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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#50676: Mar 5th 2013 at 7:27:47 PM

Marq: The Speaker decides the schedule for bills being voted on. If his party doesn't like it he can just push it to the back of the line so they don't have to deal with it.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#50677: Mar 5th 2013 at 7:33:15 PM

Senate committee approves Brennan as CIA director

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
...
#50679: Mar 5th 2013 at 7:44:55 PM

[up]The Republicans think they're the 300 Spartans? Didn't they kinda...lose that fight?

edited 5th Mar '13 7:45:10 PM by Lascoden

boop
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#50680: Mar 5th 2013 at 7:50:16 PM

Do you really expect them to be knowledgeable when it comes to ancient history? They can barely remember stuff that happened half a century ago.

So this is a thing...

Lascoden ... from Missouri, USA Since: Nov, 2012
...
#50681: Mar 5th 2013 at 7:53:21 PM

[up]Well, they have their own version of Wikipedia, so why not Facebook? Then, they'll make their own Youtube *

, filled with nothing but Ron Paul videos.

boop
Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#50682: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:20:16 PM

So, Chavez is dead and Brennan will be the CIA Director.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#50683: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:37:51 PM

Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) blasted eight former heads of the Drug Enforcement Agency for pressuring the Obama administration to crack down on laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in Oregon and Washington.

I'd crack down on that law in Oregon too, seeing how it didn't pass here.

DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#50684: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:44:57 PM

[up][up]

Would you prefer Brennan being dead and Chavez being the CIA director?

@Gifs

This is what American Politics has become.

I weep for future generations.

edited 5th Mar '13 8:51:51 PM by DeviantBraeburn

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#50685: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:47:53 PM

So has the administration actually done anything about those laws? Because I haven't heard of him actually responding to that lately, what with all the other circus stuff going on. That and I think people were a lot more interested in the states that legalized or defeated attempts to illegalize the whole gay marriage issue.

Serocco Serocco from Miami, Florida Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Serocco
#50686: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:51:31 PM

Braeburn: Chavez would've died anyway, cancer and all.

In RWBY, every girl is Best Girl.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#50687: Mar 5th 2013 at 8:52:02 PM

Washington State Representative Ed Orcutt Claims Bicyclists Produce More Pollution than Motorists due to heavy breathing

....This man makes Todd Akin look somewhat competent.

[up][up]

Attorney General Holder: Federal Government to set pot legalization response 'relatively soon'

edited 5th Mar '13 8:57:22 PM by DeviantBraeburn

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010
#50688: Mar 5th 2013 at 9:34:04 PM

It's a little early for April Fool's,Braeburn.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#50689: Mar 5th 2013 at 9:50:34 PM

[up][up] Wow, that's...really stupid. There's a little thing that deals with the carbon dioxide we produce effortlessly, oh what are they called, I can't quite remember. Oh yeah. PLANTS. Cars are bad in this respect because of all the other junk that goes along with the exhaust. Our breathing isn't going to do much.

Pykrete NOT THE BEES from Viridian Forest Since: Sep, 2009
NOT THE BEES
#50690: Mar 5th 2013 at 11:32:23 PM

Washington State Representative Ed Orcutt Claims Bicyclists Produce More Pollution than Motorists due to heavy breathing

So I decided to do some digging and check numbers on the claim that humans put out more CO 2 than our cars.


Here is a breakdown of your CO 2 emission rate based on your current level of activity. I'm going to make an estimation of 8 hours sleeping, 13.5 hours resting/low activity, 2 hours normal, and 0.5 hours heavy exertion — which, if anything, is a dramatic overestimate of the average American's physical activity. This comes out to a single person putting out about 0.749 m^3/day of carbon dioxide, or 273.385 m^3/yr.

The US population is about 300 million, so this comes out to about 82 billion m^3/yr of CO 2 for all of us.

I have to do some more math to turn this into metric tons, because that's how we measure emissions in pretty much everything else. This was my source to get 509.1 liters per kg of CO 2, which we can convert to m^3/kg.

This gives us about 161 billion kg / yr, or 161 million metric tons per year of CO 2 exhaled by the entire US population.


The EPA averages that cars emit 8.92 × 10-3 metric tons CO 2/gallon of gasoline. The EIA estimates that the US consumes about 134 billion gallons of gasoline a year.

This comes out to 1.2 billion metric tons per year of CO 2 emitted by all the cars in the country.


So not only is that guy full of shit, but he's full of shit by a factor of almost ten even if you make generous estimates of physical activity and include a person's emissions for the entire day.

Oh, and this doesn't count all the CO 2 emissions of drilling, refining, and transporting oil overseas or anything to get the gasoline to your car in the first place — that's just what comes out of the exhaust pipe.

edited 5th Mar '13 11:47:38 PM by Pykrete

ohsointocats from The Sand Wastes Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#50691: Mar 5th 2013 at 11:38:48 PM

Wait, did they say the TSA is now allowed to bring pocket knives and small sports equipment on planes? And I still can't get on with sewing scissors or nail clippers? What the hell, TSA.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#50692: Mar 5th 2013 at 11:42:34 PM

Eh, the weirdness of TSA is long since become a joke.

About the CO2 thing: The other thing he's missing is that all CO2 we're exhaling has recently been absorbed by plants and thus doesn't change the atmospheric CO2 concentration. Oil-derived CO2 is being released from rock and isn't balanced.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
ohsointocats from The Sand Wastes Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#50693: Mar 6th 2013 at 2:26:26 AM

That they allow shit like pocketknives and sports equipment but not sewing scissors or thread cutters is sexist. Have you ever tried to hurt someone with a thread cutter? I mean, really tried?

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#50694: Mar 6th 2013 at 2:59:47 AM

[up]The Borne films show how much more effective a ballpoint pen is... so... no. Never felt the need. tongue

Sledgesaul Since: Oct, 2011
#50695: Mar 6th 2013 at 5:53:29 AM

Let's be frank. The TSA is an amoral, bipolar, molestation-driven pervy wanker village.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#50697: Mar 6th 2013 at 7:06:55 AM

I'm more inclined to blame the TSA's problems on bureaucratic mismanagement and cronyism than on outright perversion. Besides, what do you have against bipolar wankers?

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#50698: Mar 6th 2013 at 7:25:54 AM

Yeah, really — it's no more rational to state that all TSA workers are perverts than it is to say that all priests are pedophiles. Like any group, the ones who do stupid shit are the ones who get in the news and form the public's impression of them. You don't hear about the majority of them who are diligent and hard-working — not to mention underpaid and constantly hassled by travelers.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#50700: Mar 6th 2013 at 2:11:00 PM

And no, that's not hyperbole. The TSA head really does think you should be able to take a battle axe on a plane.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

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