http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for chezami. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsr#985126 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:06:17 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985126 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985126 Mr. H, the inability of weather men to predict next week's weather is really irrelevant to predicting long-term trends. For example, I know December will be colder than July, but I don't know if it will rain on Tuesday. As I said, I'm skeptical of AGW, but it's silly to go "all in" the other way and deny everything. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. That's a fact. And if you look at a graph of the conc http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsr#985125 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:52:18 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985125 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985125 Whether "climate change" is real or not, is immaterial to the fact that the Earth is being abused in unprecedented ways. China is especially appalling. When I lived in Beijing in 2002-2005 there were days when I couldn't see more than 50 feet and had to stay indoors in order to be able to breathe. But Beijing is still a livable city. Take a look at what's going on in China's industrial was http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/1942696520629777513/?src=hsr#985124 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:00 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/1942696520629777513/?src=hsrs#985124 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/1942696520629777513/?src=hsrs#985124 I am teacher at a Catholic high school that offers the IB programme and have been trained/certified to teach the Theory of Knowledge (ToK) course. As the first commenter notes, ToK is an kind of philosophy course. It is very possible for a particular teacher to use the course to subvert religious faith, but it is equally possible for a teacher to use the course to support faith. Much depends on http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsr#985123 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:07 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985123 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985123 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXWeOa-FuyM&feature=player_embedded Sorry, double post... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsr#985122 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:22 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985122 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985122 This is also something else in the mix, lately: “The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet.”* --EU President van Rompuy *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXWeOa-FuyM&feature=player_embedded http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsr#985121 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:22:33 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsrs#985121 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsrs#985121 Jeff: Actually, her tendency is not to say "My resignation killed my political career". (That would involve taking actual responsibility, something that Thing That Used to Conservative leader dislike.) Instead, she tends to say "The people who forced me to resign because they are so mean to me killed my political career" even as she moves out in hot pursuit of the cult of celebrity and offers http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsr#985120 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:15:20 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsrs#985120 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6648012107622241687/?src=hsrs#985120 Right. Which is why she abandoned her post to go off in pursuit of celebrity. Yep. That just screams "competent". Mark, you really need to get past this line of thinking. I take her at her word that she was hamstrung by having to deal with dozens of ethics complaints and frivolous FOIA requests that she wasn't able to govern any more. And she even admits that her resignation probably k http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6440603651638045516/?src=hsr#985119 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:37 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6440603651638045516/?src=hsrs#985119 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6440603651638045516/?src=hsrs#985119 The Left sees the Church, and faith-based charity in general, as unwelcome competition for the government. The Church is like George Bailey and his Building & Loan: a huge thorn in the side to those determined to turn the country into Potterville. When the Church is no longer in the business of helping the poor, the poor will have nobody else to turn to except Caesar, who will probably demand thei http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsr#985118 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:05:59 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985118 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/9130404501516260126/?src=hsrs#985118 Sean: I know Greg. Trust me. No stealth agenda. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6685392469014340158/?src=hsr#985115 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:41:29 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6685392469014340158/?src=hsrs#985115 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/chezami/6685392469014340158/?src=hsrs#985115 Peggy, you are right of course. The perfect example is how the medical establishment has so cavalierly redefined conception to carve out pre-implantation, which is plainly unscientific garbage.