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• These Are the ‘Least’ & ‘Most’ Business-Friendly States in the U.S.

  May 9, 2012 at 3:21pm

  In reply to RayOne.

  Very, very shallow. “Business-friendly” states are run by politicians who cooperate with the interests of stockholders while dumping on their less affluent constituents. “Environmental regulation” is derogatory business lingo for saying “public health protection”, same concept – different tone. It’s all about the tone.
  I‘m glad I don’t live where Koch Ind. has successfully bought the soul of my legislators. Where there is a facade of free-market, small gov, entrepreneurship that gathers votes, mostly in red-states, in order to pave the way for Corporatist control of a Socialist system; something many founding fathers vehemently forewarned.

  “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”-T.J.

  This tone that inspires nostalgic Americana, innovative libertarianism, is a big joke. The media arms sell you these statistics to keep the party going for the financial manipulators and the sociopathic Harvard alums. The regulations that halt you from building a shed in your yard are inane; Those that stop BP from haphazardly poking around the arctic are immensely important. They would like you to believe these are the same form of “Big” Government.
  A big change is coming to the concepts of “business” and “profit”, and you’re better off learning to decipher the tone of the monied propaganda. The people are the focus

• Defense Secretary: ‘Climate Change Has a Dramatic Impact on National Security’

  May 4, 2012 at 7:20am

  In reply to MCDAVE.

  Random intelligence check on the Blaze.com comes up empty.

  Humanoids capable of typing, recalling paranoia and mixing them with regurgitated Hannity rhetoric thrown with no shame on the public interweb between shameless ironic ads to buy rare metals. Phh. You let fear cloud your thoughts. We are the ostrich of the world, and we spawned the very monster we hide from. C O N SU Merism.

• Beck: Progressive ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Now on to Phase II — Communism

  March 21, 2012 at 2:41pm

  In reply to NewLife56.

  You nailed it JZS. The Beck fanatic is a strange creature, addicted to fear and protective of their clan. It’s almost tribal, pre-evolved, the way they navigate through critical thoughts on Communism, Economics, Society in general to the scariest conclusion just so they can get fired up in the dream of borders and flags and one nation under GOD. They on this site treat Beck‘s 8th gwade histwy repawts as educational because he’s a master at cultivating a loyal fanbase. From the unconverted Beck seems to have a trifecta of amnesia; calling for less regulation in the financial sector, paranoia; fearing the nanny-type state, the flip-side of which is rule by a corporate elite, and unparalleled bigotry to dissenters. Why doesn’t Beck have a diverse range of guests on his show??

• Senator Inhofe: Global Warming Is a Hoax, Arrogant to Think Humans Can Change Seasons

  March 11, 2012 at 4:39pm

  In reply to BOMUSTGO.

  There are a lot of climate experts up here. All the pedestrian debates over complex meteorology gets in the way of the true problem: Consumerism. Our system is designed to push faulty products quickly and in great numbers and for the past century we’ve been trying to spread this model across the planet. It ain’t gonna happen. The only reason we Mericans enjoy 2 buck cups of coffee, expect Wal Mart prices, cheap fast food, etc. is because the majority of the planet’s population sacrifices health and land for us. Our culture wastes entirely too much and yet it’s the “conservatives” who push for more and more growth (read: resource consumption). Much (but not nearly all) of Earth’s surface is transformed into concretescapes of materialism; that’s fact. Much of our agricultural processes destroy cropland; that’s a fact. Our disposable culture ignores trash and praises “getting a new one”. My opinion is that this lifestyle and it’s intended spread will alter the natural world in biodiversity loss and more extreme swings in the hydrologic cycle. What are your opinions about our incessant material transformation, usage, and disposal?

• Senator Inhofe: Global Warming Is a Hoax, Arrogant to Think Humans Can Change Seasons

  March 11, 2012 at 6:36am

  In reply to BOMUSTGO.

  Achameleon, I respect your insightful comments. However, this Blaze article does a lot to misinform. First, by mentioning the “liberal” evangelist who believed against his faith that humans were causing a climatic change. Second, by evoking Romans 1:25, claiming the worship of the creator instead of the creation is how the creator intended things to be. Third, by involving political theater with Sen. Inhofe’s (R-OK) “exciting” possible Senate majority promotion in the 2012 elections to the CHAIRMAN of the Senate Committee on the ENVIRONMENT, a short clip of what that victory will look like, after a ******* quote from msnbsee. This site preys on the fake dual nature of our political process, first of all; both teams are playing for a paycheck. We need to transcend that and figure it out without them. The Romans passage is very unbelievable. If our Creator wanted us to manipulate matter and worship His benevolence by doing so at an ever increasing speed, instead of worshiping His matter and returning his benevolence at the speed of the human, He would have made the world flat and infinite. But He didn’t and unless the coming of Christ secretly includes a Taxi Fleet and Battlestar escort to a new planet full of our favorite resources, we have to figure out something else. The US & UK kin began looting the crust and harnessed the power of the past sunshine to build at the rate of trillions of men. That era is coming to a close and Inhoffe is just securing his retirement.

• Will the ‘Coming of the New Ice Age’ Mark the End of the Global Warming Era?

  February 2, 2012 at 2:37am

  In reply to Fla Del.

  The modern “Free” Market of Capitalism runs on oil. A hundred million barrels a day gets every American to and from their cubicle so they can ramp up the profits, lets every cargo ship, plane, and semi-truck scramble resources, and moves the very same war machines we use to pilfer it from unstable regions. Then we enjoy our super bowls and american idols and the commercials in between in reverence to our supreme god Consumerism. Then we spread that ideology in faux innocence to get other nations to “develop” and conform. Yet, it’s a fact that obtainable oil and coal reserves will RUN OUT EVENTUALLY and our system ignores this in exchange for immediate personal gratification. Unsustainable energy will flood the media and tabloids like the Blaze for the next few decades with stories like this. They obfuscate basic geoscience with gross oversimplifications like total “cooling” versus “heating”. They are trying to keep as many customers as they can loyal to pressure politicians into dragging their heels at energy reform. Do yourself a favor and oppose the plutocrat-controlled focus on retro energy, challenge the throw-away culture that achieves greater personal slothfulness and more corporate control, and do it not for complex climatic reasons but because someone before you did it.

• Will the ‘Coming of the New Ice Age’ Mark the End of the Global Warming Era?

  February 2, 2012 at 1:31am

  In reply to Fla Del.

  I think you are all missing the picture. I have one question for anyone; What is the plan for modern society after the planet’s petroleum reserves have become scarce and insufficient?

• U.S. Called ‘Immoral’, Canada ‘Laggard’ at International Climate Conference

  December 8, 2011 at 3:17am

  In reply to doodad.

  MauiJonny, What I don’t get is the scam conclusion that you and pigpen come to. Who is doing the scamming? 2020 scenario: America has reconstructed its power grid to be efficient geographically, Wind on the coasts, sparse Hydroelectric in riparian locations, geothermal, tidal, and solar in the south and southwest plus solar on all newly created buildings. Food is grown and eaten as locally as possible, packaging is decomposable when possible and products are made to last. China, goaded by strict environmental standards in trade agreements, emulates America. America creates millions of jobs doing this and our children don’t have to eat ConAgra Chemical Corn. The Big Oil Industries are getting scammed? The American people are getting scammed by large-scale public projects? You can believe it’s a scam because volcanoes “pollute” too, just know that the population of volcanoes isn’t exactly growing at the rate of human population. Most of the World agrees about how dire the situation is, Americans are kinda a sad joke to outsiders; We consume and pollute well beyond the per-person average and act childish when sience says we need to go on an oil-diet.

• U.S. Called ‘Immoral’, Canada ‘Laggard’ at International Climate Conference

  December 7, 2011 at 8:53pm

  In reply to doodad.

  An extremely wasteful, present-hedonistic minded civilization has emerged in a blink of Earth time, providing us with many luxuries and advancements but also favoring disposability. The commoditization of Nature and rapid use of it’s resources are antithetical to the imaginary infiniteness of capitalist theory. Unsustainable as it is, many people have earned great wealth doing so. Some of these Successes have invested in opposing a reevaluation of resource management in light of scientific breakthroughs in geosciences. Some have propagandized complicated subjects in TV and print. Some (Koch Ind.) have funded (AFP) a subculture (Tea Party) that plays right into their hands, and rallies for the ship to continue to sink.
  C’mon people. This shouldn’t be political. People who’ve earned great wealth mining coal, oil, gas know it’s much harder to capitalize on the sun or wind. People who compare increased production of cheaper and less durable products to the better healthier communities are delusional.
  What’s so wrong with discussing alternative ways to live on and use the Earth? Besides having to swallow your pride and admit you were once on the wrong side of the fence..

• Update: Iraq War Vet Injured in Occupy Oakland Awaiting Brain Surgery

  October 28, 2011 at 3:35pm

  In reply to SiToNiTsOrOs1.

  I read that it was the canister of tear gas, maybe thrown, that hit his head.