Does the following make you think of a certain big eared person?  Or a certain Mann?  The Gaystapos?  The Left? Odd that they all claim the mantle of science and tolerance when neither are true.  Hoffer helps explain why.  All emphasis mine.

All active mass movements strive…to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. … To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

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Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species. There is ample reason to believe that a sharp cooling of the climate would bring disastrous results for human civilization.

Humans are a tropical species. We evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing, and housing…It is “extremely likely” that a warmer temperature than today’s would be far better than a cooler one.”

—Dr. Patrick Moore – Feb. 25, 2014 testimony before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

H/T PlantsNeedCO2.org

One more from Dr. Moore on the jump

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For years, Ed Naile of CNHT has toiled in the vineyards of Voter Fraud here in NH.  Sure, the soil here is rocky (lots of NH Democrats), the weather is erratic (first the Repubs govern, and then the Dems try to rule), but the season seems to be never ending (i.e., “the never ending campaigning”) – but he is finally getting traction and a lot of the Professional Vote Stealers (“PVSs”, Democrat political operators) and their enablers (the owners of the “voter fraud nests” that put up the PVSs for a month or two until they skedadle out of State to their next gig).  A good shot of “fertilizer” helped his crops when James O’Keefe and his merry band of pranksters showed how easy it would be here in the First in the Nation Primary State to pull off voter fraud.  As a result, we got a valid Voter ID law – wanna vote, show us your mug!

And STILL, NH Democrats keep saying that there is no such thing as Voter Fraud – a made up problem that has no basis in reality.  Why wouldn’t say that – look what it did for them this past November!  So, as Allahpundit said “I did not see this coming”; the most popular Democrat President living, Bill Clinton, now thinks that picture ID to vote is not a bad idea!

With 34 states now requiring some form of identification at the polls, former president Bill Clinton and civil rights leader Andrew Young on Wednesday endorsed the idea of adding photos to Social Security cards as a way to prevent voter suppression…Clinton and Young, a former mayor of Atlanta, expressed concern that the voter ID laws could discourage poor and minority voters from showing up at the polls, which would circumvent the intent of the Voting Rights Act. 

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“Elijah Cummings and Lois Lehrner sitting in a tree…” – OK, maybe only in a political sense.  It is clear that we know that the IRS became politically weaponized against Conservative groups but who knew that the main Democrat who was supposed to provide non-partisan oversight was actually in cahoots with Lois Lerner!  Steve wrote about Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings actually working with the IRS to target Conservatives here and now, more has come out (emphasis mine):

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings’ staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.  

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Tolerance and Judgement are not opposing idea.

From an interview by The Blaze with Charles Murray on his new book “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life,” (emphasis mine):    

Question: One of the contrarian aspects of your book is that you actually argue for judgmentalism, with which you draw a clear distinction from intolerance. Explain.

Murray: Making judgments is part of being human. The only way you can go through daily life without making judgments is if you deliberately refuse to think about what’s before your eyes. Being judgmental is not only OK; we have a moral obligation to make the best judgments we can. Having done that, however, the next step is not to try to make laws enforcing our judgments about right and wrong. It is appropriate to be tolerant of behaviors of which we may disapprove, but which should be left as individual choices that people may make in a free society.  

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At that level of any organization, one never knows in looking from the outside in and bottom up whether is was pre-ordained, self-determined, or “quit or be fired”.  In any case, HHS Secretary Sebelius has handed in that resignation.  $700 million and four years for a website that still doesn’t work (front end mostly, but the back end is still rather buck naked).  $700 million spent on marketing to get signups.  Bogus numbers on that end too.

People will remember her – those that got “affordable” healthcare only because the Law was rigged to be a financial Hoover of the middle and upper classes to pay for it (once again, Progressives only tout who they help and NEVER who they’ve hurt).  Earn too much for a subsidy and you are forced into a plan that averages 41% higher premiums and two to four times the deductible.  You know what that means?  

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I think income equality starts with the people in government, most of whom make way too much money and have far too many incentives to milk the taxpayers and the system dry without fear of repercussion.  People should not be getting rich from elected office, period.

The answer (maybe) is to ensure the job of an elected or appointed official has few or no fiscal incentives that are not somehow tied to the effects their policies have on those they claim to represent.

So here are a few wild and outlandish suggestions to begin the process of achieving Income equality with the d-bags in DC.

No one in congress should be paid more than the national average annual income of the private sector that pays their salaries.   (A similar methodology should be worked up for the other branches of government.)

No pay or benefits for life for elected or appointed officials after they leave office regardless of the job or years served.

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WMUR has posted some inside baseball on the tactics of the Shaheen Campaign now that Scott Brown is officially entering the fray.  Well, it’s not really inside baseball, more like store front window shopping for baseballs.  Anyone who walked by and looked in would have know what was going to be ‘for sale’ from Shaheen in 2014.

The first point [Mike] Vlacich [Shaheen’s campaign Manager] wants stressed is: Scott Brown is for Scott Brown.

“Scott Brown’s three-week listening tour has been long on tweeted selfies at Granite State landmarks and negative attacks against Jeanne Shaheen, but hasn’t included much about New Hampshire,” Vlacich wrote. 

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