I try to keep mine fine tuned. It requires a lot of research and reading. I think it works pretty well. <\/p>\n
Today Redbone emailed me something about scientists being liberal. Which technically is impossible, since a true scientist doesn’t let his politics flavor his research. Still, a lot of people calling themselves scientists are demonstrably liberal. <\/p>\n
Grokked that when I was eleven, flyboy, glad to see you caught up.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest pieces of crap science I ever saw is the bullshit about “seat belts save lives”. This is a piece of crap that was foisted onto us and we bought it hook line and sinker. How many people do you know that have been “saved” by seat belts? I don’t know anyone. I do know people that have been harmed severely by seat belts, including me, and people who died because they were wearing that crap they put in passenger cars. <\/p>\n
Five point belts are good, and do what they’re supposed to do; I had them in my Rover, because without them, a little bit of offroading could be fatal. The threepoint crap in my truck? I never wear it, and I pay the tickets I get because<\/em> I never wear them. Because I have not yet heard any compelling evidence that seatbelts save lives, only that stupidass slogan. I WOULD put a five point in the truck, but it’s against the law to modify the original belt system in a passenger vehicle (at least as far as I can determine in Indiana) from something potentially fatal, to something that could potentially function as designed. <\/p>\n In twenty years people will buy the AGW bullshit and Green bullshit the same way people buy the seatbelt bullshit now. <\/p>\n Prompted by this<\/a> and this<\/a><\/p>\n Not only do I have no interest in being forced to do something someone else claims is good for me, I don’t want anyone else deciding what’s good for me, period. Piss up a rope, lawmakers. Piss up a rope, Nobama. And if you think I ought to be wearing a seatbelt? You can piss up a rope too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I try to keep mine fine tuned. It requires a lot of research and reading. I think it works pretty well. Today Redbone emailed me something about scientists being liberal. Which technically is impossible, since a true scientist doesn’t let his politics flavor his research. Still, a lot of people calling themselves scientists are demonstrably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}