Never fear. A rising tide eventually lifts all dolts.

coleshack @ 3:

I wish I could strand Scarborough on an ice floe.

With a mother polar bear.

I was under the impression that right wing nuts liked "big bears". ;)

At least they're talking about this on MSNBC. Meanwhile, CNN now stands for Coal News Network.

Global warning killed 48 people last night Joe.

I wouldn't want to be around Mika after the show when she has to vent the burning rage that builds up in her while being subjected to daily humiliation at the clammy hands of The Scar.

Even if you completely remove the global warming argument, why is he so unpatriotic that he wants us to stay dependent on middle east oil?

Blue Lensman @ 4:

coleshack @ 3:

I wish I could strand Scarborough on an ice floe.

With a mother polar bear.

A hungry mother polar bear.

Typical Repub. They can't be bothered to pay attention to anything unless it has an immediate impact on their own personal lives.

Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.

They're bipolar?

And scarborough hates bi's.

Ron @ 20:

Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.

His job is to keep people obediently shopping, purchasing, and to be good consumers.

pissed off patricia @ 24:

He enjoys being a heartless bastard for his own entertainment. Put someone like Rachael Maddow on there instead of Mika and watch Rachael eat his fu*king lunch. She would take him apart so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.

How soon we forget

Mika is awesome

Its the reality thing. If reality of what he has said and done (like being correct about anything) he would either be in jail or off the air.

Since reality does not usually rear its ugly head in his life he can ignore it for now.

Travis @ 25:

pissed off patricia @ 24:

He enjoys being a heartless bastard for his own entertainment. Put someone like Rachael Maddow on there instead of Mika and watch Rachael eat his fu*king lunch. She would take him apart so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.

How soon we forget

Mika is awesome

I like Mika a lot, but she just doesn't stand up to joe the way I wish she would.

It's an all time record high temperature for today Feb 6th here in the New York area. 63 degrees last time I checked.

There are many doubters in my family, and I try not no engage them on this obvious reality. I just say, "It's too warm for ice" and leave it at that, because arguing that point seems idiotic, even to them.

Someone should do a sketch where Mika goes postal on Scarborough and security guards have to pry her hands off of his throat.

Because he fears them. They pose a real threat to national security... The Inuit of northern Canada and Alaska are the first targeted as polar bears move southwards looking for food and safer land.

Maybe we should consider redeploying the troops there!

clytemnestra @ 36:

Travis @ 25:

pissed off patricia @ 24:

He enjoys being a heartless bastard for his own entertainment. Put someone like Rachael Maddow on there instead of Mika and watch Rachael eat his fu*king lunch. She would take him apart so fast he wouldn't know what hit him.

How soon we forget

Mika is awesome

Thank you for posting this . . . Joe is still an arrogant asshole
he demands she take control of HER newscast
and then he takes over and says he won't have global warming covered on HIS newcast.

He needs intervention
it's still early, he can be treated

Way too late. He's hit bottom and still falling.

It wasn't just Al Gore saying that the polar ice is melting; it's scientists and researchers who spend their lives studying the arctic who are telling us about it.

Right-wingers simply have a problem with reality. Even with the truth shoved in their face, they will stick to their talking points.

MSNBC could do well by dumping Scarborough and replacing him with someone who actually knows what is going on.

Someone should submerge Scarborough next to one of the Navy's ELF sonar emitters and ask him how it feels. You die if you're too close for too long.

Dr. Acula @ 42:

White House defends waterboarding
The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives.

source: msnbc.com

coleshack @ 33:

Someone should do a sketch where Mika goes postal on Scarborough and security guards have to pry her hands off of his throat.

And they fail. Then Mika should get the same cover-up service that Joe got when Lori Klausutis turned up dead in his office.

What a [scornful epithet comparing reprehensible person to human rectal sphinchter]. Um, also couldn't help but notice MSNBC's wall-to-wall Huckabee converage from this jerk and Tweety-Pie. Ecch. Olbermann should get his own NETWORK!!!

Not to get off subject, but have you notice women network anchors "necklines" are getting lower?

For a moment there I thought I was watching a Telemundo news channel.

The GOP's new "Axis of Evil" (now that Iraq is broken, Iran is NOT making nukes and No. Korea is getting along with South Korea)...

'Healthcare / Science / John McCain'

Howard @ 49:

Not to get off subject, but have you notice women network anchors "necklines" are getting lower?

For a moment there I thought I was watching a Telemundo news channel.

The more they can devise ways to control peoples minds and keep them glued to the telescreens the less people there will be in the real world hustling hard for a slice of the material pie.

Joe Scarborough is a mental midget - like all conservatives - who panders to corporate greed. if Exxon/BP/Chevron/Kenoco can't make money on it, it's bad science. What an f'ing idiot.

What a complete shithead !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kept seeing a little thought balloon over her head with the word asshole in it.

Regarding CISA: Anyone notice that when there's something f*cked up happening in congress, Lieberman's usually involved? Dems gotta find a way to dump this guy before 2009!

I have accepted the fact that we will not succeed in our attempts to curb or reverse the climate change problem thanks in no small part to the religious reich who don't give a damn about anything because they're counting on the invisible magic wish granting fairy to swoop in at the last second and rapture them all off to heaven and the reslug neocon wingnuts who see all issues as a personal attack on their closeted, closed, xenophobic, self centered and selfish way of life. So attempting to find a solution to a global crisis is viewed as just another librul idea that should be smeared, laughed at and finally ignored.

So while they're doing all they can to undermine the people who want to fix things the water slowly rises. But it's ok because if jebus doesn't rapture them up a new place to live in time they'll just insist the gubmint pay for their relocation to higher ground. neocons have an answer for everything... just don't ask them for any solutions.

Proof that there is a writer's strike still going on.

back before hurricane katrina i jousted with this one troll for quite a while on here ,dam i forget his name now ,he was from somewhere around new orleans, he towed the repig line and tried to sound like he knew it all , he really hated my guts because i fought the bastard tooth and nail, that was before monitors on here , man i loved this jerk , oh now i remember his name it was bilgerman , anyway his style reminded me of joe scarbouro and as i pictured him while he typed i saw him as old joe, he looked down on the ordinary man and id punture his ego, last time we heard from him on here was the night of katrina he mentioned something about going to a ship that night and working on its bilges , guess he bought it in that storm that night he never came back after katrina hit!

L.A. Confidential @ 23:

Ron @ 20:

Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.

His job is to keep people obediently shopping, purchasing, and to be good consumers.

Republicans only care about fetus'. Once you are born, fuck you.

Another example of conservatives being boorish, juvenile, infantile assholes. What more proof do you need? I'm sure Joe's hometown of Pensacola will be completely unaffected by the rise in sea level.

what an ass-hole

ConcernedCanuck @ 69:

Travis @ 8:

At least they're talking about this on MSNBC. Meanwhile, CNN now stands for Coal News Network.

I saw that last night. Ads upon ads for "clean coal". What the hell is clean coal?

They sterilize the coal in gasoline before it's sold.

Isn't Joe from Fl.?

Doesn't he know if the polar bears lose the ice the retirees lose Miami?

Short sighted like all Republicans. Money over party, party over country.

If nothing else this shows what a pompous ass the beast Joe Scarbourough is.
Did you catch that look of scorn on Mika's face? I swear I saw daggers.

"Why Does Joe Scarborough Hate Polar Bears?"

He prefers Pepsi?

Morning BLOW sux, Mika is cool though, she must have a thick skin.

I missed the segment but is this where Joe left the set? I switched to it this AM around 8:30 and Joe was gone, and they had gone to CNBC and Mika alluded to something that made Joe mad and leave the set and not come back. At some point she said he had to catch something, a heart, a brain, a plane maybe?
On another note they were recently doing the show in restaurant down the block from me. Mika was doing the news and Joe was standing by the window. I went to look in not realizing he was right there. It was just a pane of glass btw. me and big guy and I have to say he is burly. Mika on the other was much more attractive in person. Is that possible?

A better question may be, "Why is Joe on TV?". Talent isn't exactly oozing from his pores. I know the cable channels have a lot of time to fill. But this guy is just inane. The only thing more amazing than his tv gig, is his election to the House. Guess I just don't understand Florida.

GREG @ 68:

L.A. Confidential @ 23:

Ron @ 20:

Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.

His job is to keep people obediently shopping, purchasing, and to be good consumers.

Republicans only care about fetus'. Once you are born, fuck you.

I have been saying this for years....in exactly those words.

Joe is a great fuckin' american: ignorant, dishonest, self centered, and wrong.

GREG @ 68:

L.A. Confidential @ 23:

Ron @ 20:

Obviously Joe is all about Joe. He doesn't care about future generations. Typical Republican. Maybe Joe, your children will have reason to care. He is the rudest person on MSNBC.

His job is to keep people obediently shopping, purchasing, and to be good consumers.

Republicans only care about fetus'. Once you are born, fuck you.

Well, they start caring about you once you are about to die. Then they come back in full circle...

It has become increasingly frustrating to watch Mika and other women on this show be shouted down, cut off, laughed at, degraded, and marginalized by Joe, Willy, and some of the other men on Morning Joe. Imus lost his job because he not only offended African-Americans, but also offended WOMEN in the MSNBC viewing audience. Remember? Keep it up, Joe, and you may be wearing your Morning "Joe" right out the door, we hope. BTW is the thought of a WOMAN President, and a Democratic one at that making these guys even more insecure than usual. After all, this type of behavior is indeed a classic sign of major insecurities. Real men are gentlemen, not misogynists. Real men don't have anything to prove by being rude, obnoxious, loud mouthed, snarky, nasty, and overall threatened by smart women. Joe, you, obviously, are not a real man.

Scarborough is a piece of trash.

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

And finally (because the other 200 links & articles I have...yep, several for each global warming denier myth), here's John McCain jumping in:

John McCain Quote on Global Warming (to Global Warming Deniers):

"If you guys are right & we go ahead and reduce carbon dioxide emissions & reduce consumption of fossil fuels and promote alternative energies then we will have cleaner air, regardless of the C02, and we'll have a cleaner planet, develop new industries, we will be giving less money to the Saudis and ultimately to the Bin Laden's of this world and the world will have not melted down.
If you guys are wrong, there will be a disaster and we will have done nothing to avert it."

right wing hater @ 98:

"If you guys are right & we go ahead and reduce carbon dioxide emissions & reduce consumption of fossil fuels and promote alternative energies then we will have cleaner air, regardless of the C02, and we'll have a cleaner planet, develop new industries, we will be giving less money to the Saudis and ultimately to the Bin Laden's of this world and the world will have not melted down.
If you guys are wrong, there will be a disaster and we will have done nothing to avert it."

I'd like to trace the origin of this comment. I doubt very much that it's his original material -- and I've been pissed that every damn Democrat hasn't been echoing this line since Gore's movie release (and before).

The British documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle is, well ... great.
The program, which aired last Thursday in the U.K. to much buzz, has since been watched by hundreds of thousands of others around the world via the Internet. It exposes numerous lies and myths presented as fact by those who believe in the unproven hypothesis that human-created carbon dioxide (CO2) is the driver of the Earth's warming climate.
The same broadcaster -- Channel 4 in the U.K. -- that recently exposed the extremist ideology being preached in Britain's supposedly "moderate" mosques has now similarly helped to tear away the veil of lies and religious zeal surrounding the global warming industry.
The film features an impressive group of experts in the fields of climatology, oceanography, biogeography, meteorology, and paleoclimatology from reputable institutions such as NASA, MIT, The International Arctic Research Centre, the Pasteur Institut in Paris, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of Winnipeg, Ottawa, London, Jerusalem, Alabama and Virginia.
That should help top the claims there is a consensus of scientists who believe in man-made global warming.
Expert after expert in this film blasts craters into the theory that CO2 -- which only makes up 0.054% of the earth's atmosphere -- has ever driven climate. Ice core records, in fact, prove the opposite, that CO2 lags warming by as much as 800 years.
The main cause of warming is, not surprisingly, the sun.

"The analogy I use," says Dr. Tim Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, "is my car's not running very well, so I'm going to ignore the engine, which is the sun, and I'm going to ignore the transmission, which is the water vapour and I'm going to look at one nut on the right rear wheel which is the human produced CO2. The science is that bad."
The film starts off covering indisputable facts. There was a Medieval Warm Period that was warmer than today -- that led to incredible wealth in Europe when the bulk of the continent's great cathedrals were built and when Britain had thriving vineyards. Then came the Little Ice Age that started in the 17th century and was so cold London's Thames River would freeze so solidly festivals were held on it.
About 10,000 years ago, during a time known as the Holocene Maximum, it was much warmer even than the Medieval times.
Dr. Ian Clark, Prof. of Isotope Hydrogeology and Paleoclimatology at the U of Ottawa, notes polar bears (which have become the poster-animal of the global warming industry) survived that sustained warm cycle and that volcanoes produce more CO2 every year than all human activity.
What's more, prior to 1940 temperatures on Earth were rising long before industrialization took place.
Then, when carbon dioxide emissions rose markedly in the post-war economic boom period, temperatures fell for the next three decades, again, in direct contravention of the theory being espoused and believed by so many.
Ironically, in the 1970s, just as scientists started predicting another climate catastrophe -- an impending ice age -- the planet started warming again.
The documentary ends with a quote from Dr. Fred Singer of the U of Virginia.
"There will still be people who believe this is the end of the world, particularly when you have, for example, the chief scientist of the U.K. telling people that by the end of the century the only habitable place on the Earth with be the Antarctic and humanity may survive thanks to some breeding couples who move to the Antarctic. I mean, this is hilarious," he says with a chuckle.
"It would be hilarious, actually, if it weren't so sad."
See the film at:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog?entry=24760&only

HW @ 103:

Oh! the polar bear. This is just another scheme by the environmentalist to get the lawyers involved. Don't you remember the spotted owl? It closed down the Oregon logging industry, the lawyers sewed every time a tree was cut down.
THINK! co2 is what you exhale! It actually acts like a fertilizer and makes plants grow faster. Oh well, that is all for 9th grade science. By the way the climate changes all the time. you can't reduce co2 because it is 97% natural and 3% man made.

Did you just pull those Co2 facts out ofyour ass? If not give us some facts that can be checked. List some links.

HW@102 Tim Ball is a fake. Dr. Tim Ball dose not have a degree in climatology. His PHD is in geography. HE was a junior lecturer who hardly published anything in any peer reviewed papers. He spent the last 8 years (before he retired) teaching geography. He has published nothing in climate change issues, and has no facts to back up his opinons on climate change. Check your facts before posting garbage.

HW @ 103:

By the way the climate changes all the time.

Weather changes all the time. Climate doesn't!

climate [klahy-mit]: The composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.

I find it interesting that Right Wing Global Warming deniers, when there are cold days in the winter (when it is generally SUPPOSED to be cold), rush to point out the obvious: "Hey, it's 20 degrees outside! Global Warming is a hoax!", yet when temperatures hit near 60 degrees in January and February (again, when it is generally supposed to be COLD) these people are nowhere to be found...

HW @ 103:

Oh! the polar bear. This is just another scheme by the environmentalist to get the lawyers involved. Don't you remember the spotted owl? It closed down the Oregon logging industry, the lawyers sewed every time a tree was cut down.
THINK! co2 is what you exhale! It actually acts like a fertilizer and makes plants grow faster. Oh well, that is all for 9th grade science. By the way the climate changes all the time. you can't reduce co2 because it is 97% natural and 3% man made.

You are an idiot.

I would greatly appreciate it Joe if you would STOP saying that you 'greatly appreciate ' every f**king person that appears on your so-called show. Enough is enough !! And , if you're going to get hostile with Mika , tell her to cool it with her endorsement of Obama (her Daddy's pet)

Aside from what an ass he is, how fucking rude was he to that lady? She should have slugged him.

Lookee like Mika wanted to nock the tar out of Joe. Of course Joe probably thinks all the killer tornado's we’ve had in February are perfectly normal.

RETARD ALERT

With the exception of Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, name one commentator who doesn't have problems. How long will they let Mika suffer with this idiot?

#101

You neglected to mention that Tighteyes is backed up by the great environmental scientist and authority on global warming Sean Hannity.

February 08, 2008
Global cooling alarmism ahead?
Thomas Lifson
The debate over global warming theory is turning into a contest between two explanatory models for climate change: human activity or solar activity. Now comes news that solar activity may be declining, signaling that we may (no alarmism here) be entering a period of global cooling. Investor's Business Daily explains:

Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

IBD puts this into context:

As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.

For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."

Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."

Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth."

"Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."

The time horizon here allows potential political feedback in the next two presidential cycles, should actual cooling take place and refute the anthropogenic enthusiasts, the warmist cult, as I call them.

Occam's Razor suggests that solar activity ought to be a baseline assumption for climate change. In addition to being simple and direct, it has demonstrably driven climate in the past. A few dubious models based on historical statistics of questionable accuracy, pushing a convoluted explanation in which variations in a trace gas (CO2 is 385 parts per million of the atmosphere by volume) drive climate, should be greeted with skepticism until conclusive evidence is in hand.

A new Maunder Minimum would be unpleasant for many. But those still believing in carbon dioxide as a climate driver might begin advocating carbon subsidies and doing penance for buying all those carbon credits.