Jon Letendre

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  1. 4 hours ago, Jonathan said:

    Are you trying to express something, Billy? Searching for some way of continuing to avoid real science while still believing that science is on your side? Which tenets might be jettisoned, and how might we justify doing so, but only in regard to climate? Tee hee hee?

    Oh dear, oh dear, our discussion has gone off the rails. How might we get it back? Please don't suggest that Billy might help get it back on the rails by answering the questions which have been asked of him repeatedly, or by explaining why he thinks that the questions are not valid or pertinent. No. Billy is not the problem. The problem is the lesser Others. They must be fixed.

    Billy, I know you're very upset about the requirements of science. You seem to be taking it personally, and it's almost as if you feel that I invented them, and that I did so just to spite you. The truth is that I'm just the messenger. You're really not angry with me, but with the idea of science not conforming to your feelings and wishes.

    J

     

    It looks like a civil debate with you will be impossible, afterall.

    If only you could communicate without insults and loaded language.

  2. On 1/30/2020 at 1:05 PM, william.scherk said:

    If only you could communicate without loaded language and personal insults ...

    I am not sure how. Is it done like you did to Jonathan and Ellen recently? Implying they were illiterate, unread, unaware of your pet scientists, if they haven’t read your favorite book? Is that how one refrains from using loaded language, Shitbag?

  3. 19 hours ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

     

    The only book I recall William's assigning is The Discovery of Global Warming.  His statement that "the names may mean nothing" to someone who hasn't read that book is indicative of his ignorance, not that of "the reader."

    Ellen

     

    Yeah, poor Billy thinks Tyndall and Arrhenius would be unknown to someone who hasn’t read his favorite propaganda.

    I think we could have some fun with this. I propose a challenge: do what Billy did;  same stupidity and ignorance but a little different. I’ll go first:

    —If you wish to understand intellectual history you must grasp what Kant did. But you probably haven’t heard of him unless you’re brushed up on your Ayn Rand—

     

  4. 2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

    "Fuck off, Pedophile" speaks!

    [Gotta run out for an hour on family duties. I will edit these jottings, and think about a way to re-start or re-configure, or reiterate or assuage concerns about fair-play and scientific stupidity, and in my dreams even chart a course for better communications ...]
    [Back unlocked, my lazy mind has moved on to other items of interest and concern. If I only had one last question to ask, something bland, innocuous, throbbing with probity and good faith, incandescent with curiosity and wonder ... I'll check back in to post tomorrow morning after I listen to my "Jonathan and the Science" recording while cycling madly in all directions]

    The floor is open. All advisories suspended. 32 pages and only five of them at Fever Pitch.

    [Added scrawled notes before KP duty; to be revised/corrected/expanded/tideed away in a Spoiler. Nobody really minds me using the blog as notepaper, as long as I preserve even accidental/negligent postings of drafts, right?]

    30 January 2020
    AGWA Re set

    What would persuade you
    What persuaded you

    What persuaded me
    What is my 5 paragraph informal argument
    FOR my position

    Topic sentence/paragraph "How I got here" is bland and stupid
    What is my position, in a one-liner
    What has changed ab out my position a la from 'dismissive' to 'concerned'

    What is the thing[ I do] that is most annoying in this thread

    You are congenitally disingenuous, that’s what’s most annoying.

  5. 2 hours ago, william.scherk said:

    "Fuck off, Pedophile" speaks!

    [Gotta run out for an hour on family duties. I will edit these jottings, and think about a way to re-start or re-configure, or reiterate or assuage concerns about fair-play and scientific stupidity, and in my dreams even chart a course for better communications ...]
    [Back unlocked, my lazy mind has moved on to other items of interest and concern. If I only had one last question to ask, something bland, innocuous, throbbing with probity and good faith, incandescent with curiosity and wonder ... I'll check back in to post tomorrow morning after I listen to my "Jonathan and the Science" recording while cycling madly in all directions]

    The floor is open. All advisories suspended. 32 pages and only five of them at Fever Pitch.

    What does your being a pedophile have to do with this?

  6. 3 hours ago, william.scherk said:

    Chemtrails for the win. "It's SCIENCE!"

    Thank you for dutifully confirming what I said about your habit of deflecting.

    But, yes, it is science because it is simple comparison of observations over my five decades. It begins with collection of evidence of the senses. Contrails did not persist for hours in the past, only minutes maximum, usually only seconds.

    Go outside day after day and observe. Notice a day when all the contrails disappear within seconds. THAT was the only way contrails ever appeared. At most they persisted one minute. They NEVER persisted  for hours, as the adulterated trails of today do. Notice also on such a day how the trail is formed, it’s straight shape. Compare to a persistent day and the shape of what is persisting.

  7. “Armed and violent cultists” is particularly hilarious from Ratschild and Billyboy when we consider what happens when two or more of their Antifa cockroaches get together:

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    And we know from recent experience in Virginia what happens when tens of thousands of armed 2nd Amendment supporters get together:

    *Absolutely nothing*

    In other words, Ratschild and Billyboy use their own side’s projected violence to try to justify their coup by an anonymous source. What could be more anti-democratic? Well, you fascist shitbags can go to hell because you are going to keep on losing. Trump will eventually go on offense and I assure you that all the karma your side’s vicious behavior has earned will be richly repaid.

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  8. You recommend Politics and Poker? That’s hilarious. Above: “Q thinks running for President gives you some sort of legal protection.”

    Q thinks no such thing, has never said any such thing. He says there are people running who are only running so they can defend themselves with “Trump attacking a political opponent.” It gives political deterrence, not legal protection.

    Billy, you follow exceptionally dumb people who peddle transparent lies.

  9. 7 minutes ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

    HELLO???

    "Jonathan doesn't answer questions put to him in this thread"???

    What questions?  And look who's talking.  A person who's kept a supercilious nose in the air as if ignoring a bad smell, completely avoiding the challenge, when asked and asked and asked to provide anything resembling some decent science.

    Ellen

    It was likely some other thread, ten years ago.

    Is it not interesting that when called out for shitty behavior Billy doesn’t demand more of himself but rather goes about looking for where his interlocutor may have been hypocritical somewhere in the past so he point that out, instead? It doesn’t occur to him just stop being foul and make an attempt at answering legitimate scientific questions about his climate religion.

  10. On 10/31/2019 at 1:56 PM, Jon Letendre said:

    After trying everything else, impeachment is the only tangible power they have left. The Horowitz and Durham reports are coming soon and their necks will be in nooses, so they have to do something and impeachment on random, meaningless grounds is something (the only thing) they can do.

    So I now think impeachment will be the vehicle of disclosure. I think the House will impeach, which forces a trial in the Senate which all the people will watch with great focus and anticipation.

    The trial in the Senate will not be Traitor-controlled like the House, but Patriot-controlled. The House will impeach on thin, flimsy bullshit so there will not be much to discuss at trial. Until the IG report arrives. And then Durham’s criminal investigations into the FBI.

    The trial will proceed and, day after day, while it is supposed to be Trump’s removal trial, and enough teasers will be presented to keep everyone hopeful and watching,  it will consist mostly of Senators talking about the coup attempt the recent House, Senate, FBI, CIA, State, Justice, etc. arrestees are guilty of.

     

    “Hypothetical” question.

    This is going to get so fun ...

    @SenTedCruz and @LindseyGrahamSC ask #PencilNeckSchiff if @BarackObama had evidence that @MittRomney’s son was paid $1 million a year by a corrupt Russian company would it be OK if he asked for him to be investigated.
     
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