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Post by icefisher on Mar 22, 2011 5:17:00 GMT
Unfortunately, where it falls apart is that the AG is an elected official who thereby benefits from running politically inspired "show trials" of which this is a case in point. Election of law enforcement officers should have been left in the 19th century. Unfortunately, the UK government is mulling the idea of introducing them here. Actually Steve they win and they lose. You are just thinking he is likely he is likely to win. Your whole problem and the basic problem with the democrats lately is they have no faith in their own people to make the right choices. Your worries above confirms that. The old democrats like myself understood that: "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." — John F. Kennedy |
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Post by steve on Mar 22, 2011 10:27:11 GMT
The main worry is not that I think he is likely to win. The main worry is that essentially he can spend tax money running a political campaign under the guise of a legal process. In a large society politicians can decide policies and priorities without getting involved in the nitty gritty of individual cases. They don't have the time. If they think they do then it is because they aren't doing a proper job elsewhere.
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Post by icefisher on Mar 22, 2011 17:03:27 GMT
The main worry is not that I think he is likely to win. The main worry is that essentially he can spend tax money running a political campaign under the guise of a legal process. In a large society politicians can decide policies and priorities without getting involved in the nitty gritty of individual cases. They don't have the time. If they think they do then it is because they aren't doing a proper job elsewhere. Thats a legitimate worry. . . .if you are a citizen of Virginia. . . .which I would be surprised if you are. And to that he will have to answer to the citizens of Virginia demonstrating nicely what a well designed democracy can do. One heckuva a lot better than a pile of "lords" mucking around the records I would say where their positions can be sold for whatever and there is no consequence for incompetence. |
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Post by trbixler on Mar 24, 2011 23:39:09 GMT
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Post by trbixler on Apr 10, 2011 13:43:49 GMT
Well it really doesn't matter when you already know the answer as to how CO2 drives the temperature. All you need to do is show some scientific stuff and the sheep will follow. Just roll out the tree. "Yamal and Hide-the-Decline" "The dossier is not about CRUTEM, it’s about the Hockey Stick. And within that debate, the dossier was seemingly constructed with particular attention to Yamal. Pearce’s observation about the Climategate dossier beginning with Yamal is literally true. The very first email (1. 0826209667.txt) is about Yamal – an opening scene wittily described by Michael Kelly in an overlooked account of the emails shortly after they became public: Like an Aristophanes satire, like Hamlet, it opens with two slaves, spear-carriers, little people. Footsoldiers of history, two researchers in a corrupt and impoverished mid-90s Russia schlep through the tundra to take core samples from trees at the behest of the bigger fish in far-off East Anglia. Stepan and Rashit don’t even have their own e-mail address and like characters in some absurdist comedy must pass jointly under the name of Tatiana M. Dedkova. Conscientious and obliging, they strike a human note all through this drama. Their talk is of mundane material concerns, the smallness of funds, the expense of helicopters, the scramble for grants. They are the ones who get their hands dirty, and their vicissitudes periodically revived my interest during the slower stretches of the tale, those otherwise devoted to abstruse details of committee work and other longueurs. ‘We also collected many wood samples from living and dead larches of various ages. But we were bited by many thousands of mosquitos especially small ones.’ They are perhaps the only likeable characters on the establishment side, apart from the exasperated and appalled IT man Harry in the separate ‘Harry_read_me’ document, and I cheered up whenever they appeared. The relatively unexplored data accompanying the emails is mostly tree ring data and contains interesting tree ring data not otherwise available, some of which I’ve used in today’s post (see below)." climateaudit.org/2011/04/09/yamal-and-hide-the-decline/ |
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