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Larry David on Religion

Climate Change - Has the Earth Been Cooling?

crillep says...

"or even the IPCC"
potholer54 saying that, makes him all the more reliable Good post

Unfortunately he spends too much time talking about fox news and random youtube commenters. I follow climategate pretty closely, and lately I'm more interested in the mysterious disappearing weather stations than anything else. Can't find a good explanation. Here is the link to this "scandal" NOAA/NCDC: GHCN – The Global Analysis And here is Delingpoles report

PUPPY PARTY!!!!!!

Keith Olbermann Responds to Jon Stewart

crillep says...

Obama is not a liberal, MSNBC is not liberal, the democratic party isn't liberal. The word you are looking for is democrat, which you can call, slighty less right wing than the republicans. Anyways, enjoy your 2-party system.

Critical Thinking

crillep says...

I don't get the point of this video. Am I supposed to be telling people to think? I might as well tell a dog to eat shit. He probably won't listen to me, but most likely he will still eat it. This video seems more like an advertisement though. And judging from the blank faces on the people in it, I'd say it was for some kind of zombie cult.

Atheist Nations Are More Peaceful

crillep says...

Ah ok I found the problem. The GPI thingy seems legit, I looked at their link above. What I didn't notice at first is that their webpage has nothing to do with religion (at least no statistics I could find). It is the maker of this video who has added these religious procentages. Something you notice when you read the studies are EXTREMELY ACCURATE and the huge GPI logo over everything. Looking at the youtube comment, you can find the sources to some extent, the ones I was bamboozled by earlier appear to come from here: Adherents. My problem is the first line in this link which clearly shows exactly how these procentages were rounded up to look extremely distorted. It's reasonable considering the video was made by some random anti-religion dude on youtube, but calling it a scientific study is laughable.

Atheist Nations Are More Peaceful

crillep says...

It would be interesting except that the numbers for my country are completely wrong. i am in Denmark, and it is far from 80% atheist. 80% is about the amount of people who are members of the danish church. (probably less now) but still the numbers are completely whacked.

Aside from that, I am bamboozled over the fact that our GPI is 2 out of 144. The fact is we have troops in Afghanistan and as far as our government is concerned, we our USA's lap dog. Can't speak for the other countries but from my perspective this study is not inaccurate but flat out wrong.

Hypnotist vs Police Officer

crillep says...

I didn't believe it until he said that he got a bunch of tickets before it worked. Anything is possible if you try it enough times. That's the only reason I still think I might be able to pick up chicks

The most ridiculous water transportation device ever devised

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"One Minute Racist" -- short and sweet little movie

crillep says...

>> ^dannym3141:
This certainly doesn't apply to me. That effect of planting a seed and then someone confirms the doubt and suddenly i'm racist. I think this is more a video about how idiots listen to something idiotic and then believe the idiocy based on some other idiot being an idiot.


So did you watch the video?

Fareed Zakaria--Global Warming Insurance

crillep says...

My problem with this is that he says he is unsure about the nature and extent of global warming.

He then compares this carbon tax to house insurance. Well everybody knows the benefits of house insurance and anybody can make a clear assessment about the chances of their houses being burned down.

Personally if I was unsure about the nature and extent of fire then I wouldn't be jumping on the train to throw money at it. My own comparison which I find much more suitable would be the last media craze, the swine flu. I think most people were unsure about the nature and extent of this "would be catastrophic disease", I also think it's blatantly obvious now the H1N1 is much less harmful then common influenza. And the money that was spent on vaccines is ridiculous when you take this into account.

Is this comparison fair, probably not as most people already either support anything with the words "green" attached to it, or have some conspiracy theory to wail on about. But personally I don't put much weight in anything the MSM has to say these days. Apparently they make too much money selling fear to report anything accurate.

I'm sceptical about global warming, just like Fareed, but there are ways to promote alternative energy without once again making people empty their pockets to turn the lights on. California seems to know how. I would look to them before I looked to newscasts like these, and oppourtunists like Al Gore.



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