught in Hidalgo County with drugs in his anal cavity," the affidavit said.

I am not a fan of the "War on Drugs"...

I'm also not a fan of sensationalist news stories and the people that perpetuate them.

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