Before Your SUV Caused Syrian Droughts, Your Yo-Yo Did

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1. rah says:

   December 1, 2015 at 12:33 pm

   Yea and it continued to be a problem even when the scientific community agreed that the world was cooling and some them claiming we were on the verge of an ice age. Munich Olympics in 1972 was just the tip of the iceberg.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/04/terrorist-attacks-since-1970.png

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   • Gail Combs says:

     December 1, 2015 at 1:36 pm

     A 700AD theocracy just doesn’t mix well with modern civilization. It didn’t in 1095 when Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, in Constantinople, sent an ambassador to Pope Urban II in Italy pleading for military help against the growing Turkish threat. It didn’t in 1899 when Winston Churchill noted in his account of the Sudan campaign, The River War:

     “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism [sic] lays on its votaries!” Churchill wrote in this now almost unobtainable first edition. “Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy … Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture … exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”

     There is much more on the enslavement of women and the dangers of Islam, along with the usual liberal sentiments which have their modern-day counterparts.

     “Moslems [sic] may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.”

     But there are a few, now-censored remarks which would have Isis and Boko Haram nodding in agreement. “No stronger retrograde force [than Islam] exists in the world,” the great man announced, but “…Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step…” If it were not for Christianity, “sheltered in the strong arms of science,” then “the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”…
     http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ukip-couldnt-better-what-winston-churchill-had-to-say-about-muslims-10016880.html

     It is no wonder a member of the UK Parliament got arrested for reading Churchill’s words in the modern effeminate PC environment of today.

     Now Donald Trump is getting bashed in the press because he isn’t backing down from his controversial comments about Muslims, saying he isn’t sure Islam is an inherently peaceful religion.
     Political Pundit NewsBlaming Muslims as a whole for the acts of a few radicals is completely wrong… Blaming Muslims as a whole for the acts of a few radicals is completely wrong.

     ERRRRrrrr, maybe because it is pretty clear they are not ‘just a few radicals?’

     It’s Not the ”Radical Shaykh” it’s Islam – Fahad Qureshi
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU

     TRANSCRIPT

     May 19, 2013
     When Muslim organizations invite Shaykhs who speak openly about the values of Islam, the Islamophobic western media starts murdering the character of that organization and the invited speaker. The question these Islamophobic journalists need to reflect upon is; are these so called ”radical” views that they criticize endorsed only by these few individuals being invited around the globe, or does the common Muslims believe in them. If the common Muslims believe in these values that means that more or less all Muslims are radical and that Islam is a radical religion. Since this is not the case, as Islam is a peaceful religion and so are the masses of common Muslims, these Shaykhs cannot be radical. Rather it is Islamophobia from the ignorant western media who is more concerned about making money by alienating Islam by presenting Muslims in this way. Islam Net, an organization in Norway, invited 9 speakers to Peace Conference Scandinavia 2013. These speakers would most likely be labelled as ”extremists” if the media were to write about the conference. But how come this conference was the largest Islamic Scandinavian International event that has taken place in Norway with about 4000 people attending? Were the majority of those who attended in opposition to what the speakers were preaching? If so, how come they paid to enter? Let’s forget about that for a moment, let’s imagine that we don’t really knew what all these people thought about for example segregation of men and women, or stoning to death of those who commit adultery. The Chairman of Islam Net, Fahad Ullah Qureshi asked the audience, and the answer was clear. The attendees were common Sunni Muslims. They did not consider themselves as radicals or extremists. They believed that segregation was the right thing to do, both men and women agreed upon this. They even supported stoning or whatever punishment Islam or prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) commanded for adultery or any other crime. They even believed that these practises should be implemented around the world. Now what does that tell us? Either all Muslims and Islam is radical, or the media is Islamophobic and racist in their presentation of Islam. Islam is not radical, nor is Muslims in general radical. That means that the media is the reason for the hatred against Muslims, which is spreading among the non-Muslims in western countries.

     Trump’s position statement on immigration:
     https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform

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2. Jason Calley says:

   December 1, 2015 at 1:17 pm

   Maybe they were burning their yo-yos. That’s a lot of wooden biomass — though still less than the annual CO2 from U.S. Halloween pumpkin usage.

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   • rah says:

     December 1, 2015 at 2:31 pm

     Better than camel dung to warm their tea.

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     • Gail Combs says:

       December 1, 2015 at 2:48 pm

       EWWwwww

       I still remember the taste of Cambell’s cream of mushroom soup heated over three carbide lights.

       I have never eaten any Cambell’s soup again.

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       • Jason Calley says:

         December 1, 2015 at 4:47 pm

         Cooked over carbide? Ack! I would prefer just eating it cold with a spoon (and have done so more than once.) Then again, I used to sometimes carry a can of Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk for long trips — but that is when I was young and skinny!
       • 1saveenergy says:

         December 1, 2015 at 8:48 pm

         eating it cold with a spoon is the only way !! yummy
         The new stuff is “new & improved” yuk
       • rah says:

         December 5, 2015 at 1:52 pm

         Carbide is really nasty stuff. A terrible death results for those that eat it. Know a guy that had a neighbor poison two of his dogs with it. Far faster and far worse than antifreeze.
3. Ted says:

   December 1, 2015 at 2:13 pm

   Can you cite any peer reviewed studies proving that yo-yos DON’T cause droughts? Do you have any evidence at all? As Martin constantly tells us, a proclamation from an authority figure is true, until proven false.
   Sadly, that really is the way science is taught in schools today.

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   • Jason Calley says:

     December 1, 2015 at 4:47 pm

     +1

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