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Some data on education, religiosity, ideology, and science comprehension

identifying with the Tea Party correlates positively(r = 0.05, p = 0.05) with scores on the science comprehension measure:

I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension.

But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party.  All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the “paper” (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post & Politico).

I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.

www.culturalcognition.net – Cultural Cognition Blog – Some data on education, religiosity, ideology, and science comprehension

h/t to Marc Morano

“The deficit is getting smaller, not bigger,” Obama said.

That’s true. But, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said

With budget ‘deal,’ national debt free to soar again | Fox News

The Republican leadership didn’t like Obama saying means things about them, so they folded and told Obama that they are personally too weak to stand up to him.

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You don’t like a particular policy, or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out and win an election. Push to change it. Don’t break it.

President Obama speaks as shutdown ends: ‘This town has to change’ – live | World news | theguardian.com

The Tea Party did win the congressional elections in 2010 and 2012, because of Obamacare and the debt. It is becoming abundantly clear that Obama does not consider the legislative branch of government to be relevant.

On the other hand, the Republican leadership are doing everything they can to make the legislative branch subservient to the executive branch.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

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It turns out that increasing the debt is the problem, not the solution.

A Chinese ratings agency downgraded its US sovereign credit rating Thursday despite Washington’s resolution of the debt ceiling deadlock, warning that fundamentals for a potential default remained “unchanged”.

Dagong lowered its ratings for US local and foreign currency credit from A to A-, maintaining a negative outlook, the agency said in a statement.

The announcement came after the US Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed a bill that extends the nation’s borrowing authority and ends a two-week government shutdown.

“The fundamental situation that the debt growth rate significantly outpaces that of fiscal income and gross domestic product remains unchanged,” Dagong said in the statement, adding Washington’s solvency was vulnerable as old debts were still repaid through raising new debts.

Chinese agency downgrades US credit rating – FRANCE 24

Psychosis is often caused by people make nonsensical linkages between unrelated things, like when Peggy Joseph thought voting for Obama was going to pay her mortgage and gas bill.

The UK demonstrated historical levels of psychosis when Gordon Brown created “The Department of Energy and Climate Change.” He put a group of lunatics who are terrified of energy in charge of maintaining the energy supply.

Older coal-fired power stations are due to come out of service in 2015, but new plants are not coming on stream fast enough to make up the gap, and existing gas-fired power stations have been mothballed as they are uneconomic.

Electricity companies are choosing to use coal rather than gas at present, because coal is plentiful and cheap as a result of the massive boom in shale gas in the US, which has displaced coal-fired generation there and sent the excess coal around the world at cut price rates. But most of the existing coal-fired power plants are likely to be taken out of service in 2015, in order to comply with new European Union directives on pollutants.

UK faces increased risk of blackouts, report warns | Environment | theguardian.com

Obama’s Pravda News Network covers up all scandals for him, as well as any actual science related to to climate – but it is going to be harder for them to cover up the Obamacare disaster since it directly affects every taxpayer in America. They will have to get very creative.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Connecticut got hit by hurricanes about once every six years. The last hurricane to hit Connecticut was Bob in 1991.

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

Alarmists are having a tough year. They can’t create any warming or much in the way of hurricanes or tornadoes, Arctic ice has grown 60%, fire count has been the lowest in decades, and now their permanent drought has abandoned them too.

United States Drought Monitor > Data Archive > Tables