Comments on: Danny Glover Blames Haiti Earthquake On Global Warming

By: Leon LaPorte

Leon LaPorte — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:29:07 +0000

Lets be fair and balanced a bit here. First lets clear up a simple misconception I've seen repeated. Glaciers by definition are perennial masses of ice which move over land. An iceberg, on the other hand, is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water.

Go ahead, look it up. Ok continue…

By: someotherguy

someotherguy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:02:07 +0000

Umm glaciers float on top of water, earth quakes are caused by relief of stress near tectonic plates (its more complicated then that but not wanting to write an essay here). The only way that is physically possible for glaciers to effect quakes is if the glacier somehow absorbed the shock wave from the wake, and then it would be glaciers effecting tidal waves that are produced from those quakes.

Seriously, the pressure is from the plates pressing against each other, how the hell does a giant floating ice cube effect that. Even the ice shelves are mostly supported by the water underneath them and not the small part of land their attached to.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:48:16 +0000

In any case…A house by the lake…You win.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:47:18 +0000

"I knew a few highly educated people during my service. Get them out of that one field and they are worse than useless."

Here's why.

By: Retired GI

Retired GI — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:17:49 +0000

Hasty generalization about Glover? Yes, you pointed that out and I updated him to a simple Clown.

Now why, did you feel the need to tell me of your top in this and elite in that? In the context of Glover's silliness, how does that fit?

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:07:35 +0000

"I love it when people try to impress me with their qualifications rather than their thoughts. As I said, I’ve known just a few highly “educated” individuals that could not comprehend a clutch or shoot a rifle."

Not trying to impress you, just pointing out that you were making a hasty generalization.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:49:02 +0000

My dad's first degrees are in theology…Yeah, he's such a liberal.

By: Retired GI

Retired GI — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:54:44 +0000

Teadrinker, you "should" understand by now that you will not impress me.

"second field", so your telling me you understand TWO subject areas? OK, if you want me to be impressed so badly—WOW! Hope that got you off!

As for your Dad, he raised a Liberal, self grandios son that doesn't understand that being from Canada does not exclude also being a liberal. So your Dad does not impress me. Nothing personal toward your Dad.

Just an observation. No attack intended.

I love it when people try to impress me with their qualifications rather than their thoughts. As I said, I've known just a few highly "educated" individuals that could not comprehend a clutch or shoot a rifle.

If you were "top" this and "elite" that, as well as the sperm of same, you wouldn't be wasting your time trying to impress little ole me.

But thanks for the attention. I'm very lonely in my 300k house on top of the hill by the lake.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:35:40 +0000

"I knew a few highly educated people during my service. Get them out of that one field and they are worse than useless."

Went to grad school at a top university in my second field and was in an elite unit while in the military. So was my dad, for that matter. So, really, you need to use a different argument with me.

By: Teadrinker

Teadrinker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:18:09 +0000

All right…

But, in his defense, Danny Glover was rambling, so it's really hard to tell what point he was trying to make.