Comments on: The Heartland Institute Memos

By: shcb

shcb — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:43:37 +0000

I have a high school education, a couple years trade school, and a little college but I never got a degree, so you are definitely better educated. By all rights I should be a foreman in a machine shop somewhere, but as you know I’m a senior engineer so I must have more intelligence than my lack of education shows, fact is, I just didn’t like school, I didn’t like learning at the pace of the slowest in the class, so I mostly self taught.

We just keep tossing this ball back and forth, if we don’t have the expertise to judge what Karlen is saying makes sense, why do we have the expertise that it takes to know the others are telling us the truth or are just correct?

What I find interesting discussing this with you is how somehow at the end of one of our conversations I’m somehow, oh insane? Or something like insanity. I think you understand I am fairly intelligent and it just irks you that I can’t see things your way, I do think there is some form of arrogance there but I haven’t quite figured it out yet, I can’t decide if it is just me or if you do it with others, oh well. Onward.

By: jbc

jbc — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:53:42 +0000

Oh, it gets much, much better. See the new item I just posted.

By: Smith

Smith — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:45:51 +0000

Uh-oh, looks like jbc is going to get arrested/sued:

“The individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. We believe their actions constitute civil and possibly criminal offenses for which we plan to pursue charges and collect payment for damages, including damages to our reputation.”

By: jbc

jbc — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:55:42 +0000

Science classes should teach science. They should not teach things that fall short of science, even if a particular industry or political party or addled ideologue wants very, very much to pretend it is science.

That’s all you’re doing: pretending that you know what science says about climate change, while denying the overwhelming evidence that the scientists actually studying the subject say something different.

By: enkidu

enkidu — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:31:10 +0000

You knew things were getting a bit pear shaped in the good ol US of A when dumbya spent a trillion bucks on a new Department of Homeland Security. Seems their main mission is to grope people at the airports and scanning attractive women-folk using that fancy naked X-ray machine that Michael Chertoff (former head of DHS) is selling. Good times.

Also, I’d like to speak to the idiot who made American helmets look more like the old Nazi helmet. mb it does give a modicum of additional protection, but the message it sends… oi.

Funny that Craig hasn’t been in here to say how he feels duped by energy industry sock-puppets like the ‘Heartland Institute’. I suppose he’ll be in here any minute… yup. (checks watch) And then wwnj will have some sort of fact-based epiphany and realize that he is orthogonal to reality. yup… any minute now… (crickets) any minute…