PaddlingTiger
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | St. Louis, MO |
| Biography: | Loyola undergrad, LSU Law School |
| Interests: | LSU Sports, kayaking, triathlons and marathons, gardening and spending time with my family |
| Occupation: | COO of Alternative Fuels Company |
| Number of Posts: | 1066 |
| Registered on: | 6/7/2010 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Michael Brown: Officer involved sustained facial injuries.
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 8/13/14 at 4:38 pm
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If there are bullets in the kids back, which I think is likely, then the officer deserves to be tried for murder.
I agree 100%.
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re: Michael Brown: Officer involved sustained facial injuries.
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 8/13/14 at 4:34 pm
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I had heard on Hannity that the fatal shot was fired from WITHIN the car. Close range, shouldn't be hard to verify.
The witness says the first shot came from inside the car. The cop got out of the car. Brown and his buddy ran. The cop shot Brown a second time in the back. Brown turned with his hands in the air and told the cop he did not have a gun. The cop then shot Brown five more times.
If that story is true, the cop should be facing serious jail time.
re: Dan Marino suing NFL over concussions
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 6/4/14 at 5:13 pm
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Thank you for posting that link.
Look more closely at this case. Big pieces of it are about to be dismissed. Mississippi passed a law imposing more strict rules for managing head injuries at the high school level that make much of the lawsuit moot. You will probably see many more states doing the same thing. The piece of the case that will not be dismissed is the portion asking that schools provide insurance for players. The state could not put that in the law because it would be too costly and would mean no football for a lot of schools.
I think that the costs of lawsuits and liability insurance will ultimately be the undoing of Jr. High and High School football.
re: Dan Marino suing NFL over concussions
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 6/4/14 at 9:07 am
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If it were about change they would start suing little leagues, High Schools and Colleges
Mississippi lawsuit targets high schools
re: Dan Marino suing NFL over concussions
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 6/4/14 at 9:05 am
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Possibly, but the allure of a college scholarship is a strong motivator, and many kids that play football come from poor economic backgrounds with little parental supervision to begin with.
I agree 100% and that will ultimately be the pool of potential players. However, they may not start playing until much later in their careers. When the lawsuits reach down to the high school and pop warner level, which they are starting to do, I predict that many schools and youth programs will not be able to afford the liability coverage to keep the sport.
re: Dan Marino suing NFL over concussions
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 6/4/14 at 8:18 am
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I don't think this is a leftist issue.
Me either....I think at the end of the day it will be a parenting issue. It is hard to argue with the fact that grown men are perfectly free to decide to sacrifice their health for monetary gain and fame.
I think the decline of the game of football will happen from the bottom up not the top down. As parents learn more about the dangers of repeated head trauma (even non-concussive head trauma) fewer kids will play football at the junior high and high school levels. Ultimately this will impact the quality of the players available at the higher levels.
It is too early to forecast the complete demise of the game, but it will change dramatically as a result of current and ongoing research into traumatic brain injury.
re: Your favorite LSU victory- can be any sport
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 5/21/14 at 2:53 pm
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'09 CWS at Rosenblatt. Because I was there.
Same for me but because we were not there. We were planning to go that year, but the whole family contracted the swine flu. This was when H1N1 was just hitting the US so our doctor put us on quarantine. We could not leave the house that week. That was the same week Michael Jackson died so that was all there was on TV at the time, except for the CWS.
The whole family watched every pitch that year. It was a great bonding experience for our family. Every day we would look forward to the LSU game. Since that year, even my daughter, who is no big sports fan, gets excited for the CWS if LSU is in it.
re: 2nd amendment question. Amount of ammo needed
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 3/27/14 at 9:49 am
The original post and the three pages discussing it as if these are legitimate questions are the perfect example of the unique brand of crazy that keeps me coming back to this place. Sometimes the things you guys discuss are so hilarious it is just impossible to resist.
re: Is Water Vapor a Greenhouse Gas? If not what are the implications?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 3/25/14 at 11:28 am
What you are describing is the fact that water vapor (and corresponding clouds) both prevent heat from reaching the surface of the Earth and trap heat on the surface of the Earth. With less clouds and water vapor, more heat hits the Earth (higher highs) and more heat dissipates at night (lower lows). To understand the overall impact, you look at the average temperatures. As you noted, Mandeville has lower average temperatures than New Orleans and corresponding lower water vapor levels. While one example does not prove much of anything, at least in your example, water vapor appears to be a positive feedback loop to surface temperature as it appears, based on the information you posted, more heat is trapped by clouds (higher average surface temperature)than escapes from the lack of clouds. I am not making a broader statement about water vapor, as one example is certainly not enough, this is just analyzing the info you posted.
re: Is Water Vapor a Greenhouse Gas? If not what are the implications?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 3/25/14 at 10:58 am
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Mandeville averages lower temperatures
re: Is Water Vapor a Greenhouse Gas? If not what are the implications?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 3/25/14 at 10:36 am
I think you answered your question in your post. You noted that New Orleans has higher average temperatures than Slidell and higher water vapor levels (as evidenced by dew points). It would seem that this is consistent with water vapor being a positive feedback as higher water vapor levels correlate with higher average temperatures in your example.
re: .
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 2/4/14 at 5:04 pm
Sorry, I was not clear enough, I was agreeing with you about that one.
You should definitely read some Nietzsche. Even if you do not agree, he will make you think quite a bit.
You should definitely read some Nietzsche. Even if you do not agree, he will make you think quite a bit.
re: .
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 2/4/14 at 4:56 pm
Democracy in America has to be on this list. After that it was largely political philosophy that influenced me. Locke (more his essays such as An Essay Concerning Human Understanding than any particular book) and Hume A Treatise of Human Nature were prominent for me. Also Aristotle helped form by fundamental view of democracy and the alternatives.
But the most influential book of all for me was Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. He and Heidegger impacted by thinking more than any two writers.
But the most influential book of all for me was Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche. He and Heidegger impacted by thinking more than any two writers.
re: A story I Know You Will All Enjoy & Appreciate
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/30/14 at 10:28 am
So he smoked pot in high school and this is big news because......?
re: Question about the viability of the 2nd Amendment?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/29/14 at 2:57 pm
It seems like "Dueling Banjos" should start playing when you click on this thread.
re: Maryland shooter had mental issues, mother tried to hide hate of certain groups
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/28/14 at 4:52 pm
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even the actions of obvious nuts?
Well there is some cross over there into the political arena.
re: MIT scientist Richard Lindzen with best summary of Fear Science ever
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/8/14 at 5:03 pm
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You don't say in the quote.
To be clear, these are direct quotes from the article that was linked by the OP and that is being lauded by many posters in this thread. I did not assert these things.
I am wondering whether anyone will give a straight yes or no answer as to whether they agree with the quotes from the article.
re: MIT scientist Richard Lindzen with best summary of Fear Science ever
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/8/14 at 4:24 pm
Interesting article that contains what I believe are a few fundamental truths about global warming and client change.
Quoting from the article:
Given these facts from the cited article, it seems that no one knows the long-term impact of continuing to burn oil, gas and especially coal that pump carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere. If everyone can agree on these points from the article, there is the starting point for a real discussion.
Quoting from the article:
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“The burning of oil, gas, and especially coal pumps carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, where they allow the sun’s heat to penetrate to the Earth’s surface but impede its escape, thus causing the lower atmosphere and the Earth’s surface to warm. Essentially everybody, Lindzen included, agrees.”
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“We all agree that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. All other things kept equal, [there has been] some warming. As a result, there’s hardly anyone serious who says that man has no role.”
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“the computer models that climate scientists rely on to project future temperatures…oversimplify the vast complexity of the Earth’s climate.”
Given these facts from the cited article, it seems that no one knows the long-term impact of continuing to burn oil, gas and especially coal that pump carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere. If everyone can agree on these points from the article, there is the starting point for a real discussion.
re: was Jefferson Davis guilty of treason?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/3/14 at 4:21 pm
It does not matter whether secession was outlawed by the Constitution. Davis and the the other confederates took up arms against the US and then lost. After they lost they rejoined the country they had previously attacked. So by definition they are treasonous traitors to the United States. There is no grey area here. Jefferson Davis and the rest of the confederates committed treason.
re: was Jefferson Davis guilty of treason?
Posted by PaddlingTiger on 1/3/14 at 3:46 pm
If by treason you mean the common definition of waging war against one's own country, then Jeff Davis and all the rest of the confederates were treasonous traitors to the United States. This doesn't seem controversial at all to me. By definition he committed treason.
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