Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category
A Market Plunge/Rally, Trayvon, DOMA, Voting Rights and Paula Deen. The Heat is On.
So much has happened these past couple of weeks, I could have spent hours discussing each one: We saw a series of triple-digit plunges in the DOW in just a few days caused by what? GOOD news on the economy. (WTF?) The “Zimmerman Trial” finally got underway… with a Knock-Knock Joke. The Supreme Court declared Same-Sex Marriage legal […]
July 1, 2013
Posted in: Crime, Economy, Global Warming, Guns & Violence, Healthcare, Politics, Racism, Rants, Unconstitutional
Yes, Even Late May Snow Is Evidence of Climate Change (aka Global Warming)
It’s as inevitable as the sunrise and twice as predictable: a freak Late-May snowfall causes Right-Wingers to declare that it is PROOF that “Global Warming is a hoax”, and gee, don’t all us “environmental wackos” feel foolish? Of course, not once does it occur to these “authorities” in the Meteorological Sciences that “freak” weather events are EXACTLY what […]
May 27, 2013
Posted in: Environment, Global Warming, myth busting
State Dept Says Modified Keystone Would Have Negligible Impact? (updated)
Last May, after the original Keystone XL Pipeline proposal had been rejected by the Obama Administration, TransCanada submitted a new modified proposal for a shorter, more direct route for the same pipeline to pipe saturated tarsands “oil” from Alberta, Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. After a ten-month review, the U.S. State Department released a preliminary report on Friday concluding that the revised […]
March 4, 2013
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, myth busting
We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Outrage for… More Outrage.
There was no shortage of things to talk about this week, with the a record-setting blizzard hitting the North-East, GOP feux-outrage over the use of “drones” as part of a secret National Defense policy where the government asserted it can kill anyone overseas deemed a threat to National Security… even United States citizens. And, of course, Tuesday […]
February 11, 2013
Posted in: Environment, General, Global Warming, Healthcare, Politics, Rants, Seems Obvious to Me, War
10 Things You WON’T Hear Mentioned at the Republican Convention This Week
As you know, the GOP will be holding its Presidential Convention & Cross Burning Clambake all this week in Tampa Bay. Well, not ALL week, because for the second convention in a row, the first day of the RNC Convention will be canceled due to a hurricane lashing the pavilion. In 2008, religious morons “prayed for rain” to disrupt the […]
August 27, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, General, Global Warming, Guns & Violence, Healthcare, Middle East, Politics, Predictions, Religion, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity, Taxes, voting, War
100 years later, Titanic would of been okay because icebergs that far South are now extremely rare
This Sunday will be the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic on April 15th, 1912. The tragic story of the sinking of the world most luxurious ocean liner is so well known that the story of its demise is now “common knowledge”… how a ship that was declared “unsinkable” struck an iceberg […]
April 14, 2012
Posted in: Environment, General, Global Warming
The Truth About the Keystone XL Pipeline: Few jobs, higher gas prices, eco disaster (updated)
Frequent readers of M.R.S. already know how I feel about the proposed “Keystone XL pipeline” and the absurd level of hyperbole from Conservatives regarding the supposed windfall of jobs it would produce along with its ability to bring down gas prices, while downplaying the environmental consequences. With the deep pockets of BigOil and oil tycoons […]
March 23, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, myth busting, Politics, Seems Obvious to Me
So much stupid (part 2). The Kingmakers, Global Warming denied and the key is not Keystone
Continuing from Monday, there was plenty of stupidity to report last week. A man that had no business even being in Afghanistan was overextended to the point tragedy. And there was the stupidity of a Media that inflicts John McCain upon us for yet one more Sunday show appearance to critique the man he lost to. Do […]
March 21, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Infrastructure, myth busting, Politics, Religion
So much stupid, so little time (part 1). Afghanistan, the Kingmakers & John McCain (again)
[PopUpFad=GROUP=widget:RANDOM=NO:SESSION=NO] (REMINDER: If you haven’t yet signed up to Follow the M.R.S. Twitter feed, I encourage you to do so know. Breaking news, insights and Wisdom with our own touch of humor.) I had great difficulty deciding on just one topic to focus on in this week. A week that saw a U.S. soldier go […]
March 19, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Middle East, Religion, Right-Wing Insanity, War
Responding to Stupid. Republicans ‘correcting’ Democrats need a clue
Special post-SotU Edition Listening to Bush’s Budget Director… Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels… lecture President Obama on the size of the deficit was like being lectured to on political ethics by Richard Nixon. When President Bush took office, he had a budget surplus and the government was on track to pay off the Debt by 2014. Instead, the Debt exploded […]
January 25, 2012
Posted in: Economy, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity
The List II: Santorum, Huntsman, and The Rest.
This week raps up our review of the remaining “also-rans” in the GOP primary… the candidates that have never polled out of the single digits and never will: former Senator Rick “Don’t Google My Name” Santorum of PA (Oops! Shortly after posting this op/ed, Santorum became the last “Not-Romney” standing to finally break out of the single-digits into the Top Tier […]
December 22, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Healthcare, Jobs, Middle East, Money, Politics, Racism, Religion, Taxes, War
The List II: The Strange Case of Dr. Ron Paul.
It is extremely difficult to summarize the very complex platform of Texas Rep. Dr. Ron Paul without getting too deep into the weeds as to why he’s often a clueless… even dangerous… presidential candidate that no one should ever seriously consider voting for. The Texas Libertarian is extremely popular among young voters (mostly Conservative & […]
December 19, 2011
Posted in: Economy, Election, Global Warming, Healthcare, Jobs, Middle East, Money, myth busting, Politics, Racism, Taxes, Unconstitutional, War