Imagine my surprise. Not.

See my diary How you, too, can figure out that Obama betrays the 99%, and works for the 1%, first and foremost.

I don’t think any scientist could possibly dispute that AGW is “real”, at least in the sense of the urban heat island effect. Not all scientists accept that CO2 is a Green House Gas, but they seem to be in a small minority of dissidents (dissident = so-called “climate change deniers”). The scientists I mentioned [...]

97% of over 4000 studies conclude that human activity is causing global warming. It’s reached scientific concurrence, except in Congress. Even the 1% believes it now, they just want to prevent us from doing anything about it that will cost them money.

It seems that Cook and Mark Richardson stink at math (which may be a [...]

It the McWorkers get themselves wage increases, but don’t (help) put a strong, tight leash on ALEC*, they are likely to eventually find themselves out of a job. I get it that people get excited by any sign that activism has a pulse, but didn’t Occupy teach us that not thinking through likely consequences – [...]

You’ve definitely got a point int the “shame on all of us” comment. I think most of that stems from sheer laziness on our part.

Well, here I might get to play a more understanding part that my usual, scolding self. If the public had been told, repeatedly, that “free trade” was going to screw them, [...]

I’ve been staying with my cousin, in the town I grew up, and he remarked to me just the other day that Bennigan’s was no more, but they may be re-started by some foreigners. That factoid was probably inserted into a conversation about all of the out-of-business restaurants and assorted other businesses I see in [...]

Ha! I also did security guard work, full time, between multi-year stints in college, but before I ever waited on a table. (I was a busboy one summer during high school.) That job was basically the opposite of being a waiter, in terms of stress. (Ignoring the stress of a graveyard shift, which is a biorhythm type [...]

Good for the people in Ohio. I live in NJ, and if we have state referenda for anything, it’s news to me. BTW, I worked many years as a waiter, and ‘did some time’ (get it?) as a pantry cook at Bennigan’s. I’ve often said that my second biggest mistake in life was going to [...]

I think there was an article at FDL about how ALEC ‘inspired’ legislation is being introduced to make local minimum wage laws illegal. Wherever I read about it, if fast food workers ignore the ALEC ‘inspired’ backstabbing of their efforts, they have only themselves to blame for their stupidity. I’m not suggesting that local laws [...]

It. Is. Common. Knowledge. Do you really want some references? I suggest two books by Brian Fagan: The Long Summer and The Little Ice Age. They both have references galore. The first is about the Holocene Climate Optimum, as you call it, while what the latter is about should be self-explanatory.

Thanks, but would you be [...]

You made a specific claim, and I asked for a reference for that specific claim.

If you really believe your claim, you should be glad to show a reference or two.

However, going back way longer than 10,000 years, whenever the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has exceeded 375 ppm a period of serious warming has occurred within the next 2 decades. And, yes, that period of warming has included changes in the pattern of winds and also changes in the circulation of water in the [...]

No, sorry, I don’t. I had heard that there a “New Black Panther Party”, but their web site is kind of skimpy. On the plus side, it has a link for “Black Lawyers for Justice”, though that links to a web site under construction. Wikipedia says

The New Black Panther Party (NBPP), whose formal name is [...]

I don’t think the Green Party is interested in doing that kind of electioneering.

I posed social services in opposition to electioneering, as a necessary ingredient that the GP is not pursuing. So, assuming you meant

I don’t think the Green Party is interested in doing that kind of social services providing.

I wonder if you [...]

These folk are already doing what you say they should be doing.

No, I think you misunderstand. I made no comment or criticism about what GP members are doing, as individuals , ito social services. Rather, what is the GP doing as an organization , which at least co-brands efforts that are accessible to the public. I just took a [...]

It’s too late for the Green Party to re-start itself. Even if they were just starting out, today, I personally would not look to shoe-horn them into just social services now, to be followed by political party formation and growth, later. In fact, I would recommend against that. Indeed, I would remind them that they [...]

Funding is, of course, a major constraint in terms of how much and what a group can do. I hadn’t heard about Saudi funding, but had suspected so much. At this stage of mostly unfulfilled growth potential, the Green Party should be able to find plenty of input from the Chavistas before they attained the [...]

I find it hard to believe that you really did miss my point.

May I suggest that you grace myFDL with diaries about the social service aspects of the Black Panther party, as well a the Young Lords? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the Young Lords. I think I was mostly brainwashed about the Black Panther party, as a youth, and never heard about their social [...]