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Global Warming Killed 30% Of Moose, Is Preventing Bears From Hibernating?

New England has moose coming out of our ears

Stockholm Environment Institute: Carbon credits undercut climate change action

Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high

How Much Yiddish Do You Know?

If you live in NYC for a while, you pick up quite a bit of Yiddish slang

The kids are not all right: The bleak future of the millennial generation

Obama voters

McArdle: You Can't Time the Market

Sure can. Buy low, sell high.

China government buying stocks to prop markets

Brilliant plan - if you have no real markets

Right Move for the Fed Is Hike in Interest Rates So Markets Come Alive

Homeland Security Raids Rentboy.com - DHS "will use its unique authorities to disrupt and dismantle" gay escort sites, says special investigator.

Homeland Security? What a joke. Protecting me from gay prostitutes? Expensive joke.

Hitler has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life.

New CMP video: StemExpress CEO says Planned Parenthood is “a volume institution”

So, Lois Lerner Had a Second Secret Email, Using the Name "Toby
Miles," With Which She Conducted Official, But Secret, IRS Business

How many criminals in Washington?

Our hyperactive, grasping federal government has inserted its wasteful, probing fingers into just about everything these days.

Economic Freedom in America Is Declining Mostly Because of Creeping
Protectionism and the Loss of Rule of Law and Property Rights

TNR: What If Stalin Had Computers? A new book contemplates the end of capitalism (again)—it's a nice story, but a terrible plan

Gee, if only...

The Very Real Economic Costs of Birthright Citizenship

Anchor Baby Delivered Every 93 Seconds

How I Became a Social Conservative by Default - I didn't become a social conservative, social conservatism came toward me.

HOW TO SPOT A CULTURAL LIBERTARIAN

Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costume Sparks Internet Outrage: ‘Disgraceful,’ ‘Transphobic’

What is so special about trannies? Aren't they sort of strange?

Al Sharpton Reacts to the Concept That Working Harder Produces More Wealth

Hillary vs. Biden Would Get Ugly Fast

Give Up Already: Almost Half Of Americans Say Hillary Should Halt Presidential Campaign

Ben Carson: #BlackLivesMatter misfire

Why does the only black presidential candidate insist the US is post-racial?

Because it is

"A newspaper that wasn’t emotionally invested in peddling racial narratives would have seen another story here..."

Salon: Bernie Sanders is wrong about the Koch brothers: They’re even more dangerous than he thinks

Voters Can’t Stand Hillary

Greenfield: Mohammed Was a Pig

Al
Sharpton Reacts to the Concept That Working Harder Produces More Wealth
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TNR: What If Stalin Had Computers?

If only socialism had some way to force innovation like it forces labor?

#1 JK Brown on 2015-08-26 08:59 (Reply)

Exactly. Many of the factories dismantled after the collapse of the Soviet Union had been imported from the West in the 1930s, with hardly any modifications on them in the half century they had been around.

Back in the '60s and '70s, some soviet economists thought that computers could "rationalize" the Soviet economic system. You can even find an example of an attempt to use computers in Allende's Chile to do the same.

#1.1 Gringo on 2015-08-26 17:15 (Reply)

TNR: What If Stalin Had Computers?

If only s0cialism had some way to force innovation like it forces labor?

#2 JK Brown on 2015-08-26 09:00 (Reply)

Why does the only black presidential candidate insist the US is post-racial?

I had to think a minute to arrive at the answer of who this was speaking of, then I realized that proved his point.

#3 JK Brown on 2015-08-26 09:02 (Reply)

Lois Lerner had secret email address. EPA head Lisa Jackson had a secet email address, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy conducted state business with a personal email.

I'm sensing a trend here. It's almost like the government is not constrained by the same laws and regulations that regular people are.

#4 fjord on 2015-08-26 09:13 (Reply)

I believe the honeybee collapse was due to extraterrestrials abducting the bees.

It's species-centric to believe that only humans suffer alien abduction.

It's a highly probable that aliens who visit the Earth are here to obtain resources to make other worlds inhabitable as they colonize them, and bees are a big part of keeping vegetation and crops going.

#5 DrTorch on 2015-08-26 09:54 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high

There's still a serious problem with Colony Collapse Disorder, with 42% of colonies lost in the year ending April 2015. It's not existential though, and markets are adapting. However, the underlying cause needs to be identified. The evidence indicates neonicotinoid, a neuro-active insecticide, is a significant factor.

#5.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 10:10 (Reply)

QUOTE:

There's still a serious problem with Colony Collapse Disorder

True

QUOTE:

with 42% of colonies lost in the year ending April 2015

...but that is 42% to all causes, including Varroa mites, Tracheal mites, and Nosema; not to mention the unusual winter losses due to weather.

QUOTE:

The evidence indicates neonicotinoid, a neuro-active insecticide, is a significant factor.

and yet the countries and agricultural regions with the highest neonicotinid use seem to have the healthiest colonies, and the Euro neonicotinid ban had no discernable effect.

#5.1.1 Douglas2 on 2015-08-26 12:52 (Reply)

Zachriel doesn't understand actual science, he just repeats headlines.

#5.1.1.1 DrTorch on 2015-08-26 13:10 (Reply)

See Rundlöf et al., Seed coating with a neonicotinoid insecticide negatively affects wild bees, Nature 2015.

#5.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 13:16 (Reply)

Ah; the study that has been widely praised for bringing to the world's attention that honeybee studies cannot be used as a proxy for pesticide effects on wild bees. This is because it found no effect on honeybees but substantial effect on wild ones.

Very important and worrying work, but perhaps not the best comeback to DrTorch, since our topic was CCD.

#5.1.1.1.1.1 Douglas2 on 2015-08-26 15:17 (Reply)

We provided two citations; one for wild bees, one for honeybees.

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 17:01 (Reply)

Dr. Lu fed bees with levels of the neonics that neared or exceeded the LD50 published in studies supported by Bayer, and then documented death of bees and abandonment of hives that did not correspond to the symptoms defining colony collapse disorder.
The journal he published in is not set up to do a "letters" section or back-and-forth criticism and response, so the academic response from both beekeepers and entomologists has been on beekeeping and entomology forums. It has not been gentle.

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Douglas2 on 2015-08-26 18:17 (Reply)

Douglas2: Dr. Lu fed bees with levels of the neonics that neared or exceeded the LD50 published in studies supported by Bayer

The bees were fed 0.74 ng/bee/day, which is well below LD50 levels.

Douglas2: and then documented death of bees and abandonment of hives that did not correspond to the symptoms defining colony collapse disorder.

Lu et al: "The diminishing cluster size in the neonicotinoid-treated colonies led to the loss of six of the twelve (50%) with symptoms resembling CCD"

A single study is rarely definitive. While there is still some disagreement, and more data is needed, the evidence is leaning towards neonicotinoids being a significant factor. Here's a review in Nature. The citations include one which looks at the actual mechanism of activity.
http://www.nature.com/news/bee-studies-stir-up-pesticide-debate-1.17366

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-27 06:50 (Reply)

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He makes a big point of saying that the bees were fed a sublethal dose. So let’s look at his calculations. He fed each colony 1.9L of syrup each week, but did not check back to see how quickly the syrup was consumed. He rather assumed that the syrup uptake could be divided equally by 7 days. But any beekeeper knows that a strong colony will easily slurp up a half gallon of light syrup in a few hours. So if we divide the 258,000ng dose by a realistic 30,000 bees, we get 8.6ng of insecticide per bee–twice the daily LD50 for clothianidin that he cites in the paper! That means that for at least one of the test insecticides, they were fed at least twice the lethal dose for every bee in the hive once a week for 13 consecutive weeks!

http://scientificbeekeeping.com/news-and-blogs-page/

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Douglas2 on 2015-08-27 10:49 (Reply)

A single study is rarely definitive. While there is still some disagreement, and more data is needed, the evidence is leaning towards neonicotinoids being a significant factor. Here's a review in Nature. The citations include one which looks at the actual mechanism of activity.
http://www.nature.com/news/bee-studies-stir-up-pesticide-debate-1.17366

#5.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-27 18:07 (Reply)

See Lu et al., Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder, Bulletin of Insectology 2014.

#5.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 13:21 (Reply)

looks like you got pwned again.

try original thoughts sometime.

#5.1.1.2.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-27 02:13 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Give Up Already: Almost Half Of Americans Say Hillary Should Halt Presidential Campaign

At this time, more Americans would vote for Clinton over any Republican candidate.

#6 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 10:17 (Reply)

Oops. Forgot the link.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html

#6.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 10:44 (Reply)

"At this time, more Americans would vote for Clinton over any Republican candidate."

So you understand that with 18 Republican candidates dividing the field comparing their individual standings with one of only two Democrat candidates is meaningless. It is the classic example of dishonesty where you search foranything that might be construed to support your position. Your position seems to be to elect Hillary in spite of the evidence she is a criminal and sold U.S. secrets to our enemies. This seems very odd to me. Can you explain this? A simple explanation is that you aren't American and are in fact a foreign "plant" spreading lies and discontent.

#6.2 Sweetpea on 2015-08-26 11:20 (Reply)

Sweetpea: So you understand that with 18 Republican candidates dividing the field comparing their individual standings with one of only two Democrat candidates is meaningless.

You may have missed the link. The polling compares Clinton to only one Republican at a time. Here's the aggregate for August 20, 2015: Who would you vote for if given the choice of

Clinton or Trump, +10
Clinton or Bush, +3
Clinton or Walker, +5
Clinton or Rubio, +3
Clinton or Paul, +5
Clinton or Cruz, +8
Clinton or Fiorina, +11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2016

Sweetpea: Your position seems to be to elect Hillary ...

Our point was that the original claim that Clinton should drop out is based on cherry-picking. She has very strong support.

Sweetpea: in spite of the evidence she is a criminal and sold U.S. secrets to our enemies. This seems very odd to me. Can you explain this?

There's no evidence at this point of criminal behavior, and the investigations will presumably end once she is no longer a political threat.

#6.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-08-26 11:42 (Reply)

"the investigations will presumably end once she is no longer a political threat."

I hope not! I think she has done our country some serious harm. She may be worse than any of the famous spies who sold secrets to our enemies. I hope the FBI gets serious and gets to the truth. The Clinton foundation was their front for their fraud and to be honest I could care less except that they sold secrets, sold critical assets with military implications and willingly made deals with our enemies. I hope we don't see the day when millions of our soldiers are killed by Hillary's traitorous actions.

#6.2.1.1 Sweetpea on 2015-08-26 20:29 (Reply)

she's got to stick around until after her coronation, when the DNC is stuck with her. so expect a long slow burn.

#6.2.1.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-08-27 02:15 (Reply)

Sweetpea: I hope not! I think she has done our country some serious harm.

Whether she is charged has nothing to do with hope, but law. However, it is likely that as soon as she is no longer a political threat, the investigations will end, showing that they were political all along.

#6.2.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2015-08-27 06:54 (Reply)

"It is likely" another one of your posts w/ no evidence to back it up.

#6.2.1.1.2.1 DrTorch on 2015-08-27 10:23 (Reply)

It is possible that she will not be charged if she drops out of the race. Considering who the president and the attorney general is that is in fact likely. What is unlikely is that any Democrat will ever face justice for their crimes.

#6.2.1.1.2.2 Sweetpea on 2015-08-28 10:22 (Reply)

"New England has moose coming out of our ears"

Newfoundland is lousy with them.

They're a major traffic hazard on the island with around 700 collisions a year. Two or three people are killed annually.

#7 JJM on 2015-08-26 10:49 (Reply)

I always liked good old P.J. O'Rourke's reaction to the term "Homeland Security":

"'Homeland Security' sounds like a failed 1980s savings and loan."

#8 JJM on 2015-08-26 10:55 (Reply)

Hilliary at bat, Biden on deck...

I shudder to think about the rest of the Democrats lineup is Biden is number two.

#9 John the River (Link) on 2015-08-26 12:01 (Reply)

When you can say something as obviously wrong as "hurricanes are more prevalent than ever" and people believe it what point is there in trying to reason with folks?

#10 b moe on 2015-08-26 12:43 (Reply)

Re: black presidential candidate insists the US is post racial

Carson went to Harlem and promoted self self reliance as opposed to welfare dependency. The Gardian apparently thought that was a dumb move:

QUOTE:

Why go out and vote when politicians use your community as an example of what’s “wrong” with America?

It points out the difference in the left's and Dr. Carson's perspective. The left wants the poor to be comfortable in their poverty while Dr. Carson believes they can build their own future.

#11 mudbug on 2015-08-26 13:08 (Reply)

Hill vs. Joe: Starts ugly, gets more so.

I like what Ben Carson said.

#12 Sam L. on 2015-08-26 13:29 (Reply)

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