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I know you're against them, but do you feel the enhanced interrogation techniques are as effective as we're being told?

If you were successful with your own techniques, why were you removed from the interrogations?

Before becoming president, Senator Obama campaigned that he would stop the torture techniques and close Guantanamo Bay, but when he became president, he changed his mind. Do you know why?

Weiner for President, 2016

It will be refreshing to have a presidential candidate that doesn't kiss ass or act like a moron.

My comment on those accusations is that they misrepresent our paper. We weren't surveying whether "humans have caused some global warming." By that definition, many of the papers that we classified as rejections would actually be endorsements of the consensus. Instead, we rated any papers that minimised the human role (while still acknowledging that humans caused 'some' global warming) as rejecting AGW.

In other words, the accusation is attacking a strawman - they're criticising a version of our paper that doesn't exist.

I had a college professor who wrote the book which was required reading. The publisher was our own book store at the college campus. The book was printed by the campus copy machine on normal white letter paper and bound by cheap plastic spiral clips with the book cover sheets being slightly heavier stock letter paper and colored gray -- about 500 pages total.

The price for this "book"? $170 +tax. The professor bragged to us about how he could have easily charged another $200 for the book if he went through a real publisher. We were expected to be grateful.

The book included tear-out sheets that were used as turn-in quizzes collected every week. He didn't ever grade them, but if you failed to turn it in, you got a zero for the week. He would also occasionally spot check to make sure we had the book in class or got a zero for the day. It was just to make sure we bought his book.

The campus would not allow someone to use the copy machines to copy the "book," and the professor advised us he would not accept any of the weekly turn-in quizzes if they appeared to be photo copies of another student's book.

Besides tearing out the quiz sheets to turn in, we never used the book in class. It was all a scam, imo.

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